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Literary Class Day

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
June
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The cxcircises of the Uterary olass of 1891 were held in University hall, Tuesday nioi-uinir. and under the Tappan oak, in the afternoon, there being a good attendance on both exercises. In the morning W. H. Niehols delivered the class oratlon on College graduates ,in good voice and was decidedly wltty and entertaining in his discussion of college graduates. He spoke highly of coeducation. He said: "The most of us will probnbly earai money enough to feel decent and do enough good to form the skeleton for a funeral sermón."' Frederick Mills, of Detroit, executed a fine violin solo and Miss Ida Z. Hibbaid, of Detroit, read a poem an the Spirit of Melody. The class history showed that in lts freshman yrnrthe class had 212 members, in the sophomore year 1 7, while 1+G retunipd this year. The oldest member of the class is 39, the youngeet 19. The average nse of the males was 23 years and of the fenales 24. Thirty per ceïit caine frora arms and twenty per cenr trom stores nul factories. The tallest man is 6 eet, 3, inches and the shortest 5 leet, 4 inches. The prophecy by Miss Katherine E. Sumner was very taking.