The First Alumni Dinner

After the alumni dinner Wednesday, the various department associations held their annual meetings. The lit. alumni association met in the lecture room of Tappan hall, to the number of about one hundred. Considerable iinportaut business was transacted. After the reading of the minutes of the meeting of 1394, Treasurer James M. Crosby, of Grand Rapids, read his report, showing that the various receipts for the year were $5,858.50, and the present amount in the Williams Professorship fuud is $13,392.41. At a recent meeting of the board of directora of the board of directors of the association, it was decided to change the fund into a fellowships, and letters were sent to the subscribers to the fund asking them if they had any objection to this disposal of the money. Twenty-five said they nad not, four said they had and four did not know whetherthey liad or not. Inasmuch as objections were raised to converting the fund into a fellowsbip fund, all talk about the matter was abandoned, and the inoney will remaiu where it can increase as rapidly as possible until there is enough to make it practicable to use itfor a professorship. Treasurer Crosby was directed to place the money where it would be getting a good rate of interest. William A. Moore, of Detroit, suggested that the mouey be used to complete the co-ed gymnasium, but this was as impracticable as the other proposed disposition. The report of the society's necrologist, T. E. Chase, of Detroit, was read. Prof. Hamilton, of this city, offered a resolution that at future banqueta of of the associatiou, smoking be prohibited, as it was understood that it was objectionable to the ladies. Oa the aye and nay vote it seemed that there was a tie, but upon a división, the smokers appeared to lack the stamina to stand up and the resolution went through with flyingcolors. Numerous ainendnients were made to the constitution and by-laws. One of them provided for a board of ten directo rs, instead of flve, whose terms of office were to be three years. Prof. B. M. Thompson offered a resolution, which was carried, to the effect that a committee of five be appointed to see that the university was properly set forth in tlie eyes of the electora and taxpayers. It was decided to continue the alumni banquet as an annual feature of comineneement week. ïhe following ofñcers were elected : William Savidge, of Spring Lake, Mich., president; W. J. Cocker, of Adrián, vice-president; Prof. J. II. Drake, secretary ; James M. Crosby, of Grand Rapids, treasurer; Dr. E. L. Sherrill and Edgar Rexford, directors for one year: II. R. Pattengill and J. O. Reed, directors for two years ; and Prof. W. S. Perry and Senator J. R. McLaughlin, directors for three years. The law alumni association met in the law lecture room. It was decided to organize the society on a firmer basis. E. F. Johnson was elected secretary in place of Dean Knowlton, and with this exception all the officersare re-elected. [t was decided to have a grand law reunion in 1900, and E.F. Johnson was appointed to make whiat imraediate arrangements were necessary for the event. The medical alumni association met at the residence of Dean Vaughan, and after the reading of the address of Dr. W. F. Breakey, president of the association, a part of which was published in yesterday's Courier, there was an informal social session. The dental alumni met in the dental building and transacted some minor business.