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Colombia wlll have no boat cre-n this year. The gifts Tale Undverslty receivec last year aggregated $350,000. The Gratorical coutcst will tak place Friday levenimg, the ISth. There will be a spirited meeting o the Moek Senate next Saturday even ing. At Boston University the faculty permit credits for work done upon college journals. Tliat is right. Jay Gould has given ,$25,000 to the University 'of New York ! .Can it be possible that his brain is weakening ' The Glee and Banjo Club's concert friven in Detroit Friday evening is spoken of in high terms by the pres of that city. Prof. Scott Is to delïver a lecture In Detroit In the .University extensión r.ourse, iiext Tuesday evening, on "The Interpretatiou of Art." The Jndoor athletic meeting will be lield ats the opera house on the even ing of Miaren 25th. Entries are sak to be coiming in exceedingly well. The Cornell Athletic Club is in debt nearly $1,000. This is perhaps whj it w&nted all the gate receipts to play with onr base tjall club at Detroit. Dr. Richard T. Ely has resigned his posltion at Johns Hopkins and accept d a full professorship in polltlcal econ Omy at the University of Wisconsin The prospect for the adoption by the senior lit. class of the cap anc gown Ss not bright. It is altogether probable that the innovation will be left for soime other class. Xoah Porter, DD., Ij. L. D., ex-president of Yale college, and the man who feditéd "Webster's Unabridged dictionary, died last Friday, at an advanced age. He was one of the most promitaent men of letters in the country ín his day. The annual banquet of the Kentucky Club was held atithe Cook House, last Saturday eveiiing, notwithstanding the absence of Hon. iW, C. P. Breckinridge, in whose honorrthe banquet was given. The mernbere of the club had a good time, nevertheless. The 'Michigan School Moderator retnarks upon the gift of Rockefeller, of $1,000,000 to Chicago university as a thank offering for his recovery from illness: "W'ouldn't it be fine if so.me Michigan gold-bug would have n milMon dollar college colic ?" Some of the students who are here for Avork, and are bored by idlers who ilrop in to chat etc, have fitted up for themselves i-iigns. written in bold letters: "Do not iorget the day you entered Siere." 'oonietime a club is aeeded even then to make them fully comprehend the meaning. The attempt to bring into discredit the management of the last Junior Iiop, by grumblers and kickers, will aot have much effect upon those who were present and enjoycd the Kcene and festivities. Aside from a little coolnèss in the atmosphere of the Kink at the commeneement, it was an admlrably conduetcd and grand affair. The Glee and Banjo Clubs will give their annual concert at University hall on the evening of Mareh llth, Friday aiext. This is a local event In which the people of Ann Arbor are intereeted. The Hee club is an insutution that has helped to add to Ann Arbor's iame, and the people Shoulcl do all in their power to aid It. The club is in excellent training and deserves a crush of a house. It is a jí'-'eat compliment to the Choral Union to be invited to givo one of their incomparable chorus concerts at the great World's Fair in Chicago; and it Is a great event in the preparation of the World's Fair to know that the Choral Union has accepted the nvitation. One thing can now be oneidered eertain. There will bs oni' oncert at least at the World's F.a,ir hat will !;■ o! the hihest order, and vort'.i thé :rice of admission. The Freehman Glee club made quite a 'uit on Thursday evening. The song commemorative of their achievements on "WaehiDgton'fl birthday was especally well received except by :i few difsgruntled sophomores. At last, '95 eems to have awakened from her ethargy in all class matters. We sinerely hope that this eshibltion of energy will not prove to be of Bhort duration. There are more worlds to oonquer and the freshmen are a little ate in the ïield. Great things are expected óf '95 dn the ispring. Iet them Bee to ït that these expectations are ulfillêd.- Yellow and Bdue. The Students' Lecture Association vas disappointed Saturday by the non-appearance of Mr. Breckinridge, but in his place ame a letter- at he last moiiient - stating that he had een called to Kentucky by the death of a grandehild. Tlad the gentleman tepped to a telegraph office and notiied the Association of the fact it vould not have been necessary for him ■o have padd for ,the telegram, and the nformation would have been a great ïelp to the officers of the Association n informing the public of the fact. It s the 'iii-.st disappointment the boys ïave miet with in a long time. 11e vil] V here later. The foTlowing Is the programme to ie observed by the Glee and Banjo ;iubs at Tniversity hall on Friday vening nest; PAET I. . U. of M. March, Hang Baujo Club. S Elixir Juventatie, Carm. U. of M. . Kismet, (E.H.Smitl,,'91. ) Sam Park, '91. Mr. Walter and Club. Dearest Awake, Storch Solo, Quartette and Club. PAET II. . El Tajaro Waltzes, Schmitz. Baujo Club. . Hunters Chorus, De Koveu _. Mr. Joy aud Club. . iJnantom Band, Thavpr geveries, st0?ch; Belle Mazurka, Edelsteiu Banjo Club. PAET UI. . Mephisto's Reveis, Smith Bnnjo Club. OddFellowsHall, Mr. McCreary aud Club. Jlinstrels Patrol, Turuer Baujo Club.