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16
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January
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1895
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Bathing facilities in Waterman gymnasium will at once be increased. Harvard, Yale and Pennsylvania are figuring on a track athletic meeting with,Oxford and Cambridge, in England. An ice polo team is the latest college athletic organization. Harvard has one that thinks it can beat anything on ice. Chicago TJniversity has established thirteen University extensión centers in Michigan. Chicago University has $600,000 in sight with which to defray expenses for 1895-6. Mr. Rockefeller has just given 1175,000' tothis iund. An inter-collegiate gymnastic association is on the tapis, and the local association is considering the advisability of being one of it. By computations of the S. C. A., it has been ascertained that over onehalf of the student body is affiliated with some church. The junior lita have decided to hold a class social in the gymnasium. At least so says the U. of M. Daily. The date has been set for Jan. 25. B. W. Newton, '94 lit., has just cloeed a contract with the Detroit Bridge Co., and wlll leave his gradúate work to accept the position at once. Prof. A. C. McLauglilim is preparing what will ttoubtless be au interestimg paper on "Tlie First Misslonary of Aineriea," which will be read in Kewberry hall, Somday morning, January 20. T. G. Groitliers, '941aw, of San José, Cal., has met with a etreak of luck tliat will be pleashig to his many old iriends in Ann Arbor. By tJiO will' of tlie late Senator Farrar, of California, Mr. Grotliers will rdeceiie from the Faxrar estáte, the suoi of $25,000, and. by the provisión of the) will he is made one of the four executors of he estáte, whioh is estimated at trom tliirty to forty millions. GIVEN A IIEARTY RECEPTION. Few speakers, as ïittle kuown to an Ann Arbor audience as was Fred Emerson Brooks before liis appearance last evening, leave the platform of University hall with the assurance that they have conquered the prejudices of a student audience. Yet this was exactly what Mr. Brooks did last night. He showed that he recognized bis position, when he remarked that he "liked to speak before a student audience - when they liked to hear him." The interest in Mr. Brooks' recitations never flagged from bis first selection to the last. His humor provoked unlimited laughter and applause, but his serious verse was none the less appreciated because it failed to draw out resounding plaudits. It appealed to the heart instead of to i hands and feet. .Mr. Brooks remarked before his first selection, "The Chicago Fair," that he liked to reud his own poetry, "in fact," he said, "I anuthe only one niio ever does read it." Whether that be true or not, people like to hear him read it. "The Chicago Fair" was an ingenious conglomérate oï dialect, which was wel! rendered. The whole two hundred pounds of the poet's avoirdupois is in his elocution. In "The Lumberman of of Calaveras, ".Ik; lias the oíd idea that Bob Burdette makes use of in "The Brakemau at Church," that is, of seeing characteristics of the various denoininations in familiar objects. "Yosemite" was one of the best of the serious pieces, "Don't you think So Bill?" The only cheapelement in last nigh t's entertainment was the advertiseinent tKat Mr. Brooks gave his.books, which le took occasion to say were on sale at a certain book store. Whether anyone jpsked him to do so or not, he had better lcft it to hand billa or the advertising ■column. PRBÍIDENT HAEPER'S IDEA. In his regular statement to the trustees, professors and studente of the University of Chicago, President Harper discusses the subject of athletics in the following sensible manner: "Much ado is being made at the present time about college athletics. Because in some cases there have been exhibitious of brutality a hue and cry has been raised against some of the most popular forms of activity. It is the old story of use and abuse. That which may be abused must not be used. But the principie if carried out would work vast mischief. There is no virtue which may not be made a vice. Shall everything capable of abuse be given up or shall we not perform a greater service 'or the world by going forward under proper rules and regulations ? We may grant that limbs are broken and lives ost ; but we must remember that there s no form of life's activity which is not attended with risk. We close our evos ;o all danger to life and limb when questons of business are concerned. If the world can afíbrd to sacriflce the lives of nen for commercial gain, it can much nore easily afFord to make similar sacrifices upon the alter of vigorous and insullied manhood. The question of a ife or of a score of lives is nothing commred with that of moral purity, human self-restraint, in the interests of which, among college men, outdoor athletic sports contribute more than all other agencies combined. If athetics have been prostituted by gambers and pugilists, let the college world come to the rescue and assign them to ,he place to which they belong. Woe jetide the day when our college men, without temptations of every kind beseting them, becomé slothful, so demoraized, so diseased, as to lose their interest in athletics. In the University of Chicago athletic work is directly and exclusively under the control of the [Jniversity authorities. It will so remain. The University has encouraged athletic sports ; it will continue to encourage them. We believe that this is the most important part of University life. We shall see to it, however, that no man upon a University team shall ever have the second opportunity to disgrace either himself or the University. [Applause. I At home orwiththe teams of other institutions we shall endeavor ;o cultívate a spirit that shall be iu the ;ruest sense elevating." .IOHNS HOPKINS FOR 1893-4. The nineteenth annual report of President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, covering the academie year 1893-94, lias appeared. The statistical introduction shows that the academie staff numbered during the year eighty-three teachers, including seventeen in the medical school. The number of students enrolled was 522, of whom 2G0 carne from Maryland, 240 from forty other states, and 22 from foreign countries. Among the students were 344 already graduated, coming from 143 colleges and universities. The degree of A. B. was conferred upon 41 candidatos, and 33 received the degree of Ph. D. The' followiug aggregated statistics are instructivo: During eighteen years, 2,457 indi vidilals have boen enrolled as students. Of these 1,439 entered as gradúate students and 1,018 as undei'graduates. Of the undergraduates 232 have contintred as gradúate students, man y of thein proceeding to the degree of Ph. D. It thus appears that l,(72 persons have fóllowed gradúate studies there Since degrees were first conferred in 1878, 422 have received the degree of A. B., and 310 the degree of Ph. D. RES GESTAE EDITORS. A meeting of the JRes Gestae board was held in room 14 of the law building yesterday afternoon. The following were chosen officers of the board : Mnaging editor, Daniel F. Lyons ; first assistant, J. W. Bingham ; second assistant, W. M. Wheeler; business manager, S. C. Hubbell ; first assistant, W. A. Keerns; second assistant, C. B. Henderson; secretary, W. O. MoNary. The board discussed the methode of work, adjourning to meet at 4 p. m. Saturday. The Res Gestae board has organized with the brightest of prospects. The rnanaging editor, Mr. D. F. Lyous, is a gradúate of the literary department of the elass of '94, is a gentleman of fine literary ability and has undoubtedly had closer relations with college publications than any other man on the board. S. C. Hubbell, the business manager, was formerly a member of '94 lit. His business qualiflcations eminently fit him for the position of business manager. CIÏAZY FROM OVERSTUDY. Clan de E. SJieldoai, a senior law, lias igone crazy from overstudy. He contlnually labors luider theh alucination that he is di-unk. His salutation to a friead who called on him yesterday that he had just drunk four gallons of whisky. Mr. Sheldoji's case is a particularly sad one. He was a -pea-y bright student. HO was takimg work in the literary department with the expectation of gettmg tliO Master of Science degree next June. Besddes tli is hie was ]iaa-d on his senior law work, to take tlie examimation in Maren for admissiom io the bar in Ohio. He is a Pb. B. of Hiram College, Ohio. His home is in AVindliam, Ohio-. Hiis fatüier has been telegraplied for, to come and take hfe son home. It is lKuglDt that a prolonged rest wijl Bet him right.

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