Identifier: cu31924030622553 (find matches)
Title: History of the University of Michigan
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron), 1837-1900 Demmon, Isaac Newton, 1842-1920
Subjects: University of Michigan
Publisher: Ann Arbor : Published by the University
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eir leaving,the Unixersity. A still more interesting fea-ture of this branch of the history is thescholarship founded in connection with thevarious high schools of the State for the pur- Chap. A) HISrORT OF THE UNIVERSITY 73 .pose of assisting deserving graduates of suchschools to pursue studies in the Universit3^ Miss Elizabeth Bates, M.D., of Port Ches-ter, New York, who died in April 1898, be-queathed to the University the bulk of herconsiderable fortune for the use of the Med-ical Department, to found a Professorship tobe known and called The Bates Professor-ship of the Diseases of Women and Chil- Among the numerous gifts to the Universitythe Lewis Collection of Paintings and Statu-ary holds a high place. It came into the pos-session of the institution on the death of HenryC. Lewis, of Coldwater, Michigan, in 1895, inconsequence of the terms of his will. Con-sisting of about six hundred paintings andone hundred pieces of statuary, the collec-tion cost the donor over $200,000. Some
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UNIVERSITY HALL, WITH IVY FROM SOUTHEAST dren. The bequest was accepted and theBates Chair accordingly established. Theestate realized to the University somethingmore than $130,000. This bequest was themore gratifying because there was no evi-dence to show that Miss Bates had evervisited Ann Arbor; she was moved to makeher generous gift, apparently, solely by herappreciation of the fact that the Univer-sity was one of the first in the country tooffer medical education of a high grade towomen. noted artists are represented b\ works of ahigh order of merit. Besides originals, thereare also copies of man) of the most notedworks of the great Italian masters. The col-lection contains man\ portraits of men andwomen distinguished in history. The acqui-sition of this valuable collection raised againin a very practical form a much older ques-tion ; namely, the need of an Art Hall asan adjunct to the University. Had we aproper building, the President said at thetime, we could now with little ex

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