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Prof. Denison has returned froni liis vaeation spent at Royalton, Yt. Mr and Mis. C. A. Kent sailed from Liverpool last week for home. Prof. Olney is reported cnough better as probably to be able to take one class this lirst semester. Dr. Stowell has jiist receiveil au Impor;ation of old aud rare works on microscopy. Some of these are the oldest works known ou the subject. Prof. Edward Olney writes that he will return home on the 24th- to-day - and hnpes to be able to do some univer8ity work tliis semester. Prof. I?enj. D'Ooge, who takes the jlace of Prof. Gayley daring Prof. E. Jones' absence, Iris reported for duty. II. S. Kingsley, of Kalamazoo, the newly appointed instructor in matliemathics, has arrived. Prof. K. is a gradúate, lit. class of '81. A. Sager Hall, lit. class of '7G, dcgree of Ph. D., '78, has been elected to the chair of Natural Sciences in St. John'a College at Annapolis, Md. II. A. Hodge, lit. of "82, has returned to Ann Arbor to enter the law department. He bas been stqdying with Hon. R. E. Frazer for Bome time. William J. Olcutt, "83, returned from Charlevoix last week and will remain in the city studying until January, when he goes to take a place in the iron mines of the upper peninsular. It is stated that Urooklyn has to bury about 100 paupers a month, and tliinks of building a $5,000 crematory and cremating them. "Wliat is the matter with tbc eastern medical colleges, we shouldlike to know ? Perhaps some of the admiren of the socalled independents will be pleased to learn that the venerable ex-President Theodore Woolsey, of Yale college, is upon the republican ticket of Connecticut ,is a Blaine elector. Maj. Wm. H. Beadle, of Tankten, Dakota, at present superintendent of public instruction for that territory, and one of the University's most noted gradúate?, lit. class of '61, law class of '07, was In Ann Arbor Monday, accompanying his daughttr who is to enter the University this year. Xow that fences are quite generally being removed from around residences, thusdoing away with the useof gates, and stone or concrete walks are taking the place of the old board walks, the question is, how in the world are the energetic students to ever enjoy life in Ann Albor? Leaf by leaf the roses (all, one by one the amusemeuts die out.