The University

líemember tlic concert to-night at University Hall. The litevary aocieties began llieii work on Fnclay eveitmg laat. Un. Sarah Parker Engleof Tlu-ee Rivera is a meniber of the Homeopathie College. The tall meeting of the Board of Regents will ba held on Fiiday, the 16th of thia mouth. Clinical operations were begun at the medical department on Saturday. Three important cases were treated. One of the msmbers of the law department is Oharlee G. Hopkins, formerly of the Adjutiiut General's office at Lansiug. Dr. Robert J Peare, the steward and attendinf phvsician at the hospital, is at lus post. Dr. Peare i a gradúate of the class of '7 ■". The flrst game of foot ball for the season waf played on Saturday between the Sophomores and Freshmen. The result was the usual one - a total defeat for the latter by a score of h've to zero. Dr. Jones openedthe course of lecturas at the Homeopathie College on Fnday moruiug last. It was attended by the homeopathie physicians of this city, many of the citizens and a number of the ofticers of the University. in additiou to the atudents. Rev. D. C. Challis of the class of 71 was in this city on Sunday, and assisted at the services in the M. E. Ohurch on Suuday moinnig. He is about to leave for Bulgaria as a missionary. He was the recipiënt of a gift of $40 lately, from his friends at Bayport, Huron county. The various departraents of the University have the following number of atudents registered up to date : Medical, 207 ; law, 270; dental, 11; homeopathie, 20; literary, 320. The medical department at the same date last year had 332, and the law, 260. There are at least four more in town who will enter the dental department, who have not registered. Students will continue to enter the professional schools till the lst of January. The following lecturers and entertamments will appear before the Studenta' Lecture Association this season: Prof. J. C. Watson, M. D. Conway, James T. Fields, Rev. Robert Collyer, John B. G-ough, Miss Helen Potter, who will give readings, Charles Bradlaugh, Cari Schurz, Mrs. Livermore, Henry Vincent, the Boston Philharmonic Club, and the Barnabee Concert Troupe in addition to the Theo. Thomas Concert to-mght. The hst is not yet complete, but it will be seen that the present engagementswould flll aii unusually excellent course. Special announcements or scheduies are being issued, for the use ot students in the laboiatory. The work in the laboratory required of students in different departments varíes of courae, and to present clearly what each is required to do is the object of these circulara. There are separate ones for the schools of mines, pharmacy, medicine, and dentistry ; and tor tliose who take elective studies in the college of literatura and the arts, and in engineering, and also the provisions are stated for post gradúate and special work. A collection of college songs has lately been published by Sheehan fe Co., in a neat paruphlet l'orm for the use of students generally. The colleetion contains upwards of two hundred of those delicious melodies which our citizens have heard time and again, in the pleasant serenade and in the serenade that was not pleasant - on the Campus when class day eime around, and ft the dead of night when good folks were trying to wráp themselves in slumber. Well, the collection is a good one, and no one will be sorry that the compiler has made it. ïhis portion of the work must be credited to S. C. Andrews, of the Unlvsrsity. The publishers will shortly get out au edition on tiuted paper and bound in cloth, intending to make it very attractive as woll as useful. Ins-tead oï the time-worn Junior speeches, the members of the Junior class are perniitted tliis semester to take part in an exercise of debatmg or be relieved i'rom all duty of speaking or writing, or in other words, the training in this department will be more thorough than heretofore and the work entirely elective. The plan adopted will be as follows: Those who elect this work will be divided into sectious of eight each. Two of the number will prepare written argumeuts upon some question and deliver the same in a memonzed speech. One will act as judge and critic, and preseut a paper the week followiug containing the resulta of his observations and judgment on the work of the speakers. The other members will be required to speak extemporaneously for a certain time upon the given question. Final ly, Prof. Hutchins, who will have charge of this work, will criticise the speeches with special reierence to the argumeuts presented. This arrangement is au experiment but it cannot íail to be proñtable in its resulte. Oi courso some are glad of the opportuuitv to get rid of the work, and it is just as well tor theni and every body elae. Those who are really desirous of improvement in oratory can receive more attention than has been usual, and so reap greater benefits. This is only one of the steps which the University is taking toward a broader elective system, wherein a student raay study what he chooses and as a cousequeuce will do better work. A very large portion of the present Junior class have elected this course. The examinations for admission to the medical department have been something more thau a pretense this year. Heretofore the applicant has been qutstioued somewhat as follows : " Write your name in full. Where were you boni ? Where did you commence the study of medicine ?" etc., to the extent of eleven questions. Kow, any one may see that this was no examination. It merely asked for the history of the candidate and the youth of thirteen who couldn't auswer these questions must be, in the words of the Courier, " Non roitipus mentís." But to this list have been added no less than seventeen real examination questions to auswer which requires certainly an ordinary education. We select a few of these as illustrative of the eharacter of all : " (iive the capitals of the Middle States. What are the principal cities of Great Britain 'i If a straight line were drawn from Sau Francisco to Washington, D. U., what States and Territories would it pass through, in order '{ How mauy thirteen grain doses of bromide of potassium are there in two ounces, one lirachm and seveu grains 't What was the cause of the Kevolutionary war 'f What is a republic ? What are wincis and how are they produced Í" Iu addition to these, a lengthy paragraph, tull of errors is given the candidato to re-write and correct in orthography, punctuation and construction. Michigan University was the first to inaugúrate a system of exaiuinatious for admission to her protessional schools, and uow other institutions are following lier train. Dartmouth and Bowdoin are now using the same schenie practically as here employed, while Harvard has announced her intensión of adopting a achedule of examinations in 1877, which will be about twice as hifjh as the oue employed here now. Sureli we have reason to be thankf ui, not only for the excellence of our institution of learning, bu for the example she sets for her aged contení poraries iu the East. Six failed last year to stand the test of the few simple questions aiu so wcre n jected. This year the better pre paration on the part of candidatos is shown by the iiict that only 14 have been rejected al though the requirements are much greater. -The test suit against Clark & Cropsey fo keeping a " victualiug house" without a li cense, in alleged violation of a city ordinancs carne off before a jury at Justice McMahon' ofhce on Monday, and resulted in the victor of thti defendant. It was clearly shown tha they were not violating the spirit, if indee( they wcre the atrict letter of the ordiuance Frigbteued by the aspect of things, the liquo dealers, who had instituted a suit ol hke cha acter agaiust Marshall Stiling, withdrew the prusecutlou on Wedueaday.