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The boys who went to Toroato report a tip-top good timo. The gymnasium fund is referred to favorably by Trof. Fricze in his ajjpual report. Dr. Frothingham is announced for a leoture bcfore the Adrián high school, this winter. The board of regenta have been in msion during tho week, workiog quietly and harinoniously. The gift of ex-Gov. Bagley, the portraits of the presidenta of the United States, have been placed in the President' s room. Not as much interest sccni9 to bo manifested in fencing this year as usual, and it is thought a club will not be organized. T. M. Hunter, of Adrián, a member of the class of '77 was choseo county clerk of Lenawee county by a handsomo majority at the recent election. At the recent meeting of the athletio association some 300 new members were admitted, materially swelling tho gymnasium fund by their fees. The university shooting club has 20 mem - bers. They have wcekly meetings for practice when the weather permita: President, D. L. Parker; secretary, T. W. Sargeant; treaturer, C. P. Brace. The number of students under instruction since the opening of the university in 1841, is 8,825, of whom 6,249 have graduated. These figures do no not include the new students registered this year, we understand. The university boys are talking of getting up an excursión to Mentor, Ohio, to pay their compliments to President Garfield. Nest Saturday ia the time they desire to go, and $1.25 for the round trip the Bgurc for the tickets. Miss Annie Granger, for the past two years teacher in the Woodstock (111.) high school, has accepted a position at Ottuuiwa, Iowa, at a salary of $1,000. She is a gradúate of the university of Michigan, clapsical course. The anatómica! rooms opened last Friday will bc under the charge of Dr. Herdman, with Dr. Hendrioks as first assistant, and John Chase, Jas. S. VVatson, Isaac A. Smith, William L. Oxford and John 8. Sayre as seconds. The university since its inception to the present time, has cost the state, in appropriations, $570,000. The inventory just completed shows the property of the university to amount to $681,442, or 111,442 in excess of what the state bas paid for its expenses. The excess is accounted for by private donations. The Chronicle board issued a handsome four-page extra from the CouRrER office last Saturday night, giving an acrount of the foot-ball pams played with the Toronto university boys. Ann Arbor won tho game by one goal and a touch down in two innings of 45 minutes each. The Ann Arbor boys remainej over the Sabbath at Toronto returning home Monday night. The bicycle club consista of 14 members, and is said to possess $950.00 worth of "rolling stock" unincumbered by mortgago or lien, and their collisions with pedestrians, and general mishaps, are as carefully suppressed as those of the leading railroads. The coinmon council are umi - itating a swoop down upon them with an ordinanoe fearful and blood curdling in its provisions, however, it is rumored. From the report of acting President Frieze we take the following : " Of the 2,430 students in attendance, 643 were from Michigan, and of this number 251 were in the literary department. Thirty-five of the states were represented, most largely Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania. There are also students from England, Prussia, Japan, Burmah, Hawaii, the Bermudas, and the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. The fees for matriculation and other purposes received from the 787 students, outside of the state, amounted to about $30,000." Fourof the southern republican nominees for congress were graduates of the university of Michigan. They were the following: Augustus H. Pettibone, lst district, Tennessee, graduated from the literary department in 1859 ; resides at Greenville, Tennessee. Halbert B. Case, 3d dis trict, Tennessee, graduated from the law department in 1864 ; resides at Chattanooga. John D. White, 9th district Kentucky, graduated from the law department in 1872; resides at Manchester, Kentucky, and has already served one term in the house. Joseph T. Hake, 2d district, West Virginia, graduated from the law depsrttnentin 1864; resides at Keyser, West Virginia. Mr. Ilake has been judge of the supreine court of his state. Pettibone and White were elected.