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College work was suspended Thursday, in honor of Prof. Cocker. We uuderstand the Oracle board are making a desperate effort to get their magazine out before the Laws go home next year. The freshman class met Saturday, accepted Mr. Shattuck's resignation as orator, and elected Mr. S. B. Todd to flll the vaeaney. The Gymnasium fund has reached several thousaud dollars and t Is now proposed by the Athletic Association to Luild as iïood a " Gym." as possible for the money and then fit it up by private subscription. By the Law and Dental school commencements, which were last week, about four-hundred and sevcnty-five students were released trom their studies in town and the most of thein have srone to their homes. Prof. M. E. Cooley left last Tuesday afternoon on a tour of inspection to the schools of Meclianical Engineering at the Ohio State University at Columbus: the llose Polytechnic Institute, at Terre Haute; the Illinois Industrial Institute at Champaign; Washington University at St. Louis, and Purdue University at Lafayette. The trip will take about ten dnys. Several hundred medical students met Maclean at the depot last night and escortod him to his house. After that they allowed their spirits to effervesce by making a bon fire on the campus and listening to a speech by a medie against the News which was so rabid and extravagant as even to muke his hearers sinile. We would warn the News to sell out, for the speaker is golng to do all he can to crush it. There is a. chartn about the rnerry, rollicking songs of a student glee club which is not found in any other kind of vocal music. Wherever they siug, theirglees aro received with a heartier welcome than geuerally awaits the liveliest air in the newest opera. The waltz song of the Princeton Club is said to be unsurpassed in its pleasing effect upou an audience. The concert will be given by theclub next Wednesday evening. The novelty and enjoyable characler of their entertainment willensure them a full house. The State Board of Charities and Corrections has offered the following suggestions, relatlve to the extensión of State Hospital care for children at Michigan Uuiversity, for action of the Legislature in amendment of present la ws : "The Legislature has humanely provided that any dependent children who are inmates of the State Public School at Coldwater or who, if not affected by disease or requiring surgical treatment, would be entitled to adraission to said institutioD, uiay be sent to the hospital at Ann Arbor, "ihe expenses of convej'ing them, and their board and nursing aiic other care in said hospital" being paidoui of the State treasury. Act No. 138, Public Acts 1881. The Board respectfully recominend the extensión of the same privileges and right8 to the children who uiay need such medical and surgical treatment in the State Reform School, and the Reform School for girls, the School for the Blind and the Institution for the echic.it ion of the Deaf and Dumb. The provisión for tli is class of patlents, by special wards tobe builtattheUniversity hospitala, isol great importance to the full and successful execution of the law, and will coinmend itself to the favorable coiisideratiou of the Legislature. They also take this opportunity of soliciting the attention of the Legislature to ome provisión of law that may place at least the surgical skill in our schools of medicine connected with the Uuiversity, within reach of persons who might thus cease to be dependent upon public charity. It is the conviotion of those familiar with our poorhouses that many of their inmates luight be restored to self-dependence. Attention has been particularly drawn to aflêctious of the eyes, causing or threatening blindness." We are lnclined to favor this Jproject of extending the facilities of the hospital for doinjj good. Already people in large nunibers come here every year as to a Mecca of health. They are treated for their diseases In the hospital and oftentimes restored, after a short time to lives of usefulness and comfort. The great good which can be done here better than elsewhere, In onr opinión, should be extended to the helpless little ones who are the wards of tlie state.