the
University of a series of State College Fellowships with a stipend of
$300 each, to be held each year by especially chosen graduates from each
of ten colleges in Michigan.

The establishment of extension courses, with the aim of bringing the
University into a closer relationship with the people of the State, has
also come as the result of the recognition by President Hutchins of the
real need of such co-operation. Starting at first from a desk in his own
office, from which members of the Faculty were sent to deliver lectures
before various bodies about the State, the work speedily grew into a
Department under the charge of Professor W. D. Henderson, '04, as
Director. At the present time several special courses in literature,
history, philosophy, and economics, corresponding exactly to similar
courses given in the University are offered in various cities of the
State, as well as three hundred lectures by different members of the
Faculty. In addition the University has undertaken the training of
teachers of industrial subjects under the Congressional provision known
as the Smith-Hughes Bill, which provides for the training of teachers in
agriculture, industrial subjects, and home economics. For its share in
this work the University receives annually, partly from the Government
and partly from the State, the sum of $24,000. This work is carried on,
not only at the University, where it is under the charge of Professor
George E. Meyers, Ottawa College, '96, but in Detroit and Grand Rapids
as well as other extension centers, under charge of special Professors
of Industrial Education.

Likewise the cordial relations between the University and the high
schools of the State have developed consistently as is sufficiently
shown by the appropriation of $300,000 made by the 1919 Legislature for
the establishment of a demonstration school for the training of students
who are preparing themselves as high school teachers.

The University under President Hutchins was thus particularly happy in
its relations with the people of the State. This is especially true of
their representatives in the Legislature. From time to time he laid
before them the needs of the University so effectively that we now have,
largely as the result of his efforts, the series of buildings erected
recently, including the Natural Science Laboratory, the heating plant,
and the new Library, probably the best arranged and most convenient in
its appointments in