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A. ö. Pitts, '85, Pittsbuigh, Mlch., was in the city Monday. A special Regen ts meeting lias been called ior next Monday. Dr. J. N. Martin is Dr. Dunster's assistant the coming college year. Prof. J. B. Bteere spoke on teraperance at.Ypsilanti last Sunday afteinoon. Charles S. Erswell, homoeop. "86, was in the city the forepart of the week. Eugene Byrnes, '84, will teach pliysics in the Washington, D. C , high school next year. Miss Emma VV. Mooer"s, M. D., '84, is at the " Our House on the HUI side " sanitarium, Dansville, N. Y. E. L. Johnson, '84, of Iowa, has received a Washington efetfcshtp recently under the civil service rules. Secretary Wade's prospecta for a vaeation are not TOiy flattering, with a probable regents' meeting about the 2Oth. Prof aud Mrs. Elisha Jones have concluded not to go to Europe thls snmmer. They are In Canaudaigua, New York, at present. H. G. Prettyman, :83, has returned from his eastern trip in the interest of the University co-operative society. He was at Cambridge a week familiarizing himself with the details of the Harvard Society. J. H Moyle, law '85, is stopping at the Chi Psi House, vVest Huron street.duiïng the summer. By the bye. he took the recent civil service examination at Detroit ior pension examiner, at Washington. He reporta about fifteen In attendance. Messrs. Koel & Haller, of thls city, have been given the contract of furnishing the mantels for the Alpha Delta Plu house on State street. They will probably fit out the building with its fiirniture also. The mantels and furniture for the house will cost from $1,000 to $1,200, ït is estimated. Robert G. West, '82, familiarly know as " Bob," paid us a short visit last Saturday on his way home from a business trip in the east. Bob just eseaped the earthquake, you see. Well, his home is at Austin, Texas, where lie is practieing Iaw with considerable success, sncceeding to bis father's practice, tlie latter being on the supreme bench of the State. The annual Announcement of the Iaw departnient bas recently been issued from tliis office. It consists of' thlrty-one pages of matter pertaining to the Iaw school and its workings. Tlie whole nuiiiber of students during the past year was 307; in the junior class were 171, in tlie senior, 130. In the twenty-five classes that have graduated from the departnient, 3,015 " sheepskins," have gone out. The Jay professorship, made vacant by the resignation of Judge Cooley, will soon be filled, it is expccted. A forty-one page pamplilet, entitled " Second Series of Selccted Papers rend before the Engineering Society of the University of Michigan,'' issued from this office, has the foliowing list of contents: " Wrought Iron," II. C. Getntnell, '84; "Pavements," F. M. Dunlap, '83; "Mortarand Ccments," Job Tuthill, "83; and " Friction md Lubrication," II. D. Uuraett, '84. A Hst of the Society's transactions daring the pust yenr show? tliat flfteen meetings have been held and seventeen papen presented on various subjects. This organization furnislies a very protitable adjunct to the different engineering courses in the University. If the State of Michigan would have the University progress as it should, something has got to be done, and that right quickly, by way of furnishing a larger amount of money for meeting the current expenses. At present the income from all sources does not meet the annual outgo. The problem is before you - how will you solve it? By law, the sum of one-twentieth of a mili is assessedon each dollar of the taxable property of the State, wliich provisión furnishes regularly about $40,000 for the needs of the Univergity. Make this one-twentieth of a mili tax one-tenth of a mili tax and you secure $40,000 a year more, wliich will place the institution on a proper finnncial footing. On reading the above, our State exchanges would do well to follow Captain Cuttle's advice, namely, " when found, ninke a note of."