Faculty Changes

A great many changes necessarily occur on the faculty each year, but tl e University is very fortúnate tliis year in the very sinall number of professors to take their leave. Among the new men to assunie professorships and the position of tutors in the various departments are many who have already won distinction in their chosen line of work. LITERARY DEPARTMENT. For years this department has been ble to boast of a corps of instructora econd in efficiency to that of no univerity in this country. Not a single one of the permanent rank of professors or assistant professor is missing from the ist, while many well known names ïave been added to it. During the past year numerous atempts have been made by various coleges to draw away some of our most prominent professors. Tempting moneary inducements have been offered to many of them, to leave the U. of M., by many universities of high standing, all over the country, notably Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and the new universities of Chicago and Palo Alto. None of these offers have been accepted. The changes in the literary department are as follows : Asaph Hall, jr., of the National Observatory at Washington, has been appointed Professor of Astronomv and Director of the ory, fllling the vacancy left by Prof. Barrington, when appointed head of the United States Weatlier Bureau a year ago. The chair of Palieontology, which, since the death of Prof. Alexauder WincheU] has been temporarily filled by Mr. Scherzer, wül be held by Israel C. Russell, of the United States Geological Survey. Assistant Professor John C. Rolfe has been appointed acting Professor of Latin, co fill the place of Professor Kelsey, granted leave of absence for one year, to pursue archasological investigations at Rome. D. E. Spencer, of Wisconsin University, is appointed acting assistant Professor of History, and will have charge of the work of Prof. Hudsou, who also has been granted a year's leave of absence for study in Europe. Assistant Professor Joseph Drake, who has been abroad for the past two years will resume bis work in Latin this year.' Among the most marked changes effected, is the revisión and enlargement of the departmentof Political Econoniy, by Prof. Adams. In view of the increased work three new names have been added to tliis department. Fred M. Taylor, Professor of History at Albion College, has been appointed assistant Professor of Political Economy. It will be remembered that he took the place of Prof. Adams two years ago. Mr. Cooley and Mr. Dixonhave been appointed instructors in Political Economy. Mr. DeCou lias been made instructor iu Greek and Sanskrit. In the Frenen department twonew instructors have been appointed, B. P. Bourland and J. R. Effinger, while all the oíd instructora have been retained. Lawrenee LeGouth has been appointed instructor in Germán to take the place of B. F. Voss. Ernst Mensel, has been appointed instructor in Germán, in place of Mr. Zwiet. G. H. Rowe and J. O. I Reed have been made instructors in Physics. LAW DEPARTMKXT. But few changes will be made in the law faculty this year. The most important change ia the resignation of Prof. Abbott, sometime Tappan professor of law. Prof. Abbott goes to Northwestern University. His place has not yet been supplied. The quiz masters have not yet been appointed. MKDICAL DEPARTMKNT. The changes in the medical faculty have been few and far between, but of a very important order. The department sustained a severe loss in the resignation of Prof. Howell from the chair of Physiology, in order to accept a similar, but more lucrative position in Harvard University. Those in authority found before them a problem difflcult of solution. To suitably flll the place occupied heretofore by one of the most noted physiologists of the country and the day, to replace a man of untiring labor and great ingenuity in original investigation and experiment, one of large contribution to the important literature of the day, a man of exceptional ability as a lecturer, was more than an ordinary task. That Dr. Howell will have a worthy successor is very apparent to those in a position to judge. Dr. Lombard, late professor of Physiology at Clark University, will hereafter preside over the chair of Physiology in the University of Michigan. He is a man of large experience and of marked ability in this special field. He has a reputation as an original investigator and as a contributor to the literature of this department. Dr. Huber, who has been abroad for the past sixteen months, pursuing special work in histology and physiology in the leading schools of the continent, has returned to accept the position of assistant professor of physiology. He wil! assume entire charge of the course in histology. A portion of the old Homeopathie hospital has been secured for new surgical and pathological laboratories. The quarters formerly occupied by Dr.Gibbes in the medical building, will now be entirely devoted to the work in histology, and as a result the physiological laboratory will be greatly increased in size and convenience. Dr. Abel will uot return from abroad till the latter part of the month ; meanwhile Mr. Muirhead will assume charge of the work in Materia Medica. Dr. Ford will agaiu be found in the chair which he has so long and honorably filled. Miss Bigelow, of the junior class, bas been appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy. The present freshman class is one of the rnost unique and characteristic in the history of the medical departinent. Outof seventy-six credentials examined, five were graduates of universities, twenty-five of colleges, thirty-two of approved high schools, and the rest of college standing. One véry marked improvement has been made in the work of the junior class. Five new laboratory courses in practical clinical medicine are ofFered, and they present advantagps sueh as are not secured in any other college in the land. DENTAL DEPARTMENT. In the dental department A. W. Haidle, of the class of '92, has been appointed assistant in inechanical dentistry. The junior laboratory has been refitted and a course in continuous gum work has been addedto the curriculum.