Price $J.OOPer Year Gfoe laniverstty of CbicagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Copies5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGbe TUniversitE of Gbtcage ipressVOL. II, NO. 47. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 18, 1898.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS. cism he added : " A teacher tends to become a sortI. The Student Spirit in Pedagogical Training. I. of spout — a knowledge spout. He loses interest inBy R. G. Boone, President of the Michigan the facts themselves. You do not find the averageOfficTaTNo0^10011^ " " " " " "^"Ito teacher lookinS into thin^s as the student does. SolIII." Officers o^College Divisions" for the Winter ^Ba?> with a11 due deference to the teaching class, thatQuarter, 1898 ------- 370-371 teaching, as it is usually done, puts an end to mentalIV. Official Reports : The Washington House - - 371 progress."V. Reports from the Zoological Club: 'This may or may not be true. Literally it is farNotes on Maturation and Fertilization of the * , m, i ¦ j. » • j. A .¦• -,..,-,Egg of Arenicola Marina. By C. M. Child 371-372 from true. The element of fact must be admitted,Notes on the peripheral Nervous System of but it is greatly exaggerated: much of the claim isMolgula Manhattensis. By G. M. Hunter, Jr. 372 „ , m, , . . ,, ,, ,. ., ,VI. Reports from the Botanical Club - - - - 372 false- The sophistry of the statement is its danger.VII. Recent Numbers of University Periodicals - - 372-373 It presumes to compare the body of teachers who haveVIII. The Graduate-Divinity Debate - 373 not yet reached the intellectual plane where the stu-IX. Religious - - 373 ^ent Spirit thrives, with those who are already scholarsX. Current Events 373 - .* , '. /XI. The Calendar ---...-- 374 and have begun to feel the charms of truth in undress.. The student spirit is the product of a more or less extended student effort. No child is a student in theThe Student Spirit in Pedagogical Training. sense in wnich the professor used the term ; no moreR- G. BOONE, PRESIDENT OF THE STATE NORMAL COLLEGE. jfl ^ ayerage teacher< jt .fl ^ & simple que8tion ofYpsiiant;, nshh. age> but of attainments and training. To be a student*¦• means not mere curiosity, or a hungering for kno wilt is related of an eminent member of a great Amer- edge, the unrestrained grasping for what lies aboutican University faculty, that his estimate of the teach- one, but some more or less intelligent effort at selection ;ing body was not altogether complimentary. His own curious about the new, in the light of what is alreadyrich learning had attracted students from a distance, in experience. He is a student, whatever his scholar-His classes were filled with mature men and women, ship or his ignorance, who is brought by his many orAmong them in the enrollment of one summer session his few insights to seek further facts, other expla-recently was a teacher. When asked of the progress nations of a universe whose happenings have alreadyof this teacher student, he is reported to have replied : been his concern, and who knows how to go about the"He is doing fairly well, but he had been a school- new acquisition.master almost too long." In explanation of his criti- The elementary classes must put one into possession368 UNIVERSITY RECORDof the means of learning. Secondary schools shouldfix habits of study. High schools and colleges, I take it,are teaching bodies whose primary purpose is to createa taste for learning, to direct and nourish and conservethe spirit of inquiry, to distinguish for the individuallearner, and establish certain worthy and invitingideals — in short, to project attractive fields of interestand effort that shall give direction to one's future andjustify one's living.Almost no secondary school is able to do this.Certain individuals, more than usually alert andaggressive, leave the high school with something ofthis attitude, perhaps, but it fails to reach the classesas such. This is the work of either the more advancedinstruction or of a better articulated system having abeginning earlier in the grades. The aim of secondaryinstruction, however, should doubtless be so to teachthat there is an invitation to further study, and thatupon graduation there is a purposeful, and well-defined, though rudimentary interest in learning andexperiment, with minds alert and aggressive, and aperception by each individual of a future which hebelieves to be his. This would seem to be the beginning of the student life. The world is taking shapeabout one. It presents itself now, almost for the firsttime, as a reasonable world, where exploration anddiscovery promise to repay time and care. Secondaryexperiment in the laboratory, and seminary studies inthe high school scarcely do more, cannot be expectedto do more than make the young student familiar withthe commoner ways and instruments of investigation,and establish one's individual predispositions in theintellectual and moral life. But so much it shouldhave done. This supplies my first thesis.I. The Student Spirit in Pedagogical Training —The attempt to prepare persons for teaching has failedif it has not given them the spirit and habits of thestudent.Teaching may be described as causing to learn inthe larger sense, establishing in the learner a habitand the courage of independent attack. Every learnerto the extent that he is a real learner, becomes an invader, as the scientist becomes an investigator. Helays siege to the world of thing and force and spiritand has faith in himself. The effectiveness of learning is measured less by what is actually discovered oracquired or accumulated than by what one aspires toknow or discover, and the quality of the effort putforth to know and discover or use. Teaching is theprocess of giving this trend to mind, and especially tochild mind. But no teacher can do this who does nothimself have such aspiration, or put forth the timelyeffort. An indispensable quality of the true teacher therefore is that he be himself a learner. He must befamiliar with the way over which he would lead hispupils.It is argued therefore that the school as an institutionmust be less of a teaching agency, and more and morea laboratory. *The remark applies to all kinds of schools,but bears with particular force upon schools for thetraining of teachers. Here, even more than in the college or university, more than in law or medical schools,more than in the theological seminary, it is a fatal policyto seek to turn out students from an exclusive course ofinstruction. It may be legitimate for a theologicalseminary to inculcate its own creed, or for a medicalschool to guard with jealous care its own brand ofpowders ; but if teachers are to be made teachers —leaders — they must be imbued with the spirit ofleadership, not apologetic followers and unthinkingdisciples. The normal school should be a laboratorywhere every grade and brand of learning, in its order,is brought to the test. Throughout the course thereshould be some hours daily when students andteachers work together upon new problems. A normalschool has a higher mission than to turn out a givenbrand of artisanship. Its graduates should be studentsby habit and in spirit ; they will not be scholars. Theywill be lovers of good literature, with open hearts andinterested to question its inner significance ; aspiringto be masters of the science of life and society ; insympathy with nature's ways, and eager to discovertheir meaning — well on the way to be scholarly, butnot yet learned.They must believe in learning and the regenerationsof a liberal scholarship. In their minds, when theycome to teach, there must be no half-hearted assentto the doctrine that a generous education pays — paysin pocket and mind and heart. It must be seen by theteacher and must be made to appear in her teaching,that the coming farmer is made a better farmer to theextent that he is made a better man, with a richerpersonal life. So of the housewife, the mechanic, thephysician and the dealer, the officeholder and thevoter. The scholar has many chances in life of coming to the top where the unschooled man has one ornone. The teacher-to-be of our children must see this,and make the vision effective in her teaching, elseteaching misses its aim.But that this belief may take hold upon her children,it must first have found effectual lodgment in her ownexperience. She must believe in its saving influencefor herself and for hers. She must daily practice it.Her faith in its power to uplift and refine coarse, rudeyouth, and the badly born, and ill-conditioned, mustbe unshaken. The first step toward the professionalUNIVERSITY RECORD 369teacher has been taken, when one has been given orhas acquired a fixed and serious habit of inquiry, asane and chastened interest in the busy life that environs us ; when studies are pursued not because theylead to certificates and diplomas, but because they areopen doors into an interesting new world, and promisecoveted revelations. Studies, then, become privileges.Not every student is a teacher ; much less every so-called scholar. But the real student has two admirablequalities that make for success in the work of teaching : (1) a full mind with abundant and far-reachingvisions that charm the boy or girl who is so fortunateas to be his pupil ; and (2) a filling mind, that, himselfgoing the way of culture the more easily and surelyleads him who would follow.Normal schools can well afford to take positivegrounds against any form of the fallacy that teacherscan be manufactured to order. The best service themost efficient normal school can render is to havegiven them a safe start on the way ; to have endowedthem with right habits of pedagogical study and asound interest in these questions.The test of a normal school is what its graduates do,or come to do in the next ten years. Not how theyteach alone, but what they have contributed to theirprofession, to their own improvement. Does theinfluence of the normal school follow them into higherstudies? or are they satisfied with being graduates,and holding certificates ? Of a normal school it mayreasonably be asked, how many of its graduates continue their studies subsequently, either academic orprofessional, in their own school or elsewhere ? Intheir course, shorter or longer, do they catch the spiritof the student, and seek opportunities for voluntarystudies? Do they become home students? Followthe alumni for a decade, and find where they havestudied and what they have studied. How many ofthem all have received such an insistent bias for theirwork that teaching has become their mission, as lawwas the mission of Lincoln, or preaching of BishopBrooks?II. Students of Pedagogy. — To have justified thework of the normal school, it is not enough, however,that they be made students merely, but students ofpedagogy. They are to be teachers, lovers of teaching, interested in the art of teaching, students of itsprinciples, acquainted with its history, in sympathywith the child and in touch with child life, and alertto the significance of children's interests and instinctsin the institutional life about them.This, as I see it, is the task set the normal school todo ; to select from such as apply, those who betray afitness for such training, make clear to them their power, and give them faith in themselves for the service ; and that its own teaching be such as to showthe unfit — unfit either by nature or training — the unwisdom of their choice. To have prepared a few scorepersons well, so that they are really impressed withthe gravity and dignity and privileges of the work tobe done for the children, will do more to win amongpeople respect for teachers and their professionaltraining than a school in every county, if it be a pretense, and work expedients, and conceal a meager culture with a veneering of device.But of the many changes that have come over thework and training of teachers in recent years, one ofthe greatest in the far-reaching character of its influence, and one of the most fascinating to the teacher,is the widening of the view that is called pedagogical.This extension of meaning and investigation has beenchiefly along two lines : (1) that comprising inquiriesinto the character and resources and instincts of childlife, including the convergence of the best scientificmethods and the maturest judgments of scientificexperts upon the interpretation of these phenomenaand primarily for the guidance of those who are in anyway responsible for this child life ; (2) in a recognition of the element of association and the communityrelation as a factor in the individual life.Concerning the former I digress a moment, onlyto say that the new factor in psychological studies forthe teacher is the anthropological or racial view. Itis the natural history of mind that promises most forteaching not less than for educational theory. Interpretation s^of mind from the laboratories of the biologistand the anthropologist are not wanting among theuniversities, but they have found little recognitionin the normal schools.The question is well open for discussion, and willdiscover abundant opposition. It is put aside here,inasmuch as something must be omitted from so briefa consideration as can be had. Attention is called tothe sociological factor in the training of teachers.How the individual should live, and how he may begiven the disposition to live, in the mass, among people,as a member of various and unlike organizations,one of the family, a neighbor, a member of the church,a citizen, a productive force in industrial society,interested in the great culture movements of his raceand his generation, and a factor in their furthering,while still preserving his self-respect and the integrityof his judgment, and conserving his personal happiness; these are the questions of the school. Thesehave always been the questions which serious mindedpeople have been asking among themselves, and ofothers. Sometimes, by the f arseeing, or by those more370 UNIVERSITY RECORDbold than others, there has been a vague hint that theschool should answer them.Education in its relation to crime, and public andprivate comfort, and common thrift, and civic integrity,and the dependent classes, and popular amusements,and the social life generally, has been the theme oforator and statesman ; it has been preached from urban and rural pulpits, and has had its recognition inthe current press. The passing pedagogy, under theinfluence of the scientific spirit of the age, undertakesto say not only that there is such causal or conditioning relation between the culture and character equipment of the individual and the integrity and the purityand adequacy of the institutional life of his time andhis people, but that the conception becomes an organicpart of the educational doctrine that must be held tofix the school practice of the future.{To be continued.)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.CHAPEL TALKS.Monday-Friday, February 21-25.At the chapel-assembly of the Junior Colleges onMonday, Assistant Professor Geo. C. Howland willspeak of " Reminiscences of Student-life in AmherstCollege."At the chapel-assembly of the Divinity School onThursday, Professor Shailer Mathews will give thethird of a series of three addresses on "MinisterialTypes in Fiction," his particular topic being, " JohnStorm."At the chapel-assembly of the Graduate Schools onFriday, Professor Salisbury will continue the seriesof Pedagogical Talks by an address on "The Educational Significance of Geography."Hon. George R. Peck, General Counsel of theChicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company,will be the orator for Washington's Birthday. Hewill speak in the Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall, at11:30 a.m. The music will consist of national airsand college songs. THE UNIVERSITY CONGREGATION.The seventh meeting of the University Congregationhas been called for 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 22.Problems for consideration include :1. The following propositions chosen for discussionat the January meeting, and postponed : a) Thatthe number of fellowships should be diminishedand the amount of stipend increased ; 6) Thatposting should be adopted as a method of discipline.2. The following propositions chosen for discussionat the February meeting : a) That allied departments should hold conferences with a view tocoordinating their courses for the benefit ofstudents ; b) That the time limit of all Quarterlyexaminations should be extended to three hours,and that no two examinations for any one studentshould be held the same day.3. Such other business as may properly come beforethe meeting.JUNIOR PRELIMINARIES IN DECLAMATIONS.Successful Contestants.At the Junior Preliminaries in Declamation Thursday, February 10, the following were chosen to speakbefore their respective divisions at the division contests, to be held Thursday, February 24 :Division I. — A. A. Ettelson." II.— H. M. Gottlieb.Benj. Samuels.B. Davis.F. Yoder." III.— R. B. Tabor.E. S. Norton.« IV.— G. A. Beers.V.— G. H. Callard.John Mills.A. E. Bestor.Officers of College Divisions for the Winter Quarter,1898.SENIOR COLLEGES.B. S. Terry, Dean: Lawrence de Graff, Chairmanof Council.Division I. — Professor Chandler, Division Officer ;Harry Coy, Division Councilor ; President Harper,Division Lecturer. Division Lecture: Wednesday, 5p.m., in Haskell Oriental Museum.Division II.— Mr. Caterall, Division Officer; Mr.R. E. Graves, Division Councilor ; President Harper,UNIVERSITY RECORD 371Division Lecturer. Division Lecture (same as Division I).Division III. — Assistant Professor R. E. Herrick,Division Officer; Miss Charlotte Teller, DivisionCouncilor ; Professor Barnard, Division Lecturer.Division Lecture : Thursday, 5 p.m., Haskell AssemblyRoom.Division IV. — Associate Professor Tufts, DivisionOfficer; Mr. J. E. Freeman, Division Councilor; Professor Barnard, Division Lecturer. Division Lecture(same as Division III).Division V.— Associate Professor Blackburn, Division Officer ; Mr. A. L. Barton, Division Councilor ;professor Barnard, Division Lecturer. Division Lecture (same as Division III).Division VI. — Associate Professor Castle, DivisionOfficer ; Mr. F. A. Brown, Division Councilor ; Professor Barnard, Division Lecturer. Division Lecture(same as Division III).JUNIOR COLLEGES.Edward Capps, Bean ; Mr. C. L. Hoy, Chairmanof the Council ; Miss Marietta Norton, Secretary.Division I. — Associate Professor Capps, DivisionOfficer; Mr. C. L. Hoy, Division Councilor; DeanMacClintock, Division Lecturer. Division Lecture :Tuesday, 10:30, in Room 8 B, Cobb Hall.Division II. — Assistant Professor Smith and Dr. J.W. Thompson, Division Officers; Mr. E. E. Irons,Division Councilor ; Head Professor Laughlin, Division Lecturer. Division Lecture : Tuesday, 10: 30 a.m.,Room 6 A, Cobb Lecture Hall.Division III. — Assistant Professor C. H. Moore,Division Officer ; Mr. R. T. Rogers, Division Councilor;Head Professor Laughlin, Division Lecturer. Division Lecture (same as Division II).Division IV. — Assistant Professor W. B. Owen,Division Officer ; Miss Norton, Division Councilor ;Head Professor Laughlin, Division Lecturer. DivisionLecture (same as Division II).Division V. — Assistant Professor Vincent, AssistantProfessor Hill, Dr. Paul Kern, Mr. Damon, and Mr. A.W. Moore, Division Officers ; Miss Morgan, DivisionCouncilor; Assistant Professor Smith, Division Lecturer. Division Lecture : Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., Room20, Kent Laboratory.Division VI. — Dr. J. H. Boyd, Division Officer; President W. R. Harper, Division Lecturer. DivisionLecture: Thursday, 1:00 p.m., Haskell OrientalMuseum. Official Reports.THE WASHINGTON HOUSE.Councilor — R. C. H. Catterall.Head — Assistant Prof essor Edwin E. Sparks.Vice Head—R. E. P. Thomas.Secretary — Banks J. Wildman.Treasurer — Hugh Leighton.Members — Clifton O. Taylor, Ernest A. Scrogin,Ernest E. Irons, E. C. E. Palmquist, Arthur E. Bestor,Vernon S. Phillips, Louis E. Foreman.A reception, to which the members of the University are cordially invited, will be given on Washington's Birthday, Tuesday, February 22, from 4:00 to6: 00 p.m., on the fourth floor of the Botanical BuildingReports from the Zoological Club.Meetings of December and January.NOTES ON MATURATION AND FERTILIZATION OF THE EGGOF ARENICOLA MARINA.In the earliest stage in which centrosomes have beenseen, there are two, at some distance from each otherin the cytoplasm, each surrounded by a small, deeplystaining area, and few, very delicate radiations. Therays elongate, a large spindle is formed, and thechromosomes, now lying free in the cytoplasm, arrangethemselves upon it. In approaching its definiteposition at the periphery of the egg, this first polarspindle contracts to about one-half its original length.The centrosomes at each pole divide as the separationof the chromosomes begins. The two centrosomesat the inner pole form the poles of the second polarspindle. They move apart showing a central spindle,new asters appear, and the spindle assumes the position occupied by the first polar spindle.After the formation of the second polar body, thefemale pronucleus is formed, and the "female" cen-trosome and aster disappear.The sperm apparently enters at any point, but cannotbe distinguished from yolk granules at first, as, forsome time, no " male " aster appears. Later, however,the sperm vessel enlarges and an aster and centrosomeappear, the centrosome divides and two asters areformed connected by a spindle. All of these disappear,however, at the same time as the female aster andcentrosome.When the two pronuclei come into contact, no centrosomes or asters are visible in the egg. The twopronuclei as a whole, form the center of a large radiation extending nearly to the periphery of the egg.A little later a very minute centrosome and asterappear on each side of the pronuclei in the copulation372 UNIVERSITY RECORDplane. Both centrosomes and asters increase in size,one being larger than the other (the first cleavage isunequal), fibers extend past the pronuclei from onecentrosome to the other and the first cleavage spindleis formed. The pronuclei elongate and lose theirmembranes without preceding fusion. As the astralrays elongate, the radiation which surrounded thepronuclei disappears and the cytoplasm rearrangesitself as the rays of an aster entwining about a centrosome. C. M. Child.NOTES ON THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM OF MOLGULAMANHATTENSIS.The intra vitam method of methylene blue stainingwas used. Sensory cells occupying a lateral position inthe endostyle were found. These cells are characterized by a distal knob or spike and one or more prox-omally placed enlargements, one of which containsthe nucleus. Some cells showed protoplasmic (?)branchings. No supporting cells were seen. Nervefibrils, after leaving the epithelium, turn sharply atright angles to run longitudinally as separate fibrilsor in loose bundles. They probably reach the ganglion(brain) by the circumbuccal nerves.The endings in the branchial basket are knob- ordisk-like. Nerve fibrils may end freely or on cells inthe walls of the branchial bars. Fibrils may lie inthe supporting tissue or applied to the base of theepithelium, and, single or in bundles, anastomose toform a true plexus. Ganglion cells are found.Fibrils end on the basal part of mucus or ciliated cellsin club- or disk-shaped endings. Other fibers touchthe base of a cell with a knob-like varicosity and continue their course, touching neighboring cells in likemanner before finally ending.A subepithelial plexus was found in other parts ofthe body. Nerve endings were found in the musclesand ciliated funnel. The sensory nature of thetentacles and papillae of the peribranchial sac was notdemonstrated. G. W. Hunter, Jr.During the two months the following reviews andpapers were also given : " Recent Literature on theEmbryology of Insects" (Uzel, Heymons) AssistantProfessor W. M. Wheeler ; " The Lithodidae, a Familyof Asymmetrical Crabs," S. J. Holmes ; " Theories ofAnimal Phosphorescence," Assistant Professor S.Watase; "Some of ;the Functions and Features of aBiological Station," Head Prof essor Whitman ; "Recent Literature on Regeneration" (Joest), W. H.Packard ; " A Review of Some Recent Work on Spermatogenesis" (Bardeleben), M. F. Guyer; "Experimental Work on the Ctenophore Egg " (Fischel)Dr. C. M. Child; "The Pronephros in Teleosts (FelixVMiss E. R. Gregory.Reports from the Botanical Club.At the meeting of the Botanical Club on February 8, Mr. John G. Coulter read a very interestingpaper on " Centrosomes in Plants," written by thefamous French botanist Guignard. The paper wasdiscussed by Professor R. A. Harper, of Lake ForestUniversity and also by Assistant Professors Wheelerand Watase. The paper will soon appear in the Botanical Gazette.Recent Numbers of University Periodicals.The School Review for February contains thefollowing articles : " The Teachers of Hygiene andSanitary Science in the Secondary Schools," by DelosFall, a paper read before the Michigan Schoolmaster'sClub ; " The Growth of Mind as a Real and the Influence of the Formal on the Real, II," a continuation ofthe study by S. S. Laurie ; " Preparation for Collegein History," by Oliver J. Thatcher, the fifth article inthe series prepared by the Departmental Examinersof the University of Chicago ; "Methods of Attack ofOriginals in Geometry," by Hiram B. Loomis; "TheHoliday Conference of 1897," by F. H. Howard ; "CanAmerican History be put into all Courses in the HighSchool ? " by E. C. Warriner, a paper read before theMichigan Schoolmaster's Club ; " What Ought theStudy of Mathematics to Contribute to the Educationof the High School Pupil?" by Florence Milner ; Afull Report of the Proceedings of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club complete the leading articles. The restof the number is given up to notes, book reviews,bibliography, and other data so valuable to thoseengaged in the work of instruction.The Biblical World for February has as its frontispiece the Sermon on the Mount, the reproduction of apicture by Edouard Dongebhardt. An interpretationof this picture is given by John Powell Lenox. Thespecial articles are "Women in Palestine," by Miss JuliaE. Bulkey; "Expository Preaching, 1," by W. H. P.Faunce ; " The Purpose and Plan of the Gospel ofMatthew, II," by Ernest D. Burton; "Jesus as anOrganizer of Men" by Professor Walter Rauschen-bausch ; " Recent Discussions of the Chronology ofthe Apostolic Age, I," by Clyde W. Votaw ; " The History of New Testament Times in Palestine," I, byUNIVERSITY RECORD 373Shailer Mathews ; Miss Myra Reynolds continues herseries of studies furnishing materials from Englishliterature illustrative of the International SundaySchool Lessons. The usual notes and book reviewscomplete the number.The Botanical Gazette for February contains"Contributions to the Life History of Ranunculus"(with Plates 4-7), by John M. Coulter; "Observationson Some West American Thermal Algae" (with Plates8-10), by Josephine E. Tilton ; "Report of the Meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology," held at Cornell University December 28 and 29,giving a notice of the various papers presented.Briefer articles comprise " The Tree Opuntias of theUnited States," by J. W. Tourney, and " Winter Characters of Certain Sporangia " (with Plate 11), byCharles Chamberlain. The discussions of currentliterature and the news of workers in this special fieldcomplete the contents of this seventy-page number.The Graduate-Divinity Debate.The Graduate-Divinity Debate for this Quarter willbe held the evening of March 18, on the question :" Resolved, That the policy of increasing the UnitedStates Navy is wise and should be continued." TheGraduate School has the negative side. The briefsfor this debate must be left in the box of the President of the Graduate Council (Box 191) on or beforeFebruary 25. J. B. E. Jonas,Pres. Grad. Council.Religious.At the vesper services during the current Quartera series of lectures is being given on " The Placeof Christianity in the History of the World." Theseare the remaining topics :February 20.— The First Century of Christianity.Professor Shailer Mathews.February 27.— The Christianity of the Centuries.President Chas. J. Little, Garrett Biblical Institute.March 6.— The Christianity of Today. Rev. NewellDwight Hillis, D.D.March 13.— Christianity of the Future. Rev. JohnHenry Barrows.Lectures on Christian Union. — On Friday, February 11, 1898, 8:00 p.m., Dr. L. A. Crandall, of theMemorial Baptist Church, delivered in Cobb Lec ture Hall, a lecture on "Christian Union" before theDisciples Club. This was the first of a series thatis to be delivered at the University on the subject ofChristian Union. The next lecture, after Dr. Cran-dall's, will be delivered by Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones.A cordial invitation is extended to the students toattend these lectures. William Oeschger,Pres. of Disciples ClubREPORTS FROM THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CHRISTIANUNION, JANUARY 1898.Young Men's Christian Association.Devotional meetings, 4; average attendance, 20.Other meetings, 1 ; address by Rev. Stires.Membership. — Faculty, 27 ; Office assistants of theUniversity, 8; Divinity students, 29; Graduate students, 21 ; Senior Colleges, 22 ; Junior Colleges, 20 ;Unclassified, 3. Total, 130.Of these, 35 reside on the campus and 52 withinwalking distance of the University.Young Women's Christian Association.Regular meetings, 3 ; average attendance, 30. Othermeetings, 3 ; average attendance, 9. Membership, 53.Philanthropic Committee ; Treasurer's Report for January.Receipts :Vesper Collections - - $ 76.47Other sources - - - 165.23Total - $241.70Expenditures :Rent - - - -. % 60.00Miss McDowell - - - 100.00Note at bank - - - 50.30Other expenses - - - 31.40Total - $241.70Current Events.At the last meeting of the " Lettische LitterarischeGesellschaf t," held at Riga, Russia, Assistant ProfessorH. Schmidt-Wartenberg was elected a corresponding member. This honor was conferred on him forhis recent contributions to the publications of thesociety, which is one of the oldest learned bodies inRussia.374 UNIVERSITY RECORDCalendar.february 18-26, 1898.Friday, February 18.Chapel-Assembly : Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m.Dramatic Entertainment, Kent Theater, 8:00 p.m.Saturday, February 19.Administrative Board of University Affiliations8:30 a.m.Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.Faculty of the Divinity School, 11:30 a.m.Sunday, February 20.Vesper Service. Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m.Professor Shailer Mathews on "The First Century ofChristianity."Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room, 7: 00 p.m.Monday, February 21.Chapel-Assembly : Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents). See page 370.New Testament Club meets with Professor E. D»Burton, 5524 Monroe av., 7: 30 p.m.Theme : Lives of Christ. — F. D. Elmer : General Bibliography. R. B. Davidson: Weiss' Life of Christ.O. J. Price: Edersheim's Jesus the Messiah. E. D.Varney : Andrew's Life of our Lord. Professor Mathews: Critical Estimates.Tuesday, February 22.Washington's Birthday. — A Holiday.General meeting of all Divisions in Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall, 11 : 30 a.m. (see p. 370).Address by Hon. George R. Peck on "George Washington."Meeting of the University Congregation, Congregation Hall, Haskell Oriental Museum, 3:00 p.m. (seep. 370).Wednesday, February 23.Reception at the Washington House, 4:00-6:00 p.m-(see p. 371).Geological Club meets in the Lecture Room of WalkerMuseum, 4: 30 p.m.C. E. Siebenthal: "The Ouachita Uplift."Regular Monthly Meeting of the University Settlement Committee, Faculty Room, 4:00 p.m.Lecture before Senior Divisions I and II, FacultyRoom, Haskell Oriental Museum, 5:00 p.m. Bacteriological Club meets in Room 40, ZoologicalBuilding, 5:00 p.m.O. W. Caldwell: "Active and Passive Immunity in Anthrax."H. E. Davies: Review of Brouardel and Thoinot's LaFievre Typhoide.Prayer Meeting of the Y. M. C. A., Lecture Room,Cobb Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.The "Forum" meets in Assembly Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 7:00 p.m.Philolexian Society meets in Room B 15, Cobb Lecture Hall, 8:00 p.m.Thursday, February 24.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (see p. 370).Lecture before Junior Division VI, Faculty Room,Haskell Oriental Museum, 1:00 p.m.Informal Talks on Books of Today by Assistant Professor Crow, Lecture Room, Cobb Hall, 3:00 p.m.Poems of Stephen Phillips.Junior Division Contests, 4:00 p.m. (see p. 370).Room for each Division will be announced on the Bulletinboards.Political Science and History Club meets in FacultyRoom, Haskell Oriental Museum, 4:00 p.m.Dr. Carl Evans Boyd on " The Government of the Northwest Territory."Lecture before Senior Divisions III-VI, AssemblyRoom, Haskell Oriental Museum, 5 : 00 p.m.Pedagogical Club meets in Faculty Room, HaskellOriental Museum. 8:00 p.m.Paper by Professor Jackman, of Chicago Normal School :" Principles of School Grading."Friday, February 25.Chapel-Assembly : Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (see p. 370).Romance Club meets in Room C 13, Cobb LectureHall, 4:00 p.m.Paper by Assistant Professor Bruner.Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Room 35, 4: 00 p.m.Head Professor Moore: "Concerning Cantor's Well-ordered Totalities." (Conclusion.)Mr. Moulton : " The Theory of the Resistance of the Sun'sCorona to Comets moving in parabolic Orbits."Note: "Geometrical Representation of Binary CubicForms on the Neumann Sphere," by Miss Cummings.Dramatic Recital, Kent Theatre, 4:30 p.m.Miss Ida Benfey : Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. ,Saturday, February 26.Administrative Board of Libraries, Laboratories, andMuseums, 8:30 a.m.Faculties of the Graduate Schools, 10:00 a.m.Material for the UNIVERSITY RECORD must be sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., inorder to be published in the issue of the same week.