Sbe Tantvereits of CbtcagoPfke $J»00 FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single CopiesPer Yea* 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOHbe mntversits of dbica^o ptceeVOL III, NO. 39. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. DECEMBER 23. 1898Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The Ministry of Today— Its New Dangers. Bythe Reverend Professor D. A. Hayes - - 243-246II. Official Notices - 246III. Programme of the Twenty-seventh Convocation,Winter 1899 246IV. The University Elementary School - - - 247-248V. The University Settlement 248-249VI. Current Events 249The Ministry of Today —Its New Dangers.*Sy THE REVEREND PROFESSOR D. A. HAYES,Garrett Biblical' Institute, Euanstott).I am convinced that my subject is a rather difficultone ttf deal with. That conviction has grown uponmet as I have been thinking about it. The chief difficulty lies in the introduction of that word "New."The dangers confronting the ministry of today are inlarge, if not largest, measure the dangers confrontingthe ministry of the fathers, the dangers inherent inthe profession, the dangers which have belonged to itfrom the beginning of the dispensation, if not fromthe beginning of time. But "The New Dangersof the Ministry of Today " would seem to rule out allthe old dangers, the dangers of other days. And thatis such a narrowing of the subject as makes it exceedingly difficult for me to deal with. Are there anydangers which are absolutely new ? Are there anydangers confronting the ministry of today which have*Read at the Conference held in connection with the Twenty-Sa t h Cony ocatio nx>f the University, October 3; 1898; not, in some measure at least, confronted the ministryof other days ?Then, the subject is not only a difficult but also adisagreeable one. It is always a thankless taskCassandra-like, to point out dangers and prophesyimpending woe. The prophet Jeremiah did littleelse, and could do little else, in his ministry. Hespoke the truth, but it was disagreeable truth, and hehad about as hard a time of it as any minister canimagine. It was a hundred years after Jeremiah diedbefore people began to fully appreciate the power ofhis personality, the value of his teaching, and thetruth of his utterance. And as far as Jeremiah's personal comfort was concerned, that was just one hundred years too late. I did not choose this subject,"The New Dangers of the Ministry of Today.'' Ispeak upon it only because it has been assigned me.I. Shall we suggest, first of all, the danger confronting us in the present era of renewed and increasing national prosperity ? The tides of the populationhave swept over our land, and the rapidity of the development of American civilization has been the astonishment of all men. Great cities have sprung upas by magic ; mighty empires have been establishedin what was the primeval wilderness; the desertshave blossomed like the rose ; the rocky ranges havebeen topped with telegraph poles. From the lakes tothe gulf, from the ocean to the ocean, the continenthas been covered with a network of iron rails alongwhich, like black spiders darting to and fro, the flyingtrains are ceaselessly weaving the web of unparallelednational prosperity. The whole world has marveledat America's growth until now ; but today America is244 UNIVERSITY BEGGEDreaching forth, putting her hand upon the islands ofeither sea, and bidding for international commerceand increase of material possessions in yet greaterdegree. The church has kept pace with the growthof other institutions in our land. And today the Christian Church of America faces an era of such materialprosperity as it has never yet known. In all denominations alike there are costlier church edifices,wealthier men and women in the pews, larger salariesand more of the comforts of life in the ministry thanany preceding generation in our land has seen.There is a manifest danger to the ministry in thisfact, a danger which, if not absolutely new, is surely anincreasing danger all the time. Will the ministry become infected with the fever of business enterprisewhich is everywhere in the air ? Will the ministrybecome more and more engrossed in the administration of material affairs ? Will its time be increasinglygiven to the serving of tables rather than to thesaving of souls ? Is there any danger of more andmore prevalent worldly-mindedness in the pulpit, aswell as in the pew ? Shall we enter upon an era ofspiritual dilettanteism ? Forgetting the spiritual aggressiveness of the past which has made possible theprosperity of the present day, shall we be tempted tojoin the membership of the Church of the HeavenlyRest, saying, " Soul, take thine ease, for thou hastmuch goods laid up for many years ? "Father Herby said to me when I was a college boy," I hear you think you are called to preach. Well, Ipity you. You will go into the pulpit Sunday afterSunday and preach to a lot of fuss and feathers anddry goods in the pews, and it will be the hardest thingin the world for you to get through the feathers totheir heads and through the dry goods to their souls."The old man had a clear perception of an increasingdanger in these days. There is more of fuss andfeathers, and there is a better quality of dry goods inthe pews today than ever before. Will the ministrybecome increasingly mindful of these things, moreand more careful not to offend fastidious tastes ; andwill it fail in the presentation of the simple and prac.tical and effective gospel of the past ?Once only I had the privilege of worshiping in theFifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, withJohn Hall in the pulpit. It was a communion service ;and John Hall said, " There are two great facts withwhich we have to do in religion ; the Incarnation withthe Atonement, and Union with Christ for pardon andadoption. The one fact is objective and the other issubjective ; but they are brought together in Christ.The spirit is objective, but he becomes subjective inhis influence. Faith is subjective, but faith looks outward to an objective source. These two centralfacts of our religion are emphasized in this service.The incarnation is suggested, ' This is my body.' Theatonement is suggested, 'This is my blood.' Unionwith Christ is suggested, for we are his friends, hisdisciples, his guests. Stirely, in this communion servicewe shall have such penitence as the prodigal feltwhen he looked at his new robe and sat at his Father's table." I knew that great wealth and greatculture were represented in the pews, but I saw theevident reverence of their worship. And I knew, asall men knew, that there was sturdiness of manhood,a sincerity of soul, in the pulpit, a preacher who insimple style would aim always, not to make a sensation, but to tell the truth ; a preacher who was readyto look the world and the devil full in the face without flinching ; a preacher who was not for sale. Giveus men with the spirit of John Hall in our pulpitsand we can multiply Fifth Avenue churches all overour land without any danger at all.II. I think we may venture to suggest in the secondplace that there is a new danger in the new and enlarged opportunities of education offered to the ministry of our day. It may be that in some denominationsthe standard of ministerial education has always beenso high that there is no marked improvement now.But in the church as a whole I think we may saywithout question that we have a better-educated ministry than ever before. There is the renewed and increasing danger, therefore, today of the substitutionof scholasticism for enthusiasm or some better thing.We mentioned America's marvelous growth. No better example could be furnished than in the development of this city of Chicago. I have seen anEastern magician pour a flowerpot full of white sand,put over it a funnel of brown paper, murmur someincantations, remove the funnel, and show us thesprouts of a growing plant. The funnel replaced andthe incantation repeated, it was again removed andthe dry sand had grown a rosebush filled with rosesof richest perfume and freshest hue. But our half-century has seen stranger miracles than that — inChicago's unparalleled rapidity of growth and fulnessof resources from the very first. The city has sprungup Phoenix-like from its ashes ; these parks and boulevards have grown out of the marshes and the sands asat the touch of a magician's wand ; this University,like Jack's beanstalk, has matured in a night. LikeAthena from the head of Zeus, the University ofChicago has leaped from the heart of this monarchmetropolis, full-armed and full grown, into life. Sucha Divinity School as we have on this campus, in itsequipment, in its opportunities, in its magnitude, is,UNIVERSITY RECGRD 245comparatively speaking, a new thing under the sun.Its new advantages carry with them new dangers.In a suburb near Boston a belfry bell suddenlychanged its pitch and sounded out a note or so higherthan before, till the people of the church grew dissatisfied and finally sent to the manufacturers to complain.The company sent a man down to see what was wrong ;and he found that the sexton had oiled the bell andbad allowed two or three drops to fall on its rim.The two or three drops of oil had made all the trouble.Down in the country church there is a young manwho speaks with no uncertain sound, who is full ofclear ringing gospel truth and experience. He goesup to the Divinity School. They manufacture preachers there — polished, finished preachers of thingsdivine. They put on the drops of oil. It is noticeable in his smooth tongue when he gets home again*But somehow he preaches a note or two higher thanhe did before. He talks about Higher Criticism now,when he used to talk only of Jesus. He is full ofsocial science, and ethnical ethics, and Chaldaic paraphrases, and Greek roots, while he used to be full ofOld Testament truths and New Testament teachings,the life and the words of the Christ. And somehowthe people get dissatisfied with the tone. It is thedrops of oil that have made all the trouble. They areall right in their place ; but if they have replaced theanointing of the Holy One, they hinder more thanthey help.I have known a few theological graduates whowere so loaded down with their learning that theyhad become water -logged wrecks, rolling and tossingat the mercy of the boundless, shoreless, bottomless sea of their knowledge ; men who knew, orthought they knew, everything in the books, but didnot know how to lead a soul to Christ. I have heardof theological graduates and of theological professorswhose theology was as solid, and as heavy, and asirrefutable, and as immeasurable as a pyramid inEgypt, an enormous pile of erudition, through somedark passage of which you blindly groped your wayto find at the last that the whole immense theologicalthing was but a monument surrounding and enclosinga dead and mummied soul.There is a real danger here which our greater educational advantages have brought to the ministryof' today. We will not be misunderstood in thiscompany. We believe as thoroughly in the inestimable value of all these things as any man here. Wemean simply to suggest that the very chief est blessingGod gives to man, when perverted and misapplied, becomes his greatest curse. Things wholly good inthemselves, if they rule out the greatest good, be come the sources of superlative evil to the soul. Webelieve in the highest possible culture for the ministry ; but the culture of the head must neither outstripnor exclude the culture of the soul. A little learningis a dangerous thing, and much learning is a moredangerous thing, unless the character be kept spiritually balanced and symmetrical. We believe that thebest minister will be the man with finely-culturedbrain, with widest possible mental horizon, with heartall aglow with sympathy and love for all mankind,and with soul all aflame with holy zeal and consumingconsecration to God's will and work ; the man whosays, " Christ is my all and in all," and the man whoknows that " in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom."III. We live in a transition period so far as the subject of biblical criticism is concerned. Possibly moreattention is being paid to questions of both lowerand higher criticism today than ever before in thehistory of the church. This new situation bringswith it some new dangers, which possibly are more aptto affect theological students and the younger menin the ministry than their elder brethren in thefaith. For the benefit of these younger men let mesuggest as a new danger the temptation to jump toohastily at conclusions in this field. Young men especially like to come to definite conclusions in any matter. They do not patiently brook delay. I find thattheological students as a class are apt to have moreclearly defined opinions on critical questions thantheir professors have ; even when they do not know asmuch about the subject as their professors do — as issometimes the case. In this period of transition, discussion, and investigation, let me commend to youthe cautious spirit manifested by Cheyne in thatmasterpiece of modern scholarship, his commentaryon Isaiah. When he comes to chapters 40-66 he says,in edition after edition of that work : " It is sad that,from the only admissible point of view, the philological, the problem of their date and literary originstill remains unsettled. In the following commentaryI shall leave it an open question whether the bookwas composed by Isaiah or by some other author orauthors, and whether it falls into two, three or moreparts. Adhuc subjudice Us est!" As yet the case isin the hands of the judge. The time for authoritativedecision has not arrived. Now in all probability thereare men in this audience today who decided long agothat the book of Isaiah was written by two authors, orpossibly by twelve. And in all probability these samemen do not know now as much about the criticalproblems in the book of Isaiah as Cheyne did when hewrote those words ; and they will not know as much246 UNIVERSITY MEGGRDabout it when they die as Cheyne did when hewrote those words. Yet they have come to a conclusion. They are not blessed with his more scholarlyreserve of judgment.Harnack has said that Julicher s ''Introductionto the New Testament" is the most adequate introduction of our day, You will remember whatJtilicher says in that closing paragraph of his discussion of the Book of Acts. He reviews the theories of Blass. Blass has decided that in our Bookof Acts we have two clearly definable recensions ofthe text, and he gives us the detailed history of each.In the face of it all Julicher simply remarks, "DieFrage ist noch nicht spruchreif" We do not knowenough about it yet to begin talking. It would bewell for us to keep our mouths shut till we knowmore. And then Julicher goes on to say that the onlysure thing in the higher criticism of the Book of Actsis "dass wir besonders vorsichtig verfahren milssen,''that we must be especially cautious in coming to conclusions, because the text is an uncertain one.In this time when there seems to be a necessity forsome readjustment of old notions along the whole line,I commend to you this spirit of Cheyne and Julicher.There is danger that in our enthusiasm for newT ideaswe may accept plausible theories for proven facts, andjumping too hastily at conclusions we may find ourselves upon shifting sands rather than solid rock.IV. But worse than we have mentioned, there is thedanger in these days that some will feel in this flood-tide of criticism that the fundamentals of the faithare being swept away, and some may lose their confidence in the word of God. Losing their faith inverbal inspiration, in biblical inerrancy, and biblicalinfallibility, they fail io see how the Bible can yet bea revelation of God. To those who may have any personal apprehension of this danger, we suggest thereading of the little book just published by BordenP. Bowne on " The Christian Revelation." In it hesays : " The religious life adjusts itself to currentcustoms and conceptions, and any departure fromthem is thought to be fatal. But experience showsthat life can abide across many changes of conceptionand even that the new conception may be more favorable to life than the old. And this is true of thenewer views of the Bible and revelation. We have nolonger a dictated and infallible book, but we have therecord of the self -revelation of God in history and inthe thought and feeling of holy men. With thischange the intellectual scandals and incredibilitieswhich infest the former view have vanished, and intheir place has come a blessed and growing insightinto what God is and what he means, which is our great and chief source of hope and inspiration .*' Theold Book will stand ! It has approved itself throughall the ages It is increasingly popular everywhere.It has triumphed over all its foes. It will live as longas its Divine Author, and it will always be a blessingto the race.Official Notices,Reports fop. the Autumn Quarter. — All instructors are requested to observe that all reports forcourses given during the Autumn Quarter are dueat the Examiner's Office (or the Faculty Exchange)not later than 12:00 m., Tuesday, December 27. Itis of the titmo.st importance that every course berecorded fully and promptly.The University Examiner.Programme of the Twenty-seventh Convocation,Winter 1899.January i, Sunday.January 2, Monday.— A holiday.January 3, Tuesday.8 : 30 a.m. Lectures and Recitations of the Winter Quarterbegin.8 : 30 A.M.-12 : 30 p.m. > Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Stu-2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.) dents.10:30 A.M. Quarterly Meeting of the College Divisions.Attendance required.4 : 00 p.m. The Eleventh Meeting of the University Congregation.Congregation Hall—Haskell Oriental Museum7 : 00 p.m. The Congregation Dinner.The Quadrangle Club.January 4, Wednesday.9 : 00 a.m. The Graduate Matutinal.The Presidents House.3 : 00 p.m. Meeting of all Candidates for Degrees with theExecutive Officers.Cob l? Lecture Hall— Chanel.8 : 00 p.m. The Twenty -seventh University Convocation.The Procession.The Convocation Address: "American Imperialism." The Honorable Carl Schvtsz,New York City.The Conferring of Degrees.The President's Quarterly Statement.Studebaker Hall(203 Michigan av.) .January 8, Sunday. — Convocation Sunday.8 : 30 a.m. Bible Classes. Haskell Oriental Museum.4 : 00 p.m. The Convocation Vesper Service.The Convocation Sermon. The ReverendProfessor Herrick Johnson, D.D., Mc-Cormick Theological Seminary.Quarterly Report by the Secretary of the Christian Union. Kent Theater.7:00 p.m. Union meeting of the Y.M.C. A. and Y.W. C.A*Haskell Oriental Museum— Association HallUNIVERSITY REGGRD 247The University Elementary School.the sub-primary department.The general topic for the quarter, has been "thehome." The work began by finding out the kind ofhomes birds, insects and animals have. The childrenhave constructed a playhouse with four rooms, andhave furnished each appropriately with articlesmanufactured from cardboard, or wood, or tin. Thehouse was painted outside, the reason given beingprotection from weather. Inside, it was papered forornament, and the necessary furniture for each roomdecided upon, made, and put in place.I^ach week one story has been told, illustrated bythe children on paper or blackboard, then retold bythem. Birthdays have been celebrated, games taughtand songs learned.Special arrangements were made for Thanksgivingand Christmas. At these times the children entertained Group I at dinner. Their preparation for thedinner consisted of making jelly, cocoa, and smallpasteboard boxes for holiday candy. These were tobe given their guests as souvenirs. In preparing forChristmas the thoughts of the children have beendirected to the crowded stores, where presents anddecorations for tree are purchased, to what would beneeded for the tree, etc. Then the children devised aplan, to which from day to day they added details. Astore counter was made of blocks, and clerks, cash-boys, wrappers, and purchasers appointed. The purchasers, imagined to be fatheis and mothers, boughtthe decorations which the children had made, for thetree. The next act was the decoration of a tree, andfinally the distribution of gifts. Gifts for fathers andmothers have been made by the children. Severalsongs have been learned, games taught and played.GROUP I.[This report covers work done since statement published inthe Recoed, October 21.]After finishing the story of the Holland boy, thenegro race was taken up, and then the Esquimo. Theanimals and plants of Africa were studied by firstfinding out what animals the children knew thatinhabit a hot country, and then adding those that arefound in Africa. The gorilla and anthropoid ape wereas interesting as lions and tigers, for some of thechildren had theories of evolution which they wereanxious to verify. An excursion to the Field Museum,a nd a good supply of pictures enabled any who had not before done so, to distinguish and describe thelion, zebra, elephant, panther, tiger, and leopard, thealligator, python, and some of the African birds.They were told that the panther, tiger, and leopardbelong to the cat family, and were asked to give thedistinguishing marks of each.Some time was spent in describing the life of thenegro, both in Africa and in America, and in constructing models of their houses, their weapons, andtools. The children showed far more interest inmaking shields and spears out of stiff paper than inconstructing a hut.The vegetation of Africa was taken up so far as thegeneral -knowledge of the children would permit. Thelegends and superstitions of negroes were gotten atthrough the medium of the Uncle Remus stories.From these were eliminated innovations of civilization, and the result called the legend in its nativecountry. The life of Stanley was used to give realityand interest to the work.The Esquimo was studied in much the same way,and formed a sufficient contrast in mode of life tointerest the children and stimulate their imagination.An Esquimo igloo wTas constructed, and pictures of askin tent and stone houses shown. The chief foodwas decided upon by thinking what plants andanimals could live in so cold a climate. When toldthat blubber was obtained from the seals, and thatblubber was a kind of fat, some children expressedskepticism as to the fact of a fat seal being able toswim. They thought it would sink. A pan of waterand a piece of suet were the means used to convincethem that while the seal's avoirdupois might interfere with rapid motion, he would be in no imminentdanger in venturing into the water. The exhibitionof arctic animals, and models of Esquimo houses inthe Field Museum were visited. The arctic animalswere contrasted with those of Africa as to color, size,and kind. The length of an arctic day was comparedwith a tropical day. The children were shown aglobe, and looked up the relation of land and water inthe arctic region to discover where the Esquimo camefrom. They studied pictures of Mongolian characteristics from Peary's "Across the Great Sea," to seeresemblances to the Esquimo.The members of this group are just beginning tolearn to read and write. Names of animals are writtenon the board and then read. Sentences which thechildren have made describing the animals seen at themuseum are type-written and given them to read.In cooking they have made a special study of cereals,248 UNIVERSITY REGGMDcomparing the whole wheat grain, with farina, wheat-ina and wheat flakes. They examined the outsideand inside of wheat grain, to determine what part wasused in the different preparations of wheat. Fromtheir knowledge of the part used, i. e„ whether chieflycomposed of starchy substance or woody fibre — theywere to decide how it should be cooked, and the timeneeded.The children finished the baskets mentioned in lastreport. Great difference in the ability to controlfingers was manifested, some of the baskets beingworthy of the name, others so loosely woven that theymore nearly resembled a kind of bird's nest. Thenext work given them was knitting through a spool.The motion gives control of fingers, and it is sufficiently easy and rapid to hold their interest. Thechildren select their own colors.The work in drawing has been chiefly illustrating some part of their history work. The drawingsare made with colored chalk. Some unmistakableelephants and birds have been drawn. Wheneverpossible, they draw from objects, but at times imaginative work is combined with the object. One daya stuffed cat-bird was given them to draw, and thenext day they were asked to draw a picture of the treethe bird lived in. They have attempted, also, to drawa live rabbit, and one child, after examining the rabbitfor a time, drew a picture of a rabbit sitting on itshaunches before a hole in a tree. She described thepicture as a rabbit going to call on a friend in the actof ringing the bell.The bulbs named and planted early in the fall havebeen watched for signs of germination^ and thoseplaced in the dark have been brought into the lightwhen ready, and reasons therefore given.The work in the shop is still confined to articles ofcardboard. The children have made shipping tags,for which they had to measure and learn inches andhalf inches, and to draw lines at an angle of forty -fivedegrees. Kite-shaped match scratchers were made,and the drawing of horizontal and vertical linestaught by definite measurements. A template "wasused for drawing a semi -circle, and the awl, knife, andhammer in finishing. A piece of sandpaper wasglued on, and the match scratcher was finished.Those of the class who completed these two articleswere permitted to make yarn winders. This broughtin the same principles of construction and of measurement, but more in one article. The yarn winder isof the kind used for darning-cotton.Gymnasium work has been confined to simple movements and games. The University Settlement. 'The University of Chicago Settlement is five yearsold. It was established in 1894 by the PhilanthropicCommittee of the Christian Union and was incorporated this year. It now owns four lots on Gross avenue,near the corner of Ashland avenue and 47th street.The activity of the Settlement may be considered as(1) Social : work for the neighborhood as a whole ; and(2) Individual.SOCIAL WORK.The Settlement has proved itself to have a socialand educational function in the Stock Yards' District,and in the past two years has had the cooperation ofthe citizens in many ways. It initiated the movementfor vacation schools and had the Seward VacationSchool under its auspices in the summer of 1897.Two public -spirited Chicago women gave $1500 tosupport this school, to give weekly excursions to thecountry, and to keep open a fiee bath during thesummer months. The parents showed their interestin the school by visiting often and by coming in largenumbers to the parents' meeting and to the closingday exercises.The Seward School was made a manual trainingcenter in response to a petition circulated by theSettlement Woman's Club. This movement beo-ariafter the vacation school had proved what manualtraining could do for the children.The Settlement shower baths were used so freelyland became so valuable to the neighborhood, that, on*petition of the Settlement Woman's Club, the CityCouncil appropriated 16000 for a permanent bathingestablishment.The three years' work of the Settlement privatelibrary resulted in the establishment of a PublicLibrary substation at the Settlement, which now hasa circulation of over twelve hundred volumes. ;An injunction against the city was secured to stopthe dumping of garbage from the Kenwood and By dePark districts into vacant lots in the 29th Ward backof the Settlement.INDIVIDUAL WORK.The work of the Settlement among individuals iscarried on largely through its clubs and classes.There is a steady demand for the technical classesin cooking, sewing, dressmaking, embroidering, andsloyd. The advanced cooking class, taught by MissGeorgiana Allen, has no vacancies. The children'sclass, taught by Mrs. A. M. Leonard, is also full andhas a large waiting list.UNIVERSITY RECORD 249A new work-bench has proved most fascinating tothe boys, and four classes in charge of Miss ElizabethB. Jones and Mr. Geo. Fowler are using it.A professional dress-making class and a home dressmaking cla^s for young girls are both well attended.The embroidery class has been at work on articlesfor home decoration, such as sash curtains, tablecovers, etc.From the foundation of the Settlement interest inmusi-c has held the first place in the hearts of thepeople. The children's chorus of 150 children is welltrained under the superintendence of Miss MariHofer, assisted by Miss Anna H. Stewart. The adultchorus is small but earnest. It has for its presidentthis year Mr. W. S. Ransome of the Lookout Club ofthe South Congregational Church. The Sunday concerts are well attended by an eager and listening audience. The programmes for November were arrangedby Miss Fannie Whiting ; for December, by Mrs. Wm.Noyes; for. January they will be in charge of MissCromse, of Gertrude House ; for February, of Mrs.Proctor Smith ; for March, of Miss Mari Hofer.The playground, with its swings and gymnastic apparatus, its delightful shelter for mothers and babies,its sand piles shaded by awnings so that little onescould create cities, castles, and Spanish forts at theirown will during the hottest months — all this wasmade possible by the loan from Mr. S. E. Gross of sevenlots adjoining the four lots owned by the Settlement.The paramount need of the Settlement is a buildingto serve as a home for residents (where Universitymen and women can be accommodated as they cannot now in the present small and inconvenient quarters) and as a neighborhood club house, with clubrooms, gymnasium, and public hall. Unless somesuitable place for the older boys and young men canbe secured this year, the Settlement will lose thosewhom it must hold, if it is to be a social and civic forcein the community.The plans for such a building have been made byMr. D wight H. Perkins ; the cost will be about$20,000 and $5000 for equipment. The older clubmembers are much interested in getting a new building, and wish to do their part towards that end.; . WORKERS.The present Settlement quarters can accommodatebut six residents. Five are in residence at present,and it is hoped that the one vacancy may be fillednext quarter. Students find it difficult to study at the present Settlement home, because they cannothave quiet or privacy.Fourteen regular workers come from the University every week, and occasional helpers assist inmusical or literary entertainments. The universaltestimony from these helpers from the University isthat the unconventional social contact with people ofsuch widely different experiences is not only refreshing, but broadening.The Settlement is at present located at the cornerof Ashland avenue and 47th street. Visitors arealways welcome. Gifts of money, clothes, furniture,etc., will be gratefully received by the Head Resident,Miss Mary E. McDowell, who will gladly furnish additional information.Current Events.The Senior Finals took place on Friday, Decernber 16, at 8:00 p.m. in Kent Theater. The followingis the programme :March .------' The BandOration— " Living Thought "- Mr. Samuel Hope ThompsonOration — "American Statesmanship."Mr. Lawrence Merton JacobsCornet Solo Mr. BlanchardOration — " The Supremacy of the Spiritual,"Mr. Charles Francis YoderOration — " Science and Poetry "- Mr, Thomas Amiss StampQuartette, Instrumental, .Messrs. Blanchard, Hobbs, Chamberlain and FullerOration-^ " National Expansion and Western Ideals,"Mr. George Balderston WatsonOration — " A Plea for Art in the University of Chicago,"Miss Marjorie Benton CookeMarch The BandThe usual scholarships were awarded to the contestants in oratory and the University prize of fiftydollars for the best oration was given to Mr. CharlesFrancis Yoder.The music was furnished by the University of Chicago Military Band consisting of the following members of the University : Leader, Glenn M. Hobbs; Secretary, Vernon S. Phillips ; Piccolo, W. D. Merrell ; BoClarinet, A. F. Naylor ; Solo Bo Clarinet, O. HallingbySecond Bo Clarinet, E. E. Irons ; Eb Cornet, F. W.Shepardson ; B6 Cornets, G. M. Hobbs, F. M. Blanchard, Chas. B. Elliott, E. D. Howard, A. S. Stewart,H. M. Shouse ; Solo Alto, W. H. Fuller ; First E6Alto, O. G. Fisher; Second E& Alto, G. L. White;Third Eo Alto, H. Woodhead ; First Bo Tenor, P.Rhodes ; Second Tenor, H. E. P. Thomas ; Slide Trombones, A. 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