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Hon. O. H. Barnes, of '50, was in the ity tliis week. H. W. Calkins, pliarmic '78, attended Jonimeucemeiit exeicises. Tlie regents have appropriated $100 for new models for the classes in free hand Irawing. Prots. Vnughan and Stowell have been nade f uil professors of their respective de)artmenls. Professors Hennequin and Adanis go to Vlartha's Vineyard this siunmer to teach it the Institute. E. H. Bowman, '81, attended Comuencrment and the laying of the coruer tone of the Alph:i Delta Phi chapter house Sunday afternoon and evening despite he heat laiyc audiences asserabled in Jniversity Hall to the Baccalaureate and Memorial addresses. J. W. Baird has resigned his position in he cheinical laboratory to accept an ofter 'rom Lehigh Uuiversity. His place is filled by F. C. Smith. Those gorgeous and gaudy red silk hats of the scnior.s astonished the gaze of all )ehoMers for the lirst time Saturday mornng. Some say they are loud. Rev. Nathaniel West of the second class vhich was graduated f rom the University, bat of 1846, came Wednesday night. He s now preaching in the Detroit Presbyerian church. Dr. Dight has severèd his connectkm vitli the medical school and gone to his ïome in Pennsylvania. After a short tay there he starts for his work in the colege at Beiruth, Syria. A base ball nine coinposed of colored men from Louisville, Ky., amused the Jniversity nine a while Aonday afterïoon. There was considerable finí for the spectators and when the rain stopped the ;ame at the close of the fifth inning, the core stood 9 to 2 in .favor of the home line. Ordinary amateur ball tossers muit get up earlj' in the morning toget in more una than our players. A very pretty ball game was played Satirday afternoon between the University and Cas8 teams. It was closely contested, the game being won by the home team in the last half of the ninth inning. The score stood: Inn'n ! I 2 8 .4 S 7 8 9 ÚHSb llUIUiiOl 0 1 i 4 Uuivcraitie 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 l l 6 The best features oí the game were two tli ree-base hits by Walker, seven men being struck outby Packard's pitchiug, and twelve men beiug put out by Blackburu at first. The Students' Chrlstian Aasociation have purchased the lot on State street opposite University Hall for $2,500. They have raised seventeen hundred dollars and propose to get enough for the lot subscribed among the people of. Aun Albor. The pl.in for the proposed building wlll demaud an outlay of $15,000. It wlll be of stone in the NormanGothic style, one story high, and wittt two audience rooms. The trustees are Profs. M. L. D'Ooge, Dr. Heidman, C. K. Adams, J. B. Steere, E. Olney, V. M. Spalding, A. B. Prescott and II. S. Frieze.