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The laws are bowling for a fire escape in the law building. Preparations have been made for summer school and the conrees to be offered. A chess club and shooting club are late organizatious in the uuiversity. Caspar VV. Whitney, in an interview with the Detroit Free Press, expresses the view that the westera athletes have coine around to his ideas of western professiODalisrn as stated in Harper's Weekly last fall. He says that the western colleges are too desirous of being champions of the whole country and don 't wait to grow to excellence, as the eastern colleges have done. Caspar W. Whitney, the Harper's Weekly athletic critic, was in the city Monday. He expressed himself as snrprisod at the size of the nniversity, and announced that it was not impossible that Harper's would establish a western departinent in the Weekly. A telegram was receive here shortly after Whitney's departure announcing that' his father was dead at Hamilton, Ont. President Angelí has written Senator Mcfllillan rolative to a bilí introduced by Senator Wathall, of Mississippi. This bilí provides that the land granta voted by congress in aid of state universities shall be equalized. For instanöe Utah was given 16,000 acres for its nuiversities; the Dakotas over 86,000, Alabama 9a,000; while Michigan received but 46,080 acres. As Michigan contains little public lands now, it is probable that if the grants are ever equalized, the university will receive its additional share froin western states. President Angelí hopes that the bill rnay pass, as, is well knowu, the present resources of the university are