University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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The college year just drawing reluctantly to a close reluctantly at least for the seniors this year of our Alma Mater the seventy-first, has been a year of remarkable activity, in which it was possible to see things move, and to realize that every institution connected with the university was making progress. In its administration first of all the university has shown advancement. The increased appropriation granted during the summer of 1907 by the state legislature has evidenced itself in many ways. The new Dental building has been going up rapidly west of the Homeopathic hospital, and on the farther corner of the campus in front of Tappan Hall, the Memorial building has begun to show form and substance. The regents have provided for the erection of a new Chemical building, and soon the last vestige of the oldest and most unsightly of the campus structures will have been swept away. The senate has been busy too in making administrative changes such as the shortening of vacations, the lengthening of summer sessions, the stricter regulation of bolts, and a myriad other things which, we are told, will make for increased efficiency. Progress in athletics has been, except in one particular, covered fully elsewhere in this vol- ume. The question of staying in the Western conference came to a head during Christmas vaca- tion, when that body disapproved of the measures Michigan had long advocated, and soon after the Board in Control of Athletics decided that it would be for Michigan ' s advantage if she cast her lot with more generous enemies. Michigan went out of the conference and is now in complete athletic harmony and communication with the East. Eight games are to be played next fall, and a long baseball schedule this spring. In the field occupied by the press, the scholastic year has been a good one for the Daily and the Alumnus, and both have done effective work for university betterment. The Daily has been more notable than ever before for its courageous advocacy of movements that made for the good of the student body and the university. The Inlander which lent spice and variety to college life in former years was suspended in the fall for financial reasons. Its loss has been strongly marked, and it is hoped that another year will see its re-establishment on a much firmer basis. Progress in dramatics has been one of the especial marks of the year which will serve to distinguish it from all other years. As the result of the campaign for a higher grade of dramatics, the Comedy Club, Cercle Fran?ais, and Deutscher Verein all put on a much higher class of plays than in preceding years and their popularity testified to the success of the new movement. The Women ' s League produced The School for Scandal with a very high grade cast. In addition to all this, for the first time in many years Ann Arbor was able to boast a high class theatre, the New Whitney, and the students were able to enjoy many plays of the first rank without having to go to Detroit for the privilege. The Choral Union has given one of the best of its series of concerts, this year ' s program including Sickesz, pianist, Gadski, soprano prima donna, Flonzaley String Quartet, Charles W. Clark, Baritone, and the Adamowski Trio ; while the Annual May Festival with such artists as Schuman-Heink, Companari, Rider-Kelsey and Witherspoon promises to maintain the reputation these series have deserved of old. In the contests in public speaking the university again accomplished the noteworthy feat of