I count 118 professors on the staff of the different faculties.
The library contains 70,041 volumes, 14,626 unbound brochures, and 514 maps and charts.
The University also possesses beautiful laboratories, museums, an astronomical observatory, collections, workshops of all sorts, a lecture hall capable of accommodating over two thousand people, art studios, etc., etc. Almost every school has a building of its own, so that the University is like a little busy town.
No visit that I have ever paid to a public institution interested me so much as the short one paid to the University of Michigan yesterday.
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Dined this evening with Mr. W. H. Brearley, editor of the Detroit Journal. Mr. Brearley thinks that the Americans, who received from France such a beautiful present as the statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World,” ought to present the mother country of General Lafayette with a token of her gratitude and affection, and he has started a national subscription to carry out his idea. He has already received support, moral and substantial. I can assure him that nothing would touch the hearts of the French people more than such a tribute of gratitude and friendship from the other great republic.
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In the evening I had a crowded house in the large lecture hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association.
After the lecture, I met an interesting Frenchman residing in Detroit.