£be TUniversitp of ChicagoPrice $J«00 founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOZbc TUniveteitv of Gbicaao ©ressVOL. Ill, NO. 52. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. MARCH 24, 1899.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matterCONTENTS.I. The Ministry of Today — Its New Demands. Bythe Rev. Chas. Cuthbert Hall - 355-358II. The Convocation Orator 358-359III. The University Elementary School - - - 359-381IV. Programme of the Twenty-Eighth Convocation,Spring 1899 - 361V. Official Notices 361VI. Lectures by M. Edouard Rod 381-362VII. Phi Beta Kappa - 362VIII. The Calendar 362The Ministry of Today— Its New Demands*BY THE REV. CHAS. CUTHBERT HALL, D.D.,President of Union Theological Seminary,By the President of the University I have beenasked to speak to you for twenty minutes on "TheMinistry of Today — Its New Demands." I am givento understand that my address is to be followed bythree others, in which " the new equipment," " thenew dangers," and "the new opportunities" of theministry of today shall be pointed out to you.| Thisbeing so, I may suppose myself to be at liberty to goat once into the special branch of the general themewhich has just been announced. I shall speak veryplainly, as befits an occasion which, if it is to result inany good, must be charged with clearness of thoughtand frankness of expression. I assure you that Ihave weighed my words before speaking them.In taking up our subject, " The Ministry of Today*Read at the conference held in connection with the Twenty-fifth Convocation of the University, October 3, 1898.*f For the papers referred to see University Recoup, Vol, III,Nos, 39, 43, 47. — Its New Demands," it is well to spend a moment indefining the word " new " as it relates to the demandsmade upon the ministry of today.There are demands made upon the ministry of todaythat are new absolutely in a sense by reason of specificand obvious advances in human thought.There are also demands made upon the ministry oftoday that are new relatively, being old demandsfreshly reinforced by new conditions of society. Thedistinction between absolute newness and relativenewness can be shown by means of an illustration.Upon those who undertake to build and to managea warship of today, there are made demands absolutely new by reason of positive advances in navalarchitecture and gunnery. Triple-expansion engines,rapid-fire guns, armor-piercing projectiles, torpedoesand mines are new creations demanding absolutelynew qualifications. There are also made old demandsthat are, however, relatively new because of the addedemphasis from new conditions. Since there were warships of any sort, there have been demands for vigilance, discipline and the navigator's skill ; but theseold demands become relatively new in the light of newconditions.I cannot, in the time allotted, presume to exhausteither branch of my subject, the absolutely new demands or the relatively new demands made upon theministry of today. But, with the chance to speak rapidlywhich is gained by your close attention, I may perhapsbe able, by citing under each branch of the subjecttwo or three examples, to indicate the lines of absoluteand relative newness upon which this interesting andvital theme might, with profit, be explored.Under the heading absolutely new demands uponthe ministry of today, I shall select and speak briefly356 UNIVERSITY RECORDof three matters that may wisely engage the attention of every young minister who is thoroughly devotedto his calling, whose highest desire is to serve God byserving well his fellowmen, and who therefore isanxious to know what shall be required of him by themost enlightened type of public sentiment in the timein which we live. I shall speak of Intellectual Fairness, Social Efficiency, Personal Fitness.I. Intellectual Fairness. It is possible that Ishall incur the risk of being at first misunderstoodin what I am about to say ; if so, I hope that theobvious sincerity and love of the spirit in which Ispeak, may dispel even momentary misunderstanding. Intellectual fairness has ever been, in the entirehistory of human thought a thing, to be prized and tobe sought after by the most enlightened minds, butthe recent movements of theological and criticalthought have created what is, in a sense, an alreadynew demand for this which is beginning to be realizedvery widely among the laity of the church. The firststages of such a period of active and progressive religious thought as that which is advancing in thiscountry are likely to be marked as they were markedby the asperities of controversy, conflict and mutualrecrimination. The leaders on the opposite sidesattack one another : the liberal speaks lightly of theintellectual strength of the conservative, the conservative loses no opportunity to disparage the spirituality of the liberal and to represent him as havingfallen away from the faith. For a time the masses ofthe laity, led by their natural leaders, take sides withspirited interest, and applaud the severity of speechin high places. Then surely comes the reaction proceeding from that wondrous, and, shall we not say,that divine sense of justice which lives perpetually inthe sober judgment and common sense of the publicmind. The voice of the people is, in a true sense,the voice of God — and the voice of the peoplewho make the strength of the Christian body isagainst the bitterness of religious controversyas intellectually unfair. If a man's convictions holdhim to the conservative positions in matters of criticism, it is not fair that his intellectual powers'should becalled in question by his brother on the other side ;and if a man's convictions hold him to the side whichencourages the tentative processes of critical investigation, it is not fair that his faith as a Christianshould be denied. The great public mind perceivesintuitively that these personal attacks are incidents, toooften lamentable incidents and unfair attacks, whichcannot and do not affect the continuity of spiritual faithand spiritual experience in that Holy Catholic Churchwhich is the Body of our Lord ; and the great public mind demands of the ministry of today that it shallwork for a larger, sweeter spirit, that it shall seek inChrist that high, substantial unity wherein minds thatsee differently because they are made differently, shallfully, nobly trust one another, and shall cooperate withone another in that wide and blessed territory of com^mon opinion and common faith wherein lies the essential truth.II. Social Efficiency. The social movement within the church during the last thirty years amountsalmost to a peaceful revolution. Tenderness towardhumanity has become the atmosphere of the church.A generation has now come to manhood and womanhood since the new social movement began — the firstgeneration, we may say, born and bred in the newatmosphere and knowing not the colder climate of anearlier time.This new generation is composed of the very flowerand pride of our civilization. Our noblest young men,our sweetest and strongest young women, aire init and of it. It is inspired with a divine passion tohelp mankind, to alleviate sufferings, to multiply joysin places too wonted to sorrow — to replace with somemeasure of beauty and wholesome ambition the awfulbarrenness and shabbiness of poverty. Our collegesand universities are steeped in this new social spirit—our most intellectual and wealthy and masterful circlesare animated by it. No demand upon the ministry oftoday is more distinctly made by society than the demand for cooperation in the new movement of appliedChristianity. The institutional church idea, usingthe term in the very largest sense, is the technicalphraseology to describe this great outpouring of thespirit of brotherhood which in these latter days hasmade the service of our Lord Jesus Christ a new andvivid reality for a generation, that with a Waninginterest in controversy, might also have loosened itsgrasp on faith but for this blessed baptism of freshopportunity. I would advise every young ministerwho hopes to be more than a nominal leader of hispeople, to study and master the methods of this modern movement, to breathe this atmosphere of sociallove, until it enters into the deepest recesses of hissoul, tempering the chill of scholasticism, and stirringwith the warm breath of life's tremendous realism thestrict and stately habits of ecclesiastical seclusion.III. Personal Fitness. With the deepest respectfor those to whom the sacerdotal theory of the minis^try is of vital importance, and who in furtherance ofthat theory would envelop the plain traits of the manin the mystical authority of the priest, I must expressmy conviction that the public eye is on the man morethan it is on the priest and that the public mind isUNIVERSITY RECORD 357there influenced by true manhood in the ministry thanby the mystic claim of clerical authority. I am wellaware that, as I speak, a movement toward sacerdotalism is proceeding in England with extraordinary intensity, and that that movement has many sympathizerson this side of the sea. Its sincercity and its devotionI do not question, whatever may be the measure of mydissent from its conclusions. Still less do I questionthat it shall, not endure — that it shall be checked andrestrained by a reaction of public opinion. For thegrowth of popular education and the independenceof judgment that companions with intelligence, tosay nothing of the prevalent secular distrust of religious institutions, may be relied upon to counteractsacerdotalism and to emphasize the demand that whosoever shall be a minister of religion shall first of allbe a manly man. The church is sometimes accused ofbeing overfastidious in choosing her ministers. Butthe church is simply true to her best intuitions in demanding high grades of personal fitness in those whoshall presume to lead a generation accustomed to submit itself voluntarily to lofty standards of strength,and gentleness and personal completeness.Of all men in the community the minister shouldreach toward the standard of the thorough gentleman.Even the care of his physical life should reveal thesweetness and thoroughness of a self -discipline thatregards the body as sacred. And as for his spirituallife, with its vital relation to his office as a teacher ofmen, nothing that I might say could so well describethe absolute necessity for spiritual fitness as do thesewonderful words spoken the other day in the Highlands of Scotland at the ordination of a young minister, by one of the most distinguished representativesof English non-conformity : *' We who are ministersknow the dreadful temptations of the ministerial office,how almost impossible it is to meet them unless onconditions of the mdst rigid discipline of the soul :how almost impossible it is to avoid regarding theBible as a dictionary of texts, how impossible to avoidlooking at the magnificent truths of Christianity asweapons with which to assail our, hearers. For oneminister who fails by reason of what the world callsimmorality, a dozen settle down into the perfunctorymonotony of professionalism because they fail to livealone with God, because solitude of soul is forgotten,communion with God is forgotten and ceases to be theatmosphere to which they habitually withdraw. Theriver that is to bring freshness to many a league ofplain* must have its rise in the solitary cleft of thelonely hills and draw its waters from the snows thatSparkle on their tops — and the minister, to be of power, must live alone with God. Character — that isthe thing that wins after all."But the speeding of my time admonishes me tohasten from these examples of what I think may bedescribed as in a sense absolutely new demands uponthe ministry of today ; and to speak, in the fewmoments remaining, of three relatively new demands— that is to say — three demands that have been urgently made upon the ministry in earlier ages, butwhich in the present state of society, receive from newconditions an added emphasis. I shall refer, briefly,to the following. (1) Accurate and Familiar Acquaintance with the English Bible. (2) A profound perception of the solemn and vital function of preaching.(3) Fidelity and Caution in leading younger lives.(1) Accurate and familiar acquaintance with theEnglish Bible. At certain points in this country thereare rising standards for the critical study of the HolyScriptures in the original tongues as lofty as any thatexist in the divinity courses of Europe. To lowerthose standards in the smallest degree in the interestof what may be called a practical working knowledgeof the Bible would be I think a very serious disaster,not to scholarship alone, but to the religious values oftruth. Nothing, I firmly believe, has under God, moredirectly advanced the present eager popular interestin biblical study, than the labors of critical scholarship. Instead of dethroning the Bible from its supremacy over the public mind, those labors have steadilycontributed to what has now become an unparalleledpopular interest in the word of God.But this popular lay interest chiefly converges onthe English Bible, and he who would gain the greatestinfluence in the ministry of today must possess anaccurate and familiar acquaintance with the Bible inthe common tongue, and the curriculum of everydivinity school ought amply to provide for this. Bythis I mean three things : a verbal knowledge, a working facility, a spiritual apprehension. The minister oftoday who would hold his own before this clear-eyed,well-read generation must have a verbal knowledge ofthe English Bible. He must know his Bible, so tosay, by heart. When he opens it, to study, to teach, orto preach, it must be, not with the fumbling, uncertaintouch of an explorer, but with the firm, familiar handof a skilled workman, who takes at will each well-known implement. He must have a working facilityfounded on that verbal knowledge — a training in theuse and application of what he knows ; he must haveswordsmanship to wield that sword of the Spirit — aworking facility developed through such processesof the mind and soul as are indicated in that great358 UNIVERSITY, RECORDcollect of the English Prayer Book for the second Sunday in Advent, " to read, mark, learn, and inwardlydigest the Holy Scriptures." And beneath the verbalknowledge, and beneath the working facility, he musthave a spiritual apprehension. To his own soul mustthence have appeared a theophany, a shining forth ofGod in his word. Then shall the minister of todaybe fit to meet and to feed the public hunger for thevery bread of the word.(2) A prof ound perception of the solemn and vitalfunction of preaching. If, as Professor Mahaffy declared a few years back, there is a "decay of modernpreaching," a statement which I do not here discuss,it is not because there is not a public demand forpreaching, but because the preaching offered has notmet the seriousness of the demand. It is utterly besidethe mark to affirm that the newspaper and the magazine have supplanted the sermon ; that the editor hascrowded out the preacher. That is impossible. Truepreaching is the natural supply of a natural demand.But all preaching is not true preaching, and thereforeit fails. It fails because the man is in some way incapacitating himself. He is not living close to God,or he is not really concerned for men, or he is not aspiritual student of his Bible, or he is vain of his ownopinions, or he is not thinking his way earnestlyinto the truths which, as an ambassador, it is hisbusiness to proclaim, or he has not a great enthusiasm for the Lord Jesus Christ. One of the mostserious and wise of Christian thinkers has latelyspoken on the Work of the Ministry: ''The ordinary minister," said Dr. Marcus Dods, at theTheological College of Bala, in Wales, "must notonly win men to Christ, but train them to knowhim better, and to understand his relation to theworld and to God. Unless he has himself thoughtout some theory of the incarnation, must he not fearlest he mislead his people _when he speaks of thatgreat fact ? Unless he knows why he himself believesin an atonement, must he not be apt to speak inconsistently and perplex his hearers? If he does notknow why the Scriptures are authoritative how is heto answer the sincere inquirer ? Unless he continuesto investigate for himself, is he likely to keep alivethe interest of his people in religious truth ? Thegreat want of our day, and perhaps of all days, is thewant of men with a clear knowledge of the relation ofChrist to our race and of the debt we owe him. Literary entertainments, essays served with a sauce ofreligion, which may be taken or left, neat machine-made sermons — all this kind of thing may be left tothe magazine writer who can do it so much better.The function of the pulpit is not to furnish entertain ment, but to preach Christ, to set him so before men'sminds that they cannot but believe, adore and serve.[But] to lift people to a higher atmosphere, you mustyourself live there ; to exhibit Christ, you must yourself have intimate personal knowledge of him."(3) Fidelity and caution in leading younger lives.Five weeks ago last Saturday a most melancholy accident occurred in the French Alps. An Englishman of great ability, an electrical engineer of thefirst distinction, traveling abroad with his familyundertook to conduct three of his children, a sonof twenty-three, and two daughters of nineteen andseventeen, to the summit of an ice-covered mountain.Confident in himself because of former experience inAlpine climbing, he refused a guide and set forth followed by the three younger lives. By noon an ominousrumor of disaster had come back to the town; by nightthe four bodies, roped together, had been found at thefoot of a precipice. Do I need to say to you what thissays to me ? A minister may gain a wonderful powerover younger lives : he may bind them to himself, aswith cords of love, until they follow where he leads.But in this age when there are so many high and perilous peaks of intellectual and spiritual difficulty to bescaled, God and public sentiment demand of the minister that he shall not lead those younger lives whichare bound to his own, save as he himself is led of theGuide, and is bound to the Guide. God and publicsentiment forbid that a minister shall use his pulpitand his pastoral opportunity to exploit the vagaries ofan over-confident intellect, to invite a following ofyounger minds in paths of spiritual and ethical adventure ; lest when he has preached to others he himselfshould be a castaway, and they whom he has boundto himself, should follow him in their helplessnessover the precipice. It is our duty to be leaders, andto be leaders of those younger than ourselves, andthe new age is quick to follow the great leaders, butthe first and last qualification for ministerial leadership is to be oneself the bond servant of Christ, andto plant one's footsteps in His own.The Convocation Orator.Rev. Henry van Dyke, who is to deliver the Convocation address in Studebaker Hall, Saturday evening,April 1, is one of the most noted Presbyterian ministers in America. He was born in Germantown, Pa.,in 1852, son of Rev. Henry Jackson van Dyke, himselfa celebrated Presbyterian leader, who was pastor ofthe First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn for morethan thirty years. The younger van Dyke graduatedfrom Princeton in 1873, and from the TheologicalUNIVERSITY RECORD 359Seminary four years later. After spending the year1877-8 at the University of Berlin, he became pastorof the United Congregational Church in Newport in1878. In 1882 he was called to the Brick PresbyterianChurch in New York City, of which he has been pastor ever since. He has been honored with the degreeof Doctor of Divinity both by his alma mater and byother leading American universities. He has been afrequent contributor to magazines and reviews, oneseries of articles treating of "Gospel History in Italian Painting." In 1884 he published "The Reality ofReligion," a volume which has been followed by anumber of others, notable among which are "TheGospel for an Age of Doubt," and " The Gospel for anAge of Sin." A careful student of the works of AlfredTennyson, his "The Poetry of Tennyson" standsprominent among his writings.As one of the best representatives of Princetonideals, his coming is hailed with great pleasure byPrinceton men in the West, who will be present at theConvocation in force. Dr. van Dyke will speak of"Democracy and Culture" at the Convocation, andwill also deliver the quarterly Convocation sermon inKent Theater on Sunday afternoon, April 2.The University Elementary School.group IV.[Continuation of work reported in the University Recobd,November 4, 1898, and January 13, 1899. Age of children, sevenand a half to eight years.]In history the group has continued the study of thePhoenicians, finding out how they could use the minesand forests of the Lebanon range to obtain by tradewith other peoples the necessities and luxuries of life.With the increase of trade they saw the necessity forsome method of keeping records, and from this needresulted the alphabet as an improvement on theearlier pictographic or ideographic writing. To makethe discovery concrete to the children, we named aPhoenician boy who was taken by his father on anextended trading trip. This bright boy watched hisfather attempt to record the orders for future delivery,which he took from various merchants, in the picturewriting, and resolved to abbreviate the method. Theresult of his efforts was the alphabet, which was introduced by the Phoenician traders into Greece, andhas come down to us in a modified form.The city of Sidon, which we called the first of thePhoenician cities, was now regarded as prospering, sothat it was possible for a merchant to remove, withhis band of workmen, to a new site, and found Tyre. This new city was founded partly on an island, andpartly on the mainland, and this situation was so represented on the relief map made of plaster of parisand clay in a galvanized iron pan. The Mediterraneanand adjacent seas are represented by real water, onwhich the Phoenician ship sails to various ports.The discovery of the means of making a purple dyefrom shell fish led to Tyre's rapidly surpassing Sidonin growth and power.Pictures of the shell fish from which the dye wasobtained were shown, and the process, so far as known,of making the celebrated Tyrian purple was explained. Purple cashmere was cut in strips, measured in cubits, spans, and palms, done up in packages,and marked, to be carried in the Phoenician boat tothe countries about the Mediterranean and exchangedfor gold, wheat, tin, copper, wool, or other products.In these voyages a sail was ready for use when thewind was favorable, but we depended most on ouroars, rowed by trained men, each man working a single oar. As we had no compass, in our first voyageswe kept within sight of the shore, and always anchored at night. In later voyages we had learned themovements of the stars, and were guided by the constellation of the Great Bear until a learned astrologistof Carthage discovered the immovable North Pole star.The government of the Phoenician cities gave ussome trouble, as the powerful merchants insisted onhaving a voice in the conduct of affairs. We finallysettled on a king over all cities, who resided at Tyre,and was represented in other cities by two judges, whowere elected.On a voyage to Egypt the Sphinx, pyramids, andespecially the temple of Karnak aroused great admiration ; but the art of manufacturing glass was seizedupon as of practical value, and Sidon, because of itsabundance of fine sand, soon rivaled Egypt in the fineness and beauty of its glass, colored by metal oxides.Rameses II was studied as a type of Egyptian Pharaoh, and the descriptions of Egyptian life were centered about his reign.The Phoenicians were related to the history of Palestine by the friendship of King Hiram for David andhis contributions to Solomon's temple. From Davidwe worked backward to Abraham, the children tellingthe group of stories that cluster about the Hebrews,from the wanderings of Abraham to the final settlingin the land of Canaan and prosperity of the time ofSolomon. This history gave an opportunity to contrast the religion of Phoenicia and Egypt with that ofthe Hebrews, and to bring out the monotheistic andspiritualistic character of their religion which we haveinherited.360 UNIVERSITY RECORDIn order to facilitate trade, as well as to relieve thetoo great population of Phoenicia, we established colonies, the first one at Cyprus, where we found anabundance of copper, and named, on that account," Copper Island." Later we established some coloniesin Asia Minor, in the delta of the Nile ; at Cadiz, inSpain (where most of our tin came from), and lastly,Carthage. But now, in spite of the barriers to ourcountry, we were assailed by kings, jealous of our prosperity or envious of our wealth, and were compelledto pay tribute to Egypt, to stand a siege of Hve yearsby Sargon, and, although with twelve ships we overcame his fleet of sixty, and dug wells in the rock toobtain the fresh water from which his destruction ofour aqueduct had deprived us, we were at last forcedto yield and pay tribute. Nebuchadnezzar's army besieged our city of Tyre for thirteen years. ManyPhoenician sailors were captured and forced to usetheir skill in a foreign land. But while Tyre andSidon were thus hampered, Carthage began to taketheir place as the traders of the sea, and to even excelthem in extent of territory held and power.The science work of the group has been an introduction to physiography. They have discussed themoon as a measurer of time, and have watched it nightby night to discover the different phases and thetime of a complete change. They have discussed thecauses of climate, and the climate of the differentzones, illustrating the climate of each zone by theplants and animals found there. To understandhow heat affects climate, they investigated, with theaid of a taper the currents of air in the room: thecold current from the windows sinking to the floor,and the warm air from the register rising to theceiling. From this they were led to see the effect ofthe heat of the sun's rays in the equatorial zone inproducing the trade winds. They first described thedirection of the winds if the earth were standing still,then the direction because of its revolutions. With athermometer they found the temperature of waterand of sand in the room. They then heated the waterand sand over the same gas flame and noted thatwhile the water soon had the same temperature nearthe source of heat and at the surface, there was agreat difference in the sand, that at the bottom becoming very hot and that at the top showing only aslight change. From this experiment they drew inferences of the difference in amount of heat absorbedby land and by water, and the ease with which eachwould give up its heat, and the resulting effect onclimate.In constructive work in science they have measuredsheet copper and cut out pieces which are being ham mered into small trays or bowls. When the copperbecame brittle, it was put in the furnace until thoroughly heated, then in water to make it plastic. Theoxide formed in the process of heating was noted.The work in cooking has been a continuation ofstudy of cereals. Rice has been discussed from themethod of raising it, and the preparations of flakedrice and rice flour from the whole rice to the rules forcooking. The children weighed whole rice and foundby experiment the amount of water needed to thoroughly cook. They compared the bulk of wholerice and flaked rice, and estimated by weight theamount of water needed to cook thoroughly. Wheatwas studied in the same way, the children learning what makes the difference between wholewheat, rolled wheat, and wheat and Graham flour.In judging of the time required to cook a cereal, theamount of starch contained is noted, and whether thisis exposed at once to the action of water or is affectedthrough a coating of cellulose. In weighing and calculating quantities of cereal and water to be used considerable knowledge of numbers is obtained. To enable them to add numbers readily games are played inwhich they are required to add by fives, fours, threes,or sevens. The demand of the children for the use ofnumbers only in real relations was shown by their distaste of a problem in "mental arithmetic" which wasgiven them, of an imaginary dog which ran a certaindistance in a definite time ; from which facts theywere to tell the total distance run in a given numberof minutes. They frankly told the teacher that theythought the problem was foolish, and they hoped shewould not give them any more of that kind.In sewing they have begun to make the curtains,sheets, and pillow-cases for a bed which is to be oneof the articles of furniture in a miniature colonialroom. The bedding is made of linen, and the hemming will be the first fine sewing these children havedone. They have measured, cut, and sewed smallbags, which have been filled with rice and wheat, tobe used as merchandise by Phoenician traders.In the shop they are at work upon the colonial bedstead, and have made penracks for home use. Thepenrack serves to teach the first principles ofcarving.In art work they have begun the construction of amodel of the temple of Karnak. The foundation is ofwood, on which the plan was drawn. The columnsare being molded in clay.In drawing they have illustrated scenes fromHiawatha, using colored chalk. One of these scenesshowed Hiawatha breaking rocks ; another the Indianvillage surrounded by meadows and cornfields, withUNIVERSITY RECORD 361the forest in the background. They have also attempted to sketch some tulips placed before them.Their work in music has been continued in themethod already described — the learning of the noteson the keyboard and their places on the staff, thelearning of songs, and the making of a group song.In the gymnasium they have learned the militarysalute and orders for marching in various forms.Twice a week a reading lesson is given. In connection with their history, cooking, and science, wordsor sentences are written for them. Once a week theydictate a report of the work of the group in all departments for the school paper. This report is printedby some older members of the school on the printingpress, and read on Tuesdays by a member of thegroup.Programme of the Twenty-Eighth Convocation,Spring 1899. April 4, Tuesday.4:00 P.M.April i, Saturday.8 : 30 a.m. The Graduate Matutinal.The Quadrangle Club.8 : 30 A.M.-ia: 00 m. Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Students. (All University instructors offeringcourses in the Spring Quarter may be metat the consultation hours announced.)12 : 00 m. Division meetings of the Senior and Junior Colleges. Attendance required.Cobb Lecture Hall.3:00 P.M. Meeting of Candidates for Degrees with theExecutive officers.Cobb Lecture Hall— Chanel.2:00 p.M.~4:oo p.m. Matriculation and Registration of IncomingStudents. Cobb Lecture Hall.8 : 00 p.m. The Twenty-Eighth University Convocation.The Procession.The Convocation Address : " Democracy andCulture," The Reverend Henry van Dyke,New York City.The Conferring of Degrees.The President's Quarterly Statement.The Fine Arts Building (203 Michigan av.).April 2, Sunday. — Convocation Sunday.8 : 30 a.m. Bible Classes. Haskell Oriental Museum.4 : 00 p.m. The Convocation Vesper Service.The Convocation Sermon. The ReverendHenry van Dyke.The Quarterly Report of the Christian Union.Kent Theater.8 : 00 p.m. Union meeting of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation and the Young Women's ChristianAssociation.Haskell Oriental Museum — Association Hall.April 3, Monday.8 : 30 a.m. Lectures and Recitations of the Spring Quarterbegin.10:30 A.M. Junior College Assembly. Attendance of members of the Junior Colleges required.Cobb Lecture Hall — Chapel.3:30 P.M. The Eleventh Meeting of the University Congregation.The Procession.The Admission of New Members.The Review of Actions of Governing Bodies.The Discussion of Special Topics.The Election of Vice President.Haskell Oriental Museum — Congregation Hall.7 : 00 p.m. The Congregation Dinner.The Quadrangle Club. Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa. Trustees, members of the Faculties and Graduate Studentswho are members of the society are invited toattend.Haskell Oriental Museum — Faculty Room.Official Notices.Junior College Scholarship in Mathematics. —A scholarship, covering one year's tuition, is awardedeach year to the student who receives the nominationof the Mathematical Department for the excellence ofhis work in Mathematics during the two years of theJunior College course. All who received the JuniorCollege Certificate between July 1, 1898, and July 1,1899, may become candidates for the scholarship. Thescholarship is awarded on the basis, 1) of the classstanding, and 2) of a special examination, to be givenin 1899 on Saturday, May 20, at 8: 30 a.m. in Cobb, D 2.The subjects upon which the examination is set are,1) College Algebra ; 2) Plane Trigonometry ; 3) Analytical Geometry.The Final Examination of Aaron Louis Treadwellfor the degree of Ph.D. was held Thursday, March 23,at 10:00 a.m. in the Zoology Laboratory. Principalsubject, Zoology; secondary subject, Neurology.Thesis : " The Cytogeny of Podarke." Committee :Professors Whitman and Donaldson, Associate Professor Stratton, and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Wesley Walker Normanfor the degree of Ph.D. was held Thursday, March 23,at 2: 00 p.m. in Physiology Laboratory. Principal subject, Physiology ; secondary subject, Zoology. Thesis :" The Reaction of Lower Animals upon Injuries andthe Theory of Pain Sensations." Committee : Associate Professor Loeb, and Professors Barnes andWhitman, and all other members of the departmentsimmediately concerned.The following persons were elected to represent thestudent body on the Administrative Board of Athletics:For the Divinity School, Fred Merrifield.For the Graduate Schools, F. H. H. Calhoun.For the Senior Colleges, Leroy I. Vernon.Lectures by M. Edouard Rod.Monsieur Edouard Rod, of Paris, France, who hasbeen giving lectures at Harvard and other AmericanUniversities, under the auspices of the " Cercle Fran-gais," will lecture under the auspices of the University of Chicago as follows :362 UNIVERSITY RECORDApril 24, Monday, 4:00 p.m., in the Lecture Hall ofthe College for Teachers, Fine Arts Building, 203Michigan Av. Subject, " Shakspere en France."April 25, Tuesday, same time and place. Subject," Cyrano de Bergerac."April 26, Wednesday, 10:30 a.m., at the UniversitySubject, "Les Caracteres Principaux du RomanFrangais."On Tuesday evening, April 25, a reception, underthe auspices of 'the " Club Frangais," will be given atthe residence, 4546 Oakenwald Avenue.Phi Beta Kappa.The attention of all members of the Phi Beta KappaSociety in the University is called to a meeting whichhas been arranged for Tuesday, April 4, 1899, at 4:00p.m., when the University of Chicago Chapter will beformally organized. All members of the Society amongthe Trustees, the Faculties, and the Graduate Students,are cordially invited to be present on this occasion.Calendar.march 24— april 4, 7899.Friday, March 24,Quarterly Examinations.Saturday, March 25,to Friday March 31,Quarterly Recess.Saturday, April 1.Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Studentsis^made with the Deans, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 m. and 2:00p.m.-4:00 P.M.Material for the UNIVERSITY RECORD mustorder to be published in the issue of the same week. Division Meetings of the Senior and Junior Collegesare held in Cobb Lecture Hall, 12:00 m. Attendance required.The Twenty-eighth University Convocation is held atthe Fine Arts Building, 8: 00 p.m. (see p. 361).Sunday, April 2.The Convocation Vesper Service is held in KentTheater, 4:00 p.m. (see p. 361).Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Assembly Hall, Hf gkell Museum, 8: 00 p.m.Monday, April 3.Lectures and Recitations of the Spring Quarter beginat 8:30 a.m.Chapel- Assembly : Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior College Students)The University Congregation meets in CongregationHall, Haskell Museum, 3:30 p.m.The Congregation Dinner is given in the QuadrangleClub, 7:00 p.m.Tuesday, April 4.Chapel- Assembly : Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior College Students).Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa is held in the FacultyRoom, Haskell Museum, 4:00 p.m.Lectures by Mr. John Vance Cheney on " The Realmof Music" in the Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall,4: 00 p.m.sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., in