. History of the University of Michigan . ed to the removal scheme that they con-tinued the agitation, which led the Board, at Chap. Xll] HISTORT OF THE UNIFERSIIT 97 its June meeting, , to call for their resig-nations, on the ground that their usefulnessas members of the Faculty had been impairedby persisting to advocate a cause at variancewith the settled policy of the Board of resignations of these Professors and theiracceptance put an end to the agitation. Only three or four of the other changes thathave taken place in the Faculty since 1880can be particularized. Mention h
. History of the University of Michigan . ed to the removal scheme that they con-tinued the agitation, which led the Board, at Chap. Xll] HISTORT OF THE UNIFERSIIT 97 its June meeting, , to call for their resig-nations, on the ground that their usefulnessas members of the Faculty had been impairedby persisting to advocate a cause at variancewith the settled policy of the Board of resignations of these Professors and theiracceptance put an end to the agitation. Only three or four of the other changes thathave taken place in the Faculty since 1880can be particularized. Mention has already capacities, as Professor of Physiological andPathological Chemistry, and Associate-Profes-sor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica. Atthe opening of the year 1900, the teaching staffcounted fifty-one persons. In the half century of its history tlie iJepart-iiient of Medicine and Surgery has exerted agreat influence upon American, and especiallyWestern, society. It has furnished other in-stitutions their types of organization and. UNlVERSny (FROM THE NORTH) been made of Dr. Sagers withdrawal: he wassucceeded in his Professorship by Dr. E. , who held the chair until his death in1888. Dr. Palmer died in 1887, and Dr. Fordin 1894, both full of labors and honors; theyhad served the University thirty-three andforty years respectively. The Deanship passedfrom Sager to Palmer, from Palmer to Ford,and from Ford to Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, thefirst alumnus of the department to hold theoiTice. Dr. Vaughan had been a member ofthe Faculty since 1879-80, serving in various teaching, has supplied the i\Iedical schoolsof the countr} with many teachers, has madeits contribution to the progress of science,and, above all, has sent out himdreds of well-equipped medical and surgical graduates for the first half centur} of itsexistence number in all about 3450 persons. II. THE LAW DEPARTMENT Until recent years the great majority ofAmerican law3ers receive
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