Cannon Jr. & Co., Iowa City, Ia.— Neil R. Walsh is practicing law at Munising-Hazen I. Sawyer is an attorney at 100 N. Fifth st., Keokuk, Ia.-Wm. E. Walter is with the Commercial Advertiser. His address is 120 W. 69th st., New York, N. Y.-Benj. C. Durall is practicing law at Kansas City, Mo. -Wm. A. Smith is practicing law, 1114 Majestic Bldg., Detroit.-W. A. Spitzley is assistant to Dr. Nancrede in the department of medicine and surgery, U. of M.-Miss Julia Herrick is teacher of Greek and Latin, Austin, Ill.-Joseph T. Atwood is an attorney-at-law at Longmont, Col.-Miss Marietta Hubbard is teaching at Adrian.— D. A. Brown is making a hot canvass for the republican nomination for city attorney of Kansas City.Frank Combes is secretary, public health division, department of police, 102 city hall, Cleveland, O. 1893. Henry A. Friedman is a manufacturer, with address at 4191 Delmar Blk, St. Louis, Mo.-M. P. Rosenberry of the law firm of Bump, Krutzer & Rosenberry, Wausau, Wis., was married last September to Miss Katherine Landfair of Leslie.-Edward Dana Wickes is a general engineer and is located at Chicago, Ill.-Frank W. Lightner is clerk on C. G. W. Ry. His address is 250 West 5th st., St. Paul, Minn.-Marion B. White, is teacher in high school, 112 Roanoke ave, Peoria, Ill.-George Wagner is an assistant, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.-Miss Amy Tanner's address is University of Chicago.-Frank H. Smith is an attorney at Muskegon.-Jesse B. Hornung is a dealer in lumber and grain, 501 Chamber of Commerce, Detroit. 1894. Chas. E. Ward is cashier in Exchange Bank, Bancroft.-Edgar M. Morsman, Jr., is practicing law, 325 Omaha Nat. Bank Bldg., Omaha, Neb.-C. F. Weller is district superintendent of the Bureau of Associated Charities. His address is 816 West 61st st., Chicago, Ill.— Joseph Weare is a civil engineer, with address at 2629 Stewart av., Chicago, Ill.-Jas. A. Reed, lit '94, also with the law '95 class through its junior year, is finishing his law course at the Kansas City Law School.-Geo. J. Caldwell is with the General-Electric Company, Chicago, Ill. His present address is Monadnock Bldg.-James G. Blunt of the class of '94 has just received promotion in the Brooks Locomotive Works, at Dunkirk, N. Y.-Oscar Grenlich is located at Milwaukee, Wis. He is a designer of machinery -John Dudley Dunham is a practicing physician at 228 E. Town st., Columbus, O.— Fred Gund is in the insurance business at Freeport, Ill. 1895. John N. Davis, Kansas City, Mo., G. Dygert, Butte, Mont. and W. M. Downing, Denver, Colo., all '95, have recently taken unto themselves wives. May joy be theirs.R. K. Jones is an attorney and counsellor at law in Chicago, Ill.Richard R. Lyman has the department of drawing and engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.-S. E. Roberts is at present with the King Bridge Co., Cleveland, Ohio, in the capacity of draughtsman and estimator.-Jane E. Work is at the head of the department of literature at Western College, Oxford, Ohio.-Miss Carlotta E. Pope, is teaching at Allegan. 1896. Lewis E. Royal is practicing law at Mt. Pleasant.-S. H. Baer writes from Leipzig that the present Ann Arbor graduates studying there besides himself are Dr. Pollack, in Botany, Mr. Hildner and Mr. Dickhoff, in German, Mr. Sullivan, '94, Physical Chemistry and Mr. Klingler, '95, in German Philology.-Edna D Day is a student in Oswego Normal School, Oswego, New York.J. B. Brooks is doing a flourishing business at Erie, Pa.-Isadore San 1858. Oscar Fitzallen Price, A. B., A. M. 1861, LL. B. 1860, died at Kenosha, Wis. (whither he had gone for medical treatment), Aug. 7, 1897, aged 61. Burial at his home, Galesburg, Ill. During the civil war he was in the service of the Quartermaster's Department of the federal army, and at the close of the war entered upon the practice of the law at Galesburg. Here he won distinction at the bar and in public life. He served in the state legislature (187172), and was a presidential elector in 1876. For more than thirty years he was connected with the legal department of the C. B. & Q. R R., being at the time of his death Illinois solicitor for that company. 1874. Lyman Decatur Follett, A. B., died on one of the islands in the Bay of Panama, Oct. 19, 1897, aged 45. 1875. De Witt Jay Oakley, Ph. B, died at Clyde, Ohio, March 18, 1898, aged 48. Burial at Detroit, Mich. He was a native of Detroit and had been in business there since grad uation. A few weeks ago he went to Clyde for his health, but found only temporary relief. 1877. Ludovic Estes, A. M., Ph. D. 1888, died at Grand Forks, N. Dak., March 11, 1898, aged 49. He was Instructor in Mathematics at this University for one year (1887-88), and for the next ten years held the chair of Mathematics in the University of North Dakota. Burial at his old home, Newcastle, Ind. 1890. Evelyn Amanda Smith, A. B., died at Ann Arbor, Aug. 3, 1892, aged 30. 1853. Medical Department. Sylvester Laning, died at his home, Kingman, Kan., March 4, 1898. 1870. Casper Volney Beebe, died at his home, West Superior, Wis., Jan. 8, 1896, aged 51. 1887. Edward Joseph Price, died at Rochester, N. Y., March 7, 1897, aged 31. He was one of the leading German physicians of that city. Law Department. 1866. John Gillilan Parsons, died at Cando, N. Dak., April 22, 1896, aged 59. Burial near Anamosa, Iowa. School of Pharmacy. 1885. Charles Leslie Davis, died at Nampa, Idaho, March 2, 1898, aged 43. After gradu ation he was assistant in the Chemical Laboratory here for three years. During the following ten years he was chiefly employed as chemist to the Illinois Steel Company, South Chicago. NON-GRADUATES, Medical Department. John Chandler Harper, 1853-54, died at St. Joseph's Retreat, Dearborn, Mich., Feb. 23, 1898, aged 68. He was engaged in the drug business at Milan, Mich., for many years. Burial at Marlboro, O. THE MICHIGAN ALUMNUS. Vol. IV.-MAY, 1898.-No. 34. THE RELATION OF THE UNIVERSITY TO THE COMMON SCHOOLS, AND TO THE STATE. I was much interested in the description given by Regent Cocker in his address delivered at the recent Alumni banquet in Detroit, of the early efforts of the New England Puritans to maintain a college in their midst. Far from the rest of mankind, upon a bleak inhospitable coast, with an unproductive soil and an unpropitious climate, surrounded by hostile savages, with every nerve strained to provide the means of subsistence, they felt it to be almost their first duty to found a college, and subsequently, to provide that in every settlement of one hundred inhabitants a school should be maintained. Mr. Bancroft, in his history, relates that the Puritan mother in those days labored at the spinning wheel and at the loom far into the night, in order that her son might attend the school and the college. Thus here upon American soil, in the earliest period of its settlement, was founded the principle of the general diffusion of knowledge. The college and the common school came into life at the threshold of our Colonial existence, and hand in hand, together they have stood through all the changes of colony, of province, of commonwealth, of charters and of constitutions-the beacon light in the development of American institutions. Truly the tree of education, planted by our Pilgrim fathers on the bleak shores of New England, struck deep its roots into that sterile soil, and has spread wide its branches since that day, until its beneficent shade is over all this broad land. The seed of that once feeble plantlet, scattered everywhere, has germinated and grown luxuriantly in all portions of this fair domain. But |