Address, Charter Day of the University of California, March 23.

~President James B. Angell
University of Michigan
Charter Day, 1904 Pe denh Fb
It is with pleasure that on this festal
day I bring the salutations of the University
of Michigan to the University of California. I
bear the greetings of the elder institution to
the younger. I come with the message of congratulation from one of the most eastern state
universities to the most western. It is with
a justifiable maternal pride that she sees
eight of her sons honored by positions in your.culties, and through them shares in the glory
of your achiev~ments.
Whilo we in the east have beheld with
wonder and admiration the phenomenal development of your state, we have rejoiced to see
that the growth of the University has even outstripped that of the state. It is to the great
credit of this young Commonwealth that while
it has, like all new states, had to bear the
heavy burden of establishing all the institu
tions, charitable, penal, reformatory, and
educational, which our humane civilization demand,
it has ever kept in the forefront the needs of
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