Price $U5Q Per Year Single Copies 5 CentsUniversity RecordCHICAGOZbc TaniversitB of Gbicaao pressVOL I., NO. 15. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3 P.M. JULY 10, 1896.CONTENTS,I. Addresses and Papers - - - - 237-242" The Service of the Old Testament in theEducation of the Race," by Geo. AdamSmith.II. Educational - - '.- - - - 242-244The Haskell Oriental Museum.III. Official Actions, Notices, and Reports - 245-247IV. The University ----- 247-251Instruction; Music; Religious;Libraries, Laboratories, and Museums. Literary :" Tacitus' Account of the Relations existing between Tiberius and G-erman-icus," by J. J. Schlicher."A Comparison of the Cuneiform andBiblical Accounts of the Deluge," byWm. N. Mebane.Physical Culture and Athletics.VI. The University Settlement - -VII. Current Events - - - - -VIII. The Calendar - - - - 251251252Entered in the postoffice Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.^irirregses attfr papers.The Service of the Old Testament in the Education of the Race.*By George Adam Smith.Mb. Rockefeller, Mr. President, Ladies andGentlemen:In choosing a subject to present to you I have beenguided by the desire for one that should prove ofprofit to an audience so widely and variously interested in education as this here gathered, and that atthe same time should not take the speaker in directions in which he had no special knowledge. I haveaccordingly selected as my theme, " The part whichthe Old Testament has played in the education of therace, and how far its power to educate and inspire isaffected by modern criticism." How much such atheme stands in need of statement will be acknowledged by all, and yet, had I stood here last year, Icould not have imagined that need to be so deep as I now know it to be. Last December, in The NorthAmerican Review, Professor Goldwin Smith published an article on the Old Testament entitled, " TheMill-Stone of Christianity," by which he meant thatthe Old Testament is nothing but dead-weight aboutthe neck of the Christian religion. Professor Smith isone of the most cultured men of the day, and a devoutone. He has the first of all qualities for appreciatinghis subject, and that is belief in the presence of divineelements within the scriptures of the Hebrews. Onecannot conceive of a mind or an equipment or a position out of which it ought to have been more easy todiscriminate the value of the Old Testament in thelight of recent biblical criticism. Yet all this science ofcriticism, which is as old and well established as* The Conyocation Address of the Summer Quarter, delivered in the Quadrangles, July 1, 1238 UNIVERSITY RECORDmost of our physical sciences, Professor GoldwinSmith ignores, and in December last he publishes anarticle which would have been already out of datethirty years ago, He interprets the Old Testament onthe most unscientific methods. He fails to put it in theperspective of that long, gradual growth which recentscience has so impressively illustrated, and he is quiteignorant of the splendid apologetic for it furnished bythe comparative history of the Semitic religions. Itis a hard word to say of the work of such a man, buta more crude and unreasonable utterance upon theOld Testament has seldom issued from the press.Coming from the man it does come from it only makesmore imperative the need of some public examinationof how far the religious and educational capacity ofthe Old Testament has been affected for better or forworse by the research and criticism of our time.At a very early period the Old Testament becamepart of the canonical Scriptures of our religion. Thisevent, so momentous for civilisation, so fraught withboth good and evil, was due to a large number of causes.By the time of Our Lord, almost all the separate bookshad been received into the Jewish Canon ; they formedOur Lord's Bible, the Bible of His education and ofHis ministry. He grew out of the Old Testament andtaught His disciples to recognize him in it. He repealed, indeed, some of its statutes, and rebuked manyof its tempers ; He added to it beyond all its own promises. But, on the other side, how much in it He took forgranted, how much He enforced, how much He came tofulfill ! He took for granted its fundamental doctrinesof man and righteousness, of creation and providence,and of God's method of grace through Israel. Heaccepted its history as a preparation for Himself, anddrew from it many of the categories of His gospel ; but,above all, He fed His own soul upon it, and expresslyset Himself to the fulfillment of its calls and ideals.Accordingly, we find the Old Testament employed byHis disciples in all departments of their preaching,whether apologetic or ethical. Even those of theapostles who most emphasise the expiry of the olddispensation are ready to draw from its Scripturesproofs of the divine mission of Christ, with truths aboutcreation and providence. Now, all this was not onlyfor the Jew. The Gentile also needed a cosmogonyand history of God's dealing with the race in harmonywith the new faith which Christ had given him. Healso needed proof for the argument that Jesus was theChrist. He discerned the spirituality of the OldTestament, finding that the prophets quickened hisconscience and that the psalter uttered his experience.Thus, in Christian philosophy and in Christian worship, the place of the Old Testament was secure from the beginning, and that for reasons both logical andpractical.Among other proofs of how widely such motivesextended the use of the Old Testament across earlyChristendom I may mention five : (1) The Churchevinced the same anxiety to determine the limits ofthe Old Testament Canon as to determine those of theNew. (2) There was the remarkable rejection of theOld Testament by so many of the heresies — a suresign of its influence upon the Catholic Church. (3)There was the frequent use of Old Testament character and narrative in popular preaching all over theChurch, from which we may infer either as cause oreffect, familiarity with the Old Testament on the partof the common people. (4) There was the remarkableinfluence of the Mosaic Law on legislation and publicmorals, which began with Constantine, and from histime to Justinian's, according to authorities like Gibbon, purged social life and modified the law of theempire. (5) There was, later on, the readiness withwhich the young Christian nations of Europe found inthe history of the Jewish people illustrations andinspiration for their own struggles for freedom.It is along all these lines that the influence of theOld Testament has been sustained through thecenturies to the present day. Of course it has sufferedalike from the temporary fashions of exegesis andfrom the abiding sins of the preacher. Forgetful ofthe distinctions which Jesus Himself had made betweenthe temporary and the eternal in the Old Testament,.the pedant and the bigot imposed its ceremonial andpolitical laws to the confusion of Christian simplicityand the exhaustion of Christian zeal ; while the tyrant.and the inquisitor claimed its relentlessness as sanction for their own cruelties to Christian and heathenalike.Yet through all these ages true inspiration has beendrawn from the Old Testament by real prophets whoknew the spirituality and holy passion of the greatexamples of their order ; by mystics to whose purehearts the ancient pages glowed with visions of God ;by experimental preachers who, moving through thatrich old world of character won insight, force and abreadth of field unattainable elsewhere ; and by socialreformers to whose noble succession Europe owes analmost ceaseless application of the principles of Hebrewprophecy to the generations of her public life.It is in this last direction, perhaps, that the influenceof the Old Testament on civilisation has been mostconspicuous. From the time that the example of thePentateuch affected Roman Law and braced therulers of the empire to grapple at least with thebestial sins, the Hebrew Scriptures, in Christian hands,.UNIVERSITY RECORD 239have done their divine service in inspiring both thereprovers of public morals and the defenders of therights of the common people. Take two instances.The greatest preacher of the East, Chrysostom, byexpositions and homilies applied the Old Testamentto the life of his day in the most practical spirit.Savonarola, besides reviving a simple gospel, was agreat preacher of civic righteousness ; and became soby his lectures on Amos, Micah and other prophets.From his day to our own there never was a Europeancity or nation moved to higher ideals of justice andthe commonweal without the reawakening of thoseancient voices which declared to Jacob his sin and toIsrael his transgression. Remember how much of Puritan preaching — of the most sane and practical Puritanpreaching— was drawn from the Old Testament. Takethe earlier Puritans like Henry Smith, with his " Scripture for Magistrates " and his " Memento for Magistrates;" or the later Puritans like Goodwin, whosesermons to the House of Commons and on publicoccasions were nearly always from Old Testament texts;or Cromwell himself, who took those texts from whichto enforce order and pure liberty and the truth thatGod was guiding England as much as he had everguided Israel ; or the revival of this kind of preaching,adapted to modern life, by Kingsley and Maurice —Maurice, who has had more social influence in Englandthan any preacher of this century, and who, to use hisown words, eounted "paramount the duty of vindicating the Old Testament as the great witness for liberty.... the witness of the sacredness of this earth "to God's cause and to the people's.But outside sermons take the great succession oftreatises which form an almost complete history ofthe political ideal in Europe from Constantine to theperiod immediately preceding the French Revolution,Augustine's De Civitate Dei; Dante's De Monarchia;the political tracts of the German Reformers ; Milton'sDefence of the People of England; Buchanan's DeJure Regni apud Scotos ; Rutherford's Lex Rex. Allof these appeal to the Old Testament ; some of themuse it lavishly.It is a fact of great interest, that in the prodigiouscontroversy between the divine right of kings and theright of the people, the advocates of monarchy havetheir texts chiefly from the New Testament, whilethe champions of the people relied on the Old.The Royalist divines of Great Britain and France used,as their proofs for the sacredness of the Stuart andBourbon houses, Pilate's words to Christ : " I havepower to crucify or release thee ; " Paul's : " Thepowers that be are ordained of God ; " Peter's : "Theking as supreme." But the Scriptures which, after the fashion of the times, popular champions likeMilton and Rutherford preferred against them, aredrawn from the Old Testament — from the narratives that tell of the subjection of the Kings to theCovenant, and from many passages of the prophets.When we read chapter on chapter of such excerptsand remember that the Book from which they weredrawn was already in the hands and hearts of thecommon people, we appreciate how much of the liberty which those wonderful centuries secured for themodern world is due to the Old Testament.It is obvious that the distinction between the Old andNew Testament, which this controversy emphasised,is no artificial one. The political circumstances of thetwo dispensations were entirely different. ThroughOld Testament history we follow the growth, theopportunities, the judgment of a nation. The purposeof God is a people; religious discipline and experience, religious duty and hope, are almost entirelyidentified with national rights and' responsibilities,the struggle for national liberty and national righteousness. But in the New Testament we do not dealwith a nation at all. There is an entirely exceptionalstate of affairs, in which religion neither is' associatedwith popular struggles nor assumes the responsibilities of government, but the sole political duty of thebeliever is reverence to the powers that be — theguardians of that Providential Peace in which theChurch of Christ was to spread across the world. Thisis a state of affairs not so like modern history as theother was, and therefore it is that in this one provinceof religion the Hebrew prophets have been felt by themoderns to stand nearer to them than the apostles do.The apostles were sojourners and pilgrims upon earth ;the prophets were citizens and patriots. And I mayadd that for the same reasons the Old Testament,though upon a plane of public life different from thaton which our forefathers applied it, must always havesocial and political functions to discharge supplementary to the functions of the New Testament.Time would fail me were I to go into detail alongother lines of this wonderful Book's influence uponcivilisation. I can only indicate them. Whether wespeak the English or the German language, we knowwhat the Old Testament has done for our literature.It has set the rhythm of our noblest English prose,supplied us with the stories of our greatest epics, andfurnished us with our most enduring lyrics. Thedignity, the spaciousness, the firm, clear language of alarge part of our literature are but reflections from it.The Psalter again has been half the world's confessional. Modern men have found in the Psalms expression of their religious experience more virile and240 UNIVERSITY RECORDsincere than any of their own hymns. What a partthe Psalms and the Book of Proverbs have played inthe education of the young, moulding the habits andloosening the aspirations of untold millions of pureand serviceable lives ! And all that rich world ofcharacter, how its figures have proved, in largernumbers and with force scarcely inferior to those ofthe New Testament, the masters, the examples andthe warnings of all our hearts.Such are in outline a few of the many directions inwhich the Old Testament has influenced the moraleducation of the race. And of course the book hasachieved this influence, because in spite of its manyobscurities, in spite of the irrelevance of portions of itto our modern life, in spite even of the frequent moralscandals which it raises, men have caught in it theauthentic accents of the Word of God, enforcing notonly His Law, but a very full and clear revelation ofHis character and His ways with men.Now this book has been subjected for a century anda half to what may truly be called a more thoroughprocess of research and analysis than ever was undergone by any literature in any language. Let usremember that the science of Old Testament criticismis not, as so many imagine, a thing of yesterday, withresults so hastily reached that they may be reversedtomorrow. The Science of Biblical Criticism has a history as old as that of some of the physical sciences. Ithas been served by as strong a succession of masters,without dogmatic bias and upon methods as exact andreliable. Every one of the positions which it has reachedhas been contested and re-contested times withoutnumber. And not only are its advanced pioneers tending to draw in upon the same methods and conclusions,but they are rapidly bringing after them all but themost hopelessly stagnant of scholars. The passage ofProfessor Robertson Smith from his early defense of amore conservative position to that of Graf and Wellhau-sen, still more the capitulation of Delitzsch upon theauthorship of the Pentateuch illustrate what I mean.Nor has Old Testament criticism suffered the strangeoscillation which appeared in New Testament criticisms in connection with the theories of Baur. Theprogress has been slow, careful and assured throughthe whole of this century.It is inevitable that under such research andprogress of opinion the Old Testament's claim to behistory and revelation should have undergone a radical revision. The results — which I desire now tostate not in each case as my personal opinion but inorder to show the greatest extreme at which the conclusions of the critics have arrived — are mainly these.The traditional theories of the authorship have been discredited. Many books attributed to single nameshave been shown to be of composite origin and inparts of much later date than the authors to whom theyare entirely assigned by their titles. The ordinary methods of Oriental authorship, by original writing, by compilation, by alteration of earlier material, and by attributing the result to some ancient writer of fame — havebeen discovered to have governed the composition ofthe Old Testament. The inevitable results of suchmethods — compromises and even contradictions —have also been alleged to be present. The body oflegislation for instance, so far from being a completecode delivered unto the people at one time and throughone man, Moses, has been shown to be in part a bodyof law and custom inherited by Israel from theirSemitic ancestors and in part a growth throughtheir own history, bearing reflection of differentperiods of this. The early history has been doubted ;some critics have gone the length of saying that it isimpossible to be sure of anything in Israel's historybefore the passage of the Jordan — except the entranceof a new ethical principle into their national life, bythe mediation of Moses and in the form of an inspiration by their national God. But a reaction is takingplace here, and I notice that one of the most advancedof our critics has been affirming lately the reality ofthe patriarchs. The presence of myth and legend hasbeen asserted in the early history, and it has beenshown that not merely in ritual and custom, but evenin their intellectual conceptions of Deity, Israel wasclosely akin to her heathen neighbors.Now I have put these conclusions at their possibleworst, not because personally I agree with every oneof them, but in order that being put at their worst wemay ask ourselves the question which I set out toanswer : whether even by them the science of criticism has paralysed that influence of the Old Testament which we have seen to be so beneficent and soenduring down all the centuries.By far the largest part of this question may be statedthus: Has Biblical Criticism by its assured resultsmade it more difficult for us to believe in the Old Testament as the word of God, and as the history ofan authentic revelation of Himself to mankind?To that question let me give at once a convincedand cordial answer. So far from removing all groundsfor our belief in the Old Testament as the record of adivine revelation, Biblical Criticism in its widest sensehas furnished us with deeper and wider foundationsfor that belief than ever we had before. And in thisway:Before the present era of criticism, when one wishedto prove the uniqueness of Israel's religion and byUNIVERSITY RECORD 241inference its divinity, one usually contrasted it withthe ethnic religions of Greece, Rome and the Aryanbarbarians. But this was always difficult becausethose religions were the product of a race very different from that to which Israel belonged; and itremained open for hostile critics to say that Israel'sreligious distinction and sublimity were due to theirracial origin and might be explained by their naturaland historical conditions. Renan took up this position forty years ago. He said that Israel's monotheismand the Old Testament spirit of righteousness weredue to Israel's Semitic ancestry and in the latter hadbeen developed by the purely natural causes of theirdesert environment.Now in nothing have the results of recent OldTestament science been more conspicuous than in thedisproof it has furnished of this theory of a naturalorigin for Israel's religion. For fifty years scholarshave been at work on the comparison of Semiticreligions— the religions that is to say of all the nationswith whom the Israelites were brethren according tothe flesh. And while they have illustrated far beyondprevious imagination how much Israel had in commonwith her heathen brethren, of law, custom, and even asI have said, intellectual conceptions of deity, all thiscommon heritage and similarity has only brought outinto greater relief the presence of a distinctive elementin Israel's religion which all critics are now unanimously agreed was not possessed by any of the others.There is no one who is a more free critic than Kuenen;and he says that although Jehovah and the gods ofMoab, Edom and Ammon were so much alike in thebeliefs of their respective peoples, who called them bythe same titles, propitiated them by the same offeringsand even practiced in an imagined obedience to themthe same cruel and exterminating wars — yet saysKuenen the religion of Jehovah had in it from thefirst the promise of all that it ultimately attainedto, and this from the first was lacking in other Semiticfaiths.This distinctive element in the religion of Israelwhich is not to be explained by natural causes, wasethical. From the first Israel had a higher, holiermorality than all her Semitic kinsfolk. From thefirst there was in her, however rudely wrapped in theforms of a primitive religion — there was in her thepromise, the potency of the sublime doctrines ofrighteousness which she reached under the prophetsof the eighth century.Whence then did this ethical superiority arise — thispurer law, these holier ideals, this quicker conscience— which Israel had from the very first ? Read their earlyrecords on the most skeptical principles, and you will find that in every case Israel's impulses to a higher lifecame to them through some impression of or belief inthe character and will of their God. From first to lastit was His influence which the people and their prophetsowned. No progress was made in Israel without beliefin such influence; without the quick, sincere sense of itin the best men of the nation. But if this be so, and itis a fact granted by the most skeptical critics, who atthe same time are unable to explain Israel's moralityand pure faith by natural and historical reasons — isthis not a state of opinion I ask perfectly compatiblewith an honest belief in a real revelation in the OldTestament — the belief that behind that national deityof Israel, and through the obscure* and vain imaginations the early nation had of Him, there were presentthe Character and Will of God Himself, using thepeople's low thoughts and symbols to express Himselfto them, lifting them always a little higher, and finallymaking Himself known as He did through the prophets as the God of the Whole Earth, identical withrighteousness and abounding in mercy.It is, therefore, not surprising that by far thegreater number of higher critics of the Old Testamenthave been men who have continued to believe in itsdivine origin and inspiration. The acceptance of themodern theories of the Pentateuch did not paralyse thepersonal faith of Delitzsch. We have had no more freeand advanced a critic than Professor Robertson Smith,he adopted all the methods and most of the results oft^e higher critics, yet his belief in the Old Testamentas the Word of God was strong to the day of hisdeath ; as for critics like Wellhausen who have beenblamed for irreverence in their treatment of Israel'shistory, it is impossible to read their books without feeling the religious faith that pervades themin the providential guidance of Israel and the divinityof her religion. May I give you a still more explicitproof. Some months ago I had some correspondencewith Professor Budde, one of the ablest and mostradical of all the younger generation of biblical criticsin Germany; and I have his testimony in writing: "Asfor me my belief in a real revelation in the Old Testament steht felsenfest " stands rockf ast.But if this our central faith in the Old Testamentbe not only preserved by modern criticism, but setupon grounds more sure and scientific, surely we cansay that all is preserved, at least all that is essential.What matters it whether this or that character be historical if God himself was in the history ? What matters it whether this or that prophecy be the authenticwork of the man whose name is above it if it be theauthentic work of the Spirit of God, if it have theauthenticity of truth, of vision, and of life ?242 UNIVERSITY RECORDConsider the undoubted facts ; remember also thatso far from being destructive throughout, the literaryand historical criticism of the Old Testament has inparts been constructive. Great parts of the Old Testament field remain unquestioned by it — I should rathersay fortified, explored, made habitable by modernmen. There are the prophets, the poetry, the booksof didactic and speculative wisdom which applythe fear of God and the wisdom which springsfrom it to the everyday life of man. No historical criticism can affect these fields. The readerDedicatory Exercises.The Haskell Oriental Museum of The University ofChicago was established by a gift of $100,000 by Mrs.Caroline E. Haskell of Chicago, in memory of herhusband, Frederick Haskell. The corner stone of thebuilding was laid July 1, 1895, and the completedstructure was dedicated July 2, 1896, in connectionwith the Quinquennial Celebration. The exercisestook place in the Convocation Tent at 3:00 p.m. Theinvocation was offered by Dean Eri B. Hulbert of theDivinity School. The choir of Sinai Congregationsang selections from the Hebrew Psalter. The Dedicatory Address was delivered by Professor Emil G.Hirsch of The University, upon the subject "From theRising to the Setting Sun." The Prayer of Dedication was made by the Reverend W. H. P. Fan nee,D.D., of New York. The building was formallypresented to The University by Associate ProfessorGeorge S. Goodspeed, representing Mrs. Haskell. Hisaddress is as follows :The Presentation.It is two years ago today since the President ofThe University made the first announcement, in hisquarterly statement, of the gift of one hundredthousand dollars by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell for thebuilding which we dedicate today. Last year at thistime the corner stone was laid with appropriate ceremony. On that occasion we were honored with thepresence of that gracious lady whose beneficentthought has ripened into the building of which, atthis hour, we are so proud. It were a most appropriatething that she should be here with us today, and withher own hands deliver over to The University, towhich she has entrusted so much hitherto, this newpledge of her confidence and regard. In1 her absence, and preacher may move across them with all the undis-tracted boldness of his fathers — nay with more freshness, more insight, more agility, for the text is clearer,the allusions better understood, and all the ancient liferequickened from which the books originally sprang.It is from these facts that we may confidently predict for the Old Testament a service in the religionand education of our race as conspicuous and beneficialunder the principles of the New Criticism, as forcenturies this wonderful book has discharged underthe older principles of interpretation.our minds turn naturally to another, the orator of thatformer occasion, and it were fitting that he, the bril -liant preacher and scholar, the friend of the generousdonor, — he who has watched over the growth of thisenterprise and encouraged it, who has followed thisbeautiful structure with constant interest, and whohas appropriately called it, by reason of its gracefullines and beautiful proportions, " the lady among thebuildings of The University," — it were fitting, I say,that he should be present on this culminating dayto proffer to The University, on behalf of Mrs. Haskell, the completed structure. But Professor Barrowshas left us for a season in fulfilling a mission whichthe same generous friend has initiated, and which, webelieve, he will bring to splendid fruition. In hisabsence, the duty has fallen to me, and I am deeplysensible of the honor which is thus conferred upon me.At the time when the gift of Mrs. Haskell wasannounced, there was dedicated another splendidbuilding, the gift of a generous patron of The University, to be devoted to the cause of physical science.It is a long step from the brilliant, modern andintensely practical work of physics to what, to some,may seem the much more remote, scholastic, theoretical, and less immediately useful department oforiental study. But such was not the thought of thebenefactor to whom we owe this building. To her, the" light from the East " shines still with undiminishedbrightness upon our western science. It has seemedto her to be a service, not only to the cause of soundlearning, but also to present day life and work, toprovide here a temple for the service of that universalgoddess of Truth, whose footprints may be followedand whose instructions sought in the orient youth ofthe world as well as in the maturer and more complicated life of the Occident. In providing this build-SBtmcatumalThe Haskell Oriental Museum.UNIVERSITY RECORD 243ing it is the thought of Mrs. Haskell that orientalstudies, important as they are in themselves, shouldfind their center and their greatest utility in theircontributions to the better knowledge of the DivineRevelation contained in the Jewish and ChristianScriptures. How well and wisely has she discernedthe signs of the times ! The Bible is a new book inthe light of our new studies in oriental life, orientalphilology, oriental history, oriental archeology, andoriental religion. And who can deny that what contributes to our better understanding of the DivineTruth of the Holy Scriptures contributes in the mostimmediate and practical way to the progress of theworld ?Mrs. Haskell presents this building to The. University of Chicago in honor and in memory of her husband,Frederick Haskell, in token of which it is to bear thename of The Haskell Oriental Museum. Mr. Haskellwas for years a resident of Chicago and was identifiedwith its business interests. It is appropriate, therefore, that the University of the city in which he livedshould preserve a memorial of his useful life. And inthis gift of the wife on behalf of her husband may wenot see a further touch of beauty crowning thisstructure ; memories of the past, beautiful self-sacrifice, loyal affection reaching beyond the grave, comingto gather about this shrine of learning, adding to itthe grace of hallowed associations ?I have the honor, Mr. President, to add that Mrs.Haskell has felt a constantly growing enjoyment inthe contemplation of this gift as she has realized thecare, the liberality, the ability, and the success whichhas characterized The University in the administration of the trust which she has committed to it ; andI, therefore, in her name, present to you at this timethe keys of The Haskell Oriental Museum, expressingthe earnest and sincere expectation of the giver thatthere will go forth from these halls enlightenment,inspiration, and guidance in that learning which hascome from the East and which, culminating in theBook of Books and in the teachings and life of theSon of Man, will ever abide as our most preciouspossession.The President of The University accepted the giftin the following words :Tne Acceptance.We have come together as trustees, colleagues, students of The University of Chicago, and as friends oforiental and religious learning, in order to perform thelast act in a course of events which have extendedover two years. The building which today is to be formally accepted,dedicated to the cause for which it was intended, andopened to the public, as has been said, is devoted tothe cause of oriental and religious work. For thepresent the rooms on the lower floor have been setapart, with the consent of the donor, for general purposes. But in the near future the entire building willbe used for the purpose for which it has been given.The north room on the first floor will be an Egyptological Museum; the south room an AssyriologicalMuseum. The second floor includes two large museumrooms which will be used for material which shallspecially illustrate the writings of saCred Scripture,in other words, a Palestinian Museum. On this floorare located three lecture rooms and three offices. Thenorth room of the third floor will be the library room,while the south room will serve as a museum of Comparative Religion. This floor includes also two lecturerooms and three offices. The building, with themuseum materials which have now been arranged init, has cost, in round numbers, $100,000.The circumstances connected with the giving ofthis money were most interesting. An effort wasbeing made, at the time, to secure the sum of onemillion dollars before July 1, 1894, in order that thegifts pledged conditionally by Martin A. Ryersonand John D. Rockefeller might be secured. Whileprogress had been made, the result was very uncertain. The summer season was coming on, and manywhom we might have counted on had left the city.There still remained nearly $200,000 to complete thesum required. I remember distinctly a warm dayabout the first of June which the Secretary of theBoard of Trustees and myself had spent in the cityfrom early morning until late in the afternoon withoutmeeting success of any kind. No person upon whomwe called was found at home. As we were returninghome it was suggested that perhaps our friend, Mrs.Caroline E. Haskell, who had before expressed greatinterest in the work, might be willing to assist in thework we were trying to accomplish. It was foundthat she had been considering very seriously the question of erecting a building upon the grounds of TheUniversity in memory of her husband, and in a fewminutes she expressed her willingness to furnish themoney for the erection of such a building. It wasthis gift that made certain the securing of the milliondollars. The building, therefore, important as it is initself, means more than at first sight would appear.In securing this building The University at the sametime secured $900,000, which, so far as one can see,would have been lost to The University but for Mrs.Haskell's timely help.244 UNIVERSITY RECORDIt is a source of keen regret to all of us that thegracious and noble woman who places in our possession this important addition to the equipment of TheUniversity, is not present at these ceremonies. If shewere here we should make an effort to express to herthe feelings of gratitude which fill our hearts. In herabsence we cannot do less than express as best we canthese same feelings.In the many interviews which she has kindlyaccorded me I have come to understand, I think, themotive which prompted the gift. Her heart is full oflove to God who has so providentially guided her life.Her mind is so occupied with the thought that menand women everywhere should know more about therevelation vouchsafed by this God to humanity ; herwhole soul is so aglow with the contents of divinetruth itself, that she makes this contribution tofurther the interests of a true understanding of thetrue religion. She realizes, moreover, that thisthought of relationship to God is universal ; that inthe minds of men everywhere there has been effort tofind the God whom we, the disciples of Jesus Christ,have learned to know from our Master. She wouldhave all such efforts studied and analyzed in orderthat their contribution may be placed side by sidewith the great contribution of Christianity. Fewwomen, I make bold to affirm, ever indicated a broadercomprehension of modern truth and modern methodsthan has the woman whose name we desire to honortoday. The gift has been prompted by an honest andsincere desire to benefit the human race, and themethod of giving was as gracious as the thoughtwhich prompted it was broad. It came withoutrestrictions of any kind. There have been many contributions to the cause of religion, but no single contribution was ever made with purer motive or deeperpurpose.On behalf of the Trustees of The University Iaccept from Mr. Goodspeed, whom she has chosen torepresent her on this occasion, the keys of HaskellOriental Museum, and I promise on behalf of TheUniversity that the building shall be sacredly setapart for the purpose indicated.In connection with the Dedication a series of threeoriental conferences were held to which invitationshad been sent to the leading oriental scholars of thecountry. At 9:00 a.m., Professor David G. Lyon, Ph.D., of Harvard University, read a paper upon thesubject, "A Half Century of Assyriology." At 11:00a.m., Professor A. V. Williams Jackson, L.H.D., ofColumbia University, spoke on "The Ancient PersianDoctrine of the Future Life." At 2:00 p.m., ProfessorGeorge Adam Smith, of Free Church College, Glasgow, read a paper upon " The Genius and Temperament of the Semitic Race." Discussions followed thereading of each of these papers.In connection with the Dedicatory Exercises thefollowing messages were sent:(1) To Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell,Michigan City, InrLMr. Rockefeller, trustees, faculty, sti nts, friendsand visiting Orientalists send you greeti on this theday of the dedication of the magnificen uilding provided by your generosity for the f urthera \ of Orientalreligious studies. We regret your nec£__j,ry absencefrom us today, and hope that your life may be sparedmany years to see the results of your benefaction.(2) To Professor John Henry Barrows,Gottingen, Germany.Assembly convened to dedicate Haskell OrientalMuseum, sends greeting to The University's honoredrepresentative and eloquent apostle to India.The following cablegram of response was receivedfrom Professor Barrows :President Harper,Chicago.Greetings gratefully received. This golden weekprophesies union of religion and science. Warmestpatriotic congratulations to University.Barrows.In the evening a dinner was given to the visitingoriental scholars in the rooms of the Quadrangle Club.In connection with it brief responses were made byProfessors George Adam Smith, D. G. Lyon andA. V. Williams Jackson representing the visitors ; byProfessor Samuel Ives Curtiss, of the Chicago Theological Seminary; by Reverend Theo. G. Soares,Ph.D., representing the younger Doctors of the SemiticDepartment, and others. A reception was held immediately afterward in honor of the visitors in the hallsof Haskell Oriental Museum.[The full text of the addresses and papers deliveredin connection with the Dedication of the HaskellOriental Museum together with other material relating to the Museum will be found in the Augustnumber of The Biblical World'].UNIVERSITY RECORD 245(©fScial actions, Notices, anfc Sports,OFFICIAL NOTICES.The Board of Libraries, Laboratories, and Museums.1896-7.THE PRESIDENT, Chairman.Associate Professor GOODSPEED, Recorder, ex officio.Head Professor THOMAS C. CHAMBERLIN, ex officio.Head Professor CHARLES O. WHITMAN, ex officio.Head Professor ALBERT A. MICHELSON, ex officio.Head Professor HENRY HERBERT DONALDSON, ex officio.Head Professor JOHN U. NEF, ex officio.Head Professor JOHN M. COULTER, ex officio.Associate Librarian ZELLA A. DIXSON, ex officio.Associate Professor FREDERICK STARR, ex officio.Associate Professor JACQUES LOEB, ex officio.Associate Professor GEORGE BAUR, ex officio.Associate Professor GEORGE E. HALE, ex officio.Doctor WILLIAM ISAAC THOMAS, ex officio.Head Professor ERNEST DeWITT BURTON.Professor FRANK B. TARBELL.Professor ADOLPH C. MILLER.Associate Professor STARR W. CUTTING.Assistant Professor MARTHA FOOTE CROW.The Board of University Affiliations.1896-7.THE PRESIDENT, Chairman.Associate Professor GOODSPEED, Recorder, ex officio.Head Professor ALBION W. SMALL, Director, ex officio.Assistant Professor FRANK J. MILLER, Examiner of Affiliations, ex officio.Head Professor THOMAS C. CHAMBERLIN.Professor FRANKLIN JOHNSON.Professor ISAAC B. BURGESS.Professor GEORGE LINCOLN HENDRICKSON.Assistant Professor ALEXANDER SMITH.The Board of The University Press.1896-7.THE PRESIDENT, Chairman.Associate Professor GOODSPEED, Recorder, ex officio.CHARLES W. CHASE, Director, ex officio.Head Professor ERI B. HULBERT.246 UNIVERSITY RECORDHead Professor J. LAURENCE LAUGHLIN.Head Professor HENRY HERBERT DONALDSON.Associate Professor IRA M. PRICE.Associate Professor FRANCIS A. BLACKBURN.The Board of Physical Culture and Athletics.1896-7.THE PRESIDENT, Chairman.Associate Professor GOODSPEED, Recorder, ex officio.Associate Professor A. ALONZO STAGG, Director, ex officio.Instructor KATE S. ANDERSON, ex officio.Doctor CHARLES P. SMALL, Examining Physician, ex officio.Associate Professor ROBERT F. HARPER.Associate Professor OLIVER J. THATCHER.Associate Professor SHAILER MATHEWS.Associate Professor CARL D. BUCK.Doctor MYRA REYNOLDS.The Board of Student Organizations, Publications, and Exhibitions.1896-7.THE PRESIDENT, Chairman.Associate Professor GOODSPEED, Recorder, ex officio.Head Professor HARRY PRATT JUDSON, ex officio.Mr. S. H. CLARK, ex officio.Associate Professor WILLIAM D. McCLINTOCK, ex officio.Associate Professor MARION TALBOT, ex officio.Professor J. P. IDDINGS.Associate Professor C. F. CASTLE.Associate Professor J. H. TUFTS.Assistant Professor GEORGE C. HOWLAND.Assistant Professor J. W. MONCRIEF.Monthly Meeting.The Graduate Schools will hold their monthlymeeting with the Graduate Faculties on Wednesday,July 15, 12:30 p.m., Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall.Head Professor H. P. Judson will deliver theaddress.Office Hours of the Deans.summer quarter.For all Graduate Students : Dean Judson. CobbHall, Boom 9 A. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Tuesday-Friday.For men in the Senior Colleges and Unclassified Students : Dean Terry. Cobb Hall, Room 4 A. 8:30to 9:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday.For men in the Junior Colleges: Dean Capps.Cobb Hall, Room 4 A. 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday.For women in the Colleges and Unclassified Students : Dean Bulkley. Cobb Hall, Room 4 A. 4:00to 6:00 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 10:30 a.m. to12:30 p.m., Tuesday and Friday.For all Divinity Students : Dean Johnson (Acting).Haskell Oriental Museum. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Tuesday-Friday.UNIVERSITY RECORD 247OFFICIAL REPORTS.The Registrar's Cash Statement.For the Spring Quarter ending June 24, 1896.RECEIPTS.Women's Commons $ 4,618 37Examination fees 325 00Matriculation fees - 1,060 00Tuition fees 23,921 74Library fees - - 2,091 47Incidental fees 2,091 43Room Rent, Foster Hall - $ 1,261 15" Kelly Hall 1,413 16" " Beecher Hall 1,167 99" SnellHall 909 50« " Graduate Hall - 843 835,595 63Furniture Tax, Foster Hall - $ 20 00" Kelly Hall - 22 00" Beecher Hall 17 50" SnellHall 22 00" Graduate Hall 14 0095 50Divinity Hall, heat, light, andcare - - 751 69University Extension - 5,091 59Library fines - 34 85Chemical Laboratory fees - 494 15Biological " " 80 00Zoology " " 82 50Anatomy " "- 26 25Physiology " " 46 25Botany " "- 108 85Diplomas - - - 625 00Affiliated School work 114 54Special Registration 40 00Department of Pedagogy - 170 00Total $47,464 81 DISBURSEMENTS.Treasurer of the University, $47,464 81Total $47,464 81&i)e sanibersttg.INSTRUCTION.Departmental Announcements.1A. PHILOSOPHY.Professor Geo. T. Ladd, D.D., LL.D., delivers acourse of public lectures on " The Philosophy of Religion." The special subject for the week, July 14-17will be " The Being and Attributes of God, consideredfrom the modern psychological and philosophicalpoints of view." Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall, 3:00 p.m. IB. PEDAGOGY.The Department of Pedagogy desires to announcethat in connection with the regular work of the firstterm of the summer quarter, Miss Bennett, of Irving-ton, New York, conducts a primary school, Professor Bulkley of the department directing and supervis- .ing. The school opened July 1 at 389, 57th street,248 UNIVERSITY RECORDand continues for six weeks. The tuition fee will be $6for the term. Pains will be taken to make the work .suited to the season — a decided help to parent andchild in meeting the warm weather, mot in any sense astrain. The regular session will be half a day ; excursions for a study of nature in the parks and woods willbe a feature. ^Esthetic phases of the work will beemphasized. The school is provided with excellentfacilities for manual training in its various forms. Asnot more than sixteen children, age six to eight inclusive, can be accommodated, it is important that application should be made promptly.III. POLITICAL SCIENCE.Head Professor H. P. Judson delivers three public lectures on successive Fridays :1. Expansion of the United States, July 10.2. Foreign Policy of the United States, " 17.3. The Mississippi Valley, " 24.Lecture Room, Cobb Lecture Hall, at 5: 00 p.m.VIII. SEMITIC.. Dr. James Breasted will deliver six lectures on" History and Civilization of Egypt," Fridays, at 8:00p.m., Assembly Room, Haskell Oriental Museum.These are the topics and dates :1. Development, Land and People, July 10.2. The Old Empire, " 17.3. The Middle Empire, " 24.4. The New Empire, " 31.5. Egyptian Art, August 7.6. Egyptian Literature, " 14.The lectures are illustrated with the stereopticon.XIII. ROMANCE.Assistant Professor Geo. C. Howland will deliverthe following public lectures on " Italian Literature "on successive Tuesdays, at 5:00 p.m., in Lecture Room,Cobb Lecture Hall.1. The Relation of Italian Literature to ourLife, July 14.2. The Earliest Italian Literature, " 21.3. Petrarch, " 28.4. Machiavelli, August 4.5. Tasso, " 5.6. The Court of Urbino, " 18.Six Lectures in French on " Litterature f rancaise,"by Dr. Rene de Poyen-Bellisle, on successiveThursdays at 5: 00 p.m., in Lecture Room, Cobb LectureHall. These are the subjects and dates :1. Les Origines, July 9.2. Les Chroniques, " 16. 3. Le Grand Siecle,4. Le Roman Contemporain,5. Le Theatre Contemporain,6. La poesie d'aujourd'hui, July 23." 30.August 6." 13.XIV. GERMAN.Public lectures will be delivered by instructors ofthe Germanic Department during the Summer Quarter on Mondays, at 4:00 p.m., Lecture Room, CobbLecture Hall, as follows :Assistant Professor von Klenze.1. Die Siegfriedsage, besonders im Nibe-lungenlied, July 6.2. Nature-Sense in. Literature and Art, " 13.Professor Karsten.Two lectures upon the general subject, "Schrift-sprache und Volksmundarten."1. Entwicklung und relative Eigenschaf ten, July 20.2. Gegenseitige Einwirkung, " 27.Associate Professor Cutting.1. Lessing im Verhaltnis zur Geistesent-wicklung Deutschlands, August 3.2. Stellung und Ideale des schwabischenDichterkreises, August 10.Dr. Dahl.1. Ibsen's Social Dramas, I, " 17.2. Ibsen's Social Dramas, II, " 24.XVI. BIBLICAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH.Professor Rush Rhees will deliver the introductory lecture in his public lecture course on "The Psalmsof the Pharisees" on Tuesday, July 14, at 5:00 p.m.,Assembly Room, Haskell Oriental Museum.The Rev. Professor J. Agar Beet, of Wesley anCo liege, Richmond, England, will deliver the first offour public lectures on Friday, July 17, at 4:00 p.m., inAssembly Room, Haskell Oriental Museum.The general subject of the four lectures is : "Readings in Genesis and Romans."1. The Creation of the World.Our Starting-point : The Gospel of Christ ; an anonymousbook, compiled from earlier documents ; its relation tothe Law of Moses.The Six Days' Work : Its spiritual significance. Its relation to modern science.Other Cosmogonies : The unique superiority of Genesisreveals the hand of God.XVII. MATHEMATICS.The Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson PhysicalLaboratory, Room 36, Friday, July 10, at 7: 00 p.m."The Introductory-Social of the Summer Quarter,"followed at 7:45 p.m. by a paper, " Concerning FiniteGroups of Linear Homogeneous Substitutions," byHead Professor Moore.UNIVERSITY RECORD 249XIX. CHEMISTRY.The following additional course in chemistry will begiven during the Summer Quarter by Dr. Stieglitz :39. Organic Nitrogen Derivatives. — Uric acid series,pyridine, pyrazol, quinone-imides, and phenazine compounds; a discussion of the alkaloids, ptomaines, andorganic dye-stuffs.Lectures 4 hrs. a week. M. First Term. 9:30 to10:30 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.Prerequisite: Organic Chemistry. XX. GEOLOGY.Professor Rollin D. Salisbury delivers threepublic lectures, Thursdays at 8:00 p.m., Kent Theater, on :1. Rivers and their work, July 9.2. The Ice Age in North America, " 16.3. Movements of the Earth's surface parts, " 23.The lectures will be fully illustrated with thestereopticon.MUSIC.Voluntary Courses In Music.Wardner Williams, Instructor in Music.Elementary Vocal Music. — Tuesday, at 5:00 p.m.Harmony.— Monday and Thursday, at 8:30 a.m.Theory of Music. — Tuesday and Friday, at 8: 30 a.m.History of Music. — Wednesday, at 8:30 a.m. The Il0s!cal Lectures and Recitals.Musical Lectures and Recitals are given in KentTheater, Wednesday afternoons at 5:00 o'clock,throughout the year.There will be a recital in Kent Theater Wednesdayafternoon, July 15, at 5:00 o'clock.RELIGIOUS.The University Chaplain.The University Chaplain, Associate ProfessorC. R. Henderson can be found, during his office hours,from 1:00 to 1:25 p.m. in C 2, Cobb Lecture Hall,Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.The chaplain for the week: Monday, July 13, toFriday, July 17, will be Head Professor ErnestDeWitt Burton. Chapel Service at 1:40 p.m.Vesper Service, Sunday, July 12, will be conductedby the Rev. Professor George Adam Smith, D.D.,Glasgow, Scotland. Kent Theater, at 4:00 p.m.Church Services.Hyde Park Baptist Church (Corner Woodlawn avenue and56th street) — Rev. N. S. Burton, Acting Pastor. Preachingservices at 11 : 00 a.m. and 7 : 45 p.m. Bible School and YoungMen's Bible Class, at 9:30 a.m. Young Peoples Society ofChristian Endeavor Monday Evening, at 7:45. Week-dayprayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8 : 00.Hyde Park M. E. Church (corner Washington avenue and 54thstreet)— Rev. Me. Leonard, Pastor, will conduct services Sunday, at 11 : 00 a.m. and 7 : 30 p.m. ; General Class Meeting at 12 : 00m. ; Sunday School at 9 : 30 a.m. ; Epworth League at 6 : 30 p.m. ;General Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, at 7 : 45 p.m.University Congregational Church (corner 56th street andMadison avenue)— Rev. Nathaniel I. Rtjbinkam, Ph.D., PastorPreaching Services at 11 : 00 a.m. No evening services during the summer. Sabbath School and Bible Classes at 9 : 45 a.m. ; JuniorYoung People's Society of Christian Endeavor at 3:30 p.m.;Senior Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor at 6 : 45 p.m. ;Wednesday Devotional Hour, at 8 : 00 p.m.Hyde Park Presbyterian Church (corner Washington avenueand 53d street)— Rev. Hubert C. Herring, Pastor. PublicChurch Services at 10 : 30 a.m., and 7 : 45 p.m. ; Sunday School at12 : 00 m. ; Junior Endeavor Society at 3 : 00 p.m. ; Young People' sSociety of Christian Endeavor at 6:45 p.m.; Mid-week PrayerMeeting, Wednesday, at 7 : 45 p.m.Woodlawn Park Baptist Church (corner of Lexington avenueand 62d street) — W. R. Wood, Pastor. Bible School at 9 : 30 a.m. ;Worship and Sermon at 11 a.m.; Young People's DevotionalMeeting at6:45p.M; Gospel Service with Sermon at 7: 30 p.m..General Devotional Meeting, Wednesday evening, at 7 : 45. Allseats are free.Hyde Park Church of Christ (Masonic Hall, 57th street, eastof Washington avenue) — Services : Sunday at 11 : 00 a.m. ; EveningService at 7:30. Sunday School at 9:45 A.M. Young People'sSociety of Christian Endeavor at 6 : 45 p.m. Preaching by Rev.H. L. Willett, Ph.D.St. PauVs Protestant Episcopal Church (Lake avenue, northof 50th street)— Rev. Charles H. Bixbt, Rector. Holy Communion, 8 . 00 A.M. every Sunday, and 11 : 00 a.m. first Sunday ofeach month. Morning Prayer with Sermon, 11 : 00 a.m. ChoralEvening Prayer. 7 : 30 p.m. Men's Bible Class at the close of theeleven o'clock service. Sunday School, 3 : 00 p.m.Unitarian Services {Masonic Hall, 276, 57th street) — Rev. W.W. Fenn, of the first Unitarian Church, will discontinue services until further announcement in the autumn.250 UNIVERSITY RECORDLIBRARIES, LABORATORIES, AND MUSEUMS,During the week ending July 7, 1896, there hasbeen added to the Library of The University a totalnumber of 276 books from the following sources :Books added by purchase, 196 vols.Distributed as follows :General Library, 3 vols.; Philosophy, 1 vol.; Pedagogy, 1 vol.; Political Economy, 22 vols., PoliticalTacitus' Account of the Relations existing betweenTiberius and Germanicus.*An examination of the first six books of the Annals shows adifference in treatment between the part dealing with the relations of Tiberius to Germanicus, and the rest. In general,Tacitus relates both the good and bad of Tiberius, the formerwithout comment, the latter with bursts of impatient censure.This general manner of treatment holds even in the account ofthe relations between Tiberius and Agrippina after 23 A. D. Inthe relations of Tiberius to Germanicus, however, especiallyfrom 16 to 19 A. D., the facts are not made the basis of the judgments and inferences as to mental states, but are rather interpreted according to assumed mental states which are rather contradicted than supported by the facts.Making allowance for the difference in point of view, Velleiusagrees with Tacitus as to the relations of Tiberius to Agrippinaand her sons in the years preceding her banishment in 30 A. D.(Vel. II. 130, 3-4), but represents the relation of Tiberius to Germanicus as very friendly, repeatedly using the term "Germanicussuus " (Vel. II. 116, 1 and 129, 2) . Velleius was a contemporary ofthe events he narrates and had excellent means of knowing therelation of the two men (Vel. II. 113-4) , while Tacitus wrote 100years later, and himself tells us in Ann. III. 19, that there wasthen no certainty in the matter of Germanicus' death.Tacitus' account looks like a separate well-rounded storyincorporated more or less bodily into the Annals. For in the firstplace, the great majority of the contradictions as to the prominent characters that have been shown in Tacitus, is found toexist between this Germanicus episode and the rest of the sixbooks. And then also, the author shirks responsibility fornearly all contemporary references to the hostility of Tiberiusto Germanicus, which is the backbone of the whole story, andputs all specific charges in the mouth or mind of someone else.(Ann. I. 62, 69, II. 22, 26, 43, 55, 69, 72, 76, 82, III. 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 14,16, 17.) This is very different from his usual positiveness anddirectness.Tacitus did not adopt this view out of favor for Germanicus.Compared with Tiberius, to be sure the Germanicus of Tacitusmakes a favorable impression on us, but we find no incidentalpraise of his acts or character, as we find incidental censure ofTiberius. The adoption of this particular view was probablydue to the fact that it was the popular one, and served admirably to set off the reign of Tiberius, it being the functions ofAnnals as Tacitus says (III. 65), to see "that virtues are notpassed over in silence, and that base deeds receive condemnationfrom posterity."* Read before the Classical Club, June 12, by J. J. Schlicher. Science, 5 vols.; History, 14 vols.; Sociology,(Folk Psychology), 1 vol.; Sociology (DivinitySchool), 11 vols.; Comparative Religion, 6 vols.;Semitic, 1 vol., New Testament 6 vols.; Latin, 2vols.; English, 68 vols.; Mathematics, 1 vol.;Geology, 16 vols.; Systematic Theology, 2 vols.;Homiletics, 36 vols.Books added by gift, 80 vols, assigned to Latin.A Comparison of the Cuneiform and Biblical Accountsof the Deluge.fWm. N. Mebane.I. Translation and transliteration of the Cuneiform accountpublished in Delitzsch's Assyrische Lesestiicke.II. The cuneiform and biblical accounts have some verystriking similarities. The following are some of the most important thoughts common to both. The flood is conceived as adivine punishment. All living beings are destroyed by it, excepta very few, who are saved by means of a vessel, built by divinedirection. This vessel, whose construction is minutely describedin both accounts, is made watertight by means of pitch withinand without. Even the same word is used for pitch, Hebrewkopher, cuneiform kupru. Some of the lower animals ofevery kind are saved, in order to preserve life upon the earth.The fountains of the great deep are broken up (cuneiform text1.98:), " Ninib, who caused the dikes (mihru) to overflow." Inboth prominence is given to the number "7." Birds are sentforth to see whether the ground is dry, and after leaving the vesselan acceptable sacrifice is offered. Compare especially Gen. 8 : 21," And Jahweh smelled the sweet savor," with line 151, " The godssmeiled the good savor." Mt. Ararat of the biblical and Nisir ofthe cuneiform accounts are not far apart. At the close there isa divine purpose never again to bring a flood.III. But the differences between these two accounts areequally significant. In the Bible, the divine punishment is represented as just and righteous, while according to the cuneiformaccount (=C.) the god Bel lost his senses, and there is wranglingamong the gods. In the Bible, the deliverance is represented assolely because of righteousness of the one saved, but in C. as dueto favoritism. The Bible represents strictly one God, and he ismost highly exalted, while in C. we have the grossest polytheism :—the gods are afraid — they crouch " like dogs "— they gatheraround the sacrifices " like flies." C. reveals a people given tonavigation in the use of the words " ship" and " pilot," while inthe Bible the vessel is only an " ark." The measurements of thevessels in these two accounts do not agree and neither agreeswith the account of Berosus. In C. no distinction is made between the clean and unclean animals as in Genesis. In C. thebirds sent forth are the dove (summatu), the swallow(s i n u n t u) and the raven (a r i b u) , while in the Bible the ravenis sent forth first and afterwards the dove three times. There isquite a difference in the number of occupants in the two vesselsand great difference in regard to the duration of the flood, andf Presented to the Divinity Faculty for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity.LITERARY.Abstracts of Theses and Papers.UNIVERSITY RECORD 251the afterfate of the two heroes. In cuneiform account the herois translated and made to live like the gods. Compare Enoch'stranslation in Gen. 5 : 24.IV. Conclusions and questions.1. The striking similarities warrant the conclusion that thesetwo accounts must have had a common origin, and be referredto some momentous event in history. There are three possiblesuppositions, a) That the biblical account is derived from thecuneiform, and is a purified form of it. Then why are there suchstriking differences ? b) The cuneiform account is derived fromthe biblical. But all Assyriologists trace the cuneiform accountback to at least 1800-2500 B. C. c) Both these accounts arederived from a common original, and this seems to be the bestaccount for both, the similarities and the differences,2. Does the cuneiform account throw any light on the ques-On June 27 and 30, and July 2, a series of baseballgames for the nominal College Championship of theUnited States was played on the University AthleticField by the teams of Brown University, the champions of the East, and of The University of Chicago, thechampions of the West. The games were extremelywell played, and attracted great interest throughoutthe entire country. The Brown University team wonthe series by the following scores :June 27 Brown University, 0. The University of Chicago, 1.June 30 " " 13. " "¦ 3.July 2 ¦" 6. " " 5.The Brown team now practically holds the collegechampionship of the United States. The only question to the contrary, is in the fact that the two leading Eastern teams, Brown and Princeton, did not meet,while both did almost equally well. But a comparisonof scores gives Brown the decided advantage. TheBrown- Yale, and the Princeton- Yale series furnishesStudents and friends of The University are earnestly invited to visit our University Settlement,4655 Gross Avenue. It is hoped that some willbe eager to assist in the work. We are especiallyProfessor Hirsch was the orator at the commencement of Austin College, Effingham, 111., on June 11th.He spoke on " The Educated and Politics." At theconclusion of the exercises, the Trustees conferredon him the honorary degree of LL.D.Professor Wadsworth delivered the address at the tion of the composite narrative in Genesis? On the one hand^ itmust be admitted that the division of the Genesis story does givetwo nearly complete, but discrepant, accounts of the flood, whichdiscrepancies do not appear, if the account is interpreted as it nowstands. Especially is this true of assignment of Gen. 8 : 5 to " P "and 8: 6 to " J." On the other hand, it must be admitted thatthe cuneiform account has special points of agreement withboth of the so-called documents "P" and "J," e.g., the description of dimensions, length, breadth, and height ; of pitchingthe vessel, stocking it with provisions ; the Rainbow covenant ;universal corruption of man are assigned to " P." Then thesending forth of the birds ; the building of an altar and of thesacrifice ; use of the number 7, are assigned to "J." All thesecharacteristics seem to be found equally in the cuneiformaccount.proof of this. For Brown defeated Yale in three consecutive games by the scores of 6-0, 6-1, 6-0, whilePrinceton won only three out of five games from Yale,and that only by very close scores. The recent seriesof games, then was practically for the college championship of the United States. And by winning theseries from Chicago, the Brown team is worthy of thistitle.The unexpectedly fine showing of the Universityteam, has given much encouragement to the athleticinterests of The University, and promises well for thefuture of college athletics in the West.During its stay in Chicago, the members of theBrown University team were entertained by DirectorA. A. Stagg. A Tally-Ho ride was taken by membersof the two teams, a theater party was given by Director Stagg, and President Harper tendered a receptionto members of the Brown team. The Brown teamreturned to Providence with an excellent opinion ofWestern college hospitality.anxious this summer to give excursions to groups ofboys and to groups of girls. Miss McDowell, theHead Resident, will gladly confer with all who areinterested.dedication of the new Emerson McMillin Observatoryof the University of Ohio on June 16.Mr. Addison W. Moore, Assistant in Psychology, hasbeen elected Assistant Professor of Pedagogy in theUniversity of Illinois, Champaign, 111.PHYSICAL CULTURE AND ATHLETICS.©fte ©ntbersttg SettlementCurrent lEbents,252 UNIVERSITY RECORD&i)e Calendar-July fi=I7, 1896.Saturday, July 11.Public Lecture :Professor George A. Smith, on "Hebrew Poetry," Assembly Room, Haskell OrientalMuseum, 4:00 p.m.Sunday, July 12.Vesper Service. The Rev. Professor GeorgeAdam Smith, D.D., 4: 00 p.m. (see p. 249.)Monday, July 13.Chapel. — 1:40 p.m. (see p. 249).Public Lecture :Assistant Professor von Klenze, on " Nature-Sense in Literature and Art," Lecture Room,Cobb Lecture Hall, 5:00 p.m. (see p. 24&)Tuesday, July 14.Chapel. — 1:40 p.m.Public Lectures :Professor Geo. T. Ladd, on "Philosophy ofReligion," 3: 00 p.m. (see p. 247.)Professor Rush Rhees, on "Psalms of thePharisees," 4: 00 p.m. (see p. 248.)Assistant Professor Geo. C. Howland, on" Italian Literature," 5:00 p.m. (see p. 248.)Divinity School Prayer Meeting, Lecture Room,Cobb Lecture Hall, 6:45 p.m.Wednesday, July 15.Monthly Meeting of Graduate Schools, Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 12:30 p.m. (see p. 246). Public Lecture :Professor Geo. T. Ladd, on "Philosophy ofReligion," 3:00 p.m. (see p. 247.)Recital, Kent Theater, 5:00 p.m. (see p. 249.)Thursday, July 16.Chapel. — 1:40 p.m.The Young Women's Christian Association,Assembly Room, Haskell Museum, 1:30 p.m.Public Lectures :Professor George T. Ladd, on " Philosophy ofReligion," 3: 00 p.m. (see p. 247.)Dr. Rene de Poyen-Bellisle, on " Literaturefrancaise," 5:00 p.m. (see p. 248.)Professor Rollin D. Salisbury, "The Ice Agein North America," 8:00 p.m. (see p. 249.)Friday, July 17.Chapel. — 1:40 p.m.Public Lectures :Professor George T. Ladd, on " Philosophy ofReligion," 3:00 p.m. (see p. 247.)Professor J. Agar Beet, on "Readings inGenesis," 4:00 p.m. (see p. 248.)Head Professor Judson, on "Foreign Policyof the United States," 5:00 p.m. (see p. 248.)Dr. James H. Breasted, on "History and Civilization of Egypt," 8:00 p.m. (see p. 248.)The Young Men's Christian Association, 6: 45 p.m.Graduate Section, Assembly Room, HaskellMuseum.College Section, Snell Hall.Material for the UNIVERSITY RECORD must be sent to the Recorder by "WEDNESDAY, 12:00 M.in order to be published in the issue of the same week.