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26
Month
June
Year
1896
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Tbe Phi Kappa Psi gave a honse party after the promenade oo Monday evening. At the recent cornmencement of Rutgers College the degree of LL. D. was bestowed upon President Jaines B. Angelí. Loáis R. Pratt, lit '96, managing editor uf the Inlander, was raarried yesterday to Miss Helen Truesdale, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt will spend the summer iu Traverse City. They will return to Ann Arbor in the fall when Mr. Pratt will enter the law department. A nurnber of the prominent alumni of the uuiversity. feeling that the occasion of Dr. Angelí 's quarter centenary should be ruarked by sorne snitable memorial, have founded a fellovrship in international law in connection with the university. It is to be known as the James Burrill Angelí ffillowship. No public solicitations were made but the surn of 10,000 was soon obtained and passed. The names of the donors of this handsorue testimonial will be giren in antograph when the fellowsbip is formally presented to the university. William Potwin Morgan, '89 lit, died of consumption at Ashville, N. C. , June 14. After graduatiou Mr. Morgan studied chemistry in Vienna. He then became chief chemest and directnr in the Chicago Varnish Co., of which his father is president. He was one of the earliest members of the Chicago Athletic Assooiation, and also a mernber of the Xi Cbapter of Zeta Psi. The funeral services were held on Wednesday of last week, at the home of Mr. Morgan's father, Captain O. H. Morgan, at Highland Park, 111. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Cheney nfficiated. The university received last week the diploma and medal for its exhibit at the Columbian exposition. The diploma recites eight reasons why the medal should be conferred : Because the inscitution has nearly 3,000 students and 165 members of its faculty, is supported by the state and has very low fees, has ampie plant and equipment, is strong in seminary methods of instrnetion, has a very extensivo curriculum, admits women to its privileges, has a superior exbibit of student work in science and engineering, and its faculty bas and does number mauy men who have made valuable coutributions to literatura and science. The medal is a baudsome bronze disc, the design upon one side beiug the figure of Columbus by Augustus St. Gaudens. Cn the other side is a design by C. E. Barber.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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