A new book by Professor B. A. Hinsdale, of the University of Michigan, entitled "Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States " is announced to appear this week conjointly in England and this country from the Scribner press. It is issued in the Great Educator Series, edited by Nicholas Murray Butler. This work deals with two centuries of common school life in the United States and with the forerunners of Horace Mann, as well as with Horace Mann in his various official and educational capacities, his character, and service to education, and the progress of the common school revival in this country.

NEWS FROM THE CLASSES.

1848.

Col. Joseph R. Smith, of the U. S. army, writes from 2300 Delansey Place, Philadelphia, that a reunion of the class of '48 will take place in June at Ann Arbor. Four of the eight members now living, that is Ransom, Cooper, Miller and Smith, will surely be here. Tenny, Shaw and Parks will come if possible. Alfred DuBois has not yet been located. If anyone happens to know his present address, will they kindly notify the General Secretary.

1858.

Joel Moody, Abbeville, Louisiana, is editor and proprietor of the Republican Idea. He says "40 years ago next June I graduated from the University, and it seems but yesterday, as I am young yet." He further says that he had planned a reunion with H. C. Dennis and Oscar F. Price, both of his class, on their 50th anniversary, but they have since died.

1865.

Wm. H. Fifield writes from San Francisco, Cal., where he is President of the Bar Association, that he has been practicing there continually since Oct., '68.

1866.

James K. Blish_is_president_of First National Bank, Kewanee, Ill. He is pleased with the new organization, and is enthusiastic in his wishes for its success.

1868

Wm. K. Anderson, of Detroit, is now U. S. Consul at Hanover, Germany, and will probably remain there for two or three years.

1873.

John A. Davis is located at De Land, Ill. 1874.

Chas. A. Allen, l, of Hoopeston, Ill., is at present chairman of the committee on judiciary of the 40th General Assembly, House of Representatives of Illinois. He writes inquiring for the present address of Cassius McEwen. If any of the readers of THE ALUMNUS know it, will they kindly send it to the General Secretary or to Mr. Allen direct.

1877.

Granville W. Browning was appointed Master in Chancery of the Superior Court of Cook County, the nomination being made by Judge Shepherd. Mr. Browning succeeds Mr. Noyes. Mr. Browning graduated from the University in 1877, having first studied law under the late Hon. Wm. H. King, of Chi

cago. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1880, and soon formed a partnership with Judge Samuel M. Moore, which lasted until that gentleman's death.

1880.

Oliver H. Bogue is practicing law in Wabash, Indiana, where he has been located since the day after Commencement, 1880.

1883.

V. C. T. Kingsley, with office at 16 West Main st., is a practicing physician and surgeon at Dansville, Ill.-J. D. Wathle writes from Palo, Kansas, where he is a practicing physician and surgeon, that he reads THE ALUMNUS with all the interest of a letter from home.

1885.

Samuel Hawley, ex-secretary of the Chicago Alumni Association, was chosen this year to represent that body before the Students' Lecture Association, January 29. It may not be generally known that the Students' Lecture Association gives the choice of one number each year to the Chicago alumni. The speaker this year was the celebrated Booker T. Washington. Mr. Washington's train being a little late, Mr. Hawley had a few minutes to spend in the office of the Association, and the conversation drifted toward athletics in general. The Chicago alumni it would seem are interested in two changes in our general policy, the one being an annual out-door game with Chicago, now that we have established the Michigan-Chicago game as the greatest game played in the west during the year. Whatever difference of opinion there might be on this subject, it will make little or no difference for the present inasmuch as the old Colliseum is burned down and a new one has not yet been started. The other change Mr. Hawley suggested and which must take time to accomplish is that of having a paid manager. It seems to be the general opinion, not only in Chicago but also at the

University that there must ultimately be a paid manager,although perhaps the time has not yet come when the Regents can be persuaded to take hold of the matter. It will probably remain in the hands of our own Athletic Association with the help of the Chicago and Detroit alumni to start this movement. This joint letter comes from J. F. P. Hettinger and James Hettinger, Hutchinson, Kan. "We acknowledge receipt of circular letter and THE ALUMNUS. We have never for one moment forgotten our obligation to the U. of M. and always sing her praises, even at this distauce from her halls and environments. We came to this place immediately after graduating with the law class of '85, and have had our share of good hard work and success. Enclosed find draft for $2.00. Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue "-Dr. Anna M. Goebel, m, writes from Lima, Ohio, her present address, that the Association "must prove a success as does everything connected with the U. of M." Surely if all of the alumni feel as Dr. Goebel does there will be no doubt about the ultimate prosperity of the Association.

1886.

C. E. Servis is a member of the law firm Dyson & Servis, at La Crosse, Wis.

1887.

Wm. H. Walker is pastor of the Congregational church at Emporia, Kansas, where he has been since September, 1896.

1888.

Herbert F. DeCou is spending his third consecutive year at the American school at Athens, Greece.

1889.

Archie S. Sands is at present located at Wilber, Neb., where he has been practicing law for the past five years.-L. H. Cheney is practicing law at Stockville, Neb,

1890.

Dr. Mary McCoy, formerly Miss Mary Knauf and assistant demon

strator of anatomy while at the University, is practicing at Duluth, Minn., and is successful beyond her expectations.

1891.

S. T. Handy, Crystal Falls, Mich., a well known and popular '91 man, visited Ann Arbor recently. He is prosecuting attorney of his county. -Edward A. Cress is practicing law at Hillsboro, Ill. He writes that Edmund Fisk, '45, is his next door neighbor, and thinks that Mr. Fisk is the only living member of the first graduating class, though there may possibly be one other sur

vivor.

1895.

Marna Ruth Osband is one of the editors of Education Extension, which is published at Ypsilanti by the Cleary Publishing Co. She has charge of the department of "Current History," and in her recent foot-ball records exceptions must be taken to the comment that the Varsity team did poorly this season. With all due respect to Miss Osband's opinion, THE ALUMNUS believes that the team did exceedingly well, meeting as it did with but one intercollegiate defeat, and that in the face of having to contend with the inexperience of an unusually large number of new players.-Geo. B. Russel is in Harvard Law School-H. H. Smith is practicing law in Ionia, Mich. The firm name is V. H. and H. H. Smith.-Lewis J. Goodyear was married Thursday, January 20, to Miss Clara Coyendall, of Allegan. Mr. Goodyear is first assistant in the high school at Hastings, Mich., and specialized in German while in the University.-R. F. Flinterman, well-known in Michigan circles as the first man to win the cup for allaround athlete, is now chemist at the great Homestake Mine, at Lead, South Dakota. He dropped the position of Professor of Chemistry of the State School of Mineralogy, Rapid City, South Dakota, to accept this position. His present address is Deadwood, which is

connected with Lead by a rapid transit railway.

1896.

Sergius Grace is chief engineer of the new State Telephone Co., which has been extending its system throughout the State so successfully within the past year.Wm. H. Anderson is at Carlinville, Ill., where he is practicing law. -Walter Robbins is with Pierce & Richardson, one of the most prominent firms of consulting engineers in Chicago.-F. W. B. Coleman, managing editor of 96's Palladium, has returned to the University since Christmas to take up the study of the law. -Dexter M. Ferry, two years with '96, is at present at Columbia University, New York City, where he will graduate in June.-Waldo Emerson Cummer, three years with the class of '96, and at present a member of the Cummer Lumber Co., Jacksonville, Florida, was in Ann Arbor a few days ago. Mr. Cummer was better known by the name of "Reddy" when in college, he and his blondeheaded brother frequently going by the name of "The Red and White" Cummers.-William Dexter McKenzie, 301 Pine st., Austin, Ill.,is instructor in Latin and Greek. He also has charge of the athletic department.-Burnam S. Colburn is in the employ of the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works and is superintending the construction of the Grand Trunk iron bridge at Montreal. This is a bridge which is being reconstructed, and is one of the biggest contracts which has been undertaken in recent years. Those who know Mr. Colburn feel assured that he is equal to the responsibility of the task.-H. S. Goodell, ex'96, was married on Wednesday evening, February 9, to Miss Charlotte Armitage, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Lee Hubbard, in Christ church, Cambridge, Mass Mr. and Mrs. Goodell will be at home after March 15, at Houghton, Mich.-Miss Gertrude Divine, '96, was married on Wednesday, February 2, at St. Thomas church, New

York, to Mr. Wm. McClellan Ritter. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter are to be at home after February 17, at Welch, West Virginia.

1897.

E. H. Humphrey, who is now secretary of the Novelty Knitting Works, Detroit, visits Ann Arbor occasionally. Mr. Humphrey, so well known while in college for his great business ability and push, is more than making a success in this enterprise.-Evans Holbrook, ex'97, took the degree of A. B. at Leland Stanford last year, and is now studying law in Chicago.-E. J. Bement is traveling through Indiana for the E. Bement & Sons, stove manufacturers, Lansing, Mich., of which firm he is a member. Henry Keep, for a time with the class, is studying at the Agricultural College.

1898.

George Russel Barker, with '98 for two years, and during that time well known as managing editor of the Wrinkle, is on the staff of the Grand Rapids Democrat. T. A. Woodruff is now a student at the Michigan Agricultural College.

COMMUNICATIONS.

This department is open to live, brief, pointed, stimulating correspondence upon any topic germane to University interests. Use black ink and write on one side of the paper only.

CHICAGO, Feb. 3, 1898. To the Editors of The Alumnus: The article by Mr. LeRoy published in the last number of THE ALUMNUS, has occasioned much surprise, not to say resentment, among the Chicago alumni of the University. Mr. LeRoy intimates that Chicago alumni may have cooperated in bringing disgrace to the University and shame to her alumni, by inducing the foot-ball player, Stuart, to enter the University and play on its team, in violation of the rules adopted by the Western foot-ball conference. It is possible that there are Michigan alumni living in this city whose

sense of right and wrong is so dulled that they are unable to realize the moral obliquity involved in hiring or improperly inducing a a man to enter the University for such a purpose. If there are such men here, the writer does not know who they are, and this much at least can be said for them: that they have discretion enough to keep to themselves the knowledge of their guilty participation in such an outrage, thus showing that they are conscious of the infamy of this treachery to the University. If Mr. LeRoy has any authority for the implication in his article, it is his duty to send such information to the Board of Control, and to publish the names of the guilty participants in this supposed conspiracy.

The writer cannot believe the suggestion that the alumni are behind the student body in supporting the Board of Control in its efforts to maintain absolute purity in our athletic affairs. Certain it is -as members of the Board can testify-that there are many alumni in this city who have devoted much time and energy in doing what little lay in their power to second the efforts of the Board. If it is necessary to take any steps to instil into the minds of our alumni the very moderate degree of intelligence required to see the shame and disgrace involved in tainting our athletics in the slightest degree with professionalism-which college athletics at least, is synonymous with dishonesty and plugugliness-by all means let us begin upon that process of education at once. Mr. LeRoy will find many alumni in Chicago who will be glad to second his every effort in this direction.

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From certain experiences in the past, however, the writer is led to suspect that efforts along this line should not be confined to the alumni. We are all glad to believe what is undoubtedly true, that the large majority of the student body is heartily in favor of decency in

athletics, but unfortunately recent occurrences-notably the Stuart disgrace-give opportunity to the outside world to charge our athletic management (whether justly or unjustly I do not pretend to say) with looseness, if not with unfair tactics.

It is amazing to anyone with a fair amount of intelligence and of even moderately high standard, to find that there are persons who regard a victory in foot-ball or in base-ball, of sufficient importance to the University to justify methods which may subject the University to public disgrace, and to bring chagrin and mortification to everyone connected with it. Until dishonesty or guilty complicity on the part of anyone but Stuart has been proved in connection with his relationship to the University, the writer is unwilling to admit that any of our athletic officers are guilty as has been intimated. Certainly Mr. LeRoy is to be commended for demanding that the matter be investigated, and for beginning a discussion which will make clear to all concerned the views of the alumni of our University. We should not rest until we have made it impossible for anyone to perpetrate such an outrage as Mr. LeRoy suspects the Stuart episode to be.

Yours very truly,

HENRY M. BATES, '90.

[So far as the editor is aware, the only intimation that Chicago or other alumni were implicated in the Stuart affair, of unhappy memory, was contained in an article published in the athletic columns of the Free Press, and probably sent out as correspondence to other papers. The authority for the statement was not given. If anybody knows who is responsible for it, by all means let him speak out. The charge is, as our correspondent suggests, a pretty serious one.--EDITOR.]

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 10, 1898. To the Editors of The Alumnus:

Enclosed please find New York draft for $1 in payment of annual dues to Alumni Association, U. of M., as per 66 explanation" in the

December number of the MICHIGAN ALUMNUS, which I have read with greatest pleasure, as it recalls many pleasant memories of my alma mater in the "long ago"1856 to 1860-when I enjoyed the distinguished honor of graduating in the classical department of the University. In common with the many thousands of graduates who have gone forth from her portals "duly and truly prepared" for the great battle of life, I too am proud of the wonderful prosperity of my alma mater. May continued and ever increasing prosperity always attend her, as well as her official organ of the Alumni Association -the MICHIGAN ALUMNUS-which is ever to me a welcome visitor. Yours truly,

J. F. SPALDING, '60.

LEXINGTON, N. C., Jan. 10, 1898. To the Editors of The Alumnus:

I received a copy of THE ALUMNUS a few days ago, and was delighted to hear from the dear old University. I am so far away from you that it is almost impossible to keep up with the life of the alma mater of which all of us are so proud. You will find from an examination of the record that I was a member of the law class of 1886. My duties as Attorney-General of this State are such as to require almost all of my time and added to other exacting duties required of those in the legal profession, make it to a very great degree impossible to keep in touch with the associations and scenes of our college days. my heart is with you, and I shall try in future to keep more in contact with the U. of M. The very words, or rather letters-" U. of M"-still preserve unimpaired the potency of the spell they formerly had. What a magnificent treat it would be to revisit the blessed old mother.

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I inclose you a check for $1.00 for the MICHIGAN ALUMNUS. I would be delighted to become a member of the Alumni Association. Send