Many alumni have turned to literature, and the names of not a few, particularly among the more recent graduates, are continuously appearing in different magazines and reviews. Particularly well known are Stewart Edward White, '95, Katharine Holland Brown, '98, Franklin P. Adams, '03, and Harry A. Franck, '03, no less well known as an unconventional traveler. Michigan has also left her mark in journalism, from Liberty E. Holden, '58, editor and publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and William E. Quinby, of the same class, of the old Detroit Free Press, to Edward S. Beck, '93, managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, S. Beach Conger, '00, who was in charge of the European service of the Associated Press during the Great War, Paul Scott Mowrer, a one-time member of the class of '09, who was the Paris representative of the Chicago Daily News, and Karl Harriman, '98, editor of the Ladies Home Journal and author of "Ann Arbor Tales," (1902).
As with the men so with the women graduates of the University. Their ranks include, in addition to the President of Wellesley, many important positions in the university world, including Angie Chapin, '75, Professor of Greek, and the late Katharine Coman, '80, Professor of History and Economics, at Wellesley, and Gertrude Buck, '94, Professor of English at Vassar. Among alumnae particularly prominent in science are Mrs. Mary Hegeler Carus, '90e, the first woman to graduate from the Engineering College, who is president of a large manufacturing company and secretary of the Open Court Publishing Company, and the late Marion S. Parker, '95e, who as a structural engineer has had a large share in the designing of some of the monumental buildings of New York. Annie S. Peck, '78, is also well known as a traveler and mountain climber.
In the medical profession there have been many alumnae of prominence, notably Dr. Alice Hamilton, '93m, who has recently become Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine in the Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Harriet Alexander, who has become an authority on diseases of the nervous system. Two Chinese graduates of the medical school, Dr. Ida Kahn, '96m, and Dr. Mary Stone, '96m, have done a great work for their fellow countrymen in their large hospital at Kiu Kiang.
TABLE I
The Income of the University, by Ten-Year Periods
Showing Principal Sources
| Year | Total Income[4] | Income from State Lands | Mill-Tax | Tuition Fees, etc. | Special Appropriations and Savings for Buildings[5] |
| 1849-'50 | $16,286.22 | $15,088.23 | $1,006.87 | ||
| 1859-'60 | 39,735.77 | 28,409.76 | 5,705.43 | ||
| 1869-'70 | 84,966.08 | 30,000.00 | 20,039.04 | $11,250.00 | |
| 1880-'81[6] | 163,034.40 | 38,531.59 | $31,500.00 | 63,745.13 | 15,000.00 |
| 1889-'90 | 360,308.16 | 38,651.00 | 47,272.50 | 100,814.92 | 147,589.08 |
| 1899-'00 | 555,623.90 | 38,228.82 | 281,583.43 | 185,350.31 | 12,000.00 |
| 1909-'10 | 1,573,540.14 | 38,511.63 | 585,258.75 | 327,169.53 | 334,043.46 |
| 1919-'20 | 3,802,164.27 | 38,428.89 | 1,687,500.00 | 682,445.16 | 659,250.00 |