The University of ChicagoMagazineVolume IV JUNE, 10,12 Number 7THE DEDICATION POEM"HOUSE OF THE WORD"BY EDWIN HERBERT LEWIS, PH.D., '94IAwake, O harp and lute, the Psalmist cried,In days when all were singers, and God stoodDaily in sudden sunrise to receiveThe upward incense of men's lyric prayer,Sweeter than grapeflowers, in Jerusalem.Awake, cittern of gold, the Theban cried,Proud that he shared it with divinities,The muses violet-crowned, and with their king,Apollo, worshiped in the Pythian glenWith lyric laughter and white whirling limbs.But wake not, harp and lute and cithara,To find your masters gone, and e'en the quillWhich plucked out music, sharpened to a penTo blacken pages through a thousand years,And tossed aside for strange machinery.Least of the balladists, here let me takeSome rude thing like the homely dulcimoreStruck by the Tennessean mountaineerHigh in his lonely hills, when the strong thoughtOf things forgotten touches him to song,And like him slowly beat out memories.225226 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEIIAmong thy children, Mother most humane,Are voices with young magic in their tones,But youth unsaddened is unconsonantTo sing of scholars dead among their books,And poets, young and old, the soon forgot.Ah, one there was, our lauriger, for whomThe harp of Aeschylus rang unafraidIn times of hesitation; one in whomDeucalion's stone men, groping, found a voice.That one there was, who might have builded hereA front of song, memorial, stately, grave,Such fame as Pindar for AgesiasReared in Olympia. But him the breezeImpassioned holds, a region breath, a faintDiffused splendor of Promethean fireStruck from the fennel on its way to earth.Seek till ye find it, poets of the morn,And breathing him, sing out your music free!So shall ye dwell upon the lips of menAnd live forever in the sounding air!Ill'Tis a vast room. Methinks a smaller placeWould lightly hold the great dead of the world,Shrunken to books. This is the coral isleWhere every futile polyp leaves his bones,Infinitesimals of permanence.Here lie the chroniclers of trivial deeds,x\nd census-takers of defeated hosts,And registrars of ragged heraldries.These are the catacombs of tiresome saints,Bad poets, wrong concluders, pedant scribes.Philosophers are here, Icarian wingsThat caught the iris of the upper airAnd fell derided. Nay, but they who laughed.The careful souls, the patient men of fact,The cautious heroes of hypothesis.Are folioed and forgot. Beside them, heapsOf ashes from the beacon fires of hope,And all dead-letters back to Amraphel.Laws better never writ, but for the wordIronic Ammon spoke to learned Thoth,That letters dull the edge of memory,THE DEDICATION POEMAnd written evil is a lesser curse.What might that god have uttered had he livedTo see the cloistered pale calligrapherWasting the sunshine of the Middle AgeTo paint initials ? "Thoth is still the godOf this their Christian bibliolatry.For him they interlace these golden vines,Burnishing or and azure, and for himThey rubrish breviaries which shall lieIn some high hall with books of vanished hours,Unchanted psalters, missals clasped for aye."IVYet still we read; still strain to focus hereEyes that were made to look with silent joyOn the clean page of sky or sea or plain,The unwrit future and the unnamed God.No words unpack the heart. No words describeThe light of evening on a little face,The breaker ere it falls, the ethereal cryThe white-throat left unfinished when he passed,Questioning hearts in May. No words can save,Yet here are billions, hard words every one.Can these blind ciphers spell out life, or lendWholeness of meaning to a tattered pastOf dim lost Babylonian episodes ?Ask Babylon for bread, she only givesA wordy stone. Ask Egypt, and she sendsWhat rushy marrow could escape the jawsOf hunger building Khafra's house of books.Ask Pergamum, she tosses the flayed skinOf victims offered to AsklepiosCozening the sick. And ye who grant todayThis stone pavilion and these heavy towersOf Babel or funereal silence, these —Twinned like the broken shrines of HalebidAbove dead gods in pestilent Mysore —Why would ye pinnacle a roof eterneAbove the book and volume of this death ?VHis name is here, you answer. Even nowThe long light finds it on the scriptured wallWhile June is whispering a requiem228 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBeneath the oak trees. Ah, she wonders thereThat brows should be so pale beneath the locksDeath could not silver. But his heart is here!No box of bronze, no precious relic-caseCan hold the heart of him in little room.This is his reliquary, this, too small.If here we house but dust, then here he liesSplendid in still companionship of dust.As in Sheol the glimmering kings of eldRose to receive their peer when he stood thereBecome as one of them, and he lay downCompanioned largely in that oldest gloom,A king with kings, weak silence crowning all,So rests he with the best we had, the kingsWhose pale sway holds us when we know it not.VIHe gleams in shadowy gold, impersonal,A sculptured name. And shall no more be said ?Shall one man make the choice of HerculesTo dare all hardness so he may but serve,And grimly crush the stubborn years to monthsIn agony of effort, till at last,Losing his life to gain it, on he sweepsLike some great eponym and word of power —Shall he do this unsung ? What is the peaceHe sleeps in but the fellowship of thought ?And what the undivided power of his lifeBut the sweet burden of the reasoned word,Born of no single self, but like the lightInto life trembling through the pulse of all ?What else but that shall whiten the red pageOf time's ensanguined book ? Oh, wouldst thou singThe man himself, the great soul of this house,Impersonal with love of persons, sing — the Word !VIISoft and more softly, homely dulcimore,Lest, shrilling in this presence, we affrontThe high still courtesy of royal soulsWhose greatness bides command. This is the place,The house of miracle, where waiting life,Chaliced for ages like Gennaro's blood,Warms and is quickened. Lo, great UrielTHE DEDICATION POEMWhispers the morn to service on the earth,As if he gathered from the world of light,Beyond the light-years and mortality,Parental souls like sunbeams, bidding themFind a new hearthstone in their children's eyes.Open the books! What, is the world so young!O race of scholars who laid down your livesWith calm faith — deeper than the deepest creed —That naught is trivial; ye who would not writeFrom memory alone one fair tyrannic yod;And ye who struck a haughty planet downFrom midmost grandeur to a whirling point,But in the atom's heart, a radiant world,Found out rich emperies of littleness;And all ye closed eyes which knew to scanThe eoliths and dawnstones of the world,Lo, this is dawn!VIIIUp from the dens of earth,Out from the dark Hercynian forests, downFrom sparse Iranian pastures come the hosts,Driven by hunger into fellowship,Driven by thirst to far-found wells of strifeIn Kadesh, and strange covenants of blood;Driven by God to interchange of godsAnd slow unwilling love of alien shrines.Warring or wandering, they bring — the Word.Hark in the dawn the message weakly sentBy wandering caravan and kafilaWhen God upbringeth Syria out of Kir,Philistia out of Caphtor, IsraelOut of Mizraim into Midian.In vain Urusalim sends forth her shardsQuick-burned, to Egypt, crying for reliefAgainst such blood-stained messengers of peace.O fellowship of thought, immortal Word,Across the flood, with some Aegean starFor guide and bashi through the friendly night,The ships of Tarshish were thy caravan,Bringing spread silver and smooth ivoryPast white Minoa, wondering what strange speechBuilt up those palaces, and speaking fair230 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEWith kindly western words the passing prows.But they, borne westward by red Tyrian sailsWith Memphian wheat and linen, carry tooLight byblus and the Memphian oracles,Beyond Gortyna to the Cyclades.IXO fellowship of thought, immortal Word,What brothers' voices longingly ariseTo frame thy mystery! In EphesusWhere rivers bring the fierce barbarians downTo learn that laws are many, and to wishThat none may bind them when the hot blood burns,Young Heraclitus sees the changing wordFlow by him fiery, saddening his youth.In Athens, where the laughing waters breakAgainst the marble, Plato stands. He smiles,With patient care dividing the swift mind,And from the hot disputes of wordy boysLifts the pure fire. It burns Promethean,Spreading above them in white heavenly shapesThat pattern justice and the city of God.By Nile, wan priests ascetic, listeningTo thrice-great Hermes, lord of words confused.And wondering whither leads that shepherd's voice,But fearing Greeks who lightly name the nameAnd have no magic. In ArabiaBeside his tent gray Yusuf, marvelingHow word of promise should restrain his handAgainst who sleeps within, the murdererOf Yusuf's only son. And then at lastLook where a beam strikes back to Ephesus!John stands where Heraclitus stood, with sweetGrave eyes uplifted, asking all,What of the Logos split and parceled nowThroughout the world ? If God himself should speak,Coming with water and blood to interblendThe Reason and the Vow, what would He say ?Would He unlock the magic of the skiesWith potent numbers, words omnipotent ?Would He upraise our homely fellowshipAbove the need of fellowship, and touchThe general tongue to high seraphic power?THE DEDICATION POEM 231Nay, heaven is homely. Hear the Living Word!A woman grieving for a vanished friendIn a gray garden saw the gardener.He asked her why she wept, and she but wailed,"If thou hast borne him hence, tell me the placeAnd I will take him." Then God slowly turned."Mary!" he said. But she, "Rabboni— !"XO fellowship of thought, immortal Word,Creator in us of the glory named,Controller in us of the nameless dark!God is not fearful, and he ever diesTo live again on lips that know him not,Gladly denied to do great justice hereTo whom he loves. The dawn is crimson yet,Reflecting battle-blood. But still the WordWith sweet new accents whitens round the world,Sphering all souls in one. Beyond the rune,Beyond the hieratic syllable,Reckoned in numbers which the comets fear,Infinite, secular, it flashes on,Bowing the heavens o'er a common hearth.Promise of God, deign to be spoken here!Here where the coral isle advances highWith labors well forgot, and happy bonesLimed in the sure foundations. Here at lastWhere all the nations send their hostagesWhile the one morning lightens over all-Temple and tenement and ivied tower —Here where the varying tongues of brotherhoodSeek for the great parole, the Word of Peace!EVENTS AND DISCUSSIONToday, June 10, and tomorrow7, June u, the quadrangles await uswith a special welcome. June 10 is Senior Class Day, with exercisesfrom 10:30 till 4:00; and in the evening comes the,_. President's reception, to which eighteen thousand invitations have been sent out. Even if they should allcome who are asked, there would be room, for the campus is to bespread before them. June n, in the morning, comes the dedication ofthe William Rainey Harper Memorial Library; in the afternoon, theConvocation exercises; at six, the dinners of the alumni (in theCommons) and of the alumnae (at the Quadrangle Club); at 7:45,the "sing" in the quadrangle of the Tower Group; at 8:45, the alumniand alumnae vaudeville in Mandel, with old favorites and new. Theevents of the day are in general charge of 1907, which is celebrating itsfifth anniversary. Earl Hostetter is chairman for the occasion. Thewomen's dinner will be managed by the executive committee of theChicago Alumnae Club; the men's by J. F. Moulds, '07; the sing byHarold Swift, '07; the vaudeville by R. E. Mathews, '07, and AgnesWayman, '07. The formal program for the twTo days follows:Monday, Juxe 1010:30 a.m. — -Flag exercises, flag-pole.11 :oo a.m. — -Class play.12 :oo m. — Senior frolic.12:30 p.m. — -Luncheon to Doctors of the University, Quadrangle Club.1 :oo p.m. — Senior luncheon.2:30 p.m. — Class Day exercises, Senior bench.8:30-10:30 p.m. — -Convocation Reception, Harper Memorial Library.Guests will enter by the east door and leave by the west door. In addition to theregular receiving party, there will be the following groups in Hitchcock, Haskell,Hutchinson, and Law: Law, Historical Group, Philosophy Group, Semitic Group.Divinity School, Language, Literature, Biological Sciences, General Science Group.Education.Tuesday, Juxe ii10:00 a.m. — Dedication of Harper Memorial Library. Invocation, Rev. FrankWakely Gunsaulus, D.D., LL.D., president of the Armour Institute of Technology.Historical Statement — The President of the University.Memorial Address — Professor Albion Woodbury Small, Ph.D., LL.D., Dean ofthe Graduate School of Arts and Literature.Address on behalf of the alumni — Donald Randall Richberg, A.B., '01, presidentof Chicago Alumni Club.Poem — -Professor Edwin Herbert Lewis, Ph.D., '94.232EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 233Addresses — Mr. Henry E. Legler, librarian of the Chicago Public Library; Mr.Charles A. Coolidge, of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, architects of the building; Hon.James Burrill Angell, LL.D., president emeritus of the University of Michigan.Presentation of the keys of the building.12:30 p.m. — Annual meeting of Phi Beta Kappa; luncheon, Quadrangle Club.3 : 00 p.m. — The Eighty-third Convocation, Harper Court.The Convocation address will be delivered by Hon. Franklin MacVeagh, secretaryof the Treasury.5:30 p.m. — Reunion of classes, Reynolds Club.6:00 p.m. — Annual alumni dinner ($1.00). Men, Hutchinson Hall; women,Quadrangle Club.7:45 p.m. — University sing, Hutchinson Court.8 : 45 p.m. — Vaudeville, Leon Mandel Assembly Hall.Can a better occasion than the annual reunion be found for pleading for more solid alumni organization ? And can that more solid. organization be achieved without an effective magazine ? And can an effective magazine be produced without subscriptions? The answer to these three questions (as youhave guessed) is No. But the hearts of the Editors are rapidlylightening, for subscribers are increasing, and interest (if the mail is anindex) is growing fast. This issue is unusual for us — certainly in size,certainly in beauty, we hope in quality as well. Two months ago wewrote, if you don't like the Magazine, tell the Editors. Now we addmore hopefully, if you like it, tell your classmates.The following students have been appointed University Marshalsand Aides for the ensuing year, from June to June:HEAD marshalChester S. BellmarshalsWilliam V. Bowers Hiram L. KennicottDonald L. Breed George E. KuhHalstead M. Carpenter Howard B. McLaneKent Chandler Norman C. PaineWalter J. Foute Sandford Sellers, Jr.AIDESMuriel Bent Effie M. HewittRuth Bozell Cora E. HinkinsDorothy Fox Virginia HinkinsMartha F. Green Mona QuayleHelen M. Gross Myra H. ReynoldsThe process of selecting men and women for these offices, whichare the highest appointive honor conferred upon undergraduates, isboth careful and effective. A list is first made up of all studentseligible for appointment; that is, of all having more than eighteen and234 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEless than twenty-seven majors. From this list the Chief Marshal(Assistant Professor James A. Field, who has succeeded Dr. Raycroft)and a group of advisers, including most of the deans, the secretary tothe President, and others, select twenty-five men and twenty-fivewomen, on the basis of efficiency, scholarship, and personality. Thetwo groups of twenty-five names are then turned over to the existingmarshals and aides, respectively, to be voted on. Each marshal andaide arranges the group in the order of his or her best judgment.These arrangements are then tabulated, and the final result after beingagain submitted to the Chief Marshal and his advisers, goes with theircomments to the President, who has the sole power of choice. Thequality of the candidates, and the freedom from partisanship exhibitedby the student group are shown by the fact that this year the firsttwelve candidates for marshal as chosen by the students coincided,except in one instance, absolutely wdth the first twelve selected byfour of the faculty advisers.The delightful feature of the group of newly appointed marshals istheir striking combination, with executive ability and general popularity, of high scholastic standing. Every man among them hasaveraged B— or better for more than two years — that is above 81 ona scale of a hundred. Chester Bell, the Head Marshal, has averagedA —, and wins Phi Beta Kappa at the end of his Junior year — -thehighest record of any man ever appointed to the head marshalship.What is still more unusual, even extraordinary, in scholarship themarshals this year far surpass the aides. No aide appointed has arecord equal to Bell's (though Miss Green will undoubtedly equal itwhen she has been as long in college), and the general average of thewomen is considerably lower than the average of the men. That thisstate of affairs should be unusual is complimentary to the generalbody of the women students, but that it should exist is good evidenceof the fine quality of this particular group of men. The Magazine begsto offer them its warm congratulations. The undergraduate recordsof the marshals and aides follow:Head Marshal, Chester S. Bell, from Englewood High School. Phi GammaDelta; 'Varsity basket-ball team: Blackfriars; Senior College Scholar in PoliticalEconomy.William V. Bowers, from Hyde Park High School. Delta Upsilon; Glee Club;Abbot of Blackfriars.Donald L. Breed, from Freeport (111.) High School. Alpha Delta Phi; ManagerDramatic Club; Managing Editor Cap and Gown, 19 12; Associate Editor DailyMaroon; President Junior Class.EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 235Halstead M. Carpenter, of Monticello, la., from Lake Forest Academy. AlphaDelta Phi; 'Varsity baseball and football; Captain-elect football.Kent Chandler, from University High School. Alpha Delta Phi; Junior CollegeCouncil; track team; President Reynolds Club.Walter J. Foute, from University High School. Beta Theta Pi; Managing EditorCap and Gown, 191 1; Managing Editor Daily Maroon.Hiram Langdon Kennicott, from Wendell Phillips High School. Chi Psi; Vice-President Sophomore Class; Interfraternity Council; News Editor Daily Maroon;Literary Editor Cap and Gown; co-author of The Pursuit of Portia; Scribe ofthe Blackfriars.George E. Kuh, from University High School. Washington House; 'Varsity baseball; 'Varsity track; Captain-elect track.Howard B. McLane, from La Porte (Ind.) High School. Sigma Chi; Glee Club;Blackfriars; Undergraduate Council.Norman C. Paine, from Wendell Phillips High School. Beta Theta Pi; 'Varsitybasket-ball; 'Varsity football; Captain-elect basket-ball team; UndergraduateCouncil.Sandford Sellers, Jr., of Lexington (Mo.), from University High School. BetaTheta Pi; Band; 'Varsity tennis; 'Varsity football.aidesMuriel Bent, from University High School and Smith College. Esoteric; ChairmanBible Study Committee of Y.W.C.L.; Chairman Honor Sentiment Committee.Ruth Bozell, from Indianapolis High School. Manager Senior baseball team.Dorothy Fox, from Westchester High School, Malvern (Pa.). Women's Glee Club;Cap and Gown; Kalailu.Martha F. Green, from Frances Shimer School. Chairman Religious MeetingsCommittee Y.W.C.L.; Dramatic Club.Helen A. Gross, from Englewood and University High schools. Sigma Club;Women's Glee Club; Cap and Gown; Kalailu; Sign of the Sickle.Eerie M. Hewitt, from St. Bernard's High School, Chicago. Quadranglers; Kalailu;Sign of the Sickle; class hockey; Dramatic Club.Cora E. Hinkins, from Hyde Park High School. Wyvern; Kalailu; Harpsichord;Women's Glee Club; Undergraduate Council.Virginia Hinkins, from Hyde Park High School. Wyvern; Kalailu; Harpsichord;President Y.W.C.L.Mona Quayle, from Deerfield (111.) High School. Cap and Gown; Dramatic Club;Secretary Junior Class; Chairman Intercollegiate Committee Y.W.C.L.Myra H. Reynolds, from Los Angeles High School. Esoteric; Women's Glee Club;Cap and Gown; Chairman Missionary Committee Y.W.C.L.Julius Rosenwald, Robert L. Scott, and Charles R. Holden, all ofChicago, were elected members of the Board of Trustees of the University on May 21. They take the places of Hon.Three New 1T Frank 0. Lowden, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Rev.F. T. Gates, who have resigned. The Trustees tookaction also looking toward the election of an alumnus of the University236 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEas soon as practicable. Of the old University there are at present twoalumni who are members of the Board, Eli B. Felsenthal, '78, andFrederick A. Smith, '66. Of the newly elected Trustees Mr.Rosenwald is one of the first citizens of Chicago, a leader in all civicactivities. He is president of Sears, Roebuck & Company. Mr. Scottis a partner in the firm of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company. Mr. Holdenis in the law firm of Kraus, Alschuler & Holden. Mr. Holden's grandfather was a trustee of the old University, and his father has been atrustee of the new.The Faculty of the Colleges on May 22 approved the report of theCurriculum Committee upon its work for the past year. This approvalis subject to revision by the University Senate, but theanges m ^^ adoption of the report is considered certain. TheCurriculum . r............ .important changes which this adoption implies have beenat different times discussed in the Magazine. Reference to the May issueis suggested, wherein the limitation of candidates for entrance to students who did more than barely pass in their preparatory schools was setforth. The recommendation of the committee as approved was as follows :For the coming academic year (October, 191 2, to October, 1913) the Examineris authorized to admit to the Junior Colleges students whose applications are in handone week before the opening of the Autumn Quarter and whose records in accreditedpreparatory schools are above the passing mark of the school in accordance with thefollowing scale (i.e., approximately 25 per cent of the difference between the passingmark and 100):Passing Grade Average Grade Necessaryfor Entrance60 7070 7875 8180 84A recommendation of great importance was made also in regard tostudents who enter with advanced standing. It is here given in full.The Senate will probably amend it slightly but no change of importanceis likely to be made.1. Students entering the University with less than eighteen majors of advancedstanding shall be held for English 1 and 3, and for at least four majors in each of thefour groups (philosophy, history, social sciences, modern language-mathematics-science) of the requirements for the Associate's title, and for the principal andsecondarysequences of the Senior Colleges.2. A. Students entering the University with eighteen majors or more of advancedstanding are to be held for the English (i.e., 1 and 3) and modern language requirements (i.e., a reading knowledge of one modern language) of the Junior Colleges,provided that a student entering with two or more units of an ancient language mayEVENTS AND DISCUSSION 237be exempted from the modern language requirement upon the recommendation ofthe Dean and the approval of the Board of the Senior Colleges. Such students mustdevote at least one-half of the remaining courses required for the baccalaureate degreein fulfilment of the requirement of coherent and progressive sequences.B. If a student (entering with eighteen or more majors) present to the Dean ofthe Senior Colleges during the first quarter of residence a rational scheme of coursesto be followed up to graduation, he may with the consent of the Senior College Boardbe excused from all courses specifically required in college. In order to secure a degreeunder this plan, a student must maintain an average grade of three grade points permajor taken.The new entrance requirement just adopted, as discussed in theMay number of the Magazine, gives a text for a vigorous exchange ofviews in this issue (see pp. 268). Two other points haveth U ' "tv ev°ked much discussion. One is the suggestion that thenumber of women admitted to the University might bearbitrarily limited. "Such an idea," writes Dean Marion Talbot, "isin the mind of no one. Are you turning your editorial pages into afunny column ?" Such was not our intention. The place of the womenin the University is much too high and honorable to be a subject forjest. But on this matter a letter from an alumna (p. 274) affordsinteresting reading. The situation will not, in all probability, occur.But to say that its possibility has occurred to no one is perhaps to putit strongly, and the more the matter is discussed the greater is thecertainty of sensible action.The second question raised is whether the new scheme is reallyjustifiable from the financial point of view. "To increase the numberof students in elementary classes," we said last month,From the "would mean a withdrawal of funds now splendidlyFinancial n , . , . , . ,, _. .Point of View empl°yeo- m higher instruction. This statement ischallenged. Suppose fifty more Freshmen enter, andare assigned thirty to a section. If each takes normal work, nine coursesa year, this means fifteen new sections in various Freshman courses.To handle these fifteen sections suppose eight new instructors areengaged at $1,200 per year. The fifty students pay $1 20 each, or $6,000;the instructors cost $9,600, or a loss of $3,600 on purely elementarywork. But in the Sophomore year, if forty of the fifty remain, theypay in tuition $4,800; if thirty return for the Junior year, they pay$3,600; and if twenty continue as Seniors they pay $2,400. In thethree upper years therefore an average excess of $3,600 tuition over thepresent amount is paid, or a total of $10,800. Subtracting the annual238 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEloss on the Freshman year, we have a total gain to the University fromthese fifty entrants of $7,200.Such is the argument. It would be unassailable, if all these students paid their tuition. Many do not. Scholarships, remission, andservice tremendously reduce the sum of their fees — so tremendouslythat one questions whether the argument holds at all. And even so,the financial aspect of the matter is not the important aspect. Thereal point is, how shall we secure the best material ?Great opposition has been aroused among the undergraduates bya recent action of the Senate changing the hours of recitation andincidentally abolishing the 10:30 recess. Under the newc ,e ,e,W r arrangement, which is planned to go into effect in theSchedule of 07 r- oHours ^a^ Quarter, classes will begin at 8:15 instead of 8:30,and four recitation periods will be available in the morninginstead of three as now. Chapel exercises will be held at 12:15, andthree class periods will be provided in the afternoon, at 1 : 30, 2 : 30, and3 : 30. The students have protested vigorously, in the Maroon and bypetition, against the abolition of the 10:30 recess. Their argumentis that in the first place three successive recitation periods without abreak are too many; and in the second place and more important,without the 10:30 half -hour there will be no opportunity for class-meetings, mass-meetings, and the good fellowship of general acquaintance.A feature of the new plan not widely known is the scheme to putvarious Junior College sections in the afternoon. For a long time practically all Junior College work, except laboratory courses, has been givenin the morning. In the coming year, courses in English 1, English 3,History 1, French 1, German 1, and kindred subjects will be offered at1 : 30, 2 : 30, and 3 : 30, relieving the present congestion in the morninghours and giving the student greater freedom of choice. "Conflicts''will by the new system, it is hoped, be reduced to a minimum.The scholarship of the fraternities in the Winter Quarter was farbetter than in the Autumn. This fact is due partly to the interruptionof Autumn Quarter work by "rushing," partly to theFraternity gpUr 0£ tne pr0Dati0n list, but chiefly to a determinationth W" t ^ the leading men of all the fraternities to better theirQuarter chapter-standing. Much excellent individual work wasdone, and the general spirit of co-operation with University officials was admirable. Only one fraternity was below C in theWinter Quarter, compared with seven in the Autumn; and two averagedEVENTS AND DISCUSSION 239B— and three very nearly B —, compared with one in the Autumn.The scholarship record follows:WINTER QUARTER, 191 2Average Grade PointsI2345678910n1213151617 Delta Sigma PhiSigma Nu Phi Gamma Delta . . .Beta Theta Pi Alpha Tau Omega . .Phi Kappa Psi Delta Upsilon Phi Kappa Sigma . . .Psi Upsilon Alpha Delta Phi ... .Sigma Chi Chi Psi Sigma Alpha EpsilonPhi Delta Theta Delta Tau Delta Delta Kappa EpsilonKappa Sigma B-B-CCccccccccccccc- 3-3333-2-9552.9422.8942 .6942.6342-5492.5182.4892.4792.3692.3632. 2092.1232.0811-835The comparative scholarship record for the Winter Quarter alsoshows plainly the general advance in quality. Comparison of thesefigures should be made with the Table given in the April number ofthe Magazine. The apparently low record of the pledges is due tothe fact that most of them are hold overs who were too weak in theAutumn to be allowed the privilege of initiation.No. ofStudents Majors Total No.Grade Points Conditions Failures IncompletesAll Junior menAverage, C (2.569) 5IO 1,484! 3,8l3f 53 59 52!Junior fraternitymen and pledgesAverage, C (2.258) 220 65oi I,468f 23 29 2l|Junior fraternitymenAverage, C (2.349) 170 5°45 1,185! 15 23 15!Junior fraternitypledgesAverage, C- (1.943) 5° 145! 283! 8 6 6Junior non-fraternity menAverage C, (2.810) 290 834i 2,345 3° 3° 3i»240 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe Summer Quarter this year will begin on Monday, June 17.The first term will end on Wednesday, July 24, and the second termwill end and the Autumn Convocation will be held onOuarter 1012 Friday, August 30. Instruction in regular courses exclusive of the College of Education and the Law School.will be given by 109 members of the regular staff of the rank of instructor and above, and by 33 from other institutions who have beeninvited for the quarter. These latter include Dr. Max Born, of theUniversity of Gottingen; Dr. Julius Bewer, of Union Theological Seminary; Dr. Albert B. Faust, head of the department of German atCornell University; Dr. F. P. Graves, of Ohio State University; andDr. Hardin Craig, of the University of Minnesota.In the Law School the regular staff will be supplemented by RoscoePound, of Harvard; Albert M. Kales, of Northwestern University; andChester G. Vernier, of the University of Illinois, who has the distinctionof having graduated with the highest standing of any man ever in theUniversity of Chicago Law School.The list of public lectures in literature, history, sociology, science,art, and music will be as long as usual. Among other educational diversions the Coburn Players, who were so successful last year, will be seenin a half-dozen performances.The average attendance upon the Summer Quarter in 1908, 1909,1910, and 191 1 was more than 3,000. Not only does the number ofstudents increase regularly in the Summer Quarter, but the numberof those who attend the University in the other quarters and remainthrough the summer also increases. The integral importance of thework of the summer has long been appreciated, and the pre-eminenceof the University of Chicago in this particular matter is no more a subject of dispute.President James of the University of Illinois, chairman of theRhodes Scholarship Commission of Illinois, announces that the nextqualifying examination for candidates for the OxfordRhodes^ Rhodes Scholarships will be held Tuesday, October 15,„ . . and Wednesday, October 16, 191 2, in the NorthwesternUniversity Building, Lake Street, Chicago. A scholarwill be selected for Illinois from candidates who pass this qualifyingexamination. Papers will be set in this examination in Latin, Greek.and mathematics; and only those candidates who have passed in atleast Latin and mathematics will be eligible for a scholarship. Subjectto this condition, a candidate to be eligible must:EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 2411. Be a citizen of the United States with at least five years' domicile, and beunmarried.2. By the first of October, 1913, have passed his nineteenth and not have passedhis twenty-fifth birthday.3. By the first of October, 1913, completed at least bis Sophomore year at somerecognized degree-granting university or college of the United States of America.In accordance with the wish of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the Committee ofSelection in selecting a student to a scholarship has regard to (1) hisliterary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for, and success in,outdoor sports, (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotionto duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition during schooldays of moralforce of character, and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in hisschoolmates.The scholarships are of the value of $1,500 a year and are tenable forthree years.One question every alumnus interested in athletics asks himself is:What is the matter with our baseball teams ? Year after year, why dothey disappoint us ? Man for man, they are fully equal_r a s. , to our rivals, or have been for the last three years, atWrong with _ T .,-,,-, 1 , •Our Baseball? least- No better infield has ever been put together inthe Conference than Sauer, Orno Roberts, Baird, andBoyle; few better batteries can be called to memory than Page andSteinbrecher. Yet we do not win. Huff of Illinois has been quoted assaying: "You fellows won't take a game when we hand it to you."Why won't we? There are three reasons: (1) lack of serious competition for places on the nine, (2) lack of hard practice, (3) lack ofcultivation of the players' judgment.Reason one is partly unavoidable, but not altogether. We havecomparatively few candidates, but not all of those get a chance. Tobe specific, this year of our squad Leonard, Harger, and Kearney havebeen given no chance, and Hunter was not played until late in the season.The effect of this is unfortunate.Reason two is avoidable. This spring the fielding practice has beenirregular, and the batting practice bad. Men have stood up and hitat lobs day after day, with the result that in a game fast pitching upsetsthem. O. Roberts, Baird, Boyle, Catron are all natural hitters, whoagainst the weak pitchers in the colleges this year should bat over 400.Why don't they ? Because they lack practice.242 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBut the fundamental point is reason three. The men are not allowedto use their judgment. A man must bunt or hit out or wait, accordingto a signal from the bench; he must steal or not as he is signaled from thebench; he must even pitch as he is signaled from the bench. The resultis that the team is wooden. Even on the field their souls are not theirown. In the Illinois game of May 7, with two men on bases and two out,Norgren came to bat. For forty seconds by the watch he was heldstanding in consultation with the coach, while the spectators groaned.Then he batted, and foozled.The best ball Chicago teams have ever played was on the Japan trip.Why ? Because they had to use their own judgment on the field. They hadbeen taught well; they were good men; and they cultivated a self-reliance that was worth a couple of extra men in the game. In football, coaching from the sidelines is absolutely prohibited. Everybodyadmits that the prohibition is good for the game. Can't wre adopt it inbaseball ?The frontispiece of this issue is a reproduction in colors of the newlyadopted University Coat-of-Arms, and a cut of the seal. A history andexplanation of the Coat-of-Arms will be found in Mr.TheC t f A Robertson's article immediately following "Events andDiscussion." The reproduction itself is a work of art,which required weeks of labor to prepare; its cost would have beenentirely prohibitive to the Magazine had not the University authoritiesmade a special appropriation to cover it. The emblems of various otheruniversities which illustrate Mr. Robertson's article are photographedfrom the decorations of the Library.Another feature of the Magazine to which attention may be calledis the dedicatory poem by Dr. Edwin Herbert Lewis, Ph.D., '94. Dr.Lewis is now as for the past fifteen years head of the department ofEnglish at Lewis Institute. He is the author of the words of "AlmaMater."No apology is offered for including in this issue a bit of undergraduatecomposition. The alumni will be interested.THE PHOENIX AND THE BOOKA SEAL for the University of Chicago was proposed to the Boardof Trustees by a committee consisting of President Judson, Mr.Martin A. Ryerson, President of the Board of Trustees, and Mr. CharlesL. Hutchinson, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, and was by theTrustees adopted August 15, 19 10. This seal and coat-of-arms arepublished for the first time in this number of the Magazine.Like the seal of the United States, that of the University of Chicagowas early studied and only after long and careful consideration adopted.July 4, 1776, after the reading of the Declaration of Independence itwas resolved "that Dr. Franklin, Mr. J. Adams, and Mr. Jefferson bea committee to prepare a device for the seal of the United States ofAmerica." The following August this committee reported a designinvolving the rose for England, the thistle for Scotland, the harp forIreland, the fleur de lis for France, the imperial eagle for Germany, andthe Belgic lion for Holland. The initials of the thirteen colonies werelikewise to appear, and about the whole was to be the legend E PluribusUnum, familiar in the colonies as the motto of the Gentleman's Magazine.The report of this committee was laid upon the table. Succeedingcommittees were no more successful until June 20, 1782, when Congressadopted a device of which from the original one only the motto persisted.In 1 841 a second and but slightly changed seal was made;., and thepresent seal of the United States was cut in 1885. That the earliestsuggestion of even so wise a group as Franklin, Adams, and Jeffersondid not meet approval every American may be glad. Reports of hundreds of more or less inappropriate ideas presented to the committee,composed of President Harper, Mr. Ryerson, and Mr. Hutchinson, makeit likewise a satisfaction to every Chicago man and woman that theTrustees did not in the early days adopt some lamp of knowledge or someintricate obviousness like the first pattern of Jefferson.To secure a heraldic seal, in accordance with the best ancient English,Continental, and American precedents, it was first needful to establishheraldic bearings to be incorporated in the seal. On academic arms avery frequent charge is a book. It appears on the shield of the oldestof English foundations, Oxford, and the oldest American, Harvard.But as the fundamental purpose of a coat-of-arms is simply to identify24344 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEits owner (Arma sunt distinguendi causa), and not, asis vulgarly supposed, to symbolize his origin, history,achievements, and aspirations, any charge that can beregarded as peculiarly appropriate for identification hasthe highest value. The phoenix— "an eagle-shapedbird rising from flames" — is a fairly infrequent charge.It does appear on the shields of one or two British andContinental families (Caine, Fenwick, de Haiti, Viartd'Orval); but of course every heraldic charge hasalready been employed upon some shield or other. Itis only by new combinations of existing charges andnew arrangements of color that one can create a"new" shield. A heraldic expert, Mr. Pierre deChaignon la Rose, working under the direction ofthe University architect, Mr. Charles A. Coolidge,created in this way for the University of Chicago acoat-of-arms. The combination of the phoenix andlife 1 tne book Mr. La Rose believed to be unique.In regard to tinctures or heraldic colorings it mustbe remembered that the oldest and best shields rarelydisplay more than two. What then should be our twoL'';l Mm predominant colors? Maroon and white, of course.But in heraldry mixed or muddy colors have a specialuse and connotation. It was better, therefore, to usethe heraldic equivalents of maroon and white — gules(a fiery red) and argent.The first form of the shield exhibited then thesecharges and tinctures: argent on a phoenix gules anopen book of the first, edged and bound or. Decora-tively this design was acceptable and was at once usedin the Harper Memorial Library, where it may beseen in the bosses of the ceiling of the great reading-room, the screen at its west end, the carved beams ofthe west entrance, the middle of the south pediment,and the decorations above the west and middle doorsof the north facade. A further study of this designbrought forth the objection of English heralds thatthe position of the book was illogical, that althoughthe phoenix could not be consumed by flames the bookmight be. Mr. Burke of London suggested the division of the field and the placing of the book in chief.THE PHOENIX AND THE BOOKMoreover, it was recently discovered that carved onone of the carvels of the reading-room of the HarperMemorial Library is the device of a printer of Deventer— a device comprising a phoenix with book on whichare the letters alpha and omega. Mr. Burke's modification has resulted in the form as published, and ascarved "in the staircase of the west tower of Harper.The open book in the pattern called for a briefinscription such as the Dominus illuminatio mea ofOxford, the Veritas of Harvard, or the Lux et Veritas ofYale. Naturally this inscription should be the motto'of the University. How many mottoes have beenproposed, I suppose not even the Student Council canimagine. Some were very good but suggested theconventionalities and generalizations of the eighteenthcentury. Many of the most interesting were effortsat formulating the purpose of a twentieth-centuryuniversity, like service to the state. The difficultyof couching these latter in academic Latin soon becamevery apparent. No suggestion met the full approvalof the committee until one day the man who at theSeventieth Convocation so eloquently presented thespirit of the University of Chicago reported his idea.Professor Shorey, something more than a year ago,when on his way to an eastern classical meeting, foundthe wheels of his Pullman clicking again and againthat line from the introduction to In Memoriam:Let knowledge grow from more to more.This he thought was a good phrasing of the purpose —one purpose — of a university: the increase of the totalsum of human knowledge. In the more compact Latinhe phrased it Scientia crescat. It is an interestingcoincidence that in the anthem which has been usedfor years at the Convocation Prayer Service thereoccurs the line, "Let wisdom broaden with the day."At about the same time Professor Shorey in his effortto include the idea of service was minded of thepassage in the sixth book of the Aeneid, in whichVergil tells of seeing in the happy fields those who onearth enriched or adorned human life. (Inventas aut246 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEqui vitam excoluere per artes.) And so he got his second verb andsubject — Excolatur vita. In putting the two parts together he relatedthem in English by and so. Hence Dr. Shorey offered as a motto forthe University:Crescat sclent ia; vita excolatur.Let knowledge grow from more to more;And so be human life enriched.Although we have established the heraldic principle that a shieldshould not be fundamentally symbolic, we may yet legitimately considersome of the stuff from wdiich may be made future alumni and undergraduate poetry. The ancients knew well the story of the phoenix.Herodotus (ii. 73) mentions it as a sacred bird among the animals ofEgypt. He had seen only a picture of a bird in shape and size like aneagle and with red and golden plumage. He did not believe in it ! Pliny(Nat. hist. x. 2) declares that only one lives at a time. Tacitus (Ann.vi. 28) also discusses the creature. In Latin poetry it is often spoken of,and it is the subject of an idyl by Claudian. Roman emperors stampedthe bird on coins to suggest either their own apotheosis or the rise of anew and glorious era during their reign. Naturally the early Christiansknew the myth and used it emblematically for the resurrection and forChrist himself. Last winter in Rome the writer secured an authentic fragment of a lamp from the catacombs of San Sebastiano. Modeled in theclay is the image of an eagle-like bird which bears a peacock's crest, a surebut not always present mark of identification. Throughout the MiddleAges the phoenix was thus used as a symbol. It is the seventh emblemof the Physiologus, whence we derive much of our present information asto how the bird flew to Heliopolis, entered a temple there and was burnedto ashes on the altar, how next day the young phoenix was alreadyfeathered and how on the third day, with pinions full-grown, it salutedthe priest and flew away to reappear five hundred years later. The mostcomplete and the quaintest accumulation of data about the phoenix isthat of Kirchmayer (Collectanea Adamantaea XV). The seventeenth-century antiquarian studies twelve meanings of the word, of which ofcourse our present one is chief. Then he assembles all references to size,to extreme beauty — "upon which Lactantius is most fanatic" — to longevity due largely to the impossibility of harm from arrows and stones.He tells how often in old writings the bird is described as unique and asspringing from its own ashes a thing of neither sex, and so causing greatconfusion to meticulous schoolmen who would be correct in gender. Theseveral homes of the phoenix — Egypt, Arabia, India — and its food —THE PHOENIX AND THE BOOK 247ambrosia, nectar, arid dew — he describes, and he closes thus his accountof what others have said: "Of its note, which is the most tuneful andinimitable in the world, the greatest nonsense is talked; I am too annoyedto add anything on this subject: my gorge rises at such falsehoods."Then the skeptical professor of Wittenberg goes on to demolish oursimple trust, "Such a belief as that in the Phoenix is a slander againstHoly Writ, nature, and sound reason." For, look you, the Creator mademale and female in all brute tribes. Of quadrupeds and birds, moreover, there went two couples unclean and seven of clean into the ark.Assuredly the Phoenix born of pure fire must be of the second class. Butwhere can we discover either a male or a female, or seven couples?Nature, like Scripture, denies the bird's existence, for birds are born fromeggs, not from ashes. "There is an absurd story, too, that the Phoenix,by flying very high towards the sun, is scorched and burnt to death by thesun. The statement, in the first place rests on a false supposition thatthe sun is the source of heat, and itself ' warm ' as they say . . . ." Anyone who has climbed the highest mountains in Italy,- Greece, and theCanaries knows that the higher one goes the colder it gets. "It isonly the part of a madman to think that this bird lives so many thousands of years, as the world itself has neither been established nor shallbe in existence so long." But this higher critic after all concedes to usour poetry. "We can the more freely pardon this art (of poetry) thecrime of creating these fables, the more we remember the license poetryis allowed in whatever she touches." Yet he warns us: "They havethe best regard for themselves who, in any disputations, and only afterpermission has been asked or limitation made, use such words as these :'If what is told about the Phoenix is true,' 'If there be such a thing asthe Phoenix, a matter which we do not enter into here,' etc. To ourmind the Phoenix is a pure figment and nonentity. Long ago this wasthe belief of such great men as Herodotus, Pliny, Gesner, Aldrovandus,Franzius, and Sperlingius. To God alone be glory !" Perhaps then HSrrDoctor Kirchmayer will permit us humbly to assert that at least inpoetry the phoenix has for hundreds of years stood for immortality,youth, vigor, and aspiration.Surely this makes it an appropriate charge for the shield of our youngAlma Mater. Moreover no other symbol has been more closely associated with the city of Chicago. At the time of the World's Fair it wasused on banner, cornice, and tower. The I Will figure of the city bearsthe phoenix as a crown. The rise of Chicago from the ashes of 1871,the springing of our University from the financial ruins of the old one,248 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwill immediately occur to all. The sign above the alchemist's door iswell used too above the door of one more potent than Paracelsus inturning dross to pure gold. May someone soon transmute these hurriedand imperfect words into a golden song of the phoenix and the book.David Allan Robertson, '02THE HARPER MEMORIAL LIBRARYHISTORICAL sketchFrom 1892 to 1902 the General Libraryof the University of Chicago was housedin a temporary one-story brick building,which also gave accommodation to theUniversity Press and the Gymnasium.This building stood where HutchinsonCourt is now located. In 1902, on thecompletion of the Press Building on thecorner of Fifty-eighth Street and EllisAvenue, the Library accompanied theUniversity Press to the new location.Here also it remained ten years.The first active steps toward the erection of a permanent central LibraryBuilding for the University were taken inthe same year in which it was located inthe Press Building. June 24, 1902, onrecommendation of President Harper,the Board of Trustees appointed a Commission on Library Building and Policy.This committee included, besides thePresident himself, three members of theBoard of Trustees, Messrs. Martin A.Ryerson, Franklin MacVeagh, and F. A.Smith, and six members of the Faculties,Messrs. Frederick I. Carpenter, John M.Coulter, Albion W. Small, Harry PrattJudson, William Gardner Hale, andErnest D. Burton. The report of thisCommission, presented to the Board ofTrustees and adopted in August of thesame year, recommended that theLibrary Building be made the centralmember of a group of nine buildingswhich should include buildings for theDivinity School, the Law School, theHistorical and Social Science Group, thePhilosophy Group, the Classical Group,the Modern Language Group, and theOriental Group; that each of thesebuildings contain a departmental libraryfor the departments housed in it; andthat the buildings be so constructed thatthe reading-room of each departmentallibrary would be on approximately thesame level with that of the central building and in easy communication with it bybridges or otherwise. The Commissionalso recommended that the centralLibrary Building be erected in the centerof the Midway frontage, flanked on the west by the buildings for ModernLanguages and the Classics, and on theeast by that of the Historical and SocialScience Group. The Haskell OrientalMuseum had already been built. TheLaw Building was completed in April,1904. These two buildings bounded onthe west and east sides respectively acourt of which the central Library Building now forms the south side. TheDivinity School was assigned space northof the Haskell Oriental Museum, andPhilosophy and Psychology, north of theLaw School.Tentative plans for all the buildings ofthe Library Group as thus planned weredrawn in connection with the preparationof the report of the Commission. Thoseof the Library Building itself wererepeatedly restudied by the architects,Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, in the nextsix years, and submitted for criticism notonly to the Board of Trustees, but tomany of the librarians of the country.On the death of President Harper inJanuary, 1906, there was a widespreadfeeling that there should be erected on themain quadrangle of the University somepermanent and worthy memorial of itsfirst President, to whose courage, energy,broad vision, and farsightedness the University was so largely indebted for theprogress it made in the first fifteen yearsof its existence. It was soon decidedthat that memorial should take the formof a central library building erected inaccordance with the plan which PresidentHarper himself had taken part in shaping.Mr. John D. Rockefeller promised togive three times whatever amount shouldbe given by others for this purpose up to$600,000. To meet this condition over$200,000 was subscribed and duly paid byover two thousand individual givers.Including the above sums and the interestwhich accrued before and during theprocess of building, the total of theHarper Memorial Library fund hassomewhat exceeded one million dollars.Of this sum approximately $800,000 hasbeen spent upon the building and its249250 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE^MMWWKK'THE HARPER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 25iFirst Floor PlanSecond Floor PlanThird Floor PlanMezzanine Floor PlanFLOOR PLAN OF THE LIBRARY BUILDING252 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEfurniture, and over $200,000 has been setaside as an endowment fund for thephysical maintenance of the building.Ground was broken January 10, 19 10,four years to a day from the death ofThe building, like the Tower Group, isof English Gothic architecture of thecollegiate type. Facing the Midway, itwill ultimately form the center of a row ofbuildings connecting Ellis and Lexingtonavenues. Adjoining South Divinity Hall,on the southwest corner of the quadrangles, will stand the Classical Building;between it and the Library, the ModernLanguage Building; east of the Library,first the History Building and then thePhilosophy Building, which will adjoinFoster Hall.The Library itself is 248 ft. long and 60ft. wide. The towers are 60 ft. by 50,and rise to a height of 135 ft. Theeastern end extends slightly beyond theLaw Building, the western a like distancebeyond Haskell Museum, with each ofwhich the Library is connected by ornamental stone bridges on the reading-roomfloors. The center court, bounded bythe Library Building, Haskell, and theLaw Building, will be known as HarperCourt, and eventually in the center of itwill stand a bronze statue of PresidentHarper.The main reading-room is on the thirdfloor of the middle section. It is 152ft. long and 53 ft. wide, with a vaultedceiling 45 ft. high. Arched entrances ofdecorated stone, high windows withelaborate tracery, and the vault of theceiling with its molded ribs relieve theplain stone finish of the hall, and give aneffect of space as well as strength. It provides seating-space for 364 readers,nearly four times as many as the present President Harper. The corner-stone waslaid June 14, 1910. The building wascompleted in June, 191 2, two years andfive months from the breaking of theground.General Library accommodates, and 114more than the capacity of the library ofCongress at Washington.General administrative offices andworking-rooms of the Libraries are on thesecond floor. Other offices and rooms forspecial collections are provided in thefourth, fifth, and sixth stories of the twotowers. The book stacks rest directly onthe ground and are carried independentlyof the building. The first floor, with theexception of the East Tower stack, istemporarily given up to classrooms and asuite of offices for the President of theUniversity. With the exception of thespace reserved for corridors this floor willeventually be wholly occupied by stacks.The Historical and Social Science Group,whose building is to be built just east ofthe new building, is for the present givenspace for a graduate reading-room anddepartmental offices in the third, fourth,fifth, and sixth floors of the East Tower.The departmental libraries of Philosophyand the Modern Language Group will belocated in the West Tower until such timeas more permanent quarters can be provided or the space is required for lessspecialized purposes. Seminar rooms arealso provided for all these departments.The completion of this group according tothe plan indicated above will give all thesedepartments space in buildings of theirown, but with their libraries in immediateconnection with the General Library.There are four entrances to the HarperMemorial Library, three from the northand one from the south. In each towerTHE LIBRARY BUILDING¦r itFourth Floor PlanTHE HARPER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 253KHpq254 THE UNIVERSITY OFa passenger elevator and two flights ofstairs extend the whole height of thebuilding. Electric book-lifts likewiserun the whole height of each tower, fromlower basement to sixth floor. Pneumatic tubes for the conveyance of bookorders and charge-cards connect variousparts of the building. Speaking-tubesand telephones facilitate viva voce communication.The total number of rooms in theLibrary Building is 81, with 41 closetsand minor rooms of various kinds.There will be office space for about 50members of the staff and of the Faculties,seats for about 500 general readers, andstack space for about a milllion volumeswhen all the stacks are installed. Thearrangement of rooms, floor by floor, is asfollows :FIRST FLOORW. 11, 13, 15, 17. Offices of the President ofthe University and his Secretaries.M . 10. 12, 14. Seminar Rooms of the ModernLanguage Group, used also as classrooms in the morning hours.M.13, 15, 16, 18, 19, E.io. Classrooms of thedepartments of History, PoliticalEconomy, Political Science, andSociology. CHICAGO MAGAZINEE.n. Stack Room, containing also smallstudy rooms for members of theFaculty.E . 17. Study Room reserved for members ofthe Faculty and visiting scholars.SECOND FLOORW.20. Acquisition Department, Typewriting Room.W.21. Acquisition Department, PurchaseDivision.M.20, a, b, c. Women's Rest and Conversation Rooms.M.21. Cataloguing Department.M . 22. Rare Book Room.M.23. Stenographers' Room.M.24. Acquisition Department, Gift andExchange Division.M . 25. Office of the Associate Director of theLibraries.M.26. Office and Seminar Room of theDepartment of Sociology.M . 27. Office of the Director of the Libraries.M . 28. Seminar Room of the Department ofHistory.E . 20. Seminar Room of the departments ofPolitical Economy and PoliticalScience.E.21. Book Stack; containing also smallstudy rooms for members of theFaculty.E.27. Study Room reserved for visitingscholars.Fifth Floor PlanSixth Floor PlanTHE SCREEN AT EAST END OF READING-ROOMABOVE THE ENTRANCE TO WEST TOWER OF THE LIBRARY256 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINETHIRD FLOOR AND MEZZANINEW.30. Cloak Room.W.31. Public Catalogue and Delivery Room.W.23. Men's Conversation Room.M.30. The Main Reading-Room.E.30. Manuscript Room.E.31. Reading-Room for Graduate students in the Historical Group.E.32. Historical Museum.E.33. Gallery: Annex to Reading-Room forGraduate students in the HistoricalGroup.The Law School Library is reached by apassageway and bridge from the eastend of the Main Reading-Room.The Divinity School Library is reachedby a similar passageway and bridgefrom the Public Catalogue Room inthe East Tower.FOURTH FLOORW.40. Reserved.W.41. Reading-Room for Graduate studentsin the Modern Language Group.W.42. Reading-Room for Faculty of theModern Language Group.E.40. Men's Conversation Room.E.41. Maps and Statistics.E.42 and 47. Offices of the Department ofPolitical Science.FIFTH floorW.50, 52, 54. Offices of the Department ofPhilosophy.W . 5 1 . Reading-Room for Graduate studentsin Philosophy.W.53. Seminar Room of the Department ofPhilosophy.E.50, 52, 54- Offices of the Department ofSociology.E.51, 53, 55, 57. Offices of the Departmentof Political Economy.SIXTH floorW.60, 62, 63. Reserved.W.61. President's Committee Room.THE CAPACITYThe capacity of the various portions ofthe Harper Memorial Library in respectto books and readers, as at present fittedup, is approximately as follows:Basement — Books ReadersWest Tower 49,728Middle Section 125,000East Tower 69,216Firs}, Floor —East Tower Stack 32,072 8Second Floor —Cataloguing Room 5,284Rare Book Room 3,240 24Seminar Rooms 36East Tower Stack 32,072 8 Third Floor —Main Reading-Room 14,000 364History Reading-Room. . . . 10,000 48Manuscript Room 2,700 6Fourth Floor —Modern Language Reading-Room, W.41 13,944 4^Maps and Statistics 1,000 12Offices in the East Tower. . 900 4Fifth Floor—Philosophy Library, W.51,53 9,184 2SPhilosophy Offices, W.50,52, 54 1,500 4Offices in East Tower 2,700 6Sixth Floor —W. 60, 62, 63 30Offices in East Tower 2,700 6Total in Harper MemorialLibrary 375,24° 632The books which will be installed in theHarper Memorial Library at its openingor soon thereafter are about as follows:General Library 95, 000Historical Group 57,468(In Law Building until October, 1912)Philosophy 4,978(In Law Building until October, 1912)Modern Language Group 42,000(In Cobb Hall, 4th floor, until October, 191 2)Divinity School and Semitics(deposit) 6,500Total. 205,946One of the interesting architecturaldetails of the Library Building is the considerable use which has been made ofcoats of arms of American, European, andAsiatic universities, and of the printer'smarks of the most famous Europeanprinters. The carvings include sevenOxford College shields, and seven ofCambridge colleges, the heraldic devicesof 18 other European and two Asiaticuniversities, and the coats of arms orseals of Harvard, Yale, Princeton,Toronto, McGill, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Denison, Cornell,Vassar, California, and Leland StanfordJunior. The newly adopted seal of theUniversity of Chicago is found in sixplaces — over the main entrance of theWest Tower, where it joins the coat-of-arms of the United States; on the stairway of the west hall; on the screen in thewest end of the main reading-room; andTHE HARPER MEMORIAL LIBRARY y '-JfT Tt . T m<PMP*OOEHCOP4258 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEin the ceiling of the reading-room, where it is worked in with the monogram H M L(Harper Memorial Library) .Over the central north entrance is the following inscription:IN MEMORY OFWILLIAM RAINEY HARPERFirst President of theUniversity of Chicagoand on the south wall of the entrance to the West Tower the following inscriptionappears, on a brass tablet:TO HONOR THE MEMORY OFWILLIAM RAINEY HARPERFirst President of the University ofChicagoBorn 1856 Died 1906This Building was erectedBy the gifts of the Founder of the UniversityMembers of theBoard of Trustees and FacultiesAlumni Students and other Friendsa.d. 191 2THE HARPER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 259^ Kf4 ;\ hp fck* « 1v*-H ? - £-j^-f ¦.]' 1 ? §; ||.' \h 1 * 1 1uU- it 1"gl|fey y260 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINESHHSfm, *'%ummJL"4j~h r n >. 4HSSIi ,* «V-J'i:i j i iiKM:1 >^ 1' ¦» . : r i !n fl illIIh!7! t! 1hiI — i<-AOoQP4i— iBHTHE FLOWERS OF PROGRESSA PAGEANTThe curtain rises and discovers An Artist seated on a cloud, playing aharp, and looking with satisfaction upon the world spread out below him.At his side is a powerful field-glass, with which he may from time to timeexamine more minutely such objects as happen to excite his curiosity. As heplays his harp, he sings softly, to an exquisitely beautiful air, the followingditty:Thus times are changed,And men are born.The war-cry dies;The flags are furled.White temples gleam,Where martyrs bled.The heavens are glad,And glad the world.As he sings Etherea, a white-robed messenger, comes flying from theheavens and alights on the cloud beside him.Etherea: Hail, master!Artist: Hail, Etherea! Where have you come from?Etherea: From Mars, master. Are you still singing your old songabout the rejoicing of the heavens and the world ?Artist (dreamily): Yes, Etherea.Etherea: Well, let me tell you frankly, master, there's nothing to it.Artist (still more dreamily): I have some time suspected that,Etherea, but it is so comforting. (He hums to himself)Thus times are changed,And men are born.The war-cry dies;The flags are furled.Etherea: It's a long time since we met, isn't it ?Artist: A century more or less. Where have you been ?Etherea: I've been making my usual rounds, Mars, Uranus, Saturn,Venus, and the rest of the stations.Artist: Everything is well with them I trust ?Etherea: Far from it. The Cardian Canal on Mars is clogged upfor one thing.Artist: With what?261262 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEEtherea: With supersensitiveness. I suppose they couldn't understand that on The Earth.Artist: Hardly. How is it at Uranus ?Etherea: Uranus is ablaze with popular indignation.A rtist: Shocking !Etherea: I must hurry back. I'm needed in the bucket brigade.Tell me how things are going down on The Earth.Artist (handing her the field-glass): See for yourself. Everything isin good shape.Etherea (looking through the glass) : Well, as I live !Artist: What now?Etherea: If there isn't a railroad train!Artist: Dear me, yes. Is it possible we didn't have those the lasttime you were here !Etherea: I should say not. I haven't seen a railway train for agood long time. They use psychic transportation altogether everywhere else.Artist (petulantly): Oh, yes, rub it in now. What if we are behindthe times ? We got a late start.Etherea: I'm not trying to discourage you. Probably you'll havethe psychic air-line the next time I come around.Artist: At least we've abolished war.Etherea: That's good. How about the balloons ?Artist: Oh, aeroplanes exclusively now. If you look sharp you canprobably see one of them falling.Etherea (focusing the held-glass): Yes, I see one. Primitivethings, aren't they ?Artist: There you go again!Etherea: Oh, well, don't be so touchy. How are the Negroes ?Artist: All right. I haven't paid much attention to them lately.Etherea: How about popular morality ?Artist: A thousand per cent better. You'd hardly know the humanrace.Etherea: That's gratifying. Anything else new ?Artist: Nothing except that both the Poles have been discovered.Etherea: You don't say so!Artist: It's awfully satisfying for the humans to be sure thatthey're still where they always were, you know.Etherea: No doubt. Well, master, I believe you're to be congratulated on your progress.THE FLOWERS OF PROGRESS 263Artist: Thank you, Etherea. I blush.Etherea: Don't blush, master. You don't need any help of anykind, I take it ?Artist: None whatever. Let things take their course.Etherea: That's always your policy, isn't it ?Artist: Yes; it works very well.Etherea (still using the field-glass) : What's that smoke down therein Missouri ?Artist: I don't know. Let me take the glass.Etherea gives him the glass, which he focuses upon the following scene.The interior of a prison is shown. There are two cells, separated from eachother by iron grating. In each cell is a Negro, hardly to be distinguished inthe semidarkness. Outside of the cells are heavy iron doors and outside ofthose another set of doors with double bolts and chains. The two Negroescower in the darkness. No sound breaks the silence for a moment. Then,far away, there is a shot.The First Negro (starting up) : Sambo !The Second Negro (starting likewise) : What is it ?The First Negro: Sambo, is you theah ?Sambo: Yes, I'se heah. What is it, Mose ?Mose: Did you done heah that shot ?Sambo: Gawd save us. It ain't comin' this way, is it ?Mose: No, lie still, you black niggah, an' don't get to rantin' round.I only ast you if yo' done heard it.Sambo: Yo' shut up. Yo' dragged me in on this, and I got to payfo'it.Mose: Well, ain't / heah ?Sambo: Yes, but that don't do me no good. Ef they come andhaul us out — oh Gawd pity us.Mose (scornfully): Coward!Sambo: I didn't want to resk it, but yo' said —Mose: What did I say ?Sambo (weakly) : Yo' didn't tell me we'd have to shoot the woman.And there wasn't no silvah in the house aftah all.Mose: Be quiet! Someone's comin'.Sambo (in a panic) : Oh, I know they'll haul us out —Mose: Be still, I tell you, you poah black trash — it's only thesheriff.The Sheriffs Voice (outside): No, I won't let you in. Back out orI'll fire on you.264 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEA Man (outside): The hell with you! Let us get at 'em!The Sheriff (outside): Back, I say!(There is a confused hum of voices in the corridor, but it finally retreatsto a distance without the firing of any shot.)Sambo: Mose!Mose (in the darkness): Shet up!Sambo: Mose ! (No answer.) Mose ! Do you think they'll get us ?Mose: No.Sambo: Oh, Gawd, I'm crazy, I am. (lie shivers painfully.)A Loud Voice (drawing nearer outside, accompanied by the tramping of footsteps) : Here you! Cat out the nonsense and get a crowbar.The Sheriff: Gentlemen, can't you be reasonable —The Voice (outside) : Hustle him off — •A Drunken Voice (outside): Han' cuff him.A Commanding Voice (outside) : Clear out, you trash !The Sheriff (outside) : Fire on 'em, Smith.(A shot and then another. The Commanding Voice becomes louder.)The Commanding Voice: That's enough of that. Grab the sheriff.The Drunken Voice (outside): Lemme get hold of him.Another Voice (outside): Out of the way for Glennan. He's got acrowbar.Chorus of Voices (outside) : Yes, let him get at 'em.Sambo (crouching in the shadow) : Mose! (No answer.) Mose!Mose (in a hoarse whisper) : What ?Sambo: Was it Glennan's wife we done shot ?Mose: Yes, damn him to hell.Sambo (beginning to pray incoherently): Oh, My God, hab pityon dis yeah poah niggah. I'se a sinnah —Mose (roughly) : Cut that out —Sambo (relapses into empty mutterings).The Commanding Voice (outside) : Get the sheriff out of the way.(There is an immediate sound of bustling, pattering of feet. Then thecrowbar falls upon the door with a violent shock:)Sambo (on his knees) : Oh! Dey's a comin'.The Commanding Voice: She'll give in. Do it again.(The crowbar descends again with much violence, but without effect.Sambo groans and writhes.)The Commanding Voice (outside): Use your pick, Parkinson.Parkinson (outside) : Get out of my way.(He beats upon the door heavily with his pick, and it yields. Samboutters a cry as the first door gives way. The voices sound louder.)THE FLOWERS OF PROGRESS 265The Commanding Voice (outside) : The second door ain't so heavy.That first one is a son of a gun.Parkinson (outside): Let me at it. (He strikes at it again andagain.)Sambo: Oh, Gawd, I ain't nevah done nothin'. I didn't mean to.Sabe me. Make Mose suffah fo' it. He dragged me in. I didn't meannothin', Lawd! Oh, I cayn't die! I'se too wicked. I'll go to hell fires.Mose: Shut yo' mouth!Sambo (muttering vainly): Oh, my Gawd, my Gawd!Parkinson (outside) : I'll give her one more clip.(He strikes the door a terrific blow, and it comes crashing down. Themob throngs into the narrow corridor in front of the bars.)The Commanding Person: Clear out, you trash. Four of us isenough. No, we'll need eight. Wrench the door open there.(Sambo utters a piercing shriek. Parkinson goes about wrenchingopen the cell doors.)The Commanding Person: Be still, you black devils. We'll teachyou.Glennan (fiercely) : Let me get at 'em; let me get my hands on 'em.The Commanding Person: Don't get excited, Glennan. We've gota little bonfire fixed for 'em outside.Glennan: Oh, and I hope to God they burn slow. Oh, I hope toGod they burn slow.The Drunken Person: Here, Park'son. Lemrae help.Parkinson (wrenching at the doors) : Get out of my way.The Drunken Person: Lemme help. I'm s'rong man.Parkinson (roaring at him) : Go to hell !The Drunken Person (retiring hastily): No 'fense — no 'fense, I'msure.(All this time Sambo continues to sob and pray and beg wildly, promisingvague, impossible things. Parkinson pays no attention to him. TheCommanding Person and Another Person restrain the impetuous Glennan.Mose preserves stolid silence. At last Parkinson succeeds in wrenchingopen the door of Mose's cell. Mose is dragged out, a dead weight.)Sambo: Oh, lemme go! I didn't shoot.Glennan: You lie, you dirty dog! Let me get hold of your eyesoncet.The Commanding Person: Be calm, Glennan. It don't do you nogood. Fellows, have you got the drygoods boxes soaked ?Another Person: Yes. Filled up all the boxes with straw andpoured kerosene through 'em.266 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe Commanding Person: We'll line 'em up on the edge of theplank and tie a rope around their necks. Then you fellows pull out theplank and they'll fall into the fire.Sambo (wildly) : Oh, lemme go. I never done nothin'. Lemme go.Oh, please! Please to Gawd. Listen — I'll — IT —Parkinson: Hush up your noise.Glennan: Let 'im talk. It's my turn now.The Commanding Person: Be still, Glennan. You're makingyourself ridiculous.(Parkinson succeeds in wrenching open the door of Sambo's cell.Sambo retreats to the corner and fights desperately, biting, scratching, andkicking. He is at last overpowered and borne out shrieking.)The Commanding Person: Nasty brute that. Clear out of the way,you trash. Go ahead, Smith, and light up the straw.Glennan: Oh, let me! Let me!The Drunken Person: Lemme! Lemme help!The Commanding Person (threateningly) : Get out of the way, youpoor stew, or we'll string you up too.The Drunken Person (retreating) : No 'fense, I'm sure.(The Negroes are borne out to the open square followed by the hootingmob, marshaled by The Commanding Person.)(Etherea watches every detail of the scene until the Negroes are placed onthe plank with the nooses around their necks, Sambo all the time talkingand imploring wildly and Mose preserving inflexible silence. ThenEtherea turns to the Artist.)Etherea: Does that kind of thing still go on ?Artist: I— I'm afraid so.Etherea: I haven't seen anything like that for centuries and centuries.Artist: Ye-es.Etherea: Does it happen often ?Artist: Ye-es. I'm afraid so.Etherea: They didn't use to do that sort of thing a century ago.Artist: Not so much.Etherea: And yet you say you've abolished war.Artist: That isn't war — that's — er — something else.Etherea (with determination) : I must go back to Uranus.Artist: Can't you stay awhile ?Etherea: Thanks, no. Any message you'd like to send them upthere ?Artist: N-no, not that I think of.THE FLOWERS OF PROGRESS 267Etherea: Your old Earth is as bad as ever, if not worse. Whydon't you do something about it ?Artist: I do.Etherea: Keep it up. Don't rest on your laurels then. There isstill plenty to fill your time. Good-bye, master.Artist: Farewell, Etherea.Etherea: If you need me badly, master, you know the signal.Artist: Yes, I remember.Etherea: Farewell.Artist: Farewell.(Etherea flies upward like a beam of light. The Artist gazes after,dazzled, then shakes his head sadly and looks at The Earth.)Artist: I wonder if a few thunderbolts wouldn't do some good.(He picks up a handful and hurls them indiscriminately on The Earth.One of them strikes a huge ocean steamship, which breaks in two and sinkswith great destruction of life. The Artist shakes his head moodily.)Artist: I believe I felt better before Etherea came. What businesshas she to criticize my Earth ? (The Artist ponders awhile.) The timesare better. (After a few more moments of pondering The Artist becomesfairly inspired. His hands go out for his harp and he begins to singsoftly again)Thus times are changed,And men are born.The war-cry dies;The flags are furled.White temples gleam,Where martyrs bled.The heavens are glad,And glad the world.Donald L. Breed, '13"THE SAME DOOR WHEREINI WENT"In discussing "A Proposed New Entrance Requirement" in theMay number of the University of Chicago Magazine a cramped mentalattitude is again exhibited which, in the lack of any evidence to thecontrary, appears to be that of the University concerning scholarshiprequirements. Marks! Marks! Marks! Has the University no otherstandard for appraising the success of its pedagogy except the rise ofthe average "passing grade"? Under present conditions the primerequisites for good marks are diligence and retentive memory. Acertain amount of intelligence is necessary, but the other qualitieswhich go to make up character are of little avail. The student whoapplies himself persistently to allotted tasks and memorizes readily isfairly certain to attain high marks in a large share of his courses. Wheredoes the University offer its incentive to originality, to intellectualcourage, to all that goes to make up the best of youth? Does theUniversity forget at times that it is dealing with youth ?It is no answer to point to the graduate schools. A mind whichduring the four years' formative period, while in plastic condition, hasbeen repressed and shaped to meet arbitrary grade standards maybroaden in graduate work — not as a result of, but in spite of, the previous training. But, do the gentlemen who fix scholastic requirementsrealize how much they are responsible for the dull, dull minds whichpredominate in their successful products ?Why not face the results fairly ? If the purpose of the Universityis simply to turn out teachers, and by teachers meaning, not those whoadd to knowledge, but simply those who transmit the lore of the pastto the future — if this is its purpose, perhaps there is justification forthe use of marks as the sole standard. But if the purpose of the University is education, which "implies development and discipline ofboth the intellectual and moral faculties," the results exhibit how"thrice false" are the weights of marks by which to judge education.The writer had the privilege of attending Harvard Law School, agraduate institution of the highest rank, where the effort was so stronglymade to get away from the limitations of marks that men were passedon indubitably "wrong answers" because reasoning ability was rated268"THE SAME DOOR WHEREIN I WENT" 269above memory. Yet in that school two or three men who would havebeen accepted as among the most brilliant, were "C" men; and amongthe "A" men were some of the most uninspiring, retrogressive, hopelessmentalities with which I have had the misfortune of association.It is assumed in this consideration that the world is to move forward. It is assumed that today must add to yesterday. It is assumedto be the function of educational institutions, not merely to carry on,but, also, to carry onward, the truths and mistakes of our forebears.The inevitable sequence of aristocracy and decay seems not to havebeen applied to the collegiate social structure. Would its applicationbe entirely illogical ? Has not a college something to gain from a democracy of intellect ? Might not the proud student who can affix the properdate-mark to every English king yet learn something from his humblerbrother who can't remember whether Henry VIII married Anne Boleynor Mary Queen of Scots ? The humble brother who may exhibit on thefootball field a courage and intellectual speed, far above the proudone's possibilities, is not without his value in the classroom, even thoughhandicapped by a bad memory.One Flash of It within the Tavern caught,Better than in the Temple lost outright.Should not the aim of a university (a fine, broad term !) be to draw,and keep within its walls, a representative body of young men, excludingregretfully, but as a matter of necessity, the hopelessly stupid ?We note the kindly condescension of, "the state institutions allaround us are doing a great work. It is not for us to duplicate thatwork, but to supplement it." We understand the pride of a facultywhich observes other institutions turning out men while its productwe assume to be supermen. But with a touch of humility the alumnimay feel that the label perhaps misrepresents the goods. In disquietingmoments we wonder whether unprejudiced observers might not usethe term "undermen." We wonder whether an educational pure-foodlaw might not require the label to bear the statement: "Canned whileunripe; preserved with benzoate of soda."To all of which those wise men, who, when we were in college,taught us so many things which they have since decided to be useless,will probably respond: "We have considered all this. All of theseare old frayed ideas — the usual pathetic result of thinking being permitted to those insufficiently grounded in long-syllabled hypothesesand insufficiently acquainted with the bibliography of the subjectdiscussed." To which we of the cruder minds, stung to a resentful270 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEbitterness, say: "You must be judged by your fruits. It is your jobto turn out men — broad-gauge men — not dogmatists nor pedants. Yourgraduates should be inspired with the idea that four years of study havemade them better men. As long as your students and alumni feel inlarge numbers that the great benefits derived in college are from itssocial side and not from its educational side, they are making a successof it in spite of you. If you socialize education you move forward inthe line of your previous unintentional success. If you cloister education you are obviously retrogressing. You may use as many fine-sounding phrases as you choose about "broadening intercourse" and"making the university a vital force in the community," but when inpractical fact you lay your chief emphasis on what should be comparatively unimportant — the strength of memory and persistency of application, in developing youths — your phrases become obvious as what theyare: "empty verbiage."In regard to having certified to the University, high-school studentsof "better than merely passing grades," a few questions are pertinent.Are there any statistics showing that the best college students are thebest high-school students? We observe in athletics that only rarelyis the college champion a former preparatory-school "star." There issuch a thing as overtraining the young body — possibly also the youngmind. Is the boy or girl whose growing years are most devoted toclose application to books sure to be the most desirable material forcarrying higher learning higher? The University proposes to securestudents of a "high type." A high type of what, we ask? And theanswer appears to be a high type of "grind." It would be interestingto see any statistical tables showing that the preparatory-school leadersin scholarship are most desirable college students. From a fairly distinct recollection of his own high-school class the writer would assumethat any such statistics would be most untruthful.It seems to some of the alumni of Chicago that what the Universityneeds is, not a higher passing grade, but a little more interest in developing manliness and womanliness. Military regulations at least promote self-discipline, but the strictness of petty scholastic regulations,enforced in an arbitrary spirit, produce a cowed student body which isnot a credit to any institution. Case after case of this kind comes tothe personal notice of one alumnus after another, and let not those whoare responsible imagine that because we do not protest we do not knowand that we are not ashamed. When on top of this situation we findthe apparent sole aim of the University to increase, not the average"THE SAME DOOR WHEREIN I WENT" 271mental caliber of its graduates, but the average "passing grade" (Godsave the mark!), to some at least there comes a hot spirit of revolt.Donald R. Richberg, '01[The charges made in the foregoing communication may, so far as the writer candiscover, be reduced to three:1. That universities in general set up a standard of "marks," instead of endeavoring to make "men."2. That the University of Chicago is particularly guilty of this practice.3. That the alumni are in "a hot spirit of revolt" in consequence.In support of the first charge is cited the case of the Harvard Law School. Butevidence is overwhelming that law firms consider an A from the Harvard Law Schoolprima facie evidence of capacity and power; and vice versa that a C is prima facieevidence either of a lack of ability or of a lack of effort— an unwillingness to do whatthe man went there to do. Evidence is equally strong that Harvard undergraduateswho rank A in college, subsequently rank A almost invariably in the law school. Andit may be added in this direct connection that the number of those who have rankedlow at high school and subsequently stood well at the University of Chicago is sosmall as practically to be negligible.No cases are cited in support of charge number two, that the University ofChicago is particularly at fault in her devotion to "marks." Let us therefore, whileawaiting evidence upon this strange assertion, see how the University actually proceeds. It sets up as a scholastic standard worthy of honor the B; admits to fullparticipation in all activities .even those who rank slightly lower than C; and dismissesfor poor scholarship, roughly speaking, only those who do no better than a C —.Wherein is this unfair? Will any graduate point out among all those dismissed forpoor scholarship one man who is doing well in that outside world we hear so muchabout, who will assert that his dismissal was unjust to his capacity plus the amount ofeffort he put forth ? And by effort here is meant effort of any kind, not only scholastic.Till the University hears one such complaint, it may reasonably pay no attention tovague talk.But further — what is all this clamor about marks? Every citizen of the worldis marked — marked for capacity, marked for attainment. Mr. Richberg marks hisoffice-boys, and dismisses them too if they cannot or will not do the tasks he assignsthem; and his clients mark Mr. Richberg. The question is not, Shall we mark?but, What shall we mark on ? In other words, What do we set up as a standard? TheUniversity, in season and out of season, preaches three things — -judgment, efficiency,and social service. What is the basis of judgment? Information. What is thebasis of efficiency? Judgment and energy. Social service is an ideal apart, surelynot unworthy. The University gives what information it has of whatever the student seeks knowledge. In every possible way it commends energy: by opportunity,by praise, by reward. The University marshalships, the highest appointive honors,go only to those who have shown energy in undergraduate affairs. The editors ofthe paper, of the annual, receive scholarships. The very dancers in the Blackfriarschorus receive University credit for physical culture ! What more would Mr. Richberghave the University do ? Let him attend a meeting of deans (he would be welcome)and hear the cases of individuals threshed out. This man works downtown, his272 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEmother has been sick, he has shown flashes of ability — keep him then, encourage him,even though his average grade is low. That man has brains, but is loafing — call himin, swear at him, or coax him. This man is overworking, he will break down — betterwarn him and his parents of the danger. The idea that the University is a machine,that it exists to train the memory of second-raters, is absurd in the light of facts. Thesilly thing to do would be to invite students here who have shown their incapacityelsewhere, when there are so many who have shown their capacity who seek entrance.Finally, concerning "the hot spirit of revolt" among the alumni. Alumni havesaid (we think mistakenly) to the writer that Chicago's passing grade is too high-But they base this belief on hearsay only, for nobody ever made this complaint who onexamination was not found to have had passing grades in college. Alumni have saidthat Chicago's enforcement of the scholarship regulation in the case of athletes istoo rigorous. Mr. Stagg does not agree with them: is he not in a position to know?Finally, alumni have said that University affairs are not clearly laid before the alumnibody, and that no invitation is extended to alumni to help solve University problems.This statement we agree with. We alumni should know more than we do of Chicago'splans; we should have representation on the Board of Trustees. There are plentyof able, clear-headed loyal men of thirty to thirty-five whose advice would be soundand whose loyalty would be invaluable to the Board. W. S. Bond, '97, is such a man;Scott Brown, '97, is another; Willoughby Walling, '99, is another; there are plentymore. Their election to the Board would be a moral recognition of the quality ofour own alumni, worth celebration. Aside from these things, however, the writer,who has been fairly well acquainted with the alumni from 1896 to the present day,has never found anything in the University policy complained of; and the presenceof "a hot spirit of revolt" he therefore takes leave to doubt.]FROM THE LETTER-BOXTo the Editor:God speed ! I say, to 'the laudable andmuch-needed effort to purge ourselvesof the sin of intercollegiate athletics, butare we not making the mistake of assuming that all the evils of college life arecentered in the athletic field? Are wenot, in our concern over summer baseballand professionalism, accepting, if notencouraging, other student activities thatmight well bear examination? I thinkwe might with some profit look into thewisdom and propriety of the efforts of theBlackfriars. The trend that organization has taken of late years makes suchan examination necessary as well asappropriate now. Let me point out afew facts.Let us look first at the practical side.Few people, I think, realize how muchtime is put into the production of aBlackfriar play. Let us take this year'splay as an example. The first week inJanuary, five months before The Pursuitof Portia was to be given, about fiftycandidates for the chorus began a classin dancing under a professional coach,putting in one whole evening a week.On February 13 and 14 the try-outs wereheld for the cast and chorus, and immediately after that regular practice began.From that time until May 2, the firstnight of the play, there were two weeksof daily rehearsals of two hours' duration,two weeks of daily rehearsals of threehours' duration, and the last two weeks,when the cast and chorus worked everyday from two o'clock in the afternoonuntil at least ten o'clock at night, witha little over an hour for dinner. Thistakes no reckoning of the year's grind ofthe men who wrote the book and themusic, or of the large amount of extrawork of practicing special dances andlearning parts, or of the still greaterlabors of the large managing staff.These are the facts. Is argumentnecessary? Almost three months ofsteady, grueling, nerve-straining work,work that soon tells on the constitutionsof professionals who devote their time toit alone! Can anybody maintain — is itreasonable to maintain — that students can under these conditions give even themost superficial attention to their collegiate work? Can men coming fromseveral hours of dancing and struttingin tight clothes go to their rooms or thelibraries and study with even a minimumof concentration or freshness of mind?Is it logical even to expect it ? And yetthere are those who cling to the obsolescent fancy that studies have a functionin college life. And I imagine that thefather who allows his son to spend fourvaluable years and at least $2,000 of hishard-earned money shares this vagary.And I know that these fathers wouldfeel reassured if an investigation ofthe scholastic record of their sons in theperiod of rehearsal were made by thefaculty. May I suggest such an examination ?Even granting that this extra effortdoes not interfere with the legitimatebusiness of a college student, we have yetto ask whether that effort is in itselfproductive of more harm than good.Here we must consider the question offeminine impersonation, and its influence,physiological and moral. I wonder howmany people saw that "Dance of Radha "or the "Bacchanale" or that "Grecian"dance of last year without a shudder ? Iwonder how many people could, as Ihave done, go behind the scenes and talkto these "leading ladies" without experiencing, as I did, a complete feeling ofrevulsion at the sight of healthy youngmen garbed in bulging bodices and feminine fineries? Let us be a little frank.Let us remember that these are boys in thecritical, formative stage of life, that theyare in the period of adolescence; and letus remember all that that implies.But for the sake of argument let useven grant that these plays have no badinfluence. Even so, is it all worth while ?Anybody will gladly admit that theBlackfriars have improved immensely,that they are giving us good shows, thatfor amateurs they do wonderfully well.They really succeed ! They don't fall farbelow the professional production. Theygive us the same blithe, broke, and blasehero; the same beautiful heroine with273274 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEbillions, breeding, and social regnancy — ¦albeit no prejudice against kicking herfeet to her eyes; the gruff, gouty father;the ham-on-rye boulevardiers in scrawnyevening clothes, gathering about theheroine at the end of a song for a kiss;the saccharine duets; the chorus ofcadaverous soldiers; the exclamation"Hell!" to make the audience go intohysterics; the grouchy father's spontaneous forgiveness at 10:55; kisses; thenoisy ensemble — all the concomitants ofTired-Business-Man delight. They doit almost as well as George M. Cohan.Let us even suppose that the Blackfriars ultimately reach the goal of theirendeavors; suppose they arrive at thesummit of their ambition; suppose theyattain their ideal — a perfect musicalcomedy. What a cheap ambition! Whata wretched goal! What a pitiful ideal!And for college men! Is it for that weeducate our young men at such anenormous expenditure of money andenergy? Is it so we expect to producea race of men with worthy standards ofliving ? To send forth to redeem theworld men fed on musical comedy ?And is it, then, any wonder that we havethousands of degree-bearing men forwhom literary stimulation comes fromthe Saturday Evening Post, musicalinspiration from "Everybody's Doin' It,"and artistic elevation from Mutt andJeff?Undei stand: I do not argue againstsport, against good fun But it isn'tsport any more! In the old days when wewondered if the languishing and lovelornheroine would absently spit down stage,and we laughed heartiest when the chorusfell over its own feet, and all the jokeswere on campus subjects, then it wasmerely fun. They gave unpretentiouscomedies and turned their slenderprofits over to the University Settlement.But today, with dancing schools, andmonths of hard rehearsal, and numerousmanagers and committees and pressagents and costumers and what-not, andproductions off the campus and bigprofits — today it is not fun. It is business, only business. And just as athleticshas gone into competition with professional baseball and pugilism, so have theBlackfriars gone into competition withthe La Salle Theater and the SocietyBelles Burlesquers. And just as we arecoming slowly but surely to see that theideals and standards of the athletic field are incompatible with the ideals andstandards of higher education, so must werealize the same of the Blackfriars. Wemight as well squarely face both issues atonce.Nathaniel Pfeffer, 'iiTo the Editor:The May number of the University ofChicago Magazine reached me an hourago; since then my personal reaction onits contents has been thorough, thoughtful, and intense. As a result, may Iattempt to trace a via media betweentwo extreme positions which I findrepresented there ?In your editorial discussion of proposedchanges in entrance requirements youquestion, "Would such a plan increasethe percentage of women ? If so, manywould oppose it. The statistics lead itsadvocates to believe that probably nosuch increase would follow. If it didfollow, an absolute limitation on thenumber of women to be accepted couldbe made — as it is made at Stanford."(I am curious, incidentally, to know howmany protests those sentiments maybring you ?)Then in another article, entitled "APermanent Building for the Women ofthe University," I find an emotionaloutburst on the other side. Backed bystatistics — which in themselves are cooland collected — our militant committeeyet rises to the height of a rhetoricalquestion, and cries, "And what has theUniversity done for its women ?" Apostrophizes, "Oh, Chicago! It is time towake up and take advantage of ail thelove and loyalty which is yours. Give usa women's building worthy of this greatinstitution, worthy of the women whocrowd your halls; a place where everygirl may have a fair chance." Andconcludes, "Our need is great, the demand urgent — we beg of you." Surelythis is the feminine argumenium adhomincn.As an alumna, with graduate andundergraduate experience in the University of Chicago, conscious verydefinitely of "the love and loyalty"before mentioned, I feel that there is amiddle ground tenable between the twopositions illustrated above. I mustrecognize the fact that the Universityof Chicago, to hold the position it aspiresto and deserves among the great universities of the country, cannot desireFROM THE LETTER-BOX 275a student body in which the womenconspicuously predominate; not becausethe women themselves need be undesirable, but because, as a matter of fact,at present such a condition would keepaway from the University the men whoyet represent for the most part thescholarly results of University effort. Ifthe excess of women should become amenace to that extent, then I can seethat the University must needs feel ita danger to be avoided.On the other hand, if from the 18 percent which you report as dropped annually from the Freshman class, a majorityshould prove to be men, as might beinferred from the statement of the Alumnae Committee that in four quartersninety-two men and twenty-two womenwere dismissed for poor scholarship,then would not a plan which admittedfewer men in the first place merelyavoid overcrowding Junior College classesand probably leave the Senior Collegeproportion practically the same as atpresent ?I know that the report of the AlumnaeCommittee voices a fairly deep-seatedbelief that the University policy is notonly opposed to women, but even unfairto them. Yet this opinion I believe is,in general, unjustified, even if we admitthat there may be a leaning toward suchan attitude on the part of individuals.The <i>BK statistics quoted, showing thatthirty-three men and thirty-nine womenreceived election in four quarters, wouldindicate that among those doing thebest work there is comparatively littledifference between the numbers of menand women — -and personally, with nosense of disloyalty to my sex, I shouldattribute that 8| per cent in the women'sfavor to industry rather than to genius.I am not undervaluing women's scholarship. I have been in a position, while incollege, to know definitely the work doneby members of large Senior Collegeclasses, comprising men and women,graduates and undergraduates; myimpression is that in most cases thepoorest work was done by men, andfrequently the best work by women.In graduate courses, however, I believethat for the most part a few men holdthe top of the ladder, while a largenumber of women and fewer men standjust below.I do not believe that the Universityis conspicuously unfair to those women who ' ' make good ' ' ; nor is she ' ' ashamed' 'of any who give her cause to be proud.Personally, I wonder if the number ofmediocre students is not larger amongthe women than the men; surely thenumber struggling for a Master's degreefrom commercial motive would seem tosuggest this. Perhaps, too, the institution looks more kindly upon the mediocreman than the mediocre woman, but thispoint of view is not peculiar to our quadrangle ! Cannot that same mediocre mango forth into the world and get a $1,200position while the mediocre woman takesa $700 one ?My contention is that the attitude ofthe University of Chicago toward itswomen students, if not all we should ask,is yet to be appreciated fairly. If weget far enough away from the campus toforget for a moment the leak in Lexingtonroof, and remember rather the fair consideration, and ready commendationwhich deserving work ever received; ifwe stop to realize that there are institutions — Columbia for instance, where awoman may not even apply for a fellowship — and then read in our UniversityRecord the report of seventeen fellowships awarded to women at the University of Chicago; and if, perchance, wecome in contact for a time with thelimitations of a woman's college, andrecognize the broader, less personal interest, the keener stimulation, and thegreater opportunity which our University has afforded us, then we feel — if wemust weigh and test on a sex basis — thatwe women students of the University ofChicago have much to be grateful for.And yet there is one word I shouldlike to add in behalf of the large numberof women students whom the Universityis training for future usefulness. I believe that the large proportion of womengoing every year from the college to theschoolroom forces upon the college aresponsibility which it cannot afford toshirk. Judging from my experience ina small college in the' Middle West,drawing students largely from the smalltown high schools of three or four adjacent states, I feel that there is a poignant connection between the poorly prepared students yearly admitted to theFreshman class, and the poorly trainedSeniors yearly given their diplomas.Large numbers of women from theseSenior classes the colleges are sendinginto the high schools of the country,276 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEtesting in deadly earnest our training;and it is the pupils of these same womenwhom we are admitting into our colleges,and then dropping in large numbers fromour Freshman classes. Can the educational institutions of the country dareto look with indifference on the education of the average woman ?Helen Sard Hughes, '10To the Editor:I did not receive till a few days ago theMarch number of the University ofChicago Magazine, which called for expressions of opinion from alumni as towhat should be Chicago's future athleticpolicy. That, and the fact that the morestatements of opinion there are thebetter can the drift of opinion be determined, are the excuses for this belatedletter.Speaking always with the diffidenceproper in one who never competed inintercollegiate athletics, I should be sorryto see the University abandon any of thehigh ideals she has stood for in intercollegiate relations — the amateur idealespecially. To me the ideal of collegeathletics is men competing for victory fortheir college because they are its members, not men becoming members of acollege in order to compete for it; menstriving to win for their college, but"striving worthily," to win by honorablemeans and according to the strict rules ofthe game. The amateur ideal, as Iunderstand it, is a means to this end. Itis a test to exclude the man who byimproper inducements is brought to acollege to compete for it. In itself theamateur ideal is perhaps scarcely defensible. A clean professional, may of hisown accord, come to college for an education and of his own accord desire to compete for his college in athletics. A collegestudent may freely devote his athleticskill to his alma mater and in vacationscompete for the love of the sport withprofessional teams — never receiving a penny. Either of these men will bebarred unjustly from college competitionby the amateur ideal.But such cases are, I think, few andfar between; without the amateur rulerivalry between colleges can end only ingames between college teams as muchprofessional as any league ball club in theland. The stand cannot be made againstpaying professionals to come to college oragainst college men taking pay fromsummer teams. Proof in either case isimpossible. Scholastic deficiency willnever bar from competition a professionalwith common-sense, a good tutor, andsome high-school rudiments — at least inmost colleges, I think. The amateurrule excludes the men who would be aptto be brought to college by money inducements from alumni chagrined by a defeated college team; it excludes othersunjustly but it serves the paramount purpose, if enforced, of keeping institutionsof learning and their alumni from maintaining professional teams. That itselfis the bane of athletic rivalry betweencolleges. I don't think there is evil ingood, health)- intercollegiate rivalryaccording to the rules of the game.What is needed is a rule to preventcolleges and their alumni under the stingof defeat from "beating" the rules of thegame, written and unwritten.I don't think Chicago can afford tocompromise on the principle of amateurism: she should cling to it whateverhappens. If the Conference insists onscholarship eligibility we should withdraw from the Conference; if we cannotfind colleges to compete with us on theamateur basis we should cease intercollegiate competition. Chicago's athletic history is too honorable to besullied by a surrender to professionalismor to be belittled by continued defeatsfrom old rivals who have adopted theprofessional standard.Theodore C. Pease, '07THE UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Convocation orator. — The orator ofthe Eighty-third Convocation, Secretaryof the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh, hasbeen for ten years a trustee of the University and for many years one of themost prominent business men of Chicago.Secretary MacVeagh was graduated fromYale in 1862 and from the Columbia LawSchool in 1864. On account of ill-healthhe gave up the practice of law and cameto Chicago, establishing a wholesalegrocery business, of which he still remainsthe head. In 1874 he was made presidentof the Citizen's Association, whichbrought about many important municipalreforms. In 1894 the Democratic partyof Illinois nominated Mr. MacVeagh forthe United States senatorship, and hemade a canvass of the state but was defeated in the legislature. Mr. MacVeaghhas been president of the Bureau ofCharities and of the Municipal ArtLeague of Chicago and also a member ofthe executive committee of the NationalCivic Federation. He is also vice-president of the American Civic Association and one of the vice-presidents of theWestern Economic Society. He is abrother of Wayne MacVeagh, who wasattorney-general in President Garfield'scabinet and later ambassador to Italyduring the administration of PresidentCleveland.The Mississippi Valley Historical Association. — -At the fifth annual meeting ofthis association which was held at IndianaUniversity on May 23, 24, and 25, thepresident of the association, ProfessorAndrew C. McLaughlin, head of theDepartments of History and of ChurchHistory, gave an address on "TheSupreme Court and UnconstitutionalLegislation — Historical Origins"; Assistant Professor Marcus W. Jernegan, of theDepartment of History, discussed thesubject of "Factors Influencing theDevelopment of American Educationbefore the Revolution"; and ProfessorHarlow Lindley, of Earlham College, agraduate student in the University, presented a paper on "The Quakers in theOld Northwest." President George E.Vincent, of the University of Minnesota, is a member of the executive committeeof the association and Professor James A.James, of Northwestern University, is oneof the vice-presidents.At a mass-meeting on May 19 in theAuditorium, Chicago, to protest againstcertain provisions of the Dillinghamimmigration bill now pending in Congress,President Harry Pratt Judson, ProfessorCharles R. Henderson, and ProfessorEmil G. Hirsch were among the speakers.At a meeting on May 18 at the University, for the same purpose, ProfessorErnst Freund and Professor James H.Tufts were speakers.Banking Reform is the title of a volumeof 450 pages recently issued by theNational Citizen's League. Professor J.Lawrence Laughlin, head of the Department of Political Economy, being theeditor. Chapters in the book are contributed by Dean James P. Hall andProfessor Floyd R. Mechem, of the LawSchool.Associate Professor Frank M. Leavitt,of the Department of Education, tookpart in a conference on vocational training held on May 14 under the auspices ofthe Chicago Board of Education., Hesaid that in his twenty years of experiencewith manual training in Boston he foundthat women made better teachers ofwoodworking than men.The fifteenth annual convention of theNational Education Association, whichbegins its sessions in Chicago on July 6,will be opened by President Judson.Among other speakers at the conventionwill be President Edmund J. James, ofthe University of Illinois, and PresidentCharles R. Van Hise, of the University ofWisconsin.Charles Scribner's Sons announce thepublication of a new book entitled TheElements of English Composition, byAssociate Professor James W. Linn, of theDepartment of English. It is also announced that a companion volume to thisbook will be issued soon, consisting of illustrative examples of prose composition.Elements of Geography is the title of anew textbook issued by Henry Holt &277278 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINECo., of New York, the authors beingProfessor Rollin D. Salisbury, head ofthe Department of Geography, andAssociate Professor Harlow H. Barrowsand Assistant Professor Walter S. Tower,of the same department.Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge.assistant professor of Social Economy,was recently elected president of theWoman's City Club of Chicago. Theclub has a membership of more thantwelve hundred.A History of the Ancient World, thebook of which the late Professor GeorgeS. Goodspeed, of the Department ofComparative Religion, was the author,has recently been revised, and is nowannounced for publication in its new form.by Charles Scribner's Sons.Associate Professor Gordon J. Laing, ofthe Department of Latin, who has spentthe past year in Rome as professor in theAmerican School of Classical Studies,attended in April the international meeting of archaeologists in Athens and inMay visited the remarkable ruins ofTimgad in Africa. During the summerMr. Laing will lecture at Columbia University, and in the autumn he willresume his work in the Latin Department and at the University Press.D. C. Heath & Co. announce the publication of the Manly-Bailey LanguageBooks, a two-book course, edited byProfessor John M. Manly, head of theDepartment of English, and Miss ElizaBailey.Professor George H. Mead, of theDepartment of Philosophy, is a memberof the committee of the Chicago CityClub which has recently finished an investigation of the weaknesses and needsof the Chicago public-school system.The report, which makes a volume ofover three hundred pages, shows thenecessity of bringing public instructioninto a more immediate and practicalrelation to modern conditions of life.The expense of the investigation andreport has been borne by Mrs. EmmonsBlaine, donor of the School of Educationbuilding.Allyn & Bacon, of Boston, have justissued a new textbook in mathematics byAssociate Professor Herbert E. Slaught,of the Department of Mathematics, andDr. Nels J. Lenncs, who received hisDoctor's degree from the University in1907. Dr. Lennes is now an instructor in Columbia. The book is entitled FirstPrinciples of Algebra.Owing to the illness of President.Judson, Professor Paul Shorey, head ofthe Department of Greek, representedthe LTniversity of Chicago at the installation of John Grier Hibben as president ofPrinceton on May 11. Former membersof the University of Chicago faculty whoare now members of the Princeton facultyare Professor Frank Frost Abbott, of theDepartment of Latin; Professor EdwardCapps, of the Department of Greek;and Professor Joseph E. Raycroft, of theDepartment of Physical Culture.A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts¦in the Libraries of the University of Chicagois the title of a publication issued thismonth by the University of ChicagoPress. The catalogue was prepared byAssociate Professor Edgar J. Goodspeed.of the Department of Biblical andPatristic Greek, with the assistance ofMr. Martin Sprengling, a former Fellowin that department.Dean Shailer Mathews, of the DivinitySchool, is announced for a series oflectures at the Chautauqua Institutionnear the end of July, and AssociateProfessor S. H. Clark, of the Departmentof Public Speaking, and Associate Professor Allan Hoben, of the Department of Practical Theology, are alsoincluded in the summer program of theinstitution.The Century Company announces thepublication of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, Vol. I, Theoretical Part, and Vol. II,Laboratory Manual, by Julius Stieglitz,professor of Chemistry and director ofAnalytical Chemistry.An open lecture under the auspices ofthe Equal Suffrage League of the University was given in Kent Theater onMay 2 by Dr. Rachel Yarros, of HullHouse, on the subject of "SocialHygiene.""The Old and New World in the Faceof International Problems" was the subject of a University public lecture inPlaskell Assembly Room on May 7 byDr. Christian L. Lan^e, secretary of theInterparliamentary Union and formersecretary of the Nobel Institute."Rip Van Winkle and the Dutch ofNew York" was the subject of a University public lecture in Cobb Hall onMay 21 by Dr. Tieman de Vries, Lecturer on Dutch Institutions.THE UNIVERSITY RECORD 279Assistant Professor Ira W. Howerth, ofthe Department of Sociology, has beenelected professor of education anddirector of university extension in theUniversity of California, and will beginhis new work on July 1. Mr. Howerthwas for several years secretary of theclass study department of the Universityand dean of University College, and alsoserved as secretary of the Illinois Educational Commission. He received fromthe University of Chicago both theMaster's and Doctor's degrees.Six graduates of British technologicalschools, under the auspices of the Association for the International Exchange ofStudents, visited the University on May15. They inspected the Harper Memorial Library, dined at the UniversityCommons, and attended a reception atthe President's house. They also visitedthe University Settlement at the Stockyards.President Harry Pratt Judson attendedthe meeting of the General EducationBoard in New York City on May 24.Mr. Frederick T. Gates, on whom theUniversity of Chicago conferred thehonorary degree of Doctor of Laws in191 1, presided at the meeting, and amongthose present were Robert C. Ogden,Walter H. Page, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,Albert Shaw, and Edwin A. Alderman.Anson Phelps Stokes was made a member of the Board, which distributed atthis session about $1,000,000 for the promotion of higher education in the UnitedStates.Recent contributions by members ofthe Faculties to the journals published bythe University of Chicago Press :Freeman, Dr. Frank N. : "CurrentMethods of Teaching Handwriting," I,Elementary School Teacher, May.Freund, Professor Ernst: "The Enforcement Provisions of the ShermanLaw," Journal of Political Economy, May.Frost, Professor Edwin B.: "On theSpectrum of P Cygni" (with four tables),Astrophysical Journal, May.Greenman, Assistant Professor JesseM.: "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker" (withportrait), Botanical Gazette, May. Hall, Professor James P.: "Constitutional Aspects of Federal Regulation ofBusiness," Journal of Political Economy,May.Henderson, Professor Charles R. :"Infant Welfare in Germany andBelgium — General Conclusions," American Journal of Sociology, May.Hoben, Associate Professor Allan:"The Boy's Religious Life," BiblicalWorld, May.Luckenbill, Dr. Daniel D.: "Inscriptions of Early Assyrian Rulers,"American Journal of Semitic Languagesand Literatures, April.Pfeiffer, Norma E.: "Abnormalities inProthallia of Pteris longifolia" (with fourfigures), Botanical Gazette, May.Small, Professor Albion W. : "Socialism in the Light of Social Science,"American Journal of Sociology, May.Thomas, Professor William I.: "RacePsychology: Standpoint and Questionnaire, with Particular Reference to theImmigrant and the Negro," AmericanJournal of Sociology, May.Recent lectures by members of theFaculties include:Breckinridge, Assistant ProfessorSophonisba P.: "The Right to Leisure,"meeting of the Summer Half-HolidayCommittee, Chicago Woman's Club,May 7.Butler, Professor Nathaniel: An address before the Child Welfare Conference, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, May 9.David, Assistant Professor H. C. E.:"La feminisme en France," ChicagoWoman's Club, April 16; "Deux aspectsde 1 'esprit francais contemporain; Marie-Claire and VOiseau Bleu," AllianceFrancaise, St. Louis, April 30.Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul:"Welfare Work" (illustrated), SouthSide Suffrage Association, Lincoln Center,May 18; "Chicago, the TransportationFocus," Chicago City Club, May 24.Henderson, Professor Charles R. :Address before the Holland Society ofChicago, Congress Hotel, May 22.La Meslee, Mr. Marin: "Un jardinier etson ceuvre," Alliance Francaise, FullertonHall, Art Institute, Chicago, March 30.280 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEKETCH©tiff %r#J©;NINETEEN TWELVEALUMNI AFFAIRSChicago Alumni Club. — The semiannual dinner of the Chicago AlumniClub was held at the University Clubon the evening of May 9. PresidentWilliam France Anderson, '99, presided;105 were present. In the informal speaking which followed the dinner, DeanJames R. Angell and Dean Albion W.Small took considerable part. Themeeting resolved itself into a discussionof the Conference situation in athletics.Dean Small recalled the fact that President-Emeritus Angell of Michigan hadbeen the moving spirit in the formationof the present Conference; Dean Angellemphasized the elaborate training andthe amount of time spent in practiceas the weakest spots in college athleticstoday. Resolutions were carried unanimously indorsing the action of the Boardof Physical Culture and Athletics, andexpressing the conviction of the alumnithat to substitute any other representative to the Conference for Mr. Staggwould be unwise and harmful to thebest interests of intercollegiate athletics." Summer baseball" seemed to meet withgreat disfavor but no resolution concerning it was voted on. Mr. Stagg'suncompromising attitude toward summer baseball, and all similar encroachments on the ideal of amateurism is,however, so well known that the clamorous indorsement of his fitness to beChicago's representative may be takento indicate practical unanimity in agreement with his views.As usual of late many members of theSenior class met with the alumni andadded to the gaiety of the occasion.The Daily Maroon of the next day,however, published a review of the discussion which in some degree violatedthe family spirit of the gathering. Thebelief that judgment has been to somedegree developed in college journalistsby three years of undergraduate traininggot a rude shock.For 191 2-13 the following officerswere elected:President — Donald R. Richberg, '03.Vice-President — Arthur A. Goes, '08.Secretary and Treasurer— William P.McCracken, '09. For representative in the AlumniCouncil, the Secretary ex officio.For representatives in the Board ofPhysical Culture and Athletics (threeto be nominated, one selected by President Judson), D. R. Richberg, W. F.Anderson, Daniel P. Trude. The present representative is Mr. Richberg.Milwaukee Alumni Club. — The secondannual dinner and meeting of the clubwas held at the Plankinton Hotel, onWednesday evening, May 22, PresidentAlbert B. Houghton, '09, in the chair(literally, as he was suffering from a badattack of rheumatism, and only his oldbasket-ball pluck brought him out).The speakers were Theodore M. Hammond, '85, and Dean James W. Linn,representing the University, who spokeof the recent changes in the curriculumat Chicago, and of the situation inathletics. Twenty-two were present.A. B. Houghton was re-elected president,and Miss M. L. Shorey, Ph.D., '09,secretary-treasurer.Graduates in University of the Philippines. — The following graduates of theUniversity of Chicago are among theofficers of instruction of the Universityof the Philippines:Alfred Ogle Shaklee, associate professor of pharmacology, B.S., '99.Harry Nichols Whitford, associateprofessor of forest botany, Ph.D., '03.James Remus Wright, associate professor of physics, Ph.D., '11.Mariano Vivencio Del Rosario, assistant professor of chemistry, M.S., '09.Randall Adams Rowley, instructor ingeology, B.S., '06.News from the Classes. —1867Jabez T. Sunderland lives at 22 W.Hancock Ave., Detroit, Mich.George B. Woodworth of the CM.& St. P. R.R., offices in the RailwayExchange Bldg., resides at n 24 Elm woodAve., Evanston, 111.1872 'Rev. Frank H. Levering writes fromBishopville, Vepery, Madras, India,where he is stationed as a missionarywith the American Baptist Teluga281282 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMission. He sends a photograph of theTemple of Paravati, at Kotagiri, in theNilgiri Hills, South India, and asksfor the address of any alumni in India.They are as follows :At Rangoon: M. K. Moorehead, '05,American Consulate; B. Boganau, '75,M.D. (street address unknown).At Calcutta: Mrs. Elbert Moffett(Beatrice Bell), '06, Y.M.C.A., 86College St.; N. N. Dutt, Brahmo Samaj.At Kengtung: Clarence B. Antisdel,'92; William M. Young, '92.Elsewhere: P. E. Moore, '85, KampurP.O., Assam; Emil Tribolet, '88,Bassein; Mrs. Walter Rittenhouse, '04,Namkham; Elbert Chute, '82, Falume;O. J. Grainger, '12, Jubbalpore; DanielJ. Fleming, '04, Torman Christian College, Lahore; Frank Kurtz, '93, Madira,South India; and W. H. Hannum, '09,Vengurle.1874T. N. Treat is an attornev in Springfield, S.D.1878James Summers lives at 2075- PineSt., Portland, Ore.1881William M. Ege is at He-Dog's CampSchool, Rosebud, S.D.George W. Hall is an attornev, withoffices at 167 Washington St.1886Mr. Edgar A. Buzzell and Mrs. Buzzed (Isetta Gibson) are both subscribingto the Magazine, one of the copies, however, being sent to Miss Annie A. Buzzellin Sendai, Japan. They reside at 6136Ellis Ave., and Mr. Buzzell is in the lawlinn of Holden & Buzzell, 901 HartfordBuilding.18Q4Dr. S. D. Barnes writes from Honolulu,Hawaii, that Chicago men there areplanning to "get together." Others inHonolulu are: R. II. Harris, '05, managing editor, Honolulu Evening Bulletin;Amos A. Ebersole, '99, Central UnionChurch; and F. J. H. Schnack, J.D., '10.Yue Ching, '09, lives at Waimea, Kanai,care of Mr. Ako.1895R. L. Hughes, A.M., '99, lives at1253 Rosedale Ave.1896Gwendolen B. Willis is on the facultyof Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, Wis. Note the following addresses :1897Mrs. John Barber (Jessie Nelson),1331 Belmont St., Washington, D.C.Mayo Fesler, 95 AVadena St., E.Cleveland, Ohio.B. C. Lingle with the Harris TrustCompany, 4941 Kimbark Ave.Isaac S. Rothschild, attorney, 826Stock Exchange Bldg.Frank H. Wescott, Lander. Wyo.1S98Margaret Baker, S.M., '02, 7620 BondAve.E. E. DeCou, 719 Mill St., Eugene,Ore. Mr. DeCou is teaching in theUniversity of Oregon, and connectedwith the State High School DebatingLeague.Franklin H. Geselbracht, 724 Broad-albin St., Albany, Ore.Hiram Gillespie, 11 19 Summer St..Grinned, la. After June 12, Westminster, Colo.Orlo J. Price, D.B.. and Mrs. Price(Eva Graves), 420 Capital Ave., Lansing,Mich. Rev. Mr. Price is pastor of theBaptist Church.F. E. Vaughan and Mrs. Vaughan(Jessie \. Spray, '99), 4408 VincennesAve. Mr. Vaughan is an attorney,office, 1010 Title and Trust Bldg.Banks J. Wildman, The Northern,Northern Ave. and 18th St., New YorkCity.1899Alma de L. LeDuc, Smith College,Northampton, Mass.George IT. Sawyer, Osage, la.Wm. A. Waldo, pastor of the FirstBaptist Church, 411 S. Jefferson St.,Muncie, Ind.Dr. C. F. Weinberger, 5401 IndianaAve., office, 4132 Wentworth Ave.,recently appointed to surgical staff ofthe German Deaconess Hospital.1900Alvin Lester Barton. Ripon College,Ripon, Wis.Henry R. Corbett, Kenilworth, 111.Gladstone Dowie, J.D., '04, assistantto Rev. Dr. Glanville, Sycamore, 111.Nancy G. Oglevee, The GreenwoodInn, Evanston, 111.Jane Stearns, Washington High School,Portland, Ore.1901Anna Bodler, 25 Central Ave., Newark,N.J.ALUMNI AFFAIRS 283Curtiss R. Manning, J.D., '04, GreatFalls, Mont.Isabel McKinney, Charleston, 111.Eunice Peter, 6221 Southport Ave.Kellogg Speed, M.D., office, 150Michigan Ave., home, 1367 E. 48th St.Laura A. Thompson, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Mrs. Donald Vincent (Anna H. Roby),1010 Second Ave. S., Ft. Dodge, la.1902Laura T. Bray ton, 2129 Prairie Ave.Lillian Clark, head of English department of high school, 434 Algoma St.,Oshkosh, Wis.Winifred G. Crowell, Ph.M., '05,Rockford College, Rockford, 111.Emily E. Dobbin, S.M., '03, Mechanical Arts High School, St. Paul, Minn.Mrs. Joseph B. Fleming (Lily Belland),7645 Union Ave.Clara L. Johnston, Elko, S.C.Leon P. Lewis, J.D., '05, 608 RealtyBldg., Louisville, Ky.Ruth E. Moore, 508 W. WashingtonSt., Bloomington, 111.Harvey M. Solenberger and Mrs.Solenberger (Florence P. Hood), Springfield, 111. Mr. Solenberger is generalagent of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., of Newark, N.J., office, 508Ferguson Bldg.W. C. Stephens, 610 W. 150th St.,New York City.1903E. D. Baker, 420 W. 121st St., Apt. 25,New York City.Edson S. Bastin, Ph.D., '09, U.S.Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.Mrs. R. H. Brownlee (Martha W.Tarnow), The Meyran, Pittsburgh, Pa.Mrs. E. Dean Ellenwood (FlorenceAshcraft), 54 Bedford Place, Atlanta, Ga.Agnes J. Kaufman, Ed.B., '05, 325Laflin St.Walker G. McLaury, credit managerof the National City Bank of Chicago;home, 5507. East End Ave.1904H. G.Brown, superintendent of schools,Lebanon, Ind.James F. Chamberlain, S.B., '05, 33N. Hudson Ave., in the department ofgeography of the California State NormalSchool. Mr. Chamberlain is a coauthor of The Continents and TheirPeople in six volumes, just published bythe Macmillan Company, New York. He is well known by his former "Homeand World" Series of GeographicalReaders.Lenora Pound, 15 10 S. Third St.,Terre Haute, Ind.Carl W. Sawyer, the Sawyer Sanatorium, White Oaks Farm, Marion, Ohio.1905Joseph S. Caldwell, Botany Bldg.,until October, 1913.Mildred Faville, teacher of music inLawrence Conversatory of Music, 706Lawrence St., Appleton, Wis.Edith Matheny, 807 S. Seventh St.,Springfield, 111.Thomas Newlin, President of WhittierCollege, Whittier, Cal.Frederick R. Pettit, with the J. I.Case Threshing Machine Co., Kenosha,Wis.Lucenia M. Ripley, Shelby, Mich.Florence Skeffington, 805 Sixth St.,Charleston, 111.Grace W. Stafford, 709 Twentieth St.,Rock Island, 111.Leo F. Wormser, J.D., '09, withRosenthal & Hamill, 1400 Fort DearbornBldg.; home, 4737 Kimbark Ave.Julius Christian Zeller, D.B., president of the University of Puget Sound,Tacoma, Wash.1906Charles F. Axelson, 900, The Rookery.Bertha Bain, 4144 Warwick Blvd.,The Wiltshire, Kansas City, Mo.B. G. Brawley, Howard University,Washington, D.C.Mary Garrity, 541 1 Ridgewood Court.L. B. Greenfield, English department,University Preparatory School, Tonkawa ,Okla.Eben E. Gridley, Orange, Mass.Alice M. Krackowizer, State TeachersCollege, Greeley, Colo.Louise G. Larrabee, 5106 Cornell Ave.Thomas N. MacBurney, MacBurneyStudios, 609 Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago.Mrs. Earle E. Miller (Anna F. Hoffman), Vinton, la.Mabel W. Payne, Payne Flats, No. 1,Rock Island, 111.Mary Ella Robinson, 2747 Penn St.,St. Joseph, Mo.Mary Shipp Sanders, Box 56, Georgetown, Tex.A. W. Sherer, with the AssociatedSunday Magazine, 309 Record HeraldBldg.D. C. Webb, law firm of Green, \\ ebb& Tate, Knoxville, Tenn.284 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEAnna Laura White, teaching in theGirls' High School, Aoyama, Japan,under the W.T.M.S., of the Methodistchurch; address, No. 5 Aoyama Gakuin,Tokyo, Japan.1907W. Scott Boyce, Livingston Hall,Columbia University, New York City.Mrs. Harvey N. Davis (SuzanneCourtonne Haskell), 8 Ash Street Place,Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Davis is agraduate of Brown, '01, and Ph.D.,Harvard, and is at present assistantprofessor of physics in the latter institution.Charles R. Frazer, Shaw University,Raleigh, N.C.Meyer G. Gaba, S.M., '09, Hanover,N.H.Rev. P. A. Hoekstra, 19 E. 14th St.,Holland, Mich.A. Beth Hostetter, home Mt. Carroll,III.; teaching, Annie Wright Seminary,Tacoma, Wash.Susannah H. McMurphy, 825 S.Steele St., Tacoma, Wash.Olive S. Parson, assistant principalRogers Hall School, Lowell, Mass.S. E. Rasor, Ohio State University,Columbus, Ohio.Blanche E. Riggs, Ph.M., '10, CentralCollege, Conway, Ark.Edna V. Schmidt, principal WestChicago High School, home, 6253Jefferson Ave., Chicago.Eugene Stebinger, U.S. GeologicalSurvey, Washington, D.C.Clark C. Steinbeck, Chicago Bureau ofPublic Efficiency, 315 Plymouth Ct.;residence, 2^2 Park Ave., River Forest,111.James P. Sullivan, sec. act., the Farmers and Bankers Life Insurance Co.,Wichita, Kan. "Keep Kansas Moneyin Kansas for Kansas."Dr. A. B. Terrell, 1315I CommerceSt., Fort Worth, Tex.Edna L. Watkins, Ed.B., '08, 9754Avenue E.1908Arthur M. Boyer, Birmingham, Ala.Charles H. Dorn, 152 Western Ave.,Albany, NY.Bertha May Henderson, 12 134 Eggles-ton Ave.Lilla M. Ketchum, office secretary ofthe Finance Department of the NationalBoard of the Young Womens ChristianAssociations of the United States of America, 125 E. Twenty-seventh St.,New York City.Marguerite E. Marks, 7329 CottageGrove Ave.Anna M. Montgomery, 104 S. Michigan Ave., home, 230 Benton St., Aurora,111.Ruth M. Porter, 6638 Kimbark Ave.Russell M. Wilder, 5718 Monroe Ave.1909Josephine K. Bauer, 1505 Cornell Ave.,Indianapolis, Ind.Claudia E. Crumpton, State NormalIndustrial College, Greensboro, N.C.Hebcr P. Hostetter, J.D., '10, Mt.Carrol], 111.Maude Huestis, head of German andFrench departments, College for Women,Columbia, S.C.; home, Greencastle, Ind.Marion Jackson, Eustis, Fla.Helen E. Jacoby, 126 W. Walnut St.,Indianapolis, Ind.A. Evelyn Newman, Ph.M., '09,35-37 Sixty-second St., New York City.Edith Whitten Osgood, 751 OakwoodBlvd.Mrs. C. V. Price (Jeanne Marie Roe),691 1 Bennett Ave.Hazel D. Robinson, 3030 MichiganAve.FI. M. Williams, Sandy Hook, Miss.1910Hermann Deutsch, S.M., 'n, Bethany,W.Va.Margaret J. Essroger, 720 E. 72d St.David Fichman, 207 Hearne Ave.,Avon, Cincinnati, Ohio.Harriet Hartford, Fairview, Kan.Bertha Henderson, Whitewater, Wis.Mary Hull, 1121 E. 61st St.Kate Knowles, Brownsville, Tex.Pan Hui Lo, J.D., 'n, just appointedvice-commissioner of foreign affairs bythe new government of China.Mary C. Orth, 219 Broad St., Harris-burg, Pa.R. L. Sauerhering, Morgan Park, 111.Burton J. Simpson, Drs. Simpson andSimpson, 6340 Halsted St.; residence,1359 W. 69th St.Louis D. Smith, M.D., Cook CountyHospital, Cor. Harrison and Wood Sts.Florence C. Thorne, 523 Fifth St.,Hannibal, Mo.Anna B. Tourner, A.M., '11, Antioch,Tenn.Rose Woolner, 131 S. Hickory St.,Centralia, 111.ALUMNI AFFAIRS 285Harriet E. Youngman, WyomingHotel, Ocean City, N.J.1911First 'n Class Reunion June n, 191 2."The Eleven" is out. If you didn'tget one, write William Kuh, 4404 EllisAve. Write him anyway in commendation or condemnation.Arthur L. Adams, LaCrosse, Ind.Anita M. Bailey, 5940 Ontario St.H. H. Baily, 1431 Rockland Ave.,S.S., Pittsburgh, Pa.C. H. Clevenger, teaching mathematics, K.S.A.C., 831 Laramie St.,Manhattan, Kan.R. N. Daniel, department of English,Furman University, Greenville, S.C.E. Olive Davis, 5041 Kenwood ParkPlace.Orley A. DeGraw, Western Clock Co.,Lasalle, 111.Lily M. Ferry, 412 Kensington Court,Louisville, Ky.Helen A. Ingham, 2403 Webster St.,Fort Wayne, Ind.O. W. Jeffries, Edmond, Okla.W. A. Owens, director of TrainingDepartment of State Normal School,1730 E. Fifth St., Duluth, Minn.1912L. F. Affhauser, 6527 Hermitage Ave.Edward P. Davis, teaching Latin andGreek in Howard University, Washington, D.C.Ruth E. Delzell, Hersey, Mich.The annual meeting of the Doctors'Association takes place on Monday,June 10, at 12 o'clock at the QuadrangleClub. The important features of thismeeting, in connection with the complimentary luncheon given by the University, will be the recognition of thenew Doctors who have taken the degreeduring the present year and the discussion of the question proposed by thepresident of the association.Dr. George L. Melton, '08, who hasbeen for some time in California, is nowlocated at El Centre He was formerlyconnected with the new college of Red-lands."The Absolute Minimum of a DefiniteIntegral in a Special Field" is the titleof an article by Dr. E. J. Miles, '10, in the E. W. Duncan, 1545 KinnickinnicAve., Milwaukee, Wis.James T. Gaffney, 1222 Leland Ave.Bena K. Hansen, head of NormalDepartment of S.N.I.S., Ellendale, N.D.Jessie M. Hayes, Pocatello, Idaho.Martha Lou Houston, Shorter College,Rome, Ga.Irma Koblens, 7053 Vincennes Ave.Leona E. Koehne, 6724 Green St.Edith Lynn, Wabash, Ind.F. B. Meseke, Hibbing, Minn.Nellie Milam, State Normal School,1022 Harrison St., Superior, Wis.Marriages: — •'10. Alice Mabel Johnson, formerly ateacher residing at 5607 Indiana Ave.,and Rev. W. F. Bostwick, formerly astudent in the Divinity School. Mr.Bostwick is pastor of the Baptist churchat Marengo, 111.Deaths: —'76. Edward P. Bartlett, D.B., diedat Avon, la., in December, 1910.'80. John Herron died on February 3,191 2, at Telluride, Colo. Mr. Herronwas a civil engineer, specializing inmining. For several years he had beenmanaging the mines near Telluridebelonging to The Tomboy Gold MinesCompany of London, England.'09. Helen M. Langin, of 2560 EmeraldAve., died at her home on May 13, 191 2.January, 191 2, issue of the Transactionsof the American Mathematical Society.Dr. Miles is instructor of mathematics atYale University.Dr. Frank H. Fowler, '96, who for sometime has been professor of mathematicsat Lombard College at Galesburg, 111.,has recently accepted an appointmentin classics in the University of Utah, SaltLake City.The following appointments and promotions of Doctors in the department ofzoology have been reported:Samuel J. Holmes, '93, to be associateprofessor of zoology in the University ofCalifornia.Michael F. Guyer, '94, as head of thedepartment of zoology in the Universityof Wisconsin.THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY286 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEJohn W. Scott, '96, as instructor in thedepartment of zoology, Kansas StateAgricultural College, Manhattan, Kan.Horatio H. Newman, '96, as associateprofessor of Zoology, University ofChicago.Oscar Riddle, '09, to be researchassociate of the Carnegie Institution.Robert K. Nabours, '11, instructor inzoology, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kan.George W. Ba.telmez, '10, instructorin anatomy, University of Chicago.Dr. Charles J. Chamberlain, '97, asso-1 ciate professor of Botany of the Universityof Chicago, has returned from an extendedtrip in the Far East where he madebotanical investigations in southern NewZealand, eastern and western Australia,and southern and western Africa.Dr. Charles D. Marsh, '04, of theBureau of Plant Industty, Departmentof Agriculture, Washington, D.C, willcontribute to the Biological Survey of thePanama Canal Zone, which has been inprogress two years and is to be completedin 191 3. He will collect the microscopicplant and animal life of the fresh watersof the Zone.Dr. L. C. Raiford, '09, formerly of theUniversity of Wyoming, is now a member of the faculty of the University ofChicago.Professor W. B. Bingham, '08, of thedepartment of philosophy in DartmouthCollege, has been appointed director ofthe summer session of that institution.The International Who's Who in Science,recently published, contains 150 chemists,eleven of whom have been intimatelyassociated in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Chicago, andeight of whom have received the doctorate from this institution. These eightare: Walter R. Smith, '94; Lander W.Jones, '97; Herbert N. McCoy, '98;Otto Folin, '98; Ralph H. McKee, '01;Solomon F. Acree, '02 ; William McPher-son, '99; R. Burton Qpitz, '05.Professor John B. Watson, '03, of the Johns Hopkins University, has recentlybeen granted a three years' appointmentas a research associate of the CarnegieInstitution of Washington, in order thathe may study the migratory and otherinstincts of the sea-gulls of the Tortugas,Florida.Dr. Bernhard Hesse, '96, has had thehonor of being appointed general secretary of the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, meeting inWashington and New York in September,191 2. Delegates are expected from allthe countries of the world. Dr. Hessehas also finished a book on Coal TarColors Used in Food Products. It appearsas a United States government bulletin.Dr. Willey Denis, '08, is proving amost satisfactory assistant to Dr. OttoFolin, '98, in the department of biologicalchemistry of the Harvard MedicalSchool.Dr. Raymond Bacon, '04, has just beenappointed associate director of industrialresearch at the University of Pittsburgh.Dr. Roy H. Brownlee, '07, who hasbeen assistant superintendent at theStandard Oil plant in Whiting, goes tothe University of Pittsburgh as professorof technical research.Dr. Howard Woodhead, '08, is instructor in the Department of Sociologyin the University of Chicago. Hisaddress is 5459 Lexington Ave.Dr. George A. Stephens, '10, is a member of the department of politicaleconomy in the University of Nebraska,Lincoln, Neb.Dr. Harvey B. Lemon, '12, who isassistant in the Department of Physicsin the University of Chicago, now residesat 1220 East 54th St., Chicago.Dr. David R. Moore, '11, is professorof history in Lawrence College, Appleton,Wis.Dr. Schuyler B. Terry, '10, is engagedin business with Lee Higginson Company,of Chicago. His address is 1464 HydePark Boulevard.Herbert E. Slaught, '98, SecretaryUNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRSATHLETICSBaseball. — -The following Conferencegames made up the schedule this spring;April 13, Chicago 3, Northwestern 1" 17, 4, Wisconsin 14" 20, " 10, Iowa 0May 1, 4, Illinois 53, 2, Iowa 3" 8, 3, Illinois 7" IS. 10, Northwestern 3" 17, 6, Illinois 3" 18, 14, Indiana 3" 21, " 6, Illinois 7"25, 10, Purdue 11" 31, 5, Purdue 2Total, games won 6, lost 6.The team has been handicapped allseason by the loss of G. Roberts, whosearm mended too slowly from an earlystrain to be of much use to him. Carpenter and Hruda, however, have bothpitched steadily and well. Except' theWisconsin game, every game lost hasbeen lost on errors. The game of May 8with Illinois was a terrible exhibition.Eight errors Were made, one by everymember of the team except Mann andNorgren, and Mann threw four timesineffectively to second, once to third tostop base-runners stealing. Catron andHunter muffed pop flies in the outfield,and then threw wild to complete theplay. Boyle left third base before anoutfield fly was caught, and had toreturn and so lose an opportunity toscore. The Iowa game was lost byCatron, who dropped an easy liner tocenter. The final game with Illinoiswas also a gift to the gentlemen fromUrbana.Freeman was declared eligible on May15, no evidence having been discoverableagainst him.A sufficient nucleus of good men remainsto next season to assure an excellentteam. Carpenter and Hruda will bothreturn; so will Mann, who has proved avery fair catcher; Norgen, as good afirst baseman as Sauer was; Catron, whohas excellent possibilities if he couldonly keep his head, which so far he hasnever been able to do; and Freeman, aheavy hitter, but slow. The Freshman team will supply two promising pitchersin Block and Baumgartner, Cole, a goodcatcher, Des Jardien, Volini, Scanlon,and Cummins, infielders, and Breathed,Olney, Stains, and Gorgasin the outfield.The Freshman team has won 10 gamesand lost 2.The batting averages up to May 25of the seven varsity men who playedregularly were as follows: Roberts,.368; Baird, .361; Mann, .317; Teich-graeber, . 288; Catron, .250; Boyle,.229; Norgren, .200.Track. — The dual track meet withNorthwestern on May 10 was won by 65to 61; the meet with Illinois on May 17was lost by 33 to 93. Davenport wonthe quarter and the half in both meets, asusual; against Illinois he ran in 49S and1 : 59§ . Other good performances wereKuh's close second in the high hurdles atIllinois, which Case of Illinois won inworld's record time, 15!-; Bishop's two-mile run against Northwestern, io:io£;and Menaul's all-round performances inboth meets. Against Northwestern heplaced in both hurdles, the shot, the discus, and the high jump. Menaul is aworthy man to represent America in thedecathlon at the Olympic games.At the time this is written, the Conference meet is still in the future. Inall probability Chicago will secure between twelve and eighteen points.Davenport will take ten; and Kuh inthe high hurdles, Bishop in the two-mile,Menaul in the shot, and Coyle in thevault, should place. The meet will bewon by Illinois, California, Wisconsin, orMissouri.For next year the outlook is as usualrendered somewhat gloomy by the prospect of ineligibility. Davenport graduates, having demonstrated in three yearsof competition that no other man in theWest can be compared to him. Coyleand Menaul also are 191 2 men whoseloss will be hard to make up for. Infact, Kuh, Matthews (in the sprints),Cox (in the high jump), Bishop (in thetwo-mile), and Norgren (in the shot) are287288 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEabout all that remain of much quality.Of the Freshmen, however, if they areeligible, Lanyon, Campbell, Merriam,Des Jardien, Thomas, Gorgas, Parker,Bennett, Presnell, and Ward are all goodmen. Lanyon is good for ten seconds inthe hundred but he has been ineligible thisspring. So has Campbell, who is able torun the mile in 4:35; so is Alerriam, whohas done under 23 seconds in the 220.Thomas can better 11 feet in the vault;Gorgas, Parker, and Des Jardien are fairhigh jumpers; Parker and Bennett areweight men; and Ward and Presnell aresprinters. There is no question aboutthe eligibility of any of the latter.Tennis. — The schedule of the tennisteam this spring was as follows:Northwestern at Evanston, May 18Faculty, May 22Ohio State at Columbus, May 27Ohio Wesleyan at Delaware, May 28Intercollegiate at Chicago, May 30-June 1Scores were as follows:Northwestern, singles, won 6, doubles, won 3Faculty, singles, won 3, lost 3, doubles, won 1,lost 1At the Blackfriars election followingthe very successful presentation of thePursuit of Portia, the following officerswere elected: Abbot, William VarnerBowers, '13; Prior, Richard Granquist,'13; Scribe, Hiram Langdon Kennicott,'13; Hospitaller, Clyde M. Joice, '13.As usual, twenty-eight men, in foursevens, were elected to membership.The first seven included Bell, O'Hara,Macduff, Soble, and Fitzpatrick of theprincipals of the caste.The annual banquet of the Women'sAthletic Association was held in Lexington Hall on June 6.The strike of the pressmen and stereo-typers on the downtown papers producedmany letters in the Daily Maroon. Anumber of students temporarily took theplaces of some of the striking pressmen.Against this action protest was made at a Wisconsin, singles, won 3, lost 1, double?,won 2, lost oOhio State, singles, won 4, lost o, doubles,won 2, lost oOhio Wesleyan, singles, won 4, lost o, doubles,won 2, lost oIntercollegiate, singles won by Armstrong ofMinnesota, doubles won by Armstrongand Stellwagen of Minnesota, 6-1, 6-2,5~7, 6-2.The team was composed of AlexanderSquair, '13, A. L. Green, '13, Paul Mac-Clintock, '12, C. C. Stewart, '13, R.Bohnen, '14, and Sandford Sellers, Jr.,'13. P. E. Gardner, '12, is eligible, buthas been forbidden by his physicianto play this spring. Squair, who isWisconsin state champion, is stead}* andeffective, and should have a place innational rankings this year. Green isalso a good player. The other four areonly average.With the opening of twelve new courtson Ellis A venue just north of the Midway,there are now 30 courts on the quadrangles. All are crowded all day longand every day.mass-meeting in Kent, May 12, thespeakers at which were misreported in theTribune. A letter followed from Professor Paul Shorey in the Maroon ofMay 15, defending the right of men towork where and how they pleased.Various undergraduates answered, allin opposition to his views.At a meeting in Kent, on May 17, MissGrace Abbott and Professors Tufts andFrcund spoke in vigorous opposition tothe so-called Dillingham immigrationbill, which imposes new restrictions onincoming candidates to citizenship.The annual Spring Festival was heldon Saturday, May 25. Kent Chandler,'14, was chairman of the day. Theclasses paraded in costume, with floats,the prize for the best appearance beingawarded to the Freshmen.GENERAL