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Henry C. Post, clais of ?79 wis in Ann Arbor this week. The tirst semester closed lust night; Mie second begins Monday. F. B. Leiand and F. II. Hodder will go to the Phi Kappa Pi couvehtiou to be held at Pittsburg. The convalescing professors, Drs. Cocker and C. H. Stowell,have had 110 relapses and ai'e improving. The lecture of Prof. Hennequin will be given for the Athletic Association soon after the beginning of next semester. A pamphlet is to be issued after the law commencement which will give the speeches and t'ull accounts of the proceedings. Louis J. Fasquelle and W. H. Chamberlain are the projectors of the scheine. The senior laws were unable to procure any distinguished speaker f rom abioad to address them on the occasion of Waslilngton's birthday, and they have asked Prof. Wells. He bas not yet decided whether or not he will deliver the address. tt has Veen decided to have the dedicatory services of the new Library building on Wednesday of Conimencement week. The program as yet has not been decided upon, but it contemplates thepreseutatkm of the building by Regent Shearer, chairmaii of the building committee, a response by President Angelí, a poom by Dr. Duflield, and perhaps the planting of an ivy by the graduating class. Twenty-two of the freshmen ladies are "coming out" next week in their new class hats. As a special favor we were allowed a peep at one of them (the lints, not the girls) and we can say they are quite neat and jaunty. They are black, and are called the George Washington hata because they are built just like the old three-cornered ones the Continental used to wear. Deeidedly it was a happy idea which led them to adopt the custoru. The new Chrouicle board met and organized VVednosday evening. The positions on the paper are as follows : Managing editor, E. E. Fall ; Various Topic?, A. T. Packard; General Literature, W. C Braisted; Things Chronicled, Bethune Duffleld; Exchanges, Elmer Dwiggins; Personáis, W. L. McDonald; Literary Notes, J. M. Z≠ Secretary and Treasurer, J. A. Case. The various chairs are well filled, and the Chronicle for next semester can safely promise its readers that it will maintain the high position it holds auioiig college papers. The Univertity committees from the Legislature were looking about the campus last week. The members from the Senate were S. F. White, II. F. Pennington, and H. W Seymour; f rom the House of Representatiyes are R.'L. Warren, A. B. Darragh, James Van Kleck, N. A. Fletcher and D. G. Gleason. They spent Thursday in visitingthe various buildings and rectatio rooms, and at the several meotings they had tbey expressed general satisfacción at the manner In which affaire were being coudiicted. There is a disposition to deal fairly with the institution as regards appropriationa. Last week Thursday evening a class of law students was examined in the couit room, and the following persons were admitted to the bar : Allston, Armstrong, Anderson, Beis, Uoyce, Caiskadon, Carmichael, Comstock, Cowring, Dorland, Dickema, Easton, Evans, Gilmore, Hosmer, Hovey, Hawley, Hutchinson, Huil, Keithly, Linton, Lawyer, Lockwood, Leland, Lovell, Lamey, McLaughlin, Oren, O'Connor, Pilchard, Pope, Parkhurst, Perkins, Register, Robeson, Roby, Searing, Shepard, Steiner, Shaw,Long,Taylor, Thomas, Tussell, Tliompson,Tait, Warden, Warner. Woodcock, Willard, York, Dale, Miller. As the next and last lecturer before the S. L. A. is Hon. Cushman R. Davis. and as he cannot meet the engagement, the regular course is uow completed, and we tinderstand the association has the rather disagreeable experience of looking not merely at au empty treasury, but at one with a hole in it. In the discusslons about town as to why this Is so, we have often met with two reasons. The first being that the Lecture Board was a partisan one, that is, one whose members are taken entirely from one of the two parties into which college poliitics has divided itself. For this reason the other party and its friends eomposing about one-half of the students, lost much of its interest in the association, henee it withheld ti active support. We are compelled to say there is some truth in thii statement. The other reason people gave for not attending better was that thy did not consider the course as good a one as it bad been in former years. This was in part just, but at the same time not enough allowance was made tor the fact that for several years past we have repeatedly heard all the best speakers and most of the best concert troupes. By this we have become tired of them and long for something which is not uuder the sun- something new. The nearest approaches were with the Spanish Students in concert, and with Danenhower in lecture. They were successful. The Litta company began the course weli. Now had it been closed with Langtry in "As You Like It," or "The Honeymoon," orwith Christine Nilsson in concert we believe the season would have closed with good credit and a full treasury. We are sorry that the boys have not succeeded as we know that some of them have worked hard and faithfully without reward or piaise. We regret it also because they were working in a good i cause, and the surplus, had there been one, would have gone to worthy object. : There is yet one chance for them, and that is in the production of "Iolanthe," to be given under their auspices in the ; spring. From the local interest necessarily attached to Uwe have no doubt but that it will be a big success. We hope it I will be so.