On The Campus
J. O. Reed, '85, was in the city Saturday. The Argonaut elects new editors neit Saturday. Dr. II. C. Adama lectures this evening in Boston. Mrg. Dr. Stowell waa numbered among the sick last week. The Psi U's are to have the electric light in their house. Rumor has it that the Kirmess will be repeated this spring. Professor Dennison is at his post again after his serious illness. A parlimentary club is the latest new wrinkle being talked of. Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Lundy are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Stowell. Lou. Lee left Saturday to begin his work as principal of the Flint high school. Willard Gregory, '86, will return next month and take post-graduate work. The annual Junior hop, the swell affair of the college year, comes off Feb. 10. Prof. M. E. Cooley now holds theposition of first director of the Michigan State engineering society. Mrs. Dr. Stowell is now editor of the Microscopical department of the Pharmaceutical Era, published at Detroit. Prof. E. L. Walter's paper on Victor Hugo, read at the Unity club, Monday evening, is said to have been masterly. It is stated on good authority that a freshman co-ed on Ingalls-st sat up nearly all night, Saturday night, to witness the eclipse of the moon. Mark Twain's patent-right comedietta, "The Meisterschaft Syatemn," will be given by the Unity club as soon as the Germán can be thoroughly learned. Mrs. Dr. C. H. Stowell, president of the Western Association of Collegiate Alumnas, is to attend the international council of women to be held at Washington in March. A ball nine composed of alumni living in Chicago from all colleges, will go east next spring and play a series of games with the leading eastern colleges. Hibbard, '87, and Packard, '84, U. of M., are in the nine. President Angelí, Edward E. Hale, and Maurice Thompson Bre a committee to award prizes to be given by D. Lothrop & Co. for best stories, essays, ete., for the Wide Awake. Prof. Henry C. Adams left Monday evening for Philadelphia where, last evening, he delivered a leoture on the National Surplus, before a society in the University of Penn&ylvania. Twelve hundred dollars have already been subscribed to the Gym. Among the more recent donors are the three fraternities, BetaTheta Pi, Delta Tau Delta, and Delta Upsilon. Prof. T. C. Trueblood also comes to the front with a $100 pledge. Prof. Alexander W. Winchell, of the University, will give the Graham lectures in Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday evening, Feb. 5, Í2, and 19, on "The Certainty of the Suprasensible," the "Mode of Government of the Natural World," and " God Revealed in Evolution.'1 The Political Science association met in room 24, Friday night, and elected the following officers for the ensuing term: President, Prof. Henry C. Adams; vice president, M. Rosenthal; secretary and treasurer, F. Abbott. Prof. Adams read a very instructivo and comprehensive paper on " Our National Surplus." Prof. Gibbes, who is to occupy the chair of pthology in the U. of M., arrived yesterday with his family from London, Eng., and is stopping at Dr. Herdman's residence. He wiu reside at 3 Ann-st., in the house belonging to the Dr. Palmer estáte. Prof. Gibbes has been engaged ia Westminister hospital, opposite the famous Westminister Abbey. Dr. Mary Weeks Burnett, who waa in the Homeopathie department of U. of M. last year, is now lecturer in the Barton hospital and Training school for nurses, Chicago. Drs. O. A. Baldwin and Arabella Merrill, both of '87 Homeopathie, are also connected with the same institution, the former being instructor in sanitary science, and the latter in physiology. Dr. Vaughan and F. Q. Novy's important and valuable researcher on typhoid fever and its germ and ptomaine appear in the current number of the Medical News. It is an interesting article even for a nonprofessional to read. The doctor is now engaged on the examination of the water supposed to have produced the many serious cases of typhoid fever at the Jackson petntentiary. At the meeting that organized the Univereity branch of the Michigan club last Saturday, the following officers were elected: President, H. B. Dewey ; vioe president, C. A. Áliing; secretary, fa. K. Cochran ; treasurer, G. L. Cramer, Severa! committeees were appointed and another meeting called for rext Saturday afternoon. The club starts off with a membership of nearly one hundred. A Unit etsity club, öotaposed of lumni of Tarious American colleges, was organized in Detroit Tuesday evening, undef the laws of the state. The principal spirits geem to be Richard Storrs Willis, 8. M. Cutcheon, Henry M. Duffleld, Alian H. Fraser, Dr. Henry F. Laster, and others. It is hoped by most öF the members that it will have a higher purpose than that merely of "social intercourse. The Üniversity Chronicle also comes out for prohibition in Washtenaw county. It says: "We sincerely hope that the vote which will take place od Feb. 27 will be favorable to the moral interest of this county, and that local option will be given a fair trial in Ann Arbor. Surely the results ot such a trial would be of the utmost importance, and would have an influence throughout the whole country." The Argonaut says that even aside from the moral questioD, those interested in the material welfare of the Üniversity will vote for prohibition Feb. 27.
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