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18
Month
March
Year
1898
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The Detroit team cf basket-ball playera was unable to come down last evening, but not to be disappointed oí ? good timo the boys hastily organized an inter-society meet. Represen tatives, of the four societies held contests in running, jumping, kicking, etc., and the program was closed by thre? basketball games. In the first two the Crescents defeated their old-time foes, the Atheneums, and the Adelphics hung the gory scalp of the Olympics at their belts. The third game was not a society battle but merely a praetlce game conducted under the Y. M. C. A. rules to better familiarize the players with their workings and acquaint the spectators with their advantages over our regulations. Students and teachers are alike grievr.d andpained at the news of the death of Miss King's mother last night. Miss King has been so bound up in he; mother for many years and has lived so entirely for her that, although Ihe end has been expeeted for some time, the shock will lose r.one of its for;-e. We all feel most cLeeply for Miss King in this terrible blow which has come upon her. The basket-ball team which went down to Detroit last week was defeated by a. score of 1 to 0. The only mistake the boys made was in not taking With them their canvas jackets, spiked shoes, long halr and shin-g'iards, for the game was but an indoor variety of football, possessing the added fascination of being played on a h&rd-wood Boor whose limits were thick, solid walls. The roughness of the game plaed by the Detroit people is eaused by their rules, which permit a player to push, shóve, knock the bali from an opponent's hand, run all over the floor and in fact to make himself useful generally. Arrangements have ben made for another trial of strength Frlday, when the boys hope to shjw th:it if necessary they can play as hard and as rough a game as the next man. As might bc expected. Dr. Boone is overwhehned with applications for the place which will be made vacant by Dr. Smith's departure. Almost every one in the state, who has ever seen the inside of an algebra or geometry, is writing down post haste to acquaint Dr. Boone with hls willingness to accept the position provided sufficient inducements are cffered. The senior class have elected the following class d;iy participant:;: Valedictorian, Herbert G. Lull; class orator, William Bolger; salutatorian, Estella Downing; essayist, Mallah Godfrey. They have all given evidence of genuine ability and we may with reason expect something excellent frohi them. Secretary Copeland. of the State Y. M. C. A., gave an excellent address to the young men at Starkweather hall Sunday afternoon. The girls have made arrangements for a basket ball game with a team of their sister co-eds from Olivet, to be held at the gymnasium Monday everring. To limit the number of spectators and incidentally to turn an honest penny in the interests of the Athletie association they will charge an admission fee of 25 cents. In addition to the ball game there will be fancy marching by the ladies and other exercises sufBcient in number to furnlsh a program of good length. A number of the young men of the school gave a dance at the Lidies' library Saturday evening. The chemical affinity" between Nat Scans and practical jokes was the cause of much discomfiture to one of our promising young men last Friday. Early in the he received a letter f rom his home, purporting to be from the captain of his company of Light Guards, and ordering him to return at once. Said young man is intensely loyal and after a few regretful thoughts of how on various occasions he had let his vvork .lide a trifle and how he might have studied harder, etc., etc., he preparert to bid farewell, perhaps forever, to Ypsilanti mi the Normal. There were many :nings to be done but he eonscienüously attended to every one of them. He soicl his gymnasium suit to a nevvcomer at school, packed his trunk, boxed up his books and seat them all down to the depot. He astonished numerous tradesmen by paying up bilis :hey had despaired of ever sseing settled, and had numerous and weighly diseussions with teachers on the question of credits. Finally, after a long and tpuehing interview with euch one oC his fair friends, he returned to his room to take a last look before going to the train. There he found the arehconspirators awaiting him, and if the hree strongest fellowa in the school iad not quietly laid him on the floor and seated themselves on top of him, while explanations were being made, Wholesale murder would surely have Deen committed. When interviewed n regard to the matter he said he had ather enjoyed saying good-bye to everybody, but he did wish he hadn't jeen in such a confoundtd hurry to pay all those bilis. All students interested in öreek or _,atin should attend the classical conference to be held in Ann.Arbor, Msreh 1 and April 1. Lectures on various subjects pertaining to classical aiudy vill be delivered by some of the most ïoted classical students in the country. "Venimus, vidlmus, vlcimua by a score of 4 to 0" is the trlnmphant ery )f the basket-ball team sent down to Detroit last night. This victory followng so close upon the one gained by he glrls over their visltors from Olivet, ends to awaken a fresh Interest in busket-ball on all sides. The week of March 28th to April lst will be devoted to special exercisc-s conlui ted in connection with the regular vork. On the afternoon of M,onday tilt gth, our anniversary day, exeicises vill be held n the chapel aad ui the vening there will be a public reception n the gymnasium. On the remainlng lays of the week lecti res on profesional wprk will be delivered by ölflernt members of the faculty. Frof. Bowen resumed his woi'k tolay after an enforcea absence of a veek and half. The pupils of Mr. Marsha! Pi ve a recital last night in Normal huil.

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