Price $1.00Per Year £be Tllniveretts of CbicaaoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Copies5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGbe THntY>et6tt£ of Cbicago ©teasVOL II, NO. 25. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. SEPTEMBER, 17 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. Programme of Summer Finals and UniversityConvocation, Autumn 1897 .... 207-208II. Official Notices - 208-209III. Shakespeare's Answer to the Question : Is LifeWorth Living? By Assistant Professor Crow 209-210IV. The University Elementary School ... 210V. Current Events 210VI. The Calendar - -. ¦• - - - - - 210Programme of the Summer Finals and the TwentiethUniversity Convocation, Autumn 1S97.The Final Week.September 17, Friday.8: 00 p.m. Graduate and Divinity Finals. Debate: "Resolved: That it is expedient for the city of Chicago to own sanitary residence buildings, and torent the same at as low rates as are consistentwith good business principles." Kent Theater.September 19, Sunday.3 : 30 p.m. Baccalaureate Prayer Service. Members of theFaculties and Candidates for Degrees are invitedto attend.Haskell Oriental Museum^— Assembly Room.4:00 P.M. Baccalaureate Vesper Service.Vesper Sermon and Baccalaureate Address, bythe University Chaplain, Rev. Charles R.Henderson, D.D.Music by the Choir of the Hyde Park PresbyterianChurch. Kent Theater.September 30, Monday.8 : 00-11 : 00 p.m. Reception to the Graduating Students.President's House.September 21-22, Tuesday-Wednesday.Quarterly Examinations of the Summer Quarter.The Convocation Week,October i, Friday.8 : 00 a.m.8 : 30 A.M.-12 : 30 p.m. The Graduate Matutinal. President's House.Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Students. 12 : 30 p.m. The Anniversary Chapel Service. Kent Theater.2 : 00 p.m. Meeting of Candidates for Degrees with ExecutiveOfficers. Cobb Lecture Hall,— Chapel.3 : 00 p.m. The Twentieth University Convocation.The Procession.The Convocation Address: "The Unity of theWorld," by the Rev. Amory H. Bradford,D.D., Montclair, New Jersey.The Conferring of Degrees.The President's Quarterly Statement.University Congregational Church.October 2, Saturday.University Extension Class-study Day and University Congregation Day.9:00 A.M.-12: com. Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Students.9 : °?. tf'7^L°l ™ \ Class-study Consultation Hours.4: OO- 0:00 P.M. ) JCobb Lecture Hallt — University Extension Office,2 : 00 p.m. Hour for Conference with Class-study instructors.3:00 P.M. Class-study Conference. Addresses by PresidentHarper, Director Edmund J. James, HeadProfessor John M. Coulter, and others.Kent Theater.2 : 00-4 : 00 p.m. Meeting of the University Congregation.Haskell Oriental Museum, — Faculty Room.6 : 00 p.m. Dinner of the University Congregation and of theAssociated Alumni.Haskell Oriental Museum, — Assembly Room.October 3, Sunday. Convocation Sunday.8 : 30 a.m. Bible Classes. Admission only by ticket, to beobtained previously from the instructor.Haskell Oriental Museum.11: 00 a.m. Annual Sermon before the Baptist TheologicalUnion, by the Rev. D. D. McLaurin, D.D.,Detroit, Michigan. First Baptist Church.4 : 00 p.m. Convocation Vesper Service.Convocation Sermon. The Rev. Amory H. Bradford, D.D., Montclair, New Jersey.Music by the Vested Choir of S. Bartholomew'sChurch, eighty voices.Quarterly Report of the Secretary of the ChristianUnion. Kent Theater.7 : 00 p.m. Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.Haskell Oriental Museum ,— Assembly Room.208 UNIVERSITY RECORDOctober 4, Monday.8:15 A.M. Quarterly Meeting of the College Divisions.Attendance required. Cobb Lecture Hall.8:30 A.M. Lectures and Recitations of the Autumn Quarterbegin.10:30 A.M. Missionary Conference. Addresses by Rev.Amory H. Bradford, D.D. ; Rev. John HenryBarrows, D.D. ; Rev. Henry L. Morehouse,D.D., and others.Haskell Oriental Museum, — Assembly Room.12:30 P.M. University Luncheon to Alumni and attendingClergymen. Cobb Lecture Hall,— Chapel.3 : 00 p.m. Divinity Conference, led by Head Professor Ga-lusha Anderson. Topic: "What should bethe Nature and Scope of the Minister's PastoralLabor at the present Day?" Addresses byRev. B. A. Green, D.D. ; Bishop CharlesEdward Cheney, D.D. ; Rev. H. F. Perry,Rev. S. A. McKay, Bloomington, and others.Haskell Oriental Museum, — Assembly Room.4 : 00 p.m. Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of theBaptist Theological Union.Haskell Oriental Museum, — President's Office.8: 00 p.m. Annual Meeting of the Baptist Theological Union.Address: Rev. D. T. Denman, Milwaukee, Wis.Immanuel Baptist Church.October 5, Tuesday.9:30 A.M. Annual Meeting of the Northwestern BaptistEducation Society.Haskell Oriental Museum,— Faculty Room.10:30A.M. Divinity Conference. "Some Phases of Theological Thought in America during the lastHalf- Century." Addresses by Professor WillisG. Craig, D.D., of McCormick TheologicalSeminary; Professor Milton S. Terry, ofGarrett Biblical Institute; Professor GeorgeB. Foster, and others.Haskell Oriental Museum, — Assembly Room.12: 30 p.m. Luncheon of the Divinity Alumni,Cobb Lecture Hall, — Chapel.2: 30 p.m. Annual Business Meeting of the Divinity AlumniAssociation,Haskell Oriental Museum, — Assembly Room.3 : 00 a.m. Public Alumni Meeting.Letters from absent Alumni.Addresses by Rev. C. E. Taylor, Ph.D., RockIsland ; Rev. W. M, Walker, Elgin ; ProfessorE. A. Read, Kalamazoo, Mich; ProfessorCharles R. Henderson, D.D., and Head Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin, LL.D.Haskell Oriental Museum, — Assembly Room.Official Notices,The regular and special meetings of the Facultiesand Boards to be held Saturday, September 18, 1897,in the Faculty Room, Haskell Oriental Museum, arethe following :9:30 a.m. — The Faculty of the Junior Colleges.9:45 a.m. — The Faculty of the Senior Colleges.10:00 a.m. — The Faculties of the Graduate Schools.10: 15 a.m. — The University Senate. Quarterly Examinations. — The Examinations forthe Summer Quarter are arranged as follows :8: 30 Exercises, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 8: 30-10: 30 a.m.9:30 " " " 21, 11:00- 1:00 p.m.11:00 " " " 21, 2:30- 4:30 p.m.12:00 " Wednesday " 22, 8:30-10:30 a.m.2:00 •< " " 22, 11:00- 1:00 p.m.3:00 " "" " 22, 2: 30- 4: 30 p.m.Exercises preceding 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, September21, 4:30-6:30 p.m.4:00 p.m., Exercises, Wednesday, September 22,4:30-6:30 p.m.The regular Chapel-Assembly will be held Tuesday,September 21, at 10:30 a.m.The attention of instructors is called to the following enactments of the Council, respecting examinations :1. Special examinations can be granted only bythe authority of the Council.2. In all courses not designated as " Primarily forGraduates," instructors are requested to conductexaminations at the close of the quarter.3. In courses in which no examinations are given,lectures are expected to be continued through the fulltwelve weeks.Reports for the Summer Quarter. — All instructors are requested to observe that all reports forcourses given during the Summer Quarter are due atthe Examiner's Office (or the Faculty Exchange) notlater than 12:00 m., Saturday, September 25. It is ofthe utmost importance that every course be recordedfully and promptly. Blanks will be furnished throughthe Faculty Exchange not later than Saturday, September 18. The University Examiner.The Autumn Examinations for admission to theJunior Colleges will be held in Cobb Hall, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Monday, September 16, 17, 18,and 20. The University Examiner will furnish particular information on application.The Final Examination of William PleasantsOsgood for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, will beheld Wednesday, September 22, 1897 at 9:00 a.m. inRoom 35, Haskell Oriental Museum. Principal subject, New Testament ; secondary subject, Theology.Thesis: "Justification in the Epistle to the Romans."Committee : Head Professor Burton, ProfessorMathews, Head Professor Northrup, Professor Henderson, and all other instructors in the departmentsimmediately concerned.UNIVERSITY RECORD 209The Graduate and Divinity Finals will be held inKent Theater, Friday, September 17, at 8:00 p.m.Debate : " Resolved, that it is expedient for the Cityof Chicago to own sanitary residence buildings, and torent the same at as low rates as are consistent withgood business principles."Shakespeare's Answer to the Question: Is LifeWorth Living?*We have often been told that the poet is a seer, that his eyeis clearer than the eye of the common man. We expect him tosee beneath the figures and shows of life the causes of all thevaried activities that appear to us on the surface. We expecthim to understand the springs of motive, and to be able to bindthem together, incident with incident, in the intricate machinery of life, to attach motive to action, and so read out a plainlesson upon the miscellaneous and seemingly disordered face ofhuman action. Yet it is only when he is closest to us, when theroots of his being go down deep into the foundations of humannature, when we realize that he is akin to us in all our commonest experiences, that the everyday thoughts, feelings,troubles, passions, doubts, fears and hopes are the substratumof his life as they are of ours, that he, the poet and seer, is ofuse to us. It is when the poet is the greatest revealer of his ownheart that he helps us most. It is then that he reveals our ownhearts to ourselves.The greatest poet that the world has ever known, WilliamShakespeare, has given us the most wonderful and elaboratepicture of the workings of a human soul that has ever beenlaid forth in detail for our study and examination. I am awarethat in saying that I strike across one of the long-received andalmost universally held doctrines in regard to the genius ofShakespeare. Shakespeare has been called over and over anobjective writer. It is said that you find scarcely a trace ofShakespeare himself in his writings. That behind the myriad-minded, the one mind has effectually concealed itself ; that thecharacters in those wonderful pictures of human life havesprung forth from his mind like Athene from the brow ofJupiter, and, having entered into their own individual being,they are to be thought of as entirely separate from the mindof their author. It is true that they are all distinctly individualand speak for themselves, but why did the poet create such andsuch people rather than other kinds, and why do these peoplesay the things they say and do the particular things they dorather than other things? If you hunt down and pursue thechoices of Shakespeare with a pack of eager and thirsty whys,you will have in the end a collection of reasons and principlesfrom which you may build up a character, a life story, a historyof a soul, which is, to my eye, the most fascinating picture, therichest reward of study in all the realm of literature.It seems strange to me that this view of Shakespeare's mindand personality should not be the one cheerfully and spontaneously accepted by all. But I lay it up against the old studybooks and school readers that this is not so. Among all the characters that have been created by the mind of Shakespeare thecharacter of that beautiful youth, Hamlet, has been thoughtthe most interesting, and for a quotable passage his soliloquyhas been more frequently fixed upon for declamation andreading than perhaps any other passage in all the writings ofShakespeare, the passage beginning, u To be or not to be, that is* Abstracts from the Vesper Address by Assistant ProfessorCrow, Sunday, August 29, 1897. the question." This extract has been for years the whole ofShakespeare to many readers. This was Shakespeare, andto discuss the question whether a man might be justified intaking his own life or not, has formed the chief environment forthat name. Suicide, with a leaning toward its justification, hasbeen a large part of the association with the name of Shakespeare. It is always these partial truths that work mischiefin the life of thought.I believe that Shakespeare has been much misunderstood,and that a fair view of his teaching affords the richest body ofvital, spiritual truth that is to be found anywhere in all theliteratures of earth outside of the Bible. In fact, for Bibleteaching, Christian truth, there is nowhere to be found suchillustration as in this book. In this view we have with us anhonorable company of judges, among whom we find suchnames as Dr. Hugh McNeile, Charles Wordsworth, Dr. Milman,Hook, Keble, Guthrie, Chalmers and other reverend writers." Next to the Bible I have derived more benefit from the studyof Shakespeare than any other human author." "In Shakespeare we may behold no uncertain image of the word of God."Shakespeare is a " Christian poet ; " he was "instinct with thelife of Christianity." These are the testimonies of such menas I have named. And if you find a great mind speakingagainst the Christian aspect of Shakespeare's teachings, such,for instance, as Hume and Voltaire, you will note that theseminds are also against the Bible. And it is not strange that thispoet should have become the mouthpiece for Christian teaching,for his mind seems to have been honeycombed and permeatedby the incident and story and character and teaching, and evenwith the very language of the Bible.A series of quotations was given, showing how references to Bible stories were found on almost every pageof Shakespeare's works and how the language andimagery of the book had filled the author's memory.A gift of modern scholarship to the illumination of Shakespeare's mind and art has come through the study of thosemediaeval stories, tales, poems and plays from which Shakespeare took the skeleton plot that he has clothed with humanvitality and made to live and breathe before us. Layingdown the ancient plot and placing Shakespeare's scheme sideby side with it, we see where Shakespeare omitted something,added something, modified something, and how he clothedall with the glamour of his poetic genius. Far from lesseningour estimate of his genius by finding that he chose old plotsfor the substratum of his material, we find our view enhancedas we see how he wove around the framework a being ofnerve and life, of blood and motion, and created within thethrobbing heart, the willing, purposing, aspiring mind. Andit is through questioning why he changed the story here andthere that we learn the secrets of his art and get the mosteffective touchstone of his spirit. Has he omitted a passage in the ancient story ? It was too coarse even for an in habitant of Elizabethan England. The greatest refinement anddelicacy of taste, the most exquisite withdrawal from anything polluting, must have been in the mind of the man whoframed these plays from the tales. Has he in his story savedthe life of some creature who in the ancient tale received somemeed of justice or revenge ? Why has he made this change ?Shall we not gain some knowledge of Shakespeare's idea of whya man should deserve death by pointing out such differences ?Extracts from several plays were then read, andpassages bearing on the subject of the relations between life and immortality.210 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe inevitable bearing of these suggestions would seem to bethat life is worth living if this one thing is gained from it—ripeness for another life. All things look to another life, and whenwe think of that we find this life to be unquestionably good.Such teachings as these gleaned from the method of themaster artist in his workshop find effective comment in thoseautobiographic poems that were left to us of Shakespeare, thesonnets. The insufficiency of life and time, the intense appreciation of moral and spiritual values in life, and the looking forward to a fulfillment afterward, are themes which he dwellsupon. There is no piece of writing that I know of outside thePsalms of David, or other writings in the Bible, that give thatsense of the unspeakable sinfulness of sin, of the abhorrenceof the purified soul for the things that itself has in the pasttolerated and committed, to such a degree as the 129th sonnet,the one that begins :" The expense of spirit in a waste of shame."A perfect fury of remorseful feeling is poured into the linesof that sonnet. In another sonnet, the 146th, the poet seemsto have gathered up the experiences of love, suffering, doubtand hope, and to have voiced the language of a soul that hasgained self-conquest and peace.The University Elementary SchoolThe University Elementary School will reopen in itsold quarters, corner of 57th street and Rosalie court,October 1, at 9:00 a.m. Teachers will be at the schoolbuilding, Tuesday and Thursday mornings precedingthe day of opening, to meet new children, answerinquiries, etc. The terms are $15 per quarter (12 weeksfor the younger children, $20 per quarter for the older.All persons having sent children before or havingmade application during the past year, who are desirousof having places reserved will, please, promptly notifyMr. F. W. Smedley, the University of Chicago. Failureto do so before September 28, will be taken as a signof not desiring such reservation and the places thusvacated will be opened to later applicants.Current Events.The Senior College Finals in Public Speakingwere held in the Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall, Friday,September 10, at 8:00 p.m.The fifty dollar prize was awarded to Mr. Harry F.At wood.The Final Examination of Florence Reasoner forthe degree of Master of Arts was held in Cobb LectureHall, Room C 6, Thursday, September 16, 1897, at3:00 p.m. Thesis postponed for the present. Principal subject, History ; secondary subject, PoliticalScience. Committee : Associate Professor Thatcher,Head Professor Judson, Professor Mathews, and allother instructors in the departments immediatelyconcerned.The Final Examination of Henry Parker Willisfor the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was held today,Friday, September 17, 1897, at 10:30 a.m. in CobbLecture Hall, Room C 3. Principal subject, PoliticalEconomy ; secondary subject, History. Thesis : " History of the Latin Monetary Union." The committeeconsisted of Head Professor Laughlin, Associate Professor Thatcher, Assistant Professor Thomas, and allother instructors in the departments immediatelyconcerned.Material for the UNIVERSITY RECORD mustorder to be published in the issue of the same week. The^firmof A. G. Spalding & Bros, has shown itsfriendly interest in the work of the department ofPhysical Culture and Athletics by offering prizesamounting to eighty dollars, one half of which sum isto be used at the close of the Autumn Quarter 1897,and the rest at the close of the Winter Quarter 1898.THE CALENDAR.SEPTEMBER 17-23, 1897.Friday, September 17.Chapel- Assembly ; Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10 : 30 a.m.Entrance Examinations to Junior Colleges.Final Examination of Phil C. Baird, Haskell 21,2:00 p.m.Final Examination of C. E. Boyd, C 10, Cobb, 3: 00 p.m.Graduate and Divinity Finals, Chapel, Cobb Hall,8:00 p.m. (see p. 209).Saturday, September 18.Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 9:30 a.m.Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 9:45 a.m.Faculties of the Graduate Schools, 10:00 a.m.The University Senate, 10:15 a.m.Entrance Examinations to Junior Colleges.Sunday, September 19.Baccalaureate Prayer Service, Assembly Room, Haskell Oriental Museum, 3: 30 p.m.Vesper Service. Address and Baccalaureate Sermonby Professor C. R. Henderson. Kent Theater,4:00 p.m.Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room, 7: 00 p.m.Leader : Miss Cole.Monday, September 20.Chapel- Assembly ; Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents).Entrance Examinations to Junior Colleges.Reception to the Graduating Students, President'sHouse, 8: 00-11 :00 p.m.Tuesday, September 21.Chapel- Assembly ; Senior Colleges.— Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior College.Students).Quarterly Examinations of the Summer Quarter (seep. 208). Wednesday, September 22.Quarterly Examinations of the Summer Quarter (seep. 208).Final Examination of William P. Osgood, 35, Haskell Oriental Museum, 9:00 a.m. (see p. 208).Second Term of Summer Quarter closes.Thursday, September 23, toThursday, September 30,Quarterly Recessbe sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., in