A memoir.

  • Pitcher, Zina, 1797-1872.
Date:
[1851?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A memoir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    A MEMOIR. Being required by the Revised Constitution of the State, which prescribes a new mode of appointing, and changes the tenure of of- fice of the Regents of the University, to surrender the trust hitherto committed to the present members, the Board of Regents, deeming it to be appropriate to add to a careful recapitulation of their re- ceipts and expenditures, a succinct history of their administration, assigning the motives for their action and the reasons for the policy they have pursued, directed the following memorial to be prepared as a part of their annual report: When the members of the Board were first called together by Stevens T. Mason, then Governor of Michigan, whose short and bril- liant career constitutes an epoch in the history of the State, the im- portant duties of selecting this site, which will remain sacred to let- ters, to science and the arts, so long as intelligence and virtue shall hold their seat in the affections of the people, and of providing the means by borrowing the credit of the State to adorn and improve it, were the subjects first presented for their consideration. The man- ner in which they performed these duties has become a matter of history. As such, it may be seen and read of all men. Of the judgment which the present or the future may form in relation to these transactions, the Board feel no apprehension and manifest no concern. Having selected the site of the University, secured the means of erecting the buildings, purchasing the library, and of doing other things necessary to lay its foundation, it became apparent that the materials for the construction of the living edifice were not at hand. The blocks for the statuary were in the quarry, but there were no hands to hew them into form. Our political and social institutions