. History of the University of Michigan . in thecountr), and little instruction in technicalstudies was given in schools of general learn-ing. When the new course came, it was apart of the momentum that marked the earlyyear-, i^f Dr. Tappans administration. But I 10 6 UNirtLKSriT OF MICHIGAN \_Chap. XII while there arc few older technical schools inthe country than this department it was longcarried on as a subdivision of the Departmentof Literature, Science and the Arts. Its his-tor_\ in that relation has already been given onprevious pages. At the beginning of the year 1895-96 theRegents con
. History of the University of Michigan . in thecountr), and little instruction in technicalstudies was given in schools of general learn-ing. When the new course came, it was apart of the momentum that marked the earlyyear-, i^f Dr. Tappans administration. But I 10 6 UNirtLKSriT OF MICHIGAN \_Chap. XII while there arc few older technical schools inthe country than this department it was longcarried on as a subdivision of the Departmentof Literature, Science and the Arts. Its his-tor_\ in that relation has already been given onprevious pages. At the beginning of the year 1895-96 theRegents concluded to give the department anmdcpendent status, making it coordinate with languages, French, German and Latin. Stu-dents not candidates for a degree were admittedon easier terms. Four years of study com-prising 130 hours of work were demanded forgraduation. While the school nas its ownindependent organism in the Faculty, it stilldivides or shares a large part of the instructionthat it requires with the Departments of Artsand CIVIL ENGINEERIN<; BUILDING the other main departments of the Uni\ E. Greene, Professor of Ci\il Engineer-ing, was made the Dean. The matriculationof students the first year was 331. Students who could satisfy any one of thefour groups of requirements for admission tothe department of the Arts were admitted ascandidates for a degree on their meeting somefurther requirements in plane Trigonometryand Chemistry; there were also special re-quirements for admission in P^nglish, Mathe-matics and Scientific studies, including twoyears of preparation in some one of three Such, in outline, is the history of the pro-fessional departments or schools of the Uni-versity of IVIichigan. All younger than theDepartment of Literature, Science and theArts, the) have grown up around that depart-ment, have been helped by it, and have helpedit in return. Literesting indeed are the inter-actions constantly going on in such a group ofaffiliated schoo
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