University Items

Fred F. Wixson, of '86, has roceived tlie appointmentof Superintendent of Schools at MeGregor, Iowa. The Chronicle closes up business for the yearthis week. The boys have made a success of it, nul have given tlieir readers a good journal. Prof. C. M. Gayley is now iti Great Britain talking for Home Uule in Irelund. Prof. Gayley is a native of Irelfciid, but is a protestant and a Presbyterian. A. W. Hamilton was presented with a gokl-headed cane by the class of '71 Alumni Dny, for hls efforts in keeping the records ot the cluss and enerjry in the re aolon. Prof. .1. C. Knowlton has liad his valué and proficiency in the law department tested and he was not found wanting evidently, as he was re-engaged at an Increased salar}'. The executive committee of the regen ts met last evening, and among other things decided upon a meeting of the full board on July 19th, tQ consider the vucancy caiifed by Prof. Kent's resignation. Before the recent graduating exercises oecurred at Harvard, Mme three or foiir of the seniors - just think of it, senior - went out for a laik, got hito a saloon wherc there were a party of roughs and got slugged. I' sneius that otlier college towns have saloons, too, eh ? By the reports jmblished in eastern papera the actual expense of a college education at Yale is as follows : Of the 104 graduates this year the average expense for the lirst yenr wal H00; 2d year $900; 3d year $1,000; 4th year $1,100 ! Better come to Ann Ai -bur, btyt, uliere the aver age for the entire four years was only $1,200, or $800 per year. This is certainly getting a eood classical education down to a minimum of cost. No place in the world can equal it. Tho aotlon of the regenta In refuslngto re-appoint Otto Kirchner, of Detroit as professor n the law deptrtment.and lilling his place with C. I. Walker, wl.o for many years beid a professorship in that department, s bein;;sevcre]y critlcised by many. Not because of Mr. Walker's appointraent, but becausc of the "bouncing'j of Mr. Kirchner, who had not only made a good instructor, but had given ejc ;I)oi t satisfaction amng the etudenU as siuh. j The charge is openly made by some tliat itwasapolitical move, and that Mr. Kirchuer's only olVence was that of being i republican. The absence of onc of the rcpaUlcan regents, and the assertion that the action received a strict party vote ives color to this. lt is to be hoped that tl.ere is Borne other explanation. During all these years politics has been kept out of I the meetings of the regents, and it must be in the future, if the universlty keeps on prospering. Men have been selected for positions heretofore solely for their fitness, and that must be the only standard by which to be guided in the future. A. J. Devoe, the Hackensack, N. J., meteorologista, predicts, amongother meteorological forecasts, that Michigan will be visited by tornadoes and heavy tbundei showen on or abont July IS, These storms will be general st that ihite. Devoe's prevlous forecast of tornadoe? in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio turned out so iieiuly correct that his predlctloDi are now viewed with more thun ordinnrr ieppect.