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President Angelí is expected home about the first of February next. Profs. E. L. Walter and I. N. Demmon luive returned home from Kurope. Exerercises in the medical departinent will open on Monday, the 3d inst., at 9 o'clock a. m. The number of students already adraitted to the university is 200 greater than last year at a corresponding date. Regent Shearer, accompanied by liis daaghter, is to sail from New York for Europe on the 15th of next month. The woik of strenglhening and repairing university hall is ibout completed, and the scaffolding will be removed in a short time. The students are returning by the dozens. Every train brings a host of them, and the bnggage cart owners are reaping thi'ir harvest. There are now 38,403 volumes in the various university libraries. Qf this number the general librar? has 31,203 volumes besides 8.423 unbound pamphlets. The estimated expenses of the university orthe coming year are placed at $268,815. riiis includes $97,000 for the new library building and f 118,205 for salaries. Corunna Journal, gast Pmf Stowell and wife. of Ann Arbor, are spendng a few dayi in the city at the residence of Rev. S. Reed, Mis. Stowell's father. The putting in of the heating apparatus, gas pipes, etc., in the new library building will cost $0,000, and be done by the same firm that did the work in the new capítol Miüding at Lau.sing. Next Monday, Oct. 3d, at four o'clock . in., in room No. 24, of the north hall of the north wing of the main building, he opening exercises of the new school of )olitical science will be held. The arrangement of the various specinens and collections of natural history in he new museum building is now competed. The old north wing of the niain )iiilding, formerly used for this purpose, ïas been remodeled anti arrunged for lecure-rooras for the various classes. Any of our people desirous of seeing a gymnasium erected upon the campus at no listant day, cannot lind a better method of ïelping the enterprise along, and at the heir same time receiving back the worth of money, than by subscribing for the University Chronicle. It is always filled with ollege news and choice reading, and romises this year to excel itself. Whcn 'ou are usked to subscribe don't ref use, hut ut down your name and help along the gymnasium fund. It is a worthy cause. Three Rivera Tribune: "Prof. Hennequin's summer sichool of French, which vas held at St. Clair, was excellent and nteresting but preved a failure financially. The St. Clair Republican urges the managenent of the Somerville school to assume hargc of the language scUool next sumïier, and carry on the good work which ïas been begun it the personal risk and resent loss of Prof. Hennequin. Next ummer it is proposcd to add Uerman to he course, and olFur still greater inducenients for students to spend their lammer vaeation at the cool and pleasant villagc of St. Clair." The regenta, at their meeting this week, ppropriated $250 for the equlpment of lie new eye and ear wanl ; appointed Pr. ."¦¦in Hall as an assistaut in the medical lepartment; listened to aproposition from he medical faculty for the appointment of Dr. Henry Sewell, assistant professor of ïhysiology at Jolina Hopkins university, to m lecturer on pliyslology In the medical epartment, and the establishment of a hysiolgical laboratory at an expense of ;i000 - neither of which were acted upon. Acting-President Frleze presented an exïaustive review of the work of the unicrsily for the past year; upon agreement f the facultics of the two medical departïents, it was provided that the game ennUKW exainiuation be required and that 11 medical students be compclled to pass he same examinations, and it was further rovided tliat a student rejected by one school coukl not be admitted to the otlier 'school the same year. 01FT8 TO COLLEGES. Johns Hopkins gave $3, 000,000 to the university which bcars lus name. John C. Qreeu presented Priuceton with $750,000. The gifts of Ezra Cornell aiul II. W. Sage to Coruell university aggregate more than $ 1,000,000. Lafayette college has roceived trom Ario Pardee more than $.100,000 sime 1804, and the Western Reserve college was endowed with $500,000 by Amasa Stone. Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, the wife of a Boston merchant, has bestowed more than $600,000 on different American colleges, ainong which curiou9ly enough, Harvard has not been included. Besides the sum9 allotcd to the southern cducational fnnd, Gcorge Peabody gave to Yale and Harvard $150,OOOeach; to Washington college, Virginia, $0,000 to Kenyon, Ohio, $25,000, and to various scientiflc instituí imis about $1,500,000. Joseph E. Sheffield gave lo the scientific school of Yale nearly $400,000, and Amherst collese received $150,000 from Samuel Williston. Nathaniel Thaycr and Xathan Matthews have each given more than a quartei' of a million to Harvard university; and the gifts of the yonnger Agassiz to the museum at Cambridge, which his father founded, already exceed $300,000. In general, it may be said that the aggregate donaüons received by American colleges since 18G0 equal their entire valuation in that year. In the lasttwelveinont lis covered by these Btatistlcs (1878) the total amount of gifts bestowed on colleglate iustitutions was about $1,390,000. It had reached $1,274,000 iu the preceding year. About one third of these amouuts WaS giveu lo l.ln;...lUK. i in Now KnKlunl, and more than one-half to the colleges of the seaboard states.