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January
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1890
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The Choral Union resumes rehearsal tli is weck. Lehigh University register has 418 namcs upon it this year. A likeness of the late Dr. Fricze wil be placed In Ilobart Iiall. The University Glee Club giye n concert at Dexter February 8. The I'hi Ktipg will give an informa party lo-morrov evcning. The facultics have been badly crinpled this week by " la grippe." The Latín classes are to put a picture of the late Dr. Frleze in room E. Albert Murray, a freshman, lit, died in Chicago 3undiy, of pneumonía. Six new members were added to the Hobart Guild at the meeting last week. The Syracuse University calendar shows a total enrollment of C-18 students. The junior hop invitations and programs are to excel any heretoforc sent out. The seniors will make another attempt to hold an clection on Saturday of next week. Prof. Gibbes Is again ablc to be around after suffering from a relapse of "la Krippe." The seniors did not hold a meeting Saturday morning as expected. No quorum present. A Germán will be given by the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at their society house, Frklay evening. The prize articles for the Castalian have heen handed in, and the decisiou of the judges is now awaited. L. E. Torrey, who represented the local chapter at the Sigma Phi convention, returned home last Wednesday. The first Qreek letter society established in the United States was the Phi Beta Kappa, at Wllllam and Mary college in 1776. The Michigan Engineering Society is in session at Detroit thia week. Several of the prosessors and students are in atteadar.ee. The permanent funds of Lincoln Uni versity have been Jncreased by $32,000, includint the gift of a cliapel, a dweiling house and two scholarships. The Detroit Society Orclicstra has been engaged to furnish tlie rausic for thejunlor hop, which is to be held at the rink on Frlday evening, February 14. A "gym.," rather a slim one, but still a "gym.," is to be started in the old mechanical laboratory if the authorities grant pcrmission to use the building. Au inter-fraternity Rugby leagues ;s one of the tülked of schcmes for this year. The base b:ill league has been a success, and a football league wou'.d be equally so. Rev. W. H. Davis, of Detroit, delivercd an addresa before the Young Peoples' Society of the Congregational church, Monday evening, on " The La w Spiritual Conquest." AU students desirous of learning German are invited to attend the Sabbath School of the Germán M. E. Church, cor. División and Liberty sts., at 0:30 a. in , Sunday mornings. Over 75members were present at the meeting of the Engineering Society, Friday evening. The papers were upon "The St. Louis Merchauts' Bridge" and were of unusual Interest. The Political Science Association bad its first meeting last Friday evening. F. S. Bourns read a paper on " The Four New States," and W. B. Rsimsay one on 'The Recent Revolution." A now soholarshin, vielding $200 annually, has been foundeil at Lelilgn University by Mn. Henry S. Hainee, In memory of her husband, who was a member of the class of '87. The sophoinore hop was held at Nickel's ball last Frida}' evenlng, and proved a great success. Thirty couples vvere present, and not a single freshtuan trick was attempted to mar the event. The University Glee C.ub have been engaged for a concert at Diindee, and the date fixed at Fb. 98th. The Dundee people will never regret sccuring them for they give a fine entertainment. President Tyler, of William and M.iry college, says that the law school of that institution was the flrst onc founded in America and the second one in the English speuking world.'that of Blackstone being the llrst. At the last meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society of England, Dr. G. C. Heuber, of the university, was chosen onc of lts members. Tiiis is an honor but seldom accorded to ecientists on this side of the Atlantic. The faculty of Iowa college have allowed the senior class to select their own commencement orator?, tlius abolishing the system making these appointments by rank, and making it probable that the marklng system will be akol's'ied entirely. Although Harvard has the most students, Yale claims to be the most national, having more studeuts from all over the country In attendance. Harvard appearsto be gradually becoming gimply a New England college. Tlie U. of M. is more national than either of them. Alpha Nu program for next Saturday evening: Opening muslc, ñute accoinpanlment.. Mis Lilly Volland. Four hand debate. Resolved, That Prohtbltlon Is practicable and advisable in tbe U.S. at the present time. ÍS. Q. Jenks, W. II. Nichols. afflrm. IJ. Lowenhaupt, W. E. Ilealey, ueg. General Discussion. Closlng muslc. ilute accoiu pan I ment.... Miss Lilly Volland. The annual meeting of the republican club, of the U. of M., will be held in the law lecture room, Friday eveuing, at 7:30. The electiou of ofllcers will be held and arrangements will be made fora representatiou of the club at the Michigan club banquet, to be held at Detroit, February 21. "Whlttington, Jr„ and Ilis Seusational Cat" is the title of an original burlesque by a Colutnbia student, flve performances of which will be glven, the latter part of thls montli, at the Berkeley Lyceum, by the Columbia College Dramatic Club, for the benefit of the New York Skin and Cáncer Hospital. The meetings held by D. L; Moody closed last Wednesday night, having been a success from the start. He espressed a wilUngness to assist the (Jnristian Association n collectlng money to complete Newberry Hall, and the aesociatlon will probably receive rinancial as well as spiritual aid as a result of bis visit here. Mr. Fred Henry, of Ohlo, was elected president of the junior law class lasl Saturday afternoon. The Michigan members fought nobly to elect Uieir candidate, and iindiuji that they were benten tried to prevent an electlon by withdrawtns! from the meeting, hoping to leave the class without a quorum This was unsuccessful and Mr. Henry's election was Uien an easy victory. The law school Is So crowded with its 530 students that they cannot all get into the lecture room at once. This department is rapidly growing and if accommo 1 dations are offered, can be put up to a thousand students. It Is more than selfsustaininp;, as several thousand dollars are annually turned over to tlio univeraity treasury. A larger lecture room and more rooms for Moot courts are imperatiye. Among tlie lectures of tlie Unirersity Courae at the University of Pennsylvani.i tliia winter is Miss Amanda B. Edwards, the celebrated Egyptologist. Her lectures are remarkably biilliant, and In appreciation of her eflbrts a reception was tendered her last weck by the Lecture Association of U. of P. at the Academy of Fine Arts. Those present nclnded many prominent n social as well as scientilic clrcles. COLLEUE MEN IN POLITICS. It haa long been the custom of politicians of the short-hair type, as well as of the self-made statesraen wuo look with complacency on the result of their creation, to sneer at the. college man in politica as a theorlst and a dreamer, an impractlcal and visionary enthusiast, and to ridicule the training of the college for the stern realities of practical politics. And yet, n spite of the tendency of the shorthaired gentry and the self-made men to claim the offices, and in spite of the imaortation of offlce-holders from abroad, it 8 a fact that an actual majority of tho members of the Fifty-first Congrcss, presumably the wisest and certainly the most successful students of American loüties, are college-bred men. It is true some of this number took only a partial college course, some only a supplementary professional course, while some took heir degrees at institutions whicli would not be listed among the large and influenial colleges of the country, yet more lian one-half of our Federal legislators lave enjoyed, in a greater or less degree, he kind of training which the practical )olitician assumes to despise. When we consider the insigniflcance of the tliouands of college men, compared with the millions who are eligióle for election to he National Congress, the college stulent who is ambitious for politlcal honors need not feel that his four years in

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