University Items

More students arrived this week. Tho eyo and ear clínica are very full at present. Dr. Vaughan's dtea in ehemibtry rcceivcd their unknowns on Monday. The "University Book " odited by Mr. Chase, of Detroit, will soon be out. Again have petitioos been banded to the faculty requesting that the course in mathematics be shortened. Tho freshtuen are waitiog for a poet and orator to develop themselves aniong their numbere before filling those offices. The Chronicle advertises for "a reporter among the ladies of the university." Well, well, they must be terribly bashful boys. Tho sophs. havo appointed a oomniictee to interview individual members of the class respecting the publication of the Oraole this year. The following officers complete the list of sophomore class : Poet- Miss Francis Stebbins, toast master- J. F. Winship ; marshal - F. J. Jennison. The university can feel proud of the fact that the only republican in the Kentucky oongressional delegation, John D. White, is an alumnus from her halls. The regular monthly meeting of the W. C. T. U. of the university is to be held tomorrow afternoon, December 4th, at tive o'clock p. na., at No. 15 Forest streef. The last Clironicle proceeds to flay alive tho Detroit Evening News - in poetry. lts editora probably had not learned the terrible fitte of the Masón News man who made a similar attempt, not long since. Hon. David II. Jerome, governor elect, was in the city last Monday and Tmc Jj-, visiting the various departments of the university. He waa oordially received by the authorities and enthumastically entertained. The next couplet in the students' lecture course will be the Maria Litta concert company - this evening - and a lecture upon "Alexander Hamilton," by John Clark Ridpath, on Friday evening, December lüth. The nambor of books drawn from the lijrary during the week eoding Nov. 2Mh, was 1,806 volumes, of which 94 only wcre iction, 98 poetry, and the remainder divided between history, uiathematics, scientific worke, etc, etc. Thcre are upwards of 50 graduales of the iterary dupartment of the university who are engaged in business or the profeesions, and residente of Ano Arbor. Besides these there are some 2ñ or 30 graduaten of (he professional departmenta living herc. The ladien ward of the homeupithic hospital is l'iili, soiue of the cases are quite aevere. One is a case of tumor on ide of body, rueasuiïng 15 inches in circumferenoe, wliich was removed by Dr. Franklin, and he patiënt is doing well. The male ward 8 not f'uil. On Friday eveaing, December 10lh, boro will le a hop at Sheehan's State treet hall, for the benefit of the gymnasium 'und. Ticket can be obtained of any of he following committeeuien : F. S. Allen, F. W. Davenport, E. E. White, H. M. Mandell, S. EL DuShane, Geo. Whitney, J. J. Comstock, R. M. Ward. Tuesday evening of laat weok 60 members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon society of the univer.iity had a grand banquet at the Michigan Exchange, at Detroit, their eighth successive annual feast in Detroit. iverything passed off very pleasantly, and he occasion the boys report to be equal, f not in excess of fonner occasions oí' the eind, in the way of enjoyment. The opening concert of the Ann Arbor sohuul uC uiusiu, uuder llie diiectiuli ui Prof. Jady, given in university hall, was well atended, and gave good s&tisfaction. The eople of the city are gradually being educated up to the artistic in music. Still yc ocal clings to the homely old airs, so popular with our fathers aad mothers, and is very rauch afraid he is too old to go aloog with the tide in thia line. One strain given y Remenyi - in his conoert here last pring - from the air of the "Swanee Rib ler," was worth more to him than all the est of bis masterly and atristic fiddling. The Marie Litta company, which is to ivc one of ita excellent ooncerts at the uni ersiry hall to-nijjht, needs no commendaiotv to fill the house. Mlle. Litta bas do equal as a soprano on the conoert stage, nd she is supported by an excellent comany. The public who enjoy such entertainments will not be disappointed. The íew Orleans Times saya of her: "All admit that the role she interprets is fascinatingly melodious, and that in the higher registers she hasabsolutely no limit. We can say tuis of hersinging, thatunderits magie influence one is irresistibly oarried away into a sensuous dream, that, under its spel!, the impressible auditor finds oblivion, and if this is not art, we fail to recognize it."