"college Stories."

The above is the mie of a little boot fronn the pea oí judge Xoah "W. Cheever, of this city'. It is a neatly petten up work, and the stories are lok' it a very entertaining "svayIn hls preface the Judge says : "Í have compiled these stories and iucitleuts oï the early 1115017 of the l üiversity of Mtohigan, because they sliculC be preserved, amd with tlm hopo that valuable additions may, i ti t-ho future, be added ta the small Eumbei li ere presentetl. Not that ley are import.-uit historical events or present condftions that are worthy pi imitatiOjn ; bui fchey are faets coaïifcted with our iramature early hisiory that müy, in a measure, serve as milc stones, to mark and indícate thu extent and rapidity of O'Ur progT-ss. We sincerely hope and beliplievo that this narratioia will not at all tend to revivo tliese old and vs oru out customa We are pleased to note that tho University has outfrvovvn nearly eerything of this nature, and let our motto ver be Xulla ■ cstigia Eetrorsum.' ''Eead these old stories 00 p'easani remembrances oí the past, !augh at the. wit, enjoy the fan, then gentlr In y them aside as au old and worn out garment, now cnly useful to recal! old associations, and remind us of ilic kind hearts and generous souls of the Old Bcys of Ye Oldon TimesV' UXIYEIÍSITY NOTES. The Castalian board hopes tohave the independent annual on sale by Saturdav. It will be a splendid volume. The Commeucement Annual will be published t'nis year by A. A. Pearson, of the Michigan Alumnus, andcombined with the June number of that magazine will forin a publication of unusual size and merit. Au essayist in the April number oí the Minnesota Magazine writing on "A Study in the Psychology of Music," quotes at considerable length from the printed report of some interestinsj experiments in the subject made by Dr. Aldred S. Warthin, of the University. Professor Hempl is collecting quite a vtdnable library in Eoom L of the main hall. All who are iuterested in the movement to place a working library there for the students of Engiish can greatly aid by sending books of this nature to Professor Hempl. George R. Barkerj of the Wrinkle, is the leader in a movement to tender the Qoted writer Julián Ralph, who is now in Ann Arbor, a receptiou and banquet. It is proposed to give it nader auspices of the University publications on Friday iiiiïit. Nothing deflnite however has vet been determiiied on. Tlie Society of Alumni i.s endeavoring to secure reduced railroad vates frotn points within the state to the coming comuiencement. This is a most practical way of attractiug alumni and old students to re-visit Ann Arbor and reiev their interest in the University. It ought to sueceed. lf it does scores of old students during commencenient week will come from all over the state. In June of this year will be ready from he presses of Sheldon & Coinpan}-, a iev works by the well-known Elroy M. Vvery, U. of M. '71 whose work on cience have become the leading textsooks throughout the country. II i.s resent work isentitled "Avery's School 'hysics" and bids fair to surpass in jopularity the author's "Elements of Xatural Philosophy." Ginn & Company, the Boston school ook publishers, announce a new and mportant work on Plane and Solid Geometry, by Wooster Woodruff Beman, Professor of Mathematica in the Jniversity, and David Eugene Smith, r'rofessor of Mathematica in the State Vonnal School at Ypsilanti. ïhe book will appear tliis summer. While not liflering radicaüy from the American ligh , school geometry in amountand order of material, this work aims to in.roduce and ernploy sucli of the mentary notions of inodern geometry as will be lielpful to the beginner. Among these are the principies of symmetry, reciprocity or quality, continuity, and sirnilarity. The au thora liave striven to flnd a happy mean between books tliat leave nothing for the student to do and those wlio throw him entirely apon his own resources. At flrst the proofs are given with all detail ; some of the references are given only by nuinber; and finally mueh of the denionstration must be brought out by the student himself. The exercises have been carefully graded and have airead y been put to a severo test in actual practico. Effort has been made to guide in the solution of these exercises by a systeraatic presentatiou of the best methods of attacking "original" theoreins and prol)leMis. The leading text-books on geometry in English and other languages have been examined and their best features, so far as thought feasible, incorporated. Wentworth's Geometry bas never been so widely used as now, nor hasitseemed to give satisfaction more uniformly, but the publishers believe tliat this new book will be cordially welcomed and that many teachers will find it admirably suited to the needs of their classes.