. History of the University of Michigan . the new school was at oncedemonstrated. The enrolment was 92 thefirst year and 159 the second. The first class,24 in number, graduated in the spring of seven years the school had shot ahead of I 00 uNirERsirr of Michigan {_Ch,ip. XII the Literary Department, and almost overtaken biiildinc;, to be constructed for their special the Medical Department, a lead, however,which it maintained for only two or three periods of five years the enrolment of stu-dents has been from the beginning as follows:1860,92; 1865,260; 1870,308; 1875,345;1880,
. History of the University of Michigan . the new school was at oncedemonstrated. The enrolment was 92 thefirst year and 159 the second. The first class,24 in number, graduated in the spring of seven years the school had shot ahead of I 00 uNirERsirr of Michigan {_Ch,ip. XII the Literary Department, and almost overtaken biiildinc;, to be constructed for their special the Medical Department, a lead, however,which it maintained for only two or three periods of five years the enrolment of stu-dents has been from the beginning as follows:1860,92; 1865,260; 1870,308; 1875,345;1880,395; 1885,262; 1890,533; 1895,670;1900, 837. use. The Board attempted to raise by sub-scription, the $15,000 needed to carry theplan out, but was baffled in the attempt, andultimatcl) compelled to meet the whole ex-penditure out of the University funds. Therewas dela) in construction, and it was not untilOctober 1863, that the law lecture hall was The first woman student was admitted to the dedicated, Judge Cooley delivering an address,. BUILDIXG, 1S63 school in 1870, and the first one graduated in1871. Since that da\ the total number ofwomen graduates has been 39. So far nothing has been said about thesex-eral homes of the Law School. It was in-augurated in ad\ance of an) adequate pro\i-sion for its accommodation. y\t first thelectures were delivered in the old Chapel inthe North wing, and the books were stored inthe general library on the floor above. But,happily. Chapel and Library were both veryill adapted to their old uses, and still more tothe new ones ; and so a plan was de\ised fortaking care of all these interests in a new and D. T^ethune Duffield, I^sq., of Detroit, read-ing an original poem. Still the new building could not long ac-commodate its numerous occupants, providedthe L^niversitv continued to grow. Li fact,it soon became overcrowded, as the Chapeland the old Library had been. The schoolobtained needed relief in 1872 when the newChapel was ready for occu
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