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...Heidelberg, 300,000; Jena, 180,000; Kiel, 180,000; Konigsberg, 184,000; Leipsic, 600,000; Munich University, 322,000; Tubingen, 235,000; Wurzburg, 300,000; Vienna, 271,000. Italy has seven university libraries each exceeding 100,000 volumes; and Russia has five. In America, Amherst has 42,000; Ann Arbor, 40,000; Johns Hopkins, 12,000; Bowdoin, 37,000; Harvard, 259,000, besides 216,000 pamphlets; Dartmouth, 61,000; Cornell, 50,000; Yale, 125,000; Columbia, 45,000; Princeton, 72,000; Brown, 54,000; and Williams...
...whose only comedy, "Les Plaideurs," has been chosen for the representation. The cast of characters will consist of both gentlemen and lady students who have been carefully prepared for the occasion by Prof. De Pont of the university. The play will be mounted in fine style in the Ann Arbor Opera House on June 26. This is the first evening in commencement, and many alumni of Michigan University will doubtless be in attendance. - [Detroit Post...
...contest between the two factions at Ann Arbor in regard to Chronicle editors is becoming lively. The Chronicle editors answer the allegations of the Argonaut party in a counter-circular. Their address concludes: "Admitting for the moment that the action of the board was illegal: in that case there are legal means to obtain legal rights, of which presumably those who have consulted this "competent legal authority" are fully aware. Why then do they not use those means to obtain those rights, instead of seeking a doubtful vindication by the hazardous and expensive method of starting a new paper...
...hinted by our Michigan correspondent, in a recent letter, the late election of Chronicle editors at Ann Arbor has created so great dissatisfaction as to result in the founding of an opposition paper at the university. This paper will be called the Michigan Argonaut, and its issues will commence with the beginning of the school year next fall. A preliminary circular has been issued which gives some rich developments in regard to the status of affairs at Ann Arbor. It is claimed that one hundred and thirty-two members of the Chronicle association were disfranchised illegally. Excited meetings have since...
...class of '84, so noted for unusual actions, has just given a new sensation to the student community at Ann Arbor. On last Friday evening the freshmen met to indulge in the wild dissipation of a class supper, and to listen to the lofty eloquence of their chosen orators. At half-past nine about thirty couples had assembled, and all was in readiness for the evening's entertainment, when it was discovered that the president, orator and toastmaster were absent. Without these important functionaries nothing could be done, so all proceedings were blocked for about an hour, when, becoming anxious...