Commencement Week

Another University Commencement has passed and six hundred and eighty-nine more college graduates have turned from the doors of the University of Michigan to begin the battle of life. The commencement has not been as well attended as in previous years by the alumni, but the number of graduates was larger than ever before. Commencement week began Sunday night with the baccalaureate sermón of President Angelí, on Applied Christianity in the course of which he said: "If Ireadaright the gospel of Him who carne not to be ministered unto, but to minister, the real valué of our lives will be measured at last not by determining what we have done for our own selfish aggrandizement, but what we have contributed to secure the triumph of righteousness and truth among men." Law class day was held Monday morning. President Alex. C.Mackenzie delivered a brief but appropriate president's address. J. W. Dawson read the history of the greatest of the law classes. W. I. Manny delivered the class oration, -'The Lawyerin American Politics," showing that the history of the country was the history of the lawyers, while the class poem of J. H. Whitely "The Unfinished Picture," was to the point and the prophecy of John George Erdlitz was received with shouts of laughter, and the valedictory of J. E. Roberts was in good taste. The class graduated 290 members. They came from 25 states, 3 territories and 2 foreign countries. Eleven different alities were represented. Michigan had 86 representatives in the class, Illinois 36, Pennsylvania 24. The average age is 23, weight 155 pounds. The average expense per year was $372. The class contained 174 republicans, 98 democrats and 18 mugwumps; 23 were married and 117 church members. Those paying their own expenses numbered 161. The medical class day exercises occurred in the afternoon, James D. Parker delivering the oration, Frank ] E. Ruggles the class history, Miss ' Emily A. Benn the poem, John H. Dent the prophecy and LeroySouthmayd the president'saddress. The literary class numbered 164, of which 88 hailed from Michigan, 32 from Illinois and 21 frora Ohio. The average age is 23, the oldest being 32 and the youngest 19. Tuesday morning William H. Dellenbach delivered the class oration on International Arbitration and Miss Julia Herrick the class poem, A Message from Mythology. In the afternoon the exercises consisted of the Class History by Arthur J. Tuttle, the prophecy by Mamah B. Borthwick and the president's address by Pete W. Ross. The senior reception Tuesday evening was a mammoth affair and lasted until dawn. The arrangements for the reception were complete. Wednesday was alumni day, and the medical, law, pharmacy and literary alumni held meetings, the medical and pharmacy alumni holding banquets. Dr. Novy addressed the pharmics on Fermentation and the Germs that Cause it. The annual address before the literary alumni was delivered by O. H. Dean, a leading lawyer of Kansas City. Hon. Benjamin Butterworth delivered a practical address before the law alumni. The classes of '72, '82 and '89 held reunions. Yesterday, the commencement proper occurred, the oration being delivered by Justin Winsor, LL. D., jhe librarían of Harvard. It was an historical address, entitled, The Pageant of Saint Lusson, and dealt with the history of the French occupation of Sault Ste. Marie under Saint Lusson in 167 1.