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The Atbletic Association treaaurer reporta $647.1(5 on hand. Ok. Button, lit. '90, accompanied by bis wife, are visiting in the city. D. W. Hammond, lit. '91, wascalled home Saturday by the illness of parents. The U. of M. Daily has taken the initiative in forming a Western Intereollegiate Press Association. President Henry Wade Rogers delivered his farewell lecture in the law department last Wednesday. In the literary department alone students receive 600 hours of instruction per week. Some of the engineering students took levéis on the athletic field Saturday. - U. of M. Daily. And many a student Avill probably find his level thero in the future. The great day of Michigan Unviersity is now, when the institutioii is building and developinginto a mighty institution (hat shall last through the ages. It is a great honor to be connected with it in these days of construction. Manager Abbott, of the University Athletic Association, has been instructed to hire Conway the once fanious pitcher, to coach the U. of M. ball team. All candidates forthe niñeare requested to reinain during vacation for practice. Ropes will be put up and the crowd kept off the field. The banquet of the U. of M. Daily cditors at the Occidental hotel last iirday evening was a biilliant afiair and richly enjoyed 'by those present. Prof. F. N. Seott, E. O. Holland, George S. Curtís, M. Doughty, L. I. Abbott, H. B. Shoemaker, Ralph Stone and J. C. Travis, responded to toasts. The University calendar, which has been given to the public since our last issue, coutaius the names of 2420 students, against 2153 last year. The various departments are represented as follows : iv.K 1891 Literarv 1UU7 is7r Medical.. 873 87.". huw 583 5S7 l'harmacy Nt i'l Homceopathk 72 71 Dental It3 132 2170 31 Deduct 17 11 3158 üi'20 CHICAGO ALUMNI. The Chronicle-Argonaut de votes two pages to the late meeting of the II. of M. alumni at Chicago, and publishes the names of 180 who were there. The sum of $500 was voted from the treasury of the society lor gym. fund and subseription paper raised the amount to $1, 200. Dr. Angelí in bis remarks is reported as follows : "I am surprised," said he "to see so many here to-night. I had supposed that everyone in Chicago had the grippe or was running for the mayorship. I suppose the first is got more easily than the second." He detailed what everyone was anxious to hear, the great growth of the departments at Ann Arbor and the needs of the University. "Last June Michigan graduated the largest class ever graduated at any American university - 547. This year in the collegiate department alone about 550 new students have applied for adrnission and 498 have been actually received. The total attendance in the University is larger than ever known in any American university, and larger than that in several renowned Germán universities. It is 2,420. Among them are students from every state in the Union except South Carolina, Alabama and Louisaua, from some of the territories aml from the following foreign States : Ontario, New Brunswick, England, Japan, Porto Rico, Mexico, Costa Rico, Bulgaria, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, Syria. Where will one find a more cosmopolitan iustitution? They come from all parts of the earth because they lind there the education they need. It is an education itself to live in such a community of students. "You will be interested to know that Illinois sends 282 students, of whom 193 are in the collegiate department. A very large portion of these are from Chicago and vicinity. Ohio sends 205 ; Indiana, 183; Pennsylvania, 84; New York, 83; Iowa, 75 ; even far-oft' California sends 30; Minnesota, 28; AVisconsin, 27. "The rise and growth of state universities forms one of the most striking features of American education. The idea first fimnd expression in the ordinance of 1787. But it is only about fifty years since the organizatiou became well started. Their lands were squaniered. They were opposed by those who did not believe that higher education should be provided by the state. They were opposed by the friends of the denominatlonal colleges. But in spite of all ob8tacles and all opposition, they have marched on until to-day it is clear that they are to be henceforth the most conspicuous universities in all the states west of New Yerk. They have become established largely in public favor. Wisconsin gives one-eighth of a mili tax to her university ; California, one mili ; Michigan, one-twentieth ; Ohio, with her forty-two colleges, has just voted one-twentieth of a mili, yielding $88,550 to her university. Michigan, in addition to her regular one-twentieth mili tax, gives about $100,000 annually. Last week her House of Representatives voted $185,000 to its university with only one dissenting vote. "A great university must have larger funds than most of the denominational colleges in the west are likely to secure. From $200,000 to $300,000 are needed. From her brilliant success, from her wise experimentation and adaption of her work to the wants of this verile west, the Univereity of Michigan - we may say it without boasting - has come to De looked on by the younger state universities as a leader and a guide. So long as she continúes to do her work worthily, and her loyal sons, like those I see here to-night, stand by her, she may hope to retain that proud place among her sister universities of the west."