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Day
24
Month
February
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Tne Michigan schoolmaster's olub meets to-morrow. Prof. Griffln will deliver the closing law lecture this year. Judge Brown has finished his series of lectures on admiralty law. About twenty fresliman couples attended the social at the Delta Upsilon, Friday night. Prof. Rogers begins his leetures Roman Law in room 24 at four o'clock this af ternoon . Prof. dePont will deliver a course of lectures on the fundamental principies of acting before the Dramatic club. The üniversity Democratie club will have a speaker for next Saturday evening when they meet to organizo premanently. A democratie club wasorganized in the üniversity with 150 members, Saturday evening. It promises to be a very large organization and has some excellent speakers in its ranks. Dr.J.II. Vincent lectures at Üniversity hall tomorrow evening and as he is such an able lecturer and his subject "That boy" is a good one he ought to be greeted with a full house. The Sigma Psi fraternity held a reunión in Detroit last Tuesday evening, The Michigan Üniversity chapter. which was founded in 1858, was represented by eighteeu members, at the banquet. Hazing is yet practiced at Cornell Üniversity and last week the sophomore class abducted thefreshman class president and kept him a prisoner for twenty-four hours. He finally escaped by jumping from a second story win3ow. THE UNIVERSITY REFTJBLICANS AT THE DETROIT BANQUET. The University boys did notgo to Detroit or come away unseen or unnoticed. Long before 10 o'cloek on Wednesday morning the delee-ates from theUniversity branch of the Michigan club had met at the Brunswick, oiganized and elected as their chairman, 1). K. Coehrane. At 11 o'cloek the boys were in their seats at the Y. M. C. A. hall, and while the conveution was coming to order they entertainer! the crowd by singing John Brown's Body, Marching through Georgia, and other fresh and original songs, some of which were applauded and the rest endured. They did not force themselves upon public attention agaiu until late in the afternoon session. Each county, according to the constitution adopted by the state league, is entitledtoone vice-president. Mr. Beal, of Ann Arbor, moved that a president be allowed also to the University club, independently of the other VVashtenaw county clubs. Mr. Babcock, of Sanilac, moved to amend by providing that every public school in the state be allowed such vice-president. A warm debate followed, in wliich it soon became evident that the vast majority of the delegates present were in favor of Mr. Ueal's motion. Mr. Babcock then rose to explain that by every public school he meant the Agriculturel college and similar institutions. Mr. Frazer, in particular, Bloquently supported the motion, as 3id Col. Atkiiison, and it was flnally ;amed with hardly a dissenting voice. Mr. Cochrane'immediately announced that the chnice of the U. of Ai. branch was H. tí. De wey". Mr. Chalmers, of the University, be'ng called upon to speak shortly afterwards, eleetritied the audience with an address full of burning republicanism and lofty maxims of moral i tv. He was freely applauded at intervals thronebout his speech and at its end, and really made a very creditable performance. At the Detroit rink iu the eveiiiijj?, 75 University men sat dowu to aupper. Tables K and L, were entirely reserved tor them, and were tastefully decorated with the University colors. The speakeis, several times, took occasion to mention the U. of M. and more than one pointed remarks was made for their beneöt. It was long af ter midnight when the banquet brpke up and everybody tred but satiafied, left the hall, voting that they had had a jolly good time and would like to go again.

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