r buildings for the men.

While this arrangement is not ideal in many ways, for the students do
not always secure the clean and attractive quarters they are properly
entitled to have, it has been undoubtedly a great advantage to the
University in relieving it of the expense and trouble of maintaining
dormitories, at a time when every dollar of resources, to say nothing of
the energies of the officers, was necessary to maintain the University's
work. It is only natural, however, that many disputes between students
and landladies should arise, particularly when the rooming and boarding
houses are not supervised by the University: This is the case with the
men. For some time the women in the University have been allowed to live
only in approved rooming houses. The Health Service has also undertaken
to inspect all the student boarding houses in an effort to ensure
wholesome food and to maintain a definite standard of cleanliness.

Whatever the minor sources of friction that have arisen between the
students and townsfolk of Ann Arbor, however, the substantial
friendliness of the citizens and their pride in the University have
always been one of its great assets through its years of development.
The promoters of the hastily organized land company through whose
efforts Ann Arbor was made the site of the future University builded
better than they knew. Their venture was probably not a particularly
profitable one, for the rapid growth they had expected did not
materialize. But their prompt action and foresight assured the
institution a normal and healthy environment comparatively free from
political and commercial influences. There are, undoubtedly, certain
advantages which come to the modern university in a larger city, which
becomes in a way a laboratory for various forms of scientific
investigation; but the disadvantages are no less obvious. The life of
the students becomes more complicated; social distractions and
amusements are apt to offer too great temptations; the simplicity of
academic life is lost; while the personal relations between Faculty and
student become more perfunctory. Thus by her very situation Michigan has
been able to retain, in spite of her extraordinary growth in recent
years, something of that fine flavor of college life which has always
been the essence of our best academic traditions.

In the first days the Campus was only a backwoods clearing with lines of
forest oaks on the east and south, the fen