Price $MX>per Year Cbe Wniversttg of ChicagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Copies5 Centssity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGO®be University of Cbicago pteesVOL IV, NO. 9. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. JUNE 2, 1899.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class mattes.- II.III.IV. CONTENTS.Preliminary Programme of the Spring Finals andthe Twenty-ninth Convocation, Summer 57The University Elementary School .... 58-59Official Notices - 59-60The Calendar 60Preliminary Programme of the Spring Finals and theTwenty-ninth Convocation, Summer.June 9, Friday.10: 00 A.M.2: 00 P.M.4:00 P.M.8: 00 p.m.q: 30 p.m.June ii, Sunday.10: 30 a.m.June 16, Friday.8:00 p.m. THE FINALS.Junior College Day.Track Athletics.^ Marshall FieldDramatic Exercises and Readings. Kent TheaterIvy Exercises. Haskell Oriental MuseumGraduate and Divinity Finals, for the Joseph LeiterPrize. Debate: "Resolved, that an InternationalAgreement for the Cessation of Further Military andNaval Armaments is Practicable and Desirable."Kent TheaterJunior College Promenade. Chicago Beach HotelAcademic Sunday.Second Annual Meeting of the Officers and Students ofthe Affiliated Schools of the University.Kent TheaterSenior College Finals, in Public Speaking, for theUniversity Prize. Judges : the Members of the SeniorCollege Faculty. Kent TheaterJune 18, Sunday. Baccalaureate Sunday.3 : 30 p.m. Baccalaureate Prayer Service. Members of the Faculties and Candidates for Degrees are invited to attend.Haskell Oriental Museum — Congregation Hall4:00 P.M. Baccalaureate Service. Baccalaureate Address, thePresident of the University. Kent TheaterJune 19, Monday.8 : 00-n : 00 p.m. Reception to the Graduating Students.The Presidents HouseJune 21-23, Tuesday-Thursday.Quarterly Examinations of the Spring Quarter. THE CONVOCATION WEEK.June 30, Friday. Alumni Day.9 : 00 A.M.-4 : 00 p.m. Matriculation and Registration of IncomingStudents.12: 30 p.m. Alumni Luncheon. Haskell Oriental Museum1 : 30 p.m. Hour for Closing of Polls for Election of Alumni Representatives in Senate, Council, and Congregation.2 : 00 p.m. Annual Business Meeting of the Alumni.Kent Theater2:00-5: 00 p.m. The Fifteenth Meeting of the University Congregation.Haskell Oriental Museum — Congregation Hall3 : 30 p.m. Alumni Baseball Game. Marshall Field5 : 30 p.m. Band Concert. The Graduate Quadrangle6 : 30 p.m. Annual Banquet of the Alumni,The Quadrangle Club9: 30 p.m. Alumni Sing and Promenade.The Woman's QuadrangleJuly i, Saturday, Founder's Day.8: 30 a.m. The Graduate Matutinal. The President's House8: 30 A.M.-12 : 30 p.m. Matriculation and Registration of IncomingStudents.10:30 A.M. Meetings of the College Divisions — Attendance Required. Cobb Hall2 : 00 p.m. Meeting of Candidates for Degrees with ExecutiveOfficers. Cobb Lecture Hall — Chapel3 : 00 p.m. The Twenty-ninth University Convocation. The Procession. The Founder's Day Address : PresidentJames B. Angell, of the University of Michigan. TheConferring of Degrees. The President's QuarterlyStatement. The Graduate QuadrangleJuly 2. Sunday. Convocation Sunday.8: 30 a.m. Bible Classes. Haskell Oriental Museum4:00 P.M. The Convocation Vesper Services. Convocation Sermon: The Reverend Professor George Adam Smith.The Quarterly Report of the Secretary of the ChristianUnion. The Graduate Quadrangle7 : 00 p.m. Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.Haskell Oriental Museum — Assembly RoomJuly 3, Monday.7 : 30 a.m. Lectures and Recitations of the Summer Quarter begin.July 4, Tuesday. A holiday.10:30A.M. Patriotic Service. The Graduate Quadrangle4:00 P.M. Concert: The University of Chicago Military Band.5 : 00-7 : 00 p.m. University Reception to Incoming Students.The Woman's Quadrangle58 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe University Elementary School.group IV.[Continuation of work reported in the University Record,November 4, 1898, January 13, and March 24, 1899. Average ageof children seven and a half to eight years.]The history of the Phoenicians has been continueddown to the time of the destruction of Tyre by Alexander the Great. The history part was told in theform of simple stories which the children reproducedin part by stories and in part by acting out in plays.In the plays the relief map, boat and merchandisewhich had been prepared were used, and the only condition of leadership in a play was ability to suggest aplan which would include all members of the class.When the plan was proposed several volunteered.The decision by vote as to who should manage thefirst expedition took some time, as only two membersof the class would vote for any candidate put up, notbecause they had any objection to the candidate, but,as one explained, because " they wanted to vote forthemselves." After three attempts to decide byacclamation with the same result, they were shown thata deadlock existed, and no one could play unless someof those withholding their votes could be induced toact. The more generous members of the class finallyprevailed upon the more selfish, especially when thelatter saw that all would have a chance in time, andthe leaders were elected.The first plan proposed was " to found that cityback of Gibraltar" (probably because it involved thelongest possible sail). Some members of the classwere called upon to help load the boat with provisionsand merchandise, others to take their places on Crete(where the leader had decided to have a wreck), sothat they might act as rescuers ; others were to benatives in Spain, from whom the leader was to findout the amount of tin and other metals in the countrywhich would make it worth while to found a colonythere.As the Phoenicians were attacked from time to timeby Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, and Greeks, underAlexander the Great, we found on the map whereeach came from and how large a territory was held,and from pictures saw the dress, occupations, anddegree of culture attained as shown in elaborateness of palaces and temples, weapons, ornaments,etc. In connection with the long sieges of Tyre wediscussed the weapons of warfare, the division ofthe army into slingers, bowmen, horsemen, etc.; useof rams, causes of war at this time, disposition of prisoners, etc.In the study of the Phoenicians, the ideas which have been kept before the children in the selection ofmaterial have been the gradual adoption and adaptation of the knowledge of other peoples ; the fact thatan environment, apparently unfavorable for progress.may force a people to discover new ways of providingthe necessities of life, and bring about greater development ; the first principles of colonization ; thedifference between monarchical and democratic government — the latter depending upon the fact that thePhoenician merchants were powerful, hence must beconsulted in governmental affairs ; and, lastly, thegeography of the Mediterranean Sea with a generalidea of the continents of which the bordering landsare a part.As a contrast to the history of the Phoenicians,whose power was due to their contact with other peoples, we took up the Chinese to see what an isolatedpeople could accomplish.With geographies before them the children measured roughly with the map scale the distance fromthe Mediterranean to China, and tried to decidewhat route by land and by sea could be taken, time,and means of travel. Had the people of China comefrom any part of Central Asia, we found that it musthave taken a long time to reach the land where theyfinally settled. We imagined that they lived in tentsduring this time, and stopped in the spring to raisecrops. In looking at pictures of Chinese houses, wefound a resemblance in the roof to a ridge-pole tent,and thought they might have copied in clay and woodthe form of shelter they had used so long. We studiedtypical homes of the poor and the rich as to form ofhouse, furniture, etc., and what materials the landafforded, and how they were used.Reviews were made from time to time, some onechild personating a Chinese boy or girl, and telling tothe rest what he did in China, how he dressed, whathe ate, how his grandfather lived, etc.Twice a week they read descriptions or stories basedon the history lessons. Once or twice a week theyspend a half hour in writing.In science they had used the thermometer in findingthe temperature of water and sand in working out thecauses of climate. They were next given the materials for making thermometers in order to work outits principles. These were finished and mounted onbacks made in the shop.Then they gathered together what they had learnedabout the effect of heat upon different substances, thechange from a solid to a liquid and to a gaseous stateof the things they had worked with ; water as an example of the three ; mercury and alcohol as an example of the last two stages. They then went back toUNIVERSITY RECORD 59the story they had in the autumn of the way the earthwas formed, and made a list of all the things theyknew that would burn with great heat, and of thethings that would simply melt. As they gave thenames they were written on the board, then reducedto general headings, as metals, rocks, gases, and livingthings. This was one of their first attempts at generalizing from many data. From the result they discussed what conditions were necessary for the appearance of living things on the earth, and deduced earth,water, and air.In this review it was discovered that only two ofthe children had actually worked with metals, as theyhad not been in the school the year before when leadhad been melted and molded. They were, therefore,set to work to mold weights. This involved themaking of sand molds and the estimation of how muchof a lead pipe must be melted in order to make definite weight, e. g., they found the lead pipe to bemelted and made into weights weighed four poundsand measured two feet. They estimated the length ininches that must be cut off to*get when melted a one-poUnd weight.Other work in science has been the planting of seedsin their garden plot and care of the growing plants.The seeds for the garden beds of the different groupswere selected to represent as many different familiesof plants as possible. The children learned when toplant, how to j)lant, and how to weed. They havelearned that weeds accustomed to grow in coarse soilare hardier than cultivated plants ; hence, if allowedto grow, would crowd them out. Radishes from theirown plot have been eaten at the class dinner.Beside the number work which is used in history,cooking, or science, as a necessity for doing somethingelse, one period each week is spent in number gamesor drill.En textile industries this group has worked out, inthe same way as Group III, reported last week, thecleaning, carding, and spinning of wool with theimprovements gradually introduced.In cooking, most of the time has been spent on astudy of various cereals. The work consists of learning how to cook each cereal, amount of water, timerequired, etc., and in comparing cereals, e. g., thecereals made from wheat or oats with those made fromcorn. Under corn they have compared and cookedflaked corn, corn meal (yellow and white) wholehominy and cracked hominy.In cooking different cereals the children have toestimate the amount of water needed. This is doneby finding out how much heavier the cereal to becooked is than the cereal used as a standard, which required its bulk in water. Thus one cup of wholehominy is found to be seven times as heavy as a cupof flaked corn, which requires one cup of water tocook. The children are required to multiply theamount of hominy they are to cook by seven to findout how much water to cook it in.In art work a good deal of sketching has been doneout of doors. The school building and the street havebeen drawn to show mass and perspective. In-doorsthey have sketched lotus pods in charcoal, and workedupon the model of the temple of Karnac begun in thespring.Much of their shop work is done in connection withwork in history, science, or art. From time to timethey are given small articles, such as pen-racks, windmills, or easels for photographs, to learn principles ofcarpentry not illustrated in other work.In music and in the gymnasium work has beencarried on as usual ; in music the learning of songsand recognition of notes by ear, and by name ; in thegymnasium, drill in marching and in working togetheras in games of ball.Official Notices.The following courses are offered during the SummerQuarter by Assistant Professor Mead :IA. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY.New Courses.15A. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. — Mahaffy andBernard's edition with Muller's translation andAdicke's text. Special attention will be givento the clear statement of the main problems ofthe critique in their historical relations, and totheir illustration from other writings of Kant.Exposition will be accompanied by criticism.M. First Term, Summer Quarter, '99 ; 8: 30.Assistant Professor Mead.15B. Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. — The treatmenton the technical side will follow Windelband'sHistory of Philosophy. Especial attentionwill be given to the relation of the philosophicaldoctrines of these thinkers to their social, political and religious ideas.M, Second Term, Summer Quarter, '99 ; 8:30.Assistant Professor Mead.42A. The History of Psychology. — The psychologicaltheories of Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, andthe Stoics will be studied in their relation toearlier Greek thought, and their own theoriesof knowledge. Following upon this the implicitpsychology of the medieval philosophers will bestated leading up to the epistemological problem as it appeared in Descartes and his immediate followers. The attitude of the Englishthinkers and those upon the continent will becompared from the standpoint of their psychological implications.Mj. Summer Quarter, '99 ; 9: 30.Assistant Professor Mead.60 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Graduate Faculty of Arts and Literature at itsmeeting of May 27, 1899, accepted the following personsas candidates for the degree named :For the Degree of Master of Arts :Alta A. Harmon,Joanna Baker,Eugene M. Violette.For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy :Warren Stone Gordis,Charles J. Bushnell,Helen Bradford Thompson.Professor Motjlton's Recitals. — It has been foundnecessary again to change the dates of these Recitalsin order to avoid clashing with other University events.The concluding Recitals will be given on Thursdays(instead of Fridays), June 8 and 15.The Final Examination of Hester Donaldson Jenkins for the degree of Ph.M., was held on Wednesday,May 31, 1899 at 3:00 p.m. in Cobb Lecture Hall, D 3.Subject : English. Thesis : " Sentimentality in English Poetry 1740-1760. Committee: Associate Professors MacClintock and Blackburn, Dr. Pietsch, andall other members of the Department.Calendar.JUNE 2-10, 1899.Friday, June 2.Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbHall. 10:30 a.m.Division Lecture before Division VI of the JuniorColleges by the President, President's Office, Haskell, 10:30 a.m.Physics Club meets in Ryerson Physical Laboratory,Room 32, 4:00 p.m.Papers : " Index of Refraction of Gases," by H. G. Gale ;" Diffraction Gratings," by Associate Professor Stratton.Saturday, June 3.Meetings of Faculties and Boards :The Administrative Board of Physical Culture andAthletics, 8:30 a.m.The Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.The University Senate, 11:30 a.m.Sunday, June 4.Student Conferences on Religion, Kent Theater,4: 00 p.m.Subject: Personal Christianity."What it is to be a Christian," by Professor Mathews;"How may a man become a Christian," by ProfessorBurton.Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Association Room, Haskell, 7:00 p.m.Subject: "Work as an Aid to the individual ChristianLife."Material for the UNIVERSITY BECOKD mustorder to be published in the issue of the same week. Monday, June 5.Chapel-Assembly : Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior College Stu~dents).Final Examination of H. M. Shouse for the degree ofD.B. in Room 15, Haskell, 4: 00 p.m. (see p. 56).Germanic Club meets in German Library, Cobb Hall,4:00 p.m.Papers: Mr. Meyer, "Don Juan;" Mr. Jonas, "Report onEuphorion, 4, Erganzungheft."Tuesday, June 6.Chapel- Assembly : Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior College Students).Division Lectures before the Junior Colleges in KentTheater, 10:30 a.m.Sociology Club meets in Lecture Room, Cobb Hall,8:00 p.m.Assistant Professor W. M. Wheeler will read on : " Heredityand the Problem of the Transmission of Acquired Character." All are invited.Wednesday, June 7.Division Lectures before the Senior Colleges, 10: 30 a.m.By Professor Judson before Divisions II-VI in the Chapel,Cobb Hall.Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. in Association Room, Haskell, 7:00 p.m.Mr. L. A. Bowman, a secretary of the Y. M. C. A. movement, will speak.Thursday, June 8.Chapel- Assembly : Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m.Interpretative Recitals of Greek Tragedies in English,by Professor R. G. Moulton, Chapel, Cobb Hall, at4: 00 p.m.The Bacchanals of Euripides.Friday, June 9.Junior College Day : All Junior College exercisesare suspended (see p. 57).Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m.Graduate and Divinity Finals in Debate for theJoseph Letter Prize in Kent Theater, 8: 00 (see p. 57).Mathematical Club meets in Room 36, Ryerson Physical Laboratory, 4:00 p.m.Dr. Hancock reads a paper : " Theorems in the theory ofmodular systems."Note: "Concerning the cartographic investigations ofLagrange," by Miss Lake.Saturday, June 10.Meetings of Faculties and Boards :The Administrative Board of University Affiliations,8:30 a.m.The Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.The University Council, 11:30 a.m.sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., in