University Notes

All athletic interest this week centers in Ihe indoor meet of Frïday evening. Adinission wil! be flfty cents. C. C. MacPherran, fonnerly with '95 t, is in Lake Forest university and will probably pitcb for their base ball team .liis season. ,A. E. Ball, and N. J. Smitli, '95dents, speut Saturday in Detroit looking over a leutal office, with the view of locating ;here. There will be au exhibit of Grecian antiquities in one of the rooms of Newicri-y hall during the Classical ence. The freshniau lita held a base ball neeting yesterday and started the ball rolling. A class tax of $1 will be levied for base ball and track athletics. Harry A. Piersol, a recent gradúate of ;he Uuiversity, who now resides in Monroe, Mo., has been appointed, special land commissioner of the Nor-' thern Pacific railroad. In 1892 Mr. Piersol was organizer of the National iciation of Democratie clubs, and stumped seven statea during the camaign of tliat fall. The judies for the inter-collegiate debate between Michigan and tern will be ex-Gov. Horace Boies, of Iowa, Hon. P. 0. Winkler, of Milwaukee ; and Hon. John A. McMahon, of Dayton, Obio. Michigan has accepted the three. Mr. Winkler having a son in the law departinent, itis probable that Northwestern will desire to effect a change. In the oratorical contest of Wisconsin university, held last Friday evening to nhoose contestants to represent that University in the Northern Oratorical league contest, R. A. Elward, '95, won first place and A. H. Schmidt, '96, second. Mr. Klward's oration is entitled "The "Wandering Jew," while Mr. Schmidt's subject is "The Iron Chancellor." The following is the schedule of games to be played by the University of Wisconsin base ball team this spring: April 20, Beloit at Madison; April 26, Eush Med. at Madison ; April 27, Ripon at Ripon ; May 4, Chicago U. at Madion; May 11, Beloit at Beloit; May 13, Grinnell at Madison; May 17, Michigan at Ann Arbor; May 17, Oberlin at Oberlin; May 20, Notre Dame at Notre Dame; May 21, Rush Med. at Chicago; May 23, Michigan at Madison ; May 30, N. W. U. at Madison; June 2, Chicago U. at Chicago ; June 4, Oberlin at Madison; June, 7 Minnesota at Madison; June 8, N. VV. U. at Evanston. Wilbur G. Salter, a '95 mechanical engineer, whose home is in Englewood, Hls., was seriou8ly injured in the mechanical laboratory yesterday afternoon. He was carrying a heavy piece of iron up a flight of stairs when he slipped and feil, the iron falliug upon his liead. Je was at once taken to the University ospital where he lay unconscious for e veral hours. It was at first feared that is skull was fractured, but happily such id not prove the case. Yesterday afteroon lie was reported considerably imroved. He is under the care of Dr. Nancrede. The Michigan Alumnus for March, which was out on Saturday, contains many things that will interest old stuents and alumni. R. B. Taylor, '61 nd law '65, contributes the leading rticle, "One Reminiscence." He tells ome interesting stories of thirty years go. Four gatherings of alumni are noticed, at Buffalo, St. Louis, Denver, and the bauquet of '03 in Ann Arbor. The Buffalo club has to mourn the loss f its president, who died a short time ince. The Buffalo alumni will banquet April 18. The usual alumni notes are very readable. Two pages are devoted to nècrology, giving the dates of deathsof alumni since 1891, when the general catalogue was publiahed.