the country, as well as the projected University
Hospital, to cost eventually $2,000,000, and the Demonstration School.
In addition he secured from the Legislature in 1919 an appropriation of
$350,000 to cover the deficit due to the extraordinary war-time
expenditures, when the cost of everything was doubled and the income
from fees materially lessened, and even more important, an additional
$350,000 for two years to cover an increase in Faculty salaries. This
item was later superseded by an increase in the valuation of the
property in the State, made by the State Board of Equalization, which
added over $600,000 to the annual income of the University. Thus was the
University saved from what easily might have been a disastrous situation
arising from the threatened loss of many members of the Faculty. No
event of recent years is of more fundamental importance than this
material aid which came to the institution at so critical a period.

No less important and encouraging in their promise for the future have
been the gifts of the graduates which have resulted in no little measure
from President Hutchins' efforts to stimulate the interest and support
of the alumni. The former students of the University have been bound to
their alma mater as never before; they have been brought to see that it
is their responsibility and privilege to aid the University in many ways
impossible to the taxpayer. The Hill Auditorium, the Martha Cook
Building, the Newberry and Betsy Barbour Halls of Residence for women
and the Michigan Union, to which over 14,000 alumni have contributed
over a million dollars,--a record perhaps unparalleled in any
university,--to say nothing of scores of other benefactions, are
examples of this new spirit on the part of the alumni which President
Hutchins has done so much to foster. The continued increase in enrolment
from 5,343 in 1909 to 7,517 in 1916-17, with a total of 9,401 in
1919-20, is also an evidence of the effectiveness with which the
University has continued to perform its mission, though this continued
influx of students brings with it responsibilities and difficulties
which have taxed the physical resources, and the ability of the
Faculties. Happily the increase in income granted in 1919 is an augury
of a better era, if the growth for the next few years is not too
overwhelming.

[Illustration: HARRY BURNS HUTCHINS, LL.D.
President of the University, 1909-1920
(From a copyright photograph by J.F