University Items

The Hobart Gnlid bas 68 charter members. President Angelí is down for a lecture Friday evening next, at Olivet, before the Phi Alpha Pi society, of Olivet. The McMicken university, of Clncinnati, Ohio, was damaged $25,000 worth, by tire.last Friday iiight. Fully insured. The univergity prlntïng bid wliich secured the contract this year was for $1,200, and iiot $1,400 as stated in several papers. Canon Farrar has post poned his engagement here before the Studetits' Lecture As8ociation f'roin the 21st to the 2öth instant. Ira A. Leighton, horaeop., class of '85, was quite sick at Boulder, Gol., when last heard from, where lic had established a good practice. The freshmen declining ta play in the rainy weather of last Saturday, that faiiums foot-ball game was given to the sophomores. Au easy way to win a vicrory. The junior students of the law department have had a memorial handsomely engrossed and l'ramed, and sent to Juijge Campbell, setting forth their admiration ofhim, and their regret at his resignation. The luliniisioii of Miss Alice Jordán to the law M'liool at Yale stirred up a hor iiefs nest In the facully, and President Porter told the professor who signed tbe itdmiHlon papers that he "mustn't do so uo more." Professor Calvin Thomas will giye a lecture on "Goethe and the Conduct of Life," Saturday, Xov. 14, at 8 o'clock p. m. in the university, room 24. under trie auspices of the Philosophical Society, to vhlch all are invited.; The university Rugby team went to Wliidsor last Saturday and played a football game with the team of that place, defeatlng them by a score of 8 to 2. A return match will be played here next Saturday. The boys were handsomely entertained. The last Chronicle has a splendid description of the Rugby game at Windsor, Ont., played last Saturday, aud beside went to the trouble and expense of securing from New Vork a full page engraving givinjr a picture of Bonine, as he appears while making one of bis phenomenal races, F. W. Stevens being the artist. It bIiows how wide awake the boys are. Thefollowing item is taken from the Kalarnazoo Telegraph: " The president of the flnest and most flourisbing of ííew York city's preparatory colleges, I. N Schermerhorn, is a tonner Grand Kapids boy and a gradúate of the University of Michigan, class '81, and numbers among his patrons sorae of the (irst families of the United Statet., South America nd Mexico For a boy only 34 that is a proud record." There Is no necessity for auy " feellng " to be worked up between the student community, and the cltlzen communlty. A little forbearance and consid eration on the part of both, students and towns people, would result favorably no doubt. The boys should curb tbeir enthuslasm so as not to lnconvenience the public, or destroy property, a thing their gentlemanly Instincts usutlly restrain them from engaging in. Human nature is about the same the world over, am calm counsel are the wise ones.