Price $1*50 Per Year Single Copies 5 CentsUniversity RecordCHICAGOGbe mnivecsitg ot Cbtca^o ipreesVOL II, NO. 2. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3; 00 P.M. APRIL 10, 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago. Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The Eighteenth Quarterly Statement of the President of The University, April 1, <L897 - . - 9-17II. Official Notices 18-19III. Official Reports: The Library - 19IV. Religions 19V. Current Events 19-20VI. The Calendar 20The Eighteenth Quarterly Statement of the Presidentof The University, April 1, 1897.Members of The University, Trustees, Colleagues,and Friends :With your permission I desire to modify the usualroutine of the President's statement and, instead ofpresenting the details of the closing quarter, toanswer a few of the questions which are suggestedalmost every day either by word of mouth, in privatecorrespondence, or in the public press.The eagerness of the daily press not only in Chicago but in all the larger cities of the country, topublish items, both true and false, concerning TheUniversity, indicates, it must be inferred, an attitudeof interest on the part of the public at large. It isgreatly to be regretted that the information thuspromulgated is, in so many instances, without foundation; for even when denial is made of this or thatstatement, its publication is by no means as broad aswas the publication of the statement itself. Manyquestions are suggested also by our friends in thecity and elsewhere with whom the members of The University come into social contact. These questionsare prompted by a genuine interest in the growth andwelfare of The University. The same may be said ofthe questions which come to us from members ofother institutions, from parents and from strangers ata distance. I have put together a few of the moreimportant of these questions with the purpose in mind,to answer them as briefly as possible, and thus, perhaps, to give even those who are nearest to us a betterconception of The University in some of the phases ofits work and of its administration. I have attemptedno logical order, but have arranged the questions forthe most part as they were first suggested.1. To what extent has student self-government beenintroduced into The University f The principle ofself-government has been adopted, and its applicationis gradually making its way in the different spheres ofstudent activity. The houses in which students liveare governed in each case by an executive committeechosen by the members of the house and in accordance with rules formulated by the students themselves. Each house administers its own rules and inno single case has the faculty interfered with this self-government.The students from each college or school elect fromtheir own body a councilor. These councilors serveas representatives of the students and in this representative capacity act for their respective constituenciesin all matters which concern alike the faculties andthe students. It is their privilege to suggest modifications of existing rules and the enactment of newrules. It is their function to superintend the generalexercises in which students participate. They are responsible to the student-body and their resignation10 UNIVERSITY RECORDmay be called for at any time by a vote of the student-body. It is a common feeling in The University,I think, that the work of the student councilors hasbeen received with greater appreciation, by both faculties and students, during each succeeding quarter.By recent enactment, the students have four representatives who sit with members of the faculty on theBoard of Physical Culture and Athletics. Thesestudent-members have all the rights and privileges ofthe faculty-members in questions relating to athletics.At the present time a proposal is before the undergraduate body, made by the junior and senior collegecouncils, to have the examinations of The Universityplaced under the management of the students. Thisplan provides that the students themselves shall try allcases of dishonesty and recommend the penalty to theproper faculty. It is to be feared that the undergraduate body is not yet ready for so advanced a step. Inonly a few institutions in the country and under peculiar circumstances has this plan succeeded. There arestill survivals among us of the strange ideas of studentlife handed down from the Middle Ages. The opinionthat students were different from other men, and wereto be judged by different standards, has not wholly disappeared, and consequently it is not uncommon to finda young man or young woman who, in ordinary transactions, would act with strictest probity, guilty ofmisrepresentation and actual falsehood in an effort toavoid the performance of a university obligation. Ina recent report, the president of the oldest of American educational institutions has called attention tothe fact that such dishonesty is increasing, ratherthan diminishing. One must believe that in generalthere is improvement, and we must hope that the daywill come when in this matter as in others the students in their dignity will throw off this reproachwhich has so long rested upon them.The first step in this direction is that of self-government, a policy which should be cultivated in famiJylife as well as in college life, but at the same time apolicy which cannot be adopted without careful forethought and preparation.2. What is involved in the difficulty which hasarisen between the athletic interests of The University of Chicago and the Amateur Athletic Union 9I have included this question, not merely because itis a living question, but because it involves, in myopinion, an important principle. Shall the colleges ofthe country regulate their own athletics, or shall theyput aside this responsibility and leave the matter inthe hands of others? Are not the institutions themselves able to decide whether, under the rules adopted,this or that man may take part in athletic contests? If purity in athletics cannot be secured through theaction of the faculties of the institutions concerned,surely little may be expected from the outside world.The position taken by the director of our athleticwork commends itself to the students and the faculties.It is devoutly to be hoped that other universities willappreciate the gravity of the question at issue andcome to the support of the stand which has beentaken for the independence of college athletics.3. At what rate has the number of students inThe University increased? The number of studentsenrolled in the Winter Quarter of 1893 was 657; inthe corresponding quarter of 1894, 848; 1895, 1029;1896, 1095 ; 1897, 1131 ; in other words an increase in1894 of 30 per cent.; 1895 of 22 per cent.; 1896 of 6.5per cent, and in 1897 of 3 per cent. The increase hasbeen at the rate of 15J£ per cent, a year. The totalenrollment of students in the first year of The University was 782 (three quarters), in the second year958 (three quarters); increase 176 or about 23 per cent.The enrollment of students in the third year (1894-5 ;four quarters) was 1591 ; in the fourth year (1895-6 ;four quarters) 1881, an increase of 290 over the preceding year, i. e., about 18 per cent. This enumerationdoes not include the students at Morgan Park or inthe affiliated schools, or those engaged in UniversityExtension work.4. Is it true that The University has not made goodprovision for training in public speaking and in debating? This question has been suggested by friendsof The University living far away and near at home,and we must confess that there has been occasion forthe question. From the beginning The Universityhas laid special emphasis upon the work in rhetoricand English composition. No more thorough systemhas been worked out than that which is in operationtoday. But in the particular work of public speakingand debating there has not been sufficient interest.The faculty has been influenced by the fact that in toomany cases men who have developed an interest inpublic speaking were those who had small interest inscholarship and the faithful performance of regularduties. Until within a recent period no satisfactorymethod for developing this interest among the students had been suggested. But in making this statement I must not fail to mention the faithful efforts ofa few students and a few instructors to organize andadvance this important part of college discipline.Within the last few weeks careful consideration hasbeen given this subject, and I have the privilege ofannouncing this evening that The University will giveeach quarter to the successful competitor in each ofthe six divisions of the Junior Colleges a prize con-UNIVERSITY RECORD 11sisting of a college scholarship for any succeedingquarter of residence in The University, yielding thetuition fee for that quarter ; and to the successful contestant among these six representatives of the JuniorCollege divisions the Ferdinand Peck prize of $50 forexcellence in oratory.To the successful competitor in each of the sixdivisions of the Senior Colleges a prize consisting of acollege scholarship for any succeeding quarter of residence in The University, yielding the tuition fee for thatquarter, and to the successful contestant among thesesix representatives of the Senior College divisions aprize of $50 for excellence in oratory presented by afriend whose name will be announced later. The University will also bestow each quarter a Universityscholarship for any succeeding quarter, yielding thetuition fee for that quarter upon two students fromthe Graduate Schools and two students from theDivinity School, who shall be selected by competitionto debate before The University ; and to that debaterof the four who shall have been adjudged most successful the Joseph Leiter prize of $75 for excellence indebating. Provision is also made by which membersof the Senior Colleges shall be allowed to compete forplaces in the Graduate and Divinity debate. It willbe noticed that these prizes are offered during each ofthe four quarters of the university year. The wholeamount of money thus distributed in prizes exceeds$3000 for the y,ear. Whatever may have been saidwith respect to the attitude of The University in thepast toward the work of public speaking, it will beagreed that in these arrangements The Universitymakes ample and satisfactory provision.5. How much and what kind of work is expectedof the instructors of The University? It is a common impression that a professor in a college or university, especially in a larger institution, is a man ofcomparative leisure. Inasmuch as he is expected toteach only eight, ten or twelve hours a week, it isnot infrequently asked, how does he spend the remainder of his time. The trustees of institutions too oftenknow so little concerning the meaning of universitywork, what it costs and what it involves, that theyactually measure the work of a professor by the number of hours spent in the class room. They forgetthe many hours spent each week with individualstudents outside of class-room work, the many hoursgiven to the administrative work of The University(for every man, even if he be not an administrative officer, has administrative work), the attendance uponfaculty meetings, the many public addresses eachyear which must be prepared for educational conferences and teachers' meetings, the scientific papers which must be written for the learned societies ofwhich one must be a member. Add to this the workinvolved in maintaining familiarity with the new publications which bear directly upon the subject of one'sprofession, the direct preparation for the class roomwhich every teacher must make if he would be successful, and the contributions to the literature of his subject which The University expects of every member ofits staff, and one might more properly ask, what is therewhich The University does not demand of its instructors ? The best results in university work will comein an atmosphere of comparative leisure. Scholarshipmay not be hurried. Would it be wise to establishchairs simply for investigation and research, withoutrequirement in the way of instruction ? In generalthat investigator will accomplish most who is closelyassociated with a group of students. There may beexceptions, but, for the most part, it is best to includeat least a minimum of instruction with every chair ofinvestigation. In The University of Chicago everyofficer is expected to conduct two definite courses ofinstruction. In case the courses are elementary incharacter, three are required. The general and specialduties which grow out of the professor's position are sonumerous, and so onerous, that the temptation everywhere is very great to undertake more than can bedone well, or to attempt an amount of work whichwill surely lead to ill-health. I am ready to maintain,on the one hand, that the position and the work of theuniversity professor are ideal ; but on the other hand Imust insist that there is no ordinary position of whichmore exacting demands are made, no ordinary workrespecting which greater expectations are entertained.6. Do the modern ideas of education find theirway into the college curriculum, or is the work of thecurriculum practically the same as that which hasbeen required for fifty years or more? It is trueon the one hand that a college faculty is the mostconservative body of men in the world; but it isequally true that this same college faculty is a mostradical body. Whence come all the reforms of theday ? From the universities ; and we may bewail thefact that many movements to which the title of reformcannot be properly assigned find their origin in institutions of learning. It has been the first duty of theuniversity to hand down the traditions of the past,and it must be confessed that in too many instancesthe university has seemingly satisfied itself with thisparticular function. No institution of the MiddleAges, however, has suffered greater change, no institution has adjusted itself more truly to its changingenvironment than the university. To those whose12 UNIVERSITY RECORDthoughts rest mainly upon the new in life and thenew in education, the change has always seemed tooslow, but when we stand back and measure the progress of a century, this progress has been somethingstupendous. It is right that the new should fight itsway for recognition. It would certainly have been amistake for the old to have stepped aside at the merebidding of the new. It has been necessary for thenew to struggle for its life, and in that struggle it hasacquired and exhibited the power and strength whichare indicative of a life that will never die. But isthere still too much of the old fashioned in the collegecurriculum ? I answer, yes. We remember that it wasan important mistake of the old curriculum thatevery person should be made to pass through thesame course of study whatever may have been thedirection toward which his natural disposition pointed.This has almost entirely changed, and today large liberty is granted each individual student in the matterof choosing the line of work which he shall follow.But a problem even more important is before us. Thework of the college has always been, and still is, toolargely, something put on from the outside. Themethods employed have seemed to grow out of theconception that the work of education was a worksimilar to that of putting on plaster or paint. ' Education can only build up that with which nature hasendowed the man. Its first function is to enable theindividual to discover for himself what nature intended he should do; its second function is to enable him, when this discovery has been made, to develop his individuality in accordance with it. A curriculum which is not based upon this fundamentalprinciple is wrong, and progress made under such acurriculum is made in spite of it rather than bymeans of it. I think that there is still another wordto be said. The modern college curriculum and modern college methods are too intellectual. The intellect is trained too frequently at the expense of character. Training, however minute and refined, is notall that is needed. The highest function of educationis, after all, to enable the inner soul to find good andsufficient expression of itself. It is the inner ratherthan the outer life, the spiritual rather than the intellectual, which should receive our most consideratethought. Education not infrequently makes machinesof men, and, in so doing, degrades itself. How arewe tending in respect to this matter ? Without question, in the direction of higher, broader, and deeperspirituality. And yet the narrowness of some teachers, the artificiality of certain methods, the mechanical policy which prevails so largely in our educationalsystems, may well lead us to doubt whether the prog ress is anything of which we may boast. One istempted sometimes to pray for a revolution in thefield of educational work, but an evolution is proceeding surely and steadily, and if we may have patience,the time will come when there will be a commonunderstanding and a common practice based uponscientific methods and a full experience.7. How much does The University of Chicago payfor the instruction of each student during a year?In answering this question no account is taken of theexpense to The University for maintaining its build:ings and grounds, for providing heat, light and care ofrooms, nor even for the expense of the library staff.The question is, to put it again, how much is actuallypaid out in salaries to officers of instruction, and whendistributed what is the amount for each student? Ihave in my possession the exact figures of the cost toThe University of each particular course of instructionin each department during each quarter of the historyof The University. It is manifestly unfair to expectthe departments in which only more advanced work isdone to accomplish that work with the same cost asthat of the departments in which the more elementarywork forms the larger part. Taking as a typicalexample the autumn quarter of last year, the following figures may be of interest : The cost for eachregistration for a major (that is, a course of studyfour hours a week through twelve weeks) was inThe Department of Philosophy $20.96" " " Political Economy 45.24" " " Political Science 26.00" " "History 18.86" " "Archaeology 74.36" " "Sociology 48.32" " " Comparative Religion 57.92" " "Semitic 36.68" " " New Testament Literature 30.34" " " Comp. Philology 62.40" " "Greek 24.34" " "Latin 22.52" " "Romance. 15.66" " "German 10.78" " "English 13.20" " "Mathematics 24.24" " "Astronomy 93.32" " "Physics 55.94" " "Chemistry 25.62" " "Geology 55.12" " "Zoology 23.88" " "Anatomy 29.82*k " "Physiology 33.14" " "Neurology 184.20" " " Palaeontology 99.28" " "Botany 13.80" " "Elocution 15.40" " " Systematic Theology 55.04" " " Church History 39.74" " " Homiletics 27.02UNIVERSITY RECORD 13The average cost of each registration in the JuniorColleges was $14.86 ; the cost of instruction for eachJunior College student $133.74. The average cost ofeach registration in the Senior Colleges was $21.63 ;the cost for each Senior College student $194.67. Theaverage cost of each registration in the GraduateSchools was $37.94; the cost for each graduate student $341.46. To these sums there should be addedabout 33K per cent, to determine the whole cost toThe University of each student. For every eight students enrolled in The University there is one instructor.8. How is it possible for The University to continueits work throughout the twelve months of the yearwithout requiring its professors to perform university service during these twelve months, and thusplacing them at a disadvantage in comparison withthe instructors of other universities ? This is one ofthe questions asked most frequently. The Universityexpects of each instructor of its staff thirty -six weeksof resident instruction. In other words no instructoris expected to be present more than three of the fourquarters in a year. To put it in another form, aboutone-fourth of the staff of instructors is absent all thetime. Inasmuch as it is more easy to secure professors from other institutions during the summer, theirown work being discontinued, the number of those whoare thus added temporarily to the staff is larger forthe summer quarter than for any other. The analysis of the staff of summer instructors for the comingsummer is as follows : There will be about 120 professors and instructors at work. Of these 60 have already had three months of vacation during the quarters that have preceded, 30 will work during thesummer quarter and thus make it possible to have avacation of six months at some future time, when, perhaps, it will be found desirable to go abroad. Of theremaining 30, 15 will come from other institutions and15 will be professors or instructors in The Universitywho do the work and receive extra pay.The flexibility of the vacation system has been foundmost advantageous in the interests of the instructor.Some prefer to be away from Chicago in the autumnor winter, others in the spring or summer. No difficulty has been found in arranging the periods of residence and of absence. And even if it were a matter ofserious difficulty, the results accomplished would morethan justify the expenditure of effort to overcome thedifficulties involved. One or more members of theteaching staff of over 200 colleges and universities werepresent during the past summer. These students andprofessors of other institutions are given an opportunity to spend the summer in the libraries and lab oratories of The University, an opportunity of whichthey are quick to avail themselves. The buildingsgrounds, equipment, and libraries of The University have cost $2,500,000. Why should this great investment lie idle during one-fourth of the year? Thetime is not far distant when the buildings of our public school system will be open for instruction in thesummer as well as in the winter. There are manyreasons why, from an educational point of view, in agreat city like Chicago, the summer months shouldnot be lost. The countless summer schools whichhave been planted throughout the entire country areevidence at the same time of the eagerness on the partof the people everywhere to study, and of the entirefeasibility of summer work.9. Is it true that The University of Chicago givesuniversity credit for class work performed on Sunday? During the past quarter regular courses of instruction have been given Sunday mornings in theOld Testament at half past eight and in the NewTestament at half past nine. Each class has numbered over ninety. The registration for membershipin the class was the same as registration for membership in any class of The University. The studentswho, as members of the class, performed the workfaithfully, were given the credit which would havebeen given for a similar amount of work done in anyother department of study. The classes were madeup of students from every division of The University,graduate students, divinity students and collegestudents ; students whose special work lay in all thevarious departments of university study. Many ofthose engaged in the work gave it a larger share ofattention proportionately than was given to otherwork. The work was of a scientific character, yetconducted in a religious spirit. It was historical andsociological, and as helpful in a general way as anysimilar work in any department. It was at the sametime, I think I may add, spiritual and uplifting. This,at all events, was the testimony of many who engagedin it. There are some who maintain that universitycredit should not be given for such work, but these areignorant of the character of the work performed.There are others who maintain that such work oughtnot to be undertaken on the day set apart by Christendom for rest and religious worship. These, likewise, are ignorant of the character of the work or theycould not offer such objection. I may do more thananswer the question, and add that steps are beingtaken to organize in connection with the biblical andpedagogical departments of The University, such apractice school for the study and teaching of methodsof Bible instruction as is now conducted for the study14 UNIVERSITY RECORDand teaching of methods in ordinary school work.This plan will include the bringing together of thosewho desire to familiarize themselves with the principles of teaching as applied to the sacred Scriptures,and the organization of groups of pupils of variousgrades who shall form a school of practice and observation. There is no field of education more importantand none in which a greater amount of energy iswasted than in that of Sunday-school work. If it isthought to be important to apply the principles ofpsychology and sociology to the teaching of our millions and millions of children through the week, whyshould we undertake to continue that work in theSunday School in a manner which not only ignoresthese fundamental principles, but sets them at defiance. Surely there should be found an opportunityin a Christian institution to do something, directly orindirectly, to contribute to a work in which all Christendom is engaged.10. What has been accomplished by Dr. JohnHenry Barrows in his lectures delivered in Indiaupon the Haskell foundation? Dr. Barrows landedin Bombay, December 15, 1896. During the latterhalf of December and in the months of January andFebruary his entire time was spent in responding tothe demands for his services in all parts of India.The full course of lectures was given in Calcutta,Poona, and Madras. On account of the plague inBombay, the lectureship was transferred to the city ofPoona, a stronghold of Brahmanism, and the intellectual capital of western India. Five lectures weregiven in Lahore, the capital of Punjaub. Three tofour lectures were given also in Delhi, Agra, Benares,Lucknow, Bangalore, and Ahmednagar, and oneeach in Amritsar, Ajmere, Indore, and Vellore. Dr.Barrows was given twenty-one receptions by missionary conferences, Brahmo communities, Hindu clubsand other bodies. He traveled 5500 miles in Indiaand reached directly 30,000 of the educated English-speaking people of the country. The reception givento the lecturer was both cordial and universal. Hindusand Christians vied with each other in their kindnessto him. Resolutions to be transmitted to The University and to Mrs. Haskell were passed again and againby missionary conferences and by large bodies representing all the religious communities. The Christianmissionaries of all denominations have expressed thefeeling that this lectureship will henceforth be animportant auxiliary in their work. The Barrows lectureship has been permanently established, and thenext lecturer is already the subject of eager inquiryand expectation. At a public meeting held in Madrasthe president of the Native Christian Conference said : " The Barrows lectureship marks a new era in the history of Christian missions in India." These statements are based upon the reports of Christian missionaries to the religious press, as well as upon the reportsfrom time to time received from Dr. Barrows himself.An experiment which might easily have been a failurehas proven to be a great success, and the whole worldalready acknowledges its great indebtedness to thenoble woman who by thought and act has brought torealization what at first seemed only a dream.11. What are the annual expenses of The University? I do not hesitate to answer this question. Italways has been and will be the policy of The University to conceal nothing from the public. There isno motive for concealment. Why should not thefriends of The University know even the minutestdetails of its financial administration ? I think thequestion can be most easily answered by indicatingthe proposed expenditures for the year beginning July1, 1897. The University will not authorize the payment of a single dollar for which actual provision hasnot been made. The whole amount thus provided forand appropriated for the expenses of the year beginning next July is $703,000. This sum is distributedas follows :I. Administration and general expenses — $55,149II. Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science 343,750III. Divinity 47,300IV. Morgan Park Academy 34,695V. University Extension 35,790VI. Libraries, Laboratories, and Museums.. 39,165VII. Printing and Publishing 37,260VIII. Physical Culture 7,600IX. Affiliations 1,900X. Buildings and Grounds 63,755XI. Contingent fund 36,848Total $703,213No part of this sum will be used for the erection ofbuildings. It will be noticed that The University isnot yet able to offer instruction in law, in medicineor in technology.12. The question has often been asked of late,Is not the interest in University Extension diminishing ? Was it not a mere passing whim or fancy ofthe public? Is its day not over? These are naturalquestions, always being repeated in many differentforms, but always deserving serious answer from thefriends of the movement.Our last two quarters, October 1896 to April 1897have been almost unparalleled in the history of thiscountry, for the crushing force with which the ever-increasing industrial depression has constricted allspheres of national life. Men cannot think seriouslyabout intellectual [improvement when their wholeUNIVERSITY RECORD 15energies are absorbed in the mere work of keepingsoul and body together, and this latter has been thetask of thousands in this country during the last sixmonths who have never felt such a burden before.This condition of things has seriously affected theUniversity Extension work, as well as all other lines ofmoral and intellectual effort. The early part of thisperiod coincided also with the weeks of excitementpreceding the national election, when no man foundtime to think of anything but politics. Many centresrefused to begin work until the election was over ;others after beginning courses were obliged to postpone them, greatly to the damage of the work. Thegeneral conditions could hardly have been more unfavorable, and we were prepared for a decided diminution in the number of courses, and in the number ofattendants at the courses.The result, however, has proved to be a favorabledisappointment. All three departments of the Uni-versity Extension Division have shown a substantialgrowth during the last six months. In the Lecture-study Department 134 courses have been given, witha total attendance of 30,000. This exceeds the recordfor the corresponding period of any preceding yearsince the work was begun under the auspices of TheUniversity, the highest numbers attained up to thelast season being as follows: 121 in 1892-3 with anaverage attendance of 26,513.The centres have expended on these courses, counting all local expenses, a sum total not far from $30,000.This amount with $6,000 expended for Class-study and$4,000 for Correspondence-study, making a total of$40,000, is certainly a striking proof of the genuinenessof the demand for the extension of University teaching. The expenses of the centres and of class andcorrespondence students form only a portion of thetotal expense of the undertaking, since The University is expending a generous sum upon its maintenance.The eagerness of the demand for this kind of workon the part of those who cannot afford to pay the feeswhich The University now finds it necessary to chargeis well illustrated by the history of some Extensioncourses given during the last quarter in this city incooperation with the Ryder Lecture Fund and thePublic School Board. The School Board offered theuse of school rooms and the Ryder Fund paid the University fee, which was reduced in consideration of thevalue of the work, and tickets were distributed to theparents of the children attending the public schoolsfree of charge. Four courses have been given, and theattendance has averaged about 3,000, and there isevery indication that it might have been 30,000 if The University had been able to offer the courses. Surelyliberal men and women who are contemplating assistance to the forces which are telling for a higher life inour community will find no department in whichtheir money will be better applied.It is also of interest to note that University Exten*sion seems to be equally well adapted to the conditions of cities as to the conditions of the countryand provincial towns. The work during the lasttwo quarters was divided between the two in the following proportion :Within the city of Chicago 46 courses.Outside of the city 88 "Total 134 "The work of the Correspondence-study Department,and of the Class-study Department of the ExtensionDivision has also shown a marked increase and, relatively speaking, a larger increase than that of theLecture-study. The number of correspondence students has grown from 426 last year to 540 this year.The number of students enrolled in the classes heldthroughout the city has increased from 1142 last yearto 1500 this year. When one considers that the persons enrolled in these classes pursue a course of studyextending throughout a quarter, for two hours a week,one can realize how important an element this mustbecome among the educational fprces of the city.It is worth our while to note that The UniversityExtension work is steadily growing in other portionsof this country, and in other countries. The markedsuccess of the work in England which still continueshas attracted the attention of continental educators,and similar movements are now being set on foot inFrance, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. A number ofthe most prominent professors in the University ofBerlin have recently joined in a petition to the government to organize University Extension courses,according to the plans adopted in England and in theUnited States. Surely all these are evidences of anincreasing, not a decreasing vitality, of a waxing andnot a waning movement.There seems to be almost absolutely no limit to thenumber of lecture courses which could be planted inside of the city and outside of the city if the cost couldbe adjusted to the ability of the people to pay.The work of diffusing scientific knowledge andcreating a desire for a higher and better intellectualand assthetic life is no less important than the advance of scientific knowledge itself by original investigation and discovery. Indeed, one may say that thelatter will not find the fullest support and the mostsatisfactory field of progress, except in a community16 UNIVERSITY RECORDin which interest in a higher education is widelyspread.13. Did Mr. Rockefeller, forced by the threatenedresignation of the president, recently give The University $10,000,000? On the 30th of October, 1895,Mr. Rockefeller gave The University a subscription of$3,000,000. One million of this was paid in full withinthree months after the subscription was made. Theother two millions were subscribed conditionally. Thecondition was that The University should secure alike amount, namely, two millions, from others beforeJanuary 1, 1900. Mr. Rockefeller most generouslyagreed in addition that, in case The University shouldnot secure from others the total sum of $2,000,000, hewould duplicate whatever part of that sum should becontributed by others before January 1, 1900.Soon after this subscription was made Miss HelenCulver deeded to the University property valued at$1,000,000. As this property was not all productive,Mr. Rockefeller at once agreed to pay to The University annually as interest on his subscription a sumequal to the income derived from this property.It will be seen from this statement that The University is not in a position to ask further contributionsfrom Mr. Rockefeller until it has fulfilled the conditions of his subscription. These conditions we fullyexpect to fulfill. In addition to the contribution of$1,000,000 from Miss Culver we have secured about$70,000 to apply on the second million and have twoyears and nine months in which to obtain the remainder.If we now revert to the question asked, the answeris plain. The question was this : Did Mr. Rockefeller,forced by the threatened resignation of the president,recently give The University $10,000,000 ? The answeris, (1) the president has never thought of such an absurd thing as threatening to resign. He does not employ threats to extort subscriptions from friends ofThe University ; (2) The University has not sinceOctober 30, 1895, asked Mr. Rockefeller for a singledollar in the way of new subscriptions, and (3) Mr.Rockefeller has not made any new subscriptions. Hehas not subscribed $10,000,000 nor $1,000,000 nor onesingle dollar. He has not given the slightest intimation of a purpose to give at any future time $10,000,-000, nor has he been requested to do so, nor has theslightest suggestion looking in that direction beenmade to him.I may go further than this, and say that on accountof the financial stringency The University has notthought it wise during the past year to make anyappeal to its generous friends in Chicago for largesubscriptions, and none of those gentlemen who are reported as having declined to assist us have been somuch as solicited to aid us. The statements in the -daily press have been false in every single particular.It is most true that The University needs large additions to its funds. It needs buildings, books, andapparatus. Most of all, it needs additional endowments. It needs and ought to have immediately$4,000,000 added to its endowment funds.When prosperity returns to our people, we shall askour friends to let us have this, and of course they willnot allow us to appeal to them in vain.14. What is the greatest single piece of work whichstill remains to be done for the cause of education inthe city of Chicago and in connection with The University? Will you note that I have combined two elements in this question? The cause of education inthe city of Chicago and The University of Chicago.The answer to the question must include both ofthese elements. If I were to present at this timethe need of The University, such presentation wouldnot answer the question. The question is rather theneed of the city of Chicago and the great territory ofwhich it is the capital, and a need which can be mostadvantageously provided for in connection with TheUniversity of Chicago. It will not be difficult, I amsure, to fix the limitations of the question. It cannotinclude on the one hand a library for The University,or a gymnasium for The University ; nor on the othersuch great and far reaching work as might easily besuggested in connection with the public school systemof the city, for with these The University could not, inthe nature of things, be directly connected. I have inmind a piece of work which would make the doer of itblessed through all time by hundreds of thousands ofhis fellowmen. It would give him fame throughoutthe world, but this would be as nothing in comparisonwith the good which, even in a short time, would havebeen accomplished by his act. That man will indeedbe thought a great man in the years to come, who, seeing on every side of him suffering that might easily berelieved, coming into contact every day with death thatmight easily have been prevented, does somethingwhich in some other than an artificial way will makeit possible to relieve suffering and to prevent prematuredeath. Modern benevolence, strangely enough, hastaken the form most frequently of gifts for establishing hospitals. Is it not evident, when one considersthe cost, that the hospital is of benefit to comparatively few ? The work of the next century will be toprevent sickness rather than to cure it. A School ofMedicine in the city of Chicago with an endowmentlarge enough to make it independent of the feesreceived from its students, with an endowment largeUNIVERSITY RECORD 17enough to provide instruction of as high an order asany that may be found in European cities, with anendowment large enough to provide the facilities ofinvestigation and research which may be used by thosewho would devote their time to the study of methodsof prevention of disease as well as of the cure of disease ; an endowment for medicine which would makeit unnecessary for men to seek lands beyond the sea forthe sake of doing work which ought to be done here athome, such an endowment, I assert, for medical education, is the greatest piece of work which still remainsto be done for the cause of education in the city ofChicago. It is impossible to conceive the far reachingresults of such an act. Our children and our children'schildren through all the generations would enjoy thebenefits of such a benefaction. The poor throughoutthe crowded districts of our city would be more directlybenefited in this way than in any other. Men of learning tell us that we are only entering upon the field ofmedical science. If this is true what greater boon tohumanity than a foundation which shall make possiblemore rapid progress, more extensive achievement.You will pardon me, perhaps, for mentioning, asbriefly as may be, the other element, namely, the connection of such an endowment with The University ofChicago. I speak of this because it is usual for greatmedical foundations to have connection with a university, and also because The University of Chicagohas already so largely developed the work which wouldprepare the way for the more technical medical workunder discussion. Within a few weeks four greatlaboratories, for botany, zoology, anatomy, and physiology, will be opened for work. These, with the recentlyconstructed laboratories for physics and chemistry,equal, it is believed, in arrangement and equipment toany that have hitherto been erected upon Americansoil, are preliminary and preparatory to the workwhich has been described. I do not have in mindan institution of charity or an institution whichshall devote itself merely to the education of a man whoshall be an ordinary physician; but rather an institution which shall occupy a place beside the two orthree such institutions that already exist in our country, one whose aim it shall be to push forward theboundaries of medical science, one in which honor anddistinction Will be found for those only who makecontributions to the cause of medical science, one fromwhich announcements may be sent from time totime so potent in their meaning as to stir the wholecivilized world. There is no other work which willlift our beloved city of Chicago more quickly to a place of honor and esteem among the cities of theworld. There is no other deed the advantages ofwhich would accrue more directly or more abundantlyto this city of which we are so justly proud. I plead,men and women of Chicago, for a School of Medicinewhich shall be equal to any that today exists ; for aninstitution which will draw from all parts of the worldmen and women who shall find incentive and opportunity to do something for the mitigation of humansuffering, for the amelioration of human life. The timeis ripe. Let the word be spoken.* * *If there were time I should be glad to present otherquestions and so far as possible answer them, but Imay not continue.We do not forget that one of our number whojoined us in procession only three months ago is nothere tonight. The University has lost a faithful servant. The life of Dr. Dahl was a good and helpfullife. His friends in the West and in the East mournwith us his sudden call to the other world.It is my privilege to announce that in addition tothe prizes to be awarded for excellence in public speaking and debating proffered by Ferdinand Peck andJoseph Leiter, to which reference has already beenmade, The University has received during the presentquarter, (1) $1560 from a friend whose name may notbe mentioned, making provision for a special fellowship yielding $520 a year extending through threeyears ; (2) the sum of $225,000, paid by Mr. Morton,executor of the Reynolds estate, in fulfillment of thepledge of Mrs. Mary Esther Reynolds, made October19, 1892 ; (3) gifts of books amounting to about $1200 ;(4) additional contributions to The University Primary School in connection with the Pedagogical Department amounting to $1000.On behalf of The University and on behalf of TheUniversity's friends I wish to make acknowledgmentof the beautiful and stimulating address to whichit has been our great privilege to listen. It hasbeen a word from our sister-country, Canada, a wordfrom our mother-country, England. It has been aword concerning home-life; and what, after all, isthe life of the English-speaking world but the life ofone great family? The dominion of Canada, the UnitedStates, and old England — may mutual good feelingand mutual good work for humanity's sake draw themstill more closely together, and make them today andthroughout all time the representatives of truth andthe advocates of righteousness and peace.18 UNIVERSITY RECORDOfficial 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 10, 1897, in the Faculty Room,Haskell Oriental Museum, are the following :8:30 a.m. — The Administrative Board of the University Press.10:00 a.m.— The Faculty of the Junior Colleges.11:30 a.m. — The University Council.The Office Hours of the Deans during theSpring Quarter will be as follows :For the Divinity School : Dean Hulbert, H 15.11:30-12:30, Tuesday-Friday.For the Graduate Schools and Senior Colleges (men):Dean Judson, C A 9. 12:00-1:00, Tuesday-Friday.For the Graduate Schools and unclassified students(women): Dean Talbot, C A 4. 12:00-1:00, Mon-FrLFor the Colleges (women): Dean Bulkley, C A 4.2: 00-3: 00, Monday-Friday.For the Junior Colleges and unclassified students(men): Dean Capps, C A 4. 9:30-11:00, Monday-Friday.Junior Division Officers. — The officers of the divisions and division- sections of the Junior Collegesfor the Spring Quarter are as follows :I. Dean Capps.Ha. (A to C) Mr. Hill.lib. (C to M) Associate Professor Thatcher.lie. (M to Z) Mr. Damon.Ilia. (A to M) Dr. Boyd.1115. (M to Z) Dr. Neff.IVa. (A to M) Assistant Professor Smith.IV6. (M to Z) Associate Professor Stratton.Va. (A to L) Assistant Professor F. J. Miller.Vo. (L to Z) Dr. Young.VI. Mr. Slaught.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 April 13. The first lectures are as follows :Junior I. Assistant Professor Reynolds, Tuesday,10:30 a.m., D 8, 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. Head Professor Small, Tuesday, 10:30a.m. Assembly Room, Haskell, "The Sciences of Association."Junior V. Head Professor Chamberlin, Tuesday,10:30 a.m., B 9, Cobb, "The Inorganic Sciences; I,General Relations."Junior -VI. President Harper, Wednesday, 10:30a.m., Faculty Room, Haskell, "Introductory Topics."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. Discussion 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.The New Testament Club will meet in the parlorsof Middle Divinity Hall, Monday, April 12, at 7 : 30 p.m.The following papers will be presented: "Holtzmann,"Mr. Wood ; " Pfleiderer," Mr. Goodspeed ; " The NewHarnack Chronology," Dr. Votaw.UNIVERSITY RECORD 19Readings from recent books will be given by Assistant Professor Crow during the Spring Quarter onTuesdays at 3:00 p.m., in D2. On Tuesday next,selections from the following will be read :Watson: "The Year of Shame."Dunbar : "Lyrics of Lowly Life."Sangster : " Easter Bells, Poems."Van Dyke : "The Builders and Other Poems."Several other books will be briefly noticed, amongthem Nansen's " Farthest North."On Monday next, at 2 ; 00 p.m., in D 2, there will be arepetition of the readings from Sienkiewicz's "QuoVadis."The Germanic Club meets on Wednesday, April 14,at 1 : 30 p.m., in B 11. Report upon Zeitschrift f. d.Alterthum, 1896 ', by Mr. Ora P. Seward. Report uponAlemannia, 1896, by Mr. Philip S. Allen.The Zoological Club will hold its regular meetingWednesday, April 14, at 3:00 p.m., in K 22. AssistantProfessor Wheeler will give a paper on •' The MarineFauna of San Diego, California."The Mathematical Club will meet in Room 35,Byerson Physical Laboratory, Friday, April 16, at 4:30p.m. Dr. J. H. Boyd : " Concerning a special class oflinear differential equations."Official Reports.During the week ending April 6, 1897, there hasbeen added to the Library of The University a totalnumber of 260 books from the following sources :Books added by purchase, 131 vols., distributed asfollows :Philosophy, 5 vols.; Political Economy, 7 vols.; Political Science, 41 vols.; History 2 vols.; Sociology4 vols.; Comparative Philology, 7 vols.; New Testament, 9 vols.; Latin, 2 vols.; Greek, 3 vols.; Latin andGreek, 1 vol.; German, 13 vols.; English, 11 vols.;Mathematics, 4 vols.; Geology, 2 vols.; Physiology, 2vols.; Church History, 2 vols.; Homiletics, 1 vol.;Systematic Theology, 10 vols.; Morgan Park Academy,1 vol.; Dano-Norwegian Seminary, 4 vols.Books added by gift, 126 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 54 vols.; Political Economy, 1 vol.;Sociology (Divinity), 60 vols.; Geology, 11 vols.Books added by exchange for University publications, 3 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 2 vols.; Sociology (Divinity), 1 vol. Religious.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.The Young Men's Christian Association and theYoung Women's Christian Association will give areception to the members of The University in Haskell Museum, Saturday, April 10, at 8:00 p.m.Current Events.On last Tuesday evening, Dr. F. W. Shepardsondelivered a public lecture and assisted in the organization of an Extension Centre at Park Ridge, 111.Mr. E. E. Sparks has just concluded a most successful season of University Extension work. During thesix months, beginning with October 1st, 1896, he hasdelivered seventeen courses of six lecture-studies each,besides giving considerable time to the organizationof new centres. Mr. Sparks' work has been receivedwith great favor.The following words from Spalding's Official BaseBall Guide for 1897 (p. 148) will be of interest as illustrating the views of those outside college influences asto college athletics at The University :" It is in the West that the game has mostly advanced in favor in the colleges within the past two orthree years, and this progress has been largely due to theefforts of that leading college club of the West, the Chicago University Base Ball Club, the team of which,from early April to July of 1896, did such excellentwork in advancing baseball interests among the colleges of the Western states. And much of this goodwork was accomplished through the persistent energyand excellent management of that noted Yale veteran,Mr. A. Alonzo Stagg, the very able director of the department of physical culture in the Chicago University. The worthy President of the University, Mr.William R. Harper, too, by the aid and countenancehe has given to rational sports and pastimes in theeducational curriculum of the institution, and especially to that game of games in field sports, baseball,has also done valuable service to the cause of physicaleducation in our colleges, thereby promoting the advancement of the position of his University to the highplace of Harvard, Yale and Princeton in the great educational institutions of America."20 UNIVERSITY RECORDProfessor Edmund J. James attended a UniversityExtension Conference at Sterling, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon , and in the evening delivered a publiclecture on "The Life and Work of Bismarck."Professor Henry W. Rolfe concluded on Tuesdayevening his first six months of University ExtensionLecture-study work in connection with the Universityof Chicago. During the season just closed, he hasdelivered twelve courses of lectures, which have beenreceived with a great degree of favor by the differentExtension Centres. He will spend six months in NewEngland, returning to the University October 1st, 1897.Mr. A. F. Cole has just concluded a course of sixlectures studies on " Plain Talks on Bacteria " beforethe Extension Centre at South Bend, Indiana. TheSuperintendent of the Epworth Hospital and TrainingSchool in expressing to the Extension Division the greatpractical value of the course of lectures, says : " Thus,the lectures have not only been a direct benefit to us asnurses, but will be of untold benefit to the great massof suffering humanity coming under our charge fromtime to time."THE CALENDAR.April 10-17, 1897.Saturday, April 10.Administrative Board of the University Press, 8:30A.M.Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.Kindergarten Conference, Chapel, Cobb, 10:00 a.m.The University Council, 11: 30 a.m.Sunday, April 11.Vesper Service, 4:00 p.m. (see p. 19).Union Meeting of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., 7:00 p.m. Monday, April 12.Chapel-Assembly : Junior Colleges.— Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Lecture, Senior Divisions II-VI. Dean Judson, Leerture Room, Cobb, 10: 30 a.m.New Testament Club, Middle Divinity, 7:30 p.m. (seep. 18).Tuesday, April 13.Chapel-Assembly : Senior Colleges.— Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Lecture, Junior Division I. Assistant ProfessorReynolds, D 8, Cobb, 10: 30 a.m.Lecture, Junior Division II-III. Head ProfessorLaughlin, Lecture Room, Cobb, 10:30 a.m.Lecture, Junior Division IV. Head Professor Small,,Assembly Room, Haskell, 10:30 a.m.Lecture, Junior Division V. Head Professor Cham-berlin, C 9, Cobb, 10:30 a.m.Readings from recent books by Assistant ProfessorCrow, D 2, Cobb, 3:00 p.m. (see p. 19).University Chorus, Rehearsal, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Wednesday, April 14.Lecture, Junior Division VI. The President, FacultyRoom, Haskell, 10:30 a.m.Germanic Club, B 11, 1:30 p.m. (see p. 19).Thursday, April 15.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Young Woman's Christian Association, HaskellAssembly Room, 10:30 a.m.Friday, April 16.Mathematical Club, R 35, 4:30 p.m. (see p. 19).Lecture, Senior Division I. The President, FacultyRoom, Haskell, 5: 00 p.m.Saturday, April 17.Administrative Board of Affiliations, 8:30 a.m.Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.Faculty of the Divinity School, 11: 30 a.m.Material for the TUSTCVEBSITY EECOSD must be sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., in*order to be published in the issue of the same week.