University Items

Examinations commenee at the university to-morrow. F. A. Ainswortb, managing editor of the Argonaut for the first semester of thls year, lias returned to look after the interests of that paper. H. P. Belknap, medie '8C, who lias been studying with Dr. O. G. Darling, left for New York City Monday niglit, to take a course at Belleville. II. H. Clayton who has been connected with the meterologlcal developments at the observatory has been appointed to tlie charge of the Blue Hill observatory, Boston. Silas Cobb, a gradúate of the law department last June and one of Mr. Moran'8 studente in ghorthand hal just aceepted a $1,200 position as reporter at his home iu RiolimoDd, Kcvitucky. President Adams, of Cornell Universily, spent Saturday and Bondaj in the city attending to business aftairs. He reports the largest etttranceoIaM -it Cornell for years, it nnmberloK 221. He will remove his family to Ithaca, N. Y., in about three weeks. The8ad intelligence reached this city Saturday, of the death of Miss Adelaida Richardson, of Mt. Holyoke, Mass., a graduateof the medical department, U. of M., elass of '75. The deceased occiipied the chair of physies at the Mt. Holyoke semiuaiy. lier death resultad from the severins of an artery in the neck with a lancet, causinf? instant death. After a lapse of twelve years the Miami Unlversity at Oxford, Ohio, wa9 reopened last week. The people of that place made it an occasion fora great jubilee, and a procession, fireworks and public meetings flgured therein. Ann Arbor sends greeting to Oxford. Any time slie wants 8omegood timber for professors or teachers, we can fill the order. President Angelí informs us that the museum building bas been thoroughly examined by experts and that It bas been found perfectly safe and secure. The breakingof the plastei ing over the Windows in the various rooms, comes from the fact that the contractor instead of putting iron caps over the Windows, as he should have done, placed wooden caps tbereon, and the shrinking of the wood causes tlie cracking of plastering, maUng ihe walls look bad but in realitv not endangering the safety of the building. Eventually these wooden caps will have to be removed and iron ones put in tliclr place.