Graduates before the war and those who served up to 1865: Literary-8 Brigadier-Generals, 4 Colonels, 16 Lieutenant-Colonels, 10 Majors, 3 1st Lieutenant and Cavalry Adjutants, 3 1st Lieutenant and Infantry Adjutants, 20 Captains, 10 1st Lieutenants, 8 2nd Lieutenants, 2 Chaplains, 15 Surgeons, 5 on Staffs of Department,

Quartermasters, 2 Corporals, 10 privates; total, 120. Law-5 Majors, 1 Colonel, 3 Lieutenant-Colonels, 6 Captains, 11 1st Lieutenants, 2 2nd Lieutenants, 1 Sergeant, 6 privates; total 35.

Non-graduates- 4 Brigadier-Generals, 3 Colonels, 5 LieutenantColonels, 22 Captains, 3 Chaplains, 18 1st Lieutenants, 4 2nd Lieutenants, 1 Adjutant-General, 2 Adjutants, 6 Sergeants, 7 Surgeons, 1 sailor, 1 bugler, 40 privates; total 117.

ENLISTMENTS AMONG THE STUDENTS.

The following University of Michigan students left for Island Lake with the state militia April 26: Law students Florian A. Carnal, of Waddington, N. Y.; John Caywood, of Mills County, Montana; Robert E. Robinson, White Lake, New York; Percy Clark Church, Fresno City, California; Oscar P. Cole, Ann Arbor; C. F. Juttner, Menominee; Fred W. Green, 1st Lieut., Ypsilanti. Medical department-Dr. O. H. Freeland, an assistant in the department. Literary department-A. A. Crawford, B. B. Johnson, Owosso; R. L. Flynn, C. B. Hurrey, Ann Arbor.

The following students have left to join their home militia: Law department-Thomas R. Marks, captain of a company at Lafayette, Indiana; Rice W. Means, 1st Lieutenant of a Colorado company; John F. Haskett, of Bottineau, N. Dakota; C. C. Jones, Battle Creek; W. L. Allen, Sac City, Ia.; J. W. Clendenin, Monmouth, Ill.; John A. Hamilton, Mason City, Ill.; S. L. Sheets, Chillicothe, Mo. Emanuel T. Berger, of Detroit, and Maclean Tilton were ordered out with

the Detroit Naval Reserves, as was also Joseph Stringham, a graduate engineering student. Later in the week the following law students expect to go in response to summons from home: A. M. Cox, of Cynthiana, Ky.; Samuel B. Haskins, of Sweet Springs, Mo.; A. F. Pagleson, of Grand Haven. Walter Snow, of the Medical department, has returned to his home company at Jackson, and W. B. Richmond to his at Mt. Pleasant.

THE SUMMER SCHOOL.

Complete announcement of the Summer School of the University of Michigan which includes 90 courses, may be had by application to Secretary Wade. It is noteworthy that this announcement removes the restriction hitherto in force that no student could obtain more than twelve hours credit toward a degree from summer school work. As six hours is the maximum of credit obtainable from a single summer's work, it will be seen that the removal of this condition enables one eventually to get a degree in this way, although it would take 20 years to

MACOMB COUNTY ALUMNI,

April 22d the Macomb County Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, gave a banquet at Mt. Clemens, which was attended by President Hutchins, Dr. Vaughan, and Professors Knowlton, Thompson and Taylor, of the University. This association numbers nearly sixty members, all but two of whom were present. Invited guests in addition brought the number of those who sat down to the tables at the Egnew Hotel to 150. Speeches were made by all the representatives of the University including Mr. Prentiss, General Secretary of the Alumni Associa

tion.

President Hutchins discussed the University and its relation with the people. Dr. Vaughan spoke on the Medical department, Professors Knowlton and Thompson on the law school, Professor Taylor upon economics.

The Macomb County Association of Alumni supports at the University a scholarship fund which is not a charity but a loan, to be repaid by the user when he is able. Others not alumni contribute also to the maintenance of this scholarship fund.

THE STUDENTS' LECTURE ASSOCIATION.

The Board of Regents of the University of Michigan at their meeting April 22d adopted new rules for the use of the Students' Lecture Association. Hereafter the Treasurer of the University will prepare all the tickets for the Lecture Association, and will deliver them to it for receipts given by proper officers of the Association. All moneys realized from the sale of tickets together with the unsold tickets, are to be delivered to the Treasurer of the University, who in his turn will pay over the money to the treasurer of the Association. All doorkeepers and ushers are to be appointed with the approval of the University Treasurer. An Auditing Board whose duties relate to the expenses and contracts of the Association, has been constituted,

the chairman of which is to be a member of the University Senate.

A GIFT TO THE LAW LIBRARY.

The law library of the University of Michigan has received an important addition through the gift of 800 volumes made by the widow and children of the late Judge Douglas of Grosse Isle. This is in acknowledgment of a wish expressed during the life of Judge Douglas who was always a warm friend of the University and whose brother founded its chemical department. The books given to the law library consist largely of duplicates of the reference books constantly in use, and are valuable not only for themselves but also for the memory of the generous giver.

A TESTIMONIAL.

Commenting on the action of the State of Maryland in appropriating money for Johns Hopkins University, the Outlook for April 16 says editorially:

"There is no question that the standing of the University of Michigan has not only given the State of Michigan its peculiarly high reputation among people throughout this country, but has made the name of the State familiar to people on the other side of the Atlantic who, as a rule, are largely ignorant of geographical divisions on this continent."

A VALUABLE GIFT TO THE U. OF M.

By the will of Miss Elizabeth H. Bates, of Port Chester, N. Y., the University of Michigan comes into possession of an estate valued at a conservative estimate at $125,000. The estate goes to the medical department to be used in establishing a chair for the diseases of women and children.

THE SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP.

The senior class of the literary and engineering departments of the University of Michigan leaves as a memorial of itself a scholarship of $400, to be lent to students

needing help and returnable by them later from their earnings. Each member of the class pledges himself to renew this sum each year for a period of from three to five years. It is hoped that enough will have accumulated at the end of that time to endow a permanent fund, the interest alone of which will be sufficient to pay a student's expenses without thought of repayment by him.

PROFESSOR GARDNER COMING.

The University of Michigan has invited Professor S. Percy Gardner of Oxford College, England, to speak at the University May 9 and 10. This opportunity to hear Professor Gardner in America comes through his engagement to lecture under the auspices of the Archæological Institute of America before the branches of this organization in various cities. In connection with the circuit of the Archæological Societies engagements for lectures have been made at several universities, including Harvard and Yale as well as the University of Michigan. Mr. Gardner is Lincoln and Merton Professor of Classical Archæology and Art in the University of Oxford. He is joint editor with Professor Kelsey of the University of Michigan, of a series of "Handbooks of Archæology and Antiquities." One of his recent books is entitled "New Chapters in Greek History" and his latest work is a beautiful volume with the title Sculptured Tombs of Hellas," treating of the Greek burial customs and beliefs in a future life as illustrated by the monuments. He has been prominent in the editorial management of the "Journal of Hellenic Studies," and is an authority upon

ancient coins.

Professor W. A. Dewey, of the homoeopathic department of the University of Michigan, has recently been elected a corresponding member of the British Homoopathic Society Only one other

main with the University until the close of the Summer School, for the success of which Mr. Lyman, as chairman of the committee conducting the school since its opening, has been largely responsible. Mr. Lyman graduated from the University of Michigan in 1886 and has been instructor in the mathematical faculty of the University since 1892.

Mr. G. F. Heffelbower, a graduate student in the University of Michigan, has received a fellowship in Latin at Columbia University for his paper on "Military Idioms in Cæsar and Hirtius." The fellowship is for $500 with tuition, the latter being equivalent to $150 more, and extends from June 30th, 1898, to July 1st, 1899. It is also open to renewal if the holder is entitled to it by reason of the quality of his work during the year.

REUNIONS.

The attention of the old graduates is called to the various gatherings which are going to be held Commencement week. Col. Jos. R. Smith of Philadelphia has the reunion of the class of '48 in charge, and, we believe, according to his latest advice is in communication with all the living members, each of whom expects to attend this their fiftieth anniversary.

Mr. E. B. Chandler of Chicago has the reunion of the class of '58 in charge, and writes that there are twenty-nine of that class still living, all of whom he expects to respond to the roll call on Alumni Day at Ann Arbor. He says "The reunion will be held, as has been the custom hitherto, under "Tappan Oak," so christened by the boys of '58, when under and around that old monarch of the forest, we planted the class grove forty-one years ago this spring.'

The General Secretary has been notified through William N. Wells that the class of '68 will hold their 30th anniversary and a number of

the class of '96 have signified their intention to return. No definite plans have as yet been reported regarding other reunions. If any of the other classes contemplate meeting together in a body during commencement week, the General Secretary will be pleased to do anything in his power to make their reunions successful and pleasant.

MICHIGAN NAVAL RESERVES.

The recent call to the front of the Naval Reserves of Michigan took a number of Michigan boys. It may be possible that there are others whose names we have not yet received but up to the present time we know of thirty or forty, whose names are given below. They are assigned to the Yosemite, a fact which will make the movements of that boat particularly interesting to the Michigan alumni. Prof. M. E. Cooley of the Engineering Department is chief engineer of the Michigan Naval Reserves and has already inspected the engines of the Yosemite.

Delos L. Parker, '81, Ben P. Brodie, '82, W. H. Muir, '88, T. H. Hinchman, '93, Joseph E. Bland, '95, Henry Buckley, 75, M. W. Campau, '97, Rex R Case, '94, Chas. W. Chapman, '94, Henry C. Corns, '81, Edwin Denby, '96, Arch. W. Diack, '92, Bethune Duffield, '83, Irving W. Durfee, '92, Samuel S. Harris, '93, C. Arthur Howell, '92, Jerome Ingersoll, '95, Allen H. Kessler, '94, Wm. A, Livingstone. '89, Henry L. Lyster, '96, Wm. J, Lyster, '92, Walter R. Parker. Edwin J. Ryan, '96, Fred P. Smith, '90, Henry W. Standart, '94, Lewis A. Stone man, '94, E. E. Anneke, '82, Bertram Beckwith, '92, Herman Eymer, '95, Henry Malone, '96, Ralph Newton, '95, G. C. Schemm, '85, Ernest H. Wetzel, '95, Muir Snow, '98.

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.

PAOLA, Kas., April 1, 1898. Editor of The Alumnus:

After reading in your February issue the communication of Joel Moody, an old Kansas friend of mine, in which he alludes to Hamilton J. Dennis; and in your March

issue the communication of Henry Clay White, a well remembered classmate of mine, I was thrown into the reminiscent mood myself, and with this list of Kansas names which I send you, with your permission I will relate my reminis

cence.

In the early days of the University, before the war, two of the most lovable personalities, neither of them now among the living, were Prof. George P. Williams of the faculty, familiarly and affec tionately known to the boys as "Old Punkey," and in the class room Hamilton J. Dennis, of the class of 1858-the poet of the University, gifted and scholarly, and flattered beyond any student of his

time.

To recall an anecdote of these two may not be uninteresting to the readers of the ALUMNUS, and to many of the old anti-bellum boys it may be quite familiar. Without indulging in details, a donkey was one morning found in the professor's recitation room in one of the upper stories of the old North building, haltered and tied to the little rostrum at the professor's desk. In great consternation, the old janitor of the University, Mr. Jolly, rushed over to the professor's house and into his study, exclaiming: "Professor, there is a donkey in your class room." Tradition says that the dear old professor leisurely turned around to Jolly, and said, "Only one ?"

When a list is made of all the persons from a given locality who have ever attended the University of Michigan, it will probably be found that the number is far greater than was anticipated. The writer would have stated off-hand that not more than fifteen persons who had at any time attended our beloved Alma Mater, could state that Darke County, Ohio, was the locality from which they hailed. The following list, however, shows that twice that number from this historic region have drunk of the founts of wisdom at the Catholepistemiad, Andrew Cooper Robeson, law '81, Ph. B. '85, was a member of the 68th and 69th General Assembly of Ohio, being Speaker pro tem of the House from 1890-92. Governor Campbell appointed him one of the Trustees of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, and he was recently reappointed by Gov. Bushnell. Mr. Robeson is a prominent attorney in Greenville, and holds various local official and honorary positions. His niece, Opal Robeson, A. B., '91, was married a year ago to Lieut. Edward Sigerfoos, now located at Ft. McPherson, Ga.-John James Little, D. D. S., '81, is a successful dentist in this city. He was preceptor to Calvin Ezra Fitzgerald, D. D. S., '86, now practicing at Little Rock, Kansas, and William A. Hoover of