Price $J.OOPer Year £be ^University of CbicagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Copies5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGbe IHniversfts of Gbtcaao ©vessVOL 111, NO. 9. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. MAY 27, 1898.' Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS. -fuNE l8, Saturday*8 :oo p.m. Senior College Finals for the University prize.I. Programme of the Spring Finals and the Twenty- Judges, the members of the Senior CollegeThird Convocation, Summer 1898 - - - 53-54 Faculty. Presentation of the class gown.II. Recently Created Doctors of Philosophy - - 54 Kent Theater.III. Recently Created Masters 54 9:00-11:00 p.m. Senior College reception.IV. Official Notices 55 Haskell Oriental Museum.V. The Settlement League 55 jimK XQj Sunday.VI. The Calendar 56 3:30 P.M. Baccalaureate Prayer Service.Members of the Faculties and Candidates for~Degrees are invited to attend.Haskell Oriental Museum — Assembly Room.Programme of the Spring Finals and the Twenty- 1 x „ c .n„„ 4 : 00 p.m. Baccalaureate Vesper Service.Third Convocation, Summer 1898. Vesper Address,¦ Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.D.Baccalaureate Address,THE FINALS. The President of the University.May 13, Friday. Kent Theatfir.8:00 p.m. Junior College Finals for the Ferdinand Peck June ^ UosD Tuesday and Wednesday>prize. Judges, the members of the Junior Quarterly Examinations of the Spring Quarter.College Faculty. Kent Theater. ^ y9 :oo-n :oo p.m. Junior College reception. Presidents House.Tt,_ _. CONVOCATION WEEK.June io, Friday.8 :oo p.m. Graduate and Divinity Finals for the Joseph jUNE 30) Thursday.— Alumni Day.Leiter prize. Debate: "Resolved, That 9 : oo A.M-3 : oo p.m. Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Stu-the centralization of power in the hands of dents.the Speaker of the House of Representatives x . qq p#m> University Luncheon to the Associated Alumni.is detrimental to public interests. " Haskell Oriental Museum— A ssembly Room., . n Kent Theater. 2 . 00 p>M> Annual Business Meetings of the AssociatedJune 12, Sunday — Academic Sunday. .,¦**.-. ..,., , , Alumni:10:30 A.M. Exercises to be participated in by members and _. . . ..r . , . „f. . , . Divinity Alumni,fnendsof affiliated academies. ^^ 0rientdlMuseum- Assembly Room.Religious and patriotic songs. Gmduate AlumnI?Addresses by the Chaplain, the Dean of the Cobb Lecture Hall— Lecture Room.Faculties, and the President of the Uni- Question for consideration : " Should graduateversity. Kent Theater. an(j professional study begin at the end ofJune 17, Friday — Junior College Day. the Junior College course ?"54 UNIVERSITY RECORD\ Collegiate Alumni. Kent Theater.Election of Members of the University Senate,the University Council, and the UniversityCongregation.4:00 P.M. Class Reunions.July i, Friday. — Founder's Day.8 : 30 a.m. The Graduate Matutinal.The Presidents House.8: 3oa.m.^i2: 30 p.m. Matriculation and Registration of incomingstudents.10: 36 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 Lecture Hall — Chafiel.2:00 P.M. Band Concert.3 : 30 p.m. The Twenty -third University Convocation.The Procession.The Founder's Day Address.President William L. Wilson, LL.D., ofWashington and Lee University, Lexington,Virginia.The Conferring of Degrees.The President's Quarterly Statement.The Graduate Quadrangle.July 2, Saturday.8: 30 a.m. -3 : 30 p.m. Matriculation and Registration of incoming students.8:30 A.M. Lectures and Recitations of the Summer Quarter begin. By order of the University Councilall classes will meet morning and afternoon atthe hours assigned in the Quarterly Announcements.4:00 P.M. The Ninth Meeting of the University Congregation.Haskell Oriental Museum — Faculty Room.July 3, Sunday.— Convocation Sunday.8 : 30 a.m. Bible classes.Haskell Oriental Museum.4: 00 p.m„ Convocation Sermon.Quarterly Report of the Secretary of the ChristianUnion. Kent Theater.7: 00 p.m. Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.C. A.Haskell Oriental Museum — Assembly Room.July; 4, Monday — A holiday.n :oo a.m. Patriotic Song Service. Address by Hon. J. L.M. Curry, of Richmond, Va., " John C. Calhoun."The Graduate Quadrangle.4 :oo-6 :oo p.m. Lawn Reception by the Faculties of the University. All students are cordially invited.Women's Quadrangle.Recently Created Doctors of Philosophy.*Philip Castor Baird, 1898 : "The Method of theProphets." College Springs, la.Lisi Cecilia Cipriani, 1898: "Gui de Burgogne, acritical edition, with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary." 5620 Ellis av., Chicago. Henry Chandler Cowles, 1898 : " An EcologicalStudy of the Sand Dune Flora of Northern Indiana."Laboratory Assistant in Botany, the University ofChicago.Herbert Joseph Davenport, 1898 : " The FrenchWar Indemnity." Sioux Falls, S. D.James Walter Fertig, 1898 : " Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee." Graduate Hall, University of Chicago.Winfred Ernest Garrison, 1897 : "The Sources ofAlexander Campbell's Theology." Assistant in theDisciples' Divinity School, the University of Chicago.Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, 1898 : " The NewberryMS. of the Gospels." Instructor in the South SideAcademy, Chicago.Eleanor Prescott Hammond, 1898 : Selectionsfrom the Shorter Poems of John Lydgate, with Introduction and Notes." Docent in English, the University of Chicago.Ira Woods Howerth, 1898: "The Social Aim inEducation." Instructor in Sociology, the Universityof Chicago.Addison Webster Moore, 1898 : " Implications ofthe Teleological Character of Knowledge in Locke'sEssay on the Human Understanding." Instructor inPhilosophy, the University of Chicago.Cora Louise Scopield, 1898: "The Court of StarChamber." Instructor in History, Wellesley College,Wellesley, Mass.Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, 1898 : " The CrossRatio Group of 120 Quadratic Cremona Transformations of the Plane." Instructor in Mathematics, theUniversity of Chicago.Henry Parker Willis, 1898: " History of the LatinMonetary Union." Professor of Political Economy,Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.Recently Created Masters.*1. 3f asters of Arts.Nellie Elizabeth Bancroft, 1898: " The Simile inHomer and Vergil."June Etta Downey, 1898 : " Berkeley's Theory ofthe Will, as found in his Common Place Book. "2. Master of Philosophy.Rose Mary Macneal, 1898: "The Danegeid on theContinent, its Nature and Objects."3. Master of Science.Thomas Ovid Mabry, 1898 : " The Brown andYellow Loam of North Mississippi and its RelationsNorthern Drift."*See"Five Years of Graduate Work," University Record,Vol. II, No. 36. ee "The Masters of the University," University Record,Vol. II, No. 42.UNIVERSITY RECORD 55Official Notices.JUNIOR COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP IN CHEMISTRY.A scholarship, covering one year's tuition, isawarded each year to the student who receives thenomination of the Chemical Department for the excellence of his work in Chemistry during the Junior College course. All who received the Junior CollegeCertificate between October 1, 1897, and July 1, 1898,may become candidates for the scholarship. Thescholarship is awarded on the basis of1) class standing in Chemistry;2) general Junior College record ;3) a special examination in General Chemistry, tobe given on Saturday, May 28, in Kent 20.Dr. Case's lectures before the Geological Club willnot be given next week or the week following on account of other engagements. They will be resumedon Saturday, June 11.The Final Examination of John Rothwell Slaterfor the degree of D.B. will be held Tuesday, May 31,at 11:00 a.m. in Room 28, Haskell Oriental Museum.Principal subject, Old Testament; secondary subject,New Testament. Thesis: "The Inspiration of theOld Testament." Committee : Head ProfessorsHarper and Burton, Professor Foster, and all otherinstructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Frank William Woodsfor the degree ol D.B. will be held Friday, June 3, at8:30 a.m. in Room 28, Haskell Oriental Museum.Principal subject, New Testament; secondary subject, Theology. Thesis : " Paul's Conception of theNew Life." Committee : Head Professors Burton andNorthrup, Professors Foster, Mathews and Johnson,Dr. Votaw, and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of James Robert Pentufffor the degree of A.M. will be held Tuesday, June 6,at 2:00 p.m. in Room 28, Haskell Oriental Museum.Principal subject, New Testament. Thesis: "TheTerms for Righteousness in Hebrew, Greek and LatinCompared." Committee : Head Professor Burton,Professors Mathews and Foster, Dr. Votaw, and allinstructors in the departments immediately concerned. The Final Examination of Clarence EdwardClough for the degree of D.B., will be held Tuesday,June 7, at 11: 00 a.m. in Room 28, Haskell OrientalMuseum. Principal subject, New Testament; secondary subject, Theology. Thesis : " The Purpose ofJesus' Miracles." Committee : Head Professors Burton and Northrup, Professors Foster, Johnson andMathews, and all other instructors in the departmentsimmediately concerned.The Final Examination of Orlo Josiah Price forthe degree of D.B. will be held Wednesday, June 8, at11:00 a.m., in Room 28, Haskell Oriental Museum.Principal subject, New Testament ; secondary subject, Church History. Thesis : " The Ethics of theNew Life, according to the Fourth Gospel." Committee : Head Professors Burton and Anderson, Professor Johnson, and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of James Josiah Reeve forthe degree of D.B. will be held Tuesday, June 9, at8 : 30 a.m. in Room 28, Haskell Oriental Museum. Principal subject, New Testament Theology ; secondarysubject, Systematic Theology. Thesis : " The Missionof Christ according to John's Gospel." Committee :Head Professors Harper, Burton and Northrup, Professors Fosters, Mathews, Associate Professor Mon-crief, and all other instructors in the departmentsimmediately concerned.The Final Examination of Emanuel Schmidt forthe degree of D.B. will be held Monday, June 20, at2:00 p.m. in Room 15, Haskell Oriental Museum.Principal subject, Old Testament ; secondary subject,Egyptology. Thesis : "Exodus XV: 16-18, 21." Committee: Head Professors Harper and Anderson, Assistant Professor Breasted, Mr. Crandall, and all otherinstructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Settlement League.The Settlement League invites the members of theUniversity to the annual May-Day party given for theWomen's Club and the children of the Settlement,Saturday I\$ay 28. The children will sing in KentTheater at 3:^00 p.m. It is hoped that a large audiencewill welcome them there. Later, in the Women'sQuadrangle, there wnVbe a May -pole dance, games,and refreshments.56 UNIVERSITY RECORDCalendar.MAY 27— JUNE 4, 1898.Friday, May 27.Graduate Assembly : — Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall,10: 30 a.m.Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Room 35, 4: 00 p.m.Dr. Boyd: "An Extension of Riccati's Equation" (secondpaper) .Notes : By Ida M. Schottenf els, Thesis Report ; by Anne S.Young, " The Potential of a Heterogeneous Sphere onitself."Saturday, May 28.Administrative Board of Libraries, Laboratories, andMuseums, 8:30 a.m.Faculties of the Graduate Schools, 10:00 a.m.The Morgan Park Academy Faculty, 11:30 a.m.Special Examination of Candidates for Junior College Scholarship in Chemistry, Room 20, KentTheater (see p. 55).Annual May-Day of University Settlement LeagueKent Theater, 3: 00 p.m.Sunday, May 29.Vesper Service, Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m.Professorial Lecturer John H. Barrows on " Buddhistand Christian Doctrines of the Soul and of the FutureLife."Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room, 7: 00 p.m.Monday, May 30.Memorial Day. — A Holiday.New Testament Club meets at the home of HeadProfessor Burton, 5524 Monroe av., 7:30 p.m.Professor George B. Poster will speak on " The Problem ofTheology."Tuesday, May 31.Chapel-Assembly: Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior CollegeStudents).Final Examination of John Rothwell Slater, Room 28,Haskell Oriental Museum, 11:00 a.m. (see p. 55).Botanical Club meets in the Botanical Building,Room 23, 5: 00 p.m.Prayer Meeting of the Y. W. C. A., Haskell AssemblyRoom, 5:00 p.m.The "Forum" meets in Assembly Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 7:00 p.m.Material for the UWIVEBSITY* EEOOKD must 1order to be published in the issue of the same week. University Chorus, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Philolexian Literary Society meets in Room 9 B, CobbLecture Hall, 8:00 p.m.Sociology Club meets in Faculty Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 8:00 p.m.Mrs. A. P. Stevens of Huh House will give an address on"Industrial Democracy from the Trades Union Standpoint."Last Lecture of " The Library Course " by Zella AllenDixson, Assembly Room, Haskell Oriental Museum,at 8:00 p.m.It will be an illustrated lecture entitled, "A LiteraryPilgrimage." Open to all interested.English Club meets in the English Library, 8:00 p.m.Associate Professor F. A. Blackburn: "The Husband'sMessage and Accompanying Riddles."Mr. L. T. Damon: "Monk Lewis, A forgotten Celebrity."Dr. F. I. Carpenter: " The Second English Rhetoric " (byRichard Sherry) .Wednesday, June 1.Zoological Club meets in Room 24, Zoological Building, 4:00 p.m.Assistant Professor Wheeler: The Placentation of Pera-meles (Hill). The Eyes of Amphioxus (Hesse).Bacteriological Club meets in Room 40, ZoologicalBuilding, 5:00 p.m.Prayer Meeting of the Y. M. C. A., Lecture Room,Cobb Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.Thursday, June 2.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m.University Chorus, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Philosophical Club meets in Faculty Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 8:00 p.m.Assistant Professor Mead: "The Organization of the Self."Friday, June 3.Graduate-Assembly: — Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall,10: 30 a.m.Head Professor Coulter : " Botany."Final Examination of F. W. Woods, Room 28, HaskellOriental Museum, 8:30 a.m. (see p. 55).Philological Society meets in Faculty Room, HaskellOriental Museum, 8:00 p.m.Professor Tarbell on ** Greek and Italic Antiquities inChicago."Saturday, June 4.Administrative Board of Physical Culture and Athletics, 8:30 a.m.Administrative Board of Student Organizations, Publications, and Exhibitions, 10:00 a.m.The University Senate, 11:30 a.m.) sent to the Becorder by THUESDAY, 8:30 A.M., in