Price $1*50 Per Year Single Copies 5 CentsUniversity RecordCHICAGOZbc TUniversftE ot Gbfcago pressVOL. II, NO. 1. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. APRIL 2, 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The University and its Effect upon the Home.By Her Excellency the Countess of Aberdeen - 1-5II. The Ethics of the Family in the Graeco-RomanPeriod. By Faith B. Clark ..... 5III. Condensation with Benzoin by Means of SodiumEthylate. By James B. Garner . - . 5IV. Official Actions 6V. Official Notices 6-7VI. Official Reports: The Library; Beecher House;Geological Club 7VII. Religious 7VIII. Current Events 7-8IX. The Calendar 8The University and Its Effect Upon the Home*by her excellency the countess of aberdeen.Mr. President, Gentlemen op the Trustees andFaculty, Members and Friends of The University op Chicago:The day on which, we meet is far famed in the traditions of many countries, and as I look round on thisgreat audience, and as I reflect on the character ofthose of whom it is composed, it is not strange that Ishould ask myself whether I am not the President'sApril Fool's Day joke.A woman — and a woman innocent of all Universitytraining — pronouncing the Convocation oration beforea gathering of professors and University graduates,and worse still, before an assembly of keen and critical young spirits, to whom are being daily revealedtheir own powers and the vast possibilities which lie* The Convocation Address delivered on the occasion of theEighteenth Convocation of The University, held at theAuditorium, Chicago, April 1, 1897. before every opening life — a condition of things whichmust necessarily tend to make them intolerant of aproduct of what is to them a bygone age.On past occasions of a similar nature, you have hadscholars and authors and men of light and leading togive you the results of their researches or their message of inspiration drawn from their own knowledgeand experience to encourage you as you steppedforth into a new term of strenuous thought andearnest labor destined to train new workers for theworld's welfare.And I cannot mention those who have stood on thisplatform without recalling one whose irreparable lossthe world mourns today. It was his words of enthusiasm concerning the work and the future of this University which first filled me with the earnest desire tohave an opportunity of visiting you. I know thatthere are many here who will never forget HenryDrummond's stay amongst you, and you will like toknow that on his sick bed he did not forget you.What message can you expect me, an outsider andstranger to all academical halls, to offer you worthyof your consideration on such an occasion ?And yet, perchance your president and his colleagues have not been so wholly actuated by thespirit of mischief as I have given them credit for.Perhaps they have selected a woman, and one outsideall their privileges, to speak to you today becausethey deem that it would be well if now and again theworkers at our great universities were to be remindedof the duties and responsibilities which bind them tothe common crowd outside their doors and of thehopes which are centered in them by the hundreds andthe thousands who are in ignorance of all "ologies."2 UNIVERSITY RECORDFrom every state in the union you come, from Northand South and West and East, you come, youthsand maidens to this bright new seat of learning,where all are alike welcome. You come, and not youonly, but men and women of maturer years and attainments, who seek to take advantage of the specialopenings afforded here for study and research into thedeeper secrets of science and learning.And what is going on here is going on elsewherethroughout the country, and the eagerness with whicha university education is prized is amply demonstratedeven to the casual traveler by the many ingeniousand self-sacrificing devices of which we hear, wherebyaspirants for the college eke out their own slenderresources so as to be able to join the great army ofstudents.It would be strange indeed if such devices did notappeal to those hailing from the country where everymother destines one of her sons from the cradle forthe college and the pulpit, if not for the professor'schair, and many of whose distinguished sons havearrived at their Alma Mater with no other visiblemeans of sustenance than a bag of meal.And what is the result of it all ? Is the reality ofuniversity life satisfying to those who have made suchsacrifices to attain to it ?It would be worse than waste of time for me toendeavor to descant on all that university life anduniversity teaching have accomplished for the worldin the past and I dare not venture to define or interpret the ideals which you, who are in the midst of it,cherish of its influences on the present and the future.What those ideals are which beat high within yourhearts you know best — as to what your University isto accomplish and what you yourselves are to do forthe world's progress and enlightenment. Few dreamscan be so sweet as those which visit the victors onwhose brows have lately been laid the well-earnedlaurels of successful study and thought. Great andfruitful as have been the results of those dreams, yet Iventure to think that that department of the world'slife which is of deepest moment to its welfare— I meanthe home — has not reaped the harvest from the development and increase of university life which it mighthave claimed as its share. It may not be difficult toassign causes for this. The average home is doubtlessas yet both as unfitted to prepare its children to getall the possible good out of their university trainingas to respond in after years to the widening andenriching influences which it might gather from themas the results of that training.I am told that one of the most common reasons forwant of full success in the university course is that the student comes unprepared, ungrounded, havinglived in an atmosphere unlikely to develop appreciation for the culture which the university is preparedto give.He thus passes through his course gathering knowledge rather than culture, knowledge which seems tohave no relation to ordinary humdrum life and therefore unable to mould it. Or he may begin to learn thesecrets of what true culture and scholarship maymean, but when he goes home, he finds himself in adifferent world, where persons and not things are themain topics of conversation, where newspapers andnot books form the staple reading, or where the hardnecessities of life or its pleasures and not its ideals arethe chief objects to be pursued.And the student and the scholar, deprived of theintellectual companionship and the eager comradeshipin search of knowledge which he has enjoyed duringthe last few years, draws his mantle around him, andrecoils into the profession which he has chosen, shutting it away from the rest of life much as some peopledo with their religion. It becomes like a separatecompartment into which none but the initiated mayenter, and it loses thereby half its vitality and halfits meaning.Look at the contrast and see the influence of thosewho, whilst scholars in the truest sense of the word,realize that the best use to which that scholarshipcan be put is to adapt it to the needs of life and theclaims of citizenship.Do we not all know what it is to come into the presence of one of those large-hearted, big-minded natureswho without affectation and without priggishness helpall who come near them by their broad views, their deepinsight, and their great principles which sweep into awholesome and natural current all the petty troublesand conflicting difficulties of ordinary lives? Theyhave seen the golden gates open — the wisdom of theancients is not a treasure locked away in iron-boundcaskets where only the few can find it — it has beenreceived and is a reality and is meant to be a realityin our common work-a-day lives of the present day,and what is more, to be enriched by them too.The lessons of history, the philosophy of the wisemen of East and West is capable of being applied,and life can only find the fullness of its meaning andits possibility when it has learnt not only to understand the divine laws all about us and to apply them,but when it has discovered its own true relationswith them all.One of your American authors, Mr. Hamilton Mabie,published a very beautiful book last year on the relations of nature and culture and has put the wholeUNIVERSITY RECORD 3subject to which I am alluding in a very suggestiveform, showing how the evidence of true culture liesnot merely in a broadened knowledge but in a deepened and enlarged life which can only be obtained bygrowth, by actual living and by being willing to enterinto all the experiences of life, assimilating thoseinfluences which make for development and rejectingthose which would retard our progress.Can we look for such life, such growth and expansion of air that life means to come to us as a result ofuniversity training ?We can, because we have all known and seen examples of the process and how the common paths oflife have been glorified by some who have passedalong them with the lamp of knowledge in their handsand the enthusiasm of love for God and humanity intheir hearts.And it has a better chance of attaining more oftento this ideal in the future because universities such asyours are training men and women on an equal footingtogether to work and to understand and to grow, inmutual natural comradeship and helpfulness.Can either men or women after such an experienceas the students of this University pass through, gohome and shut away to themselves the influenceswhich whilst here they have shared with their brotherand sister students under the guidance of a body ofprofessors composed of both men and women.Will not this comradeship during the most impressionable time of their lives when their whole innerfaculties were expanded under the genial sunlight of abroadly conceived education, count for much in thewhole set of their minds towards life and the relationships which they shall find therein?The present age has with much reason been calledthe Woman's Age, and truly the last fifty years haveproduced a revolution in the position, responsibilitiesand opportunities of women, and the whole face ofsocial life and philanthropy has been changed thereby.It was inevitable that one of the outcomes of thisrevolution should be the formation of associationsand unions of women of all kinds and varieties formutual help and work, for self -education and training,and for the attainment of objects of all sorts and conditions which are conceived to be for the welfare of thefeminine sex or of the world in general. And thisphase has been a necessary one. When woman foundher life expanding so fast in every direction, she hadto endeavor to fit herself for the new conditions andan apprenticeship to the new work had to be gonethrough.And you younger women who have been born intothis new age can scarcely realize what the weight of responsibility has meant to us who have gone beforeyou.The pioneer women who first broke down the barriers which had been closed so firmly against the participation of our mothers in higher education or inany public duties whatsoever had but barely finishedtheir task and the road was as yet rough and new, butyet the call seemed an imperative one to go forwardand take up duties which appeared to us sacred andpressing, and at the same time to show that this couldbe done without sacrifice of our womanliness. Remember, scarce a university, if any, had opened itsdoors to us, our teachers had been of the old school,we were untutored and untrained, and all we could dowas to go forward and "do the next thynge."What wonder if we quickly learnt to find shelter forour inexperience and our want of training in oneanother's support, and if by thus learning and working together, we found the truth of the old maxim thatin "union is strength."These associations which have now grown to suchvast dimensions and which wield so real a power havebeen and are full of usefulness. They have taughtthe women of our day lessons of cooperation and fellowship which they could scarcely have learnt otherwise. They have instilled in us some understandingof how to act together in constitutional fashion, bowing to the majority but respecting the rights of theminority, and perhaps through somewhat trying experiences, we have learnt to value the contrast betweendespotic and democratic government.And on this continent especially where the men areas a rule too busy to take much part in social, philanthropic or church work, the women's movement hashad ample scope to develop and mature and justifyitself. But there are many of us who, whilst rejoicingin the many new opportunities which have year byyear been thus won for women and in the increasedsense of responsibility regarding public and social lifeamongst women which must effect so much for thecountry, yet have always felt that the banding togetherof ourselves apart from men for various objects mustbe regarded in most cases as a temporary expedient tomeet a temporary need, and that it must not be allowedto crystallize into a permanent element in social life.Man was not meant to live alone — but still lesswas woman.Are not all these societies confined to one sex or theother dividing the life of the race in a way not intendedby nature or by God?In bygone days, men may have deemed women unfitto work by their side in the more public duties of lifeand unable to take their part in solving its deeper4 UNIVERSITY RECORDproblems, and we cannot flatter ourselves that thatnotion is altogether dispelled !But are we women now not unconsciously turningthe tables on them by arrogating to ourselves theduties of alone alleviating and curing all the sorrowand miseries and failings of the day by our ownunaided efforts ?It may be well to have a Congress of Mothers, butdo the Fathers count for so little in the home thattheir counsel is not needed ?It may be well and desirable at the present time tohave our women's clubs and councils, and let us putour best effort into them to make them produce theirbest fruit, but let us also remember that they are buta means to an end and that the redemption of the racecan only be compassed by men and women joininghands and making common cause in every departmentof life — not both necessarily doing the same workbut combining to do each their own part of the wholetogether.We who have had to take up the work put into ourhands all untrained as we were, and for whom it hasdone so much, look forward now to the future withhope and courage because of you young women whohave been taught how to think exactly and to weighaccurately, who have read and pondered over the lessons of history, and who have studied the laws ofsocial science and of nature and who have done allthis in free interchange of thought with brother students. You have a foundation to go upon which wasnever ours, and in your common education you havelost that diffidence and self-consciousness in takingup common work with the other sex which has oftenbeen the bane of women workers and which has toofrequently developed into the language of self-assertion and aggressive attack.And so it is for you young men and women, oncemore to prove that new occasions teach new dutiesand to determine that your season of mutual cooperation is not to cease with your college life or to develop along merely social lines.You have to prove that your years at the Universityare not as it were cut off from the rest of your lives,that they do not merely serve to prepare you for a profession, but that they can so enlarge and train allyour faculties as to fit you to enter into truer and morehelpful and help-giving relations with the rest of yourlives than could have otherwise been the case.Much anxiety has oftentimes been expressed lest university education should unfit women for the sacredduties of the home and I remember that at one ofthe earlier exhibitions where women had a section oftheir own, that a special corner was devoted to photo graphs of the babies of college women to demonstratethat they were superior to all other babies in healthand comeliness ! I think that nightmare has been laidand that it is believed even possible that a womanwhose mind has been educated and cultured and controlled may be able to organize a household, to care forits welfare and health and train her children evenbetter than a girl brought up in the old haphazardfashion. If we want our children to come into contactwith the influences of higher education and culture,how can we better compass that end than by providing that from their earliest years they should be underthe management of broadly- trained mothers? But is itnot conceivable that the fact that women can anddo look upon their university career as calculated toprepare them not only for a profession but also to fillbetter than they could otherwise have done the dutiesof daughter, wife, and mother, may lead men also toremember that their university training may bear ontheir future responsibilities as husbands and fatherson whom will devolve a share in the duties of thehome and the training and developing of good andcultured citizens ?And those who have joined together in keen debateand argument, those to wThom the honor of theiruniversity, whether in classical and scientific attainment or athletic sports, has become a common careand interest, will they not realize how much morecan be done if men and women together share theduty of trying to leave the world better than theyfound it than by dividing ourselves on all possibleoccasions into separate phalanxes and minimizing oneanother's work ? It is not difficult to call up a visionof the good times to come when each sex with thefullest opportunities for self-culture and self -development will be content in its mutual relations to bethe complement of the other, and I think it needs butlittle gift of prophecy to foresee that when that timeshall come the reign of the home on its true basisshall be firmly enthroned.Mutual cooperation and association will doubtlessever hold its honored place in human affairs but itwill not threaten to overshadow the ministry of thehome, as of late it has seemed to have a tendency to do.In our zeal to improve the world, to spread knowledge and to attain ends most admirable in themselves,we have been unconsciously destroying and neutralizing home life by creating manifold interests whichseparate husbands and wives, parents and children,brothers and sisters, from the natural influences whicheach ought to exercise over the other.Literary societies, clubs, young peoples societies ofmutual endeavor, sports and pleasure parties andUNIVERSITY RECORD 5the preparation for all these seem to take up all theleisure at our disposal for family life and to take thevarious members of the home circle in different directions.If we are to approach nearer to the golden idealswhich flash across us when all the world is before us,it must be by culture being understood not as a mereintellectual attainment, but as a process which enlightens and spiritualizes the whole being, body, mind andsoul, reacting on and through the whole environment.This can only be the outcome of growth promoted bytrue and deep life and thought induced by real relationships with others. It cannot be the plant of aday, but needs the sheltered nurture of the home withall its varied interests and claims and discipline.The mission therefore which we must set before usis no less an one than the revival of the home — not ofthe narrow, self-sufficient, self-centered home, carelessof the needs and sorrows of others outside so long asall within were clothed in the purple, and fine linen ofcomfort and pleasure and refinement — but of thehome, where the individual members of the familylearning the deepest secrets of life in the reality oftheir relations with one another and the friends whobring out all that is truest and highest in their natures— learn also their true relations with the rest of theworld.They will not be deaf to the calls for service in thegreat world without, nor will they be averse to associate themselves with others for work, but they willsee things in their right proportion, and they will setthemselves first and foremost to working in harmonywith God's laws of the family being the centerthrough which all healthy influences should spread.Home life relieved of its drudgery because educatedinventiveness and organization has been brought tobear upon it ; home life permeated with the influenceof culture and based upon equality of education, ofresponsibility and opportunity ; home life based on alove born of mutual knowledge and respect of oneanother's nature and mission — therein lies the hopeand the power of the future, and the university whichomits not this from its ideals and which includes preparation for the discharge of those highest dutieswhilst training the mind in all intellectual and scholarly excellence, will indeed deserve well of its country.The Ethics of the Family in the Gr/eco-Roman Period*In Grecian times the family was merged in the state. InRoman times it was thrown out against the state. In Christiantimes it was unified with the state.* Abstract of a thesis offered by Faith Benita Clark, in candidacy for the Degree of Master of Philosophy. Among the Greeks the wife and child were under the controlof the husband and father. But this control was not felt asoppressive. Women were not thought of as ends in themselves.They had no part in social life.The Roman family was absolutely under the control of thefather. He alone was held responsible to the state. Thechildren, especially the sons, soon began to feel the oppressivenature of the patria potestas. Women had a wider horizon thanthey had among the Greeks. As the mother of Roman citizens,the Roman matron reflected the glory and honor of her lord.The changes which were latent in the Greek family life andwhich were brought clearly to consciousness in the later RomanRepublic and in the Empire, were fully organized in the Christian idea. It asserted the equality of all members of thefamily and their inter-responsibility. Under the regime of theChristian church, the idea of equality was objectified andspecialized through Stoic Ethics and Roman Law. Thus theso-called Christian idea of the family is a resultant of Greek,Roman and Christian life. The Greek provided the intellectualformulation, the Christian the motive for its execution and theRoman the method of its application.Condensations with Benzoin by Means of SodiumEthylate.*The object of the work is to establish the nature of the reactions which take place when benzoin and similar ketols aretreated with sodium ethylate under various conditions.When benzoin is treated with one molecule of sodiumethylate in absolute alcoholic solution at 25° C, a crystallineadditive compound is instantly formed. The carbonyl group ofthe benzoin absorbs sodium ethylate.If benzoin, dissolved in absolute alcohol, is heated at 90° C.for twenty-six hours with one molecule of sodium ethylate, tworeactions take place simultaneously: a primary one, to theextent of 80 per cent., yielding a y-lactone (C16H1402) and hydro-benzoin; and a secondary one, to the extent of 20 per cent.,yielding benzaldehyde and benzoic acid. The primary reactionis analogous to the conversion of benzaldehyde into benzoicacid and benzyl alcohol.By increasing the temperature and excluding of moisture andoxygen, the primary reaction may be made to take place morerapidly and more completely. It is found that when benzoin isheated with sodium ethylate at 100° C., the primary reactiontakes place to the extent of 95 per cent, in fifteen hours, whileat 125° C, the primary reaction takes place quantitatively inten hours.The yield of the products of the secondary reaction may beincreased by the use of less sodium ethylate.Benzoin and similar ketols add themselves readily to unsaturated aldehydes and ketones under the influence of a trace ofsodium ethylate, while addition to unsaturated ethers cannotbe accomplished.A mixture of benzoin (or cuminoin) and benzalacetone inabsolute alcoholic solution with a trace of sodium ethylateunite to form A2. Keto-R-Hexen derivatives.Benzoin and cinnamic aldehyde, under conditions similar tothe above, unite to form benzoin-cinnamic aldehyde, whilebenzoin and benzalacetophenone give rise to iso-benzoin-benzal-acetophenone.?Abstract of a thesis offered in candidacy for the degree ofDoctor of Philosophy by James B. Garner,6 UNIVERSITY RECORDOfficial Actions.At recent meetings of the Faculties of the Seniorand Junior Colleges the following plan for enlargingthe Student Councils and lengthening the term ofoffice of the Councilors was adopted to go into effectApril 1,1897:At the beginning of each quarter each division ofthe student body, excepting Junior VI, shall elect oneCouncilor who shall remain in office during two consecutive Quarters. Two Councilors shall be electedby Junior VI at the end of the first term.During each Quarter the six Councilors last electedshall be considered as the representatives of theirrespective divisions, while the six elected the previousQuarter shall be considered as representatives atlarge of the student body in their respective colleges.The Councilor from Division I of the Junior Colleges shall, during his second Quarter in office, act onthe Senior College Council. If he fail to obtain hisJunior College Certificate at the end of his firstQuarter in office, he shall be disqualified from actingas Councilor and Division VI of the Senior Collegesshall elect a substitute in addition to the regularCouncilors.Official Notices.Official copies of the University Record for theuse of students may be found in the corridors andhalls of the various buildings in the University quadrangles. Students are requested to make themselvesacquainted with the official actions and notices of TheUniversity, as published from week to week in theUniversity Record.The regular meetings of Boards and Faculties, tobe held Saturday, April 3, 1897, in the Faculty Room,Haskell Oriental Museum, are the following :8:30 a.m. — The Administrative Board of PhysicalCulture and Athletics.10:00 a.m. — The Administrative Board of StudentOrganizations, Publications, and Exhibitions.11:30 p.m.— The University Senate.The Exercises of Convocation Week from Fridayto Sunday, April 2-4, are as follows :April 2, Friday.8:30 a.m. — The Lectures and Recitations of theSpring Quarter begin.8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Matriculation and Registrationof incoming Students.April 3, Saturday.2:15-5:00 p.m.— Meeting of the University Congregation. Haskell Oriental Museum, Faculty Room.7:00 p.m. — Dinner of the University Congregation.Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room. April 4, Sunday.4:00p.m. — Convocation Vespers. Address: Professor Francis G. Peabody, A.M., D.D., Harvard University. Quarterly Report of the Secretary of theChristian Union. Kent Theater.The lectures before Divisions II- VI of the SeniorColleges for the Spring Quarter will be given byHead Professor Judson in the Lecture Room, CobbHall, beginning Monday, April 12, at 10:30 a.m.The weekly Junior Division Lectures will be resumed in the second week of the Spring Quarter. Thefirst lectures are as follows :Junior I. Assistant Professor Reynolds, Tuesday,10:30 a.m., B 6, Cobb, "The Study of Literature."Junior II-III. Head Professor Laughlin, Tuesday,10:30 a.m., Lecture Room, Cobb, "The Nature of Economic Phenomena and the Aims of the Study of Political Economy."Junior IV. Dr. Young, Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. Assembly Hall, Haskell, "Mathematics."Junior V. Head Professor Chamberlain, Tuesday,10: 30 a.m., C 9, Cobb, "The Inorganic Sciences ; I,General Relations."Junior VI. President Harper, Wednesday, 10:30a.m., Faculty Room, Haskell, "Introductory Topics."In place of the courses announced by Dr. Dahl forthe Spring Quarter, Dr. Agnes Mathilde Wergelandoffers the following :a) Scandinavian Nineteenth Century Literature.Mj. (XIV, 20.)b) Henrik Wergeland and Henrik Ibsen as the twoPoles of Modern Norwegian Literature.Mj. (XIV, 23.)A Kindergarten Conference will be held on Saturday, April 10, 1897, in the chapel of Cobb LectureHall beginning at 10:00 a.m. There will be two sessions, morning (10:00-12:00) and afternoon (2:00-4:00).Between the morning and afternoon sessions luncheonwill be served in the Halls at a moderate charge.The following is a statement of the programme :1. "Some Points in Froebel's Psychology." HeadProfessor John Dewey of The University of Chicago."2. "The Kindergarten and Higher Education." MissNina C. Vanderwalker, The University of Chicago.3. " The Connecting Class." Miss Anna C. Bryan,Chicago Free Kindergarten Association. Discus-UNIVERSITY RECORD 7sion by Mrs. Mary E. Gilbert, the BrightonSchool.4. " The Effect of Kindergarten Work upon theEyes of Children." Dr. Casey A. Wood.5. "Play and Education." Assistant ProfessorGeorge H. Mead, The University of Chicago. Discussed by Miss Grace Fulmer, Chicago Kindergarten College.6, " The Kindergarten Child in the Primary School."Miss Flora J. Cooke, Chicago Normal School.7. " Direct Teaching in the Kindergarten." Mrs.Alice H. Putnam, Chicago Froebel Association.8. "The Kindergarten as an organic part of a SchoolSystem." Mrs, Ella F. Young, Assistant Superintendent, Chicago Schools.Official Reports,During the week ending March 30, 1897, there hasbeen added to the Library of The University a totalnumber of 102 books from the following sources :Books added by purchase, 51 vols., distributed asfollows : Political Science, 5 vols.; English, 1 vol.;Zoology, 1 vol.; Church History, 1 vol.; Homiletics,2 vols.; Systematic Theology, 1 vol.; Morgan Park, 27vols.; Political Economy, Sociology, Political Scienceand History, 13 vols.Books added by gift, 28 vols., distributed as follows:General Library, 26 vols.; Pedagogy, 1 vol.; Political Economy, 1 vol.Books added by exchange for University publications, 23 vols., assigned as follows : Sociology, 3 vols.;Sociology (Divinity), 2 vols.; Semetic, 9 vols.; NewTestament, 1 vol.; English, 1 vol.; Church History, 3vols.; Homiletics, 2 vols.; Systematic Theology 2 vols.The Report of Beecher House for the Winter Quarter, 1897, is as follows :Organization. — Head of House, Associate ProfessorJulia E. Bulkley; Counselor, Assistant ProfessorFrank Justus Miller ; House Committee, Misses Merrill, Osgood, Rhodes, Wells ; Secretary, Miss Ella Osgood.Members {Resident). — Misses Agerter, Baker, Bishop, Blanchard, Brotherton, Brown, Byrns, Castro,Chamberlin, Foster, Haeger, Harding, Sallie King,Margaret King, Matz, McBride, McNeal, Merrill,Michael, Miles, Ethel Miller, Elsie Miller, SusieMiller, Osgood, Rainey, Ranstead, Rhodes, Roberts,Ross, Runner, Shupe, Swett, Tefft, Tryner, Mary L,Van Hook, Martha Van Hook, Wells, Mrs. Gray0Guests.— Miss Woodward. Chief Events. — Three Monday Receptions ; Address by Mrs. Kelley, State Inspector of Factories, on"Child Labor" before the University SettlementLeague; Children's Reception by the Head of theHouse ; dinners to representatives of various departments of The University.The report of papers read at meetings of the Geological Club for the Winter Quarter 1897 is as follows:1. The Elongation and Shortening of the Earth's Crust.Professor Charles Richard Van Hise. January 72. (a) Geology of the Castle Mountain Mining District,Montana, by Weed and Pirsson, Review byH. Foster Bain.(5) Geology of Fox Island, Maine, by Geo. Otis Smith.Review by S. Weidman.(c) Ancient Volcanic Socks of South Mountain, Pa.,by Florence Bascom. Review by Professor J. P.Iddings. January 143. The Geographical Development of New Jersey. Professor R. D. Salisbury. January 214. Earth Movements. Professor C. R. Van Hise.February 4.5. The Stability of Rocks. Professor J. P. Iddings.February 116. (a) On the Differentiation of Rocks, by G. F. Becker.Review by C. F. Tolman.(6) The Geology of Government Explorations, by S.F. Emmons. Review by J. Paul Goode. February 187. (a) The Relation of the Streams in the Neighborhoodof Philadelphia to the BrynMawr Gravel, by Florence Bascom. Review by W. W. Attwood.(6) Correlation of Palaeozoic Rocks of NortheastArkansas. Stuart Weller. February 25.8. The Geology of the Yellowstone National Park. Professor J. P. Iddings. March 11.9. The Geological History of the Great Lakes. J. PaulGoode. March 18Religious.The University Chaplain, Associate Professor C. R.Henderson, can be found during his office hour, from1:00 to 1:30 p.m. in C 2, Cobb Lecture Hall, Tuesday,Thursday, and Friday.The Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C.A. will be held in Haskell Oriental Museum, at 7:00p.m., Sunday. All are invited to attend.Current Events.In a series of addresses delivered at the Union ParkChurch of Chicago on Sunday evenings upon thegeneral subject of "Current Religious Questions"Associate Professor Foster of The University spokeFebruary 21 on "The Problem of Theology," and Dr.C. W. Votaw is announced for April 11, on "NewTestament Interpretation as affected by RecentStudies and investigations."8 UNIVERSITY RECORDMr. H. Foster Bain read and defended successfullyhis Doctor's thesis entitled "The Relations of theWisconsin and Kansan Drift Series in Central Iowa "on Friday, March 19, at. 3: 00 p.m., in the Lecture Room,Walker Museum.The Committee appointed by the State TeachersAssociation on the free text-book question has justpublished a little pamphlet containing several addresses upon this topic, delivered before the IllinoisState Teachers Association at Springfield. Amongothers one by Professor Edmund J. James of TheUniversity, in which he takes the ground that thefurnishing of text-books is as necessary a part of thefree-school system as the furnishing of free buildings,free teachers, free blackboards, or other school supplies.THE CALENDAR.April 2-10, 1897.Friday, April 2.Chapel- Assembly : Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Lectures and Recitations of the Spring Quarter begin,8:30 a.m.Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Students,8:30 A.M.-12 :30 p.m.Saturday, April 3.Administrative Board of Physical Culture andAthletics, 8:30 a.m.Administrative Board of Student Organizations, Publications, and Exhibitions, 10:00 a.m.Material for the UNIVERSITY RECORD mustorder to be published in the issue of the same week. The University Senate, 11: 30 a.m.Meeting of the University Congregation, HaskellOriental Museum, 2:15 p.m.Dinner of the University Congregation, HaskellOriental Museum, 7: 00 p.m.Sunday, April 4.Vesper Service, 4:00 p.m. (see p. 6).Union Meeting of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., 7:00 p.m.Monday, April 5.Chapel- Assembly : Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Tuesday, April 6.Chapel- Assembly : Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.University Chorus, Rehearsal, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Thursday, April 8.Chapel-Assembly: Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Friday, April 9.Chapel-Assembly : Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Saturday, April 10.Administrative Board of The University Press8:30 a.m.Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.The University Council, 11:30 a.m.sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., in