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High School Column

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Day
7
Month
May
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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T1)Í8 column has been given to the stilden ts of the Hlg School, and they will edil and conduct lt.] At a meeting held Tuesday, tlie senior class Selccled liamlall for class photographer. Misa Portel wlll not rosumc her classes daring tlie reinainder of tlie term. Miss Oaklcy takes her place. The next senior social will be given by Mrs. Barcus, next Friday evening at her house, i t. Fourth gtreet. Up to date, 50 studente have been enrolled in tbe music class, with a prospect of ruany more joining sood. The subject under discussion at the Studcnts' Christiun Associatlon meeting next Friday afternoon is " Chrlstlan Relation to Public Opinon." Jas.- 2. Miss Edith Hitcbcock, is leader. Lyceum No. 1, elected the following ofllcer last Friday: President, H. A. VVllHanu; vice president, Mr. Page; secretir, A. E. Lyons. The question for debate this week is: Resolved, That tbe United St.ites senate sbould be abolished. In response to an offer of $5.00 by the Arena f'nr tlie most appropriate and best drawlng for a cut to represent the society in the Omega, six drawings were hamled in at the last meeting. After a critical examiuation, tlie one drawn by C. H. Traver, '91, was awarded the prizo. At the next meeting Friday evening, the following question will be debuted: "Resolved, That the reading of fiction is m)re benefieiul than injurlous." Visitors are cordially invited. Ann Arbor isn't concelteü at all but she must have the credit forinaugurating the entertainment known as "the deestrict skule." The ürst entertainment of the kind Si veo was some four years ago at the M. E. Cliurch, in this city, it belng the idea of Prof. L. D. Wines, and was one of the greatest suceesses ever known here, there not being room cnough in the cliurch for the crowd. And now it Is proposed to give another entertainment of the kind, on or about May 2Gth. It will be for the benefit of the charity sewini BCboo] ar.d the pupils will consist of our most prominent citizens including nianj of the professors iu the university. The teachers will proliably be Prof. M. E. üoo!ey and L. D. Wines. J. T. Sullivan, of this city tells us that the Argus wa9 mistaken as to the flrst boat captured f rom the Brltish in tbe revoliitioiiary war. He says that In the little fishlug town of Newcastle, in Maine, the people were one day raising llberty poles, when a revenue ciitter carne up and fired upon them. Incensed at this a lotof citizens under thecomniand of Capt. Jr.imin O'iirien manned a vessel then in port and made for the Britisher, which they bbarded and captured. He says that Capt. John Manly commanded the crew that took the patriots oui. in Boston haibor and dumped the tea overboard. He further says that the first fort taken during the revolutionary war was Fort William aud Mary, also in Maine, and that tlie amunition and arms there captured were used by the patriots at Bunker HUI, as long as it lasted. Gen. John Sullivan commanded the Americans in that capture.

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Ann Arbor Courier