At Michigan

George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft, was scheduled to speak in Michigan University's Hill Auditorium, Nov. 2, on the League of Nations. The Board of Regents then remembered that when Arthur Hill gave Michigan the auditorium, he stipulated in the deed that it should never house " a partisan or political discussion." Interpreting Mr. Wickersham's topic as political, the Board announced that Mr. Wickersham would be obliged to seek another rostrum. This announcement was echoed by the Secretary of the University, who closed the doors of all buildings on his campus to Mr. Wickersham and his " political propaganda."

Results: Castings about by Faculty and students to find another big hall. (Ann Arbor's opera house was considered a likely choice.)

Indignant resolutions of protest from a special Faculty committee.

Adverse criticism of the Regents and the University Secretary by Michigan alumni in Chicago, Washington, Detroit, New York.

President Marion LeRoy Burton: " It has been definitely decided upon by the Regents."

Dean Bates: " I have been greatly embarrassed . . . There was never a thought of making the discussion political."

Mr. Wickersham: No comment.

Subsequently, Mr. Wickersham made public a telegram from Northwestern University Law School (Evanston, 111.) asking that he discuss the League at that institution.