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The University

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
June
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Medical and literary examination re in progress. - Frof. Aclaras delivered tho closing addressin Bistory on Wednesday. - A change has been effected in lib rary hours, now closed froin 12:3o to 2 P M. -Prof Watson leaves in about three weolts, and will be sucooeded by Prof. Harrington. -The Litorary Adelphi Society of the Ünivorsity will give a publio exhibition at their rooms thia evening. - Prof. Palmer bas returned from Bowdoin College, Maine where he has delivered a course of leotures. -The viotory of the University foot ball eleven ovor the Hacine club, at Chicago, on Friday, gave great joy to Btudents. - ur. iïiaclean removed a tumor on Wednesday weighing forty-five poimds and moasuring twenty-eight inches in circumference from the left side of a patiënt, from abroad. - The secoud gamo of base ball between the University and Dotroit clubs took place on the fair grounds Monday afternoon. The Detroit boys were tho victors, the scoro standing 17 to 7. - Just before adjournment the legislature pasaod a resolution providing for the purchase of Prof. Bradish'a life-sized portrait of Dr. Douglas Houghton, one of the University 's first Professors. - Of the members of the senior class of the University who have alreadv cured positions as teachers are Oren Durham, of Toledo, as Principal of the Paw Paw schools and Jesso F. Millspaugh, of Battle Creek, as Principal of the schools at Frankfort, Ind. - Efforts of the faculty to secure a speaker having failed, President Angelí will delirer tho commencement address, whilo Dr. Cooker will give the Baccaulaureate sermón the Sunaay before commencement. Eev. Dr. West of Cincinnati, of class '4ö will deliver the address before the alumni. - A young lad living in Ypsilanti, named Willie Remington, was quite seriously injured on the campus Saturday. A game of base ball was being playod being Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti nines, when a bat slipped from the hands of a batter, hitting tho boy under the eye and making quite a severo gash. He was taken to the hospital, where the wound was treated by Dr. Maclean. - Prof. Steere's offer to students of natural history to accompany him on his expedition to tho Amazon this summer is meeting with general aoceptanoe, the following persons desiring to become members of the party: Frank Quinby, Monmouth, 111., and E. M. Brigham, Battle Creek, members of the literary department of the University; Emil Tenney, Ann Arbor; Prof. Delos Pall, of Albion College; Prof. Warner, of Geneva, Wisconsin ; Dr. Scoville, Terre Haute, Ind., and J. S. Blair, Galt, Ont., of the law class of '76. Most of these gentlemen go for the purpose of making private collootions or oollootiono fo institutions with which they are conneoted. - At the regular meeting of the Alpha Nu 1iterary Society on Friday evening the folio wingofficers wereelected for the first quarter of next year : President, F. P.Houghton, Battle Creek; vice-president, Miss Anna P. Gelston, Ann Arbor; secrotary, C. R. Buohanan Grand Eapids ; treasurer, J. E. Bea], Ann Arbor; senior critic, Miss Ella Barling, La Porte, Ind. ; junior critio, C. J. Wilson, Sturgis ; librarían, Ferdinand Hall, Westfield, N. Y. ; assistant librarían, "W. B. Cady. Ann Arbor ; editora of " Sibyl," Miss Nellie A. Stanley, Mishawaka, Ind. ; and Fred M. Townsend, Cold water. After the electionthe society adjourned to Hangsterfer's, whore a magnifioent "set up"was given the inembers by the retiring board of officors eleot.