Gbe ianiver6tt£ of CbtcaaoPrice $J.OO founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentoUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGbe TJXniveiBity of Cbicago pressVOL III, NO. 47. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 17, 1899.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The Ministry of Today —Its New Opportunities.By Prof essor Graham Taylor - 307-310II. Official Notices -------- 311III, Programme of Student Conferences - 311IV. The University Elementary School - - - 312-313V. The Calendar * 314The Ministry of Today —Its New Opportunities.by professor graham taylor,Chicago Theological Seminary,The problem of life and the training and work ofthe Christian ministry are inseparable. Their relationis as essential and vital as that which involves thedependence of any one of the forms of life uponanother. No problem of personal or social life can befully stated, without including the training and laborof men for its solution. Every question of the daywith which Christianity has anything to do in the lastanalysis states or raises some question of ministerialtraining and work. All historical movements answering the appeal of life crystallize into theory. Thetheory, if it be a germ of life, generates its trainingschool. The movement centers itself down upon theschool for the conservation and reproduction of itsenergy. The training school is in the last analysisthe form which life takes on to express and reproduceitself. If, therefore, the seminary be born of thecreative life in the church to reproduce in manifold form that life in the world, it must itself be in and oftoday. It must be among men, as one of the nerve centers of humanity, hidden within the body near the heartit may be, yet there receiving and thence respondingto every outreaching and uplooking of human needand aspiration, and every inbreathing of divine helpfulness and inspiration. The human and divine shouldthere meet and mingle, and issue in ministry to mankind. However unbroken its philosophic calm,however heavenly its hours of devotion, however un-wordly its desirably unique order of life, however quietits studious days, yet the doors of its human understanding and sympathies should not be shut in thestreets, and the divine wisdom dwelling within shouldbe heard " crying without, uttering her voice in thestreets, crying in the chief places of concourse, uttering her words in the cities." Certain is the alternative before every seminary and every order of ministry thus to coordinate its learning with contemporary life, thus to adjust the power of its old andchangeless gospel to the new, varying, and diverseneeds of men, and thus to minister to the living, or tobe left of life, lose the power of truth and truth itself,with the loss of the purpose and power to apply it.It cannot be incumbent upon this hour either toadduce proof of the radically different and changedconditions under which the ministry and the churchare now at work for the world than prevailed even ageneration ago. Who that is really at work can failto recognize the fact ? With the phenomenal changesin the industrial, economic, intellectual, and social life308 UNIVERSITY RECORDin mind, it would be more a mysteriously suspiciousfactor of the situation than a reassuring evidence ofthe vitality and perpetuity of the church if the conditions of our Christian work were unchanged. Like" Locksley Hall Sixty Years Afterward," the church ofour prayers and tears and toils may still stand, its ivyas green, its walls as firm, its spire as soaring as ever ;but if from pulpit and pew the life that ebbs and flowsabout its foundation stones is not seen to change forbetter or worse with the coming and going of eachgeneration, and each change is not recognized as animperative mandate to readjust the application of theold and only gospel to the new need, the spiritualhouse will be found to be undermined and at lastswept away by the living current which might haveturned its machinery and enriched its gardens toperennial fruitage. The shifting scenes and tryingtransitions of our day, then, are to be to us what thoseof our Master's days on earth were to him — only theunfolding of the Father's purpose the signal to takethe next step forward in the progress of the greatplan, the divine call to change the method of procedure and to employ the differing means now necessary to secure the same unchanging ends.Now, as ever, throughout the history of the church,exigency is only our opportunity. The passing ofwhat has been and made good history is only the Master's marching orders to change our present policy.The only real crisis in life, be it that of the church orthat of any other of its manifold social or individualforms, is in the capacity or willingness of the livingto adapt their life and labor quickly and completelyenough to the ever changing conditions of living andworking.The new opportunities of the ministry of today,therefore, are defined by, as they grow out of, the exigencies of today's life. There are three which pressfor recognition at every outlook we take upon thetimes in which we live.1. From the universal necessity for the subdivisionof labor arises the new opportunity to specialize ministerial knowledge and effort.The undertone of all human vocations, which makesitself more and more impressively heard throughoutthe civilized world, is the increasing necessity for thedivision of labor. The industrial world has long sincegiven its consent to this necessity. And how inventions, discoveries, the applied sciences and useful artshave flourished and poured their marvelous harvestsinto the lap of life since this recognition has beenyielded ! The enlargement of the field of humanknowledge, and the limitations to individual capacityforcing the recognition of this necessity for the subdivision of labor from the whole intellectual world;The specialist is surely supplanting the generalscholar, which designation can be applied, even bycourtesy, to fewer and fewer men. The generalscholar is and must be admitted to be of an extinctspecies. Most classes of intellectual men are alreadyacting in accordance with this fact. There: is realdanger, indeed, that enough of a general educationwill not be left to supply the specialist with a fulcrum on which to use his lever. The ministry andthe theological training schools may very safely beconservative in being the slowest and most reluctantto yield the general to the special, but we must yieldlarger and quicker concession to this universal necessity, if the ministry as a body is to keep abreast of theother learned professions, and if the church as an institution is to obtain, much more to increase, her holdon modern life.No such claim now exists or ever again can, in civilized lands as literature, science and art once preferredto the professional services of the ministry, when theycomprised wholly or in large part the educated class.Those handmaids of religion have long since had aprofessional service of their own. Men are notdependent or depending upon the ministry for theirliterature, science, or art, or even ethics. But theminister is still rightly held responsible for a specialist's knowledge of the Scriptures, of the ethicaldevelopment of the race, and of those social conditions and ideals which largely determine the characterboth of the individual and society. Moreover, inbiblical scholarship, for instance, not only the scientific,but the working knowledge of the word is requisite.To be trained is as necessary as to be learned. Toknow how is as essential as to know. The relationbetween the use of knowledge and its possession,between what we do with truth and what it is to us isvital. More kinds of men, rather than more men, arethe need of the hour. More men to a church ratherthan more churches to the community are the de>mand, at least of the increasingly dense and complexpopulations of the world. More diverse and distinctclasses of ministry are needed, not only to fill specificneeds, but also to give free development for differingattitudes of mind and heart. The pulpit is still athrone, to which in advantage as well as by divine andhuman call the minister is heir-apparent. But fewerand fewer churches can live and fulfill their missionby preaching alone. The teacher is as distinctlydemanded by the present emergency in the church'sministry as the preacher. Both functions may, and inmost cases must, be fulfilled by one and the same man,but there is more and more opportunity to restoreUNIVERSITY RECORD 309teaching as a distinct office, as well as f unction* in thechurch's ministry. For if all signs fail not, thechurch is rapidly shifting the weight of emphasisfrom the modern substitutes for the nurture of lifeback to the fulfillment of her primitive educationalfunction, upon which her first and most continuousdependence was laid for winning the world and building life into the kingdom. Her greatest scholars andmissionaries were once her great catechists. Neverhas she been able to depend for her conquests, eitherupon predominantly evangelistic agencies, or upontelling the truth to passive audiences through the instrumentality of preaching. If, moreover, the parishand interparochial, and outlying fields of activity areto be considered as truly the fulcrum of the church'spower as the pulpit itself, then wider are the fields forspecialization, and more manifold the demands for thesubdivision of labor. The minister in charge of theparish more and more needs to be trained to the exercise of 'that neglected function of administrative leadership,, which the apostles call "Episcopal." If thesethings be true, the well-educated and trained ministerwill try to know, not only something of everything, buteverything of something. Among the things aboutwhich everything should be known by some one in theservice of every larger church, or group of smallerones, are the new psychology which is springing outof child study and the physio -psychological laboratory,the new pedagogy applied to religious culture whichis beginning to be built upon the inductions of thenew psychology, and those sciences of the social service of the church which are involved in the church'sagency in answering the prayer, " Thy kingdom come,Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Incalculable in their bearings upon the progress of the kingdom and : the methods of promoting it are these newopportunities of the ministry. So new are they thattheir influence bids fair to be constructively revolutionary.f 2. Out of the changed relationship of laity to ministry arises the new opportunity for training and leading the volunteer force of the church. Now, as neverbefore, "the people have a mind to work." It is themuster day of Messiah's army, judged by the volunteering. He has the dew of his youth. "In holy attire," the vestments of the people's priesthood, theyr-espond to his call, not singly, but in whole battalions,and with an enthusiasm wiser, holier, and more chiv-alric than the crusaders ever knew. Was ever suchrecruiting known as has gathered, mainly"in our ownday, the vast armies marshaled in our Sunday schools,Christian associations, and: young people's societies,not to speak of our Christian institutions of learning? Greater than earth's proudest legions is the " greatmultitude of women " that publish the Word giventhem by the Lord. No diviner voice is heard todaythan that which cries everywhere " the kingdom ofpriests is at hand." It means that the day of theKing's power is come.That in influence and power the laity are nearerthe ministry than formerly is cheering evidence ofthe success of ministerial work, in that it is largelydue to their fidelity to their office. The generaladmission of the lay element of the church to itsecclesiastical assemblies, the steady rise of their influence in its councils and the extent and efficiencyof their work in all the manifold organizationsof Christian effort is far from obliterating thedistinction between the office of minister and layman. So far from supplanting the function of theminister, the rise of the laity opens to him hisvery greatest opportunity. What greater functioncan the ministry aspire to than to train such a membership for service ? With what higher prerogativeshas the high calling ever been invested than to be ateacher of teachers, a trainer of workers ? The greatChalmers was never greater than in organizing andconducting his workers' training class, which madepossible and actual the redemption which his churchwrought in Glasgow, and in the Westport of Edinburgh. He is the best minister who puts most of hispeople to work, no longer he who does the work ofmost of his people. Not only to train the host, butto lead them as well is the supreme opportunity ofthe ministry of our day, but only such leaders will befollowed as actually lead by being ahead. No one ismore of a minister than he is a man. Only the leadership of a man ministering really leads today. Theleadership of many causes born of the love and justiceof the church has passed to other hands for the lackof leaders who really would and could lead. Too fewof them, even now, own more than the merest nominal relationship to the ministry whom the church hascalled, educated and ordained to the function of over^sight and superintendence. With some of the mostpowerful of them the ministry has only the remotestadvisory relation; others of them are wholly independent, almost oblivious, of the church. Even citymissions by the score, in our large cities, are whollyunrelated to both ministry and church in theirwork and management, though seldom in theirresources. But it is through less fault of theirsthan of hers. Their choice of other leadershiphas been through no antipathy or antagonism toher. They needed to be led. The, church eitherha d not a large or diverse enough ministry to supply310 UNIVERSITY RECORDthe demand, or her ministers had not been trained sothey could really lead. Cromwell's playful boast thathe would inaugurate " his reign " by founding a greatProtestant college for world-wide propaganda is a forgotten dream. Alexander Duff's reestablishment offoreign missions upon the permanent and progressivebasis of their educational aims and efforts is all tooslowly followed, or even recognized, in the present exigency of Christianity within Christendom itself.Never was there a greater opportunity opened to theministry of the Christian church than that which isnow almost forced upon us : to train and lead themembership in service.3. Out of the changed relative position of the churchin the community, the social opportunity of the ministry is to be discerned. The church is no longer theonly or principal "source of common life. Populationoutgrows the parish, socially even more than numerically, intensively more than extensively. The community has not so much excluded the church as thechurch has not included the community within addedprovisions for new* distinct, and special needs. Thetide of influences and events, which for centuries hasbeen resistlessly bearing the individual on to independence, has turned. It is now set, still forward, yettoward the interdependence of each upon all. The channel through which its life is now sweeping is less individualistic than social. All human life and interests, industrial and political, intellectual and spiritual, feeland respond to, and contribute toward the pull of thissocial gravity. Apart from these influences, not onlyis society not to be understood, but the individualmay not be intelligently treated. Because they are tooexclusively individualistic in their aim and method,our evangelistic efforts are failing now to produce theresults which they formerly achieved. There is anunmistakably growing reaction from them ; they arerecognized to be better history than policy. It is nodisparagement of their past achievement to admit thestern facts of current experience, which compel us torecognize that in their methods at least they are waning forces. Yet evangelism will survive all its methods.Its old soul-burdened spirit is already finding newforms of self-sacrificing activity, better adapted tochanged conditions, but aimed, as of old, to win therecognition, acceptance, and realization of the divineideals of life, both individual and social. Our evangelism will be none the less but all the more effective individually if we envangelize social conditions. What arethese social problems of the times but the corollaries,which God through his providence, is ever adding to theimmutable propositions of his revealed Word? To his imperative " Ye must be born again" is therebyadded the church's obligations to improve the hereditary and environing conditions of birth and life inthis world. God's message at our hand " Repent yeand believe the gospel" cannot be fully delivereduntil the church assures an environment which willat least be sufficiently compatible with Christian idealsto make possible the survival, maintenance and growthof the new life. The church's possession of herkingdom is conditioned upon her preaching, exemplify.ing, and realizing " the gospel of the kingdom." Howelse than by accepting these postulates of the providence of the living God, as the working theoryof her faith, practice and hope, shall she answerthe challenge of the life of our times ? This meansthe evangelizing of social conditions and the coordination of our ethical standards with our religiousideals in order to save souls as well as society. Forthe lack of earlier, stronger, more intelligent andunited effort in this direction, many powerful competitors for popular control have arisen, but theymerely occupy what the church alone can possess.Many of them exist only because the church does notlive out half her true life. Christianity has nothingto fear from her modern competitors, if the churchbut works out the earthly science of her heavenlykingdom, and will but exercise her divine prerogativeof social leadership. Sociology was born of the church.It is the science of her own kingdom. The " gospelof the kingdom " is sociology with God left in it, withChrist as the center of unity, with a new birth of theindividual for the regeneration of society, and the indwelling Spirit as the dynamic of the social movementtoward its divine ideal. For this kingdom of the Sonof Man the whole earth is space, the weary heart ofman has place, every nation will make room, all elsemust make way. And the ministry, seminary, andchurch that will seize the present opportunity torecruit, train, deploy, and lead the priesthood of thepeople for this world -work of the kingdom will writea new and glorious page in the history of the commonwealth of Israel and the covenants of promise.There is a " charge " in Scripture which rises fromthe sacred page to meet the living present as with thesigns of approaching storm, or through the prelude tooratorio, solo, and chorus. " I charge thee, therefore,before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judgethe quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, be instant." It is the voice of the Living Godout of the necessities and oppportunities of the livingpresent, enjoining his church to be contemporary, tobe the church of and for its own day.UNIVERSITY RECORD 31fOfficial Notices.Official copies of the University Record tor theuse of students may be found in the corridors andhalls of the various buildings in the University quadrangles. Students are requested to make themselvesacquainted with the official actions and notices of theUniversity, as published from week to week in theUniversity Record.Programme of Student Conferences,MARCH 3, 4, 6, 1899,Under the Auspices of the University of Chicago and theAmerican Institute of Sacred Literature.SUBJECT: THE COLLEGE STUDENT'S DIFFICULTIESIN CONNECTION WITH THE BIBLEThe Conferences of Friday and Saturday will be held inCobb Hall (Chapel), but those of Sunday in Kent Theater, theUniversity of Chicago, and will be open to all persons interested.The Students from the University and neighboring institutionsare especially urged to attend.Friday, March 3.4:00 p.m. The Scientific Difficulties.Points of Contact between the Bibleand Science,Professor George S. Goodspeed.The Science Point of View,Professor John M. Coulter.The Bible Point of View,President William R. Harper.Question Conference.7 : 30 p.m. The Ethical Difficulties.The Difficulties Stated,Professor George B. Foster.The Point of View of Modern Ethics,Professor James H. Tufts,The Biblical Point of View,Professor Ernest D. Burton,Question Conference. Saturday, March 4«4:00 p.m. Miracles.The Old Testament Miracles,Professor George L. Robinson.The New Testament Miracles,Professor Shailer Mathews.The Possibility of Miracles,Professor W. Douglas Mackenzie.Question Conference.7 : 30 p.m. The Doctrine of Evolution.Evolution as found in Nature,Professor Charles O. Whitman.Evolution as found in History,Professor Albion W. Small.Evolution as found in the Bible,Professor George S. Goodspeed.The Student's Attitude toward Evolution,President John H. Barrows.Question Conference.Sunday, March 5*4:00 p.m. Inspiration.The Inspiration of Events*President William R. Harper.The Inspiration of Thought,Dr. Clyde W. Votaw.The Inspiration of the Record,Professor Ernest D. Burton.Question Conference.7:30 p.m. The Literary Form of the Bible asAdapted to its Spirit and Purposes.The Methods Employed by BiblicalWriters,Professor Shailer Mathews.The Spirit and Purpose of the BiblicalWriters,Professor Ernest D. Burton.The Results of the Higher Criticism,President William R, Harper.Question Conference.312 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe University Elementary Schoolgroup VIII.[Continuation of work reported in the University Record,December 16, 1898.]It was not deemed best to follow out in detail thelater history of Rome. Accordingly a selection oftypical emperors was made, the intervening historybeing summarized by the teacher. Enough of thecharacter and reign of Nero was given to enable thechildren to compare the habits of life and thought atthis time with the days of the republic : voluptuousness in place of simplicity ; apathy in place of zeal inpublic affairs ; skepticism in place of faith in the gods.Descriptions in Quo Vadis were used to show the beginning of Christianity in Rome, and the reasons whythe new religion would gain strength in spite of bitteropposition were brought out. Trajan and Hadrianwere studied as introducing reforms in the army,as realizing the importance of the provinces, andattempting to establish a stronger government. Diocletian's scheme for reconstruction was described andits failure predicted. Constantine was studied morein detail, and the removal of the capital to the newConstantinople, the orientalizing of the*court, and thelegalizing of Christianity make the chief subjects ofdiscussion.Throughout their study the children were led tosee the phenomenon of a great government still continuing in spite of the inefficiency and demoralizationof its leaders, and to realize to some extent the conservatism of an organization once carefully plannedand started.With the beginning of the Winter Quarter UnitedStates history was begun, taking up the settlementsand explorations in the Northwest. The childrenwere given a general idea of the English, Spanish, andFrench settlements in America, and the motive whichled to all exploration at this time — to find a shortway to India. Then the explorations of La Salle,Marquette and Joliet were studied, using Marquette'sJournal and Parkman's La Salle and the MississippiValley. Parts were read by the children, and otherparts summarized for them. The route followed byLa Salle and Marquette was followed, and the namesof the tributaries to the Mississippi learned in discovering what country was claimed for France as theresult of this exploration. The best places for fortifications were noted, and where the English andFr ench claims would overlap. The Indian tribes ofthe region were studied to find out their attitudeto ward the English and French, and their compara tive strength. The fact was noted that the Iroquoiswere hostile to the French, and La Salle in order togain support against them, determined to seek an alliance with the Algonquins.One half hour each week is spent in discussing current events. The Philippines and the NicaraguaCanal have been discussed, and the children arewatching the course of events.In science they have taken up the processes bywhich the crust of the earth was formed and the results of cooling, in producing the wrinkles on the surface which we call mountains, and the evidence of themolten state of the interior by geysers, volcanoes, andincreased temperature found in descending mines.They looked up the temperature at which differentsubstances become liquid or gaseous, and in theirnumber work found out how far below the surfacethis would occur, using the estimate of one degreeincrease of heat for each sixty feet of descent. Theydiscussed the nebular hypothesis and the variousstrata of rock, water, and air that would result in cooling. In order to get a comparison of the height of amountain with the diameter of the earth, they reduced the height of Mount Everest in the Himalayasto miles, found a proportion between this and thediameter of the earth, and then calculated the heightof a similar mountain on a globe twenty -five feet indiameter, discovering that it would be between onetenth and one twentieth of an inch.They also estimated the height of Mt. Everest atthe end of 1000 and 10,000 years, using a very rapidmethod of erosion. Many points had to be looked upin order to carry through these calculations.In Latin definite grammar work has been begun inconnection with short and easy stories. Knowledgeof Latin words is first gained from their sounds, themeaning being inade clear by performing the actiondescribed, showing the object, drawings, or use ofEnglish equivalents. The attention of the children iscalled to the ending by associating a plural noun witha plural verb, or a singular noun with a singular verb,so that much of the grammar is gained unconsciously.The use of the object and its ending is discovered inthe same way. The first three declensions have beenlearned, sentences being used as illustrations of thevarious cases. No grammar work was attempted until the children were familiar: with the use of thewords in sentences and were able to translate at sightor at hearing easy Latin stories.In sewing the children have made things needed fortheir own use in the kitchen, i. e., aprons, towels andholders, marking them with their initials. In connection with work in history they have undertaken toUNIVERSITY RECORD 3l£dress a dell as an Indian chief, the different articlesof elo^hing-- trousers and cloak of chamois skinhead dress and wampum belt — have been planned.Each child is made responsible for some one thing,calling, if lie desires, upon other members of the classto assist him.In cooking the same work has been done as withgroup VI and VII, more accuracy being expected andfuller information. In addition they have made whitesauce which required a choice of flours. In order tofind what was best to use they examined bread flourand pastry flour to determine the amount of starchand cellulose in/ each, and decided on the pastry flouras containing the least amount of cellulose. Themethod of mixing the flour for the sauce was discussed. Knowing the effect of boiling on milk, it wasdecided to burst the starch sacs in the melted butter,then add the milk gradually to make a smooth sauce.Tomato bisque soup was prepared and its composition studied by experiments, as reported for othergroups.In music a good deal of drill in writing the notesof the scale has been given, and in ear-training. AGroup song was composed for Christmas and sung bythe children at the school entertainment.In art work some time was spent in designing programs to be used at the Christmas entertainment. This quarter they have made a special study of plantsas to light and shade in relation to background, andhave learned how to apply Jthis knowledge when drawing from a model.In French, part of their lessons have been given inconnection with work in sewing or cooking, learninghow to describe in French what they do^ Then theknowledge thus gained is used in written exercises.One of these compositions is as follows :Je veux faire tine robe chaude. Je n'ai pas le drap ici. II estdans le ^ cabinet, .-• Je me leye, ;je marche vers le cabinet* Dansle eabine;t je trouve aussi mon tablier. Je mets mon tablier etj 'attache mon tablier. Je prends le drap. Je marche vers latable. Je m'assieds. Je prends mon sac a ouvrage. J'ouvremon sac a ouvrage, et je prends le d6, la bobine de fil, 1' aiguille,les ciseaux. Je prends T aiguille et la bobine de fil. Je casse lefil. C'est un fil de soie. J'enfile l'aiguille. Je veux aussi fau-filer le drap. Je veux ourler le drap.In manual training the qjnldren are making blocksto illustrate various kinds of architecture for theyounger groups. They are making also a quiltingframe which is to be used in a colonial room forwhich different groups are preparing articles of furniture.In the gymnasium the usual drill has been given.Physical examinations are made to test the health andnormality of the individual children, and records madeof measurements, weights, and sense powers.314 UNIVERSITY RECORDCalendar.february 17-25, 1899.Friday, February 17.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m.Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson Physical Laboratory, Room 36, 4:00 p.m.Head Professor Moore reads on " Crinkly Curves."Notes: "On a Special Biquadratic Involution," by Mr.McDonald ; " Concerning Mechanical Methods of Solving Equations"Young. (second note), by Assistant ProfessorSaturday, February 18.Regular Meetings of Faculties and Boards :The Administrative Board of the University Press,8:30 a.m.Administrative Board of Student Organizations,Publications, and Exhibitions, 10:00 a.m.The Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.The Faculty of the Divinity School, 11:30 a.m.Sunday, February 19.Vesper Service, Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m.Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Museum, 7:00 p.m.Monday, February 20.Chapel-Assembly: Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents).Head Professor Judson will speak on "The Treaty ofPeace with Spain."Germanic Club meets in Germanic Library, 2:00 p.m.Papers by Mr. Seward and Miss Cole.Tuesday, February 21.Chapel-Assembly: Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior College Students). Division Lectures before the Junior Colleges by Associate Professor MacClintock, in Kent Theater,10:30 a.m.Botanical Club meets in Botanical Building, Room 23,5:00 p.m.Dr. H. C. Cowles will review Schimper's new text-book onEcology; Dr. B. M. Davis will present the results ofrecent work on the cytology of the spore mother cells ofAnthoceros.Sociology Club meets in Faculty Room, Haskell Museum, 8:00 p.m.Mr. R. G. Kimble will read on " Certain ConsiderationsPreliminary to the Comparative Study of Association.' *Wednesday, February 22.Washington's Birthday, a holiday.Thursday, February 23.Graduate Assembly.— Chapel, Cobb Hall, 10:30 a.mSemitic Club meets with Head Professor Harper, corLexington av. and 59th st., 7:30 p.m.Papers by E. Schmidt on Amos 5 : 2" The Theology of Amos." , and by P. P. Bruce onFriday, February 24.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m.Physics Club meets in Ryerson Physical LaboratoryRoom 32, 4:00 p.m.Papers: "The Polarization of Electric Waves," by E. EBurns; "The Surface Tension of Mercury," by E. SJohonnott.Saturday, February 25.Regular Meetings of Faculties and Boards :The Faculty of the Morgan Park Academy, 8: 30 a.m.The Administrative Board of the University Libraries, Laboratories, and Museums, 10:00 a.m.The Faculties of the Graduate Schools, 11:30 a.m.Material for the UNIVERSITY RECORD must be sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., inorder to be published in the issue of the same week.