University Items

V. P. Gillingham spent several days in Detroit last week. Sumner Collln, lit'82, of Detroit, spent Monday wilh friends In the city. The fiist Profs. of the U. of M. were Ulowed $500 a year payable when nifncient funds were in tho treasury. The entertainment lo be given by rhos. Xast, on the 13th, will be illusrated by drawings in crayon and oil. Mrs. Giles Lee of Green Oak, Livingiton Co., is visiting her two sous in the Jniveriity, at Mrs. Dr. Hallock's oa Eust Liiberty m i ri. One of the fint items of expense in itmtingthe Univeisity of Michigan was ligging oul the stumps 011 the campus it a cost of $840.81. Phe vacant position of asssistant to the ihair of surgerr in the homcenpathic dejartuient, hits oceu filled by the tppointnentof Dr. W. H. Sawyer. Mr. Datnon G. Teunnicliff, of Macomb, 11., sou of (ieo. D. Teunniclift'. law "88, ms liitely received appointment as one of be jwlges of tlie supieme court of [llinois. The Social Science, to which the student :oinimmity are looking forward with ;reat expeetations, wlH be decided upon vith the return of Prof. C. K. Adama his week. A good natu red linib of tbc law depait nent was regretting serlously last Monlay that George Washington hadn't been)orn a twin, so they could have a louble holiday. The Hiate IJnlrenlty of West Virginia ïas been opened to the gemier scx. (Voinan goes marching on. Uut she must bel irrateful to Michigan l'niversity for aking the lead. The senior class are consiilering the idrisability of holding their reception at he rlnk. Each senior is entitled to flve nvitations. If more are secured by any nember he wlll be subject to doublé class ax. I5y reqiiestof tlie University taxidermlst Special Land Agent I. Teller has sent to he museum department of tliat instiluion a line specimen of prairie wolf. It a a donatton to the state on Mr. Teller1 iart. - Hovvell RepubllCHti. Mr. A. Uressler, of Detroit, wlio bas 'urnished our contemporaiy, the Ih-mKiiit, with an excellent column of Unirenity newa this jrear, is ibout to embark n a jouinalistic venture in Detroit, we inderstaod. He ba a peculiar faculty for gathering in the Q6W8 The Uecord asks : " Why could not an issociation of the graduates of Michigan L'nivereity be organized in Adiian?" We second tlie motion, willi this amendment. That all gradúate in the county be invited to particípate, and a Lenawee association be organized. - Tecumseh Herald. The senior lits held a meeting Saturday moinlng, and decided upon Handall & Burnhatn as class photographerí, by only two disscntlng votes. As this is the ftrst time, we believe, tliat an Ann Arbor firni has 'ver been selected for this work, it is no wonder that Messrs. 15. & B. feel muctl pleased over the reduit. The University library is haring a rciniirkable s-treuk of good fortune just now. The latest gift is frons the American l'hilosophical Society, and ooiwUtt of its tianslations from ls;V to 1884, thus completini: the set froin the loundation of the Society by that itrcat and good printer, scholar, pkllosopher, inventor and statesman, Uenj. Franklin. The next leoturer on the course offered by the student's lecture association will be Hon. Win. Parsons. He will speak on "The Héroes of the llomeric Age," in Universitv Hal!. Friday, eyening, Peb. 27. His lecture has bt-cn highly spoken of eUewhere, and ill doubtless give good satisfuctiou here. It is a popular lecture and well suited to a iniscelluneous auilience. Ueserved seats now on sale. The modern students of our l.'nivcrbity may think it a task for them get their breakfast and be off to their duties by 8 o'clock or half past, bul are they aware that at the opening of the U. oí M. students might be seen sometimes half dressed hurrying to the chapel for prayers, at half past live in the morning, and then to the recitation room before breakfaal '¦ SU traant. Ata meeting of the university alumni at Washington last Weduesday evening, about slxty were present. Senator Palmer presided. Profs. Prescott and C. K. Adams were there. Thero were flve woinen and three colored men among the Hluiuni, said to be an event that nevor before occurred in any university alumni meeting. Permanent ollicers were chosen as follows : President, Senator T. W. Palmer, '49; vice-presidents, CongressBMO . W. Cutcheon, '61, E. W. Keightley, '05, ex-Coiigret-snian J. H. McGowan, '(1, nul B. EL Thayer, '70; secretary, D. E. Kox, '81; treasurer, A. A. Blrney, T3. 1 ¦ " ¦ - The Clioral Union, In lirlnging out tlic beautiful " Rebekata," and the sweet " Dream," iré cntitled to a g od patronage for tbeir cnterpriso. Go and hcar and be ricbiy entertained for one evenlng, at least. Univeraity hall, this crening. John Rokers, son ol Randolph Rogers, the sculptor, ig uow on hls way to Ann Albor, from Rome, Italy, haring sailed on the 17th. Ile is 16 yoars old and is to be educated at tho university, for whicli purpose he comes. The statement is also made thnt Randolph Rogers has proyided in hlswill for the transier of all hisinodels, sculptor's toóla, etc., to the university. An act tlmt wül be lichly ipprecialed. The unirersity bas had piinted for the New Orleans Expositlon tibie, mentioned in a recent laaue, sixteen cards giving a skeleton or outlinc of the universily and lts various departments. These cards were intended for an arüstlc display of the printer! sklll, undoubtedly, but in tlmt respect are miserable failures. The old Argus hand press of thirty years ago would have been ashamed to have turned out such a job. On some the letters run togethcr, so plentiful was the Ink, while upon otharaa lead pendí has been bronght into requltltlon to supply the lower portion of the g's, p'setc, the typo heing old and braken. On anothcr card is mounted views ot the various buildings wljich are neatly taken and a credit to the photoo-. laplicr, whoever bc may be. Another card contains a flnely executed plan of the campus, showing the location of every building, walk and even tree upon the grouiid, wltb in additional plat of the Obwrratory block and grounds. This latter was done with a pen we understand, and uierits much praUe. In an extremely ablc paper read before the 3Uh session of Michigan state teacher' issociation by Superintendent Carinan, of Union City, occurs the following piiragmphs: " Michigan furnishes tho world wltb the best UlOMrattou of Professor iluxlry's tüiipuUoinil ladder which reaohes Irum the uullur 10 the Universily. Nowhcre i theie u svs tem so well calculated to biiae from the masses, tlione wli . eau elévate the masses, as inoutiwn iliililgau. Thu jiliiu issimi)leattbeheatt a Uulversity whicli Is ilesigueci to glve lile and vigor to the whole : at the toot tbe priinary schools whicli may become gruded lahootl when the school populiitlon in llie dibtnets amounts to one hundied us tor tüe rest, lt lollows by tlie IokIc ii eventl 11 is regulaled by the law oi supply and deniand. "The University whlch crowus our edneational systein is the best part of it Ji we have. auy reasou to bo pioud of our high schools let us remeinber they are wtnu thev are. buoause the Uiuverslty hts made their ezlstence a necessity. ïhe elevating etleci ol the Unlverslty on our educalloual systein isouly begtuuliijs to be feit. I belleve that lts innueuce through the high aul graded schools on the dlstnut school Is tlieonly hope of Iheir elevation. It behooves us who are eugaged In ducatlonal worn to reallze whal it is doiug. aud what lt is deslihed to do fur the State; aud to see that our wovk is in harraouy wltb the head of the systein. Wiiatever lutluence we may have in Uiu field ol our laOors miould Ue exeried on Uic i-ideof the Uuiversity, leaülng tb matse lo look to .tasa part of their commmon nclinbl system."