On The Campus

Üniversity work begins Tuesday. The regenta meet again on Oot. 15. You will know him when you see him - he's a freehman. Mrs Dr. Darling is visiting her btother in Detroit this week. The winter's supply of coal is being put in at the boiler houses. Miss Jennie Watson of Unadilla is visiting Mrs. C. S. Durand. Secretary Wade places the attendance of studeots this year at 2,000 or more. Miss Lizzie Campbell is expected home Friday or this week from her eastern trip. The students are erowding into the city by every train, and by Tuesday nearly all will be back. Mrs. F. H. Hubbard of Monroe has been employed as housekeeper for the homoeopathic hospita). The advanceguardof the Argonaut force has arrived, and the paper will be issued in a few week?. The hospi tais will beopen for patient3on Tuesday. Already over 30 applications have been made for beds. Judge Cooley was ia the city the latter part of last week with his family. He left Sunday night for Kansa9 City. Superintendent Taylor of the mecbanical engineering lsboratory spent several days this week in Detroit in the interest of his department. The secretary's office is the busiest place on the campus, and the number of questions daily answered by Mr. Wade and his assistants is enormous. The examinations of candidates for admiesion to the literary department began yesterday. The examinations for the other departments begin today. Mrs. R. H. Marsh, recently appointed postmistress at Saline, was ia the city Tuesdav. She will take Dossession of the office Oct. 1 if her comnaission arrivés io time. A massive iron plaaer, woighing G,800 pounds, hus been received and placed in posiiion at the mechanical laboratory. Two new Iatbe3 bsve ben ordered, one for turning shafting and other loDg work being '11 feet long. The excavating is nearly completed íor the addition to the chemical laboratory. The addition will be 00 by 80 feet, three stories high, and with the buildings already in use will made the chemical laboratory he largest in the United Síates. The cost of the addition will be $16,590. Secretary Wade is now the owner of two pairs of handsome " political socks." He obtained them as the result of a wager with Prof. Cooley on the result of the eleotion last fall, and the wager has just been paid. But they are not ordinary hose. Each is handsomely embroidered with a large iniiial letter - "A," "S," "L," "B,"- standing for Allen, Stearns, Luce and Burt. The secretary smiles when he thinks how he has these democrats "under foot." The greatest mprovements made on the campus duriog the eummer have been made in the mechanical laboratory. The drawing room has been finished, giving a Urge, well-lighted room for this work. The basement has been finished and will be nsed for experimental steam work, Prof. Cooley having " a gem of boudoir," (as he calis it,) in the front part, for his experimental work. A number of private lockers have been built for the use of the studeats, eacb student being able thereby to keep his valuables uoder look and key. In the wash room, a large marbletop table hnving twelve wash basins in it has been placed. A number of minor improvements have been made.