Administrators of each of the 43 State universities in the U. S. realize that fat legislative appropriations depend directly on public appreciation of the university's services. Last week the University of Michigan jogged the memories of Michigan editors with a list of 52 ways in which it serves Michiganders.
The University of Michigan sends lecturers traveling up & down the State, enrolls 2,500 persons in extension courses. It estimates that 300,000 use its reading lists, pamphlets, clippings. It analyzes drinking water, gives treatments for rabies, fills the schools with health speakers. To...