Gbe Tflntversfts of CbicagoPfiCC $J.OO FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOZhc Vlniveieitv ot Gbicago ©res*VOL. III, NO. 15. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. JULY 8, 1898.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The Founders of States and the Founders of Colleges. By the Hon. William L. Wilson, LL.D. 85-90II. Special Announcements for the Summer Quarter - 90III. Greetings from the Founder of the University - 91IV. Official Reports : Library 91V. Current Events 92VI. The Calendar 92The Founders of States and the Founders of Colleges.*BY THE HON. WILLIAM L. WILSON, LL.D.,President of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.The invitation which calls me to this honorableservice tells me that in the calendar of the Universityof Chicago this day is set apart as Founder's Day.Even if this fact does not select the theme of myaddress, it is suggestive of more than one instructiveline of thought. It is well for a school, as it is wellfor a state, that it can celebrate a founder's day, notonly by recurring and deserved tribute to benefactors,but by thoughtful review of past achievement, andequally thoughtful consideration of future destiny.In truth there are few great schools and still fewergreat states, of which it can be said with historicalaccuracy, that any one man was the founder, or thatany company of men laid the real basis on whichthey have risen. As it is an element of strength for a?The Convocation Address delivered in connection with theTwenty-third Convocation of the University, held in theGraduate Quadrangle, July 1, 1898. college, so it is an element of strength for a commonwealth, a solid augury of future happiness, when itsannals are rich with names imperishably associatedwith the crises through which it has grown into greatness and freedom ; it may be with names of soldierswho have won or who have defended national existence; it may be of statesmen and legislators whohave made clear the principles of that existence andsuccessfully applied them in the art and work ofgovernment ; and, in an equally true sense, it may beof those who have enlarged the conditions underwhich soldiers, and statesmen and legislators may betrained for this service to their country.As we enjoy the fruit of their labors it is our dutyto recall their patriotic services, to honor their examples, and from service and example to gather faithfulness, and, if need be, heroism, to carry onward theirwork as it comes to our hands. Freedom is a heritage. It comes to abide with no people as an accidentor as the unearned and free gift of fortune. It is theslow and steady accumulation of homely savings, ofunselfish sacrifices, of persistent, well- directed thrift.It must be preserved by the same virtues that won it ;like any other heritage, it may be squandered byspendthrift hands, or forfeited by weak and faithlesshands. It is safe only where it is held not so much asa heritage to enjoy but as a trust to transmit. Testedby the ideas in which we have been trained, and thefruits we have been accustomed to pluck, it is still avery rare thing even in the civilized world of today.It has been short-lived and tumultuous in most of thecountries and ages of the past. History has the rec-86 UNIVERSITY RECORDord of many nations that have been great in the greatness of war, of numbers, of wealth, of art, and lettersand jurisprudence, few indeed that have been greatin the greatness of freedom. It was the warning ofthis momentous truth that Patrick Henry uttered inthe Virginia Convention of 1788, that was considering the ratification of the Constitution, when he said*" You are not to enquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties are to be secured ;for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government." And it was the recognition of this momentoustruth that led so many whom we revere as foundersof American Commonwealths to become also founders of American Colleges. They knew how to build,and they knew the conditions of durable building.They knew that their work as builders was foredoomed to the failure which had overtaken like workin the past, unless the free government they wereseeking to organize could be buttressed for all timeby the schoolhouse, the college, and the university.The institution from which I come, modest indeedcompared with such a school as this, has behind itone hundred and fifty years of honest work, but theturning point in its history was when Washingtonselected it, a weak and starveling academy that hadsent stout soldiers into his army, for that timely and,in his day, munificent endowment which has remainedever since an unimpaired and productive source of itssupport.Jefferson himself wrote the inscription placed on thepedestal of his monument which proclaims to posterity that he was the author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, and the father of the University of Virginia.Benjamin Franklin had years before laid the firststone in the foundation of what is now the University of Pennsylvania. Every North Carolina namethat was signed to the Federal Constitution in 1787reappeared in 1789 among the charter trustees of theuniversity of that state. And I might go on addingto these examples.For all of these schools liberal education, in thecustomary meaning of the phrase, was an appointedtask; but in all of them the study of history, of politics, of the science of government — in other words,preparation for the service of the state — for intelligent citizenship in self-governing states — was a prominent, in some of them a primary object. "In a republic," said Washington, " what species of knowledgecan be equally important?" The commanding influence of southern leaders in the national councils inthe anti-helium days is sometimes explained by super ficial and unworthy reasons. Mr. Blaine gave thetrue source of that influence when he wrote of them :"that having before them the examples of Jeffersonand Madison and George Mason in Virginia, of Nathaniel Macon in North Carolina, of the Pinckneysand Rutledges in South Carolina, they gave deep study to the science of government," with the inevitableresult that knowledge gave the same influence andthe same right to lead in the fields of politics andstatesmanship that it gives in every other great fieldof human endeavor. What thickening, and in the endfatal, disasters must overtake our experiment, if, inthe words of the old Greek, we allow ourselves tobelieve that the hardest of all trades — the trade ofgovernment — is the only trade for which no learningis necessary.If then in the beginning of our constitutional self-government the founders of states believed their owntask unfinished, their own work insecure, until theyhad planted colleges for the training of men to continue that work, may it not be truly said that in thisgeneration the founders and benefactors of collegesare, in like spirit, obeying the call of patriotism instrengthening the basis of our freedom and steadilyincreasing the forces that stand guard over its priceless treasures ? For such is the work of every collegeand university in the country that is not held in thefetters of political or sectarian bigotry, but is honestlyand fearlessly seeking to know and to propagate thetruth — the truth, moral, political, and scientific, thatmakes men free ; of yours at the University of Chicago with your great plant, your great endowment,your great libraries, and, most of all, with your greatteachers; of ours at Washington and Lee and atother schools in the South, with our meager resources, meager equipments, and fewer, but not lessfaithful, teachers. You are indeed to be congratulated that in this great battle for American freedomyou can move forward like the modern battleship,with all the resources of wealth, and knowledge, andscience, and mechanical skill at your command ; we,perhaps, are to be pitied, that as yet we must bear ourpart with the less effective equipment of the old-timenavies ; but whether with the battleship or woodenvessel, whether with the guns of Dewey or with thoseof Nelson, the cause is a common cause to all of us.As you succeed, protection comes to us ; if we fail,even your success is shorn of much of its fruits.When I thus speak of the hard and never endingstruggle for good government as a battle, I am usinga sounding and well worn metaphor, that may seemsophomoric on such a platform as this, but it is nonethe less an accurate and historical statement. A bat-UNIVERSITY RECORD 81tie, or better, perhaps, a war it has been in the generations of the past; a war it will continue to be inall the generations that are to come. Nor did thisstruggle begin with the beginning of our government.It is true that certain names stand forth, as I havesaid, as the founders of our Federal Republic. Professor Fiske names five men, as ranking before allothers in the making of our government, following thechronological order of their dominating influence,Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Marshall, and Jefferson. We rightly honor them for all that they did, andwith them their great coworkers. Yet when in accurate and stricter obedience to historic truth we attempt to trace the evolution of our Federal Republic,and especially of those representative institutions thatmake freedom and self-government possible in a greatcontinental nation, who can take his stand at anyparticular point and say, here the fountain first leapedforth that has swelled into the mighty river ? Whocan say that this was the time when, this the placewhere, and this the man by whom, the foundationstones of American liberty were laid?If we go back to the Federal Convention of 1787 accepting Mr. Gladstone's statement that the AmericanConstitution is the most wonderful work ever struckoff at a given time by the brain and purpose of man, weare obliged to check and interpret that statement bythe reflections with which Mr. Bancroft closes his history of the formation of the Constitution, that, whileitsframers "molded its design by a creative power oftheir own, yet they introduced nothing that did notalways exist or was not a natural development of awell-known principle." If then we go still furtherback to the controversy that precipitated the war forindependence and read the petition sent to KingGeorge as late as 1774 by the members of the GeneralCongress, that faded writing still to be seen in theState Paper office in London, with the signaturesof Washington, Henry, Richard Henry Lee, thetwo Adamses, John and Samuel, and Roger Sherman,we find that the entire case of the colonies wassummed up in the claim that they were "bornheirs of freedom," and the entire demand of the colonists was summed in their protest against" being degraded from the preeminent rank of English freemen."If we pass over five hundred years to that parliament,to which Simon de Montf ort summoned Knights of theshires and burgesses of the towns to represent theentire body of English freemen, the historians meetus there and assure us that Simon merely recoveredfor the people through the device of representation,the old right which they had exercised in their ownpersons, until such exercise was made impossible by extent of territory and growth of numbers. If we goback still further to the Great Charter wrung fromKing John by the Army of God and the Holy Church,which has ever since been revered as the groundworkof English liberty, we find that charter demanding nonew right, but merely containing a precise, deliberate,and complete declaration of ancient rights and liberties as those rights had been declared in earlier charters, or had been immemorially enjoyed by unwrittencustoms. And when at last we lose the guidance ofrecorded history and by the aid of comparative politicsand comparative philology, seek to ascertain from thecommon stock which had not yet parted into Greek,Roman, and Teuton, the primeval political systemwhich contained the germs of the Athenian democracy,of Roman oligarchy, and of English parliament, wefind that it had already taken the "first firm steps inthe growth of social order, military discipline, andcivil government."The history of our freedom then has been not somuch a history of achievement as a history of preservation. The task has not been to win a new possession, but to defend an old one, to bear it safely alongthe march of human progress, through all the advancing and receding stages of civilization, amid the accidents and changes and perils which steadily increasein number and in portent as the world grows intothat " vast and complicated thing," which is the onlydefinition M. Taine can find for modern society.If one after another of the nations and peoples ofthe world has lost its freedom in the stately procession of the ages, some surrendering it to the " wildand many-weaponed throng that hangs upon its frontand flank and rear," and others marring by changes" a\i too fierce and vastThis order of the Human Star,This heritage of the past,"it is our supreme happiness to stand in the single linedown which its traditions have come with unsteady,it may be, but never -failing progress, widening fromprecedent to precedent. If today and in the nearfuture those traditions seem threatened by newperils and new temptations that spring from beneath the chariot wheels of triumphant progress, ofour industrial advancement, and our military achievement, it is the more incumbent on patriot and scholarto clear the mind and to cleanse the bosom of allerror as to the origin and history of our freedom andthe organic conditions under which it must operatethrough the machinery of self-governing institutions.It must not be forgotten that it has never been thestable creation of theories, however dazzling andmagnificent, but the growth of slow, steady, and88 UNIVERSITY RECORDsilent progress. Even its so-called founders andapostles have been men who have faithfully andloyally done merely the next thing, being surethat the next thing was the right thing as testedby the standards of the past. By this wisdomalone have they insured healthy and consistent progress, linking freedom and order into bonds of unionand escaping the anarchy and deeds of blood whichhave too often accompanied the hurried strides ofrevolution, and, in the name of liberty, driven mankind from its worship.How many a glorious dawn has reddened anddarkened into night of terror as mere theoiy, fanaticism, intoxication of power or of glory, have soughtto hasten or to undo the work of evolution and toremodel human life or society by their crude andfanciful notions.The founders of our republic were never sweptfrom their firm footing by any such delusive ideas.That " creative power," which Mr. Bancroft attributesto them and which they possessed beyond all otherstate builders in history, was, as he further testifies?merely exercised in the strong and harmonious organization of materials that were the gift of the ages»and he might have added, with equal truth, thecreative power itself was the rarest and most preciousof these gifts of the ages. They understood theirtask and its inexorable conditions and therefore theysucceeded in that task. Names signify little ; writtenconstitutions signify little ; universal suffrage is nowarranty. The potential energy, the soul and livingspirit of freedom, does not reside in any of these, noryet in charters, or bills or petitions of right, or instatutes, but in the political training, the individualenlightenment, the individual morality of a people,and in devotion to personal liberty, in men who havingthese for their pole-star are not borne to and fro bythe shifting tides of popular opinion or popular madness, but who steer right onward, able and willing " tomaintain the day against the hour and the year againstthe day."Institutions have never made a people free ; a freepeople will always make for themselves free institutions. And so on this Founder's Day of one of thegreatest schools of our country, destined to wield anever-expanding power in fitting men for the workof governing themselves, we may fitly brush asidemuch of the cant of the scholar in politics, and standat close quarters with that duty which rests upon allschools, and with greater weight upon such a University, of making, not scholars in politics, but of fittingall over whom its molding power extends for the honest, robust, everyday work of American citizenship. 1?hat work, I have already said, grows in difficultyand grows in the gravity of its issues with the growthof our country. Effectual public service, effectualand sagacious leadership, cannot be easier in a nationof seventy-five millions of population than it was ina nation of fifty millions or of ten millions. Problemsof statesmanship, domestic and foreign, and questionsto be decided by universal suffrage cannot be simplerin a republic extending from sea to sea, or, it may soonbe, beyond the seas, with its confusion of races, itsmultitudinous cities, its increasing wealth, its confusing clamor of warring interests, its use of the newand tremenduous forces of social and industrial progress, than they were for a people whose chief population fronted the Atlantic seaboard, and whose chiefoccupation was the pursuit of agriculture.It is strange that the ablest statesman and thewisest citizen often stands in the presence of suchproblems modest and perplexed, trusting to time andto the natural vigor of freedom rather than to his owndevices to bring us safely through them, while thedemagogue and the charlatan rush forward with theirnostrums, all tending to their own profit or advancement, like empiric physicians of whom Lord Baconsays that they " commonly have a few pleasant receiptswhereof they are confident and adventurous, but knowneither the causes of diseases, nor the constitution ofpatients, the perils of accident nor the true methodsof cures."It is no pessimism, nor "ethical culturism" as it isnow sometimes crushingly called, nor waning faith indemocratic government, but the calm, brave patriotismthat has safely guided through all the crises of thepast, that sees great evils to overcome, great reformsto accomplish and great dangers to avoid in our countrytoday.So it was for our fathers ; so it will be for our sons.As the fathers saved us from the dangers that hungover their heads it is for us to save our sons from thedangers that hang over ours. That these dangers arereal and grave, a mere mention of some of them willprove.The hierarchical organization of great parties introduces into the actual working of our government,federal or state, a force never anticipated by themakers of the constitution, or where anticipated,looked forward to with unconcealed apprehension anddistrust. Is has completely nullified their carefullydevised and highly praised Electoral College systemfor the choice of President, by which they hoped tosecure the discreet selection of the discreetest men.While party is necessary for the working of government the very perfection of its organization disclosesUNIVERSITY RECORD 89evils of gravest import. The leadership passes moreand more from able statesmen to able organizers, frommen who saturate politics with thought to men whothink little and know little of public questions, butwho think and know much of party management, ofthe winning of elections, and, to that end of the loosestbonds of principle with the closest bonds of organization.The chief end of party activity, in the eyes of suchleaders, not unnaturally is to gain party victories, andthe chief use of party victories is to reward partisanactivity and to strengthen party organization.Real and vital issues, if dangerous to deal with, willbe avoided and treated in platform and in legislationwith more regard to the success of party than to thepermanent good of country.In truth, we have seen political organizations in thepresence of such inconvenient issues, become as oracular and crafty as the presidential candidate whoseposition on the slavery question Mr. Bigelow madefree to inquire :"Ez to principles I gloryIn hevin* nothing of the sort ;I aint a wig, I aint a tory,I'm just a candidate in short.But if we concede something, as I think we must, tothe prudence of political as to that of military generals, there are two unmixed evils connected with thethorough organization and heady struggles of ourgreat parties which ought to be waned against by allgood citizens. The evolution of the party "boss" hasdegraded some of our great states into rotten boroughswhich servilely return the candidates nominated bythat boss to the legislatures of the states and nation,and make all petty party leaders but retainers andfeudatories of an absolute master.Neither can we shut our eyes to the fact that thereis a progressive corruption of the ballot-box in all ourgreat campaigns and even in local contests. So notorious is this, so tacitly approved and winked at by menwho are willing to commit fraud for party that theywould scorn to commit for self, that it seems almostimpossible to arouse a public sentiment strong enoughto demand laws for its punishment or to execute thoselaws if they happen to get upon the statute book.I might enumerate many other dangers whichthreaten or obstruct the full and harmonious progressof free government. I prefer to cite one which liesentirely without the arena of partisan dispute, andone which all citizens of all parties must recognize anddeplore, even where they make no effort to eradicate.I cite it, as a grave danger and the perpetual foun tain of grave dangers, \o give emphasis to the truthI have already stated, that the preservation offreedom is a task for which every generation muststruggle anew, and for the supreme task of self-government must gather to its aid all the resources ofpatriotism, morality, and education. Mr. Cobden, atthe close of the particular struggle associated withhis name, looked back with longing to the days whenthere were great battles to fight, objects to accomplishworthy the energies of men, and something at stakeworth growing older and grayer for. For such a nation as ours there can be few periods, and those ofbrief duration, when such objects are not clear to theeyes of thoughtful statesmanship. How many ofsuch questions have crowded upon us since the twenty-first day of last April alone ? questions as grave andas decisive of our destiny, and it may be of our freedom, as the gravest issues of the past ?Can democracy, acting by universal suffrage, dealwisely, safely, and decisively with its problems, someof which are lifted above the common knowledge andthe common experience of busy men — even of educated men ?In the law of general education, of colleges and universities, and newspapers, we cannot admit that theintelligence and training, and, above all, the free discussions, which are equal to the solution of so manyproblems that have puzzled and even overwhelmedother generations and other peoples, will in the endfall before the new problems that involve our prosperity and imperil our freedom. But we cannot safelyspare or neglect any of the forces which can aid us inthis stupendous work. And he who founds a schoolof learning, or who adds to the capacity and energy ofan existing school, is a coworker with him who issaluted and honored as the founder of a state or as thebroadener of its freedom. The one helps to preservewhat the other has helped to establish. A great university can never for one hour in any one day, forgetits true position and its paramount work in a freestate.If it does not* deepen the sense of civic duty, if itdoes not mold into the stamina of its students, themental training and the moral virtue needed to reachright conclusions on political! issues, and to stand forthose conclusions with the steadfastness of true patriotism and the power of high intelligence, it ceases tobe a bulwark of the state, and becomes a source ofdanger in proportion as intellectual development givesincrease of power and of cunning to its possessor.A great American statesman who pondered asanxiously and as deeply as any man in our history the90 UNIVERSITY RECORDprinciples of free government and the fundamentalconditions of its permanent enjoyment, has given usa lesson, which is likewise a warning, in words thatought to be written over the portals of every collegeand university and legislative chamber in the county:" Liberty is a reward reserved for the intelligent, thepatriotic, the virtuous and the deserving."Special Announcements for the Summer Quarter.I. CHAPEL ASSEMBLIES.The different divisions of the University meet inthe Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall, at 10:30 a.m., asfollows :Junior Colleges on Monday \ AttendanceSenior Colleges on Tuesday ) required.College students will sit by divisions. Seat ticketsfor the Chapel Assemblies have been distributed at theFirst Division Meeting on Friday, July 1st, at 10 : 30 a.m.Graduate Schools on Thursday,Divinity School on Friday.While thus an Assembly is provided for each division of the University on a particular day, all studentsare welcome to attend any or all of the Assembliesabove announced. The attendance of UnclassifiedStudents, which may be with any of the Assemblies,as well as that of Graduate and Divinity students isvoluntary. The Chapel exercises consist of a briefreligious service and such official announcements asmay be desirable.II. VESPER SERVICES.On each Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock there is heldin the auditorium of Kent Chemical Laboratory aVesper Service, to which all members of the University are invited. Beside the musical programme,there will be a brief address. The name of thespeaker and the subject will be published each weekin the University Record and on the bulletinboards.III. GENERAL LECTURES.Throughout the Quarter there is given a series ofgeneral lectures by speakers representing the differentdepartments of University work. These lectureswill be given in most cases at 4:00 p.m. The roomsand subjects for each week will be published in theUniversity Record of the preceding week and postedon the bulletin boards.Professor Gaston Bonet-Maury, of the Universityof Paris, will give a series of twelve lectures during the second three weeks of the First Term on the" History of the Struggle for Liberty of Conscience inFrance since the Edict of Nantes and among theSlavs," as follows :1. Religious Liberty in General: Religious Sentiment amongthe Slavs.2. John Huss,— the Precursor of the Reformation.3. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Bloody Codein France.4. The War of the Camisards : the Prophets of the Cevennesand the Meetings in the South.5. Peter Cheltsiky and the Bohemian Brothers.6. John Lasky and Protestantism in Poland.7. The Reorganization and Martyrs of the Protestant Church inFrance in the Eighteenth Century.8. Amos Comenius and the Moravians.9. The Edict of Toleration (1787) and the American Assistants.10. J. J. Rousseau and the Triumph of Religious Liberty in 1789.11. Leon Tolstoi and the Martyrs of the Protestant Reformationin Russia.12. The Antisemitic Movement and the Present Struggle forReligious Liberty in France.Professor John Henry Barrows will give a seriesof six lectures during the second term on " The Christian Conquest of Asia." — Observations and studiesof religion in the Orient (The "Haskell Lectures"for 1898) :1. The Cross and the Crescent in Asia. Sunday, August 21.2. Observations of Popular Hinduism. Tuesday, August 23.3. Philosophic Hinduism. Thursday, August 25.4. Some difficulties of the Hindu Mind in accepting Christianity. Sunday, August 28.5. Christianity and Buddhism in Asia. Tuesday, August 30.6. Confucianism and the Awakening of China.Thursday, September 1.No credit is given for this course.Professor L. A. Sherman, of the University ofNebraska, is giving a series of thirteen lectures on"The Interpretation of Literature." The remaininglectures are these :5. Art-Portraiture of Personality, in Degree.6. Moods and Passions as Subject-matter in Literature.7. The Dynamics of Characterization.8. Paramount Modes and Means of Imaginative Appeal.9. The Relations of Prosaic and Interpretative Diction.10. The Literary Elements.11. The Literary Elements, continued : Literary Technique.12. Criteria and Degrees of Literary Excellence.13. Higher Aspects of Literary Synthesis.The following course of lectures will be given in theGerman language :Assistant Professor von Kxenze : " Lenau."Mr. Almstedt : " Eine Fusstour in Thuringen."Dr. Kern : " Der Civis academicus im deutschen Heere."Associate Professor Cutting: "Einige Betrachtungenilber die Aufgabe des Sprachlehrers."UNIVERSITY RECORD 91The following lectures will be given in the Frenchlanguage by Dr. Rene de Poyen-Bellisle :1. EmileZola.2. La Poesielyrique populaire.3. Les tendances actuelles au theatre.4. La critique d'aujourd'hui.It is hoped also that some lectures in the Frenchlanguage may be given by Professor Bonet-Maury.The following lectures will be given in the Departments of Philosophy and Pedagogy :1. Dr. C. A. McMurry: "Broad Tracks and Narrow Tracks inEducation."2. Head Professor Dewey : "Social Factors in EducationalReform."3. Associate Professor Tufts (to be announced later) .4. Assistant Professor Angell : " Recent Discussions Concerning Experimental Psychology."5. Professor N. K. Davis (to be announced later).6. Associate Professor Bulkley : " An Experiment in Jena."The following lectures on " The Life of Jesus " willbe given by Professor Shailer Mathews :1. Jesus before his Public Ministry.2. The Kingdom of God.3. Messiahship as Defined by Jesus.4. The Conflict with Tradition.5. The Jesus of History and the Christ of Experience.Besides the above, it is expected that lectures willbe given on subjects in Political Economy, by HeadProfessor Laughlin, and Professor Bernard Moses ofthe University of California ; on subjects in PoliticalScience, by Head Professor Judson and ProfessorJames ; on subjects in History, by Professor Turner,of the University of Wisconsin ; on subjects connectedwith Hebrew Language and Literature, by AssociateProfessor Price; on subjects connected with the English Language and Literature, by Associate ProfessorMacClintock, Assistant Professor Reynolds, and Dr.Triggs; on subjects connected with Astronomy, byProfessors Hale, Frost, and Barnard, of the YerkesObservatory ; on subjects connected with Geology, byProfessor Salisbury ; on subjects connected withBotany, by Head Professor Coulter ; on subjects connected with Theology, by Professor Casper Rene"Gregory.Other lectures will be announced from time to time. Greetings from the Founder of the University.The following telegrams tell their own story :John D. Rockefeller, Chicago, July i, 1898.Cleveland, Ohio.The Trustees, Faculties, Members and Friends ofthe University of Chicago in Convocation assembledon this Founder's Day, July 1, 1898, unite in sendingloving greetings to the kind friend whose munificenceand generosity have brought this school of higherlearning into being ; and fervently join in the prayerthat ;he may be long spared to witness its development, and in his own lifetime to enjoy the satisfactionof liberal gifts wisely expended.Andrew McLeish,Vice Pres.j Board of Trustees.Andrew McLeish,University of Chicago.I gratefully acknowledge your message of yesterdayconveying the kind wishes of the trustees, faculty,members, and friends of the University of Chicago.My connection with the University has already givenme much pleasure and has been heightened by theconfidence I have that the president, trustees, andfaculty will with all loyalty and wisdom and a highorder of ability discharge the responsible duties devolving upon them and faithfully conserve the important interests committed to their trust.John D. Rockefeller.Forest Hill, Cleveland, O., July 2, 1898.Official Reports.During the month ending June 30, 1898, therehas been added to the Library of the University atotal number of 779 volumes from the followingsources :Books added by purchase, 236 vols., distributed asfollows :General Library, 46 vols.; Philosophy, 6 vols.;Pedagogy, 1 vol.; Political Economy, 19 vols.; Political Science, 1 vol.; History, 37 vols.; ClassicalArcha3ology, 5 vols.; Sociology, 2 vols.; Sociology(Divinity), 4 vols.; Sociology (Folk-Psychology), 2 vols.;Anthropology, 6 vols.; Comparative Religion, 4 vols.;Semitic, 1 vol.; New Testament, 1 vol.; Greek, 3vols.; Latin, 3 vols.; Latin and Greek, 2 vols.; English,21 vols.; Mathematics, 44 vols.; Astronomy, 9 vols.;Chemistry, 2 vols.; Geology, 4 vols.; Zoology, 2 vols.;Botany, 2 vols.; Systematic Theology, 1 vol.; Homi-letics, 1 vol.; Morgan Park Academy, 7 vols.92 UNIVERSITY RECORDBooks added by gift, 237 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 187 vols.; Political Science, 2 vols.;History, 38 vols.; Classical Archaeology, 1 vol.; Sociology, 1 vol.; Sociology (Divinity), 6 vols.; English, 1 vol.;Music, 1 vol.Books added by exchange for University Publications, 306 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 290 vols.; Political Economy,7 vols.; History, 3 vols.; Sociology, 2 vols.; Comparative Philology, 1 vol.; Geology, 1 vol.; SystematicTheology, 1 vol.; Homiletics, 1 vol.Current Events.At the last meeting of the Graduate Schools for theSpring Quarter of '98, the following members wereelected to the Graduate Council for the coming year :President, Edward Ambrose Bechtel (Latin); Secretary and Treasurer, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge(Political Science); and Harry Alvin Millis (PoliticalEconomy). The Vice President, Wm. Clinton Alden(Geology), and Miss Florence May Lyon (Botany) holdover until January, 1899.Among the passengers lost with " La Bourgogne,"the French Line steamer, was Edwin R. Rundell, ofthe class of 1886, the last class graduating from theOld University. Two fellow passengers were teachersin Lewis Institute, and a third was the mother ofRev. W. P. Osgood of Fall River, Mass., Ph.B. 1895and D.B. 1897.Calendar.JULY 10-15, 1898.Sunday, July 10.Vesper Service, Kent Theater. 4:00 p.m.Address by Head Professor Galusha Anderson.Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Assembly Room, Haskell Museum, 7 : 00 p.m.Monday, July 11.Chapel-Assembly : Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents).Public Lecture : "The Peace of the World," by HeadProfessor Judson. Chapel, Cobb Hall, 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 12.Chapel-Assembly: Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior College Students).Public Lecture: " Art Portraiture of Personality, inDegree," by Professor L. A. Sherman. Chapel,Cobb Hall, 4:00 p.m.Public Lecture (in French) : " Emil Zola," by Dr. dePoyen-Bellisle. Lecture Room, Cobb Hall, 4: 00 p.m.Prayer Meeting of the Y. W. C. A., Assembly RoomHaskell Museum, 5:00 p.m.Sociology Club meets in Faculty 3$bom, HaskellMuseum, 8:00 p.m.H. W. Thurston of the Hyde Park High School will speakon "The Teaching of Social Economics in Grammar andSecondary Schools."All interested are cordially invited to attend.Wednesday, July 13.Public Lecture: "Moods and Passions as Subject-matter in Literature," by Professor L. A. Sherman,Chapel, Cobb Hall, 4:00 p.m.Public Lecture : "Jesus before his Public Ministry,"by Professor Mathews. Lecture Room, Cobb Hall,4:00 p.m.Prayer Meeting of the Y. M. C. A., Lecture Room,Cobb Hall, 7:00 p.m.Thursday, July 14.Graduate Assembly : — Chapel, Cobb Hall, 10: 30 a.m.Public Lecture: "The Dynamics of Characterization," by Professor L. A. Sherman. Chapel, CobbHall, 4: 00 p.m.Public Lecture : " Broad Tracks and Narrow Tracksin Education," by Dr. Charles A. McMurry. Lecture Room, Cobb Hall, 4: 00 p.m.Friday, July 15.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10: 30 a.m.Public Lecture : " The Paramount Modes and Meansof Imaginative Appeal," by Professor L. A. Sherman. Chapel, Cobb Hall, 4:00 p.m.Public Lecture (in German) : " Lenau," by AssistantProfessor von Klenze. Lecture Room, Cobb Hall,4:00 p.m.Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Room 36, 8:00 p.m.Dr. Kurt Laves: "The ten integrals of the problem of nbodies for forces involving the coordinates and theirfirst and second derivatives."Note: J. A. Smith, "An abstract group of order 54, afactor of the modular group."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.