. History of the University of Michigan . , speaking out of a ripeexperience, has said: In spite of the familiarpicture of the moral dangers which en\iron thestudent, there is no place so safe as a goodCollege during the critical passage from boy-hood to manhood. ^ First and last, the severest criticisms that theState Unixcrsities have sustained have been onaccount of their real or assumed religious atti-tude and spirit. Such, at least, is the casewith Michigan. The subject of religion at theUnixcrsity has been already mentioned more. riELIi, THE SOLTHWESl tivcly stronger in nati\e abili


. History of the University of Michigan . , speaking out of a ripeexperience, has said: In spite of the familiarpicture of the moral dangers which en\iron thestudent, there is no place so safe as a goodCollege during the critical passage from boy-hood to manhood. ^ First and last, the severest criticisms that theState Unixcrsities have sustained have been onaccount of their real or assumed religious atti-tude and spirit. Such, at least, is the casewith Michigan. The subject of religion at theUnixcrsity has been already mentioned more. riELIi, THE SOLTHWESl tivcly stronger in nati\e abilit_\- and characterthan in literar)- cultixation. While it canmjt bedenied that there has been some departmentaljealousy among the students, it may be assertedthat such jealous) has ncxcr entered deephinto discipline, and that it tends to immediate effects, and e\cn the ultimateeffects, upon religious faith and moral life ofresidence at a great modern Unixersit) is amatter about which men can hardl) be ex-pected to agree. ^luch depends upon indi-vidual personal experience and limited number of facts is often made thesuperstructure of a uni\crsal conclusion, whilepost hoc and propter hoc are often will be hard to convince the man whosesons morals ha\-e been wrecked at College, ashe believes, that a College is a good place forbo)s. Popular opinion probabl) inclines tothis \iew of the case, but it ma) well bequestiijned. Those wh(j are most competent than once, but it now c


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