ey R. Guild, instructor in Anatomy, also made some valuable
experiments in war deafness. Special investigations were carried on in
the Bacteriological Laboratories under Dr. Novy, in the Pathological
Laboratory under Dr. Warthin, and in the Psychopathic Hospital, where
Dr. Barrett, while training successive increments of medical officers
every six weeks, carried on special investigations in mental disorders
arising from the war.

As was to be expected the technical training of the professional staff
of the Engineering College and the resources of the laboratories were
employed extensively by the Government. This was particularly true of
the Department of Marine Engineering, where Professor H.C. Sadler
studied the important problem of standardized types of ships, until he
became Head of the Bureau of Design with the Shipping Board, when his
work in the Naval Tank was carried on by Professor E.M. Bragg.

It cannot be claimed of course that this record in scientific inquiry
and advanced scholarship will equal what has been done in certain other
universities, whose riper traditions and great endowments have enabled
them to carry on special investigations, establish research
professorships and support publications, which have thus far proved
impossible for a state institution, whose first obligation rests in its
relations with the people of the commonwealth. Nevertheless Michigan has
been happy in this, as in so many other respects. The liberality and
sympathetic understanding of the public opinion upon which the success
of the University rests fundamentally, have enabled it to develop
scholarly ideals and a recognition of true scholarship which have given
Michigan a high rank among American universities.

This fortunate and early recognition of the highest mission of the
University was made possible only through co-operation on the part of
the Regents, who, as the governing body, have been able on the one side
to encourage scholarly ideals in spite of the occasional lack of
appreciation of the University's aims on the part of some individual
members of the Board, and, on the other, to secure and preserve the
University's freedom, threatened by the efforts of the State Legislature
to interfere with its affairs. This relationship of the Regents to the
maintenance of the University, and to the State, has had a very
important effect upon the development of higher learning and research
and may therefore properly be outlined at