University Notes

The MichiganChioago football game on Thanksgiving Day will be played iu the Coliseum building, Chicago. Frederick C. Newcornbe, B. S., Ph. D., assistant professor of botany, bas been ruade junior professor. Arrangements have been made by the oratorical board for a pronouucrug contes't to take place in University hall, ïïov. 19. Tbere will be eight representatives from each law class and six from each literary olass, making 24 from eacb department. The opposing students will be nnder a captain chosen from the pastgradnate rnembers of their respective departmeuts. An effort will be made to elect a number of co-eds as contestants. The football game betweeu the old gradnates and the ü. of M. elevens Saturday afternoon, demonstrated one faot at least, and that was that althcngh sornewhat rnsty for lack of praotice, the old boys were still in it and conld hold their own on the gridiron as well as tbey ever did. The game ended in a viotory for the "old grads" 15-0, bat the U. of M. team learued something by the defeat, namely, to play swifter ball than they have done so far this year. A. L. Davis, '98 law, president of the Amerioan College League of Republican Clubs, has aunounced the following appointments as chaiimen of the various sections of the league: Section 2, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Bhode Island, William B. Wolfe, of Howard; sectiou 3, New York.JJ. Rnger Lewis, of Cornell ; seotion 6, Ohio and Michigan, Vernon O. Johnston, of Western Reserve college ; section 9, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, E. J. Hennina, of Columbian university.