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25
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March
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1891
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Prof. Carhart visited old friends at vanston, 111., last week. Remember the Amherst Glee Club April 7th ut University hall. The Freshinan social last Saturday night was a very enjoyable affair. Drs. J. N. Martin and G. C. Huber will vi.sit Kurope the coming summer. The Students' Lecture Association want all accounts settled before April 1. An oratorical contest is to be held soon by the University prohibition club. Cornell Glee and Banjo Club at the Grand Opera House on Thursday, April 2d. Prof. A. II. Pattengill has been conrtued to his house with the grippe, for a few days. Ex. U. S. Senator McConnell, visited his son, who is in the luw department, last Sunday. Nd junior law need apply to the c-ircuit court examinations for admission, on Saturday next. A new history of the U. S., covering the period from 1829 to 1891, is being written by Prof. Wilson, of Princeton. The little eight year old boy of Prof. Trueblood had two fiugers of his left hand cut off yesterday, while playing with companions. A number of the Choral Union of this city will take part in the next concert of the Detroit Musical Society, in that city April lOth. Rev. H. A. Cleveland, who lectured before the Wesleyan Guild last year, has been chosen Judge for the Northern Oratorical Contest to be held in this city May lst, in place of Franklin Head of Chicago. Charles W. Hollis, a junior medie, aged 24 years, died of pneumonía at Manchester yesterday (Tuesday,) after a very short illness. He was the only son of J. H. Hollis, an old resident of Manchester. It cost the late Alexander H. Stevens an average of $208 each year to attend college. It is fair to presume that there are boys here who do not spend much in excess of that figure, and earn it all themselves, too. It is announced that Rev. H. A. Todd, of Ann Arbor, will personally conduct a party through the principal European countries. The date of sailing has not yet been decided on ; the total expense íb to be about $400.- Chronicle-Argonaut. The result of the preliminary contest which occurred Saturday, for the purpose of selecting seven who would compete for the class oratorship of the senior law class, was in some respects a surprise to many. The seven successful aspirante were : Spots, Gilbert, Sargent, Park, Hally, McMaster and Baldwin. The contest which will decide who will be the class orator of the senior law class will occur next Saturday.- Times. 8. C. A. BUILDING. It is almost too good news to be true that work is to be resumed upon the Studente' Christian Association building, known as Newberry Hall, and not stopped again until it is completed. To complete and furnish this handsome structure the sum of $12,000 is needed, and solicitors have started out to secure that amount. It is to be hoped that they will be successful. The sum of $2,000 has already been secured, and Mr. Brearley of the Detroit Journal promises that his paper will take up the matter and lay it before the Christian people of the state. That gentleman is expected at chapel meeting to-morrow to help formúlate plans. It is ardently hoped that the building may be completed so that the dedicatory services can be held commencemen week. It is proposed to finish and furnish the large auditorium in memory of the students who left their studies anc rushed to the defense of their country in 1861, and two tablets will be placee in the building, one bearing the names of the students who feil in battle, anc the other all the names of those who went to war. THE OKATORICAL COXTEST. A fine audience gathered in Univer sity hall, Friday evening, to listen to the contest for oratorical supremacy be tween the literary and law student selected for the purpose, the winner to represent this University in the grea inter-collegiate oratorical contest to tuk place in this city in May. The occasion was enlivened by thre selections by Miss Alice May Harrah of Detroit, two at the oienint and on at the closing, wbich were fully appre ciated by the audience. W. B. Kelley, lit. '91, portrayed th great character of "Emilio Cautelar,' the Spanish statesniau. W. F. Wanless lit. '91, treated upon "Prison Keforra.' A. C. (iomiley, law '91, had tor his sub ject "Quo VVarranto," by what warrant A. E. Ewing, law "J2, choose the patri otic, never autiquated, and always to b honored subject "Our Ship of State.' AV. H. Nichols, lit. 'UI, spoke of "Tw Lives," coutrastiug John B. Gough anc John Fitch, and viewing things from prohibition standpoint. W. H. Dellen back, lit. '4)2, had for his subject "Pur pose and Power," with excellen thoughts. A. J. Ladd, lit. '93, ha "Louis Kossouth," for his subject, anc did well, but the audience had becoin weary by the length of the orations. The judges were Regent Williain I Cocker, of Adrián, ex-Postmaster-Gen eral Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, Hon Ferris S. Fitch, of Lansing, on deliv ery; and Prof. (Jhas. A. Towne, o uluth, Rev. Howard Duffield, of De" oit, Prof. W. A. Gleason, of Grand apids, on thought and composition. The viotory wan awardod Mr. Gormley, itli Mr. Kelley second. The following s the score card as made by the judges : a o I I ï ! l ! l O H 3 O Sf ü H ' li Kelley .. 83 ' 95 i 50 90 94 507 K Wanléss.. 72 95 96 40 85 88 4"li (' Gormley... 75 80 94 100 100 97 540 E Ewlng. tó 72 85 90 98 95 505 II Nichols... 69 7r 90 80 90 98 501 ' II Dellenb'h. 70 78 85 I 70 85 84 472 H T Ladd 82 85 ül 60 90 85 493

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