Campus

The new department of Technoioj will bc put in operation in the fall o 1896. The hospitals will not be kept open ed this summcr on account of a lack o funds. The senior Hts will be allo wed to use the gym. at commencement time with ut charge. Prof. Townly, Markley anti Thoma liave been granted leave ot absence ior one year. Prof. Markley has been appointec Asst. Prof. in Mathematica in place o Prof. Cole who goes to New York. The famous "Ben Franklin" who stands on the campus received lus annual coat of paint last week. The plan proposea by Dean Hutchins, f the law department, for a three year's course, has been adopted by the ■ nts. Prof. C. E. Greene is the ncw dean of the new department of Technology which has been establishcd in the University. Mrs. A. C. Bartlett, nee Miss Abby Hitchcock, '85 lit, of Chicago, has sent a check of $50 to Mrs. Geo. W. Patterson, for the co-eds' gymnasium. Profs. Greene, Carhart and Cooley have been appointed a committee to formúlate a plan of organization for the new department of Technology. A large number of requests by members of the different faeulties for improvements were refused by the regents at the last meeting because of a lack of funds. Will B. Decker has given up his course of study in the State University at Ann Arbor and returned to the city to engage in the dry goods business, having bougbt the stock in his father's store. - Battle Creek Moon. One week from today Cornell will meet the U. of M. at Detroit.lt is being arrangcd to have about all the 3,000 students go down and checr the U. of M. team to such a degree that they will secure a victory in their contest upon the diamond. The Ann Arbor committee in charge of the raising of funds for the gymnasium for womcn met last Friday with the delegates from Detroit, Miss Lane and Miss Fletcher, at Newberrv Hall to discuss the results of the work already done and the plans for the future. There are many things of interest in the May number of the Michigan alumnus, just oft' the press, Lester, O. Goddard, '61, continúes the interesting series of reminisseences by telling about "The Last Burnings of Mechanics," "My First Book," by'Roswell B. Taylor, '61. Tt is an anecdote concerning a well-known gradúate and the remarkable end of his remarkable book. There is an interesting report of the banquet of the Buffalo Alumni associa-' tion from the pen of Cari K. Friedman, '91. of the Buffalo Courier. Notices of a number of alumni meeiings during commencement week are given, among them being reunions of the classes of '85, '83, '91 and '75. Mr. Edwin Fleming, -70, president of the Buffalo association suggests the more common orSinization of alumni association in order to arouse alumni spirit. II. W Webber. '94 lavv, writos of the reception of the Glee and Banjo clubs in Colorado. There are the regular routine pages, all eontaining interesting matter. The number is a good one. - Courier.