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Here, too, was originated that proudest and grandest of all our institutions of learning, the State University, and here it received the fostering care of the State, "while yet the evil days come not," when, through a combination of quack doctors and quack legislators, it was prostituted to the dissemination, of homeopathic nostrums and mustard seed pills. It was fifty years last November since, a youthful wanderer, far away from my home in the Empire State, I stepped off the quivering deck of one of Lake Erie's staunchest steamboats, and first set foot on the soil of Michigan in a muddy street of Detroit.

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