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Michigan State Agricultural College BY PRESIDENT ABBOT
Professor Fisk managed the college successfully as president pro tempore by-election of the faculty, in the four years' interregnum after the resignation of President Williams.
Professor Tracy resigned his position in the college in 1860, and lives in Lansing, a highly respected citizen.
Mr. Bancker is a prosperous lawyer in Jackson, and Mr. Shearer a resident of the township of Lansing. He has been repeatedly honored by votes of his townsmen, and his wife, still living, is remembered by all the older students,
for her motherly care and authority. She was a woman of rare qualifications for a difficult place.
Mr. Robert D. Weeks resigned his place at the 'close of the first term, and subsequently went east. His place, as professor of English literature, was supplied before the spring term of 1858, by Theophilus Capen Abbot, the present president of the college, having been made so in the winter of 1862-3.
There being no dwelling houses at the college in 1857, the most of the officers lived in the city, three and a half miles distant, until cottages were completed in the spring of 1859.
During the years 1857, 1858, and 1859. the administration of the college proceeded on the plan on which it started at the first. There were, as the law directed, a summer and a winter term each year. Each term closed with a public examination, to which the citizens of Lansing were accustomed to come in considerable numbers. A radical change was introduced in 1860 by the Hon. J. M. Gregory and the Board, which lasted for that one year, when the college was transferred to another board.
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