Price $1.00Per Yea* £be Titntvereity of CbtcagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Copies5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGbe TUnfversitB ot Cbicago ptessVOL II, NO. 26. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. SEPTEMBER 24, 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS. 2 : °° P,M* **our *or Conference with Class-study instructors.I. Programme of the University Convocation, 3:ooP-M' Clas^study Conference Add^sses by PresidentAutumn 1897 - - - ... . ,211-212 Harper, Director Edmund J. James, HeadII. Official Notices 212 Professor John M. Coulter, and others.III. The Bradley Polytechnic Institute ... 212 „ . t v TT . . „ ¦ Ke?* Theater-IV. The University Elementary School - - - 212 * : °o-4 : oo p.m. Meetmg of the University CongregationV. Recent Numbers of University Periodicals - *. 212-214 HaskeU °rtental Mustum^Faculty Room,VI. Current Events - 214 6:o° P*M* dinner of the University Congregation and of the Associated Alumni.——— : Haskell Oriental Museum, — Assembly Room,Programme of the Twentieth University Convocation, October 3, Sunday. Convocation Sunday.AUTUMN 1897, 8:30 A.M. Bible Classes. Admission only by ticket, to beobtained previously from the instructor.The Convocation Week. Haskell Oriental Museum,October 1, Friday. ii:ooa.m. Annual Sermon before the Baptist Theological8:30 A.M. The Graduate Matutinal. President's House, Union, by the Rev. D. D. McLaurin, D.D.,8: 30A.M.-12: 30 p.m. Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Stu- Detroit, Michigan. First Baptist Church.dents* 4:00 P.M. Convocation Vesper Service.12 : 30 p.m. The Anniversary Chapel Service. Convocation Sermon. The Rev. Amory H. Brad-Cobb Lecture Hall^-Chafel. {ord> D.D., Montclair, New Jersey.2:00 P.M. Meeting of Candidates for Degrees with Executive Music by the Vested Choir of S. Bartholomew'sOfficers. Cobb Lecture Hall, — Chapel. Church, eighty voices.3:00P.M. The Twentieth University Convocation. Quarterly Report of the Secretary of the ChristianThe Procession. Union. Kent Theater.The Convocation Address : " The Unity of the 7 : 00 p.m. Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W, C. A.World," by the Rev. Amory H. Bradford, Haskell Oriental Museum,— Assembly Room.D.D., Montclair, New Jersey. _ ',„ ¦ ¦The Conferring of Degrees. October 4, Monday.The President's Quarterly Statement. 8:15 A.M. Quarterly Meeting of the College Divisions.University Congregational Church. Attendance required.October 2, Saturday. Cobb Lecture Hall.University Extension Class-study Day and Uni- 8: 3° A'M' ^^ ^citations of the Autumn Quarterversity Congregation Day. S ^ A ,. „ ,«• . . , A. , t, .A . . T .0 10:30 A.M. Missionary Conference. Addresses bv Rev.9:ooa.m.-i2:oom. Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Stu- °. 'TT „ „ . _ ^ „ , , *dents< 5 Amory H. Bradford, D.D. ; Rev. John Henryq:ooa.m.-i2:oo m. > 01 "*. j r- 1* ..• w Barrows, D.D. ; Rev. Henry L. Morehouse,4 : 00- 6 : oo p.m. J Class-study Consultation Hours. D D &nd ^^Cobb Lecture H ally — University Extension Office. Haskell Oriental Museumt — Assembly Room.212 UNIVERSITY RECORD12 : 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 Musetim, — 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 p.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. the 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 Bradley Polytechnic Institute.The formal exercises in connection with the BradleyPolytechnic Institute at Peoria will occur Friday,October 8, at 2:00 p.m. In addition to the formalpresentation by Mrs. Lydia Bradley and the acceptanceby Mr. O. J. Bailey, President of the Board of Trustees,there will be an address by Hon. Lyman J. Gage,Secretary of the Treasury. President William R.Harper of the University will present a statement ofthe plans of the institution, and will outline the hopesfor its future.The University Elementary School.The 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 weeks)for 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.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.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 of Recent Numbers of University Periodicals.The Botanical Gazette for August has for its leading article the continuation of the consideration of"The Phalloidese of the United States," by EdwardA. Burt, the third article discussing the Physiology ofElongation of the Receptaculum. Mr. John H.Schaffner, who has recently been appointed to animportant position in the Ohio State University, hasan article on " The Development of the Stamens andCarpels of Typha Latifolia," this being number VI ofthe contributions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory.Following the twTenty-five pages taken up by thesetwo important papers there are a number of brieferarticles, such as " The Soft Spot of Oranges," by RalphE. Smith of the Massachusetts Agricultural College,"Notes on New Mexican Flowers and their InsectUNIVERSITY RECORD 213Visitors," by T. D. A. Cockerell, of Mesilla, NewMexico, "The Official Nomenclature of the RoyalBotanical Garden and Museum of Berlin," by B. L.Robinson, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. "A Convenient Potometer," by D. T. MacDougal, of the University of Minnesota, and " Parthenogenesis in Marsilia,"by Walter L. Shaw, of Leland Stanford University.A review of current literature in botanical lines andthe usual pages of interesting news, notes about affairsin the botanical world complete this most attractivenumber of valuable publication.The School Review for September continues theconsideration of the question: "What should theModern Secondary School Aim to Accomplish ? " in asecond article by Paul H. Hanus. Other articlesdiscuss " The Preparatory Course in English," " HighSchool Self -Government," and "Child Study in Secondary Schools." The " Outlook Notes " by Prof essorThurber are followed by a communication from Gertrude Buck on " The Physiology of the Diagram,"and by a number of critical estimates of new books." The Recommendations of the Committee of theMassachusetts Organization of the Classical and HighSchool Teaching " are of interest.The Biblical World for September has a veryattractive table of contents, notable articles being" Jesus as a Teacher," by Charles F. Thwing, ofWestern Reserve University; "The Old TestamentWisdom," by Professor D. M. Welton; "The Missionary Future in the Book of Isaiah," by T. J. Rams-dell, and an illustrated description of Travel in Palestine, by Professor Shailer Mathews, who gives apleasing account of scenes to be witnessed on theplain of Jezreel and Beisan. In the "Aids to BibleReaders," Professor Burton considers the ethicalteachings of Jesus in their relation to the ethics ofthe Pharisees and of the Old Testament. Dr. Votaw'sInductive Study in the Acts discusses the third evangelizing tour of the apostle Paul. There are the usualbook reviews and personal notes of the workers inbiblical lines.The September number of the Journal op Political Economy contains several contributions of greatvalue to those who are interested in the Bank historyof the United States. The leading article considersthe " Issues of the Second Bank of the United States."In a carefully written sketch of about forty pages Mr.Ralph Catterall gives some of the results of his investigation of the career of the Second Bank. The article is illustrated by a chart showing details of the business of the bank, and also by supplementary tablesgiving various statistics of the institution. Otherarticles are " The International Typographical Union"by Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, and " The New Theoriesof Economics " by Vilf redo Pareto. The departmentof Notes contains a number of briefer articles of valuesuch as "The Austrian Postal Savings Bank" and" Foreign Clearing House Returns " by Mr. H. ParkerWillis, who has just returned to the University after ayear's absence in Europe upon a traveling fellowship ;"The Real Cost of the Tariff" by Herbert J. Davenport, and "A New Presentation of Economic Theory "by Mr. W. G. Langworthy-Taylor. About twentypages of reviews of recent books complete the tableof contents.The Biblical World for October, contains editorialson the New Logia ; Christ in Fiction, The Ideal Lifeof Christ, and the Gospels as Biographies. The Lifeof Christ series, begun in the September number iscontinued with an article on "Jesus as a Thinker" byProfessor Burton ; the thinking of Jesus was almostexclusively confined to religious and moral themes; itwas penetrative and germinal ; independent ; positiveand constructive ; its constant and final appeal was toreality. Professor Shailer Mathews prints the secondpart of his descriptive article " From Jenin to Nazareth, II. Gadara and the Jordan Valley." (illustrated) ;" Israel's Place in Universal History " is discussed byProfessor George H. Schodde, of the Capital University, Columbus, O. ; An interesting Twelfth-centuryGospels Manuscript is described by Mr. Edgar J.Goodspeed. Dr. Votaw's Inductive Studies in theActs, take up Paul's Arrest at Jerusalem throughJewish enmity, and his trial before the Sanhedrin, andbefore Felix and Festus. The Council of Seventy,and Work and Workers follow upon this article. InNotes and Opinions Rev. John Wright Buckham,Salem, Mass., discusses the Imagery of Isaiah. Synopses of Important Articles, Book Reviews, LiteraryNotes, and Current Literature complete this number.The October number of The American Journal ofTheology contains these main articles : The growthof the Peshitta Version of the New Testament, illustrated from the Old Armenian and Georgian Versions,by Professor Fred C. Conybeare, University College,Oxford, England. The Fall and the Consequencesaccording to Genesis, Chapter 3, by Professor H. G.Mitchell, Boston University ; Alexandria and the NewTestament, by Professor James S. Riggs, Auburn214 UNIVERSITY RECORDTheological Seminary ; Jonathan Edwards' Idealism,with special reference to the essay «' Of Being " and tothe writings not in his collected works, by ProfessorEgbert C. Smyth, Andover Theological Seminary ;Ethics of the State, by President D. B. Purinton,Denison University, Granville, O.; Reviews of RecentTheological Literature and Synopses of Current Periodical Literature are a special feature, and take up thebalance of this number.Current Events.The firm of 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 Final Examination of Louella Chapin, forthe degree of Master of Science was held Wednesday,September 22, 1897, at 4:00 p.m., in Walker Museum.Principal subject, Geology ; secondary subject, Palaeon-tologic Geology. Thesis : "North America during theDevonian Period." Committee : Head ProfessorChamberlin, Associate Professor Baur, Assistant Professor Felix Lengfeld, and all other instructors in thedepartments immediately concerned.The quarterly debate between representatives of theGraduate and Divinity Schools was held in KentTheater, Friday evening, September 17, 1897. Thesubject for discussion was, "Resolved: That it isexpedient for the city of Chicago to own sanitary residence buildings, and to rent the same at as low ratesas are consistent with good business principles." Thecontestants were Mr. Edward S. Meade and Mr. F. A.Cleveland from the Graduate Schools in the affirmative,Material for the UNIVERSITY RECORD mustorder to be published in the issue of the same week. Mr. Howland Hanson and Mr. Stephen Albert Robertsfrom the Divinity School in the negative. The judgesdecided the question in favor of the negative, andawarded the Joseph Leiter prize of seventy-fivedollars to Mr. Stephen Albert Roberts, of theDivinity School.Notes From Morgan Park Academy. — AssistantProfessor Robert H. Cornish, who was elected thissummer to a first assistantship in the new girls' highschool in New York City, has donated to the Academyhis entire collection of minerals for illustrating thesubject of Physiography. The collection comprisesbetween seven and eight hundred specimens. It iscarefully arranged and forms a most valuable additionto the Academy's scientific outfit.The New Hall is completed and will be open tostudents, October 1. It will be dedicated at theAutumn Convocation of the Academy, October 4.During the summer the athletic field has been laidout and graded on the ground bought last autumn bythe University Trustees for the Academy. The groundwas prepared by first putting in a complete system ofdrainage tiles and afterwards grading to a perfectlevel. On this ground there has been laid out a finetrack one-fifth of a mile in length, having on the northside a hundred-yard straightway course. In the centerof the track there is a baseball diamond and ampleroom for the football field. The ground is borderedby a grove and surrounded on three sides by trees,thus completing an athletic field in every way mostcomplete and attractive. The gymnasium, immediatelyadjacent to the field, has been repaired inside and out.It was equipped last summer with baths and locker-room, and now furnishes complete facilities for athletictraining. During the coming year the indoor andtrack athletics will be in charge of Dr. J. G. Brobeck,and Mr.- F. D. Nichols will supervise the football andbaseball work.sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., in