Semi-centennial Celebration Of The University

Tbe University autborities have issued the following circular of information relative to the coming semi-centennial celebration of the institution : To graduates and tonner students of the University : In conneotion with the exercises of commencement week, June 26-30, 1887, the University of Michigan will celébrate the fiftieth anniversary of ita organization. The programme of the proposed celebration is as folio ws : Sunday, June 2öth: An address by Professor Henry S. Frieze, LL. D., upon ''The Relation of S:ate Universities to Religion." (This address will take the place of the usual baccalaureate sermón.) fcíonday and Tuesday, -Tune 27th and 28th : Class-day exercises in the various departraenta. Class reunions. The Recretaries of the various classes which contémplate a reunión are requested to comuiunicate as soon as possible with Prof. B. L. Walter, chairman of the senate committee on entertainment and hospitality. Wednesday, June 29th: An address by Hon. Austin Blair, on behalf of tbe board of regents ; also an address by Prof. J. M. B. Sill, principal of the state Normal school, on behalf of the state teachers' association. These addresses to take place in the forenoon. Wednesday, June 29th, afternoon: Addresses before the various societies of alumni, as tollows : Department of literature, science and the arts, by Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, U. S. senator from Michigan. Department of medicine and surgery, by Dr. W. H. Daly, of Pittsburg, Pa. Department of la% by Hon. Samuel F. Miller, jusiice of tbe U. S. supreme court Homoeopathic medical college, by Hon. John W. Coolidge, of Scranton, Pa. School of pharmacy, by Fred F. Prentice, class of '72, president of the Wisoonson pharmaceutical association. College of dental surgery, the speaker has not yet been announced. Wednesday, June 29th, erening : Mendelssoha's Oratorio of El jah, given by the University choral union. Tickets to this entertainment will be sold at fifty cents each. After the concert a reception will be tendered to the gradúate, former etudents and friends of the University by the University senate. Thursday, June 30th, forenoon : Exercises of the forty-third annual commencement. Commemoration address will be given by President Angelí. Addresses írom representativos of other universities and colleges will follow. Thursday, June 30th, afternoon : Commencement bauquet. Tbe banquet will be served in the University chapel, immediately alter the commencemeut exercises. Admission to the banquet room will be by tickets, costing one dollar each. These tickets will be offered for purchase to graduates of the University and to persons Eormerly connected with classes that have raduated, but no (to undergraduates or) to members of the class of 1887. Not more than one ticket will be sold to one individual. It would be deemed a favor by the Univeraity authorities if, as far as possible, all persons who propose to partake of the banquet would purchase their tickets in advai.ce of commencement day, oy remittance to Prof. W. H. Pettee, chairman of senate committee on banquet. Tickets will not be sent out by mail, but will be held subject to the personal requi8ition of the purchaser. Tickets not called :or by 12 o'clock noon, of commencement day, may be resold, in which case the money of the original purchaser will be refunded. Former students of the University who attend the semi-centennial celebration are requeeted to cali as early as convenient in commencement week at the rooms of the senate committee on registration, in University hall. Here they will be provided with the Univergity colors, with special programmes of the celebration, and with desired information gonerally. A oommittee of the senate, of which Prof. C. E. Greene is chairman, s at present engaged in negotiations with a view to secunng special rates upon the railroads for persons desirous of attending the celebration. Up to date no arrangement of this kind have been perfected. Should special rates be hereafter secured, as it is hoped will be the case, full information upon the subject will be furnished by mail to those who may desire it. The special circular relating to tranaportation will be ready June lat, but will be gent out only upon request of persons inierested.