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

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vanquishing in debate both of her most formidable rivals and dearest foes, Northwestern and Chicago, by unanimous decisions. In oratory her record has been quite as proud. No resume of the achievement of this great year would be in the slightest degree complete which did not take especial notice of the doings of the Michigan Union, for its activities even more than those in the dramatic field mark off the year. In November, just before the Pennsyl- vania game it opened its new club house in the remodeled Cooley residence, and began an active campaign for members. The house became an immediate and favorite resort for all sorts of campus gatherings, smokers, and banquets, and has grown in popularity. The membership list has swelled with time until now it is a considerable fraction of the entire male membership of the university. The fourth annual banquet of the Union, given in the gymnasium the night ' before the Pennsylvania game, was by far the largest and most enthusiastic ever held, and boded well for the future of the organization. During most of the winter Union committees were hard at work on the preparation of Michigan ' s first comic opera, Michigenda, and on its production in late February it proved to be the most signal success ever attempted at Michigan. It has opened the way for much larger activities in the future. The Union County Fair, to be held in May, bids fair to reproduce the triumph of the same fair in May, 1905. The Union now seems on the highroad to prosperity, and a place in university affairs which will enlarge its influence and effectiveness more and more. What shall be said in conclusion of the general tone of this wonderful year? To those who watch the trend of events, and who are able to judge from their experiences of the past, it has seemed that the year has been productive of a splendid spirit on the part of student leaders and of the rank and file of the university body. There has seemed to be more of a get-together spirit, more willingness to sacrifice for the general good of the whole. In no other way can we completely account for the enormous amount of unrequited labor which has been expended on such organi- zations as the Union and the Women ' s League. It has manifested itself often in such movements as that for a better class of dramatic productions, of which we have spoken ; the outbreak against politics in the Athletic Association, which has resulted in a much saner attitude toward all politics in general; the attempt to cultivate a sentiment for a dryer Ann Arbor; the movements for residential halls, commons, and the like, which if they have not resulted in something practical, have at least done the service of calling our attention to our urgent needs. Let this then be said in conclusion of the year 1907-1908 now drawing to a close, that it has been a year of progress and uplift for the university in many ways and that it points the way for a future of still brighter possibilities.

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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

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1907. University opens for its seventy-first year. Varsity football begins practice at Ferry Field. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. Suspension of Inlander announced. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. Announcement of grant- ing of charter to Michigan by Phi Beta Kappa French club plans dramatic trip to Europe. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. Regents grant Tappan Hall corner to Memorial Building. TUESDAY, OCTOBER i. Fresh-Soph posters make appear- ance on campus. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2. Senior lits and engineers an- nounce class tickets. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 4. Contract signed with McAllister to coach 1908 varsity baseball team. Freshmen win annual flag rush on Medic Green. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5. Varsity defeats Case 9-0. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6. President Angell delivers annual address to freshmen in University Hall. Michigan Union announces comic opera to be presented in February. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9. Student Council elections held in all departments. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. Senior lits elect ticket headed by George H. Hobart. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12. Michigan defeats M. A. C. 46-0. Fall elections in Athletic Association. MONDAY. OCTOBER 14. Railroad Jack makes first ap- pearance on campus in series of popular lectures. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16. First football mass meeting held in University Hall. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. Corbin ' s article in Saturday Evening Post comments favorably on Michigan. (Great excitement.) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. Sickesz opens Choral Union ser- ies. Regents vote to reorganize Athletic Board of Control. Senior Engineers elect ticket headed by H. H. -Frost. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 19. Michigan defeats Wabash at Indianapolis 22-0. Senior laws elect ticket headed by Clyde A. DeWitt. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23.- Michigan Union Banquet committees announced. Interclass football series begins. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24. Sociologists discover 600 hamburgers consumed in Ann Arbor daily. Football mass meeting in U. H. t FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15. Governor J. Frank Hanly of Indiana opens Students ' Lecture Association course. Michigan Union announces Michigenda committees headed by W. W. Merritt, ' 08. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. Michigan defeats O. S. U. 22-0 on Ferry Field. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30. Mass meeting in University Hall. Popular subscription gathers funds to send scrubs to Nashville. Class of ' 67 places memorial stone on campus. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31. President Angell heads meeting of university presidents at Iowa City. Football team leaves for Nashville. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER I. Registration figures announced by Secretary Wade show increase in every department, total of 300. Will reach enrollment of over 5000. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2. Michigan defeats Vanderbilt 8-0, at Nashville, Tenn. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3. Rooters hold celebration on return of the team from the South. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5. Honor system declared successful in Medic department. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. Football mass meeting held in University Hall. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. John Graham Brooks lectures on S. L. A. course on The Socialist ' s Chal- lenge to Modern Society. Tryouts for Michigenda. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9. Annual fall cross country novice race. Comedy club decide to produce The Recruiting Officer. MONDAY, NOVEMBER II. Hon. D. M. Ferry, Sr., donor of Ferry Field, dies.