Gbe inntveretts of dbtcaaoPrice $J«00 founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGbe IHniversitB of Cbicago pressVOL II, NO. 33. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. * NOVEMBER 12, 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. Puritanism and Modern Life. By Amory H,Bradford, D.D. 267-272II. Official Notices 272-273III. Official Keports: Library 273IV. Recent Numbers of University Periodicals - - 273V. Graduate Club Meeting 273-274VI. Current Events 274VII. The Calendar 274Puritanism and Modern Life.*BY AMORY H. BRADFORD, D.D., MONT CLAIR, N. J." I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava,that we might afflict ourselves before our Godto seek of him the right way." Ezra 8 : 21.The sleepy river flows as slowly by Delf shaven todayas when two hundred and seventy-seven years ago alittle company of English Christians prepared to embark on its waters as they started on the most memorable voyage ever sailed on any sea. The precise pointof their departure cannot be identified. The river islined with warehouses and factories, and neither tradition nor history speaks of the exact spot where the" Speedwell " was anchored. But some things whichpreceded the embarkation are known, and amongthem that a day of fasting and prayer was observed,when John Robinson, with the inspiration of a prophetand the tenderness of a pastor, preached from the textwhich has been chosen for our text today. Thesolemnity of the occasion cannot be reproduced. It was?Convocation Sermon delivered at the University of Chicago,Sunday, October 3, 1897. one of those historic moments when men chosen ofGod dimly realize that they are facing a mission ofvast and mysterious magnitude, and therefore humblethemselves before Almighty God and seek to knowhis will. At least one sentence in that sermon hasbecome immortal. Indeed, it may be questioned ifany other sentiment ever spoken by any Englishpreacher is so vividly remembered or will live so long.Edward Winslow, writing twenty years after, inspeaking of Robinson and his sermon, says : "Amongstother wholesome instructions and exhortations heused these expressions, or to the same purpose." Iquote but one : " And if God should reveal anythingto us by any other instrument of his, to be as readyto receive it as ever we were to receive any truth byhis ministry. For he was very confident the Lord hadmore truth and light yet to break forth out of hisHoly Word."The Pilgrim Fathers were all Puritans, and yetthey were not bigots. Their eyes were open towardthe future, but they did not forget the truths whichhad been forged in the fires of the Reformation. Thesermon of John Robinson on that memorable day wasan eloquent and solemn presentation of the principlesof Puritanism ; the principles which in England ledto Hampden, Harry Vane, Cromwell, the Puritan Revolution ; the principles which inspired the heroic soulswho dared a winter voyage on the North Atlantic in acraft smaller than ocean yachts today ,• which led tothe compact in the cabin of the " Mayflower," to theDeclaration of Independence, to the Union of States,268 UmVEBSITY BMCOBDand to all that distinguishes that which is best in American civilization. Therefore it has seemed as if thissermon and this text were the proper starting-pointfor a consideration of the relation of Puritan principles to the modern world.No people can ever safely forget or neglect the sourceof their loftiest inspirations. We shall appreciate ourdestiny only as we first appreciate our beginnings.The roots of the American republic are bedded deeplyin the^ soil of Puritanism. Were some of our ancestorsScotch ? They were Scotch Puritans. Were othersDutch ? They came here with the principles whichso powerfully influenced the Pilgrims in Holland.Were still others English? In so far as their workwas vital and enduring they were men of the samespirit and temper as those who a little later in England fought at Marston Moor and Nasby, Worcesterand Dunbar. Others may sneer at Puritanism, butfor an American to do so is like a son desecrating thehome in which he was born ahd the memory of theparents by whom he was trained.What were the distinctive principles of Puritanism? They were the following :1) Every individual has immediate access to God,and in all the affairs of the spirit is responsible to himalone.2) As men are responsible to God alone, all areunder a sacred obligation to insist on the right andduty of absolute mental freedom, unhindered by dictation from any human authority.3) The true Church of Christ is composed of allregenerate persons, and all are to be regarded asregenerate who prove their faith by holy character.4) As a later though perfectly logical and necessaryresult of what precedes — all believers have equalrights before God, and when they act together thebody of believers may be trusted.These principles may seem somewhat abstract andacademic, but they made the Puritan revolution inGreat Britain a necessity and the American republica possibility. Locked in their somewhat rough exterior is the life which thrills in modern liberty, andthey suggest with clearness the social state which willprevail when the noblest religious, social and politicalideals have had time to work to their legitimate ends.I. The Genesis of Puritanism.It is. difficult to find the source of any river. Rivulets run to a thousand valleys, and the spring inwhich the most remote seems to have its birth mayhave unseen streams reaching to far distant fountains.The source of every river is in the clouds ; their sourceis the ocean, and the ocean is a fountain because ofthe attractions of the sun. There have been Puritans in all ages and among all religions. Moses was a Puritan ; so were the prophets ; so were the apostles ; sowere Luther and Calvin. The Puritans have alwaysbeen those who insisted that spirit is more than form,and that character is more than ceremony. Thenoblest utterance of Hebrew Puritanism was this :" What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly,to love mercy, and to walk humbly before thy God ? "Historically, Puritanism as we understand it begansoon after the Church in England under Henry theEighth was separated from the Church of Rome. Thecause of that separation was vicious. A lecherousking wished freedom from papal dictation in orderthat he might be divorced and thus be able lawfullyto marry again. After the division the Church ofEngland remained the same as before, except that theking was in the place of the pope. The separationwas called a reformation. From the beginning, however, men of lofty character insisted that it had notgone far enough ; that the church should not only beseparated from papal dictation but from all thosetenets and practices which were hostile to righteousness. From that time there were Puritans in nameas well as in fact, and they were a constantly growingforce in the ecclesiastical and political life of GreatBritain. They insisted on purity of character asessential to service in the church and state. All werenot separatists then as they are not now. There arePuritans in the Church of England today as therewere then. The Presbyterians of Scotland were asdistinctly Puritans as the Separatists of England.*Puritanism was a spirit which manifested itself inmany forms. When the Separatists under Cromwelldefeated the Presbyterians under Lesly at Dunbar,the fight was between the Puritan who believed in aState Church and the Puritan who believed thatunion of church and state was a device of the devil.Puritan principles are not limited to any ecclesiasticalorganizations. They came to this country with theScotch-Irish, with the Pilgrims of Plymouth, and thePuritans of Massachusetts Bay. They are makingthemselves felt now as clearly as two centuries ago.The nonconformist conscience in England is a newoutburst of Puritanism ; the municipal revival in theUnited States is another. Both are the insistancethat the offices of the state are as holy as those of thechurch, and that no man ought to represent the statein any official position who is not pure in his character and unselfish in his aspirations and methods.From the first Puritanism has been distinctly a religious movement, but it quickly ceased to be ecclesiastical. It is religious today as when the Pilgrims sailedor Cromwell fought or Milton sang ; and ii is religiousUJSTIVEBS1TT BEOOBD 269now, as then, because a true view of religion embracesall which concerns the welfare of man both in timeand eternity. Puritanism stands for reality ; for character ; for clean living as a condition of public service ;for recognition of responsibility to God; for thesupremacy of the spirit. When Oliver Cromwellentered Parliament in 1653, and said, pointing to onemember : " There sits a taker of bribes ;" to another :"There sits a man whose religion is a farce;" to another, using the hardest name possible, which I soften :"There sits a man whose personal conduct is impureand foul;" — and then in the name of Almighty Godbroke up the Parliament, he was the impersonation ofPuritanism ; and for one, I wish he would rise fromhis grave and in the same spirit enter some of ourhalls of legislation, both state and national.So much for the genesis of Puritanism.II. What has been the effect of Puritanism on theworld fTo ask that question is to answer it. It foughtthe priesthood in the Hebrew times and insistedon genuineness and spirituality. It was personifiedin John Calvin when he wrought to perfect expressionthe truth that every individual may come into theimmediate presence of God and is responsible to himalone. It fought the Puritan Revolution from startto finish. It sent the Pilgrims to Plymouth. It madethis nation a republic; and has dominated the wholeBritish Empire, so that the Union Jack stands for aliberty quite as ample as that represented in the Starsand Stripes.At one time Puritanism seemed synonymous withnarrow theology, bigotry, witch-burning, sanctimoniousness, spiritual despotism. That was because itsprinciples had not had time to work into life and institutions. Freedom of thought is now realized whereverPuritanism is in control. The fact that men are responsible to God alone, and therefore that no earthlysovereign has any divine right, has undermined orlimited every throne in Europe. Puritanism compelledthe modern movement in theology, whether it be goodor bad, and John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards wereits greatest prophets and the lineal theological ancestors of Horace Bushnell, Henry Ward Beecher andPhillips Brooks. Puritanism has always insisted on ahigh standard of character as a prerequisite to publicservice ; that no man should be in the church whoselife has not experienced a change so vital as to be calleda new birth ; that the state is as holy as the church,and, therefore, that those who minister at its altarsshould be without taint. Puritanism is a spirit, buta spirit which has always found expression in menand institutions — and what men and institutions have sprung into being at its touch! There were all theheroes of the Puritan Revolution in England, Hampden, Pym, Sir Harry Vane, John Howe and JohnOwen, Milton, the seer and prophet as well as thepoet of the Commonwealth, and Cromwell, the king-liest soul that ever ruled Great Britian. In later daysthere have been such men as Bright in Parliament,Gordon in the field, Dale, Maclaren, and Spurgeon inthe pulpit, and Robert Browning among the poets.The history of America in large part is either the history of Puritanism, or of those who were made greatby its ideals. Ideally this Republic rests on the fourcorner stones of the right, and privilege of the individual to come into the immediate presence of God ;absolute freedom in all matters of religion ; righteousness of character essential to public service ; and, theuniversal brotherhood of man. These truths havecommanded the loyalty of the best men in ourchurches ; they have inspired our noblest preachers ;they thrill in the music of poets like Lowell, Whittier,Longfellow; they are recognized by so many of ourpoliticians as have learned that the state was madefor man and not man for the state. The most beneficent and enduring in the political, social, literary, religious life of the world for* two hundred years hasbeen either the expression of the Puritan spirit orfrom it has received inspiration.This leads now to a more important inquiry. Isthere any serious demand in the modern world forthat which is essential in the principles of Puritanism ?Before that question can be intelligently answered wemust have some accurate ideas about this modernworld. It has great excellencies ; has it any seriousperils ? I shall limit the field of observation to ourown country. He who knows the dominant forces inany one civilized nation practically knows those ofthe world. Four facts meet every student of the history of our country and of our time.There is a widespread and growing tendency towardthe effacement of the feeling of individual responsibility to *God. The everlasting obligation of men tochoose right, and their moral peril if they refuse, isnot as vivid as it should be. Thomas Carlyle saidthat the Puritan Revolution was the last of the heroisms. He was wrong. Heroism is the monopoly of noage and no creed, and its source is always in the consciousness of responsibility to God. Cromwell refusedto be king because he was not convinced that God hadcalled him to wear a crown. How many vacant chairsthere would be in the high places of government if allwho have not heard a divine call were to retire frompublic service ! We have Tammany politics, the defeat of Arbitration Treaties, and juggling with muni-270 UJSTIVEBSITY BEOOBDcipal franchises because God has no place in the plansof those who sit in legislative halls; we have paganimmoralities introduced at banquets, and pagan vicewinked at in high places because a day in which Godwill judge every man is no longer dreaded ; we havemonopolies reaching out to embrace and strangle ourliberties because greed of gold and power has blindedmen to God.Another characteristic of our time is a misconceptionof what is meant by intellectual and spiritual freedom.Liberty of thought is the supreme achievement ofmodern times. There is no longer any human authority in the realm of religion. Councils, assemblies,states, are all composed of fallible men. No thinkingperson now accepts any doctrine in science, politicaleconomy, or religion solely because it is hallowed by ageor has been championed by the great of other times.There is no holy of holies in the realm of truth. Theblind can see that the days of authority in all mattersof thought are not only numbered but ended. Butthe pendulum has swung too far. Liberty of thoughtdoes not mean freedom to believe a lie ; does not meanthat there is no authority in truth ; does not mean thatit is of little importance what men believe; does notmean that one creed is as good as another. And yetthis fallacy is growing in our land. It is said that onecreed is as good as another, which means there is notruth. Men are asking what they like to believe, notwhat they ought to believe. Freedom to think andto express thought is a condition of growth ; freedomto think without the consciousness of obligation toaccept truth and cling to it forever is a delusion and aperil. That was a wise word of the author of TheWay Out of Agnosticism: "Either we must cease tothink, or learn to think more profoundly."Let us cling to our liberty, but remember that thatdoes not mean freedom to play with sanctities ; to seekto revive mysteries which have been dead so long thatno one knows when they died; but rather the duty tothink, to think hard, to think long ; until there shallcome a glimpse of the unity in which all things cohere,or until there breaks upon the vision such a revelationas is given only to those who reverently and patientlyknock at the door of truth.A third characteristic of the modern world is adimming of the lines which separate virtue and vice,right and wrong. This is evident most of all in current social and domestic ideals. The civilization of anation is always according to its standard of moralpurity. Those who reverence and safeguard theirhomes prosper and endure ; those who are fascinatedby immoralities sow the seed of their own decay. Inthese days Puritanism is sneered at in high circles as prudery, and the divorce courts are mills that never• cease to grind a baleful grist.There is yet one more characteristic of our time andour nation which it is painful to state and more painful to be compelled, to recognize. ,We are living in arepublic and compelled to witness the defeat of thepeople. If I were asked, What is the most ominousfact in the life of this country today ? I should without hesitation answer, The defeat of the people. Thefundamental principle of modern civilization is theright of the people to rule ; but in this country, atleast, the people do not rule. Two very simple illustrations will suffice, but they might be indefinitelymultiplied.In a small town the question is merely one of thegranting of a franchise to a trolley company. Thepeople say: "Restrict and safeguard, and let it come,"but outside monopolies, thinking only of dividends,either buy up a council, or procure special legislationand drive through their own schemes without theslightest regard to the wishes of those who own theproperty, whose homes are invaded, and whose life-purposes are ruined. Thus the people are defeated.r; Two great nations, after glaring at each other formore than a century, conclude that they have shakenfists long enough, and that they had better clasphands and prove themselves the brothers that they arein blood, in language, in history, in religion ; and tnepeople in both nations lift such a cry of gladness ashas not been heard for a quarter of a century. Thisis the people's business, and they have a right to beheeded. But, no, the machinery of government isstraightway invoked that prejudice may rule and thepeople be humiliated and disgraced. Thus government of the people, for the people, and by the peoplehas failed almost before the echoes of Lincoln's oration have died away. I do not speak as a pessimist.It is no pessimism to face facts. Most of our citiesare ruled by corrupt oligarchies ; most of our statesare in the hands of selfish politicians ; and international problems instead of being solved by representatives of the people are shelved by those who misrepresent them.These four facts cannot be evaded ; they should behonestly and fearlessly faced : Consciousness of individual responsibility to God is dim ; playing with everlasting realities is called liberty of thought ; the linebetween right and wrong, purity and vice, is beingrubbed out; and the people are systematically andconstantly defeated. This is not all there is to modernlife, but these are our perils.What does this modern world need ? A revival ofPuritanism. Individuals and society should rise to aUNIVERSITY BEOOBD 271comprehension of the truth that all men live in thepresence of the Almighty, and are responsible to him.What made the Ironsides invincible ? They couldfight all day because they had prayed all night. Theyendured as seeing Him who is invisible? On thefield of Dunbar Cromwell snatched victory from whathad seemed sure defeat. When the sun rose and theenemy fled, he halted his troops and riding beforethem sang, " Let God arise ; let his enemies be scattered!" God may be imagined to be present —that imagination makes bigots ; He may be realized —that realization makes prophets and heroes. Introduce into our modern life the glad and awful realitythat God besets us behind and before ; that there isno space in the universe in which the humblest soulcan hide from him ; bring out again the fact of ajudgment-seat before which all sometime and somehow must stand, and there will be less trifling withthe everlasting sanctities. Those who have seen Godwill not dare his displeasure. This is what the modernworld most needs. Preachers who experience God willhave time neither for pyrotechnics nor pantomime ;teachers will realize with Thomas Arnold that a lifeof truthfulness and genuineness is the first and mostinspiring of all instruction ; and legislators will entercapitals with the humility of those who have receiveda divine call.As it brushes away the assumed authority ofchurches, councils, schools, and all other assembliesof presumptuous and fallible men, Puritanism insiststhat while there must be perfect freedom of thought.it should be a freedom consistent with the obligationof every man to seek and obey truth. Authority inthe hands of fallible men becomes an enormity, butthe authority of the truth can be evaded only at peril.Puritans believe something, and believe it with alltheir hearts. Like Cromwell they protect others intheir beliefs, while they are willing to fight and to diefor their own. In these days, when the foundationsof faith tremble ; when the doctrines which once madeheroes are being questioned ; when foreign cults arecoming in like a flood; when the intellectual andspiritual world is in a state of unrest, above all thingsthere should be intellectual honesty and thoroughness ; unwillingness to be satisfied with any sham,however ancient or honored ; the determination tothink every subject through until truth is found,wherever it may lead. These qualities always havebeen and always will be the very essence of Puritanism. Puritanism can be satisfied only with reality.It insists on mental freedom, and is afraid only ofthat which is false. The modern world asks what pleases ; Puritanism asks what is right. The modernworld says : Every man is at liberty to think as hechooses ; Puritanism replies : Yes, so long as he remembers that no one can escape from the authority oftruth.The lines separating right and wrong, virtue andvice, are growing dim in this modern world. Luxuryand effeminacy are taking their places. Literature ingreat part is becoming mere dirt, a covering of cancers with cloth of gold ; the stags has forgotten itsGreek dignity and become, largely, a place where vicepanders to vice. Let the old Puritans come back oncemore ; they must never again desecrate cathedrals ordare to touch that which is beautiful in art ; but letthem with their austere moralities deal with the paganisms, the luxuries, the fashionable vices, the polluted literature, and the brazen effrontery of thosewho disgrace the stage. Better the time when a manwas forbidden to kiss his wife on the Lord's Day thana land without any Lord's Day ; better the abolition of the play than plays which stimulate sensuality ; better a solemn face than one blotched withvice. The modern world needs no distortions of Puritanism, but its essential spirit — the spirit which willnever compromise with evil, and which is as loyal topurity in the individual, the family, and society asKing Arthur was loyal to his knightly vows.The sad fact which faces all who love their coun tryin these days and in this republic is that in the landof freedom, the land of Washington, of Lincoln, andof Grant, the people for whom the fathers died, areeither defeated or in peril of defeat. In the home ofbrotherhood, brotherhood is outraged, and where thevoice of the many should be heeded it is publiclyderided. Nothing will give to the American people therealization of their ideals but the principles for whichthe Pilgrims stood, namely, the people and the wholepeople acting together should always be trusted.Above every other truth Puritanism places God theSovereign, and then declares that before that Sovereign all men have equal rights. It never asks wherea man is born, what is his name, or what is the colorof his skin ; but insists that the whole people are tobe trusted, without regard to accidents of birth orwealth. This world belongs to all the people. Theirvoice may not always be the voice of God, but it isnearer to it than any other sound ever heard on theearth. When the people have a chance to speak theirconvictions they are seldom wrong. This is the dispensation of man, not of any class ; and yet classesstand in the way of man. Colleges and schools, pressand pulpit, ought to unite in a crusade for the deliver272 UNIVEBSITY BEOOBDance of the people from those who, masquerading inthe livery of liberty, are its worst enemies.The evils of the modern world demand that emphasis once more be strong and clear on the fourtruths which are the cornerstones of Puritanism :All men are responsible to God.All must have freedom of thought, but never libertyto believe error or to do wrong.The line separating right and wrong is an everlasting one ; it is in the nature of things, a part of theorder of the universe.The whole people, since they have the same Fatherand the same King in the realm of spirit, have thesame rights, spiritual, social, religious ; and they canbe and ought to be trusted.The Pilgrims to whom John Robinson preached onthat memorable day before the "Speedwell" sailedwere Puritans. The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouthwere Puritans; their children who founded here"a church without a bishop and a state without aking " were Puritans. The principles, which havegiven us our right to be called a Christian nation werederived from the Puritans ; most of our colleges werefounded by Puritans ; our school system came fromthe Puritans ; our ideals are all Puritan. Theseideals will become realities, and the American nationworthy to possess its privileges and possibilities, onlyas we are loyal to the principles and the spirit whichwere the inspiration of our fathers. Our hope is notin Puritanism in its narrowness and with its bigotries,but in its larger spirit which reveres God and seekshis will ; which owns no authority but truth ; whichbelieves in righteousness and does right ; and alwaysand everywhere trusts the people.I have thus spoken of our perils and our needs. Ofthe outcome I have no doubt. There is no room forpessimism in the creed of a Christian. We may swingfar from the holiest ideals, but we shall not swingaway from them. Through the generations one increasing purpose runs. God fulfills his plans in many ways.To a heroic service our fathers were called ; a serviceequally important and imperative belongs to theirchildren. Let us gird ourselves like men for ourmission, and never doubt that the victory will bewith those who side with God.Official Notices.Division Officers for the Senior Colleges. —The Division officers for the Senior Colleges for theAutumn Quarter are as follows : Division I.-— The President." II. — Professor Charles Chandler." III.— Mr. R. C. H. Catterall." IV. — Assistant Professor Robert Herrick." V. — Associate Professor J. H. Tufts." VI. — Associate Professor F. A. Blackburn.Council of the Graduate Schools. — The Councilof the Graduate Schools is composed of the followingstudents :President— Otis W. Caldwell.Vice President — Anne Bates Hersman.Secretary and Treasurer — E. A. Freeman.F. A. Cleveland.J. E. B. Jonas.The regular meeting of the Graduate Council withthe President is on the first Friday of each monthfrom 1:30-2:00 p.m.Graduate and Divinity Schools' Debate. — TheCouncils of the Graduate and Divinity Schools havedecided upon the following question for the quarterlydebate for the Joseph Leiter prize."Resolved: That corporal punishment in publicschools should be prohibited by law."The affirmative will be argued by the DivinitySchool and the negative by the Graduate Schools. Thebriefs are to be submitted Thursday, November 25.The report upon these briefs will be made Friday,December 3, and the Finals will be held Friday evening, December 17.The Students' Fund Society. — The officers of theStudents' Fund Society are :President— Mr. A. A. Sprague.Vice President — Mr. Norman Williams.Secretary — Mr. Charles H. Hamill.Treasurer — Mr. Byron L. Smith.Board of Directors — Messrs. George E. Adams, J. J.Glessner, Marshall Field, Byron L. Smith, A. A.Sprague, W. B. Walker, Norman Williams.Executive Committee — President, Mrs. H. M. Wil-marth ; Vice President, Mrs. George E. Adams ; Secretary, Mrs. Noble B. Judah. Mrs. E. E. Ayer, Mrs.Harriet C. Brainard, Mrs. A. C. Bartlett, Mrs. W. P.Conger, Mrs. J. J. Glessner, Mrs. William G. Hale,Mrs. Charles D. Hamill, Mrs. Albert A. Sprague, Mrs.William B. Walker, Mr. J. M. Walker, Mrs. E. B. Mc-Cagg, Mrs. W. R. Linn, Mrs. George A. Seaverns, Jr.,Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Mrs. J. Laurence Laughlin.UMIVEBSITY BEOOBD 273Divinity School. — The Annual Meeting of theBaptist Congress will be held in the Immanuel Baptist Church, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,November 16, 17, and 18. Exercises in the DivinitySchool will be suspended Tuesday afternoon andThursday morning.Official Reports.During the month of October 1897, there has beenadded to the Library of the University a totalnumber of 788 books from the following sources :Books added by purchase, 344 vols., distributed asfollows :General Library, 5 vols.; Philosophy, 11 vols.; Pedagogy, 3 vols.; Political Economy, 2 vols.; PoliticalScience, 38 vols.; History, 2 vols.; Sociology, 41 vols.;Sociology (Divinity), 37 vols.; Sociology (Folk Psychology), 5 vols.; Anthropology, 25 vols.; ComparativeReligion, 10 vols.; New Testament, 3 vols.; Comparative Philology, 1 vol.; Greek, 10 vols.; Latin, 5 vols.;Romance, 1 vol.; English, 20 vols.; Mathematics,! vol.;Chemistry, 11 vols.; General Biology, 17 vols.; Zoology,26 vols.; Anatomy, 8 vols.; Physiology, 5 vols.; Neurology, 7 vols.; Palaeontology, 14 vols.; Botany, 22 vols.;Systematic Theology, 4 vols.; Homiletics, 8 vols.;Morgan Park Academy, 2 vols.Books added by gift, 410 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 310 vols.; Pedagogy, 1 vol.; PoliticalEconomy, 80 vols.; Sociology, 1 vol.; Sociology (Divinity), 6 vols.; English, 1 vol.; Mathematics, 1 vol.;Geology, 9 vols.; Homiletics, 1 vol.Books added by exchange for University Publications, 34 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 4 vols.; Political Economy, 4 vols.;Sociology, 3 vols.; Comparative Religion, 2 vols.; Semitic, 6 vols.; New Testament, 2 vols.; ComparativePhilology, 1 vol.; Geology, 6 vols.; Botany, 3 vols.;Church History, 2 vols.; Systematic Theology, 1 vol.Recent Numbers of University Periodicals.The Journal of Geology for September-Octoberhas as its leading article " A Study of the NewarkSystem of New Jersey," by Henry B. Ktimmel, ofLewis Institute. Mr. Noah Fields Drake presents ina sixteen-page article "A Study of the Topography ofCalifornia." After a description of a recently completed relief map of California made by the writer,there is a careful discussion of the topographic features of the state, presenting a number of very interesting facts connected with its geological history. Mr.Timothy W. Stanton furnishes a comparative studyof the Lower Cretaceous formations and faunas of the United States this being part of a thesis offered tothe trustees of Columbian University in connectionwith the degree of Ph.D. The fourth main article,by Mr. Stuart Weller, of the University of Chicago,discusses the correlation of the Devonian faunas insouthern Illinois. The editorials are given to suggestions brought out by the recent meetings of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Scienceat Detroit and the meeting of the British Associationfor the Advancement of Science at Toronto. A number of excellent book reviews complete the contentsof this interesting number.The October number of the Botanical Gazette islargely given up to an illustrated paper on "NorthAmerican species of Amblystegium" by Lellen SterlingCheney. The leading article is " Notes on the Fecundation of Zamia and the Pollen Tube Apparatus ofGinkgo" by Herbert J. Webber. The briefer articlesare on "Vernation of Carya" by William WhitmanBailey of Brown University ; " Abnormal Leaves andFlowers" by T. D. A. Cockerell, of Mesilla, NewMexico; and "Stomata on the Bud Scales of AbiesPectinata." Each of these briefer articles is illustrated. There are the usual short items giving notesand news of interest to botanists.The Biblical World for November has as its leading article " Jesus as a Prophet " by Professor SylvesterBurnham, of Colgate University. Rev. George EMerrill, of Newton, Mass., furnishes an article on "TheHilltops of Palestine " with illustrations of placesfamiliar to bible students. Merwin-Marie Snell hasan article on " The Speculative Value of ComparativeReligion." Professor Mathews reviews the recentlypublished volume by Arthur C. McGiffert on "TheHistory of Christianity in the Apostolic Age." " TheInductive Studies in the Acts" by Dr. Votaw areconcluded. There are the usual short news itemsabout the work and the workers, a number of synopsesof important articles, and a bibliography of recentliterature upon Bible themes.Graduate Club Meeting.It has seemed best to change the date of the meetingof the Graduate Club from Friday to Saturday evening, November 13. The subject of the meeting, aspreviously announced is : " The Relation of the Graduate School to the Social Settlement." The speakerswill be Miss McDowell of the University Settlement,Miss Myra Reynolds, and Miss Dans. Members of the274 UJSTIVEBSITY BEOOBDFaculty and their wives who are officers of the Christian Union or connected with the Settlement Leaguehave been invited to attend.Current Events.The Final Examination of James Walter Fertigfor the degree of Ph.D. was held Thursday, November 11, at 3:00 p.m., in G7C. Principal subject, History ; secondary subject, Political Science. Thesis :"The Reorganization of Civil Power in Tennesseefrom 1862-1866." Committee : Head Professors vonHoist and Judson, Assistant Professor Mead, and allother instructors in the departments immediately concerned./The Botanical Club. — At the meeting of November 9, the hour was devoted to a brief review of thelife of the late Professor Julius von Sachs. HeadProfessor John M. Coulter read a translation of a shorthistory of Sachs' life prepared by his pupil, Dr. FritzNoll. This paper will soon appear in the BotanicalGazette. Associate Professor Jacques Loeb, then gavesome personal reminiscences, which shed much lightupon the domestic and professional life of the greatphysiologist.The Calendar.november 12-20, 1897.Friday, November 12.Second Term of Autumn Quarter begins.Chapel-Assembly : Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m.Bacteriological Club meets in the Lecture Room,third floor of Zoological Building, 4: 00 p.m.Assistant Professor Jordan on " Sanarelli's Discovery ofthe Yellow Fever Germ,"Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Room 35, 4:00 p.m." On Certain Modern Attempts to replace Newton's Lawof Gravitation by Other Laws involving the Time,"by Dr. Laves.Notes : Thesis Report, by Mr. Grant ; " Forsyth's TorontoAddress," by Associate Professor Maschke ; "On Cantor " III, by Head Professor Moore.Saturday, November 13.Administrative Board of the University Press8:30 a.m.Faculties of the Junior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.The University Council, 11: 30 a.m.Material for the UNIVERSITY EECOBD mustorder to be published in the issue of the same week. Sunday, November 14.Vesper Service. 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.Monday, November 15.Chapel-Assembly: Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents).Tuesday, November 16.Chapel-Assembly: Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior CollegeStudents).Informal Talks on Books of Today by Assistant Prof es.sor Crow, Lecture Room, Cobb Hall, 3 :00 p.m.Botanical Club meets in the Botanical Building,5:00 p.m.Professor Albert Schneider, formerly of Columbia, willspeak on the Autonomy of Lichens.University Chorus, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Wednesday, November 17.Lectures before Senior Divisions II-VI, 10: 30 a. mZoological Club meets in the large Lecture Room ofthe Zoological Building, 4: 00 p.m.Miss Sturges will review Hacker's recent paper on "TheCorrespondence in the History of the Germ-cells inAnimals and Plants," and Mr. Charles will give ar6sum§ of literature on the yolk-nucleus of birds.University Settlement Committee meets in FacultyRoom, Haskell Oriental Museum, 4:00 p.m.Geological Club meets in the Lecture Room of WalkerMuseum, 4:30 p.m.Reviews of important current literature.Prayer Meeting of the Y. M. C. A., Lecture Room.Cobb Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.Thursday, November 18.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m.Meeting of the Y. W. C. A., Assembly Hall, HaskellMuseum, 10:30 a.m.University Chorus, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Philosophical Club meets in Faculty Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 8:00 p.m.Friday, November 19.Chapel- Assembly : Graduate Schools.— Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m.Romance Club meets in Room C 13, Cobb LectureHall, 4:00 p.m.Dr. de Poyen-Bellisle will read a paper on "The Pro-foundest Note in the French Lyric Poetry of Our Day."Saturday, November 20.Administrative Board of the University Affiliations,8:30 a.m.Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10: 00 a.m.Faculty of the Divinity School, 11:30 a.m.b sent to the Recorder by THUESDAY, 8:30 A.M., in