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Day
19
Month
January
Year
1888
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The prohibition club numbers over 150. The senior medies will wear plug hats. J. E. Mills, '87, epent Sunday with friends in the city. Will F. Waite, '87, was visking friends in town this week. Dr. W. J. Herdman is now talked cf as a soocessor to Dr. Palmer. Dr. Stowell was caüed to Albion in consultation last Thursday. The Alpha Nu society elect offieers for the coming semester next Friday night. The Psi U and Alpha Delta Phi fraternilies will each give $100 to the gym (und. Rev. J. II. Vineent, the next in the Students' lecture course, will not be here Jan. 27. The Argonaut is eager for the Gym, and makes a liberal offer for increasing the fund. Prof. Dorrance is preparing a program for the State dentai association to be given in liareb. J. M. Stafford is the third of our business men, to dónate $100 to the gymnasium fund. Next! 1Í. M. Bigelow, of Boston, will deliver a series of 40 leotures on ' Equity" before the law school next semester. Geo. L. Canfield, '87, of Detroit, a íormer managing editor of the Chroniele, i spent Sunday with his fratemity friends, the D. K. E's. Dr, Qibbes, who is to oocupy the chair of pathology, and who is now on his way here from England, is expected to arrive about Jan. 20. Chas. Moffatt, of the junior law class, and Miss Graee Minniö, of Jackso", were married today at the home of the bride's parents. Orrin Cady will give a talk on the Etomber concert program whieh is to occur Saturday evening, on Saturday at ïir30 a. m., in the ante room of University halL A new University, being started &t Worcester, Mass., with a large amount of capital behind it, is lookirg toward the U. of M. for some of ita faculty. It could DOt look toward a better institution. The Argonaut gives the plot of a bright comedietta which appeared last week in the Free Press. It is entitled "Edueating a wife," and was written by Prof. Hennequin and Mr. Soott, the assistant libririan. The clínica! advantages furnished by both hospitals were never better than at present, and the number and variety of intereKting cases are more than the students have time to be instraeted upon. No use moving to Detroit. Louis B. Lee, '88, has accepted the position of principal of the Flint high school, and will leave to take up his duties there at once. He is engaged at a salary of $1100 per year, and is to be congratulated on his deserved good fortune. Itissaid that the Congregationalists are eonsidering whether it would be a good scheme to lócate two or three professors here to give a course of leoture?, auxiliary to the University - a sort oi training school for the younger ministers. The caps and gowns of '91 are on their way ; the class cannot "crawfish" now, and the fact that has got abroad and been published in most ei the leading papers that the studente of Michigan University wear the Oxford cap and gown will in a lueasure be ca'rried out. Detroit has not been the only city in which its doctors have been concerning themselves about who is to fill the place made vacant by the death of Dr. Palmer. The medical faculty have received letters frorn many prominent men from all over the United States asking that they ot some friend mentioned might be considered when the choice was made. Even Dr. Samuel O. L. Potter, of Cooper's medical college, San Francisca, the author of various compends used here, has been beard trom. Argonaut : The law student who sus- picioned that his coal was beirjg used taster than be himgelf used it, is but one of a large number who seeined to be of the same mind. This one, however, concluded to investígale, and put a small bottle of powder in hiR coal pen. The reult was, there was an explosión in the house next morning. The only thiDg peculiar about it was, it was his landlady's gtove that blew up. Other students are threatening to follow the same line of investigation. E. a SL.w, "Walter Miller, Miss Lizzie Trowbridge, Miss B. W. King. andW. H. Walker attended the Inter-collegiate mi9sionary conference in Albion, Jaa. 14 and 15. It is a conference of students who are pledged to go as foreign missionaries. Tbe colleges represented were Ann Arbor, Adrián, Albion, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, and Olivet Mr. Shaw, as secretary of the Ann Arbor band, reported that they had 19 members here, and starled iu 1882 with lour menibers. Miss Trowbriüg gave a talk on mssionary work at her home, Aintab, Tuikey. Mr. Walker read a puper on i.rganization and work of mission bands in colleges. There were 45 delégales present at the conference. A Michigan intercollegiate missionary alliauce was orgamzed, and Waker Miller was chosen state secretary. This is the first conference and organiïation of this kind ir. this country, and is due to the labore of E. S. Shaw, senior lit of U. of M. Of the delegates, 20 expect to go abroad as minis ere, 12 as teachers, 4 as physicians, and VValier Miller as translator. The closing service oí the conference was Sunday evening in ihe M. E. church, and was addressed by Walter Miller.

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