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Dr. Vincent Saturday evening. The Alpha Nu is to meet Feb. 25. i When will the Palladiuin be out? i Prof. Cheever bas gone to Arizona. Th Is is examiuntion weck in tbc medien department. A democnitic club is to be organized In the U. of M. Prof. Trueblood commences hiscourst In elocution this week. Prof. Griflln will be asked to delivei the closing lecture to the seulor laws. Tbere are 100 women at the Harvard annex. That annex should be a prefix. Prof. Wells delivers the Washington Birtlulay adüress to-day before the law class. Dr. McCosh never sald that a boy should be fitted for college at the age of 13, by gosh. The regenta (lid a wise thing for several reasons in electing Dr. Lyster in Dr. Palmeas place. Oberlin wants a $50,000 gymnasium. Gracious! We woukl be satisfied witli a $10,000 one. F. C. Ford, who entered with '87, but who was out a year, has returued to gradúate with '88. Geo. Hartman, law '85, died In Chicago last week, whure he liad been practicing bis profesión. The ears of the Owossonians wcre bewllcbed by the College Glee Club last Friday evening. A state intercollegiate athletic meeting at Detroit Ui June, Is proposed. Many thtngs are proposed. Dr. Alesiander Wlnchell was made one the trustee of the American Institute of Civics at its nnnual meetiug in Washington laat week. Abont sixty of tlie bovs will slt at th( U. of M. table at the bammet of the republican club at Detroit to-day, and give the U. of M. yell. Prof. Rokers cominences a series ol leeiures on Roman Law before tliescliool of political science Friday p. m. at 4 o'clock, in room 24. More prohibition needed. It is saiü that $1,000,000 are annually squandered i in this nntion on chewlng gum! AVel I, some people must keep their jaws going, anyway. Acting on the recommendation of the medical faculty, Dr. Henry F. Lyster of Detroit, has been appointed professor of theory and practice of medicine and clínica! medicine. . Prof. de Pont is to give a course of lecupon the fundamental principies of acting, with practice and illustrations, saya the Argonaut. There are to be four lectures per week. The Williams College Alumni have shut down on subscription papers at their animal meeting. Those papers were bugbears that scareU many a good alumnus from attending. Prof. Burke A. Ilinsdale of Cleveland formerly president of Hiram college Ohio, has been elected as the suceessor of Prof. W. H. Payne, as professor of science and the art of teaching. A petition has been forwarded to congress signed by President Angelí and 33 member8 of the faculty, asking that all books printed in modern languages, except English, be placed on the free list. The K. Y. A. D. branoh of the O. O. of H. has no reference to the Ancient and Honorable Order of Owls, which once flourished here llke a green bay tree in midsuminer. It is something else, it is said. Miss Florence B. Kinne, of Ypsilanti, lit. class of '87, has been elected to the Cliair of Modern Languages in the Southwestern College, at Winfield, Ka., and has airead y gone there to wsaaiu lier duties. Colleges at Adrián, Lunsing, Hillsdale, Albion and Olivet desire to enter into a state inter-collegiate base ball league. The Argonaut tliinks these college teams wonld be too small potatoes to putter I with, except the Lansing team. Martin Crocker, who graduated from the law department, and who married Miss Emma Sabin, one of our Ann Arbor teachers, about a year ago, has been appointed special deputy at the Port Huron custom house by Collector Ward. Prof. Ilinsdale, the new occupant of the chair of pedagogy, Isa natlve of Ohio, is 51 years oíd, gradúate of Hiram College, received M. A. from Wilfiains College in 1871, has written several educational books imd is counted a good man. Dr. J. H. Vincent lectures before the Students' Lecture Associatlon, at the University hall, on Saturday evenlng, Feb. 25th. He is reputed one of the most eloquent pulpit orators of the lay, and his reputation will cali out a crowded house. The meeting of the Philosophical Society which wasannounced tor Thursday evening, Feb. 23, will be postponed tor one week. Miss Merwin will read a paper on "The Ktbics of Plato and Aristolle. The meeting will be held in room 21, beginning at 8 o'clock. In losing Prof. Schaeberle, whose resignation was acccpted by the regents Friday evening last, the university parts with a hanlworkinjr, energetic young man who will certainly iiKike his mark iu his speeialty. He goes to take charge of the great Lick observatory in California. J. J. Goodyear and Parke, Davis & Co. will present the anatomical departmcnl of the uuiversity with three pictures of the most prominent physiclans and surgeons of the dy. One of whom is Dr. McKenzIe, who is now treating the throft of the Crown Prince of Germany, and who was offered $30,000 to come to Michigan and treat a case; another is Pasteure of France, the physician who has made for himself such a reputation by inoculation for hydrophobia. The following are the standing committess of the Board of Regents for the ensuingyear: Kxecutlve comralttee- President Angelí, KfKciits ] ittt.tr. Wbltman and Butterfleld. FlnaDce commltlee- llegents Wlllets, B'leld and Hebard. Llterary department- Regents Clark, WllleUaud Whltraan. Ijiw departraeut- Regents Blalr, Wlllets and Uraper. Medical department, homoeopathlo college and dental laboratory- RegeuU Draper, Kleld and Butterfleld. Llbrary comralttee- Regents Wlllets, Blalr, Field aud President Angelí. Commlttee on museum, school of mines, and astronoralcal laboratory- Regents Blalr, Clark and Field. Commlttee on chemlcal laboratory and pharmacy department- Regents lraper,Clarlt and Whitman. Commlttee on buildings and grounds- RcgeulB Whitman, Draper and Hebard.