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Tlie lecture of Dr. Vincent will be given Feb. 25. The ladies' readirg room lias a nuniber of new periodicals. The Glee Club will be " let off" a week before the close of the semester. The regent's meeting announced for Friday niglit, Feb. 3d, hus been postponed ontll the 17th. During the present month goiuetime memorial services will be held in honor of the late Dr. Palmer. The Argonaut will chose five new editora next Saturday in place of Moran, Perry, McBride, Sjöblom and Covert. The Plii Delta Phi fraternity gare a reception to Prof. Hammond last Thursday evenin, which was a pleasant aftair. Prol'. H C. Adams is down east en1 rhtenlnji the heathen of Boston and Philadelphia 011 matters of Political Science. Tlie Psl U. house is to be lighted herrafter by electricity. It will take eight 16 candle power and two 65 candle power lamps to do it. Listen to the Mystic Bell of Ronquerolles, is lts merry peals are tolled off by the Universky Dramatic Club, 'it the opera house Saturday evening. The university ha9 been presented witli a fine pnrtrait of tlie late Dr. Palmer, by tlie university faculty ; alsooneof Dr. Moses Guiiii, by tliree members of the faculty. II. B. Dewey, president; Chas. Alliiip, vice-preslilent ; D. K. Cochran, gecretary; G. L. Cramer, treasurer, are the ofllcers of the university braneh of the republi can club. The University Dramatic Club in "Tlie Mystic Bell of Iionquerolles" ut the grand opera house on Saturiiay, will be greeted by :i hu-e in which "standing room onl.y" will be pDclaimed early in tlie evening. A university base-hall association was organized at Chicago rccently, A. T. Packard, lit. '82, being president. Tlie purpoe is to form a nlne of college graduates to make au eastern trip during the spring. It will be etrlctly ameteur. mon the men selected are Packard and Hibbard, U. of M. Prof. HarringtOn is to enVighton the next meeting of the county pomological society at the court house on Saturday p. m upon " Some Climatal Results of Hemoving Forests." It is to be hoped there will be a largo attendance of our people, as tlils is a subject of vital impoitance to tlie people of this State. Prof. Asa Gray the noted Botanist and Scientist of Harvard College, died at his home in Cambridge, Mhss., Monday night, aged 77 years. He was a natlve of New York, started out in 1834 as botanist to a government exploring expedilion, but left tliat place to assist in the or0anization of the University of Michigan. In 1842 he left here to accept the chair of natural liistory in the Harvard College, which he has ever since held. He had been a regent of the Suiithsonian Instituto at Washington fr a number of years. His death will leave a vacanev in blf special line of work, difflcult to flll. The Adriau Press gives the followlng noticeof the Glee Club concert: " Fifteen young gentlemen from the University Glee Club, were the regular star course attractlon last Friday evening. There were sevcral liue voices, notably the bass and tenor, and the singlng was generally good. The banjo quartette added much to the enjoyment of the occassion. As a College Glee Club, It is good, but not as excellent as one which appeared here some flfteen years ago. Their selections were in the main very eood but one or two could have beeu omitted and without detriment. The swüIIow tail coats were correct, the white shirt fronts faultless and Immense, and after the entertainment the singers speut a short time at the residence of Dr. Stephenson, and subsequcntly repaired to the bicycle parlors, wliere they enjoyed a hop, after the close of the dancing school, nmny of Adriau's young ladies being present to make it pleasant for thelr gUCStS." r THE GTM'S BOOM. The hall still keeps rolling, and every no w and then an extra flOO is plastered on and keeps increasinu it's size. Accordto tlie last information which we have been able to procure the following is the roll of honor: J. T. Jacobs 4 Co t00 .1. B. nel... } J.M. Stafford } Alplm Delta Pbl $ PKlUpllon "" lhl Kapp Pl 'S" rlasHofWll.) }S" Classof 'Kilt.; J"" BetaTheUPl Delta Upsllon " Dellaïau Delta "" J. T. Trueblood _ Total ''200