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The Regenta met last Wednesday. The Choral Union has already had a moeting. The U. of M. Daily put in an appearanoe last Monday. The .first number of The Inlander will be out about Oct. loth. There are now eight courses givon ín rhetorio to under-graduates. Fooíball seems to be having quite a boom ;it the University this year. A. H. Johnson has been appointed seoond assistant to Dr. Nancrede. There will be a mass meeting in the interest of football tomorrovv night. The Athletic Assocjiation membership tickets are now on sale at $3.00. James B. Polloek has been appointed an assistant to Prof. V. M. Spalding. The salary of instructor J. R. Eftinger has been increased from $900 to $1200. Some changes will be made in the law building which will give another room. It is still a question whether the enlollment this year will surpass that of last year. J. A. Whitsie has been appointed an assistant in Prof. Freer's Chemifal Laboratory. The nevv hoinceopathic faculty are enthusiastically at work in the laterests o: their school. Julhis Karn has been made an iniructor in Civil Engineering at a salary of $300 per year. The Regents accepted the resignation of Asst. Librarían Hopkins at the meeting last Wednesday. H. C oleman, managing editor of the U of M. Daily last year. is now proprietor of the Oakland ('ounty Post. Judce L. S. Montague, of Howell, died last Sunday. Judg-e Montague graduated in the la-v department in 1872. Dr. C. Q. Dwliag and Dr. L. P. Hall were made elinical lecturers in the Dental department at a salary of $300 ■eaeh. D. F. Mertz, general secretary of the S. C. A. last year, is principal of the Mt. Ciemens high school at a salary of 1,000. The Regents passed a resolution of thanks to Mr. R. C. Seott, for the gift of birds eggs frotn the Hawaiian [slands. The football team will play its lirst game this season with the -Orchard Lalce team on the Athletic Field next Saturday. The Regents desii'e to begin work upon the Wumen's Annex to the Waterman Gymnasium this fall if the nceessary arranyements can be made in, time. The U. of M. football team, which has been at Omena. Mich.. praeticing foi' some time past, returned to Ann Arbor last bYiday night. The boys are in line trim. The Regents have ordered 200 lockers placed in the basement of the law building' for use of the law students in which to put their hats. Miss M. S. Parkei-, lit, '95, the first woman engineer to gradúate from the U. of M., is employed in the om'ce of a prominent firtn of architects in N. V. City. Norman H. Hackett, who was a member of last year's University Comedy Club, has joined Mlle. Rhea's company and will play Eugene in ".Tosephine" and Rolllns in "Nell Gwynne." The Board of Regents have asked BeEton Hanchett t3 render an opinión to the Board as to the constitutionality f the law requiring them to remove the Homoepathic school to Detroit. A freshman carne in on a late train ne night last week. He was one of the freshest. A drug store happened to be open and he entcred and asked to bc directcd to Dr. Angeli's residence. In order thatthere sliould be no doubt as to the validity of the proceedings of the Regents' at their meeting held in Detroit in July, the actions of that meeting were approved at the meeting f the Board last week. The lirst number of the sixth volume of the U. of M. Daily was published Monday. .1. A. LeRoy is managing editor and G. B. Harrison, business manager. The paper is fully up to its usual standard of excellence. The Woraen's League and Students' C'hristian AsBOciation recejitions will be held this and Fridav afternoons, frora 4 to ( o'clock, at Newberry hall. These receptions are very informal and every college woman is cordially invited to be present. It is said that a Michigan woman recently gave $15,000 for the purehaae of a campus to be used exclusively the 35 women at Beloit college. Her gift would have accomplished more good had she (fiven it to her ovvn state institution for the womans' gymnasium. Tlie football team has arranged for the following games: Olivet, Oct. 12. Albion, Oct. 16, Beloit, Ot. 19, Case School, Oct. 20. These games will be played in this city. Harvard, at Boston, Nov. 2; Minnesota, at Detroit: Nov. 28; (Thanksgiving Day). Chicago University, at Chicago. University people are surprised and gratifled at the very large number of Chicago students entering the University this f all. It is reported that one high school alone, in Chicago, will send forty of its graduates. This, however, is doubt less greatly exaggerated. Still, Chicago University is not as popular right at home as some people may think it is. The east end of University hall is to be shut off from the Main hall and converted into league rooms for temporary use until the new woman's gymnasium is completad. The door at the east end wül give place to two large windows. The lalies' reading room and the new room will be connected and furnished with couches, desks, reading matter, writing matei'ials, etc., for uso oí league members. - U. of M. Daily. The Regenta have asked Judge Graves, of Detroit, and Benton Hanchett, of Saginaw, to begin snit against Auditor General Turner to compel him to allow the University 7 per cent. interest instead of 6 per cent. on the University grant. The set'leraent of the question will be watehed with interest. The Auditor General declares that only legal interest should be paid. In this state this is ( per cent. The Regents contend that the same interest as paid heretofore should still be paid.