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'Rali for '87. Prot'. W alter passed tlie summcr in London. Prof. Thomas visited the Yellowstone Park this summer. H. H. Spencer ot '82 is back to college "or P. G. work. He isthe same Hexame;er. The professional schools of Medicine, Law, Pharmacy and Dentistry open Monday. The new freshman class is a large one and has a goodly proportion of co-eds. in t, but they don't count for the foot-ball jame Saturday. Clarence Taylor, a gradúate of theFree Institute, at Worcester, Mass., has been appointed an assistant in the mechaiiical laboratory at a salary of $1,000. The Students Christian Association, together with the Mission Circle of the II. E. Church, gives a reception to the students this evening In the parlors of the church. Prof. V. H. Payne, in connection with Prof. J. Estabrook, of Oliyet college, is getting out a series of three English Readers, to be illustrated by Miss Isabella Stewart, daughter of Dr. Moses Stewart of Detroit. The students and professors of the literary department have returned, rooms have een secured, and all are now recounting summer reminiscences of travel and conquest. Next week they will begin to setle down to work. The Steward is rapidly making eiitries of students on his books, and yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock the numbers were: Liiterary, 329; medicine, 183; law, 90; pharmacy, 38 ; dentistry, 21 ; homeopahy, 19. This makes a total of 680. By next week this number will probably be nearly doubled. Gabriel Campbell, a graduatebf the literary department in 1865, has accepted the Chair of Intellectual and Moral Phiosophy and Political Economy at Dartmouth. In 1862 he was the captain of the 'Normal Co.," 17th Mich. Vol. Infantry. Ie has recently been connected v.ith the Jniversity of Minnesota as vice-president and lecturer on Philology and Fine Arts. There is a rule in the High School tliat there shall be no secret societies, but from time to tune rumors have floated about of the existence of one or two. Last week this suspicion was made a certainty by the records of a society called the Delta Theta Phi being placed in the hands of the authorities by a man who had seized them for the rent, which had been withheld from liim. It showed there were eight members, and as the law demanded their suspension tliey were compelled to leave. Six of them hare been allowed to return Uowever, upon promise of severing their connection forthwith. They were accustomed to meet Sunday night and their meetings were of such a character as to disturb the other tenants of the Haven block. The affiür was perplexing to those concerned In many ways. First, there was doubt as to the right of the laudlord to break in and get the records and then to surrender theiu to the school board, then the school board and superintendent were each anxious to lay the responsibility of action upon the other. The board gracefully retired and let Mr. 'erry iace the music. He suspended them al', then took bick six. As to the justness of the rule and also the advisabllity of taking back those who had broken it there is a wide difference of opinión.