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...experiment of co-education at Michigan University has proved to be a thorough success. Professor Donald MacLain, of the medical department, declares that though he went to Ann Arbor ten years ago with "deep and violent prejudices" against the co-education of young men and maidens, he is now "a most ardent advocate of the system," his former objections to it seeming to him, in the light of experience, trivial, untrue, despicable and ridiculous." The sexes pursue the same courses of study "without harm to any one or to any interest, but with the most unequivocal mutual advantage." Lady students...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Last Sunday's Detroit Free Press gave a column to a very interesting description of the celebrated Harvard Gymnasium and the recent athletic exhibition given there. Here at Ann Arbor, where we have practically no gymnasium, it is hard for us to understand the general interest taken in athletics by the Harvard students...
...grows higher, it is to be hoped that many of the severe requirements of the present may be abolished, and more liberty and opportunity be given for such purposes. At Princeton lately a course of readings by Mr. Locke Richardson has created the greatest interest and satisfaction. At Ann Arbor, immediately upon the return of their president from China, enterprising students induced him to lecture before the college on the subject of his travels. And so elsewhere like eagerness to take advantage of all opportunities is exhibited...
...association of students at Ann Arbor has been formed to give a play of Racine's - "Les Plaideurs" - in June, under the direction of Prof. DePont. The director of the Paris Odeon will contribute advice and instructions as to scenery, costumes...
...great university, if collected, would furnish material for a voluminous and inspiring volume. It is a work, we believe, which has not yet been undertaken by any one. The following story is told in Michigan University: In the year 1854, Prof. Francis Brunnow came from Leipsic to Ann Arbor, to fill the chair of astronomy and to act as director of the observatory. He was a thorough scholar, the author of a valuable work on Spherical Astronomy, and a man whose services were highly esteemed in the scientific world; yet, for a time, he lectured to one student only. Later...