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The Hobart Guild gave its opening receptloD at Harris hall last Saturday evening. The PW Kappi Psi eleven ivere downed by the D. K. E. team last Thursday afternoon. F. E. Janette forinerly on the U. of M. Daily has gone to Hancock to take up newspaper work. It is thomght that the gymnasium will be in condition so that the next Junior hop can be held therein. A largo number of Ann Arbor studente and citizenswill go to Detroit to-moiTow to see the foot ball gum'. wlth Cornell. Au entertaining recital wlll be given this erening, at the residenee ol Mrs. John 11. Smoots, Xo. 58 E. Cniversity ave., by the K. O. E. TJw UniviMs'ty printing, inchuling the annunl calendar, etc., has been awarded to the Courwr for a term of frwo years. New type for the body of the book, headings, etc, wiU be purchasod for the work.. H. E. Naegely, of Saginaw, has been ehosen president of the junior laws ; the (irst Michigan man to receive a similar honor in the law departinent Jor eight years. He received 75 votes to 71 ior all other candidatos. The good example of the U. Oí M. Btill marches on. The doors of the üniverBlty of Pennsylvania are soon to te opened to women. The cast te s'owly doing aiway witn barbarous traditions and adopting the more humane an-.l dvilized customs of the IVfSt. A Chicago dispatch says that ïour thousand young men (university students preferred) who have the facculty of push well deveolped, are wanted at the World 's Fair grounds next year to trundle the preambulating chaire. Rushers accepted, but yellers not wanted. The regents will probably ask ths letgislature for $35,000 to completa the gymnasium building. It will be $35,000 as well invested as almos any sum of that amount has been expended in the state. The gymnasium is moro, and more a necessity every day. Frank C. Smith, lit, "90, and instructor in metallurgy for a time, now of the flrm of Courtes & Smith, mining engineers, Detroit, was in the city Friday. 'He carne up to see Laverne Bassett take nis 3d degree in masonrj' that night at Fraternity lodge. Mr. Smitli is prospering iinely. Wm. J. Smythe, pharmic '89, committed suicide at St. Louis, Mo., last Monday night. No cause for the ineane act can be found. He was 24 years of age, had been in the employ of Parke, Iavls & Co., until a few months since, when he went to St. Louis in the employ of a drug firm. He was a young man of exemplary habits in every way. It is now proposed that a road departrnent be established in colleges, where road building shall be taught. As there is not a more needed department in the world, it would seem as thouigh this proposition would be of practical valu:e. A deigree of R. E., Eoad Engineer, ought to be as honorary as that of D. D. It certainly would be of great benefit to mankind. The euccess of the democratie law students in securing the presence of Mr. Cleveland to deliver the annuaf address before the law calsses on Feb. 22d last, has awakened a desire on the part of some of the other party to secure Hon. James G. Blaine this yar. It is to be hoped that he can respond favorably to the invitation. It is understood that President Harrison or Ex-President Hayes will ba invited in case Mr. Baline declines. Mrs. Fred Wileox, formerly Miss Cotoi D. Apthorp, Wlth the lit class of '92, is now living at Superior, Wik., vliere ber husband is engaged in the hardware trade. Detroit lias no place in whicU to keep her sclentlfic museum, but rather than let it como to Aun Arbor, trhiere it could be used, and be doing Boine good in the world, it is proposed to pile it away in an oltl building - a prey to moths, rodents, rust, ete.- -imt:l a building can be erected for it. Supposlng Detroit lends it to the University for tbat time ? Tlie Monthly Bulletin publlshes sorne statistios whlch are of great interest to the public, giving as they do the religious sentiment of the students of the University. The census, as far as it has been possible to obtain it, eho-n-s that there are 1,201 church members among the 2,419 students interviewed, that 569 were not members, but attended churches of their preference; that 321 had no preference and 328 are counted as blank. Tlie table giving the membership and prelerencea is as follows : ('hurches. Members. lotals, enees. Methodist 2 H Presbyterinu 243 127 30 Consregntional 170 % 266 Episcopal - - 158 55 218 Baptist 128 23 1M Unltarlan 8K 98 136 Roman Catbolic 75 9 84 Christian 45 17 ■ Lutheran 81 1 8a S. D. Adveutist 28 23 Jewisli 11 " 18 Dniversallst - - 5 11 16 Mormou 13 1 14 Let us, with a irladsome mind. Praise the Lord, for lie is kind: Var his mereies shall endure- Ever fuithful, ever sure. - Milton. O favors every year inndc noiv ! O Kifts witli rain nnd sunshine scnt ! The bounty overruns onr due, Tlic íullness shames our discontem. - Whittier.