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Day
8
Month
December
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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The Wriukte is after the college glrte and the college; girls arts a.fter the WrlnMe. 'It is too iunny íor iinytli i ng. Ti of. "Ym. Oatdwell af the Nortliwteisbem t'iiiversity, has been ebosen honorary preSldeiQb oí i lie T'iiiversiiy Phijasophica] Society íor th comimg yiear. Han. Samuel M. Jomfis, T&ledo'a reoran mayor, tojil the people wiio wei o at Newberry HaM, last ii: iov ho was el'ecteil ina.yoa' ia spite of G00 saloons. AnoHier yejar it is aitogether probable tlhi.it arraageineaits vriü be made ■svitlli the lUiniversity oí Pöniisylvania ïor au loratorlcal contest. Ií the agiiecimentis made it will be íor tliree years. Pnof. Trueblood has d&ner a ftaie tliing íor the U. of M. in putting so mueh. entluLsrasm into oratory, ïör iitr all theability of a young man fo appear beiore au audieiice and tetl wrhat hie thmks, wKl win hira far g-reateír succeas i-u aifter Hfe tliau. to te able to kick a ball or bat Ie, ei t her one. Dr. Ghas. H. Stawölll, tanneïly pro. ■ oí Iüsiol'ogy ia the mediaal ctepiartmemt, has re-moved recentïy to LowicL'l, Mass., i rom "Wa.s'Jn'ügiou, IX C. wiheiio he has resideil siace ieavng liaw eonie seven or eijlit years ago. Ii the Dr. wKJ ouly inveut a new sais.ipaii.la, that will o at do Ayer and llood, he caoi. wear diamon-dis. V,ery SKOSdbCy the Junior class lias (lecided to unite ia thie iamous Junior Hop thia year, and the eveut will be made more popular Mhaji ener. The comml'titees are to. be dirided betweem the Fraternities and Indeipiendente in rofcation, and the gemeiiai chairmanslüp this year goes to the Alpha Delta Phi, the homar falüng upon MulrB. Snow, of Detroit -lio pQays gaard on. tbe foobbaJl tieam. Thanks to the gama oar boys -did not win at Chicagci, the Athletie As. sadiatjioa is oat of debt, and wiM begin the baseball eeason on a firm finajicial basis .for t.be first tim in severa.i years. Coltee om game metted a .líittle over $3,800 to Mtabiigan, and .this mouey1 ,with what is du.e on eubscriptiions, wii'l clear the assoeiation oí the debt frhich has been hia.ng-ing over it ior the past few yea.rs. It löoks very muchi as though the baseball camdïdat-ee would have a cage to practice in thi.s year, as permisston has beeui secared from the director of -the gymnasium, who wüï al'low tJie nuan to practice kt ifc lu the foro part oí the aftennoons. It viil be una de of nettiing and will fte so constructed tbat it can ba removed wheu tihe gymnasium has to toe used for classes. T.his -vill supply a -want long ielt by the baseball pttayers, Who had iojmrly vo ivaii l'or warm ■ weathier before they eo-uld limber up. Tlie ■Wausea.u. Wis., Reoord of reoemt date, has tliis bib of sarcastic s.irkazmm : "Whein James Oorbett asbed Bob Fiizsinimons or anotiier bout he was toö to ;;o up ngainst BOmie other man and demónstrate Uiat be COüld lig-lit before askiug for a, match wlbh. tbte clia-mpion wich a 1 Ig C. II coach Btagg of the Chicago Uniiersity ioottoll team, 'wa.nls -Lo arrang-e a gama wifch the 'Visconsin Uuiviei'sity team lie Hhoulld first play bis cluib againat some jood high echooil elevín, ajid worl; hi.s way ují into tlhe same dase witih vhe Ba.dger boye." It iö expected that several improve. mntta will ba made. at the Regents' Fieflld in tlus nea.? fature. There is room for a eecond diamond and gridii'ou wluera the class teams, wliich axe ww proMbiited trom playing oa tlte campus, miglit practice. The ignound j rougjli a.t pneeeaut and considerable work would have To be dome ■to yut it in proper shiape. There also seem to t& a deslre to liave a tramar io remaini hiere duríing lno whoje year inistead of just Htajtag tJu-ougli the íootbail and añil baseball eseason. Toni Cox, ■wüio handled tjie fpootbadl teaim' vhis fall, is talked of, bmfc as there are 'oMier candi-datee, for tho job, notliiag has b&esi declded deftoite'Jy lis yet. A pennajient tratuer wil piobablly .not be lüred Flus year ; but tlierO is a seetimeait in íavor of r.och a. step.

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