Excerpt from The Relations of the State University to Religion: An Address Delivered Before the Graduating Classes, on Sunday Evening, June 26, 1887, at the Semi-Centennial of the University
In the year 1837, when Michigan was admitted to the Union, her University was also founded, in accordance with a provision of the new constitution, by the organization of the first Board of Regents; and the diplomas of the University are dated from that year as the first both of the University and of the State. We, therefore, now stand at the close of the first half century of the existence of the University of Michigan; and as we enter upon the celebration of an anniversary so interesting and suggestive, as we look back with gratitude to God for the wonderful prosperity He has given to the State and to all its munificent work of public instruction, we find many fruitful subjects of discourse; but I have chosen the one which seems especially adapted to the opening of our festival, and appropriate to this sacred day, "The University in its Relations to Religion."
The people of Michigan adopted at the first, as a fundamental principle of their state polity, the idea of universal education at the public expense; education not only of the common school, but also in its higher grades, and in all its branches; education in all its breadth and compass, and accessible to all.
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