.Abe of ( :I r' r r I ai'u4 VOL. IX, No. 87. ANN ARBOR, MICH., TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1899. THREE CENTS. WvrILW T H E I A L 0 R FINE WINTER SUITINGS, WE CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY. 108 E. WASHINGTON ST. T H E T A L 0. R Allegretti's Chocolates Fresh Yesterday. WILDE'SPHRC 06n Dal ad NI UK During the rest of the college year we willt.ere lonches at all hors,dayaor eight. Fall laoe ot Pipes, tigars, and Tobacco. R. E. JOLLY & CO., 308 So. State Street. Chamois Vests. When you don't wear your Sweater you ought to wear one of these vests. It is cheaper than taking cold. We sell the best ones at $1.50 to $2.00 Some for less. balkins' Pharma6u . PERHAPS YOU WILL NEED a new Sweater or Gymnasium Suit. We have a large variety and at Special Prices. We always carry the best grade. SPORTING GOODS Of every description- WAHR'5 ANN ARBOR Up ow D a wn Tawn State 5t Opp.Co urt loue lain St, P. L. Sherman Worcester's Secre- Junior Class Social. tary. The Junior Class will give, Fri- P. L. Sherman, Ph. D., will ac- day evening, at Barbour Gymnasium, company Prof. Worcester to the its first class party of the year. This Philippines, and will act as his pri. party il be it the form of a recep- vate secretary. Dr. Sherman has tion extended by the bys to the been instructor in general chemistry girls of the class. Though no indi. in the University since 1895, when vidal ainvitations have been sentt lie took his doctor's degree at the out, it is expected that almost every University of Munich. He finished metiber of the class will be there. his undergraduate work iu 1881 at A general ivitation has been ex- Ant Arbor, and sent to Munich the teaed to all byteansifointies on1 same year. Long acquaintance with t-e blletii boards. Only the male Prof. Worcester and special know-l members of the class will be obligedl edge of mineralogy, which will be to present tickets at the door. They useful in studying the resources of call secure these from any member the islands, gave Dr. Sherman an of the social committee. The mem- advantage over the score of appli. bers of the committee are E. S. Cor. cants that met Prof. Worcester Sat- wit, chairman; I. T. Rabb, T. L. urday night. The report was cur- Robinson, Miss C. E. Barclay, Miss rent among the students Saturday L. L. Shernian and Miss M. A. God. that the salary attached to the clerk- dard. It is the intention of the com-i ship was $3,000 a year and expenses. tittee to give a series of these socials Prof. Worcester said yesterday, how- and allow the class an opportunity to ever, that the salary had not as yet become acquainted with itself. The been definitely fixed, though it was socials will be informal and a pleas. certain to be sufficiently large to al. ant evenig is promised to all who low for the risk taken in making attend. There will not only be dane- such a decided change of climate. itg, but gatmes and other amusements will be provided for those who do not Manager Baird at Pennei. care to dance. The following appeared in the Another U. of M. Man in the Senate. Philadelphia Record of Jan. 19. Porter J. McCumber has just been MICHIGAN AFTER GAMEs. elected to represent North Dakota in Jamecs Baird, an old star octthe the United States Senate. Mr. Mc- University football teat was in this Cuumber is a native of Chicago and Univrsiy fotbll eamwasm ths oly 3 yarsold Hegraduated city yesterday in conference with from the Law Department in '80. John C. Bell, chairman of the Ui- He went to North Dakota and located versity of the Pennsylvania Football at Wahpett, where te formed ti Committee. It is said that Michigant partersoi h eitl B. L. Bogtrt. has requtestedt the Quakers to give prnrhpwt .L oat thea gaest bothe i baseball atid aBe is a lawyer of great ability and fotball. g ensylvaniabasealwaydastan orator he has few equals in the fotbali. Petsylvatia has alteays West. He is a stanch republican, been ready to meet any team which sound on the financial question, and she could do so, and not ijure her a enthusiastic worker for the suc- ttn prospects. It is certain that cess of the party. Mr. McCumber Michigan's request is looked upon was a member of the territorial house with favor, for the Pennsylvania of representatives and council in 1885 faculty has sent a communication to and 186, and state's attorney of Michigan requesting her rules upon Richland County. The prospective amateur standing to be submitted for senator has been a political leader in investigation. If these rules prove North Dakota almost since his arrival satisfactory and proper, arra"ge- in the state, and he has numerous ments can be made it is more than friends in almost all of its counties. probable that the Quakers will ateet As a legislator be was a hard worker Michigan upon the diamond and and was alwas on the side of th'e gridiroat the comning season. There adwslayontesiefte gnpeople wherein there was conflict be- has been some talk that the game tween public interest and private with Michigan will be played upon gain. He is married and has two the same trip the Pennsylvania team children. will make to Chicago, but as thisc will bring the two games very close Prof. Jonas on a Concert Tour. together and bring both Western Prof. Albert Jonas is adding new teams to Philadelphia the season fol- laurels to his already great name and ,.wig, it is more probable that the honer to Ann Arbor. His tour is Michigan game will form one of the quite extensive, thus bringing the football attractions at Franklin Field University school of music to the at. next fall. tention of a large number of people. Cornell Overlooked. Wednesday last lie played to an en. thusiastic audience in Baltimore, Cornell appears to have been over- then followed concerts at Williams- looked by Harvard and Yale in their port and Allentown, Pa. At each rowig plans. The latter two col- ,,lace lie was heartily received, re- leges went ahead and arranged for a sponding to numerous encores. Prof. regatta at New London without col- Jonas is at present in New York with suiting Cornell. Cornell was then his manager, Victor Thrane, arrang- asked to join them it a race there, ing for future concerts. but declined, so that there will be no triangular race this year. Probably The Sigtna Phi house took fire another regatta will be held at a con- Saturday afternoon from some un- venient place in which Columbia, known cause. The prompt response Cornell, Wisconsin and other schools of the fire company saved the house will participate, with but a few dollars damage. English Impressions oI American Universities. An English university professor, Percy Gardner, gives his "Impress. ions of American Utiversities" in an article in the Nineteenth Centery, which should be welcomed in this country like all intelligent foreign comment on our institutions. The firt thig this visitor notices is this great extetsion of the grad- ate courses in recent years which has operated to cut down the American attendance at German universities. This, he thinks, is an excellent fea- ture of our modern educational sys- tem, and he commends it to the con- sideration of Oxford and Cambridge. One of thei icidents that impressed him most during his stay at Harvard was his meeting there with a society of young Canadians who were work- ig as instructors or graduate stu- detts. He urges that the English universities should do their utmost to attract such men from all the British colonies. A difference that struck him very forcibly was that of management and administration. Oxford and Cam- bridge are, he says, the most com- plete democracies in existence. "The congregation at Oxford and the senate at Cambridge, comprising all the resident teachers, have a power which is almost unlimited in matters of finance, of organization and of ordinance." But in this country there is an external board of trustees to which grave questions are referred and it often happens that the college or university president is a sort of "boss," an educational boss who corresponds to the political and com- mercial boss, for in every institution here power seems to gravitate into the hands of one man. Prof. Gardner is not friendly to coeducation, and from an examina- tion of statistics he is inclined to be- lieve that the separate schools will gain as the years go by. He derives some comfort from the falling off in the proportion of women to men at Ann Arbor during the last five years and in the increased attendance at women's colleges. The great pre- ponderance of women teachers in the country does not strike him favor- ably, and in commenting on the com- plaints made by Ann Arbor women because they were not more largely represented on the teaching staff he says unsympathetically: "If only nature had abstained from original injustice and instituted equality when the female sex was organized these questions aight have admitted of a readier solution." In referring to undergraduate in- stitutions the professor speaks of the collegiate debate, which he found dry and stupid. "At the Oxford or Cambridge Union," he says, "one would certainly not hear six or eight consecutive speeches which dealt so little in irony, in sarcasm or in humor as those to which I listened at Har- vard." In athletics he noticed a tendency to extremes in individuals without that general participation in outdoor sports which is characteristic of the English universities.