The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-04-10
University News.
delayed from last week.)


Last week was an unusually busy one and
unusually full of events to occupy the at
tention of students and yet it is but a fair
sample Of the way the spare hours of stu
dent life are filled at this great busy school.
To begin the week, on Sunday the college
girls were treated to talk on the Kings
| Daughters by no less noted parsonage
than one of the founders of that well known
organization, Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson.
AS partial outcome Of this address a Uni
versity Circle is being organized here. On
the same afternoon DR.. Mary WOod-A Allen
| gave an instructive address to University
men. Both of these addresses were given
at Newbefry hall.
Early in the week the announcement
came hat arrangements had been completed
for a meeting of the u. of M. and UNIVERSE.
ty of Chicago track teams on June 18th, in
Chicago. About the same time news in an
other direction told Of an honor conferred
upon Professor Adams, who was elected
president of the American Political Econo-
my Association at its recent indianapolis
meeting. This Office has been held by such
men as Gen. Francis Walker, l.. l.. D.,
President of the Mass. Institute of Technol-
ogy, and the present choice is an honor to
Michigan.
After recitations are over for the day. the
base ball and foot ball players make their
appearance on the campus near the gymna-
SUM to spend an hour or two before supper
in practice, and incidentally in getting big
appetite for supper. The greatest interest
of course centers at present in the base ball
team, as the base ball season is about to
open, the first game taking place here Sat
urday with the Agricultural College team.
Practice has been going on for weeks in the
gymnasium. in the ''cage," and good, telling
work has been done there by pitchers and
catchers. The team is expected to be win
ner. AS this end of the week approached,
however, additional efforts were being put
forth in two quite different directions for
the contests of Friday and Saturday night
the debate with Chicago University and the
indoor meet, the contest for the Faculty cup.
The debate with Chicago, Friday evening,
was on the subject, Resolved, that grad
uated property tax should be adopted by
the states" The question had been propos-
ed by Michigan and Chicago had chosen the
negative. Gen. Alger presided at the meet
ing. The judges were Pres. Balentine of
Oberlin college; Supt. I'll. w. Compton, OF
the Toledo schools and Judge Mcclellan, OF
Auburn, Indiana The debate was very
spirited but the Michigan boys were too
much for Chicago and the judges gave Mich
igan the victory by eight points. Chicago
had already suffered three defeats in debates
this year and had made great effort to win
this one, sending her strongest debaters.
Quite contrast was shown Letween the
stylish, full dress suits of the Chicago stu
dents and the plain, business dress of the
giant and able treatment of the subject the
contrast took different turn. OF the Mich
igan debaters two-the ones who ranked
highest in the evenings contest-were from
New York and Chattanooga, Tenn, respect
lively.
At the indoor meet Saturday evening the
winner proved to be student well Known
to Owosso people by his work in the Owosso
base ball team last summer. 1t was no less
parsonage than "Bloomie." In the events
in which he contested he stood third in the
number of points, but his rating for general
physical development was SO much higher
than the others that he won by four points.
1t is fine honor and one which he came
near winning last year. Bloomington was
somewhat handicapped by very lame foot
which he had injured few days before but
pluckily went In and won.
The senior class will remember its alma
mater in a most appropriateImanner 1t
has decided to raise four hundred dollars to
secure cast of the famous arch of Trajan,
built in Ia A. ID. at Beneventum. This
arch is one of the best preserved Of the old
Roman arches and is pronounced "the grand
est group of Roman sculpture, without ex-
ception." The arch Is forty feet wide at the
base and richly ornamented with sculpture. |
No casts have ever been made of 1t, but |
few American universities and museums ]