A Quarter Of A Century

The olass of 1870, from the literary department of the University of Michigan, held their quarter-centennial reunión at Ann Arbor on the 2Gtli of June. Theclass graduated seventy-six men, of whom eleven are dead. It numbered among its menibers, who did not gradúate, all residents of this city, Hon. Win. C. May bury, late member of congress; James 1). Hawks, the eminent civil engineer and manager of the Bay City & Mackinaw Railroad, and the late William Stagg, treasurer of the Wayne County Savings Bank, who died Oct. 28, 1894. There were present from Detroit at ie reunión George W. Bates and C. F. 5urton, the attorneys; Hon. C. R. Whitman, late regent of the University and nd railroad commissioner; Harlow P. )avock, late member of the legislature, nd at present president of the board of iealth;C. P. Gilbert, manager of the Sdison Electric Light Co., and Rev. ames E. Jacklin. The others present were Prof. W. W. Jeman, of the university; E. F. Cooley, Vashington Hyde, Rev. Eugene Ketlium, Prof. EdwardE. Darrow, Edward ■leming, editor of the Buffalo Courier, and for a nuniber of years The Free 'ress AVashington correspondent), and tfessrs 0. J. Carnpbell, C. F. Carter, Geo. E. Dawson, W. T. Emerson, Clark Olds, S. B. Price, Hon. Aaron Perry, of 3ontiac ; L. B. Swift and Judge Chas. G. Ving, of Ludington. Alfred Noble, the distinguished engieer, member of the United '.States Nicraguan canal commission, a member f this class, received from the universiy, the following day, the honorary deree of LL. D.