lowing high schools sent representatives: Ann Arbor, Detroit, Lansing, Bay City, Jackson, Adrian, Benton Harbor, Pontiac, Mt Clemens and Greenville. There were 60 contestants and over 150 entries. The events were closely contested and the finishes gamely fought out. Committees from the Athletic Association met the visiting athletes at the trains on their arrival and escorted them to the gymnasium where they were sent to their lodgings. Board and lodging were furnished all the competing athletes by the members of the association, who took the boys unto their own rooms and entertained them royally. On Friday evening an indoor meet was held in the Waterman gymnasium. The events on the programme were the 40 yards dash, the 40 yards hurdles and the lightweight, middle-weight and heavyweight wrestling. The bicycle races came off at the Fair Grounds Saturday morning, and the big field and track meet at Regents Field in the afternoon. The regular events were run off and the high schools finished in the following order: Lansing 49 points, Detroit 47, Ann Arbor 16, Adrian 8, Bay City 7, Pontiac 6, Greenville 2. Handsome gold, silver and bronze medals were given the place winners. Carl M. Green, '99, inter-scholastic manager, had the running of this, the first meet of its kind at Michigan, and deserves credit for its success. He was ably assisted by the whole Athletic Board, whose members seemed to appreciate the importance of the meeting for Michigan's future track team. Next year a trophy cup will be offered the high school winning the highest number of points, and every important high school in the State is sure to send representatives to the meet. DEBATING. MICHIGAN-CHICAGO. Probably one of the strongest contests in the history of inter-col legiate debating in the middle west was the one held last month between Michigan and the University of Chicago. Considered as a whole, the Michigan team was no doubt the best drilled and most carefully prepared debating team that has ever represented the University, and though they achieved a very decisive victory, they found in the Chicago debaters, foemen quite worthy of their steel. The sources of Michigan's strength lay in almost perfect organization, consistency of argument, and effectiveness of delivery, while two of the Chicago men showed marked efficiency in rebuttal. The subject of the debate was, Resolved, That the action of the Senate in rejecting the proposed treaty of arbitration between the United States and Great Britain was wise. Michigan, represented by Messrs. Berkebile, Whitman, and Dillon, supported the affirmative, and Messrs. Ebersole, Baker, and Hagey of Chicago, the negative. Michigan took the position that though arbitration in general is valuable, the particular treaty in question would work more harm than good, and that inasmuch as it contained certain potent defects, the Senate was wise in rejecting it when a better one might easily have been submitted. Our debaters further contended that such a treaty would violate our recognized national policy by limiting governmental action on certain questions for an arbitrary number of years, and that it would endanger the Monroe Doctrine by compelling us to submit all questions of dispute to a court, the majority of whose members were non-Americans. The Chicago men were evidently unprepared for this plan of attack and were visibly disconcerted by it, but their defense, as ably conducted by Mr. Baker and Mr. Hagey, was that the treaty was not intended to apply to questions of policy but only to matters of right, and that the Monroe Doctrine and the American political policy could not therefore be endangered. The decision as rendered by the three judges was unanimously in favor of Michigan, and all pronounced the work of the debaters extremely meritorious. It is unfortunate that a debate of such a high order should have been so poorly attended, but it is hoped that before next year an appropriation may be obtained with which to defray expenses so that the debate may be thrown open to the public. It may be said that inter-collegiate debating in the west is still in its experimental stage. Formerly, the debaters delivered only their carefully prepared and set speeches, but of late the tendency has been toward introducing extemporaneous discussion. In fact, some of the teachers of forensics would go to the extreme of eliminating the set speech altogether. Michigan will have an opportunity of experimenting with a compromise of the two systems in her debate with Pennsylvania next year. According to the agreement, there will be a primary debate in which the men may deliver set speeches and a secondary debate which will be wholly extemporaneous. This scheme has been tried in the east and has met with favor. C. S. NEW YORK ALUMNI, The prospects for establishing a strong Alumni Association in New York City have been greatly brightened by the increased attendance at the second gathering of the Ann Arbor Round Table on the night of May 17. There were twenty-eight Michigan men at the Hungarian Restaurant on Second Avenue on this occasion, just double the number that met there for the initial meeting in April. This meeting was also more enthusiastic than the other despite the fact that the new attendents had almost no previous acquaintance with the others. However, Mr. Webber, the organizer of the Round Table, who had been appointed a committee to make arrangements for this meeting, assisted in making all acquainted, and by the time the table was spread, the boys -the older Alumni insisting that they were such still -were making as much clatter as would a gathering of Vassai Alum næ. During the progress of the dinner the conversation was interrupted only between courses when University Songs were sung. There is material in the embryo Association for a good Alumni Glee Club, and the singing was therefore well done. The dinner over, two of the older Alumni were called on for talks. Dr. Lewis Mc Louth, '58, related some anecdotes of his college days. He told how Prof. Williams, whom he alluded to as "Old Punkey, the teacher of Mathematics, after having been requested by the faculty to make his final examinations more difficult, notified the class that he should examine them on thirty specified problems and would have the members of the class draw lots for their problems. In self-defence, Dr. Mc Louth said, the boys held a meeting, apportioned to each one a problem he could surely solve, and then on examination day, drew their slips, threw them away, and each worked out his own problem according to the prearrangement. Every man passed with credit to himself-in the mind of the Professor. Dr. Mc Louth professed undying love for his Alma Mater. The other speaker was Floyd B. Wilson, '71, who also related anecdotes of his days at Ann Arbor, and argued well that college men never grew old. He closed his remarks with an apt quotation from O. W. Holmes' Alumni Dinner Poem. Karl Miner entertained the diners with two songs, and Mr. Webber explained the objects of the Round Table. It was decided to hold one more meeting before the vacation period, and a committee of three was appointed to make the arrangements. The plan mapped out for the Round Table is to hold monthly informal dinners. It is expected that by autumn the names and whereabouts of all Michigan Alumni in and near New York will be known, and that the outcome will be the formation of an association, a big meeting occasionally, with the President and other stars on hand. We hope to have the Glee Club in New York City; and hereafter we are not to be satisfied with a sight of the U. of M. Base Ball and Foot Ball Clubs through binoculars from the Battery wall as they pass through the East and North rivers on the railroad transfer ferry boat. We want them to stop over with us hereafter. Those who attended are: L. C. Harwood, '88, H. B. Shoemaker, '91, 7, '92, H. W. Webber, 7, 94, [150 Nassau F. D. Mc Louth, '94, J. Baird, '96, D. N. Bessie, 7, '96, been called away by the war with Spain. The committee also found difficulty in securing certain speakers whom Spanish hostilities kept away, so it was thought best to delay the banquet until a more suitable time. REUNIONS. Percy Hunt Richardson, presiIdent of the class of '88, has just communicated the information that his class will hold their tenth annual reunion here Commencement week. Col. Joseph R. Smith writes that the members of the class of '48 are too old to enlist and therefore the war will not interfere with their plans. '58 and '68 will hold reunions as heretofore mentioned, but '78 has not yet been heard from. The only other class who have notified the Secretary of their intention to return is the class of '73. UNIVERSITY NEWS. *This department is in charge of Professor F. N. Scott, '84. University Editor. By action of the Board of Regents it is made an official record of the University. ENLISTMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. The following students at the University of Michigan have left their studies for militia encampments or naval posts of duty. The list is fairly complete, but no doubt there are many students who have failed to notify the University authorities. Law Department: John C. Ammerman, of Moline, Illinois, Earl V. D. Brown, of Concordia, Kansas, and McLane Tilton of Annapolis, Md., have gone with the Detroit Naval Reserves. Those at Island Lake are: Mark S. Andrews of Coldwater, Mich.; Samuel G. Brandy, of Grand Rapids; Herbert P. Bowen, of Detroit; A. W. Brand, of Chicago;Florian A.Carnal, of Waddington, N. Y., Percy C. Church, of Fresno, California; John Caywood, of Mills City, Montana; Oscar P. Cole, of Ann Arbor; Fred W. Green, of Ypsilanti; Claude C. Jones, of Battle Creek; Charles F. Juttner, of Menominee; Edward J. Mantz, of Stewardson, Illinois; Samuel F. Nichols, of Laporte, Indiana; John H. Notley, of Vicksburg; Robert E. Robinson, of White Lake, Ky.; J. B. Stocking of Lisbon Center, N. Y.; Philip W. Seiff of Chicago; De Wit C. Slocum, of Terre Haute, Indiana. Literary department: H. M. Snow, of Paw Paw, Mich.; Waldo B. Bach of Ann Arbor; Henry Danforth, of Ann Arbor; C. C. Wallin, Warren P. Morrill, Harry Stowe McGee, of Jackson; A. A. Crawford, of Owosso. Medical Department: Dr. C. H. Freeland, an assistant in the department, Morris Spofford of Franklinville, N. Y.. and C. Sears Kennedy of Rockville, Illinois. Dental department: Benjamin Miller, of Flint: Rudolph Olsen, of Negaunee. The following law students have enlisted with their home companies: W. L. Allen, of Sac City, Ia.; John W. Carter of Jacksonville, Illinois; J. W. Clendenin, of Monmouth, Ill.; John A. Hamilton of Mason City, Ill.; Thomas R. Marks, of Lafayette, Indiana; Rice W. Means, of Denver, Colorado; SamL. Sheets of Chillicothe, Missouri. NEW ENLISTMENTS. The following engineering students of the University of Michigan have not been hitherto recorded in the official records of the University as having enlisted in the war with Spain: Joseph Stringham of Detroit, L. J. Keena of Detroit, Loomis Hutchinson of Ann Arbor, H. C. Mower of Detroit, and G. M. Chandler of Chicago, who went with the Detroit Naval Reserves; D. B. Roben of Big Rapids, William P. Baker, of Woodville, O., G. E. McKana of Escanaba, C. D. Terrell of Jackson, Miss., who have gone to Island Lake. New enlistments in the literary department are: H. S Pingree, R. S. Flynn, A. B. Groesbeck, J. S. Symons, B. E. Barlow, F. A. Wilson, H. R. Loud. Dental department: A. A. Baker, C. J. Light. Guy Ashton Andrews, son of President An class, has presented a fine horse to Dr. Nancrede of the University of Michigan, now major in the United States army. Ön hearing of this gift of Mr. Barbour, the medical students held a massmeeting and subscribed $100 for a saddle and bridle for the horse. Committees were also appointed to draw up resolutions thanking Mr. Barbour and conveying the gift to Major Nancrede. If the war with Spain does not interfere with the usual appropriations for the United States Geological Survey, Professor Israel C. Russell, of the geological department of the University of Michigan, will continue his work for the Survey in the Cascade Mountains of the State of Washington during the summer. Professor Russell is engaged upon a book called the "Rivers of North America," now passing through the press of Putnam's Sons, New York. This is the first of a new Science Series issued by Putnam, somewhat similar to the International Scientific Series. The works already completed by Professor Russell on the geology of North America are, "Lakes of North America" Glaciers of North America," and the "Volcanoes of North America." a 66 THE ORATORICAL CONTEST. Mr. Charles Simons of Detroit, member of the graduating class of the University of Michigan, won the first place in the contest of the Northern Oratorical League, which was held at Northwestern University, Evanston, Friday evening, May 6. The subject of Mr. Simons's oration was "John Brown", and the prize in the contest was $100 offered by the Chicago Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. At the home contest in Ann Arbor Mr. Simons recived a prize of $75 and the Alumni silver medal. He is to be the orator on class day at the University of Michigan. This is the seventh time Michigan has won in eight years of membership in the Northern League, and she has also taken the honors in debates with the University of Chicago in two out of three contests. AN IMPORTANT BEQUEST TO THE UNIVERSITY. By the will of the late Dr. Elizabeth H. Bates of Port Chester, N. Y., the University of Michigan comes into possession of an estate valued at no less than $125,000. The property thus bequeathed is in the form of first-class securities and improved real estate and will yield an income of perhaps $6,000 a year. According to the terms of the will the bequest goes to the Medical Department to be used in establishing a chair of the diseases of women and children to be known as the Bates Professorship. This is by far the largest bequest in the history of the University. A FELLOWSHIP IN CHEMISTRY. A fellowship of $500 for graduate research work in pure chemistry has been resumed in the University of Michigan by Parke, Davis and Company of Detroit. This fellowship was established in 189596, but lapsed for business reasons in 1896-97, and 1897-98. It will be under the direction of the Professor of General Chemistry, Paul C. Freer. REGENTS A CONSTITUTIONAL BODY. The Auditor-General of Michigan recently hesitated to audit some bills for the new law building at the University of Michigan because the plans had not been passed upon by the State Board of Charities and Corrections in accordance with the State law. The Attorney-General has decided, however, that the University of Michigan is not subject to that law, since it is a constitutional body organized under a Board of Regents which has complete power to dispose of University funds, provide for the erection of buildings, etc., as it sees fit. |