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Harvard lias a military compaiiy. The first issue of the Michigan , ñus will appear this week, t isi ■xi.crted. Prof. Kirchner is to lecture to th laws on Thursday and Friday. Cornell is upwards oí 100 short uf last year on registrations up to date. The Alpha Nu has decided to retaip lts present quarters tor the year. The 8. C. A. will arrange a conree of popular lectures for this year. Prof. Thomas íinishes a seriesol' tinco lectures to the law classes to-inorrow. llenry A. Spakling, '94 lit, is doing reportorial work on the stafl' of the Chicago News. The U. of M. Beserves will play next Saturday with the M. M. A. cadete at Orchard Lake. There will l)e an examination for admission to the Banjo Clul), this eveniiif? at 7:oO :'' room 24. The i-egistration of students in the School of Music is at present flfteen ahead of last year at the corresponding late. The engagement of Mr. Robert Mc. Kenzie, '94 dent, and Miss May Sparks, of Chëlsea, is announced. Mr. McKenzie is now practicing in Jonesville. Gymnasium locker tickets wil! He on sale Friday. The men will find tickets on sale at the treasurer's office, wliile the ladies will be supplied from the sec retary's office. C. R. Beardsley, '97 C. E., of Elkhart, lm'., has returned to the University. He lias spent the summer in the eraploy "f the E. A: W. railroad, of Indiana, being assistant engineer of the road. To-niorrow afternoon the 'varsity eleven will play the Olivet eleven on the athletic field at 4:10. Olivet is said to have a strong team this year. Priee of admission lift y cents. Saturday's game will be with the D. A. C. eleven Miss Agnes Hill, sécretary of the Studenta Volunteer Movement, will speak this evening at 7:30 in Newberry liall regarding the purposes and work of the movement. Miss Hill is a gradúate of the university of Illinois. Juliu ('. Travis, lit. 93, law '94, was elected grand chancellor at the bieonial grand conclave of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. held last week in Richmond, Va. He was visiting in this city when notice carne to him of his election. General secretary, D. F. Mertz of the S. C. A. réports the outlook for the year to be very favorable. As an evidence of his right to to think so he says that at least ftfty stndents have come to the office without solicitation to join the association. Tlie pipes oí the Columbian orgaji, whioh have been miscellaneously spread about University hall dtiring the process of putting the big instrument in place, will have to be gathered up before tomorrow evening, to inake room for the eloquente of Thomas B. Reed. This work, together with the labor of replacing them, will entail a cost of about $50. The new vesper service which has jeen arranged to take the place of ïapel exercises, will be instituted as oon as the Columbian organ is in position. It will be held twice a week at four o'clock in the afternoon, conducted by Pres. Angelí. A chorus of sixty voices under Prof. Stanley, will furnish the music. The new scheme is meeting with general approval from the student body. Dr. Wm. IL. Duna, who lias received three diplomas from his Alma Mater, the U. of M., and, who for some two or three years lias been a valuable assistant of Dr. Nancrede, especially in bis clinical department, )ias receivecl the veiy honorable appointment of Aest. Supt. in the famous sanitarium at Ashville, N. C. A host of warm friends wish hiin great success in his liew po-iition. Prof. Stanley announees the series rof Choral Union concerts for this year to )e as follows : Nov. 22, the Anton Seidl ymphony orchestry, assisted by Miss állian Blaunelt, soprano; Jan. 11, Prof. onas, of the university School of Music, will give a piano recital; Feb. 1, Clioral Union concert with orchestra ; March 8, Max Heinrich song recital. Tlie season's program will conclude in May with the grand annual May Musial Festival, at which tirae Berlioz' Damnation of Faust will be sung. The seasou tickets will be $2.50 this year includine; admission to all the programs of the May Festival. If the registration of new Btutdens keeps up with the same degree of velocity it did last year after Oct. 15, there will be at l(ast 2H2:5 studente enrolledin the variouffdepartments this year. This is in accordance with Secretavy Wade's statement, which was made public this morning. He reporta the registration in the variou8 departments to be as follows : Literary 1,416 Medical 341 Law 586 Deutal 174 Pharmacy 71 Homeopathie 18 Total 2,586 There is au aerease of attendance in the literary, law and pharmacy departments, while the medical and dental enrollment is about equal to that of last year up to this date. ïlie total number of studente last year being 2,659, this will give an increase for this vear of at least 264.