ftbe THntverstt$ of CbicaaoPrice $J.OO founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGO£be XXnivexeitv of Gbicago pressVOL. II, NO. 50. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. MARCH 11, 1898.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. Report of the University Elementary School,VII. - - 399-401II. Official Notices - 401-402III. Programme of the Winter Finals and the Twenty-Second Convocation, Spring 1898 - - - 402-403IV. Official Reports: Library; Final Examination 403V. The Graduate-Divinity Debate .... 403VI. The Eleventh Educational Conference of theSchools and Academies Affiliating or Cooperating with the University of Chicago - - 404-405VII. Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Chicago - 405VIII. North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools 405IX. Current Events 405X. The Calendar 406Report of the University Elementary SchoolVII.WORK IN ELECTRICITY GIVEN THE CHILDREN IN THEFIFTH AND SIXTH YEARS.This work in electricity was given the children inclose relation to the utilizations of electricity whichthey meet every day. The first thing taken up wasthe electric battery or cell. The putting up of an electric bell in the schoolhouse was the final end for thefirst of the children's investigations. The simplerexperiments were treated as steps leading up to theunderstanding of the electric bell and later of thetelegraph and telephone. Wherever the question ofchemical action as the source of energy came up, thechildren seemed to be satisfied with knowing whatwas used up and what were the most noticeable sideproducts of the battery used. No attempt was made at first to give any ideas concerning the electricaldisturbance itself, except in the effects which it produced which they could see. Electricity was lookedupon by the children (as far as close observationcould discover) simply from the point of view of howthey could use it. It was not until after many experiments that the question arose (and then from onlya few more advanced children) as to what electricityitself was. The vague phrase of something happening in the wire or in the cell seemed to satisfy themcompletely. In the following record of experimentsonly the principal points are given. The work wasdone individually, the discussion and a few of themore complicated experiments being conducted asclass work. The time spent has been between threeand four hours a week for ten weeks.Batteries. — a) Apparatus. Small tumblers ofsulphuric acid (strength about 1:24). Small strips ofzinc and copper and pieces of electric light carbon.Copper wire (insulated and uninsulated). Iron nails andiron filings. Ammonium chloride batteries of the kindused for electric bells. The children soldered the wireto the copper and zinc strips themselves and in all theexperiments did as many such things as was possiblein the time, b) The principles and facts discovered.The impure zinc used was attacked by the dilute acid soamalgamation with mercury was suggested. Thereason for the acid attacking the impure zinc wasgiven them. Nothing happens in the solution unlesspieces of zinc and copper or zinc and carbon placed in itare touching the edges or connected by a piece of wire.When the connecting wire is wrapped around a soft400 UNIVERSITY RECORDiron nail covered with paper, the nail becomes amagnet. Insulated wire answers the same purpose.Ways of making the magnet stronger : (1) submerging more of the metals in the solution ; (2) addingmore acid and water ; (3) making more turns of thewire around the nail ; (4) using shorter pieces of wire ;(5) using larger sized wire.Beside the sulphuric acid solution they used, inbringing out some of these points, copper sulphatesolution and the ammonium chloride battery. Thesebatteries were like the sulphuric acid cell except thatdifferent materials were used.The principles.— Something happens in the wire ofthe battery which enables it to do work. This is calledelectricity. An electrical chain passes along the wirefrom one metal to another and through the liquid.An electrical change can take place only through acircuit, i. e., when both metals are in the liquid andare connected with a wire. The electrical change isbrought about by the action of the liquid on themetals in some way, the chemical action appearing aselectrical action.The applications. — a. Electric Bell. a. Apparatus.Electric bell, push-button, and ammonium chloridebatteries. — /3. The electro-magnet in the bell is likethe one made by wrapping the wire around the nail.The work is done by this electro-magnet and thespring. The spring makes and the electro-magnetbreaks the circuit. The push-button is used to makethe circuit just as when, with their simpler cells, twopieces of wire were touched or twisted together.b. Telegraph. — a. Apparatus. Copper sulphatebatteries and ammonium chloride batteries. Telegraphic keys and sounders. The woodwork for theseinstruments was made in the shop by the children. —/3. Principles. An electric-magnet like that in thebell. The spring acts in the same way, but the electromagnet does not make the spring break the circuit ;the key is like the push-button in the bell. TheMorse alphabet was used and words telegraphed backand forth from one room to another.c. Galvanometer. Needles were magnetized byrubbing them across electro-magnets and were floatedin water ; they pointed north and south. If a wire inwhich an electrical change is taking place is held overa needle the north end of the needle turns east orwest depending on whether the wire from the zinc orthe wire from the carbon is held over the north end.The children used this method of identification todetermine whether a wire given them from a concealedbattery came from the zinc or carbon in the cell.The galvanometer needle acts on the same principle,The galvanometer can be used : (1) to detect the pres ence of an electrical change ; (2) to detect the strengthof that change ; (3) to tell which wire comes from thezinc of the battery and which from the carbon.Other ways of producing an electrical change besidesthe battery were now taken up.1. A coil of wire was attached to the galvanometer.A permanent magnet was moved in and out of thiscoil. The galvanometer needle was deflected showingthe presence of an electrical current in the coils ofwire of the galvanometer. This change was effectedby the direction of the movement of the magnet.The needle is deflected in opposite directions by thenorth and south ends of the magnet.2. Toy shocking machine. This machine consistedof a coil of wire placed between the poles of a permanent horseshoe magnet. The coil was turned onits axis by a crank. This produced an electricalchange which was felt, on grasping the handles, as ashock. Here the work done by turning the crank isconverted into an electrical work. At this point asummary was made of the ways in which they foundan electrical change to be produced. The formulationof these three ways : (1) battery ; (2) moving a coil ofwire between the poles of a permanent magnet ; (3moving a permanent magnet into and out of a coil ofwire. The children then went on to the combinationelectro-magnet and battery as used in the telephone.a. Apparatus. Two small magnetic telephones, aBell telephone receiver. A large receiver which canbe taken to pieces.j8. Principles. The vibrations of the soft metal diskcaused by the waves of air set up in speaking causedfluctuations in the amount of electricity in the coil ofwire. These fluctuations in the change passed throughthe wire producing corresponding changes in thestrength of the magnet at the other end. The childrenwere here shown how the disk when placed on the endof a horseshoe magnet lessened the number of filingswhich would stand in erect rows over the poles. Asthe magnet is stronger and weaker it produces vibrations in its own disk which correspond to the vibrationsin the disks moved by the breath of the person speaking, thus starting vibrations in the air which reachthe ear of the listener and so make him hear. As anillustration of the lack of interest in the purelyanalytic aspects, it may be noted that the childrenwould have been perfectly contented with the ideaof the waves of air traveling along the wire.After this, two hours were spent in showing thechildren the power of electricity to separate somechemical compounds into their constituents. Theillustrations used were the electrolysis of water andof copper sulphate. To freshen their memories on theUNIVERSITY RECORD 401composition of water, hydrogen was first generatedin a flask by the action of hydrochloric acid on zinc.They recognized the phenomena as the same observedwhen acid was first placed on zinc in the batteries.The stream of hydrogen issuing from the flask wasburned, and the water formed collected on a cold drybeaker. They were told that burning meant unionwith the oxygen in the air and were shown that whenthe supply of air was cut off, as by putting a test-tubeover the flame, the flame went out. They were thenshown a simple electrolytic apparatus in which twoplatinum electrodes are immersed in a tumbler of water,and observed the bubbles rise from the electrodeswhen the batteries were attached. They at once concluded that the bubbles must be hydrogen and oxygenof which water is composed, but most of them thoughtthat bubbles of both gases came from each electrode.To test that a slightly more complicated apparatusin which the gas coming from each electrode is collected separately, was used. When they found thattwice as much gas came off from one electrode as theother they concluded that all of one gas must be onone side, and the other on the other side. Since hydrogen burns, they made that test and found that thegas, of which there was the greatest quantity, burned,while the other gas simply made the match burn morebrightly. They concluded that there was twice asmuch hydrogen as oxygen in water and that electricitycould separate the two. They also noticed that thehydrogen always came from the electrode attached tothe zinc in the battery, and the oxygen from the electrode attached to the carbon.They then placed copper sulphate in the electrolyticcell, showed that the zinc electrode became flaked withcopper ; and concluded that electricity separated thecopper sulphate into its constituents just as it did thewater.At this point it has been thought best to give themsome idea of energy in the form of vibration. So thetime for the next three weeks will be spent in experiments in sound. In the meantime two or more fieldvisits will to be made to an electric light station andpower house.Official Notices.SPRING EXAMINATIONS FOR ADMISSION.The Spring Examinations for admission to theJunior Colleges will be held in Cobb Hall, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 19, 21,22, and 23. The University Examiner will furnishparticular information on application. QUARTERLY EXAMINATIONS.The Examinations at the close of the Winter Quarter will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 22, 23, and 24. Examinations for morningclasses will be held on three successive mornings ; forafternoon classes on three successive afternoons, asfollows :8:30 Exercises, Tues., March 22, 8:30-11:30 a.m.9:30 " Wedn. n 23, 8:30-11:30 a.m.11:00 a Thurs. a 24, 8:30-11:30 a.m.12:00 a Tues. a 22, 2:00- 5:00 p.m.2:00 a Wedn. " 23, 2:00- 5:00 p.m.3:00 a Thurs. a 24, 2:00- 5:00 p.m.Reports for the Winter Quarter. — All instructors are requested to observe that all reports forcourses given during the Winter Quarter are due atthe Examiner's Office (or the Faculty Exchange) notlater than 12:00 m., Monday, March 28. It is ofthe utmost importance that every course be recordedfully and promptly. Blanks will be furnished throughthe Faculty Exchange not later than Tuesday,March 22. The University Examiner.SPRING REGISTRATION.Bulletin of Changes in Announcements.New Courses.IB. 26 Pedagogy : Practical Pedagogy : A studyof the present Public School System. Mj.4:00-6:00, Monday and Friday (ProfessorJackman). % 33XIX. 4, Experimental Physics (Stratton).XXVII. Id, Elementary Botany 8:30 (Coulter) $ 13M. Laboratory 2: 00-4: 00, Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Caldwell). $3 13, 14Courses Withdrawn.III. 21, Federal Administration (James).XV. 62, The Works of Coleridge.XV. 88, Nature in English Poetry (Reynolds).Changes in Courses.XV. 59, Beginnings of Romantic Poetry, will begiven by Assistant Professor Reynolds Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00-6:00.Change of Hours.IB. 1. Educational Psychology (Moore), 2i 16Hour changed from 9 : 30 to 2 : 00.402 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Final Examination of Lisi Cecilia Ciprianifor the degree of Ph.D. will be held on WednesdayMarch 16, 1898, at 2: 00 p.m., in Room C 14, Cobb Hall.Principal subject, French; secondary subject, German,Thesis : " Gui de Bourgogne, a Critical Edition, withIntroduction, Notes and Glossary." Committee,Assistant Professor Howland, Assistant ProfessorBruner, Associate Professor Cutting, and all otherinstructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Herbert EllsworthSlaught for the degree of Ph.D. will be held on Friday, March 18, 1898, at 2 : 30 p.m., in Room 36, RyersonPhysical Laboratory. Principal subject, Mathematics ;secondary subject, Astronomy. Thesis: "The CrossRatio Group of 120 Quadratic Cremona Transformations of the Plane." Committee : Head ProfessorMoore, Professor George E. Hale, Associate ProfessorCastle, and all other instructors in the departmentsimmediately concerned.The Final Examination of Henry Chandler Cowlesfor the degree of Ph.D. will be held on Friday,March 18, 1898, at 2: 30 p.m. in the Botany Building.Principal subject, Botany ; secondary subject, Geology.Thesis: "An Ecological Study of the Sand DuneFlora of Northern Indiana." Committee : Head Professors Coulter and Chamberlin, Associate ProfessorStratton, and all other instructors in the departmentimmediately concerned. cipal subject, English; secondary subject, German.Thesis : " Notes on the Minor Poems of John Ly dgate."Committee : Associate Professors MacClintock, andCutting, Professor Hendrickson, and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Addison Webster Moorefor the degree of Ph.D. will be held Friday March 25,1898, at 2 : 30 p.m. in Room 34, Anatomy Building. Principal subject, Philosophy; secondary subject, Psychology. Thesis : " Implications of the TeleologicalCharacter of Knowledge in Locke's Essay on theHuman Understanding." Committee : Head Professors Dewey and Small, Assistant Professor Angell,and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Edgar Johnson Good-speed for the degree of Ph.D. will be held Monday,March 21, at 11: 00 a.m., in Haskell, Room 28. Principalsubject, New Testament Interpretation; secondarysubject, Hebrew. Thesis : "The Newberry MS. of theGospels." Committee : Head Professors Burton andHarper, Professor Tarbell, and all other instructorsin the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Wallace St. John forthe degree of D.B. will be held Monday, March 21, at2: 00 p.m., in H 15. Principal subject, Church History ;secondary subject, New Testament Interpretation.Thesis: "The Drink Habits of the New EnglandColonists." Committee: Head Professors Hulbert andBurton, Professors Johnson, Mathews and Foster,and all other instructors in the departmentsimmediately concerned.The Final Examination of Eleanor PrescottHammond for the degree of Ph.D. will be held on Monday, March 21, at 3:00 p.m. in Cobb Hall, 4 D. Prin- The Final Examination of Mrs. Charlotte Com-stock Gray for the degree of D.B. will be held Monday, April 11, at 3: 00 p.m., in H 15. Principal subject,Church History; secondary subject, Homiletics.Thesis : " Michselangelo— His Place in the ReformatoryMovement." Committee: Head Prof essors Hulbertand Anderson, Professors Johnson and Foster, Associate Professor Moncrief , and all other instructors inthe departments immediately concerned.Programme of the Winter Finals and the Twenty-Second Convocation, Spring 1S98.THE FINALS.March ii, Friday.8 : oo p.m. Junior College Finals for the Ferdinand Peckprize. Kent Theater.g : oo-n : oo p.m. Junior College Reception.Haskell Oriental Museum.March i8, Friday.8:00 p.m. Graduate and Divinity Finals for the JosephLetter prize.Debate: Resolved, that the policy of increasingthe United States Navy is wise and should becontinued. Affirmative, the Divinity School;Negative, the Graduate School.Kent Theater.March 20, Sunday.3 : 30 p.m. Baccalaureate Prayer Service.Members of the Faculty and Candidates forDegrees are invited to attend.Haskell Oriental Museum— Assembly Room.4: 00 p.m. Baccalaureate Vesper Service.Baccalaureate Address,The President of the University.Music by the choir of St. Peter's Church, fiftyvoices. Kent Theater.university record 403March 21, Monday.8 : 00 p.m. Senior College Finals for the University prize.Kent Theater.9 : 00-11 : 00 p.m. Reception to the Graduating Students.President* s House.March 22-23-24, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.Quarterly Examinations of the Winter Quarter.CONVOCATION WEEK.April i, Friday.8:30 A.M8 : 30 A.M.-12 130 p.m. The Graduate Matutinal. President's House.Matriculation and Registration of incoming students.10 : 30 a.m. Division meetings of the Junior and Senior Colleges. Attendance required.Cobb Lecture Hall.2:00 P.M. Meeting of Candidates for degrees with theExecutive officers.Cobb Lecttire Hall — Chapel.8 : 00 p.m. The Twenty- Second University Convocation.The Procession.The Convocation Address : " Poetry and Science ;Their Affinities and Contrasts," by ProfessorWilliam Knight, St. Andrews' University,Scotland.The Conferring of Degrees.The President's Quarterly Statement.The University Congregational Church.April 3, Sunday.8 : 30 a.m.4: 00 P.M. Convocation Sunday.Bible Classes.Convocation Vesper Service.Convocation Sermon. Rev. W. W. Fenn, Chicago.Music by the choir of the First Unitarian Church.Quarterly Report of the Secretary of the Christian Union. Kent Theater.Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.C. A.Haskell Oriental Musettm — Assembly Room.April 4, Monday.8: 30 a.m,8 : 00 p.m.April 5, Tuesday.8 : 00 p.m. Lectures and Recitations of the Spring Quarterbegin.4:00 P.M. The Eighth Meeting of the University Congregation.Haskell Oriental Museum— Faculty Room.Lecture. Professor William Knight. "Tennyson." Cobb Lecture Hall — Chapel.April 6, Wednesday.8 : 00 p.m.April 7, Thursday.4:00 P.M.8:0O P.M. Lecture. Professor William Knight. "TheFunctions of Philosophy at the PresentTime" Cobb Lecture Hall— Chapel.Lecture. Professor William Knight. "A NewTheory of Poetry."Cobb Lecture Hall— Chapel.Conference on the Life and Work of Wordsworth.Cobb Lecture Hall — Chapel.Lecture. Professor Will iam Knight. * ' Willi amWordsworth."Cobb Lecture Hall— Chapel. Official Reports.During the month ending February 28, 1898, therehas been added to the Library of the University atotal number of 604 volumes from the followingsources :Books added by purchase, 313 vols., distributed asfollows :General Library, 29 vols.; Philosophy, 7 vols.; Pedagogy, 23 vols.; Political Economy, 3 vols.; PoliticalScience, 3 vols.; History, 25 vols.; Classical Archaeology, 2 vols.; Sociology, 11 vols.; Sociology (Divinity),2 vols.; Anthropology, 1 vol.; Semitic, 3 vols.; Comparative Philology, 7 vols.; Greek, 34 vols.; Latin, 68vols.; Greek and Latin, 8 vols.; Romance, 1 vol.; German, 33 vols.; English, 14 vols.; Mathematics, 1 vol.;Astronomy, 5 vols.; Geology, 3 vols.; Biology, 1 vol.;Zoology, 10 vols.; Anatomy, 1 vol.; Physiology, 1 vol.;Neurology, 2 vols.; Church History, 1 vol.; SystematicTheology, 3 vols.; Morgan Park Academy, 10 vols.;Church History, New Testament, and Latin, 1 vol.Books added by gift, 252 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 119 vols.; Political Economy, 6 vols.;Political Science, 3 vols.; History, 104 vols.; Sociology,1 vol.; English, 2 vols.; Mathematics, 1 vol.; Geology,14 vols.; Botany, 1 vol.; Music, 1 vol.Books added by exchange for University Publications, 39 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 15 vols.; Political Economy, 3 vols.;History, 1 vol.; Sociology, 3 vols.; Comparative Religion, 2 vols.; Semitic, 5 vols.; New Testament, 5 vols.,Romance, 1 vol.; Geology, 2 vols.; Church History,1 vol.; Homiletics, 1 vol.The Final Examination of Fred Burton RennieHellems for the degree of Ph.D. was held in CobbHall, Tuesday March 8, 1898. Principal subject,Latin ; secondary subject, Greek. Thesis : " A Collection and Examination of the Principal EpigraphicalEvidence for the Reign of Vespasian." Committee :Head Professors Hale and Shorey, and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Graduate-Divinity Debate.James L. Bynum and Samuel R. Robinson are thetwo men selected to represent the Divinity School inthe Graduate-Divinity Debate for the Joseph Leiterprize, Friday evening March 18. M. J. Loveless andW. F. McCaleb will represent the Graduate Schools.404 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Eleventh Educational ConferenceOF THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES AFFILIATED OR COOPERATING WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, 1898.Friday Afternoon.3: 00 (Haskell Oriental Museum, Faculty Room).Executive Session of the Deans of AffiliatedSchools with Board of Affiliation.Saturday Forenoon.9: 00 (Haskell Oriental Museum, Faculty Room),Joint Conference of Principals of CooperatingSchools with Board of Affiliation.10:00 (Cobb Hall Chapel). Papers and Discussions.1. The Psychology of Adolescence, Colin Scott.The Chicago Normal School ; Associate Professor Charles H. Thurber, Morgan ParkAcademy. «2. The Fitness of Economics to Meet the Conditions of Adolescence, Principal E. G.Cooley, Lyons Township High School.3. The Fitness of Science to Meet the Conditions of Adolescence, Head Professor J. M.Coulter, the University of Chicago.Saturday Afternoon.2:00 Departmental Conferences.Astronomy (Ryerson Laboratory, Room 35, 3: 00o'clock), Mr. F. R. Moulton.1. The Law of the Sun's Rotation, Dr. E. J.Wilczynski.2. Observatories. Illustrated with a series ofphotographs of the Yerkes Observatory andequipment, Mr. F. R. Moulton, the University of Chicago.Biology (Hull Botanical Laboratory, first floor),Assistant Professor E. O. Jordon.1. The Aim and Scope of Cellular Biology, Assistant Professor Sho Watase", the Universityof Chicago.2. The Text-book Problem, Head Professor J.M. Coulter, the University of Chicago.English (Haskell Assembly Room), Mr. L. T.Damon.1. Methods of Teaching Novels, Miss MayEstelle Cook, the South Side Academy.2. How Should the Prescribed Books be Edited ?C. W. French, Principal Hyde Park HighSchool. General Discussion.French (Cobb Hall, 10 B), Dr. T. L. Neff.The Place of Composition in the Preparatory French Course, Assistant Professor GeorgeC. Howland, the University of Chicago.German (Cobb Hall, 8 B), Dr. P. O. Kern.1. Phonetics in the Class Room, Assistant Professor Schmidt-WTartenberg, the Universityof Chicago.2. Discussion, opened by Dr. Jessie L. JonesLewis Institute.History (Cobb Hall, 8 C), Professor O. J.Thatcher. Source Method of Teaching History.Latin and Greek (Cobb Hall, Lecture Hall),Assistant Professor F. J. Miller.1. Some Recent Objections to Classical Study,Assistant Professor Miller, the University ofChicago.2. The Classics and History, Assistant ProfessorClifford H. Moore, the University of Chicago.3. Some New Fields of Greek Study, AssociateProfessor Capps, the University of Chicago.Manual Training (Kent Laboratory, first floor),Chas. A. Bennett, Bradley Polytechnic Institute.1. Introductory Remarks by the Chairman.2. How to Introduce Manual Training Into aLarge Town or City High School, Arthur D.Fairbanks, Oak Park High School.3. The High School Course in Woodworking,William H. Bass, Industrial Training School,Indianapolis.4. General Discussion.Mathematics (Ryerson Laboratory, Room 36),Mr. H. E. Slaught.Open Discussions on the Teaching of Algebra.1. To What Extent can Preparatory Algebra beSuccessfully Used as a Means of Trainingthe Reasoning Faculty ?2. What Demonstrations do First Year StudentsReadily Master ? What Should be the ChiefAim in this part of the Course ?3. What Demonstrations in the Final Half Yearare found Most Difficult ? What Should bethe Chief Aim in this part of the Course ?Physics (Ryerson Laboratory, first floor), Associate Professor S. W. Stratton.The Measurement of Mass, Length and TimeDesirable in an Elementary Course of GeneralPhysics, Dr. R. A. Millikan, Professor C. W.Carman.Between the morning and afternoon sessions onSaturday theUniversity will give an informal receptionand luncheon in Haskell Oriental Museum to visitingteachers as its guests. William R. Harper,President.UNIVERSITY RECORD 405The following permanent dates have been decidedupon for the semiannual conferences : For the AutumnConference, the third Friday and Saturday in October ; for the Spring Conference, the second Fridayand Saturday in March.Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Chicago.The Three Hundred Dollar Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Chicago is open to graduates of the Universities and Colleges of Illinois who wish to follow agraduate course of study at Harvard University,Cambridge, Mass., during the academic year beginning September 29, 1898, and will be given to one of theapplicants selected by the undersigned committee ofthe Club.Candidates must send in their applications on orbefore May 1, 1898, to William W. Case, 172 Washington Street, Chicago.Applications must give information as follows :Name, age, residence, and post office address of applicant ; of what college or university he is a graduate ;what course of study he proposes to follow. Theymust be accompanied by references from the authorities of his college or university, or by other satisfactory evidence of his proficiency, zeal and general goodcharacter.The committee will select the holder of the scholarship on or before May 15, 1898, and the amount of thescholarship will be paid by the bursar of HarvardUniversity to the successful candidate as follows :One Hundred and Fifty Dollars at the close of thefirst half-year of the year 1898-9 and the remainder atthe close of the year, provided the candidate hasentered himself as a graduate student according tothe rules of the University and continued his studiesthrough the academic year ; but the bursar may makepayments at other times and in different amountsif for any cause he shall deem it best.William W. Case,Moses J. Wentworth,George L. Hunter,Chicago, February 7, 1898. Committee.North Central Association of Colleges and SecondarySchools.The Third Annual Meeting of the North CentralAssociation of Colleges and Secondary schools will beheld in the Banqueting Hall of the Auditorium Hotel,Chicago, Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2, 1898. The programme will be in outline as follows :First Session, Friday. April 1, 10: 00 a.m.President's Annual Address.Reports of Special Committees.Miscellaneous Business.Second Session. April 1, 2: 00 p.m.Discussion of Resolution concerning Englishstudy.Friday Evening —Members of Association and invited guests dinetogether, Auditorium Hotel.Third Session. Saturday, April 2, 9: 30 a.m.Discussion of Resolution concerning UniformCollege Requirements.Fourth Session. April 2, 2: 00 p.m.Discussion of Mr. Nightingale's proposed substitute for the Fourth Resolution of the meetingof 1897.Current Events,The Philological Society met in Cobb Hall B 2 onFriday evening, March 4, at 8 o'clock. Associate Professor Buck read a paper on "The Spelling of Prepositional Compounds in Latin " and Assistant Professor Bruner on " The Historical Development of thePersonal Pronouns in the Tuscan Dialects."Associate Librarian Zella Allen Dixson, addressedthe Chicago Woman's Club, March 2, at 2:30 p.m. Thesubject of the lecture was "Popular Prejudice." Theeffect of prejudice on religion, industry, society andeducation was outlined, as to its cause, manner ofbehavior and remedy. The address was followed byfive-minute talks from prominent members of the Club.On the evening of February 16, Mr. Joseph Leiserentertained the English Club of the University witha reading from his forthcoming volume of jjoemsMr. Leiser has profound seriousness, united with asense of form, and much is to be expected from hisfuture.Professor Francis G. Peabody of Harvard Universityfavored the students of the Senior Colleges with avery instructive address on Tuesday, March 8, 1898.Mr. Fred Burton Rennie Hellems, Fellow in theUniversity, has resigned to become Professor of Latinin the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.Rev. P. S. Henson, D.D. gave the vesper address on" The Christianity of Today " Sunday, March 6, verykindlyconsenting on short notice to fill the place ofDr. Hillis, who was unexpectedly prevented fromkeeping the appointment.406 UNIVERSITY RECORDCalendar.MARCH 11-19, 1898.Friday, March 11.Graduate Assembly : — Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall,10:30 a.m.Executive Session of Deans of Affiliated Schools withAdministrative Board of Affiliations. Faculty Room,Haskell Oriental Museum, 3:00 p.m. (See p. 404 forProgramme of the Conference.)Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Room 35, 4:00 p.m.H. E. Slaught: " On a Ternary Quadratic Cremona Groupof Order 120 " (Second paper).Head Professor Moore : " Concerning Cantor's well-orderedTotalities" (Conclusion).Note: "An Example of Curvilinear Coordinates," by Mr.Duke.Junior College Finals for the Ferdinand Peck prize,8 : 00 p.m. Kent Theater.Saturday, March 12.Joint Conference of Principals of Cooperating Schoolswith the administrative Board of Affiliations.Faculty Room, Haskell Oriental Museum, 9:00 a.m.Faculty and Board meetings announced for this dayin last week's Record are herewith called off.Sunday, March 13.Vesper Service. Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m.Prof essor John Henry Barrows, D.D., on "The Christianityof the Future."Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room, 7: 00 p.m.Monday, March 14.Chapel Assembly : Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents).Special meeting of Junior College Faculty, 4:30 p.m.Registration for the Spring Quarter closes, 5:00 p.m.Tuesday, March 15.Chapel- Assembly : Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior CollegeStudents).Lecture before Junior Division I, B 8, Cobb LectureHall, 10:30 a.m.Lecture before Junior Divisions II-IV, A 6, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Lecture before Junior Division V, Kent Laboratory,Room 20, 10:30 a.m.Geological Club meets in the Lecture Room of WalkerMuseum, 4:30 p.m.Head Professor T. C. Chamberlin, on "Results of somenew Studies on Mountain-making."Botanical Club meets in the Botanical Building,Room 23, 5:00 p.m.Henry C. Cowles will present the results of his studieson " The Ecological Relations of the Flora of the SandDunes of Northwestern Indiana." The "Forum" meets in Assembly Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 7: 00 p.m. Business session only.University Chorus, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Wednesday, March 16.Final examination of Lisi Cecilia Cipriani, C 14, CobbHall, 2:00 p.m. (see p. 402).Zoological Club meets in Room 24, Zoological Building, 4:00 p.m.W. H. Packard: Carnoy's paper on the " Fertilization ofAscaris."Emily R. Gregory: "The Development of the Pronephrosin the Testudinata."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.Dr. A. L. Smith: "The Relations of Human to AvianDiphtheria."C. V. BachellS: "The Action of Rontgen Rays upon Bacteria."Prayer Meeting of the Y. M. C. A., Lecture Room,Cobb Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.Philolexian Society meets in Room B 15, Cobb Lecture Hall, 8:00 p.m.Thursday, March 17.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Lecture before Junior Division VI, Faculty Room,Haskell Oriental Museum, 1:30 p.m.Lecture before Senior Divisions III-VI, AssemblyRoom, Haskell Oriental Museum, 5 : 00 p.m.University Chorus, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Political Science and History Club meets in AssemblyRoom, Haskell Oriental Museum, 8:00 p.m.Hon. J. D. Andrews will read a paper on " The DistinctiveFeatures of American Jurisprudence." All are invited.Philosophical Club meets in Faculty Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 8:00 p.m.Dr. Paul Carus, of the Monist, will speak on " The God-problem and its Solution."Friday, March 18.Graduate-Assembly: — Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall,10:30 a.m.Final examination of H. E. Slaught, Room 36, RyersonLaboratory, 2:30 p.m. (see p. 402).Final examination of H. C. Cowles, Botany Building2:30p.m. (seep. 402).Graduate and Divinity Finals for the Joseph Leiterprize, 8:00 p.m. Kent Theater.Saturday, March 19.Administrative Board of University Affiliations,8:30 a.m.Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.Faculty of the Divinity School, 11:30 a.m.