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Helen Potter' Pleiades to-night at university hall. Speaker Moffat graduatod from the law department in 1803. The agitation of the class supper question has comruenced ainong the seniora. Mr. Clark is still upon the tow-path with his university views, and the boys are still signing. Prof. J. B. Webb, who graduated with the class of '70, has aocepted a chair in Cornell. Prof. C. Ij. Ford was taken quite ill last Saturday, and not able to meet with his class Monday. If you desire topass an evening pleasantly, doo't fail to attend the entertainment at university hall to-night. Prof. Vaughan is to read a paper at the oming meeting of the state ranitary convention at Flint, on the 28th in9t. # At the students' meeting of the reform club last Sunday afternoon and evening Allen Frazer and others spoke, and 34 students put down their signatures to the pledge. Because of llness in hú family, Prof. Dupont has been absent from his post for scveral dayswitlñn the past forlnight. The roll of studente now numbers 1515 in all the departinents. They would make a good sized village if all by themselvcs. If you never expect to see the original Sara Bernhardt, go to the university hall tonight and see Holen Potter'l impersonation of the lean and gaunt shadow. The board of regenta tuet Wednesday evening and went into executive session after hearing the report of the library couimittee respecting a memorial to the legislature. Archie Brown, class of '72, who has been night editor of the Cincinnati Gazctte for several years, bas severed his connection with that jnurnal and gone into the iron business. There is an ominous feeling in the air which, when fully devaloped, will without the least doubt, be quite apt to knock the holiday vacation off its pins. It takes too long for the boys to get down to business again after their play spell. The library committee of the university has been in correspondence with Messrs. Ware & Van Brunt, the famous library building architects, who have forwarded designs for a $100,000 building, which are in the hands of the board of regenta. Welles Whitmore, a gradúate of the class of '75, literary departnient, is at present residing at Oakland, California, and holds the office of district attorney of Almeda county. Mr. W. has many friends in the city who will be glad to loarn of his suecess in life. He is a subscriber to the Courier. It in with great pleasure that we are enabled to announce, through the courtesy of President Frieze, that the lectures at university hall will be resuraed, and next Sabbath afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. Dr. Cocker will deliver the first lecture. This will be followed every altérnate Sabbath afternoon by some one of the professors ín the university. This announcement will be greeted with delight by the poople of our city who have enjoyed these lectures extremely wel!. A patiënt died at the homeopathie hospital reeently, and after his demise a will was found which bequcathed $300 to a poor student who had taken care of hiin ; $100 for the indigent patients in the hospital, and the remainder of bis property to a minister who had formerly taken an interest in him, and a gentleman friend at his home in Woodland, Barry county. His relatives, with whom he was said not to have been on extremely intímate tertns, propose to contest the disposal of the property, it is said. Upon returning from the holiday vacation the classes in Eoglish literature to Prof. Tyler, were very greatly surprised to find looking down upon them from the walls beautiful portraits of our three great poets, Bryant, Longfellow and Lowell. Thcy were a present to this department of the university from Mr. Henry O. Iloughton, the senior member of the firm of Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Cambridge, Mass. Prof. Tyler epent last summer inCatubridge, and it is through him that we have been favored with the gifts which as lithographs are worthy to stand by the side of the elegant typographical works of this house. In the memorial prepared by the library committce for presentation to the legislature, it is stated that therc are 35,000 volumes in the general library and 8,500 titles in pamphlcta. Ouly 6 per cent of the students can be aecommodated in the present library at any one time. The daily attendance averages 250. The light is insufficient and what there is is badly arranged ; there are no conveniences whatever, the room not being originally designed for a library ; the ventilation is villainous, almost producing asphyxiation ; there are 3,750 books on his.tory, 1,200 English, 750 Continental Europe, 1,300 American, 500 ancient ; Cornell has 15,000 on history, while her attendance is less than as great as Michigan; there were 75,000 books drawn during the year, 3,000 during vacation, not ncluding referencc books ; every book in the library used 2i times during the year, a far greater average than any other college library in the land ; the present quarters a positive disgrace to the university, etc, etc.