University Items

l.'niversity hall, Friday evening- Gath. bother the average student jutt II)V. Tickets for Gath, Parsons, Beeeher and Sohurz, 1. SO. Di: W. W. Carpenter, of Cleyeland, O., medie '&i, i visiting friends in town. Mrs. O. X. Downs nee Miss Lulu GoodIch, lit of '79,-Iowa, is visiting her old Ann Arbor home. Heinember "Gath," Geo. Alfred Townend, is to teil about Dublin at uniyersity lall, Friday evening. Why could not an association of the graduales of Michigan Uniyeraity be organi.ed in Adrián? - Record. President Angelí snules benignly at he thought of being a grandfather. His on Alexis of Detroit has a young heir. On liis way to a quarte r-past eight lecure, a freshman recently froze the tassel ff hU murtar-board. - Chronicle. C. H. Cline '86 law, will enter the nv mile race for tiie ohampionship of Michigan at the l'rinoes rink, Detroit this week. One of the questkins that the senior nedics will be asked ia their class history eads "are you in favur of coedtication in medicine?" W. F. Word, formerly of '84, has reurued from liis hutne in Montana, and will coinj Istl his college eourse with this ear's class. President Phillips, of the senior class, ïas been euipowered to appoint the ommittee on class pictures aud all other l:i-.-. cominittees. The joint conimlttee for the University rom the Legisl ature will be in town toay, looking over the campus and conidering iii needs aud necessities. Mh Buck, of the freshman medical lass, has returned to college work. It will be remeuibered that she was called ïoine by the sudden death of her brother. Tliere are 12 U. of M. graduates in jos Angeles, Cal., seven iu law, one teaching, one farming, one raising stock, ue in U. S. mail service, one iu charge f U. 8. observatory. It was amusing to see how it effected lie deau of the medical departuient when ie discovere-d he had forgotten hls notes. Ie feared he could not lecüne at all, but 'tlie boys" say he lectured bctter than ver. S. A. Moran is to commence a new class n stenography with the beginning of the new semester. The progress made by the ormer class hM been excellent. The ystem taugiit seems to be acquired more eadily tliau many others extant. The senior class held a meeting Saturay and decided that the time honored enior reception shonld be held again tiiis 'ear, hut did not flx upon date or place, t was further deciüed that the number o be admitled should be limited to those ecelving invitations. J. Willis Parker, lit '75, from wliom an nteresting letter will be found upon lie first page, has secured for himself lucrative law practice at Olathe, Kanas, and caine within eight votes of being hosen prosecuting atloruey of Johnson ounty last fall. lie has one heir, who will not care to inhei it his law library. The graduates and undergraduales of be U. of M. residing at .Manistee have rganized themsel ves into a society known s the "University of Michigan society f Manistee." Tlie object of it is to inrNN the University sentiment in and round Manistee, and also to continue he work of education begun in college, 'he plan of work to be followed is modeld after the seminaiy system. This is lie iii.st thing of the kind in the state, ml aö'ords a good example for other ities to follow. The new Chronicle editors elected last Satunlay at a meeting o( the junior class re: Kepreeentiug tlie Delta Kappa Epilon - J. E. Huicliaid; Beta Theta Pi - . C. Shattuck; Iudependents - D. D Atkins, aud O B. Taylor. The editor etliing are Managing Editor Geo. B. ibeehey ; E. E. Powell, various topics; T. ). Phillips, general liteiature; Dwight Goss, things chronicled. And in pariing with theiu the Chronicle readers bid good ye to as fine a lot of youug gentlemen s ever wielded the pen for their delectaion. Tbe proposltion to e reet the Chemical labrainry ut tlie ii.'riouliural college lnstead of a.L tbe unlvemlty uismIm with mmí loal of opposllion among the Ana Albor studeuls.- letruit Suiulny Post. It the chemical laborator}' is to be taken rom the university it will indeed be a misfortuue that the Anti Arbor students, and probably many others throughout the tate will bitterly oppose. It will be bad enough for the agricultural college to teal the nuchanical laboratory from the university, which her authorities have worked mi hard to establisli. It is a piece of rank injustice to take that away from he university. The authorltes of the Wlsconsin University have decided to replace Science Elall, recently burned, by a somewhat smaller building for the general scientific departments, to cost $150,000, and to construct a separate building for the chemical laboratories and machine shop, with wings for the foundry, carpenter shop and blacksmith shop, at a cost of $28,uO0. The heating apparatus for these two buildings will cost $25,000 and the equipments p'JO.OOO, making $293,000. In addition to this the legislature will be asked for $45,000 for a gymnasium and arsenal. Our Badger state university eems to have a cheek sublime toward the legislature. lts Wolverine neighbor dare not even suggest a petty $23,000. An enthusia8tic meeting of the Rugby association and students generally was held Saturduy evening, wi.ich from the amount of enthusiasm displayed provee] the gymnasium questlon one of great interest to them. It was the unanlmous opinión of those present that vigorous measures ou the part of the student should be puslied forward, and the time hastened when this long needed want would be supplied. The sense of the meeting was to the effect that a committee of students should be appointed to await upon and confer with the legislativa commlttce on the university, and the following students were appointed a su!;h: E. A. Rosenthal, Chas. ö. Aihley, Thos. S. Jerome, B. W. Bhoemaker, F. W. M. Cutcheon, D. C. Corbett, J. B. Denny, and T. C. Phillips. The studenU have taken hold of the gymnasium with a tirin grip this time, and deserve success. In the meantime it would not be out of place for some of our influential citizens to t;ike hold of the wheel with them and help the boys turn it on to the main track of success. The concert at university hall hut Thursday evening, was successful, tbc hall belng well fllled. Joseffy Is mímente in bis forte - plano forte. He plcked Uu tinkling pearl drops of melody out of the instrument (a poor one) with exquliitc grace, whlle the louder strains wel led out in bruut il 'ui cadenees co nis sllghte9t touch of the ivory keys. But we must eonfew that to our ears the sound of a fiddle - excuse the inelegance, violin- in expert hands, is more to be admlrod I1i.mii a piano. And that other instrument, fiuhioned by divine hands, the human voloe, (when not too eultured) excels eitlier. The appreciation of classical musió and celery it similar in one respect, both require cultivation before you like thein, and our taste has been gadly neglected. Consequently one stanza of "Way down on the Swanee Ribber,"or "Home, Sweet Home," would hare relieved the monotony of the classics - guess that's right - and the softness of the seat cushiona to a wonderful degree, liad it been introduced in the programme. Mr, Haviland una an excellent voice, well cultured and under perfect control, and her effort was deservinii 1 much praiae. The Amphion Club rendered two selections fuultless, as near as we could judge, and earned the applause n''rii thetn. The third regular meeting of the Philosophical Society for tlie present yeiir was lield on Wednesday evening. Prof. Win. H. Payne preseuted a paper upon the Scienca of the Educational Values of Studies. Mr. D. J. Haff read an essay, prepared by Miss Mary S. Case, of Wellesley College, upon the Philosophical Principie underlying the Kindergarten. A good audience was present and the programme was probably the most inatructlve and profitable ever furniahed in the h story of the society. Prof. Payne's paper was In an exceedingly iiiteresting field of research. He outliued the history and charncter of the yarious attempt.s to establish a science of educational values, more purJcularly by Plato and Bacon, by Whewell and Spencer. He next gave bil analysis of the subject and developed and defended bis own canon of criticism. He then returned to conaider the merits and defccU of former effortl in tliis direction, and especially to criticise the dictum of Mr. Spencer. Prof. Payne' long experience as a practical teacher served him well in tuis part of lus paper, and supplied him with a large store of vritty and apt illustration, Whtch was highly entertaining and siiffgestive and which was thoroughly appreciated by lus audience. The author called his treatinent of hls theme a tentative one, but it was marked for itscarelul and discrlminating thouglit. Prof. PayneV conclusions provoked a lively diseussiou, which was participatcd in by Supt. ferry, Dr. Dewey, Prof. Wcad, .Mr. Wines, and Mr. Lowrey. The paper from Hit Cuse was a consideratisn of the philosophic principie that actuated the educational doctrine aud practice of Froebel. Had the essay been especially prepared for the occasion, it could not have been more apt and more consequential to the preceding paper and to thediscussion upon it. Miss Case sought to present the supreme object of all education, and by so doing she establisiied the standard by which to determine the value of studies. The essay was well written and the many Mondt of Miss Case In Ann Arbor thank her for tuis protitable and entertaining method of showing that amid new duties she has not forgotten us.