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The Alpha Nu Society bas challenged the Adelphi to a game of baseball. The annnal spring field day will be held ou the athletio field nest Thursday afteruoou. The firstyear law olass has petitioned the law faculty to allow the class to fiuish its work by Jnne 12. Harry A. Pratt. law, '90, of Pittsburg, Pa., aud Miss Ethel White were married Weduesday evening. Claude Vaa Tyne, of the G. of M., contemplates taking a canoe trip down the Danube during the coming vacat on. As a result of the "Julius Caesar" entertainment the womau's building fuud is ricner by 317 and the oratorical fnnd by f87. The Students Christian Assooiaion has eleoted the following two ofïioers to fill vacancieseneral vice president, W. H. Montgomery; treasurer, J. F. Reman. The date of the final game for the class baseball championship has been changed from tomorrow ruorning to Tuesday afteruoou, May 26, at 4:15 o'clock. The announcement cards of the Chicago-U. of M. game, sent down to Ypsilanti were no sooner hung up than they wero taken away by souvenir hunters. Three U. of M. students with stupendous jags and very unsteady voices, made an exhibition of themselves at Ypsilanti Tuesday evening, just as the adnience of the Normal school recital was returning home, by giving a poor rendition of Salvation Aruiy songs. Fully 2,000 people witnessed the game of baseball at the athletic field between the U. of M. and Chicago teams Wednesday afternoon. The players from the windy city were uo match fot the U. of M. boys and when the gamu euded the score stood 9 to 2 against thein. The senior law class has engaged Perry Ives, of Detroit, to paint a portrait of Prof. J. O. Knowlton, which will be left as a class memorial to adorn the.waüls of the law department building. Mr. Ives is a distinguished artist and has just completed a portrait of President Cleveland. Arrangements for the Decoratiou Day baseball game at Detroit are in progress. An excursión of two trains will be run over the Michigan Central, lea ving at 10 aud 12 a. m. and return - ing at 7 and 12 p. m. The team will stop at the Rnssell House, and the game will be played at the D. A. C. park. C. Lincoln McGuire's thesis is one of the most novel that was ever handed in to the law faoulty. He writes upon "The laws of irrigation, with especial reference to Nebraska. " Nebraska is Mr. McGnire's nativa state. The whole thesis is writteu in rbymed verse, the first aud sixth liues rhyminp, as do the second aud fifth and third and fourth. The frontispeice is au excellent halftone cut of the author. At the meeting of the Gradúate Club at the home of Prof. and Mrs H. C. Adams, Friday eveniug, Prof. B. A. Hinsdale read acareafully prepared paper on "The Monroe Doctrine." At the close of the paper a discussion over sorne of the speakers' points was carried on by Profs. D'Ooge,Adams, Hinsdale, Weuley and others. The annual election of offlcers took place after the discussion aud resulted as f ollows : President, Miss Williams, '95 ; vice president, Mr. Davis; secretary, Duane R. Staart; general committee, Mr. Gray aud Miss Lovell.