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Commencement

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
June
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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The soth annual commencement ook place yesterday and University ïall was crowded. The scholarly iddress of Prof. George Herbert Palmer, of Harvard, is conceded to lave been a model of English diction and a polished production, f uil of thoughtand practicality. The brevLty of the exercises was an especial merit of new anplication and appeared-in refreshing contrast to the usual heavy, tedious exercises, usual to such an occasson. Dinner followed at the conclusión of the addres. The alumni attendance was nut up to its usual number. The Senate reception took place in the gymnasium instead of the chapel. The address before the law alumni was delivered by United States Judge W. H. Taft, whose decisión in relation to the striking engineers of the T. & A. A. road will be remembered. The Alumni Association elected the following officers: Wm. J. Stewart, '68, Grand Rapids, president; Wm. Savage, '84, Spring Lake, vice president; Prof. Joseph H. Drake, secretary; Èdward H. Butler, '60, Detroit, treasurer; directors, Dr. Edwin S. Sherill, '73, Detroit; Frank Bennett, '72, Jackson, Edgar Rexford, '66, Ypsilanti.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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