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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZIiNE

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Harry Arthur Hansen, '09 David A. Robertson, '02 /

James Weber Linn, '97

AND

Horace Spencer Fiske

VOLUME V

November, 1912-JuLY, 1913

Continuing The University Record, Volume XIII, and The Chicago
Alumni Magazine, Volume II

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EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

Elsewhere we print the letter of Mr. Julius Rosenwald to the Board
of Trustees, in which he oflFers for the building fund a quarter of a
million dollars. In June the Board of trustees set aside
I^® .^^ $200,000 for the permanent improvement of Marshall

Field, a work which is now going steadily forward. Mr.
Rosenwald's gift, which was altogether unsolicited, looks toward the
raising of half a million more for other buildings including the three
most urgently needed, namely, a woman's gymnasium (possibly includ-
ing a club-house), a building for the departments of Geology and Geog-
raphy, and a building for the classics. Work on all three will be begun
within two years. We shall give in the next issue an account of the
recent large addition to Ryerson, which is now steadily in use. Harper
Memorial Library, dedicated last June, is also now in use, for its primary
service as a home of books, for administrative purposes, and for class-
rooms. It focuses upon itself the whole south view of the quadrangles,
and completely alters the old aspect of things. When the work upon
Marshall Field is done, the north view will be equally changed. Within
two years the alumni of 1906 who have not since returned will find it
hard to visualize the quadrangles at all. We advise them to come
back and take a look.

Meanwhile, let us forgive a little disturbance. Such rapid growth
means, necessarily, some temporary chaos. Some books are inaccessible;
many are hard to find; and as for the appearance of Marshall Field, the
less said the better at present. It is very doubtful whether either the fence
or the grandstands are completed by the time of the Minnesota game.
But there are, and will be, accommodations of a sort-;—" Yea, room for all

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who come," as the poet has it. And next spring, and afterward, the
very look of the old field will draw crowds. Marshall Field will be
surpassed in size by other athletic grounds, but in beauty by none,
certainly, in the West. Can you believe it ? It is true.

The College of Commerce and Administration has been in existence

since 1898. In the last year, however, since the results of Dean

Marshall's three months' trip of investigation and his

e 0 ege 0 g^ecutive application of his ideas have begun to show, it
Commerce and , ^ .....

Administration "^^ come to occupy a position of much greater importance

to the undergraduates. All students having 9 or more

majors, who register in this college, come under Dean Marshall's direct

personal supervision. The work of the college is graded as follows:

I. The Trade and Industry Division, where the courses are arranged with reference
to the needs of those who expect to engage in the various business pursuits such
as accountancy, banking, brokerage, foreign trade, insurance, etc.
II. The Secretarial Division.

III. The Commercial Teaching Division.

IV. The Charitable and Philanthropic Service Division, for those expecting to serve
in charitable organizations, playground work, settlement work, child-welfare
agencies, civic organizations, social research, etc.

V. The Public Service Division, for those expecting to serve as staff members in
bureaus of labor, in tax commissions, in public utility commissions; statisticians;
workers in efficiency bureaus; factory inspectors; investigators for special
inquiries under federal, state, municipal; or private authority, etc.

The degree in Commerce and Administration requires not only
special sequences of courses, but a high standard of performance.
"Their interest in their work is professional in character and accordingly
they should be judged by professional standards." It is too soon now
to speak of results. Perhaps in an article on the College, soon to be
published. Dean Marshall will venture upon prophecy. At present
seventy students are enrolled in Commerce and Administration.

The total registration of students for the Summer Quarter of 191 2

was 3,531, of which number 1,762 were men and 1,769 were women.

This is an increase of 282 over the summer registration
Attendance .

for 191 1. The largest increase was in the Graduate

Schools. The total number of different students for the year from July

I, 1911, to July I, 1912, was 6,506.

The figures for the autumn quarter are not yet finally compiled.

Up to October 21 they were as follows:

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

Men

Women

Total
1912

Total
191 1

I. The Departments of Arts,
Literature, and Science —
I. The Graduate Schools:

Arts and Literature

^35

144
48

279
203

286
202

Science.

Total

290

238

603

192

237
429

482

475
1,032
' 84

488

460
976
158

2. The Colleges:

Senior.

Junior.

Unclassified

Total

87s

716

1,591

1,594

Total Arts, Literature, and
Science

1,16s

87
II

908

9
8

2,073

96
19
15

2,082

102
16

35*

II. The Professional Schools —
I. The Divinity School:

Graduate

Unclassified

Dano- Norwegian

Swedish

English Theological

Total

54
22

2
II

130

36
55
22

3
II

172

S3
42
25
II
6

2. The Courses in Medicine:

Graduate.

Senior

Junior

Unclassified ; . . .

Medical

Total

117

100
41

I
I

127

103

41
26

137

120

3. The Law School:

Graduate

Senior

Candidates for LL.B

Unclassified

Total

169
20

5
237

174
257

216
209

4. The College of Education

Total Professional

419

1,584

150

269

1,177

688

2,761

163

734

2,816

201

Total University

Deduct for Duplication

Net Totals

1,434

1,164

2,598

2,615

* The Swedish Divinity School having been discontinued, the comparative table should show a net
gain of 18.

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To these should be added the figures for University Colleges which
are

Men Women Total 191 1

117 623 740 688

This makes a grand total on October 21 of 3,338, as compared with
3,285 last year at the end of the quarter. The loss in the Law School
is in p9.rt the ordinary year-by-year fluctuation ; in part the fact that
prosperity has made business attractive to an unusual number of 191 2
graduates everywhere. It is interesting to note that the Harvard Law
School shows a similar but much larger falling-off . On the whole, con-
sidering the steady upward trend of our scholarship requirements, the
figures are entirely satisfactory.

At this time of writing the eleven has played three games and won

them all — Indiana, 13-0; Iowa, 34-14, and Purdue, 7-0. The test of the

_ , „ season, the Wisconsin game, is still in the future, and

Football 1 1 1 • /m • 1

prophecy would be unwise. 1 he practice season opened

September 20 with all the Conference- colleges. Of last year's team
Captain Rademacher, Sauer, and Kassulker had played out their
string. Whiting and Scruby had left college, and Goettler was
ineligible. This left, except for Captain Carpenter at tackle, a new
line to be developed. Sellers, Canning, Freeman, and Harris of last
year's substitutes were available, however, and Whiteside of the 1910
team, who was out of college teaching in 191 1. Of the Freshman squad
there were available for the line Des Jardiens at center. Miller and
Scanlan guards, and Vruwink, Huntington, Skinner, and Baumgartner
ends. Behind the line were Paine, Norgren, Kennedy, and Pierce of
last year's regulars, and Lawler of the substitutes ; to whom were added
Marston Smith, Coutchie, Gray, Bennett, and Parker from the Fresh-
man squad. It looked from the start as if the line would be weak and
the back field satisfactory, and such has proved to be the case. Des
Jardiens has well filled Whiting's place at center, and Vruwink and
Huntington are better than any combination of ends of last year. But
Whiteside cannot quite take Scruby's place, and Sellers is too light.
Freeman too slow, and Scanlan too lazy to be acceptable substitutes
for Rademacher. On the whole, the line is not strong. Bennett has
been played at tackle as well as full-back, but though strong, iast, and
willing, knows too little about the game to be first class. He should be
a star next year if he is kept in the tackle position. In the backfield
Paine at quarter is better than before — a good field general, a hard

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 7

tackier, intelligent, and endowed with the spirit that always does a shade
more than is humanly possible. Norgren, too, is better than last year;
his punting has been especially fine, and he has a happy faculty of escap-
ing injury in spite of his terrifically hard playing. Kennedy, by contrast,
has been hurt all the time. He is heavier, stronger, and faster than
Norgren, but has not been able to show what he can really do. Pierce,
too, has been handicapped by a stiff leg, in which he caught cold the first
week. Nevertheless, he has played splendidly. In the Iowa game at
the end of the third quarter the score was 14-13 in favor of Iowa. Pierce,
who had been saved, went in at full-back, and made three touchdowns in
fifteen minutes. Of the new men, Gray's eligibility has hung in the
balance, and in consequence he has not been played. He is almost, if not
quite, first class — a strong, fast runner, a beautiful dodger, and as good a
punter as Norgren. Coutchie and Smith are acceptable, but no more, so
far. Bennett was a disappointment in the Iowa game.

The new game has proved interesting as Mr. Stagg has the men play
it, but on the whole a retrogression to the old line-smashing type.
The forward passes have been numerous and well executed; "Paine to
Vruwink" is almost as effective a transfer as "Tinker to Evers to
Chance." There is almost no end-running; some center-bucking, but
not a play through the guards; and slide-plays off tackle innumerable.
To make and to meet such plays big strong tackles are required ; Chicago
has one in Captain Carpenter, but so far lacks the other.

Emil Goettsch, '03, has been made head resident physician of the
Peter Bent Brigham hospital, in Boston, which upon its completion this
fall will surpass in general design and facilities any
_, ' other general hospital in existence. ^ The result of the

$5,000,000 bequest of Peter Bent Brigham, it will be the
research hospital of the Harvard Medical School, directly across the
way from which it is situated. Dr. Goettsch was the valedictorian of
his class in Davenport (Iowa) High School in 1899, and S.B., University
of Chicago, 1903, with election to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
He was Senior College Scholar in Anatomy, 1903; Fellow, 1904-5;
Assistant, 1906-7; Ph.D. in Anatomy, 1906, his thesis being a study of
the glands of the aesophagus in representatives of the different mam-
malian orders. In 1907-9 he was a student of medicine at Johns Hopkins,
from which in 1909 he received his M.D. From 1909 he was assistant in
surgery and in charge of the Hunterian laboratory at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity; in 191 1 he was made assistant resident surgeon at Johns Hopkins
Hospital. His advanced work at Chicago was under the direction of

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Dr. R. R. Bensley, who first stirred his enthusiasm for research. Since
going to Johns Hopkins he has worked principally with Dr. Harvey
Gushing, now of the Harvard Medical School, and has dealt with the
anatomy, histology, function, and pathology of the pituitary body.
He has published articles in the American Journal of Physiology and the
Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin (with Dr. Gushing), and in the American
Journal of Anatomy (with Dr. W. E. Dandy). Dr. Goettsch intended,
as a high-school boy, to go to the University of Iowa and study law.
By accident he met Gaptain Walter Kennedy, 'oo, who preached Ghicago
so eloquently that he came here instead, shifted from law to medicine,
and at 29 holds one of the most desirable positions for medical research
in the world.

A change, small in itself but likely to have important results, has been

made in the arrangement of the Alumni Office at the University. This

is the introduction of a salaried clerk who will give her

Ai «. • r\ai entire time to the Alumni work. Heretofore the office
Alumni Umce

has had to depend upon student assistance. To the vari-
ous students who at different times have devoted their efforts to the
keeping of records and the other alumni work, the gratitude of all alumni
is due. They gave generously of their time and energy, and the future
work of the office will be based largely on the results of their labors. But
the time has come when the undivided attention of a trained worker was
needed. , The records are becoming more elaborate every year and more
difficult to control. The change was imperative, and it has been made.

The work of preparing a new Alumni Directory is now in progress
and will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible during the winter. It
is planned to have the volume ready for distribution in October, 1913.
Question blanks will be sent out to all alumni, but in the meantime the
work will be greatly facilitated if all readers of these pages will send in
as soon as possible corrections and alterations to be made in the Direc-
tory of 1910. Especially all changes in address since that book was issued
should be sent in at once to the Alumni Secretary. The chief difficulty
in work of this character is to find the graduates of whom the institu-
tion has lost track. No greater service could be performed by alumni
than the sending in of their own addresses and those of their classmates
early in the year.

Nearly one thousand alumni were on the membership roll when the
school year closed in June. Some of these memberships have now
expired, but they are being rapidly renewed, and it is certain that the
membership for the coming year will greatly surpass all previous records.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY

ERNEST HATCH WILKINS, PH.D., Associate Professor of
Romance Languages, took his A.B. degree at Amherst College in
1901, his A.M. at the same institution in 1903, and his Doctorate at
Harvard University in 1910. From 1900 until 1904 Mr. Wilkins was
instructor in Romance Languages in Amherst College; from 1901 to
1904 he was also instructor in Latin. His interest shifted to Italian
Art and then to Italian. In 1906-7 he was instructor in Italian and
Spanish in Harvard University. From 1907 until his appointment to
an associate professorship in the University of Chicago he was instructor
in Romance Languages at Harvard. In addition to his valuable experi-
ence as a teacher, Mr. Wilkins has gained some knowledge of the joys
and trials of authorship as the author of Articles on Boccaccio and the
joint author of the Dante Concordance. He is also a member of the
committee appointed to settle Grammatical Nomenclature. Professor
Wilkins is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

Dr. William D. Harkins comes to the University as Assistant Pro-
fessor of Chemistry from the University of Montana where he was
head of the Department of Chemistry from 1901 until called to this
University. In 1907 Dr. Harkins took his Doctor of Philosophy in
chemistry at Leland Stanford Junior University. His work and career
have been characterized above all else by his ability as a teacher and his
intense interest in research. During his stay in Montana he was the
expert consultant for the Farmers' Association in the big lawsuit against
the smelters, resulting from the damage lo farm lands from the arsenic
in the smoke emitted from the smelteries. Dr. Harkins treated the prob-
lem involved from an original scientific point of view and made his first
record as investigator by this work. Subsequently he spent a year in the
research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
worked on questions of solubilities of salts. His work in this field has
led to the discovery of important new truths primarily connected with
salts of the type of sulphates, lead salts, etc. In 1909 Dr. Harkins spent
a half-year at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at Carlsruhe, Ger-
many, working under Professor Haber, one of the most eminent German
physical chemists, who has since been called to the directorship of the

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NEW MEMBERS OFTHE FACULTY II

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, a foundation for research in chemistry
analogous to the Pasteur Institute's field in biology. When Dr. Harkins
accepted the call of the University of Chicago he refused a much more
remunerative call on the part of the United States government, basing
his decision on the opportunities for research and advanced work which
this University offers to men of his stamp. His success as a teacher and
his standing in research promise great success. He can present elemen-
tary chemistry in a clear way, emphasizing the problems of the day and
of the future and thereby stimulating his classes as well as instructing
them. His main work will be in general chemfstry and inorganic
research.

Dr. Josephine Young studied science at the Northwestern University
from 1890 to 1892. In that year she entered the Women's Medical
College of the same University to study medicine and took her M.D.
degree in 1896. In 1896 Dr. Young became an interne at Cook County
Hospital and remained there until 1897, when she accepted the position
of Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Women's Medical College — a
position which she held until 1900. From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor
of Gynecology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1903
to 191 1 she was Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and from 191 1 until
called to the University of Chicago as Medical Adviser to Women
Dr. Young has worked with defective children in the Department of
Neurology at Rush Medical College. While engaged in the above work,
Dr. Young found time to act as lecturer to the Social Hygienic Com-
mittee of a women's club, as examiner and lecturer for the operators
of the Chicago Telephone Company, as one of the medical examiners
for the Board of Education of Chicago, and as one of the medical instruc-
tors of the Chicago Board of Health.

THE IMPROVEMENTS ON MARSHALL

FIELD

As was announced in the July number of the Magazine, the Trustees
in June appropriated two hundred thousand dollars for the im-
provement of Marshall Field, by the building of a new grandstand and
a cement fence. The demolition of the old fence was begun on July i.
It had stood since 1893, when it was erected, in part, at least, by the
students of the University, led by Mr. Stagg. The new wall will be of
reinforced concrete. It is to have a general height of 15^ feet; 14 feet
at Ellis Ave., and 17 feet at Lexington Ave., so as to be adapted to the
grade of 57th St. Every 18 feet buttresses relieve it, each with a socket
for a 15-foot flag pole. The ticket booths will be set into the wall at
the different entrances, at the corner of 57th St. and Lexington Ave.,
57th St. and Ellis Ave., 57th St. and Greenwood Ave., 56th St. and Ellis
Ave., and 56th St. and Greenwood Ave. The new grandstand stretches
466 feet along Ellis Ave. It is 86 feet, 2 inches wide, and 57 feet high
at its highest point. In all there are twelve sections, each of which has
two entrance wells. The total seating capacity will be 8,250. At the
extreme north and south ends of the stand are circular towers, having
a diameter of 28 feet. The first floors of these towers are to be used as
team rooms, the second floors as ladies' toilet and rest rooms, fitted with
rocking chairs and every other possible convenience. Toilet rooms and
lavatories for men will be placed at both the north and south ends of the
stand. The main room underneath the stand will ultimately be fitted
out for handball and racquet courts. The space under the front of the
stand will be used as a tool-room and workshop. Here will be stored all
the paraphernalia for the up-keep of the field. On the face of the stand
will be 96 sockets for removable electric light poles, giving opportunity
for illumination for evening entertainments.

The main entrance to the stand is on Ellis Ave. between 56th and 57th
Streets where there is a large vaulted vestibule with ticket cages on either
side. At the east end of this vestibule are four entrance turnstiles and
two exit turnstiles. A short flight of steps beyond the turnstiles leads
up to the center section of the stand, and a corridor leads away in either
direction to the more distant sections. Those who have seats more
than a third of the way up the stand ascend the stairway to an upper

IMPROVEMENTS ON MARSHALL FIELD 13

corridor leading to the middle section. From this corridor another flight
of steps leads to the promenade deck at the extreme top. The seats
are arranged in a parabolic curve, and each step has a slight tilt to the
front, so that all dust and dirt can be washed down by Opening the
flushing pipes at the top of the stand. The seats themselves are planks
raised four inches from the cement. Ash will be used, and the many
thousand people who have in the past suffered from a too close attach-
ment to their seats on a hot day are expected to give thanks.

Extra seats to the number of almost four thousand can be placed in
front of the stand. The bleachers on the east side of the field will seat
more than six thousand more, so that without temporary stands at the
end, eighteen thousand people will be able to see the games. It is
planned ultimately to replace the bleachers on the east side by a portable
steel structure, which can be moved back and forth, and so give room
for the baseball diamond, as in the past. This steel bleacher, however,
is not likely to be built in the near future.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF MODERN

SCIENCE TO THE IDEAL

INTERESTS^

BY HENRY CHURCHILL KING, D.D., LL.D., Sc.D.
President of Oberlin College

Men have had much to say in the
years past of "the conflict of science and
religion"; but speaking now, even from
the standpoint, not of the scientist, but
of the philosopher and theologian, can
we see that modem science has a great
and genuine contribution to make to the
ideal interests?

We may well take as our starting
point Herrmann's definition of the moral
law: "Mental and spiritual fellowship
among men, mental and spiritual inde-
pendence on the part of the individual:
that is what we can ourselves recognize
to be prescribed to us by the moral law."
So Herrmann gives an idealist's defini-
tion of the ideal; and may be said, at
the same time, to express the essence of
the scientific method and spirit. So
close are the ideal and the scientific.

There are always two problems con-
cerning any phenomenon: What is its
mechanical explanation? What is its
ideal interpretation? How did it come
to pass? What does it mean? Both
are absolutely essential, as means and
ends; and yet they are often thought to
be necessarily antagonistic. But we
may even see that they are not only
supplemental, but that scientific explana-
tion in its development has a great con-
tribution to make to the ideal interests
themselves, both in the means afforded
and in the spirit required.

Or if one looks at the matter from a
slightly different angle, one may see that
the two great inner characteristics of our
time are the scientific spirit and method,
and the social consciousness — represent-
ing here conspicuously the ideal interests;
and the hope of the age lies in the thor-
ough and persistent interpenetration of
the two — ^the scientific spirit and method,

and the social consciousness. Now in
this essential interworking, what has
modem science especially to contribute
to the ideal interests?

1. First of all, modem science has
enormously increased the resources avail-
able for ideal interests. Through sci-
ence's progressive conquest of the for-
ces of nature, and the pressing forward
of scientific investigation, the power, the
wealth, and the knowledge of the modem
world have registered a stupendous
advance. Men have come to believe
that, because of these enormously in-
creased resources of power and wealth
and knowledge, hopeless drudgery, in-
evitable deficit, and paralyzing ignorance
are not a necessary portion of man's lot.
Possibilities for the race are now reason-
ably within reach in all these directions,
hardly dreamed of earlier. But they
are, nevertheless, only possibilities.

2. Modem science, thus, in the second
place, brings to the ideal interests a great
challenge. In these tremendous resources
made available, it is virtually saying to
the ideal interests: Can you rise to these
possibilities? Are you training men
worthy of these resources, and capable
of mastering them? Or have these
resources come too soon? An especial
challenge is thus brought to all educa-
tional forces: Are you training men and
women to own their possessions, and
not to be owned by them? Are you
disciplining a generation to be capable of
pre-eminent self-control? and to this
end, are you permeating their whole
beings with interests great enough and
ideal enough to dominate all these
material resources? Are you making it
certain that the men and women who
go out from college and university are

' Summary of an address delivered on the occasion of the Eighty-fourth Convocation of
the University, held in the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, August 30, 1912.

MODERN SCIENCE AND THE IDEAL INTERESTS 15

HENRY CHURCHILL KING
President of Oberlin College

C<H>vocation Orator, August 30, igis

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

to be able to rise above the peril of the
lower attainment, the enthralment of the
lesser good? Are you making goodness
interesting ?

3. Modern science has, also, given to
the ideal interests, vision of a far larger
and more significant world. Because,
especially, of what modem science has
achieved, we live consciously in a world
enormously enlarged to our conception;
more and more markedly unified; not
static but everywhere dynamic, and in
process of evolution; and at all stages
of the evolution, law-abiding. No one
can thoughtfully enter into this convic-
tion of an enlarged, unified, evolving,
law-abiding world, without the recogni-
tion that here, too, modern science is
bringing to the ideal interests the neces-
sity of training men to enter intelli-
gently and unselfishly into a world life,
and into the all-embracing plans of God.
The very end of education, as Huxley
pointed out, is intellectual discernment
of the laws of life, coupled with the
steady fashioning of the will and affec-
tions into obedience to these laws.

4. This would mean, in the fourth
place, that modern science is bringing
to the ideal interests the one great method
of scientific mastery in all realms, and so
gives hope of large achievement. The
discernment of law, we have come to see,
means insight into the secrets of the
universe, into the abiding ways of God,
and points the way to that intelligent
co-operation with him, that gives assur-
ance of mighty achievement; for now
"the universe is on the side of the will."
Here lie the significance and the hope of
our great modem social "surveys." For
here the scientific spirit and the social
passion are notably interpenetrating.

5. But, perhaps, the very best gift of
modern science to ideal interests is the
gift of the scientific spirit itself. It means
vastly more than moral and religious
workers for the most part seem yet to

have conceived, that in this whole great,
powerful department of human endeavor,
a spirit, in its very essence moral, should
be imperatively demanded, and proving
itself out, as it were, by the laboratory
method. For the scientific spirit de-
mands that a man should face the fact
with complete open-mindedness — should
see straight; should report exactly;
should give in the outcome an absolutely
honest reaction upon the situation in
which he finds himself. Here are hum-
ble open-mindedness — the quality of the
first Beatitude, intellectual integrity, the
passion for reality. One is reminded
inevitably of the insistent demand of
Jesus for utter inner integrity of spirit.
And the whole prodigious achievement
of modem science is a demonstration of
the fundamental principles of the teach-
ing of Jesus. For he demands perpetu-
ally that a man shall see for himself,
shall choose for himself, shall come into
a truth and a life that are genuinely his
own. Herrmann thus only reproduces
Christ's thought when he inasts that the
moral law prescribes not only "mental
and spiritual fellowship with men" but
also "mental and spiritual independence
on the part of the individual." Or, as
he puts it, in the religious realm: "Re-
ligious tradition is indispensable for us.
But it helps us, only if it leads us on to
listen to what God says to ourselves.
Real faith consists in obeying this word
of God." Every ideal interest has both
the right and the duty to rejoice in the
widespread demand for the scientific
spirit. For this marks one of the world's
great moral — and even religious — 'achieve-
ments.

In the recognition of this significant
fivefold gift of modem science to the
ideal interests, there is a heartening
promise of an increasing unification of
the intellectual and spiritual endeavor
of mankind.

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The President's Convocation Statements
— ^The various reports for the University
year closing June 30, 19 12, have been
completed during the past two months.
It will be noted that this is the twentieth
full year of university work since the
opening, October i, 1892. The reports
show the year on the whole to have been
the most successful in the twenty years'
history of the University. The total
number of different students on the rolls
for the year was 6,506, as against 6,007
in the previous year. It may be of inter-
est to know that the total number of
students for the year 1892-93 was 540.
Of course these totals for the past two
years include students who have been in
residence during the Summer Quarter
only. The total number of students in
the graduate and graduate-professional
schools holding college degrees for the
year was 1,941. The total number of
alumni for the twenty-year period is
6,970.

The finance reports for the year 191 1-
12 are equally encouraging. The total
expenditures on the annual budget were
5i>Si7.775-38. With this large expendi-
ture the receipts, nevertheless, were com-
mensurate, and yielded a small balance on
the right side of the account. Of course
it is not the purpose of the University
to accumulate large surpluses, as the
funds should be in use for the educational
and scientific purposes for which they
were given, but it is the policy of the
University never to expend money which
it has not, and therefore never to have
even a small deficit. It is interesting
to note that tuition fees paid by students
provide a little less than 39 per cent of
the expenditures of the University. It is
not always realized that a large part of
the cost of the University is provided
by the endowment funds, and therefore
that only a small part — less than 40
per cent — of what is received by the
students from the University is repaid by

' Presented on the occasion of the Eighty-
fourth Convocation of the University, held in
the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, August 30,
1913.

students to the University in the form of
tuition fees.

The Summer Quarter which closes
today may also be said to be the most
successful in the history of the University.
The total number of different students
enrolled during the two terms is 3,531,
as against 3,249 in 191 1, a gain of 282.
Of the 3,531 students, 1,424, or nearly
one-half, have college degrees and are
enrolled in the graduate' or graduate-
professional schools. The reports from
instructors also, I may say, uniformly
si>eak of the high quality of the students,
and the excellence of the work done.
While, as is well known, the quarter has
two terms, and students may attend
either, at the same time it is interesting to
know that 1,804 students have been in
residence throughout the entire quarter,
which indicates the seriousness and
solidity of the work done.

At the Convocation in June, notice was
given to the University that the Board
of Trustees regarded it as especially
important to undertake at an early date
and to complete within the coming two
years four building projects. These
were the gymnasium for women, the
building for the departments of Geology
and Geography, the Classical Building,
and the improvement of Marshall Field.
Progress has been made in realizing these
plans already. The improvement of
Marshall Field is under way now, and
the new stands will be in condition to use
in the autumn. It proves imperative to
undertake this improvement first for the
reason that the old stands are no longer
usable, indeed having been very properly
condemned by the Building Department
of the city. The new stands will be of
reinforced concrete, and a wall of the
same material will inclose the field.
The various buttresses will have flag-
staffs, and the entire improvement will
change the most distressing eye-sore
which we at present have into one of our
most beautiful and attractive features.
In the second place, during the current
month the Board of Trustees received
a communication frofn one of its members,

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an eminent citizen of Chicago, Mr. Julius
Rosenwald. This communication con-
tained a gift to the University of $250,000
toward the building fund. This gift is
very properly and wisely conditioned on
securing at least $500,000 more, in order
that the three buildings remaining be
provided for in full. This very generous
gift by Mr. Rosenwald, it may be added,
was unsolicited and entirely spontaneous
on his part, which renders it all the more
grateful. The Board confidently expects
that with this encouraging beginning
the entire building fund will soon be pro-
vided, and that all the buildings in ques-
tion will be under way at an early date.

The Eighty-Fourth Convocation. — ^The
University at its eighty-fourth Convo-
cation on August 30, 1912, conferred
one hundred and eighty-eight degrees,
titles, and certificates. Of the one hun-
dred and fifty degrees conferred, seven-
teen were given to students in the College
of Education. In the Senior Colleges
seven students received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, thirty-six that of
Bachelor of Philosophy, and eighteen
that of Bachelor of Science. In the
Divinity School there were seven Masters
of Arts, one Bachelor of Divinity, and
three Doctors of Philosophy. In the
Law School four students received the
degree of Bachelor of Law and eight that
of Doctor of Law (J.D.). In the
Graduate School there were thirty-two
Masters of Arts, six Masters of Science,
and nine Doctors of Philosophy. The
convocation address was given by Presi-
dent Henry Churchill King, D.D.,
LL.D., Sc.D., of Oberlin College, his
subject being "The Contribution of
Modem Science to Ideal Interests." A
summary of the address appears else-
where.

The Convocation reception in Hutchin-
son Hall on the evening of August 29
was largely attended. In the reception
line were President Harry Pratt Judson
and Mrs. Judson; the Convocation ora-
tor. President King; and Director
Charles Hubbard Judd, of the School
of Education, and Mrs. Judd.

The Annual Faculty Dinner. — ^At the
annual dinner of the Faculties of the
University of Chicago, held in Hutchin-
son Hall on October 7, 191 2, more than
one hundred of the members of the Uni-
versity were in attendance. President

Harry Pratt Judson, who recently re-
turned from the International Congress
of Chambers of Commerce held in
Boston, presided and introduced the
following speakers: Ernest Hatch Wil-
kins. Associate Professor of Romance
Languages, formerly of Harvard Uni-
versity; William Darnall MacClintock,
of the Department of English, who
recently made his second visit to the
Philippine Islands as a lecturer before
the Teachers' Assembly, and who also
spent considerable time in China and
Japan; Gordon Jennings Laing, Asso-
ciate Professor of Latin, who spent the
past year in Rome as Professor in the
American School of Classical Studies and
visited archaeological excavations in
North Africa; Eliakim Hastings Moore,
head of the Department of Mathematics,
who attended in August the Interna-
tional Congress of Mathematicians held
in Cambridge, England; and Charles J,
Chamberlain, Associate Professor of
Botany, who recently returned from
Australia and South Africa, where he
made a field study of oriental cycads and
collected material for the Hull Botani-
cal Laboratory. Others present at the
dinner were William Draper Harkins,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, former-
ly of the University of Montana; Albert
C. Whi taker, Professor of Economics in
Leland Stanford Junior University, who
will be connected with the Department
of Political Economy during the academic
year of 1912-13; and Dr. Josephine
Young, the new Medical Adviser for
Women in the Colleges and the School
of Education, who was recently Assistant
Professor of Medicine in Rush Medical
College.

Instructors on leave of absence. — The
following instructors are on leave of
absence for all or a part of the current
year:

Professor Charles R. Henderson, Head
of the Department of Practical Sociology,
who, during the next six months, will
act as Barrows Lecturer in India, on the
foundation established by Mrs. Caroline
E. Haskell.

Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, who
will continue his chairmanship of the
Executive Committee of the National
Citizens' League.

Professor RoUin D. Salisbury, who is
spending the autumn quarter in scientific
investigations in South America. Pro-

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fessor Salisbury sailed from New York in
August for Panama, crossed the Isthmus,
and went down the west coast of South
America as far as Valparaiso. He will
camp in Patagonia, and on his return
will investigate the iron deposits of
Brazil. He resumes his work at the
University in the Winter Quarter.

Professor R. F. Harper, who will spend
the coming year in London in the prepara-
tion of the publication of the next two
voumes of his Assyrian and Babylonian
Letters.

Associate Professor H. L. Willett, who
sailed from San Francisco, September
27, with a p>arty of fifteen persons who
will study under him in Japan, China,
and India, and will later tour through
Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and Greece
until May, 1913.

Associate Professor Chester W. Wright,
who will sf>end the autumn quarter in an
investigation on the subject of industrial
combinations.

President Harry Pratt Judson was one
of the speakers at the opening of the new
Rice Institute at Houston, Texas, on
October 10, 11, and 12. Other speakers
were Henry van Dyke, Professor Emile
Borel of Paris, Sir William Ramsay of
London, President Sidney Mezes of the
University of Texas, and Doctor Edgar
Odell Lovett, the president of the new
institution. The Rice Institution is
endowed with property amounting to
about ten million dollars, which is held
for endowment, the income only to be
used for building and op)erating expenses.

Lectures on the Modem City. — "Prob-
lems of the Modem City" is the subject
of a series of lectures which is being
given by present and former professors
of the University of Chicago in Fullerton
Hall of the Art Institute, Chicago, begin-
ning October 15 and ending December 17.
The course was opened by J. Paul Goode,
Associate Professor of Geography, who
spoke on "The Dynamics of the City:
Its Geography and Transportation."
Robert Franklin Hoxie, Associate Pro-
fessor in the Department of Political
Economy, followed with a lecture Octo-
ber 27 on "The Development of Industry
and the Social Problems of a City."
"The Health of the City" was the sub-
ject of a lecture by Edward Oakes Jordan,
Professor of Bacteriology, on October 29.
The first lecture in November was on

"Political Parties and the City," by
Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, head
of the Department of History, who will
be followed by Charles Edward Merriam,
Professor of Political Science, in a lecture
on "The Cost of Governing the City."
Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Assistant
Professor of Social Economy, will speak
upon "The Child in the City," on
November 19. "Education in the City"
will be the topic discussed by George
Herbert Mead, Professor of Philosophy.
On December 3, Roscoe Pound, formerly
Professor of Law at the University of
Chicago, but now a member of the faculty
of the Harvard Law School, will lecture
on "The Administration of Justice in
the Modem City." "The City and
Human Values" is the title of a lecture
given by James Hayden Tufts, head of the
Department of Philosophy. The series
will dose December 17, when George
Edgar Vincent, formerly Professor of
Sociology in the University of Chicago but
now President of the University of
Minnesota, will discuss the subject of
"Group Rivalry in City Life." The
proceeds from the lectures will go toward
the work of the University of Chicago
Settlement in the Stockyards district.
The whole series is similar in purpose
to that of last year's course on "The
Frontier Line of Modem Science," and
is an effort on the part of the University
of Chicago to contribute to the progres-
sive life of the city of Chicago.

Professor Charles E. Merriam, of the
Department of Political Science, was the
temporary chairman of the State Pro-
gressive convention of Illinois and made
the opening speech at Orchestra Hall,
Chicago, August 3, 191 2. Mr. Merriam
was also a member of the resolutions
committee of the National Progressive
convention which met in Chicago from
August 5 to 7.

Dr. Charles P. Small, who has been
the University Physician since the found-
ing of the University of Chicago, has
resigned to devote his entire time to
private practice. Dr. Small has been
for the last three years head of Hitch-
cock Hall. He is succeeded in this posi-
tion by Assistant Professor David A.
Robertson, of the Department of English.
Mr. Robertson was formerly head of
Snell Hall and assistant head of Hitch-
cock Hall, and has been secretary to the
President of the University since 1906.
Assistant Professor James A. Field and

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Rev. Charles W. Gilkey are the assistant
heads of the hall.

Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin,
head of the Department of Geology, is a
member of the Commission of the Illinois
Geological Survey, which recently met at
Springfield to authorize the drafting of
engineering, geological, and reclamation
maps for the state of Illinois. President
Edmund J. James, of the University of
Illinois, and the governor of the state are
also members of the commission.

Associate Professor Frank M. Leavitt,
of the Department of Education, was one
of the speakers at the conference called
in Springfield by the Illinois Bankers'
Association for August 14, to discuss a
prop)Osed state law making provision
for " practical " studies in all state schools.
The proposed courses are in agriculture,
domestic science, and industrial education.
Professor Leavitt was made a member
of the committee to draft the bill, other
members being Francis G. Blair, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction of
Illinois, and Edwin G. Cooley, former
superintendent of the Chicago schools.

At the Fifth International Congress
' of Mathematicians held in August at
Cambridge, England, the University
was represented by four members: Pro-
fessor Eliakim H. Moore and Associate
Professor Gilbert A. Bliss in the section
of analysis. Professor Forest R. Moulton
in the section on mechanics, and Associ-
ate Professor J. W. A. Young in the
section on philosophy and pedagogy
of mathematics. Messrs. Moore, Bliss,
and Moulton also attended the Dundee
meeting of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science, and Mr,
Moore the Miinster meeting of the
Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung. At
the Cambridge meeting 700 members
were in attendance, Great Britain and
Ireland leading with 230 and the United
States following with 90.

Beginning with the Autumn Quarter,
the Ryder Divinity School (Universalist) ,
formerly at Galesburg, 111., has been con-
ducted in Chicago under an arrangement
of co-operation with the University of
Chicago. The Divinity School is organ-
ized as a Divinity House of the University
with the usual privileges of attendance
in University classes. It is believed by
the authorities of the University and
of the school that the work will be more
effective if conducted in connection
with the advantages of a university

than if conducted in an isolated position.
The Rev. Dr. Lewis B. Fisher, who was
president of the school, continues as Dean
and Head of the House, and gives instruc-
tion in the particular tenets of the Uni-
versalist Church.

The University was visited on Sep-
tember 30 by about seventy members
of the Fourteenth German Medical
Research Tour. This party included
physicians, surgeons, scientists, com-
mercial men, representatives of the army
and navy, health officers, and govern-
ment representatives. At a banquet
given in the Hotel La Salle to the visit-
ing physicians Dean Angell was one of
the speakers.

Members of the Fifth International
Congress of Chambers of Commerce
visited the grounds of the University of
Chicago on October 6, and in company
with President Harry Pratt Judson, who
was a delegate to the Boston meeting
of the congress, attended the Indiana
game on Marshall Field. On the even-
ing of October 7 a dinner was given to
members of the congress at the South
Shore Country Club, where Professor
Nathaniel Butler, of the Department of
Education, was one of the speakers.
More than four hundred delegates were
in attendance on the congress.

A new portrait of Leon Mandel, donor
of the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall,
has recently been hung in Hutchinson
Hall, the artist being Ralph Clarkson, a
member of the faculty of the Art Insti-
tute of Chicago. Other portraits of
donors in Hutchinson Hall are those of
Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, who gave the
Ryerson Physical Laboratory and its
new addition; Mr. Charles A. Hutchin-
son, donor of Hutchinson Hall; and Mr.
A. C. Bartlett, donor of the Frank Dick-
inson Bartlett Gymnasium, whose por-
trait was also the work of Mr. Clarkson.

The Department of Chemistry has
had this year an unusually large number
of requests for chemists from universities,
the government, technical estabUsh-
ments, colleges, and schools, the total
amount of salaries involved reaching some-
thing like $145,000. Its list of available
candidates for advanced positions was
exhausted by the beginning of the
Summer Quarter, 191 2.

Mr. William P. Gorsuch, of the Depart-
ment of Public Speaking, recently
returned from a trip around the world,
which he took in connection with his

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work as a lecturer in general literature be-
before the annual Teachers' Assembly
of the Philippine Islands, held in Baguio,
the summer capital. The attendance
at the assembly included about three
hundred and fifty teachers, most of
whom were Ameridins. The work of
general education in the Philippines is
directed by Frank R. White, a graduate
of the University of Chicago. Professor
William D. MacClintock, of the Depart-
ment of English, was also a lecturer
before the assembly, this being his second
visit to the islands for that purpose.

Director A. A. Stagg, of the Depart-
ment of Physical Culture and Athletics,
was nominated as a presidential elector
at the State Progressive convention of
Illinois held in Chicago on August 3.
Mr. Stagg was nominated from the
second congressional district of the state.

Dr. George E. Shambaugh, of the
Department of Anatomy, was awarded
the International Lenval prize at the
meeting of the International Otological
Congress which convened in Boston the
second week of August. This is the
first time the award has come to an
American. Dr. Shambaugh has been
Instructor in Anatomy in the University
for ten years, and is also Assistant Pro-
fessor of Otology in Rush Medical College.

The Courts, Ike Constitution, and
Parties is the title of a volume recently
issued by the University of Chicago
Press, the author being Professor Andrew
C. McLaughlin, head of the Depart-
ment of History. It contains a series
of studies in constitutional history and
politics, intended for the general public,
but even students of American history
will find them full of information. The
titles of the essays are "The Power of
a Court to Declare a Law Unconstitu-
tional," "The Significance of Political
Parties," "Political Parties and Popular
Government," "Social Compact and
Constitutional Construction," and "A
Written Constitution in Some of Its
Historical Aspects."

Associate Professor Allan Hoben, of
the Department of Practical Theology,
is the author of a volume entitled The
Minister and the Boy, which appears
on the new autumn list of the University
of Chicago Press. The book is the
outgrowth of Professor Hoben 's success-
ful experience in connection with neigh-
borhood clubs and settlement work in

Chicago and is practical and concrete
in its treatment of the subject.

Index Apologeticus is the title of a vol-
ume recently issued from Leipzig, the
work of Associate Professor Edgar J.
Goodspeed, of the Department of Biblical
and Patristic Greek. With his earlier
Index Patristicus, it practically com-
pletes the concordancing of pre-Catholic
Christian Greek literature. The volume
is dedicated to President Judson "in
acknowledgment of a generous interest
shown through twenty years." Pro-
fessor Goodspeed is also publishing
at Gottingen an edition of the Greek te.xts
of these pre-Catholic apwlogists, as a
companion volume to this.

The libraries of the University of
Chicago during the Spring and Summer
Quarters of 191 2 received accessions of
10,610 volumes. Of these, 6,723 volumes
were added by purchase, 2,655 by gift,
and 1,232 by exchange. Among the
gifts received were a Japanese collection
of thirty-six volumes from President
Frank W. Gunsaulus, of the Armour
Institute of Technology, twenty volumes
from the Bunker Hill Monument Associa-
tion, and six volumes in English of the
works of Count LUtzow.

Recent contributions by members of
the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Atwood, Associate Professor Wallace
W. (with K. F. Mather): "The Evidence
of Three Distinct Glacial Epochs in the
Pleistocene History of the San Juan
Mountains, Colorado" (with four figures)
Journal of Geology, July-August.

Barnard, Professor Edward E.: "Pho-
tographic Observations of Cornet 191 1
c (Book)" (with seven plates), Astro-
physical Journal, July.

Bonner, Associate Professor Robert
J.: "Evidence in the Areopagus,"
Classical Philology, October.

Breslich, Ernst R.: "Teaching High-
School Pupils How to Study," School
Review, October.

Chamberlain, Associate Professor
Charles J.: "Edward Strasburger,"
Botanical Gazette, July.

Freeman, Dr. Frank N.: "Current
Methods of Teaching Handwriting," III,
Elementary School Teacher, September.

Henderson, Professor Charles R.:
"Applied Sociology (or Social Tech-
nology)," American Journal of Sociology,
September.

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Hoxie, Associate Professor Robert F.:
"The Socialist Party and American Con-
vention Methods," Journal of Political
Economy, July.

Judson, President Harry Pratt:
"Waste in Educational Curricula,"
School Review, September.

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank
M.: "The Need, Purpose, and Possi-
bilities of Industrial Education in the
Elementary School," Elementary School
Teacher, October.

Parkhurst, Assistant Professor John A. :
"Yerkes Actinometry" (with fourteen
figures), Astrophysical Journal, October.

Pietsch, Professor Karl: "Zur spani-
schen Grammatik," Modern Philology,

July.

Small, Professor Albion W.: "General
Sociology," American Journal of Soci-
ology, September.

Smith, Associate Professor Gerald B.:
"Theology and Religious Experience,"
Biblical World, August; "Theology and
the History of Religion," ibid., Septem-
ber; "Theology and Scientific Method,"
ibid., October.

Soares, Professor Theodore G. ; " Practi-
cal Theology and Ministerial Efficiency,"
American Journal of Theology, July.

Thompson, Associate Professor James
W.: "The Alleged Persecution of the
Christians at Lyons in 177," American
Journal of Theology, July.

Wood, Associate Professor Francis A.:
"Notes on Latin Etymologies," Classical
Philology, July.

Recent addresses by members of the
Faculties include:

Carlson, Associate Professor Anton

J.: "Movements of the Stomach in Its
Relation to Hunger," Scandinavian-
American Medical Society, twenty-fifth
annual convention, Chicago, October 10.

Clark, Associate Professor S. H.:
"Maeterlinck," Drama League of Ameri-
ca, Lyric Theater, Chicago, October 4.

Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul:
"Industrial Japan," Arch6 Club, Chicago,
October 11; "Japan as a World Power,"
West End Woman's Club, Chicago,
October 12.

Judson, President Harry Pratt: Ad-
dress before the Illinois Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, in
celebration of Yorktown Day, October 19.

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank M. :
"Organization of High Schools the
Better to Meet Industrial Conditions,"
Military Tract Teachers Association,
Galesburg, 111., October 18.

McLaughlin, Professor Andrew C:
Address before Political Science De-
partment of Chicago Woman's Club,
October 28.

Merriam, Professor Charles E.: "Poli-
tics in the Humanitarian Institutions
of Cook County," Chicago Woman's
Club, October 16.

Shepardson, Associate Professor Fran-
cis W.: Address at centennial of Fort
Dearborn massacre, Chicago, October 15.

Wallace, Assistant Professor Eliza-
beth: "Recent Experiences in Spain,"
Chicago Association of Collegiate Alum-
nae, October 19.

Yamanouchi, Dr. Shigeo: Address
at services in memory of the late Mikado,
Abraham Lincoln Center, Chicago, Sep-
tember 13.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Meeting of August 14, IQ12. — The
following letter from Mr. Julius Rosen-
wald was submitted by Mr. Ryerson:

"August 12, igi2
To the Board of Trustees of the University of

Chicago:
- Gentlemen: On this, my fiftieth birthday,
I take great pleasure in offering you the sum
of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000) upon the following conditions
and for the following purposes:

The most pressing building requirements
of the University at this time seem to be (i) A
Woman's Gymnasium (including possibly a
Club House); (2) A building for the Geologi-
cal and Geographic Departments; (3) A
building for the Classical Departments, the
total cost of which is estimated at from
$750,000 to $800,000.

In order to enable you the better to secure

all of these buildings, each of which seems
to be almost equally necessary, my gift is
conditioned as follows:

Whenever two-thirds (f) of the sum neces-
sary to completely and adequately erect and
equip any one or more of these buildings be
secured from other sources, the other one-
third (i) shall then be payable by me. If,
however, more or less than two-thirds (§)
of the sum for any building be secured from
other sources, the other part shall be payable
by me, the intention being that my total gift
of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000), together with what may be
secured from other sources, will enable you
to erect and equip these three buildings.

Whatever part of said sum of Two Hun-
dred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) will
not be needed for these three buildings on
account of funds that may be secured from
other sources, shall be at your disposal to be

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used by you for such other building or build-
ings as you deem best.

The amount to be contributed by me, in
accordance with the above conditions, shall
be paid in cash as soon as you shall have
secured gifts either in cash or in pledges,
satisfactory to me or to my executors, for
the additional amounts respectively required.
(Signed) "Julius Rosenwald"

The following committee was ap-
pointed to raise the additional money
required for the buildings: Mr. Martin
A. Ryerson; Mr. T. E. Donnelley; Mr.
Harold F. McCormlck; Judge F. A.
Smith; President Harry Pratt Judson.

The Committee on Buildings and
Groimds was authorized to prepare and
submit plans for the Classical Building.

Appointments 191 2. — William D.
Harkins, Professor of Chemistry in the
University of Montana, to an assistant
professorship of Chemistry, for four
years, from October i, 191 2.

John E. Stout as Instructor' in the
History of Education, to give one major
course during the Autumn, Winter, and
Spring Quarters.

Agnes K. Hanna as Instructor in
Household Art for one year, from Octo-
ber I, 1912.

Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus as Profes-
sorial Lecturer in the Divinity School,
for one year, from July i, 191 2.

Raleigh Schorling to an Assodiateship
in Mathematics, for one year, from
October i, 1912.

W. Phillips Comstock to an Associate-
ship in Mathematics, for one year, from
October i, 1912.

Ernest H. Wilkins to an Associate
Professorship in the Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures,
from October i, 191 2.

Samuel A. Mitchell, Ph.D., Adjunct
Professor of Astronomy at Columbia
University, as Research Assistant Pro-
fessor of Astrophysics, for one year, from
July I, 1912.

F. W. Upson, Ph.D., Instructor in
Chemistry, for three years, from Octo-
ber I, 1912.

Arthur G. Bovee to an Instructorship
in French, for one year, from October i,
1912.

John Charles Cone as Instructor in
English in the University High School,
for one year, from October i, 1912.

Professor Albert C. Whi taker, of
Leland Stanford Junior University, to a
professorship in the Department of

Political Economy, for one year, from
October i, 1912.

Frank Kaiser Bartlett, M.D., as
Associate in Pathology for one year, from
October i, 1912.

Josephine Young, M.D., Assistant
Professor of Medicine in Rush Medical
College, as Medical Adviser for Women
in the Colleges and in the School of
Education, for one year, from October i,
1912.

A. D. Brokaw to an Instructorship in
the Department of Geology, for one year,
from October i, 19 12.

September meeting, 191 2. — Action of the
Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theo-
logical Union was reported, discontinu-
ing, under its auspices, the Swedish
Theological Seminary at Morgan Park
on and after September 30, 191 2, and
the Danish-Norwegian Theological Semi-
nary on and after June 30, 1913. The
Swedish Seminary is to continue its work
at Morgan Park under the direction of the
Swedish Baptist Conference of America.

President Judson submitted a com-
munication from the trustees of the
Educational Fund established by the
late General Henry Strong, announcing
"our design and purpose to appropriate
from the funds available the sum of
One Thousand Dollars, for the establish-
ment and maintenance of two or more
scholarships in The University of Chicago
to be denominated 'The Henry Strong
Scholarships.' .... It is our hope that
the sum allotted may prove sufficient

for at least, four scholarships

This appropriation can be made only
from year to year It is our inten-
tion, however, .... to continue it
from year to year. In the selection of
candidates, we believe that the spirit of
the testator's provision requires that
consideration be given to character and
the promise of its development even
more than to scholarship. The inclina-
tion and ability to mingle with and know
one's fellows and the possession of traits
tending to leadership among them were
as highly valued by the testator as zeal
in the pursuit of knowledge. When
nominations are made it will be presumed
that these various considerations have
been given due weight, and that the
candidates are, in the judgment of the
President of the University or the com-
mittee charged with selection, those most
deserving of aid and from whom the

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best return may be anticipated in char-
acter and scholarship."

This very generous proposal was signed
by General Strong's children, who are
the trustees of the fund: Ella Strong
Denison, Mary Strong Sheldon, Janet
Strong Jameson, and Gordon Strong.

The following resignations were regret-
fully accepted:

Dr. Charles P. Small as University
Physician and Head of Hitchcock House.

William A. Bragdon of the College of
Education.

W. A. Richards, of the University High
School.

The following new appointments were
made:

Assistant Professor David A. Robert-
son, Head of Hitchcock House.

The following promotions were made:

Dr. E. V. L. Brown, Assistant Pro-
fessor in Pathology.

Harvey B. Lemon, Associate in
Physics.

Frederick G. Koch, Instructor in
Physiological Chemistry.

Mathilda Koch, Research Assistant in
Physiological Chemistry.

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

To the Editor:

I have just finished reading the June
number of the Magazine, and, particu-
larly, Mr. Richberg's article. I notice
that you seem to think the revolt among
the alumni, which he believes exists, a
thing of negligible dimensions. Possi-
bly you may underestimate it. In the
course of my work and play, here just
outside of Chicago, I meet a number of
the men who have been out from five
to ten years, and I am struck often by the
realization of how little the University
means to them and of how little they care
to know what is going on there. 1 admit
that my own guilt on this count is con-
siderable. There is a revolt, but it is
largely a passive revolt, a revolt of indif-
ference.

To find an explanation of this has been
a matter of some thought with me, and
also of some investigation. It has been
illuminating to find the real opinion of
University life held by the alumni that I
know. Analysis of their replies to ques-
tions casually put leads me to believe
that the trouble is just this: they believe
that while they were in the University
no one cared much about them. They
feel that they were people who went to
Chicago, not people who were of Chicago.

Looking back on my own undergradu-
ate days, after the brief half-decade which
has intervened, I find that I can remem-
ber with vividness only two of the faculty
as having had any appreciable influence
upon the formation of real love for
Chicago. One was in the English de-
partment; the other taught mathematics.
The essential thing, however, is not that
they taught these subjects; it is that they
taught me. They seemed to care enough
about me in those, my very callow days,
to try to know me, my aims, my thoughts,
and to lead me, as an individual, and not
merely as a stereotyped thing called an
"undergraduate," into the beauties of
what they had to teach.

Other memories are not so sweet.
There is the crusty professor who told
his class that he did not care to know
socially those whom he had in his classes.
And there are the ones who lectured to

their classes with no apparent knowl-
edge of those classes as other than a mass
of p>eople who had paid their fees. And
there is the one who told me, when I
asked for a thesis back, after laboring
for weeks upon it, that he had such large
classes that he never read the theses
but destroyed them untouched. I re-
member the dean who used to spend as
much as two minutes guiding my un-
practiced mind in the choice of electives.
1 do not blame him, poor fellow. He had,
1 believe, some two hundred callow
youths to minister to.

Because the classes were such cut-and-
dried, "business-like" affairs, there was,
all through the course, very little of that
earnest, informal, heart-to-heart discus-
sion which I have since found in many
other institutions of learning which I
have visited. We students did not know
each other well enough to open our hearts
and minds and wrestle with one another
about the problems introduced to us in
our lecture-rooms and laboratories. Our
work was a dry, routine matter, nearly
unrelated to our own innermost thoughts
and affections. Naturally we did it as
quickly and easily as we could, and turned
our attention to other things.

We were after things real, things
interesting. We were seeking comrade-
ship, the virile reaUty of friendship —
and self-expression. Some of us went
in for athletics. Some of us became
engrossed in the social side of things, open
to us by virtue of our city residence or
our city acquaintanceships. Some of
us specialized in so-called student
activities. Personally, the last was my
path toward realities. I notice there is
another correspondent in your issue
before me who attacks the Blackfriars.
The attack is in large measure justified.
Four years in the plays and a share in
writing one of them make me know some
of the evils as well as or better than he
does. But I also know why I went into
those things. I did not know it then.
What I was really seeking was comrade-
ship and also a chance for self-expression
under the guidance of someone who was
interested. We had a coach in those

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days, a man who since has gotten rather
far ahead in the professional producers'
ranks. He used to swear at us. No
professor ever did that to us. He called
us names and vihfied us. Professors
were always pohte. But he was our
friend, and we instinctively felt that he
was interested in us and in our work.
And we could not say that of most of our
official guides. I know that I learned as
much from him, of that sort of knowledge
which imparts self-development rather
than the imparting of information, as I
did from most of my work.

I am still in touch with things under-
graduate in a quiet and unofficial way.
And I find that the old conditions still
continue, much the same as five years
ago. Some few break through the crust
and manage to find reahty, but most
of the rank and file are stumbling along
the same old path. They do not work
any more than they have to. Increased
faculty strictness squeezes a little more
reluctant proficiency from them. But
they do not love it, any more than we
did. They magnify the importance of
sports and comic operas, and all the rest
of it. Their hearts are in the wrong place.
Of course in all this I am speaking of the
ordinary, healthy man, not of the warped
book- worm.

This I find to be about the complamt
of nine out of ten of the graduates I
meet. After they get out their interests
grow. The trivial things they loved in
college lose their interest. And the
interest in, and love for, the reahties of
learning have never been aroused withm
them. Naturally they drift into the
ranks of the indifferent. They aid the
passive revolt.

In my profession, that of priest, we
have a moral maxim, for use in advising
penitents, that a sin is best overcome by
a distraction of attention from it, and
that distraction is to be attained by an
emphasis upon something good which is
more fascinating. If the officials of the
University want — and who doubts that
they do want— to really adjust the values
of the University so as to stop overdevo-
tion to nonessential things like athletics
and operas and so on, what they must
do is devise some method of so interesting
the students in the deUghts of learning
that they will forget the lesser dehghts
of these things. And the only way it
can ever be done is by devising some
means for the faculty and the student
body to know one another. Meanwhile,

until the rulers find a good way to do
this, it might help if the instructors of
that strange animal, the undergraduate,
would remember that in handling him
and developing him into what he may,
possibly, become, what is needed is less
learning and more love.

Bernard Iddings Bell, '07

October 15, 1912
Editor of U. of C. Magazine:

We little thought, when you stated
in the June number that Honolulu-
Chicago goers expected to get together,
that we would so soon record the most
brilliant gathering of Chicagoans ever
assembled in the Pacific Ocean, or any-
where else outside of the states.

R. H. Allen, '05, editor of the Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, has given you details of our
meeting of October 3, when Professor
Willett's round-the-world class of ten
joined with a similar number of Chica-
goans here in a lunch at the University
Club.

Not the least important member was
Dean R. Wickes, '05, Ph.D. '12, who
arrived here on Professor Willett s
steamer. He and his bride, Fanny
Sweeny Wickes, are remaining here a
couple of weeks, receiving commission
as missionaries of the Central Union
Church here, to the North China Mission
of the A.B.C.F.M. The meeting em-
phasized a point which I hope will reach
the eye of every Chicagoan likely to
wander this way, namely, that every
instructor or student of the University
coming here ought to feel in duty bound
to make himself known to some of us,
that we may gather some new rays_ of
light from the center of wisdom, or sing
a hymn over him, or ride him on a surf-
board or something. Let him not do
as one of our learned friends of the Faculty
once did, who was incognito trying to
join the Lotus-eaters here when he was
discovered by one of his former students,
too late to gather the faithful around him.
Kamehameha I didn't make any more
noise shoving his enemies over a 1,000-
foot cliff in the battle of Nuuanu than
the Chicago crowd did giving the Chicago
yell at the same spot on October 3. I
may add without blushing that since then
—the battle I mean— this has become the
loveliest of all climates and the centerjof
hospitality, so let us hear from you in
advance, all Chicago visitors.

S. D. Barnes, '94

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

The Alumni Council. — A meeting of
the Alumni Council was held in Ellis
Hall on the evening of October 22, 191 2.
After the reading of the minutes and
reports from the secretary and treasurer,
the annual election of officers was held.
Ralph Hammill, '99, was unanimously
elected chairman, and the secretary was
instructed to cast the ballot of the society
for the re-election of Frank. W. Dignan , '97,
as secretary, and Rudolph Schreiber, '06,
as treasurer. The following were elected
chairmen of committees: Publications —
James W. Linn; Finance — Herbert E.
Slaught; Alumni Clubs — Frank VV. Dig-
nan; Athletics — Donald Richberg.

News from the Classes. —
1867

C. Carrothers is living on Lopez
Island in the San Juan Archipelago on
the coast of Washington. Most of his
time since his graduation has been s{)ent
as teacher in the service of the Japanese
Educational Department.
1896

Miss Caroline Breyfogle has been
made dean of women in the Ohio State
University at Columbus.

1897

Wallace W. Atwood, Associate Pro-
fessor of Physiography, spent the month
of September in the San Juan Mountains
in southwestern Colorado with a party
of advanced students. The party made
a systematic survey of 250 square miles.
Professor Atwood has recently invented
a sidereal sphere, a large apparatus to
assist in instructional work in descriptive
astronomy. One of these spheres will
soon be installed in the Academy of
Sciences in Lincoln Park, Chicago, of
which institution he is secretary.

Grace E. Bird published through the
Macmillan Company, in July, Historical
Plays, famous stories from history put
in dramatic form for reading or acting for
intermediate or higher grades. Miss
Bird is a teacher at the State Normal
School at Plymouth, N.H.
1900

Mary K. Synon has recently returned
from Ireland, where she was investigating

Irish life of the present day for the
Chicago Daily Journal.

Of the twelve women who received
honorary Doctor's degrees at the recent
anniversary exercises of Mount Holyoke
College, three had received advanced
degrees from the Unrv-ersity of Chicago,
i.e., Katherine Bement Davis, Ph.D.,
'00; Caroline Ransom, Ph.D., '05, and
Vivian Small, M.A., '05.

Donald Richberg has recently pub-
lished through Forbes & Company his
second novel. In the Dark. It is a story
of contemporary life in Chicago. Inci-
dentally he finds room for some discussion
of certain not very uncommon but rather
puzzling phases of modem married life.
It is written with rapidity and spirit, and
seems likely to have a large sale.

1903

Dr. Rollin T. Chamberlin, of the
Department of Geology, recently re-
turned from a year of special investiga-
tion in South America, where he went as
a geologist of the Brazilian Iron and
Steel Company to examine the recently
recognized iron ore deposits in the state of
Minas Geraes. Mr. Chamberlin's special
work was to locate the most promising
ore masses in the district, make geologic
and topographic surveys, and estimate
the quantity and value of the ore. The
surveys were much hindered by the
necessity of cutting trails through the
tropical jungle. Travel was largely
by mulebatfk. In order to get a general
view of the geology of the South American
continent Mr. Chamberlin, after finish-
ing his work in Minas Geraes, traveled
southward through Brazil and Uruguay
to Buenos Aires and returned to the
United States by way of the Straits of
Magellan, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and
Panama.

1 90s

Riley Harris Allen is editor of the
Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Mr. .Mien was
formerly city editor of the Bulletin.
When the two papers combined on July i,
he was promoted to be editor-in-chief of
both.

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1906
Marie Ortmayer is attending the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Chemistry," she writes, "interspersed
with morals, I find very exciting."

1907
Bernice Benson was married on Sep-
tember 8, 1909, to C. T. Talcott, and
now makes her home in Webb City, Mo.

1908

Mrs. Paul Henning Willis (Ivy H.
Dodge) has recently moved to Arka-
delphia, Ark., where Mr. Willis has the
chair of biblical literature and theology
in Henderson-Brown College.
1910

Ching Tow is commissioner of public
works at Kwan-tung. Among other
former University of Chicago students
who are part of the administrative
affairs of Kwan-tung, the largest prov-
ince in China, is Chien Shi-Fung, com-
missioner of home administration, and
Dr. Pan H. Lo, '11, who is commissioner
of foreign affairs.

George K. K. Link, adjunct professor
of agricultural botany at the University
of Nebraska, devotes his time to the
investigation of potato diseases, especially
the so-called "dry rot" and "little
potato."

1911 ■

Robert L. Allison is in business at
Coming, N.Y.

Hilmar R. Baukhage has been study-
ing at Kiel and Jena universities, Ger-
many, during the summer.

Walter Phillips Comstock is teaching
in the University High School this year.

Mitchell Dawson has returned from a
six months' tour of Europe and is
registered in the third year of the Law
School.

Hargrave A. Long is connected with the
sales department of the Service Recorder
Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

J. Arthur Miller is registered in the
third-year class of the Law School.

Gertrude E. Nelson is with the United
Charities of Rochester, N.Y., and is
living at home in Victor, N.Y.

Nathaniel Pfeffer has resigned his
position with the Chicago Evening Post
and is now on the staff of the Chicago
Daily Press.

Richard Y. Rowe, ex, is taking law
work at the University of Illinois.

Calvin O. Smith has a position with the

bond house of Cooke, Holtz & Co., 39
La Salle Street.

Edith I. Hemingway is supervisor of
music in the public schools of Nobles-
ville, Ind>

1912

George M. Potter, a student at Chicago
in the past year, has been elected presi-
dent of Shurtleff College, in Upper Alton,
111.

Gertrude Emerson sailed August 17
for a year's stay in Japan.

Frank EversuU has been made business
agent of the Fullerton Avenue Presby-
terian Church. He has an office in the
church building, and it will be his duty
to care for the business interests of the
church. He is, so far as known, the first
person to be appointed to such a position.

Ruth C. Russell is teaching biology in
the high school at Gwinn, Mich.

Floy McMillen has been appointed
seed inspector in the Albert Dickinson
Seed Company of Chicago.

Hazel Brodbeck is teaching biology
and physiography at the Robinson, 111.,
High School.

Engagements. —

'06. Miss Ruth Marie Reddy, and
William Jennings O'Neill. The marriage
is set for November 28.

'07. Miss Frances Montgomery to
George Thomas Shay. The date of the
marriage is set for September 10. Mr.
Shay is a member of the Beta Theta
Fraternity.

'10. Miss Helen Lorene Barker and
William Magee Maignel, of Philadelphia.
The marriage is set for some time in
September.

'10. Walter Dalton Freyburger, and
Miss Mabel Orris Farrar. The marriage
is set for August 20. Mr. Freyburger is a
graduate of the Decatur High School, of
the University of Michigan, and of the law
school of the University of Chicago. He
is a member of the Delta Chi, a law
fraternity. He is a member of the firm of
Morse, McKinney & Mcllvane, Chicago.

Marriages. —

'00. Rev. John W. Beardslee, to
Frances Eunice Davis, '09, on August 8,
191 2, at Holland, Mich. Their address
will be Holland, Mich.

'02. Dr. Edward V. L. Brown to
Frieda Kirchhoff, August 10, 191 2. Miss
Kirchhoff was a student at the Uni-

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versity of Chicago for a time in 1900-
1901.

'05. Hollis Elmer Potter to Blanche
Morse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Justine
Edward Morse, of Dillon, Mont., on
July 24, 191 2. Dr. Potter has offices in
the Peoples Gas Building.

'05. Dean Rockwell Wickes of Chicago,
to Fanny Rollinson Sweeny on August
24, 191 2, at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. They
will be at home in Peking, China,
after December i. Mrs. Wickes was
graduated from Vassar in 1907, and
assisted in the economic department for
three years. Last year she studied
at the University of Chicago. Mr. and
Mrs. Wickes exp>ect to work under the
American Board of Missions in Timg
Chow College, Peking.

'07. William A. McDermid to Marian
V. Lusk of Troy, N.Y., September 19,
at Troy. McDermid was one of the early
members of the Daily Maroon staff and
is a member of Phi Gamma Delta. Mrs.
McDermid is a graduate of Syracuse
University and a member of Kappa
Gamma Gamma Sorority.

'09. Edward Leydon McBride, to
Mary Elizabeth Archer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. D. Webster Archer,
Chicago, on September 18, 191 2. At
home after November 15 at 5418 Wood-
lawn Ave.

'09. Daniel J. Glomset to Anna
Theodora Asbjorg, on June 20, 1912,
at Buffalo, N.Y. At home after October
I, Des Moines, la.

'09. Benjamin Harrison Badenoch to
Nena Wilson, '11, at Washington, la.
They will be at home at 7129 Normal
Avenue. Mr. Badenoch was a member
of Psi Upsilon, and Mrs. Badenoch was
a Mortarboard.

'09. Harry J. Schott to Helen Holman,
at Sargent's Bluff, la. Mr. and Mrs.
Schott will live in Sioux City, la.

'12. Benton L. Moyer to Charlotte
Boyle, September, at San Benito, Tex.

'12. H. Russell Stapp to Eva Loreme
Thompson, on July 20, 191 2, at Rock-
ford, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Stapp will live
in Chicago.

'12. Charles Burt Gentry, to Kathleen
Moore, at Kansas City, Mo., August 8,
1 9 1 2 . At home after October i , Conway,
Ark.

'12. Miriam Julia Cole, ex, to John
Wendall Hall, on July 31, in Chicago.
Their address is Keokuk, la.

'12. Warder Clyde Allee, Ph.D., '12, to
Marjorie June Hill, '11, September 2,
at Carthage, Ind. Mr. Allee is instruc-
tor at the University of Illinois.

'12. Suzanne Pauline Denise Morin,
to Raymond Edwards Swing, on Tues-
day. July 9, at London.

'12. Carleton W. Washbume, ex, to
Heloise Chandler, daughter of Mrs.
Julia Davis Chandler, of Philadelphia,
on September 15, 191 2, at Los .\ngeles,
Cal. Mr. Washbume is a nephew of
Mrs. Edith Flint of the Department of
English.

Deaths.—

O. O. Whited died on August 6, at
Minneapolis, of hydrophobia. Mr.
Whited was bitten in the nose and face
by a pet coach dog on July 7. The dog
died a few days later of pronounced
rabies. Mr. Whited at once took the
Pasteur treatment at the University of
Minnesota, but the infection was too
severe, and a month later he died. He
was bom January 20, 1854, in Ohio,
and removed to Minnesota in 1864. He
had been a resident of Minneapolis for
22 years. Two sons, O. O. Whited,
Jr., '05, and C. V. Whited, survive
him. Mr. Whited had been particularly
interested in the coming of President
Vincent to the University of Minnesota
and he sent to the Magazine at that time
an account of the welcome which was
given to President Vincent by the .\lumni
Association of Minneapolis.

Charles B. Franklin, / '12, died at his
home, 1244 Humboldt St., Denver, Colo-
rado, on October 3. The cause of death
was acute tonsilitis. Mr. Franklin was
graduated in 1906 from the East Denver
High School, and in 1910 from the
University of Michigan, where he received
the degree of B.A. He was a member
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and of Phi
Beta Kappa at Michigan. He had
intended to practice law with his father
in Denver, but on the day following his
arrival after his graduation, he was taken
ill with the disease which three months
later caused his death.

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THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY

A misunderstanding which was re-
vealed in the replies received from many
of the Doctors to the circular letter by
President Flickinger should be corrected.
It is not generally known that those
who have left the University and are
holding positions are still eligible to
recommendation through the Board at
the University, the impression being
that after once placing its Doctors the
University is no longer specially con-
cerned for their promotion and advance-
ment. The Secretary is glad to correct
this misunderstanding in the minds of
any who may have held it. It is the
belief and practice of most of the depart-
ments that the University has no more
important function than to assist its
worthy graduates to better and better
places as opportunity oflfers.

H. W. Moody, '12, is a member of the
staff in the department of physics in
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.

J. H. Clo, '11, is professor of physics
at the Tulane University, New Orleans,
La.

J. F. Garber, '03, is head of the depart-
ment of botany and physiology in Yeat-
man High School, St. Louis, Mo.

Armin H. Koller, '11, is instructor in
the department of German at the Uni-
versity of Illinois.

George F. Reynolds, '05, professor of
English at the University of Montana,
was married to Miss Mabel Smith, of
Toledo, la., on August 30, 1912.

Egbert J. Miles, '10, instructor in
mathematics at Yale University, was
married on June 27, i9i2,to Miss Helen
T. Henson, of Olean, N.Y.

S. B. Sinclair, '01, is in charge of the
School for Teachers of MacDonald Col-
lege, Quebec, Canada.

John L. Tilton, '10, is professor of
geology and physics at Simpson College,
Indianola, la. He is active in research
and publication, especially concerning
the geology of various counties in Iowa.
Some of these articles are as follows:
" Geological Section along Middle River in
Central Iowa," Iowa Geological Survey;
"The Geology of Warren County,
Iowa," Iowa Geological Survey; Part
of "The Geology of Madison County,
Iowa," Iowa Geological Survey; "The
Switchboard and Arrangement of Stor-
age Battery at Simpson College," Iowa
Academy of Sciences; "A Problem in

Municipal Waterworks for a Small
City," Iowa Academy of Sciences; "The
Pleistocene Deposits of Warren County,
Iowa," the University of Chicago Press.

E. A. Balch, '98, is professor of history,
political economy, and political science
at Kalamazoo College.

W. A. Chamberlin, '10, professor of
German at Denison University, spent
the summer vacation in Germany, with
side trips up the Rhine and through the
Black Forest, returning by way of Paris
and London.

Miss Isabelle Stone, '97, who for a
number of years has been in charge of
the American School for Girls at Rome,
Italy, was in Chicago during the summer,
being called home on account of the
illness of her mother.

Fred T. Kelly, '01, is a member of the
department of Hebrew and Hellenistic
Greek at the University of Wisconsin, and
his address is 224 N. Brooks St., Madison,
Wis.

William H. Allison, '05, is meeting with
great success as dean of the Theological
Seminary at Colgate University, Hamil-
ton, N.Y.

Luther L. Bernard, '10, is professor of
history and the social sciences at the
University of Florida. Mrs. Bernard
was Miss Frances Fenton, ' 10. Professor
Bernard is vice-president of the Florida
Conference of Charities and Correction,
and a member of the executive board
of the Southern Sociological Congress.
He recently read an article on "Educa-
tion for Sociological Work" before the
Conference of Charities and Correction.
Mrs. Bernard has an article on "The
Press and Crimes against the Person" in
the October number of the Bulletin of
the American Academy of Medicine.

Ivan Lee Holt, '09, is pastor of the
Centenary Methodist Church at Cape
Girardeau, Mo. He is in great demand
for addresses at educational institutions
throughout the year, especially at com-
mencement time, and on this account
was unable to attend the annual meeting
in June.

Jasper C. Barnes, '11, of the depart-
ment of psychology in Maryville College,
Maryville, Tenn., was engaged in insti-
tute work in eastern Tennessee and
southern Kentucky during the summer.

On October 19, 191 2, at the annual
meeting of the Keystone State Library

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Association, Frank Grant Lewis, librarian
of Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester,
Pa., read a paper on "Some Elements of

Efficiency in an Academic Library," and
was elected vice-president of the asso-
ciation for the coming year.

THE DIVINITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Henry Coe Culbertson, '01, is president
of the College of Emporia, Emporia, Kan,

Clifton D. Gray, Ph.D. '00, has just
entered upon his new field of work in
Chicago as one of the editors of The
Standard. He spent four years in the
pastorate at Port Huron, Mich., and
seven years at Stoughton Street Church,
Boston. Mr. Gray is receiving congratu-
lations from all parts of the country.
His many friends feel that he is admir-
ably adapted to the new type of work.

W. S. Abemethy has begun work as
pastor of the First Church, Kansas City,
Mo.

W. P. Behan, '07, of Morgan Park,
spent the month of August camping
near Marquette, Mich., and supplying
the pulpit of the First Church of that
city on Sundays.

Carlos M. Dinsmore, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Anderson, Ind.,
was recently elected president of the
Indiana State Convention. Twenty-
four men attended the "Chicago"
banquet held in connection with the
convention,

A, F. Vuriass, '04, of Elgin, III., gave

an address upon the "Significance of the
Individual" before the Chicago Baptist
Ministers' Meeting in September.

Dr. A. R. E. Wyant, '97, of Englewood,
still takes time off for an occasional
football game. He was an excited wit-
ness on (or around) the "C" bench at the
Iowa game recently. -

P. M. Vaughn, '98, has recently been
elected to the chair of Christian Theology
at the Newton Theological Institution,
Boston, Mass.

F. T. Galpin, '04, has left Detroit for
work in the First Baptist Church at
Pittsburgh.

C. H. Snashall is with the First Baptist
Church, Fort Wayne, Ind.

One hundred and forty Divinity
School alumni attended the annual
banquet at the Northern Baptist Con-
vention held in Des Moines last May.

The summer attendance at the Divinity
School was about two hundred.

All alumni news notes should be sent
to Box 93, Faculty Exchange. This is
"everyman's" column,

Fred Merkitield, '01
Secretary- Treasurer

UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS

Football Scores

Oct. 5- Chicago 13; Indiana o

Oct. 12. Chicago 34; Iowa 14

Oct. 26. Chicago 7; Purdue o

Nov. 2. Chicago 12; Wisconsin 30
Nov. 9. Chicago 3; Northwestern o

Nov. 16, Illinois at Champaign; Nov. 23,
Minnesota.

The annual commemorative chapel
exercises were held on Tuesday, October
I. The hymns, responses, and the selec-
tion from the Bible were those used at
the first chapel exercises at the beginning

of the University in 1892 Alumni,

former members of the Dramatic Club,
gave a vaudeville performance in Mandel
Hall on October 12. Those on the bill
included A. G. Bovee, '08; W. W.
Atwood, '97; Albert Henderson, '08;
Frank Parker, '12; B. I. Bell, '07; H. D.
Sulcer, '06; J. V. Hickey, '06; Frieda
Kirchhoff Brown, ex-'o3; Ralph Benzies,
'11; Lander MacClintock, '11; Phoebe
Bell Terry, '08; and Agnes Wayman, '03.
.... Four hundred and fifty women were
present at the Freshman frolic in Mandel
on October 4. As It Might Be, a play
by Alice Lee Herrick, was presented.
The Freshman stag party was held in
Reynolds Club on the same evening.
.... The regular season of the Uni-
versity Orchestral Association began
November 5. Concerts will take place
monthly, on December 10, January 6,
February 4, February 25, and April 8.
In addition, on November 26, will appear
Rudolph Ganz, pianist; on January 21,
Eugene Ysaye, and on March 11, Alice

Neilsen Season tickets admitting

the bearer to all athletic events during
the year, and to the use of the tennis
courts, are being sold to all members
of the University for $5.00 each. They

are non-transferable. It is calculated
that the price of admission for all
games individually will amount to $20.
.... Captain Laurence Dunlap of
the cross country team resigned at
the opening of the Autumn Quarter on
account of heart trouble. John Bishop
was elected to succeed him. W. P.
Comstock, captain in 1910, is coaching

the men Soccer football has been

given up as a University sport. The
Athletic Department has no funds to
spare, and undergraduate support of the

game has always been weak

Norman Paine, quarter-back on the
football team and captain of the basket-
ball team, was elected president of the
Undergraduate Council on Monday,

October 7 Preliminary try-outs

for the University debating team were
held on October 25. H. G. Moulton is
the coach. The debate will be held the

third week of January The Cap

and Gown this year will be in charge of
William Lyman and John Perlee, mana-
ging editors, W. P. Dickerson and Thomas
E. Coleman, business managers, and

Ralph Stansbury, literary editor

The Daily Maroon this quarter is in
charge of Hiram Kennicott, managing
editor, Leon Stolz, news editor, and

Burdette Mast, business manager

The Reynolds Club announces a mem-
bership for the Autumn Quarter of 516,
the largest in the history of the club.
.... One hundred and thirty-eight
Freshmen were pledged to sixteen fra-
ternities in October. Phi Delta Theta has
not yet announced its pledges. Last year

134 men were pledged The Three

Quarters Club has this year been enlarged
to admit three members from each fra-
ternity, and two non-fraternity men.

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RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY ANNEX

The University of Chicago
Magazine

Volume V DECEMBER, I9I2 Number 2

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

Nothing which the Magazine could print would be quite so interesting

as news of our alumni — is it necessary to say, including the alumnae ?

Yet the provision for securing this information is most

Wews o e unsatisfactory. The absence of class interest at Chicago
Alumni • • 1 !•

is desirable from various pomts of view, but it results dis-
astrously in this connection. For only through class secretaries, up to
now, has any institution ever succeeded in getting a steady flow of
information about graduates. We who are trying to conduct the Uni-
versity of Chicago Magazine depend on Mr. Slaught for news of the
Doctors of Philosophy, Mr. Merrifield for news of the divines, and they
work faithfully; but concerning those who have been mere undergradu-
ates we depend upon most uncertain sources — press clippings, letters in
renewal of subscription, and the friendly notes of the few inspired souls
who are really eager for the comradeship of the alumni. These things
being so, will not you who read this feel a personal responsibility in
co-operation ? Send us any news you have of anyone who has ever
attended the University. Others, interested in it, will in turn send us
news of somebody whom you may have loved long since and lost awhile.
The secretaries of the various associations can be of particular service.
But so can you.

Solicitude on the part of the municipal authorities has resulted in the

establishment of a fire drill, which is to be carried out monthly by all

classes in Cobb Hall. On the sounding of the gong, the

. ^ 1.^ ^ students rise and stand at attention. The instructor pre-
in Cobb

ceding, all then, row by row in order, march down the

hall to the fire escape at the rear end. Here the instructor in his turn

36 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

stands at attention while the students file past back to the classroom;
the drill not as yet requiring the actual descent of the fire escape. Fire
marshals are situated at the head of the stairs on each floor at the time
of the drills to urge on recalcitrant instructors and to inform them of
certain finer details of the evolutions. At the first drill, on November
27, the gong was sounded at 12:05, and all classes had filed past the
escapes and returned to their respective rooms by 12:09. Some time
was consumed in the return; it is estimated therefore that the hall can
be emptied by this system, in about three minutes.

A movement of considerable interest in November was the forma-
tion of the University Grand Opera Association, for the purpose of
The Grand enabling its members to attend more performances of
Opera the opera than the regular prices would permit to most of

Association us at the University. At a meeting in Kent theater on
November 6, at which 250 were present, it was decided to issue blanks
to be signed by all those who wished to become members of such an
organization, with a statement appended of the number of performances
each signer would attend. Up to November 26, the opening date of
Grand Opera, more than 400 students and members of the faculty had
signed, with a promise to attend about 2,200 performances. The Grand
Opera management in turn agreed to reduce prices to members of the
University Association as follows: $3 seats reduced to $2; $2.50 seats
to $1 . 50; $1 . 50 seats to 75 cents. Membership in the Association is
50 cents; it is open to all students and members of the faculty and their
wives. It entitles the holder to one seat for any performance at the
reduced rate. This seat can be applied for only at the office of the
Association. Notice of application is then sent to the Auditorium office,
and the ticket may be secured by the applicant at any time after seven
o'clock on the evening of the performance. The preliminary arrange-
ments have been in the hands of an organization committee consisting
of Dean Lovett, Assistant Professor Field, and D. A. Robertson, '02,
secretary to the President.

Still further reduction of prices is offered next year, perhaps even this
year, by a system of endowment. Common friends of the University^
and of Grand Opera have already given sums aggregating $600 to be
applied toward such reduction. If a permanent fund of $10,000 or more
can be raised, as seems likely, some 400 students would be enabled to
attend five performances each, in balcony seats, for 25 cents an evening.
Detai s of the permanent organization are now being worked out, and

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 37

will be announced later. The Association is unfortunately not open to
alumni.

Wisconsin is the football champion of the Conference, and receives
our hearty congratulations. A championship was about due at Madison;
though we cannot quite agree, nor do we suppose Wis-
consin herself believes, that the team was a great
one, it was a good one, and deserves its honor. To Minnesota also
congratulations are due. The day is past when aspersions may be
offered upon the amateur character of her men. To construct a
wholly new eleven and fit it for such encounters as those with Wisconsin
and Chicago was not a small feat; nor could it have been easy to visit
justice in the height of the season upon so valuable a player as ToUefson.
Finally we congratulate ourselves. As last year, our team finally found
itself. Without strikingly brilliant players, but with a great willingness
to work, steady courage, and absolutely perfect harmony, they went
forward to better and better deeds. Second place in the Conference is
nothing to be depressed over.

Congratulations, in particular, to one man — Joseph Lawler, '13.
Lawler entered the University from Hyde Park High School, in the fall
of 1909. On his Freshman team he was called "a plucky
little end, but too light." In 1910 he tried for end on the
Varsity — vainly. But he never missed a practice. In 191 1 he tried
again — this time for quarter. He got into a game or two, and was
given a C at the end of the season. That was encouragement. This
fall he was almost the first man out for practice. It was his last chance;
he takes his degree in December. Paine was regular quarter; Smith was
second choice; what hope for Lawler? He did the best he knew. At
Madison Paine was hurt. Against Northwestern Smith and Lawler
played alternate quarters. Lawler showed the better. He got his
chance against Illinois, and played his head of! — fast, steady, judg-
matical. Came the last game against Minnesota; Lawler running the
team. He tries a forward pass, and it works. He shoots play after
play, fast as the men can recover, straight into the line, running down
to within two yards of the goal. One down left, for the first victory in
four years over Minnesota. Not through the center this time, but
swinging around the end — absolutely first-rate judgment just when it
was needed — and off the field goes Lawler, football hero in the second
half of the final game of the last quarter of his last year as an under-
graduate. Is there any lesson here in perseverance ? Good luck in the
law school, and afterward, to Lawler, '13!

38 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

The annual agitation regarding the return of Michigan to the Con-
ference was more animated this year than usual, but ended in the con-
ventional way. Rumors were thick that at the meeting
, „ , on November 29 and 30 a representative of Michigan

would ask to have her case reviewed. Nothing of the
sort happened, however; and the Conference adjourned after voting, 6
to 3, not to permit a student in law or medicine to compete after taking
his undergraduate degree. Professor Albion W. Small is now Chicago's
representative.

Another meeting, however, held also on November 30, was slightly
more promising. The editors of various student newspapers came
together, formed an association called "The Alliance of Western College
Dailies," and as their first action passed the very interesting resolutions
which follow:

1. Competition between Michigan and the Conference colleges is desired
by the students and alumni of the Conference colleges as well as by Michigan.

2. After reviewing conditions at the several colleges we have decided that
the points at issue are:

A) Faculty control of athletics.

B) Training table.

3. The faculty control. — Conference rules provide for "full and complete
faculty control of athletics." But, in at least one Conference college, Minne-
sota, students are in virtual control. At Minnesota the board of control con-
sists of two faculty men appointed by the Faculty senate, two alumni, and
eight students elected by popular vote. The only power held by the faculty
is that of veto and not of legislation.

At Michigan we find the following situation: The Board consists of four
faculty men chosen by the Faculty senate, the graduate director of athletics,
three alumni chosen by the board of regents of the university, and but three
students appointed by the student "board of directors" which is composed
of the graduate director of athletics and of the 'varsity team managers who are
elected by the student body. Further, the board of regents, a body appointed
by the governor of the state, has final authority.

We believe that this system is the same in spirit and practice, although not
identical in form, as at the Conference colleges. We believe then that this
difference is a matter of mere technicality and that the real point at issue lies
in the matter of the training table.

4. The training table. — The training table system at Michigan is as follows:
A private individual runs the table for profit, charging each member of the
'Varsity Squad, assigned to the table by the coach, four dollars per week for
two meals a day. Whatever deficit arises is made up by the Athletic associa-
tion, this deficit being about $800 for the past year. In at least two Confer-

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 39

ence colleges a so-called training table exists where team members eat together
but pay the full amount of the board. It is generally conceded, and we believe
that these tables conducted in this fashion are in accord with the spirit and
letter of the Conference rules. Hence:

5. The actual difference between Michigan and the Conference lies in the

fact that the Michigan Athletic association contributes partially to the support

of the training table. If this feature can be eliminated there remains no logical

ground for the further separation of Michigan and the Conference colleges.

President A. H. Ogle, Daily Illini

Secretary C. F, G. Wernicke, Jr.,

Wisconsin Daily News
Member^: H. J. Doermann, Minnesota Daily
C. B. Conrad, Daily Illini
P. H. Walsh and H. L. Wilson,

Daily Northwestern
F. W. Pennell and K. B. Matthews,

Michigan Daily
H. L. Kennicott, Leon Stolz, and

B. W. ViNissKY, Daily Maroon

The Alliance, by the way, is to be not for the year only but for the
future, and is not to confine itself to co-operation in athletics.

Donald Breed, '13, and Roderick Peattie, '13, in collaboration, won
the annual play contest of the Order of the Blackfriars, according to the
decision of the judges, announced November 26. Seven
The Next plays were submitted for this year's contest, but the

judges, who included four members of the Department of
English at the University, Henry D. Sulcer, '06, and
Richard Henry Little, dramatic critic of the Chicago Examiner, unani-
mously selected the play of Breed and Peattie. The play was announced
under the title of The Frolic of the Friars, but the authors say that this
title is only temporary. The play, which is not local in its situations,
was said by the judges to be fully equal in spirit, development, and
characterization to arty which had previously been given by the Black-
friars. Of the authors, Breed is from Freeport, 111., where he led his
class in high school. He is manager of the Dramatic Club, and was
president last year of the Junior class. Peattie is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert (Mrs. Elia) Peattie, of Chicago. Both Breed and Peattie are
members of Alpha Delta Phi. The play will be given early in May, and
will be managed by Howell Murray, '14, who was appointed on Novem-
ber 20. Other appointrnents to the executive staff of the Blackfriars

40 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

include Harold Wright, general costumer; Thomas Hollingsworth,
property man; John Baker, chorus master. Murray was property man
last year, and Wright was assistant costumer. The Blackfriars, as usual,
expect to spend from $2,500 to $3,000 upon their production.

President Edmund J. James, of the University of Illinois, who is

chairman of the committee of selection of a Rhodes scholar for the state

of Illinois, has just received word from Oxford, England,

Rhodes ^ jj^ regard to the Rhodes Scholarship examinations held in

_ . .• Chicago in October. Robert Valentine Merrill, Univer-

Exanunations . ° . . . '

sity of Chicago, '14, passed the examinations in mathe-
matics, Latin, and Greek, and Charles Conger Stewart, '14, passed the
examinations in Latin and mathematics. Merrill is the captain of the
fencing team and Stewart of the tennis team, and a member of Phi Beta
Kappa. They were the only Illinois students to qualify. A successful
examination does not insure the appointment of a candidate to a scholar-
ship, inasmuch as only one scholar is selected in any one year. The state
committee of selection will meet early in December to select a candidate.
At that time the candidates who have passed the Oxford examinations
this year, and those who have passed in previous years and are still
eligible — ten men in all — will appear before the committee. The scholar
chosen will begin work at Oxford in October, 19 13.

THE NEW RYERSON LABORATORY

When the Ryerson Physical Laboratory was built in 1893, it was
hoped that at some future time a building might be added on the north
for the machine shop. This hope has now been realized in a very satis-
factory way. The addition which has just been completed, and con-
nected with the main building by a corridor on the main floor, is sixty
feet square and three stories high — a building which would make a fair
physical laboratory in itself. Moreover, improvements are by no means
confined to the addition. The first floor and basement of the old build-
ing have been rebuilt to meet the increased demands of research. Not
only the machine shop, but all of the heavy dynamos and motors, the
liquid-air machine, etc., have been transferred to the new building, so
that the main building is now practically free from all vibratory dis-
turbances caused by the presence of heavy machinery — a matter of very
great importance in nearly all lines of delicate research.

The top floor of the addition is devoted to the laboratory work in
elementary physics under Professor Mann. This floor occupies only the
north half of the building, in order not to interfere with the lighting of
the old building.

On the second floor are a large laboratory thirty by sixty feet, for
electrical testing, a small lecture room, a dark room, and the storage-
battery room, in which two new sets of Edison storage batteries have
been installed. Each set is composed of 108 cells, one of forty and the
other of fifteen ampere capacity. The old set of zinc accumulators has
been moved to this room.

On the main floor are the students' workshop, the laboratory machine
and instrument shop with stock rooms, the dynamo and motor room, the
switchboard room, and a small electrical laboratory. All of the larger
dynamos and motors of the laboratory have been placed in one room,
and are connected on a large switchboard seven feet high and fifteen
feet long, which has sixteen permanently mounted instruments, volt
meters, ammeters, etc. The main switchboard room, immediately
adjoining, contains two large boards with six additional instruments.
By means of the main switchboard, seven feet high and sixteen feet long,
any desired current may be sent either from the machines in the dynamo
room or from the storage batteries on the second floor, to any room in

42 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

either building. The distributing board was designed by Professor
Kinsley.

In the basement of the annex a new ventilating system has been
installed which supplies fresh air to all the rooms in both buildings. A
large laboratory for general work, a high-temperature room and a low-
temperature room, the carpenter shop, the liquid-air plant, and the
carbon-dioxide cooling plant occupy the rest of the basement. The chief
function of the cooling plant will be to control the temperature in two of
the rooms in the basement of the old building.

The changes in the old building have been extensive. The entire
interior has been freshly painted, and rewired throughout, both for
electric light and power circuits. An automatic freight elevator running
from basement to attic is now in operation. An automatic telephone
system connects all the rooms in both buildings. The basement floor
has been lowered a foot and a half, and thus twelve new research rooms
have been secured. These rooms are especially useful on account of
their constancy of temperature and great stability. Three of the rooms
have been lined on walls, floor, and ceiling with four inches of cork and
provided with ice-box doors. They can be maintained at practically
perfectly uniform temperature for an indefinite length of time. One of
these rooms, at the west end of the basement, is kept at ordinary tem-
peratures, and contains Professor Michelson's machines for the ruling of
diffraction gratings. The other two are low-temperature rooms, to be
kept, one at o° Fahrenheit and the other at o° Centigrade, by the carbon-
dioxide cooling plant, and will be especially useful for some of Professor
Millikan's work which requires not only constancy of temperature but
air of extreme dryness.

The rooms at the east end of the building, formerly occupied by the
shop, the liquid-air plant, dynamos, etc., have been rebuilt and are now
available for spectroscopic work. The concave grating, formerly on the
third floor, has been installed there. To insure fire protection and
increased stability the eighteen rooms of the first floor were rebuilt, the
old wooden flooring was removed, and new maple floors laid on rein-
forced concrete.

By the remodeling of the basement and the addition of the new
building the space available for research work has been approximately
trebled. Relief from the crowded condition of the laboratory was
imperative as research work was being seriously impeded. By the
removal of the mathematics and astronomy library to the fourth floor,
the large lecture room on the third floor, formerly occupied by the

THE NEW RYERSON LABORATORY 43

library, has been left free for classroom work. This room had become
much too small for the departmental libraries, and the need of it as a
lecture room has been urgent for several years. The new quarters
should be of ample size to accommodate the library for years to come.
Opening from it are two new offices for instructors in the Department
of Mathematics.

Although the Ryerson Laboratory, even with the addition, is not so
large as the laboratories at some institutions where large numbers of
engineering students receive instruction in elementary physics, it is safe
to say that it is not excelled at any university, either in this country or
abroad in the number and desirability of the rooms now available for

physical research.

Henry G. Gale '96

A REVIEW OF THE FOOTBALL SEASON

Oct. s

Oct. 12

Oct. 26
Nov. 2
Nov. 9
Nov. 16
Nov. 23

Games won, 6, lost i,

GAMES PLAYED

Chicago, 13; Indiana, o

Chicago, 34; Iowa, 14

Chicago, 7; Purdue, o

Chicago, 12; Wisconsin, 30

Chicago, 3; Northwestern, o

Chicago, 10; Illinois, o

Chicago, 7; Minnesota, o

Total points scored, Chicago 88, opponents
44. Touchdowns, Chicago 12, opponents 6. Goals from field, Chicago
2, opponents i.

The following men received C's for their work: Re-enacted, Captain
Carpenter, Canning, Fitzpatrick, Freeman, Kennedy, Lawler, Norgren,
Paine, Pierce, Sellers, and Whiteside. New men, Coutchie, Des Jardiens,
Gray, Harris, Huntington, Scanlan, Skinner, Smith, Vruwink.

The Captain for 1913 is Nelson H. Norgren.

The football season of 191 2 ends with the Conference ranking as
follows: Wisconsin, Chicago, Minnesota, Purdue, Northwestern,
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana. It has been on the whole a successful year,
for Wisconsin, Purdue, and Northwestern ; a disappointment to Illinois,
Iowa, and Indiana, and about what was expected for Chicago and
Minnesota.

On September 20, when practice began, Chicago depended on
twelve veterans, including Captain Carpenter, Paine, Whiteside, Sellers,
Freeman, Canning, and Lawler, who were playing their last season,
and Norgren, Pierce, Harris, Kennedy, and Fitzpatrick in their second.
The new men of most promise were Des Jardiens, Vruwink, Bennett,
Smith, Scanlan, Skinner, Coutchie, Huntington, Baumgartner, Parker,
and Gray.

From the beginning of the practice four positions were practically
decided — Captain Carpenter at tackle, Des Jardiens at center, Vruwink
at end, and Norgren at halfback. Both guards, one tackle, and one end
were wholly open to competition. Behind the line Paine had the lead
for quarter, but Smith was expected to run him very close. Kennedy,
Gray, and Coutchie were all men of whom much was hoped in the half-
back positions, and Bennett was supposed to lead Pierce a trifle in the
race for the fullback's place.

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The first upset came in Bennett's withdrawal from college on the
opening day, on account of parental objections to football; the second
when Gray was discovered to be ineligible by reason of being upon
probation. Bennett returned with his father's consent to play, a week
later, but Gray was not removed from probation until after the four-
week reports were in. To Bennett's absence that first week, in large
part, may be ascribed the slow development of the eleven. For Mr.
Stagg had made up his mind that Bennett was a very able player;
when he came back on October 7, Mr. Stagg promptly shifted the whole
back field to make room for him, though this shift necessitated doing
a week's work all over again. Bennett, partly because of ignorance of
the game, partly because of injury, played in the Iowa game in a most
disappointing fashion. In the next week he was hurt once more, so
severely that he could not again be used. Again, therefore, the back
field had to be shifted, and more valuable time lost. As a result the
team was nowhere near ready for Wisconsin, which was met so early
as November 2.

The first game of the year was with Indiana, on October 5. Chicago's
lineup was as follows: left end, Vru wink; left tackle. Sellers ; left guard,
Whiteside; center, Des Jardiens; right guard, Harris; right tackle,
Carpenter; right end. Skinner; quarter, Paine; left half. Smith; right
half, Norgren; full. Pierce. Skinner went in for Huntington ; Freeman
for Harris; Scanlan for Sellers; Lawler for Paine; Fitzpatrick for Smith
and then for Pierce, and Kennedy for Fitzpatrick.

The game was a scramble, with the line playing weakly, and the
back field uncertainly. Des Jardiens showed his ability to follow the
ball and back up the line, and Norgren gave evidence of unusual power
as a punter; otherwise the game was not notable.

Iowa was defeated on the following^ Saturday, October 12.

The line up was: left end, Vr^wink; left tackle. Sellers; left guard,
Whiteside; center, Des Jardiens; righ: guard. Freeman; right tackle.
Carpenter; right end, Hiintington; quarter, Paine; left half, Coutchie;
right half, Norgren; fullback, Bennett. Skinner went in for Hunting-
ton; Harris for Freeman ; Scanlan for Harris ; Fitzpatrick for Coutchie;
Kennedy for Fitzpatrick; Pierce for Bennett.

Chicago scored 13 points in the first quarter, and then proceeded
to slump. On wide swinging end runs the Iowa halves gained almost
at will for a time, and at the end of the third quarter Iowa led 14 to 13.
At this point Pierce was substituted for Bennett, who had been doing
nothing of importance, and the veteran promptly carried the ball for

A REVIEW OF THE FOOTBALL SEASON 47

three touchdowns in fifteen minutes. But again the general raggedness
of Chicago's ofifense and the spasmodic nature of her defense were too
plain.

Purdue followed two weeks later, much heralded. Chicago lined
up as follows: left end, Vruwink; left tackle, Sellers; left guard, White-
side; center, Desjardiens; right guard, Harris; right tackle, Carpenter;
right end, Huntington; quarter, Paine; left half, Coutchie; right half,
Norgren; fullback, Pierce. Smith went in for Coutchie; Fitzpatrick
for Smith, and Scanlan for Harris.

Five minutes after the game began Vruwink blocked one of Purdue's
punts, and fell on the ball so near Purdue's goal that a touchdown was
easy. Sellers kicked the goal, and the crowd settled down in anticipa-
tion of a big score. Thereafter for 55 minutes Purdue kept Chicago on
the defensive, crowding her ever more closely, and when the final whistle
blew, the Purdue men were prancing with eagerness on Chicago's eight
yard line, a first down, and forty yards of steady gain behind them.
Purdue might not have scored, but you will get few of her alumni to
believe it. Clearly, though Chicago had won her first three games, she
had not yet found herself.

In the week that followed before the crucial game with Wisconsin,
the drill was long and hard, and the men learned a good deal; but
most of the work had to be on the attack, which had showed itself
frightfully undeveloped. As a consequence, defense suffered. On
November 2, the eleven went up to Madison, still inchoate. Gray was
eligible, and all the others except Kennedy in good condition, however;
so there was hope, in spite of Wisconsin's known strength. Chicago
lined up: left end, Vruwink; left tackle. Sellers; left guard, Whiteside;
center, Des Jardiens; right guard, Scanlan; right tackle. Carpenter;
right end, Huntington; quarter, Paine; left half. Gray; right half,
Norgren; fullback. Pierce. In the second half. Skinner went in for
Huntington; Canning for Scanlan; Freeman for Canning; Smith for
Paine, and Fitzpatrick for Norgren.

The game was a nightmare to Chicago men. In the first half
Wisconsin scored once, but the play was very even, and Chicago was
learning Wisconsin's plays rapidly. Between halves Mr. Stagg was
fairly confident that victory might perch upon the Maroon banners.
But five minutes after the half began, while all was going well, Butler
of Wisconsin, who throughout had played in a fashion to do no credit
to the ethical standards of his Alma Mater, for the third time kicked
Norgren viciously as they lay together on the ground. Norgren,

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(very naturally) struck at him, and was (very properly) disqualified,
and Wisconsin given half the distance to the goal-line. Almost simul-
taneously Vruwink, who had been playing an excellent game, suffered
a double fracture of his jaw. He concealed the fact and played on,
but much less effectively. These two misfortunes turned the scale.
Chicago's defense, shaken and overanxious, became demoralized, and
Wisconsin ran up a total of thirty points. The Chicago offense, Gray
leading, succeeded in scoring twice, but the end was a severe defeat.

As in the week following the Minnesota defeat last year, Chicago
slumped again before the Northwestern game, which came upon Novem-
ber 9. It was a tea-party. The line up for Chicago was: left end.
Skinner; left tackle. Sellers; left guard, Harris; center, Des Jardiens;
right guard, Scanlan; right tackle. Carpenter; right end, Huntington;
quarter, Lawler; left half. Gray; right half, Norgren; fullback. Pierce,
Smith alternated at quarter with Lawler. In second half Whiteside
went in for Harris; in last quarter Fitzpatrick went in for Norgren.

Paine's knee was hurt at Madison, and he was unable to hobble.
Neither Smith nor Lawler showed much football sense, though Lawler
ran back punts very well. The Chicago attack was absolutely futile;
Norgren only showed any spirit. On one occasion, having the ball one
yard from the goal-line on a touchdown, Lawler waited so long before
deciding on the proper play that the referee penalized the team five
yards. Gray being then given the ball gained four yards, but of course
the ball was lost on downs, and Northwestern's goal was never sub-
sequently threatened. Sellers however, came into the limelight by
kicking a goal from placement prettily.

Followers of the eleven would by this time have become completely
discouraged but for one thing — the recollection of last season. It will
-be remembered that after the crushing defeat by Minnesota, North-
western completely outplayed Chicago, being defeated only by good
luck, but that subsequently the team found itself, defeated Cornell —
Wisconsin in successive games, and ended in a blare of trumpets; why
not again, the University reasoned? All the next week rumors of
effective practice were common; and when on Saturday the men faced
Illinois at Champaign, a good game was looked for. Expectations
were realized. The line up was: left end, Huntington; left tackle,
Sellers; left guard, Whiteside; center, Des Jardiens; right guard,
Scanlan; right tackle. Carpenter; right end. Skinner; quarter, Lawler;
left half. Gray; right half, Norgren; fullback, Kennedy. At beginning
of second half, Vruwink went in for Huntington; Pierce for Kennedy;
in fourth quarter. Freeman went in for Sellers.

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Right from the start Chicago played first-rate football. Lawler
ran the team, in the first quarter, faster than any Chicago team has
been run since 1905. He slowed a bit later, but the attack continued
fine. Kennedy, who played through the first half, was a power. The
defense was beautiful. Scanlan from guard and Skinner from end
covered every one of Norgren's long punts to the complete discom-
fiture of Silkman, the Illinois quarter, who had to catch them; and
Norgren's tackling was the best the writer has seen by a Chicago player.
The game was won by a long run by Norgren, and a succession of savage
bucks by Kennedy. Later a long forward pass, Norgren to Vruwink,
put the ball in position for a place kick, which Sellers neatly accom-
plished. Illinois was never nearer than forty yards to Chicago's goal.

Minnesota remained to be faced in the final game. She had beaten
Iowa 54 to 6 and Illinois 13 to o, and lost to Wisconsin 14 to o. On
comparative scores, therefore, she was superior. Moreover she was
able to use Solem at tackle and Erdahl at half, who had been incapacitated
at the time of the Wisconsin game. At the last moment, too, Paine,
who had been saved for this his final contest, hurt his knee again, and
could not play, and Sellers likewise was too lame to be used. Never-
theless Chicago was confident. She was " coming." The result justified
her confidence. The line up: left end, Vruwink; left tackle, Scanlan;
left guard, Whiteside; center, Des Jardiens; right guard, Harris;
right tackle. Carpenter; right end. Skinner; quarter, Lawler; left
half, Gray; right half, Norgren; fullback, Kennedy. At end of first
quarter Pierce went in for Kennedy. At beginning of second half,
Harris and Whiteside changed places.

The first half was absolutely barren of result, the ball resting both
at the end of the quarter and at the end of the half, exactly in the middle
of the field. Both teams gained well by hard complicated running
plays; the forward pass being used only twice by each team, every
time unsuccessfully. But Norgren was outpunting Shaughnessy ; and
Chicago was playing fast and hard. At the beginning of the second
half Norgren ran the kick-off back to the center of the field, and from
that time till the end of the game, Minnesota never once had the ball
in her possession in Chicago territory. Ten minutes after the start of
the half Norgren dropped back and sent a 40-yard pass to Skinner, who
went on to the Minnesota 25-yard line. Seven plays took the ball to
the 2-yard line, fourth down. The Minnesota secondary defense
gathered close for a buck. Fatal error ! Lawler shot Gray away round
the end over the line; Des Jardiens and Harris broke through to inter-
fere, and Gray swept back behind the posts again ; Lawler kicked an

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easy goal; the game was won, and again the season ended with a triumph.
This was the first victory over Minnesota in four years, a college genera-
tion, and was an especial satisfaction to Captain Carpenter and the
other men who were playing their final game.

Honors of the season go to the following men, and their number shows
what an even team Chicago had: Carpenter, Scanlan, Sellers, Harris,
Vruwink, Des Jardiens, and Skinner in the line; Norgren, Pierce, Paine,
Gray, Kennedy, and Lawler behind it. Whiteside, considering every-
thing, was not quite up to the form expected of him. Captain Carpenter
was a disappointment up to the Illinois game; thence on he played
beautifully. Sellers won the Northwestern game by his place kick.
Scanlan played better and better; in the Illinois game he was the star
of both lines, not excepting Des Jardiens. Harris came into his own
in the Minnesota game; he shone there almost as brilliantly as Scanlan
the week before, upsetting his men with consummate ease and following
the ball everywhere. Skinner was hardly considered at the beginning,
but both against Illinois and Minnesota he was the most useful end on
the field — fast, stubborn, and cautious. But the greatest honors
among the linemen go to Des Jardiens and Vruwink; Des Jardiens by
far the best center in the west, and Vruwink, the headiest and nerviest
end. To play twenty-five minutes with a fractured jaw without fear
or hesitation, may be foolish, but is certainly notable, and John Vruwink's
name is likely to be remembered for some years.

Behind the line Paine in his final season, showed the same qualities
that have always marked him. Off the field, boyish, humorous, a high-
stand student; on the field, fierce, clever, eager — it was a bitter dis-
appointment to him and his many friends that injuries should keep
him out of the last two games for which he was eligible. Kennedy
knows little football; on account of injuries, he has been in only eight
scrimmages and part of five games in his two whole seasons. But he
has one idea — to hit what he hits, hard. And when he hits, something
generally gives away. Pierce is absolutely dependable, and on defense
far better than Kennedy. Gray, in his first season, was the nearest
to brilliance of any back field man; his writhing, sliding runs were very
fine. Lawler is commented on elsewhere. Norgren, for his punting,
his bucking, his forward passing, and his steady powerful defense was,
with the possible exception of Des Jardiens, probably the most valuable
man in the team.

What of next year? There remain, in the line, Des Jardiens for
center; Harris for guard; Scanlan, for tackle, and Vruwink, Skinner

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and Huntington for ends. Behind the line are Norgren, Pierce, Kennedy,
and Gray. Besides these, of this year's squad, Baumgartner, Smith,
Coutchie, and Fitzpatrick are all valuable men; Bennett, who should
be a wonder, may find himself, and Weil, two years fullback at Amherst,
will be available. Of the freshmen, Hardinger, Presnell, ShuU, Schively,
and Whiting in the line, and Russell, Moulton, Foote, and Acker behind
it are good enough to push the 'varsity men very hard; not to mention
Captain Stegeman, who is heavy enough for a tackle and fast enough
for a half. Coach Page told the writer he would not trade the Freshman
line this fall, even, for the 'varsity. That makes the outlook bright.
On the other hand, except Norgren and Harris of the veterans, Coutchie,
Baumgartner. and Fitzpatrick of the second string, and Weil of the
new men, every one might get into trouble with his studies. So no
man can tell what a year may bring forth. There is, however, no
import duty on hope.

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The Orator for the December Convoca-
Hon. — At the Eighty-fifth Convocation
of the University, which will be held on
Tuesday, December 17, in the Leon
Mandel Assembly Hall, the Convocation
orator will be Edwin Erie Sparks, Ph.D.,
LL.D., President of Pennsylvania State
College . President Sparks was for twelve
years a member of the Department of
History at the University of Chicago
and one of the most successful lecturers
in the Extension Division of the Uni-
versity. He is an alumnus of the Ohio
State University, was a graduate student
at Harvard, and received the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy from the IJniver-
sity of Chicago in 1900. He is the au-
thor of Expansion of the American
People, The Men Who Made the Na-
tion, and Foundations of National Devel-
opment.

The University Orchestral Association. —
The fourth season of the University
Orchestral Association opened on Novem-
ber 5, with a concert by the Theodore
Thomas Orchestra, the program including
Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, a violin-
cello obligato by Bruno Steindel, a
symphonic sketch by Director Frederick
Stock, and the Mephisto Waltz by Listz.
On October 29 the University organist,
Mr. Robert W. Stevens, gave a lecture
recital on the first concert program.
Similar recitals will be given in advance
of each concert. Full program notices
also are published in the Daily Maroon
on the Friday preceding each orchestral
concert, the writer being Mr. Felix
Borowski, the musical critic of the
Record-Herald. Rudolph Ganz, the
famous Swiss pianist, gave the first
artist recital in the series of concerts
on November 27. The audience was
large and showed its appreciation by
recalUng the artist six times after his
interpretation of Chopin's Polonnaise.
Schumann, Beethoven, and Listz were
also represented on the program, and Mr.
Ganz played two of his own compositions.
The third concert of the series was given
by the Theodore Thomas Orchestra on
December 10. On January 21 Eugene

Ysaye will give a violin recital and on
March 11 Alice Nielsen will give a song
recital. Although the concerts are main-
tained primarily for the students of the
University there is a growing demand
from the general public for tickets. So
far more than a thousand season tickets
have been sold, and in addition about
one hundred and fifty special admissions
were sold for the Ganz recital, fifty of the
seats being on the stage.

Change in editorship of "The Biblical
World." — Dean Shailer Mathews, of
the Divinity School, who was for eight
years editor of the World To-day, assumes
the editorial management of the Biblical
World with the issue of January, 1913.
Professor Ernest D. Burton, head of the
Department of Biblical and Patristic
Greek, has been the editor-in-chief
since the death of Professor William R.
Harper, who founded the magazine.
For thirty years the Biblical World
has been the exponent of progressive
religious thought, and in the announce-
ment for the ensuing year the new editor
says that the magazine will stand for the
church at work quite as much as the
church at study and for contemporary
religious interests as well as for biblical
study. One of the special series for the
new year is in preparation by Professor
Charles R. Henderson, now in India as
the Barrows lecturer for the University
of Chicago; and Professor Mathews him-
self will contribute a series on "The Con-
test between the Natural and the
Spiritual Worlds as Seen in the Fourth
Gospel." Special editors will present
each month the most important current
work in religious education, in social
settlements, mission fields, and biblical
science.

President Harry Pratt Judson attended
the recent meeting of the General Educa-
tion Board in New York City, when con-
ditional appropriations of $455,000 were
made by the Board to the following
institutions: Baker University, Kansas;
Central College, Missouri; Lawrence
College, Wisconsin; Mississippi College;

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University of Denver; and Penn School,
South Carolina. At the celebration
of Yorktown Day at the Hotel La Salle,
Chicago, by the Sons of the American
Revolution, President Judson discussed
the subject of "The United States and
Foreign Relations," and on November
22 he spoke at the Grand Pacific Hotel
before the University of Wisconsin
Alumni Club on the subject, "Are There
Too Many Universities?"

Professor Paul Shorey, head of the
Department of Greek, began a series of
lectures on November 14 before the
Washington University Association in
St. Louis, the subjects of the lectures
being "The Case of Euripides," "Aris-
tophanes," and "Athens Fin de SiScle."
Other lecturers in the course are Pro-
fessor Nathaniel Schmidt, of Cornell
University, and Professor George Burton
Adams, of Yale University.

In a recent address before the Minne-
sota Pathological Society Professor Lud-
wig Hektoen, head of the Department
of Pathology and Bacteriology, dis-
cussed the epidemics traceable to con-
tamination of milk with streptococci,
particularly the epidemic of sore throat
m Chicago last winter which involved not
less than 10,000 cases and was traced to
contamination of a definite milk supply.
Dr. Hektoen's conclusion was that the
only safeguard against contamination
of milk with streptococci and other dis-
ease-producing bacteria is pasteurization
according to approved methods.

Professor Robert A. Millikan, of the
Department of Physics, who recently
presented papers before the Deutsche
Physikalische Gesellschaft in Berlin and
the Dundee meeting of the British Associ-
ation for the Advancement of Science,
gave the annual Sigma Xi address at the
University of Kansas in November and
also an address before the Kansas State
Teachers Association in Topeka on the
subject of " Recent Discoveries in Physics
and Chemistry."

The Department of Philosophy, after
eight years in the Law Building in con-
nection with the history and social
science departments, is now permanently
established on the fifth floor of the West
Tower of the Harper Memorial Library.
The new quarters include three offices

for the staff, a seminar room which can
be used as a conversation room when
not needed for the meeting of the seminar,
and an especially attractive graduate
reading and study room. The books of
the department are now all shelved in this
room, and for the first time the depart-
ment feels itself adequately housed.

In the Department of Geology Albert
Dudley Brokaw has been made an
Instructor in Mineralogy and Economic
Geology; Associate- Professor Stuart
Weller has recently been doing field-
work for the Illinois Geological Survey;
Assistant Professor Albert Johannsen is
completing a textbook on Petrographic
Method; and Mr. Leonard G. Donnelly
is finishing a report on the physiography
of the lower Kaskaskia Valley to be
published as an educational bulletin by
the Illinois Geographical Survey.

The Reynolds Club has enrolled for the
Autumn Quarter of 191 2 the largest
membership in its history — 559 regular
members and 198 associate members, a
total of 757. The club is under the con-
trol of an executive council of five
officers elected annually by the active
members, and two members of the
Faculty appointed by the University
Board of Student Organizations. Any
officer of the University, or former mem-
ber thereof, is eligible to associate
membership in the club.

At a recent meeting of the Blackfriars
a new departure was made by electing
to membership three of the Faculty, in
recognition of what they have done for
several years in promoting the success
of the organization. The new faculty
members are Associate Professor James
W. Linn, and Assistant Professors David
A. Robertson, and Percy H. Boynton,
who are all connected with the Depart-
ment of English and have given long
service as judges and critics of new plays.
They were among the judges that passed
on the six comic operas recently sub-
mitted in competition.

Graduate students in the Department
of Botany have received the following
appointments from other institutions for
the present year: Joseph S. Caldwell,
Fellow in the Department, to be professor
of botany at the Alabama Polytech-
nic Institute; Charles A. ShuU, to be

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assistant professor of plant physiology
at the University of Kansas; Ansel F.
Hemenway, to be professor of biology
at Transylvania University, Kentucky;
Claude W. Allee, to be instructor in plant
physiology at the University of Illinois;
Norma E. Pfeiffer, to be instructor in
botany at the University of North
Dakota; and Rachel E. Hoffstadt, to be
instructor in charge of biology at Marshall
College, West Virginia.

Zonia Baber, Associate Professor of
the Teaching of Geography and Geology,
advocated at a recent meeting of the
Chicago Geographical Society, the per-
manent reservation of four notable
physical formations in the immediate
vicinity of Chicago — Stony Island, a
ravine on the North Shore, Rock Canyon
at the Sag, and the dunes at Dune Park,
Indiana.

A new appointment in the Department
of Pathology and Bacteriology is that
of Dr. Frank K. Bartlett, who is a gradu-
ate of Rush Medical College and also of
the University of Chicago. The chief
work of investigation in the Department
is now being conducted by members of
the Sprague Memorial Institute staff,
who are also members of the Depart-
ment, and concerns the chemical phases
of tuberculosis.

The gold bar of Menes, stolen from the
Haskell Oriental Museum last February,
has been recovered through a private
detective, by whom it is reported to have
been discovered buried on Fifty-sixth
Street, just north of Marshall Field.
Menes was the first Pharaoh of United
Egypt and began to reign about 3400 B.C.
The bar bore the name of Menes beauti-
fully engraved in clear-cut hieroglyphics,
although as an ornament its exact purpose
is unknown. When returned to the
University, the inscription had been com-
pletely hacked out, largely destroying
the value of the ancient relic. It was
the oldest piece of dated and inscribed
jewelry in the world. The thief was
convicted on finger-print evidence.

John Merle Coulter, head of the
Department of Botany, recently gave
the annual college-day address at the
Western College for Women in Oxford,
Ohio, and assisted at the laying of the
cornerstone of the new gymnasium. Pro-

fessor Coulter also is giving before the
College Endowment Association in Mil-
waukee, Wis., a series of scientific
lectures, the subject of the first being
"The Evolution of Sex."

During the month of October James
Henry Breasted, Professor of Egyp-
tology and Oriental History, continued
his series of lectures on the new founda-
tion in the history of art established at
Brown University by General Rush C.
Hawkins. Professor Breasted had opened
this new lectureship last March and will
further continue it next March. In con-
nection with the eastern trip recently
completed, he also lectured at Vassar on
the University of Chicago Expedition to
the Soudan, and at Wells College on the
"Origin of Religious Ritual."

Professor Israel Abrahams, of Cam-
bridge University, England, gave at
the University in November a series
of lectures on the subject of "Talmudic
Material on the New Testament."
Professor Abrahams is a reader of
Rabbinics at Cambridge and is regarded
as an authority in that field of scholar-
ship. He is the author of Jewish Life in
the Middle Ages and also of Chapters
on Jewish Literature. Receptions were
given in his honor by Mr. Julius Rosen-
wald, a trustee of the University, and
by the Divinity Conference at the
Quadrangle Club.

Charles Scribner's Sons announce for
publication in the near future a com-
panion volume to "The Essentials of
English Composition," by Associate
Professor James W. Linn of the Depart-
ment of English. The new volume will
consist of selections from English and
American literature designed to illus-
trate the four chief forms of prose —
description, narration, exposition, and
argument.

Professor John M. Manly, head of
the Department of English, has recently
contributed a biographical introduction
to the two volumes of Poems and Plays
by William Vaughn Moody, published
by the Houghton Mifflin Company.
Mr. Moody, author of The Great Divide
and The Faith Healer, was formerly
Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Chicago.

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Recent contributions by members of
the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Atwood, Associate Professor Wallace
W.: "Some Triassic Fossils from South-
eastern Alaska," Journal of Geology,
October-November.

Baskervill, Assistant Professor Charles
R.: "Sidney's Arcadia and The Tryall of
Chevalry, Modern Philology, October.

Chamberlain, Associate Professor
Charles J.: "Two Species of Bowenia"
(contributions from the Hull Botanical
Laboratory 162), with four figures,
Botanical Gazette, November.

Dargan, Assistant Professor E. Pres-
ton: "Shakespeare and Ducis," Modcrw
Philology, October.

Fuller, George D.: "Evaporation and
the Stratification of Vegetation," Botani-
cal Gazette, November.

Judd, Professor Charles H.: Studies in
Principles of Education, VI. "Initiative
or the Discovery of Problems," Eie-
mentary School Teacher, November.

Leavitt,. Associate Professor Frank
M.: "Some Sociological Phases of the
Movement for Industrial Education,"
American Journal of Sociology, November.

Mathews, Professor Shailer: "The
Social Origin of Theology," American
Journal of Sociology, November.

Slocum, Assistant Professor Frederick:
"The Attraction of Sun-Spots for Promi-
nences " (with three plates) , A strophysical
Journal, November.

Smith, Associate Professor Gerald B.:
"The Function of a Critical Theology,"
Biblical World, November.

Recent addresses by members of the
Faculties include:

Atwood, Associate Professor Wallace
W.: "Alaska and Its People," meeting
of public school teachers, Lake Forest,
111., November 6.

Boynton, Assistant Professor Percy H.:
"What Literature Ofifers to the General

Reader," Chicago Hebrew Institute,
November 20.

Butler, Professor Nathaniel: Address
before the Logan County (111.) Teachers'
Association, November 29; "Aims and
Methods in the Study of Literature,"
Chicago Hebrew Institute, November i.

Coulter, Professor John M.: "Plant
Breeding," Fullerton Hall, Art Institute,
Chicago, November 9.

David, Assistant Professor Henri C. E. :
"Victor Hugo et les Enfants," address at
formal opening of -the French Club of
Evanston, October 14.

Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul:
"America in the Philippines," West
End Woman's Club, November 9.

Judd, Professor Charles H. : " Develop-
ment of Initiative in the Child," Teachers
Federation, South Bend, Ind., November
21.

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank
M.: "Vocational Training in the Public
Schools," High School Conference,
Urbana, 111., November 21.

Linn, Associate Professor James W.:
"Heroes, Heroines, and Marriage,"
Chicago Hebrew Institute, November 13.

Moulton, Professor Forest R.: "The
Starry Heavens," City Club, Chicago,
November 13; "The Solar System,"
Evansville, Ind., November 22.

Moulton, Professor Richard G.: "The
Book of Job," Temple Emanuel, Chi-
cago, November 27.

Shepardson, Associate Professor Fran-
cis W.: "The Challenge of the City,"
South Side Business Men's Association,
Chicago, November 21.

Scares, Professor Theodore G.:
"Young People's Contribution to Civic
Welfare," City Welfare Exhibit, John
Marshall High School, Chicago, Novem-
ber 21.

Terry, Professor Benjamin: "The
Educated Man and Business," Associa-
tion of Commerce, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
November 20.

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

To the Editor:

It begins to look from this distance as
if the alumni were really getting a jump
on themselves, and I am for giving them
a boost. Please ask the authors of
the addresses and "contributions to
knowledge," who have been crowding
the Magazine heretofore,' to get their
articles printed separately if they desire
the alumni to have them. I believe all
the fellows would like what I want in
the Magazine — a sort of chatty, newsy
write-up of what is going on at the Uni-
versity, as well as more of the personal
paragraphs so we can know what other
fellows are doing around the country.
If you can line up this sort of thing for
us we will rise up and call you blessed,
and send in more subscriptions, and
spread the glad tidings to the other fellows
who think the Magazine is still running
in the old rut. But if you do not, we
shall likely take a run into Chicago and
call you damned, and stop the paper.

I started this for a formal letter telling
you to put me on the subscription list,
and I find that it has become a sort of
regulation kick from the old subscriber.
That is not what it is meant to be. I am
just trying feebly to point out that what
we fellows away from the U want is to
know what you fellows at the U are talking
about and laughing about and swearing
about. We want a campus reporter who
will tell us the "inside" news about who
is the "goat" and who is the "Prominent
Citizen" when the Magazine gets into
print each month.

Regards to all, dear editor, from Prex
to the slave you announce you have in
your office, and best wishes for a bully
result. Do not, by the way, overlook
that idea of President Judson's for
another reunion for the twenty-fifth
anniversary. We all had a good time
at Brent Vaughan's Party, and we want
another, and you can bet that the next
one will be bigger than his, because the
fellows who did not go are swearing at
their luck. i

Sincerely,
Henry M. Adkinson, '96

To the Editor:

May a pious lay brother raise his voice
in defense against the profane words
hurled against the Cloister of the Black-
friars? Perhaps the writer is too far
away to judge first hand and again per-
haps he has too recently doffed the cowl
to be unprejudiced. At least let him
venture an opinion.

I am no skilled disputer to answer
point for point Mr. Pfeffer's attack and
if I be fair I must admit that something
of the world has entered the sacred por-
tals— a specialization that looks a bit
away from the amateur and seeks for
an unholy perfectness. But let me say
that this is but a reflection from the
tendency of the age and will destroy
itself in the heat of its own fire. I cannot
defend it but I think I can ignore it.

Says the Reformer: ". . . . the
grueling, nerve-straining work [of re-
hearsal] interferes with the legitimate
business of the college student." I would
answer this by saying from experience
that as hard as the work is, it is not harm-
ful and that the eligibility rule takes
care of the studies. Further might I
mention a certain congenial minimum
that remains a constant quantity in the
student's book work. This congenial
minimum is a sum of required plus de-
sired. The desired is proportional to
the amount of personal interest awakened
by subject and professor. When the
desired passes a certain point it auto-
matically excludes the Blackfriars, foot-
ball, and other harmless joys — valuable
joys.

Why valuable? Oh, because. Look
here, Mr. Reformer. You know the
Blackfriars and the Settlement dance
are the two best single institutions in the
University, because they teach you the
fact that you are a brother, with a
brother's love, in a family, with a family's
responsibilities, and not a selfish "I," or
worse, a conceited "we." And, too, the
man who earns his way to Friarhood
with hand or foot is no honor-grabber.
They take easier ways. He's there for
the game and he's bound to learn.

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

Also. From what police-suppressed
literature did you conjure up that ugly
illusion regarding men in women's dress ?
Honi soil in the first place and then re-
member that a healthy mind won't be
affected any more by a braided wig than
a healthy rib by three nights in a tight
corset. Granting the worst, fellows are
the harshest judges of fellows and the
campus atmosphere is a pretty clean
filter — in America at least.

The characterization of the shows
themselves, "that Cohan stuff," was a
little rough. I am prejudiced of course,
but you, Mr. Alumnus-who-knows, don't
you think the Reformer got his "dope"
from the La Salle instead of Mandel ?

And you, who have danced or type-
written your way into membership, with
me, haven't you gathered some memo-
ries, didn't you make some friends that
you couldn't have made on the "C"
bench or at the Score Club, and all in
all didn't you have a dam good time
and no hang-over?

Pfeffer, you led a wild life yourself in
college. How many times have you
refused to have an ice-cream soda and
a pretzel with me after rehearsal because
you were chained to a galley? And we
are both living.

No. Let the Holy Brothers go their
way. If they reward honest effort and
use the blue pencil a little, the deans will
do the rest and the neophytes will come
out at worst with a few sore toes and a
lot of healthy fellowship. Prosit!

A Blackfriar AirraoE

To the Editor:

The letter of B. I. Bell, '07, in the
November issue of the Magazine will,
I hope, raise up defenders of Alma Mater.
For my part, I want merely to match
up Mr. Bell's experience with my own
from two points of view; as an Alumna
and as a teacher.

First, whether or not Mr. Bell's feel-
ings and statements represent truly the
attitude of the men toward the Uni-
versity, I may say that from my own
observations they do not represent the
attitude of the women. But I do not
believe Mr. Bell does justice to "nine out
of ten of the graduates" of all sorts and
conditions, men and women; at least his
ten and mine do not overlap.

As an alumna, I feel that at two points
Mr. Bell's generalizations are unfair to
the student body as a whole: in his in-

sistence on their sense of the undue
indifference of the faculty to the indi-
vidual student, and in his assertion that
in general the students are unduly
indifferent to their work — that "their
hearts are in the wrong place."

Mr. Bell admits that he himself found
two of the faculty discriminating enough
to teach him. Many of us are grateful
for the genial genius of that "one in
the English department" or "the other
who taught mathematics"; but I believe
that in other cases, students, discerning
enough to choose individual instructors,
"not merely stereotyped things" called
members of the faculty, usually dis-
covered in their work something more
than "a dry routine matter, nearly
unrelated to their own innermost thoughts
and feelings." .^s to the instructors who
lectured to classes as to " a mass of people
who paid fees," my own recollection of
the tone and make-up of certain required
courses goes far to justify such an analy-
sis on the part of the instructor. .And
the dean, with his "two hundred callow
youths to minister to" — Mr. Bell him-
self is moved to pity his intolerable
plight!

Furthermore, as we balance the value
we have received from the University of
Chicago with the indebtedness others
acknowledge to other institutions, many
of us realize that though we have not had
the benefit of the ultra-paternalism — or
maternalism — characteristic of the so-
licitous guidance of smaller institutions,
yet we have learned to stand upon our
own feet, to expect judgment upon
results and not upon intentions; in
other words, to live the life of the world
and accustom ourselves to its criteria,
and not to prepare to live through a
period of idealistic isolation from real
life.

Mr. Bell must admit that in all pro-
fessions there is diversity of gifts; in
the ministry he must find that the
genius of the preacher and the genius of
the pastor are rarely united in one man.
So in the teaching profession, we do not
often find together the zeal of the mis-
sionary and the erudition of the scholar.
The man combining the two is one of
the great teachers of the time, we are
lucky if we meet one or two such and
should be thankful. But many students,
asking less than perfection in an in-
structor, value the ?eal when they find
it, and yet profit by the erudition also.

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Not all would accept the definition
Mr. Bell implies of the "Things real,
Things interesting " for which collegians
strove. A large number of students can
become interested in beauties of matter
and method though presented by the
most impersonal of scholars, and can
go on to follow up pleasantly by them-
selves interests started in the classroom.
But possibly such students fall into the
subnormal class which Mr. Bell charac-
terizes as "warped bookworms"!

Finally, as a teacher, I cannot refrain
from one more suggestion: that the
position of an instructor as a conspicuous
object for attack by an army of young
egoists — for every student is inevitably
an egoist, be he a high-school Freshman
or a prospective Ph.D. — certainly justifies
a resort at times to desperate measures
of self-defense. The story of the head
of a department who was refused admis-
sion at the door of a new colleague by a
vigilant maid with the statement that

"Professor • is not at home to

students" is not necessarily indicative
of a hostile, snobbish attitude on the
part of the faculty toward the students;

rather it might suggest the weary despera-
tion of a man forearmed only after
suffering many unmitigated assaults
from a persistent opponent.

As a mathematical proposition, how
much time can an instructor give to
each of one hundred and fifty students
when he teaches eight or ten hours a
week, serves as dean, acts on various
committees, takes part in civic and
social activities in the town, and devotes
adequate time to professional study?
Time and strength are both limited, and
only one who has known what it often
means to be cornered in a quiet retreat
in the library to be detained in the book-
store, to be waylaid in the hall, to be
called to the door or telephone from the
dinner-table, to be buttonholed at the
intermission of a concert, by voracious
students, frequently demanding not so
much information as personal favors,
can understand the desperate satiation
which drives an instructor to retreat to
the last ditches of indifference, and to
throw up impenetrable earthworks of
impersonality.

Helen Sard Hughes, 'io

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

The Chicago Alumni Club. — The annual
football dinner of the club was held at
the University Club on the evening of
Wednesday, November 20. About 125
were present, including Mr. Stagg and
the football squad. The speaking was
begun by Brent Vaughan, '97, who, big
with epigram, could not wait to be intro-
duced before delivering himself of the
statement that in his judgment Mr. Stagg
was the gentleman who had kicked the
stern from Northwestern and the noise
out of Illinois, and had, moreover, put the
go in Chicago. Amid ironical cheers he
sat down, and President Richberg then
brought the speakers of the evening to
the attention of the diners. J. W. Linn,
'97, read a hopelessly original poem,
beginning as follows:
When I read the announcement sent out for

this dinner
I chortled with joy; 'twould be doubtless a

winner
That moment ecstatic, when old stars now

rheumatic,
No longer dynamic, round-bellied and static.
Lived over the days of their former achieve-
ments.
Resulting so often in mournful bereavements
Of excellent families whose scions they

hurled
With a crash to the gridiron, dead, dead to the

world!
We'd badger the Badgers, and go for the

Gophers.
These boys of the present would seem like

mere loafers
Compared with the players who once tied the

can
So often and firmly on dear Michigan!
Phil Allen would tell of the moment historic
When, filled with caloric, as bold as a Warwick
He blocked with his face the fierce punt of

Van Doozer
That Evanston bruiser, whose sinews and

thews were
The object of awe all along the northshore.
And fell on the ball for a touchdown, begorl

At this point it wandered into the
quicksands of reminiscence, and was
lost. The real business of the evening
followed — "Famous Moments of For-
gotten Games," by Hamill, '98, Gale,
'96, Speed, '00, Norman Anderson, '02,
Herschberger, '98, and Phil Allen, '95.
All were interesting, but that lineal

descendant of Sapphira, Dr. Allen,
carried off the honors with a tale of how
in the Western Reserv^e game at Cleve-
land he swam over the goal-line carrying
the ball in his teeth. Following the
reminiscences, the squad were introduced
one by one to the alumni, and Mr. Stagg
then spoke briefly, hinting at an occa-
sional mood of discouragement, but say-
ing emphatically that he had no intention
of dropping his work. The feature of
the dinner was as usual the "Yearly
Buffoon" — this time an "election extra"
with a list of candidates recommended
for various offices, and their advertise-
ments. As examples of these "recom-
mendations" the following may be noted:

Our Campaign Motto: "Let the
people drool."

Vote for Charles F. Roby for Surveyor,
"One of the best linemen Chicago ever
had. He laid out lots on Marshall Field
way back in 1895."

"Dotty Doc Hamill for Coroner.
Formerly a resident of Dunning and
highly spoken of by those who knew
him there."

"For Assessors, Harold H. Swift and
Percy B. Eckhart. Every Reginald and
Aubrey in the community should vote
for Harold and Percy."

The Chicago Alumnae Club. — Chicago
is about to have an employment bureau
for college women. It should be of
especial interest to University of Chicago
women. New York, Philadelphia, and
Boston have somewhat similar bureaus
but the local plan is being worked out
independently. The name is the Chicago
Collegiate Bureau of Occupations.

The immediate purpose of this bureau
is to secure remunerative employment
for college-trained women — particularly
in non- teaching lines. Its more general
and its real purpose is to investigate and
to develop opportunities for trained
women, to broaden the field of remunera-
tive employment for them, and to in-
crease their efficiency in such employment.
It is planned to use the accomplish-
ment of the immediate purpose as the
tool for the accomplishment of the more
general one; to learn what particular

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training and what particular ability is
especially needful in each kind of work; to
learn of the opportunity for advancement
or promotion and what work leads well
to what other; to consider carefully the
training and the ability of each woman
to be placed in a position and the progress
of each one already put at work and
always to select very carefully the work
for the woman and the woman for the
work; further to advise with college
students and others concerning the facts
learned and the conclusions drawn.
This is very close to the work which
social workers have been doing for the
boy and the girl leaving grade school
and which they have called vocational
counseling. The college women are
putting into practice for themselves the
principles which they have been preach-
ing for others.

The organization which is to accom-
plish these results consists of represen-
tatives from each of the alumnae clubs
in the city of Chicago. Thus a local
group of women from each college bears
a share of the responsibility. It is hoped
ultimately to make the bureau pay for
itself and no more, but the work is begun
upon donated money, raised by these
co-operating organizations, as they are
called, and for all time the services of
everyone except the members of the office
force are to be voluntary. Women from
nine co-operating organizations have
been working for some time and at
present other organizations also are
planning to help. The Chicago Alumnae
Club of the University of Chicago has
been actively interested from the begin-
ning. It feels that it should bear an
especial share of the burden, because
women from our university must by
mere force of geography be the especial
beneficiaries.

The local alumnae club wishes all of
the graduates of the University to know
of its new work. It sincerely hopes and
believes that it is rendering a permanent
service to the alumnae and to the Uni-
versity as well and it earnestly asks the
interest and the assistance of the whole
past and present University.

Shirley Faer, '04
Alice Greenacre, '08

Des Moines Alumni Club. — The Club
on November 18 entertained at dinner,
Miss Ella Flagg Young, '00, superin-
tendent of schools of Chicago, who made

the principal address on the dedication
of the East High School building. An
account of the dinner will appear in the
next issue of the Magazine.

News from the Classes. —

J. E. Raycroft published on October 30
in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, an
article concerning the Department of
Hygienic and Physical Education, of
which he has been in charge at Princeton
for two years. Among other things, he
has abolished fees for the use of tennis
courts!

ex- I 896

Mrs. Slawka Grouitch (Mabel G.
Dun lop), wife of the Servian minister to
England, has been put in charge of the
American headquarters of the Servian
Red Cross Society. She is endeavoring
to raise a fund of $100,000 for the relief
of the Servian wounded.

John F. Hagey of the First National
Bank of Chicago, urged upon the Chicago
Association of Commerce at its annual
meeting, the passage of a Federal law to
safeguard the securities now offered for
loans by railroad bills of lading.

1903

J. A. Gladstone Dowie was ordained
on November 3, as a deacon of the
Episcopal Church. He will assist Rev.
Herman Page of St. Paul's Church in
Kenwood.

1908

Miss A. Evelyn Newman continues as
graduate secretary of the Studio Club,
35 East 62d St., New York City.

1909
S. S. Visher has collaborated with
Professor E. C. Perisho, '95, S.M., in a
Geography of South Dakota, published by
Rand, McNally & Co. Both are mem-
bers of the department of geology of the
University of South Dakota. Professor
Perisho has been dean of the college of
arts and sciences and state geologist for
some years. Mr. Visher became an
instructor in the University of South
Dakota in 1910 and has been most of
four summers in fieldwork in all parts
of South Dakota for the State Survey.
He expects to return to the university
for further graduate work.

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

1910

Francesco Ventresca is assistant pro-
fessor of modern languages at the State
College of Washington, Pulhnan, Wash.

1911

Henry T. Louthan, A.M., is professor
and head of the department of history,
in Mercer University, Macon, Ga.

Myra G. Reed is on the editorial staff
of McCaWs Magazine. Her address is
257 West Eighty-sixth Street, New York
City.

Marriages. —

'o3-'o5. Hay ward Dare Warner to
Grace Kendall McKibben, '05, on October
22, 191 2, in Seattle, Wash. Mr. Warner
is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity,
and a former University Marshal. He
is now in business in Denver as an assayer
and chemist. Mr. and Mrs. Warner
will make their home at 1347 Steele St.,
Denver, Colo.

'05. Clara L. Primm to George
Douglas Byers of the American Presby-
terian Mission in Haiuan, on July 16, at
Shanghai. Their address will be Kiung-
chow. Island of Haiuan, China.

'07-' 10. Sanford .\. Lyon to Helen
Peck, '10, in December last, at Lake
Forest, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon's address
is 200 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Wash.

'08. Robert Lincoln Kelley, to Leona
Blanche Raser of Chicago, November 6.
At home, Pierre, S.D.

'10. Charles William Barton to Violet
Hullinger, on Nov. 27. Their address
will be 6607 Randolph St., Oak Park,

111. Barton is a member of Alpha Delta
Phi.

Members of the University have
received announcements of the marriage
on November 4, of Dr. Ernest W.
Parsons, Ph.D. '12, to Miss Frances
Lyda Paisey of Burlington, Ontaria.
Dr. Parsons, who received the degree
of Ph.D. summa cum laude in the Uni-
versity last June, was the third to receive
that honor in the Divinity School. He
has recently accepted the pastorate of
the First Baptist Church of Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan. While in residence at
the University the last four years he
took active part in the work of the
Divinity School, and served as secretary
of the New Testament Club last year.

'12. John Henry McLean, to Ida E. A.
Waitt of Dorchester, Mass., September 19.

Deaths. —

'02. Wilbur Condit Gross, died on
November 30, after a lingering illness of
many months.

Wilbur Gross was born in Chicago
January 18, 1879 and graduated from the
Englewood High School in 1897. The
following year he entered the University
of Michigan where he continued for two
years until 1900, when he entered the
University of Chicago. In 1902 he was
graduated with the degree of A.B. and
has been until recently associated with
his father in the wall safe business.
Wilbur Gross was a member of Beta
Theta Pi Fraternity. He was a brother
of Florence and Helen Gross. He is
survived by a wife (Morgia Stough, '08)
and one child, Peter, three years of age.

THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY

C. A. Shull, '04, has been appointed
to professorship in plant physiology
in the University of Kansas.

C. W. Allee, '12, has been appointed
to an instructorship in plant physiology
in the University of Illinois.

At Ohio State University numerous
promotions have recently been made
including that of R. F. Earhart, '00, to
a full professorship in physics.

Why Go to College? is the title of an
exceedingly neat little pamphlet of
75 pages, compiled by G. F. Reynolds,
'05, professor of English and rhetoric at
the University of Montana.

Mary P. Blount, '08, has resigned her

position at the University High School
to take an instructorship in science in
the Chicago Teachers College.

Orie L. Hatcher, '03, has been pro-
moted to an associate professorship in
comparative and Elizabethan literatures
at Bryn Mawr College.

Caroline L. Ransom, '05, who is
assistant curator of Egyptian antiquities
at the Metropolitan Museum, New
York, is spending a vacation in Germany
and expects to return to this country in
February.

"The Influence of Local Theatrical
Conditions upon the Drama of the
Greeks" is the title df an article by Roy

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C. Flickinger, which has been reprinted
for private circulation by the Classical
Journal.

John L. Tilton, 'lo, is professor of
geology and physics at Simpson College,
Indianola, Iowa.

"Determination of the Constants in
Euler's Problem Concerning the Mini-
mum Area between a Curve and Its
Evolute" is the title of an article by E. J.
Miles, 'lo, in the Annals of Mathematics
for September, 1912. He also has an
article on " Surfaces of Minimum Resist-
ance" in the Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society for November,
191 2. Dr. Miles is instructor in mathe-
matics at Yale University.

The Doctor's dissertation of H. F.
MacNeish, '09, on Linear Polars of the
k-Hedron in n-Space, has recently been
published by the Univei;sity of Chicago
Press. Dr. MacNeish is instructor in
mathematics at Yale University.

H. W. Hill, '11, is professor of English
in the University of Nevada, Reno,
Nev.

M. A. Chrysler, '04, is professor of
biology at the University of Maine.

Frank H. Fowler, '96, has received an
appointment on the classical staff at the
University of Utah.

Anna W. Starr, '11, is professor of
botany in Mt. Holyoke College.

The president of the Eastern Alumni
Association is E. E. Slosson, '03, literary
editor of the Independent, He has

recently been on a scientific trip to
Australia at the invitation of the Victo-
rian government.

Ernest Emerson, '09, who was formerly
research instructor at the University
of Chicago has recently been appointed
to an assistant professorship in chemistry
at Amherst Agricultural College.

A. W. C. Menzies, '10, formerly
instructor at the University of Chicago,
has been appointed to the professorship
and head of the department of chemistry
at Oberlin College.

Wm. F. Luebke, '11, is a member of
the stafif in the Germanic department at
the State University of Iowa.

C. J. Bushnell, '01, is professor of
sociology and politics at Lawrence
College, Appleton, Wis.

G. F. McKibben, '05, is professor of
romance languages at Denison University,
Granville, Ohio.

Allen D. Hole, '10, is head of the
department of geology at Earlham
College, Richmond, Ind.

Letitia M. Snow, '04, has been pro-
moted to an associate professorship in
botany at Wellesley College.

C. Everett Conant, '11, has been
elected a corresponding member of the
Academic Malgache, of Tananariva,
Madagascar, in recognition of his re-
searches in Indonesian (Malayo-Poly-
nesian) philology. He is professor and
head of the department of modern
languages in the University of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.

THE DIVINITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Changed addresses. — Dr. H. C. Mabie,
'75, and wife may be addressed at 55
Earl's Court Road, Kensington W.,
London. Their second son and his wife
are to be in London for quite a season, he
pursuing his art studies in the Kensington
School of Design.

Rev. W. H. Garfield, '04, closed his
pastorate at Ottawa, III., Nov. i.

Dr. Alfred W. Wishart, pastor of the
Fountain St. Church, Grand Rapids,
Mich., Is preaching a series of morning

sermons on "A Constructive View of
Orthodoxy," including the following
themes: "The Catholicity of the
Church"; "Christ the Divine Man";
"Salvation through the Cross"; "The
Forgiveness of Sins"; "The Inspiration
of the Bible"; "Heaven and Hell." In
the evening a series is in progress on
"Old Parables and Their Modern Mes-

sages.

Fred Merrifield, '01

Secretary-Treasurer

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UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS

General. — The Henry Strong scholar-
ships were awarded this fall to Miss
Martha Green, Donald Breed, Leroy
Campbell, Robert Presnell, and William
A. Shirley. Each scholarship carries

$200 Eleven candidates out of

seventy-five were chosen for membership
in the University Dramatic Club on
October 29. The Club appeared in its
regular autumn quarter performance on
Friday, November 22, in the Reynolds'
Club Theater. More than 200 were
turned away after the hall was filled.
The plays given were Ryland, The Greek
Vase, Op-'o-me Thumb, and Mrs. Ford's
Face, the latter by Donald Breed, '13.
F. H. O'Hara, '15, and Winnifred Cut-
ting, '13, carried off the honors of the

evening In the straw vote for

president, concluded on November i,
Roosevelt won with 407 votes; Wilson
was second with 356; Taft third with 70;
Debs fourth with 19, and Chafin last

with 4 The annual Settlement

dance was held in Bartlett on the evening
of December 7. The chairmen of the
committees were R. D. Matthews, Re-
ception; Donald Hollingsworth, Finance;
Bernard Vinissky, Publicity; William
Hefferan, Decoration; Erling Lunde, Re-
freshments; Howard Keefe, Printing;
George Leisure, Music; and Dorothy
Fox, Entertainment". One hundred and
fifty students made up the committees.
.... The first number of a new maga-
zine to be called The University of Chicago
Literary Monthly will appear in January.
.... At the class elections on Novem-
ber 15, the following were elected:
Upper Seniors: Class President, George
Kuh; Vice-President, Mary A. Whitely;
Secretary, Dorothy Fox; and Treasurer,
William Hefferan. Lower Seniors: Presi-
dent, Ernest Reichmann; Vice-president,
Suzanne Fisher; Secretary, Arline Brown;
Treasurer, Harvey Harris. Upper Jun-
iors: President, Donald Delaney; Vice-
president, Katharine Covert; Secretary,
Mabel Becker; Treasurer, S. Baum-
gartner. Lower Juniors: President, Wil-
liam Ewart; Vice-president, Frederick
Burky; Secretary, Dorothy Vanderpool;
Treasurer, Joseph Gary. Eight hundred
and fifty-two votes were cast in the elec-
tions. Kuh, the new president of the
upper seniors is also captain of the track
team. He is a member of Washington

House Robert AUais, ' 1 5 , won the

lower junior extemporary speaking contest

on November 19 Forty-nine men

were initiated into the Three-quarters
Club on November 26, the largest number

in the history of the Club The

debating squad for the intercollegiate de-
bates to be held in January was selected
on November 18. The men chosen were
Conrad, Cook, Hammond, Hunt, Peters,
and Soble.

Athletics. — C. C. Stewart, '13, was
elected Captain of the tennis team on
November 2. He is a member of Phi

Beta Kappa Two swimming meets,

the first held on November 15, and the
second on November 22, indicate better
prospects for the swimming team than
for the last two or three years. In both
meets the 'Varsity defeated the Freshmen,
although the star of both was Ray White,
of the Freshman team. Of the upper
classmen, Moore, Neff, and Donald Hol-
lingsworth showed to best advantage, and
of the freshmen, Ray White and Pavlicek.
In the relay race, the men averaged a
trifle less than 23 seconds for the forty
yards. Ray White won the 2 : 20 in the
first meet in 2:55 and in the second meet

in 2:56 The cross-country team

finished last in the Conference race on
November 23; 66 in all started, and
Captain Bishop, the first Chicago man to
finish came in 27th. Byerly, second man
for Chicago, was 49th Twenty-
one Freshmen were awarded "1916"
numerals in football by Coach Page, four
more received the 19 16 reserve honors,
while five more were given squad jerseys.
The men awarded the numerals were.
Captain Stegeman, Moulton, Russell,
Boyd, Shull, Whiting, Redmon, Acker,
Foote, Kendall, Matson, Sparks, Shively,
Gordon, Sellers, Beckwith, Cole, Hard-
inger, Presnell, and Petrich. The reserve
awards were made to Hawley, Stewart,
Hatcher, and O'Connor, while jerseys
were given to Hirsch, Stout, Olmstead,

Anderman, and Taylor Nelson

Henry Norgren, '14, was elected captain
of the football team for 19 13, on Novem-
ber 25. The only other candidate was
Stanley R. Pierce, fullback. Norgren is
one of two men in the history of the Uni-
versity to win four major C's — ^his being
in football, baseball, basket-ball, and
track, all gained in his Sophomore year.
Norgren is just twenty-one,- lives in Chi-
cago, and prepared at R. A. Waller High.
He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

^fl-

THOMAS WAKEFIELD GOODSPEED

The University of Chicago
Magazine

Volume V JANUARY I9I3 Number 3

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

A circular letter sent out to the alumni on December 4 by the secre-
tary of the Association, and perhaps in part also the comment in the
Alumni News ^^^^ember Magazine, has brought the editor more news of
the alumni than many previous months have produced.
Letters, announcements, even anonymous postcards have come with
information. The most interesting compendium is The Eleven* the
semiannual publication of the class of 191 1, a copy of which was sent
the Magazine by Leroy Baldridge, editor-in-chief. It shows the class in
sound financial condition, harmonious, enthusiastic, and progressive.
The " idiotorials " are pungent, and the news of the class, much of which
is translated into English elsewhere in this issue of the Magazine, is
very good reading in the original. The best of it is, the members of
the class all understand the language in which Editor Baldridge writes.
One prophesies that 'Eleven will go on and increase in valor, wisdom,
and delight.

On January 18, probably before this issue of the Magazine appears,
will be held the annual dinner of the Minnesota Alumni Club, at the

Leamington Hotel, in Minneapolis. President Vincent
Alumni Associ- ^^ Minnesota will be toastmaster, and among the speakers
ation Dinner ^^^ ^^ President Judson and President-Emeritus of

Minnesota, Cyrus Northrup. Others who will go from
Chicago are Mrs. Judson, James Weber Linn, '97, and David Allan
Robertson, '01. The arrangements, which are elaborate, have been in
charge of Harvey B. Fuller, '08, and Ernest W. Kohlsaat, '02.

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The President's quarterly statement calls attention to the fact that
an arrangement has been made between the University and the Depart-
ment of Education and Fine Arts in Paris for an exchange
Professors ^^ professors in alternate years, beginning with the autumn
with France °^ ^^^^ V^^^ (1913)- The first appointee will be a professor
designated from one of the French universities by the
Department of Education. The system of exchange professorships
is no longer an experiment. Harvard and Columbia employ it more
largely than any other universities; but Chicago has already tried it
often, usually with much success. The extension of it here foreshadowed
is a matter for congratulation.

The President's statement also points out a gain of 43 on the quad-
rangles and 86 in University College, for the Autumn Quarter compared

.^^ , with the Autumn Quarter of 1012. The new entrance

Attendance . ...

requirements, which insist upon much higher standing

for admission than is demanded for graduation from preparatory schools,
were expected to diminish the attendance for a time. Inasmuch as they
were not enforced last fall with absolute rigidity, various applicants
being admitted on probation, it is hard to say just what effect they will
have. Two years ago entrance was made much easier, by the readjust-
ment of subjects required for admission; no very large increase in the
Freshman class was noted. Last year entrance was made harder again,
by the just-mentioned demand for higher grades in preparatory schools;
and no special change in the number entering was observable. If any-
body cares to take the gun of prophecy, he is welcome; the editor of
the Magazine declines to shoot.

In a carefully detailed report for 191 1-12, recently issued, the Bureau

of Student Employment gives some interesting figures: 816 men and

82 women, 896 in all, were given 1,085 positions, in which

® "fc"^^ ° ^^^^ earned $137,137.40, or an average of $152.71 per

Employment student; 970 were part-time positions, yielding an average

of $105.20 per student; 52 were permanent positions

(averaging ten months' duration) and yielding an average of $86 per

month; 63 were vacation positions, averaging in duration 14I weeks,

and in pay $1 1 . 44 per week. By far the largest amount earned was by

waiters, $16,325.40. The next largest was by salesmen in stores,

$8,831.50, and the third by houseworkers and cooks, $7,953.85.

Then follow in order stenographers and typewriters, $7,383.10; tutors

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 69

and governesses, $6,816; and janitors, $4,414. There are 37 classi-
fications in all, including chauffeurs, conductors of services in a syna-
gogue, stereopticon operators, show-card writers, actors and supers,
patrolmen and detectives, and political canvassers. The actors
averaged $1.19 an hour; the patrolmen and detectives only 40 cents.
The highest average pay per hour was $1.56, gained by the referees
of basket-ball games and the conductors of gymnasium classes; the
lowest, 25 cents, which rewarded the waiters for board and room, and
(oddly enough) the cashiers. Almost a third of all the students in resi-
dence, except in the Summer Quarter, and more than a third of all the
men, were helped by the Bureau, which placed an average of well over
three students every day of the year. The Bureau is in general charge
of Alfred C. Kelly, Jr. Its headquarters have been removed from Cobb
to the Press Building.

Announcement was recently made of the selection as Cecil Rhodes

scholar from Illinois of Robert Valentine Merrill, a student in the Senior

• Colleges of the University. Mr. Merrill has attended the
The New

. _ , . University for three years and has won distinction in

from Chicago academic work, as well as in various forms of athletics.
He has specialized in the classics and philosophy, and
is captain of the University fencing team and a member of the swimming
team. He is the son of Professor Elmer T. Merrill, of the Department
of Latin. His work as a Rhodes scholar will begin at Oxford in the
autumn of 1913, where he will remain for four years. Among the com-
mittee on selection of the Rhodes scholar for Illinois were President
Edmund J. James, of the University of Illinois, and President Harry
Pratt Judson.

The Daily Maroon recently printed the list of the thirteen editors

who had managed its fortunes in the ten years of its existence. Herbert

E. Fleming, the first managing editor, 1902-3, is now

anagmg secretary of the Civil Service Reform Association, 140 S.

"Maroon" Dearborn St., Chicago; Robert L. Henry, the first

Rhodes scholar from Illinois, managing editor in the

summer of 1903, is now dean of the Law School of the University of

North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.; Oliver B. Wyman, managing editor

from 1903-4, is in the law oflSces of Harlan and McCandless, Marque.tte

Building, Chicago; Harry W. Ford, 1904-5, is assistant general manager

of the Chalmers Motor company; Walter L. Gregory, 1905-6, is with

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the American Tin Can and Plate Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. William
M. McDermid, October, 1906 to December, 1906, is advertising manager
of the Recorder Service Co., Cleveland, Ohio; R. Eddy Mathews,
January, 1907 to June, 1907, is political editor of the Chicago Daily
Press; Luther D. Fernald, 1907-8, is in the advertising department of
Collier's Weekly and is located in Chicago; Preston F. Gass, 1908-9, is
the "star" reporter of the Chicago Evening Post, and a correspondent
for the New York Sun; A. Leo Fridstein, 1909-10, is with the Water-
proof Engineering Co., First National Bank Building, Chicago; Nathan-
iel Pfeffer, 1910-11 is with the Associated Press in Chicago; Walter J,
Foute, 1911-12, was graduated in December; and Hiram Kennicott,
'13, is at present in charge.

The first of January marks the retirement from active service of one
of the oldest and most valued members of the administrative force

of the University — Dr. Thomas W^akefield Goodspeed,
r. 00 p Registrar and Secretary of the Board of Trustees. In a

score of ways Df . Goodspeed has impressed himself upon
the life of the University, and he dwells in the memory of thousands of
her graduates. His services are spoken of at greater length in the article
printed elsewhere in the Magazine. Perhaps the most striking was his
successful effort to raise the fund for the Harper Memorial Library.
But it is rather as a figure in the daily life of the institution that most
will recollect him; they will recall the eager enthusiasm that animated
him, the spirit of loyalty and comradeship that the snows of seventy
winters, though they might whiten his hair, could never chill. After
all, he is still to be with us; possibly he may work a little less arduously,
but he will continue to work for Chicago; for to him life without loyal
service would be almost as empty as life without the religion of which
he has been to so many the exemplar.

After three months' time, the omission of the old "ten- thirty half-
hour" has been found unsatisfactory to the student body; and following
the receipt of a petition signed by a large percentage of
e orning ^^^ undergraduates a free period has been reincorporated
Restored ^ ^^^ morning program. The hours are now as follows:

8:i5-9:i5;9:i5-io:i5; 10:15-10:45; 10:45-11:45; 11:45
-1 2 : 45 ; in the afternoon, i : 30-2 : 30 ; 2 : 30-3 : 30 ; 3 : 30-4 : 30. This gives,
as last quarter, seven recitation periods a day. It shortens the luncheon
period by 15 minutes; but as chapel and other college assemblies have

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 71

again been put in the free morning period, this shortening involves no
hardship. So loud were the complaints last quarter that it is hardly
likely the experiment of omitting the morning recess will again be at-
tempted.

Last fall the men of the Senior class decided upon a series of weekly

meetings, with no object other than the cultivation of acquaintance and

good fellowship. The first question was, where should they

^^S * ^^ s" ^^^^ ^ ^^^y ^^"^^ "°^ ^^^ ^^^ Commons after half-past
Meet? seven, nor unless they ordered dinner; and to the general

surprise of the University, they found that they could
not use the Reynolds Club, unless they excluded non-members of that
organization; even in such a case, they could not eat and drink there.
Nor was there any reputable place in Hyde Park, outside of the Uni-
versity, where they might assemble. The back room of a saloon-
restaurant on Lake Avenue offered the only haven of refuge. Not
unnaturally they considered meeting there. When the disadvantages
connected with such a meeting-place were, however, put forcibly by
various members of the class, that idea was discarded; and no other
spot being discovered, the plan was abandoned. Rather a pity, it seems.
Even the dean of the faculties has been heard to ask since, what is the
Reynolds Club for, if not in part for such desirable assemblies as those
of the Senior class ?

Mr. Bell's letter in the November Magazine, concerning the relation-
ship of students to faculty, has stirred comment. Elsewhere is printed

a letter in answer. One even more striking answer, perhaps,
. was the dinner of students and faculty, held in Hutchinson

Commons on the evening of Tuesday, January 7. It was
organized by the Undergraduate Council,. and was attended by fifty
of the members of the faculty and by nearly five hundred under-
graduates. Norman Paine, '13, president of the Council, presided;
and the speakers were Chester Bell, '13, for the students, Donald Rich-
berg, '01 for the alumni, and Dean Angell, Professor F. W. Shepardson,
and President Judson. It was the most successful dinner held in the
Commons for a long time. The note struck and held was that of
friendliness and mutual respect between instructors and instructed. In
this is nothing strange; but in the enthusiastic manifestations of the
dinner there was the best of evidence that the feeling was shared by
everybody present.

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The f-Club, as usual, attracted a good deal of unfavorable attention
in the Autumn Quarter. In the past this attention has centered chiefly
_, I c\ \i upon the frequent silliness of the performances required
of the candidates for membership, and upon the distraction
from their studies which the club involved. But last quarter a new point
came up for criticism. Some of the neophytes were beaten with such
extreme cruelty as to raise protest, even among the members of the
club. One athletic Sophomore boasted that in his hands no barrel-stave
lasted for more than three blows. Nobody was actually maimed, but
a number came near real injury. The almost universal testimony of
the Freshmen seems to be that the club as at present conducted is not
worth their while. ''Fraternity loyalty," eagerly invoked, carries them
through the month of initiation, and the next year the desire is to
"get even." That the club might be made worth while, nobody denies;
that it has been so this year, nobody believes. There was even an
incipient scandal concerning the conduct of its finances.

The daily newspapers have given wide publicity to the fact that
for the second successive year. Coach Stagg has been forced to leave the
University for the Winter Quarter, in search of health.
TT * ith Some years ago, one unusually rainy autumn, Mr. Stagg

developed sciatica, and spent some time at a sanitarium in
recuperation. The trouble last year, and now, however, is not sciatic
but nervous. The strain of making bricks without straw every fall,
combined with the responsibility of the general management of athletics
throughout the rest of the year, is wearing upon him. To put it bluntly,
after the football season is over he cannot sleep. If a problem is pre-
sented to him, he cannot stop thinking about it. So for two years he
has gone South to live an outdoor life and regain his strength. Last
year he spent most of his vacation at Pinehurst. This year he went
first to Jacksonville, Florida, whence he will slowly work north, probably
again to Pinehurst. Mr. Stagg is now fifty years old. He has given
twenty of the best years of his life to the incessant service of the Uni-
versity. His accomplishments in athletics speak for themselves. For
all the slendemess of our material and the strictness of our scholastic
requirements, Chicago is usually the team which must be beaten if the
championship is to be won. The West is pretty unanimous in the opinion
that as a football coach Mr. Stagg is the best ever known. But his
value to Chicago is not measurable in terms of athletics. As a moral
force he is extraordinary. The moral evils of athletic competition, of

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 73

which we hear so much from Dean Briggs and others, simply do not
exist under his supervision. Rough play, rough speech, a lack of
sportsmanship, he will not tolerate; and they are eliminated, not by
his exhortation, but because they die in the shadow of his personality.
Isn't it about time that he formally relieved himself, or was relieved, of
all duties except football coaching and the general supervision of other
branches of athletics? Mr, Dinsmore has taken over almost all the
care of advertising, ticket selling, and mechanical supervision. Basket-
ball and swimming Mr. Stagg leaves to others. Are there not younger
men to whom the active coaching of the track and baseball squads can
safely be intrusted ; so that when the football season is over, instead of
feeling that his work is just begun, Mr. Stagg may lay aside the responsi-
bility, the sense of which has for two years embittered and to some extent
enforced his vacation ?

At last accounts all records had been broken by the probation list
in the Junior Colleges for the Winter Quarter, and the Senior Colleges
I li *bl ! "^^^^ not without representation thereupon. The little
cloud, no larger than a man's hand, of the four-week
notice, spread in almost literally hundreds of cases to cov^er the horizon
at the end of the quarter. Only nine students actually dismissed, but
think of nine whose records averaged below D ! Amid the storm, how-
ever, the crop of athletes maintained itself fairly well. The track team
loses Bishop, Breathed, and Chandler, all middle and long-distance men.
The basket-ball squad remains so far intact. The baseball team is
the hardest hit. Block, the Sophomore pitcher; Mann, the catcher;
Libonati, outfielder; and Captain Freeman are all hors de combat.
Fortunately a quarter intervenes between them and actual play, and they
may regain their standing. To mention the names of Freshman athletes
who were unsuccessful in their class work would be hardly fair. But
such there are.

Is there anything good to be said of the "snap" course — the course
which is sought by the lazy, or by the man who is greatly occupied in
"Snao" Cotirses ^^"^^"^ affairs, athletic, social, or political ? There are
such courses in all universities, the mere mention of
which arouses derisive laughter, or at best a defensive deprecatory grin.
No effort of thought is required in them, no accumulation of fact, scarcely
even any regularity of attendance. The student wishing to register for
one such lays down his card defiantly or apologetically, as the case may

74 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

be; he is either at bay, or hidden in a cloud of explanation and excuse.
He is expecting to go abroad, and a knowledge of the institutions of the
Low Countries will be most valuable to him. He is particularly and
above all things a humanist; he thinks nothing human alien to him;
therefore, surely a knowledge of the bases of society is desirable. He
is in helpless earnest to know the best which has been thought and said
in other tongues than English, but alas, his eyes are too weak to permit
of the study of foreign languages, and he must secure his knowledge
therefore through the medium of translations. Or else he declares,
boldly and baldly, "Dean, I need the grade points; mayn't I register
for so-and-so, or such and such?" For the student of the latter sort
let it not be said that "at least he is honest." Oftener he is merely
exercising his blunt undergraduate diplomacy. But for him and his
less direct fellows, for the snap course itself, is there nothing to be said ?
Shall the undergraduate never loaf and invite his soul? Is he not to
be permitted to relax ? Driven upon a strenuous way by the coach or
the stage manager or the dire necessities of political maneuvering, may
he never find relief in the shelter of a kindly professorial personality?
Exhausted by "rushing" and dances, may he not recreate himself in
the loud somnolence of the classroom? Disturbed and made fretful
by the insistence of clamorous disciplinarians who believe in study for
its own sake, may he not wisely retreat to the haven prepared for him
by the friendly soul who "stimulates" but never asks for written work?
"Surely," said R.L.S., "we should be a good deal idle in youth." And
where can idleness be pursued more profitably than in the snap course ?
About what do the recollections of your own college days cling most
fondly — the chemistry laboratory, or the room in which you laughed
and dreamed the hours away, while the instructor amused you with his
ever fresh eccentricities, and from which you emerged with the sincere
encomium upon your lips, "By George, he's better than vaudeville!"
But one wonders, too, whether in the silent watches of the night the
"stimulating" instructor never reflects a little sadly upon the precise
shading of his popularity.

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THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND
ADMINISTRATION

Since the beginning of the University of Chicago the need has been
recognized of a school, or college, or separate group of courses, which
should train students for a business life. Professor J. Laurence Laughlin
presented to the senate a careful plan for a "school of commerce and
industry" on February 3, 1894. His scheme called for an annual
expenditure of $38,500. Two years later, March 14, 1896, it was voted
that $5,800 was the minimum necessary to start the work. Observe
the difference; but there is no record that even the $5,800 was ever voted.
Certain existing courses in the University were grouped, and in the
Register for 1898-99 the "College of Commerce and Politics" was set
forth parallel with the Colleges of Art, Literature, and Science, but no
dean or special faculty was given. March 15, 1902, the Senate adopted
a report providing for a separate technical school, the College of Com-
merce and Administration, with its own faculty and administrative
officers. This faculty met from April 26, 1902, until May 22, 1905.
Thereafter the college led a casual and inadvertent life. In 1910-11 it
had 261 registrations, but it exercised no discoverable function or control.
The history is so far a sad one, to which the proverb seems applicable:
great cry and little wool. The lack, however, was not of interest, but
of money.

In 1910, Mr. Rockefeller made his final gift of ten million dollars.
Some time afterward, Dean L. C. Marshall was sent to study American
schools of commerce and of civics, bureaus of municipal research, and
similar agencies. Upon his return a plan was drawn up which met the
approval of the administration, and which has been since put into action.

The general plan of the reorganization of the work in the College of
Commerce and Administration may be seen by the diagram facing this
page.

Following the preliminary work of the high school and of the Junior
Colleges comes the division of the students into three groups : the business
group, the civic group, and the charitable and philanthropic group.
After this, and usually in the Senior year, come the specialized courses
for a particular occupation, whether it be railroading, or a private
secretaryship, or statistical investigation, or the bond business. These

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courses may very well be carried on into the graduate schools; ''as good
food is prepared the students will remain longer at the feast"; but it is
expected that for several years to come the great majority of the students
will discontinue at the end of the four-year course.

The thirty-six majors of that four-year course, however, will be
absolutely at the disposal of the Dean. The student must expect to see
them all employed to a definite end. Those who enter college badly
prepared — who bring for example no modern language — and those who
enter with advanced standing from some other institution, or transfer
late in their course from some other division of the University, must often
expect to take more than 36 majors for graduation. The course of the
student in Commerce and Administration, in other words, is in no sense
elective. Registering in that College, he declares his confidence in the
Dean's judgment, and his own fixity of purpose. His attitude (though
not his course) is from the beginning as professional as that of the
student in law or medicine. The prescription of courses is to a high
degree individual, but it is none the less rigid. He (or she) is not
admitted except after long personal consultation with the Dean, and
with a full understanding of the conditions. He may not remain in the
College unless he maintains both his general standing and his willingness
to co-operate. It may be noted in passing that of the 140 who sought
to register in Commerce and Administration at the beginning, 67 were
either refused permission to do so, or voluntarily sought another haven
after they had discovered the strength of the wind.

Specifically, (a) whiat courses will a student take who is planning, for
instance, to become a bond salesman; and (b) what does he gain in
return for the surrender of his power of election ?

(a) He will, of course, take English; and he will take two years'
work in one modern language, unless when he comes to the University he
has the power to read it easily and intelligently. He will take a year of
history. He will take political science, sociology, psychology, ethics and
as a matter of course introductory economics. These he will follow with
intermediate courses in the economic history of the United States, in
economic organization, and in money and banking; and these again with
advanced work in banking practice, in crises, in corporation finance, in
industrial and commercial organizations, and so on. These courses will
be conducted, as the courses in the Law School are, as problem courses;
and they will be supplemented by at least one quarter of "field-work" in
actual practice, and by a minimum of actual research into some economic
question. What other courses he takes will depend upon the judgment

THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND ADMINISTRATION 77

of the Dean. A man ignorant of physical science would be introduced
to chemistry and geology. One case may be cited in which a student in-
tending to be a newspaper woman was urged to continue with her Greek.

And this last case may lead us to (b), what does the student get in
return for the surrender of his power of election ?

In the first place of course, the statement put in this form becomes
a bit of caricature; one imagines a ferocious, possibly bewhiskered
gentleman thundering his commands to a timid and reluctant young man
or woman deprived alike of the power of answer and the power of choice.
Nothing very like this occurs. The student retains his individuality;
indeed the possession and development of ah individuality is intended to
be a sine qua non. He (or she) and the Dean consult, discuss; but the
final decision lies mith the Dean. And precisely for this reason, the
student gains whatever advantage may lie in a careful, friendly study by
a trained official of the student's powers and limitations. For the value
of this new (or newly reorganized) college must lie wholly in the value
of its graduates; if their quality is in the long run no better than that of
the average, less closely supervised student, the plan will have failed to
justify itself. Since this is so, the individual suggestions must be based
by the Dean on fairly complete information and reasonably clear under-
standing. The information must come in part from the student himself;
it will be supplemented by careful further inquiry. The following card
is sent out each quarter to each instructor in any of whose classes a student
in the College of Commerce and Administration is registered :

To the lastructor: Please state yoitf
estimate of the Qualities of this stu-
dent and return tne card to the Dean
of the College of Commerce and Ad-
ministration. The information will
be regarded as confidential. For con-
venience, let A=Excellent; B = Good;
C-Fair; D=Poor; E=VeryPoor.

Name of student

No. Dept. Title

Course

Taken Quarter, 191 .. .

Ability to grasp general prindples Thorough-
ness Alertness, Keenness Ability to

master details Open-mindedness Order-
liness, System Ability to express thoughts Reliability Balance and

Judgment Independence, Self-reliance, Initiative Industry Square-
ness and Honesty Ability to deal with people Promptness Poise and

Manner General Comment :

Instructor

If this plan to secure information works, and if the advice which the
Dean gives is sound, the student in Commerce and Administration ought
to get not only definite training but wise training. At all events he enters
upon his course with his eyes open; he knows what is being asked of
him, as, too often the average undergraduate does not.

The purpose of the College of Commerce and Administration is

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fundamentally to train men and women not only to make money but to
promote the welfare of society.

Our medical schools are demanded not primarily that physicians may command
good fees but that society may be served. Our law schools may aid in making lawyers
who will be wealthy, but the mere fact that we impose a bar examination shows that
the interest of society, not that of individual, is dominant. So our schools of com-
merce, of civics, of philanthropy will miss their purpose if, either by intention or
through neglect, the individual, money-making side is permitted to have the ruling
hand.

The danger of the development of an anti-social, or at best a non-social attitude
is particularly great in a college of commerce. Its professional attitude is constantly
in the way of temptation of becoming merely a money-making attitude. The "mere
grind of the machinery" will tend to bring about such a result. This tendency can
be offset in part by eternal vigilance upon the part of the administration, but it should
aid greatly to have the work in commerce closely bound up, in at least its earlier
stages, with work in preparation for social and pohtical service. The "grind of the
machinery" in these latter fields will be distinctly pro-social.

But the interest of the College in research is equally clear.

It conceives that very considerable stores of scientific information exist in the
fields of philosophy, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics which
should be made more accessible for the furthering of the progress of the community.
The college will assume some responsibility for this task, and, through painstaking
research and investigation, it will seek to open up and make accessible new stores of
scientific data. In rendering this service the college has a duty to more than one
section of the community. It hopes to serve by aiding commercial and industrial
development; it hopes equally to serve by assisting in the solution of our pressing
political and social problems. It believes that there is sufficient unity and coherence
in the social sciences to justify an attempt to advance all along the line and it has
accordingly placed under one organization the functions which in some institutions are
performed by schools or colleges of commerce, the functions which in other institutions
are performed by schools of social workers, and the functions which, in still other
institutions, are given over to bureaus of municipal research. Research activities of
the students will have some importance . Far more important will be the investigations
by the instructors in the specialized or professional courses. In this formative period
of such education, it is clear that the college must expect to carry, as one of its most
important functions, its research division.

Such briefly is the history, organization, and purpose of the College

of Commerce and Organization. There are at present no instructors

who teach exclusively in the College; even the Dean is dean also of the

Senior Colleges. On the other hand, Freshmen and Sophomores who are

registered in Commerce and Administration are no longer in the charge

of the deans of the Junior Colleges. At present free transference is

permitted; that is to say, a Junior College student may decide to

to the Junior College administration. Whether this will be long allowed

is doubtful; it has its obvious disadvantages. The new college is

avowedly an experiment; it appears likely to succeed.

Note. — For the substance of this article and the quotations, the Magazine is
indebted to a paper read by Dean Marshall before the deans of the University, which
is to appear in the February number of the Journal of Political Economy.

THOMAS W. GOODSPEED

Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed was born at Glenns Falls, N.Y.,
September 4, 1842, He studied at Knox College, Galesburg,> Illinois,
and was present when Lincoln and Douglas met in debate on the Knox
College campus, on October 7, 1858. In 1859 he became a member
of the first Freshman class in the old University of Chicago, where he
continued his studies until 1862. Here he participated actively in the
college sports, being most proficient in baseball and wrestling. As
orderly of the Student Military Company he led that body when in June
of 1861 it acted as guard of honor at the burial of Senator Douglas, the
founder of the institution. In 1862 he entered the University of Rochester
as a Senior and was graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1863. At
Rochester he became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Being
resolved to enter the ministry, Mr. Goodspeed took up theological work
at once in the Rochester Theological Seminary, under President E. G.
Robinson, Dr. George W. Northrup, and Dr. A. C. Kendrick. He
was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1865, and was graduated from
Rochester Seminary in 1866. On September 4 of that year he married
Miss Mary Ellen Ten Broeke, daughter of Rev. James Ten Broeke, of
Panton, Vt. The same autumn, Mr. Goodspeed became pastor of the
Vermont Street Baptist Church of Quincy, Illinois. In 1872 he became
the associate of his brother, Rev. Edgar J. Goodspeed, in the pastorate
of the Second Baptist Church, Chicago. In 1876, Mr. Goodspeed
resigned to undertake the financial secretaryship of the Baptist Union
Theological Seminary, then in great financial straits, and removing from
Chicago to Morgan Park. It was not his intention to leave the ministry
for educational work, but the task of putting the seminary upon a sound
financial basis proved a much larger one than had been supposed, and
occupied the energies of Mr. Goodspeed and President Northrup for a
dozen years. In this work they had occasion to approach Mr. Rocke-
feller, who came to take a large interest in the Seminary. In 1879 Dr.
Harper, a young man of twenty-two, came to Morgan Park as instructor
in Hebrew and Old Testament, and in 188 1 Dr. Hulbert came as professor
of church history, and lifelong friendships were formed. In 1877 Mr.
Goodspeed helped in organizing the Morgan Park Baptist Church and
along with his other work he served as its pastor until 1880.

After the collapse of the Old University in 1886, Dr. Goodspeed
shared somewhat actively in the counsels looking to a new and broader

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DR. GOODSPEED IN 1889 WHEN HE BEGAN HIS
WORK FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

THOMAS W. GOODSPEED 8i

educational foundation in Chicago. Upon Mr. Rockefeller's offer on May
15, 1889, of $600,000 conditioned upon the securing of $400,000 more
within a year, Dr. Goodspeed proposed the organization of the College
Committee of Thirty-six to undertake the raising of the fund. Of this
committee he became the Secretary, and with Frederick T. Gates of the
American Baptist Education Society, undertook the campaign. The
unfortunate business record of the Old University made this doubly
diflficult, but it was proved more than successful, for in addition to the
proposed sum the nucleus of the present site was secured, and friends
were made for the new enterprise who have since become its leading sup-
porters. On June 18, 1890, Dr. Goodspeed with Mr. Rockefeller, Mr.
Field, Mr. F. E. Hinckley, Mr. E. Nelson Blake, and Mr. Gates signed
the certificate of incorporation of the University, naming the first board
of trustees, and at the first meeting of the Board on July 9, 1890, he was
appointed financial secretary. At a later meeting he was made record-
ing secretary of the Board.

In 1897 he undertook in addition the duties of University Registrar.
After twenty-two years in the active service of the University, he retired
from these positions January i, 1913, with the title of corresponding
secretary. It is thirty-six years since he left the ministry, temporarily,
as he thought, to help the Seminary over a crisis, and all of this time has
been spent in the service of the Divinity School or the University.

Dr. Goodspeed has on several occasions served as trustee of the
University, and of the Divinity School. Since 1898 he has been secre-
tary of the Board of Trustees of Rush Medical College. For twenty
years he has been very active in the work of the Hyde Park Baptist
Church, of which he is a member.

In the autumn of 1890, while on a visit to New Haven, Dr. Goodspeed
was with some difliculty persuaded to attend a football game between
Yale and Pennsylvania. As it progressed his disfavor changed to interest
and finally to enthusiasm. When in 1893 his office was transferred
from downtown to Cobb Hall, and he was brought into somewhat
close relations with the student body, they found him to be in whole-
hearted sympathy with student athletics and student life. Dr. Good-
speed's annual vacation month he has spent for the past thirty years
among the woods and lakes of northern Wisconsin. In 1894 he found
his way to the shores of Plum Lake, and there in the following summer
in company with his nephew, began with his own hands to build a log
house upon a wooded island. To this island Dr. Goodspeed has ever
since gone for his vacation, and on it and on the lakes and trails of that
region he has spent some of his happiest hours.

LEARNING TO LIVE

BY EDWIN ERLE SPARKS, PH.D., LL.D.
President of Pennsylvania State College

On an occasion like the present, in
which I am honored, my former chief,
some time colleagues, graduates, and
friends, by an invitation to speak before
you, a topic lying along educational lines
may seem in accord with the spirit of
the hour although the topic lies outside
the lines of instruction in this university.

Expansion of the field of work and
enlargement of the curriculum are natural
results of growth and development.
The average course of study in the aver-
age college of today forms a strange
contrast with that of even fifty years
ago. The significant difference lies in
the increase of the practical and the
decrease of the purely cultural and orna-
mental. Preparation for the vocational
in general has become preparation for
the vocational specifically.

The response of education to popular
demand was illustrated nearly fifty years
ago when, at the dawn of the industrial
period, the federal and state govern-
ments established and have since main-
tained in the several states the so-called
state colleges and universities, which
now number 67 and have a total enrol-
ment of nearly 100,000 students. These
institutions were intended, according
to the act of Congress to educate "the
industrial classes in the several pursuits
and professions of life," especially in
the two great branches of agriculture and
the mechanic arts (engineering). In
the astonishing development of manu-
facturing, mining, and transportation
which followed and which still claims
our national activity, these colleges
were called upon to produce engineers,
chemists, architects, draughtsmen, con-
sulting specialists, and leaders in every
phase of nature-conquest and fortune-
building. Right worthily did they res-
pond.

The demand for men trained in these
mechanic arts attracted students, provided

' Delivered on the occasion of the Eighty-
fifth Convocation of the University, held in
the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, December
17, xgi3.

instructors, and constructed classrooms,
shops, and laboratories. Agriculture, the
twin-sister, was relegated to the r61e of
Cinderella. In 1900, nearly forty years
after the enabling act wjis passed, there
were only 6,250 students enrolled in
agriculture in the various institutions as
against 8,341 in engineering courses.

Within the past ten years, however,
the tide has turned and is now setting
in toward the agricultural courses with
ever-increasing strength and velocity.
Last year the number of students pur-
suing courses along agricultural lines
increased nearly 40 per cent, while the
number in mechanic arts decreased nearly
I o per cent . This right-about-face brings
me to the topic I wish to present for
your consideration — the present interest
in agrarian life and pursuits.

"Take no thought for your life," says
the Holy Scripture, .... what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink."
Contrary to this injunction, our principal
concern at the present time seems to be
with those grosser or material things of
life. We need only a reincarnate Dr.
Malthus to bring a panic and to picture
future generations fighting like ship-
wrecked passengers for a share of the
inadequate food supply of the world.
Long we have followed the motto,
"Live and learn"; now we are expending
vast sums and untold energy in learning
to live.

I shall not exhaust your patience and
consume your time by attempting to
find the causes of this revival of the
primitive art of tilling the soil. In brief,
I attribute it to the fact that the vast
heritage of public lands lying always to
the west of the advancing population is
now well-nigh brought under cultivation
and no longer supplies a refuge for rest-
less spirits. The "Go west young
man," of the sage of Chappaqua has
now become "Go down into the soil
young scientist." Intensive rather than
extensive cultivation is necessary. A
second cause may be found in a reaction
from the movement toward the cities,

LEARNING TO LIVE

EDWIN ERLE SPARKS

President of Pennsylvania State College

Convocation Orator, December 17, igii

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which movement prevailed for a century,
and which raised the proportion of urban
dwellers from 3 per cent to 35 per cent of
the total population. This reaction has
already provided the trolley and motor
car to transport us to and from business;
has resurrected the country tavern to
feed us; has restored the country gentle-
man's estate for those of us who can
afford it and has furnished golf links for
our recreation.

Still another reason for the return to
agriculture is seen in the prevalent alarm
at the abuse and possible exhaustion
of our national resources. Railway
companies have been sufficiently far-
sighted to discern that lumbering is
well-nigh exhausted except in remote
regions; that mineral resources must in
time diminish and that only one depend-
able source of producing freight for
transportation remains, viz., the pro-
ducts of the soil. In consequence, the
transportation companies are expending
large sums in educating the farmer to
raise larger crops and to produce a sur-
plus for transportation. Educational
trains are run, lectures given, seed dis-
tributed, prizes offered, breeding animals
imported, and trained experts placed
at the dispoasl of farmers residing along
the railway lines.

The examination into the increased cost
of living during which the ultimate con-
sumer has placed the blame upon every
possible cause except his own extrava-
gance, is no doubt another reason for the
renaissance of agriculture. When a home-
made egg costs more than an imported
orange, the plain hen assumes a new im-
portance as a source of possible wealth,
especially with her climatic adaptability.
When the despised potato retails for a
dollar a bushel, Mr. Common People
must have a little garden to circumvent
the rapacious middle-man produce dealer.
Under this pressure of terminal finance —
that is, making both ends meet — Adam
has returned to his delving and Eve may
yet go back to her spinning — if Mrs.
Horatius will consent to hold the bridge
in her stead.

May I add still another less evident
and more problematical cause of this
reversal of public interest. Is it not
possible that the manufacturing era
which has absorbed our activity, utilized
our capital and made our fortunes during
the past forty years is losing its hold,
has, perhaps, satisfied a demand, and

that national energy, in seeking new lines
of development, has returned to its old
occupation. Perhaps we are entering
upon an agricultural era which may
supplement or even supplant the age
of manufacture. May it not also be
true that some of this "back-to-the-
farm" movement is a direct result of
the manufacturing period which built
fortunes in cities and supplied means
to go back to the farm by proxy if not in
reality.

Contemplating these would-be farmers,
it may be said that agriculture is the
most popular diversion in the minds of
the American public today. The million-
aire freely spends his surplus on his farm,
importing fancy breeding animals at
fabulous prices, employing college-trained
scientists at compensations which play
havoc with college salary scales, and
demanding no accounting of profit and
loss from superintendents providing
the deficit on the farm does not reach
five figures. These" fancy agriculturists
in some cases buy up large tracts of land
and turn them into non-productive parks
for boastful purposes, bidding fair to
make us rival Ireland in a system of
absent landlordism. They point with
pride to their exemplification of Dean
Swift's aphorism of making two blades
of grass grow where one grew before —
and they are able to do it because they
have means to procure fertilizers of the
right quality and quantity.

A more numerous and more-to-be-
pitied class is found in persons of various
professions and occupations who aspire
to become farmers. Story papers print
fascinating articles about the down-and-
out man, who having failed in his pro-
fession in the city, sets forth with a brave
wife by his side and finds a deserted
cottage on an abandoned farm which
is bought for a song. There under God's
clear sky, surrounded by heavenly ozone,
cultivating a sun-kissed hillside slope,
the couple plant a new Eden and live
happily forevermore. It is an alluring
bit of fiction — but it is fiction and the
facts are found to be far otherwise by
most of those who try the change.

Few of these adventurers into the
primitive art of husbandry really do set
a hen upon an eggplant in order to secure
an eventual broiler; few purchase a cocoa-
nut in order to supply material for mak-
ing a cup of cocoa; fewer still purchase
a book on pharmacy as a guide to sue-

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cessful farming — these be stories emanat-
ing from the seat of the scornful. But
many unsuccessful ventures, loss of
capital, and blasted hopes must follow in
the wake of this movement to rehabilitate
the farm.

Land companies put forth attractive
advertisements as sails in the favoring
breeze. One is now appearing which
portrays a heart-sick and despondent
workman gazing from the reeking air
of a tenement window, with an arm sup-
porting a sick wife and child and letting
his tired eyes rest upon a mirage in the
distance. In this mirage arises the ideal
country cottage, with brilliant roses
clambering over the walls, and well-
kept flower-beds dotting the closely
shorn lawn, while at the door stands
Annie in a simple Marshall Field creation
with little Lord Fauntleroy at her side
to welcome her hero returning in his
Sunday clothes from his daily task in the
fields. Below is the mischief-making
legend, "Why die in the city when you
can live in the country?"

If farming is so easy, how mistaken
must those be who would apply science to
the art . May not our colonist fathers have
been within the bounds of truth when in
describing the fertility of the soil, they
averred that it was only necessary to
tickle the ground to have it laugh the crops
up into your face.

The restless toiler and the discontented
urban dweller are met on all sides by
opportunity to become scientific farmers.
Correspondence schools if sufficiently
urged will supply the means. One
advertisement displayed in prominent
type this line: "Learn to raise ducks by
correspondence!" However, it is prob-
able that those who enroll and pay the
prescribed fee will find the duck not so
closely related to the art espitolary as
this juxtaposition would indicate.

A more serious asf>ect of this present
fancy is seen in the public interest in rural
life. Commissions for studying country
conditions are formed both by national
and state governments. Various de-
nominations are making rural surveys
especially of their churches and congre-
gations. Rural conditions in European
countries are studied and accommoda-
tions have already been secured on a
steamship line for a vast commission
consisting of five members to be
appointed from each state in the Union
under legislative appropriations to study

rural banking and co-operative farming
in various European countries. This
has been undertaken in all seriousness and
the time of saiHng set for the last of May.

Our well-intentioned effort of making
the many as happy as the few has long
been directed toward the city slums.
Under the present reaction, we are
turning our investigations toward rural
communities and declaring that in some
respects they are worse than the cities.
One community, thoroughly aroused by
a rural conference held in its midst set
about to ameliorate the conditions of its
f>oor but unfortunately could find only
one family falling within that class.
Eleemosynary attention being thus con-
centrated on this one family, its members
were soon elevated to a pitiable con-
dition of dyspepsia through a surfeit of
unaccustomed food.

But I fear I have fallen below tlie
limit of dignity prescribed for a Convoca-
tion address, and I return to my thesis
that education has readily accommodated
itself to the new order of things. Men-
tion has already been made of the sur-
prising reversal of college enrolment as
between the engineering and the agri-
cultural courses. The latter after nearly
fifty years of comparative inactivity
seem to be attaining the prominence and
serving the purpose the founders hoped
for them. Formerly there was but one
course offered, known as plain "agri-
culture," and it was presumably the
recourse of those who were unable scholas-
tically to complete the engineering or the
general courses. Indeed, due allowance
was made in the entrance examination
for the poorly qualified agricultural
students.

Conditions are now changed. En-
trance to the agricultural courses is as
severe as to the other courses of the col-
lege and the curriculum is as stiff. No
longer is the "Short Ag," or the "Long
Ag," for that matter, made the butt of
ridicule. "Clodhopper" has disappeared
from the college vocabulary. It is
sufficient to note that of the two hundred
boys from the city of Philadelphia now
attending the State College of Pennsyl-
vania, nine-tenths are enrolled in the
School of Agriculture. Perhaps on the
principal of exchanging known for un-
known hardships, the farmer's son desires
to become an engineer or a chemist, while
the banker's lad and the merchant's boy
wish to be farmers.

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Agricultural courses have multiplied
in the resulting differentiation. A stu-
dent no longer pursues a plain agri-
cultural course but may specialize in
forestry, agronomy, animal husbandry,
dairy husbandry, poultry, commercial
gardening, fruit growing, landscape gar-
dening, or farm management. The old
professorships of ancient languages,
English, mathematics, and the like are
replaced by chairs of pomology, den-
drology, rural sociology, clericulture,
thremmatology, ecology and zootechnics.
While salaries attached to the old style
professorships remain generally sta-
tionary, compensation for these agri-
cultural specialists has advanced in
accord with the large demand and the
limited supply. In the scale of salaries,
the one begins where the other leaves
off; that is, the highest professorship
in the liberal arts carries a salary about
equal to the lowest professorship in
agriculture. Divergence between these
salaries is further increased by the fact
that instructors in the practical lines
are in constant demand by commercial
firms and by the federal and state
governments. Perhaps the government
has been employing a large number of
specialists in Greek, history, or mathe-
matics; but if so, the fact has escaped
my attention. On the other hand,
entire graduating classes in agronomy,
forestry, and the like are admitted to
large stipends through the wide-open
door of a civil service examination —
wide open in the sense of a large demand
and a limited supply.

Eventually this condition of affairs
must change, for the supply will meet the
demand through the large number of
agricultural students enrolled and to be
graduated. The output at present is
nearly 10,000 annually and steadily
increasing. It is to be noted that these
67 state colleges have property valued
at one hundred twenty five million dollars;
that they have 7,342 teachers and enrol
92,000 students. To them the federal
government gives outright twenty million
dollars annually in addition to the original
land grant of eighteen million dollars.
Their growth in appropriation, numbers
and influence, will be the marked feature
when the educational history of the pres-
ent era is written.

But not alone in intra-mural instruc-
tion is education meeting the demand
for improved rural conditions. On a

similar foundation of state and national
support, 50 agricultural experiment
stations are maintained at an annual cost
of three and one-half million dollars,
having 1,600 employees, and sending
out 500 separate reports to over a million
addresses. The scientific projects under-
taken in these stations cover the entire
field of husbandry and household econ-
omy. Some require years oi patient
investigation to bring dependable results.
Plots of land have, in some stations,
been under fixed experiments for thirty
years. Some old and supposedly well-
established principles of economics, the
diminishing return of the soil, for
example, have been refuted by results
obtained in these stations. All this
expenditure of time, money, and energy
has for its sole purpose the securing of
improved methods and better results
for the farmer.

The difficult task has been to convey
this information to the farmer, to win
his confidence and to persuade him to
change his inherited conservative ways of
doing things for new and more scientific
methods. The pamphlet or bulletin has
been the chief means of conveying this
information to the people; but only too
frequently it was looked upon as
furnishing a supply of shaving paper
and candle lighters rather than a source
of available information. Next came the
Farmers' Institute which by lectures and
occasional demonstrations supplied sci-
entific knowledge, but it was given at
a time of year when it could be least
utilized and never exemplified. The
agricultural railway train fitted out with
lecture-rooms and exhibits, stopping at
each station on scheduled time, was found
to be a successful variation of the insti-
tute. This so-called "extension work"
of the agricultural colleges, which en-
deavors to convey to the people the
results of the experiments made at the
stations, last year cost more than a
million dollars, and reached an estimated
number of 1,800,000 persons.

The latest plan is that of a resident
expert in every county of every state
in the Union, whose services shall be at
the disposal of the farmers for advice on
any phase of crop or animal cultivation.
The expense will be shared by the federal
government, the state colleges and the
farmers to be benefited. When one con-
siders the number of counties in the
United States, one is impressed by the

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magnitude of the enterprise and its cost,
as well as by the benefits to follow.

To finance this and similar projects
of agricultural and household extension
work, a bill was passed the House of
Representatives and is now pending in
the Senate, which gives outright to
every state $10,000 the first year and
an annual increase according to the per-
centage of rural population until in 1923,
the total will not be far short of eighty
million dollars annually. Another bill
proposes to introduce a new principle
of federal activity, viz., national appro-
priations to state public schools and to
provide an agricultural high school and
experiment station in every congressional
district in the United States. Strange
to say, these propositions peacefully to
invade the several sovereign states find
no serious opposition, perhaps because
the purse is mightier than the sword.
Havmg the powerful support of many
railways and various leagues of bankers
and others, there is likelihood that one or
both bills may be enacted into laws and
add another to the many national bene-
factions.

Manufacturers and dealers whose
wares are associated with the farm have
been quick to seize the present opportun-
ity. A Chicago mail-order house is said
to have placed a million dollars at the
disposal of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture for securing better
farm supervision. A combination of
fertilizer manufacturers announces that
its force of chemists will analyze without
charge any specimens of soil sent to them
and will describe the proper kind of
fertilizer to be employed for that par-
ticular ground. The harvester manu-
facturers have set aside a million dollars
for a service bureau to benefit the farmer
and have placed at its head a famous
corn expert from Iowa. The Illinois
State Bankers' Association maintains a
special department for co-operation and
aid to the farmers of the state. Busi-
ness manifestly recognizes its ultimate
dependence upon the soil and sees the
necessity for an increased production.
Economists freely predict that unless
conditions can be changed, the United
States will be transformed within ten
years from a food-exporting to a food-
importing nation.

Many in the audience who are residents
of the city of Chicago are annual bene-
ficiaries of the paternalistic hand of the

federal government in fostering the art
of agriculture. I retain a most lively
recollection of the receipt annually of a
package bearing upon the outside the
warning statement, " Fifty dollars penalty
for private use," but accompanied with
the reassuring words, "United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing-
ton, D.C." and the frank of the
congressmen. With lively anticipations
of a Santa Claus out of season, the
package is opened and found to contain
pumpkin seeds — of a variety presumably
adapted to the needs of a husbandman
residing in the third story of a flat
building. Upon the principle of the
survival of the fittest and of the adapta-
bility to environment, the pumpkins
should be of the climbing variety if
intrusted to mother earth below or of a
hardy nature for high altitudes if placed
in a window box on the family level.

But the benevolent government does
not confine its activities to the annual
distribution of 600 tons of seeds. Last
year the Department of Agriculture
expended no less than $23,000,000,
for the public good, in addition to the
sums expended by similar departments
in the several states. Among the budget
items were the suppression of the cattle
tick, eradication of the cotton boll wevil,
suppression of forest fires, experiments
in converting the cactus into stock food,
discovery and introduction of new forms
of food-producing plants and animals,
soil surveys, prevention of food adultera-
tion, war against epidemics, care of the
pubhc health, and fighting fruit and
vegetable pests. Among the items in
the budget of the average state depart-
ment of agriculture will be found a
bureau of vital statistics, inspection of
soils, analysis of fertilizers, feed stuffs,
Paris green, and linseed-oil, inspection
of orchards, fighting San Jose scale,
payment for condemned animals, a state
fair, and encouragement of horticulture,
live stock, beekeeping, and dairying.
The government must protect the farmer
by law against the adulteration of the
food purchased by him for himself,
his family, his stock, and his soil. It
must also defend his crops against the
many blights, rust, insects, and germs
to which they are subject, an estimate of
whose ravages occasionally appear in the
public press. No statistician could add
these estimated losses and place them
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being convinced that Uncle Sam faces a
hopless annual deficit and that much
more is destroyed than could possibly be
raised on all the available soil in the
United States.

To describe the extent and variety of
the assistance rendered and the bene-
fits resulting from this activity would
prolong this paper beyond your limit
of patience. Soil survey maps have been
made of many of the states, showing at a
glance the kind of soil predominating in
any place, and, by a little reading, the
crops for which it is adapted and the
kind of treatment it needs. Specialists
in crops, pests, soils, farm machinery,
cattle or poultry diseases, and the like
are at the service of any locality making
a proper request. Since the natural
channel of request is the congressman of
the district, one may immediately see
why it is said in Washington that the
agricultural interests are able to get
whatever they wish. It must also be
observed that no interests of the United
States are better organized and prepared
to contest their rights than are the
agrarian interests, unless it be possibly
the labor interests.

In dwelling upon the magnitude of the
sums expended upon agriculture, both
in the classroom and in the field, I am
endeavoring not to criticize the action but
to emphasize the importance of food pro-
duction and to show the trend of the
present movement. While it is unlikely
that any material reduction in the cost
of living will follow so long as the style of
living remains unchanged, nor are we
assured that the establishment of rural
credit banks will prove a panacea for the
financial burdens of the husbandman;
nevertheless there are several results
which may be expected to follow this re-
vived interest in the art of agriculture:

The unintentional butchery of the soil,
which has characterized much of our
so-called farming, will be greatly reduced
if not eliminated by the introduction of
better methods. Unclaimed, unused and
abandoned land will be brought under
cultivation and will add to the sources
of food. The New York State Bankers'
Association claims that ten million acres
of land in that state alone could be added
to the tillable tracts by redeeming high-
lands and swamps.

Increased attention to agricxilture will
bring to bear the inventive genius of
man upon the problems of production

and will result in additional labor-saving
machinery and devices.

As manufacturing plants are removed
to the country and as population follows,
the congested, food-consuming centers
will diminish and the danger of food
panics through war or pestilence will
be reduced.

The conservation of our national re-
sources, and of life, both animal and
human, will be served by an awakened
conscience, less wasteful methods, an
environment more favorable to health
and by protection against unscrupulous
and dishonest manufacturers of food.

A rural environment will also conduce
to a larger degree of public happiness,
an enlarged appetence for the beautiful
and a more joyful outlook upon life.

The new education particularly belongs
to democracy. The demand for agricul-
tural instruction came from the people
and not from any favored class. It
seeks to serve the people and it will be
employed by the people.

The governmental aid has enlarged the
powers and scope of government; has
finally established the principle of federal
aid to higher education; and has renewed
the allegiance of the people to their gov-
ernment through benefits conferred. The
appropriations made by the states have
likewise established the principle of state-
aid to higher education and research.

Thousands of young men, whether
in the service of the nation, the state, or
the county, have received a new vision
of public service; have enlarged their
capacity for serving their fellow-men
along practical lines; and, by becoming
a part of the governmental power, will
help to breed a class of devoted and con-
scientious public servants such as Eng-
land has long enjoyed.

The introduction of these scientific
studies has HberaUzed the college curricu-
lum and has opened new outlets for indi-
vidual aptitude.

Above all, this renaissance of the art
of agriculture has stimulated research
and investigation. It has called to its
aid the discovered truths of chemistry,
physics, entomology, and the like. It
has vastly enriched and enlarged the
capacity for human knowledge. And it
has raised and will raise man nearer to
the ultimate goal where the finite
approximates the infinite through the
great laws of human understanding.
For "the truth shall make you free."

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The President's Convocation State-
ments— Under the operation of the Uni-
versity system providing for retiring
allowances Dr. Thomas W. Goodspeed,
secretary of the Board of Trustees and
University Registrar, retires January i,
1913, having been an officer of the Uni-
versity since 1889. The Board of
Trustees has appointed Dr. Goodspeed
to the position of Corresponding Secre-
tary, the duties of which position it is
believed will be of great value to the
University and such as he is especially
qualified to fill, while at the same time
not involving the detail of the position
which he has so long honorably filled,
and from which he retires. The good-
will of every member of the University
accompanies Dr. Goodspeed under his
new relations.

During the current quarter an arrange-
ment has been made between the Uni-
versity of Chicago and the Department
of Education and the Fine Arts in Paris
whereby beginning with the year 1913-14
an exchange of professors is provided.
The exchange will take place in alternate
years, and the first appointee will be a
French professor designated from one of
the universities of France by the Depart-
ment of Education, who will probably
be in Chicago in the autumn next year.
It is believed that this arrangement will
be a very convenient one, and will
facilitate that closer acquaintance with
the institutions and especially with the
educational life of the two countries
which is so necessary to a sound national
understanding.

The attendance for the Autumn
Quarter shows a total of 2,650 in the
quadrangles, as against 2,607 a year
ago, and 756 in University College, as
against 670 in 191 1. It should be noted
that the discontinuance of the Swedish
Divinity School results in a diminution
of 35 in attendance. In the Colleges it
was expected on account of the new
requirements for admission that there

■ Presented on the occasion of the Eighty-
fifth Convocation of the University, held in
the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, December
17, 1912.

would be no gain, and quite possibly a
slight falling off as compared with last
year. It will be remembered that
students are not admitted who in their
high-school course show a record so low
as to warrant the probability of their
being dismissed during the first year.
There is in fact a gain of 50 in the Senior
Colleges, and of 13 in the Junior Colleges.
The list of unclassified students has been
steadily shrinking for years past, and
during the current quarter was only 84,
as against 151 last year. This is not
regarded as unwholesome.

The Autumn Quarter of 191 2 takes
us back in thought twenty years ago to
the first quarter of the University work.
The first Convocation of the University
was held in the evening of January 7,
in Central Music Hall, and was largely
attended by faculty, students, trustees,
and friends of the University. The Con-
vocation address was given by Professor
Hermann Eduard von Hoist, who spoke
on the "Need of Universities in the
United States." The final paragraphs
of President Harper's statement on the
condition of the University are herewith
quoted:

"A year ago the foundations of the
first buildings had just been placed.
Only two buildings had at that time
been provided for — a dormitory and a
lecture hall.

"A year ago the funds included the
first great gift of Mr. Rockefeller, $600,-
000, the $400,000 of general subscription,
the gift of land by Mr. Field, Mr. Rocke-
feller's second gift of $1,000,000, the
property and endowment coming to the
University in its union with the Theo-
logical Seminary; in all about $3,000,000.

*' A year ago only two men had received
appointments in the faculty, and in all
not ten men had indicated their consent
to serve the University as instructors.
As we look upon the situation we see
that a beginning had been made, but
only a beginning. What is tonight the
condition of the University ?

"The dormitory for men has been
completed and ever>' room in it occupied.
The lecture hall is finished and crowded

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to overflowing with instructors and
students. Temporary buildings have
been erected for the library and for the
work of physical culture. A chemical
laboratory is almost ready for the
roof. A museum is under way. Dor-
mitory buildings for women are rapidly
approaching completion. A new dormi-
tory for men is under roof. Within a
few months buildings to cost at least a
million and a half will be completed.

"Within the year gifts have been
made exceeding $4,000,000. The finan-
cial progress has been great, but in
other respects the advance has been
still greater. Instead of the two men
of a year ago there are today at work
120. The total enrolment of students
has been 594; of these 166 are pursuing
'studies for the advanced degrees in the
Graduate School, 182 are in the Divinity
School, and 276 are doing undergraduate
work. These have come to us from
ninety institutions. Thirty-three states
and thirteen foreign countries are
represented. Five per cent come from
foreign countries. Of the total enrol-
ment 235 per cent are women."

The Eighty-fifth Convocation. — At the
eighty-fifth Convocation of the Univer-
sity, held in the Leon Mandel Assembly
Hall on December 17, the Convocation
orator, President Edwin Erie Sparks,
Ph.D., LL.D., of Pennsylvania State
College, spoke on the subject of "Learn-
ing to Live." Professor Sparks was for
twelve years a member of the Depart-
ment of History at the University of
Chicago and a widely known lecturer in
the Extension Division of the University.
He received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from the University in 1900.
His Convocation address appears else-
where in this number.

One hundred and eighteen degrees
and titles were conferred at the Convo-
cation, sixty-four candidates receiving
the title of associate, five the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy in Education,
and thirty-nine the degree of Bachelor
of Arts, in Philosophy or Science. There
was one Master of Arts in the Divinity
School and one in the Graduate Schools.
Seven candidates received the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy, among these being
a_ Japanese student who had also taken
his Bachelor's degree at the University.

On the evening of December 10 at the
Convocation reception held in Hutchin-

son Hall, President Harry Pratt Judson
and Mrs. Judson had as special guests of
honor President and Mrs. Sparks,
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles R. Holden, and, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert L. Scott. Messrs. Rosen-
wald, Holden, and Scott are the recently
appointed trustees of the university.

The Convocation orator for June. — The
Convocation orator for next June will
be His Excellency Doctor Jonkeer John
Loudon, Minister Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Extraordinary of the Netherlands
to the United States. Doctor Loudon,
after securing his education at the Uni-
versity of Leyden, entered in 1891 the
diplomatic service of the Netherlands.
In 1905 he was Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan,
and since 1908 he has served in the
same capacity to the United States and
to the RepubHc of Mexico.

A new honor for Dean Mathews. — Pro-
fessor Shailer Mathews, Dean of the
Divinity School and Head of the Depart-
ment of Systematic Theology, was
elected president of the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ in America at
its session in Chicago on December 5.
The Council embraces in its member-
ship about thirty denominations and
17,000,000 church communicants. Dean
Mathews succeeds in the presidency
Bishop E. R. Hendrix, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, his term of
office being four years. Professor
Mathews is an associate editor of The
Dictionary of the Bible and the American
Journal of Theology, and assumes with
the January number the editorship of
the Biblical World. For eight years
Mr. Mathews was editor-in-chief of the
World To-Day. He is widely known
as the author of a number of books,
chief among which are The Church and
the Changing Order and The Gospel and
the Modern Man. Professor Mathews is
also president of the Western Economic
Society, the fourth conference of which
has just been held in Chicago.

The American Psychological Associa-
tion.— ^There was a large representation
of members of the University, doctors of
philosophy, or candidates for the doc-
torate, at the twenty-first annual meeting
of the American Psychological Associa-
tion held at Western Reserve University,

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Cleveland, Ohio, from December 30,
1912, to January i, 1913. Professor
James R. Angell, head of the Depart-
ment of Psychology and former presi-
dent of the Association, presented a
paper and also introduced another by
Stella B. Vincent, a graduate student
in psychology. Professor George H.
Mead, of the Department of Philosophy,
Dr. Frank N. Freeman, of the School of
Education, and ten doctors of the Uni-
versity were also on the program. On
December 30 about twenty doctors of
philosophy of the University of Chicago
met at dinner with Professor Angell,
under whom they had done graduate
work in psychology. They included
Henry F. Adams of the University of
Michigan, Walter S. Hunter of the
University of Texas, Joseph Peterson of
the University of Utah, and Walter V.
Bingham of Dartmouth College, who is
secretary of the Association.

The Western Economic Society. — The
University was largely represented at
the fourth conference of the Western
Economic Society, held in the Hotel
Sherman, Chicago, December 6 and 7,
the general subject of discussion being
"Commercial and Industrial Educa-
tion." Professor J. Laurence Laughlin,
Head of the Department of Political
Economy, presided at the first session
of the conference, when the work of the
eastern colleges of commerce was con-
sidered. At the second session Professor
Leon C. Marshall, Dean of the College
of Commerce and Administration, pre-
sented an account of the work of this
college, and Professor Shailer Mathews,
of the Divinity School, presided over
the section devoted to commercial and
industrial education. Professor Mathews
also presided at the conference dinner,
at which President Harry Pratt Judson
spoke on the subject of " Collegiate Com-
mercial Education" and Director Charles
H. Judd, of the School of Education,
discussed the question of "The General
Reorganization of the Elementary School
to Meet Vocational Demands." At the
session devoted to the teaching of eco-"
nomics Professor Marshall discussed the
subject of "Sequence in Economic
Courses at the University of Chicago."
The next conference, which will be held
in February, 1913, will consider the
subject of "Scientific Management."
The president of the society is Professor

Shailer Mathews and the secretary is
Professor Leon C. Marshall.

The American Historical Association. —
A number of representatives of the
University faculty attended the annual
meeting of the American Historical
Association held in Boston and Cam-
bridge from December 27 to 31. James
Henry Breasted, Professor of Egyptology
and Oriental History, led in the discus-
sion of the subject of "Greco-Roman
History as a Field of Investigation";
James Westfall Thompson, Associate
Professor of European History, presented
a paper on "Profitable Fields of Investi-
gation in Mediaeval History"; and
William E. Dodd, Professor of American
Histor>', considered "Profitable Subjects
for Investigation in American History,
1815-1860." Professor Albion W. Small,
head of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, gave on December 27 his
presidential address as head of the
American Sociological Society, which met
in conjunction with the Historical
Association. Professor Andrew C. Mc-
Laughlin, head of the Department of
History, is one of the vice-presidents of
the association.

Vocational Education. — President Harry
Pratt Judson, Professor George H. Mead,
of the Department of Philosophy, and
Director Charles H. Judd jjind Associate
Professor Frank M. Leavitt, of the
School of Education, have recently made
contributions to the series of articles
appearing in the Chicago Tribune on
the question of "Vocational Education"
and the various bills on the subject to
be proposed to the Illinois legislature.
Professor Leavitt is chairman of the
committee of the IlHnois State Teachers
Association co-operating with the Illinois
Bankers Association in the preparation
of a bill, and is also a member of a special
committee of the National Society for
the Promotion of Education to formulate
a statement with reference to state-aided
vocational education.

Associate Professor Frederick Starr,
of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, returned at the end of
November from a six months' expedi-
tion to Liberia, the purpose of which was
to investigate the social and economic
conditions of that region. He was
accompanied by Mr. Campbell Marvin,
a graduate student of the University.

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Professor Starr made a walking trip
of 150 miles into the interior after visit-
ing the Liberian city of Monrovia.
Mr. Starr was able to make many inter-
esting observations on native life and
to bring back numerous collections of
photographs and objects of anthro-
pological interest.

James Hayden Tufts, head of the
Department of Philosophy, gave on
December 10 the tenth lecture in the
series on "Problems of the Modern
City" given in FuUerton Hall of the
Art Institute, Chicago. His subject was
"The City and Human Values." Among
the preceding speakers from the Uni-
versity were Professors Edwin O. Jordan,
George H. Mead, Andrew C. McLaughhn,
Charles E. Merriam, and Sophonisba P.
Breckinridge. The course, which was
for the benefit of the University of
Chicago Settlement, was closed on De-
cember 17 by President George E.
Vincent, of the University of Minnesota,
with an address on "Group Rivalry in
City Life."

Professor Andrew C. McLaughlin,
head of the Department of History, has
been granted leave of absence by the
University trustees until the opening of
the Autumn Quarter in 1913. He will
spend much of the time in Germany.
Professor McLaughlin's latest book, The
Courts, the Constitution, and Parties, was
recently published by The University of
Chicago Press.

Professor William Gardner Hale, head
of the Department of Latin, is a member
of the advisory board, having a general
supervision of the Loeb Classical Library
now being issued by the Macmillan
Company. The series will comprise
about 200 volumes, covering the period
from Homer to the fall of Constantinople.
Thirty volumes have already appeared.
A bill providing for a federal immigrant
station in Chicago was recently drawn
by Professor Ernst Freund, of the Law
School, and has been introduced in the
House of Representatives at Washington.
The provisions of the bill were recently
discussed at the Union League Club,
Chicago, by representatives of the Com-
mercial Club, the Immigrants' Protective
League, and Illinois Congressmen.

Professor Paul Shorey, head of the
Department of Greek, recently gave an
address before the St. Louis Society of
the Archaeological Institute of America,
the subject of the address being "The

Pace that Killed Athens." He also gave
several lectures on classical subjects
before the Washington University Asso-
ciation in St. Louis, and on December 19
addressed the Contemporary Club of
that city on "Some Modernisms of the
Ancients."

The University of Chicago was
represented at the Woman's Vocational
Conference, held at the University of
Wisconsin, January 15-17, by Elizabeth
E. Langley, Instructor in Manual Train-
ing in the School of Education. Miss
Langley discussed the subject of "In-
terior Decoration as a Profession."
The purpose of the conference was to
show women students the many possi-
bilities of work open to them. Other
speakers were Miss Edna Ferber and
Miss Frances Gumming of the vocational
bureau of New York.

Professor John M. Coulter, head of
the Department of Botany, was one of
the speakers before the alumni of Wabash
College at the Hamilton Club, Chicago,
on December 8, when Vice-President
.Elect Thomas R. Marshall was the
guest of honor. Professor Coulter was
formerly connected with Wabash College
as professor of biology.

At the conclusion of a recent series
of dramatic recitals in Elgin, 111., by
Associate Professor S. H. Clark, of the
Department of Public Speaking, there
was formed a new club for literary and
artistic study. Mr. Clark's recitals in
Elgin have been supported by the mem-
bers of nine local organizations. He
has also recently finished a series of
dramatic interpretations at Racine, Wis.

" Education in the Time of Shakspere"
was the subject of an address at the
University on November 23 by Mr.
George Arthur Plimpton, of New York.
The interest of the lecture was greatly
increased by an exhibit of school books
which were in use in Shakspere's time
and some of which Shakspere himself
probably studied. Mr. Plimpton's Col-
lection of school books is said to be the
finest in the United States and the
largest in the world. Mr. Plimpton is
a member of the publishing firm of
Ginn & Company and a trustee of Am-
herst and Barnard colleges.

Professor Robert A. Millikan, of the
Department of Physics, gave an address
as the retiring vice-president of the
section of physics at the sixty-fourth
meeting of the American Association

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for the Advancement of Science held in
Cleveland, Ohio, from December 30,
191 2, to January 4, 1913. The address
was on the subject of "Unitary Theories
in Physics."

Samuel Wendell Williston, Professor
of Paleontology, recently spoke before
the Sigma Xi Society of Washington
University on the subject of "The
Evolution and Distribution of Early
Land Animals in America." He later
addressed the same society at the Uni-
versity of Kansas on the "Early Animals
of North America," and gave a second
address on "Some Laws of Evolution of
the Vertebrates." Professor WiUiston was
formerly connected with the University of
Kansas as professor of the history of geol-
ogy and dean of the medical school.

James Henry Breasted, Professor of
Egyptology and Oriental History, is to
give a series of special lectures in the
Art Institute of Chicago on the recent
acquisitions to the Egyptian collections
of that institution. Professor Breasted
gave on December 28 in Boston an
address before the American Historical
Association.

Recent contributions by the members
of the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Burton, Professor Ernest D.: "Some
Implications of Paulinism," Biblical
World, December.

Chamberlin, Dr. Rollin T.: "The
Physical Setting of the Chilean Borate
Deposits" (with two figures). Journal
of Geology, November-December.

Smith, Associate Professor Gerald B.:
"Christianity and Critical Theology,"
Biblical World, December.

Yamanouchi, Dr. Shigdo: "The Life
History of Cutleria" (contributions
from the Hull Botanical Laboratory 163),
with fifteen figures and nine plates.
Botanical Gazette, December.

Recent addresses by members of the
Faculties include:

Butler, Professor Nathaniel: "The
Need of Vocational Schools in Illinois,"
Hamilton Club, Chicago, December 3.

Clark, Associate Professor S. H.:
Interpretation of Galsworthy's "Silver
Box," Bradley Polytechnic Institute,
Peoria, 111., December 13.

Foster, Professor George B.: "The
Religion of Zola," Society of Ethics,
Milwaukee, Wis., December 15.

Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul:
"Hawaii: A Geographical Interpreta-
tion" (illustrated), Chicago chapter,
American Institute of Banking, North-
western University Building, December
10; "America in the Philippines,"
Berwyn, 111., December 17.

Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:
"The Psychology of the Home," Fifth
annual dinner of the Chicago Association
of Commerce to sons of members. Hotel
LaSalle, December 26.

Judd, Professor Charles H.: Address
before the Indiana State Teachers
Association, Indianapolis, December 27.

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank M. :
"Vocational Schools," Chicago School-
masters' Club and the High School
Teachers' Club, December 13; "Pro-
posed Bills for Industrial Education,"
Chicago Association of Collegiate Alum-
nae, Fine Arts Building, December 21.

Linn, Associate Professor James W.:
"What ShaU the Children Read?"
Library Hall, Mayweed, 111., December

17-

Mathews, Professor Shailer: "Work
of the Federated Churches." Chicago
Culture Club, Hotel LaSalle, December 9.

Mead, Professor George H.: "Voca-
tional Training," Committee of Chicago
Chamber of Commerce, December 6;
"Proposed Legislation on Vocational
Education," Ella Flagg Young Club,
Hotel LaSalle, December 14.

Merriam, Professor Charles E.: Ad-
dress before the American Political
Science Association, Boston, Decem-
ber 28.

Moulton, Professor Forest R.: "The
Sun and the Comets," High School
Teachers, Evansville, Ind., December 6.

Small, Professor Albion W.: Presi-
dential address as head of the American
Sociological Society, Boston, December
27; University Preacher, Harvard Uni-
versity, December 29.

Tower, Assistant Professor Walter S.:
"A Journey through Argentina" (illus-
trated). Geographical Society of Chicago,
Art Institute, December 13.

Woodhead, Dr. Howard: "Housing
Reform," City Club, Chicago, December
14.

The Board of Trustees. — October meet-
ing: The following appointments were
made: Juhus Stieglitz, Director of the
University Laboratories; Norman J.
Ware, Head of South Divinity House;

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Herbert Kimmel, Instructor in Mathe-
matics, High School; H. N. Sollenberger
and Ruth D. Jeffrey, Instructors in
Physical Education, School of Education.
President Judson reported a gift of 268
lantern slides, showing views of Japan,
China, and the Far East, from Dr. T.
lyenaga.

November meeting: The publication
of the triennial Alumni Directory in 19 13
was authorized.

Dr. T. W. Goodspeed, Secretary of the
Board of Trustees and Registrar of the
University, having passed his seventieth
year, was retired from and after January
I, 1913. The office of Corresponding
Secretary was established, the incumbent
to perform such duties, consistent with
the title, as the Board may determine,
and Dr. Goodspeed was appointed to the
office from January i, 19 13.

O. W. Caldwell, Associate Professor
of Botany in the School of Education,
was appointed Associate Professor also
in the department of botany in the
University.

E. R. Downing, Assistant Professor
of Natural Science in the College of
Education, was appointed also to an
assistant professorship in the department
of zoology.

The Board approved uniting with
Northwestern University in cooperation
with the Alliance Frangaise for lecture
work in Chicago.

Approval was voted of the plan for an
exchange of professors between the
University of Chicago and French
universities. The basis of the exchange
as approved by the French Ministry of
Public Instruction and the Fine Arts
is as follows:

1. That the professor suggested by the
authorities in France should be approved
by the University of Chicago, and, in
like manner, that the professor suggested
by the University of Chicago be approved
by the French educational authorities.

2. That the exchange should take
place every second year.

3. That three or four months should be
covered by the period of the lectureship.

4. That the incumbent be paid by
the University to which he belongs.

At a special meeting held in December,
it having been announced that Charles
M. Sharpe, Dean of the Columbia Bible
College, Columbia, Mo., had been
appointed by the Disciples' Divinity
House assistant professor of theology
in the House, the appointment was
approved.

For the benefit of the University of Chicago Settlement

FRANK DICKINSON BARTLETT GYMNASIUM

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11
AT HALF- PAST EIGHT

The most elaborate spectacle
ever given at the University

THE ALUMNI ARE PARTICULARLY INVITED

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

To the Editor:

In his letter, published in the Novem-
ber number of the Magazine, Mr. Bell
refers to the "revolt among the alumni —
a passive revolt, a revolt of indifference";
one that finds expression in their lack of
interest in what is going on at the Uni-
versity and in their lack of affection and
loyalty for it. He substantiates his
position in a general way by citing the
responses to inquiries he casually put
to a number of alumni, but gives his
letter more interest by illustrating his
points with allusions to his own personal
experience while in college.

The root of the trouble, which in later
alumni days develops into this apathetic
attitude toward our Alma Mater, is,
as Mr. Bell sees it, that "while they were
in college no one cared much about
them" — referring to the attitude of the
faculty toward undergraduates. On the
question how serious or how negligible
may be the "revolt" among the alumni I
shall not dwell; but T should like to offer
a suggestion on the relation between
students and their instructors. It strikes
me that the aloofness between under-
graduates and faculty is not to be solely
ascribed to the impersonal, institutional,
disinterested attitude on the part of the
latter. What about the students them-
selves? What part of the desired
entente cordiale should they provide?
Are they not, after all, partly responsible
for the condition which Mr. Bell deplores
and for which he so unconditionally
blames the faculty ?

Now I feel sure that a surprisingly
large percentage of the student body
proceeds on an a-priori conclusion that
instructors as a species are devoid of
human kindness and sympathy. As
Freshmen they enter college with this
notion, which is perhaps in part a hang-
over from high-school days. The know-
ledge on the part of the instructors that
this spirit is entertained naturally reacts
on their feeling toward those in their
classes. Coral-like, this spirit has built
up a reef of tradition and prejudice which
forms a barrier to any free flow of the
waters of friendship. The student senti-
ment in the matter is bandied about the
campus in a rather flippant, insincere man-
ner which only aggravates the condition.

Many students, again, do not "warm
up" to their instructors because they are
conscious of doing poorer work in their
studies than they should and could do;
they are backward about meeting "face
to face" those to whom they are resjjon-
sible. The accusing finger within makes
them uncomfortable. "Thus conscience
doth make cowards of us all." Good
scholarship is a foot-path to mutual
regard between instructor and student!

With a certain proportion of under-
graduates, genuine diffidence and timidity
undoubtedly serves as an obstacle to
meeting instructors on easy ground.
But on the other hand a considerable
number have not the difficulty of shyness
to overcome: those who participate with
much zeal in athletics, campus politics,
theatrical productions, social diversions.
Mr. Bell intimates that these individuals,
at a loss to gain bosom comrades among
the faculty, seek realities and hope to
find media for self-expression in student
goings-on. Tis a pretty thought! But
I warrant that nine out of every ten of
these "lime-light lurers" are wrapped
up in student activities simply for the
love of them. I feel pretty sure that they
would not trade the recognition, adula-
tion, and laurels accorded by campus
admirers for a dozen intimate friendships
with instructors. The high road to fame
has preference over the less thrilling
adventures in the simple green meadows
of friendship. Believe me, it is not my
idea to deprecate red-blooded participa-
tion in student affairs of the campus;
I know well enough how much it supple-
ments the value of classroom studies;
but I do think the instances are too
frequent where students enter into these
activities so disproportionately as to
sacrifice not only good scholarship but
other things of real worth.

One's general ideas on a subject of this
kind I suppose are inevitably prejudiced
by his personal experience; and it is
well that both Mr. Bell's letter and mine
should palpably disclose that fact. For
my part, my contact with the faculty
when an undergraduate leads me to a
conclusion that does not coincide with
Mr. Bell's. I entered the University
with no friends on the faculty; yet
before the end of my Freshman year I

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made the fairly close acquaintance of
several. I did not find them unapproach-
able and incHned to stand me off. I
remember well the delightful visits in
the room of my French instructor in
Hitchcock Hall; and I have a pleasant
memory of a Saturday afternoon bicycle
excursion to South Chicago, with a
dean and his wife, and of dinner at their
home afterward. As time went on
such friendships and associations in-
creased and served in their informal way
to enhance immeasurably my college life.
I know from conversations I have had
with faculty members that they like to
form student associations and regret
that the opportunities are not greater.

Nor need friendships between faculty
and students be a matter of under-
graduate days only. A few weeks ago
I made a business trip to Chicago which
kept me there three weeks. I had not
been in the city for a year and a half.
Proceeding on the relations I had borne
as a student toward a number of faculty
people I made a point of seeing them.
Their cordiality was conclusive testimony
of the permanence of the friendships I had
formed in college days. Among the pres-
ent student body my acquaintance is prac-
tically nil, and had it not been for my visits
among the less transient faculty I should
have had a dull time; as it was, my visit
was a tonic experience, full of immediacy
as well as of reminiscence.

The thought of my dispensing sage
advice to the rising generation may pro-
voke a smile; even so, were my counsel
solicited, I should rise to the occasion
and say something like this to my young
friend about to enter the University:
"Do not abide by preconceived ideas as
to the frigidity and aloofness of instruc-
tors; if there is any gap between you
and the faculty, remember that most
bridges are built from either side of a
ravine and that their two incomplete
parts come together half way from the
opposite crests. Do not be too ready to
accept Tom, Dick, or Harry's estimate
of Professor So-and-So; rely on your
own direct impressions and reactions.
Do not go about in a critical spirit, on
the lookout for offending incidents; bear
toward your instructor an open hand
and heart. Regard him as one whose
feelings and impulses are strictly human
like your own, and whose idea of the
undergraduate is not necessarily that
he is an inconsequential nonentity.
Remember that his being wants and must

have friendships, and that perhaps
you are the very one to help satisfy that
demand. Supplement that attitude
toward your instructor by doing the
best work of which you are capable in
his classes. Follow any natural responses
and desires that lead you in the direction
of making overtures of friendship. Your
disappointments in this course will
be small in proportion to your pleasures
and enduring satisfactions."

Harvey B. Fuller, Jr., 'o8

St. Paul, Minn.

January 2, 1913

To the Editor:

We are gratified to learn from the De-
cember issue of the University of Chicago
Magazine that arrangements have been
made with the Chicago Opera Company
whereby the students and members of
the faculty of the University of Chicago
receive reduced rates to the opera.

The German and French students — the
only two countries with whose student life
the writer is personally acquainted — have
been enjoying such privileges for many,
many years. The students receive re-
duced rates in all places of amusement,
whether it be the opera, theater, variety
show, dance hall, etc. Yes, even more.
Many of the business establishments, such
as department stores, tailor shops, etc.,
allow the students a considerable discount.
This is especially true of Germany.

Considering the fact that a much larger
number of students in American uni-
versities are self-supporting than in the
countries mentioned, it is even more
desirable that similar facilities be secured
for our students.

No one will deny the fact that the stage
is a great cultural and educational factor,
and it should therefore be made acces-
sible, especially to our college youth. Let
us hope, therefore, that the committee
who has the matter referred to in charge
will succeed in securing further reductions
for the men and women of the University
of Chicago.

We wish to add that the alumni would
no doubt greatly appreciate it if they
could be included in this arrangement.
Indirectly it would also help to bring the
alumni a little closer together and in more
close contact with their Alma Mater.
Very truly yours,

J. Pedott
[One wishes fervently that the Alumni
might be included, but the Opera Com-
pany could not be persuaded. — Editor]

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

The Rocky Mountain Alumni Club. —
The sixth annual dinner and reunion of
the Rocky Mountain Club of the Uni-
versity of Chicago Alumni Association
occurred in Denver on the evening of
November 25, 191 2 at the Hotel Metro-
pole and proved an excellent feast and a
pleasant and enthusiastic gathering of
those who have not forgotten old Chicago.
There were 17 present, a number of them
from other cities in the state having come
in for the meetings of the State Teachers'
Association. Those who have attended
the dinners for several years have become
well acquainted, and a stronger feeling
of unity is apparent each year.

There were interesting talks by Dr.
Irving E. Miller on "The Harper
Memorial Library" and by Dr. Loran
D. Osbom on "Beginnings at the Uni-
versity,' ' which were followed by a num-
ber of informal reminiscences and a clever
toast by Miss Cowperthwaite to the
newly-wed secretary and his wife. Since
our new library was one of the subjects
discussed, some of the reminiscences
dealt with the trials and tribulations of
the pioneers who used the first general
library in the days when its building
looked like a boiler shop, as one of the
speakers expressed it.

On the menu cards an effective use
was made of the new coat-of-arms of the
University, prints of which were secured
from the secretary of the Alumni Council.

The following officers were elected for
1913: President, Irving E. Miller, Ph.D.
'04, Greeley, Colo.; First Vice-President,
Miss Cora D. Cowperthwaite, Ph.B. '08,
Denver; Second Vice-President, Thos.
M. Netherton, A.B. '99, Fort Collins,
Colo.; Third Vice-President, Loran D.
Osbom, Ph.D., '00, Boulder, Colo.;
Secretary-Treasurer, Hayward D. War-
ner, S.B. '03, Denver.

There was some good music during the
evening, with Miss Hilda Smith at the
piano, and the reunion closed with a
Chicago sing. The Denver contingent
are planning to get together again in the
near future at the home of one of the
members for an informal social time
and an evening of music.

Any alumni or former students of the
University coming to Colorado to reside
should send their names and addresses
to the secretary at 924 Eighteenth St.,
Denver.

Hayward D. Warner, Sec.-Treas.

Sioux City Alumni Club. — ^The annual
meeting and dinner were held at the
West Hotel, Sioux City, on Saturday,
November 23, at half-past six. Thirty-
seven were present. Toasts were given
as follows: Cobb Hall, Miss Mabel
Murray; The Law Building, De Los P.
ShuU; Haskell Museum, Rev. R. D.
EchUn; Harper Memorial Library, Miss
Jimmie Vance.

OflBcers for the year were elected as
follows: President, A. C. McGill;
Vice-President, Dr. Harry J. Schott;
Secretary-Treasurer, W. E. Beck.

W. E. Beck
1 2 19 Nebraska St.
Siotjx City, Iowa

Treasurer's Report, Class of 19 12. —
The following final report of the treasurer
of the class of 191 2 has been submitted:

Receipts —

123 Class dues (of $5.00 each)

fully paid $615.00

4 Class dues, partly paid 9.17

Surplus (balance) from Senior

Promenade 66 . 51

Total $690.68

Disbursements —

Fall Quarter class expense $ 24 . 65

Winter Quarter class expense ... . 44-45

Spring Quarter class expense 30. 24

Class gift (to Trevor Amett, in

trust) 500 . 00

To treasury (balance) 91 • 34

Total $690.68

Receipts itemized —

Fall Quarter $ 63 . 67

Winter Quarter 340. 50

Spring Quarter 286.51

Total ( $690.68

W. C. Rogers, Treasurer
2858 Warren Ave.
Chicago

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

News from the Classes. —
1896

Charles A. Pike resigned some time
ago as Connecticut sales manager of the
Burroughs Adding Machine Company,
and after a tour in Europe returned to
take up his work as secretary of the
Halliday Box Company, Fort & Brush
streets, Detroit, Mich.

1897 ■
Waldo P. Breeden is a lawyer, 418
Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. He
was one of the original Snell gang in
water-fight days.

1898

Susan Harding (Mrs. William) Rumm-
ler is living at Shermerville, Illinois.
She has three children, of whom Mada-
lene, the youngest, was born in March,
1912.

1899

Arthur Tabor Jones is doing graduate
work at Clark University. His address
is 9 Ripley Street, Worcester, Mass.

1902

Samuel N. Harper is Lecturer in
Russian History in the University of
Liverpool, and Assistant Secretary of the
School of Russian studies in that uni-
versity. He is also an editor of the
"Russian Review," a quarterly devoted
to Russian history, politics, and econom-
ics, and published by the University.
He spends half each year in Russia,
sending occasional correspondence to
English newspapers. He will be in
Chicago until April, with his mother, at
5728 Woodlawn Avenue.

Margaret Van Wyck is teaching at
Tongaloo University, Tongaloo, Miss.

T. G. McCleary has been since May,
191 1, superintendent of schools at
Washington, Pa.

Myrtle G. (Mrs. J. A.) Mansfield has
written an introduction for and assisted
in the publication of a very pleasant
little pamphlet on Charles Dickens, by
Ethel A. Taber.

1903

W. H. Head, once "mayor" of "the
City Council" of the University, made a
trip to the Pacific Coast last summer
where he gave dramatic readings of
Biblical and other literature before some
of the largest church gatherings and
conventions in that section. He is now

touring Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio on
the Lyceum platform. Mr. Head will be
remembered as "old Man Rogers" in
"Esmeralda" which the Dramatic Club
gave some years ago. He is professor of
Sacred Oratory in the Western Theologi-
cal Seminary, Chicago, and his address
is 721 E. 40th St.

1905

Paul Van Cleef is in the painter's
supply business at 771 1 Woodlawn
Avenue, Chicago.

Newman E. Fitzhenry is in the lumber
business at Eugene, Ore.

1906

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Reid Capps,
Jr. (Isabelle Webster) are living at
2518 17th Street N.W., Washington,
D.C.

John W. Davis is superintendent of
public schools at Menominee, Mich.

Dorothea Visher is teaching at the
Hillside Home School, Hillside, Wis.

1907

Miss Ora F. Proctor is living at home.
Bay Minette, Ala., not far from Mobile.

Faith Hunter Dodge is professor of
Romance languages and literature at
James Millikin University, at Decatur,
111. After a vivid experience of failure
to receive the Magazine in past years,
she is still willing to trust in Providence
and the new business manager.

Joseph Pedott, superintendent of the
Chicago Hebrew Institute, presented to
Mayor Harrison on December 6 a protest
against any reduction in the appropria-
tion of the City Health Department.
Dr. Pedott represented the City Club.

Thyrza Barton is living at the Chicago
Commons, 953 Grand Avenue, and is
working for the United Charities.

Miss Helen Hendricks, 5310 Cornell
Avenue, is assistant organist at St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, and is a member of
the Apollo Club.

Jessica Foster lives at 843 East 53d
Street. She is a truant officer.

Ruth Porter has just left for Berkeley,
California, where she will teach for the
remainder of the year.

Mrs. Richard A. Frank (Gertrude
Greenbaum) has moved to 4443 Michi-
gan Avenue, Chicago. Mrs. Frank has
two daughters, Eleanor and Marie.

ALVMNI AFFAIRS

• Mary Morton is studying at the
Chicago School of Applied and Normal
Art.

Paul V. Harper has completed at
Chicago the course in law which he began
at Harvard. He starts in February for a
trip around the world on the steamship
Cleveland, returning to Chicago in the
summer to begin the practice of law.

Mrs. Harold A. Miller (Frances
Novak) has moved to 215 Midland Ave.,
Wayne, Pa.

Max Rohde is interne at the City
Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.

1909

J. P. Francis, after a course in mining
engineering at Houghton, Michigan, is
now at the Creighton Mine, Ontario,
Canada.

Ethel E. Hanks is deputy State Fac-
tory Inspector for Illinois, a position
gained through civil service examination.
Her address is The Chicago Commons,
Grand Avenue & Morgan Street.

Mildred Scott, who married Ray
Dickinson Welch in Paris in August,
191 1, spent last winter in Berlin, but is
now living in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Caroline Dickey is engaged in social
work in Kansas city. Her address is
Y.W.C.A., nth and Troost streets. ,

1910
Martha I. Grant is a special teacher
in the Peoria High School. Her address
is 615 N. Jefferson Avenue, Peoria, 111.

1911

Eugene Cohn, M. E. Robinson, Jr.,
Nathan Tatarsky, M.B. Levitan, Harry
Markheim, Edward Seegers, and Roy
Harmon are in the Law School at Chi-
cago; Vallee Appel, class president, in the
Harvard Law School; Calvin O. Smith
has given up the study of law and is in
business in Chicago. Ralph H. Kuhns
is secretary of the Senior class at Rush;
Lyman K. Gould, Elwood Buckman,
B. J. Callantine and Edmund Burke are
also Seniors at Rush. Mary Staley,
Edith Hemingway, Hazel Martin, Kath-
erine Singleton and Hazel Stillman are
teaching.

Dorothy Miller is teaching in the high
school in her home town, Washington,
la.

Alfred H. Swan, who last year took a
six months' camping trip in New Mexico,
sailed August 3, for Shanghai, China,

to take up the work of physical director
of the Y.M.C.A. there.

Bemice McClaire is teaching at Dav-
enport, la.

Harry Benner has left the Harris
Trust Company.

Frances M. Berry is kindergartner
and training teacher in the Michigan
State Normal School.

Florence Sweat is assistant principal
of the Clarkston (Michigan) High School.

Edith Love is an assistant in the chem-
istry department of the Bradley Poly-
technic Institute in Peoria.

June Emry has been principal of the
Paonia (Colorado) High School since
graduation.

James Morrison acts for the Vitagraph
Company of New York.

Florence Ames is- director of domestic
science in the Platteville State Normal
School.

Mary Chaney is instructor in domestic
science at Sweet Briar College, Virginia.

Irene Hastings is teaching in the
Du Quoin (111.) Township High School.

Helen Ingham is teaching in the Fort
Wayne High School.

Mitchell Dawson has been touring in
Europe.

Lewis Smith is with Hibbard, Spencer,
Bartlett & Co.

AUys Boyle is studying voice and com-
position at the American Conservatory
of Music.

Edith Fenton is teaching English in
the Wisconsin State Normal School at
Platteville, Wis.

Morris Briggs is with the Bell Tele-
phone Company of Los Angeles, Cal.

Elizabeth Farwell is secretary to Miss
Anna Morgan in the Fine Arts Building.
They teach voice and physical culture,
literature, dramatic art, and kindred
subjects.

Aleck Whitfield is with the Excelsior
Motor Cycle Co.

Florence Hunn is studying and teach-
ing at the local Art Institute.

John Sinclair is assistant in zoology
at the University.

S. E. Earle is now treasurer of the
Northern Bank Note Co. of Chicago.

Leonard W. Coulson is in the adver-
tising department of Deere & Company
Plow Works, Moline, 111.

Pearl Daniels has been teaching Latin
and German in Plymouth, Ind.

Famsley Reddick is with the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio.

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Frank A. Paul is now assistant cashier
of The Panhandle Bank in Texas.

Harold Earle is a lumberman near
Hermansville, Mich.

Harrison Biller is finishing his work
by correspondence.

Marguerite Swawite is studying at the
University for an A.M. in English.

Frances Meigs is at home in Keokuk,
la.

Margaret Hackett occupies the posi-
tion of secretary to the principal of the
Healy School.

Mary Phister is at the School of
Domestic Arts and Science.

Edith Coonley is studying stenography
to prepare herself further for secretarial
work.

Nathaniel Pfeffer has left the Chicago
Evening Post and is now with the Asso-
ciated Press, in Chicago.

Walter Simpson (ex) is with R. R.
Donnelley & Sons, printers.

Arthur Wheeler and J. R. Benzies are
both withTobey & Co., furniture dealers.

R. E. Myers is with the Plow Candy
Company.

Gertrude Perry recently took a promi-
nent part in the burlesque Omelet and
Oatmelia.

Leroy Baldridge has issued a little
book of drawings, called Round the Other
University, and devoted to scenes near
the Settlement, "back of the yards."
The editor of the Magazine rejoices in a
copy.

Margaret MacCracken is teaching at
the Illinois Industrial School for Girls.

Jane Graff is studying at the Normal
School of this city.

Hargrave A. Long is in the sales depart-
ment of the Service Recorder Co., of
Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers of a
distance-recording device for automo-
biles. He has recently assumed charge
of the exchange department of the Phi
Gamma Delta Magazine.

Edith Prindeville is an assistant of Dr.
Jordan of the Bacteriology Department
of the University.

Margaret Bell (ex) is instructor of
girls' athletics at Englewood High
School.

1912

Georgia Moon is spending the winter
in Seattle, Washington. Her address
is 1434 Warner Avenue.

G. H. Jamison is associate professor
of mathematics in the Kirksville Normal
School, Kirksville, Mo.

Edwin R. Miles has formed a partner-
ship with George W. Edgington, as Miles
and Edgington, at Idaho" Falls, Idaho.

W. F. Doughty, superintendent of
schools in Marlin, Tex., has been elected
president of the Texas State Teachers'
association.

Howard Harper McKee, S.M., sailed
for Venezuela, December 4, to do geologi-
cal reconnaissance work for the Caribbean
Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of the
General Asphalt Company of Phila-
delphia. His work will be chiefly around
Lake Maricaibo in northwestern Vene-
zuela. He expects to remain in Vene-
zuela at least one year. He resigned his
position as instructor in geology in
Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, to
take up this work.

Ex-1912

Paul F. O'Dea has been appointed
Assistant County Attorney of Green
County, Mo. O'Dea was an intercol-
legiate debater while at Chicago. He
has recently been interested in the forma-
tion of a University Club at Springfield,
Mo.

William F. Merrill was in December
awarded a Jonathan W. Bright scholar-
ship at Harvard, where he has been
studying dramatic technique since Octo-
ber, 1911.

Elliott Dunlap Smith, who spent his
Freshman year at the University of
Chicago, in December was awarded a
John Harvard Scholarship at Harvard
for excellence in work of the previous
year. The John Harvard Scholarship is
the highest academic distinction a
Harvard undergraduate can attain.
Smith stood sixth in his Freshman year
at Chicago. He was on the Freshman
track team, winning the mile at Illinois,
and also placing in the half, in which he
has since beaten two minutes at Harvard.
He is a son of Mrs. Dunlap Smith of
2636 Lakeview Avenue, Chicago.

Charlotte Foss is studying at the
Chicago School of Applied and Normal
Art.

Ex-1913

Lawrence H. Whiting, who was
chosen captain of the 19 12 football
team, but who left college last spring
and went into the insurance business,
has just been appointed assistant
manager of the Chicago Agency of the

ALVMNI AFFAIRS

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Illinois Life Insurance Company. Whit-
ing is not yet 22 years old.

Ex-1914

Charles B. Goes is with the Goes
Lithographing Company with a down-
town oflSce at 175 West Jackson Boule-
vard.

Engagements. —

Ex-'os. Florence Speakman to
Leverett P. Cady, of Chicago. The
wedding will take place in June.

'08. Eleanor Chapman Day (class
secretary) to John David Jones, Jr., of
Racine, Wisconsin. The marriage will
take place early in the winter.

'08. Miss Davis Kendricks to Thur-
low Gault Essington, '08. They will
be married within the year, and will
live at Streator, 111.

Ex-'o8. Paul WhJttier Pinkerton to
Estelle Foute, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David C. Foute of Chicago. Miss
Foute is a sister of Walter J. Foute, '13.
Mr. Pinkerton is a member of the
American Society of Engineering Con-
tractors, deputy county surveyor of
Montrose County, Colo., and a member
of the Montrose Chamber of Commerce.
The date of the wedding has not been
announced.

'09. Thomas A. Miller to Elizabeth
Louise Thielens, also '09. Mr. Miller is
a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and Miss
Thielens a Quadrangler.

'12. Clara Allen, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. T. G. Allen, 5721 Monroe Ave., to
Gerald Rahill, of Peoria, Illinois. Miss
Allen is a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and of the Esoterics, and was one of the
best known and best liked young women
in the University. No date has been
announced for the wedding.

Marriages. —

'96. On December 7, at Mattoon, 111.,
John F. Voight to Florence Edna Bell, of
Mattoon. Mr. and Mrs. Voight will
live at 6853 Jeflery Ave., Chicago.

Ex-'oo. On October 15, at Madrid,
Spain, Marian Farwell Tooker to Dr.
Luis Hernandez, Jr. Miss Tooker was
a member of the Quadranglers. She is
a sister of Dr. Robert N. Tooker, '97,
who has been for the past ten years in
practice at Spokane, Washington.

'04. On December 3, 191 2, at Mohne,
111., Harry W. Getz, Jr., to Carolyn D.

Ainsworth of Moline. Mr. Getz was a
member of Beta Theta Pi. Mr. and
Mrs. Getz will live near Holland, Mich.,
where Mr. Getz has a large farm.

'06. On December 18, 191 2, in
Chicago, Edward H. Ahrens ta Pauline
Forsyth.

'07. In September, at Fifield, Wis.,
Edith Baldwin Terry, secretary of the
class, to Harry Mortimer Bremer. Miss
Terry is a daughter of Prof. Benjamin S.
Terry of the Department of History,
and a sister of Schuyler B. Terry, '06,
and of Ethel Terry, '07. Mr. and Mrs.
Bremer are living at 416 W. i22d Street,
New York City.

'09. On January 7, 1913, in Chicago,
Daniel W. Ferguson to Alice Heath,
Ex-' 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
A. Heath, 444 E. 42d Street. Ferguson
is a member of Delta Tau Delta. His
wife is a sister of Albert G. Heath, '12,
for some time a student of sociology.
Among the attendants were Mr. Heath,
C. G. Gushing, Jr., C. C. D^enhardt,
William Ray Carney, and Greorge A.
Garrett, formerly Chicago students.

Ex-'io. On October 5, 191 2, Julia
Street to George A. ^Vheeler, of Michigan
City, Ind.

'10. On January i, 1913, Walter P.
Stefifen to Pearl Foster, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George D. Foster, 2052 Lin-
coln Avenue, at Kalamazoo, Mich.
Steffen is a member of the Phi Delta
Theta. He was one of the best known
athletes who ever attended the Uni-
versity. He was quarterback of the
eleven in 1907, 1908, and 1909, being
captain in his final season. He took the
combined six-year law course, graduating
with J.D. in June, 1912. Since that
time he has been practicing in South
Chicago until December, when he was
appointed assistant in the office of Fed-
eral District Attorney Wilkerson. His
engagement to Miss Foster was of long
standing. They had been schoolmates
at the old North Division High School.

'II. On December 20, 191 2, Maurice
G. Mehl to Lucy Hull, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harrison G. Hull, 5491 Green-
wood Avenue. Mehl is a charter mem-
ber of the Chicago Chapter of Delta
Sigma Phi. He was known as a basket-
ball player as an undergraduate. He is
at present assistant in paleontology at
the University. The address of Mr.
and Mrs. Mehl will be for the present
5491 Greenwood Avenue.

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'ii. On December 19, 1912, Olive F.
Bickell to C. Noel Griffis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Griffis, of 3355 Walnut
Street. They will live at Lima, Peru,
where Mr. Griffis is manager of a news-
paper.

Ex-' 1 1 . Ralph Lidster to Edith Young
also ex-'ii. Their address is 729 West
71st Street.

Ex-'ii. On October 12, 191 2, Helen
Jeannette Thielens to Theodore C.
Phillips, a graduate of the University of
Illinois, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. . Phillips
are living at 671 1 Stewart Avenue.

'12. On November 30, 1912, in Kansas
City, Mo., Paul Edgerton Gardner to
Ruby Sewall. Gardner is the oldest
son of J. P. Gardner, '81 and Ruth May
Edgerton Gardner, '81. While in college
he was captain of the tennis team. He
is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

'13. On January i, 1913, Horace E.
Whiteside to Esther Vesey, '14, at 1444
Plaisance Court, Chicago. Mr. White-
side played guard on the football teams
of 1 9 10 and 191 2. The permanent
address, of Mr. and Mrs. Whiteside has
not yet been announced.

THE DIVINITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

To the Alumni of the Baptist Union

Theological Seminary, Morgan Park,

III.:

Twenty years have elapsed since the
merger of the old Seminary and the new
University of Chicago, and the removal
of the school to the present campus.
Changes in the personnel of the merged
institution since that day have been
many and startling. The old faces have
nearly all passed away. Dr. James R.
Boise, emeritus professor of New Testa-
ment Greek, died February 5, 1895; Dr.
Geo. W. Northrup, professor of Sys-
tem,atic Theology, died December 30,
1900; Dr. William R. Harper, President,
and professor of Semitic Languages and
Literature, died January 10, 1906; Dr.
E. B. Hulbert, dean and professor of
Church History, died February 17, 1907;
Dr. Galusha Anderson, professor of
Homiletics, was relieved at the age limit
in 1904, and is now in good health and
pursuing literary work at Newton Center,
Mass. The writer is the only member of
the old Seminary faculty now in active
practice.

Naturally there is also a diminution of
the alumni of those early days, though it
is not so great as one would expect. The
first class was graduated in 1867, 45
years ago last spring, and many of the
older alumni are still in active service,
though a few have retired. If there is
an expressed desire that some facts be
given, they will appear in this column.
One case, however, must be noted here:
Professor Charles R. Henderson, class of
1873, chaplain of the University of
Chicago, is now on a trip around the

world as Barrows lecturer in India and
other foreign lands.

Ira M. Price, [82
President Divinity Alumni Association

Dr. F. P. Haggard, '89, has an able
article in The Standard of December 21,
explaining and defending the business
policies of the foreign mission Boards
during the past decade.

E. M. Lake, '97, has left his pastorate at
Lawrence, Mass., to act as Superintendent
of Missions for the Baptists of Michigan.

L. T. Foreman, '01, has resigned from
church work at Osage, la., and will move
to Chicago to take up literary work.

R. G. Pierson, ex-'o7, of South Mil-
waukee, is carrying on aggressive,
practical work among the cosmopolitan
groups which make up his community.

E. A. Hanley, president of Franklin
College, has recently secured Dr. E. M.
Wood of Columbus and Dr. Rebecca R.
George of Indianapolis to address the
students upon the subject of personal
hygiene. This is but a small beginning
in a great work. Dr. Hanley beUeves in
training young people for the respon-
sibilities of parenthood.

Reports from India tell of the fine, in-
spiring addresses recently given by Dr. C.
R. Henderson, '73, upon the social inter-
pretation of Christianity. A profound
impression was made upon the large
audiences that attended the lectures.

Henry Topping, '92, reports great
eagerness for Christian teaching among
the villages around Morioka, Japan.

Guy C. Crippen, '12, is now pastor of
the First Baptist Church, FHnt, Mich.

UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS

ATHLETICS

Basket-ball. — The basket-ball schedule
is as follows:

Iowa at Chicago, January 17

Northwestern " Evanston, " 21

Wisconsin " Madison, " 25

Purdue " Chicago, February i

Ohio State " " " 8

Minnesota " " " 14

Purdue " Lafayette " 21

Ohio State " Columbus " 22

Illinois " Urbana " 26

Minnesota " Minneapolis March i

Wisconsin " Chicago " 7

Illinois " " " 14

Games of importance already played
have been:

December 15 Chicago 32 vs. Lake Forest 27
December 30 " 23 vs. Detroit

Y.M.C.A. 18
January 4 " 28 vs. Beloit 13

January 8 " vs. Evanston Reds 16

Detroit Y.M.C.A. defeated Chicago
last year, the same five playing both
years for Detroit. Lake Forest has
beaten Northwestern, and Beloit has
been defeated by Wisconsin, at Madison,
33-10. Besides these games a wonder-
ful affair was staged in December be-
tween the alumni (including Page, Schom-
mer, Harris) and the 'varsity, in which
by really good playing the alumni won,

13-7-

The line-up so far has included Nor-
gren, Vruwink, and Stevenson, forwards;
Des Jardien, center; Bell, Molander, and
Baumgardner, guards; and Kennedy and
Gorgas, substitutes. Captain Paine's
knee has not yet become strong enough
to permit of his playing, but he has
scrimmaged, and may be in condition
even by the first conference game.

The team is strong at center and for-
ward. Des Jardien, Norgren, and Vru-
wink are quite equal to any trio in the
Conference, and Stevenson, though small,
is brilliant at times. The guards are
not so good, though both Bell and
Molander are very steady, and Molander
is particularly valuable for his free
throwing. Baumgardner, as in football,
keeps knocking at the door; he will
get in before long. So far the team has

shown no special faults or virtues. Weak
at first defensively, the men have con-
siderably improved. At times they
get together as a team and play a fine
scoring game; oftdner they do not.

The schedule, of twelve games, in-
cludes every team in the conference
except Indiana. Ohio State is a new-
comer. The championship is expected
to fall to Wisconsin, Illinois, or Chicago,
with the odds now favoring Wisconsin.
Chicago will have a better team than
last season.

Track. — Of the indoor track team
prospects little that is encouraging can
be said. Captain Kuh and Ward, a
Sophomore, are good in the hurdles,
Matthews in the sprints, Cox in the
high-jump, and Thomas in the pole
vault, but none are really first-rate.
In the longer runs, the loss of Davenport
and the disqualification of Bishop are
irreparable. Campbell, however, former-
ly of University High, promises well;
and Donovan, who has returned to his
old prep, school form after a most dis-
astrous University career, may do some-
thing. Cox will do about 5 ft. 9 in.
in the high-jump, and Norgren about
40 ft. in the shot. Those who will
fill in are Vruwink, Coutchie, and
Duncan, in the dashes, R. W. Miller and
Parker in the hurdles, Bohnen, Byerly,
and Stains in the longer runs. Heller in
the vault, Des Jardien and Gorgas in
the high-jump, and Des Jardien in the
shot. But blessed is he that expecteth
little. The schedule follows: '

January 24-25 First Regiment meet
February 15 Illinois at Illinois
February 28 Northwestern at Chicago
March 8 " " Evanston

March 29 Indoor conference meet at
Evanston

Of the Freshmen good things are said.
Barancik of Bowen, Boyd of Langdon,
N.D., Davidson of Walworth, and Russell
of Oak Park in the dashes and broad jump;
Riedel of Oak Park and Darrenougue of
Beloit, in the hurdles; Stegeman in the

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longer runs; and Hardinger of Mattoon,
ShuU of Sioux City, Moulton of Wendell
Phillips, and Whiting of Hyde Park in the
field events seem the most promising.
Other candidates are in plenty, however.
Philip Comstock, 'lo, is assisting in the
training of both the 'varsity and Fresh-
man squads.

Swimming. — The schedule for the
winter is:

Two preliminary meets with the Cen-
tral Y.M.C.A. — dates not yet arranged.

February 15, Wisconsin at Chicago
" 22, Northwestern at Chicago

March i, Illinois at Urbana

" 14, Northwestern at Evanston

" 28, Conference at Evanston

• Captain Thomas E. Scofield swims
the dashes and relay. Goodman in the
220 yds. is perhaps the best man on the
team. Others are Donald and Thomas
Hollingsworth, Howard Keefe, and
Parkinson, who is the only man in the

plunge. The team is without a star,
and one star generally makes a summer
in the swimming game.

General. — ^A plan to interest every
man in the University in middle and
long-distance running has been decided
upon. Mile and two-mile races will be
held, eight of each: two for the classes
in graded gymnastics, two for the classes
in swimming, two for Freshman and
'varsity track classes, one for basket-
ball men, and one for wrestlers and
fencers. The mile races will take place
on Friday, January 24, and the two-mile
on Saturday morning, February i or 8.
Competition is open to all men in good
scholastic standing, who have not won a
C in middle- or long-distances running;
and cups will be awarded the winners of
first, second, and third places in each race.
It is years since Chicago has produced
a really good long-distance runner;
this plan it is hoped may bring to light
hitherto unexpected material.

for the benefit of

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SETTLEMENT

Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium

Tuesday, February 11
at half-past eight

The most elaborate spectacle ever given
at the University

THE ALUMNI ARE PARTICULARLY INVITED

/oi

D. B. BUTLER
HENRY C. MABIE

H. A. GARDNER
E. O. TAYLOR
E. P. SAVAGE

C. E. MUELLER
C. A. AUSTIN

A GROUP OF FRESHMEN IN 1864

The University of Chicago
Magazine

Volume V FEBRUARY I9I3 Number 4

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

The group which make up the frontispiece of this issue were
graduated from the academy in connection with the old University of

Chicago, in 1864, and entered the University that fall.
F ti * ce Austin did not graduate. The others received the A.B.

in 1868, and Mabie, Savage, and Taylor subsequently re-
ceived the B.D. also. Digby Bell Butler is in the real estate and lumber
business in Frankfort, Mich. Henry Alansin Gardner died in 191 1
after an honorable career as a lawyer. His daughter, Mary Gardner,
married William France Anderson, '99. Henry Clay Mabie is a minister
in Boston. Charles Emil Richard Mueller became a teacher of music;
his address is at present unknown to the Alumni secretary. Edward
Payson Savage is director of the Children's Homefinding Association,
Minneapolis. Elbert Ozial Taylor is a minister and lecturer in Boston.
The picture was very kindly lent the Magazine by Rev. Mr. Savage.

A summary of the President's annual Report, just issued, heads the
" University Record" in this issue. Two or three matters in it may call

for special comment. The total receipts of the Uni-
The President's
Report: Finance ^^^^^^y ^^'^ ^9ii-i2 were $i,535,04S-67, an increase

of $72,386.72 over the year previous. The surplus was
$3,220 . 40. The fees of all sorts from students amount to 42 . 8 per cent
of the total; in other words, a student who pays full tuition pays for
about two-fifths of what he gets. . The Hebrew Institute, on the West
Side, may be used for comparison. It is frequently referred to as a
"noble charity," but it is 33 per cent self-supporting; ih other words, the
student at the Hebrew Institute pays for one-third of what he gets. If
one is a charity, why not the other ? Gifts paid in to the University

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since the foundation amount to $33,784,523.81.- In regard to the
financial poHcy of the University, the statement of President Judson is
as follows :

It is the established policy of the Board of Trustees to incur no financial obligation
for which resources are not in hand, or which will not be certainly available by the time
expenditures must be made. This of course is for the purpose of insuring the close of
the financial year without a deficit. It is of course well understood as a distinct policy
of some educational institutions to spend what is necessary regardless of resources,
depending upon alumni and friends of the institution to provide the resulting deficit.
It is not the belief of the University of Chicago that deficit financing is safe from any
point of view. If expansion is needed in any line, the funds to provide for that should
be obtained before the expansion is authorized. The administration of the University
is carried on strictly in accordance with these views of the Board.

The report calls attention to the fact that much if not all of the
Freshman work in college is of the same elementary nature as the work
., , in high school. This the president believes to be a serious
Report: Rela- mistake, principally because as things are at present,
tion of School when a student — a young man or woman seventeen or eighteen years
and College qJ^j — enters college he finds that there is not a more intellectual
"° atmosphere; he finds himself doing the same sort of things in essen-

tially the same sort of way, perhaps in fact not quite so well, as was the case in the school
from which he comes. How can we expect under these circumstances that the student
shall get any new intellectual eagerness ? . . . . How can we expect that he should
not find far more interest and value in the multiform activities which beset the student
on his entering college ?

The work now done in the Freshman year could be as well taught in the
high schools; and, this section of the Report concludes,
The best thing to do with the Freshman year is to abolish it.

In this connection an article by Dean Angell in the January School
Review is of great interest. Called '' The DupHcation of School Work by
Dean Angell ^^^ College," it declares that such duplication exists in
on the many subjects, of which modern languages, including

Same Subject English^ are singled out for special discussion. ''To
get rid of this burden of teaching this rudimentary material to class
after class of college students would be a boon which every college
department of modern languages would appreciate to the full." But
this duplication of work Dean Angell deplores not chiefly because it
hampers the college, but because it involves so much waste of the energies
of the student. "The history of the child who was confronted with the
bfeauties of ' Evangeline ' at six different points in his school and college
training is typical of the kind of mal-co-ordination which still, to a
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in the schools and colleges." A similar condition of affairs exists, it
is said, in history, political economy, civics, commercial geography,
physiography, zoology, botany, physiology. "The college accepts the
high-school credentials in these topics as valid for entrance and then
permits or requires the student to start at the beginning once again if he
wishes to pursue these subjects in college." " It appears," Dean Angell's
article concludes, " to be reasonably certain that the college could employ
to better advantage for all concerned some of its resources which are
now devoted to teaching subjects that can unquestionably be best pre-
sented in the high school."

The coincidence of the remarks on this topic in the President's Report
and by Dean Angell is not indicative of anything except the harmony of
their scholastic ideals, but it is profoundly interesting.

Professor Slaught's report, as secretary of the Board of Recommenda-
tions, shows that 733 applied for positions or service in the school year
The President's 1911-12, and 557 were appointed as teachers, 487 directly
Report: Board through the University and 70 through teachers' agencies,
of Recommen- There were also 50 appointments for private instruction,
* °"^ and 27 to business positions. The calls for men exceeded

the number registered, the number of women registered exceeded the
calls. Men who can coach the athletic teams are in the greatest demand
in the high schools. For men who can combine coaching with the teach-
ing of history or science, there are on an average fifteen calls for every
candidate. The average of all salaries for the 557 appointed was $1,008;
the 248 men appointed averaged $1,158, the 309 women averaged $883.
The highest average salary, in both high school and college, and for both
men and women, was for teachers of geology. Apparently the connection
between asking for bread and giving a stone is as close now as it was in
New Testament days.

The financial statement concerning athletics for the year 1911-12
shows that the division of physical culture and athletics went from a
The President's deficit of $3,795.51 on June 30, 1911, to a surplus of
Report: $641.83 on June 30, 1912. The receipts were $67,026,

Athletics q£ ^hich football furnished no less than 86 per cent!

University football brought $52,304.38, and high-school football
(including the receipts of games played on the field), $5,677.65. The
football expenditures were $25,346.33 for university football, and
$4,730.36 for high-school football. Other leading sports were financed
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ball receipts $2,737.50, expenditures $3,289.22;. basket-ball receipts
$2,744.40, expenditures $3,268.57. From this it would appear that,
financially speaking, basket-ball ranks as a major sport next to football.
The 1912 Inter-scholastic brought in $544.25 and cost $1,477.53, ^ i^^t
cost of $933 . 28. Thirty-six former University of Chicago athletes were
coaching in 1911-12, of whom many were giving instruction also in other
lines.

As might be inferred from one statement in the foregoing report,
basket-ball is flourishing at Chicago. Two defeats so far mar our record,
one at the hands of Wisconsin, which has not lost a game
_ - in two years — but have patience. Badgers, we hope to

accommodate you in the return game in Bartlett on
March 7, to which all alumni in Chicago who like hard, clean, friendly,
scientific sport are urged to come. The track men are limbering up, and
the baseball men will soon hear the call, though there is nothing to report
as yet. The best thing in athletics this winter has been the successful
effort of the Department to interest more men in the games. The inter-
class-and-department basket-ball series has been admirable, the games
vigorous and well attended. The series of mile and two-mile races too,
for the different gymnasium classes, have done a good deal to stir up the
apparently sluggish blood of our long-distance possibilities.

As for the Conference, rumors are abroad that something startling is
to be done this spring, but no information has leaked out. Michigan
undergraduates seem inclined to seek a return. Captain Thomson of
the football team, addressing a smoker in Detroit, concluded, "Until
Michigan rejoins the Western Conference, Michigan football, baseball,
and track teams will be a minus quantity — both in the East and West."
On the other hand the Michigan Athletic Association has taken no steps
toward a return. There can be no doubt that warm as the feeling of
the Conference colleges has been for Michigan, it is heartier now than
it has ever been. It is not that the members of the Conference need
more games or harder competition. Illinois undoubtedly would enjoy an
annual series of baseball games with such a worthy foe as Michigan has
always been; Chicago men look back with pleasure to the old struggles
with Michigan, such as no series of the present day perhaps quite gives;
and the Conference track meet without Michigan has lost a Uttle of its
savor. But these things are really immaterial. There are fighters
enough bom every year so that Achilles, sulking in his tent, may be
dispensed with as a combatant. It is as an associate that we especially
desire the old warrior. We want him out in the open, with the sun

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION ill

shining on his armor as it used to shine, for our admiration; not lurking
in the shadow, pretending to an anger over that lost Briseis, the
training-table, which he no longer feels.

Meanwhile one A. A. Stagg continues to play astonishing golf in
Florida, qualifying in first flights. As one correspondent put it: "If
Mr. Stagg is sick, as they say, then I have myself been dead for some
years."

Following a petition signed by i,ioo business men of the Seventh
Ward, Professor Charles E. Merriam recently announced himself as an

independent candidate for alderman from that ward.
Politics It is not believed he will have any serious opposition.

The movement for non-partisanship in municipal elections
is rapidly increasing in strength in Chicago, and Professor Merriam's
candidacy is sure to strengthen it still further. Two alumni of the
University who have taken a prominent part in progressive (with and
without the capital) politics, are H. L. Ickes, '98, who is county chairman
of the Progressive party, and Donald R. Richberg, '01, who is counsel for
the state legislative committee of the Progressives.

In consequence of the unreliability of the information published in
the daily papers relative to the recent outbreak of scarlet fever in Green-
Scarlet Fever wood Hall, Assistant Professor Harris, secretary of the
in Greenwood Committee on Sanitation and Hygiene in the University,
*^ has, at the request of the editor, made the following suc-

cinct report on the situation :

Only two cases of scarlet fever developed in Greenwood Hall; the one, that of a
student, Miss Mabel De La Mater, on January 15; the other, that of a maid, on the
2 2d. Prompt measures of isolation and quarantine were undertaken by the Depart-
ment of Health of the City of Chicago with the co-op>eration of the physicians in attend-
ance and the University authorities; and what at first threatened to become a serious
situation was quickly and thoroughly checkmated. In neither instance of the disease
could the source of infection be positively ascertained, inasmuch as scarlet fever was
widespread in the city at the time, and the points of contact were doubtless many.

It is gratifying and important to note the lessened case-incidence in the University
community (including the pupils of the High and Elementary schools who are at the
most susceptible age), as compared with that of either Wards 6 or 7, in which the
University community is most largely domiciled, and that of the whole population of
Chicago.

For the week ending January 17: University, i in 3,330; Ward 6, i in 1,015;
Ward 7, I in 2,102; City, i in 1,387. For the week ending January 24: University,
I in 1,665; Ward 6, i in 988; Ward 7, i in 1,706; City, i in 1,232.

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others were allowed to go home. Arrangements were made by the Dean
for making up the lost classwork, and all students, except Miss De La
Mater, were back at work before the end of January.

The Magazine was honored last month by editorial or news comment
in the Daily Maroon on many of the points the Magazine had discussed.
The DaUy Ma- ^^^ Maroon in general was kindly, but on "snap" courses
roon on "Snap it differed so sharply that its words deserve reprinting
Courses" ^ere. They were:

It is seldom that the Daily Maroon prints editorial opinion in a news column.
It does so in the present instance only because it is felt that at the time the foregoing
editorial is reviewed, it is just that some answer should be made to the opinions voiced
by the writer. It is to be hoped that no student will think the less of the splendid influ-
ence and work of the instructor to whom most pointed inferences are directed. No
student who ever had work with him will be influenced in the least, by the disparaging
tone of the references made to him. Students are as good judges of men as anyone
could be. They are quick, almost intuitively, to recognize sincerity. In answer to
the statement that students leave "strict disciplinarians who believe in study for its
own sake" to "retreat to the haven prepared by the friendly soul who 'stimulates,'"
let it be said that four years of high school give any young man all the disciplining
he needs, and that he is ready for stimulation. Furthermore, the "study for study's
sake" palm might better be given to the "culture" course instructor who is too inter-
ested in his subject to waste time bickering over marks and administering puerile
rebukes and chastisements. It is certainly to be deplored that courses on the Uni-
versity curriculum should be held up to scorn in the pages of a public magazine pub-
lished at the University. But the occasion is a happy one in the sense that it allows
the student daily to give what the editors know to be the opinion of the average under-
graduate— that he gets many good things from the "culture" courses, not the smallest
of them being association with such inspiring ("stimulating," if you will) men as the
one who teaches "knowledge of the institutions of the Low Countries" and the one
who is "better than vaudeville."

It might be said that the Maroon seems unwilling to distinguish
between "snap" courses and "culture" courses. Certainly to prefer
an instructor who really stimulates to intellectual striving, over an
instructor who "wastes time administering puerile rebukes and chastise-
ments," is desirable. But the Magazine cannot see that this distinction
has any more to do with its remarks on "snap" courses than — ^let us say
— a comparison of the personal pulchritude of instructors would have.
A "snap" course is one for which the student registers that he may loaf;
if in it he is also amused, well and good. A "culture" course is one for
which he registers that he may be aroused to ideals and fine feelings.
Such a course may be, for instance, in political economy, and require the
hardest kind of intelligent work; or it may be in the fine arts, and
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sociology, and require the widest range of social speculation. But if
the student has to exercise in it his faculties and employ his judgment, it
is not a "snap" course; and if he does not, it is a "snap" course. And
the Magazine is sure that the Maroon editor, who is a high-stand student,
agrees perfectly with this view.

To strengthen the connection between the University and the
secondary schools affiliated with it, a faculty committee composed of
Strengthening Dean Angel 1, Mr. Payne, the University Examiner, and
the Bond of Professors Butler, Miller, Slaught, and Tufts was recently
Affihation appointed. Four hundred high schools and academies

throughout the country hold such affiliation. The graduates of those
schools are accepted without entrance examinations; the teachers are
privileged to receive instruction in the Summer Quarter for half the
regular tuition ; and the schools may be represented in the annual joint
conference held at the University. Three hundred letters have so
far been sent out asking whether the schools wish actively to continue
this co-operation, to which 250 have already replied in the affirmative.

Few occasions could show more clearly the value to an alumni group
of individual effort, than the dinner at Minneapolis on January 18.
Twin City An account of it is published elsewhere; but that account

Alumni Club rhodestly leaves out the chief figure, H. B. Fuller, Jr., '08.
Dinner 'p^ secure an attendance of 86 out of not more than 120

eligible in the whole state of Minnesota may be regarded as a feat. The
86 were rewarded by the brilliance of the toastmaster. President Vincent
being in his best vein, and by the happy reminiscence and suggestions of
President Judson. The other speakers did their best to support the two
presidents, and may be said to have succeeded amply. The group which
went up from Chicago hugely enjoyed itself, both at the dinner (all the
men spoke) and before and after, when they were entertained by Presi-
dent and Mrs. Vincent. It seems to this editor extremely doubtful
whether a better organized, heartier Chicago alumni dinner has ever
been carried through than that at Minneapolis. It may be interesting
to note, in this connection, that not only are the President and the Dean
of the Faculties of the University of Chicago former professors at Minne-
sota, and the president of Minnesota the holder of a degree and formerly
a professor here; but also that there are at present, at the University of
Minnesota, 30 people connected with the faculty, who have either studied
or taught here. The bond between Chicago and Minnesota, it would
seem, ought to be fairly firm.

DEBATING IN THE UNIVERSITY

BY H. G. MOULTON
Instructor in Political Economy

A triple tie was the outcome of this year's contests in the Central
Debating League, the affirmative team winning in each case. This
result was somewhat unexpected, as the negative seemed to be the better
side of the question, the Aldrich banking plan. Chicago scored a
decisive victory over Northwestern in Mandel Hall on January 17,
excelling from every standpoint. The team work of our men was
extremely good; at no time was the result of the contest in doubt. The
work of Mr. Arnold Baar, who opened the debate for Chicago, was most
satisfactory; he handled a technical dry-as-dust banking question in a
way that could be understood by everyone Mr. Lorin Peters succeeded
almost as well, and made "elasticity of the currency" a very simple
proposition. Mr. D. G. Hunt, however, was the star of the evening.
When he had finished, Northwestern was without a leg to stand on.
Mr. Hunt cleverly showed that her first and third speakers had flatly
contradicted each other.

At Michigan, according to the report of Mr. J. W. Hoover, '09, who
accompanied the Chicago team, the contest was extremely close. One
judge afterward said that he did not know which was the better team;
his final markings showed Michigan with 280 points and Chicago with
279. One judge said that Mr. Wilbur Hamman was the most finished
speaker of the six; another, that Mr. Conrad did the best all-around
work of any man on either team. Mr. Cook, the only Sophomore to
make our team since the organization of the Central League, acquitted
himself with great credit. Chicago evidently excelled Michigan in pres-
entation, something quite unusual. All the judges agreed that it was
not until the final rebuttal that the tide was turned in favor of Michigan.

Chicago's history in debating, although not what it might be, is very
creditable in view of the handicaps under which we have always labored.
For several years Chicago was a member of a debating league composed
of Michigan, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Chicago. Under this
arrangement the first debate each year \yas held in January. At this
time two schools were eliminated; and the victorious teams then met in
April to debate a new question for the championship. Under this scheme
each school had but one team, and these three men, if successful, had to

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AFFIRMATIVE TEAM, NORTHWESTERN

HAROLD G. MOULTON, Coach

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spend about seven months of the year working on debates. They were
amply rewarded, however, each member receiving a year's tuition, $50
in cash, and a medal — gold for the championship, silver for second place,
bronze in case of defeat. This league was dissolved in 1906; at this
time Chicago held the championship. The following year a triangular
league was formed, which left Minnesota out. Each school in the new
league chooses an affirmative and a negative team. The first year the
Chicago affirmative team met Northwestern's negative team at Chicago;
the Northwestern affirmative team met Michigan's negative team at
Evanston; and the Michigan affirmative team met Chicago's negative
at Ann Arbor. The affirmative teams always remain at home, meeting
the opposing schools in alternate years. Thus three debates are held
simultaneously. To win, a school must gain the decision on both sides
of the question. The scholarships at Chicago were now reduced to two
quarters' tuition; no cash prizes or medals were given. In the seven
years since the organization was formed Chicago has won four and lost
three debates with Northwestern, and won two and lost five with
Michigan. Twice we have lost both debates; once we have won both;
and four times there has been a triple tie. Our record, therefore, is
creditable; our chief regret lies in our failure to defeat Michigan more
frequently.

It has long been a matter of common knowledge that there is little
interest in debating at Chicago. A mere handful of undergraduates is
all that ever attends a debate; the largest total attendance recorded is
under 300. Very few of the faculty find time to be present, and the
bulk of the audience usually comes from off the campus. While a
thousand students will attend a football mass meeting to hear their
classmates tell how they hope "to bring back the bacon," a bare score
will attend the one debate of the year. This is really a reflection on the
ideals of the University. While we pat ourselves on the back over the
high standards we are setting up at Chicago, congratulating one another
on the fact that this is not an institution for loafers, but one that trains
for citizenship, the one activity that comes nearest to the problems of the
day and to citizenship, at least economic and political citizenship, is
almost ignored by faculty and students. The test political polls taken
on the campus during the past year recorded a surprising amount of
Progressivism here. A large part of the faculty and student body
evidently believes in the initiative, referendum, and recall and in the
ability of the people to decide wisely the great and complicated questions
of the day. The equal suffrage movement is also strong here, and the
young women believe that they should help to settle the vexing problems

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of. the time. It is interesting, therefore, to observe how consistently all
these avoid the debates in which such questions are discussed. The
writer talked with a considerable number of Progressives during the past
fall, urging them to help stimulate interest in debating in the University,
at least by attending the contest on January 17. When told that the
question was the reform of our banking system, these individuals in
nearly every case replied that they found such questions uninteresting;
that they could not understand the debate if they went; and that con-
sequently they preferred to go to a dance or a basket-ball game, or to
stay at home. Now, if progressive principles triumph, the direct vote
of the people will solve most of our great problems, at least so far as their
larger aspects are concerned. If it really be true that a University
audience cannot understand the banking, the tariff, or the trust problems,
the recall of judicial decisions, or the commission form of government
for cities when these questions are discussed by men who have worked
for months on the preparation of speeches which must be presented as
clearly and logically as possible, then it seems to me that our faith in the
popular saying that "the cure for democracy is more democracy" is
sadly misplaced indeed.

The ray of hope in the situation lies in the fact that the lack of
interest in debating is not due to especial shallowness on the part of
Chicago students. Students who enter Chicago are not made of poorer
stuff than those of other institutions. The relative lack of interest in
debating here is largely due to conditions on the campus. To command
the support of any student body, an activity must be made to appear
relatively important, and this can be done only by persistent organiza-
tion and publicity. In schools where the debaters are equal in impor-
tance with the football heroes, fifty or sixty men will try for places on the
teams. The writer has known this to be true where the total student
body numbered less than 400. Out of our several thousand students
we had eleven candidates for the teams this year. At the University
of Iowa 600 students will attend a debating mass meeting. We had
sixteen, most of whom had peculiarly personal reasons for being present.
The institutions that make a success of debating build from the ground
up. Is it possible for Chicago to do this ?

About five years ago a systematic plan of campaign was organized
by our chapter of the national debating fraternity. Delta Sigma Rho.
The first step was to bring debaters to the University. Delta Sigma
Rho undertook to furnish from its membership judges for the debates
held each year in the high schools of Chicago and vicinity, and to interest
the high-school debaters in coming to the University. This part of the

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program has been excellently carried out and it has actually borne fruit
in the bringing of many good debaters to Chicago.

The second step was to give Freshmen a chance to debate. The
Pow-wow Debating Club was accordingly started, and it has done some
fairly good work. Two debates for Freshmen were provided for: one
with the Sophomore class and a second with the Freshmen of North-
western. Thus up to the Sophomore year the plan may be said to have
worked, but beyond that it has been a failure. Not one of the debaters
brought through the Freshman year has ever represented us on the Uni-
versity teams. For several reasons they lose interest after the first year.

In the first place, there are here no literary societies worthy of the
name. Chicago is almost unique in this respect. At most institutions
the debaters are developed in the debating and literary societies. Year
after year most of Michigan's representatives have come up out of her
literary societies, experienced men who have participated in scores of seri-
ous contests. We have tried to establish debating societies at Chicago,
but without much success. The Pow-wow, as stated, does fair work;
but the Fencibles has never been much more than an honorary society,
its chief function being to add another item to the members' honor
list in the Cap and Gown. The Stump, organized in 1905, as a Senior
college and graduate society, accomplished a little for about two years,
then died for lack of members.

The great handicap to literary societies seems to be the fact that
so many of our students live in the city and go home at night. The
Pow-wow has to hold its meetings in the afternoon. They last not over
an hour and a half, and comparatively little society spirit is generated.
To be successful, literary societies must devote evenings to their meet-
ings. In the second place, there are no society rooms available, and the
clubs have to meet in classrooms. At institutions where literary-
societies are important, they have permanent clubrooms which foster
a sort of fraternal spirit. In the third place, there are many counter-
attractions in connection with a metropolitan university. Friday and
Saturday nights, set aside in so many places for literary societies, are
here the time for theater, opera, and social functions on and off the
campus. These factors combined seem to make effective literary societies
impossible. As a result, if interest in debating is to be maintained after
the Freshman year, it must be by other agencies than the debating
societies.

One Sophomore debate is held each year — that with the Freshmen;
but there is no intercollegiate Sophomore contest, the only kind that

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brings incentive to work. Sophomores are indeed eligible to the Uni-
versity teams, but inasmuch as they have to meet here the competition
of the graduate and law schools, the chance of making the team seems
so slight that few try for places. They settle down to wait until they
are Seniors or until they enter the law school. But in the meantime
they lose their zeal. In the whirl of student activities during the Sopho-
more and Junior years, debating is lost sight of. A large majority of
those entering college with the hope of participating in forensics, after
acquiring Sophomoric or Senior college wisdom, know that debating is
not worth while. They prefer to participate in the things that count
in college life. Dramatics give them adequate outlet for their histrionic
propensities, and the rigor of the new curriculum furnishes the necessary
mental pabulum. If there chances to be now and then a student who
does not lose his perspective, who still cherishes the idea that he would
like to debate during his undergraduate days, he deplores his choice of
an Alma Mater and possibly pulls up stakes and goes to more promising
pastures. Last year a fine fellow, an unusually able debater, decided to
go to Michigan for the rest of his course because Chicago offered so
little incentive to debating.

Graduate and law school competition has much to do with this lack
of interest on the part of the undergraduates. The Junior or the
Senior would still try for the debating teams if his classmates should
honor his achievement in representing the University in this field. But
he sees that they do not attend debates and apparently do not care who
represents Chicago on the platform. The reasons for this have already
been indicated in part, but it is probable that this apathy is to some
extent due to the fact that the members of the teams are almost unknown
to the undergraduate body. Seldom more than one and often none of
our six representatives is an undergraduate, the other five being in the
law or divinity schools. Of these five, one perhaps is an alumnus of
Chicago, while the other four were undergraduates elsewhere and are
in reality representatives of other schools where they debated before
coming here. Debating, therefore, does not appeal to our students as
really one of their activities. If our six representatives were all well-
known Seniors the various undergraduate organizations would bring
pressure to bear to get out a crowd. The "right thing to do" would
be to go to the debate and support the team. It is a serious question
whether we ought not to make debating a strictly undergraduate
activity, or at least to differentiate and have distinct undergraduate
teams and professional school teams.

THE FRATERNITIES AND
SCHOLARSHIP

In the March, 191 2, issue of the Magazine was published an analysis
of the scholarship of the seventeen fraternities in the University for the
Autumn Quarter, 191 1. Figures are now available for the Autumn
Quarter, 191 2, and are published herewith. The rank of the various
fraternities for the same quarter the year before is added for the purpose
of comparison.

FRATERNITIES IN THE ORDER OF THEIR RANK IN SCHOLARSHIP,
AUTUMN QUARTER, 191 2

(The grand totals on which the rank is based include all the undergraduate mem-
bers of each chapter in the Autumn Quarter, and all the men pledged.)

Rank

Autumn

1911

.")

Fraternity

Percent-
age of
Grade
Points

Percent-
age of
Mem-
bers
Only

Percent-
age of

Pledges
Only

No.

Mem-
bers

No.
Pledges

3-15

2.8s

3-53

2.70

2.88

2.46

2.49

2.74

2.00

2.48

2.03

2.90

2.40

2.50

2.26

2.38

2.89

1.87

2.30

2-53

1-93

2.25

2.07

2.81

2.00

2.08

1-93

1.99

2.73

1.44

1.98

1.90

2.09

1.90

1.46

1.96

1.80

1-35

2.53

1.78

2.35

I. II

I-S2

1.52

I-S2

1.48

1.47

1.50

1.23

1.25

1.20

Pledges
Elirible
at End

of
Quarter

Beta Theta Pi

Alpha Tau Omega. . .

Delta Upsilon

Psi Upsilon

Phi Kappa Sigma . . .

Sigma Chi

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Alpha Delta Phi

Delta Tau Delta . . .
Delta Sigma Phi ....
Phi Gamma Delta. . .

Phi Delta Theta

Delta Kappa Epsilon

Sigma Nu

Phi Kappa Psi

Chi Psi

Kappa Sigma

all

4
6
6
all
6
9
7
S
9
4
3
3
4

(Note. — The figures of this table are changed from those which were sent out to
the various chapters late in January, and the ranks have shifted accordingly. The
ranks at that time were based on the standing of the men in the fraternity only; and
there were, moreover, certain errors in the calculation of percentages which have
since been corrected.)

The grand total averages are, for all, 2 . 10 grade points; for members,
2.15 grade points; for pledges, 2.06 grade points. There were 194
members, 146 pledges, of whom 40, or nearly 30 per cent, gained less

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than three majors and three grade points, and so were ineligible for
initiation.

Analyzing these figures a little, what do we find ? In the autumn
quarter, the fraternity men averaged one-tenth of a grade point above
C. What is C ? The minimum grade which permits of regular progress
toward a degree. Counting members and pledges together eight
chapters actually averaged below this minimum; the members of six
chapters averaged below it, and the pledges of nine! Nearly 30 per cent
of the pledges were ineligible for initiation, and of those eligible, more
than 25 per cent were so low in standing that their chances of remaining
in the University more than a quarter or two are very poor. That sort
of thing is what smashes a fraternity. Of course the autumn quarter is
the worst for scholarship among the fraternity men. "Rushing" plays
havoc with study. But how long will it be before various chapters
realize that their present course is simply suicide ?

It need not be so. Take the case of Beta Theta Pi. In the year
1910-1 1, Beta Theta Pi ranked fourteenth in scholarship. In the autumn
of 191 2 she rose to tenth. Last autumn she came out first, with a grand
average of better than B— , and with an average among her nine pledges
of close to B. There was no accident about it; the members made up
their minds to work, as well as take an interest in general activities. It
may be put down almost as an axiom that a chapter whose pledges
average below C, or which pledges men 25 per cent of whom are ineligible
for initiation at the end of three months, is losing the respect of its
alumni, and failing in its duty to itself.

THE UNIVERSITY RECORD

The President's Annual Report. — The
new President's Report, showing the con-
dition and progress of the University for
the year ending June 30,1912, isa volume
of nearly 250 pages. It opens with the
personal report of President Harry Pratt
Judson, covering the subjects of finance,
immediate needs of the University, col-
lege problems, the University libraries,
Ryerson Physical Laboratory, the degree
of doctor of philosophy, and the Univer-
sity's coat-of-arms. Under "Finance"
are included the budget, the Press, and
journals, University College, and gifts;
and under "College Problems" are dis-
cussed the subject of shortening school
and college curricula and the subject of
student social life.

The Auditor's report, which follows,
covers twenty-one pages and includes
thirteen statistical tables.

The report of the Dean of the Faculties
of Arts, Literature, and Science is pre-
sented under the following heads: At-
tendance, Legislation, Instruction, Ad-
ministration, and Scholarship. Under
"Legislation" reference is made to the
advance in entrance requirements for the
Junior Colleges whereby entering stu-
dents must have sustained an average in
their high-school course materially above
the passing mark . Under ' ' Instruction ' '
attention is called to the report of the
Dean of the College of Commerce and
Administration and the systematic effort
to develop effective curricula in these
courses; under "Administration" is
noted the wisdom of assigning to the
Examiner's office a man free from in-
structional duties, and the advantage of
inviting teachers from co-operating
schools to visit the classes of the Univer-
sity; and under "Scholarship" is con-
sidered the administration of scholarships
in connection with the Library.

The report of the Dean of the Gradu-
ate School of Arts and Literature dis-
cusses the present value and significance
of the Master's degree and comments
favorably on the situation with regard to
the Doctor's degree.

In the report of the Dean of the Divin-
ity School a detailed vocational curricu-

lum is included. The reports of the Dean
of the Law School, the Dean of the Medi-
cal Courses, and the Director of the
School of Education (including the Col-
lege and High School), the Deans of the
Senior Colleges, the College of Commerce
and Administration, University College,
the Junior Colleges, and of the Dean of
Women cover eighteen pages of the
Report.

The Secretary of the Correspondence-
Study Department, the Director of Co-
operation with Secondary Schools, the
University Examiner, the Directors of the
Libraries, the Press, and of Physical Cul-
ture and Athletics make contributions to
the Report, and the work of the Board of
Recommendations for the year and of the
Religious Agencies is described. Ten
pages are given to the reports of the
Counsel and Business Manager and the
Registrar.

Reports of Research in Progress include
those from twenty-four departments and
cover eighteen pages. The list of pub-
lications by members of the Faculties
covers twenty-three pages and includes
the titles of forty-two books issued during
the year. The volume concludes with
fifty-three pages of statistical tables giv-
ing summaries for the University, the
Schools and Colleges of Arts, Literature,
and Science, the Professional Schools, the
Correspondence-Study Department, and
the work of the University Examiner.

The twentieth anniversary^ of the first
Convocation. — On the twentieth anniver-
sary of the first Convocation, which was
held on January 7, 1893, five hundred
students and alumni of the University
and 86 members of the faculty attended
a dinner in Hutchinson Hall for the pur-
pose of promoting closer social relations.
President Harry Pratt Judson, Professor
James R. Angell, Dean of the Faculties,
Dr. Thomas W. Goodspeed, Secretary of
the Board of Trustees, Professor Frank B.
Tarbell, of the Department of the History
of Art, and Associate Professor Francis
W. Shepardson, of the Department of
History, spoke for the faculty, Mr.
Donald Richberg, '01, spoke for the

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alumni, and Mr. Chester Bell represented
the student body. Mr. Norman Paine,
president of the Undergraduate Council,
was the toastmaster. Tables were re-
served according to departments. The
music for the occasion was furnished by
the University Band and the University
Glee Club.

The American Philological Association
and related societies. — Professor William
Gardner Hale, head of the Department of
Latin, Professor Elmer T. Merrill, Asso-
ciate Professor Gordon J. Laing, and Dr.
Susan H. Ballou, of the same department;
Professor Ira M. Price, of the Department
of Semitics, and Associate Professor Edgar
J. Goodspeed, of the Department of Bib-
lical and Patristic Greek, were represen-
tatives of the University at the joint ses-
sions of the Archaeological Institute of
America, the American Philological Asso-
ciation, and the Society of Biblical Litera-
ture and Exegesis, held in Washington,
D.C., at the end of December. Messrs.
Hale, Merrill, Laing, and Goodspeed pre-
sented papers, and Professor Carl D.
Buck, head of the Department of San-
skrit and Indo-European Comparative
Philology, was elected a vice-president of
the American Philological Association.

Eugene Ysaye at the University. — The
great Belgian violinist gave a recital in
the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall on the
afternoon of January 21 before an audi-
ence that occupied even the stage. The
classic program was drawn from Brahms,
Viotti, Vitali, and Vieuxtemps, and the
artist played two of his own compositions,
"Reve d'enfant" and "Old Mute." The
audience was especially impressed by the
interpretation of Vitall's " Chaconne," in
which were strikingly illustrated the
artist's remarkable technique and beauty
of tone. The audience was enthusiastic
throughout the program, and at the close
the artist gave an encore from the
Meistersinger. His accompanist was
Camille Decrus, whose playing was
charmingly in sympathy with that of the
violinist.

On February 4 the Theodore Thomas
Orchestra, under the direction of Frederick
Stock, gave a concert made up of com-
positions from Beethoven, Schubert,
Weingartner, MacDowell, and Dvo?d.k,
and the Orchestra will also play on Feb-
ruary 25 and April 8. On March 11
Alice Nielsen will give a song recital.

The whole series is proving to be the most
successful given at the University.

New relations between the Universities of
Chicago attd Cambridge. — The arrange-
ment between the University of Chicago
and the University of Cambridge, by
which the latter is given the exclusive
agency in the British Empire for the
former's publications, is now being sup-
plemented by a reciprocal agreement, the
Chicago institution taking over the
American agency for a number of the
Cambridge publications. An arrange-
ment has already been concluded for the
Cambridge journals, and the following
periodicals in the future will be issued in
America under joint imprint : Biometrika;
Parasitology; Journal of Genetics; The
Journal of Hygiene; The Modern Lan-
guage Review; The British Journal of
Psychology, The Journal of Agricultural
Science.

Several new books from the Cambridge
list are also to be taken over at once and
published in this country under joint
auspices. The list includes The Life and
Letters of Lord Hardwicke, by M. Philip
Chesney Yorke; The Duab of Turkestan,
by W. Rickmer Rickmcrs; The History of
Romanesque and Byzantine Architecture,
by Thomas Graham Jackson; and The
Genus Iris, by WilUam Rickatson Dykes.
The publications selected all embody the
results of research. This movement
toward a closer co-operation between the
two universities is a matter of special
interest to all who are concerned with the
advancement of scientific and scholarly
research and the preservation of its
results. The difficulties involved in the
publication of such material are too
obvious to need comment, and it is hoped
that an arrangement that promises so
much aid in this direction may be further
extended.

The University Preachers. — Dr. Samuel
McChord Crothers, D.D., Litt.D., the
widely known essayist and contributor to
the Atlantic Monthly, was the University
Preacher on February 9 and 16. Dr.
Crothers has previously served in the
same capacity at the University. He is
minister of the First Parish Church in
Cambridge, Mass. Dr. WiUiam C.
Bitting, of St. Louis, is to be the Univer-
sity Preacher on the last Sunday in Feb-
ruary and the first Sunday in March, and
on March 9 and 16 (Convocation Sun-

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day) Dr. Charles Reynolds Brown, Dean
of the Yale Divinity School, is to be the
Preacher.

The Florentine Feie. — The "Florentine
Carnival," which was given on the even-
ing of February ii for the benefit of the
University of Chicago Settlement, was
one of the most elaborate and artistic
entertainments ever given at the Univer-
sity. The Frank Dickinson Bartlett
Gymnasium where the fete was held was
decorated to suggest a piazetta of Flor-
ence in the fifteenth century — an arched
gateway, an arcade entirely surrounding
the court and heraldic shields and banners
presenting a distinctly mediaeval effect.
The participants in the carnival appeared
in costume and masks and portrayed
well-known literary and historical char-
acters native to the Italian Renaissance.
The carnival was introduced by a masque
adapted from Milton's U Allegro, which
was effectively recited by Dr. Edwin
Herbert Lewis, an alumnus of the
University. The cast of characters was
composed of members of the University,
and the successive parts of the poem were
distinguished by interpretive country and
court dances. Serpentine, confetti, and
carnival souvenirs were sold in booths,
and refreshments were served in the
faculty room of the gymnasium, which
was transformed into the formal court of
an Italian palace. There was a great
audience, all the boxes being sold long in
advance. The carnival was given under
the auspices of the University of Chicago
Settlement League.

President Harry Pratt Judson is named
among the incorporators of the Rocke-
feller Foundation, a bill for the incorpora-
tion of which recently passed the House
of Representatives at Washington. The
bill requires that the election of trustees
shall be subject to the approval of the
presidents of Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
Johns Hopkins, and the University of
Chicago. President Judson attended the
meeting of the General Education Board
in New York on January 24, and on the
evening of January 25 he addressed the
Eastern Alumni Club on the progress of
the University.

Professor James Hayden Tufts, head of
the Department of Philosophy, was re-
cently made chairman of the Illinois
Committee on Social Legislation. Other
members of the Committee, which has

been incorporated, are Mrs. Arthur Aldis,
president of the Visiting Nurse Associa-
tion, Mr. Eugene T. Lies, general super-
intendent of the United Charities of
Chicago, Miss Jane Addams, head of
Hull House, and Mr. Rudolph Matz, of
the Legal Aid Society. More than
twenty-five charitable and philanthropic
organizations are represented on the
committee.

Professor Albion W. Small, Dean of the
Graduate School of Arts and Literature,
was the University Preacher at Harvard
University on December 29. Dean
Small also gave the presidential address
as head of the American Sociological
Society at its annual meeting in Boston,
and made the opening address at a ban-
quet to the visiting members of that
society and the American Historical
Association.

Assistant Professor Chester W. Wright,
of the Department of Political Economy,
resumed his work at the University with
the opening of the Winter Quarter. The
Autumn Quarter he spent in the East in
the investigation of the trust problem.
Before returning Professor Wright gave
before the American Economic Associa-
tion at its annual meeting in Boston a
paper discussing the question of "The
Economics of Government Price Regu-
lation."

Professor Robert Herrick, of the De-
partment of English, has just completed
a new novel, to be published by the Mac-
millan Company under the title of One
Woman's Life.

The History of Egypt (Scribner's), by
James Henry Breasted, Professor of
Egyptology and Oriental History, has
now been translated into German,
Italian, Russian, and Arabic, and a
special edition has been made in England
for the use of the blind. His latest book.
Development of Religion and Thought in
Ancient Egypt, by the same publishers,
is soon to appear in a German edition.

Dean Shailer Mathews, of the Divinity
School, will give in March at the Pacific
Theological Seminary at Berkeley, Cal.,
a series of six addresses on the general
subject of "Social Aspects of Christian
Doctrine." Dean Mathews recently at-
tended the meeting in New York of the
general committee of the Federal Council
of Churches of Christ in America, of
which he was elected president in Decem-
ber. While in the East he also spoke at
Vassar College and at the Hotel Astor in

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New York before the meeting of the
mission boards of all denominations.

Professor James R. Angell, Dean of the
Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science,
represented the University at the twenty-
first annual banquet of the Amherst Club
held at the University Club of Chicago,
January 23, the subject of his address
being "The University and the College."
Assistant Professor Percy H. Boynton, of
the Department of English, who is a
graduate of Amherst, was the toast-
master. President Meiklejohn, of Am-
herst, was the guest at luncheon of Pro-
fessor Boynton and other members of the
faculty who are Amherst graduates.

A joint session of the Bibliographical
Society of America and of the College and
University Librarians was held in the
Harper Memorial Library early in Janu-
ary, the session being preceded by a
dinner given to the visiting members of
the two organizations by the University
librarians, Director Ernest D. Burton and
Associate Director J. C. M. Hanson.

Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, head
of the Department of Political Economy,
appeared before the subcommittee of the
House banking and currency committee
at Washington on January 8 to discuss
proposed features in banking and cur-
rency reform.

Assistant Professor William J. G. Land,
of the Department of Botany, returned
for regular work in the University at the
opening of the Winter Quarter after an
absence of four months in botanical in-
vestigations in Australia and the Samoan
Islands. He spent two months in the
island of Tutuila in the collection and
study of plants, and was especially im-
pressed by the remarkable growth and
variety of the island ferns. Dr. Land
also made observations in and around the
crater of Kilauea in the Hawaiian Islands.
He brought back a large amount of
material for use by the Hull Botanical
Laboratory.

William Pierce Gorsuch, of the Depart-
ment of Public Speaking, has been elected
president of the Chicago Dramatic So-
ciety, which has for its purpose the study
of the best English, American, and trans-
lated plays, and stage interpretations of
good plays as a means of studying them.
Assistant Professor Henri C. E. David,
of the Department of Romance, has been
one of the lecturers before the society.

The Bengal poet, Rabindranath Ta-
gore, gave an address at the University

on January 23, his subject being "Ideals
of Indian Civilization." The address at-
tracted a large audience of students and
faculty and was delivered with great
effect, part of which was due to the
speaker's remarkable mastery of English,
A number of Dr. Tagore's poems have
recently been translated by himself into
English and set to music of his own com-
position. A son of Dr. Tagore is a gradu-
ate student at the University of Illinois.

Associate Professor S. Chester Parker,
Dean of the College of Education, has
recently completed an illustrated volume
of 500 pages under the title of History of
Modern Elementary Education. The book
deals primarily with typical movements,
and outlines for the student the chief ele-
mentary school problems from the Middle
Ages to the present time.

At the meeting of the Sigma Xi Society
of the University, held in the Quadrangle
Club on January 7, Dr. Aaron .\aronsohn,
director of the Jewish agricultural e.\peri-
ment station at Haifa, Palestine, gave an
address on the possibilities of increasing
the world's wheat supply by the intro-
duction of wild wheat from Palestine,
which is especially adapted to growth in
arid regions. Mr. Julius Rosen wald, of
the University Board of Trustees, is presi-
dent of the experiment station, and Pro-
fessor Julian W. Mack, of the Law
School, is one of the trustees.

The intercollegiate convention of the
Menorah Society was held at the Univer-
sity in January. The convention was
welcomed to the University by Professor
James R. Angell, Dean of the Faculties,
at a dinner given by the society. The
purposes of this society arc largely cul-
tural. Officers of the national associa-
tion were elected, representing Harvard,
Minnesota, Northwestern, and Pennsyl-
vania.

Associate Professor S. H. Clark, of the
Department of Public Speaking, gave
during this month a series of seven
dramatic interpretations at Colorado
College, the repertoire including Riders
to the Sea and The Workhouse Ward,
Galsworthy's Pigeon, Vanity Fair, and
The Melting Pot.

Professor William Gardner Hale, head
of the Department of Latin, gave the
salutation at the formal opening of the
Thomas Arnold School in Chicago on
January 22. President Abram W. Har-
ris, of Sforthwestern University, was also
a speaker.

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Professor T. Atkinson Jenkins, of the
Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, was elected chairman of the
Central Division of the Modern Lan-
guage Association of America for the
ensuing year at its recent meeting in
Indianapolis.

Associate Professor Henry Chandler
Cowles, of the Department of Botany,
who is president of the Geographic
Society of Chicago, made the presenta-
tion of the new gold medal of the society
to Captain Roald Amundsen in Orchestra
Hall, Chicago, on February 3, when the
latter lectured on his discovery of the
south pole.

Associate Professor Martin Schiitze, of
the Department of German, has prepared
an annotated edition for college students
of Grillparzer's drama, Des Meeres und
der Liebe Wellen, a German version of the
Hero and Leander legend, and has also
written for the book a comprehensive
introduction on Grillparzer's art as a
dramatist. Mr. Schiitze is the author of
an English verse tragedy on the same
theme as the German play.

Associate Professor Herbert E. Slaught,
of the Department of Mathematics, has
given editorial supervision to a new text-
book in mathematics entitled A Source
Book of Problems for Geometry, by Mabel
Sykes, of the Bowen High School, Chi-
cago. The book is based upon industrial
design and architectural ornament.

Recent contributions by the members
of the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Angell, Professor James R.: "The
Duplication of School Work by the Col-
lege," School Review, January.

Burton, Professor Ernest D.: "The
Expansion of Christianity in the Twen-
tieth Century," I, Biblical World, Feb-
ruary.

Case, Assistant Professor Shirley J.:
"The Nature of Primitive Christianity,"
American Journal of Theology, January;
"The Rehabihtation of Pharisaism,"
Biblical World, February.

Coulter, Professor John M.: "The Re-
ligion of a Scientist," Biblical World,
February.

Gates, Dr. Errett: "Another Case of
Discipline in the Prussian Church,"
American Journal of Theology, January.

Heinzelmann, Dr. Jacob H.: "Pope in
Germany in the Eighteenth Century,"
Modern Philology, January.

Hulbert, Dr. James R. : " Chaucer and
the Earl of Oxford," Modern Philology,
January.

Johnson, Principal Franklin W.: "The
Hillegas-Thomdike Scale for Measure-
ment of Quality in English Composition
by Young People," School Review,
January.

Judd, Professor Charles H.: "The
Meaning of Secondary Education,"
School Review, January.

Marshall, Professor Leon C: "Se-
quence in Economic Courses at the Uni-
versity of Chicago," Journal of Political
Economy, January.

Mathews, Professor Shailer: "The
New Catholic Unity," Biblical World,
January.

Merrill, Professor Elmer T.: "On
Cicero to Basilus {Fam. VI. 15)," Classi-
cal Philology, January.

Parker, Associate Professor S. Chester:
"Bibliographies, Briefs, and Oral Expo-
sition in Normal Schools," Elementary
School Teacher, January.

Prescott, Professor Henry W,: "The
Amphitruo of Plautus," Classical Phil-
ology, January.

Small, Professor Albion W.: "The
Present Outlook of Social Science,"
American Journal of Sociology, January.

Yamanouchi, Dr. Shig6o: "Hydrodic-
tyon Africanum, a New Species" (con-
tributions from the Hull Botanical
Laboratory 166), with six figures.
Botanical Gazette, January.

Recent addresses by members of the
Faculties include:

Boynton, Assistant Professor Percy H. :
Address at the Franklin anniversary ban-
quet of the Chicago Typothetae, January
10.

Breckinridge, Assistant Professor
Sophonisba P.: "The Woman's City
Club," Chicago College Club, January 4;
"Child Labor," Kent Theater, Univer-
sity of Chicago, January 27.

Butler, Professor Nathaniel: "Voca-
tional Training," Leon Mandel Assembly
Hall, University of Chicago, January 15;
"The Relation of Business to Education,"
Business Science Club, Winnipeg, Can-
ada, January 17.

Chamberlin, Dr. RoUin T.: "A Visit to
Brazil" (illustrated). Geographic Society
of Chicago, Art Institute, January. 34.

Coulter, Professor John M.: "Piant
Relations," Ridge Woman's Club, Ridge
Park, III., February 3.

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'Dodd, Professor William E.: "Shall
Lee Have a Biography ? " Chicago chap-
ter of the Daughters of the Confederacy,
January 20.

Foster, Professor George B.: "The
Future of Religion and the Religion of the
Future," Peoria, 111., January 12; "The
Idea of Authority," Society of Anthro-
pology, Chicago, February 2.

Freund, Professor Ernst: "Social
Legislation," The Forum, Caxton Club,
Chicago, January 5.

Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul:
Address before the Chicago Association
of Commerce, Congress Hotel, January
30; "The Great Seaports of Europe,"
Maywood, 111., February 11.

Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:
"The Modem Menace to the Home,"
Englewood Woman's Club, Chicago,
January 6; "The Story and Character
Development," Chicago branch of the
National Story Tellers' League, Handel
Hall, February 4.

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank M. :
"Vocational Training," Leon Mandel
Assembly Hall, University of Chicago,
January 15.

Linn, Associate Professor James W.:
"Literature and Daily Life," Isaiah
Temple, Chicago, February 5; "How to
Read a Novel," February 5; "How to

Read a Play," February 19, Chicago
Hebrew Institute.

Mead, Professor George H.: "Occupa-
tions Open to the College Trained
Woman," Chicago School of Civics and
Philanthropy, January 18.

MilUkan, Professor Robert A.: "The
Elementary Electrical Charge and Exten-
sion of the Bro\vnian Movement," meet-
ing of Iowa college scientists, Iowa City,
Iowa, January 25.

Sargent, Professor Walter: "The De-
velopment of Landscape Painting in
America," Columbian Club, Dallas, Tex.,
January 20.

Small, Professor Albion W.: "Political
Modernism," Chicago Woman's Club,
January 15; "The Academic Factor in
American Life," seventeenth annual ban-
quet of the Chicago Association of Credit
Men, Hotel La Salle, January 27.

Starr, Associate Professor Frederick:
"Recent Travels in Africa," Fortnightly
Club of Englewood, Chicago, January 14.

Tufts, Professor James H. : " The Pres-
ent Task of Ethical Theory," The Forum,
Chicago, January 19.

Wallace, Assistant Professor Elizabeth :
"The Spanish Theater of Today," Chi-
cago College Club, Fine Arts Building,
February 8.

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

To the Editor:

In connection with the coming of Dr.
C. R. Henderson to Tokyo about the first
of March, we are hoping to hold a Uni-
versity of Chicago Club banquet. I trust
that the Magazine will get here in time for
that meeting. I would like also to receive
some of the latest circulars of the Univer-
sity, including courses of study, an-
nouncements, illustrated folders, etc.; in
fact anything that will bring up happy
memories or inform us as to the present
situation will be welcome. As you
know, most of our members are Japanese,
and have less opportunity than we
foreigners of keeping in touch with the
University. We try to make our annual
banquet a time of instruction as well as
fellowship, and if. you would kindly help
us to make this year's affair a success by
complying with the above request we
shall all be greatly obliged.

We are especially delighted to have the
privilege of having Dr. Henderson with
us, and we hope that we shall be able to
boom Chicago while he is here.

H. B. Benninghoff
Tokyo, Japan

January lo, 1913

To the Editor:

Alumni Clubs have shown some inter-
est in the collection of slides in the Presi-
dent's office. About 60 slides are
available for use at alumni meetings.
These are arranged so that beginning
with a view of the old University and a
map of the present campus the alumnus
who acts as lecturer can proceed from
Cobb Hall around the campus. The
slides are as follows:

1. The Old University of Chicago.

2. The Douglas Tablet.

3. The New University.

4. William Rainey Harper.

5. Lake Michigan.

6. Mr. D. H. Burnham's Sketch of the
Midway.

7. Bird's-Eye View of the University
Today from the Southwest.

8. The North Campus from the Smoke-
stack of the Power House.

9. The South Quadrangle from the
Smokestack of the Power House.

10. Cobb Hall and Divinity Dormi-
tories from the Northeast.

11. A View of the Campus in 1892.

12. Ryerson Physical Laboratory.

13. Kent Chemical Laboratory.

14. Snell Hall and Charles Hitchcock
Hall.

15. A View of Snell Hall Eastward
toward the Tower.

16. The Library of Hitchcock Hall.

17. Ryerson Physical Laboratory from
Hull Court.

18. Ryerson from Hull Court.

19. The Anatomy Building from Hull
Court.

20. Hull Court from Hull Gate.

21. The Mitchell Tower and Hutchin-
son Hall from Hull Court.

22. Hull Court.

23. The Interior of Hutchinson Hall.

24. The Stairway in the Reynolds Club.

25. The Billiard Room in the Re5Tiolds
Club.

26. The Reception Room in the
Reynolds Club.

27. Interior of the Leon Mandel
Assembly Hall.

28. Cast of a Comic Opera Produced
by the Blackfriars.

29. Miss King and Miss Baird as Celia
and Rosalind m As You Like It.

30. Mr. W. J. Cuppy as "Premiere
Danseuse" for a Comic Opera.

31. The Cloister with Mandel Hall in
the Distance.

32. The Tower Group from the North.
2iZ- Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gym-
nasium.

34. Swimming Pool in the Gymnasium.

35. Exercising in the Gymnasium,
Showing the Ball Cage in Position.

36. The Washington Promenade in the
Gymnasium.

37. Marshall Field during a Big Game.

38. A Cheer Leader.

39. The Martyn Family, Including the
Dog.

40. The Modern Discus Thrower.

41. The Start of a Cross-Country Run.

42. The Women's Halls from the

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Midway, Showing Foster, Green, and
Beecher. Kelly Hall is Concealed by
Foster.

43. The Campus in April.

44. Interior of the Nancy Foster Hall.

45. Emmons Blaine Hall.

46. The Law Building from the
Midway.

47. Stairway in the Law Building.

48. Reading Room in the Law Building.

49. Haskell Oriental Museum.

50. Residence of Harry Pratt Judson.

51. The First Day of Spring at the
"C" Bench.

52. The Democracy of the " C " Bench.

53. The Daily Maroon O&ce.

54. The Beginning of Class Day 1902
— the Raising of the Class Flag.

55. The Senior Flag.

56. The Senior Bench.

57. The Site of William Rainey Harper
Memorial Library.

58. The Campus in Winter.

59. The Law Building at Night.

60. The Mitchell Tower.

To bring this collection up to date it is
the intention to secure, as soon as the
weather is favorable, good photographs of
the Marshall Field fence and new grand-

stand as well as photographs of the
Harper Memorial Library. Some alumni
have already suggested additional slides.
Mr. E. E. Slosson, for instance, of the
Independent has suggested slides bearing
the "Alma Mater" and other University
songs. These mil be provided. - Another
addition which will make the collection
more interesting next winter will be a
series of moving-picture films. For
instance the Convocation procession in
June, the conferring of degrees in
Hutchinson Court, the Spring Festival,
Marshall Field on the day of a big game,
the Maypole Dance on Junior College
day — all these will lend themselves well to
moving-picture record. In bringing your
attention to the list of slides above and
the proposed moving-picture records I am
seeking the co-operation of all alumni
and students who possess negatives or
prints of buildings or people interesting
in the history of the University. Even if
alumni are unable to send photographs,
they will greatly assist by sending sug-
gestions as to the kind of picture most
interesting from their own point of view
and from the point of view of those likely
to become interested in the University.
David A. Robertson, '03

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

Twin Cities Alumni Club. — "Why, I
didn't realize there were so many Uni-
versity of Chicago people around here!"

This expression of surprise was heard
on all sides at the Chicago Dinner held
at the Leamington Hotel, in Minneapolis,
Saturday, January i8. At this first
gathering of alumni, former students, and
one-time instructors of Chicago located in
the Twin Cities there was a most gratify-
ing attendance, numbering 86, a good
proportion being women. To the pres-
ence of two university presidents was
due a large measure of the success of the
meeting. A delegation from the quad-
rangles headed by President Harry Pratt
Judson went up especially for the occasion ;
and President George E. Vincent of
Minnesota presided as toastmaster.

Those accompanying Dr. Judson were
Mrs. Judson, Mr. and Mrs. David Allan
Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Heck-
man, Miss Jessie Heckman, and Dean
James Weber Linn. They reached Min-
neapolis early on the i8th, were met at the .
depot by Dr. Vincent, and escorted to his
home, where he and Mrs. Vincent were
hosts at a delightful breakfast party.
Included among the breakfast guests were
Professor and Mrs. A. L. Underbill,
the latter being a sister of Mrs. Judson
and Mr. Underbill a Chicago graduate.
The Judsons, the Robertsons, and Mr.
Linn were guests of the Vincents over
Sunday.

When President Vincent began the
after-dinner program with so many
familiar faces before him, it was natural
that he should be inspired to say,

"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in
your flight,
And make me a Dean again just for
tonight."

Those who responded to toasts did so in a
manner that conjured up much merri-
ment as well as "local color" from the
quadrangle. Following is a list of the
topics from which the speakers diverged :
"University Migration," Professor An-
thony L. Underbill; "New Buildings at
Chicago," Mr. Wallace Heckman; "The
Phoenix and the Book," Mr. David A.

Robertson; "Alumni," Professor Albert
E. Jenks; "Former Students," Superin-
tendent Milton C. Potter; "There's a
Reason," Harvey B. Fuller, Jr.; "The
University," President Harry Pratt
Judson; "Greetings," from President-
Emeritus Cyrus Northrop; "The Old
Chicago University," Rev. E. P. Savage;
"Touche!" Dean James W. Linn.

Throughout the entire evening it was
evident that the spirit of loyalty and
enthusiasm for the University, which
certainly had been cherished by each
individual, was finding expression in a
"group spirit." The real purpose of
the gathering, aside from the pleasure the
evening afforded, was to crystallize this
Chicago spirit into definite, permanent
form. A committee was appointed with
power to adopt a constitution and elect
officers for a University of Chicago Alumni
Club of Minnesota, the action of this
committee to be subject to ratification at
the next general meeting to be held dur-
ing the spring quarter. It is proposed
that all alumni, former students, and one-
time instructors of Chicago residing in
the state of Minnesota shall be eligible
to membership. Communications in
regard to the organization of the Club
should be addressed to Harvey B. Fuller,
Jr., 186-90 West Third St., St. Paul,
Minn.

Those present at the dinner included,
besides the group from Chicago, the
following: H. A. Abernethy, '99, L. K.
Adkins ,'12, Helen Bally, '07, Harold M.
Barnes, Ex-'o4, W. H. Bussey, '04, N. E.
Chapman, '85, Hardin Craig, S. N. Dein-
hard, '09, Emily E. Dobbin, '03, Agnes
Doherty, Ex-'oy, J. F, Ebersole, '08, W.
H. Emmons, Ph.D., '04, Florence A.
Fonda, Ex-' 12, W. W. Frost, '02, Harvey
B. Fuller, Jr., '08, C. H. Gingrich, Ph.D.
'12, Fred Hall, Ex-'o2, Bertha S. lies,
Ex-'oo, Albert E. Jenks, '97, Howard S.
Johnson, Ex-'o6, Charles B. Jordan, '08,
Arthur L. Keith, Ph.D. '10, Alfred E.
Koenig, Ex-'o6, Ernest W. Kohlsaat,
Jr., '02, Martha F. Laiblin, Ex-'io,
Benjamin Lee, Ex-'98, Lillian Lindholm,
'05, Edward M. Lehnerts, Ex-'97, Floyd
Lyle, Ex-' 10, Dr. A. J. Lynt, Victoria

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McAlmon, '12, Roy W. Memfield, '06,
Leon Metzinger, '08, Belle K. Middle-
kauff, Ex-'o7, Thomas W, Mitchell,
Mary E. Mortenson, Ex-00*, Amy M.
Mothershead, Ex-'qs, J. Anna Norris,
Ex-'og, John J. O'Connor, Ex- '05, Luther
W. Parker, Ex- '07, Clarence N. Patterson,
'79, Mrs. Eugene Patterson (Elizabeth
McWilliams), '96, Chauncey J. V. Petti-
bone, '07, Earle V. Pierce, '94, Edward
R. Pope, Milton C. Potter, '04, N. J.
Quickstad, Ex-'og, Carl L. Rahn, '07,
Ph.D. '12, S. N. Reep, '11, H. C. Richard-
son, Ex- '04, E. V. Robinson, Edward P.
Savage, '68, Theophilus H. Schroedel,
Ex-'o5, Renslow P. Sherer, '09, Royal R.
Shumway, Marion D. Shutter, '81,
Edward T. Stoner, H. B. Street, '02,
C. E. Tingley, Ex- '98, Anthony L. Under-
bill, Ph.D. '06, Victor N. Valgren, Ex- '04,
Richard Wischkaemper, Ex-'i2, Jeremiah
S. Young, Ph.D. '02.

H. B. Fuller, Jr., Secretary

Spelman House Scholarship. — The
alumnae chapter of Spelman house
Mnshes to announce a scholarship consist-
ing of one year's free tuition in the Uni-
versity and $120 in cash, to be awarded
to any graduate woman of the Univer-
sity who wishes to specialize in social
work. Applicants should address Anne
S. Davis, 6 1 10 Kimbark Ave.

News from the classes. —
1868

Rev. E. P. Savage is manager of the
Children's Home Society, 31 Nourse St.,
St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, Minn.

1879

Clarence N. Patterson is Minneapolis
manager of the Union Central Life Insur-
ance Co., of Cincinnati, 704 Metropolitan
Bldg.

1896

Elizabeth McWilliams (Mrs. Eugene
L. Patterson) has moved to 744 Osceola
Ave., St. Paul, Minn.

Harry A. Lipsky, who is general man-
ager of the Daily Jewish Courier, is now
Chairman of the Committee on Leases of
the Board of Education of Chicago, to
which he was appointed in July, 191 1.
He is a member also of the committees on
School Management, and Social Centers.

1899
Herbert A. Abernethy is a lawyer with
oflSce at 1601 Pioneer Building, St. Paul.

Abernethy was the thinnest man in college
in his day, but his figure has improved
since then.

Ex-1900

Bertha S. lies is teaching at Stanley
Hall, Minneapolis.

1902

Arthur L. Keith is an instructor in
Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Ex-1902

Fred Hall, the first man among the
western colleges to run the two-mile
under ten minutes, is a member of The
Bruce-Hall Company, 41 Scandinavian
Bank Building, St. Paul.

1904

An interesting exp>eriment has recently
been undertaken by Murray Schloss.
Mr. Schloss believes that the field is open
for what he calls "personal magazines,"
magazines which shall reflect a particular
theory or personality; like, for instance,
the "House Beautiful" or the "Philis-
tine." He is now making arrangements
to permit the inexpensive publication of
such magazines by a central co-operating
plant, probably to be located in Chicago.
Any alumni or alumnae who are inter-
ested may address him in care of the
National Arts Club, Gramerc>' Park,
New York City. Mr. Schloss ran for
Congress on the Third New Jersey Dis-
trict last November. As he was on the
Socialist ticket, he failed of election, but
he received a vote proportionately about
200 per cent greater than any other Social-
ist candidate in the state.

Ex- 1 904

Warren D. Foster has just published
through Sturgis and Walton, "Heroines
of Modem Progress," devoted to the
history of women of the 19th century
celebrated for scholarship and philan-
thropy.

Harold M. Barnes is general advertis-
ing manager for the Russell-Miller Milling
Company of St. Paul.

1 90s

James E. Bell is a graduate student and
assistant in chemistry at the University
of Illinois.

Milton C. Potter is superintendent of
schools in St. Paul. His address is 482
Ashland Ave.

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1906

Martin E. Anderson is pastor of the
IMcKinley Memorial Church at Urbana,
Illinois. The church was opened this
j'ear by the Presbyterian Synod of Illinois
and is for the benefit of those who are in
Champaign and Urbana by reason of the
University's presence. Its membership,
which is strictly affiliate, is intended
primarily for Presbyterians but includes
also those who are not connected with any
church in town. It is open only during
the school year. The membership at
present is near 200 and is very largely
interdenominational. There is no other
similarly organized church in Illinois.

Mrs. Ralph W. Pool (Lillian Heck-
man) has recently moved to Bassano,
Alberta, Canada.

Roy Merrifield is doing social work at
St. Cloud, Minnesota, where his address
is 611, 5th Avenue.

Ex- 1 906

Howard S. Johnson is with the Ameri-
can Hoist and Derrick Company, St.
Paul.

1907

On December 28, Miss Faith Dodge,
Professor of Romance Languages in Milli-
kan University, addressed the modern
language teachers of the Arkansas State
Teachers' Association in Little Rock,
Ark., on more efficient methods in
modem language teaching.

Clyde Bain has left Wyoming and is
running a fruit ranch in Texas.

Lee W. Maxwell has gone to New York
City as assistant general manager of the
Associated Sunday Magazines. It is
really hard to say whether Lee Maxwell
is better as business man, golfer, or
general good fellow.

Carl L. Rahn is an instructor in psy-
chology in the University of Minnesota.

R. Eddy Matthews is now engaged as
news editor of the Chicago Daily Press.
His house address is 208 East 45th St.

1908

Harold G. Lawrence is head of the
department of English and dean of the
College of Liberal Arts at Winona Col-
lege, Winona Lake, Indiana.

Renslow Sherer is selling bonds for
N. W. Harris & Co. His headquarters
are the Hotel St. Paul, St. Paul, Minn.

Charles B. Jordan's business address
is 200 Third Ave., North, Minneapolis,
Minn.

Leon Metzinger is an instructor at
the University of Minnesota.

Ex-1908
J. Franklin Ebersole is an instructor
at the University of Minnesota.

1910, 1895

S. S. Visher,'io is the author of the parts
dealing with geography and biology of
South-Central South Dakota, and the
collaborator with the state geologist,
E. C. Perisho, '95, in the geological section
of the volume which is the recently issued
Bulletin 5 of the South Dakota Geological
and Biological Survey.

1910

Arthur Hoffman has been re-engaged
to coach the Tulane University eleven in
1913-

(Mrs.) Eleanor Karstens is Lecturer
in the Library Schools and Secretary to
the Librarian at the University of Illinois.
Her address is 906 W. California Ave.,
Urbana.

Ex-1910

Floyd Lyle is secretary to President
Vincent of the University of Minnesota.

1911, 1910

Chung Hsuan Tang, '11, is Director
of Schools and Colleges in the Province
of Kwang-tung, the largest province of
China. The China National Remew
of July 30, 191 2, has an elaborate article
dealing with the progress of reform in
Kwang-tung province. Other graduates,
or former students of the University
associated with the Kwang-tung admin-
istration are Chien Shih-fan, ex-'io,
commissioner of civil affairs, and Dr.
Pan H. Lo, '11, commissioner of foreign
affairs. Ching Tin-Tow, '10, former
commissioner of public works, has retired
from office.

1911

William A. Warriner, Jr., is with the
Cement Stave Silo Company, De Kalb,
111.

OUveBickell (Mrs. C. N. Griffis) may
be addressed care of West Coast Pub-
lishing Co., Casilla 1265, Lima, Peru.

1912

Clarence A. Wood may be addressed
care of Court of Appeals, Albany, New
York.

Frank A. Gilbert, who is teaching at
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summer take abroad a group of six
boys from Chicago preparatory schools.
With similar groups from other cities
they will visit the leading English prepara-
tory schools, at the invitation of the
masters of English schools.

Faith Carroll is teaching iil the Chicago
public schools. Her address is 857 Bel-
den Ave.

Albert H. Dekker is with Reid,
Murdock and Co., wholesale grocers.
His address is 1063 S. Wabash Ave.

Abigail McElroy is teaching biology
in the Topeka (Kan.) high school, her
address being 1274 Garfield Ave.

Joseph D. Oliver, Jr., is with the Oliver
Chilled Plow Company at South Bend,
Indiana.

Harriet Hamilton, Annette Hampsher,
Lucile Heskett, Margaret Magrady,
Ella Monihan, and Winifred Munroe are
studying at the Chicago Normal School.

Pearl McGimsie is teaching at Chis-
holm, Minnesota.

Laone Lumbard is studying music at
her home, Lombard, Illinois.

Charlotte O'Brien is teaching at Nor-
way, Michigan.

Ella Spiering is teaching mathematics
and German in the Sparta (Mich.) high
school.

Mabel and Barbara West are at home,
Creston, Iowa.

Anna J. Melka is teaching at Audubon,
Iowa.

Kathrine Mayer is teaching physics
and chemistry at the college of St.
Katherine, St. Paul, Minnesota.

1912-L

Gustave A. Kramer, recently associ-
ated with Hebel & Haft, attorneys,
Chicago, has taken a position as associate
lawyer with LeForge, Vail & Miller of
Decatur, III.

Ex-1912

Charles G. MacArthur is instructor in
Physiological Chemistry at the Uni-
versity of Illinois, his address being 610
Indiana Ave., Urbana.

Marriages. —

'12, '13. Alice M. Schilling to Rev.
Clifton N. Hurst, on September 4, 191 2,
at LaGrange Park, III. Mr. and Mrs.
Hurst are now at Laurel, Montana.

Ex- '05, '11. C. R. Lammert to Margaret
Alice King, on December 17, 191 2,
at Toledo, Ohio. They will live at 30
York Terrace, New Brighton, Staten
Island, New York.

'12. Adelaide E. Roe to George W.
Polk, on December 28, 191 2, at Fort
Worth, Texas. Miss Roe is a sister of
Mary Roe, who last year married H. F.
Scruby. She is a member of the Mortar-
board.

THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY

E. E. Slosson, '02, of the editorial
stafiE of the Independent, has been ap-
pointed as a member of the faculty in
the School of Journalism of Columbia
University.

John F. Norton, 'ir, is director of
sanitary chemistry at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston, Massa-
chusetts.

A. H. Bernhard, '94, is professor of
science at the La Crosse, Wisconsin,
State Normal School.

Frank L. West, '11, is professor of
physics and chemistry at the Utah Agri-
cultural College, Logan, Utah.

Reinhardt Thiessen, '07, is connected
with the Bureau of Mines, and is located
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

William P. Blair, who took his doctor's
degree in the Department of Physics
and has been connected with the United
States Weather Bureau, has recently

been promoted to the position of Resi-
dent Director and Executive Officer,
located at Mt. Weather, Virginia.

Rev. Wm. C. Gordon, '99, is pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church of
Aubumdale, Massachusetts.

W. D. Ferguson, '06, is located at
Albany College, .\lbany, Oregon.

Isabelle Bronk, '00, is professor of
French Language and Literature at
Swarthmore College.

Henry B. Kiimmel, '95, is State Geolo-
gist of New Jersey and is located at
Trenton, New Jersey.

H. F. Allen, '05, is professor of Greek
at Washington and Jefferson University,
Washington, Pennsylvania.

L. Estelle Appleton, '09, is special lec-
turer in the Kindergarten Training School
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, her subjects
being Child Study, Psychology, History
of Education, and Primary Methods.

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At the meeting of the Classical Associa-
tion of the Northwest in November, 191 2,
the following Chicago Doctors were on
the program: Evan T. Sage, '08, of the
University of Washington read a paper
on the " Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus."
He was also re-elected secretary for the
year 191 2-13. At the same meeting
Kelley Rees, '06, of Reed College, was
chairman of the local committee.

At the meeting of the Washington
State Philological Society in Seattle in
December, 1912, T. S. Graves, '12, of the
University of Washington, read a paper
on "Night Scenes in the Elizabethan
Theater," and Dr. Evan T. Sage pre-
sented a paper, "The Christian Attitude
toward Pagan Rhetoric: with Examples
from Ambrosius and Hieronymus."

T. K. Sidey, '00, of the University of
Washington is on leave of absence this
year and is working in Rome.

"Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
for the Interchange of Limit and Summa-
tion in the Case of Sequences of Infinite
Series of a Certain Type" is the title of a
paper by T. H. Hildebrandt, '10, which
appeared in Annals of Mathematics
for December, 191 2.

At some of the recent scientific meet-
ings it has been the custom for Doctors
of the University of Chicago to get
together at either a dinner or smoker.
In some cases arrangements for such a
gathering have been made through some
member of the faculty in a given depart-
ment who is also a Doctor of the Univer-
sity. Some of these meetings have been
most enjoyable and successful, the result
being that Doctors whose work should
naturally draw them together are
getting better acquainted with each other.
This feature has an important bearing
on the report of the committee appointed

at the last annual meeting concerning
better methods for promoting the inter-
ests of the Doctors. This report will
soon be published through the tlniversity
Magazine, and a communication will be
sent to all Doctors concerning it.

In connection with the desirability
of attendance upon scientific meetings,
if for no other reason than for the pro-
motion of acquaintance and good fellow-
ship, a recent action of Oberlin College
raises an interesting question which
might well come up in any institution.
The action referred to was the inclusion
in the regular budget of a special appro-
priation to be used in defraying the
expenses of administrative officers, pro-
fessors, and associate professors who wish
to attend meetings of scientific societies
and other gatherings of a professional
nature. The faculty is divided into ten
groups, and each has a proportionate
share in the general fund.

The total number of Doctors including
the December, 191 2, Convocation is now
713, of whom about 700 are living. Re-
cently some figures were compiled with
respect to 692 Doctors, including the
June, 191 2, Convocation. Of this num-
ber 561 were engaged in teaching, 506
being in colleges and universities, 26 in
normal schools, and 29 in secondary
schools. Of the remaining Doctors 14
were engaged in social research work, 28
in government service, 25 in business,
23 in the ministry, 14 are women who are
married, 10 are engaged in social service,
27 in miscellaneous activities, and 27
unknown. These figures include 16
that belong to more than one group; for
instance, some are in government service
and also teaching and some women who
are married are also teaching.

UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS

General. — At the Washington Prome-
nade, to be held in Bartlett Gymnasium
on February 2 1 , the general chairman will
be Hiram L. Kennicott, '13, and chair-
man of the Finance Committee, Donald
Breed, '13. Kennicott is editor of the
Daily Maroon, and was one of the authors
of the Blackf riars play last year. He is a
member of Chi Psi. Breed was president
of the Junior class, managing editor of
the Cap and Gown, and business manager
of the Dramatic Club last year; he is one
of the authors of this year's Blackfriars
play. He is a member of Alpha Delta
Phi. Other committee chairmen are:
Arrangements, W. V. Bowers; Recep-
tion; Florence Rothermel; Decoration,
Sanford Sellers, Jr.; and Printing, Fred
Steinbrecher.

The first issue of the Chicago Literary
Monthly, an undergraduate magazine,
will appear, it is expected, some time in
March. The editors are Donald Breed,
'13, Myra Reynolds, '13, Roderick Peat-
tie, '14, and Frank O'Hara, '15. The
business staflf includes William Hefferan
as manager and William H. Lyman as
assistant.

Delta Sigma Phi, which has just com-
pleted its second year of existence at
Chicago, was on January 28 admitted to
membership in the Interfratemity Coun-
cil. All of the 17 fraternities at Chicago
are now represented in the Council.

Eight undergraduates were elected to
associate membership in the University
Dramatic Club on January 28. Full
membership will follow their appearance
in a public performance. Those elected
were Lucile English, Marian Jarvis,
Ellen Peterson, Margaret Rhodes, Iris
Spohn, James Dyrenforth, Joseph Geary,
and Charles Oppenheim.

The Dramatic Club will give Rudolph
Besier's Don at Mandel Hall on February
28 and March i. The cast has been
selected as follows:

Canon Bonington Dudley Dunn

Mrs. Bonington Martha Green

Stephen Bonington, alias Don.. Donald Breed

General Sinclair Henry Shull

Mrs. Sinclair Emma Clark

Ann Sinclair Effie Hewitt

Albert Thompsett Ben Goodman

Elizabeth Thompsett Beryl Gilbert

Fanny Thompsett Harriet Tuthill

Don was presented in Chicago, by Mrs.
Fiske four years ago.

At the elections to the University
Council, held on February 14, Miss
Ruth Hough, Roderick Peattie, and
Erling H. Lunde were chosen from the
Lower Seniors, Clyde Watkins and Miss
Dorothy Llewellyn from the Upper
Juniors, and Miss Dorothy Farwell from
the Lower Juniors. There was a total
vote of 1,088, 31 more than last year, and
very large considering that it represented
only three-fourths of the actual under-
graduate body.

A plan has been proposed, and will
be voted upon as an amendment to the
Reynolds Club constitution, whereby
the dues are reduced to one dollar a
quarter, and are payable as part of the
regular tuition bill of every undergradu-
ate. In other words, membership in the
Reynolds Club becomes automatic. The
new plan would increase the club's
income about $100 a quarter, but would
of course increase the expenses also.
If adopted it must secure the approval
of the university administration.

The following musical numbers were
passed upon and accepted by the Black-
friars Committee for this year's play.
In every case the words are by Breed and
Peattie, the authors of the show.

Act I

Overture Richard Meyers, '11

Opening Chorus William Achi

Entrance of Wilhelmina Lewis Fuiks

Crime, Crime, Crime Lewis Fuiks

It's Very, Very Funny Lewis Fuiks

Finale Richard Meyers, '11

Act II

A Serenade Lewis Fuiks

A Barcarolle Henry Barton

I'm Afraid of a Buccaneer Lewis Fuiks

Wilhelmina Henry Bosworth

Grape Festival John Rhodes, ex-' 10

Gypsy Dance John Rhodes, ex-' 10

The music for six other songs, including
the finale of the second act, has not been
decided upon. It is probable that the
play will be called The Pranks of Paprika,
but this too has not been definitely
settled.

The bronze aluminum memorial tablet
of the class of 191 1 has been set in place
in the floor of the lower corridor of

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Mitchell tower. The delay in placing
the tablet has been due to the fact that
the official seal and motto of the Uni-
versity had not been adopted at the time
the class voted the tablet.

A series of clubs for Freshman women
has been planned and partly organized
by members of Kalailu. The clubs
already in being are Dramatic and
Musical, Athletic, and Modern Fiction.
Arts and Crafts and Social Service
Clubs will be added later. The object
of the clubs is to bring together in groups
like-minded young women who might
otherwise miss each other.

The Fine Arts Theater has agreed
to sell tickets to students of the Uni-
versity at a reduction of 20 per cent.

Permission has been given by the
Board of Student Organizations for a
Glee Club trip to the Pacific Coast, at
the end of March. The trip, which will
occupy two weeks, will be under the
management of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad. Musical Director
Stevens, and one other member of the
faculty, who has not yet been fixed upon,
will accompany the club. The men leave
on Friday, March 2 1 . Examinations will
be given en route, under Mr. Stevens'
supervision.

An interesting departure from the
general run of questions for intercollegiate
debates is the one chosen for the Fresh-
man debate between Chicago and North-
western, to be held in Mandel Hall April
18. The question, selected by Chicago,
is "Resolved, that Conference baseball
players should be permitted to play sum-
mer baseball for pay without forfeiting
their eligibility for competition in Con-
ference contests." Northwestern has
chosen to defend the negative.

Athletics. — The games of the basket-
ball team so far have been :

Jan. 14 Armour S3-1S

17 Iowa 28- 8

21 Northwestern. 28-25 (At Evanston)
25 Wisconsin. . . . 18-31 (At Madison)

Feb. I Purdue 39-25

4 Armour 30- 2

9 Ohio State . . . 20-29
14 Minnesota 23- 9

The games lost have been to Wisconsin
and Ohio State. Against Wisconsin
Chicago really never had a chance. The
Ohio State game however was a hard pill
to swallow. Individually the Chicago
men played well enough, except Vruwink,
who exhibited an astonishing reversal of

form. But as a team they showed
nothing. Ohio State had been strength-
ened by the addition of Cherry, a former
Hyde Park High School star, and gradu-
ally growing confident as the game pro-
gressed, ended by playing rings around
the 'varsity. The Chicago tossing and
guarding was about equally poor. A
week later against Minnesota, the story
was reversed. Minnesota could not
get near the basket, and Chicago could
not be kept away from it.

The standing of the leading teams on
February 15 was as foUows:

Won Lost Per cent

Wisconsin 7 o i .000

Illinois 4 I . 800

Chicago 4 2 .667

Northwestern 3 2 . 600

Ohio State 2 3 .400

Wisconsin is very strong; Illinois,
Northwestern, and Chicago are about
even; Iowa, Indiana, and Purdue are
rather weak. For Chicago, Captain
Paine has so far been able to play only a
few minutes of the time, but his leg
continues to improve. In the Armour
game February 4 Vruwink was shifted
to center and Desjardien to guard. The
shift seemed to work, and was tried again
with Ohio State; after which it was
quickly discarded. Against Minnesota
Desjardien played beautifully at center.
Chicago's game is one of long passes and
long tries for the basket. Against a
quick-shooting, short-passing team, the
eastern style, it often looks foolish; but
Coach Page declares it is a better game in
the long run. So much of the schedule
is still to be played that prediction is
dangerous.

A most interesting development of the
winter has been the intramural basket-
ball series. Seven teams are entered, and
twenty-one games were scheduled in
January, of which but two were post-
poned. The Sophomores had a clean
slate in January, their victories being as
follows:

Sophomores — Freshmen 25-17

Sophomores — Seniors 33~27

Sophomores — Laws 23-10

Sophomores — ^Juniors 30"io

Sophomores — Medics 26- 6

The Seniors lost only to the Sopho-
mores and Juniors, their other games
resulting :

Seniors — Laws 32-18

Seniors — Freshmen 30-14

Seniors — Divinity 62-29

Seniors — Medics 22-18

WALLACE WALTER ATWOOD, '97

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Volume V MARCH I9I3 Number 5

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

Those who read the Magazine are aware that this autumn will be
published a further edition of the Alumni Directory, containing the
names of all those who have received degrees from the
old Chicago University, and from the University of
Chicago up to July i of this year. In preparation for this Directory
letters have been sent out to all alumnae and alumni whose addresses
the association has. Many of these addresses are incorrect; and in con-
sequence many letters have been returned. The Magazine begins the
publication, in this issue, of the names of those whose correct address is
not in the possession of the secretary. Will the readers of the Magazine
help out by sending in at once any information they may possess about
anyone in the lists ? The alumnae are in one list and the alumni in the
other. The married name of an alumna, when known, is added in
parentheses after her own name. Please address all information to
Frank W. Dignan, Secretary, the Alumni Office, University of Chicago.

A letter from Dr. Henderson in this issue on the relation of the Uni-
versity to affairs in China seems to show that Chicago has contributed
in a very definite fashion to the cause of progress in that
d Chna country. In the past the eastern colleges, particularly
Harvard, Yale, Amherst, and Dartmouth, have done
most in this country for the education of Chinese men of affairs. Is this
distinction passing ? The interest of Chinese students in this country
is to a considerable extent in technical education, engineering, forestry,
and the like ; and upon this field the University of Chicago does not enter.
But that interest is largely also in pure science, economics, and sociology;
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here is always of some size and likewise of high quality. That we may
have among our alumni in the future some forward-minded Li Hung
Chang is not only possible but probable. One may with interest call
attention to the increasing influence in public business of Dr. Pan
H. Lo, 'ii.

On February 28 and March i, the Dramatic Club gave in Leon
Mandel Assembly Hall performances of Rudolph Besier's Don, which

marked certainly the highest attainment in the club's
D f Cl h ^^^^^^- Actors and actresses of promise and performance

have not been few in the past; one remembers Milton
Sills, '03, now playing the lead in The Governor's Lady, and Miss Vida
Sutton, '03, best known for her work with the New Theater Company.
But as well thought-out and well acted a show as Don has never before
been given by undergraduates here. The Blackfriars are a vigorous and
valuable company, but the real encouragement of the University should
go, it would seem, not to musical comedy, but to the furtherance of
sincere dramatic effort. Partly on account of that old handicap, the
near neighborhood of the downtown theaters, and partly from lack of
tradition, the play this spring was not as largely attended as it should
have been. Another performance will, it is hoped, be staged in April,
and if so the Chicago alumni may attend without fear that they need
make allowances for the youth of the actors.

Two matters of interest to the fraternities are now up for discussion.
The first concerns a possible refusal to admit to their membership any
men who have been members of fraternities in high schools,
on ernmg Action to this effect has already been taken by Phi Delta
Theta, and Beta Theta Pi will take similar action this year.
Not one college man in ten believes that membership even in a recog-
nized high-school fraternity is productive of anything but harm — harm
to the boy as an individual and harm to him in his relations with his
college fraternity. Inasmuch as membership at present in a fraternity
in any of the Chicago high schools means deceit and defiance of regula-
tions, it seems still more desirable for the University to draw the line
against it.

The second point concerns the pledging of any men whatever until
they have actually been in attendance at the University. At present
no rule exists in this matter. Two fraternities have for some years
preserved a joint agreement to pledge no one until the end of his third
week of residence. The other fifteen pledge when they please, and
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pledged. The trend of opinion in the colleges is strongly against this
practice. The University of Wisconsin has this year adopted a regula-
tion which forbids pledging until the end of the first semester. At that
time every fraternity which wishes to pledge a man sends him, in care
of the director of fraternities, a letter containing the bid. The director
takes these letters (in some cases there may be four or five for one
student) and reincloses them to the man concerned, who is then supposed
to accept or decline within twenty-four hours. How the plan will work
cannot yet be told, as it has only this winter gone into effect.

Whether so radical an innovation would find favor here, with
either faculty or fraternities, is an unsettled question. But a plan which
forbade pledging at least until the various fraternities had an opportunity
to view a man in residence would seem possible. The objection has been
offered that fraternities might pledge in secret. But secret pledging
cannot be made to hold, and would moreover result in the discrediting
of a fraternity that practiced it.

A note to the Magazine calls attention to the Christian Science
Society, organized in the autumn of 191 1, and similar to the societies in

Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Smith, Minnesota, Illinois,
g . c q • ty Kansas, California, and Michigan universities. The

meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each
month and one lecture a year is given by a member of the Christian
Science Board of Lectureship of Boston, Mass. Both graduates and
undergraduates are eligible as members of this society and the secre-
tary, Miss Marcia Wilbur, 5757 Woodlawn Ave., will be glad to com-
municate with graduate students who would care to become members.

Elsewhere in this issue is printed the introduction to Miss McDowell's
annual report of the University of Chicago Settlement. Miss Mc-
Dowell's interest is perhaps chiefly in what the Settlement

Back of the

Yards" ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ people who surround it. What it does for

the University man and woman is hardly of less impor-
tance. Year by year the number grows of those who take an active
interest in furthering the Settlement's work. Boys from the Settle-
ment classes become University undergraduates; many a University
graduate takes up his home at the Settlement, not with the idea of
"doing good," but because, understanding the vigorous and eager if
uninformed people who live in that section, he enjoys living among them.
The spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood is the true spirit of culture;
and perhaps the Settlement is the truest "culture course" offered in the
University, though it be not a " snap."

WALLACE WALTER ATWOOD

Wallace Walter Atwood, B.S. '97, Ph.D. '03, has accepted the
position of professor of physiography at Harvard, to succeed Professor
William M. Davis, retired. Professor Atwood was instructor at Lewis
Institute from 1891 to 1899; at Chicago Institute (with Col. Francis W.
Parker) from 1899 to 1900, and Director in Geology in 1900; connected
with the University of Chicago successively as assistant, associate,
instructor, and assistant professor from 1900 to 1910; and associate
professor since 1910. From 1901 to 1909 he was also assistant geologist
with the U.S. Geological Survey, and since 1909, geologist. Since 1908
he has been secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and since 191 1
in charge of the Museum of the Academy.

As an undergraduate Atwood was a member of the dramatic club, on
the staff of the University of Chicago Weekly, and business manager of the
1896 Cap and Gown. He is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. His
first interest after leaving college was, under the influence of Dr. John
Dewey and Col. Parker, in the pedagogy of geology and physiography,
and he has written various articles on this subject. But his principal
interest has been in, and therefore his principal publications have
connected themselves with, the general problems of geological research.
As U.S. geologist he has for several years spent many months in Alaska,
sometimes in the most distant and nearly inaccessible regions, exploring,
mapping, and mineralogizing. The Geology and Mineral Resources of the
Alaska Peninsula, and The Coal Resources in Parts of Alaska are the
fruits of years of hard and interesting work. It is not too much to say
that Atwood is the highest authority on that question of tremendous
social and political interest, Alaskan resources and their conservation.
Other publications— "The Glaciation of the Wasatch and Uinta Moun-
tains"; "The Geographic Study of the Mesa Verde"; "Physiographic
Studies in the San Juan Mountains"; "Evidence of Three Glacial
Epochs in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado" (with K. F. Mather);
and "The Physical Geography of the Devil's Lake Region, Wisconsin"
(with Professor Salisbury) — show the extent and variety of his explora-
tions. Atwood's "Summer Classes" — in Wisconsin, in Colorado, and
elsewhere — have been equally the joy and the inspiration of the under-
graduates lucky enough to get a place in them. As young as the
youngest, Atwood always led the party as well as directed it.

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Of late years he has been particularly interested in the development
of the Academy of Sciences. He has carried out plans for "museum
extension," particularly to the public schools, arranged for loan collec-
tions, loan exhibitions, lantern-slide exhibitions, and free illustrated
lectures, all directly connected with the nature-study work in the
schools. The Museum itself, in Lincoln Park, has been developed under
his direction as a museum of local natural history. The material at the
doors of Chicago has been installed in habitat groups — exhibits of the
insects, the birds, the mammals, the flora, and the geology of the Chicago
region. A special feature of the museum which is soon to be on view to
the public is a large sphere in which the observer may see the fixed stars,
the sun, the moon, and the planets represented. The sphere is so
constructed that each of the heavenly bodies is placed with great accuracy
in its appropriate position, and by electrical control the sphere, which is
independent of the observer's platform, may be rotated so that the
apparent motion of the stars is shown. It is also possible to set the
sphere so that the stars appear just as they do in the latitude of Chicago
at any hour on a given night. On this unique device Atwood has
received a basic patent. It is partly to complete work which he has
planned for the Academy of Sciences that Atwood intends to remain
in Chicago until February i, 1914, not until which time does he take up
his work at Harvard.

He leaves the University with the warmest good wishes of both
faculty and students. Rigorous but kindly, accurate but interest-
ing, he has had crowded classes always, and the members of his own
department are his warmest personal friends; his oldest son is named for
Professor Salisbury. "It is with great regret," he said in an interview in
the Daily Maroon, " that I leave Chicago and the University. I have full
confidence in the continuation of the remarkable growth which has
characterized this University, and I have the most cordial feeling for
all associated with Chicago. I shall look with pride and unusual interest
upon all that is accomplished here. I look forward to an intimate
professional fellowship with members of this University while I am
working at another institution."

CHANGES IN THE PRESS BUILDING

When the building originally intended for housing the University of
Chicago Press was completed in 1903, it was found necessary, through
lack of other suitable quarters, to devote a large portion of its space to
the General Library. The reading-room and offices were placed on the
second floor, which they occupied almost entirely, and a considerable
portion of the third floor was taken up with library stacks. At the same
time, a number of the business offices of the University — those of the
Auditor, Registrar, and Business Manager — were placed in the building.
This resulted in a crowded condition throughout the building, which was
felt by all the occupants, and the completion of the new Harper Memorial
Library was looked forward to by all as promising a needed relief. Now
the library has moved into its new quarters, and all who remained behind
have shared in the division of the additional space.

The visitor who enters the building at the present time will find many
changes in the arrangement of offices and departments. The University
cashier's office in the northeast corner, first floor, has been extended back
to take in the whole north wing, and the University employment bureau
has been placed in the same room. The Department of Buildings and
Grounds, with the Business Manager's local representatives, has been
brought from the building at Ellis and Fifty-seventh Street, and these are
now in the room formerly occupied by the Press offices; in close connec-
tion is the University telephone switchboard, formerly in Cobb Hall.

The front part of the second floor, formerly occupied by the Library
reading-room, has been made into a single large office, jointly occupied
by the administrative departments of the Press and the University
Auditor. Small private offices for the Director of the Press and the
Auditor have been partitioned off at the north end, but otherwise, the
place is left as one large room extending across the entire front of the
building, and with retreating wings at the north and south ends. On
this same floor are now placed the book stockroom and the shipping
department, in close proximity to the mailing department in the south-
west corner of the building.

On the third floor, two large rooms have been set aside for the use
of Press employees as rest and recreation rooms, a need for which has
long been felt. The remainder of the space has been allotted to the

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JOB BINDERY

PAMPHLET AND EDITION BINDERY
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bindery, which has been more crowded than any other department in
the Press. Its capacity is now greatly increased by added equipment
and working-room.

The removal of the shipping department and the book storeroom
from the basement to the second floor has provided more space' for the
storage of paper stock and relieved the congestion in the cylinder press-
room. It has also provided space for the storage of the back files of the
University journals, formerly kept in the basement of Cobb Hall.

These changes have occupied several months and are only just com-
pleted. Only those familiar with the conditions that formerly prevailed
in the Press building can realize how great is the advantage to all the
departments housed therein. The steady growth of the University's
activities is nowhere more evident than in the Press, and its constantly
increasing business had rendered additional space an imperative neces-
sity. The business offices of the University also will derive great
advantage from their added facilities and from being housed together
under one roof.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
SETTLEMENT

BY MARY E. McDOWELL
Head Resident, University of Chicago Settlement

One who sees the Settlement life for a short time, who touches its
activities only on the surface, or one who comes into the neighborhood
on an excursion, is likely to get a distorted or one-sided view of the
Settlement's function. The occasional visitor who is searching for "the
jungle" is disappointed, or the visitor with one special interest may feel
that the Settlement does not fill the great and paramount need as the
specialist sees it. There are times when even the residents are downcast
over their inability to cover the needs as they present themselves. No
matter how much a settlement does for boys, there appears much that
is left undone or that cannot be done. If the Settlement had persons and
money, and had the power of the Piper to attract the children and the
boys and girls into its house as the Piper did, it would still find that the
Burgomeister and the Alderman must be dealt with if the children are to
be to the city an asset rather than a deficit. The Settlement finds that
it must serve the community if it is to serve the individual or a class of
individuals. It cannot even consider the Twenty-ninth Ward as a
bailiwick apart from the municipality as a whole. It cannot have even
little children as its pets. It must make the city as a whole feel a sense
of responsibility toward every little life.

The Settlement is not an opportunity for any one class of the com-
munity. It is for and with the whole community. It is not a woman's
clubhouse, though it has four organizations of women with a membership
of over 200. Neither is it a clubhouse alone for boys and girls, though
it has over 150 girls and young women in eight groups, and about 225
boys and young men in twelve organizations. Neither is it a kinder-
garten, as it was called in the early days, because it has 475 children
under fourteen years coming every week, including 40 little ones in the
kindergarten under five years of age. During July and August a visitor
might easily conclude that the Settlement was built and run in the
interest of babies, when they hear that 271 sick babies were registered
at the tent in our little back yard.

One might easily jump to the conclusion that it is worth while
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three years' co-operative effort reduced the death-rate of babies under
two years of age from one out of three to one out of five. It is a sig-
nificant fact that of the thirty babies who died last summer all except
two were from outside of the immediate neighborhood covered by our
two nurses who had been giving instruction to the mothers for the entire
year. The death-rate of babies means a citizenship that is not socially
conscious, and for that reason the city has a health department that has
not been able to live up to its own standards, a sanitary department
without power to stop the overcrowding in the tenements, and a building
department that either cannot or does not enforce its own code. The
observer who stays long enough to know the meaning of this change in
the death-rate of babies in this district will be able to understand why it
is valuable to have a group of persons who believe in serving the whole
community, and who have for years focused attention on the conditions
of the stockyards district until the authorities have begun to act, because
the citizenship of the whole city has demanded a change. The death-rate
of babies in the Twenty-ninth Ward means simply that the city of
Chicago has not had the standards of cleanliness that are expected of a
respectable individual, and that it has not been able to see itself as others
see it. A city that for twenty years has permitted one ward to suffer as
a relief to the others, that has permitted a great industry to pollute the
air of the whole city, and never considered Bubbly Creek a disgrace until
the city was talking about it, is surely a city without well-developed
sense of civic pride or a sense of social obligation. But the Twenty-
ninth Ward worm turned at last and aroused the city, and at present no
garbage is dumped into the clay hole. But, alas, refuse is allowed and
is often part animal and vegetable stuff that does ferment. The daily
procession of disgusting garbage wagons passes through the ward on the
way to the reduction plant, showing that the worm must keep on turning
from the Twenty-ninth Ward to the city as a whole, until the scientific
system of caring for the city's waste is accomplished.

This one illustration from the experience of the Settlement life shows
simply that this group of people living in the University of Chicago
Settlement House expresses a modem method of neighborliness adapted
to the new and complex city conditions. This new kind of neighbor
gossips in statistics gathered by trained sociologists and uses as a basis
for helping the neighbors facts of wages and housing conditions. One
of these neighbors who knows five hundred girls between fourteen
and sixteen years of age who have conferred with her about going to
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that no one outside can have. In a sense the Settlement was an old-
fashioned neighbor when the sixty-four burned-out families were offered
hospitality, but became the modem neighbor when this experience was
made an argument for an enlightened tenement house that would not
only set a new standard in the stockyards district, but would be a stimulus
as well to the other industrial communities. When the Settlement House
is hospitable to its neighbors who are trying by collective bargaining to
hold on to an American standard of living, it is not far from the old
village neighborliness that collectively helped each other in time of need.

New conditions demand new methods. When nearly 4,000 people
live in one precinct of two blocks, when there are 75 babies in one of
these blocks, when the Twenty-ninth Ward doubles its population in ten
years and changes its nationality in fifteen years, neighbors cannot
show a really sympathetic interest in the human beings living close to
them, unless they are intelligent as well as warm hearted. This new kind
of organized neighborliness must be personal and individual as well as
general. The residents, through personal friendship and as leaders of
clubs or teachers of classes, make the connection between the individual
and the community. Canon Bamett, the founder of Toynbee Hall in
East London, has constantly warned American settlements not to rest
satisfied because of their many activities, for fear that they may be but
"deadly doings." I think that those who have lived for some time in
the centers of these many activities feel the danger of which this Father
of Settlements warns us. It seems well for us to look backward at least
once a year. The significant phrases heard in the earlier days were
"sharing the life of the poor," "throwing in one's life with the com-
munity," "burning your bridges behind you," "getting the point of view
of those in need," and in America one heard that settlements were trying
to realize the ideals of our forefathers — an effort toward social democracy,
"harking back to the people," etc. — all of these phrases seem to suggest
that there was a need of getting closer to the real life of those in the
sordid struggle for existence, especially in the great cities, and that only
in this way was there hope of getting at the facts for making up our
moral judgments.

The English settlements were a direct protest against the mechanical
charities that had grown so powerful in England. They insisted that
the poor were members of the same family, and could not be dealt with
in the mass by committees or by paid agents, but that what was needed
was hand-to-hand helpfulness, a new kind of neighborship. A social
settlement is not a school or a handicraft shop. It is not a number of

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boys' or girls' clubs or classes or sewing-schools. The public school or
any organization may do all of these things better than a settlement.
But no doings can supply what is given by a group of people living their
own lives in the neighborhood because they find it interesting and in
accord with their faith — that all are brothers, and all are citizens, and
that the things that are common to all are stronger than the things that
are different in all. This seems to many of us a natural relationship,
such as was common in the days of smaller communities. In this day of
investigation and research, when we are wanting to know all about our
neighbors in every part of the universe, is there not a danger that too
many of us may become statistical machines, forgetting that only by
keeping alive the consciousness of kinship can we be sure even of securing
the facts wanted ?

THE MIDWAY AT DAWN

A sky that gleams

Through latticed boughs
And close-set, quiet leaves;

A pale gold light

That filters through,
Then spreads in shining leaves.

A spire — a tower

Atop the bulk
Of massive piles of stone,

Unreal and dim

Through drifting veils
Of mist like wind-blown foam.

A silence deep

Made musical
By piping throats of birds,

A-tilting high

On top-most bough —
Ah, beauty not in words!

— Ida Carothers Merriam, '04

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY: POET
AND DRAMATIST

In the early nineties a group of four young Harvard men, Robert
Herrick, '90, Robert Morss Lovett, '92, William Vaughn Moody, '93,
and Lindsay Todd Damon, '94, came to the new University of Chicago
as teachers of English composition and literature. Trained in what
were then known as the "Harvard methods" in English composition,
by Professor A. S. Hill, Barrett Wendell, and (later) George R. Car-
penter, they were called by President Harper to pioneer in the western
wilderness. One would search long to find any similar group of their
generation who have done more for the teaching of English, or for
American literature itself. Professor Damon is now head of the depart-
ment of English in Brown University; Professor Herrick and Professor
Lovett, now Dean of the Junior Colleges, are still at the University of
Chicago. As teachers, not only by the influence of their personality,
but through their books, they have had the widest effect. Every high-
school teacher is acquainted with Herrick and Damon's English Compo-
sition, and Moody and Lovett's English Literature. As writers they are
equally well known. Mr. Herrick's reputation as a novelist needs no
comment. Although he has published nothing for some years, Mr.
Lovett's Richard Gresham and A Winged Victory are read and re-read
by lovers of fine work. And Mr. Moody, before his death in 1910, had
attained the front rank among American poets. Shall we who were
privileged to study with those men in the years when they were finding
themselves ever forget the delight of that association ? The crisp and
direct comment of Mr. Herrick, which never descended to sarcasm, and
needed not the aid of sarcasm to pierce through to the sensibility of the
most pachydermatous ? The gaily cynical, endlessly kind criticism, the
rocking, youthful, half-embarrassed figure of Mr. Lovett ? The steady,
systematic, constructive work required of every student by Mr. Damon ?
Or the dreamy aloofness, the habit of slow, impersonal, vivid epigram
which we associated with Mr. Moody ? Eight courses in all the writer
had with one or another of that group; nor is the memory of these
courses one which he would readily relinquish.

A short time ago the poems, poetic dramas, and prose plays of Mr.
Moody were issued, complete in two volumes.^ The first volume con-

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tains also an introduction by Professor John M. Manly. As the volumes
were brought out, moreover, under the constant personal supervision
of Professor Ferdinand Schevdll, they have an association, from every
point of view, with members of the University which makes some
extended notice of them particularly fitting in this Magazine, even
though it is true that the connection of Mr. Moody with the University
ended in 1903, seven years before his death. The volumes offer, to one
who has cared to read Moody, little that is new — only twelve new short
poems, some of which have already seen publication in magazine form,
and a fragment from an uncompleted drama in verse, The Death of Eve.
But to have all Moody's work in this convenient form is much. When
the promised volume of his letters is added, we shall be still more grateful.

William Vaughn (Stoy) Moody was bom at Spencer, Ind., on July 8,
1869. Two years later the family moved to New Albany, Ohio, and
there the mother died in 1884, and the father in 1886. After his father's
death Moody taught a country school till 1888, when he went to Riverside
Academy, New York, where he helped with the teaching to put himself
through. He entered Harvard in 1889, finished the course in three
years, spent a year abroad tutoring, and took an A. B. in 1893. In 1894
he took a Master's degree and was made assistant in the department of
English. The next year he came to the University of Chicago, where
he remained until 1903. Unwilling longer to carry through the drudgery
of teaching, he resigned in 1903, to the great regret of Dr. Harper, and
from that time on devoted himself to his writing. In 1909 he was struck
down by a sudden illness from which he never recovered; in October,
1910, a little more than a year later, in Colorado, where he had been
taken in the struggle against his disease, he died.

The interest in his work, for most readers, lies in his prose plays and
in his lyric poetry. His dramas in verse. The Masque of Judgment, The
Fire-Bringer, and the fragment The Death of Eve constitute an interesting
trilogy; had he lived to complete the third of the group, they might have
taken as a whole a high place in his work. Whether they would ever
have greatly appealed to the general reader, however, is doubtful. They
are in large measure symbolic, not subject to the laws of dramatic speech
and action. Their larger meaning is difficult to follow. Many lyrical
and even dramatic passages in all three are of great beauty, but the form
of the whole is too complicated to be understood without the closest
study. One realizes that the same may be said with equal truth of
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, which these dramas in other ways sug-
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quality of these longer poems must have made his reputation. But most
readers find in his lyrics the same fineness and beauty of expression, the
same molten imagery, and, along with these, ideas far more easily com-
prehended, and to the lyrics therefore they turn for their chief delight
in Moody,

A few words, however, about the two prose plays must precede com-
ment upon the lyrics. Moody is probably the most widely read Ameri-
can poet of his generation. This is because a great public which other-
wise never would have known of him had its attention called by his plays,
or to speak more accurately his first play. The Great Divide. In the
spring of 1905, with Dr. Schevill, Moody spent some time in Arizona, and
while there planned a drama which he wrote out soon after his return,
under the title of The Sabine Woman. He read it to Miss Margaret
Anglin, who was playing at the Garrick in Chicago. She was so attracted
by it that she interrupted the run of her own piece to put on three special
performances of Mr. Moody's. Unfortunately she undertook to produce
it without time enough for rehearsal, and how that first night lagged!
For reasons variously exploited, the delay was so great between acts that
midnight saw the loyal audience still in the theater. But no delay nor
makeshift scenery could conceal the attractiveness of the play. Con-
tracts were signed that night; next season The Great Divide was the
biggest success in the country; and its popularity still endures. This
popularity, without much question, is due to the rapid and thrilling
action of the first act, in which, as everybody knows, Ruth Jordan,
attacked in her Arizona cabin, offers herself to half-drunken Stephen
Ghent to save herself from ravishment by even worse men ; he buys off
one brute, shoots another, and carries her oflf into the desert. But the
second and third acts, in which the situation works itself out to the final
cry of Ruth to Stephen, "You have taken the good of our life and grown
strong. I have taken the evil and grown weak, weak unto death.
Teach me to live as you do!" — these are the acts which make the play
unusual. About the accuracy of Mr. Moody's psychological analysis
there may be some question. In the first complete draft of the drama,
one may note, Philip Jordan, Ruth's brother, was made to shoot Stephen
to avenge his sister. But about the interest of this analysis there can
be no two opinions. Ruth, in her ancestry and bringing up, is a Puritan
of the Puritans. "Tell me," she cries, "you know that when I tore down
with bleeding fingers the life you were trying to build for us, I did it —
only because I loved you! .... You found me a woman in whose ears
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yourselves!' And I went about doing it in the only way I knew — the
only way my fathers knew — by wretchedness, by self- torture, by trying
blindly to pierce your careless heart with pain. And all the while you —
O, as I lay there and listened to you I realized it for the first time — you
had risen, in one hour, to a wholly new existence, which flooded the
present and the future with brightness, yes, and reached back into our
past, and made of it — made of all of it — something to cherish." In this
speech of Ruth, we have perhaps some hint of struggle in the heart of the
poet and dramatist himself. "A pure pagan in his sensitiveness to
beauty of all kinds .... temperamentally a mystic .... he was born
and brought up a Puritan," so writes Professor Manly in his introduc-
tion. " His task, as poet, was either to reject one or more of these ele-
ments or to unify them; but he could not reject any of them, and his
whole nature called for the unification of them .... so he ... .
recharactered his God, as so many of us have done, and achieved a poetic
solution of the universe."

The Faith Healer, in composition, followed The Great Divide, although
it had been planned years before. It was not a popular success, nor may
one blame the audiences, for the story is very slender, and the outcome
quite undramatic in effect. It has, however, many passages of great
beauty; and as a reading play many prefer it to its predecessor.

But it is to Mr. Moody's lyrics that one turns for his final word.
Year after year it has been the privilege of some of us to read aloud to
successive classes of Freshmen and Sophomores "Gloucester Moors,"
"The Menagerie," "An Ode in Time of Hesitation," "On a Soldier
Fallen in the Philippines," "A Road-Hymn for the Start," "The Ride
Back" — how the names call up images of beauty! — and the boys who
yawn over Wordsworth, and the girls who weary of exposition rise in a
moment to the splendor of the lines, and listen with the eagerness of the
heart of youth to the beating of the poet's heart.

For the lines are splendid. No other American poet, dead or living,
has ever achieved melody as Moody has achieved it. Or is "achieved"
entirely the wrong word ? Some of his lines, many perhaps, are beauti-
fully but curiously wrought, worked out into their perfection:

" The doll-face, waxen-white,
Flowered out a living dimness."

"Another night bke this would change my blood
To human: the soft tumult of the sea
Under the moon, the panting of the stars.
The notes of querulous love from pool and clod,

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In earth and air the dreamy under-hum

Of hived hearts swarming — such another night

Would quite unsphere me from my angel-hood!"

But many more seem to have sprung at once, unerring, to their loveliness:

"Leave the forms of sons and fathers trudging through
the misty ways,
Leave the sounds of mothers taking up their sweet
laborious days."

"The proud republic hath not stooped to cheat
And scramble in the market place of war;
Her forehead weareth yet its solemn star."

"To pluck the mountain laurel when she blows
Sweet by the southern sea,
And heart with crumbled heart climbs in the rose."

" Give him his soldier's crown.
The grists of trade can wait
Their grinding at the mill
But he cannot wait for his honor, now the

trumpet has been blown.
Wreathe pride now for his granite brow,

lay love on his breast of stone."

And their imagery equals their melody in charm. Occasionally it
becomes too much elaborated:

"Soon the stars failed; the late moon faded too;
I think my heart had sucked their beams from them
To build more blue amid the murky night
Its own miraculous day."

Indeed, little of his imagery may really be called simple. "The
mai'ching sun and the talking sea," "Young incredibly, younger than
spring" — such phrases as these are comparatively rare. But for all
their elaboration his figures are stirring:

"And through our hearts swept ghostly pain
To see the shards of day sweep past.
Broken, and none might mend again."

"When he rode past the pallid lake
The withered yellow stems of flags
Stood breast high for his horse to break;
Lewd as the pallid lips of hags
The petals in the moon did shake."

Rightly to estimate the value of Moody's lyric verse by such frag-
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long or short, involved or simple, is possessed of an astonishing unity
of thought. One stanza leads to another, one figure to the next.
"Gloucester Moors" is direct, almost literal; he who runs may read.
"The Brute" and "The Quarry" are complicated, wholly symbolic;
they have left many a careless reader groping for their real meaning.
But "Gloucester Moors" and "The Brute" are alike in this: no stanza,
hardly a line, may be omitted from either without sensibly marring the
organization of the whole. This solidity of construction is rare in
American verse, which from Lowell the New Englander to Lanier the
Georgian has been in structure most casual. Moody has as sure a sense
of form as Poe.

No other poet of his generation, one thinks, had quite so intelligent
a comprehension of his time as Moody. He writes occasionally upon
incidental themes — "How the Mead Slave Was Set Free," "The Ride
Back," or, more broad in scope, "A Road-Hymn for the Start." But
almost always his subjects are identified with a larger life than the
individual. One wearies now and then of the brilliant subtlety of
Browning, it remains so endlessly, eccentrically, personal. One wearies
of Tennyson for an opposite reason: he relates his feelings to national
thought with such elaborate and painful care. But the interpretation
of social emotion was with Moody spontaneous. He is at his best when
he is broadest. In "Good Friday Night" and "Second Coming" he
utters that religious wonder, neither belief nor disbelief, nor surely the
colorless "faint trust" of Tennyson — a sense of wondering brotherhood
in accordance with which, as Mr. Manly says, so many of us have
recharactered our God. "Gloucester Moors" is as passionately social
as "The Cry of the Children" or "The Song of the Shirt," and how much
wider and finer! "An Ode in Time of Hesitation" is slow-moving,
stately, beautiful ; yet for all this, as a political protest it rings with the
moral indignation of Whittier himself — these are not words but flames.
And with the lines which end it let this sketch be closed.

Oh, by the sweet blood and young

Shed on the awful hill slope at San Juan,

By the unforgotten names of eager boys

Who might have tasted girl's love and been stung

With the old mystic joys

And starry griefs, now the spring nights come on.

But that the heart of youth is generous — ,

We charge you, ye who lead us.

Breathe on their chivalry no hint of stain!

Turn not their new-world victories to gain!

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One least leaf plucked for chaffer from the bays

Of their dear praise,

One jot of their pure conquest put to hire

The implacable republic will require;

With clamor, in the glare and gaze of noon.

Or subtly, coming as a thief at night

But surely, very surely, slow or soon.

That insult deep we deeply will requite!

Tempt not our weakness, our cupidity,

For save we let the island men go free.

Those baffled and dislaureled ghosts

Will curse us from the lamentable coasts

Where walk the frustrate dead.

The cup of trembling shall be drained quite,

Eaten the sour bread of astonishment.

With ashes of the hearth shall be made white

Our hair, and wailing shall be in the tent;

Then on your guiltier head

Shall our intolerable self-disdain

Wreak suddenly its anger and its pain;

For manifest in that disastrous light

We shall discern the right

And do it tardily — O ye who read.

Take heed!

Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.

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The orator at the Eighty-sixth Con-
vocation.— James Hayden Tufts, Ph.D.,
LL.D., head of the Department of Phi-
losophy, will be the Convocation orator
at the Eighty-sixth Convocation of the
University on March i8, the subject of
his address being "The University and
the Advance of Justice." Professor
Tufts has been connected with the Uni-
versity of Chicago for twenty-one years,
having been promoted during that time
from an assistant professorship of phi-
losophy to the headship of the department
and having also been for six years Dean
of the Senior Colleges. He is a graduate
of Amherst College and the Yale Divinity
School, and has received the degree of
Director of Philosophy from the Uni-
versity of Freiburg. He has also received
from his alma mater the honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws. He is the joint author
with Professor John Dewey, of Columbia,
of a widely known volume on Ethics,
and is the translator of Windelbrand's
History of Philosophy. Professor Tufts
has been president of the Western
Philosophical Association and is now
chairman of the Illinois Committee on
Social Legislation, which represents
twenty-five charitable and philanthropic
organizations.

A visit of inspection to the Tuskegee
Institute. — ^President Harry Pratt Judson
and Professor James Rowland Angell,
Dean of the Faculties, were the guests of
Mr. Julius Rosenwald, a trustee of the
University, on a visit of inspection to the
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, during
the week ending February 1 3 . The party
included also Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
superintendent of the Chicago schools;
Dean Thomas F. Holgate, of Northwest-
em University; several members of the
Chicago school board, and other citizens
prominent in the educational and civic
life of Chicago. They were met at
Tuskegee by a party of well-known men
and women from the East, including
Seth Low, former mayor of New York,
who is chairman of the board of trustees
of the Institute. The results of the
vocational training given the Negro
students at Tuskegee under the direction

of Booker T. Washington, the -head of
the school, made a great impression on
the visitors, who regard it as one of the
most practicable and successful attempts
to solve the Negro problem in the South.

President Judson's views on degrees and
curricula. — In discussing the question
of degrees in his new annual report
President Judson says: "The question
arises whether it is not better to differ-
entiate in some way between the doc-
torate of philosophy as a degree for those
who are especially interested in research
and who are likely to make original
investigation a large function, on the one
hand, and on the other hand, a suitable
degree for those who are studying to
become primarily teachers, who have no
particular qualifications for research,
and who are not likely to engage in such
investigations. This would increase the
value of the doctorate as a research
degree pure and simple, and would at
the same time make it possible to pro\-ide
a teaching degree which might perhaps
be of more value to those who are seeking
the teaching profession only."

Professors from other institutions for the
Summer Quarter. — Among the professors
from other institutions already engaged
for the Summer Quarter at the University
are Henry A. Sill, Professor of Ancient
History in Cornell University; John B.
Watson, Professor of Psychology in
Johns Hopkins University; James F.
McCurdy, Professor of Oriental History
in th§ University of Toronto; John J. L.
Borgerhoff, Professor of French in
Western Reserve University; John H.
Latane, Professor of American History
in Washington and Lee University;
and Oskar Bolza, Honorary Professor
of Mathematics in the University of
Freiburg, who was for eighteen years
actively associated with the Department
of Mathematics in the University of
Chicago and who is still Non-resident
Professor in that department.

Lectures before the Divinity School by
President Gunsaulus. — President Frank
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Technology, who is Professional Lecturer
on Practical Theology in the University,
gave this month before the Divinity School
three lectures on the fine arts. The
first lecture (March 3) was on "Paint-
ing," illustrated by stereopticon views
of Rembrandt's paintings; the second
lecture (March 10), on "Aesthetics and
Ethics," was illustrated by twelve songs
by the Central Church quartet; and on
March 17 the subject was "Japanese
Glyptic Work," illustrated by views of
sword furniture in the Harper Memorial
Library collections.

Return of the Barrows Lecturer from
India. — Professor Charles Richmond
Henderson, head of the Department of
Practical Sociology, who has been lec-
turing for six months in the chief cities
of India, China, and Japan, will resume
his usual work at the University near
the opening of the Spring Quarter, his
classes being conducted for the first
week by Dean Shailer Mathews. Profes-
sor Henderson's lectures were on the
subject of " Social Programs of the West,"
and they will be published soon by the
University of Chicago Press. The Bar-
rows lectureship, which was established
by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, provides
for a series of lectures in the Orient every
three years on the general subject of the
relations of Christianity to other religions.
Professor Henderson's lectures in India
were received with cordial appreciation
and approval, and while in China he
was called into conference with Chinese
officials for his views on prison condi-
tions in that country and suggestions for
their improvement. Dr. Henderson was
the United States commissioner on the
International Prison Commission in 1909,
and was president of the International
Prison Congress in 1910. He is the
author of an In Introduction to a Study
of Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent
Classes and also the editor of Modern
Prison Systems. He was recently elected
to membership in the Academy of the
American Institute of Criminal Law
Criminology.

Appointment to a national commission.
— Professor Edwin Oakes Jordan, of
the Department of Pathology and Bac-
teriology, accepted in February an invi-
tation from Secretary Franklin Mac-
Veagh of the Treasury Department to
become a member of the National Com-
mission for the Determination of a Stand-

ard of Purity for Drinking Water. This
commission has been formed in connec-
tion with the enforcement of regulations
relative to pure drinking water, and its
object is to establish a federal standard
which shall be generally applicable.
Professor Jordan presented before the
Illinois Water Supply Association which
met at the University of Illinois on March
II and 12 a paper on the subject of
"Bacterial Examination of the Chicago
Water Supply"; and he also gave an
address at the ninth conference of the
American Medical Association held in
Chicago on February 24 and 25, the
subject of his discussion being "Munici-
pal Regulation of the Milk Supply."
Dr. Jordan, with Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, is
editor of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

A prize contest for Jewish students. —
Members of the Menorah Society, an
organization of Jewish students at the
University, are preparing papers in a
prize contest to be closed on March 26.
The subjects include "The Jew in China,"
"Advantages of Studying Hebrew,"
"Psychology of the Jew," and "Jews
and College Circles." Professor Ernst
Freund, of the Law School faculty,
recently addressed the club on the subject
of "Jews in America." On March 12,
Dr. Paul H. Phillipson, of the Depart-
ment of German, gave an address before
the society, and on March 28, Professor
Albion W. Small, Dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Literature, will be
the speaker.

Lectures on ancient oriental art. — Pro-
fessor Karl Bezold, of the University of
Heidelberg, will lecture before the Uni-
versity on April 17, 18, and 22. He is
one of the leading orientalists of Germany
and well known to oriental scholars of the
United States. He spent over ten years
in London preparing his oriental cata-
logue of the famous Assyrian library in
the British Museum, which was published
by the trustees of the museum. Profes-
sor Bezold speaks English as fluently as
his native language. The lectures before
the University will be illustrated and will
bear on ancient oriental art, especially
the art of Egypt, Babylon, Assyria,
Venetia, Judea, and Persia.

The Western Economic Society. — The
Western Economic Society, of which
Dean Shailer Mathews of the Divinity
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and 15 at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago
a conference on the subject of "Scientific
Management." Among the topics con-
sidered were "The Spirit of Scientific
Management," "Scientific Management
from the Manufacturer's Point of View,"
"Scientific Management and the La-
borer," and "The Taylor System." On the
last subject Mr. Frederick A. Taylor,
the founder of the system, who is a con-
sulting engineer and the author of The
Principles of Scientific Management, con-
ducted a summary and questionnaire.
Recent conferences on Scientific Manage-
ment have been held by the Efficiency
Society of New York, the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, and
Dartmouth College. At the last men-
tioned conference 400 business men of
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia
attended all the sessions. Many promi-
nent engineers and experts accepted
invitations to present papers at the con-
ference in Chicago, which proved to be
one of special significance. Professor
Leon C. Marshall, Dean of the College
of Commerce and Administration, is
secretary of the society.

President Harry Pratt Judson pre-
sided at the tenth annual meeting of the
Religious Education Association held in
Cleveland from March 10 to 14. The
general subject of the meeting was
"Religious Education and Civic Prog-
ress." President Judson gave an ad-
dress before the American Medical
Association at its ninth annual confer-
ence in Chicago on February 24, his
subject being 'The Need of Readjust-
ment of Preliminary and Collegiate
Education." On February 15, also, he
addressed the Hamilton Club of Chicago
on "The Higher Education and Research."

Samuel Wendell Williston, Piofessor
of Paleontology, will attend as delegate-
at-large of the American Zoological
Society, the Ninth International Con-
gress of Zoology to be held at Monaco,
France, from March 25 to 29. Professor
Williston will also represent the Uni-
versity of Chicago and will present a
paper at the congress. Before returning
he will spend two months in various
museums in Germany, Belgium, and
Paris. Dr. Williston's assistants, Mr.
Paul C. Miller and Mr. Mauiice G. Mehl,
will leave the latter part ot March on
a paleontological expedition to northern
Texas.

The University of Chicago will be
represented at the annual meeting of
the Classical Association ol the Middle
West and South, to be held in Indian-
apolis on April 11 and 12, by Professor
William Gardner Hale, head of the
Department of Latin, and ifesociate
Professor Gordon J. Laing, of the same
department. The former will present a
paper on "The Participation of the
Student in the Study of Beginning Latin,"
and the latter will give an illustrated
address on " Recent Excavations in Rome
and Pompeii." Professor Laing lec-
tured during the last two weeks in Janu-
ary before the eastern societies of the
Archaeological Institute of America, his
subject being "Roman Africa."

Professor Ernst Freund, of the Law
School, is a member of the Illinois divi-
sion of the National Divorce Commission
and has recently drafted a bill containing
new provisions regarding the legal aspects
of marriage and divorce, for presentation
to the Illinois legislature.

Professor Shailer Mathews, Dean of
the Divinity School, was one of the
speakers at a dinner given in Lexington
Hall in February to raise funds for send-
ing Miss Margery Melcher as a repre-
sentative of the women of the University
to the college women of Calcutta. More
than four hundred dollars was con-
tributed. Miss Anna Brown, traveling
secretary of the Student Volunteer
Movement, was also one of the speakers.

Professor Robert Francis Harper, of
the Department of Semitics, has recently
completed Volume XII of his Assyrian
and Babylonian Letters. It will be pub-
lished soon by the University of Chicago
Press, and like other publications of
that press will be handled in the British
Empire by the press of Cambridge
University. During the year Professor
Harper has been assisted in his work in
the British Museum by Mr. Leroy Water-
man, who received the Doctor's degree
from the University in 191 2. Dr.
Waterman will contribute to the April
number of the American Journal of
Semitic Languages and Literatures an
account of the research work being done
in connection with the oriental inscrip-
tions of the museum, and the account will
be illustrated by sixty plates. Professor
Harper returns to his regular work in
the University at the opening of the
Autumn Quarter.

Professor Paul Shorey, head of the

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Department of Greek, has accepted an
invitation to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa
address at the University of Missouri on
June lo.

Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stock-
ton, of the United States Navy, retired,
gave an address before the Faculty and
students of the University on February
27, his subject being "A Strong Navy
Essential to the United States." Ad-
miral Stockton was elected president of
George Washington University in 191 1.

Illustrative Examples of English Com-
position is the title of a new textbook,
by Associate Professor James Weber
Linn of the Department of English, which
is published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
It is a companion volume to the author's
Essentials of English Composition and is
intended to illustrate the four chief
literary forms — exposition, argumenta-
tion, description, and narration. Many
of the selections in the new volume are
drawn from living writers, including
Galsworthy, Barrie, Bennett, John T.
Fox, Jr., and Hamlin Garland.

Associate Professor Herbert E. Slaught,
of the Department of Mathematics, has
recently become the managing editor of
the American Mathematical Monthly — a
journal for teachers of mathematics in
the collegiate and advanced secondary
fields. The journal is under the control
of an editorial board representing eleven
institutions, which include the Univer-
sities of Chicago, Michigan, and Illinois.

The University Dramatic Club suc-
cessfully presented on the evenings of
February 28 and March i Rudolph
Besier's three-act play entitled Don,
with a cast of five women and four men.
Special scenery for the play was secured
from the Marlowe Theater of Chicago,
and music for the performances was
furnished by the University Orchestra
under the leadership of Director Robert
W. Stevens. Through the generosity
of the University a meeting place for
the Dramatic Club has been provided
in the basement of Haskell Museum, the
entrance being on Harper Court. The
clubroom will accommodate about 200
people and will be equipped with a stage
and scenery.

Wallace W. At wood. Associate Pro-
fessor of Physiography and General
Geology, has accepted an appointment
to succeed William M. Davis, of Harvard
University, as Professor of Physiography.
Dr. Atwood is a graduate of the Uni-

versity of Chicago, from which he also
received the degree of Doctor of Phi-
losophy in 1903. He has been associated
as geologist with both the Illinois
Geological Survey and the United States
Geological Survey, in the latter capacity
doing special work for two seasons in the
survey of the Alaska coal fields. He is
also secretary and director of the Chicago
Academy of Sciences. On account of
work already in progress at Chicago,
Professor Atwood will probably not as-
sume the duties of his new position until
the second semester of the next academic
year.

The annual competition for the
Howard T. Ricketts prize concludes on
April 15. The prize is awarded to any
student in the Department of Pathology
and Bacteriology who produces the best
piece of original work. The prize is the
income from a gift of $5,000 presented
to the University by Mrs. Ricketts in
memory of her husband, who died in
Mexico in 19 10 of typhus fever while
engaged in scientific investigation of the
disease.

A member of the Board of Trustees of
the University, Mr. Harold F. McCor-
mick, has provided for the interior of the
new concrete grandstand on Marshall
Field a racquets court, which will prob-
ably be ready for use by the Spring
Quarter. The cost of the new court is
estimated at about $8,000. The walls
are of triple thickness, the inner one
being a fourteen-inch brick wall faced
with special concrete which is guaran-
teed against cracking. Mr. McCormick
lost the national championship contest
at racquets, at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., in
the final round.

The Lake Forest Players gave a bene-
fit performance in the Leon Mandel
Assembly Hall for the Suffrage League
of the University on the evening of
March 15, when By-Products, by Joseph
Medill Patterson, The Second Story Man,
by Upton Sinclair, and Pierrot of the
Minute, by Ernest Dowson, were suc-
cessfully presented.

At the meeting of the National Council
of Education in Philadelphia at the end
of February, Director Charles H. Judd,
of the School of Education, was made a
member of a committee to decide upon
standards and tests of educational
eflficiency. The committee consists of
fifteen members, Professor George D.
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the' chairman. Professor Judd gave
an address at the Philadelphia meeting
on the subject of "Developing the Co-
operation and the Initiative of Teachers"
and also presented before the Society
of College Teachers of Education, which
met wiUi the Department of Superin-
tendence, a paper on "Some Psycho-
logical Characteristics of the Inter-
mediate Grades of the Elementary
School." Among the reports of com-
mittees on education was one by Profes-
sor Judd on A Seven- Year Elementary
School and Related Economies, and one
by Professor William Gardner Hale,
head of the Department of Latin, on
Grammatical Terminology. In connec-
tion with this meeting there was a dinner
of the former students and graduates
of the University of Chicago.

Recent contributions by the members
of the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Burton, Professor Ernest D. (with
A. K. Parker): "The Expansion of
Christianity in the Twentieth Century,"
II, Bihlicd World, March.

Chamberlain, Associate Professor
Charles J.: "Macrozamia Moorei, a
Connecting Link between Living and
Fossil Cycads" (contributions from the
Hull Botanical Laboratory 168), with
twelve figures. Botanical Gazette, Febru-
ary.

Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:
"The Church and Child Protection,"
Biblical World, March.

Johannsen, Assistant Professor Albert:
"An Accessory Lens for Observing Inter-
ference Figures of Small Mineral Grains,"
Journal of Geology, January-February.

Marshall, Professor Leon C: "The
College of Commerce and Administra-
tion of the University of Chicago,"
Journal of Political Economy, February.

OflScers of the School of Education:
"A Seven- Year Elementary School,"
Elementary School Teacher, February.

Parker, Dr. Alonzo K. (with E. D.
Burton): "The Expansion of Chris-
tianity in the Twentieth Century,"
II, Biblical World, March.

Recent addresses by members of the
Faculties include:

Atwood, Associate Professor Wallace
W.: "Chicago Academy of Sciences,
An Educational Force in the Com-
munity" (illustrated), Illinois Academy
of Science, Peoria, 111., February 21.

Barnard, Professor Edward E.: "Some
Late Results in Astronomical Photog-
raphy" (illustrated), Illinois Academy of
Science, Peoria, III., February 21.

Breasted, Professor James H.: "Camp
and Caravan in Ancient Ethiopia"
(illustrated), University Congregational
Church, Chicago, March 17.

Butler, Professor Nathaniel: "The
Business Man and Education," Lincoln
Day dinner, Omaha, Neb., February 12;
Address before Lake County Teachers*
Association, Highland Park, III., Febru-
ary 21.

Clark, Associate Professor S. H.:
Dramatic interpretation of Maeter-
linck's Blue Bird, Oklahoma City, Okla.,
February 8; Lohengrin, Colorado Col-
lege, Colorado Springs, February 18.

Coulter, Professor John M. : " Botany,"
Illinois Academy of Science, Peoria, III.,
February 21; "Some Lessons from
Heredity," Grand Rapids, Mich., Febru-
ary 25; "Civic Righteousness," Asso-
ciation of Commerce, ibid., February
25; Address, Central High School,
ibid., February 26; "Contributions of
Science to the Food Supply," Committee
of One Hundred, Association of Com-
merce, ibid., February 26; "Plant Rela-
tions," Ridge Woman's Club, Ridge
Park, III., March 3.

Cutting, Professor SUrr W.: "An
American Estimate of Salient Features
of Modem German Civilization," Ger-
manistic Society, Fullerton Hall, Art
Institute, Chicago, February 10.

David, Assistant Professor H. C. E.:
"Two Aspects of the French Contempo-
rary Mind," Chicago South Side Club,
February 11; "Modem French Drama,"
Chicago Dramatic Society, February 28.

Downing, Assistant Professor Elliot
R.: "The Disappearance of the Beaver,"
Illinois Academy of Science, Peoria, 111.,
February 21.

Foster, Professor George B.: Address
at fiftieth anniversary of the emancipa-
tion of the slaves. Orchestra Hall,
Chicago, February 12.

Fuller, George D.: "Reproduction by
Layering in the Black Spruce," Illinois
Academy of Science, Peoria, 111., Febru-
ary 21; "Studies of Evaporation and
Soil Moisture in the Prairie of Illinois"
(with E. M. Harvey), ibid., February 21.

Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul:
"Japan," Highland Park Club, Highland
Park, 111., February 18.

Heinemann, Dr. Paul G.: "Sanitary

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Aspect of Milk Supply," Illinois Academy
of Science, Peoria, 111., February 21.

Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:
"Chicago's Treatment of Her Children,"
Juvenile Protective Association, West
End Woman's Club, Chicago, February

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Jordan, Professor Edwin O.: "Causes
and Remedies for Infant Mortality,"
Illinois State i\s£Ociation of Nurses,
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, February
12.

Judd, Professor Charles H.: 'Changes
in the Course of Study of the Elementary
School to Meet the Demand for Voca-
tional Training," City Club, St. Louis,
February 15; Addresses, High School
Building, Wheeling, W.Va., February 21.

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank M. :
"Manual Training," South Bend, Ind.,
February 21.

Linn, Associate Professor James W.:
"Common Sense English," Chicago
Press Writers' Club, John Crerar Library,
February 28.

Mathews, Professor Shailer: "Abra-
ham Lincoln," Hull House, Chicago,
February 12; "Christianity and the
Industrial Problem," Grand Rapids,
Mich., February 16; "The Spiritual
Crisis in Civilization," ibid., February
16.

Mead, Professor George H. : "Voca-
tional Education," Chicago Association
of Commerce, February 19; "Democracy
and Equal Suffrage," Equal Suffrage
Association, Galesburg, 111., February 21.

Moulton, Professor Forest R.: "Won-
ders of the Heavens" (illustrated). Teach-

ers' Federation, South Bend, Ind.,
March 4.

Read, Assistant Professor Conyers:
"The Civil War in England," All Saints
School, Sioux Falls, S.D., February 15;
"Oliver Cromwell," ibid., February 15.

Salisbury, Professor Rollin D.: Pres-
entation of Culver Medal to Professor
William M. Davis, Chicago Geographic
Society, February 19; "A Look into
South America" (illustrated), Fuller ton
Hall, Art Institute, Chicago, March i.

Schevill, Professor Ferdinand: "Re-
lations of Italy and Austria," Lovers of
Italy, Chicago, February 26.

Shepardson, Associate Professor Fran-
cis W.: "Lincoln," Men's League, City
Club, Chicago, February 12; Address,
Chicago Hebrew Institute, February 12.

Soares, Professor Theodore G.:
"Necessary Adaptation of the Seminary
Curriculum," Religious Education Asso-
ciation, Cleveland, March 10.

Starr, Associate Professor Frederick:
"Liberia and the West Coast of Africa,"
Union League Club, Chicago, February

13-

Talbot, Professor Marion: "Housing
in Relation to Health," Illinois Academy
of Science, Peoria, 111., February 21.

Weller, Associate Professor Stuart:
"The Stratigraphy of the Chester
Group in Southern Illinois," Illinois
Academy of Science, Peoria, 111., Febru-
ary 21.

Wells, Associate Professor H. Gideon:
"New Researches in Tuberculosis,"
Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, City
Club, February 11.

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

A LETTER FROM DR. HENDERSON

Hongkong, January 14, 1913
Dear President Judson:

Out of my numerous delightful experi-
ences I must take time to recite what hap-
pened today during my visit in Canton.
I had already given an address to the
students of Canton Christian College and
then had met Mr. Chung Wong Kwong,
commissioner of education of Kwangtung
Province. Today several students of the
University of Chicago invited me to a
luncheon in the Yamen (public offices)
of the province, when I met Mr. Wu
How-man, governor-general of the prov-
ince; Mr. Peter Hing, A.M. (Columbia
University), chief justice of the province;
Mr. Hin Wong, B.S., D.J., former student
in the universities of Missouri, Yale, and
Columbia, now honorary inspector of
prisons and a journalist highly esteemed;
Mr. Lin Bang, manager of the Bank of
Vancouver; Mr. Frank W. Lee, C.C.,
New York City University and Crozer;
Mr. F. O. Leiser, of the University of
Wisconsin and one quarter at the Uni-
versity of Chicago; and Mr. Chung Wong
Kwon. The former students of our own
University who gave me this delightful
Chinese "tiffin" were: Mr. Peky T.
Cheng, Ph.B. (class of 1910), now com-
missioner of public works of Kwangtung
Province; Mr. C. T. Tang, M.A. (191 1),
president of the Provincial Normal Col-
lege; Mr. P. H. Lo, A.M., J.D. (191 1),
commissioner of foreign affairs of the
province; Mr. Chien Shu-fan (Law
School, 1910-11), commissioner of the
interior of the province; Mr. Ching Yue,
Ph.D., 1908, professor in the provincial
normal college.

After a long interview with these
gentlemen I came away proud that
American universities have already had
an honorable share in helping the new
republic to start with educated modem
leadership; and that our own University
is so worthily represented in the inspiring
movement. These gentlemen are eager

to move forward as rapidly as -possible
and they are fully conscious of the
immensity of the task which lies before
them; but they are self-possessed, they
treat the experienced men of the old
r6gime with respect, they give great
credit to their predecessors in office,
they intend to offend rooted national
sentiment as little as possible. They are
aware that even a good innovation cannot
be successfully introduced without a
transformation of public opinion, and
they are putting forth all their energies
to promote popular intelligence. When
public funds are scant, and while they
are reorganizing their financial system,
they are making an appeal to generous
citizens for voluntary contributions, and
large sums are being offered for the
cause.

It is true that a brief visit cannot
enable one to go very far into so vast and
complicated a problem; but this inter-
view with a group of alert, earnest,
patriotic, educated young leaders has
stirred the hope that our American influ-
ence is being felt and appreciated in this
vast country. No man can look far into
the future, but there are found in such
young men reasonable promises of a
brighter future for this great people who
so sorely need economic, educational,
sanitary, and spiritual progress. Our
American representatives are in sym-
pathy with all that is best, and are
themselves quietly hop>eful of success
in the new path. Certainly we can
assure them that in this effort they have
our best wishes for prosperity.

They desired me to send their grate-
ful remembrances to the President of the
University, to their instructors in the
Faculty of Law, and others, and they
voiced this request in such a sincere and
heartfelt manner that I send it forward
to you at once, while their greetings and
handclasps are fresh in my own thought
and feeling.

Yours sincerely,

Charles R. Henderson

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Reunion of students of the old Univer-
sity.— The Annual Reunion and Wash-
ington Supper of the graduates and
students of the old University of Chicago
was held on the evening of February 2 2 in
the banquet room of the Palmer House.
Seventy-six of the old-time students,
many accompanied by their wives,
assembled in the parlors of the hotel, and
at 6 : 45 o'clock grouped around the tables
in the banquet haU, and called to mind
the many similar gatherings they were
wont to attend in the same hall away
back in the seventies and early eighties.

Dr. Galusha Anderson, president of the
old University in the last years of its
existence, came from Boston, and with
Dr. Nathaniel Butler of the old Faculty,
and representing the new University as
well, were the honored guests of the
evening.

Not the least prominent among the
groups gathered about the tables was the
one made up of members of the oldest
living class, the class of '62, and other
classes of the '6o's. At this table sat Rev.
James Goodman, '62, who acted as toast-
master, in his usual happy vein, the
youngest of them all; with him were
George W. Thomas, '62, remembered by
many as "Tute" Thomas, Judge Chris-
tian C. Kohlsaat, ex-'62, of the United
States Circuit Court, O. B. Taft, ex-'62,
of the Pearson and Taft Land and Loan
Co., George A. Gindele, ex-'62, president
of the Geroge A. Gindele Building Co.,
Judge Dorrance Dibell, ex-'65, of the
Circuit Court of Will County, Joliet,
Judge Frederick A. Smith, '66, of the
Appellate Court, Rev. Henry C. First,
'66, Rock Island, George B. Woodworth,
'69, of the Engineering Department of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R.R.

The principal address of the evening
was by Dr. Anderson, and short talks,
largely reminiscent of coUege days, were
listened to from Dr. Butler, Florence
Holbrook, '79, Grace Reed, '84, Elizabeth
Faulkner, '85, Judges Kohlsaat and
Dibell, George W. Thomas, John C.
Hopkins, '82, and C. W. Naylor, ex-'8i.
Letters were read from Professor Lewis
Stuart, now in Rome, Joshua Pike, '65,
and others.

The arrangements were in the hands of
a Committee, made up of A. J. Licht-
stern, ex-'82, Herbert E. Goodman,
ex-'8s, Frank J. Walsh, '86, William L.
Burnap, '86, and E. A. Buzzell, '86. In
addition to Dr. and Mrs. Anderson and
Dr. and Mrs. Butler and those mentioned
of the classes from '62 to '69 there were
present: Mr. and Mrs. William L.
Burnap, '86, E. A. Buzzell, '86, Dr. F. S.
Cheney, ex-'8s, J. M. Doud, ex-'88,
James P. Gardner, '81, O. D. Grover,
ex-'8i, F. W. Jaros, ex-'89, A. J. Licht-
stern, ex-'82, A. E. Mabie, ex-'87, J.
Gorton Marsh, ex-'88. Dr. John Ridlon,
'75, L. T. Sherman, ex-'84, W. G. Sherer,
ex-'82, R. B. Twiss, '75, F. J. Walsh, '86,
T. R. Weddell, '86; Mesdames EUa F.
Googins, '83, Daisy M. IngaUs, '85,
Edson S. Bastin Hill, Ph.D., '09; Misses
Susan Bradley, Lydia A. Dexter Doud,'84,
Elizabeth Faulkner, '85, Fannie B. Hart,
ex- '87, Florence Holbrook, '79, Laura B.
Loomis, ex-'88, Grace Reed, 84; Messrs.
Dr. Luther G. Bass, '77, John E. Cornell,
ex-'83, Eli H. Doud, ex-'86, John C.
Everett, ex-'84, Charles Goodman, '97,
George W. Hall, '81, T. M. Hammond,
'85, Frank G. Hanchett, '82, Frank A.
Helmer, '78, John C. Hopkins, '81, James
Langland, '77, S. O. Levinson, ex-'87, C.
W. Naylor, ex-'8i, Dr. John E. Rhodes,
'76, Wandell Topping, ex-'89, George W.
Walsh, ex-'84, S. J. Winegar, '79, George
R. Wright, ex-'82.

News from the Classes. —

1896
John Hulsart has been appointed
cashier of the Manasquan National Bank,
Manasquan, N.J.

1897

Wilbur Bassett is practicing law in Los
Angeles, with offices at 446 Title Insur-
ance Building.

Frances White is teaching mathe-
matics in the State Normal School at
San Marco, Tex.

William R. Bishop has left the Idaho
State Normal School, and is now principal
of the College Pieparatory Department
of the Portland, Ore., Y.M.C.A.

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1898
Dr. Robert E. Graves has moved his
offices to the Eagle Building, 737 Sheri-
dan Road, Chicago.

Ex-1899
Olive Warner (Mrs. Alec Barnwell) is
living in Rye, N.Y. She is in business
on 41st St., New York City.

TQOO

Mathilda Castro (Ph.D. '07) has
resigned as head of the department of
psychology at Rockford College, to be-
come head of the Phoebe Anna Thome
Model School for the Investigation of
Methods ot Teaching. The school is
connected with Bryn Mawr College.
Miss Castro has just left for Europe on
a six months' visit of observation among
the schools of France, Germany, and Italy.

1905
Fred Speik, for some years assistant
to Dr. B. W. Sippy of Chicago, has gone
to Pasadena, Cal., where he is practicing
medicine, with an office in the Temple
Auditoiium Building, on 5th and Olive
streets, Los Angeles. W alter J. Schmahl,
1901, who immediately preceded Speik
as end on the football team, is also in
business in Los Angeles.

1906

B. G. Brawley is in his first year of
service as dean of Atlanta Baptist Col-
lege. Mr. Brawley issues this month
(March) through the Macmillan Com-
pany A Short History of the American
Negro. He was married last summer to
Miss Hilda D. Prowd, of Kingston,
Jamaica, B.W.I.

1907

Harold L. Axtell and Mrs. Axtell,
(Gertrude Bouton, '07) are at Moscow,
Idaho, where Mr. Axtell is professor of
classical languages in the University of
Idaho.

Suzanne C. Haskell (Mrs. Harvey
Davis) is living at 8 Ash St. Place,
Cambridge, Mass.

Ralph W. Bailey, '07, and Mrs.
Bailey (Katharine Sturges Simmons, '06)
have moved from Racine to Waupaca,
Wis.

1908

Mary O'Malley is living at 5^53 Lake-
wood Ave., Chicago.

J. S. Abbott is now commissioner of
the Food and Drug Department of

the state of Texas, with his offices at
Austin.

1909

Raymond D. Penny has resigned as
instructor in English in the Michigan
Agricultural College, and is now, after
a brief experience as reporter- on the
Chicago Morning World, the editor of
Farm Life and Agricultural Epitomist,
issued at Spencer, Ind.

Arma A. Chenot is living at 277 Cres-
cent St., Northampton, Mass.

Rev. John Bradford Pengelly, is rector
of St. Edmund's Episcopal Church,
S8th St. and Indiana Ave. William L.
Chenery had a long article recently in the
Chicago Evening Post praising the social
and civic activities ot the church under
Mr. Pengelly.

1912

Horace Whiteside has taken a position
as instructor in physics and director of
physical training in the East High School
of Waterloo, la.

William P. Harms has taken the posi-
tion of general secretary of the Infant
Welfare Society of Chicago. The work
of the society is both educative and
preventive. It holds conferences at
twelve different stations to which mothers
bring their children to be examined by
the physician in charge. At each station
a nurse is employed who gives her entire
time to the work of the society. Mr.
Harms's address is 5522 Madison Ave.

Ex-1912
Harold B. Graves disappeared from
the home of his brother, in Boston, at
the end of January, and has not yet been
found. It is feared that he may have
betn temporarily mentally deranged.
Graves came to Chicago from Cornell
University, where he had studied engi-
neering. His father and mother live in
Milwaukee.

Engagements. —

Ex-1907

The engagement is announced of Miss
Florence Elizabeth Butler, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Butler of Oak Park,
III., to Martin Arthur Flavin, ex- '07, of
Joliet, III. Mr. Flavin is secretary of
the Star-Peerless Wall Paper Mills of
Joliet. The marriage will take place in
the autumn of this year.

The engagement is announced of
Albert N. Butler to Miss Maida Eloise

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Searles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Searles of 13 15 E. 5 2d St.
Mr. Butler is a son of Professor Nathaniel
Butler of the University. He is a mem-
ber of Delta Kappa Epsilon.- The
marriage will take place on April 12.

Ex-1911
The engagement is announced of
Wilbur Hattery, Jr., ex-'ii, to Miss
Ruth Adolphus, daughter of Mr. and
Mr.=. Wolff Adolphus of 5554 Sheridan
Road. Miss Adolphus is a graduate of
Smith College. No date has been set
for the wedding.

1912
The engagement is announced of Eliza-
beth Burke, '12, daughter of Mrs.
Katherine Sheiidan Burke, 6235 Ingle-
side Avenue, to Philip Chapin Jones, a
graduate of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and now interested in the
building of electric railways in Brazil.
Miss Burke was twice the composer of
the Woman's Athletic Association's
annual musical show, and has taken an
active part in the University Woman's
Suffrage Association. The marriage will
probably take place in June, and Mr. and
Mrs. Jones will live in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Marriages. —

1902

Clara Lillian Johnston, '02, on January
9, 1913, married Franklin H. Hitt. Mr.
and Mrs. Hitt are living at Elko, S.C.

1907
Florence D. Sheetz, '07, in January,
191 2, married Arthur Robert Eitzen,
University of Missouri, '04, and now
assistant bridge manager of the Kansas
City Terminal Railroad Co. Mr. and
Mrs. Eitzen live at 217 W. 37th St., Kan-
sas City.

1908
Sarah Davie Hendricks, '08, and Ther-
low Ganet Essington, '08, were married
on February 26, in Madisonville, Ky.
They will be at home in Streator, 111.,
after May I.

Deaths. —

1873

Edgar Levi Jayne, A.B., 1873, died
on July 20, 1910, at his home, 5414 Madi-
son St., Chicago.

1897
Clarence E. Fish, Ph.B., '97, died on
January i, 1913, at his home in Chicago.

1897

Giace Darling died on February i6,
19 13. The following account of her and
her work was written for the Maeazine:

By the death of Grace Darling, on
February 16, 1913, the University has
lost a graduate whose life could ill be
spared. She received the degree of Ph.B.
in June, 1897, with Phi Beta Kappa
honors and in 1902 took a Master's
degree in English. She was an active mem-
ber of Kelly House and later of Green
House and showed deep interest in the
more vital social activities of student life.

From September, 1897, until a few
months before her death Miss Darling
was a teacher in the James H. Bowen
High School in Chicago. Her work
in this school led her to study the needs
of the community in which it is situated
and in 1901 she decided to make her
home near the school. The home which
she established soon became organized
with neighborhood help as a social settle-
ment and was known as South End
Center. A woman's club, a choral
society, and evening clubs for boys
and girls were started. Within three
years the settlement was moved to a
larger building and a day nursery was
opened. A visiting nurse, a school pro-
bation officer, and other social workers
joined the settlement household and the
place soon became a center of wise charity
and civic betterment. Through its
early years of poverty and struggle,
Miss Darling was the guiding spirit of
the settlement, giving unstintingly of her
time and strength and often assuming
heavy financial responsibilities. Her
courage never faltered. In the suffering
and weakness of her last days it was an
unfailing joy to her to know that South
End Center is an established power for
good and that its usefulness will continue
in ever-widening blessing to the residents
of South Chicago. It is a noble monu-
ment to Miss Darling's foresight and
unselfish devotion.

Miss Darling had a rare gift for friend-
ship. To the thousands of pupils who
knew her in the Bowen High School she
was a steadfast and inspiring friend.
Always generous in her judgment, she
sought and received the best her students
had to give. Her sweetness of disposition
never failed under the cares and annoy-
ances of the schoolroom. Her belief
in the young people with whom she
worked was expressed in the financial

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aid which enabled not a few of them to
complete high-school, college, and pro-
fessional courses of study.

Miss Darling was a member of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church. Her religious
life was deep and sincere. Her gospel
was one of devoted service and she asked
from others only friendship. To those
who knew her well, her memory is an
abiding benediction.

1901
Adella Nelson Todd, S.M. 1901, died
in Leadville, Colo., on January 17, 1913.
She had been for some years supervisor
of the primary grades in the Leadville
public schools.

1903
The death is announced of Rev. Henry
Menke, D.B. '03, formerly pastor of the
Congregational Church of Cassopolis, Mo.

190S

William Avery Butcher, Ph.B. '05,
died on November 24, 191 1. He was, at
the time of his death, assistant business
manager of the Central Y.M.C.A. in
Chicago.

1910

Archer Clinton Bowen, S.B. '10, died on
January 19, 191 2, at his home in North
Adams, Mass., of cerebral meningitis.
Mr. Bowen was a teacher in the State
Normal School.

THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY

So far as the facts are known those who
have taken the Doctorate within the
last four or five quarters are located
as follows:

Warder C. Allee, '12, instructor in
biology at the University of Illinois,
Urbana, 111.

Harriett M. Allen, '11, instructor in
zoology at Vassar College, Poughkeef)sie,
N.Y.

Dice R. Anderson. '12, professor of
history and political science at Richmond
College, Virginia.

Luther L. Barnard, 'to, professor
of history and social science, University
of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Ethel E. Beers, '12, teacher of ancient
history at the Medill High School, Chi-
cago, 111.

Frank A. Bernstorflf, '11, instructor in
German, Northwestern University, Evan-
ston, 111.

Edwin S. Bishop, '11, instructor in
physics, School of Education, University
of Chicago.

Emory S. Bogardus. '11, assistant pro-
fessor of sociology and economics. Uni-
versity of Southern California, Los
Angeles, Cal.

Malvin A. Brannan, '12, professor
of biology. University of North Dakota,
Orand Forks, N.D.

Caroline M. Bieyfogle, '12, dean of
women, Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio.

Charles B. Campbell, '12, Areola, 111.

Harry J. Corper, '11, physician in
Sprague Memorial Institute, Chicago.

Willis A. Chamberlin, '09, professor

of German, Denison University, Gran-
ville, Ohio.

Edward W. Chittendon, '12, instructor
Urbana, III.

Harold C. Cooke, '12, Geological Sur-
vey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

Edmund V. Cowdry, '12, research
work, Department of Anatomy, Uni-
versity of Chicago.

Sophia H. Eckerson, '11, assistant in
plant physiology, University of Chicago.

James B. Eskridge, '12, president Okla-
homa College for Women, Chickasha, Okla.

Charles A. Fischer, '12, Columbia
University, N.Y.

Laura C. Gano, '12, Richmond, Ind.

Curvin H. Ginzrich, '12, associate
professor of astronomy and mathematics,
Carlton College, Northfield, Minn.

Thornton S. Graves, '12, University
of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

Mason D. Gray, '12, head of classical
department. East High School, Roches-
ter, N.Y.

Arthur J. Hall, '11, teacher in educa-
tion, Richardsville, Va.

Joseph W. Hayes, '11, instructor in
psychology, University of Chicago.

Stella U. Hayne, '12, Urbana, 111.

Annette B. Hopkins, '12, Goucher Col-
lege, Baltimore, Ohio.

Julius T. House, '12, head of the De-
partment of English and Sociology,
Nebraska State Normal, Wayne, Neb.

James R. Hulbeft, '12, instructor in
English, University of Chicago.

Walter S. Hunter, '12, instructor in
philosophy, University of Texas, Austin.
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Thomas A, Knott, '12, assistant pro-
fessor in English, University of Chicago.

F. G. Koch, '12, 1419 Garfield Blvd.,
Chicago, 111.

Harvey B. Lemon, '12, assistant.
Department of Physics, University of
Chicago.

Arno B. Luckhardt, '11, assistant in
physiology, University of Chicago.

Robert A. MacLean, '12, Smith's
Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Isaac G. Mathews, '12, professor of
Old Testament language and literature
in McMaster University, Toronto, Can-
ada.

Alan W. Menzies, '10, professor of
chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin,
Ohio.

Howard W. Moody, '12, department of
physics, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.

Ernst W. Parsons, '12, 152 Bartlett
Ave., Toronto, Canaida.

Paul H. Phillipson, '11, instructor in
German, University of Chicago.

Paul D. Potter, '12, 5731 Monroe Ave.,
Chicago,

Carl L. Rahn, '12, University of Minne-
sota, Minneapolis, Minn.

Homer B. Reed, '12, 878 Erie St., Ham-
mond, Ind.

Samuel N. Reep, 'it, assistant pro-
fessor of sociology. University of Minne-
sota, Minneapolis, Minn.

Frank E. Robbins, '11, University of
Chicago.

Henry B. Robins, '12, professor in
Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Cal.

Draper T. Schoonover, '07, associate
professor of Latin and Dean of Marietta
College, Marietta, Ohio.

Charles M. Sharpe, '12, assistant pro-
fessor of systematic theology, University
of Chicago.

Ralph E. Sheldon, '08, University of
Pittsburgh, Medical School, Pittsburgh,
Pa.

Alonzo R. Stark, '11, minister, Frank-
fort, Ind.

Shiro Tashiro, '12, School of Education,
University of Chicago.

Schuyler B. Terry, '10, bond salesman,
1464 Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago.

Guy A. Thompson, '12, professor of
English, University of Maine, Orono, Me.

Benjamin W. Van Riper, '12, assistant
professor of philosophy, Boston Univer-
sity, Boston, Mass.

Charles H. Vail, '12, Department of
Chemistry, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Leroy Waterman, '12, at work in
British Museum with Professor R. F.
Harper.

Leroy S. Weatherby, '11, assistant
professor of chemistry, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, Cal.

Charles E. Whitter, '12, 6141 Berlin
Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Dean R. Wickes, '12, Tung Chow
College, Pekin, China.

Russell M. Wilder, '12, 5718 Monroe
Ave., Chicago, 111.

Albert H. Wilson, '11, associate pro-
fessor of mathematics at Haverford
College, Haverford, Pa.

Carrie Wright, '12, social service, 562
Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, 111.

James R. Wright, '11, University of
the Philippines, College of Liberal Arts,
Manila, P.I.

THE DIVINITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

New addresses. —

G. W. Chessman, Ottawa, 111.

Mr. Ilsley, Capital Hill, Denver, Colo.

Mr. Martinsen, Marquette, Mich.

Mr. G. Crippen, Flint, Mich.

A. S. Cross, Oshkosh, Wis.

J. H. McLean, Port Huron, Mich.

Henry Barton Robison, 1907, is now
Dean of the Bible department and pro-
fessor of New Testament interpretation
in the Christian University at Canton,
Mo.

H, M. Garn, '08, is vice-president and

professor of the old Testament also in
the above-mentioned university.

John C. Granbery, '10, is pastor of
the Southern M.E. church and principal
of the Sandy Valley Seminary at Paints-
ville, Ky.

Franklyn Cole Sherman, pastor of
the Church of the Epiphany of Chicago,
has been called to the pastorate of St.
George's Episcopal Church of Kansas
City. Rev. Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady,
the present pastor of St. George's church,
has resigned.

UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS

Athletics. — Basketball: The Conference in the 40-yard dash and first in the 40-

games for the season were as follows: yard hurdles, and won the relay. Chicago

Jan. 17 Iowa 28- 8 did better in the field evepts, winning first

" 21 Northwestern 28-25 (at Evanston) and second in the high jump and the

" 25 Wisconsin 18-31 (at Madison) shotput, and second in the pole-vault.

.. ' ^^•'^"cf;-. ^^^^ On February 28, Chicago won from

" 14 MinneSte' ' ' ' IVl Northwestern by almost as large a score,

" 21 Purdue. ...:;: 19-28 (at Lafayette) 55 to 31. Chicago won all the places in

" 22 Ohio State 21-24 (at Columbus) the 40-yard dash, the shot-put, and the

" 26 Illinois 19-12 (at Urbana) high jump; the relay; first and second in

Mar. I Minnesota 20-16 (at Minne- the hurdles; first and third in the pole

apolis) vault; first in the 440; second in the mile;

.. ^ Wisconsin. . . . 23-10 and third in the half.

IS Uinois 21x6 The team at present consists practically

The standing of the Conference teams of Captain Kuh in the hurdles, Ward in

at that time was as follows: the hurdles and dash. Knight in the dash.

Won Lost Pctge- Matthews in the dash and the 440,

Wisconsin 11 i .916 Campbell in the mile, Thomas in the

Northwestern 7 2 .777 vault, Norgren in the shot, and the high

Chicago 8 4 .667 jump, Des Jardien in the high jump and

^"T^"V: 6 5 .545 shot, and Parker in the dash, high jump,

Illinois t 6 IT^ and shot. Staines, Duncan, and Goodwin

Minnesota...... 2 7 [222 ^^^ '"• Matthews ran better against

Iowa I 4 [200 Northwestern than he has ever done

Indiana i 5 .167 before, and may do fairly well out-doors.

Much the most brilliant game of the ^^'^""^ '» a good man, quite as good as

season was the victory over Wisconsin on f*-""- ^"o ran out-doors in sixteen flat

March 7— the first defeat for Wisconsin '^.st year. Campbell is good also; he

in 28 straight games, running over three should run close to 4:30 out-doors,

seasons. The game was won largely by Norgren is doing a little over forty feet

eCfective guarding. In the first half ^'th the shot, Thomas about 1 1-6 in the

Wisconsin had no shot at the basket from ^^^'^ and Cox 5-8 in the high jump,

nearer than thirty feet, the half ending ^"^ the team as a whole is weak, and in

13-1 in Chicago's favor. In the second \^f distance runs, except for Campbell,

half Wisconsin's three goals were due to a '*• '^ ^^T weak,
very natural let-up on Chicago's part, the

game having been put out of danger. Swimmms.— Chicago has been twice
Baumgardner, of whom good things were defeated in swimming this winter, by
prophesied in the January issue, played Wisconsin, 45-13, on February 15, and
his first full game, and better guarding oy Northwestern on February 22. A
than his has seldom been seen. Molander '"^t has been arranged with Yale on
played the only really good game he has March 21. As Yale is the eastern inter-
put up this year. Des Jardiens, Vru- collegiate champion, Chicago's chances of
wink, and Norgren as usual outplayed winning may be adequately expressed by
their opponents. the minus sign. If the back and breast

stroke events are included in the program,

Track. — Illinois defeated Chicago in however, Chicago may make some

the meet at Urbana on February 15, by showing, as the Yale men lack practice in

the huge score of 59 to 27. Campbell those types of swimming,
was second in the mile, and but for an

accident would probably have won. General. — Thirty-five members of the

Aside from this Illinois secured every Glee Club with Director Stevens and

point in all the runs from the 440 to the Harold G. Moulton, instructor in political

two-mile. She took also first and second economy, left on March 14 for a trip to

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the Pacific Coast. Examinations for the
winter quarter were given the men en
route. The club will return the day
before the opening of the spring quarter.

At the annual election of the Reynolds
Club, held on March 7, George D.
Parkinson was elected president over
William H. Lyman, the vote being 379
to 107. Parkinson opposed the plan to
reduce dues to $1 . 00 a quarter, by making
the dues a part of the university bills for
all undergraduate men each quarter, and
so practically making membership in the
Club compulsory. This was the most
definite issue that has come before the
Club in years, and the fight at election
was very warm. Other officers chosen
were as follows :

Vice-president, Milton Morse
Secretary, Samuel E. Wells
Treasurer, Robert Miller
Librarian, Cowan Stephenson

The first issue of the Chicago Literary
Monthly, the undergraduate literary
magazine, appeared on March 15.
Donald Breed, '13, is managing editor,
Myra Reynolds, '13, Roderick Peattie,
'14, and Frank O'Hara, '15, are assistant
editors. The business manager is
William Hefiferan, '14, and his assistant
William H. Lyman, '14. Contributors to
the first issue included Donald Breed,
'13, Elizabeth Jenkins, '12, Barrett
Clark, '12, Myra Reynolds, '13, Samuel
Kaplan, '14, Stevens Tolman, '14, and
Sanford Griffith, '14. The magazine at
present consists of 32 pages, and is
published at Freeport, 111.

The annual play of the Women's
Athletic Association was given to a
packed house in Mandel Hall on Satur-
day, March 8 — Campus Follies. It was
a vaudeville of eight numbers, mostly
burlesques; as usual, written, acted, and
managed entirely by women.

ADDRESSES WANTED

Information should be sent to Frank W. Dignan, Secretary. See page 139 of
this issue.

ALUMNI

1866
William W. Paris

1867
Henry W. Martin

1868
Charles Emil Richard Mueller
William E. Parsons
Joseph P. Phillips
John Fisher Wilson

1869
Charles S. Moss

1870
Cyrus A. Barker

1871
Ellis S. Chesbrough

1872
Clarence Albert Beverly
Henry Franklin Gilbert
Edward F. Smith

1873
Cornelius Wm. Gregory
Oliver Clinton Weller
Newton Calvin Wheeler

187s
B. Boganan
Jonathan Staley

1877
Perry Edw. Baird
William Wallace Cole, Jr.

1878
Cyrus Benj. Allen, Jr.
John R. Windes

1879
William Harvey Adams
Edward Benj. Esher

1882
James Vincent Coombs
Andrew Malmsten
Robert Charles Roy

1884
Saum Song'Bo

1886
August G. Anderson
Leonard R. Banks
Geo. F. Holloway

ALUMNAE

1880
Lucy Waite (Mrs. Byron Robinson)

1882
Alice Mary Northrup (Mrs. Benj. F.
Simpson)

1893
Rizpah Margaret Gilbert (Mrs. R. M. G.
Smith)

1894
Mary Lucretia Daniels
Lulu McCafferty
Elizabeth Porter

1895

Lucy Celeste Daniles (Mrs. J. David
Thompson)

1896

Edith M. Brace

Edith Earle

Mabel Earle

Frances Inez Hopkins (Mrs. Jos. R.
Downey)

Mary Laura Hubbard

Mary D. Maynard (Mrs. W. E. Chal-
mers)

1897
Hannah Matilda Anderson
Agnes May Browne
Marion Vernon Cosgrove (Mrs. Thos. E.

Wilson)
Vinnie Crandall (Mrs. Hervay B. Hicks)
Marietta Josephine Edmand (Mrs.

Fred'k P. Noble)
Carolyn Ladd Moss (Mrs. Jos. Reed)
Alice Robson

1898
Etta Fulcomer Beach (Mrs. F. B.

Winter)
Louisa Carpenter De Cew
Lillian Rosaline Goldsmith
Mary Louise Hannan
Mary Fiske Heap
Rose MacNeal
Sarah Nicoll Osborne'
Catherine Dix Paddock (Mrs. Wm. Flint

Baker)
Nelette Elida Pettet (Mrs. D. W.

Howard)

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ALUMNI — Continued

1893
Carl Hasselblad
John Heden
Ove Laurits Horen
Louis Bogart Joralman -
Herbert Manchester

1894
Philip Jackson Dickerson
George Home
Charles Sproull Thompson

1895
John Benj. Dorman
Herbert Wright Fox
Thomas William Moran
Frederich Oscar Schnelle
John William Williams

1896
William Eugene Bosworth
Arthur D. Dunn
Roy Cyrus Garver
Frederick W. C. Hayes
Adrian Carr Honore
Gustave Henry Lowenstein

1897
John Tyler Campbell
Julius Curtis Greenbaum
Elmer Ellsworth Hatch
Herbert Ray Jordan
John Howard Moore
Frederick Day Nichols
James Edward Tuthill
John Franklin Zimmerman

1898
Horace Butterworth
Knight French Flanders
Charles Albert Frederick
Frank Henry Harms
Charles Leo Hunley
Isaac Barney Hyman
John Harris Kelley
Henry Lavergne McGee
Ivan Calvin Waterbury
Hartwell William Webb
Charles Alexander Young

1899
Abraham Alcon Ettleson
Oscar Geo. Fischer
William Henry Glascock
Victor E. Hedberg
Henry Ward Hoover
Gordon Beverly Moore
Sidney Carleton Newson
Van Sumner Pearce
Frederick Bradley Thomas
Charles Francis Yoder

ALUMNAE— C<Jw^w?<erf
1899
Edna Bevans (Mrs. Fred R. Tracy)
Roberta Ironie Bortherton (Mrs. R. M.

Young)
Helen Rowe Colman
Charlotte Aurie Farnham
Jessamine Blanche Hutchinson (Mrs.

Wm. C. Beer)
Lillian Jane Leech
Minnie Lester (Mrs. O. F. Braums)
Cornelia Stewart Osborne
Martha Binford Railsback (Mrs. Jas. E,

Warner)
Mary Blanche Simmons

1900
Lillian Carroll Banks
Anna Poole Beardsley
Lucy Eleanor Chambers
Josephine Catherine Doniat
Dora Johnson
Sarah Frances Lindsay
Mary Chapman Moore (Mrs. John Paul

Ritchey)
Myra Hartshorn Strawn
Katharine A. Waugh (Mrs. Cloyd Moore)
Clara Morton Welch (Mrs. Wm. Green)

1901
Helen Emily Adams
Nellie May Griggs (Mrs. W. D. Van

Voorhis)
Annebelle Ross
Ruth Vail

1902

Mrs. Allen

Bijou Babb (Mrs. Fred T. Parker)

Rae Casena Baldwin

Ola Bowman (Mrs. N. M. Raymond)

Grace Jean Clifford (Mrs. Smith)

Abigail Wells Cowley

Hilda Mildred French (Mrs. Herrick)

Annie Mcintosh Hardie

Aurelia Koch

Genevieve Antoinnette Monsch

Mildred Blanche Richardson (Mrs.

Beale)
Edith Shaffer (Mrs. Frederick Lass)
Marcia Olive Smith
Josephine Frances Stone
Mary E. Tierney (Mrs. John Kinsey)

1903
Winifred Mayer Ashby
Edith Ella Bickell (Mrs. -
Ella M. Donnely (Mrs. John T. Bunting,

Jr.)
Anne Elizabeth Floyd (Mrs. Channing

W. Gilson)
Jennie E. Hall (Mrs. Harold M. Barnes)

ADDRESSES WANTED

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ALVMNl— Continued

1900
Lindley Willett Allen
Samuel C. Clark
Aaron Cohn
Frank Cobum Dickey
Charles Henry Hurd
John Paul Ritchey
Charles Byron Williams

1901
Frank Perkins Barker
Horace Vanden Bogert
John Raymond Carr
Forest Simpson Cartwright
Henry John Jokisch
Euphan Washington Macrae
Ward Magoon Mills
Arthur Hornbrook Reynolds

1902
Henry William Beifield
Joseph Beifus
Alonzo Hertzel Brown
Norman Moore Chi vers
Cad John Emil Eckcrman
Elbert Alpheus Harvey
Lewis Ransom Meadows
Aubrey Percy Nelson
Carl Dean Thompson

1903
Jesse Anderson
Emil Gideon Benlall
Maurice Buchsbaum
George Cleaver
David Corbin
Harry Albert Evans
William Haines Fielding
Walter Edw. Francis
William Herman Haas
Frithiof Vilhelm Hcdeen
Matthew Karasek
John Samuel Kenyon
John Maclear
John Woods Marchildren
Ira David Steele
Edwin Elbert Thompson
Clinton Benj. Whitmoyer

1904
Lloyd Clark Ayres
Ernest Everett Ball
Joseph Stuart Caldwell
Benjamin Franklin Condray
Eyer Absalom Cornelius
Albert Averell English
John Ross Garger
Eugene Lawrence Hartigan
William Henry Hatfield, Jr.
Frank Bradshawe Hitchinson, Jr.
Gustave Adolph Johnson

ALUMNAE— Continued

Julia Elizabeth Loring
Nancy Marie Miller
Mary Mabel Pain
Harriet Gertrude Pierce
Beulah May Reed
Launa Darnell Rice (Mrs.)
Flounce Belle Shields
Helen Gertrude Shields
1904
Margaret Reardon Bacon (Mrs.)
Caroline Elizabeth Blanchard (Mrs.

Lewis Fuldner)
Mary Cornell Bristol
Jessie Lincoln Brumsey
Catharine Clifford
P'rancesca Beatrice Colby (Mrs. John

LeMoyn Stafford)
Fannie Fisch
Pearl Leroy Foucht
Mary Richards Gray
Ethel Jaynes
Mary Patricia McEvoy
Winifred McGugin
Haltie May Palmer
Ethel Claire Randall
Genevieve Sis.son
Frieda Viola Solomon
Josctte Eugenic S|)ink
Mary Virginia Stanford (Mrs. (i.

Stanforcl)
Ethel Walmslcy

1 90s
Florence Nettie Beers (Mrs. Normal

Palmer)
Rose Amelia Buhlig
Beulah Emeline Church
Edwina Louella Dorland (Mrs. Edmund

Pearsons Cobb)
Evaline Pearl Dowling
Abbie Naomi Fletcher
Wilhelmine Joehnkc
Edna Lisle Martin (Mrs. Thos. D.

Coppenk)
Cecile Morse Palmer
Bertha Eliz. Pierce
Rosalie Stern

1906
Lucy Anne Arthur
Florence May Bush (Mrs. Walter Gore

Mitchell)
Frances Carver
Emily Bancroft Cox
Carrie Pierpont Curtens (Mrs. J. Napier

Wallace)
Katherine Marie Fennessy
Alice Janet Frank
Gladys Eliz. Gaylord
Laura Evelyn Gibbons

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ALUMNI — Continued

Albert Lincoln Jones
James Garfield Lemon
William Woodrow Martin
Thomas Jones Meek
Fred Paige Pritchard
Louis William Rapeer
Harry Fletcher Scott

1905
Joseph Bailey Campbell
Arthur Wesley Crane
Robert Emmett Doherty
Leonard Ephriam Gyllenhaal
Harry Booth Hazen
Herman Gustavus Heil
Erik Johan Helstrom
Ivar Hatias Hokland
Frederick Homstein
Allen Perry Johnston
Charles A. Kirtley
Shirley Stevens McDonald
Charles Morgan McKenna
Adolph John Olson
Andrew Peter Peterson
Edmund Lennon Quinn
Edward Daniel Roseen
David Rosenbaum
Henry Gerald Steans

1906
James Mace Andress
Benj. Spafford Barnes
Robert Fry Clark
Roy Francis Beaty Davis
Louis Harry Frank
Alfred William Garner
John Wesley Henninger
Magnus Berntsen Holmes
John Hamilton Korns
Louis Friberg Levenson
Meyer Mitchnick
Albertus B. Pope
Edw. Palmer Pillans
Theoron Torrance Phelps
Waldemar Edw. Paulsen
Randall Adams Rowley
Orlando Franke Scott
Otto William Staib
Forbes Bagley Wiley
Rollin Turner Woodyatt
Lagene Lavassa Wright
Orie Chris Yoder
Joachim Phineus Eelitch Yousephoff

1907
Henry Eastman Bennett
William Edington Boyd
George Rex Clarke
George Bernard Cohen
George Mellville Crabb

k'LVM.'i^AE— Continued

Ada Hawes

Emily Belle Johnston

Marion Ruth Kellogg

Catherine Mary Kelly

Mary Margaret Lee

Mary Luella Lowrey

Clara Shaw Martin (Mrs.)

Eliz. Watson McClure

Meta Mierswa

Jeannette Brown Obenchain

Muriel Schenkenberg (Mrs. Frank W.

Allen)
Clara Shaw

Edith Mary Wilcox (Mrs. Spaulding)

Maude Josephine Wilcox
Margaret Hoyt Young

1907
Ruth Bergmann
Eliz. Shelley Bogan
Mary Madeline Carlock
Bessie Marie Carroll (Mrs. S. A. Winsor)
Anna Lou Chamberlain
Mary Stevens Compton (Mrs.)
Margaret Eliz. Durward
Anna Ford
Jessica Foster
May Eliz. Fralick
Bertha Heimer Gelders (Mrs. Von

Marie)
Vernette Lois Gibbons
Clara Beatrice Jophes
Jean Edith MacKellar
Meta Clementine Mannhardt
Helen Dorothea Miller
Lenerl Pansie Morehouse (Mrs. Arthur D.

Howard)
Lila Kemble Morris
Daisy May Mosher
Frances Montgomery (Mrs. Geo. Thos.

Shay)
Katherine Alice Nichols
Tetta Scheftel

Caroline Pauline Barbara Schoch
Beatrice Shaffner
Ethel May Shandrew
Alice Harriet Smith
Agnes Rodatz Snitjer (Mrs. Michael

Albertus Snitjer)
Lilian Olive Sprague
Rosamond Mayo Tower
Alice Eliz. Vincent
Bernice May Warren

1908
Stella Austrip Anderson (Mrs. John H.

Hill)
Jessie Eliz. Black
Mary Eleanor Carr
Beatrice Cochrane

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Volume V APRIL IQIS Number 6

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

In December, 191 1, when the present board took charge of the
alumni Magazine, the first editorial comment expressed the feeling of
many alumni that we should have representation on the
th u ■ tv ^o^""^ ^^ Trustees. That feeling grows stronger and
stronger, and arguments against it more and more rapidly
lose their force. Such representation is not needed by the alumni: it is
needed by the University. No one doubts that the present Board of
Trustees is conducting the affairs of the University, commonly speaking,
exactly as they should be conducted. The members of the Board every
one are men of judgment and devotion, who undertake the task laid upon
them in a spirit of loyalty to the highest ideals. Whether any alumnus
could as an individual add strength to the Board is not the question.
Whether even his knowledge of conditions, gained through four years of
experience, could serve the Board, is not the question. The question is:
Can the University afford not to recognize formally and make use of the
devotion and judgment, whatever they may be, of its alumni ? The theory
of a democracy is that responsibility develops power. The University
has never thrown any responsibility upon its alumni. It gives, gives; it
never has asked, except for money: even that it has looked for only to
individuals. One solitary alumnus, save those on the faculty and in the
offices, is serving the University in any advisory capacity. One: count
him : one. What, for instance, do our young doctors know about the situ-
ation here in medicine ? when have they been called in to consult upon
it ? Behind the letters printed in the Magazine recently, on the lack of
cordial fellowship between students and instructors here, is really another
feeling — that of a lack of fellowship between the University as a whole
and its alumni. The individual hand-clasp is warm, but, so the alumni

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feel, the corporate eye is cold and averted. Of the subscribers to the
Magazine a considerably larger number proportionately are Doctors of
Philosophy than Bachelors. What does that mean — that the Doctors
of Philosophy tak6 a heartier interest in the University than the under-
graduates do ? Or that the Bachelors feel somehow, instinctively, that a
greater interest is felt by the University as a corporate body in the
Doctors of Philosophy than in them ? Anyone who feels this is wrong ;
we here in the quadrangles know he is wrong; but how is he to know
he is wrong ? Why should he accept our statements ? What he sees is
this: a university completing twenty-one years of active life, and in an
advisory capacity employing one of its graduates. Count him: one.

The Spring Convocation has become the family convocation — the

occasion upon which one of our own faculty speaks to us. This year the

speaker was Professor James Hayden Tufts, of whom the
The Orator . in-,

. Annual Register says:

Spring ^•^- Amherst, 1884; D.B. Yale, 1889; Instructor in mathe-

Convocation matics, Amherst, 1885-7; A.M. Amherst, 1890; Instructor in philos-
ophy, University of Michigan, 1889-91; Ph.D. Freiburg, 1892
Assistant professor of philosophy, Chicago, 1892-94; Associate professor, 1894-1900
LL.D. Amherst, 1904; Dean of the Senior Colleges, Chicago, 1899-1904, 1907-8
Professor of philosophy, 1900^; Head of the Department of Philosophy, 1905 —
President Western Philosophical Association, 1906.

So much for the cold type, but who that has, as the phrase goes, "sat
under" Professor Tufts at any time in his twenty years of service here
can think it does him justice ? It leaves out his smile, like Browning's
sun over the headland, with its need of a world of men; it leaves out his
rumbling, apologetic laugh; it only hints at the fineness of his mind, not
like a razor sharp for division but like a field wonderful for growth; it
does not even hint at the quality of his friendliness to all the good in man-
kind. That his address, elsewhere published in this issue, should be on
the advance of justice, is not strange. Dewey and Tufts' Ethics was the
first textbook in the subject to discuss with any fulness social ethics, as
a part of individual ethics. But personally we have always associated
Professor Tufts less with justice, perhaps, than with mercy. There is a
sentence by Mr. Howells in A Boy's Town, which Brand Whitlock has
recently quoted in the American Magazine, but which we long ago read,
and thought of Mr. Tufts' course in ethics while we read it:

In fact, it seems best to be very careful how we try to do justice in this world, and
mostly to leave retribution to God, who really knows about things; and content
ourselves as much as possible with mercy, whose mistakes are not so irreparable.

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION i8i

The news has been widely spread by the daily papers that Michigan
has applied for membership once more in the Conference. This is

hardly accurate. It is true that at a meeting on March 22
the Co f e c ^^ ^^^ Board in Control of Athletics, that board by a vote

of 6 to 5 recommended action by the Board of Regents
which would result in greater faculty control of athletics, and that,
following such action, application for membership in the Conference was
recommended, provided the boycott rule be repealed. As yet the Board of
Regents has not acted. If it sustains the vote of the Board in Control,
Michigan's application will come before the Conference at its June
meeting. If it does so come, what will happen ?

What is this "boycott rule" which must first be rescinded by the
Conference before Michigan will apply for membership ?

No member of the Conference shall maintain athletic relations with an institution
which has been a member of the Conference and has withdrawn therefrom, or being
now or hereafter a member shall withdraw therefrom, until such institution has
been reinstated.

In other words, no member of the Conference shall maintain athletic
relationship with an institution which for reasons which may seem good
to it shall refuse to abide by rules which it has once accepted, or which
the body which it has chosen to belong to shall adopt. Rescind this
rule, and if Chicago decides to make laws of her own which conflict with
Conference regulations, she can do so without penalty; so can Purdue;
so can Michigan. But why was the Conference formed? To keep
western athletics in a healthy condition. It adopts no regulations save
to that end. And if its regulations may be defied by influential insti-
tutions without penalty, where is its influence ? This is as plain as — it
was to whomever proposed that particular rider to the resolution adopted
by Michigan's Board. There can be little doubt that the resolution of
March 22 was never really meant for final action. It is hardly even a
feeler. It is for alumni consumption; it is only a political concession.
The pressure which has been put upon the Board in Control by alumni,
even by students, to rejoin the Conference, has been great. Read their
letters and speeches in the Michigan Alumnus! But there is a certain
strong group among the alumni which objects to Conference regulations.
It is this group which approaches the Conference with the recent singular
resolution. One wonders what the regents, faculty, alumni of Michigan
think of the extraordinary role which that university has now been
suddenly asked to play — the Tony Lumpkin of an athletic farce !

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Meanwhile, what of athletics at Chicago ? The most important

matter in this connection is Mr. Stagg's decision not to return for the

Spring Quarter. After three months in the South he

r, ' f came back to Chicago late in March, brown and appar-

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ently vigorous, but not yet free from the nervous diffi-
culties that had driven him away. Consultation with physicians
determined him to give up three months more to outdoor life; by that
time he expects to be entirely recovered. He has gone to Colorado,
where he will ride horseback and climb mountains. The scornful news-
paper correspondents who in February informed this Magazine of its
profound ignorance concerning the state of Mr. Stagg's health are
invited to take notice of this turn of affairs. Meanwhile the baseball and
track teams will be in charge of Mr. Page, assisted by Mr. Comstock ; to
both of whom the alumni extend their heartiest good wishes.

Among those from other institutions who will offer courses this
summer at Chicago are the following : Oskar Bolza, professor of mathe-
matics at Chicago from 1892 to 190 1, since then honorary

_ professor of mathematics at Freiburg, Germany; J. F.

Royster, Ph.D. '07, now professor of English in the
University of North Carolina; John Broadus Watson, Ph.D. '03, now
professor of psychology in Johns Hopkins University; Milton A.
Buchanan, Ph.D. '06, now associate professor of Spanish and Italian in
the University of Toronto; Roy C. Flickinger, Ph.D. '04, now associate
professor of Greek in Northwestern University; and Harry Alvin Millis,
Ph.D. '99, now associate professor of economics in Leland Stanford
Junior University. Others are Professor Sill of Cornell, Professor Carl
Becker of Kansas, and Professor Labane of Washington and Lee
(history); Professor Bergerhoff of Western Reserve (French), Professor
Fletcher of Brigham Young University and Professor Newland F.
Smith of Central University of Kentucky (physics) ; Professor McCurdy
of Toronto (oriental literature) ; Professor Trever of Lawrence (Greek) ;
Associate Professor Carl Young of Wisconsin (English), and Associate
Professor Zorn of Amherst and Assistant Professor Burkhead of Min-
nesota (German).

Attractive courses among the hundreds announced are too numerous
even for mention. In Philosophy, Professor Moore on "Philosophical
Aspects of Evolution " and Professor Tufts on the " Evolution of Justice "
(a phase of which is discussed in his Convocation address in this issue) ;
in Psychology, Professor Angell on "The Psychology of Volition"; in

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Pblitical Economy, Mr. Field on "Population, The Standard of Living,
and Eugenics"; in History, Professor Labane on "The Growth of the
United States as a World Power"; in Household Administration, Miss
Breckinridge on "The Child and the State"; in Italian, Associate Pro-
fessor Wilkins on "Dante's Inferno"; in German, Professor Zorn on
"The History of the German Drama in the Nineteenth Century"; in
English, Professor Lovett on "Milton"; and in Physical Culture, Mr.
Page on " Baseball ; Methods of Coaching Illustrated by Practice and
Match Games" — these, outside of the technical courses in the sciences,
catch the eye of the editor as he runs over the long program. But why
attempt to specify ? The quarter opens on June 17; the first term ends
July 23, and the quarter, August 29.

The University Opera Association was formed in December, IQ12, in
order to take advantage of special rates which were offered by the

Chicago Grand Opera Company. These rates repre-
University sented a reduction in price of $3.00 to $2.00, $2.50 to
. . ^ Si. 50, and $1.50 to $0.75. That the generosity of the

Chicago Grand Opera Company was appreciated is shown
by the fact that at the close of the season the Association had 532 mem-
bers. The total number of coup>ons issued were as follows: 908 at
75 cents, ?3o at $1.50, and 194 at $2.00, a total of 1,332. Of these,
181 were redeemed by the Association. The most popular opera with
the University public was Lucia, for which 116 tickets were sold for one
performance. The next in popularity was Tristan and Isolde, with 105
tickets for one performance; third, La Traviata with 82 for one per-
formance; fourth. Die Walkure with 132 for three performances; fifth,
Rigoletto with 82 for two performances.

The plan of issuing tickets presented by the Chicago Grand Opera
Company involved considerable inconvenience to the University public,
inasmuch as holders of coupons, giving the right to reduced rates, were
obliged to make a special trip to the city to turn such coupons in at the box
office. In many cases it appeared that the block of seats to which the
reduction applied had been sold out. Moreover, the management of
the box office at the Auditorium Theater was apparently not in complete
sympathy with the attitude of the Chicago Grand Opera Company
toward the University public, and for performances for which the house
would naturally be sold out, holders were sometimes refused tickets.
The plan for next year includes the issuing of season tickets to members
of the Association, and also contemplates the placing of limited blocks

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of seats for each performance in the hands of the Association. This
plan will make it possible for members to obtain tickets without the
journey to the city. On the other hand, it is obvious that the Association
will not be able to provide the full number of seats desired for the most
popular performances.

During the year the Association collected from the sale of coupons
and membership fees the sum of $1,501.75. After the payment of all
expenses, a balance of $174.71 remains in the treasury.

When the present writer, nineteen years ago this week, asked the
conductor of the Fifty-fifth Street cable-car, as it swung round from
. . Cottage Grove Avenue, where the University of Chicago

Men with was, the official replied that he had never heard of it; but

Municipal a kindly passenger said, as we approached Ellis Avenue,

Interests "There it is," and pointed out the Home for Incurables.

That veteran jest has seen much service since; but even the
street-car conductors know where the University is now. Looking over
the latest list of committees of the City Club, one is both surprised and
pleased to see how^ this University, with its comparatively brief list of
alumni, is finding expression of its social ideals through the interest of
its graduates.

On the 15th of March appeared the first number of the Chicago
Literary Monthly. The salutatory editorial declares, in part:

The material which [the Literary Monthly] will print will be
An Undergrad- entirely by Chicago students. It will deal, in many cases, with
uate Literary Chicago scenes and Chicago life. It had long been felt that a certain
Magazine type of writing is being done by the Chicago undergraduates, which

should be sharply differentiated from the creative work done at the
American colleges. There is less of the "flowers, the birds, and the running brooks."
There is more of the "stern realities of life," and particularly of cosmopolitan city life.

And as an example of this characteristic work is given "A Study in
Gray," by Samuel Kaplan, '14— a bit from the daily routine of Mrs.
Lefkowitz, overworked Jewish wife and mother. Myra Reynolds, '13,
niece of Professor Myra Reynolds, has a story entitled "Unto the Third
and Fourth Generation" — a study of grim lives that end in madness.
Donald Breed, '13, the editor-in-chief, contributes "The Stranger" — a
fantasy containing both realism and mysticism, a type of which Mr.
Breed is very fond, and which is otherwise illustrated by his " Pageant of
Progress," printed in the June issue of the alumni Magazine last year.

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Other articles are critical: "The Plays of the Season, " by Barrett Clark,
'12, and "The Extremists in Modern Art," by Sanford Griffith, '14 —
both excellent.

Not since the merger of the University of Chicago Weekly with the
Daily Maroon, eight years ago, has there been any publication at the
University which gave opportunity to undergraduates who wished to
express themselves in pure literature. The present magazine is unpre-
tentious, but earnest. May it succeed! The subscription price is one
dollar a year. Subscriptions should be sent to William Hefferan,
Faculty Exchange, University of Chicago.

The arrangements for Alumni Day this year are in the hands of the
College Alumni Association, and the responsibility for the preparations
has been divided among various individual members as
Alumni follows: Ralph C. Hamill, Chairman; John F. Moulds,

Arrangements; Hugo M. Friend, Finance; John F.
Dille, Publicity; Charles W. Paltzer, Vaudeville; and William P.
MacCracken, Jr., Sing.

A circular communication will be sent out shortly to alumni and an
account of the plans for the day will be printed in the next number of
the Magazine. All alumni are earnestly urged to give their support in
this matter. There is no more important element in the building up
of a strong alumni sentiment than this annual gathering of former
students at the close of the academic year.

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE
ADVANCE OF JUSTICE'

BY JAMES HAYDEN TUFTS
Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy

Five thousand years ago, we are informed by our colleague who is
learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, the word for truth, right,
justice emerged. It was the earliest abstract term discernible in the
ancient world. Its earlier occurrence is largely in claims for merit before
the gods. But a thousand years later, the same shift in emphasis had
taken place which marks our century as compared with the Middle Ages.
The demand was then to reform conditions rather than to justify the soul.
The appeal of the wronged peasant comes down to us as the first of many
rising through the ages, invoking a higher power when in the cor-
rupted currents of this world offense's gilded hand has shoved by
justice. "Do justice," cries the wronged peasant, "for the sake of
the lord of justice. For justice is for eternity."

It may be doubted whether any of the words since framed to express
human values takes so strong a hold as "justice." It embodies the claim
of personality, of the aspirations and expanding life of the human spirit.
In disclosing the rights of each as the concern of all it bears constant
testimony to the essentially social nature of man's higher development.
Denial of justice stings because it is virtually a denial of humanity. He
who has no rights is not a person but a thing. The history of justice is
then the history of the emerging one by one of higher and more social
powers — Ufe, property, liberty of thought and speech, education — and of
the recognition and protection of these by society. It is the history of
various standards or balances for measuring these claims — custom, the
decrees of rulers and assembUes, the will of God, the rule of reason. It
is the history of various agencies for holding the balances — religion,
philosophy, government, and, I venture to add, the university.

Did time permit, it would be instructive to trace in outHne the
successive types which have stood out in the more direct lines of our own
spiritual ancestry. We should see the justice of the kinship group
insuring every member his share of food, allotting him his wife and his

' Delivered on the occasion of the Eighty-sixth Convocation of the University,
held in the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, March i8, 1913.

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place by the hearth, protecting him against violence by its law of blood-
revenge, measuring its dooms by ancient custom, enforcing its most
sacred interests by taboos. In transfigured form this tribal justice pleads
the cause of the poor through Israel's prophets; through the symbol of
the next-of-kin or Redeemer it appears in the divine judge wha is also
the protector, and thus passes over into the conceptions of Christendom.

We should see again the justice of the city, based not on unity of kin
but on the class groups of citizens, traders or artisans, and slaves.
Justice will first of all mean giving each class its place. Industry and
commerce have made possible greater wealth; private property gains
larger recognition and protection. Household and family are more
firmly organized; they Ukewise gain new powers and obligations. The
measure of justice changes from custom and taboo to the will of the ruler
or the decision of the assembly, and although this latter may condemn a
Socrates it means, on the whole, discussion and advance. When indeed
the clash of private interests and the tyranny of the one or the few or the
many become too great for easy endurance, the search for a deeper basis
leads to two conceptions which have proved a possession forever of our
civilization. On the one hand rises Plato's vision of a city where classes
shall at least be based on merit, where intelligence shall rule, and the
larger public good dominate all priv^ate interests in a harmonious order.
On the other rises the conception of claims so deeply rooted in human
nature, yes even in the order of the universe itself, as to deserve the claim
of laws of nature. These are found not in the urge of passion or desire,
nor yet in blind habit or tradition, but rather in the reflective search of
reason for principles of order and right living, for what is equitable and
good. If the vision of Plato has taken its place with that of the prophets
of Israel as the inspiration of those who have repeatedly challenged the
existing order, the standard of Aristotle and the Stoics has proved its
mastery in successive legal systems, from that of Rome to that of the
United States. Especially when the city-state of Rome expanded to an
empire did this conception of a law of nature evince its fitness to widen
the law of a city to the law of a world. The idea of a justice uni\ersal
in its principles and its sway came to clearer consciousness. If slavery
was justified by the law of reason, it was none the less true that the same
law would one day be invoked to resist the monarch and defend the
liberties of the subject.

Our first glimpses of justice in the land where our institutions were
built are once more of a world of customs and blood-revenge. The sword
of justice is raised above its scales. Our forefathers, British, English, or

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Norse, had their virtues, but a modern observer of one of their courts,
says the learned historian of Enghsh law, might " think that for a long
time before and some time after the Norman conquest our ancestors
occupied such leisure as they had in cattle-steaHng by night and man-
slaughter and perjury by day." Piracy, tempered by the slave trade,
was a common pursuit. In heaven, likewise, the divine sovereign sat
to rule a world of largely hostile subjects, and conducted a vast assize
in which the great mass were to be found guilty and condemned. The
first business of justice was then to put down violence and maintain order.

But when order had been established and the modern world gradually
found itself, it saw a new unfolding of individual powers and a higher
worth given to individual claims than the ancient world allowed. Com-
merce, invention, and discovery gave new opportunity. Art and letters
reflected the new spirit and in turn gave it imagery and power. A more
inward and personal religion demanded liberty in what had of old been
fixed by birth or state. The subject who had been given protection for
life and property against all but the government gradually won the
guaranties of civil liberty. The common law established by a Henry
proved a defense against a Stuart. As a witty historian has recently
said, its valiant champion. Sir Edward Coke, even invented Magna
Carta in this cause. And finally the right of men, not merely to pro-
tection against the government, but themselves to choose and depose
their rulers and even to make their laws, was achieved.

It was not strange that, as the result of these centuries of develop-
ment and struggle, liberty and equahty were the notes that sounded
deepest in the chord of justice. To these, men were ready to pledge their
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. These rights they believed
to be "natural" and God-given, based deeper and sanctioned by higher
authority than any human powers or statutes. Due process of law was
the agency for their defense.

Even so hasty a glance has at least shown that justice takes many
forms, ranging from the emphasis upon social classes to the insistence
upon equality, from the conception of a harmonious city life as para-
mount, to the doctrine that governments exist to protect private liberty
and private property. It has shown custom give place to decrees of
rulers and these to acts of popular assemblies as standards. Even the
rule of reason, which, to philosophers at least, has often seemed changeless
and eternal, we should find, could we examine it in detail, varying with
the habits of thought, the philosophies, and the prejudices of the times,
and beset by the idols of the tribe, the den, the market, and the theater.

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• We are prepared, then, to find the conditions of the present disclosing
to us new human values and calling for new agencies to aid in their
measuring and protection. The external conditions are famiUar — the
machine in industry, the collective and impersonal organization of
capital and labor, the change to city life. Under all these, only half
realized as yet, is the closer interweaving of all our interests, the deepen-
ing interdependence of all our lives.

As we become more and more aware of this, as our means for com-
munication increase, as public opinion and public sentiment become
greater powers, we are forming a social consciousness. We are seeking,
even if somewhat blindly and uncertainly, a "social" justice. No one
can pretend to state as yet just what the standards and demands of this
new justice are. One characteristic is that it is open, experimental.
Like the old justice, it must protect all members of society — even the
least — from violence and fraud, but it seeks to distribute more fairly the
burdens and gains; it would keep open the way of opportunity. But
above all perhaps is its conviction that society by taking thought can
move on to a new level; that no longer living from hand to mouth, no
longer groping, or blundering by trial and error, men may through the
new science and the new spirit achieve what has been impractical before.
All these demands of the time indicate, I believe, the need of the univer-
sity as an agency of justice — a need to which it is already beginning in
numerous ways to respond.

Let us begin with our attitude toward the old dangers which threaten
the old familiar values — that is, the crimes against person and projierty.
I do not intend to repeat indictments against the criminal procedure of
the courts, or against our penal institutions. These criticisms usually
assume the necessity and adequacy of these institutions if efficiently
carried on. A more fundamental question is persistently forcing itself
upon us : Is our whole machinery of criminal justice anything more than
a superficial effort to deal with certain symptoms ? Even if it does not
— as some believe — make more criminals than it reforms, so much at least
is evident: it does not stop the supply; crime continues with little if any
decrease. This certainly compels the query whether something more
adequate cannot be provided. Our ideas and agencies of criminal
procedure derive mainly from the primitive days. Reliance was long
almost wholly upon terror. More than two hundred varieties of crime,
we are told, came to bear the death penalty. So helpless was the pro-
fessional mind of a century ago to conceive any better form of security,
that when it was proposed to abolish the death penalty for thefts of

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articles exceeding in value forty shillings, Chief Justice Ellenborough
declared: "The learned judges are unanimous^ in their opinion that
justice and the public safety require that the death penalty should not

be remitted If we suffer this bill to pass we shall not know where

we are, and whether we are standing on our heads or our heels." Nor
has the humaner treatment which the last century demanded gone far
beneath the surface. The present demand is that we find out causes.
Of course older thought had its theory of causes. On the one hand,
general depravity made us all evil-disposed ; on the other, free will made
us all responsible. These theories fitted excellently into a scheme of
divine justice which consistently condemned all alike. But human
justice never has meted out such equal sentence. It has dealt with
specific offenses, and now we seek to know likewise specific causes. We
recognize that freedom is a matter of degrees, not of yes or no. And
even if we are all sinners we don't all take the same forms for our offend-
ing. We want to know specifically just why this boy steals and that girl
goes wrong. If it is heredity, we want to know it; if it is home condi-
tions, if it is city life, if it is our method of dealing with first offenders,
we want to know it. The old justice began too late when it waited until
the evil had been done. It must be supplemented by a new justice
which begins earlier.

This is a task which calls for all the agencies and methods of the
university. It means study of heredity and growth. It calls for new
developments of physiology and psychology. It means knowledge of
economic and social conditions. It means justice as much more adequate
than that of the present as ours is above that of the savage in the kinship
group.

But in our day the great dangers, even to person and property, are
not from criminals or from foreign invader. The great dangers to life
are from the machine. The dangers to security of goods are from the
industrial or commercial process. Murders occupy large space in the
press but they are trivial as sources of sorrow and misery compared with
the fatalities from mine, and mill, and railroad; thirty-five thousand
killed and half a million injured annually is a record which it is difficult
for an academic audience to appreciate. If we add the occupational
diseases, the lead poisoning, the tuberculosis in dust-producing industries,
and the numerous by-products of our factory system, we have perils
which as yet are not accurately known, but which dwarf into insignifi-
cance the dangers from violence. Here, then, is a new demand upon
the justice of the state. It must in some manner protect its members,
or confess impotence and injustice.

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Closely connected with the problem of protecting life is that of
carrying the heavy burden of economic loss which follows industrial
accidents. This was at first piled almost entirely upon those least able
to bear it, the wives and children of men earning small wages. The
courts sought a partial remedy by developing the doctrine of individual
responsibility. The employer was held liable for death or injury if he
was unquestionably and solely to blame. The attempt was doubtless
well intentioned but it has proved so futile either to protect life or to
distribute the burden, and in general so much more like a lottery than a
just process, that at last we are giving up in such cases the method of
litigation. We are seeing the folly of trying to deal with a machine as
though it were a person. It is better to control it than to sue it at law.
Hence on the one hand the public requires safeguards for the machines,
and on the other hand the public requires compensation for the families,
ceasing in some degree to visit the misfortunes of the fathers upon
the children.

This specific case is but one illustration of a general tendency to meet
our new and complex life by public instead of private law. We might
take similar illustrations from commercial life. In dealing with railroads,
or other public service corporations, individual effort to prevent unfair
rates or secure redress has proved futile. As against the twentietji-
century devices for disguising nature's defects the individual food-buyer
is helpless. In the commercial world the individual is as helpless to
avert the loss of all his goods in the event of a panic. Society steps in
and substitutes its own action to protect life and health, to make fair
rates and fair burdens. Administrative law gains over litigation.
Expert commissions are employed. And as this method must not
merely decide particular cases but rather formulate standards for state-
and nation-wide application, the necessity for scientific procedure is
increasingly felt. The important commissions have made large use of
university men, and their methods are essentially university methods.
We might indeed almost say that while the courts represent the deductive
aspect of logic, and legislatures find their task in framing major premises,
often on very hasty induction, the commission at its best represents the
scientific union of the two in the working hypothesis. Commissions
make a large use of the familiar standard of "reason." Rates must be
reasonable. Machinery must be made reasonably safe. But instead of
the judgment of the common man on the one hand, or the "artificial
reason" of the law on the other, a scientific conception based on thorough
and expert investigation is gradually being worked out.

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less important. Those of us whose memory reaches back a quarter of a
century may recall that the public mind was then deeply stirred upon a
question of justice. An important religious body was nearly torn apart
upon the question of divine justice to the heathen, but decisions of state
and federal courts attracted little attention. When this university
opened, he would have been a bold man who said that these decisions
would ever rouse so earnest a controversy as the higher criticism of the
Scriptures. Today, however, no aspect of justice stirs feelings so
strongly as the instances of opposition between the law as interpreted by
the courts and the law as made by the people in legislatures. Besides
the strain between a written constitution and the voice of a majority, is
the deeper issue which our former colleague. Professor Pound, pointed
out in an address in this place — the vmsettled question as to which is the
supreme authority, on the one hand reason as interpreted by the courts,
on the other the will of the people. It is easy to say that reason ought to
mean, not merely consistency, but a consideration of all relevant facts,
and a scientific method of dealing with them; that it should mean, not
merely the principles recognized in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, but the emerging principles of the twentieth. The question is
how it shall come to mean these new things. It is easy to say, on the
other hand, that the will of the people ought to be reasonable and its
legislation intelligent and deliberate. The question is how it can
become so. In solving each of these problems the university is able
to render aid.

The shortcomings of the courts have been set forth so diligently of
late that it may be well to notice, first, some of the defects of legislative
methods, even when no special interest has secured public favor for
private ends. These methods. Professor Freund has pointed out,^ "are
perhaps the natural result of leaving the entire work of legislation to
a large body constituted primarily for purposes of policy and not of
justice." They show such inherited faults as : ''no definite responsibihty
for the introduction of bills; no thorough preliminary investigation of
the conditions to be remedied; no adequate public discussion of the
terms of a proposed measure, and involved if not faulty phraseology of
statutes," often, no previous hearing of interests affected. In order to
get action, public interest must be aroused, but this necessity often works
against due consideration of means and measures. We lack statistics
in many fields. We need a history of legislation and a history of the

' "Jurisprudence and Legislation," Congress of Arts and Science, St. Louis, 1904,
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operation of statutes. Our legislation as compared with the common
law is comparable to experiments in justice. But experiments without
records and without comparison are not calculated to make sure progress.
They resemble more the trial-and-error method of the squirrel in the
psychologist's maze. They explain in part the indifferent if not hostile
attitude of the courts, noticed by legal writers.

These defects are evidently of just the sort which the university might
be expected to remedy, and the legislative reference bureau, founded
under university influence in Wisconsin, is the pioneer in what promises
soon to be a general movement. It places information and expert aid at
the service of the lawmaker. Its fitness is so evident that we wonder
why it has not come before. It brings into the service of the public
resources which in the past have too often been available for special
interests only. And it is distinctly a university contribution to the
advance of justice.

If we turn now to the difficulties of the common law and the courts,
we are told that the first of them is that we no longer have a common law.
Instead, we have fifty more or less divergent systems, and this is not
merely an inconvenience for the lawyer but a serious burden upon the
process of justice. Under present conditions of short tenure and crowded
dockets, judges, we are told, are no longer able to do the work of organiz-
ing the law. The task is passing to the law teacher and the law writer'
— that is, is becoming essentially a university duty.

The task of bringing the new economic and social science into legal
doctrines is quite as evidently laid in large measure upon the university,
which will thus follow in the line of the church, the customs of merchants,
and the legislation of the last century as liberalizing agencies for the
common law. And another influence may be expected to flow from
university contacts. One source of strain in the accommodation of law
to present needs, we are told, is that lawyers on the whole still appear
to hold, consciously or subconsciously, that "the principles of law are
absolute, eternal, and of universal validity." Philosophers have fre-
quently held the same thing about morals. But the spirit of a modern
university, quick with inquiry, seeking the origins of suns and atoms and
organic life, of language, customs, government, morals, and religions —
this spirit must prepare the future lawyer and jurist to say with Kohler:
" There is no eternal law. Law must adapt itself to constantly advancing
civiUzation. This civilization it must aid, not hinder or repress."*

'Roscoe Pound, "Taught Law," an address before the Association of American
Law Schools, 191 2.

^ Rechlsphilo Sophie, p. 6.

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In venturing to bring before you these features of the university's
service to justice I have transgressed, I fear, the first principle of univer-
sity life. For I speak with only the layman's claim of an interest in the
subject. But there is one aspect of justice which we cannot, if we would,
leave entirely to courts and legislatures. Great as are other agencies of
justice, public sentiment is ultimately the most powerful. From it
springs legislation. By it judicial opinion is insensibly but inevitably
affected. Many questions do not require coercion by law if public
sentiment is clear and positive. Now, however, more than ever before,
public sentiment is confronted with tasks for which it needs expert
guidance if it is to meet its responsibilities and do justice. Among the
numerous problems of this sort I select one.

In our present process wealth is produced by the most intricate sub-
division and co-operation. What share ought each contributor to have ?
Put in this general form the question is doubtless futile and negligible.
But in one of its aspects it is more and more taking a specific form.
What is a fair wage? Under older conditions this was largely an
individual matter. At present, wages are settled for large groups and
the public is tacitly if not openly appealed to for its opinion as to what is
just. Two recent cases bring out alike the public interest and the
magnitude of the problem. A year ago two strikes were threatened, one
in the anthracite coal mines, the other by the locomotive engineers. In
the one case, an increase of four millions of wages was granted, in the
other, thirty thousand men asked for an increase of seven millions of
dollars, which in the judgment of the railroad officials would suggest
proportionate increases among other employees, amounting to sixty
millions more. The interest of the public in the first case is indicated
by the recent government report that to pay the four millions increase in
wages the public contributed thirteen millions through the higher prices
of coal. The interest of the public in preventing a strike in the latter case
is forcibly presented by the commission constituted to arbitrate the
issues. A strike by the locomotive- engineers of all the eastern roads, the
commission declares, would largely shut off food supplies from the great
cities of the East and practically paralyze industry in that region. "If
a strike .... lasted only a single week the suffering would have been
beyond our power of description, and if it had continued a month the
loss not only in property but in life would have been enormous." For the
public simply to form a ring and let the parties fight it out is obviously
to abandon justice and revert to barbarism. Both sides wish to con-
ciliate public opinion. The arbiters, of whom the president of the

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University of Wisconsin was chairman, seek to discover "the basis of a
fair wage." The eminent commission finds this task highly difficult w4th
the inadequate data available. How impossible for the general public to
frame a just opinion ! It is only by continuous investigations and expert
judgment that a more adequate basis can be laid. It is only by univer-
sity methods that public opinion can find guidance.

It may appear to some that it is exaggeration to treat this just-
settled controversy of the engineers, or the pending controversy of the
firemen, as typical. Unskilled labor is the larger factor and this is
unorganized. Society, it may be said, need fear no concerted strikes
from this labor, and hence is not compelled to form judgments, or
intervene. But society is not so interpreting its duty. Quite apart
from such possibilities of sudden fusion as the Lawrence strike revealed
is the feeling that the ignorant and less successful who fill the ranks of
the unskilled need the protection and aid of society if they cannot act
collectively. A minimum-wage law for women, enacted in one state and
proposed in others, whether economically sound or not, is evidence of
the conviction that the wage of women is as vitally "affected with a
public interest" as the charges of warehouses or the fares on railways.
There is no question but that society will take a position on the question
of fair wage for men likewise, though it may not attempt to put this into
law. The only question is : How can this position be made as intelligent
as possible ?

In seeking some principle on which to form a judgment it is note-
worthy that the tendency is to abandon the older tests of merit, "How
much does the man earn ? " or of market price, "How much does unskilled
labor command ?" The first test is too difficult for public opinion unless
one can use the market price as a measure, and in proportion as we
approach monopoly conditions the market price seems to be more than
dubious as a moral standard. Instead, the conception of a "living
wage," "a standard of living," is advanced as the test. At some future
time this may be so defined as to take its place, along with property, as
a value which law will protect. It stands for many of the same ends
which property has served — food, shelter, security, permanence, decency,
education of children, and some degree of comfort. But it seems to
suggest also a share in the ideals of the time, as well as in its material
resources. Its claim doubtless rests upon the beUef that if one of the
members of society sinks or degenerates, all are sooner or later bound to
suffer with it. But just because it is really far more complex than older
."natural rights" it needs and is beginning to receive increasingly the

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most careful scientific study. Surveys and investigations — one of the
most thorough made by our own University Settlement — are preparing
the way for translating the figure of wages into terms of actual living
and making possible a use of the scales of justice.

In recounting the service of the university to this task of forming an
intelligent public sentiment it would be impossible to leave out the work
of the social settlements. Founded and largely developed under univer-
sity influence and by university men and women, they have been seeking
underlying social causes, as well as the more external facts which can be
enumerated for the census. But they have contributed especially to the
common understanding which is the first requisite for justice. If I am
to be fair to the other man I must first of all be able to see things from
his point of view, even if it is not my point of view. For the justice of
today, which must reside so largely in public sentiment, common under-
standing is as essential as was for earlier justice the common law.

But I should be willing to waive all that has gone before if I might
yet justly claim for the university a share in this which follows. To one
who compares the attitude of society today toward the problems of
justice with that of even a quarter-century ago, one general character
stands out which is more significant than any detail. This may be
called the creative and constructive attitude. The American has never
lacked courage and constructiveness in business enterprise. The spirit
of the founders and of the frontier was creative along the lines of political
and educational institutions. But a quarter of a century ago we were
not creative in problems of political and social life. We accepted many
evils as inevitable. To say that a proposed measure involved some
change in human nature was to condemn it. Economic laws appeared
to many to be sentences of fate, rather than instrumentalities by which
man could intelligently master conditions. Poverty, crime, vice,
disease, ignorance, were facts to be accepted. Religion, philanthropy,
law, sought to save individual souls or to remedy individual ills or wrongs.
But there was no large constructive policy. The day of conservation, of
city planning, of municipal efficiency, of such sanitation as that on
Panama, of expert aid to agriculture, had not dawned. Now we are
facing world-old evils as well as new dangers, with a new spirit. We are
taking a larger view. No longer frightened by the plea, " Such is human
nature," we are beginning to realize that human nature itself, as we kown
it, is mainly an artificial product. We are looking farther back, and
taking courage as we see how much has been done. We are beginning to
conceive faintly how much may be done in the future if we plan largely
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with results of failure to plan. Is not this creative, confident spirit due
in large measure to the work of the university ? For by its discoveries
and its organization of methods there has come for the first time a con-
fidence based on knowledge as well as on faith.

Visions of a juster order have come to seers and philosophers many
times since the Egyptian of four thousand years ago described his ideal
kingdom. Oftenest perhaps religion has embodied this ideal in its future.
But with all its power to lift the imagination and stir the longing for a
reign of right, religion has lacked ability to organize our present society.
Philosophers since Plato's paradox have more than once been kings, and
yet have failed to give his royal city to the light of day. The university
spirit of today is not visionary, but it has a right to believe that many
things impossible for prophet or individual philosopher are possible by
the patient and courageous work of the great force of university men
working with scientific methods.

If the university is to do the work which society is asking from it,
and is certain to ask increasingly as need increases and scientific methods
develop, it is evident that large additions will be necessary to its resources
in certain lines. The natural sciences developed earlier, and properly
received at first the larger equipment. The task of the social sciences
needs, and we may believe will find, larger equipment than heretofore,
not in laboratories — these are in the cities and the shops, the legislatures,
courts, and schools — but in the men to observe, to interpret, and to plan
constructively in the cause of justice.

It may have occurred to someone to ask: "Why do you speak of the
university and the advance of justice ?" Is it not rather the scientific
spirit and method which have been shown to be our need and hope ? In
part these are the same. Investigation is mainly carried on in univer-
sities. And on the other hand, nothing is so characteristic of the modern
university as the zeal for original inquiry. But great as is the scientific
spirit, for purposes of justice the university is more than science. Its
task is not only to professionalize a part of society but to socialize the
professions. It stands for the spirit to use science for human advance-
ment, rather than for private ends. It stands for the enrichment and
socializing of human life by interpretation and appreciation of art and
letters as well as of institutions, religion, and philosophy. It stands for
the kindling of generous impulses, for the enthusiasms and challenge
of youth not yet so accustomed to unjust usages as to accept them, or
so cautious as to be overtimid. It stands not only for the forces of
ideas but also for the interaction of men in democratic association.

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distinguished. As civilization advanced society found for them different
words and intrusted these two great values to different institutions.
Universities have been founded to seek for truth ; governments and courts
to do justice. But with all the gain of specialization, has there not also
been somewhat of loss ? Some truth pursued by universities has been
so abstract as to lose even the value of being true. Some justice exercised
by rulers and courts has failed to be just. Society today is finding that
justice needs truth for its method and that truth needs justice to make it
vital. The universities are increasingly conceiving the business which
is in hand not as "an opinion to be held, but as a work to be done"; and
an increasing share of this work not only lays "the foundation of human
utility and power" but contributes to the deeper, finer values which
emerge as utility is justly measured, and power is justly used. Those
who are today passing here from the smaller division of our univer-
sity to the larger, and are to be enrolled among the alumni, are to be
welcomed to fuller co-operation in this task.

You may find many ways of making your contribution. So young a
university as ours cherishes examples which range from the devotion of
a Ricketts to the sympathy of a Gloucester Moors; it includes among its
living members in Chicago and wherever its alumni are found those who
are serving human weal in ways more numerous than I could recount.
To have some part however small in the advancement of justice is the
privilege of all members of the modern university — of this university.

SORTING COLLEGE FRESHMEN'

The question of establishing a fair measure of the entering college
student's ability to write English has been perhaps greater than the
difficulty of rating him in any other so-called entrance subject, and the
importance of arriving at some fair test and of bringing deficient students
up to the minimum requirement is, of course, emphasized by the necessity
of his representing his knowledge of subjects in all departments through
written ••minations and reports. Realizing the peculiarity of the
English situation, the faculty of the University of Chicago have for
many years dealt with this as a separate problem.^

The basic assumption has been made that the proof of a student's
ability to write rested on the average of his written work at any given
time and not on entrance credentials or college credits. At the request
of the English department, members of all other departments in the Uni-
versity are urged to report students whose work in English is markedly
defective. If the case is flagrant enough, a student's credit for a course
in English may be withdrawn, and he may be compelled to pass it again
before his diploma is granted. Matters of internal administration in a
college are, however, relatively uninteresting to the school man. But
the application of this same assumption to the entering student is more
interesting, as it bears directly on his status and involves a regular
procedure which demands extra instruction and an enlarged faculty.
This is the procedure which has given to this article the title, "Sorting
College Freshmen."

English I is required of every Freshman student entering the Uni-
versity as one of the three courses in his first twelve weeks or quarter.
In the autumn when the largest number enter, new students are con-
vened on their first day, and among other important announcements,
information is given to them that all must register in English i, but for
the first week merely on probation. During this trial period an amount
of writing is exacted from the Freshman which would be unreasonable
were he required to do as much in each week of the course. Each

' Reprinted from the English Journal, February, 19 13.

' This is, of course, not a unique arrangement at Chicago. Similar systems are
m operation at Madison, Ann Arbor, and elsewhere. A comparative study of all
these would be interesting and profitable, particularly with reference to what consti-
tutes eligibility to the required Freshman English course.

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student prepares outside of class two themes which, in the average
case, aggregate i,ooo to 1,500 words, and, in addition, writes one exercise
in class and takes a written examination. The subjects for assigned
papers are naturally simple and concrete, but so varied from year to
year that they cannot be anticipated and prepared for.' At the end
of the trial period, those students whose work has shown either a notable
inability to think, to construct, or to write simple sentences without
error are rejected from English i and passed back into English o.

A word is in place as to the method of determining a student's
fitness or unfitness to carry the regular work. A copy of the English
Journal for the spring contained a letter from a teacher who was frankly
indignant at the methods employed and evidently certain that the basis
of rejection of students was arbitrary and unjustifiable. From the
address given at the head of the letter, it was possible to run down the
case of the students concerned, and see what sort of English they had
presented in their test papers. It was no worse than the following.
It is impossible to give copious illustrations, but here are sentences
from students diverted from English i to English o in October, 191 2:

"Altho I am at present independent of my upkeep I realized that at an institu-
tion where so many positions were open to those who needed them, an air of business
would be entertained that might not be found in other places."

"Also in social life in a town such as Lincoln the lines are more closey drown that
is one must either take an active part or be to quite an extent an outcast, where here
one can live as they please or as conditions allow them."

"When asked why he is at any college or university, frequently one's mind is a
perfect blank. But. however, after considerable thought on that subject one is quite
convinced why he is there."

"In Chicago besides the different people are fine parks, museums and other
educating things which every one should have a good idea of before entering lives
work."

"The University of Chicago, an institution of learning located in the city of
Chicago offers many more opportunities than does many other schools and colleges
of the same purpose."

"The number of instructors employed in the school I do not know but if I may
say what I have herd graduates of the University of Chicago say and also graduates
of other large institution say that the teachers here where the best money could hire."

The course known as English o, designed for the edification of
students who write like this, is conducted under the roof of the Uni-
versity High School by two of the ablest Senior instructors in the English

' The exercise in class for the present year was in the nature of a report on exposi-
tory prose read aloud by the instructor, and the examination involved the definition
of one or two rhetorical terms, the planning of a hypothetical theme, the correcting
of a few defective sentences, and the writing of a paragraph of exposition.

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department there. It is given at the two hours coinciding with the
hours in which the fourteen present divisions of English i are conducted,
and it involves no extra payment of student fees. There is no necessary
ignominy in being enrolled in English o, nor is there necessarily a per-
manent penalty for being placed in this division.

The possibilities for the student sent to English o are four:

a) If he is so hopelessly deficient that the instructor in English o
sees no chance of preparing him for English i during the course of
the next six months, he is given a failure and the burden of prepara-
tion in English for college work is laid upon his individual shoulders.

b) If he does fairly well so that it would be safe to admit him to
English I at the beginning of the ensuing quarter, he is passed into
it, and then if he passes English i , he has at the end of his first six months
secured credit for five courses instead of the six secured by the normal
student.

c) If he shows distinct progress in the elementary matters of pro-
nunciation, grammar, and syntax, to which the English i instructor
cannot give the chief emphasis, he may be passed out of English o to
English 2. This is an extra course without fee, supplementary to
English I, running during the Winter and Spring quarters, into which
delinquents in English i, as well as advanced students in English o,
are passed. They are held here under an indeterminate sentence, and
if the results justify it, are sooner or later given credit for English i.'

d) In exceptional cases, the student rejected from English i and
put in English o may even, on recommendation of the instructor in
English o, be given credit for English i during his first quarter's residence.
It will thus be seen that the whole system is as far as possible so arranged
as to take account of the individual equipment and ability of the student,
and so as to avoid at any place catching him in the cog-wheels of the
machinery with the result that the possibly mistaken judgment of a
single instructor will permanently embarrass him.

With these statements as a background, some figures relative to
the developments during the last seven years in which this system has
been in operation may be pertinent and intelligible. Table I shows
the number of students who in the last seven years have been rejected
from English i and put into English o, and the subsequent fates of

■ Thus, the student dropped from English i into English o, and passed from o to
2 and then out of 2, secures his major's credit as quickly as students who have been
held in i and detained in 2 for extra practice; and English 2, since it is an added late
afternoon course, does not prevent a student from registering in three regular courses,
and so from securing credit for six majors during the first two quarters.

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these students — those who failed in English o, those who dropped the
course, those who were passed directly into English 2, from which it
was possible for them to get credit for English i before the end of the
Winter Quarter, and the small minority who received credit for English i
at the same time with the students who had not been rejected. Exami-
nation of the table shows that during the first three years there were
rather wade fluctuations, due probably to the experimental nature of
the course in these years, but that in the last four completed autumns
English o has definitely settled down and shown definite tendencies.

TABLE I

The Course in English o

Quarter

No.

in Class

Failed

Dropped

To
English 2

To
English I

Credit for
English I

Autumn, 1905

Autumn, 1906

Autumn, 1907

Autumn, 1908

Autumn, 1909

Autumn, 1910

Autumn, 191 1

89
30
57
78
69
53
46

15
16

32
24

13
10

I
0
2

4
2
0
0

3
II
21
18
18
20

54
12
27
24
23
14
15

2
0

7
2
8

♦One suspended.

a) The number of students sent into this class, the number who
have failed in it, and the number who have been advanced from it
into English i, have all decreased in like proportion.

h) The number passed into English 2 has remained about constant,
a fact which means that the proportion has somewhat increased.

c) The very small number who have received direct credit for
English I is too low to justify any deductions.

A second table is also interesting with reference not merely to the
matter of English o, but to the entire method of "sorting Freshmen"
in connection with which English o is the most striking feature. This
shows that in general the number of registrations in English i has
remained within reaching distance of 400 in the last seven years, the
average being 382, but that the number of sections in English i has
steadily increased, with the result that the average number of students
in a section, which in 1905 was a shade over 50, had fallen in 191 1 to
about 27.' This increase in the number of sections and instructors

' In order to determine the average number of students per section the number
sent to English o must be subtracted from the total before dividing by the number of
sections.

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203

has, of course, made possible a- more effective treatment of the indi-
vidual student. With this slight fluctuation in the number of registra-
tions, it is apparent also that the number sent to English o has been
slowly decreasing, as has already been stated, but that the number sent
to English 2 has remained relatively constant; furthermore, that the
number of failures in English i has been decreasing, particularly in
the last three years, when the smaller sections have prevailed.

TABLE II
The Course in English i

Number of

No. of Reg-

No. Sent to

Number

Number of

Sections

istrations

English 0

English i

Dropped

1 Failures

Autumn, 1905

392

i 18

Autumn, 1906

341

1 16

Autumn, IQ07

389

1 ^^

Autumn, 1908

356

Autumn, 1909

377

Autumn, 1910

392

Autumn, 1911

430

1 4

Average

382?

6o|

S5f

1 12^

Enough has been said about English 2 to make some further descrip-
tion of this course, the final stage of the procedure, necessary. It
would be obviously absurd in a course in English composition based
upon theme-writing to enable a student to make up his deficiency
through the passing of a single examination. English 2, known to the
students as the "trailer," has, therefore, e.xisted for many years, and
has been conducted during the Winter and Spring quarters for the
purpose of giving additional practice in writing to students who do not
deserve credit for English i , but who should be conditioned in the course.

The course in the Winter Quarter, when it always is largest, furnishes
the most convenient object for study. It is recruited roughly from
three sources: first, the overwhelming majority sent from English i,
a rather constant number fluctuating in seven years only between 50
and 64; second, the number sent up from English o, usually in the
neighborhood of 20 per year; and third, a few pickups from previous
quarters who through illness or absence have not yet completed the
English ordeal.

The fates of these students are very different. Most of them pass
within two months, after the writing of six to eight themes. A few
still fail to satisfy University standards at the end of the three months'
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handful, but they should be noted in any study of the efficiency or
thoroughness of the method. Finally, in checking up totals, a small
number, only once more than lo in the last six years, are either dropped
from the course or more frequently do not report.

TABLE III

Report of English 2

Number

Reported

Passed in

Failed in

Sent from

from Previ-

Three or

English I

English 0

ous Quarters

Six Months

Dropped

or Did Not

Report

Winter, 1906,
Winter, 1907,
Winter, 1908,
Winter, 1909,
Winter, 1910,
Winter, 191 1.
Winter, 191 2,

13
7

IS
5
6

10
4

In general, if we consider that the judgment of the University
instructors has been in any degree sound and in any degree constant,
certain deductions seem reasonable. The first is that, in spite of the
best efforts of preparatory-school instructors, certain students are able
to slip through who really have no place in college divisions of English,
whatever their other entrance qualifications may be. Further, from
the decreasing number of students set back from English i, it seems that
the average of English efficiency at college entrance is steadily increasing.
Finally, as an examination of Table IV, the general summary, will
show, the course as now conducted with all its complexities has much
to be said in its defense.

TABLE IV
General Summary

Total No.
Students

No. Passed

via
EngUsh I

No. Passed

via

0 and 2

or I and 2

No. Passed
via 0 and i
(estimated)

Total
Passed

Total
Failed or
Dropped

Autumn, 1905

Autumn, 1906

Autumn, 1907

Autumn, 1908

Autumn, 1909

Autumn, 1910

Autumn, 1911

392
341
389
356
377
392
430

214
226
248
195
243
276

324

55
57
56
63
64
51
63

56
8
28
21
20
22
16

325
291

332
279

327
349
403

67
50
57
77
50
43
27

I understand all too well that no report covering the cases of almost
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an approximation of what is being accomplished. I might divide and
subdivide and still discover in the final analysis that I had failed to
make allowance for the case of the woman student whose credit in English
2 was to be withheld until she had brought in a certificate of vaccination.
In the main, however, the concluding table shows what, to the
University instructors, cannot be anything but gratifying data. This
table, which, with the exception of one column, is a mere restatement
of data already provided, shows the total number of students registered
in English and the numbers who have received credit for English i
either by directly taking this course or by taking English o plus English
2 or by taking English o plus English i. It has shown, as the other
tables have, that since this system has been in effect there were two
or three years of comparative fluctuation, but in the last four years of
full operation the total number of registrations has increased, the total
passing the regular course has increased, the total number saved by
means of the special methods herein described has slightly decreased
(owing to the decreased burdens laid on these courses), and that the
total number of students lost through failure to pass English i in its
various forms, or through dropping out of college has steadily been
reduced. Although the entrance efficiency of the student is doubtless
somewhat higher than it has been in the past, it is no less clear that the
teaching efficiency in the handling of this course has risen greatly since
the adoption of the present system.

Percy H. Boynton

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The Eighty-sixth Convocation. — At the
Eighty-sixth Convocation of the Univer-
sity, which was held on March i8 in the
Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, there were
one hundred and twenty-one candidates
for titles and degrees. Of these, fifty-
four were candidates for the title of
Associate. Thirty-six Bachelors of Arts,
Philosophy, or Science, including three
Bachelors in Education, were graduated;
two Bachelors of Divinity; one Bachelor
of Laws; sixteen Masters of Arts or
Science; seven Doctors of Law (J.D.);
and five Doctors of Philosophy. Of
those taking higher degrees, ten took
their Bachelor's degree at the University
of Chicago. One of the Associates was
a Japanese, and one of those receiving
the degree of Doctor of Law (J.D.) was
Mr. Paul Vincent Harper, a son of the
late President William Rainey Harper.

The Convocation orator was Professor
James Hayden Tufts, Ph.D., LL.D.,
head of the Department of Philosophy,
his subject being "The University and
the Advance of Justice." The address,
which met with many expressions of
praise, appears elsewhere in this number
of the Magazine.

Professor Tufts and Mrs. Tufts were
the guests of honor at the Convocation
reception in Hutchinson Hall on the
evening of March 17, when they received
with President Harry Pratt Juflson and
Mrs. Judson, and Mr. Lorado Taft,
Professorial Lecturer on the History of
Art, and Mrs. Taft.

Presentation of the portrait of Professor
von Hoist. — At the presentation to the
University, on the occasion of the Con-
vocation reception, March 17, of the
portrait of Hermann Eduard von Hoist,
the distinguished scholar and first head
of the Department of History, Professor
J. Laurence Laughlin, head of the Depart-
ment of Political Economy, made a brief
address as the representative of Professor
von Hoist's former colleagues, and Presi-
dent Harry Pratt Judson accepted the
portrait on behalf of the University.
Both speakers expressed admiration and
a sincere feeling of regard for the famous
scholar who made so striking a figure in

the life of the University during its first
ten years. Mr. Hermann von Hoist,
son of Professor von Hoist, who is him-
self a graduate of the University and a
well-known architect of Chicago, unveiled
the portrait of his father. The painting,
which is the work of John C. Johansen,
a New York artist, has been hung at the
east end of Hutchinson Hall, taking the
place of the older portrait, which has been
placed in the historical seminar room of
the Harper Memorial Library.

A new member of the Law School
Faculty. — Edward Wilcox Hinton, Dean
of the University of Missouri Law School,
has been appointed Professor of Law in
the University of Chicago Law School,
his appointment to begin with the
Autumn Quarter. Mr. Hinton is a
graduate of the University of Missouri
and of the Columbia Law School. After
an experience of twelve years in the
general practice of law he became Pro-
fessor of Pleading and Practice in the
University of Missouri Law School in
1903, at the same time continuing his
practice. He has been markedly success-
ful in developing instruction in Practice,
a branch of law-school work that until
recently has been either neglected or
dealt with very indifferently by the lead-
ing law schools of the country. In 1906
Mr. Hinton published his Cases on Code
Pleading, and in 191 2 he became Dean of
the Missouri Law School. At Chicago
he will have entire charge of the work
in Practice and Evidence, and will
reorganize and make more efficient the
Practice courses offered in the School.

State conference of the American
Chemical Society. — Two hundred dele-
gates from all parts of the state attended
the annual conference of the Illinois
section of the American Chemical Society
which met at the University the middle
of March. Among the speakers was
Dr. Rollin T. Chamberlin, of the Depart-
ment of Geology, who gave an illustrated
lecture on the subject of "Some Ore and
Mineral Deposits in South America."
Dr. Chamberlin recently returned from
a year of special investigations in South
America. Professor William A. Noyes,

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of the University of Illinois, widely
known for his research work in chemistry,
gave a significant address on "The
Electron Theory." Professor Julius
Stieglitz, Director of Analytical Chemis-
try, was in charge of the arrangements
for the conference.

Chicago meeting of the American
Mathematical Society. — The Chicago sec-
tion of the American Mathematical
Society held its semi-annual meeting
at the University of Chicago on March 21
and 22. The University was largely
represented on the program, among the
papers presented being those by Pro-
fessor Eliakim H. Moore, Head of the
Department of Mathematics; Professor
Leonard E. Dickson and Assistant-
Professor Arthur C. Lunn, of the same
department; Professor Forest R. Moul-
ton and Associate Professor Kurt Laves,
of the Department of Astronomy and
Astrophysics; and two Fellows in
mathematics. A dinner for the members
was given at the Quadrangle Club on
the evening of March 21. .\ssociate
Professor Herbert E. Slaught, secretary
of the Chicago section of the society,
had general claarge of the arrangements
for the meeting, which had an attendance
of over fifty members and thirty visitors.

Religions Education Association. — The
University of Chicago was represented
at the tenth annual convention of the
Religious Education Association, held
in Cleveland from March 10 to 14, by
President Harry Pratt Jud.son, who
presided over the convention and gave
the president's annual address; Dean
Shailer Mathews, of the Divinity School;
Professor John M. Coulter, of the Depart-
ment of Botany; Professor Theodore G.
Soares, Head of the Department of
Practical Theology, and Associate Pro-
fessor Allan Hoben, of the same depart-
ment; Professor Nathaniel Butler, of
the Department of Education; Associate
Professor Clyde VV. Votaw, of the Depart-
ment of Biblical and Patristic Greek;
Professor Ira M. Price, of the Depart-
ment of Semitics; Principal Franklin W.
Johnson, of the University High School;
and Director Charles H. Judd, of the
School of Education. The general sub-
ject for discussion was "Religious Educa-
tion and Civic Progress."

The University Orchestral Association. —
In the series of concerts provided by the
University Orchestral Association the

eighth was given on March 1 1 , the soloist
being Alice Nielsen, of the Metropolitan
and Boston Opera companies. She
sang two groups of songs in English, one
group in Italian, one in German, and
one in French, and also at the close of
the concert a number from Madame
Butterfly. The audience, which occupied
even the stage, was enthusiastic, espe-
cially over the English songs, and de-
manded many encores during the pro-
gram. The other soloists in the series
have been Rudolph Ganz, the Swiss
pianist, and Eugene Ysaye, the Belgian
violinist. The ninth and closing concert
was given on April 8 by the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra under the direction
of Frederick Stock. During the season
the Orchestra has presented among other
compositions, symphonies by Beethoven,
Mozart, Raff, and Brahms.

As in the two preceding years, the
season ticket sale practically exhausted
the seating capacity of the Leon Mandel
Assembly Hall, there being but thirty
tickets available for single admission
sale. In response to the demand for
single admissions to the special artist
recitals a large number of seats were
placed on the stage and sold to students
at reduced rates. Nearly three hundred
students in the University took advantage
of the low rate offered to them for the
purchase of tickets for the season.

The annual meeting of the members of
the University Orchestral Association
was held on .\pril 14, at which time
officers for the next year were elected.
These officers will decide upon the
programs to be given in 1913-14.

University Preachers for the Spring
Quarter. — President Albert Parker Fitch,
of Andover Theological Seminary, was
the University Preacher on .\pril 6
and 13. On April 20 and 27 Dr. Cor-
nelius Wolfkin, of the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church, New York City, will
be the preacher, and on May 4 Professor
Hugh Black, of Union Theological
Seminary. Dr. A. White Vernon, of
the Harvard Church, Brookline, Mass.,
and Dean Lewis B. Fisher, of the Ryder
(Universalist) Divinity House of the
University of Chicago, will also preach
in May; and Professor Charles R.
Henderson, head of the Department of
Practical Sociology, who recently re-
turned from giving the Barrows lectures
in the Orient, is to be the Convocation
preacher on June 8.

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The Twenty-fifth Educational Conference
at the University. — The twenty-fifth Edu-
cational Conference of the academies and
high schools in relations with the Uni-
versity of Chicago will be held at the
University on April i8 and 19. The
departmental conferences have for their
general topic "Economy in Education."
The chairmen of the various conferences
include Associate Professor Otis W.
Caldwell, in biology; Professor Rollin D.
Salisbury, in earth science; Professor
William A. Nitze, in French; Associate
Professor Robert J. Bonner, in Greek
and Latin; Assistant Professor Marcus
W. Jernegan, in history; Professor
Marion Talbot, in home economics;
Associate Professor Frank M. Leavitt, in
manual arts; Associate Professor Herbert
E. Slaught, in mathematics; and Asso-
ciate Professor Charles R. Mann, in
physics and chemistry. Among the
papers to be presented are those by
Associate Professors Wallace W. Atwood
and Harlan H. Barrows, Assistant
Professors Earle B. Babcock, Charles
Goettsch, and Hermann I. Schlesinger,
and various members of the School of
Education. At the general session in
Leon Mandel Assembly Hall on the even-
ing of April 18 President Harry Pratt
Judson will give an address on the sub-
I'ect of "Economy in Education" and
Dean James R. Angell will speak of
"The Details Bearing on the Duplica-
tion of School and College Work." The
fifteenth annual contest in declamation
between representatives of the schools
in relations with the University will be
held in Kent Theater on the evening of
April 18, and there will be the usual
written examination of contestants for
the prizes in English, German, mathe-
matics, and physics. President Judson
will preside at the luncheon for adminis-
trative officers, which precedes a general
discussion of the "Administrative Phases
of the Problem of Economy in Educa-
tion," in which Director Charles H. Judd,
of the School of Education, will be one
of the speakers.

Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin,
head of the Department of Geology, and
Professor Forest R. Moulton, of the
Department of Astronomy and Astro-
physics, are members of a special com-
mittee of the Illinois Academy of Science
appointed to recommend a revision of
the present Julian calendar.

James Westfall Thompson, Associate

Professor of European History, has been
granted leave of absence by the Uni-
versity Board of Trustees for the Spring
and Summer Quarters. He will spend
the time in study in Germany. Pro-
fessor Thompson was appointed by the
President and Senate of the University
as a delegate to attend the meeting in
London on April 4-9 of the International
Historical Congress.

Dean Shailer Mathews, of the Divinity
School, has been made a member of the
editorial board of the new Constructive
Quarterly, the first issue of which appeared
in March. The quarterly, which is de-
voted to the work and thought of
Christendom, is published in New
York City, and among its other editors
are Professor Henry van Dyke, of Prince-
ton, and President Robert A. Falconer, of
the University of Toronto.

On account of the continued illness of
Professor Clarke B. Whittier, of the
Law School faculty, Professor William
U. Moore, of the University of Wisconsin
Law School, is giving the course on
Suretyship during the Spring Quarter.
Professor Moore lectures in Chicago
two days a week.

Ferdinand Schevill, Professor of
Modern History, has been made one
of the board of editors of the new dra-
matic publication. The Play-Book, of
which the editor is Professor Thomas H.
Dickinson, of the University of Wiscon-
sin. Professor Robert M. Lovett, of
the Department of English, and Asso-
ciate Professor Martin Schiitze, of the
Department of German, are on the staff
of regular contributors to the new period-
ical. Mr. Lovett has recently edited
the play of Julius Caesar, a volume in
"The Tudor Shakespeare" published
by the Macmillan Co. There are to
be forty volumes in the series.

A. C. McClurg & Co. announce the
publication of Mark Twain and the
Happy Island, a new book by Assistant
Professor Elizabeth Wallace, of the
Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures. The volume gives
an intimate account of Mr. Clemens'
life in Bermuda. Miss Wallace's last
book, A Garden of Paris, which has gone
to a second edition, was also published by
McClurg.

At the Eighty-sixth Convocation of
the University on March 18 announce-
ment was made of the election of thirty-
five students as members of Sigma Xi
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in stience. Six of these were women.
Two students also were elected to the
Beta of Illinois chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa for especial distinction in general
scholarship in the University. Both
of these were women.

Professor Walter Sargent, of the
School of Education, is the author of a
new volume published by Ginn & Co.
under the title of Fine and Indus-
trial Arts in Elementary Schools. The
first chapter discusses the educational
and practical values of the fine arts and
industrial arts, and the following chapters
explain the work suitable for each grade.
The book is illustrated by examples of
work already done in this field of educa-
tion.

A new organization to be known as the
Political Science Club has been formed
at the University, with a membership
limited to students in the Senior Colleges
and Graduate Schools. The club meets
monthly and its first debate was held on
April 2, when the subject was the ques-
tion of the Panama Canal tolls. The
club already has a membership of forty.

Thirty-six members of the University
Glee Club left the middle of March for
a concert trip through the western states,
the itinerary including cities in Kansas,
Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,
and California. The tour was under
the auspices of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad, and the club gave
concerts before a number of the organiza-
tions of the railway's employees. On
account of leaving before the regular
quarterly examinations of the Uni-
versity the members of the Glee Club
took their examinations en route, under
the supervision of Mr. Harold G.Moulton,
of the Department of Political Economy.
Mr. Robert VV. Stevens, the musical
director, also accompanied the club.

"Nietzsche's Ethical, Social, and Reli-
gious Views," is the general subject of a
series of University public lectures
which are being given in the Harper
Memorial Library, by Mr. William M.
Salter. The lecturer traces Nietzsche's
criticism of morality, of current social
and political conceptions and institutions,
and of religion, particularly Christianity.

At the last meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science Professor Forest R. Moulton,
of the Department of Astronomy and
Astrophysics, was elected secretary of
Section A (mathematics and astronomy),
to succeed Professor George A. Miller,

of the University of Illinois, who had
held the position for five years.

Recent contributions by the members
of the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Cooper, William S.: "The Climax
Forest of Isle Royale, Lake Superior,
and Its Development." Ill (Contribu-
tions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory
165), with twenty-five figures, Botanical
Gazette, March.

Mehl, Maurice G.: " Angistorhinus,
A New Genus of Phytosauria from the
'Trias of Wyoming," Journal of Geology,
February' -March .

Merriam, Professor Charles E.: "Out-
look for Social Politics in the United
States," American Journal of Sociology,
March.

Recent addresses by members of the
Faculties include:

Breckinridge, Assistant Professor
Sophonisba P.: "In Darker Chicago,"
Housing Exhibition, City Club of
Chicago, March 17.

Butler, Professor Nathaniel: "Voca-
tional Education," Normal University,
Bloomington, 111., March 5.

Caldwell, Associate Professor Otis W.:
"Home Gardening" (illustrated),
Housing Exhibition, City Club of
Chicago, March 26.

Clark, Associate Professor S. H.: Dra-
matic interpretation, Galsworthy's The
Pigeon, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb-
ruary 26; Zangwill's The Melting Pot,
ibid., February 28.

Coulter, Professor John M.: "Eugenics
and Heredity," Child Welfare study
class of Woman's City Club, Chicago,
Kenwood Institute, March 17.

Foster, Professor George B.: "fimile
Zola's Religion," Chicago Hebrew
Institute, March 26.

Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul : "Our
National Resources: Their Economic
Significance," three illustrated lectures,
Goodwyn Institute, Memphis, Tenn.,
March 5, 6, 7; "The Philippines:
The Land and the People," Grand
Rapids, Mich., March 18.

Gorsuch, William P.: "Moliere and His
Comedies," Chicago Dramatic Society,
March 14.

Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:
"Work among the Children," North
Shore Juvenile Protective Association,
Highland Park, 111., March 16.

Jordan, Professor Edwin O.: "Vanishing

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Diseases," University Club, Chicago,
March 22.

Judd, Professor Charles H.: "The
Relation of the High School to the
Elementary School and to College,"
High School, Evanston, 111., March 6;
Address, Northwestern Iowa Teachers'
Association, Fort Dodge, Iowa, March
14.

Judson, President Harry Pratt: Address
at fifty-fifth anniversary dinner. Young
Men's Christian Association of Chi-
cago, Auditorium Hotel, April i.

Laughlin, Professor J. Laurence: "The
Monopoly of Labor," Citizens' In-
dustrial Association, St. Louis, March
25; "Democracy and Business," City
Club, St. Louis, March 25.

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank M.:
"Vocational Training," Parents and
Teachers' Association, Haven School,
Evanston, 111., March 11; "Early
Selection of a Vocation," eighteenth
annual meeting of the North Central
Association of Colleges and Second-
ary Schools, Hotel La Salle, Chicago,
March 22.

Moulton, Professor Forest R.: "The
Wonderful Heavens" (illustrated),

Hawkeye Fellowship Club, Auditorium
Hotel, Chicago, March 25.

Newman, Associate Professor Horatio H. :
"Heredity and Environment in Eu-
genics," Child Welfare study class,
Woman's City Club, Chicago, Ken-
wood Institute, March 31.

Salisbury, Professor Rollin D.: "Travels
and Recent Experiences in Argentine,"
University of Wisconsin Club, Chicago,
March 28.

Slaught, Associate Professor Herbert E.:
"The Final Report of the National
Committee of Fifteen on a Geometry
Syllabus," Association of Ohio Teach-
ers of Mathematics and Science,
Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, March 29.

Smith, Associate Professor Gerald B.:
"The Moral Challenge of the Modern
World," Ninth Annual Institute of
Religious Education, Lawrence, Kan.,
March 19; "Answer of Christianity
to the Modern Challenge," ibid.,
March 20.

Starr, Professor Frederick: "Liberia the
Hope of the Dark Continent," Abra-
ham Lincoln Center, Chicago, March 9.

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

To the Editor:

Bureaucracy gone mad! On Sunday
the Harper Memorial Library has a
Keeper-of-the-Door. No one is admitted
save bearers of Special Permits. Pro-
fessors having offices in the building are
not admitted — as individuals — only as
bearers of Letters of Marque from the
Second Deputy Satrap to the Keeper-
of-the-Door commanding him to admit —
not a mere Professor — but the Bearer
of Documents of State.

Heads of Departments, well-known
to all on the campus, may not enter on
mere reputation. For want of the
Document of State they shall be turned
from the door. Such is the law; and
the law is enforced!

No favored Licensee can bring with
him a mere student or other guest.
Only his Card is admitted. The Card
does not guarantee the bearer's character.
Such is the law.

Recently a mere Professor who brought
in a student was severely reprimanded
and the Keeper-of-the-Door threatened
with discharge.

Recently the undersigned (admittedly
a person of no official standing on the
campus save as a alumnus and a member
of an administrative board) applied to
the Keeper-of-the-Door for the privilege
of accompanying not simply a Professor
but a genuine Licensee to his office in
the Library. The Keeper was courteous
but the great Edict of the Second Deputy
Satrap is graven on tablets of Brass.
No admission!

What is the Library for ? Did friends
of the University and alumni contribute
to its erection as a Mosque for the
Favored of Earth or as a House of The
Word to be open to all? What are the
offices of the faculty for? If the build-
ing must be closed to the public on
Sunday (for which economy seems the
only justification), are not at least
members of the faculty and those for
whom they vouch entitled to entrance?

Children "play house" in a corner
of the room and bar out their elders with
amusing little regulations. The Uni-
versity really should not "play house"
with the Harper Library, but speedily

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211

and apologetically should "have done
with childish ways."

Nineteen-One

[Note. — As a result of the incident
herein mentioned, instructors are now
permitted to take friends into the library
on Sunday. — Ed.]

To the Editor:

I read with very great interest, in the
University of Chicago Magazine, the study
of scholarship standing among the several
fraternities at the University. Of course
I was particularly gratified with the
showing made by Beta Theta Pi and with
your comment thereon. The raising of
rank from a relatively low position to
the first place was not a matter of chance,
but was the result of earnest and delib-
erate effort on the part of the members
of the chapter, encouraged by their
alumni and faculty counselor and the
general officers of the fraternity.

Beta Theta Pi has been trying for
several years, by continued stimulus, to
arouse its individual members to the need
of improving scholarship rank. The
Chicago chapter has done what many
others have been doing. Whenever the
faculty adviser has made a rejjort of
standing the list has been read in chapter
meetings. Each member, therefore, has
known exactly how every other member
was standing in his classroom work.
Each one knew whether he was helping
or hindering the plan for improvement.
The effect of this publicity was good, as
the results show, each of those with
good marks being encouraged to continue
hard work and those with the poorer
ratings being stimulated to increased
endeavor lest they be responsible for the
failure of the chapter to attain its
desired general average.

You may be interested to know also
that the same plan for stimulating
scholarship is being favored by the
Inter-Fraternity Conference, which is
made up of some twenty-eight frater-
nities. It goes without saying that
there is not a group of men in the Uni-
versity who may not accomplish what
the Chicago chapter of Beta Theta Pi
has done if it will make this as much a
matter of united effort as has been done
in the case calling forth your favorable
editorial comment.

Yours very truly,
Francis W. Shepardson
General Secretary of Beta Theta Pi

To the Editor:

Is it true that on the occasion of alumni
banquets the men and women dine in
separate places? I feel quite sure that
many women alumnae like myself, who
belonged to the early days of the Uni-
versity and who would not have attended
any institution where there was segrega-
tion, would not have any desire to attend
a banquet if such is the case.

Some of us are in the habit of attending
with our husbands alumni affairs of the
colleges to which our husbands belong,
and we should enjoy having them join
us in our college celebrations. Mr.
Rummler, for instance, is an Ann Arbor
man, and we enjoy together their annual
outing for men and women.

This letter may give a hint, if there is
lack of interest in alumni affairs.
Yours very truly,
Susan Harding Rummler, '98

Occidental College,

Los Angeles, Cal.

March 23, 19 13
To the Editor:

I am pleased to state that a Los
Angeles chapter of the alumni of the
University of Chicago is being organized.
The movement was started last night at
a banquet given by half a hundred of us
in honor of Dr. Shailer Mathews, who
is now on the coast for the purpose of
delivering a series of lectures at the
University of California, and who has
been favoring the colleges of Southern
California with a touch of the spirit of
our Alma Mater.

Our students have tended to go to
either Berkeley or Stanford or have
jumped from the Pacific to the Atlantic
and overlooked the university on the
shores of Lake Michigan. This, however,
will not always be, for the increasing
number of teachers in the high schools
and colleges hailing from Chicago will
some time divert the stream that way.
By such an offering of students well
equipped for the serious work of the
University we yet hope to pay our own
debt. For this purpose the local chapter
has been organized and to this end we
will work under the spell of the Chicago
spirit.

Yours truly,

E. E. Chandler
Secretary of Chapter

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

Chicago Alumnae Club. — On Saturday,
April 12, the club gave a dramatic
and musical program called "Spring
Revels" at the Whitney Opera House.
"L'AUegro," the dance which was the
chief feature of the Florentine Carnival
on February ii, was reproduced. There
were various other musical and dramatic
numbers, including Shaw's How She
Lied to Her Husband; J. V. Hickey,
Alice Lee Herrick, Frank Parker, and
others took part. The performance
was for the benefit jointly of the Uni-
versity Settlement and the Chicago
Collegiate Bureau of Occupations, con-
cerning which a statement was published
in the December Magazine. The Settle-
ment will help maintain the work of
Miss Louise Montgomery in giving
vocational guidance to the children of
the stockyards neighborhood and in
finding suitable work for those who must
leave school. The Revels were in
charge of Alice Greenacre, general chair-
man, and Marie Ortmayer, president
of the Alumnae Club.

Minnesota Alumni Club. — The com-
mittee appointed by President George E.
Vincent at the Chicago dinner in Minne-
apolis, January i8, met at Mr. Vincent's
home on March fourteenth. In accord-
ance with the authority with which it
was vested, this committee adopted a
constitution and elected officers for a
permanent organization to be known as
the Minnesota Alumni Club of the Uni-
versity of Chicago. All alumni, former
students, postgraduate students, and
one-time instructors residing in Minne-
sota are eligible to membership.

The following officers were elected:
President, Anthony Lispenard Underhill,
Ph.D. '06; Vice-President, Roy W.
Merrifield, '03; Secretary, Harvey B.
Fuller, Jr., '08; Treasurer, Renslow P.
Sherer, '09. These officers together with
the following members comprise the
Executive Committee: J. Anna Norris,
ex-'o9; Agnes Doherty, ex-'oy; Chauncy
J. V. Pettibone, '07.

The action taken in adopting a con-
stitution and electing officers is subject
to ratification at the next general meeting,

which will be held in May. Tentative
plans were proposed to have this meeting
in the nature of an outing excursion.
Harvey B. Fuller, Jr., Secretary

News from the Classes. —

James J. Burtch is agent for the Aetna
Insurance Company.

1884
By a typographical error in the March
Magazine, in the account of the reunion
of alumni of the old Chicago University
the name of Miss Lydia A. Dexter was
made to read Dexter-Doud.

1893
Hermann von Hoist has just published,
through the American School of Corre-
spondence, Modern Homes, a practical
book on architecture.

Miss Mary L. Marot will in October
of this year open as joint principal a
boarding-school for girls, in Thompson,
Conn., the institution to be called
Miss Howe and Miss Marot's School.
Miss Marot has been a teacher at Miss
Porter's School at Farmington, Conn.,
and at Elmira College.

189s

Bell Eugene Looney is superintendent
of the Polytechnic High School at Fort
Worth, Tex. He was a guard on the
1894 eleven.

Cornelius J. Hoebeke is now with
Atkinson, Mentzer & Co., publishers,
in Chicago.

1896

Cyrus F. Tolman is territorial geologist
of Arizona, and associate professor of
economic geology in Leland Stanford
Junior University.

James Primrose White is manager for
Swift & Co., at Wilmington, N.C.

1897
Scott Brown is now general counsel
and secretary of the Studebaker Corpora-
tion at South Bend, Ind.

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1898

Former students of the University who
are now living in Southern California
gave an informal dinner on March 22 at
the Federation Club in Los Angeles,
with Professor Shailer Mathews as guest
of honor. Arrangements were in charge
of F. G. Cressey, B.D. '98, Ph.D. '04,
who is principal of the Los Angeles
Academy.

Angeline Loesch (Mrs. R. E. Graves)
is associate editor of The Public. Her
home address is 4249 Hazel Ave.,
Chicago.

George S. White is superintendent of
the American Baptist Publishing Society
in Portland, Ore., with offices in the
Y.M.C.A. building.

1899

W. P. Lovett, once editor of the Uni-
versity of Chicago Weekly, is now in
charge of the religious and philanthropic
news and editorial departments of the
Grattd Rapids (Mich.) Press.

M. B. Wells is vice-president and
cashier of the Home Savings Bank,
Milwaukee, Wis.

Josephine T. AUin has been made
dean of girls in Englewood High School.
The position has just been created by
Superintendent Young. As implied,
Miss Allin will have general charge of
the welfare of the girls in the high school.

1900

Albert A. Russell is vice-president and
general manager of the Alabama Central
Railroad, with headquarters at Jasper,
Ala.

Howard Woodhead, of the University
of Chicago, has become director of the
department of municipal administration
in the Chicago School of Civics and
Philanthropy.

Miss Annie Marion MacLean has been
ill at the Presbyterian Hospital, but is
now recovering.

1 901

Amelia E. Lacey is an assistant in the
department of English in the High School
of Oklahoma City, Okla.

Virgil M. Gantz is a sales-agent for
Ginn & Co.

Clara Walker is teaching in the Chicago
Normal College.

Perry J. Payne is practicing medicine
in Portland, Ore., his address being 1629
Sandy Boulevard.

Paul MacQuiston has left New Orleans

and is in Dallas, Tex., where he is depart-
ment manager for Sears, Roebuck & Co.

1902

Alexander P. Thoms is general foreman
of the cable division of the Common-
wealth Edison Co. in Chicago. .

Ernest E. ("Whoa-back") Perkins is
vice-principal of the Tacoma High School,
Tacoma, Wash.

Zellmer R. Pettet is fruit-farming
near Albany, Ga.

Jesse Harper has recently been made
managing director and coach of athletics
at Notre Dame. He had phenomenal
success as coach at Wabash College for
some years, Wabash in football, baseball,
and basket-ball always being in the run-
ning for the state championship. At
Notre Dame, Harper will have sole
charge, even to making out the schedules,
etc.

Miss Mattie Duncan is dean of the
Negro department of the American
Technical College, of Nashville, Tenn.

1903

Thomas J. Hair is assistant treasurer
of the Acme Steel Goods Co. of Chicago.

H. C. Cobb (ex) is salesman for the
Meilicke Calculator Co., with offices in
the People's Gas Building. He is married
and has two sons.

1904

Ovid R. Sellers is studying theology
in McCormick Seminary in Chicago.

Charles M. Barber is now district
manager for the Marion Motor Car Co.
of Indianapolis. His home address is
411 Michigan Ave. West, Lansing, Mich.

1905

George Schobinger is living in Yuma,
Ariz., where he is assistant engineer in
the U.S. Reclamation Service.

James S. Riley is secretary and
treasurer of Perrin, Drake & Riley, Inc.,
dealers in investment securities, their
office being at 210 W. 7th St., Los
Angeles, Cal.

William A. McKeever, author of books
on various aspects of pedagogy, has just
published through the Macmillan Co.
Training the Boy. Dr. McKeever is pro-
fessor of philosophy in Kansas State
Agricultural College.

1906
Sherman N. Kilgore is farming near
Springwater, Ore., on the Hood View
Ranch.

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O. O. White is principal of schools in
Aurora, 111.

Herman A. Spoehr is working at
Tucson, Ariz., in the Desert Laboratory
of the Carnegie Institute.

Arnold Dresden is assistant professor
of mathematics in the University of
Wisconsin.

Albert W. Sherer is with the advertising
department of the Associated Sunday
Magazines, 309 Record-Herald Building,
Chicago.

1908

William E. Wrather is a mining geolo-
gist with the Gulf Pipe Line Co. of
Beaumont, Tex.

T. S. Miller has formed a company
for the purpose of doing business in
farm mortgages, under the name of
T. S. Miller & Co., at 750 First National
Bank Building, Chicago.

Clarence G. Pool is practicing medicine,
and is athletic director of the high school
at Natchitoches, La.

Arthur Church (ex), formerly of
Denver, is now treasurer of the Onion
Salt Company, with offices in the Otis
building, Chicago.

Arthur G. Bovee has resigned his
instructorship in the University to take
the position of head of the Department
of French in the University High School.
He will spend the next six months in
Paris, and take up his work at the High
School in October.

1909

Irene Kawin is a probation officer on
the staff of the Juvenile Court in Chicago,
and Ethel Kawin (191 1) is with the
Chicago School of Civics and Philan-
thropy.

Dean M. Kennedy is in Los Angeles,
where he is connected with the traffic
department of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Co.

1910

Cole Y. Rowe is secretary of the Clover
Leaf Casualty Co., 407 Otis Building,
Chicago.

Harry O. Latham is manager of the
New York branch of the Latham Ma-
chinery Co., with offices at 124 White
St. He writes: "It is surprising the
number of university people one finds
in and around New York. Joe Sunder-
land, who has been for a year with the
Acme Steel Goods Co., is now traveling
out of their New York office. Barrett
Andrews, ex-'o6, and Arthur Johnson,

ex-'o6, have been living for some years
in Bronxville, where Lee Maxwell has
just moved. Andrews is advertising
manager of Vogue, and he and Mrs.
Andrews are going abroad this summer to
study the fashions. Sunday, March 16,
Edith Wiles, '04 (Mrs. Bird), Wayland
Magee, '05, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews,
and I all foregathered at Johnson's — a
regular reunion, not on such a small scale
either. Winston Henry, '10, of Tulsa,
Okla., has been here for a week, and it
was a pleasure to show him to the great
city. H. H. Chandler, Jr., '08, is with
the Munsey publications."

Helen Sard Hughes, who is teaching
English in Wellesley College, has an
article in the April North American
Review on "The Privilege of Realists."

1911

L. G. Schussmann since last fall has
been principal of the Outagamie County
(Wis.) Training School for Teachers,
with headquarters at South Kaukauna,
Wis.

Laura Hatch is a Fellow in geology,
at Bryn Mawr. Next year she expects
to return to the University of Chicago
for further graduate study.

Myra K. Perry is head of the depart-
ment of English of the Columbia (S.C.)
College for Women.

Marie G. Rogers, now teaching in the
Academy of Our Lady of Lourdes,
Rochester, Minn., expects to study voice
culture next year in Europe.

1912
Late in March was published the first
edition of the Midnight Special, of the
class of 191 2 (Midnight — twelve — catch
it ?), with R. J. Daly, Isabel Jarvis, Ruth
Reticker, Alice Lee Herrick, Margaret
Sullivan, Hazel Hoff, and WiUiam
Thomas in general charge. It is a pub-
lication of eight long if narrow columns,
in fine type, which gives the campus
news, and recent information of all but
thirty-three men and four women who
are members of the class. The informa-
tion is written up in a vivid and friendly
fashion, and (incidentally) the proof-
reading is extraordinarily good. It is
hard to imagine a member or ex-member
of the class reading the special without
delight; nothing has done the editor
of the Magazine so much good since he
perused The Eleven last fall. If this
sort of news collection and distribution
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suppose it will, the "solidarity of the
classes" concerning which the Magazine
has wasted so much ink will accomplish
itself automatically. The items that
follow concern members of the class not
mentioned in the Midnight Special.

Rebekah Lesem is teaching English
in the Milwaukee State Normal School.
Her address is 900 Downer Ave., Mil-
waukee, Wis.

Clifton M. Keeler has taken the
examination for assistant geologist with
the U.S. Geological Survey, and expects
to go to work in Washington shortly.
His present address is P.O. Box 546,
San Antonio, Texas.

Henry Burke Robins, Ph.D. '12, who
has been professor in the Pacific Coast
Baptist Theological Seminary, at Berke-
ley, Cal., has accepted a similar position
in the Rochester Theological Seminary,
Rochester, N.Y. Mr. Robins will take
up the active studies of his new position
September next.

H. Glenn Kinsley is practicing law in
Sheridan, Wyo.

Engagements. —

1898

Mary Reddy to Paul Doty, general
manager of the Gas Light Co., of St.
Paul, Minn. The marriage is set for this
month.

1908

Agnes Janet Kendrick to William R.
Brough. The marriage will take place
on June 14.

Marriages. —

(The announcements of marriages and
deaths in this issue include many which
took place some time since, but of which
news has only of late been furnished the
Secretary.)

1895

Anna Sophia Packer, '95, to Albert E.
Fish. Address: Wakeman, Ohio.

1899
Fanny Crawford Burling to Stephen
Davies. Address: 135 North 3d Ave.,
Omaha, Neb.

1900

John Walter Beardslee, Jr., to Frances
Eunice Davis, '09. Mr. Beardslee is
Professor of Latin at Hope College,
Holland, Mich.

Mabel Avery Kells to Horace Franklin
Alden. Address: Cottage Grove, Ore.

1 901
Henrietta Helen Chase to Edgar Neels
Carter. Address: Bullochville, Ga.

1902

Helen Augusta Dow to W. K. Whitaker.
Address: Tracyton, Wash.

Eva Twombly to Clyde W. Jeflfries.
Address: 2635 2d Ave., S., Minneapolis,
Minn.

1904

Clara Ann Leslie to Kilner Fox
Thomas. Address: 555 Barry Ave.,
Chicago.

Mary Evelyn Thompson to Matson
Bradley Hill. Address: 4923 Sheridan
Road, Chicago.

1 90s

Harriet Louise Hughes to Charles
Donald Dallas. Address: 5126 Lexing-
ton Ave., Chicago.

Theodora Leigh Richards, '05, to
Dr. Clyde Leroy Ellsworth. Mr. and
Mrs. Ellsworth's address is 1492 Locust
St., Dubuque, la.

Cora Leadbetter, '05, to Alfred Howe
Davis. They are living at Tere Chabom,
Bakersfield, Cal.

Mary Ellen Wilcoxson to Frank S.
Baker. .\ddress: 6049 Ellis Ave.,
Chicago.

1906

James Madison Hill to Margret Persis
Brown, '07. Mr. Hill is with the United
States Geological Survey and their
address is 2518 17th St., N.W., Washing-
ton. D.C.

Grace .\nna Radzinski to Isadore M.
Portis. Address: 621 1 Drexel .\ve.,
Chicago.

Ruth Marie Reddy, to William
Jennings O'Neill. Address: 3913 Grand
Blvd., Chicago.

James H. Gagnier, '08, to Cleora
Emery Davis, '06. Mr. and Mrs. Davis'
address is 201 N. Division St., Beaver
Dam, Wis.

Mary Elizabeth Bradley, '06, to
Charles R. Keyes. Mr. and Mrs.
Keyes are living at Wagon Mound,
N.M.

Ruth Wheaton, '07, to Bernard Lyman
Johnson, '06. Address: 5422 Ridge-
wood Court, Chicago.

Zella Isabel Perkins to Anfin Egdahl.
Address : Menominee, Wis.

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1907

Jessie Brown Hayne, '07, to Dr. R. B.
Howard. Their address is Box 67,
Three Oaks, Mich.

Edna C. Yondorf, '08, to Simon
Lazarus. Their address is 49 N. Cham-
pion Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

Mildred Hatton to Earle Corliss Bryan.
Address: 185 Mt. Vernon St., Oshkosh,
Wis. Mr. Bryan is special agent of the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Arlisle Esther Mather to Bruce Brown.
Address: 910 Laurel Ave., Austin,
Chicago.

1908

Eleanor Chapman Day to John David
Jones, Jr. Address: Racine, Wis.

Elizabeth Rey Durley to Walter A.
Boyle. Address: McNabb, 111.

Wellington Downing Jones to Harriet
Agnes Harding, '09, on March 8, 191 3,
in Chicago.

Mabel Emma Lee to Oliver L. Messer.
Address: 1130 Ringwood Place, Clinton,
Iowa.

1909

Ethel May Girdwood to Frank B.
Bachelor. Address: 321 E. Ann St.,
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Margarete Lonie Stein to A. Went-
worth Conway. Address: Salem, Vir-
ginia.

1910

Clara Louise Pinske to Charles B.
John. Address: 1627 State St., Mil-
waukee, Wis.

Grace Elvina Hadley to Thomas Henry
Billings. Address: Wesley College, Win-
nipeg, Manitoba.

Margaret Alice King to P. Roy Lam-
mert, ex-. Address: 123 ist St., New
Brighton, L.I., New York.

Deaths.

1878

John Barr, A.B. '76, D.B. '78, retired
Baptist minister, died at his home 1609
Josephine St., Berkeley, Cal., on Feb-
ruary 10, 1913.

1896

George Pierce Garrison, Ph.D. '96,
professor of history. University of Texas,
died in Austin, Tex., July 3, 1910.

1900

Alice Duval Robertson, Ph.B. '00
(Mrs. Frank W. Griffith), died April 6,
191 2, at Fort Dodge, Iowa.

H. M. Burchard, Ph.D., '00, died in
August, 1911. He had been for twelve
years at Syracuse University, N.Y.

1902
Edith Huguenin, Ph.B. 1902, died
April 30, 191 2.

1903
Joseph Edward Hora, S.B. '04. Mr.
Hora was instructor in chemistry at
Lewis Institute, Chicago.

1904-
Caroline E. Blanchard, '04 (Mrs.
Lewis Fuldner).

1905
Wade Hampton Powell, S.B. '05, at
Cuero, Texas.

1907
Warren John Smith, A.B. '05, D.B. '07.
Mr. Smith was pastor at large of Baptists
in Iowa.

1908
Eloise Lockhart, S.B. '08, died January
19, 191 2. Miss Lockhart was a teacher
of physics and mathematics in the Ken-
wood High School, Chicago.

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W. J. Watson, D.B. '82, died at Villisca
Iowa, December 10, 191 2, at the age of
sixty-eight. He attended the Morgan
Park Theological Seminary from 1879
to 1882, and later held pastorates at
Kenosha, Wis., Monmouth, 111., and
Malvern and Villisca, Iowa.

E. L. Killam, ex-'o8, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., is considering a call from a church
in California. His work among boys
has been of a very high order.

J. T. Proctor, D.B. '97, of Shanghai,
China, is heading an interdenominational
movement to effect a union of the Chris-
tian schools in East China and to create.

ultimately, a strong union Christian
university.

Franklin D. Elme, '98, is in charge of
the First Baptist Church of Pough-
kccDsic N'.Y,

A. e! Patch, D.B., '03, has left Port-
land, Ore., for his new pastorate at
Salinas, Cal.

P. C. Wright, '02, after eleven years'
service at Norwich, Conn., is moving to a
new field at Philadelphia.

Charles W. Fletcher, '13, is pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Watertown,
N.Y.

Fred Merrifield, '01, Secretary

UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS

ATHLETICS

Baskel-ball. — The 1913 season ended
with Wisconsin champion for the third
time; but Chicago's showing was at
least not unsuccessful. Two games were
lost to Ohio State, one to Purdue, and
one to Wisconsin; Purdue, Wisconsin,
Northwestern, Iowa, Minnesota (twice),
and Illinois (twice) were defeated.
Technically, Northwestern takes second
place, on percentages; but as Chicago
beat Northwestern in the only game the
two played, it is fair to question whether
Northwestern was the better team. As
is so often the case, Chicago finished very
strong. Why our teams should begin
so slowly is hard to say. In football,
both in 191 1 and in X912, the reason for
this slow development and triumphant
conclusion was plain — a lack of material
which made slow development inevitable.
But why should the basket-ball five take
months to find its capabilities? The
coach had the fire, but there was no real
union in the team until late in February.
John Vruwink, '14, has been elected
captain for next year. He prepared at
Hope College, Holland, Mich., and is a
pre-medical student. He was end on
the football team last fall, and forward
on the basket-ball team. There is some
doubt of his eligibility for another year
of competition — not because of his
participation in athletics at Hope
College, but because he will have by
January, 1914, majors enough to graduate
him from the University.

Baseball. — The baseball team has
played one or two of its early games, and
some judgment of its capabilities may
be formed.

Mann, who caught most of the games
last year, will again be the only catcher
of class. Mann is steady, and a fair
hitter, but not brilliant. The pitchers
will be Carpenter and Baumgardner,
and whomever else Page can find for
occasional use — probably Des Jardiens.
Carpenter is strong, but very slow for a
baseball man. He pitched much better
last year than ever before, and is likely
to do well again. Baumgardner is a

Sophomore, and on his ability to fulfil
his promise much of the success of the
season may depend. In form, Baum-
gardner is, in the writer's opinion, the
best pitcher in the Conference. He is
big and powerful, has splendid speed,
and according to Archer, the Cub catcher
who worked out with the men in late
March, could find a place today in the
big leagues. Block, the other Sophomore
pitcher of whom much was expected,
has left college. Baumgardner is for-
tunately a high-stand student, so that
no worry will be necessary over his
eligibility.

At first-base are Norgren, Captain
Freeman, and Des Jardiens. No one
need be surprised if Des Jardiens is
given the position, and Norgren, who
played it last year, is used in the out-
field. Des Jardiens is the better fielder,
and with his tremendous reach should
be particularly valuable at first. Free-
man is too slow for the place. Second-
base lies between Volini, a Sophomore,
and Kearney, a Junior, with V'olini
having the call. He is a first-rate fielder
and a fair hitter, but slow on the bases.
Shortstop will probably fall to either
Scofield, who substituted last year, or
Leonard, a Junior. Scofield is occasionally
brilliant and is very fast, but is erratic
and does not hit. Leonard is almost
untried; he was out last year, but had
no chance. Third-base will be taken
care of by either Cummins, a Sophomore,
or Harger, a Junior. Harger promised
well as a Freshman, but showed little
last season. Cummins is light for college
baseball, but hit well as a Freshman.
Neither is better than a fair fielder.

For the outfield are Catron, Norgren,
Captain Freeman, Libonati, and Kul-
vinsky. Catron is good, in fact he would
be quite first rate if he could overcome
a tendency to lose his head in a crisis,
but he shows no signs of improvement in
that respect, and is moreover a bit
careless in training. Freeman is a heavy
hitter of the "fence-busting" variety;
as was said of him last year, he swings
and runs like a drawbridge. Norgren

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is good anywhere. Libonati is eager,
but light and unsteady. Kulvinsky as a
ball-player is second rate. On the whole,
the best plan for the outfield seems to be,
when Carpenter is pitching, to put
Baumgardner in right field. The team
is not, man by man, a good one; compare
the infield with that seasoned group of
last year, and the drop is visible enough.
But the battery looks better than fair,
and if Coach Page will hire good pitchers
and let the men practice day after day
against all varieties of delivery, the nine
may have a successful season.

Track. — The Conference indoor track
championships, held at Northwestern on
March 29, showed just about what
Chicago may expect in the way of track
and field accomplishment this year.
Wisconsin won with 335 points (her
third championship this season) ; Illinois
was second with 33, Chicago third with
i8f. Northwestern fourth with i6f,
Iowa fifth with 6, and Purdue last with
I J. Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio
State failed to send representatives.
Five Conference indoor records were
broken, the hurdles, half-mile, pole
vault, high jump, and relay. For
Chicago, Knight was third in the dash,
Ward and Kuh second and third in the
hurdles, Stains fourth in the quarter,
Campbell second in the half, Thomas
third in the vault, Norgren third in the
shot, Gorgas in a quadruple tie for third
in the high-jump. Chicago also took

second in the relay, Parker, Breathed,
Kuh, and Matthews running. Matthews
and Parker, Chicago, also showed in the
preliminaries. In the mile and two mile
Chicago was not visible to the naked
eye. On the whole, Chicago's showing
was distinctly better than had been
expected. Outdoors Captain Kuh and
Ward will do about 16 seconds apiece
in the high hurdles, and Ward 25 seconds
in the low. Stains, Matthews, and Paine
(who will try for the relay team) will run
the quarter in from 51 to 53 seconds;
Ward could do as well if he wished to
spoil himself for the hurdles. Campbell
can run the half in two minutes or the
mile in 4:30, whichever he is used for.
Norgren can put the shot forty to forty-
one feet. Thomas can vault 11 feet
six inches. Canning will throw the
hammer 130 feet, and one of our various
high jumpers will usually clear 5 feet
9 inches. In the broad jump Ward
again may do 22 feet, possibly more.
It is a better team than anyone expected,
and does credit both to the men, who have
worked so hard and intelligently, and to
the coaches.

At this writing the various schedules
have not yet been approved by the Board
of Physical Culture and Athletics. The
football schedule, with a slight change
of dates, is exactly the same as last year.
The baseball schedule and track schedules
involve no novelties, but are slightly
heavier than last year.

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ADDRESSES WANTED

Information should be sent to Frank W. Dignan, Secretary

ALUMNI

1907
Guy Roger Clements
Ivan Doseff

Augustus William Gidart
Paul Rowley Gray
Robert Houston Hamilton
Johnson Francis Hammond
Michael A. Lane
William Vernon Lovitt
Henry Mendelsohn
Richard Clyde McCloskey
Vincent Collins Poor
William James Puffer
Edmund Daugherty Watkins
Thurston William Weum
F>vin Paul Zeisler

1908
Charles Laurence Baker
Albert Francis Bassford
Judson Gerald Bennett
Floyd Erwin Bernard
August Bogard
Irwin Wright Cotton
Charles Elijah Decker
Frederick Howard Falls •
Homer L. Cleckler
Bruno Abraham Goldberger
Henry Rowland Halsey
Harry Richard Hoffman
Jacob Martin Johlin
Michael Israel Meyer
Walter Thomas McAvoy
Elton James Moulton
Elmore Waite Phelps
Earl Chester Steffa
John Elbert Stout
William Riggs Trowbridge
Davis Duke Todd
Francis Enos Tinker
Eugene Van Cleef
Charles Frances Watson
Walter Leonard Wentzel
James Walter Wheeler
Paul Spencer Wood
Carter Godwin Woodson

1909
John Vincent Barrow
Lawrence Palmer B riggs

Esther D. Hunt

Kate Waters

ALUMNAE

1895

1897

1899
Helen Whitney Backus
Lola Marie Harmon
Bertha Vernon Stiles

1900

1901

Helen Grant

Sarah J. Harper
Emily Miladofsky
Marietta Norton
Althea Somerville
Ruth Vail

1902
Mrs. Antonie Krejsa Kendrick
Louise Lydia Scrimger
Nellie Lillis Smith
Ana Louise Thomas
Ruth Terry (Mrs. Virgil (Mdberg)
Deo Elisabeth Whittlesey

1903
Mary Meroe Conlan
Margaret Cameron Davis
Julia Coburn Hobbs
Lilian Anna Maria Elizabeth Steichen

1904
Edna T. Cook
Elizabeth Walker Branberry
Eva Rebecca Price
Katherine Julia Elizabeth Vaughan

1905
Lottie Agnes Graber
Loretta Toner (Mrs. Bradshawe Hutchin-
son)
Helen May Weldon

1906
Blanche Rose Cox Hogan
Edith Charlotte Lawton
Lucille Rochlitz

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ALVMNl— Continued

Festus Newell Cofiell
Herman Max Cohen
Charles Clarence Danforth
John Dayhuff Ellis
Allen Wescott Field, Jr.
Harry Burton Fuller
Samuel M. Hartzman
Martin Emil Henriksen
Philip Hofmann
Raymond Francis Holden
Warren Ingold
Joseph Oliver Johnson
Don Clyde Kite
Delbert Harrison Laird
Herbert Otto Lussky
Philip Lewinsky
Fountain Pierce Leigh
Murrey Kerr Martin
Curtis Eugene Mason
Ira Benton Meyer
Samuel Mordecai Morwitz
Beveridge Harshaw Moore
Archibald Dean Polley
Roswell Talmadge Pettit
Fleming Allen Clay Perrin
Frederick Emmanuel Roberg
Walter Frederick Sanders
Randolph Eugene Scott
Fred Smith
John Joseph Sprafka
Everett Beech Spraker
George Frederick Tanner
William Claude Vogt
Frank Slusser Wetzel
Paul Williams

1910

Henry Foster Adams

John Solon Bridges

Mat Bloomfield

Walter Clemens Campbell

Pekao Tientou Cheng (Tow Ching)

John Samuel Collier

Thomas Henry Cornish

Charles William Finley

Mortimer Stanfield Gardner

Floyd Smith Hayden

Nils Hansen Heiberg

James Arthur Miller

Edison Ellsworth Oberholtzer

Otto Edward Peterson

James Thomas Rooks

Charles Albert Rouse

James Blaine Shouse

Chester Ray Swackhamer

Leland Rutherford Thompson

Karl William Wahlberg

Yiuchang Tsenshan Wang

ALUWbiAE—Contimted

Beatrice Chandler Patton (Mrs. Arnold

L. Gesell)
Susan Ella Smith
Louise Stanley

1907

Frances Chandler (Mrs. Louis Win

Rapeer)
Evalyn Sarah Cornelius *(Mrs. Ozro C.

Gould)

Mae Ethel Ingalls (Mrs. Gray)

Marietta Wright Neff
Maude Sparkman
Eleanor Elizabeth Whipple

1908

Mildred Adelaide Coffman

Anna Evelyn Culver

Louise Henrietta Eismann

Florence Cornelia Fox

Alta Kathryn Green

Gudrun Cornelia Gundersen

Usta Caroline A. Hagen

Esther Hampton

Nellie lone Isbell

Florence May Parker

Juanita Carol Howard

Adelaide Sypes Kibbey

Lida Meredith Layton

Josephine Lesem

June McCarthy

Florence Howland Mills

Edith Moore

Bessie .\nthony O'Connell

Agnes Jane O'Grady

Mary Frances O'Malley

Viola Isabel Paradise

Mabel Raichlen

Georgia May Rose

Theodore Jeannette Scherz

Emma Schrader

Many Zachary Shapiro

Loretta Smith

Julia Kate Sommer

Nellie G. Spence (Mrs. Robert Hughes)

Inca Lucile Stebbins

Annie Katherine Stock

Geneva Swinford (Mrs. W. L. English)

Grace Trovinger

Edith Luella Walworth

1909

Sarah Angela Smyth

Blanche Morton Butler

Jean Compton (Mrs. Jas. Chaffee)

Minnie Anna Darst (Mrs. E. W. Darst)

Helen Judson Dye

Harriet Ferrill

Edna Helen Gould

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ALUMNI — Conlinued
1911
Leonard Ward Coulson
Thomas Byard Collins
Paul Carl Haeseler
Richard Fleetwood Herndon
Herbert Groff Hopkins
Isadore Isaacson
Ira Elden Johnston
William Heinen Krauser
William George Kierstead
William Miller Ruffcorn
Merrill Isaac Schnebly
Nicholas Alexander Sankowsky
Yorke Breckenridge Sutch

1912
Glenn Vernon Burroughs
Ludwig Augustus Emge
Fred Leib Glascock
Robert Raymond Glynn
Solomon Alonzo Hayworth
Thure Johannes Hedman
Harry Kruskal Herintz
David Levinson
Wallace Carl Murphy
Walter Marion Smith
Jacob Frederick Zimmerman

1869
Frank J. Kline

1872
John Milton Daniel

William Arthur Gardner

1882
John Milne Russell

1895
William Fletcher Harding

1896
William Clark Logan

1897
Maurice J. Rugh

1898
Swen Benjamin Anderson
Frederick Wilson Eastman

ALUMNA Y.— Continued

Edna Clare Irvin
Hallie Nathan Kinney
Anna Pearl Kohler
Mary Anna Nicholas
Irene Frances C. O'Brien
Mary Degnan Rogers
Viola Alice Steele
Mary Ella Todd
Callie Amelia Weinberg

1910
Helen Lorene Barker
Elizabeth Connor

Stella Gardner Dodge (Mrs. Dodge)

Flavia May Doty
Mabel Eliz. Dryer
Jeanette Eliz. Graham
Lillian May Hawkins
Laura Fowler Hayes
Minnie Pearl Higley
Nellie Eliza Mills
Mary Lemmon Philips
Emily Amanda Schmidt
Mrs. Lena Beerman Shepherd
Emma Harriet Sidenberg
Elsie Frances Weil
Ina Belle Wolcott.

1911
Bessie Leola Ashton
Margaret Louise Campbell
Margaret Jane Foglesong
Eliz. Halsey
Grace Ellerton Hannan
Martha Frances Hargis
Elsie Irene Henzel
Erma Marguerite Kellogg
Martha Fanny Laiblin
Ethel May Maclear
Hazel Louise Martin

1912
Mina Vera De Vries
Ella Irene Lightfoot
Christena Maclntyre
Mary Martin
Caroline Irene Townsend
Jimmie Belle Vance

Jerome Benjamin Harrington
Johannes Benoni Eduard Jonas
Henry Francis Perry
Joseph Cecil Stone

1900
Frank Alexander La Motte
Robert Morris Rabb
Walter Joseph Schmahl

ADDRESSES WANTED

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ALUMNI— Continued

1901
Jesse Franklin Brumbaugh
Elbridge Lyonal Heath
Willis Henry Linsley
John Cadd Paltridge
Arthur Gaylord Slocum, Jr.

1902
George Senn
Henry Ernest Smith
Warren Brownell Smith
Charles Allan Wright

1903
Walter England Galley
Luther Lycurgus Kirtley
John Allen Moore
Percy Scott Rawls

John Joseph VoUertsen
Harry Jacob Wertman

1904
Frank G. Burrows
Elbert Admirel Cummings
Francis Squire Parks
John Griffin Thompson
Paul Leroy Vogt
Thomas Matheson Wilson

1905
Alfred Jackson Bunts
Guy Edward Killie
Julius Wm. A. Kuhne

1906
James Reid Robertson
Herbert Edward WTieeler

ALUMNI OF DIVINITY SCHOOL

1870
John J. Howard
Alfred Roberts

1871
Washington Chester
Henry Bethel Davis

1872
Norman Fox Hoyt
Andrew Lafayette Jordan

1874
Edward Armstrong Ince

187s
Malcom Wood

1876

Charles Harding DeWolf
Benjamin Robert Womack

1877
Charles Henry Day Fisher
Francis M. Williams

1879
George Berkeley Davis
Jacob Schultz
John Kitteridge Wheeler

1880
William Griffith Evans
Joseph Alfred Fisher
Rinaldo Lawson Olds
William Leonard Wolfe

1881
Gulian Lansing Morrill

Harvey Bartlett Foskett
Oliver Brown Kinney

1883
Edward Hammond Brooks
Richard Lenox Halsey

1884
Hugh David Morwood
Aaron W. Snider
Alfred Mundy Wilson

1885
Luther L. Cloyd
Thomas Stephenson

1886
Carey Joseph Pope

1887
Charles Nelson Brodholm

1888

Eli Packer
Thor Olsen Wold

Horatio Seymour Cooper
Simon Sylvester Hageman
Theodore Hyatt
William Arbuckle Nelson
Rodie M. Roderick
John Stafford

1890
Wilhelm August Peterson
John George Schliemann

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ALUMNI OF DIVINITY SCKOOL— Continued

John Conrad Hughes
Stanislas John Shoomkoff
Lee Rue Thomas

Alfred Ernest Chandler
Elmer Kendall Reynolds
Sanford Romanzo Walker

1893
William Lewis Blanchard
James Wallace Cabeen
James Washington Falls
Joseph Hadden Girdwood
John Freeman Mills

1894
James William Ashly

189s

Henry Alfred Fisk
John Elijah Ford

Walter Gustavus Carlson

1897
Edmund Godwin
Alfred Ebenezer Goodman
Ralph Waller Hobbs

Frederick William Bateson

1899
William Wallace Reed
Henry Messick Shouse

1900
John Chandler
Friend Taylor Dye
Clarence Mason Gallup
Theron Winifred Mortimer

1901
Frank Leonard Anderson
Jacob Nelson Anderson
Marcus Dods
Howard Brown Woolston

1902
Irwin Hoch DeLong
Austin Hunter
John August Kjellin
Frank Leonard Jewett
Everett Joseph Parsons

1903
Andrew Freeman Anderson
Walter Scott Hayden, Jr.
Thomas Harvey Kuhn
John Peter Myers
Herbert Finley Rudd
Richard Edward Sayles

1904
Julian Foster Blodgett »
Eugene Forester Judson
William Theodore Paullin, Jr.
James Allan Price
Amos Henry Schattuck
Julius Christian Zeller

1905
John Edward Ayshe
Harry Foster Burns
Edwin William Gray

1906
James Pleasant McCabe, Jr.
William Henry Beynon
Joseph Franklin Findlay

1907
Arthur Henry Hirsch
Walter Leroy Runyan
William Edmund Ward Seller

1908
George Washington Cheesman

1909
Edwin Herbert Lyle

1910
Eli Jacob Arnot
Clarence Elmer Campbell
Norman Joseph Ware

1911
John Clifford
Ernest Neville Armstrong

ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN

The University of Chicago
Magazine

Volume V MAY I9I3 Number 7

EVENTS ANfD DISCUSSION

In recent meetings of the Alumni Council and of the College Alumni
Association there has been much discussion of the proper date for Alumni

Day. The difficulty has been that Convocation Week is
Th' Y ^^ crowded with events that it has been found practically

impossible to fix on a day in which the alumni exercises
will not conflict with other things. It was announced some time ago that
for this year the exercises would be held on the Saturday before Convoca-
tion, that is on June 7. It is now found that this gives rise to several
serious conflicts, particularly with the undergraduate festival and with
the Interscholastic Day. At a meeting of the College Association held
April 24, it was decided, in view of all the circumstances, to hold the
alumni exercises this year on Convocation Day, June 10. This was
found to work satisfactorily last year, and seems to be the best arrange-
ment possible for the present year. How^ever, a committee of the
College Association has the general question in hand, and it is hoped
that before long a readjustment may be made which will give the alumni
a day to themselves.

The discussion of the proper day for the June meeting of the College
Alumni Association has been more vigorous this spring than ever before.
, There is a widespread belief that one day should be set
the Future aside for the alumni only. The plan suggested by the
Council was this: to put Convocation on Friday, the last
day of examinations, instead of Tuesday; and to give the next day,
Saturday, over to the alumni. The objections raised to this plan were
first that it would compel those taking degrees to remain three days
longer than had hitherto been required and second, that it would conflict

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with the beginning of work in the Summer Quarter. It was then sug-
gested that the alumni should meet on the Saturday before Convocation;
but after a long correspondence this was found impracticable because
it would interfere with the arrangements for the Interscholastic meet,
Marshall Field and Mandel Hall both being in use for Interscholastic
purposes. At present, unless the matter is pushed, the same situation
seems likely to confront the Association next year. Mr. Stagg finds no
date except the first Saturday in June available for the Interscholastic;
the University finds no date except a Tuesday available for Convocation;
and the alumni more or less drop between.

A beginning has been made in what may ultimately prove the
salvation of our June alumni meetings, namely class reunions. The

classes which would ordinarily come together this year
„ . are those of 1898, 1903, 1908, 1910, and 191 2. Up to

the present time practically no effort has ever been made
to bring together classes as such in June. Of course the class system
does not (officially) exist at Chicago, and even the students often deter-
mine with difficulty, from the maze of majors and quarters, just when
they will emerge. But, particularly of late years, class organizations of
a sort have developed, and even developed solidly; and some alumni
think the time has come to utilize them, as similar organizations are
utilized nearly everywhere else. Various members of the reunion classes
therefore have been asked to act as chairmen, to suggest and put in
effect plans for calling together the graduates of their respective years.
For 1898, F. E. Vaughan has been appointed; for 1903, Thomas J. Hair-
But the classes of 1908 and 19 10 have developed much more elaborate
machinery. An executive committee of nine men from 1908 has been
hard at work. It includes Arthur AUyn, Paul Buhlig, L. D. Fernald,
Arthur Goes, WiUiam F. Hewitt, Alvin Kramer, Max Richards, Frank
Templeton, and Arthur Vail. Arrangements for the girls of the class
are in the hands of Helen T. Sunny, The plans include a class dinner
and a separate reception. 1910 has also its executive committee, includ-
ing J. J. Pegues, A. L. Fridstein, Bradford Gill, Frank M. Orchard,
and Harlan O. Page. Its plans have not been announced, but will also
include a separate class dinner.

One of the great defects of most of our present alumni organizations

is their failure to provide a place for the man or woman who attended

the University but took no degree. Some of the strongest

and most loyal adherents of Chicago are among this

group. Those who have attended for only one or two quarters, unless

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they happen to live in Chicago and have seen something of the University
since they left it, are not usually much interested; but those who have
spent a year or more here, and then have been forced by circumstances
to withdraw, are often as eagerly interested in Chicago's welfare as the
actual graduates. Yet our Directory does not include them, our notices
miss them, our meetings, they sometimes feel, are not meant for them.
Some arrangement ought speedily to be made whereby they might be
regularly reached, and the tremendous potential capital of their loyalty
conserved to the University's, and to their own, advantage.

In this connection, however, a point made by Professor Lovett in
his talk at the meeting of the Alumni Club seemed to many present very

interesting. The standard of undergraduate scholarship

^ At^ ^ ^^ Chicago, he pointed out, has risen steadily in the last

Alumni ^^^ years. He agrees with Dean Angell that it is now,

on the whole, as high as can fairly be expected; but he
insisted that in raising it everyone concerned had been benefited — the
student, the University, and particularly the body of alumni. A degree
from the University of Chicago represents, in by far the greater number
of cases, hard and intelligent work. The casual drifter, the man without
a purpose, finds his troubles multiply so rapidly that he is soon unable
to force a way farther through them. But on the other hand the clear-
headed healthy young man (or woman) who does go on to the conclusion
of his work for a degree acquires equal respect for himself and affection
for the institution which assumes him ambitious and demands his best;
and after graduation he finds his affection growing as he realizes more and
more clearly the good sense of hard training. The classes of '96 to '99
have a feeling for the University that no others, perhaps, can quite share.
In their day Chicago was an experiment ; they were pioneers, educational
"forty-niners"; years only brighten the lusterof their scholastic adventure.
But since then, what alumni are the most eager in their loyalty ? The
last five classes, without much question ; the men and women who saw
the incidental displaced by the systematic, snap judgment by rigid require-
ment, academic entertainment by training. Professor Lovett is right; the
proudest alumni are, as a rule, those who take their University seriously.

The date of the annual Spring Festival has been changed from late
May to early June — June 6, to be exact. Originally the Spring Festival

was the plan of Mr. Stagg, who hoped to crystallize general
F sti al undergraduate enthusiasm into pageantry and procession.

It has always been an interesting occasion ; but last year,
so the Undergraduate Council seems to feel, it was overshadowed by the

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athletic events which accompanied it. This spring, therefore, after
much debate, a new scheme has been adopted. The old features — the
class floats, the dancing, and the ball game — will be retained, but
the floats and the dancing will be considerably elaborated. The proces-
sion will center round "The Spirit of Chicago," a float to represent all
the classes as one; and in addition the four classes, the graduate school,
and various organizations, such as the combined dramatic clubs, will
have floats. An interfraternity relay, and other athletic diversions,
including a game of push-ball, will be added. At bottom, the plan is
an attempt to consolidate near the end of the quarter the various large
affairs which have hitherto spread out over several weeks and to widen
interest in the festival. The schedule as planned is as follows:

June 5, W. A. A. Banquet. Interclass Hop.

June 6, Spring Festival. Holiday. Interfraternity Sing.

June 7, Interscholastic Meet.

An interesting feature of the Spring Quarter has been the very
successful publication, on alternate Wednesdays, of a supplement to the
Chicago Evening Post, by the women of the University.
omen an rpj^^ Tgi[Q.n originally suggested by the Post was to have a
-n»- . supplement brought out one week by Chicago women,

the next by Northwestern women, and so on. The
Northwestern authorities preferred to employ both men and women for
their issues; but the women of Chicago have been contented to run
alone. Their efforts — superintended by Nathaniel Pfeffer, '11, formerly
editor of the Maroon, now with the Post — have been strikingly successful.
Articles on Alice Freeman Palmer, by Ruth Reticker, '12; Dean Talbot,
by Martha Green, '13; and Hindle Wakes, by Augusta Swawite, '10,
were of a high type of excellence. The poetry and the editorial com-
ment have been equally effective. In fact, by their dignity, their suavity,
their humor, and their good sense the women have done much to show
to the general public the best side of the undergraduate here.

The ninth annual production of the Blackfriars, The Pranks of
Paprika, was given at Mandel Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings,

May 2 and -k, q and 10. The book and lyrics were by
"The Pranks . .

, _, ., „ Donald Breed, '13, and Roderick Peattie, '14. Breed is
of Papnka" , [ 7 . -

from Freeport (111.) High School; was managmg editor of

the 191 2 Cap and Gown, president of the Junior class, president of the
dramatic club, editor of the Literary Monthly, and a University marshal.
Peattie is a Junior, a son of Mrs. Robert (Elia) Peattie. Both Breed and

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 231

Peattie are members of Alpha Delta Phi. The music of the production
was chiefly by Lewis Fuiks, '16; R. E. Myers, '11, John Rhodes, '10,
William Achi, '14, W. B. Bosworth, '14, and Henry Barton, '15, also
contributed. The cast included the following:

Billy Henderson, Robert Tuttle, '13; Pimiento, Milton Morse, '14;
Pancho, Roland George, '16; Don Miguel, Henry Shull, '14; Wilhelmina,
Harry Bogg, '15; Paprika, James Dyrenforth, '16; Rosa, Harold
Terwilligar, '15; Marie, George Dorsey, '16; Maid to Paprika, Ralph
Comwell, '16; Oswald, Craig Redmon, '16; Troubadour, L. P. Payne,
'13; Smith, Harold Goettler, '14. The cast was remarkable for the
fact that six out of thirteen were Freshmen, The performance was
on much the same level as in former years; if anything superior. The
dancing of Rogers, '12, and Parker, '12, was missed; but the acting of
the cast as a whole was perhaps better than ever before. Thirty-eight
men were in the chorus.

On April 30, one day before it had been announced to come out,

appeared the 19 13 annual, the Cap and Gown. It is a volume of 500

pages, in solid binding, and better printed than usual.
The Cap . . .

. g „ It contains also six successful color-inserts, the work of

Professor Sargent's pupils in the College of Education.
The book as a whole is admirably planned and edited. The managing
editors were William H. Lyman and John B. Perlee, the business mana-
gers Thomas E. Coleman and W. P. Dickerson. The literary editor was
Ralph W. Stansbury, and the art editor George S. Lyman. All are
Juniors e.xcept G. S. Lyman, who is a Sophomore. The Lyman brothers
are members of Beta Theta Pi; Perlee of Phi Gamma Delta; Coleman
of Chi Psi; Dickerson of Alpha Delta Phi; and Stansbury of Sigma Chi.
The managing editors for next year are Clyde E. Watkins and Haskell
Rhett, the business managers (a competitive position) will be Frederick
W. Byerly and Donald S. Delany.

An interesting class reunion occurred in the Quadrangles on April 23.

The members of the class of 1862 of the first University of Chicago

took luncheon together, at the Quadrangle Club, fiftv-

♦62 Reunion r^ ^l • j ^- rr-i. 1 , ,

one years after their graduation . The class was the second

one graduated from the old University, entering in 1858, the year

after the institution opened. There were only three members — John

Saxton Mabie, George Washington Thomas, and James Goodman. The

latter two are residents of Chicago. Mr. Mabie has made his home in

California for the last twenty years. He has been a Bible student and

teacher, and having reached the age of seventy-six, concluded to make

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a little trip of nine months and visit Palestine, " the land of the Book,"
and incidentally see Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, Germany, France,
Switzerland, and the British Islands. Mr. Mabie wrote Secretary Good-
speed of his plans and the reunion of the class was arranged. There were
several remarkable things about this reunion. All the original members
are still living fifty-one years after their graduation. All of them
are still in vigorous health after passing their seventy-second birthdays,
one of them having reached seventy-six. They have always been warm

THE CLASS OF '62

personal friends. And all were present at this fifty-first celebration. It
was a class reunion somewhat difficult to duplicate.

The class spent about five hours together with much delight. They
finally stood up before the camera, and Messrs. Thomas and Goodman,
the young men of the trio, bade Mabie, the old man, bon voyage as he
started at the age of seventy-six for the other side of the world.

The University has just purchased the Durrett collection of Ameri-
cana— a library of thirty to forty thousand volumes of books, of an

equal number of pamphlets, and of a great mass of rare
The Durrett 1 . . . • n r 1

_ .. ^ and important manuscripts treating especially of the

development of the Southwest and the Ohio Valley to

the close of reconstruction times. The books bear upon the history of

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 233

most of the border states rather fully, while every volume ever pub-
lished in or about Kentucky is said to be in the collection. Some of the
works on Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, such as John Smith's
History, first edition, Haywood's Tennessee, and Filson's manuscript
History of Kentucky, are estimated to be worth from two to three hundred
dollars a volume.

But the library is particularly prized by the Department of History
as a help in writing the history of the old South and the early West.
From this point of view it is not surpassed by any private or public
collection in the Middle West, with one possible exception. The manu-
scripts bearing on the relations of the United States and Spain during
the formative period of the national life make an absolutely unique
treasure; the same may be said of the Haldimand transcripts which
cover the same period. Of journals and diaries of the western pioneers
and state builders there are many of the greatest importance, such, for
example, as the autobiography of George Rogers Clarke and the journal
of Thomas Walker, the first Englishman to explore the Mississippi
Valley.

Of no less value to historians is the large list of ante-bellum news-
papers, covering pretty closely the period of 1798 to i860. Some of
these are of especial importance — those which describe the maneuvers
of Aaron Burr during the years 1805-7 when he was trying to build for
himself a state in the West. One of the papers is the file of the Whig
organ, published under the aegis of Henry Clay at Maysville, Ky.,
during a long period. With the exception of the Vincennes Sun, now
in the Indiana State Library, there is no more important newspaper file
in this section of the country.

In bringing this material to Chicago the University has sought to
advance the cause of historical investigation, not only among its own
professors and students, but also in the city as well, for it is well known
that, because of the great fire, our libraries are weak in materials on the
early national development. It may also be said that in gathering such
rare documents here in fireproof buildings the University is trying to
preserve the sources of our history which are so likely to be consumed
in the many fires which we have the habit of tolerating in all parts of
the country. Members of the Department of History are enthusiastic
about their new accession, and they greatly appreciate the action of
the President and Trustees in making the large appropriation necessary
for the purchase.

SCHOLARSHIP OF FRATERNITIES IN
WINTER QUARTER

The following table shows the comparative standing in scholarship
of the various fraternities at the University for the Winter Quarter:

Fraternity-
Alpha Tau Omega . .

Delta Upsilon

Alpha Delta Phi

Beta Theta Pi

Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Phi Kappa Sigma. . .
Phi Delta Theta. .'. .
Phi Gamma Delta . .

ChiPsi

Sigma Chi

Kappa Sigma

Delta Sigma Phi . . . .

Sigma Nu

Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Tau Delta

Psi Upsilon

Phi Kappa Psi

Grand total ....

Rank in
Winter

Rank in
Autumn

Percentage
in Winter

Percentage
in Autumn

Number in
Chapter

2
3
4
5
6

7
8

12
13
14
15
16

17
10

3 30

3.02

2.96

2.70

2.62

2.45

2.37

2.36

2.32 +

2.32

2.31 +

2.31

2. 12

2.08

2.01

1.98

1.83

2.70
2.49
2.25

3--^5
2.30
2.40
1 .90
1.98
1.48
2.38
1.23
1.99
1.78
1.80
2.00
2.48
1.52

16
21
25
17
26

14
II

23
18

13
14
16

15
24
17
27
18

2-39

315

From this table it is plain that the general scholarship of the
fraternities is much higher in the Winter Quarter than in the Autumn.
The difference is probably due almost entirely to two things: rushing,
and the Three-Quarters Club. The general testimony is, however, that
studying is easier in winter than at any other season of the year.

The table includes among the fraternities all pledged men. It
excludes law men (whose grades are not available) and graduate students.
It shows that the most marked advance is in the case of Kappa Sigma
(from an average of i . 23 grade points to 2.31), Chi Psi (from an average
of 1.48 to 2.32), Delta Upsilon (from an average of 2.49 to 3.02), and
Alpha Delta Phi (from an average of 2.25 to 2 . 96). The only marked
decline is in the case of Psi Upsilon (from 2 . 48 to i . 98) and Beta Theta
Pi (from 3 . 15 to 2 . 70). The rank is really of little value in many cases;
between 6th place and 12th, one man often determines the position.
Again, Delta Kappa Epsilon, which made an average gain of . 28 grade
points, actually sank from 13th place to 14th. But the rise or fall in

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HONORING PROFESSOR MILLIKAN 235

general percentage is of considerable interest. A study of the individual
chapters seems to show conclusively that the present standard of eligi-
bility for initiation (three majors, with an average of C— for every
major taken) is too low. Very few men who are admitted to fraternities
on such an average remain more than one year, some not even for the
entire year; their efifect is consequently one of demoralization.

HONORING PROFESSOR MILLIKAN

Robert Andrews Millikan, Professor of Physics, was on April 23 given
the Comstock Prize of fifteen hundred dollars, for his researches in
electricity, magnetism, and radiant energy. The formal presentation
was made at Washington by President Woodrow Wilson, following the
award of the prize by the National Academy of Science. In announcing
the award, R. S. Woodward, president of the Carnegie Institution, said:

Our late colleague in the Academy, General Cyrus Buel Comstock, member of the
Corps of Engineers of the U.S. Army, won distinction as chief engineer on the staff of
General Grant during the great civil conflict. But in the pursuit of his arduous
vocation he found time also for the cultivation of science and he is not less distinguished
for his contributions to geodesy than for his services in the evolution of our common-
wealth. His devotion to physical science is witnessed in his last will and testament, by
which he conveyed to the Academy a fund whose income may be used for the promotion
of researches in electricity, magnetism, and radiant energy. Under the terms and
conditions of this fund the Academy now makes its first award, under the designation
"Comstock Prize," of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to Professor Robert
Andrews Millikan of the University of Chicago.

It is a far cry from the adumbrations of Democritus and Lucretius to the modem
doctrine of atomicity. But the demonstration of this doctrine, dimly foreseen more
than twenty centuries ago, is the greatest achievement in physical science of the past
two decades, and one of the greatest in the history of science. It is now proved not
only that what we call gross matter is atomic, but that what we call electricity has also
a granular or atomic structure. With rare acumen and with rare experimental skill
Professor Millikan has furnished the most direct and the most convincing proof of the
existence of electric atoms or elements. He has shown how to count these elements in
any small electrical charge; he has rendered them almost tangible by showing in the
clearest manner their visible effects; he has determined with superior precision the
fundamental constant represented in the electrical charge of these atoms; he has
demonstrated the equality in electrical charge of the positive and the negative ions in
ionized gases; and he has made important additions to our knowledge of the molecular
constitution and the kinetic phenomena of gases. For these contributions to knowl-
edge and for the original and refined methods of research he has developed and so
successfully applied, the Academy honors him with this first recognition of superior
merit as provided by the founder of the Comstock Fund.

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Professor Millikan is a graduate of Oberlin, of 1891, and received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia in 1895. Oberlin honored
him with the degree of Doctor of Science in 191 1. He came to Chicago
as a student and presently as assistant in physics in 1896, and after
promotion through the various intermediate grades was made professor
in 1910, He is a member of the Executive Council of the American
Physical Society, and advisory editor of the Physical Review. With
Associate Professor Henry G. Gale, '96, he is author of a high-school
textbook which has had an unprecedented and remarkable success, being
now in use in more than half of the high schools and academies in which
physics is taught in the United States. He married, in 1903, Miss Greta
Blanchard, Chicago, and has two sons. He is a member of the Phi
Kappa Sigma fraternity, for the local chapter of which he acts as
counselor.

At the same meeting of the Academy of Science Professor Leonard
E. Dickson of the Department of Mathematics was elected to member-
ship in the Academy — the eighth of the University faculty to be so
honored. Professor Dickson was graduated from the University of Texas
in 1893, and was given the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Chicago
just three years later. He returned here as Assistant Professor of
Mathematics in 1900, became Associate Professor in 1907, and Professor
in 1910.

THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE
"DAILY MAROON"

"The Daily Maroon, Founded October i, 1902."

These words, standing at the head of the editorial column in the Uni-
versity of Chicago newspaper which has been pubUshed every University
day since the opening of that Autumn Quarter, record the inauguration
of a student activity which is quite generally considered to be of all the
most universal in interest. The Daily Maroon came as the result of a
demand felt and expressed with growing force ever since the founding of
the University. This is the need for some medium through which the
varied interests in the institution may find expression and the many
groups within the Quadrangle community be brought together in a
common feeling of University solidarity.

Three attempts to meet this demand were made in early years. The
first daily, named the University News, appeared October 17, 1893.
The second effort was undertaken by means of a tri-weekly. In adopting
the University color as the name for that paper — the Maroon — the
publishers made a contribution which has come down to the publications
of the present day. The first appearance of the tri-weekly took place on
May 15, 1895, and the last on March 20, 1896. The third endeavor was
made in the spring of 1900, when a newspaper called the Daily Maroon
was published from May 7 to 9; suspended by the Faculty Board of
Student Organizations; resumed publication May 21 and discontinued
June 19.

During that spring most of the men who shared in establishing the
Daily Maroon of today were in college, and the first managing editor and
one of the associate editors were appointees on the reportorial stafif of the
attempted publication. Consequently the experiences in connection
with that endeavor proved to be valuable lessons. The paper, edited and
owned by Earl D. Howard, '02, was so popular that the universality of
the demand for a daily was emphasized. The temporary suspension,
justified because the editors were duped into printing a supposed scandal,
fixed for University of Chicago student-publishers a principle which
assures daily loyalty to the best interests of their Alma Mater.

All three of the attempts enforced the vital point that, to live, the
daily must be thoroughly organized on a business basis and as a student
activity.

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The immediate movement which resulted in the present Daily Maroon
originated during the Autumn Quarter of 1901. At that time Herbert E.
Fleming, '02, University correspondent for one of the city papers, and
managing editor of the University Weekly for that quarter, proposed to
Byron C. Moon, fcusiness manager and owner of the Weekly, that some
plan be devised for developing the Weekly into a daily newspaper and a
monthly literary magazine. They prepared some documents containing
suggestions and submitted them to President Harper. Both stated that
some scheme of business management which would insure stability was
the imperative requirement. The managing editor suggested official
University business management, such as is carried out successfully in
student athletics. The business manager proposed that the University
grant a subsidy.

These proposals were sent by the President to the Board of Student
Organizations. A thorough faculty discussion followed. Professors who
had been editors of student papers at Yale, Harvard, and other institu-
tions gave many valuable suggestions. The result of the discussion was
a definite expression of the sentiment that the University must never
officially subsidize the organ for student opinion nor exercise a censorship
over it. The papers were withdrawn and the movement was apparently
dropped.

Toward the close of the Winter Quarter in that year, however, ten
men, on invitation of Mr. Fleming, joined in a determination to under-
take the financial and editorial responsibility for publishing a daily
newspaper during the next college year providea the student body would
give them authority to do so. These men were: Herbert E. Fleming, '02 ;
Robert L. Henry, Jr., '02; Charles W. Collins, '03; Walker G. McLaury,
'03; Harry W. Ford, '04; Oliver B. Wyman, '04; Frank McNair, '03;
Francis F. Tische, '03; JohnF. Adams, Medic; Adelbert T. Stewart, '04.

They posted notices calling a mass meeting to be held May 15, "for
the organization of a new student activity." The object of the proposed
mass meeting was explained to the Seniors by Mr. Fleming, the class
president, and the '02 's were the first to go on record for the project.
They unanimously adopted a resolution to attend the mass meeting as
a class. The notice aroused considerable curiosity as the day for the
meeting approached.

In the meantime Mr. Moon had been working individually on plans.
He had associated with himself Piatt M. Conrad, '03, and Julian L.
Brode, '05, in a stock company organized for the purpose of expanding the

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Weekly into a daily and monthly. Hence there were two movements on
foot simultaneously, but without avowed antagonism.

From time to time, President Harper had shown great interest in,
suggestions for a daily. He had promised to attend the mass meeting
and had been announced as one of the speakers. On the day before the
meeting he invited Mr. Fleming and Mr. Moon to his office and pointed
out the evident advantages of combination.

The obstacle to be overcome lay in the fact that the ownership of the
Weekly was vested in Mr, Moon, who had a considerable sum of capital
involved. In the early days of the University, it had been found
advisable to permit the system of private ownership for the Weekly.
The ten men working for the establishment of a daily held that the
student body as a whole should own its publications; and they were
unwilling to buy the Weekly. But it was known to them that for some
time Mayo Fesler, '97, then secretary of the Alumni association, had
thought of proposing Alumni responsibility for a daily. He was appealed
to as the man holding the key to the situation. Mr. Fesler expressed the
belief that the Alumni association would purchase the Weekly from
Mr. Moon.

The mass meeting was held the next day, May 15, as announced.
The students filled Kent theater to the doors. They adopted a resolution
offered by Allan Burns, the cheerleader. By this resolution, the student
body requested the Alumni association to purchase the Weekly; gave the
ten men who had called the meeting and Roy D. Keehn, '02, and Eli P.
Gale, '03, whose names had been added to the list, authority to become
the board of editors for the publication during one year and to select their
successors on the merit basis; and recommended that the Alumni
association name Mr. Moon as business manager.

This plan did not meet with favor among the alumni, but its tentative
consideration served as the means for progress in the movement. On
Alumni Day, a committee of fifteen was appointed by the association to
consider the plan. Toward the end of the Summer Quarter, after many
meetings, this committee was about to send out to the alumni member-
ship an adverse recommendation. Mr. Moon thereupon withdrew his
proposition to the association and made a generous offer to the board of
editors; in his proposal he assumed the risk of regaining his invested
capital from possible net profits to be earned by the proposed publications
during the first two years.

On July 31, with Henry Gale, '96, of the aliunni committee acting as
adviser, Mr. Moon and Mr. Fleming, representing the editors, framed and

signed an agreement which is the working basis for the Daily Maroon.
This provides that the pubUcation is the property of the student body,
held in trust by the combined board of editors and the business manager.
The financial responsibility is equally divided between the business
manager and the board. The agreement provides explicitly that future
boards of editors shall be selected on the merit basis, after competition
open to all students in the University. This board, through an auditing
committee, has access to the books; and elects the business manager, the
retiring business manager nominating. With the execution of this
agreement the Daily Maroon is a self-supporting student activity.

The first election was held and a general plan of editorial organization
adopted at a meeting of the board, June 13. Mr. Keehn and Mr. Collins
were elected executive editors for the Monthly, severing connection with
the Daily. The first executive editors elected for the Daily Maroon were :
Herbert E. Fleming, managing editor; Harry W. Ford, news editor; Eli
P. Gale, athletic editor. It was provided that the other members should
be associate editors. The first seven associate editors were : Robert L.
Henry, Jr., Walker G. McLaury, Oliver B. Wyman, Frank McNair,
Francis F. Tische, Adelbert T. Stewart, and John F. Adams.

In September Mr. Ford resigned to accept a professional editorial
position. Mr. Wyman was elected news editor and Frank R. Adams, '04,
was elected to the board as associate editor. Mr. Gale resigned as
athletic editor but continued as associate editor. Mr. Henry was elected
athletic editor. Mr. John F. Adams resigned and Austin A. Hay den, '02,
and a Junior at Rush Medical college, was elected as associate editor to
fill the vacancy. As authorized in the mass meeting, the board provided
for representing the women students. Miss Cornelia S. Smith, '03, and
Miss Julia M. Hobbs, '03, were elected as the first women editors.
During the year several changes took place in the personnel of the board.
At the opening of the Winter Quarter, to fill vacancies caused by the
resignation of Mr. McLaury and Miss Hobbs, Walter L. Gregory, '05,
was elected an associate editor and Miss Agnes Wayman, '03, to be one
of the women editors.

Vol. I, No. I, of the Daily Maroon came from the pressroom of the
new building of the University of Chicago Press at 4 o'clock, October i.
The typesetting and printing were done by the University Press all year.
Until March i, a force of twelve compositors on the fourth floor was ready
to drop all other work and set type for the Daily Maroon. That spring
a linotype and an additional printing press were added to the equipment
of the Press to facilitate publishing the paper. From the first issue the

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typographical appearance of the paper attracted very favorable atten-
tion. In fact the Daily Maroon has been printed in much better than
newspaper style. The arrangements between the Maroon and the
University Press were on a strictly business basis; and the fine printing
made the expense of publishing the Daily Maroon greater than that of
any other students' newspaper in America. The University gave the
Maroon, as a student enterprise, an office in Room 7 on the main floor
of the Press building; and this greatly facilitated editorial work. The
University has patronized the paper as an advertiser at regular rates;
but has not exercised a censorship over it either directly or indirectly.

The plan of editorial management has been to adapt the system of
metropolitan dailies as far as possible to the conditions in the University
field. The general principle has been to have as large a number of
workers as possible with a minute division of labor every day. This is
urgent, because the editors found that all other considerations must give
way to the necessity of rushing the copy. The news editor makes the
assignments for general university news-gathering and edits manuscript;
the athletic editor does the same for his field and writes editorialized
critiques on the athletic situation ; the associate editors divide the work
of copy-reading — that is, editing manuscript — writing editorials, and
conducting departments. The managing editor's duty is to co-ordinate
these efforts.

Special departments have served to give variety to the paper. At
first " Gargoylettes," an editorial page section containing a daily grist of
jokes, attracted a large part of the Maroon's constituency and compared
favorably with the best humorous column in the city papers. Mr.
Adams edited this department and contributed the larger part of the
"Gargoylettes." Mr. Tische edited "The News from the Universities,"
a department which has kept Chicago students in touch with American
college life. He also did the proofreading. Mr. Hayden edited "The
Rush Medical Notes," sending news from the West Side so toned as to
aid in the incorporation of Rush Medical College student life into that of
the University. Mr. Gregory, besides editing manuscript, directed the
makeup. Associate Editors Gale, Stewart, and McNair wrote editorials
and edited copy. Miss Smith was the society editor and Miss Wayman
edited the women's athletic news.

The members of the first board united in an endeavor to lay a firm
foundation for building up the Daily Maroon as an ihstitution. To this
end they held weekly board meetings Tuesday afternoons. At these
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and made suggestions. The board's actions on all questions of policy
in reference to news and editorials were binding on the executive editors.
In order that future boards might have whatever permanent benefit these
discussions afforded, a book of records was kept.

Competition for membership on the staff of reporters and the board
of editors began with the first day of news-gathering. To increase the
interest in this competition the editorial board invented the Maroon star,
a small five-pointed button finished in maroon enamel with gold border-
ing and backing.

The rule adopted was that any student making the staff of reporters
might wear the star during his term as a reporter and that a reporter
winning a place on the board might keep his star. During the Autumn
Quarter of 1902 there were twenty candidates whom the editors called
Hustlers, working to win the star. The staff for each quarter is of twelve
reporters, at least two of whom shall be women students. Those who
won places on the first staff were formally presented their stars at a
Maroon Smoker, held in the Chi Psi lodge, January 10, the first Saturday
in the Winter Quarter. At that time the upper classmen on the staff
made speeches declaring their determination to continue in the work so
that the Daily Maroon should live.

The business manager and his assistants found the business men in
a well-worked advertising field appreciative of the Daily Maroon as a
medium for reaching the students in the University of Chicago world.
" The Maroon Daily World" was a name proposed for the journal of today
at the time of the sanctioning mass meeting. On further consideration,
however, the editors and business manager concluded that they had no
fear of the name developed in the experiments of the past. As the paper
went on in its growth toward the completion of Vol. I they often expressed
the conviction that the Daily Maroon would continue to be "Published
Afternoons by the Students of the University of Chicago during the
Four Quarters of the University Year," as long as there are University
days and University years.

[Note. — ^The foregoing article was published, with slight differences, in the 1903
Cap and Gown. It was anonymous, but is supposed to have been written by H. E.
Fleming, '02. The Maroon is no longer published by the University Press, and is now
not continued in the Summer Quarter. In every other respect it is carried along
exactly the lines laid down eleven years ago.]

THE UNIVERSITY RECORD

Instructors from other institutions for
the Summer Quarter. — At the coming
Summer Quarter of the University-
courses will be offered by thirty-six
instructors from other institutions, in-
cluding representatives from the faculties
of Harvard and Johns Hopkins universi-
ties in the East, Leland Stanford and the
University of Washington in the West,
the University of Toronto in Canada,
and Tulane University and the Univer-
sity of Texas in the South. Of the total
number from other university faculties
twenty-seven have the rank of full
professor, seven that of associate pro-
fessor, and two that of assistant professor.

In the professional schools of the Uni-
versity instruction will be given during
the Summer Quarter by the following
professors from other institutions:

The Law School — William Perry
Rogers, Dean of the University of Cin-
cinnati Law School; Eugene Allen Gil-
more, Acting Dean of the University of
Wisconsin Law School; Dudley Odell
McGovney, of Tulane University; and
Austin Wakeman Scott, of the Harvard
University Law School.

The Divinity School — James Frederick
McCurdy, Professor of Oriental Litera-
ture in the University of Toronto.

The School of Education — Frank
Pierrepont Graves, Professor of Educa-
tion in Ohio State University; Walter
Albert Jessup, Professor of Education
in the State University of Iowa; and
Frederick Elmer Bolton, Professor of
Education in the University of Wash-
ington.

Courses offered in the Summer Quarter. —
More than four hundred and fifty courses
will be offered at the University during
the Summer Quarter, which extends from
June 1 6 to August 29. Of these about
three hundred will be given in the Schools
and Colleges of Arts, Literature, and
Science, forty-two in the Divinity School,
nine in the Law School, and ninety-six
in the School of Education. During the
last Summer Quarter 424 different
courses were given, as follows: In the
Junior Colleges, 49; Senior Colleges
and Graduate Schools, 100; Graduate

Schools exclusively, 115; Divinity School
40; Law School, 10; Medical Courses,
25; College of Education, 85.

The courses for the Summer Quarter
of 19 1 3 will be given by over two hundred
instructors, including seventy full pro-
fessors, forty-four associate professors,
and thirty-six assistant professors.

A distinguished honor for a Chicago
physicist. — At the semi-centennial cele-
bration of the National Academy of
Sciences held in Washington during the
week of April 21-26 the first award of
the Comstock Prize, of the value of
$1500, was made to Robert Andrews
Millikan, Professor of Physics in the
University of Chicago.

The University of Chicago is repre-
sented in the National Academy of
Sciences by nine members, including
the two who were in attendance at the
recent meeting — Professor Julius Stieg-
litz, of the Department of Chenustry,
and Professor Forest Ray Moulton, of
the Department of Astronomy and
Astrophysics. The other members from
the University are Albert A. Michelson,
head of the Department of Physics;
Thomas C. Chamberlin, head of the
Department of Geology; John Ulric
Nef, head of the Department of Chemis-
try; Eliakim Hastings Moore, head of
the Department of Mathematics; John
Merle Coulter, head of the Department
of Botany; Edwin Brant Frost, Director
of the Yerkes Observatory; and Leonard
Eugene Dickson, of the Department of
Mathematics, who was made a member
at the last meeting.

Success of the twenty-fifth Educational
Conference. — The twenty-fifth annual
Conference of the University with
related secondary schools was held on
April 18 and 19. Reports from those
who were intimately related to its
various departments of activity give the
impression that this was the most success-
ful meeting of the kind in the history
of the University. The main features
of the Conference as a whole consisted
of (i) the departmental conferences,
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students, (3) the contests for high-school
students in reading and in effective
speaking, (4) the general session of the
Conference, and (5) the Conference
luncheon for executive officers of the
University and secondary schools. To
these features should be added the
luncheon given by the University to
the visiting high-school pupils and officers
in the Hutchinson Commons, the supper
for high-school girls at Lexington, for
the boys at Hutchinson, and for high-
school officers at Emmons Blaine Hall.
The number of high-school pupils pres-
ent at the Friday luncheon exceeded
the attendance of last year by more
than 125, and as these were present to
attend the contests and examinations,
it is obvious what this meant in the way
of numbers and interest for the afternoon
and evening occasions.

The departmental conferences occupied
many of the class rooms and auditoriums
on the quadrangles, and nearly every
conference reported unprecedented at-
tendance. The general subject for all
the meetings was "Economy in Educa-
tion," and the discussions both in the
departmental conferences and in the
more general public sessions were re-
garded as making distinct contributions
to the solution of certain questions now
uppermost in the minds of college and
secondary school leaders. President
Harry Pratt Judson and Professor James
R. Angell, Dean of the Faculties, were
both speakers at the conference.

Examinations were held in German,
American History, French, Mathematics,
Physics, English, and Latin. To these
examinations only students from the
current senior classes of co-operating
high schools were admitted. To the
winner of each examination is awarded
a scholarship in the University amounting
to full tuition for the next college year.
The total number of students competing
in the examinations was 251 — 39 in
German, 25 in American History, 11 in
French, 61 in Mathematics, 14 in Physics,
64 in English, and 37 in Latin. Like-
wise two scholarships were awarded on
the basis of contests conducted by the
Department of Public Speaking. One
was a reading contest in which there
were entered 29 students, the other a
contest in effective speaking in which
44 students competed, a total of 73. In
the effective speaking contest each school
was represented by a team of two.

Preliminary tryouts were held during
the afternoon and the final contests
were held in the evening. The scholar-
ship in the reading contest was won by
Sol Gluckstone, of the East Division
High School, Milwaukee, and the scholar-
ship in the effective speaking contest was
won by Mediard Welsh, of the Lane
Technical High School, Chicago.

Eighteen of the high schools in Chicago
entered representatives in the examina-
tions and reading contests and thirty-
two schools outside of Chicago, a total
of fifty schools, with 324 representatives
as compared with 188 representatives in
191 2 and 242 in the preceding year.

Election of Professor Merriam to the
Chicago City Council. — Charles Edward
Merriam, Professor of Political Science in
the University, was elected to the City
Council of Chicago in April. He was a
nonpartisan candidate from the seventh
ward, which he had previously repre-
sented in the Council. During his
former term he won distinction by
serving as the head of the Merriam
commission on city expenditures, and in
his campaign for the mayoralty of
Chicago in 191 1 he was strongly sup-
ported by many of the best elements in
the city. He is the author of a book
on Municipal Revenues of Chicago and
one on Primary Elections, as well as of
A History of American Political Theories.
Professor Merriam is a graduate of the
State University of Iowa and received
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from
Columbia University in 1900, spending
a year also as a student in Berlin and
Paris. He began as a Docent in political
science at the University of Chicago in
1900 and was made a full professor in
1911.

New books by members of the University.
— ^The University of Chicago Press an-
nounces for publication several new books
by members of the Faculties, including
a volume on London in English Literature,
by Assistant Professor Percy Holmes
Boynton, of the Department of English.
Mr. Boynton recently contributed a
series of articles on the same subject to
the Chautauquan The twelfth and
thiiteentn parts of Assyrian atid Baby-
lonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik
Collections of the British Museum, the
series which is being edited by Robert
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Languages and Literatures, are ready
for early publication; and the Barrows
lectures, recently given in India by
Professor Charles Richmond Henderson,
head of the Department of Practical
Sociology, will soon be published by
both the Macmillan Company in India
and the University of Chicago Press,
under the title of Social Programs of
the West. A book by Dr. Victor Ernest
Shelford, of the Department of Zoology,
will also be published soon under the
title of Animal Communities in Temperate
America as Illustrated in the Chicago
Region.

A prize competition in economics. —
Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, head
of the Department of Political Economy,
is chairman of the committee in charge
of the contest among students of eco-
nomics for four prizes ranging from $1000
to $200 offered for the best essays pro-
duced on the following subjects before
June, 1914: "The Competitive Rela-
tions of the Suez and Panama Canals,"
"Price Regulation by Governmental
Authority," "A Theory of Public
Expenditures," and "A Study on the
Changes of Modem Standards of Living."
A competitor is not limited to the sub-
jects mentioned. The prizes are given
by Hart, Schaffner & Marx, of Chiciago.
Representatives from Columbia, Mich-
igan, and Harvard are on the com-
mittee of award.

The Middle West Society for Physical
Education and Hygiene. — The second
annual conference of the Middle West
Society for Physical Education and
Hygiene was held at the University on
April 25 and 26, with an attendance of
two hundred and fifty members. The
main conference was held in Kent
Theater, the general subject discussed
being "Professional Training of Physical
Educators," and demonstrations of phys-
ical activities were given in Bartlett
Gymnasium. Well known educators and
physical instructors were among the
speakers, who included Director Charles
H. Judd, of the School of Education;
President Ella L. Sabin, of Milwaukee-
Downer College; Dean Thomas F.
Holgate, of Northwestern University;
Henry Sudor, physical director of the
Chicago public schools; George Ehler,
director of physical education at the
University of Wisconsin; and Miss
Amy Homan, director of athletics at

WeUesley College. Assistant Professor
Gertrude Dudley, of the Department
of Physical Culture, is a member of the
executive committee of the organization
and Assistant Professor Dudley B. Reed
is chairman of the committee on speakers
and place of meeting.

Assignment of fellowships for the ytar
igij-14. — One hundred and ten appoint-
ments to fellowships in the University
of Chicago for the year 1913-14 were
annoimced at the end of April. Of
these, nineteen were assigned to women.
Of the total number of fellowships
twenty-nine were given to students who
have received degrees from the Uni-
versity of Chicago, other institutions
represented in the distribution being
Harvard, Leland Stanford, Vassar, Bryn
Mawr, Williams, Columbia. Texas, Min-
nesota, Illinois, California, Radcliffe,
Washington, Cornell, and Manitoba.
The fellowships range in value from $120
to $520.

Musicales during the Spring Quarter.
— A series of musicales to be given
at the University during the Spring
Quarter has been arranged by Director
Robert W^ Stevens, the first concert
in the series being that by the A
Capella choir of Northwestern Uni-
versity— a mLxed choir of twenty-
seven voices under the direction of
Peter C. Lutkin. The first part of the
program consisted of mediaeval church
hymns sung in Latin, selections from
Bach, and from the best of present-day
church hymns; and the second part was
devoted to part-songs, folk-songs, and
solo numbers. The audience was espe-
cially enthusiastic over a Welsh folk-
song and a composition, "Cargoes,"
by the director of the choir. On April
25 the University of Chicago Orchestra
and the Women's Glee Club gave a return
concert at Northwestern University.
The second concert in the series was
given at Leon Mandel Assembly Hall
on April 22 by a string quartet
composed of members of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, the selectioifs
being from Beethoven and Tschaikow-
sky. There was an enthusiastic audience
of five hundred. The concerts are open
to the students and their friends.

Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, head
of the Department of Political Economy,
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President Wilson to address the conven-
tion of the Western Economic Society,
which meets this month in Chicago to
consider "The Economic Phases of the
Panama Canal." Professor Laughlin
also held conferences in Washington
with Representative Underwood, chair-
man of the ways and means committee
of the House, and with Representative
Glass, chairman of the committee on
banking and currency, with reference
to proposed currency legislation. Mr.
Laughlin is chairman of the National
Citizens' League, the purpose of which
is to bring about improvements in the
government's financial system.

Director Charles H. Judd, of the School
of Education, will be one of the special
lecturers at the sxmimer session of the
University of Wisconsin.

The Making of Tomorrow is the title
of a volume published last month in
New York, the author being Dean
Shailer Mathews, of the Divinity School.
The four main divisions of the book deal
with social and religious questions under
the heads of "The Common Lot,"
"The Church and Society," "The Mak-
ing of Tomorrow," and "The Extension
of Democracy." Dean Mathews recent-
ly returned from three weeks of lecturing
on the Pacific Coast, where he spoke at
the University of California, Throop
Institute at Pasadena, and Occidental
College at Los Angeles. He also gave at
Berkeley the annual Earle lectures at the
Pacific Theological Seminary, the general
subject of the series being "Social
Aspects of Christian Doctrine."

Professor Walter W. Cook, of the Law
School, and Associate Professor Frank
M. Leavitt, of the School of Education,
represented the University at the annual
meeting of the Illinois division of the
American Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology held in Springfield, 111., on
April 8 and 9. "Criminal Procedure"
was the subject of a report by Professor
Cook, and Professor Leavitt spoke on
"Industrial Education for Juveniles."
Mr. Cook was re-elected treasurer of the
Illinois branch of the Institute.

His Great Adventure, a serial story by
Professor Robert Herrick, of the Depart-
ment of English, was completed in the
April number of Munsey's Magazine.
Mr. Herrick's last novel. One Woman's
Life, published by the MacmiUan Com-
pany, has attracted wide attention. The
same publishers announce a new edition

of The Common Lot for their "Modem
Fiction Library."

In a recent series of lectures given in
the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall under
the auspices of the Christian Union,
Professor Charles Richmond Henderson,
head of the Department of Practical
Sociology, gave some of his impressions
during the last six months in the Orient,
where he delivered the Barrows lectures
as the representative of the University.
Dr. Henderson said that the friendly
relations between America and the
Chinese go far to make the position of
Americans desirable in the new republic
and he emphasized the need of practical
workers in the missionary field, particu-
larly the opportunity offered to physi-
cians and directors of athletics to assist
in the development of the new national
life and further the ideals and religion of
the Occident.

At the annual meeting of the Uni-
versity Orchestral Association held in
the Haskell Assembly Room on April
16 the following officers were elected:
President, James Henry Breasted; vice-
president, Mrs. Harry Pratt Judson;
secretary-treasurer, David Allan Robert-
son; directors, James A. Field, Frank R.
Lillie, Wallace Heckman, and Lorado
Taft. It was practically decided to
have for the season of 1913-14 the same
number of concerts as for the season just
closed — six orchestral concerts and three
artists recitals. The series of concerts
for I gi 2-13, including six by the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra and recitals by
Rudolph Ganz, Eugene Ysaye, and Alice
Nielsen, proved to be the most popular
and successful in the history of the
association, nearly three hundred stu-
dents having purchased tickets for the
whole series.

Associate Professor Francis W. Shep-
ardson, of the Department of History,
has accepted an invitation to give the
commencement address at the University
of Idaho on June 11. Mr. Shepardson
made an address before the students of
Iowa State College on April 27.

Under the general title of Lessons in
English, D. C. Heath & Co. have pub-
lished two textbooks by Professor John
M. Manly, head of the Department of
English, and Miss Eliza R. Bailey, the
first book, of about 300 pages, being
entitled Language Lessons, and the
second, of 350 pages. Composition and
Grammar. Both volumes are illustrated.

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Professor Ernst Freund, of the Law
School, recently appeared before a com-
mittee ol the Illinois legislature in favor
oi a marriage bill drawr up by the con-
ference of Commissioners on Uniform
State Laws and approved by the Chicago
Bar Association. The bill seeks to guard
more closely the marriage contract.

Professor Erick Marcks, of the Colonial
Institute of Hamburg, Germany , gave at
the University the second week in April
a series of lectures in German on "Bis-
marck and the German Empire." The
first lecture discussed the subject of
"Bismarck und das alte Deutschland,"
the second "Bismarck und die Gruend-
ing des Reichs," and the last "Bis-
marck und das neue Deutschland."
Professor Marcks. who is the authorized
biographer of Bismarck and a noted
historian and educator, recently lectured
before the leading universities of the East,
and went from Chicago to the University
of Wisconsin.

Associate Professor Allan Hoben, of
the Department of Practical Theology,
recently gave the annual Hazlett lectures
at Wesley College and the University of
North Dakota, the general subject of the
series being "The Religious Education
of Boys." One of the results of a lecture
in the law school of the latter institution
on "The Organization of the Chicago
Juvenile Court' was the formation of a
society similar to the Juvenile Protective
Association in ChicagD, of which Mr.
Hoben is the field secretary. Professor
Hoben is the author of the book pub-
lished by the University of Chicago
Press under the title of The Minister
and the Boy.

"A Revision of Social Psychology"
was the subject of a University public
lecture in the Harper Memorial Library
on April 28 by Professor William Mc-
Dougall. of Oxford University.

Dr. James B. Herrick, of the Clinical
Faculty of Rush Medical College, gave
on April 29 the fifth of a series of lectures
by members of that faculty before the
medical students of the University, his
subject being " Uses of the X-Ray in
Diagnosis of Diseases of the Heart and
Lungs."

Recent contributions by the members
of the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Bu:k, Professor Carl D.: "The Inter-
state Use cf the Greek Dialects," Clas-
sical Philology, April.

Burton, Professor Ernest D. (with
A. K. Parker): "The Expansion of
Christianity in the Twentieth Century,"
III, Biblical World, April.

Coulter, Professor John M.: "What
Biology Has Contributed to Religion,"
Biblical World, April.

Eckerson, Sophia: "A Physiological
and Chemical Study of After-Ripening"
(contributions from the Hull Botanical
Laboratory 170), with five tables.
Botanical Gazette, April.

Goodspeed, Associate Professor Edgar
J.: "The Washington Manuscript of
the Gospels," American Journal of
Theology, April.

Michelson, Professor A. A.: "Effect
of Reflection from a Moving Mirror on
the Velocity of Light," Astrophysical
Journal, April.

Parker,. Dr. Alonzo K. (with E. D.
Burton) : "The Expansion of Christianity
in the Twentieth Century," III, Biblical
World, April.

Thompson, Associate Professor James
W.: "The Alleged Persecution of the
Christians at Lyons in 177," American
Journal of Theology, April.

Recent addresses by members of the
Faculties include:

Ames, Assistant Professor Edward S.:
"The Mysticism of Maeterlinck,"
Woman's Club, Wilmette, III.. April 16.

Boynton, Assistant Professor Percy H.:
Address on "The Lawyer," banquet of
Chicago Bar Association, Hotel La Salle,
April 16.

Breckinridge, Assistant Professor
Sophonisba P.: "Woman's Opportunity
in the Modem City," Woodlawn
Woman's Club, Chicago, April 8.

Butler, Professor Nathaniel: "Voca-
tional Education," Woman's Party of
Cook County, Hotel La Salle, Chicago,
April 4; "The School and the Com-
munity," Parents and Teachers' Club,
Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago,
April 8.

Chamberlain, Associate Professor
Charles J.: "Scenes from Southern
Mexico," Trumbull School, Chicago,
April 18.

Clark, Associate Professor S. H.:
Silas Marner, Rock Island, III., April 11;
"The Spirit of Literature," Moline, 111.,
April 11; "Interpretative Reading,"
Teachers' Federation, South Bend, Ind.,
April 21; Maeterlinck's Blue Bird, ibid.,
April 21.

David, Assistant Professor H. C. E.:

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"Caracteres realistes du theatre du
XVIIIeme siecle," Alliance Frangaise,
Fxillerton Hall, Art Institute, Chicago,
March 7; "Le degre de M. A., degre du
professeur de frangais," Convention of
Professors of French, College of the City
of New York, March 28.

Foster, Professor George B.: "The
Philosophy of Nietzsche," Rockford,
111., April 13.

Hektoen, Professor Ludwig: "Some
Phases of Immunity, with Special Refer-
ence to Tuberciilosis," City Club,
Chicago, April 16.

Henderson, Professor Charles R.:
"Social Conditions in India," Chicago
Woman's Club, Fine Arts Building,
April 16.

Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:
"Some City Conditions Unfavorable to
Boys and Girls," City Welfare Exhibit,
Austin High School, Chicago, April 17.

Judd, Professor Charles H.: "Voca-
tional Training in the Schools," Southern
Illinois Teachers' Association, Centralia,
111., April 4; Addresses, Carleton College,
April 11,12.

Judson, President Harry Pratt: Ad-
dress at Farm Credits Conference,
Chicago, April 10.

Laughlin, Professor J. Laurence : " Mo-
nopoly of Labor," Harper Memorial

Library, University of Chicago, April

Leavitt, Associate Professor Frank M.:
"Vocational Guidance and the Manual
Arts," meeting of Association of Teachers
of Manual Arts, Kenosha, Wis., April 12.

Marshall, Professor Leon C.: "The
Relation of a School of Commerce to
the Practical Problems of Business,"
dedication of Commerce Building at the
University of Illinois, April 17.

Millikan, Professor Robert A.: "Theo-
ries of Electro-magnetic Radiation,"
Electric Club, Chicago, Hotel Sherman,
April 17.

Salisbury, Professor Rollin D.: "In
and about Patagonia," Geographic So-
ciety of Chicago, April 11.

Sargent, Professor Walter: "The
Cubist and the Post-Impressionist,"
Art Students' Club, Emmons Blaine
Hall, University of Chicago, April 16.

Starr, Associate Professor Frederick:
"Liberia," Current Events Class, Con-
gregational Church, Evanston, 111., April 6.

Tarbell, Professor Frank B.: "Roman
Portrait Statues," Mount Holyoke Col-
lege, April 16.

Tower, Associate Professor William
L.: Address before the Pacific Associa-
tion of Scientific Societies, San Francisco,
Cal., April 12.

ALUMNI AFFAIRS

Chicago Alumni Club. — Eighty men
attended the semiannual dinner of the
Club, held in the ballroom of the Hotel
LaSalle on Thursday, May i. The
change from the University Club was
made at the invitation of Harry J.
Stone, '96, the manager of the LaSalle.
Dinner was a buffet aflFair, eaten at
small tables seating four and six. The
baseball and track teams were guests of
the Club.

Speakers were the captains of the
teams (Clarence Freeman, baseball;
George Kuh, track; Norman Paine,
basket-ball); John Schommer for the
alumni; Deans Marshall and Lovett,
and President Judson. The President
discussed the various activities of the
University as a whole. Plans for the
new classical building, he said, had been
approved by the Board of Trustees, and
work would be commenced by July i.
Sketch plans for the Geology building,
and for the Women's Building, had been
presented to the Board, and work upon
these was expected to begin before snow
flies. He spoke also of the purchase of
the Louisville collection of historical
documents, and of the experiments of
the Department of Physics in determina-
tion of the rigidity of the earth — experi-
ments which include somewhat elaborate
excavation near the Yerkes Observa-
tory. Dean Marshall in a rapid and
vigorous fashion outlined the work of
the College of Commerce and Adminis-
tration, and spoke briefly of its aims
and hopes. Dean Lovett declared that
the constant policy of the University
to make the training of its students less
casual, and the application of its require-
ments equal, must result in stimulating
the alumni to greater and finer loyalty.

The evening was enlivened by solo and
duet singing, the principal performers
being Miss Vera Stanley of the LaSalle
cabaret, assisted by R. C. Hamill, '99,
and others. In the absence of President
Richberg, a letter from whom was read,
Vice-President Arthur Goes took charge,
and announced the election of the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, Charles S. Winston, '96;
Vice-President, Arthur Goes, '09; Secre-
tary, Alvin Kramer, '08.

Chicago Alumnae Club. — No one who
heard "Spring Revels" suggested so
casually at the February meeting of the
Alumnae Club as the trade-name of its
proposed elevated vaudeville could have
foreseen how apt this name was to prove.
The Spring Revels were revels indeed, and
not the only revelers were the singers and
dancers on the too-little stage of the
Whitney. The spirit of the players — the
good fun of the ballad singers and the
chorus girls, the co-operation on stage
and behind, when "lines" went wild,
all this "esprit de corps" got across the
footlights. Back to the actors flew the
message that the audience was enjoying
itself and the reunion occasion. When
Edna of 1908 met Hazel of 1909, whom
she had not seen since Convocation, who
cared that it took Frank Parker and
Alice Lee Herrick half an hour to drop
back from Shaw to Milton? At night
between the acts, the Women's Glee Club
sang Chicago songs, while the baseball
team, eighteen strong, manfully occupied
boxes, but yelled not one yell at "that
woman's show." At the close of the
pro^m, all Chicago sang "Alma Mater"
agamst an orchestra that could not
catch the tune.

Out in the box office, the Finance
Committee had cause to revel — almost
$600 cause, and no one can tell how
many stock-yards district little girls or
college big girls will revel in the right
job found for them by the Vocational
Guide of the University Settlement or
the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupa-
tions, the beneficiaries of the Alumnae
Club.

The mere program would have gratified
an audience which was not content to
revel in each other — would justify the
conventional superlatives of the home
talent report. " Up Troublesome Creek "
which opened the program set no troubled
note. The act was a series of traditional
Kentucky ballads staged at the Hawkins
family reunion over the precarious return
of the boys from the county jail. There
they had learned some new ballads, some
that Mother knew long ago, and the family
sang the old-time songs with an abandon
that gave no indication that the boys
might be recaptured at any moment.

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The songs were winning then, but it is
only as the weeks go by, and one finds
oneself whistling Fair Florilla, or patching
together verses of the plaintive story
of Lord Randal, that one realizes how
charming the ballads are. " Loughbrowgh
az Kanby" was perhaps as low brow as
Margaret Rogers and Phoebe Bell Terry
can be, but who dare call their "Recol-
lections of the Future" low brow?
Certainly the distortedly gowned Mrs.
Terry on her futurist screen background,
singing a cubist air to a post-impressionist
accompaniment, was the most timely bit
of the day. "How He Lied to Her
Husband," reaUy much decenter (don't
you know) than How She Lied, as it was
advertised, is a typical Bernard Shaw
bit of life, with a delightful crisis in which
the Poet, having lied to her husband,
suddenly lies at her husband's feet,
that Shaw husband who resents the
youth's denial that Mrs. Bumpus has
inspired his verses to Aurora. The
masque, L'Allegro, carried to the city an
organized campus act — it had been the
leading feature of the Florentine Carnival
in February — and ended the afternoon in
the spirit of the revels, the

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and Youthful Jollity"

spirit of the poem we have all chanted.

At the time when this issue of the
Magazine goes to press it is still impossible
to give a complete financial report upon
the Spring Revels. The following state-
ment however includes all of the chief
items and is nearly enough complete to
be of interest. The total expenses so
far known amount to $461.60. The
gross income to date is $1,091.90. It
is probable that the bills will increase
more than the item of income. But it
may be safely said that the profits on the
Spring Revels will be not less than $500
and probably not more than $600. This
statement ignores entirely the program,
which contained sufficient advertising
matter to pay for itself and produce a
creditable profit for the Club. It is
ignored here because the money due upon
it has not all been collected, nor has
the program itself been paid for. In the
profit as set forth here is $70.15 gained
from the candy sale. This was possible
because the candy was a donation, which
amounted to about $40.

Ruth Reticker, '12

Minnesota Alumni Club. — An informal
outdoor meeting of the Club will be held
Saturday afternoon and evening, May 24,
at the home of President and Mrs.
George E. Vincent, 1005 Fifth St. S.E.,
Minneapolis. The picnic spirit will
prevail. Those attending will bring
their own basket lunches. Games, con-
tests, singing, and other open air diver-
sions will be enjoyed. The Vincent
residence, near the Campus of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, provides a most
attractive setting for such an occasion.
The house is large and inviting; the
spacious yard which surrounds it,
occupying almost an entire block and
filled with tall trees, is a veritable park.
Harvey B. Fuller, Jr., Secretary

Japan Alumni Club. —

H. B. Benninghoff writes from Waseda
University, Ushigome, Tokyo, on March
22, 1913:

"The University of Chicago Club of
the Empire of Japan, which usually holds
its annual meeting on Washington's
birthday, met this year on the 8th of
March, in order to have the pleasure
of meeting Dr. Henderson, who was at
that time in Tokyo. It was an occasion
of unusual good fellowship, in which
twenty-five former students of the
University met to honor the visiting
professor, and renew our friendship for
each other in talking over the good old
days. The president of the Club,
Dr. Asada, is, I believe, the first Doctor
of Philosophy ever graduated from the
University. The great majority of
alumni are Japanese who occupy various
educational and ecclesiastical positions
in Tokyo and other centers. Wherever
they are, they are a credit to our Alma
Mater, living epistles of the Chicago
school, which in these parts means a
school of a distinctive type as well as
place.

"One of the features of the evening
was a University exhibit, which consisted
of circulars, books, photographs, pen-
nants, badges, and announcements.
Three of the members are from the Old
University, and some of their pictures
and reminiscences formed an interesting
part of the program.

"During the year we have had the
pleasure of meeting Dr. H. L. Willett
as he passed through Japan. Chicago
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let us know that they are on their way
around we try to show them a good
time."

News from the Classes. —

1879
Clarence N. Patterson is superin-
tendent of agents for the Union Central
Life Insurance Co. of Cincinnati, in
Minneapolis, where his address is now
the McKnight Building.

1896

A. E. McKinley, after graduation at
Chicago, received a Doctor's degree in
history from Pennsylvania in iqoo.
Since that time he has been professor
of history in Temple University, and since
1904 dean. He is editor of the History
Teacher's Magazine, president of the
Association of History Teachers of the
Middle States and Maryland, and mem-
ber of many historical societies. He is
the author of Suffrage Franchise in Eng-
lish Colonies; Insular Possessions of the
United Slates, and other volumes on
historical and p>olitical science subjects.
He is married and has four children.
His address is 6901 German town Ave.,
Philadelphia.

1897

Evelyn M. Lovejoy, as historian of
the Royal ton Historical Association,
South Royalton, Vt., has issued a remark-
able History of Royalton containing 1,168
pages, and profusely illustrated. It has
been called "the most complete and
satisfactory town history ever published
in America."

Robert N. Tooker has left Spokane
and has gone to Wilbur, Wash., where
he will continue the practice of medicine.

A Texas Steer, given by the ladies of
the Fortnightly Club, under the direction
of Miss Susan Bell, Saturday Evening,
April 19, 1913, At Segerberg's Opera
House, Telluride, Colorado. Cast:
Maverick Brander, a Texas cattle king,
Mr. Adkinson.

This is "Ad." He writes: "The
professionals had nothing on me as an
actor." The last time he acted here,
in The Deceitful Dean, he had very little
on himself as an actor.

1900
Edwin D. Solenberger, secretary of the
Philadelphia Alumni Club, is general

secretary of the Children's Aid Society
of Pennsylvania, with offices in the
Charities Building, 419 S. 15th St.,
Philadelphia. Mr. Solenberger is also
a lecturer in the Philadelphia Training
School for Social Work; is treasurer of
the Pennsylvania Conference of Charities
and Correction, and a member of the
Philadelphia Housing Commission.

1902

Grace Johnson (Mrs. Burton E.
Livingston) is living at 2753 Marj'land
Ave., Baltimore. She will sail for Eurojje
in June to spend the summer.

Mary Ethel Remick (Mrs. Irvin
McDowell) is living at 7347 Harvard
Ave., Chicago.

W. Henry Elfreth, president of the
Philadelphia Alumni Club, has recently
opened law offices at 291 Broadway,
New York City, in addition to his Phila-
delphia offices in the Stephen Girard
building, Philadelphia.

George A. Young, '02, is selling bonds
with R. L. Day & Co., Wall St., New
York City. His home address is 95
Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Frank B. Jewett, who was transmission
and protection engineer in the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co., was
recently appointed assistant chief engin-
eer of the Western Electric Co.

Jldwin E. Slosson, office editor of the
Independent, is a member of the Com-
mittee of Arrangements of the Inter-
national Civic Bureau. This bureau,
which arranges European tours for
civic studies, has for its purpose the
closer union of civic and social studies
between American and foreign countries

1903

Florence U. Jones has become joint
proprietor, and manager, of the Bayou
Inn,' at Griswolda, on Upper Hamlin
Lake, near Ludington, Mich.

Edwin B. Landis is pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Dan vers. 111.

Leon Pattison Lewis, '03 and '05
(law), is engaged in the practice of law
in Louisville, Ky. His office address
is 417-18 Louisville Trust Building.
He lives at the Chesterfield, 429 West
Broadway.

Donald R. Richberg has taken the
position of general adviser of the legisla-
tive Committee of the Progressive party,

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and will spend most of his time in Wash-
ington and New York for the next year
or two. He will not however give up
the practice of law in Chicago.

1904

Charles D. Barta is with the banking
house of Harris Forbes & Co., Pine and
William St., New York.

John A. Liggett is employed in the
Bureau of Plant Industry, Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. He
lives at 1444 West St., N.W.

1905
Miss Isabel Simerals is teaching in
Barnard College.

1906

E. George Payne is professor of educa-
tional psychology at the Teachers College
of St. Louis. Since graduation he has
spent much time abroad studying German
schools. He has published System in
German Schools, and An Experiment in
Alien Labor, the last through the Uni-
versity of Chicago Press.

Harry L. James, ex-'o6, is a physician
at 1203 S. 8th St., Springfield, 111.

Elizabeth A. Young is teaching geog-
raphy and history in Winona College at
Winona Lake, Ind.

Louise Cottrell, who has had charge
of the Kenosha office of the United Chari-
ties, recently resigned this position and
is now living at the home of her sister
in Maywood, 111.

Emily Cox, now Mrs. George Northrup
of Toronto, with her two-year-old son
spent some weeks in Chicago at the home
of Mrs. Northrup. They have again
joined Mr. Northrup in Canada. Before
taking this present position at the Uni-
versity of Toronto, Mr. Northrup (Ph.D.
'07) was instructor at Princeton Uni-
versity. Address: 211 Cottingham St.,
Toronto, Canada.

1907

John W. Thomson, who received his
medical degree in '09, is a physician in
Garrett, Ind. His address is 116 W.
King St.

Charles D. Enfield is engaged in the
practice of medicine in Jefferson, la. He
is married and has one son.

George W. Graves is in the surveying
business in Spokane, Wash.

William A. McDermid has found a
congenial life-work in the advertising

business. He is employed by the Service
Recording Co., losth St. and Nickelplate
Railroad, Cleveland, Ohio.

Clara Boeke of Wyoming will sail for
Europe in June, to be gone for six months.

Frances Chandler (Mrs. L. W. Rogers)
is living at 416 W. i22d St., New York.
Mr. Rogers is studying for a Doctor's
degree at Columbia.

Edith Terry (Mrs. Bremmer) is assist-
ing in settlement work in New York.
Her address is also 416 W. 12 2d St.

Meyer Mitchnick is now at 1520 S.
Brown St., Dayton, Ohio.

Edna V. Schmidt, who has been head
of the chemistry department for the
past year at the Superior, Wis., High
School, will not return to Chicago.
Mrs. Schmidt will join her daughter to
establish their home in Superior. Present
address: 15 11 N. 19th St.

1908

Inca Stebbins is doing the stenographic
work at her father's insurance-law office
in this city.

Elsie Schobinger is an instructor in
French at the Harvard School for boys
in Chicago.

Wilson A. Austin is in the shoe manu-
facturing business in Omaha, Nebraska.
His address is 131 S. 39th St. He is the
inventor of several devices for improving
the machinery used in the leather trade
and in other fields.

1909

Alva W. Henderson, ex- '09, is secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, Colorado
Springs, Colo.

Harold J. Iddings, ex-'o9, is director of
atheltics at Simpson College, Indianola,
la. His home is in Merrillville, Ind.

1910

Lomira Perry is teaching at Kankakee
High School.

1911

Hargrave A. Long is now secretary
of the North Raymond Co., North
Raymond, Me.

Elizabeth Titzell, until recently secre-
ary for the Little Theater Society, has
left Chicago because of ill-health, to
visit relatives in Pittsburgh.

Charles Lee Sullivan, ex-'ii, is a sales-
man for the Thresher Varnish Co. of
Dayton, Ohio. He was recently married
to Miss Fay Hopkins, a sister of Herbert
G. Hopkins of the class of '12.

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1912

Robert W. Baird is employed by the
lumber department of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co., Bonner, Mont.

John Elmer Thomas, ex-'i2, is em-
ployed by the American Smelting and
Refining Company, Sierra Mojada, Coa-
huila, Mexico. His home address is
403 Winthrop Ave., Toledo, Ohio.

Emma May Miller is living at 5725
Jackson Ave. She is engaged in the
work of kindergarten directing and
supervising.

R. M. Mountcastle is practicing law
at Fort Gibson, Okla. The firm name
is Ortman & Mountcastle.

Engagements. —

1908

The engagement is announced of
Leo De Tray, '08, to Edna Weldon, '08.
daughter of Mrs. John Weldon, 6025
Jefferson Ave. The marriage will take
place on June 28.

Marriages. —

1907

Francis C. Pinkham, '07, was married
on May 2 to Katherine Norton Brown,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H.

Brown of New York City. They will
be at home after September i at 575
Riverside Drive, New York.

1908
Helen McKee, '08, was married in
August. 191 2, to Kennicott Brentoh, who
is in charge of the "Homeless Men"
department of the United Charities.

1909

Carl H. Lambach, '09, was married on

April 18 to Louise Marie Thomsen, of

Davenport, la. Mr. and Mrs. Lambach

will live at 1910 Ripley St., Davenport.

Deaths.—

1907

Mrs. J. W. Countermine (.\nna May
Godley, '07) died in Des Moines, la., on
April 6, 19 10. She was graduated from
Albert Lea College in 1891; taught for
four years in Buena Vista College, Storm
Lake, la.; attended the University of
Chicago in 1896 and 1897, and received
the degree of Ph.B. in the latter year.
In 1902 she married Rev. Dr. J. W.
Countermine, then Presbyterian minister
of Sac City, la. She is survived by her
husband and one daughter, Ruth.

THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY

The report of the Committee of the
Doctors' Association on greater co-opera-
tion among the Doctors with respect to
promotion to better positions has created
a most cordial response from a large
number of the members. Some of these
responses will be incorporated in a general
report on the subject to be presented at
the annual meeting in June, and it is
hoped that a somewhat extensive dis-
cussion of the subject may be forthcoming
at that time. If possible, the Secretary
will have the proposed blank form for
special registration of Doctors ready
before then, so that they may be mailed
to members in advance of the meeting.
It is very evident that the members as a
whole believe in the propositions set
forth by the Committee and that much
may be done by co-operation along the
lines suggested.

C. Everett Conant, '11, head of the
Department of Modern Languages at
the University of Chattanooga, read a
paper entitled "Auxiliary Words in
Emphatic Negation" at the annual

meeting of the Tennessee Philological
Association held at Murfreesboro, Tennes-
see, February 21 and 22, 1913.

Dr. L. L. Bernard, '10, of the Depart-
ment of History and Social Science in the
University of Florida published in the
February Forum an article entitled "The
Higher Criticism of Karl Marx," and
at the request of the editor, Mr. Geoffrey
Rhodes, wrote the final chapter in a book
on Psychology to be published shortly
in London. The chapter is entitled
"The Application of Psychology to
Social Problems." Dr. Bernard has
recently been elected treasurer of the
Florida Conference of Charities and
Corrections for the ensuing year and has
been appointed instructor in Sociology
for the current year.

Dr. Irving King, '96, of the Depart-
ment of Education of the Iowa State
University has in press a new book
entitled "Education in Social Efficiency"
to be published by D. Appleton & Co.

S. B. Sinclair, Ph.D., '01, is dean of the
School for Teachers at MacDonald

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College. He has originated this year an
excellent plan for increasing the number
of rural school teachers in the Province
of Quebec, as follows: MacDonald
CoUege is comprised of three schools,
a School for Teachers, a School of
Household Science, and a School of
Agriculture. Dean Sinclair's plan is to
give rural school certificates good for
life to graduates of the School of Agri-
culture who take loo hours pedagogical
training; to students in the School of
Agriculture who have completed two
years of work and who take 200 hours
pedagogical training; and to students
of the School of Household Science who
have completed the two years' course and
who take 200 hours pedagogical training.

C. J. Lynde, Ph.D., '05, professor of
Physics at MacDonald College, P.Q.,
Canada, has this year published two
papers on "Osmosis in Soil." The
work described shows, (i) that clay
soils act as semi-permeable membranes,
(2) that water is moved through clay
soils by osmotic pressure.

The MacMillan Company during the
month of February published a text on
Household Bacteriology, written by
Estella D. Buchanan and R. E. Buchanan

'08. Dr. Buchanan is assistant pro-
fessor of Bacteriology at Iowa State
College, Ames, la.

Dr. C. H. Gordon, '95, has organized
a university club comprising university
members from the faculty of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee and other college men
of the city of Nashville. Dr. Gordon
is the president of the club. He is also
director of the National Conservation
Exposition to be held in NashviUe in the
coming autumn and is chairman of the
Department of Mines and Minerals.
This exposition is designed to have a
high educational value in the way of
directing attention toward the conserva-
tion of natural and human resources.

Dr. H. E. Buchanan, '09, is professor
of Mathematics in the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

Dr. Edmund C. Buckley, '94, has
just concluded a tour of the world as
conductor of an educational party whose
chief interest was the study of art. This
is Dr. Buckley's second tour of the world
and his fourth over Europe on such a
mission. He has been greatly impressed
with the art, architecture, and natural
scenery of Asia as compared with those
of Europe.

UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRS

ATHLETICS

Baseball. — ^The baseball season began
conspicuously with three successive
victories, over Iowa on April i6 (12-7),
Northwestern on April 19 (13-1), and
Indiana April 26 (5-1). Defeat by-
Minnesota on April 28 (3-7) was unex-
pected, but a 6-4 victory over North-
western on May 10 still leaves Chicago in
the lead in the Conference at the present
writing, May 12. The remainder of the
schedule follows:
May 14, Purdue at Chicago.

" 17, Illinois at Champaign.

" 21, Wisconsin at Madison.

" 24, Illinois at Chicago.

" 31, Wisconsin at Chicago.
June 3, Purdue at Lafayette.

For the April games the team was made
up as follows: Baumgardner, Carpenter,
and Kixmiller, pitchers; Mann, catcher;
Norgren, first base; Scofield, second base;
Catron, short stop; Des Jardien, third
base; Gray, Stains, Harger, and Bohncn,
outfielders. Capt. Freeman has been
declared ineligible by the faculty, on
account of trouble with his studies;
Libonati and Cummins also. Carpenter,
Mann, Norgren, Scofield, Catron, and
Harger are veterans of last year; the
others are from last year's Freshmen
team. Gray is the football man who
made his reputation at Madison.

Baumgardner has done all that was
expected of him in the box. With Iowa
he went in with the score 7-3 against
Chicago, and held the lowans down hit-
less and runless for the remainder of the
game. Northwestern and Indiana got a
run apiece from him, both on errors.
Kixmiller, another Sophomore, shows
some promise. For seven innings he
blocked Minnesota's attack, then weak-
ened. Baiungardner went in cold, hit
the first batsman, allowed two singles,
and so lost the game. The fault, how-
ever, was not either his or Kixmiller's so
much as the team's. Eight errors were
made, enough to throw 3way any ball-
game. Baumgardner is big and strong,
can pitch three times a week and be at
his best, and should do better and better
as the season goes on. Mann catches
only fairly well and throws wretchedly.

His arm seems almost dead. Des
Jardien has been practiced behind the
bat and will probably be used in some of
the later games. He throws like a bullet
but is inexperienced and therefore slow.
Norgren is doing only fairly well at first;
in the Iowa game his work was ridiculous
but he is improving. Scofield at second
is better than he was last year, when he
was tried at short. Catron can be
counted on for at least one error per
game; against Minnesota he made three.
If he could overcome his habit of throw-
ing the ball before he has stopped it he
would do better. Des Jardien at third
base fields well, and adds strength by his
spirit. All in all, the tall young man is
one of the most excellent athletes Chicago
has had in years. Gray and Stains are
very fast, and fairly sure; Bohnen and
Harger are slower, but not slow, and they
hit hard. The team as a whole is much
better in the box and in the outfield than
last year, about the same at first and
third, and weaker at second, short, and
behind the bat. Mr. Page's coaching is
excellent. Games are played almost
every day with semi-professional teams,
and the experience thus gained is valu-
able. The outlook for the season is fair.
There is not a first-rate team in the Con-
ference this year, and victories and
defeats are likely to be common to all.

Track. — The track schedule began on
April 19 with the races at DesMoines, in
which Chicago (Parker, Breathed,
Matthews, Kuh) captured first in the
mile relay in 3 : 27I. Illinois did not send
a team. At Philadelphia, April 26, the
same four finished fourth in the mile relay.
Illinois winning in 3:22?, Pennsylvania
being second, and Dartmouth third.
Thomas vaulted 11-6, but did not place.
Ward qualified in the 100-yard dash,
winning his heat in loj seconds. But
finished fifth in the final. The schedule is
as follows:
May 10, Northwestern at Chicago.

" 24, Illinois at Chicago.
June 7, Conference Meet at Madison.

The Interclass meet will be held on
Friday, June 6, and the Interscholastic on

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257

Saturday, June 7, the day of the Con-
ference meet. The team is in general
charge of Phihp Comstock, '11; Dr. W. J.
Monilaw is looking after the weight men.
Tryouts were held on Saturday, May 3.

Tennis. — ^The tennis schedule follows:

May 13, Northwestern at Evanston.

" 16, East End Tennis Club at Cleveland.

" 17, Oberlin at Oberlin.

" ig, Ohio State at Columbus.

" 20, Ohio Wesleyan at Delaware.

" 29, Conference at Chicago.
June 6, Ohio State at Chicago.

The captain is C. C. Stewart, '13.
Squair, '14, and Green, '14, are, with
Stewart, the backbone of the team.
Sellers, '13, Coulter, '15, Baker, '15, and
Tolman, '15, are the other leading can-
didates. Bohnen, '15, who played last
year, is on the baseball nine, and Paul

Hunter, '14, is ineligible. The Conference
championship is practically a certainty,
as Armstrong of Minnesota, the usual
stumbling block, has entered Harvard.

Football. — ^The schedule for 1913 is as
follows:

Oct. 4, Indiana at Chicago.

" 18, Iowa at Chicago.

" 25, Purdue at Chicago.
Nov. I, Illinois at Chicago.

" 8, Northwestern at Evanston.

" 15, Minnesota at Minneapolis.

" 22, Wisconsin at Chicago.

This includes the same opponents as last
year. In arrangement, however, it is
better, and indeed ideal. Only one game
is played at a distance, and the Wisconsin
game, which should be the hardest, comes
last, and at Chicago. No spring practice
will be held.

GENERAL

Arthur Goodman, '14, has been elected
captain of the swimming team. The
gymnastic team, under Capt. Parkinson,
had an excellent season, defeating Illinois
in a dual meet and taking second in the
Conference meet. Merrill, Rhodes
scholar next year, lost in fencing to the
Wisconsin representative. This was his
last appearance for Chicago, and his first
defeat.

The spring quarter on the quadrangles
has been so far an interesting one. The
various classes are all meeting once a
week for class luncheons, with large
attendances and great enthusiasm. The
Undergraduate Council is actively in-
vestigating the "point system" of dis-
tributing undergraduate officers, with a
view to putting it into practice at the
University. The Dramatic Club re-
peated, on April 19, its performance of
Don to an appreciative but again a small

audience. The Club has in the past year
done the best work of its existence. The
Blackfriar performance, The Pranks of
Paprika, was staged May 2 and 3, 9 and
10, to large houses. The Literary
Monthly issued on .April 30 a second
successful number. The campus ath-
letics have included an interfratemity
baseball series, a faculty-University ten-
nis match; and a series of faculty-
Senior baseball games not yet con-
cluded. Unusually pleasant weather
has contributed to the pleasure of the
season.

The Senior Class propose as their gift
to the University a relief map, in brass
on cement, of the grounds and buildings
of the University. The map, if given,
will be placed in Harf>er Court. It should
constitute perhaps the most individual
gift yet made by a class, and one of the
most useful.

ADDRESSES WANTED

Information should be sent
ALUMNI

1871
Ellis S. Chesbrough

1872
James Paul Thoms

1893
Clarence Hubert Woods

1895
Herman Charles Henderson

1896
Franklin Johnson Jr.

to Frank W. Dignan, Secretary
ALUMNAE

1880
Julia Hawley Coon

1894
Florence Marcy Walker

189s

Aletheia Hamilton

Marion Vernon Cosgrove (Mrs. Thomas

E. Wilson)
Theodosia Kane (Mrs. Merle F. Esh-

bough)

Harold Ernest Anderson

Harry Riggs Wolcott

1900
Aaron B. Cohn
James Hannan Jr.
Albert Luther Ward

1901
Alden Henry Hadley

1902
John Raymond Carr
Merton Maugha Mann

1903
John Joseph Vollertsen

1904
William Henry Bryan
Edwin Elbert Thompson

1905
Robert Young Jones

1906
John Colwell Paine
John Wesley Henninger

1907
Robert Bain Hasner
Ralph Bernard Henley
Ralph Howard Mowbray

Delia Austrian

N. Blanche Lenington

Edna Bevans (Mrs. Fred R. Tracy)
Jessamine Blanche Hutchinson (Mrs.
(Mrs. W. C. Beer)

1900
Laura Estelle Watson Benedict
Otie Eleanor Betts (Mrs. Mortimer B.
Parker)

1902
Bijou Babb (Mrs. Fred T. Parker)
Ruth E. Moore

1903
Sarah Pamelia Allis (Mrs. Enos A.

DeWaters)
Ella M. Donnehy (Mrs. John T. Bunting)
Alice Mabel Gray
Renata Shull
Elizabeth Sophia Weirick

1904
Mary Virginia Garner
Georgia Etherton Hopper
Bertha Bradford McCloud (Mrs. Albert

Carter)
Caroline C. Lamont

1905
Cecil Seldie Clark
Ruth Eleanor Graves

258

ADDRESSES WANTED

259

ALUMNI — Continued

1909
Archibald Mowbray Burnham
Herbert Kimmel
Aram Serkis Yeretzian

1910
Harry Huntington Bamum
Ezra Casper Bostick
William Henry Jamieson
Robert Lewis Irvine Smith

1911
Robert William Flack

1912
Jesse Beers

Henry Albert Foster
Clarence Edward Johnson
Arthur Manford Nichelson
Thorlief Wathne

ALUMNAE— Co»//h tied

Violet Millis

Alma Genevieve Beemer

1906
Florence May Bush (Mrs. Walter Gore

Mitchell)
Carrie Pierpont Currens (Mrs. J. Napier

Wallace)
Olga Maude Jacobson
Bertha Elizabeth Pierce
Muriel Schenkenburg (Mrs. Frank W.

AUen)

1907
Ivy Irene Brown (Mrs. Guy C. Kinna-

man)
Bessie Marie Carroll (Mrs. S. A. Winsor)

1908
Jean Standish Barnes
Mary Paulding Bamett
Sarah Lincoln Doubt
Mary Fiske Heap
Grace Mills
Edith Moore
Bemice May Warren

1909
Virginia Harrington .\dmiral
Mrs. Minnie Mars .Arnold
Elizabeth Emily Erickson
Mrs. Marcia Stewart Hargis Janson
Ruth Elizabeth Wilson

1910
Geneva Katie Bateman
Hattie Marie Fisch
Emma Harriet Sidenburg
Mary Margaret Tibbets

1911
Olive Louise Hagley
Juliet Hammond

1912
Ida Dorothy Pritchett

LAW

1906
Charles Edward Gallup

Roy H. Hunter

Virgil A. Crum

Ezra L. Baker

1907

1908

1909

Evans Paul Barnes
James Pickney Pope

1910
Fleming Dillard Hedges
James Albert Knowlton

Tsung Hua Chow

1912

1913

Phares Gross Hess

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DIVINITY

1890
Thomas Rowland (re-enacted 1898)

Edward Rufus Curry
1892

Delno Chauncey Henshaw
1900

Luther Parker Russell

1901
Frederich Almon Beyl

1904
Julian Foster B lodge tt

1913
Charles Francis Yoder

DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY

Fulton Johnson Coffin
Wallace Apple ton Beatty

1905
Edwin DeForest Butterfield
Etoile Bessie Simons

1906
Edith Abbott

1909

Marion Lee Taylor

1910
Ivan Lee Holt
Arthur Howard Sutherland

1911
Frances Fenton
Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes

1912
Charles Herman Viol.

>^/

HARRY PRATT JUDSON
President

%i.2

The University of Chicago
Magazine

Volume V

JUNE 1913

Number 8

OF AGE IN SERVICE

EDITORIAL NOTE

This special number of the Magazine explains itself. The July issues will contain,
besides the usual departments, a review of Spring Athletics, an account of the Eighty-
seventh Convocation, and the Convocation address. — Editor.

The University opened its doors to students on October i, 1892.
Of the members of the faculty who offered courses that autumn, thirty-
seven are now completing their twenty-first year of active service. They
have come of age in the University. The list, in alphabetical order,
follows:

Francis A. Blackburn
Carl D. Buck
Ernest D. Burton
Clarence F. Castle
Thomas C. Chamberlin
Charles Chandler
Solomon H. Clark
Starr W. Cutting
William G. Hale
Robert F. Harper
Charles R. Henderson
Emil G. Hirsch
George C. Howland

Edwin O. Jordan
Harry P. Judson
J. Laurence Laughlin
David J. Lingle
William D.MacClintock
Albert A. Michelson
Frank J. Miller
Eliakim H. Moore
Richard G. Moulton
John U. Nef
Ira M. Price
RoUin D. Salisbury
Ferdinand Schevill

Francis W. Shepardson
Paul Shorey
Albion W. Small
\. Alonzo Stagg
Frederick Starr
Julius Stieglitz
Marion Talbot
Benjamin S. Terry
James H. Tufts
Clyde W. Votaw
Jacob W. A. Young

Others now connected with the University were present in the autumn
of 1892; but either they were students, like H. G. Gale, '96, or Associate
Professor J. W. Thompson; or else, like Professor Nathaniel Butler,
their service here has been interrupted by work in other institutions.

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Concerning each of the thirty-seven now completing their twenty-first
year of teaching at Chicago, a brief statement follows. In some cases
it is accompanied by a bit of reminiscence. As before, the alphabetical
order is preserved, save in the case of President Judson.

Of these thirty-seven original appointees who are still in service, three
came as readers, two as docents, two as associates, three as instructors,
eleven as assistant professors, three as associate professors, seven as full
professors, and six as professors and heads of a department. Four began
their teaching career here — Jordan, Schevill, Stieglitz, and Votaw; and
Young had taught but one year, in an academy. The others came from
fifteen different institutions, and five of them direct from graduate
study here or abroad. Five were ministers, two of whom. Dr. Henderson
and Dr. Hirsch, were actively preaching at the time they were called.
Chamberlin was president of Wisconsin, and Small of Colby. Michelson
and Nef came from Clark, and by their recommendation Jordan,
Stieglitz, and Young, all Clark graduate students. Moulton, Clark,
Starr, and MacClintock Dr. Harper had met through Chautauqua;
Chandler, Castle, Miller, and Shepardson he knew of through his asso-
ciations with Denison; Buck, R. F. Harper, Stagg, and Schevill were
Yale men. Of the group, five are foreign-born, including Miss Talbot,
whose parents, however, were American. Thirty-three are married.
Their average age on appointment was thirty-four; the oldest — Profes-
sor Chamberlin — was forty-nine, and the youngest. Dr. Schevill, was
twenty-four. Ten were over forty, seventeen between thirty and forty,
ten under thirty. Three of the thirty-seven were appointed in Semitics>
three in Latin, three in history, three in sociology, three in English, two
in Greek, two in philosophy, two in mathematics, two in chemistry, two
in geology, two in New Testament literature, and one each in science
political economy, domestic science, oriental languages, German, French,
general literature, bacteriology, physiology, public speaking, and athletics.
No appointees of 1892 appear in tjie departments of psychology, educa-
tion, history of art, comparative religion, astronomy, zoology, anatomy,
paleontology, or botany; but some of these have been created since.
Of the group all except Dr. Hirsch, Dr. Lingle, Mr. Michelson, Mr.
Salisbury, and Mr. Tufts were present at the first chapel service, held
in the east end of Cobb, in the room now remodeled into offices, on
October i, 1892.

Harry Pratt Judson was born in Jamestown, N.Y., December 20,
1849; received an A.B. from Williams College in 1870; and came to
the University as Professor of Political Science, from the University of

^ift Bntbecsits of €l)tcaBO.

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE COLLEGES.

TIME SCHEDULE

FOR THE AUTUMN QUARTER. 1892.

The floon of Cobb Lecture Halt are lettered, beginHing Kith the ground floor oa A. The r.Miiii are nHmberrit

Rr.MARKS.— 1. Counes in bracketa are for the Academic Collat*. 2. The followini; Couraes will be
arranged privately in conference with the atudenU: 7. 16. 17. 29. 33, 5t-«6. 80, 61. 7^ 76. IB lOJ. 100-11.% 118-
130. 122. 126-128, 1.30. 1.32, 133, and in general, the laboratory work in Biology. Instructors are requested to
report the arrangement of these Courses to the Recorder by October 5th. .3. No change may bo made in this
Schedule by an instructor without the perniiasion at tbe University Council.

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Minnesota. He received the degree of A.M. from Williams in 1883, and
of LL.D. from Williams in 1893, Queens University of Ontario in 1903,
State University of Iowa and Washington University in 1907, Western
Reserve and Harvard in 1909, and the University of Michigan in 191 1.
He was made Head of the Department of Political Science and Dean
of the Faculties in 1894, Acting President in 1906, and President in
1907. He was married, January 14, 1879, to Rebecca A. Gilbert, and
has one daughter, Alice Cleveland (Mrs. Gordon J. Laing). He lived
during his first year of residence here principally at hotels; subsequently
for a number of years at 5801 Washington Avenue. His present address
is The President's House, 1146 E. 59th Street.

"As I was engaged for four months (June, July, August, September) with Dr.
Harper in trying to get the new University organized, my first impression can hardly
be identified. Oui* offices that summer were at 121 2 Chamber of Commerce. We
were extremely busy, as we were anxious that the opening day, October i, 1892,
should find the organization so complete that there would be no confusion, and that
■matters should move on as quietly and smoothly as if the institution had been in
operation for ten years. These plans were carried out successfully. On that opening
day students had been registered, classes formed, lessons assigned, instructors were
in their places, and no one from the quiet procedure would have realized that it was a
new university which was just beginning. At noon trustees, faculty, and students
met in Cobb chapel for a simple rehgious service — there were no speeches."

Francis Adelbert Blackburn was born in 1846; received an
A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1868; and came to the Uni-
versity from the University of Leipzig, Germany, where he took the
degree of Ph.D. in 1892. From 1892 to 1896 he was Assistant Professor
in the English Language; since 1896, Associate Professor. He has
published, besides many articles in philological journals, an edition of
the Old English poems "Exodus" and "Daniel." Professor Blackburn
retires at the end of the current quarter — the only one of the thirty-
seven to be lost to the University. Professor Blackburn has been
married twice. His first wife died July 8, 1900. On June 19, 1902,
he married Harriet R. Blackburn. He has two sons, John Francis and
Herbert. The first year he lived at 5521 Madison Avenue. His present
address is 1228 E. Fifty-sixth Street.

"The only impression of the first year that remains with me is that of the closer
intimacy and more close relations with my colleagues in the Faculty and with the
general body of students. This was the result in part, no doubt, of the smaller number
of members of the University; in part, perhaps, of the pressure of the World's Fair,
which compelled us to find food and lodging wherever we could and furnished a bond
of sympathy like that of soldiers in the field."

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Carl Darling Buck was born in Orland, Me., October 2, 1866;
received from Yale an A.B. in 1886, and a Ph.D. in 1889; came to
Chicago direct from study in Germany, as Assistant Professor of San-
skrit and Indo-European Comparative Philology, was made Associate
Professor in 1894, Professor in 1903, and in the same year Head of his
Department. He has published Grammars of Oscan and Umbrian;
An Introduction to the Study of Greek Dialects; Hale and Buck's Latin
Grammar (with W. G. Hale) ; and a Sketch of Linguistic Conditions in
Chicago. He was married in 1889 to Miss Clarinda Darling Swazey,
and has two sons, Carl and Howard, and a daughter, Clarinda. He
lived, during his first year of residence, at 5481 Kimbark Avenue; but
his present address is 5733 Lexington Avenue, with a summer home
at Bucksport, Me.

" I remember chiefly a spirit of hopefulness and energy amid surroundings of utter
desolation."

Ernest DeWitt Burton, born in Granville. Ohio. February 4,
1856, was graduated A.B. from Denison University in 1876, and from
Rochester Theological Seminary in 1882. He was given the degree of
D.D. by Denison in 1897 and by Oberlin in 191 2. He came to Chicago
from Newton Theological Institution, as Professor and Head of the
Department of New Testament Literature and Interpretation. Since
1910 he has been also Director of the University Libraries. On Decem-
ber 28, 1883, he married Miss Frances Mary Townson, and has one
daughter, Margaret E. Burton. When he came to Chicago he lived at
5519 Madison Avenue; but his present address is 5525 Woodlawn
Avenue. His summer home is at Charlevoix. In 1908-9, he was a
Commissioner of the University for the Study of Oriental Education.
He has published: Moods and Tenses in the New Testament in Greek;
Harmony of the Gospels (with W. A. Stevens); Studies in the Life of
Christ (with Shailer Mathews); Records and Letters of the Apostolic Age;
Short Introduction to the Gospels; Principles of Literary Criticism and Their
Application to the Synoptic Problem; and Studies in the Gospel of Mark.

"My first sight of the University quadrangles was in January, 1892, when I drove
out 57th St., through mud half-way to the hubs, and saw the walls of Cobb Hall rising
above ground. There were hardly more than half a dozen houses at this time in the
area bounded by Kimbark and Ingleside avenues, 55th and 6ist streets; and these
on the outer fringe. October i, carpenters were still at work in Cobb Hall, and
ceased their hammering only long enough to permit the very impressive first chapel
service to be held in measurable quiet. One of the strong impressions was the youth
of the faculty. I came from a school in which I was the youngest member of the
faculty, to find three-fourths of my colleagues here younger than I."

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Clarence Fassett Castle, born in 1859, was graduated A.B. from
Denison University in 1880, and received the degree of Ph.D. from
Yale in 1888. From 1888 to 1892 he was professor of Greek in Bucknell
University. He came to Chicago as Assistant Professor of Greek, and
was made Associate Professor in 1895. From 1898 to 1905 he was a
Dean in the Junior Colleges.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, born at Mattoon, 111., September
25, 1843, was graduated A.B. from Beloit College in 1866; and received
the degrees of A.M. from Beloit in 1869, Ph.D. from the Universities of
Michigan and Wisconsin in 1882, LL.D. from the University of Michi-
gan, Beloit College, and Columbian University in 1887, and the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin in 1904; and Sc.D. from Illinois in 1905. He came to
Chicago from the presidency of the University of Wisconsin, which he
had held since 1887. He was geologist to the Peary expedition of 1894;
president at various times of the Chicago Academy of Science, Illinois
Academy of Science, and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science; besides consulting geologist of the United States and the
Wisconsin Geological Surveys, and commissioner of the Illinois Geologi-
cal Survey. He is a trustee of Beloit College. He has published over
one hundred volumes and articles, of which may be mentioned Reports
on the Geology of Wisconsin; Reports to U.S. Geological Survey; Reports
to Carnegie Institution; Year Books I-XI, including the Planetesimal
Hj^othesis; a treatise on geology, in three volumes, and a textbook
in one volume (both with R. D. Salisbury). His residence the first
year at the University was on Madison Avenue; but for a long time
he has lived both winter and summer at the Hyde Park Hotel. He
was married on December 24, 1867, to Miss Alma Isabel Wilson, and
has one son, RoUin Thomas.

"I had one strong impression in 1892 — that we were at the beginning of things,
in many senses, and the outcome would be — what we made it."

Charles Chandler was born in Pontiac, Mich., January 15, 1850.
He was graduated A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1871, and
received an A.M. from the same institution in 1874. From 1876 to
1 89 1 he was professor of Latin at Denison University, coming to Chicago
in 1892 as Professor of Latin. He married in 1876 Miss Adelaide
Isadore Murray, and has one son.

Solomon Henry Clark was born in New York City July 21, 1861.
He came to Chicago from Trinity University, where he had been lecturer
on public speaking, 1888-92. He was Reader in Elocution at Chicago

G. C. Rowland
E. D. Burton

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from 1892 to 1894; Instructor from 1894 to 1897, in which year also he
was graduated, Ph.B.; Assistant Professor from 1897 to 1901, when he
was appointed Associate Professor. His home in the first year at Chicago
was at 4251 Lake Avenue; at present he lives at 5761 Washington Avenue,
with a summer home at Chautauqua, N.Y. On August 19, 1889, he
married Miss Annie Maud Fralick, and he has four sons, Barrett Harper,
Robert Elliott, Coleman Goldsmith, and Harold Richards. He has
published How to Teach Reading in the Public Schools; Principles of
Vocal Expression and Literary Interpretation; Practical Public Speaking;
and a Handbook of the Best Readings.

Starr Willard Cutting, born in West Brattleboro, Vt., October 14,
1858, came to Chicago from Earlham College, Ind., where he was
acting professor of French and German. He had been graduated A.B.
from Williams College in 1881; received an M.A. in 1882, and from
Johns Hopkins the degree of Ph.D. in 1892. Assistant Professor of
German here from 1892 to 1894, he was made Associate Professor in
1894, Professor in 1900, and Head of the Department in 1906. His
principal publications include: Neidhart von Reuenthal and Berthold
Steinmar von Klingnau; Faust's First Monologue and the Earth-Spirit
Scene in the Light of Recent Criticism; A Critical Study of Lessing's
Theory of the Drama; The Modern German Relatives Das and Was; Con-
cerning Schiller's Treatment of Fate and Dramatic Guilt in His ^'Braut
von Messina"; Robert Wesselhoeft, a Biography. Professor Cutting
married in September, 1889, Miss Mary Edith Derby, and has three
children, Winifred, Edith, and Clifton Derby. He lived, in his first
year of residence, at 5606 Ellis Avenue. His present home is at 5423
Greenwood Avenue; his summer residence, at Brattleboro, Vt.

"I was chiefly impressed by the wide discrepancy between the scant physical
equipment of the University in 1892 and the sincerity and manifest earnestness of both
students and faculty in the work of the first Quarter. This was all the more impressive
because of the quiet, matter-of-fact swing of all this new activity, as if the launching
of a university were but a minor item of Chicago's program, in a year that witnessed
all the important preparations for the World's Fair of 1893."

William Gardner Hale, born in Savannah, Ga., February 9, 1849,
was graduated A.B. from Harvard in 1870, and received the degree of
LL.D. from Union College in 1895, Princeton in 1896, Aberdeen and
St. Andrews in 1907. He came to Chicago as Professor and Head of the
Department of Latin from Cornell University, where for twelve years
he had been professor of Latin. In his first year at Chicago he lived at

1913

S. W. Cutting

T. C. Chamberlin

G. C. Rowland

E. D. Burton

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5833 Monroe Avenue; subsequently on Lexington Avenue; his home
for some time has been at 5749 Kimbark Avenue. His summer
home is Aguiden Lodge, Moosehead Lake, Me. On June 13, 1883,
he married Miss Harriet Knowles Swinburne; they have four chil-
dren, Swinburne, Virginia, Margaret, and Gardner. Professor Hale's
principal publications include the following: On the History of Syntax:
A Century of Metaphysical Syntax; The Heritage of Unreason in Syntacti-
cal Method; Comparative Syntax: Leading Mood-Forces in the Indo-
European Parent Speech; Leading Case-Forces in the Indo-European
Parent Speech; The Anticipatory Subjunctive in Greek and Latin; The
Origin of Subjunctive and Optative Conditions in Greek and Latin; The
Harmonizing of Grammatical Nomenclature, with Especial Reference to
Mood-Syntax (with a new system for Germanic and Romance); Latin
Syntax: The Sequence of Tenses in Latin; The "Cum' ^-Constructions:
Their History and Functions; The Genitive and Ablative of Description;
Pronunciation in Latin Prose and Verse: Did Verse-Ictus Destroy Word-
Accent in Roman Poetry? Syllabification in Roman Speech; The Quanti-
tative Pronunciation of Latin, and Its Meaning for Latin Versification;
Catullus: The Manuscripts of Catullus; Pedagogical: The Art of Read-
ing Latin: How to Teach It. Hale-Buck Latin Grammar (with C. D.
Buck); Latin Composition (with Beeson and Carr); General: The
Practical Value of Humanistic Studies.

Professor Hale was chairman of the committee which in 1894 raised
the money for the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, and
first director of the School. He is chairman of a Committee of the
Modern Language Association to propose a system of nomenclature for
English, German, and Romance Languages; chairman of the Joint
Committee of the National Education Association, the Modern Lan-
guage Association, and the American Philological Association, on Gram-
matical Nomenclature; American Adviser for Latin of the ''Loeb
Library"; and associate editor of both the Classical Review and the
Classical Quarterly. Professor Hale was the first Convocation orator
of the University. His speech was delivered at the Third Convocation,
only President Harper speaking at the first two. It was in this address
that Professor Hale made the comparison between the City White of
the World's Fair, and the City Grey of the University, which was
subsequently embodied by Dr. E. H. Lewis in the "Alma Mater."

"It is perhaps my best distinction that I was the first among the men first
approached for a head professorship, to foresee that a great university could be built
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before that nomination was made. Meanwhile, President Harper had come to know
Professor Laughlin, and we were actually formally appointed simultaneously.

"My first impressions were really rather of the city and of its general temper
than of the University. I spent nearly two weeks here before accepting an appoint-
ment, making up my mind as to what the promise of success was. I talked with many
people and visited a number of high schools. I felt the vigor and hopefulness of
Chicago life, and cast in my fortunes with it.

"When I first saw the grounds of the University, there was as yet no street in its
neighborhood, except the native sand, and no building in the blocks near the Midway
between Monroe Avenue and Washington Park. When- 1 first came, the foundations
of the first building, Cobb Hall, had not yet come out of the ground.

"My first impression of my colleagues was of a body mostly composed of very
able men, with very distinct ideas of their own, and of course with widely varying
traditions of university experience They seemed to me full of life and full of the
spirit of fellowship and mutual helpfulness. It yvas this which eased our way through
the tumult of opinions.

"The early years were very difficult. The regulations of the University had
been made in advance, and of course could not be perfect at every point. Some were
unworkable, and were given up after strenuous discussion. Many new schemes were
also devised, and it was a common saying that we expected every day to find new
instructions in our mail box. This was natural under the circumstances, and a har-
monious system was worked out before our patience was exhausted.

"My present impressions, which are not asked for, are that the University has
fulfilled its promise. The rest of the country doesn't know how good it is. Europe
knows far better."

Robert Francis Harper, born in Marietta, Ohio, January 26,
1862, was one of the three of the group under consideration to be gradu-
ated from the old University of Chicago, receiving the A.B. in 1883.
Three years later he was given the degree of Ph.D. by Leipzig. In
191 2 Muskingum College gave him the LL.D. Coming as Associate
Professor to the University of Chicago from Yale, where he had been
instructor in Semitics, he was made Professor in 1900. He has published
widely in the field of Semitics, and is Editor of the American Journal
of Semitic Languages and Literatures. He is unmarried, and when in
Chicago makes his home at the Quadrangle Club, of which he was one
of the founders. At present he is on leave of absence, working in the
British Museum.

Charles Richmond Henderson, born at Covington, Ind., Decem-
ber 17, 1849, is the second member of the group to have been graduated
from the old University, from which he received the A.B. in 1870, and
the A.M. three years later. In the same year, 1873, he was made B.D.
by the Baptist Union Theological Seminary. He had the degree of
Ph.D. from Leipzig in 1901; and D.D. was conferred upon him by the

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Baptist Union Seminary in 1883. He came to Chicago from Detroit,
where he had been for ten years pastor of the First Baptist Church.
At first Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Recorder, he was made
Associate Professor in 1894, Professor in 1897, and Head of the Depart-
ment of Practical Sociology in 1904. From the beginning to the present
he has been the University Chaplain. He married in 1876 Miss Eleanor
Levering Henderson; they have no children. Dr. Henderson lives at
5724 Washington Avenue.

Emil Gustav Hirsch, born at Luxembourg, in the Grand Duchy,
May 22, 1852, has been since 1892 Professor of Rabbinical Literature and
Philosophy, though at the same time, and indeed since 1880, minister
of Sinai Congregation, Chicago. He was graduated A.B. from Pennsyl-
vania in 1872; and received the A.M. from Pennsylvania in 1873,
LL.D. from Austin College in 1896, Litt.D. from Western University of
Pennsylvania, 1900, D.D. from Hebrew Union College, 1901, and D.C.L.
from The Temple University of Philadelphia in 1908. He has been
editor of the Zeitgeist, The Reformer, The Reform Advocate, and the
Biblical Department of the Jewish Encyclopedia. Dr. Hirsch lives at
3612 Grand Boulevard.

George Carter Howland, born in 1864, was graduated from
Amherst in 1885, and received the degree of A.M. from the same college
in 1888. After some years of. teaching in Chicago high schools, he
came to the University in 1892 as Instructor in Romance Languages.
In 1895 he was made Assistant Professor and Junior College Examiner;
and from 1898-1900 he was Dean of University College. In 191 1 he
became Assistant Professor of the History of Literature. Among his
publications are an edition of the Spanish play, Zaragueta, and many
editorials and articles, chiefly in the Chicago Tribune. He married
March 20, 1895, Miss Cora E. Roche, and has three children, Cora
Virginia, John Roche, and George Felix. In his first year of residence
his home was at 5735 Washington Avenue; then for some years at 5733
Woodlawn Avenue. His present address is 4605 Drexel Boulevard.

" I think I was most struck by the newness of the buildings and the oldness of the
students, as compared with those of my own Alma Mater."

Edwin Oakes Jordan, born at Thomaston, Me., July 28, 1866,
was graduated A.B, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1888, and four years later received the degree of Ph.D. from Clark
University, from which he came directly to the University of Chicago as

E. O. Jordan

R. G. MOULTON

1892

E. H. Moore

J. U. Nef

W. D. M'acClintock

I. M. Price
R. D. Sausbury

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an Associate in Anatomy. In 1893 he was made Instructor; in 1895,
Assistant Professor of Bacteriology; in 1900 Associate Professor; and
in 1907 Professor. Since 1904 he has been editor of the Journal of
Infectious Diseases, and since 1905 Chief of the Serum Division of the
Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases. His publications include
a textbook of General Bacteriology, and many special articles on water-
supply, typhoid fever, bacterial variation, etc. He lived during his
first year of residence at 5481 Kimbark Avenue; his present address is
5702 Washington Avenue, and his summer home is at Barrington, 111.
In 1893 he married Miss Elsie Fay Pratt, and they have three children,
Henry Donaldson, Edwin Oakes, Jr., and Lucia Elizabeth.

"One building (Cobb Hall) nearly finished, partly surrounded by swamps, and
unpaved, unlighted streets; a few sidewalks parading on stilts in inaccessible places;
Professor Laughlin's house alone in the block east surveying the vacant campus
coolly but hopefully; good collecting grounds for biologists, especially a pond north
of present site of Haskell thickly populated with frogs and amebae; Columbian
Exposition buildings in Jackson Park and on the Midway in all stages of construction;
an atmosphere of intense activity; President Harper knowing everybody and interested
in everything from the kind of furniture to the next new department; very earnest
students but very inadequate facilities; no equipment; no books; above all a feeling
of great hopefulness and of consuming interest in the educational experiments on foot
and talked about — it was stimulating if not comfortable."

James Laurence Laughlin, born at Deerfield, Ohio, April 2, 1850,
was graduated from Harvard A.B. in 1873, and received from the same
institution the A.M. and the Ph.D. in 1876. He came to Chicago as
Head of the Department of Political Economy from Cornell, where
for two years he had been professor of political economy and finance.
He is editor of the Journal of Political Economy, member of many scien-
tific bodies, and has published largely. In 1906 he was Exchange
Professor at Berlin; in 1908, delegate to the Pan-American Scientific
Congress at Santiago; and from 191 1 to 1913, chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee of the National Citizens League for the promotion of a
sound banking system. Professor Laughlin is married and has one
son. In 1892 he lived in the "Beatrice," 57th Street and Monroe
Avenue; but his home for many years has been at 5747 Lexington
Avenue, and his summer home at Jafifrey, N.H.

"I saw the University first with F. F. Abbott in December of 1891, when there
were eight feet of green water in the basement of Cobb and Graduate Halls, which
then did not show above ground. There was no passage across 57th Street, east or
west, nor any across the campus. The present site of Haskell was a swamp. Later,
in June, 1892, I saw Cobb with President Harper when lightning had knocked down
the north end."

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David Judson Lingle is the third member of this group to have
received his Bachelor's degree from the old University. Born in Rock
Island, 111., June 6, 1863, he gained the S.B. in 1885. Seven years later
he received his Ph.D. in biology from Johns Hopkins, and came directly
to Chicago as Reader in Geology; was made Assistant in the next year,
Instructor the year following, and Assistant Professor in 1904. April
21, 1898, he married Miss Helen Hitchcock. He is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Psi. His home is at 1017 E.
54th Place.

William Darn all MacClintock, born at Elizabeth, Ky., July
28, 1858, graduated B.A. at Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1878, and
received the A.M. from the same institution in 1882. He came to
Chicago from Wells College, as Assistant Professor of English Litera-
ture; was made Associate Professor and Dean in the Junior Colleges in
1894; and Professor in 1900. He has served also as Dean of University
College, and from 1905 to 19 10 as Dean of the College of Philosophy
(women). On July 7, 1886, he married Lucia Porter Lander, and has
four children, Lander, Paul, Hilda, and Elizabeth. He lived during his
first year of residence at 5535 Monroe Avenue; but for years his home
has been at 5629 Lexington Avenue, and in the summer at Lakeside,
Mich.

" I recall the tremendous enthusiam created by Dr. Harper over the plans of the
University, especially among younger men. I spent the summer of i8qo with him at
Chautauqua when he was full of his dreams. He told me then that if he came to
Chicago, I was to come with him. My official notification of appointment dates
May, 1 89 1. I especially recall his enthusiam over the great graduate school we were
to create here — a new and greater Johns Hopkins in the West. I recall during that
and the next year the famous and inspiring Bulletins issued frequently, giving plans,
calling for criticisms and suggestions.

"Cobb and the Divinity Halls were all the buildings ready in October, 1892,
and we climbed over ditches and under scaffolding the days just preceding the opening.
The grounds were a chaos of sand, swamp, and dwarf oaks. Nothing but wooden
pavements in the neighborhood, which soon began to furnish bonfires for all student
celebrations. I recall the tremendous hurry to get Cobb Hall ready; the afternoon
and evening before I worked with others of the force getting chairs and tables ready
for the opening day. Dr. Harper worked at it till after midnight.

" But I recall that next day there was order — the schedule of hours and rooms was
entirely ready and things went off smoothly. I recall that at the first meeting of the
faculty the President began deliberations by laying before us the regulations, announce-
ments of classes, hour and room schedules, etc., saying that he had thought it well to
start things in this complete though arbitrary manner, but that all was new, subject
to the action of the faculty. Then began at once that "taking up and putting down
of permanents" which has seemed an essential part of the genius of the plan.

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"We had then an elaborate system of registration cards and devices, and I remem-
ber students exclaiming over our surprising "system," how promptly they were
handled.

"I recall with intense pleasure, yet with memories of my trepidation, my first
graduate class in 'The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement.' No better
group of students was ever gathered at the University — for among the twenty
members were Edwin H. Lewis, Myra Reynolds, and Frederic I. Carpenter, all of
whom became highly honored members of our faculty.

"I attended the first Chapel Assembly and recall the thrill of our first officers'
procession in the new official cap and gown. I remember President Harper's wish
to make our first public assembly as quiet and simple and religious as possible.

"There was an immediate demand from Chicago and the Middle West for*
lectures from our faculty — for literary clubs, educational meetings, etc. I was very
busy from the outset in such extra-mural teaching. Dr. Harper encouraged it heartily
as a means of establishing the University in the hearts of the people of the West.

"Snell Hall was built during the winter of 1892, and I can remember the wild
confusion and jolly complaint when the women students moved into the unfinished
Snell from the "Beatrice." During the first year Professor Laughlin built his house,
and I remember that from the Ferris Wheel it and its grounds were the only finished
things in sight about the Midway.

"As I look back now, it seems to me the most striking characteristic of our early
year was the romantic enthusiam and hope, the expectation of great things to be
accomplished, the feeling of splendid, new, large schemes which filled the minds of our
faculty, students, and well-wishers in Chicago."

Albert Abraham Michelson, born at Strelno, Germany, Decem-
ber 19, 1852, was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in
1873. The list of degrees he has received since then includes the
Ph.D. (honorary) from Western Reserve in 1886; Stevens Institute,
1887; Leipzig, 1909; Georg- August University, Gottingen, and Royal
Frederick University, Christiania, 191 1; Sc.D. from Cambridge in 1899;
and the LL.D. from Yale in 1901 and Pennsylvania in 1906. He is a
member of fifteen scientific societies, including the leading bodies of
America, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. In
1907 he received both the Copley medal and the Nobel prize and in
1912 the Elliot Cresson Medal from Franklin Institute. In 1910 he
was president of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and in 191 1, Exchange Professor at Gottingen. He came to
Chicago from Clark University, as Professor and Head of the Depart-
ment of Physics. He was twice married, to Miss Margaret Heminway
in 1876, by whom he has one son, Albert Heminway; and to Miss
Edna Stanton, December 23, 1899. They have three daughters,
Madeline, Beatrice, and Dorothy; their home is at 5756 Kimbark
Avenue. Professor Michelson has published a very large number of

R. G. MOULTON

W. D. MacClintock

1913

E. H, Moore

J. U. Nef

E. O. Jordan
I. M. Price

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scientific articles, mostly concerning his researches in light, in which
field he is the foremost authority.

Frank Justus Miller, born at Clinton, Tenn., November 26,
1858, was graduated A.B. from Denison in 1879, and received the
A.M. in 1882, and the LL.D. in 1909, from the same university; in
1892 he gained the Ph.D. from Yale, whence he came directly to Chicago
as Instructor in Latin, and Assistant Examiner. In 1894 he became
Assistant Professor, in 1901 Associate Professor, and Professor in 1909.
From 1904 to 191 1 he was Examiner, and since that time Dean in the
Junior Colleges. He is the managing editor of the Classical Journal,
and his publications include editions of Virgil and Ovid, and Studies in
Roman Poetry; Two Dramatizations from Virgil, and Tragedies of Seneca
in English Verse. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. On July 10,
1883, he married Miss Lida Willett, and their children are Winifred
Fiske and Raymond Philbrick. Their home was during the first year
at 5410 Madison Avenue, but has been for some time at 1222 E. 56th
Street.

"My first impressions of the University were of incompleteness, confusion, noise.
Newly arrived as I was in Chicago, having come on two weeks before the University
opened in order to hold our first entrance examinations, the locality was all new to me.
And it was a far different locality from the present handsome residence district. The
streets were ill-paved or unpaved, the sidewalks were of boards badly laid, beneath
which rats held undisputed sway; waist-high weeds filled the parkways and dusted
their yellow pollen on you as you passed. Great blocks of empty land, unsightly and
unkempt, stretched away from the campus on all sides. Furthermore, the Midway and
Jackson Park were one huge stretch of digging and building in preparation for the
World's Fair, which opened in May of the following year. With the Ferris Wheel
building almost directly opposite the present site of Foster Hall, and the whole length
of the Midway one bustle of preparation to receive its population of the barbaric
fakers of the world, you can well believe that this was not exactly that quiet, sylvan
retreat which is supposed to be most conducive to philosophic meditation.

"After wading shoe-top deep in sand across the wide stretch of campus, I found
Cobb Hall in those last stages of completion where the end seems still remote. Car-
penters and finishers of all kinds were still in possession, and noise, dust, and confusion
reigned — but not supreme. For in his office in the southeast corner of the first floor
of Cobb was to be found a man who, in spite of all this chaos of preparation, was
holding steadily on his way toward the fulfilment of the University's promise to open
its doors to the students of the world on the first of October, 1892. It was under these
most difficult and distracting circumstances that President Harper and his first faculty
began their labors. They had come from every hand, from many states as well as
foreign lands; they had had scant time to house their families; they had yet to learn
each others' names, and to make those thousand and one adjustments necessary to
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problems was truly formidable. They had the educational conditions of Chicago and
the Middle West yet to learn, the value of the schools as sources of college preparation
yet to determine, the acquaintance and friendship of the collegiate and secondary
educational leaders yet to win.

"And yet, as we look back to those beginning years, our first impression of
unpreparedness and confusion fades away. The noise of completing buildings was
not distracting but inspiring, because it was but the noise of our advance; the empty
and unkempt campus and surrounding neighborhood were but an invitation to come
in and possess the land; the formidable array of difficulties and problems, taken one
by one and that by men who, while new to the present situation, were by no means new
to educational administration, in due time disappeared; and we have come into our
present state of comparative preparedness by stages so gradual that we can with
difficulty realize the growth that we have made except as we think upon that twenty-
year long journey we have come and contrast its beginning and its end.

"And we did open in full force and on time at 8:30 A.M., October first, 1892!"

Eliakim Hastings Moore, born at Marietta, Ohio, January 26,
1862, was graduated A.B. from Yale in 1883, and made Ph.D. in 1885.
He has received also the honorary A.M^and Ph.D. from Gottingen in
1909; LL.D. from Wisconsin in 1904; Sc.D. from Yale, and Math.D.
from Clark University in 1909. He came to Chicago as Professor of
Mathematics from Northwestern, where he had been assistant professor;
in 1896 he was made Head of the Department here. He is a member of
the National Academy of Sciences, Associate Fellow of the American
Academy, and president of the American Mathematical Society; editor
of the Transactions of that society from 1899 to 1907; and since 1908
editor of the Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo. He was
vice-president of the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians
at Cambridge, England, in 191 2, and is an honorary corresponding
member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
His publications include Introduction to a Form of General Analysis, and
other memoirs on general analysis. On June 21, 1892, he married Miss
Martha Morris Young, and they have one son, Eliakim Hastings 3d.
Professor Moore lived in his first year at Chicago, at 53 11 Washington
Avenue; his present home is at 5607 Monroe Avenue, and his summer
home is in Northern Wisconsin.

Richard Green Moulton, born at Preston, England, on May 5,
1849, was graduated A.B. from London University in 1869, and from
Cambridge in 1874. There have been conferred on him also the degrees
of A.M. by Cambridge in 1877, and Ph.D. by Pennsylvania in 1891.
He came to Chicago as Professor of Literature in English, and in 1901
was made Head of the Department of General Literatures in English.

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His principal publications are : The Modern Reader's Bible; Shakespeare
as a Dramatic Artist; Shakespeare as a Dramatic Thinker; Ancient
Classical Drama; and World Literature. He married August 13, 1896,
Miss Alice Maud Cole, of Sheffield, England. They live throughout
the University year at the Hotel Windermere, but their summer home
is Hallamleigh, Tunbridge Wells, England.

"I was most struck by the contrast to the system of the English universities,
where the common examinations have the effect of reducing the freedom of the teacher,
and so the interest of the teaching, to a minimum. I believe as much as ever in the
superiority of the American system."

John Ulric Nef, born at Herizau in Switzerland on June 14, 1862,
was graduated A.B. at Harvard in 1884, and received his Ph.D. from
Munich two years later. He came to Chicago from Clark University,
as Professor of Chemistry, and in 1896 was made Head of the Depart-
ment. In his first year of residence he lived at 4712 Lake Avenue; his
present home throughout the academic year is at the Del Prado, but
in summer, in Switzerland. He was married on May 17, 1898, to Miss
Louise Bates Comstock, who died March 20, 190Q. He has one son,
John Ulric, Jr. Professor Nef's publications have been principally in
Liebig's Annalen der Chemie. He is a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
and of the Royal Society of Sciences of Upsala.

"I remember being doubtful whether the new University was destined to become
a pedagogical institute or an establishment fostering scholarship and research."

Ira Maurice Price, born near Newark, Ohio, April 29, 1856, was
graduated A.B. from Denison in 1879, and made A.M. in 1882, in the
same year receiving also the B.D. from the Baptist Union Theological
Seminary; in 1886 he was given both the A.M. and the Ph.D. by
Leipzig; and in 1903 was made LL.D., again by Denison. He came to
Chicago, as Associate Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures,
from the Baptist Union; in 1900 he was made Professor. Since 1908
he has been secretary of the International Sunday School Lesson Com-
mittees. His principal publications include The Great Cylinder (A and
B) Inscriptions of Gtidea, Part I ; The Monuments and the Old Testament;
and The Ancestry of the English Bible. On June 13, 1882, he married
Miss Jennie Rhoads; she died September 23, 1905, leaving four chil-
dren, Charles Royal, Grace Marie, Maurice Thomas, and Genevieve.
In his first year of residence Professor Price lived at Morgan Park;
his present address is 6043 Ellis Avenue.

J. H. Tufts
Miss Talbot

1892

J. Stieglitz

F. Starr
A. A. Stagg

A. W. Small

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"A hearty lusty youngster I thought the University, with high ambitions, and
rather crude exterior which was rapidly polished down by continuous and unrelenting
hard work on the part of faculty and students. Everyone showed the same brand of
ambition and was willing to put the shoulder to the wheel to make the machine go,
and it went."

RoLLiN D. Salisbury, born at Spring Prairie, Wis., not far from
Lake Geneva, August 17, 1859, was graduated Ph.B. from Beloit Col-
lege in 1881, and received the A.M. in 1884, and the LL.D. in 1904, from
the same institution. He came to Chicago as Professor of Geographic
Geology, from Wisconsin; was made Dean of the Ogden Graduate
School of Science in 1899, and Head of the Department of Geography
in 1903. His principal publications include: Geologic Processes; Earth
History; College Geography (with T. C. Chamberlin) ; Advanced, Briefer,
and Elementary Courses in Physiography; and Elements of Geography
(with H. H. Barrows and W. S. Tower). He has been geologist with
the New Jersey, the Illinois, and the United States Surveys. He is
not married. In his first year of residence his home was at 4540
Monroe Avenue; it is now at 5730 Woodlawn Avenue. He is a member
of Beta Theta Pi.

Ferdinand Schevill, born November 12, 1868 at Cincinnati,
Ohio, was graduated A.B. from Yale in 1889, and Ph.D. from Freiburg
three years later, whence he came to Chicago as Assistant in History and
German. In 1893 he was made Associate in History; in 1895,
Instructor; in 1899, Assistant Professor; in 1904, Associate Professor;
and in 1909, Professor. His principal publications include Siena: The
Story of a Mediaeval Commune; and A Political History of Modern
Europe. He lived during his first year of residence at 5828 Madison
Avenue; then for most of his period of service, in North and Hitchcock
Halls. He married March 16 of the present year Miss Clara Edna
Meier of New York, and is now living at 5407 Greenwood Avenue. He
is a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

" My first impression of the University is closely associated with my first impres-
sion of the city of Chicago. I landed at the Pennsylvania Station, and got myself
at last with many alarms to the Cottage Grove cars. A native catching my provincial
notes proudly called my attention to the fact that these superb vehicles were operated
in the latest fashion, viz., by cable. Then the journey began. At 39th Street we had
passed the outer limit of what could by any interpretation be called civilization,
and beyond stretched an indefinable desolation of mud streets, board walks, and
occasional house rows. I despaired of finding the new home of the arts and sciences
in this environment; but the conductor knew his business, and refused to let me leap

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ofif till we had reached the scratched furrows in the outlying prairie which he identified
as 58th Street. Sure enough, there was a tall red-roofed structure not far away, pro-
claiming in its towering mass that man had once more taken up the war with chaos.
Over high, stilted walks and finally through accumulated building litter I made my
way to the door of Cobb Hall, where an immense press of carpenters, stjidents,
plumbers, mothers with young hopefuls, informed me, dazed but game, that I had
reached the University of Chicago."

Francis Wayland Shepardson, born near Cincinnati, Ohio, Octo-
ber 15, 1862, received an A.B. from Denison in 1882, and from Brown
in 1883; A.M. from Denison in 1886; Ph.D. from Yale, 1892; and LL.D.
from Denison in 1906. He came to Chicago as Docent in History in
1892, after a career which had included teaching in a young ladies'
seminary, and editing a country newspaper; was made Instructor, and
Secretary of the Correspondence-Study Department in 1895; Assistant
Professor, Acting Recorder, and Secretary to the President, in 1897;
Associate Professor in 1901; and Dean of the Senior Colleges, from 1904
to 1907. He has been since 1908 President of the Illinois Society,
Sons of the Revolution. He married, September 3, 1884, Miss Cora
Whitcomb, and has one son, John Whitcomb. He is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and of Beta Theta Pi, of which he has been general secre-
tary since 1907. In 1892 he lived at 5475 Kimbark Avenue; his present
address is 5568 Kimbark Avenue.

"I began work for the University on September 15, 1892, as Librar)' Secretary
in the University Extension Division, the offices then being located in the apartment
building at the northeast comer of Fifty-fifth and Woodlawn. The 'impression'
which remains most firmly fixed in my mind is that of intense eagerness on the part
of all to get to work, of belief that a great institution was to begin, of conscious pride
in having a part in the enterprise, and of devotion to the President of the University,
whose enthusiasm and activity were stimulating to all. I recall dodging under a
scaffolding in front of the entrance to Cobb in order to get into the building, the work-
men above being engaged in chipping away upon the words 'Cobb Lecture Hall.'
Another impression from which escape is impossible is that a mighty transformation
has been worked in the University and in the region round about it, since those first
days. The physical changes that have taken place seem almost beyond belief. No
part of the city building which has made Chicago great is more deserving of note than
that connected with the neighborhood of the University of Chicago."

Paul Shore y, born in Davenport, Iowa, August 3, 1857, was
graduated A.B. from Harvard in 1878, and after being admitted to
the Illinois bar in 1880, studied at Leipzig, Bonn, and Athens, finally
receiving the degree of Ph.D. from Munich in 1884. Iowa College
conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1905, and Wisconsin Litt.D.

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in 191 1. From Bryn Mawr, where he had been professor of Greek for
seven years, he came to Chicago as Professor of Greek, and in 1896 was
made Head of the Department. He was president of the American
Philological Association in 19 10, Turnbull lecturer on poetry at Johns
Hopkins, and Harvard lecturer on classical subjects, both in 191 2; for
the coming year he is Roosevelt professor at Berlin. He is managing
editor of Classical Philology, and his principal publications include:
editions of the Odes and Epodes of Horace, and of Pope's Homer; De
Platonis Idearum Doctrina; The Idea of Good in Plato's Republic; The
Unity of Plato's Thought, and many special articles. In June, 1895,
he married Miss Emma Large Gilbert. He has kept throughout his
entire term of service the one address, 5516 Woodlawn Avenue, the only
member of the original faculty to accomplish this particular feat.
" 'I saw this road before it was made.' "

Albion Woodbury Small, born at Buckfield, Me., May 11, 1854,
received the A.B. from Colby College, Maine, in 1876 and the A.M.
three years later. In 1889 he was made Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins, and
LL.D. by Colby in 1900. President of Colby from 1889 to 1892, in the
latter year he came to Chicago as Professor and Head,,©! the Depart-
ment of Sociology; in 1905 he was made Dean of the Graduate School
of Arts and Literature. His publications since 1905 include besides
many articles: General Sociology; Adam Smith and Modern Sociology;
The Cameralists; The Meaning of Social Science; Between Eras; he is
also editor of the American Journal of Sociology. June 20, 1881, he
married Fraulein Valeria von Mossow, of Berlin; they have one
daughter, Lina (Mrs. Hayden B. Harris). In 1892 he lived at 5524
Madison Avenue; his present home is at 5731 Washington Avenue,
and in summer at Bretton Woods, N.H.

"A reduced-dimension reproduction of the Creative Week. The earth not void
but surely without form. Darkness not yet fully yielding to primal light. Land and
water disputing possession. Desolations of giant herbs uncanny with cattle and
creeping things and beasts after their kind. Seemingly extemporized men and women
hurrying together from all the regions beyond. The mien of each a transparency
displaying the same sustaining faith, viz., 'Something is going on which it would be a
pity to miss. But what a foredoomed failure the whole mad venture would have been
if its lucky stars had not sent it deponent's help!'"

Amos Alonzo Stagg, born in Orange, N.J., 1863, was graduated
A.B. from Yale in 1888, after four years of the most strikingly successful
athletic service to his Alma Mater; acted one year as athletic director

1913

B. S. Terry

A. W. Small

J. Stieglitz

F. Starr

Miss Talbot

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at Springfield, Mass., and then came to Chicago as Associate Professor
and Director of the Division of Physical Culture. In 1900 he was made
Professor. Since 1904 he has been a member of the Football Rules
Committee; he was a member of the American Committee for the
Olympic Games at Athens in 1896, London, 1908, Stockholm, 191 2;
president of the Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges,
in 19 10, and chairman of the Track and Field Rules Committee of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association, in 191 1. He has published
(with H. L. Williams) a Treatise on American Football. By common
consent Mr. Stagg is the leading football coach in the West. September
10, 1894, he married Miss Stella Robertson, and they have three children,
Amos Alonzo, Jr., Ruth and Paul. In 1892 he made his home at the
Hotel Monroe, Monroe Avenue and 55th Street. Since his marriage
he has lived at 5704 Jackson Avenue.

Frederick Starr, born at Auburn, N.Y., September 2, 1858, was
graduated B.S. from Lafayette College in 1882; from Lafayette also
he received in 1885 the degrees A.M. and Ph.D., and in 1907, Sc.D. He
came as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, from a position in charge
of the Department of Ethnology in the American Museum of Natural
History. In 1895 he was made Associate Professor. Among his
publications are: Some First Steps in Human Progress; Congo Natives;
Indians of Southern Mexico; Notes on Ethnography of Southern Mexico;
The Truth about the Congo; The Ainu Group; In Indian Mexico. He is
a corresponding member of too many societies to list, and an honorary
member of the Folklore Society, London; the Royal Anthropological
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; the Congreso Indianista, Mexico;
the Davenport Academy of Sciences. He was given in 1900 the
Service Medal (Museum Service) Nederlands, Queen Wilhelmina; made
in 1907 officer of the Order of Leopold II, Congo, Leopold II; given in
1908 Palm of Officer of Public Instruction, France; made in 191 1
chevalier of the Crown of Italy, Italy, by Victor Emanuel III; and in
191 1, commander of the Order of Leopold II, Belgium, by Albert I. He
is unmarried; he lived in 1892 at 5800 Jackson Avenue, but has his
home now at 5541 Drexel Boulevard.

Julius Stieglitz, born at Hoboken, N.J., May 27, 1867, after a
course in the Real gymnasium of Karlsruhe, Germany, received his A.M.
and Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1889; went later into com-
mercial chemistry, and in 1892 came to Chicago as docent. In 1893

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he -y^^as made Assistant; in 1894, Instructor; in 1897, Assistant Professor;
in 1902, Associate Professor; and Professor in 1905. Clark University
made him Sc.D. in 1909. He was Hitchcock lecturer at California in
1909; is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and associate
editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He is a member
also of the Council on Chemistry and Pharmacy of the American Medi-
cal Association, and of the International Commission on Annual Tables
of Constants. His principal publications are reports on investigations
in chemistry, which have appeared in various chemical journals. On
August 27, 1891, he married Fraulein Anna StiefiFel, of Karlsruhe,
Germany, and they have two children, Hedwig Jacobina and Edward
Julius. In his first year of residence he lived at 5440 Monroe Avenue;
his present home is at 6026 Monroe Avenue, and in summer at Lake
George, N.Y.

"My first and lasting impression was that of a University of first rank, springing
into being in one act. This impression was due to the splendid staff of professors
in all the main departments which the University had from the outset, and to the
high standards of scholarship which it had consciously set itself to live up to."

Marion Talbot, bom of American parents at Thun, Switzerland,
July 31, 1858, was graduated A.B. at Boston University in 1880, and
received the A.M. two years later; graduated S.B. from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1888, and was given the degree of LL.D. by
Cornell College in 1904. From an instructorship in Wellesley she came
to Chicago as Assistant Professor of Sanitary Science; was made Asso-
ciate Professor in 1895, and Professor (of Household Administration)
in 1894. Since the beginning she has been Dean of Women, and in
that capacity has chosen always to live in one of the women's dormitories
— the "Beatrice," and Snell, which was temporarilly used for women,
in 1892; then Kelly; and now Green. Her summer address is Pine
Eyrie, Holderness, N.H. She is a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Chemical
Society, and many other societies; was president, and for thirteen years
secretary, of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. She has published
House Sanitation (with E. H. Richards), The Education of Women, The
Modern Household (with S. P. Breckinridge).

Benjamin Stuytes Terry, bom at St. Paul, April 9, 1857, was in
1878 graduated A.B. from Colgate, from which institution also he
received the A.M. in 1881 and LL.D. in 1903; in 1892, the degree of

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Ph.D. was conferred upon him by Freiburg. After training in theologi-
cal study and two pastorates, he became professor of history at Colgate,
whence he came to Chicago as Professor of English History. He has
published A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of
Victoria, and A History of England for Schools. He is a member of
various historical societies. June i, 1881, he married Miss May Bald-
win, and they have three children, Schuyler Baldwin, Edith (Mrs.
Brewer), and Ethel Mary. In his first year of residence he lived at
5535 Monroe Avenue, at the Hotel Howard, and in Morgan Park; but
his present address is 6042 Ingleside Avenue. His summer home is
''The Owl's Nest," Fifield, Wis.

"I thought in those first days that the University was a marvelous possibility,
and — much of it — probability."

James Hayden Tufts, born at Monson, Mass., July 9, 1862, received
the A.B. degree from Amherst in 1884, the A.M. in 1890, and LL.D.
in 1904; having meanwhile taken the Ph.D. at Freiburg in 1892. He
has taught both mathematics and philosophy; he came to Chicago
from Freiburg as Assistant Professor of Philosophy; was made Associate
Professor in 1894, Professor in 1900, and Head of the Department of
Philosophy in 1905. From 1899 to 1904, and again in 1907, he was
Dean of the Senior Colleges. He is a member of various philosophical
societies, and in 1906 was president of the Western Philosophical Asso-
ciation. His publications include, besides many articles and transla-
tions, Ethics (with John Dewey); he was also co-editor of Studies in
Philosophy and Psychology, and a memorial volume to Charles Edward
Garman. August 25, 1891, he married Miss Cynthia Hobart Whit aker,
and they have two children, Irene and James Warren. In his first year
of residence he lived in Frederick Court, between Monroe Avenue and
Kimbark; his present address is 5551 Lexington Avenue, and his sum-
mer home at his birthplace in Monson, Mass.

"(i) The youth of the faculty and trustees, and the age of some of the students,
seemed to me amazing. (2) I had known Dr. Harper before, so I was not surprised
by his extraordinary energy. (3) The rapid emergence of certain of the faculty as
leaders. Some had positive, well-formed views on all the questions which at first
confronted the University, while most of us who were not so clear, listened and were
rapidly educated. The theories of the East and of the West were often contrasted.
(4) The rapidity with which we became acquainted socially. - President and Mrs.
Harper made great efforts to bring the members of the faculty together, and we all
attended faculty meetings to find out who was who, as speakers were recognized by
the chair. (5) The heterogeneity of the students. I had been accustomed to the

F. J. Miller
C. F. Castle

1913

F. SCHEVILL

F. A. Blackburn
J. L. Laughlin

C. R. Henderson
P. Shorey

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more uniform appearance and training 'classes.' Here were no classes, only indi-
viduals, it seemed. (6) The general eagerness of everyone. It seemed as though
anything might be expected at any minute, and it frequently occurred. We were all
ambitious and buoyant."

Clyde Weber Votaw, born at Wheaton, 111., February 6, 1864, was
graduated A.B. from Amherst in 1888, and received the A.M. from
Amherst and the B.D. from Yale both in 1891; in 1896 he was granted
the degree of Ph.D. by the University of Chicago. He came to Chicago
directly from the Yale Graduate School, as Reader in Biblical Literatures;
was made Associate in 1894, and Instructor (in New Testament Litera-
ture) in 1896; Assistant Professor in 1900, and Associate Professor in
1907. He is associate editor of the Biblical World and the American
Journal of Theology, and was for two years editorial secretary of the
Religious Educational Association. His publications include: Inductive
Studies in the Founding of the Christian Church; The Use of the Infinitive
in Biblical Greek; The Primitive Era of Christianity, and The Sermon on
The Mount. He was married November 24, 1892, to Miss Cora Whit-
more, and has two daughters, Claire and Miriam. In 1892 he lived at
5410 Madison Avenue; his present address is 5515 Woodlawn Avenue,
and his summer home is on Sycamore Road, DeKalb, 111.

"Coming directly from the Yale Graduate School, I was keenly interested to be
in at the founding of a university. There was supreme confidence in President Harper
as the man of all men to inaugurate the new institution. Everyone shared his earnest
purpose and his enthusiasm. The sense of a common, worthy undertaking united the
faculty, and the students with the faculty, in a solidarity that may be counted historic."

Jacob William Albert Young, born at York, Pa., December 28,
1865, was graduated A.B. at Bucknell University in 1887, received the
A.M. from Bucknell in 1890 and the Ph.D. from Clark in 1892, and came
directly to Chicago as Associate in Mathematics. He was made Instruc-
tor in 1894, Assistant Professor in 1897, and after extensive study into
educational methods of Europe, Associate Professor of the Pedagogy of
Mathematics in 1908. He is a joint author of many mathematical
textbooks, and a contributor to mathematical journals. In 1896 he
married Miss Dora Louise Schafer; they have no children. His home
is at 5422 Washington Avenue.

ON CONVOCATION DAY

The Quadrangle from Harper Memorial Library

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The University of Chicago
Magazine

Volume V JULY I9I3 Number 9

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

The President's Convocation statement, elsewhere printed, gives in
detail the story of the gift by Mr. La Verne W. Noyes of Chicago of

$300,000 for a Woman's Building — club house and gym-
„ . ^ nasium. "Come, long-sought!" as Shelley says. It is

certain that no other single gift could meet so many needs
and have been greeted by such universal approbation. What Bartlett
and the Reynolds Club are for the men, Ida Noyes Hall will be for the
women — a center of activity and good fellowship. It is an earnest of the
honor and affection in which the University holds its women students.
The gift is in memory of Mrs. Noyes. Ida E. S. Noyes was born in
New York, but removed to Iowa, and was graduated from Iowa State
College, at Grinnell, of which Mr. Noyes is also an alumnus. She was in
the earlier days of her married life practically her husband's partner in
his business ventures. Later she filled many offices, in the Woman's
Club, the Woman's Athletic Club, the North Side Art Club, and the
D.A.R. She was particularly and generously interested in the education
of the southern mountaineers, and in organizations for children.

The new president of the Alumni Association of the University of

Chicago, chosen in the closest election ever held, 226 to 224, is Agnes R.

Wayman, '03. For the first time in its existence the

., . association is headed by a woman. Fortunately the

Alumni .... . , .

Illinois legislature, apprised of the situation, made her a

\'oter, and so testified to the world at large of her capacity for affairs.

Those who know her, however, do not need testimony. Into whatever

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she has undertaken — her work as undergraduate, in philanthrophy, in
instruction — she has put the same enthusiasm and executive ability, and
there is every reason to believe that the affairs of the association will
brighten visibly under her direction. The full ticket as elected follows:

President — ^Agnes R. Wayman, '03
First Vice-President — Frederick A. Smith, '66
Second Vice-President — Demia Butler Gorell, '98
Third Vice-President — ^William P. MacCracken, '09
Secretary — Frank W. Dignan, '97

Members of the Executive Committee — Davida Harper Eaton, '00; Harold H.
Swift, '07; Helen T. Sunny, '08.

if that group does not make the association hum, no group could.
Associating with them Alvin Kramer, '08, secretary of the Chicago
Alumni Club, they are as picked a set of hard-working and really enthu-
siastic alumni as could be found anywhere; and in the mere contempla-
tion of their possibilities the Magazine finds itself a helpless optimist.

Optimism is needed, too, as a tonic. The management of the
reunion in June was for some reason ineffective. It is unfair to blame

- -, . President Hamill, who throughout the year showed his
June Reunion . . .

faithful energy by attending every meeting of the associa-
tion, at a very considerable cost of time and the most acute inconvenience.
Blame, in fact, rests on no one in particular, but on our lack of system.
Nobody was really responsible and a lot of the finest kind of energy was
therefore wasted. The notices of the dinner and other events were sent
out very late, so late that the response was inevitably limited. The
unfortunate confusion which is suggested in the letter elsewhere printed,
from the Chicago Alumnae Club, should have been preventable. The
vaudeville committee in its zeal provided much too long a program ; and
then had to stand aghast waiting, while the "sing" continued, till it was
half -past nine before their audience collected! Already, however, plans
for next year which will obviate all these difficulties have been set on
foot. It is suggested that the alumni celebration be spread, as elsewhere,
over three days; that the fraternities be requested to close their dining-
rooms on the night of the dinner; and that the " sing " be held on another
evening from the dinner and vaudeville. These changes, or others
similar, will do much. But the gradual development of the loyalty
which shines through even such confusion as showed itself on June 10,
will do more.

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The fraternity sing is one of the most effective exhibitions of a fine
side of college life that the university offers. The crowd on the night of
_^ „. June 10 was very large — it was estimated at from three to

five thousand. The singing was in the main good^ the
honors being easily carried off by Psi Upsilon; the enthusiasm following
the solo of Lindquist, ex-'i5, amounting to an ovation. The thrill of
the whole evening's performance was delightful. And yet something
should be done to develop the idea. As it stands, there are too many
songs too much alike. It is not altogether fair to the newer fraternities,
who must wait their turn till the crowd is weary. The introduction of
stunts, begun this year, such as the Alpha Delt torch-parade, is desirable;
they should be continued. Why not costumes, such as at Yale ? The
sing is so excellent an idea, we should make out of it the very most there
is to be made.

The communication which follows from the members of the Owl and

Serpent, should be of great interest to Alumni. It was originally printed

in the Daily Maroon of June 6, but by request of the Chvl

_ and Serpent is reprinted here. It needs no comment; but a

Democracy ft- j

little history of the events which led up to its publication
in June may be desirable. Certain members of the Junior class, includ-
ing all but one of those who were thought likely to be elected to Owl and
Serpent, early in May met and decided not to accept election if it were
offered. Their reasons as they gave them were two: first, the Owl and
Serpent tended to destroy class and University loyalty, to substitute
loyalty to the organization, and to introduce envy and hard feeling;
and second, the absolute secrecy of the organization was foolish and out
of keeping with the spirit of the times. They made no public statement
of their determination ; but the news of it spread rapidly, and created an
undergraduate sensation. Sympathy was divided; some thinking that
the Owl and Serpent had included so many of the most vigorous alumni,
and had chosen on such broader lines than any fraternity, that it had
justified its existence on any terms; others, too, while in sympathy with
the determination of the Juniors, believing that it should have been
differently made known. Out of the general chaos of gossip emerged
this statement of the Owl and Serpent, abandoning its practice of
secrecy, and so far yielding to the views of the Junior class, but other-
wise declaring with pride its right to existence. The result of the state-
ment so far cannot be forecast. The society has as yet pledged no men
for next year.

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To ike Members of the University of Chicago:

The Society of the Owl and Serpent of the University of Chicago was organized in
1896 by nine men in the Senior class with a purpose stated as follows:

To furnish an organization election to which shall be deemed an honorary recog-
nition of a man's ability and loyalty as shown through his University career; to pro-
mote in the best manner the student interests in the University; to furnish a means for
strengthening the bonds of fellowship among the leading men of the undergraduate
body, and to maintain these bonds throughout life.

Through the seventeen years since its beginning the aim of the Society has been
to serve the whole University in the best possible way. Its members have no interests
as individuals which are not subordinated to the general good of the University and
the student body. It has always endeavored to include in its active membership a
number of men in the Senior class who have been notably loyal and successful in
scholarship or in any of the several forms of student activity during their University
career, in the belief that by the co-operation of the men of high standing in the Senior
class, men who have attained this standing by several years of creditable University
life, much may be accomplished for the University.

The Society has always believed that election to its membership is not so much a
recognition of what a man has done, as an opportunity for increased loyalty and service.
In its elections all consideration of any affiliations of those elected or of any qualifica-
tions other than those of the individual himself have been avoided. Its roll of member-
ship is its warrant of good faith.

The time has come when the Society may make this statement of its purposes and
ideals without presumption and the secrecy which has been practiced from the begin-
ning as to its aims and membership is therefore now abandoned. To the end of
making these things known to all the members of the University this statement is made
and signed by all the members of the Society of the Owl and Serpent now living.

Joseph Edward Raycroft
Henry Gordon Gale
Henry Tefft Clarke, Jr.
Charles Sumner Pike
Raymond Carleton Dudley
Wallace Walter Atwood
Frederick D. Nichols
Carr B. Neel
WiLUAM Scott Bond
Philip Rand
Gilbert Ames Bliss
Donald Shurtleff Trumbull
William English Walling
James Scott Brown
Harry Delmont Abells
Marcus Peter Frutchey
Clarence Bert Herschberger
John Preston Mentzer
John Franklin Hagey
Moses Dwight McIntyre
Franklin Egbert Vaughan
George Hoyt Sawyer
Joseph Edwin Freeman
Arthur Sears Kenning
William France Anderson
Maurice Gordon Clarke

Allen Grey Hoyt

Charles Verner Drew

Ralph C. H.'Vmill

Willoughby George Waluxg

Walter Joseph Schmahl

Leroy Tudor Vernon

Harry Norman Gottlieb

Carl B. Davis

Ralph C. Manning

Kellogg Speed

Walter L. Hudson

Herbert P. Zimmerman

George G. Davis

CuRTiss R. Manning

James M. Sheldon

Edward C. Kohls aat

James Ronald Henry

Eugene Harvey Balderston Watson

Vernon Tiras Ferris

Turner Burton Smith

Thomas Johnston Hair

Walker G. McLaury

Platt Milk Conrad

Frank McNair

Charles Roland Howe

Charles Murfit Hogeland

EVENTS AND DISCUSSION

299

Alfrjed Chester Ellsworth
Henry Davis Fellows
Walter Murray Johnson
Arthxtr Evarts Lord
Howard James Sloan
Adelbert Turner Stewart
George McHenry
Oliver Beacon Wyman
Clyde Amel Blair
Lee Wilder Maxwell
Frederick A. Speik
James Sheldon Riley
Henry Durham Sulcer
Albert William Sherer
Harry Wilkerson Ford
Hugo Morris Friend
Ernest Eugene Quantrell
Charles Ferguson Kennedy
Burton Pike Gale
Mark Seavey Catlin
Charles Arthur Bruce
Cyrus Logan Garnett
Frederick Rogers Baird
William Gorham Matthews
Feux Turner Hughes
Hugo Frank Bezdek
Lagene Lav ass a Wright
Earl DeWitt Hostetter
Harold Higgins Swift
Sanford Avery Lyon
John Fryer Moulds
Donald Putman Abbott
William Francis Hewitt
R. Eddy Matthews
Paul Rowley Gray
Wellington D. Jones

WiLUAM EmBRY WrATHER

Norman Barker
Frank H. Templeton
Alvin Frederick Kramer
Luther Dana Fernald
Charles Butler Jordan
Clarence W. Russell
Paul Vincent Harper
John J. Schommer
Ned Alvin Merriam
Fred William Gaarde
Walter P. Steffen
W. P. MacCracken, Jr.
John Flint Dille
Renslow Parker Sherer
Winston Patrick Henry
Fred Mitchell Walker
Edward Leydon McBride
Dean Madison Kennedy

Howard Painter Blackford
Herschel Gaston Shaw
Harlan Orville Page
Harry O. Latham
JosiAH James Pegues
Mansfield Ralph Cleary
Frank J. Collins
Charles Lee Sullivan, Jr.
Samuel Edwin Earle
rufus boynton rogers
Paul Hazlitt Davis
Roy Baldridge
HiLMAR Robert Baukhage
Richard Edwin Meyers
Alfred Heckman Straube
W. Phillips Comstock
W. L. Crowley
Vallee Orville .\ppel
Nathaniel Pfeffer
Esmond Ray Long
Paul E. Gardner
Hargrave a. Long
Aleck Gordon Whitfield
Harold Cushman Gifford
Edward Bernard Hall, Jr.
Robert Witt Baird
Maynard Ewing Simond
W. P. Harms
C. G. Sauer
Raymond James Daly
Richard Fred Teichgraeber
James Auston Menaul
Ira Nelson Davenport
Walter Jefferson Foute
Ralph James Rosenthal
Charles Martin Rademacher
Earl Ralph Hutton
Chester Sharon Bell
Hiram Langdon Kennicott
Norman Carr Paine
Halstead Marvin Carpenter
George E. Kuh
William C. Bickle
Donald H. Holungsworth
Sanford Sellers, Jr.
Harold Ernest Goettler
Donald Levant Breed
Clarence P. Freeman
Thomas E. Schofield
Howard B. McLane
Paul M. Hunter
Kent Chandler
James A. Donovan
William Varner Bowers

A REVIEW OF SPRING ATHLETICS

The baseball, track, and tennis seasons of 19 13 all redounded greatly
to the credit of University of Chicago contenders. In baseball and
tennis intercollegiate championships were won; in track considerably
more was accomplished than anyone had thought possible.

The baseball season opened doubtfully. Last year's infield, the best
in the West and the best Chicago ever had, was gone; and two- thirds of
the old outfield were either graduated or ineligible. There remained as
a nucleus only Mann, catcher; Carpenter, pitcher; Norgren, first base;
Catron, outfielder; and Scofield, Harger, and Leonard, subs. To make
matters worse, Mann's arm, it was early rumored, had weakened; and the
rumor was presently confirmed. Finally, and by way of climax, Mr.
Stagg announced that he could not return to the University in the
spring, and that the coaching must therefore devolve on others.

As an offset to these unfavorable conditions, Desjardien, of last
year's Freshmen, was known to be a good man, and Baumgardner,
another Sophomore, had shown great promise as a pitcher. The
coaching, moreover, was to be continued by H. O. Page, '10, whose
fire and spirit are too well known to need comment. So a few ventured
to hope for a successful season. But nobody dreamed of a championship.
It came, however. The percentage of the three leaders in the conference
was as follows:

Chicago won 7, lost 2, per cent .777
Illinois " 8, " 4, " " -667
Indiana " 6, " 3, " " .667

The schedule of Chicago's conference games was as follows:

Chicago, 12, Iowa 7 Chicago 13, Northwestern i
" S, Indiana i "3; Minnesota 7

" 6, Northwestern 4 " 8, Illinois 7

" 2, Illinois I " 6, Wisconsin 2

" 4, Purdue 7

What made possible this unusual showing — unusual for Chicago,
which had not won a clear championship in baseball since 1896 ? Three
things — the pitching of Baumgardner, the hitting of the whole team, and
the clever and effective handling of the team by Page.

Of the fielding, on the whole the less said the better. No catcher

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A REVIEW OF SPRING ATHLETICS 301

appeared to take part of the burden from Mann's shoulders; Des-
Jardien was tried for a while, but he was too green at the job, and
besides could not be spared from third base. So Mann continued to
catch well and throw miserably; an opponent on first started for -second
as a matter of course, and generally arrived, though at certain critical
instances he was put out. Mann was, however, a valuable player;
he was active, cool, hit harder than anyone else, and steadied his pitcher
admirably. The infield consisted of Norgren at first, Scofield at second,
Catron at short, and Desjardien at third. Norgren fielded fairly well;
Scofield and Catron occasionally made brilliant plays, but averaged two
errors apiece per game ; Desjardien was awkward but the steadiest man
of the lot. The outfield was on the whole better. Gray and Stains,
both Sophomores, were very fast, and Bohnen (a Sophomore) and
Harger (a Junior) were pretty sure. All four were given their emblems
at the close of the season. But the fielding as a whole was discreditable.

The pitching made up. Baumgardner, a six-foot youth from Wendell
Phillips, forward on the basket-ball team and prospective end on the
football team, was almost the whole staff. Carpenter started the Iowa
game, and was knocked out of the box; Kixmiller (a Sophomore)
suffered the same fate at the hands of Minnesota. Baumgardner
finished the Iowa game and won it; went in without warming up against
Minnesota, and failed to stop them; and at the end of the season, having
strained a muscle in his back, lost to Purdue. All the other games he
pitched and won; in only one did he allow more than four hits. He
has been made various offers by the big leagues, but he will finish out his
course, which should mean two more baseball championships at least.
There is no college pitcher in the West to compare with him.

The team's hitting was very hard. The average for the nine con-
ference games was .273, five men hitting over .300. The average last
year was 271, in 191 1 (the open team), 267. The averages follow
on p. 302.

Finally, the training of the team was clever. Games with semi-
professional nines were scheduled constantly, sometimes three a week;
and this developed both the hitting and that judgment which goes
so far to help a team out. And in games the men were trained to use
their judgment. There was plenty of advice from the bench, plenty of
spurring when the spur was needed; but on the field, at bat, and on the
bases the men had to use their own heads, not that of the coach; and so
presently responsibility developed them, and they handled themselves
better in consequence. Mr. Page is entitled to some honest pride in his

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achievement. It might be fair to mention here also that the twelve
who received their emblems stood for the quarter far higher scholastically
than the average of men in the University, and higher in fact than the
group who were honored with University marshalships at the Spring
Convocation; their strenuous training evidently not disturbing their
intellects.

Plays

Pos.

Games

A.B.

Hits

Runs

B.B.
HP.

S.H.

S.B.

Percent-
age

Mann

istB

3dB

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2dB
CF
OF
OF
Sub.
P
P
Sub.

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9
9
9
9
9
9
8

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36
39
3i
36

35
35
23
20

3
0

9
10

3
I
2
0
0
0
0

2-1
3

1 1-3
3

3-1
3
0

0-2
3
3
2
0
0
0

2
0
0

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0
0

4
0
0
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0
0
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8

5
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2
2
2
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0
0
0
0

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.322
•336
•303
.228

•143
.130
.250

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. i;oo

Norgren

Catron

Gray

Desjardien

Baumgardner ....
Scofield

Stains

Bohnen

Harger

Leonard

Kixmiller

Carpenter

Kulvinsky

.667
.000
.000

311

33-7

Team average ....

• 273

One disagreeable feature of the season was the case of Freeman, who
had been elected captain. Freeman in the fall was slightly below an
average of C. Desirous of playing football, for which he was eligible,
but which the deans considered unwise in his case, he made an agreement
that he would not play baseball if he failed to average seven and a half
grade-points in the Autumn and Winter quarters. This he failed to do;
but inasmuch as he was nevertheless technically quite eligible, the
deans were vigorously urged to let him play anyway. Their refusal
was not accepted by either Freeman or the team as final until the day
before the last game, when Fletcher A. Catron was at length elected in
Freeman's place.

The captain for next year is A. Duane Mann, '14, the catcher. Mann
is from Ottumwa, Iowa. He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, as is
Norgren, football captain-elect — a fact which is interesting as showing
how completely merit and not fraternity politics controls athletics at
Chicago. The prospects for next season are excellent. Captain Catron,
Carpenter, and Scofield are lost. To take their places are Cleary, '14,

A REVIEW OF SPRING ATHLETICS 303

Kixmiller, '15, and the following Freshmen: Shull, Perry, and Moulton,
pitchers; McConnell, Willard, George, infielders; Wilson and Ca\in,
outfielders, all of whom show promise. Here's luck to 1914.

The track team began the outdoor season auspiciously ,with a
victory in the mile relay at the Drake University games at Des Moines,
Iowa, in April. But the time, 3 . 27^ , was not fast enough to augur very
well for the championships at Pennsylvania; where sure enough Chicago
finished fourth in the same race, Illinois winning rather easily. Ward
showed good speed in the hundred, but Thomas was very weak in the
vault.

Two dual meets followed, one with Northwestern, which was won
with unexpected ease, and one with Illinois, which was lost by about
the anticipated score. The Northwestern meet for sheer lack of interest
surpassed anything of the sort ev'er seen on Marshall Field. Chicago
won all the places in the 100 and 220, and first and second in both
hurdles; Northwestern won all the places in the half, mile, and two-mile.
Only in the quarter was there the least competition. The Illinois meet
was a little more spirited, but as here too Chicago had no one in any of
the longer races who could run fast enough to keep the leaders in sight,
there was little thrill.

By the time of the Conference, held this year at Madison, the caliber
of the team was pretty clear. Campbell, the only man available in the
longer runs, had hurt his leg early in the year, and was in no sort of form,
having been able to exercise only three or four times in the whole season.
In the weight events also, Chicago was worse than mediocre. In fact,
the team practically consisted of Parker in the dashes, Kuh in the hurdles,
and Thomas in the vault. These three were supported on the track by
Wood, Knight, Matthews, and Breathed, and in the weights and jumps
by Norgren, Desjardien, and Gorgas. Such a team could expect little in
dual meets, but might hope to do fairly well in the Conference, where
points are widely scattered. In the outcome Chicago took fourth place
with 17 points, Illinois winning deservedly, and Wisconsin and Cali-
fornia following. Parker won the dashes, and Kuh the low hurdles.

These two men were the sensations of the year. Kuh, who had
been a steady if not a lucky high hurdler, but had never done much in
the low, changed both his ambition and his form this year, and became
unbeatable over the longer distance, twice defeating Case of Illinois, and
distancing Kirksey of Missouri, who won last year. He ran both in the
Illinois meet and in the Conference in 25 flat, not remarkable, but
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surprising. He came to Chicago two years ago from Miami, where he
had done some running, and indoors he showed promise, but was not
thought to equal Ward. Outdoors he soon proceeded to exhibit his
class. He has not been beaten in either the loo or the 200 this year
and has won both of them consistently in even time.

One lesson of the season is that without some better system Chicago
will fall hopelessly into the rear in track. Long-distance running must
be encouraged by every means in the power of the athletic department;
and the weight men and jumpers should be forced to work more con-
sistently. Their practice this spring was a sickening farce. For days
at a time no one appeared at all; spasmodically Norgren, Desjardien,
Gorgas, or Canning would work half an hour or so, and then call it a
week's training. With any real practice our weight men could be in
the front rank in the West; training as they do, it is a wonder Chicago
ever wins a point.

The prospects for next season are fair, though both Kuh and Parker
are lost. Several Freshmen, notably Boyd in the quarter and broad
jump, Barancik in the dashes, and Stegeman in the half, are almost if
not quite first class. Campbell should be in form again in the distances;
Ward will be very good ; and there are a number of others who promise
well. The captaincy is unsettled. Parker was elected, but under a
misapprehension; as a matter of fact he has already 36 majors and will
be ineligible to compete again.

The tennis season was a series of victories so easy as to be
monotonous. Neither Green nor Squair lost a match until the finals
in the intercollegiates, when they met, and to the surprise of nearly
everybody. Green won in five hard sets. The fact is that Green is a
much improved player this year; and moreover Squair is a man who
starts his game slowly in the spring, and is not at his best till July at
the earliest. Squair was elected captain for next season. He will be
supported by K. MacNeal, '16, and the championship in both singles
and doubles is as good as Chicago's already.

HOW HOLLAND MANAGES HER
COLONIES^

By JONKHEER JOHN LOUDON

Netherlands' Minister to the United States

Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen:

It is indeed a pleasure for me to be with
you and to address you on this festive
occasion. Since last night's reception,
moreover, 1 feel as if I knew most of you
personally, in particular my fellow-
candidates for graduation. It pleases
me above all to see among you so many
and such charming representatives of the
fair sex. Perhaps the expression of this
feeling will not surprise you, coming as it
does from a Hollander, one who has the
honor of representing in your country a
Queen, worshiped by her people, not only
on account of her personal qualities and
achievements, but also because she is the
lineal descendant of a house whose history
is closely interwoven with the history of
independence and liberty in the Nether-
lands, because, in a word, she is the living
symbol of Holland's unity, Holland's soul,
and Holland's aims.

Holland's aims: they are not limited to
that little strip of land bordering the
North Sea, the land of dykes and canals,
of meadows and windmills, the land of
peace that has known so many struggles
of old, struggles with the elements as well
as with men. Holland's aims reach far
beyond the seas, to that East Indian
archipelago which has been hers for over
three hundred years. It is of those
colonies that I wish to speak to you.

How to manage a colony, or, as I
should call it in this country, an "insular
possession," is a question that may well
interest the rising generation of America,
since this great Republic assumed, some
fifteen years ago, the responsibility of
controlling a large group of islands in
the tropics, with millions of inhabitants,
islands that some of you wish you never
had taken, and therefore are eager to
relinquish, while to others, perhaps the
majority, it seems as though it were the
nation's duty to guard and develop those
dependencies for years to come.

We are near neighbors in that part of
the world, the southwestern section of the
Pacific. You in the Philippines, we in

our East Indies, at an arm's length from
each other, have today the same purpose,
the uplifting of the native population,
its moral, intellectual, and economic
development. We have also similar
difficulties to contend with. Let me
then tell you what Holland has done in
the three centuries of her connection with
that island empire, and what she ho()es
to do in the near future.

In the sixteenth century Holland was
the great freight carrier of Europe. Spain
and Portugal had the monopoly of co-
lonial trade. In the year 1585 Phillip
the Second, then King of Spain and
Portugal, whose despotic sway the United
Provinces under the inspiring leadership
of the great William of Orange had ab-
jured, seized our ships in all the Penin-
sular ports. Our plucky tradesmen
thereupon resolved to sail to the East
Indies. This meant trading sword in
hand. The great risk and expense soon
made it essential for the various small
companies to act conjointly, the more
so as competition between them threat-
ened to become destructive. Under
government auspices a trust was then
formed, March 20, 1602. The "East
Indian Company," as it was styled, was
chartered by the States General, with
extensive rights, also political, as far as
required for its dealings with the natives.
Its object was monopoly, its activity was
decidedly on the lines of "restraint of
trade," but then — at that ef)och of his-
tory no "Sherman law" was or could be
devised !

In 1609 the first Governor-General of
the Company's East Indies was appointed
by the States General, with, at his side, an
advisory board, the Council of India.
The Company had to fight both the Eng-
lish and the Portuguese. In 16 19 Batavia
was founded on territory conquered from
the English. Dissension between the
native monarchs, for monarchs they were
(even Marco Polo, in the thirteenth cen-
tury, mentions them as such), helped the
company to extend its dominion.

' Delivered on the occasion of the Eighty-seventh Convocation of the University,
held in Hutchinson Court, June 10, 1913.

30s

JONKHEER JOHN LOUDON

Netherlands' Minister to the United States

HOW HOLLAND MANAGES HER COLONIES

307

The Company started with the idea of
buying cheap and selling dear. Dealings
with the native people, however, were
unsatisfactory. Therefore, the Governor-
General made contracts with the rulers,
often acquiring territorial compensation
and trading privileges in exchange for
assistance against other chieftains. In a
way the Company's rule was a blessing to
the natives, because it secured peace.
"The East Indian Company was more
greedy than cruel," said a Dutch author,
yet oppression was inevitable. Com-
pared with the low standard of the primi-
tive organization, judging also from the
growth of population, the condition of
the natives, nevertheless, was prosperous.
One of our historians justly remarks that
the history of the Company is one of
energy, perseverance, and pluck on the
one hand, of shortsightedness and
heartlessness on the other.

Declining trade and wars in Europe
caused our republican government of
1798 to put an end to the Company's
charter and assume direct control over
the colonies. The Napoleonic wars had
their echo in East India. Napoleon's
brother Louis, during four years king of
Holland, sent a strong autocratic ruler
to Java, Marshal Daendels. Shortly
after Daendels had returned to Europe
the English, at war with Napoleon, took
possession of the islands, always with the
intention of ultimately returning them to
us, the wording of Lord Minto's instruc-
tion being that the East Indies were
"not to be permanently occupied." For
five years Sir Stamford Raffles was
Lieutenant-Govemor-General of Java,
and to him we owe much that has bene-
fited the colonies, much that had been
recommended already by our clever,
liberal-minded Dirk Van Hogendorpt who
had visited Java a few years before. After
Nap>oleon's fall, England returned the
whole archipelago to us by virtue of the
Convention of London, of 18 14.

In 1815 the Congress of the Powers,
at Vienna, joined Holland and Belgium
into a new kingdom. This union was
and soon proved to be a far too artificial
one. In 1839, after more than one
bloody encounter between the North
and the South, the separation, practically
brought about eight years before, was
completed by treaty, the colonies all
remaining to the North, the present
kingdom of the Netherlands.

The actual management of the East

Indies, as a government dependency,
began in 1814. At first, and up to 1848,
the year of the great liberal wave that
swept over Europe, breaking the reaction
which had followed upon the French
revolution and the ensuing Napoleonic
era, the colonies were considered crown
dependencies. Our Parliament, the so-
called States General, had no control
whatsoever over the Indies.

During our costly struggle with the
Belgian provinces, Netherlands India
was booked by the mother country for a
debt of 236,000,000 florins, which repre-
sented an annual revenue to our excheq-
uer of 10,000,000 florins. Parliament
then began to raise its voice, but not
before the revision of our constitution
in 1848 was the control of the States
General definitely established. Six years
later a bill was passed which, up to the
present date, is regarded as the consti-
tution of Netherlands India.

According to that law, the colonies are
governed as of old, by a Governor-
General, assisted by a board of five
advisers, the Council of India, appointed
by the crown. A colonial budget, to-
gether with a report on the state of the
islands, is annually presented to and
pa,ssed upon by the States General.

The Grovemor- General is compelled in
some matters, chiefly legislative, to ask
the Council's advice; if he dissents he
must make his reasons known to the
Colonial Minister. In case of emergency
he is entirely free to act at his own dis-
cretion. He has under his orders an
extensive bureau, the General Secretariat,
and several departments. Our govern-
ment being, since 1848, a parliamentary
one, the ministers are responsible not to
the crown, but directly to Parliament;
it follows that, while the Governor-
General practically wields a great p)ower
in India, the States General may, at any
moment, call the Minister of the Colonies
to account for the Governor-General's
policies. The result of this supervision
of Parliament has been to stimulate
enormous changes within the last fifty
years.

The system, is, in fact, a simple one;
it is the single-headed rule of the King's
representative, who in turn is represented
in Java by several so-called Residents,
presiding over sections of the island, all
these sections being subdivided into
smaller districts. In the outlying islands
either Governor or Residents are the main

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authority. But the cornerstone of our
colonial administration lies in the great
principle that the natives are to be
governed by their own chiefs, under the
direct supervision of Dutch officials. As
Professor Clive Day, of Yale, correctly
expresses it in his scholarly work. The
Dutch in Java, we have kept our place,
not by driving the native rulers out, but
by co-operating with them; our success
and failure depended on the use or
misuse of the opportunities afforded by
native institutions.

It would lead me too far to give you
a detailed description of the system in
the different islands of our archipelago.
In some parts we have direct control,
and in other conditional self-government
under native rulers. Java is the most
densely populated, the most completely
organized, the most civilized of the
islands. Every Resident in Java has,
next to him, one or more native Regents,
always scions of the old reigning families,
hereditary as far as possible, but specially
confirmed by our government. The
Regent forms the link between the
Dutch and the native government.
Under the Residents are the Assistant-
Residents and "Controllers" (Dutch
officials), under the Regents the native
"Wedanas" and "Assistant-Wedanas."
Below these the Village communities have
always retained their democratic form of
government, with freely elected village
chiefs. Aside from the supervision of
tax gathering, the principal task of the
"Controllers," in regard to the village
groups, is to see that the Assistant-
Wedanas carry out the clause of the
colonial constitution which provides that
the natives shall be governed in con-
formity with their traditional institutions,
as far as these are not incompatible with
justice. The Controllers and the We-
danas are perhaps the most important of
all our officials. The average Wedana is
both intelligent and efficient.

The native chiefs have no legislative
power whatsoever. Their rank is always
recognizable by the stripes on their
"Payung," or official parasol, which, like
all outward forms, plays an important
part in the relations between governors
and governed in that oriental country.
They use the Dutch flag and are salaried
by the government, with the exception of
village chiefs, who are paid by the vil-
lagers themselves. Raffles sought to
minimize the position of the Regents.

We, on the contrary, have strengthened
it, and in a law of 1820 termed them very
appropriately "younger brothers" to the
Residents. It is in a great measure
owing to this treatment that when in
1825 Dipo Negoro, Sultan of Jogjakarta,
rebelled against the Dutch government,
the Regents, on the contrary, sided with
us.

Our success in Java is due to the con-
fidential relationship between the Dutch
and the native officials no less than to the
fact that the Japanese aristocrat is ready
to follow his Dutch leaders while the
people follow their native chiefs.

In a small part of central Java, we
have maintained as a last vestige of the
sovereignty of the empire of Mataram,
subdued by the East Indian Company in
1755) two nominally independent but
virtually very dependent Princes, the
Sultans of Jogjakarta and Surakarta.
They are salaried by our government
and may in addition raise certain taxes.
They live in luxurious courts. Their
dominions are governed by a sort of
grand-vizir, appointed "with the advice
and consent" — as you would say — of the
Governor-General. Their body-guard is
Dutch ! In each of their capitals a Dutch
official resides and has continual dealings
with them, to say nothing of his entire
control of the situation.

The attainments required from our
European officials to enter the Civil
Service are very high. The noted
French author, Chailley-Bert, praises
them as representing the highest standard
of efficiency. The judiciary, I am happy
to say, is of a particularly high standard.
In the administration of justice, full
consideration is given to the native
unwritten laws and customs, called
"adat," and which, at least in Java, are
strongly interwoven with Mohammedan
canonic law. We are at present endeavor-
ing to form native lawyers by means of a
school of native law instituted in 1909.

Our colonial army consists of some
33,000 men, one-third of whom are white,
the others colored. The military service
is voluntary. The officers, all white,
number about 1,325.

Since 1854 the currency of Netherlands
India is based upon the gold standard;
silver may be coined only by the state.
The Java Bank, under government
supervision, issues notes and acts as a
central bank.

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and in no manner discriminatory. Our
policy toward foreign enterprise is that
of the Open Door.

The press is free in Netherlands India,
but the Governor- General may, for the
sake of public order, enjoin an editor to
discontinue publishing; he may even go
so far as to cause the printing office to be
closed. All editorials have to be signed
and replies to personal attacks must be
accepted.

Political meetings and associations
that might endanger public peace are
prohibited.

As regards landed property the old
principle that the sovereign is lord of the
soil still obtains, the State of the Nether-
lands being successor to the former
native sovereigns. Landed property was
in the first 36 years of the nineteenth
century sold to Europeans; since then
(excepting in cities) the government
grants only leases; 75 years is the limit
for uncultured lands. The tenure of
land by natives is either individual or
communal, the latter form being the
most usual. In the cultivation of his
soil the native is at the present day
quite free. On the other hand, in order
to protect him against usurers, as ex-
perienced in British India, no transfer
of native land to non-natives is allowed
without consent of the government.

In connection with this and so as to
give you a correct idea of the remarkable
change that has of late occurred in regard
to our conception of the rights and duties
of the metropolis versus the colonies, I
must go back to the year 1836, when, in
view of rendering India more profitable
to the Home Exchequer, a so-called
"Culture System" was introduced in
Java by Governor-General Van den
Bosch, and gradually applied to a portion
of the island estimated at about one-
twentieth of the arable land. This
system, the only redeeming feature of
which perhaps was that it made the
naturally lazy and shiftless native work,
brought millions to the mother country,
but when Holland fully realized that
those millions were in many instances
bought at the cost of vexation and
oppression of the natives, a clamor arose
in Parliament and in the country, which
led to the gradual abolishment of the
system. The principle of the forced
culture system was the following:

Instead of paying the existing land tax
in the form of a proportion of the crop,

the village communities were henceforth
to place at the government's disposal a
certain part of their land and a propor-
tion of their labor; on that part of the
land, the natives were to raise export
products such as coffee, sugar; tea,
indigo, etc., grown under direction of
govenmient contractors, the product to
be delivered at a fixed and very low rate.
The government's profit consisted in ship-
ping those goods to Europe and selling
them at from 50 to 100 and in some cases
even up to 200 per cent of the original
cost. It is to be observed that forced
labor had existed in Java for centuries.

Governor- General Van den Bosch and
his early successors earnestly believed
the System would increase prosjierity
among the natives, and alleviate the
burthen of the land tax. Prosperity
seemed so obvious that the system was
highly praised even by a British-Indian
official, J. W. B. Money, whose book,
published in 1 86 1 , was — strange to say —
far more severely criticized in Holland
than in England. The spirit of the whole
system was bad. What it very soon led
to was the collecting of revenue at any
cost; commissions were given to the
Residents, the Regents, the WedanSs,
in short every intervening official had
his share of profit of the native's labor.
Gradually the proportion of land set
apart for government culture was in-
creased; instead of one- fifth, as it first
was, it grew to be one-half of the village
lands. The great objection for the na-
tives lay in the enormous distances they
had to walk in order to work on the
government land. While profitable to
the cultivators in some parts, in most
places the system was intolerable, even
after the reforms introduced by virtue
of the new colonial constitution. In
Holland, at first, no one realized the
truth. The glowing accounts of the
colonies' prosperity, the enormous reve-
nues, hypnotized the public, but mean-
while a new class of men, liberals opposed
alike to monopolies and compulsion, had
entered Parliament. In i860 a yet
famous book. Max Havelaar, revealing
some of the abuses of the system, and
written by an ex-ofiicial of literary
genius, Douwes Dekker, stirred the public
sentiment in somewhat the same manner
as Uncle Tom's Cabin did on this side of
the Atlantic. The Treasury, however,
could not do without the funds. In Par-
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not before 1870 that a new land law
abolished the system, safeguarded native
rights, and encouraged what was becom-
ing so necessary, European ijrivate
enterprise. The remarkable result of
European enterprise with free labor has
never proved more striking than of late
years, in the cultivation of sugar in Java;
the land on the sugar plantations is
rented from the native owners, which
they most readily agree to, because by
law it must be returned to them after a
certain time; moreover the period for
preparing the crop coincides with the
time when the native rice crop has just
been gathered. The sugar production
in Java is carried out on the most scien-
tific basis. The yields are enormous;
the benefit to the population at the
present day is estimated at from fifty
to sixty million florins a year; in a word,
the highest mark is reached. This was
lately confirmed by the impartial report
of a German investigator. It was also
confirmed to me by your present Secre-
tary of Commerce, who has visited our
colonies a short time ago.

The Javanese laborer, when not bound
by contract to a planter, does not work
for the European market. He has no
funds, he has no foresight, he is always
in debt; long before the Dutch came,
credit bondage existed, and was equal to
slavery. We have abolished it as well as
we abolished in i860 what remained of
slavery among the natives. Of all the
forced government cultures introduced
by the System, only that of cofifee has
been retained to a certain extent in a few
Residencies of Java, but also this one is
rapidly decreasing, and most effective
measures have been taken by the govern-
ment to prevent all vexation of the native
laborers.

Together with the Culture System,
forced personal service, a remnant of
former native conditions, is being gradu-
ally abolished. In most cases it has been
replaced by a small head tax. In the
sections of our possessions, where it still
exists, it is reduced to a limit of from
forty to eight days labor in the year.

The tax that proves to be the best and
least oppressive for the natives is the
Land Tax. It was introduced by Raffles,
but completely remodeled by us. The
Land Tax is paid by the village com-
munities (Dessas). A mixed European
and native commission classes the
Dessas; the village chief makes the

apportionment under government super-
vision.

Since the repeal of the Culture System,
our colonial policy has for some years
wavered between what should be done
in the interest of the mother country and
in that of the colonies themselves. A
long and costly, but successfully ended,
war with the Sultanate of Acheen, in the
north of Sumatra, has rendered the adop-
tion of the latter, less egotistic, policy
difficult until the close of the last century.
Since then, however, a notable and very
general change has taken place in public
opinion, and we have now chosen the
only path that is worthy of a great
colonial power; we have realized that our
rule over India must find its justification
in the uplift of the natives. Our policy
at the present day is built up on more
ethical lines; we seek the economic,
political, and moral development of our
millions of colored brethren; we are
slowly, with foresight and judgment,
moving toward self-government. The
material profits to the mother country
are none the less for being indirect,
thanks to the energy displayed by private
enterprise, encouraged as it is by the
government. Education seems to be
the watchword, but education above all
to be led by judgment and going hand in
hand with the maintenance of order.

There is no doubt but that Asia is
awakening. It would be shortsighted,
self-destructive policy to close our eyes
to this fact. The awakening has come
spontaneously, especially in the last
decade. We must lead it, not check it.
We have a privileged condition of things
in our colonies, especially in Java. In
British India there seems to be a latent
hostility between the white and the
colored races. A noted English author,
H. Fielding Hall, lately observed in the
Atlantic Monthly that the Indian in the
British service is regarded as a traitor;
with us, on the contrary, the ambition of
the more educated among the natives is
to become government oflacials. They
take pride in speaking of our army, our
navy, our Queen, etc. The expansion is
not directed against the western suprem-
acy, its aim is to lower the high wall that
separates the East from the West, it tends
toward assimilation and association. Of
late years the native aristocracy and also
the middle class seek to have their chil-
dren educated on Western lines; they
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in Europe has in most cases proved bene-
ficial. Some Javanese students have
taken high honors at Ley den University.
In Java the number of native pupils at
European schools is increasing rapidly.
The demand throughout for schools both
of higher and lower grade is more than
the Government can satisfy. Private
schools are continually being established.
Many natives want Dutch to take the
place of their own language at school be-
cause of the inadequacy of their idioms
in regard to modem civilization. Expe-
rience has proved the absolute necessity,
in an aristocratic country like Java, to
establish separate schools for the children
of the native chiefs. It is especially the
Javanese aristocrat who craves for knowl-
edge. Since 1880, we are gradually es-
tablishing schools for preparing native
officials. Private schools are subsidized
when they fulfil certain conditions. We
are beginning to have technical schools,
but need a great many more. A school
of native law is attracting many pupils,
and a special agricultural school for
natives, connected with the famous
botanical gardens of Buitenzorg, has
proved a great success. At Batavia we
have had for several years a school of
medicine the standard of which comes
very near to that of our home univer-
sities; the Javanese have a remarkable
adaptability for medical science. In
other parts of our insular dominion, so-
cieties are being started for promotion of
agricultural knowledge, etc.

In 1908 a Young- Java League was
founded by natives, under the name of
"Budi Utomi," its aims being in no
way political, but merely to further the
intellectual and economic development
of the native population. At its open-
ing session, where many addresses were
delivered, by Javanese, in Dutch, there
was also a notable number of women.
In connection, herewith I may state
that there is a feminist movement in
Java, a movement among the daughters
of the Regents to educate and in every
way develop the native women. Our
government encourages the creation of
girls' schools, and in many cases, girls
attend the schools for boys. Already
daughters of Regents, who formerly
might not leave the palace precincts
without a guard, are seen bicycling on
the highroads. SufiFragette parades and
hunger strikes are, I am happy to say,
not yet discernible in the Javanese
woman's mind!

Of late years we have understood that
more decentralization was necessary,
especially in the government of cities.
By virtue of a law of 1905 the govern-
ment is gradually granting more self-
government to most of the Residencies
of Java, by making them juridic persons
with, to a certain yet limited extent,
their own finances, and the disposal of
certain local taxes, the object being to
leave local matters to be attended to by
local bodies, consisting of Europeans and
natives, for both of these should be heard
in provincial and municipal assemblies.
The system is as yet in its initial stage.
More financial independence has proved
one of its necessary features.

There is also a strong movement now in
favor of separation of the finances of the
mother country and the colonies. There
is little doubt but that this will be carried
out in the near future. On the whole we
no longer regard our East Indies as pos-
sessions. They form part of the realm,
and a very important part, which should
be treated on lines of equality.

There is one more point to which I
wish to draw your attention. In the
Philippines I believe you have not to
contend as we have in a great part of our
colonies with that most conservative ele-
ment, Mohammedanism, which was in-
troduced in Java in the fifteenth, in
Sumatra as early as the fourteenth, cen-
tury. What orientalists term the "Islamic
system," the religious system that con-
stituted itself three centuries after
Mohammed's death, has now stood still
for upwards of a thousand years. That
system is not pliable, it is not adaptable
to modem civilization; it cannot evolve
to meet present conditions. This has
been clearly demonstrated by our great
Orientalist Snouck Hurgronje. Pan-
islamism has not taken root in our
colonies, nor is it likely to do so, for the
spontaneous tendency of the native is to
adopt our civilization, although adhering
to the strictly religious side of Mohamme-
danism. Christian missions do splendid
work in the East Indies, especially as
educators and instructors. Among the
heathen there are numberless conver-
sions, among the Mohammedans very
few. Nor should we aim at that. Our
purpose must be to free them from those
stringent features of the Islamic system
only that prevent their general evolution.
We must impart to them the Christian
spirit of our civilization more than the
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education of the native woman will be a
great assistance to us. Uniformity of
culture will bring us more and more
together. It is striking to see, even
among the Mohammedan literati, num-
bers of fathers who prefer to have their
sons educated in European schools than
in their antiquated Mohammedan schools
and realize that in doing so they are not
forsaking their religion. The govern-
ment in no way prevents the natives from
going on pilgrimage to Mekka. On the
contrary we assist them and protect them
against all possible vexation on the part
of middlemen and steamship companies;
our consul at Djeddah is specially
intrusted with the protection of the eight
to nine thousand pilgrims that yearly land
at that port from Netherlands India.

The Javanese aristocracy is on the
whole rather indififerent to religious
matters; their tolerance is perhaps due
to the fact that for ages they have come
in contact with people of different
religions and races. So, for example, the
Chinese, who for centuries have been the
middlemen, especially in Java, and whom
Raffles called the "life and soul of
commerce." They were and are manu-
facturers, traders, money lenders; they
are a very useful element both to us and
to the natives, though not much liked by
the latter. The Chinese number some
560,000, more than half of which are in
Java alone. We have been strict in re-

gard to them, compelling them to live in
certain city quarters, prohibiting them
from trading in the interior, and forbid-
ding them to travel without a special pass.
Of late, however, our policy toward the
Chinese is growing more liberal; we
recognize their usefulness and efficiency;
we have commenced to subsidize their
schools.

In the foregoing I have endeavored in
a very superficial manner to outline to
you how Holland manages her colonies.
I have spoken only of the East Indies and
in particular of Java. I could have
started with Surinam in South America,
the colony which we exchanged in 1674
with England, for, I regret to say, New
Amsterdam and New Netherlandon the
Hudson River! I could have mentioned
Curacao and its surrounding islets. But
I preferred limiting myself to that group
of tropical islands near to yours, so dear
to us that we give them our finest men,
our best energies, that we, the apostles of
Peace, are ready to defend them, if need
be, with a fleet we are purposely enlarging
and improving. For Holland of today
realizes how dependent her reputation
among the civilized and civilizing nations
of the world is upon the uplift of the
thirty-nine million natives who form the
population of that beautiful archipelago,
so justly described by the author of Max
Havelaar as "a girdle of emerald swinging
around the Equator."

THE UNIVERSITY RECORD

THE PRESIDENT'S CONVOCATION STATEMENT'

Exchange of professors with France. —
The year now closing has been one of
much interest in the development of the
University in many ways. A few im-
portant matters only are selected for
presentation today. An arrangement
has been made between the Department
of Public Instruction and the Fine Arts
of the French Republic, on the one hand,
and the University of Chicago, on the
other, whereby in alternate years a pro-
fessor from the University of Chicago
will give lectures in France and a pro-
fessor from one of the universities of
France will give lectures in the Univer-
sity of Chicago. This arrangement,
officially ratified by the two authorita-
tive bodies, will go into operation during
the coming academic year, and can hardly
fail to lead to an increased knowledge
among scholars in each country of the
scholarship of the other.

The Durrett Collection. — An important
acquisition made to the University
Libraries has been the purchase of the
Durrett Collection, from Louisville,
Kentucky. This collection, made dur-
ing a long lifetime by Colonel Reuben
T. Durrett, comprises some thirty or
forty thousand bound volumes, perhaps
an equal number of pamphlets, and
a large number of important manu-
scripts treating especially of the develop-
ment of the Southwest and the Ohio
Valley. It is especially rich in materials
relating to Kentucky. There is also an
important collection of files of newspapers
preceding the Civil War. This acquisi-
tion will be an important addition to the
resources of the Department of History,
especially in providing the means for
research on the fields covered.

Political Science scholarship. — During
the last four years, by the generosity of
of Mr. Harold H. Swift, of the class of
1907, the Department of Political Science
has given annually a prize of $200 to the
undergraduate in the first year of his
college work who under certain condi-
tions has passed the best examinations

at the of>ening of the Spring Quarter on
the subject "Civil Government in the
United States." This gift Mr. Swift
has renewed for the five years to come,
consenting that the $200 should be di-
vided and given as a first prize of $150
and a second prize of $50. This renewal
of Mr. Swift's gift provides a distinct
incentive toward interest in the study
of this important subject.

Plans of the University with reference
to buildings. — At the June Convocation
in 191 2 the Harper Memorial Library
was formally dedicated. This dedica-
tion completed a building enterprise
which had covered several years, and the
magnitude of which we do not yet, per-
haps, fully realize. The Library cost
for building and equipment a little over
$800,000. This represents almost exactly
the cost of the following buildings com-
bined: namely, the Bartlett Gymnasium,
Hitchcock Hall, the Hutchinson Com-
mons, the Mitchell Tower, the Reynolds
Club, and Leon Mandel Assembly Hall.
Besides this the gift to the University
for the Library includes about $200,000
for endowment, so that the building,
equipment, and endowment combined
represent a cost to the University of
about a million dollars.

Attention has already been called to
the very important addition to the re-
sources of the University in the com-
pletion within the year just closing of the
addition to Ryerson Physical Laboratory,
and the reconstruction of the older part
of that building. This work increases
the resources of the Laboratory for
research at least threefold, and provides,
while not the largest, certainly one of the
best-equipped physical laboratories in
our country. The cost of this addition
and reconstruction was about $200,000,
and was the gift of the president of our
Board of Trustees, Mr. Martin A.
Ryerson.

At the meeting of the Board of Trus-
tees on June 4, 191 2, the following action
was taken:

' Presented on the occasion of the Eighty-seventh Convocation of the University,
held in Hutchinson Court, June 10, 1913.

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"The President was authorized to
announce at the approaching Convoca-
tion the intention of the University to
begin within two years:

"i. The building of a permanent
wall around the Athletic Field and of
permanent grand stands.

"2. The erection of a building for
Geology and Geography.

"3. The erection of a Women's
Gymnasium.

"4. The erection of a building for the
Classical Departments."

In accordance with this action of the
Board announcement of the intention
with regard to these four building plans
was made at the Convocation held June
II, 1912.

Shortly after, the old grandstands on
the athletic field were condemned by the
city authorities, and it became impera-
tive at once to proceed with the new
grandstand and with the wall around the
field. In order to do this it was neces-
sary to take what was needed from the
general funds of the University which
could be appropriated for this purpose.
The cost of the improvement is approxi-
mately $200,000, and besides providing
for the suitable conduct of such athletic
contests as may be held under the direc-
tion of the department, at the same time
it converts a very unsightly spot in the
quadrangles into one of its most beautiful
places. Under the grandstand there is
room for a large extension of the resources
for various forms of physical culture and
athletic training. In this connection a
gift of about $10,000 from Mr. Harold
F. McCormick provides adequately
within this space for commodious racket
courts. In the remaining space there
will be opportunity for other develop-
ment in similar lines.

The cost of the remaining three build-
ings was estimated at approximately
$750,000. The Board of Trustees was
unanimous in the feeling that no funds
for buildings, unless under the spur of
imperative necessity, should be taken
from the final gift of the Founder, and
that in every way it was far preferable
that provision should be made for these
purposes by private beneficence. Ac-
cordingly, before proceeding with the
adoption of plans for the buildings it was
decided to give opportunity for friends
of the University to make this provision.
Meanwhile it seemed wise to the Board
that in lieu of building for the women

simply a gymnasium there should be
under one roof provision for the social
as well as for the physical needs of women
students.

About midsummer an honored trustee
of the University, Mr. Julius Rosenwald,
had a birthday, which I perhaps do not
violate any confidence in saying involved
his semi-centennial celebration. This
celebration on Mr. Rosenwald's part
took the characteristic form of various
gifts for purposes which commended
themselves to his judgment. Among
these was a conditional gift to the Uni-
versity of $250,000 toward the building
fund. This fund was not designated for
any particular building, but might at the
discretion of the Board of Trustees be
applied on any one of the three buildings
or on all of the three, as circumstances
might warrant. Thus a very encoura-
ging beginning toward securing the fund
was owing to the great generosity of
Mr. Rosenwald.

The bequest of the late Mrs. Hiram
Kelly, now amounting to a little over
$200,000 and intended for a building, was
then designated toward the building fund
with the approval of Mr. Rosenwald.
This brought the fund up to $450,000.
I now announce the completion of the
fund by the gift to the University of
$300,000 for a Women's Building, by an
eminent citizen of Chicago, Mr. La Verne
Noyes. I am sure that it will interest
all at the Convocation if I read the letter
of gift from Mr. Noyes and the resolu-
tions adopted by the Board of Trustees.

LETTER FROM MR. LA VERNE NOYES TO
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

[copy] " 1450 Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, May 31, 19 13
"Dr. Harry Pratt Jtidson,

President University of Chicago
58th Street and Ellis Avenue, Chicago
Dear Sir : Pursuant to our conversa-
tion, I write to say that I will pay to the
University of Chicago, in instalments as
hereinafter mentioned, a total sum of
Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,-
000.00) for the construction, on a site
to be agreed upon, on the campus of the
University of Chicago, in this city, of a
building to be used as a social center and
gymnasium for the women of the Uni-
versity. It is understood that this build-
ing is to be a memorial to my deceased

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wife, Ida E. S. Noyes, and is to be known
as the 'Ida Noyes Hall.' ....

"The character and plans of the
building and the construction of it I shall
leave to the discretion of the Trustees of
the University, but I shall be glad to
co-operate with them in any way that
seems desirable.

Yours very truly,
[Signed] LaVerne Noyes

action by the board of trustees
June 4, 19 13

"Resolved, That the letter of Mr. La
Verne Noyes dated May 31, 1913, and
addressed to the President of the Uni-
versity, be spread on the minutes.

"Resolved, That his gift of $300,000
for a women's building to be erected in the
quadrangles of the University be accepted
under the conditions and for the purposes
contained in the letter aforesaid.

"Resolved, That the thanks of the
Board of Trustees of the University of
Chicago are extended to Mr. Noyes for
this splendid benefaction to the cause of
education and especially to the welfare
of the women students of the University.

"Resolved, further, That the Board,
while deeply appreciating the magnitude
of the gift, feels especially gratified that
there is to be commemorated in the
quadrangles of the University the name
of a gracious and gifted woman whose
rare qualities are well worthy of admir-
ation and of emulation by successive
generations of our young women.

"Finally, it is the confident expecta-
tion of the Board that the Ida Noyes Hall
will be an important addition to the
University quadrangles, not only as in
itself a stately structure, but as affording
opportunities for great service in many
ways to countless students in the long
ages to come.

"The President of the University is
instructed to convey this action of the
Board to Mr. Noyes."

The building fund being completed,
the Board of Trustees has instructed its
Committee on Buildings and Grounds to
proceed at an early date with the plans
for the three buildings.

I repeat that on June 4, 191 2, the
Board of Trustees authorized the Presi-
dent to announce at the then ensuing
Convocation the intention of the Uni-
versity to begin within two years:

"i. The building of a permanent

wall around Marshall Field and of per-
manent grand stands.

"2. The erection of a building for
Geology and Geography.

"3. The erection of a Women's Gym-
nasium.

"4. The erection of a building for
the Classical Departments."

I now announce that at a meeting of
the Board of Trustees held on June 4,
1913, the following action was taken:

"The President was authorized to
announce at the approaching Convo-
cation the intention of the University to
begin within two years:

" I. The erection of a building for the
Departments of the Modern Languages
and Literatures, to be placed immedi-
ately adjoining the Harper Memorial
Library on the west.

"2. The erection of a building for the
University High School in the quad-
rangles of the School of Education.

"3. The erection of a building as a
students' observatory for the Depart-
ment of Astronomy."

Buildings and their general relation to
current expenditures. — It often is wise in
the history of any institution of learn-
ing to defer the erection of buildings in
order to provide adequately for salaries
and other current expenses. The matter
of providing suitably for the faculty and
for such expenditures as make it possible
for the faculty to do their work properly
is undoubtedly of first importance. It is
also true, however, that proper buildings
are an important means by which a
faculty can better carry on their activi-
ties. The matter of buildings now pro-
vided has been for years pressing. The
matter of buildings yet to be provided is
equally pressing. The University will
not be in proper shape to do what it
ought to do, in other words, until on all
sides it is adequately housed. At the
same time, the provision fbr building
has not subordinated provision for other
needs of the University. This is per-
haps sufficiently indicated by the fact
that in the fiscal year 1905-6, in which the
first steps were taken toward the erection
of the Harper Memorial Library, the
total budget expenditures were $1,198,-
104; budget expenditures provided for
the fiscal year 1913-14 are $1,617,330.
This is an increase of approximately 41
per cent. The proper balance between
plant and its cost, on the one hand, and
current expenses, including proper pro-

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vision for salaries and research, on the
other hand, will be maintained by the
University endowment.

The Eighty-seventh Convocation. — Five
hundred and sixty-four degrees and certi-
ficates were conferred at the Eighty-
seventh Convocation of the University
held in Hutchinson Court on June 10.
Of those receiving degrees, one hundred
eighty-two were men and one hundred
and seventy-seven were women. Two
hundred and forty-three Bachelors of
Arts, Philosophy, or Science were gradu-
ated. Of those who received the higher
degrees, seventy were Masters, twenty-
three Doctors of Law, and twenty-tjiree
Doctors of Philosophy. Of the last
mentioned, three were women. Among
the students graduating at this Convoca-
tion were five from the families of Faculty
members, and foreign countries were
represented by one Armenian, one China-
man, and three Japanese.

The Convocation Orator was His
Excellency Doctor Jonkheer John Loudon ,
minister plenipotentiary and envoy
extraordinary of the Netherlands to the
United States, the subject of whose
address was "How Holland Manages
Her Colonies." Following the address
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
was conferred on His Excellency. Doc-
tor Loudon, who was educated at the
University of Leyden, entered the dip-
lomatic service of the Netherlands in
1891. In 1905 he was envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary to
Japan, and since 1908 he has served in
the same capacity to the United States
and to the Republic of Mexico. Doctor
Loudon was the guest of honor at the
Convocation reception in Hutchinson
Hall on the evening of June 9, and
received with President Harry Pratt
Judson and Mrs. Judson.

The Convocation Preacher on June
8 was Professor Charles Richmond
Henderson, Head of the Department of
Practical Sociolog>' in the University,
who recently gave the Barrows Lectures
in the Orient.

The Orator for the A utumn Convocation.
—John Holladay Latan6. professor of
history in Washington and Lee University,
Virginia, will be the Convocation orator
at the close of the Summer Quarter on
August 29. Professor Latan^ will give
two courses at Chicago during the second

term of the Summer Quarter, the first
being on "The Growth of the United
States as a World-Power," and the
second on the "Diplomacy of the Civil
War Period." Dr. Latan6 is a graduate
of Johns Hopkins University, from which
he received his Doctor's degree in 1895.
He is associate editor of the American
Political Science Review, a member of
the American Society of the International
Law, and the author of Diplomatic
Relations of the United States and Spanish
America, and of America as a World
Power.

Registrations for the Summer Quarter.
— The total registration for the Summer
Quarter at the University on July 5
was 3,149 students, of whom 1,572 were
men and 1,577 were women. The total
registration a year ago on the same date
was 3,053. For this quarter the regis-
tration in the Graduate Schools of Arts,
Literature, and Science is 1,063; '" the
Colleges, 1,025; in the Divinity School
180; in the Courses in Medicine 96; in
the Law School 132; and in the College
of Education 754. The total in the
Professional Schools is 1,162 as compared
with 1,014 a year ago.

New appointments and promotions. —
Among the appointments recently made
by the University Board of Trustees
is that of Tom Peete Cross, Ph.D., as
Associate Professor of English and Celtic
in the Department of English. Pro-
fessor Cross comes from the University
of North Carolina, where for the past
year he has been professor of English.
He was formerly instructor in English
at Harvard University and has received
from that institution the degrees of A.M.
and Ph.D. Another recent appointment
is that of Herman Campbell Stevens to
an associate professorship of Education
in the School of Education. Promotions
recently announced include those of
Gilbert Ames Bliss and Herbert Ellsworth
Slaught to professorships in Mathematics;
Elizabeth Wallace to an associate pro-
fessorship in Romance; George Carter
Howland to an associate professorship in
the History of Literature; and Dudley
Billings Reed to an associate professor-
ship in Physical Culture.

The new Secretary of the Board of
Trustees. — At the annual meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the University held

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June 24, Mr. J. Spencer Dickerson,
Litt.D., was elected its secretary, suc-
ceeding Dr. T. W. Goodspeed, retired.
Mr. Dickerson has been a trustee of the
University for several years. He has
been connected with The Standard, of
Chicago, the leading Baptist newspaper
in the United States, for many years,
and at present is its senior editor. While
assuming his new duties as secretary at
the University, he still continues his
relationship to The Standard, and will
give general editorial supervision to the
work. Rev. Clifton D. Gray (Ph.D.,
of the University of Chicago, '01), is
the efficient associate editor of The
Standard.

An ecological conference at the Uni-
versity.— ^An important Ecological Con-
ference was held this month at the Uni-
versity, the following series of illustrated
lectures on "The Relation of Plants and
Animals to Environment" being given
in Kent Theater beginning July 16, when
Associate Professor Henry C. Cowles, of
the Department of Botany, spoke on
"Principles and Problems of Ecology as
Illustrated by Plants." On July 18 Dr.
Victor E. Shelford, of the Department
of Zoology, discussed "Principles and
Problems of Ecology as Illustrated by
Animals." Lecturers in the conference
from other institutions included Arthur
G. Tansley, of Cambridge University,
who spoke on "British Landscapes";
Professor Carl Schroter, of the University
of Zurich, whose lecture on "The Lake
Dwellings and Lake Dwellers of Ancient
Switzerland" was given in Leon Mandel
Assembly Hall; Professor Stephen A.
Forbes, of the University of Illinois,
whose subject was "Fish and Their
Ecological Relations"; and Professor
William M. Wheeler, of Harvard Uni-
versity, who discussed in two lectures
"The Habits of Ants."

A new editorship for a Chicago man. —
Professor Robert R. Bensley, of the
Department of Anatomy, has just been
made one of the editors of the Inter-
nationale Monatsschrift fiir Anatomic und
Physiologic, published in Leipzig. This
is one of the leading anatomical journals
of the world and is noted particularly for
its remarkable illustrations in color.
The appointment of an American editor
is expected to have a marked effect in
widening the constituency of the journal

in this country. The American agency is
in the hands of the University of Chicago
Press.

Visit to the University of the Inter-
national Peace delegates. — Eighteen dele-
gates to the International Peace Con-
ference to consider plans for the celebra-
tion of the hundredth anniversary of the
Treaty of Ghent visited the University
on May 16. At the meeting in Leon
Mandel Assembly Hall, President Harry
Pratt Judson, who had attended the con-
ference of peace delegates in New York,
presided and gave the address of welcome,
and Sir Arthur Lawley, former lieutenant
governor of the Transvaal and governor
of Madras; Mr. T. Kennard Thompson,
president of the Canadian Club of New
York: and Dr. E. R. L. Gould, formerly
of the University of Chicago, made
addresses. The hall was filled with an
enthusiastic audience of students.

New officers of Sigma Xi. — Pro-
fessor Robert Andrews Millikan, of the
Department of Physics, who recently
received the Comstock prize from the
National Academy of Sciences for re-
searches in electricity and magnetism,
was elected on May 23 president of the
local chapter of Sigma Xi. Associate
Professor Henry C. Cowles, of the
Department of Botany, was elected vice-
president of the chapter, and Dr. Rollin
T. Chamberlin, of the Department of
Geology, secretary.

Acquisitions for the Walker Museum. — •
For several years the Department of
Paleontology has been concentrating its
efforts on the Permian deposits found
in several of the western and southwestern
states. These deposits are probably the
most difficult to work in of all the verte-
brate-bearing strata, but they are un-
doubtedly the most interesting, for in
them are found peculiar amphibians and
reptiles of primitive structure that come
close to the beginnings of vertebrate air-
breathing life. Mr. Paul C. Miller and
Mr. M. G. Mehl have just returned from
a two months' expedition in the Red Beds
of Texas, the fourth expedition into that
region by the University of Chicago
paleontological department. Each year
has added much material new to science,
so that the Walker Museum now possesses
the largest and most valuable collection of
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The cases contain many complete skele-
tons and skulls of these early animals,
skilfully prepared and mounted, and
many of these will probably never be
duplicated by any other museum in the
world. The material collected by the
last expedition has not yet been prepared
but it is quite certain that some new
forms will be made known to science, and
a large amount of duplicate material will
also be added to the Museum's collec-
tions.

Award of prize scholarships. — As the
result of the scholarship prize examina-
tions held at the University in which 312
students from the Senior classes of co-
operating high schools took part, nine
University scholarships for next year
have been assigned to the successful con-
testants. The value of each scholar-
ship is $120. Representatives from
eighteen schools in Chicago and thirty-
three outside of the city took part in
the examinations, which included those
in Latin, physics, English, history,
German, mathematics, Romance, read-
ing, and effective speaking. In addition
to the winners of scholarships, twenty-
eight students received honorable men-
tion for their meritorious work in the
examinations.

The University Orchestral Association.
— For the season of IQ13- 14 the Uni-
versity Orchestral Association has ar-
ranged a series of nine concerts in the
Leon Mandel Assembly Hall — six by the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra under
the direction of Frederick A. Stock, and
three special artist recitals by Mme.
Julia Culp, soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera Company; Mr. Leo Slezak, tenor
of the Metropolitan Opera Company;
and Mr. and Mrs. David Mannes, who
will give their famous interpretation
of sonatas on piano and violin. The
prices for the season to students will
remain at the remarkably low rate of
the past season, ranging from $2.25 to
$6.25 for the whole series.

Prise contests in Public Speaking and
Artistic Reading. — The Julius Rosenvvald
Public Speaking contest and also the
Florence James Adams contest in Artistic
Reading were held in the Leon Mandel
Assembly Hall on the evening of June 3.
Five men had been chosen to speak in the
first contest, and four women and one

man to read in the second. The first
and second prizes in the first contest,
$100 and $50, were won respectively by
Mr. George Jinji Kasai and Mr. Wilbur
Albert Hamman; and in the second con-
test the winners of the $75 and ^25 prizes
were respectively Miss Beryl Vina Gilbert
and Miss Mona Quayle. The Milo P.
Jewett prize of fifty dollars for excellence
in Bible reading was won by Mr. Donald
Tillinghast Grey.

Recent accei,sions to the Unirenity
Library. — In addition to the recent
acquisition of the Durrett Historical Col-
lection of Louisville, Ky., which con-
tains over 30,000 volumes and an equal
number of pamphlets, as well as a great
mass of rare and important manuscripts
treating of the earlier development of
the Southwest and the Ohio Valley,
the University added to the resources
of the Harper Memorial Librar>' during
the Autumn and Winter quarters 11,222
volumes.

Professor William Gardner Hale,
Head of the Department of Latin, and
Director Newman Miller of the Univer-
sity Press, attended this month the ses-
sions of the National Education .\ss6cia-
tion in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pro-
fessor Hale, as chairman of the special
Committee of Fifteen on Grammatical
Nomenclature, presented the report of the
committee, which has been engaged for
two years in the preparation of its recom-
mendations.

Professor Robert Andrews Millikan,
of the Department of Physics, received
from Northwestern University at its
commencement in June the honorary
degree of Doctor of Science.

Samuel Wendell Williston, of the
Department of Paleontology, received
from Yale University at its commence-
ment on June 18 the honorary degree of
Doctor of Science. Professor Williston
has also received from Yale the degrees
of M.D. and Ph.D., and for four years
was professor of anatomy at the same
institution. He is the author of a recent
book on American Permian Vertebrates
published by the University of Chicago
Press.

Charles Hubbard Judd, Director of
the School of Education, was given the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by
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at its commencement on June i8. Pro-
fessor Judd is a graduate of that institu-
tion and for two years was an instructor
in its department of philosophy. Dr.
Judd has just been appointed one of the
American delegates to the International
Conference on Education to be held at
The Hague in September.

Professor Paul Shorey, Head of the
Department of Greek, was the Phi Beta
Kappa orator at the recent commence-
ment of the University of Missouri, and
also received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws from that institution.

Dr. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed,
who has been connected with the Uni-
versity since its founding, as Secretary
of its Board of Trustees, was given the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by
the University of Rochester at its recent
commencement. This occasion was the
fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Goodspeed's
graduation from that institution. Dr.
Goodspeed received the honorary degree
of Doctor of Divinity from the old Uni-
versity of Chicago in 1885.

Lorado Taft, Professorial Lecturer
on the History of Art, received the degree
of Doctor of Humane Letters from
Northwestern University at its recent
commencement .

Professor Ira Maurice Price, of the
Department of Semitics, was sent to
London as a delegate to the Conference,
on July 4 and 5, of the American and
British sections of the International
Sunday School Lesson Committee, of
which he is the secretary. He was also
a delegate to the seventh World's
Sunday School Convention in Zurich,
Switzerland, July 8 to 15. In August
and part of September Professor Price
will be occupied in Leipzig seeing through
the press the second part of his Great
Cylhider Inscriptions A and B of Gudea,
King in Logash, 2450 B.C. He will
return to his regular work in the Univer-
sity at the opening of the Autumn
Quarter.

Professor Charles Richmond Hender-
son, Head of the Department of Practical
Sociology, was elected president of the
United Charities of Chicago at a recent
meeting of the board of directors.
Among the directors are Julius Rosen-
wald, Mrs. Emmons Blaine, and Dr.
Henry B. Favill. The organization
collected last year $271,000 at a cost of
less than 2 per cent, and 76 per cent of the
revenues went for direct assistance.

Dean Shailer Mathews, of the
Divinity School, was a speaker at the
recent American Peace Congress in St.
Louis, the subject of his address being
"'Christianity and World-Peace." Dr.
Mathews has also been giving addresses
in the East, among the institutions at
which he spoke being Ogontz, the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and Bryn Mawr.

Professor Forest Ray Moulton, of
the Department of Astronomy and
Astrophysics, has recently been notified
of his election by the council as a corre-
sponding member of the British Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science.

Between Eras: From Capitalism to De-
mocracy is the title of a new book by Albion
Woodbury Small, Head of the Depart-
ment of Sociology and Anthropology.
The volume, of four hundred pages, has
among its chapter headings the follow-
ing: "The Problem," "The Mediator,"
"The Philanthropist," "The Safe and
Sane," "The Insurgent," "The Uncon-
vinced," "The Moralist," "The Rene-
gade," "The Sentimentalist," "The Soci-
ologist," "The Illusion of Capitalism,"
"The Fallacy of Distribution," "The
Superstition of Property," "The Degen-
erate," and "The Broader Democracy."

A new book by Dean James Parker
Hall, of the Law School, is to be issued
shortly under the title of Cases on Consti-
tutional Law. The volume, of about
1,400 pages, includes notes by the
author.

The University of Chicago Press an-
nounces that the authors ot the Outlines
of Economics Developed in a Series of
Problems — Professor Leon C. Marshall
and Associate Professors Chester W.
Wright and James A. Field — will publish
in September a source book of selected
readings and illustrative material which
they have assembled for the use of their
classes in elementary economics. The
book will contain expository passages
adapted from standard writings on
economics, but its distinctive feature will
be found in an abundance of source-
material, tables, charts, diagrams, etc.,
chosen to illustrate contemporary eco-
nomic phenomena and the principles
underlying them. There will be brief
explanatory notes to guide the student
in the interpretation of the material.

Associate Professor Dudley B. Reed,
of the Department of Physical Culture,
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West Society of Physical Education and
Hygiene at the recent conference of the
society held at the University. Director
Charles H. Judd, of the School of Educa-
tion, was chairman of the executive
committee of the conference, which pre-
sented resolutions calling for a permanent
committee on standards for the training
of physical educators.

Professor Gerald Bimey Smith, of the
Department of Systematic Theology, is
the author of a new book issued by the
Macmillan Company under the title of
Social Idealism and the Changing Theol-
ogy. The book contains the Nathaniel
VVilliam Taylor Lectures delivered before
the Yale Divinity School in 191 2.

Announcement was recently made of
the joint award to Dr. George L. Kite
and Mr. Esmond R. Long, graduate
students in the Department of Pathology
and Bacteriology, of the Howard Taylor
Ricketts prize of $250 for original
research in that department. The prize
was established by the widow of Dr.
Ricketts, who died in the City of Mexico
from typhus fever contracted while
studying the disease.

Assistant Professor George Breed Zug,
of the Department of the History of Art,
has been appointed assistant professor
of modem art in Dartmouth College, his
appointment to begin in September.
Mr. Zug, who is a graduate of Amherst,
was for five years Instructor in the
History of Art at Chicago, and in 1908
was made an Assistant Professor.

The Senior class that graduated from
the University on June 10 voted to
present to the University as their class
gift a bronze miniature of the campus.
This is to be mounted on a stone pedestal
and placed on the lawn in front of Cobb
Lecture Hall.

Announcement is made by the trus-
tees of the University that the offices of
the University Examiner and the Uni-
versity Recorder have been consolidated
and Mr. Walter A. Payne has been
appointed to the combined positions.
Mr. Payne has been the University
Examiner and also Dean of University
College. He is succeeded in the latter
position by Associate Professor Otis W.
Caldwell, of the School of Education.

Associate Professor Allan Hoben, of
the Department of Practical Theology,
was the University Preacher on July 20,
and on July 27 Bishop William Eraser
McDowell, of the Methodist Episcopal

church. During the month of August
Professor Gerald Bimey Smith, of the
Department of Systematic Theolog>',
Dr. William Byron Forbusch, of Detroit,
Mich., Dr. Howard Agnew Johnson, of
Stamford, Conn., and Professor Charles
R. Henderson, Head of the Department
of Practical Sociolog>', will be the
preachers. The last mentioned, who was
this year the Barrows Lecturer in India,
will be the speaker on Convocation
Sunday, August 24.

Percy Holmes Boynton, Assistant
Professor in the Department of English,
is the author of a new volume on Lon-
don in English Literature, published by
the University of Chicago Press. The
book, of 350 pages, has four maps and
forty-three other illustrations. The
chapters deal with ten consecutive periods,
characterized in turn by the work and spirit
of Chaucer, Shakspere, Milton, Drjden,
.\ddison, Johnson. Lamb, Dickens, and
by the qualities of V^ictorian and contem-
ix)rary London.

"University Night" was marked on
July 18 by a program in Leon Mandel
Assembly Hall which included "The
History of the University in Picture
Talks and Songs." by Associate Pro-
fessor Francis W. Shepardson, of the
Department of History, and Assistant
Professor David A. Robertson, of the
Department of English. The music for
the evening was fumished by the Uni-
versity Glee Club, and the University
Band under the leadership of Assistant
Professor Fredric M. Blanchard, the reg-
ular conductor.

The Board of Trustees has abolished
the position of Registrar in the Univer-
sity. The duties formerly attached to
that office will be administered by the
cashier, Mr. John F. Moulds. Mr.
Moulds's office is in the Press Building.
To him may be referred all questions
which have been referred in the past to
the Registrar. Mr. Moulds is a graduate
of the University, class of 1907.

At the Eighty-seventh Convocation
of the University on June 10, four stu-
dents were elected as members of Sigma
Xi on nomination of the Departments
of Science for evidence of ability in re-
search work in science. Twenty-four
students were elected to membership in
Phi Beta Kappa on nomination by the
University for especial distinction in
general scholarship. Of these, nineteen
were women.

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Recent contributions by the members
of the Faculties to the journals published
by the University of Chicago Press:

Burton, Professor Ernest D. (with
A. K. Parker): "The Expansion of
Christianity in the Twentieth Century,"
IV, Biblical World, May; V, ibid., June.

Butler, Professor Nathaniel : ' ' Report
of the Twenty-fifth Educational Con-
ference of the Secondary Schools in
Relations with the University of
Chicago," School Review, June.

Crocker, Assistant Professor William
(with L. I. Knight): "Toxicity of
Smoke" (Contributions from the Hull
Botanical Laboratory 171) (with four
figures) , Botanical Gazette, May.

Fuller, George D.: "Reproduction
by Layering in the Black Spruce"
(Contributions from the Hull Botanical
Laboratory 173) (with six figures),
Botanical Gazette, June.

Gale. Associate Professor Henry G.
(with W. S. Adams): "On the Pressure-
Shift of Iron Lines," Astrophysical
Journal, June.

Hale, Professor William G.: "The
Classification of Sentences and Clauses,"
School Review, June.

Jenkins, Professor T. Atkinson:
" French Etymologies," Modern Philology,
April.

Knight, Lee I. (with William
Crocker): "Toxicity of Smoke" (Con-
tributions from the Hull Botanical Labor-
atory 171) (with four figures). Botanical
Gazette, May.

Land. Assistant Professor W. J. G.:
"Vegetative Reproduction in an Ephe-
dra" (with five figures). Botanical
Gazette, June.

Mathews, Professor Shailer: "The
Sufficiency of the Gospel for the Salva-
tion of Society," Biblical World, May;
"The Struggle between the Natural and
Spiritual Orders as Described in the
Gospel of John," I, ibid., July.

Recent commencement addresses by
members of the Faculties include:

Atwood, Associate Professor Wallace
W.: Chicago, Farragut School, June 27.

Boynton, Assistant Professor Percy
H.: Mt. Morris, 111., College, May 30;
Rochelle, 111., June 5; Crystal Lake, 111.,
June 6; Indianapolis, Ind., June 11;
Aurora, 111., East High School, June 19;
Muskegon, Mich., June 26.

Butler, Professor Nathaniel: Carroll,
Iowa, May 21; Coffeyville, Kan.,
May 26; Paris, 111., May 29; Harris-
burg, 111., May 30; William and Vashti
College, Aledo, 111., June 5.

Caldwell, Associate Professor Otis W. :
Bunker Hill, Ind., May 9; Wilmington,
111., May 27; Huntington, Ind., May 28;
Renssalaer, Ind., May 29; Oxford, Ohio,
June 6; Watseka, 111., June 13; Highland
Park, 111., June 18.

Henderson, Professor Charles R.:
Chicago School of Civics and Philan-
thropy, June 6.

Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:
Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., June 5.

Judd, Professor Charles H.: Moline,
111., May 29; Plymouth, Ind., June 3;
La Salle, 111., June 11; Dundee, 111.,
June 12; Terre Haute, Ind., Normal
School, June 13; Harvey, 111., June 26.

MacClintock, Professor William D.:
Columbia, Mo., May 28; Cincinnati,
Ohio, June 4; Marquette, Mich., June 18:
Gwinn, Mich., June 19.

Mathews, Professor Shailer: Ohio
State University, May 26; Ottawa, 111.,
June 4; Marshalltown, Iowa, June 13;
Mt. Pleasant, Mich., State Normal
School, June 25.

Miller, Professor Frank J.: Grand
Rapids, Wis.; Lowell, Mass; Marseilles,
111.

Sargent, Professor Walter: Oxford
College for Women, June 18.

Small, Professor Albion W. : Michigan
State Normal School, June 25.

FROM THE LETTER-BOX

To the Editor:

At the meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Chicago Alumnae Club of
the University of Chicago held Friday,
June 20, 1913, a motion was passed di-
recting the president of the club to request
the Magazine's editor to publish the
following communication to the alumni.
Ethel R. McDowell
President, Chicago Alumnae Club,
University of Chicago

A STATEMENT TO ALUMNAE AND ALUMNI

"In order if possible to explain some-
what the confusion which seems still to
exist in regard to the women's reunion
and supper at the University on Alumni
Day of this year, and particularly in
regard to the connection with the matter
of the Chicago Alumnae Club, this club
wishes to submit the report of its com-
mittee on Arrangements, which was read
at that supper:

'As the card which the Chicago
Alumnae Club has sent out indicates,
it considers the invitations to. the Alumni
Dinner inexcusably late. Since the local
club seems to be considered responsbile
to some extent for the supper for all of
the women of the general Alumni Asso-
ciation, we, the Committee on Arrange-
ments from this local club, wish to state
what we have done and what has been
our relation with the general association.

'The president of this club is ex
officio a member of the Alumni Council;
the president of the general Alumni
Association, who is now Dr. Hamill, is
ex officio president of the Alumni Council.
This Alumni Council is the body respon-
sible for the arrangements for Alumni Day
and this year it gave the matter into the
charge of the general association. The
Chicago Alumnae Club received no com-
munication whatever from the Alumni
Council or from the general association.
But because there had been some dis-
cussion and there was a rumor about
that the supper of the local club was to
coincide with a segregated dinner for all
of the women of the general association,
and because the local club thought that
such a joint meeting would be pleasant

for it, we sought to co-operate with the
general association, to leam exactly what
arrangments had been made, and to
make the notices of the local club corre-
spond with those which had probably
been planned for the general association.
Then we discovered that no plans were
being made to send any notices to any
women, except such as the local club
might itself be planning to send. That
provided of course for only the members
of the the local women's club. The plans
which we found were further for a stag
dinner and for a vaudeville for men
and women. Circulars announcing these
two events for Alumni Day were to be
sent to the men graduates of the Uni-
versity, entirely omitting and ignoring
the women graduates. A charge was to
be made for the vaudeville in order to pay
for the cost of these circulars. During
the week ending May 24, we had a num-
ber of conferences and individually and
as members of the general association
insisted that in the plans for Alumni Day
the women should receive equal atten-
tion with the men. Finally on May 23,
Dr. Hamill on behalf of the general asso-
ciation agreed to send out a woman's
letter to be drafted by us, as broadly as
the men's letter was to go; to take care
of the list of the Chicago Alumnae Club;
and to have the letters mailed by Thurs-
day, May 29. A draft of the women's
letter was finally sent, was delivered on
the morning of May 24 to Mr. Dille,
who had charge of the circularizing work
for the general association. By Monday,
June 2, the letters had not been received,
and on Monday and Tuesday we tried
to get information from Mr. Dille. On
Tuesday, admitting that the letters had
not yet been sent, he said that he would
not be "nagged" any more, that the
"girls" had made the trouble and would
have to stand for it; and seemed to hang
up his telephone when asked what house
had charge of the matter for the asso-
ciation. But in the evening of that
day. Dr. Hamill reported to the Council
that he had been told that the letters
were all mailed at 4 o'clock that after-
noon. This committee has not sought
to check up the time of the receipt of

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those letters. You can only each of you
know whether you got your letter at all
and when; and whether you received
anything more than the postal card
which was sent out by the local club
when it was seen how desperately late
the letters of the general association were
surely going to be.

'It is now agreed that the money
derived from the vaudeville (after paying
the expenses of the vaudeville) shaU be
applied equally to the men's and the
women's expenses, and that the surplus,
if any, be preserved as a fund for next
year's Alumni Day.

'Further, this committee has several
times had its attention called somewhat
forcefully to the fact that among the

graduates of the University are men and
women who would like to have their
wives and husbands join them in their
alumni suppers. It therefore respect-
fully suggests and recommends that
there be planned and provided for next
year in addition to the stag dinner for
men only, another dinner, where wives
and husbands may come.

Ethel R. McDowell
Isabel Jarvis
Florence G. Fanning

Being the Committee on Arrangements
for Alumni Day appointed by the
Chicago Alumnae Club of the Uni-
versity of Chicago.' "

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Report of the Secretary. — ^The vote this

year for officers of thC' College Alumni

Association was as follows:

For President. —

Agnes Wayman, '03 226

Franklin Egbert Vaughan, '98.. . . 224

For First Vice-President. —

Frederick A. Smith, '66 246

Frank A. Helmer, '78 153

For Second Vice-President. —

Mrs. Warren Gorrell, '98 212

(Demia Butler)

Mrs. Ernest Stevens, '05 194

(Elizabeth Street)

For Third Vice-President. —

William P. MacCracken, '09 236

Norman Anderson, '99 122

Moses Dwight Mclntyre,'98 73

^or Secretary. —
Frank W. Dignan, '97 422

For Members of the Executive Com-
mittee {Three)

Mrs. Charles S. Eaton, '00 266

(Davida Harj)er)

Helen T. Sunny, '08 241

Harold H. Swift, '07 213

George G. Davis, '02 173

Kellogg Speed, '01 132

Marcus A. Hirschl, '10 112

Rufus Maynard Reed, '99 80

Victor J. West, '05 71

Roy D. Keehn, '02 41

The Secretary takes pleasure in report-
ing that the interest of the alumni In
general, as evidenced by correspondence
and subscriptions, was never so pro-
nounced as at present. The member-
ships, or more properly speaking, the
subscriptions to the Magazine, now
number 1,500, but to this should be
added a considerable proportion of the
760 who have ordered the Magazine and
Directory in combination, subscriptions
to begin with next October, so that we
are now in touch with approximately
2,000 alumni.

The orders for the Directory have sur-
passed all expectations. .\n estimate of
the probable sales placed the outer limit
at 1,400, but at this time, four months
before its api>earance, we have received
Q08 paid orders and 760 for payment on

delivery, making a total of 1,668 orders.
It is probable that the eventual sales
will greatly exceed 2,000 copies, neces-
sitating a much larger edition than was
contemplated.

Even more gratifying than this is the
tone of the letters which come to the
office. The efforts of the present office
force have reduced to a minimum the
errors in the keeping of records and the
sending-out of the Magazine, which
formerly brought constant complaints,
and the letters now show a degree of
respect and confidence that promises
well for the future of the Council.

The Secretary is now negotiating with
the administration of the University for
the renewal of the present contract.
In general the plan of arrangement will
be similar to that of last year.

The Secretary hopes that, with the
completion of the Directory in the fall,
the office will be able to devote its energies
to the building-up of the local clubs and
the many general activities for which
this year its hands have been too full.
The possibilities before us are infinite;
our powers are limited; but with the
constantly increasing support of the
alumni, it is hoped that the scope of the
work may increase from year to year.
Frakk W. Dignak, Secretary

Chicago Alumnae Club. — At the annual
meeting, held .\pril 5. in the Ivory Room
at Mandel Brothers, the following officers
were elected: President, Ethel Rcmick
(Mrs. Irvin) McDowell; Secretary,
Florence G. Fanning; Directors at Large,
Marion Fairman, Elizabeth Robertson.

The following officers hold over until
1914: Vice-President, Josephine AUin;
Treasurer, Elizabeth Harris.

The following chairmen of standing
committees have been appointed: Mem-
bership, Isabel Jarvis; Library, Mar-
guerite Swawite; Press, Hazel StiUman;
Member Board of Directors of Uni-
versity of Chicago Settlement, Mrs.
Irvin McDowell; Members of Collegiate
Bureau of Occupations, Shirley Farr,
Alice Greenacre.

At the meeting held May 17, at the
School of Domestic .\rts and Science,

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Miss Alice Greenacre, who was the
general chairman of the "Spring Revels,"
which was given April 12, at the Whitney
Opera House, by the Alumnae Club,
reported that $1,178.90 were realized
from "Spring Revels." The expenses
were $541 . 24, so that the club made a
total profit of over $600.

As has been the custom of the club in
the past, it voted to give Miss Louise
Montgomery $500 to continue her work
at the University of Chicago Settlement,
where she is doing a very needful work
as vocational guide to the girls.

The club also voted to give $253.40
to the Collegiate Bureau of Occupations,
making its total contribution $300, as
it already had given $46.60.

Eastern Alumni Association. — The an-
nual dinner of the association was held
at the Park Avenue Hotel in New York
City. Dr. E. E. Slosson, president of
the association, was toastmaster. The
chief speaker was President Judson,
who discussed the policies of the Uni-
versity, particularly its effort to shorten
the period of preparation for collegiate
and professional training. Comment on
this and other University policies was
given by Dr. J. Franklin Brown, of the
educational department of the Mac-
millan Company, and by Professor Walter
H. Bingham, of the department of
philosophy " at Dartmouth. Miss A.
Evelyn Newman gave an interesting
account of the movement to provide
attractive boarding-places for the young
women who are studying art and music
in New York. The movement finds its
center in the Studio Club of 35 E. 62d St.

A novel and highly enjoyable feature
of the evening was the impersonations
given by a friend of Mr. Milton J.
Davies. Mr. Davies, who has been
untiring in his efforts to make the Eastern
Association a success, has very recently
been placed in charge of an Institute of
Arts and Science at Columbia and has
further opportunity to proclaim the
value of University of Chicago material.

All the guests joined as demonstrators
at a lantern show which presented old
and new buildings of the University, and
faces both famihar and unknown. With
a happy rendition of the songs of former
times in which all joined most heartily
the dehghtful reunion of 1913 came to
its close. The officers elected were as
follows: President, Dr. Edwin E. Slosson,

130 Fulton St., care of The Independent;
Vice-President, Mrs. Edith Terry Brem-
er, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York;
Secretaries, Miss Annie C. Templeton,
120 Riverside Drive, New York; E. H.
Pike, 437 West 59th St., New York;
Treasurer, W. C. Stephens, 847 West
End Avenue, New York; Executive
Committee, Mr. G. A. Young, care of
R. L. Day, 14 WaU St., New York;
Mr. Joseph E. Freeman, 117 Wall St.,
New York; Miss Isabel Simeral, 526 W.
114th St. New York; Miss E. S. Wierick,
250 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.;
Mr. M. Morgenthau, Jr., 95 Liberty
St., New York.

Isabel Simeral
{For the Association)

Minnesota Alumni Club. — About sev-
enty old folks, young folks, and others
of intermediate years participated in the
" Gambol on the Green " held at the home
of President and Mrs. George E. Vincent
on May 24. This congregation included
the wives, husbands, and sweethearts of
a number of members of the club. The
afternoon's diversion was in the nature
of a "track meet," races, contests, and
games providing sufficient exercise to
"warm" everybody up, physically and
socially. Individual picnic suppers, to
which hot coffee was added by the
Arrangements Committee, were eaten
outdoors, the gambolers grouping them-
selves in a large circle, Indian council
fashion. In the evening the gathering
adjourned to the hall on the third floor
of the Vincent house where an approved
" cabaret show " was presented. Dancing
concluded the festivities. A letter of
greeting to the club from President
Judson was read. Tentative plans were
suggested in regard to the club's next
meeting. It is thought that the Chicago-
Minnesota game, to be played in Min-
neapolis November 15, will provide an
appropriate occasion, as the team and
rooters from Chicago might attend.

Harvey B. Fuller, Jr., Secretary

Utah Alumni Club. — The regular an-
nual banquet of the Utah chapter of the
University of Chicago Alumni was held
at the "University Club" in Salt Lake
City on May 24. A lively and profitable
reunion was held. Several matters tend-
ing to the eflSciency of the club were pro-
posed. It was decided to hold luncheons
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otter matter discussed was the enter-
tainment of members of the alumni dur-
ing the National Education Association
convention at Salt Lake City, Utah,
this summer. The following oflScers
were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, W. H. Gregory; Secretary^ J. H.
Stockman.

On Monday, June 2, a regular luncheon
was held at the University Club, at which
time further arrangements were made
looking toward the entertainment of
visiting members of the alumni during
the National Education Association con-
vention in July. The committees have
been appointed and the work sufficiently
outlined so that the local organization
will be well prepared to do its part in
the entertainment of University of
Chicago alumni.

Jay H. Stockman, Secretary

1903 Reunion. — ^The men of the class
of 1903 met at a decennial reunion and
dinner on the evening of June 9 in the
Francis Room at the Hotel Sherman,
Chicago. Every man was asked to give
an account of himself, and as some of the
fellows have really been doing things
during the past ten years, the "talkfest"
proved very interesting. Among those
who attended the dinner were Tom Hair,
Frank McNair, Walker McLaury, Earl
Babcock , Don Kennicott , Al Amberg, Fred
Fischel, Ed. L. Brown, Charley Hogeland,
Rollin Chamberlain, Carl Grabo, AUie
Miller, Harold Brubaker, and Charlie
Collins.

The suggestion of a permanent class
organization was enthusiastically received
and a committee appointed to take this
matter in charge. It is the intention
to have the men meet several times dur-
ing each year and on at least one occasion
have a larger affair, including the women
of the class. With this end in view the
committee is desirous of obtaining as soon
as possible the correct addresses of all
the men and women of the class of 1903.
It will facilitate matters if those members
of the class who read this notice will
communicate such information to the
undersigned member of the committee.
CM. Hogeland {For the Class)
i6i W. Harrison Street
Chicago, Illinois

IQ08 Reunion. — The fifth anniversary
and first reunion of the class of 1908 was
celebrated by a dinner on Monday

evening, June 9, at the University Club
for the men of the class and by a 1908
table for the women, at the dinner of
the Chicago Alumnae Club on Alumni
Day at Lexington Hall. About thirty
members of the class were present at
each dinner. Arrangements for the
women were in charge of Helen Sunny,
Helen Gunsaulus, and Alice Greenacre.
At this dinner 1908 songs written by
Eleanor Day and Alvin Kramer were sung
and a letter, printed below, was read
from Luther D. Femald, chairman of the
Class Gift Committee. Among those
present at the dinner were: Grace Mills,
Hazel Kelly, Eleanor Hall, Lucy Driscoll
Gertrude Chalmers, Hortense Bishop
Stumes, Mary Moynihan, Mary Pitkin,
Ethel Preston, Elsie Schobinger, Marion
Simon, Inca Stebbins, Gertrude Dick-
erman Van Fleet, Eleanor Moore, Mar>'
Morton, Helen Gunsaulus, Phebe Bell
Terry, Nathalie Young, Grace Norton,
Annie Frazeur, Alice Greenacre, Ellen
C. Sunny, and Helen Sunny.

The following is a brief report on the
1908 class gift situation:

"I took up in April, 1908, with Dr.
Burton, chairman of the faculty com-
mittee, the matter of the memorial tablet
to be the class gift. I got him to recom-
mend the erection of the memorial tablet
as a part of the specifications for the
Memorial Library. By so doing I got
our gift multiplied by four, as John D.
Rockefeller gave three dollars for every
dollar contributed to the Library.

"Dr. Burton's recommendation to the
President was approved by the President,
and also by the Board of Trustees.

"In April, 1909, the funds were finally
all in the hands of Treasurer Buhlig, and
were turned over to the University. The
amount was $416.60. By the terms of
our arrangement this gift created a fund
of $1,666.40, all of which was available
for the memorial tablet.

"About this time the Board of Direc-
tors began periodical action on the matter
of the tablet. First, location was settled.
The first idea of closing up the window
to the left of the President's office and
placing the tablet there was given up.
It was finally decided to place it just to
the left of the door of the President's
room.

"The wording of the tablet came up
at many meetings; finally it was settled,
and passed on to Mr. Coolidge, the

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architect, in Boston. There either Mr.
Coolidge, Mr. Ryerson, or Mr. Hutchin-
son, or all of them, saw slight objections
to the wording, and held it up. That
was some months ago. Then everybody
overlooked it until two months ago.

"Since that time Dr. Burton has been
arranging a final approval of the design.
As soon as this is secured (if it has not
been secured in the last few days), the
tablet will be made and erected. This
will take a couple of months.

"It is unfortunate that it is not com-
pleted now, but before the first of Sep-
tember it will be in place, just to the left
of the President's office — the official
permanent dedication of the Library to
the memory of William Rainey Harper,
and bearing the modest inscription
'This tablet the gift of the Class of 1908.'
Luther D. Fernald"

News from the Classes. —
1883
Eugene Parsons has published by
the A. Flanagan Co. of Chicago, The
Making of Colorado, a small but beauti-
fully illustrated history of that state.

1893

Warren P. Behan, who has been
identified with the Association Institute
and Training School where he occupied
the chair of Bible teaching, is now pastor
of the First Baptist Church at Morgan
Park.

Jesse D. Burks is now director of the
Bureau of Municipal Research, having
oflaces in the Real Estate Trust Building
Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Burks is vice-
president of the Child Hygiene Associa-
tion of Philadelphia and has taken a
distinguished and leading part in civic
and social reform work in Philadelphia.

1895
Jane Noble Garrot (Mrs. H. C.) lives
at 285 Pleasant Ave., St. Paul, Minn.

1896

Raymond C. Dudley has been elected
to the presidency of the Chicago-Cleve-
land Car Roofing Co., with offices in the
Peoples' Gas Building.

Margaret Baker is teaching in the
Bowen High School, Chicago. At the
June commencement the Senior class play
was a translation by her from Moliere
called The Merchant Gentleman or the
Would-Be Swell.

Mrs. John Barber (Jessie L. Nelson)
is treasurer of the College Woman's Club
of Washington, D.C.

Henry Parker Willis (Ph.D. '98) has
accepted an executive position with the
New York Journal of Commerce. He is
also the financial expert of the Com-
mittee on Banking and Currency of the
House of Representatives.

Louise Hannan has recently been
appointed instructor of music in the Carl
Schurz High School, Chicago.

1899

William Kelley Wright, who taught
philosophy at the University of Wiscon-
sin last year, has recently returned from
the University of Oxford, where he has
been studying.

1900

The first experiment in this country
in the Montessori method of elementary
education was tried last winter in the
home of Ruth Vanderlip Harden, near
Tarrytown, N.Y.

William S. Broughton served on the
committee of three which counted the
money in the United States Treasury
amounting to nearly $1,500,000,000.

1901

Herman E. Bulkley is manager of
the Future Sales Department of the
McNeil & Higgins Co., manufacturers
and wholesale grocers. They are just
moving their offices to the northeast
corner of Michigan Ave. and Lake St.,
which gives them larger and more satis-
factory quarters. Their factory is still
to be operated at their old location, 365 to
465 East Illinois St., where they have
railroad, river, and tunnel facilities. Mr.
Bulkley's home is at 2335 Home Ave.,
Berwyn, 111.

Mrs. Lillian S. Greenleaf, is associate
principal of Stanley Hall, Minneapolis, a
school for girls.

Leroy T. Vernon has just been elected
a member of the Standing Committee of
Washington Correspondents which super-
vises the press galleries of Congress and
also a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Ohio Society of Washington, D.C.

1902
Mrs. J. A. Mansfield (Myrtle G.
Mansfield) has moved from Lakefield,
Minn., to 1050 15th Ave., S.E., Minne-
apolis. Mr. Mansfield has entered into a
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ofl&ces at 704-s Lumber Exchange
Building.

Clarence C. Leffingwell is now with
the George Batten Co., advertising
agents, 381 Fourth Ave., New York.
Mr. Leffingwell resides at 140 Prospect
Ave., Hackensack, N.J. His wife was
formerly Miss Marguerite Crofoot, also
of the class of 1902.

Homer A. Gluck is publisher of the
Mining Gazelle, Houghton, Mich.

1903

Walker G. McLaury was in March
elected cashier of the National City Bank
of Chicago, of which he was first in charge
of the credit department and later assist-
ant cashier.

Frank W. Bennett is instructor in
Latin and French in the Manual Training
High School, Peoria, 111. Home address:
214 N. Glen Oak Ave., Peoria.

Martha L. Root is society editor of
the Pittsburgh Post, known as "The
Only," because it is the only democratic
paper in Pittsburgh.

Kate Gordon (Ph.D. '03), who is to
have charge of the new experimental
school at Bryn Mawr, is just now abroad
with Matilde Castro, Ph.B. '00. Ph.D.
'07, studying educational problems in
Europe, in preparation for her work here.

Burton L. French (Ph.M.'oj) is serv-
ing his fourth term in Congress as a
representative from Idaho. Mr. French
was nominated for his first term while a
student in the university.

Mildred Chadsey, the only woman
chief of sanitary police in the United
States, is the framer of the dance hall
ordinance which was recently put into
effect in the city of Cleveland.

1904

Allen Frake is buying bonds for
McNear & Co., Chicago.

Dr. Arthur Lord is practicing medi-
cine with his father at his old home,
Piano, 111.

Miss Helen Freeman, after two years
spent with the United Charities, is now
taking graduate work in sociology at
the University.

Don R. Joseph, who has been for
two years research associate in Rocke-
feller Institute and spent last summer at
Heidelberg, was appointed last fall to an
associate professorship of physiology in
Bryn Mawr College.

1905

Mary Nourse and Alva Nourse,ex-'o8,
sailed on February first for China. They
exf)ect to remain for two years. Mary
Nourse is principal of the Wayland
Academy in Hangshow.

Francis J. Neef is now instructor in
German, at Dartmouth College.

1906

Sydney Ethel Bock is a resident
worker at Pillsbury Settlement House,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Carrie Pierpont Currens (Mrs. J.
Napin Wallace) is living at 15 Hektor-
strasse, Hallensu, Berlin, Germany.

Irma Engle may be reached at the
following address: 46 Lake View Ter-
race, Racine, Wis.

Richard J. Davis is connected with
the advertising department of the Chris-
tian Science Monitor, of Boston, Mass.

Bertha M. Scullin is instructor in
domestic science at Bradley Polytechnic
Institute. Peoria, 111. Home address:
408 Barker Ave., Peoria.

.\lbert B. Enoch (Law '08) has for the
past three years been in the Chicago
Office of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad Co., law department.

William G. Mathews is m the adver-
tising department for this section of the
Kansas City Star, and lives at the Hyde
Park Y.M.'C.A.

Jose W. Hoover (Law '09) for the
past years associated with Edmund S.
Cummings, attorney, on Mav i, 1913-
opened up law offices for the general
practice of law in Suite 1410, City Hall
Square Bldg., Chicago.

Frederick R. Baird is engaged in legal
business for the P. & O. Plow Co. at
Canton, III.

Robert Bain Hasner is a physician
in Cedar Rapids, la. His office is in the
Cedar Rapids Savings Bsink Building and
his home address is 350 South 17th St.

1907

William H. Leary (Law '07) is prac-
ticing law, with offices in Suite 601 New-
house Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.
June 19, 191 2, he was married to Marie
Lynch, Michigan '08, of Sioux City, la.
Mr. Leary writes that he is the father
of twins, a boy and a girl.

Edward W. Allen, ex-, is a lawyer in
Seattle, Wash. His address is 402 Burke
Building.

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James R. Fahs, ex-, is publisher of the
Garden City Tribune, Garden City, Kan.

Claude Scofield, ex-, is credit man for
J. W. Jenkin's Sons' Music Co., i8^ Park
Place, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Walter S. McAvoy is with the firm of
A. G. Becker & Co., brokers, at loo
South LaSalle St., Chicago.

LeRoy Andrew Van Patten, has re-
signed his position as advertising manager
of the automobile department of the
American Locomotive Co., to become
vice-president and sales manager of the
company which has taken over the New
York branch of the Lozier Automobile
Co. His business headquarters are the
Lozier Building, s6th St. and Broadway.

Robert Eddy Matthews is a repre-
sentative of the Boston Christian Science
Monitor at Washington, D.C.

Frances Montgomery (Mrs. George
Thomas Shay) has returned from her
wedding trip around the world and is
living at 5382 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago.

Charles B. Jordan who was formerly
with the wholesale grocery firm of
W. B. & W. G. Jordan, Minneapglis,
has recently associated himself with
George R. Newell & Co., ist Ave. and
3d St. N., also wholesale grocers of
Minneapolis.

Laura Osman is teaching cooking.
Her address is Wilmette, 111.

Josephine Wilcox is teaching in Wil-
mette.

Frances Nowak (Mrs. Harold A.
Miller) of Wayne, Pa., with her eight-
months-old son, Frank Rush Miller, is
visiting her parents at 6564 Yale Ave.,
Chicago. She will remain in Chicago
until the first of July.

Irene Anthony, ex- (Mrs. Clarence
M. Converse of Canton, Ohio), is recover-
ing from an attack of diphtheria.

Florence Chaney sailed last August
for China to become a missionary.

Mrs. Schuyler Terry (Phebe Bell)
took the part of the Piper in a presenta-
tion of Josephine Preston Peabody's
Piper, at the University of Chicago
Settlement, on May 24.

1909

Leverett S. Lyon has written The
Elements of Debating, which has been
accepted for publication by the Univer-
sity of Chicago Press. Mr. Lyon is an
instructor in the Joliet High School, of
which he is also a graduate.

Sister Mary Joseph Kelly (S.M, '10)

is a teacher at the College of St. Cather-
ine, St. Paul, Minn.

Mrs. Marie Kellogg Miller and
Florence Tyler are attending the Chicago
Normal College.

Paul Buhlig is in the bond depart-
ment of N. W. Harris & Co., bankers.

John McVey Montgomery, ex-, is
a salesman in Wausau, Wis. He lives
at 612 Franklin St.

1910

John L. Cherney has been elected
superintendent of the Independence
(Iowa) High School.

Henry R. Brush (Ph.D. '10), who
has been for some time head of the de-
partment of Romance languages at
Hope College, Holland, Mich., has
accepted a similar position at the Uni-
versity of North Dakota, at Grand Forks.

Sister Mary Clara Graham is teaching
at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul,
Minn.

Grace E. Hauk has recently resigned
her position as teacher of public speaking
in the high school and supervisor of
reading in the grade schools of Hammond,
Ind., and is now completing her training
at the Phillips School of Oratory.

Cola George ("Squab") Parker (Law
'12) is practicing law in Chicago. His
business address is Room 502, 133 West
Washington St., and his home address is
6437 Woodlawn Ave.

1911

Roy Baldridge has left for the West
to spend the summer working on a ranch
near Paducah, Tex. He will return in the
fall to resume his work as an artist in
his own studio.

Alfred H. Straube is now connected
with R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co.,
printers, in Chicago.

Vallee O. Appel, who is in the Harvard
Law School, will return to Chicago for
the summer.

John M. Gillette (Ph.D. '11) has
published through the Sturgis & Walton
Co. of New York Constructive Rural
Sociology, addressed to the student of
farm-life conditions. It is scientific in
method, simple in statement, and admir-
ably adapted to its purpose. The volume
has an introduction by President George
Vincent of the University of Minnesota.

J. Harry Clo (Ph.D. '11), formerly
assistant professor of physics at Tulane
University has been appointed associate
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'Conrado Benitez spent a year in the
Philippine Normal School after his return
from Chicago, and was then transferred
to the University of the Philippines as
instructor in history and economics.

Katherine M. Mayer, is teaching at
the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul,
Minn.

Melitta A. Margaret teaches Latin
and German in the high school at Naj)er-
ville. 111. Address: 57 Brainard St.,
Naperville.

Andrew William Johnson Q.D. '11),
formerly located at New Richland,
Minn., is now practicing law in Minne-
apolis, Minn. His address is 505 Ply-
mouth Building.

Herbert G. Hopkins is a salesman for
the Thresher Varnish Co., Dayton, Ohio.
He has recently been engaged in repair-
ing the damages to the factory and busi-
ness resulting from the Dayton flood.

1912

Shelley R. Meyer is seriously ill with
nervous prostration.

Among Chicago women enrolled in
the Chicago Normal College this year
are 12 members of 191 2: Alice Byrne,
Eleanor Byrne, I>oretta Brady, Harriett
Hamilton, Annette Hampsher, Helen
Hannan, Alice Lee Herrick, Dorothy
Hinman, Margaret Magrady, Ella
Moynihan, Winifred Monroe, and Doro-
thy Roberts. Principal Owen has so
arranged their work that the University
of Chicago Alumnae are taking almost
all of it in a group by themselves.

Ruth Abigail Allen is teaching in the
high school at Chehalis, Wash. She also
coaches the boys' debating team.

Susanna J. Botts is enrolled in the
graduate school of Columbia University.
Address: 501 W. 120th St., New York
City.

Harvey B. Shick, ex-, is a student
at the School of Mines, Houghton,
Mich. He lives in LaPorte, Ind.

Engagements. —

Herschel G. Shaw, 'og and Miss Lillian
Linihan of 458 E. 33d St., Chicago. Shaw
is with the Star-Peerless Wall Paper
Mills of Joliet, 111. While in college he
was abbot of the Blackfriars and a
member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mandeville '99
of Lake Bluff announce the engagement

of their daughter Lillian Estelle Barr,
ex-'i2, to George Lorimer Johnson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Alfred Johnson.
No date has been set for the wedding.
Mr. Mandeville wrote the music of the
"Ahna Mater."

Marriages -

1906

Mabel Ernestine Wilson was married
at Chicago on September 10, 191 2, to
Dr. Lloyd E. Bailer, and lives at 2824
Michigan Ave., Kansas City, Mo.

Henry Clinton Cummins, was married
on June 14 to Miss Lucile McGuire,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mc-
Guire of Northfield, Minn. Mr. Cum-
mins is a son of Mr. and Mrs. James S.
Cummins of 4932 Lake Ave.

1909
Herbert A. Kellar was married at
Palo Alto, Cal., on September 17, 191 2,
to Miss Dorothy .\lderton. They live
at 424 Pickney St., Madison, Wis.,
where Mr. Kellar is instructor in history
in the university.

Ex-1907
Irene Moore was married at Highland
Park, 111., on May 31 to United States
Senator James H. Brady of Idaho.
She was attended by her three sisters,
all graduates of Chicago. Mrs. William
R. Jayne, '05, Edith (Mrs. Henry
Suzzallo), '08, and Georgene Moore, '12.
Mr. and Mrs. Brady will live at 1700
Rhode Island Ave., VVashington.

1908

Bertha May Henderson was married
in February, 1913, to Llewellyn Jones,
and is living at 11919 Pamell Ave., West
Pullman, 111.

Portia Games was married on June 25,
at Chicago to Howard Lane.

Arthur A. Goes was married on June
12, in Chicago, to Miss Marah McCarthy.

Agnes Janet Hendrick was married
June 14 at Michigan City, Indiana, to
William R. Brough of Hinsdale, Illinois.

Ex- 1 908

Florence Earll Peabody was married
in Chicago, April 23 to Henry B. Selkirk.
Mr. and Mrs. Selkirk will be at home after
0( tober i in Buffalo, N.Y.

Benjamin C. AUin was married on
May 24 at Chicago to Miss Dorothy May
Newell. The ceremony was performed

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by Rev. B. I. Bell, also 1908. AUin
after leaving college spent five years in
the Orient: he is now with the Illinois
Steel Company.

1910
Gladys Hallam was married at River-
side on June 7 to Ross O. Hinkle, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William Hinkle of
Royal Oak, Mich. They will live in
New York City.

- Edna Weldon and Leo C. De Tray
ex- '08, were married on June 28.

1911

G. W. Bartelmez, Ph.D., was married
on March 30, at Bailey's Bay, Bermuda,
to Miss Ermine Hallis of Bermuda.

Eveline Maude Phillips was married
at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, to
Elmer E. Campbell of Cleveland. They
will make their home in Cleveland.

1912
Paul Hazlitt Davis was married on
June 24, at Crawfordsville, Ind., to
Miss Dorothy Milford. They will live
at 1429 E. 66th St., Chicago.

1913
Katherine EUis Coburn, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Coburn
of La Grange, 111., was married on June
14 to George Waring Thompson, at
Emanuel Church, La Grange.

Deaths. —

Rev. John Barr, A.B. '76, D.B. '78,
died at Berkeley, Cal., late in March.

Katherine Reynolds, Ph.B. '00, died
on May 20 at Seattle, Wash. At the
time she attended the summer sessions
at the University she was principal of
West Aurora High School; later she
became dean of women at Whitworth
College, Tacoma, Wash., and recently
she had been employed by the Trustee
. Company of Seattle. She was fifty
years old at the time of her death.

Agatha Draper Hequembourg, S.B.,
'03 (Mrs. Raymond G. Pierson), died in
Milwaukee on May 28. Her husband,
also a graduate of the University, is
minister of the Second Baptist Church
of Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Pierson was
the mother of four sons, Harry, Ray-
mond, Robert, and John.

Mary NicoU, Ph.B. '10 (Mrs. L.
Kirby Canouse), died suddenly on May
5, at her home, 519 E. 49th St., Chicago,
leaving a daughter seven weeks old.
Mrs. Canouse was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John NicoU, of 4932 Forest-
ville Ave., a graduate of Wendell Phillips
High School, and a member of Deltho.

George Rice Spraker, Ph.B. '10, died
in Chicago March 30, at his home, 1153
E. 6ist St., after an illness of only two
days, with scarlet fever. At the time
of his death he was teaching in Hyde
Park High School. He was born at
Fort Plain, N.Y., July 14, 1885. After
graduating from the Canajoharie High
School he attended Syracuse University
one year. On Christmas Day, 191 1,
he married Margaret MacLear, '12.

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GENERAL INDEX

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
MAGAZINE

Volume V. November, 1912 — July, 19 13

GENERAL INDEX

PAGE

Addresses Wanted 173, 220, 258

Alumni Affairs (Department) 27,59,97,130,166,212,249,325

Alumni Association, Report of the Secretary of the 325

Alumni Clubs —

Chicago, 59, 249; Des Moines, 60; Eastern, 326; Japan, 250; Minnesota,
67, 212, 250, 326; Rocky Mountain, 97; Sioux City, 97; Twin Cities, 113,
130; Utah, 326.

Alumni Council, The 27

Alumni and the University, The 1 79

American Chemical Society, State Conference of 206

American Historical Association, Meeting of 91

American Mathematical Society, Chicago Meeting of 207

American Philological Association and Related Societies, Meeting of 123

American Psychological Association, Meeting of 90

Annual Faculty Dinner, The i8

Athletics —

Baseball 217, 255

Basket-ball 103,136,171,217

Football 6,32,37,257

General 32,64,104,111,171,300

Swimming 104, 171

Tennis 257

Track 103, 171, 218, 255

Attendance Statistics 4, 68

Atwood, Wallace Walter 142

Blackfriars' Play 39

Board of Trustees —

Meeting of 22,23,93

New Secretary of 317

Book Reviews and Notices —

Animal Communities in Temperate America as Illustrated in the Chicago
Region (Victor Ernest Shelford), 245; Assyrian and Babylonian Letters
(Robert Francis Harper), 161, 244; Between Eras: From Capitalism to
Democracy (Albion Woodbury Small), 320; Cases on Constitutional Law

335

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PAGE

(James Parker Hall), 320; The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties
(Andrew C. McLaughlin) 21; The Essentials of English Composition
(James W. Linn), 54; Fine and Industrial Arts in the Elementary Schools
(Walter Sargent), 209; His Great Adventure (Robert Herrick), 246; The
History of Egypt (James Henry Breasted), 124; The History of Modern
Elementary Education (S. Chester Parker), 125; Illustrative Examples of
English Composition (James Weber Linn), 162; Index Apologeticus (Edgar
J. Goodspeed), 21; Lessons in English (John M. Manly and Elizabeth R.
Bailey), 246; London in English Literature (Percy Holmes Boynton), 244,
321; The Making of Tomorrow (Shailer Mathews), 246; Mark Twain
and the Happy Island (Elizabeth Wallace), 208; The Minister and the
Boy (AUan Hoben), 21; One Woman's Life (Robert Herrick), 124; Out-
lines of Economics Developed in a Series of Problems (Leon C. Marshall,
Chester W. Wright, and James A. Field), 320; Social Idealism and the
Changing Theology (Gerald Bimey Smith), 321; Social Programs of the
West (Charles Richmond Henderson), 245.
Bureau of Student Employment, The 68

Cap and Gown .231

Change in Editorship of the Biblical World 52

Changes in the Press Building 144

Chicago Alumnae Club 59,212,249,325

Christian Science Society 141

Class of 62 231

Class Reunions 228, 231

College of Commerce and Administration, The 4, 75

Concerning the Fraternities 140

Contribution of Modern Science to the Ideal Interests, The — Henry

Churchill King, D.D., LL.D., ScD. 14

Convocation and Exercises —

84th, August 30, 1912 18

85th, December 17, 1912 90

86th, March 18, 1913 206

87th, June 10, 1913 317

Convocation Orations —

The Contribution of Modern Science to the Ideal Interests — Henry

Churchill King, D.D., LL.D., Sc.D 14

Learning to Live — Edwin Erie Sparks, Ph.D., LL.D 82

The University and the Advance of Justice — James Hay den Tufts 186
How Holland Manages Her Colonies — Jonkheer John Loudon . 305

Debating 136

Debating in the University — G.H. Moulton 114

Divinity Alumni Association, The (Department) . . .31,62,102,170,216
Doctors of Philosophy, The Association of (Department) .30, 61, 133, 169, 253
Dramatics 39.64,135,140,172,257

GENERAL INDEX 337

PAGE

Durrett Collection, The 230,313

Dux Femina Alumni 295

Early History of the Daily Maroon, The 237

Election of Professor Merriam to City Council 244

Events and Discussion (Department) 3, 35, 67, 107, 139, 179, 227, 295
Exchange Professors with France 68,313

Fellowships for the Year 19 13- 14, Assignment of 245

Fire Drills in Cobb • . . 35

Florentine Fdte, The 124

Fraternities and Scholarship, The 1 20

From the Alumni Office 8

From the Letter-Box (Department) .... 25,56,95,128,165,210,323

Goettsch, Dr. Emil 7

Goodspeed, Thomas W 7o» 79

Honoring Professor Millikan 235

How Holland Manages Her Colonies — Jonkheer John Loudofi 305

Illustrations —

Wallace Walter Atwood, 138; F. A. Blackburn, 291; E. D. Burton, 269,
271; C. F. Castle, 291; T. C. Chamberlin, 269, 271; Class of '62, 232; S.
H. Clark, 269, 271; S. W. Cutting, 269, 271; Debating Teams — North-
western and Michigan, 115; George A. Dorsey, '16, as "Marie," 257;
James D. Dyrenforth, '16, as "Paprika," 257; Glimpses of the Spring Con-
vocation, 315; Thomas Wakefield Goodsf>eed, 66, 80; A Group of Fresh-
men in 1864, 106; C. R. Henderson, 291; G. C. Rowland, 269, 271; E. O.
Jordan, 275, 279; Harry Pratt Judson, 262; Henry Churchill King, 15;
George Kuh, 63; J. L. Laughlin, 291; Jonkheer John Loudon, 306; W. D.
MacClintock, 275, 279; F. J. Miller, 291; Robert Andrews Millikan, 226;
E, H. Moore, 275, 279; Harold G. Moulton, 115; R. G. Moulton, 275, 279;
J.U.Nef, 27s, 279; The New Stands on October 25 (1912), 2; Nelson Henry
Norgren, 63; La Verne Noyes, 315; I.M.Price, 275, 279; The Quadrangle
from Harper Memorial Library, 294; Ryerson Physical Laboratory Annex,
34; R. D. Salisbury, 275; F. Schevill, 291; P. Shorey, 291; A. W. Small,
283, 286; Edwin Erie Sparks, 82; A. A. Stagg, 283, 286; F. Starr, 283, 286;
J. Stieglitz, 283, 286; Miss Talbot, 283, 286; B. S. Terry, 283, 286; J. H.
Tufts, 178, 283; University of Chicago Basket-ball Squad, 1913, 219;
University of Chicago Football Squad, 1912, 45; University of Chicago
Press; Offices and Circulation Department, 145; Binderies, 146; Ernest
Hatch Wilkins, 10; Dr. Josephine Young, 10.

Improvements on Marshall Field, The 12

June Reunion • 296

Lawler, Joseph 37

Learning to Live — Edwin Erie Sparks, Ph.D., LL.D 82

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PAGE

Lectures before the Divinity School by President Gunsaulus ... .159

Lectures on Ancient Oriental Art 160

Lectures on the Modern City 19

Literary Monthly, The University of Chicago 64, 135, 172, 257

"Lost" Alumni 139

Managing Editors of the Maroon 69

Michigan and the Conference 38, 181

Middle West Society for Physical Education and Hygiene, Meeting of 245

Midway at Dawn, The — Ida Caroihers Merriam 151

Moody, William Vaughn: Poet and Dramatist iSi2

Morning Recess Restored 70

New Buildings, The 3

New Democracy, The 297

New Honor for Dean Mathews, A 90

New Members of the Faculty 9

New Members of Law School Faculty 206

New Relations between the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge , 123

Noyes, La Verne, Gift of Woman's Building 295, 314

Of Age in Service 263

Harry Pratt Judson, 264; Francis Adalbert Blackburn, 266; Carl Darling
Buck, 267; Ernest De Witt Burton, 267; Clarence Fassett Castle, 268;
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 268; Charles Chandler, 268; Solomon
Henry Clark, 268; Starr Willard Cutting, 270; William Gardner Hall, 270;
Robert Francis Harper, 273; Charles Richmond Henderson, 273; Emil
Gustav Hirsch, 274; George Carter Howland, 274; Edwin Oakes Jordan,
274; James Laurence Laughlin, 276; David Judson Lingle, 277; William
Darnall MacClintock, 277; Albert Abraham Michelson, 278; Frank Justus
Miller, 280; Eliakim Hastings Moore, 281; Richard Green Moulton, 281;
John Ulric Nef, 282; Ira Maurice Price, 282; RoUin D. Salisbury, 284;
Ferdinand Schevill, 284; Francis Wayland Shepardson, 285; Paul Shorey
285; Albion Woodbury Small, 286; Amos Alonzo Stagg, 286; Frederick
Starr, 288; Julius Stieglitz, 288; Marion Talbot, 289; Benjamin Stuytes
Terry, 289; James Hayden Tufts, 290; Clyde Weber Votaw, 292; Jacob
William Albert Young, 292.

Plans of the University with Reference to Buildings 313

Political Science Scholarship 313

Politics Ill

Pranks of Paprika 230

President's Annual Report, The 107,122

President's Convocation Statement, The —

June 30, 1912 17

December 17, 1912 89

June 10, 1913 313

GENERAL INDEX 339

PAGE

President Judson's Views on Degrees and Curricula 159

Prize Contest for Jewish Students, A 160

Prize Scholarship, Award of ■. 319

Religious Education Association, Meeting of 207

Return of the Barrows Lecturer from India ' . 160

Reunion of Students of the Old University 166

Review of the Football Season, A 44

Review of Spring Athletics, A 300

Rhodes Scholar from Chicago, The New 69

Rhodes Scholarship Examinations 40

Ryerson Laboratory, the New — Henry Gordon Gale 41

Scholarship and the Alumni 229

Scholarship of Fraternities in Winter Quarter 234

Scholarships —

Political Science 313

Spelman House . . . . " 131

"Snap" Courses 73>ii2

Sorting College Freshmen — Percy H. Boynton 199

Spelman House Scholarship 131

Strengthening the Bond of Affiliation 113

Students and Faculty 71

Three-Quarters Club, The 72

Twentieth Anniversary of the First Convocation, The 122

Twenty-fifth Ekiucational Conference, Meeting of 243

Undergraduate Affairs (Department) . 32,64,103,135,171,217,255

University and the Advance of Justice, The — James Hayden Tufts 186

University and China, The 139

University Men with Municipal Interests 184

University of Chicago Settlement, The — Mary E. McDowell . 148

University Orchestral Association, The 52,207,319

University Opera Association 36, 183

University Preachers, The 123, 207

University Record, The (Department) 17, 52, 89, 122, 159, 206, 243, 313

Visit of Inspection to the Tuskegee Institute, A 159

Vocational Education 91

Von Hoist, Presentation of Portrait of Professor 206

Walker Museum, Acquisitions for 318

Western Economic Society, Meeting of .- . 91, 160

Women and Newspaper Work 230

Ysaye, Eugene, at the University 123

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