Regents Do Business

At the session of the board of reents, Tuesday morning, something more was done than to anathernatize :he weather and drink ice water. A communication from the secretary of the American Institute of Homeopathy, asking that Dean Obetz be taken by the nape of his negligee shirt and the flexible portion of his summer trousers and fired bodily into outer darkness, for his proposed miscegenation of the two departments, was received and referred to the committee on medical department, where it will probably repose till Gabriel plays his cornet solo and the great final skeleton dance begins. Dr. Campbell was promoted to the position of assistant professor of anatomy. Dr. Breakey was chosen permanent lecturer in dermatology. The dean of the law department recommended the appointrhent of City Attorney Thomas A. Bogle as dean of the practice court at a salary of $2,000 and Prof. Walter Smith, of Detroit, as instructor in law at a salary of $600; also that E. F. Johnson be made assistant professor at a salary of $1,500; also that the enlargement of the law building be begun at once. The following resolution was introduced by Regent Barbour: Resolved, That henceforth in the selection of professors, instructors and other assistants for the University that no distinction be made between men and women, but that the applicant best fitted for the position receive the appointment. Dr. Authur Cushney was made permanent professor of materia medica and therapeutics. The sum of $600 was appropriated for disinfecting and oiling the floors of the hospitals. It is known that the resignation of Dean Knowlton of the law department is in the hands of the the board. The professor desires to devote all his time to lectures and to law writing. The resignation has not been formally acted upon. It is intimated that in case it is accepted, the popular dean's succesor may be Hon. Benton Hanchett.