University Notes

All the departments in tlie university close today for tbe Christnias vacution. They will not reopen until Jan. 4. A U. of M. Alumni Association lias been organized at Komeo with 50 members. Among tbe number is 011e of the class of '54, and one of '69. The building committee of the women's gymnasium are sendiug circuláis to women's clubs to raise the $10,000 roquired to wipe out the deficit. Eaeh club member is requested to dónate abirth-year offering, one penny for each year of lile. President Hutchins will deliver an address on '"The Solidarity of Our Michigan School System - How Shall It be Still Farther Perfected?" at the 47th annual meeting of the Michigan State Teachers Association, to be held in Lansinsr Dec. 28-30. Dr. Eliza Mosher reatl an interesting paper on "Municipal Hygiëne" before the Michigan Alumnse Society Saturday af ternoon. Dr. Mosher gave the history oL the city of Glasgow trom a hygienic point of view, and used it as a typieal case to show the necessity of good sanitation. A singular case lias come to light in the nothern part of the state. A lady, E. W. Mooers, graduated in the medical departtnent in 1884, and is now pathologist at the Worcester, Mass., Insane Asylum, never having lived in this state since graduation. But recently a woman sent to the University from the northern part of Michigan, assumiug to be Dr. E. W. Mooers, and secured a certifícate that she graduated here in 1884. Now the authorities are af ter the pretender. Charles T. Beattv. who was on day sentenced by Judge Craig, of Stroudsburg, Pa., tolo months in the Eastern penitentary for passing a forged drai't on the Hide & Leather bank of New York at the East Stroudsburg National bank, was a gradúate of the literary class of '75 of the U. of M., witli the degree of A. M. For flve years he was the principal of the high school at Coldwater, Mich., resiguing to take up the practice of law. The committee appointed to investígate the accounts of the S. L. A. made its report Wednesday. It found that 200 tickets were missing and recommended that the $400 discrepaney in the amount should be made good by tour members of the board, and if they ref use to do so, the matter shall be brought before the faculty. W. T. Hosner, chairman of the investigating committee, gives out emphatically that there has been no dishonesty, but that poor bookkeeping is to blame for the trouble. The Detroit Evening News tells the foilowing story of Cameron C. Burns, the Detroiter who recently returned f rom the Klondike: "When he was coming over the Chilkoot pass he saw a familiar figure with a pack on its back and almost dropped hisown pack with astomshment. Then he gave the Michigan University yell: 'U. of M., Rahl Bah! Kan!' The other man, who was going into the Klondike over the pass, dropped his pack like a hot stove lid, turüed around and yelled: 'Por God's sake, who are youV' He was 'Fatty' Smith, the old Ann Arbor University half back, who was in the univevsity wheu Burns was there."