Gbe Taniversits of CbicagoPrice $ J.00 founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGO3be THnivet6it£ of Gbicago ff>tessVOL II, NO. 16. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3;00 P.M. JULY 16, 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. Presentation Address. By Miss Helen Culver - 149-150IL Official Notices 150III. The Calendar 150Presentation Address.*BY MISS HELEN CULVER.In some strenuous natures anxiety regarding a per-sonal heTeaf ter is largely replaced by an ardent desireto accomplish some real work here — " to produce," asCarlyle puts it. To them it is not enough to addsomewhat, day by day, to the sum total of well-being.They long to preserve the life-force from total dissipation at the close — to leave, in concrete form, adefinite resultant of the life here, and give it suchdirection that it may move on as a continuation ofpersonal effort. The son, it is hoped, may be heir tohis father's spirit and purpose, or by some other meanspower may be transmitted to succeeding generations,and an immortality of beneficent influence be secured.It was in obedience to such a driving power thatprovision for these buildings was made.Since it has fallen to me to conclude the work ofanother, you will not think it intrusive, if I refer tothe character and aims of the real donor. During alife-time of close association with Mr. Hull, I haveknown him as a man of tenacious purpose, of inextinguishable enthusiasms, and above all things dominated by a desire to help his kind. Much of his* Delivered in the Hull Biological Court at the dedication ofthe Hull Biological Laboratories, July 2, 1897. time for fifty years was spent in close contact withthose most needing inspiration and help. He hadalso profound convictions regarding the best basisfor social development in our country, and thesedirected the energies of his life. Looking toward theclose of activity, it was for many years #his unchanging desire that a part of his estate should be administered directly for the public benefit. Many planswere discussed between us. And when he was calledaway, before he could see the work begun, I am gladto know that he did not doubt that some part of hispurpose would yet be carried out. He would haveshared our joy in this great University could he haveforeseen its early creation, And it would ha^ie been agreater pleasure added could he have known the widediffusion of its benefits sought by its management.As already indicated, apart from my own interest inthe matter, I have looked upon myself as the guardianof a trust, only the more sacred because unexpressed.That burden, Mr. President, and members of theBoard of Trustees, I have laid upon you, and upon allthose who are to work within these halls, instructorsand students. To you and to them, I pass the name,which no son or daughter is left to wear, with thematerial inheritance, the advantages and the dutiesattaching thereto.I have believed that I should not do better than toname, as his heirs and representatives, those lovers ofthe light, who in all generations, and from all ranks,give their years to the search for truth, and especiallythose forms of inquiry which explore the Creator'swill, as expressed in the laws of life, and the means of150 UNIVERSITY RECORDrendering Jives more sound and wholesome. I havebelieved that moral evils would grow less as knowledgeof their relation to physical life prevails — and thatscience which is knowing, knowing the truth, is afoundation of pure religion.I shall attempt no further statement of the linesalong which I have hoped good would flow from thisfoundation. Those possibilities would be bettermeasured by some worker in the field of biologicalresearch.Mr. President and gentlemen, I leave the buildingsand my responsibility with you.Official Notices.The Final Examination of Philip Schuyler Allenfor the degree of Ph.D. will be held on Thursday,July 15, at 2 : 00 p.m., in Room B 13, Cobb Hall ; andin September. Principal subject, German; secondarysubject, Old French. Thesis: "Wilhelm Mtiller andthe German Volkslied." Committee: Associate Professor Cutting, Assistant Professor Bruner, AssociateProfessor Buck, and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.THE CALENDAR.JULY 16-23, 1897.Friday, July 16.Chapel-Assembly ; Graduate Schools. Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10 :30 a.m.Public Lecture : A Trip to North Greenland(illustrated by the stereopticon), by Professor Salisbury, Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m. [Open to all members of the University.]The Mathematical Club meets at 7: 30 p.m. in LectureHall, Ryerson Physical Laboratory.Professor P. Wernicke of Kentucky College will read "Concerning the Map-Color Problem."Sunday, July 18.Vesper Service, Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m. ProfessorCharles R* Brown will speak.Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room, 7: 00 p.m.Monday, July 19.Chapel- Assembly ; Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents).Public Lecture; Some Practical Aspects op Socialism, by Head Professor Laugh lin, Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 4 : 00 p.m. [Open to all members ofthe University.] Public Lecture (in the German language): Schiller's Maria Stuart, by Associate Professor Cutting, Cobb Lecture Room, 4:00 p.m. [Open to allmembers of the University.]Tuesday, July 20.Chapel-Assembly ; Senior Colleges. —Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior CollegeStudents).Public Lecture: 1) An Apprehension op SpiritualTruth, 2) An Influence op Spiritual Life, byRev. J. M. Campbell, Haskell Assembly Room,4:00 p.m.Public Lecture (in the French language): VictorHugo, by Dr. de Poyen-Bellisle, Cobb Lecture Room,4:00 p.m. [Open to all members of the University.]Public Lecture : The English Lake Country (illustrated by the stereopticon), by Assistant ProfessorReynolds, Kent Theater, 8:00 p.m. [Open to allmembers of the University.]The English Club meets in Cobb Lecture Hall, Room8 B, 8:00 p.m.Professor Hempl will read a paper on the Etymology of44 Pickle." Dr. Carpenter will read a review of the newvolume of Courthope's " History of English Poetry."The Sociology Club meets in Faculty Room, Haskell,8:00 p.m.Mr. H. F. Hegner of The Chicago Commons will speakon " The Scientific Value of Social Settlement Work."Election of Officers. All are invited.Thursday, July 22.Chapel- Assembly ; Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Public Lecture : 1) The Spiritual Man, 2) The Spiritual Holiness, by Rev. J. M. Campbell, Haskell Assembly Room, 4:00 p.m.Friday, July 23.Chapel-Assembly ; Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10 : 30 a.m.Public Lecture : Animal Phosphorescence, withSPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MECHANISM OF LlGHTProduction in Fire-flies, by Assistant ProfessorWatase', Cobb Lecture Room, 4: 00 p.m. [Open to allmembers of the University,]The Mathematical Club meets in Lecture Hall, Ryerson Physical Laboratory, 7:30 p.m.Head Professor Moore will read " Concerning the GeneralEquation of the Eighth Degree."The Philological Society meets in Cobb Lecture Roomat 8:00 p.m.The following papers will be read : " The Stopping of oneof two adjacent Fricatives," by Prof essor George Hempl ;44 The Fate of Latin Intervocalic Mediopalatal c before eand i in Popular Latin and Old French," by AssistantProfessor J. D. Bruner.Mary French Field will give a reading from EugeneField's poetry in Kent Theater. The poet's lullabieswill be sung.Material for the UNIVERSITY EECORD must be sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8 : 30order to be published in the issue of the same week. A.M., in