The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey ...

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University of Michigan Press, 1942 - Michigan - 2066 pages
 

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Page 137 - The legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an agricultural school.
Page 18 - State for the use of a University; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be applied to the support of said university...
Page 138 - The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by ;the United States to this State, for the support of schools, which...
Page 137 - Sec. 11. The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement, and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an agricultural school. The Legislature may appropriate the twentytwo sections of salt spring lands now unappropriated, or the money arising from the sale of the same, where such lands have been already sold, and any land which may hereafter be granted or appropriated for such purpose, for the support and maintenance of...
Page 137 - ... remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be applied to the support of said university, with such branches as the public convenience may demand, for the promotion of literature, the arts and sciences, as may be authorized by the terms of such grant. And it shall be the duty of the legislature as soon as may be. to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said university.
Page 137 - ... hundred thousand acres of land granted to the new states, under an act of Congress, distributing the proceeds of the public lands among the several states of the Union, approved...
Page 137 - The board of regents shall have the general supervision of the University, and the direction and control of all expenditures from the University interest fund.
Page 12 - States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.
Page 138 - ... he shall preside at the meetings of the board, and be the principal executive officer of the university, and a member of the faculty thereof.
Page 137 - The regents of the university shall, at their first annual meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be, elect a president of the university, who shall be ex qfficio a member of their board, with the privilege of speaking but not of voting. He shall preside at the meetings of the regents and be the principal executive officer of the university. The board of regents shall have the general supervision of the university, and the direction and control...

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