Price $1.00Per Year €he mnivereitg of Cbicaa©FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Copies5 CentsPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGO®he UlnivetBit^ of Cbicago pteesVOL IV, NO. 10. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. JUNE 95 1899=i.ii.in.IV. Entered in the post office Chicag-o, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS. quarterly examinations.Current Events J51 The Examinations at the close of the Spring Quar-?i?eCuiive°rXSElementlry School - - - I 62-63 ter will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri-Tho Calendar 64 day, June 21, 22, and 23. Examinations for morning-_-_—— classes will be held on three successive mornings;for afternoon classes on three successive afternoons,Current Events. as follows :An address on " The Real and the Ideal in Hinduism " was given by Rev. G. N. Thomssen of Kurnool,India, in Congregation Hall, Haskell on Wednesday,May 31, 1899 at 4: 00 p.m.The exercises in connection with the formal openingof East Hall at the Morgan Park Academy were heldFriday afternoon, June 2, 1899. A special train leavingChicago at 2: 09 p.m. conveyed the invited guests.The address was given by Professor R. G. Moulton. 8 30 Exerciser, Wedn., June 21, 8:30-11:30 a.m.9 30 it Thurs. 22, 8:30-11:30 a.m.11 00 ii Fri. 23, 8:30-11:30 a.m.12 00 ii Wedn. 21, 2:00- 5:00 p.m.2 00 ii Thurs. 22, 2:00- 5:00 p.m.3 00 u Fri. 23, 2:00- 5:00 p.mThe orator on the occasion of the inauguration ofthe Beta chapter of Illinois of the Phi Beta Kappawill be President Cyrus Northrop, of the University ofMinnesota.The subject of the Convocation address of President Angeli, of the University of Michigan, at theforthcoming University Convocation of July 1 will be" The Old College and the New University." FINAL EXAMINATIONS.The Final Examination of Eva Comstock Durbinfor the degree of Ph.M., will be held in Room 7 C,Cobb Lecture Hall, Saturday, June 10, at 9:00 a.m.Principal subject, History ; secondary subject, Political Science. Thesis : " The Alsatian Question in theFrench Revolution." Committee : Professors Terryand Judson, Assistant Professor Hill and all othermembers of the departments immediately concerned.Official Notices.entrance examinations.The Summer Examinations for admission to theJunior Colleges will be held in Cobb Hall, Friday,Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, June 16, 17, 19,and 20. The Dean of Affiliations will furnish particular information on application. The Final Examination of John Anthony Millerfor the degree of Ph.D. will be held, June 10, in Room38, Ry ex-son Physical Laboratory, at 2: 30 p.m. Principal subject, Mathematics; secondary subject,Astronomy. Thesis : " Concerning Certain EllipticModular Functions of the Ninth Stage." Committee :Professors E. H. Moore and G. E. Hale, AssociateProfessor S. W. Stratton and all other members of thedepartments immediately concerned.62 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Final Examination of Henry Gordon Galefor the degree of Ph.D., will be held June 12, in Room20, Ryerson Physical Laboratory, at 11:00 a.m. Principal subject : Physics ; secondary subject, Mathematics. Thesis : " On the Relation between Densityand Index of Refraction in Gases." Committee : Associate Professor S. W. Stratton, Professor E. H. Moore,Dr. F. R. Moulton, and all other members of the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of George Elston Burlin-game for the degree of D.B. will be held Monday,June 12, at 4:00 p.m., in Room 15, Haskell. Principalsubject, Church History ; secondary subject, Sociology.Thesis : " Sacerdotal Celibacy : Its Origin and EarlyDevelopment." Committee : Professors Hulbert,Johnson, Moncrief, Henderson, and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Gerald McCarthy forthe degree of S.M., will be held, June 12, in Room 40Zoological Laboratory; at 3:00 p.m. Principal subject,Bacteriology ; secondary subject, Botany. Thesis :" A Bacteriological Examination of the Chicago PublicWater Supply." Committee: Assistant ProfessorJordan, Professor Coulter, Assistant Professor Leng-feld, and all other members of the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Arthur Maxson Smithfor the degree of A.M., will be held Thursday, June 15,at 9:30 a.m., in Room 25, Haskell. Principal subject,Systematic Theology ; secondary subject, Philosophy.Thesis: "The Origin of American Unitarianism."Committee : Professors Northr up, Foster, Tufts, Price,and all other instructors in the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of John M. P. Smith for thedegree of Ph.D. will be held Friday, June lb", at 9:30a.m., in Room 21, Haskell. Principal subject, OldTestament ; secondary subject, Assyrian. Thesis :" A Historical Study of the Day of Yahweh." Committee : Professors W. R. Harper and G. B. Foster,Associate Professors R. F. Harper and Price, and allother instructors in the departments immediatelyconcerned.The Final Examination of Bertha Imogene Bishopfor the degree of Ph.M., will be held June 16, in Room14 C, Cobb Hall at 2:00 p.m. Principal subject,Romance ; secondary subject, English. Thesis :" Moods arid Tenses in Aucassin et Nicolette." Com mittee : Dr. De Poyen-Bellisle, Associate ProfessorMacClintock, Professor Chandler and all other members of the departments immediately concerned.The Final Examination of Fred Allison Howe forthe degree of Ph.M. will be held June 16, in Room 5 D,Cobb Hall, at 4:00 p.m. Principal subject, English;secondary subject, Philosophy. Thesis: " Wordsworth'sTheories of Education." Committee : Associate Professor MacClintock, Professor R. G. Moulton, AssistantProfessor Mead, Associate Professor Thurber, Dr. A.W. Moore and all other members of the departmentsimmediately concerned.academic Sunday.On Sunday morning, June 11, the faculty and students of the six affiliated schools nearest the Universitywill make their second annual visit to the quadrangles.There will be appropriate exercises in Kent Theaterat half -past ten, when brief addresses on the generaltheme "Moral Heroism" will be delivered by thePresident, Professors Small and Henderson and Associate Professor MacClintock.Official copies of the University Record for 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.The University Elementary School.group v.[Continuation of work reported in the University Record,January 20 and April 7, 1899. Average age of children nineyears,]In United States history the study of Virginia hasbeen continued to the time of the French and Indianwar and the Albany Convention called to arrange aplan of Union by the colonies. In the former reportthe period usually known as "The Struggle forExistence" had been covered. From this point wetook up the causes which led to the prosperity andpolitical development of the colony. We noted thevarious industries tried by the people of Virginia —the making of wine, silk, and wheat raising — butfoimd that the demand for tobacco and the ease withwhich it could be raised soon made it the main sourceof wealth. We took up the attempts in England toUNIVERSITY RECORD 63tax tobacco, the methods of resistance by the colony,trouble with the Indians, and the causes which led toBacon's rebellion. The children were interested indiscovering that the causes of this rebellion were thesame as those which a hundred years later led to theRevolution.They were told, briefly, of the opposition in Englandto Charles I, of the establishment of the Commonwealth and its effect on the colonies. They realizedthat the sympathy of Virginians with the royalistparty would make that colony the one sought bycavaliers who felt uncomfortable in England. Wespeculated a little upon the statement made thatCharles II was invited to come to Virginia, and whatmight have been the history of America had heaccepted.Governor Spotswood's rule was studied because ofhis influence in introducing the iron industry and hisexj)loration over the Blue Ridge. In this connectionthe children read The Knights of the Golden Horseshoes, by Cooke.The children were told of Lord Baltimore's visit toVirginia, and that he was not permitted to stay because he refused to take the oath of supremacy, sincehe was a Catholic. We discussed what the "oath ofsupremacy" and the "oath of allegiance " demandedby the colony meant. We found that Lord Baltimore,since he could not take a colony to Virginia, receiveda grant of land from the king and sent the first settlers to Maryland. We read of the antagonism between the two colonies because Virginia felt that thegrant covered land to which it had a claim. Wereasoned what religious conditions Lord Baltimorewould impose upon his colony, and decided that as aCatholic, receiving a grant from a king who was headof the Church of England, he would have to tolerateboth these denominations. We found how far thistoleration extended to other religions, and recalledwhat we knew about Rhode Island, marking these twocolonies as those recognizing religious freedom.The isolation of the colonies was made clearer bystudying means of transportation at this time. Partsof the journal of Hezekiah Prince, who traveled fromMaine to Virginia on horseback, were read to the children, describing the corduroy roads, bridle paths, andIndian trails which had to be followed. We found adescription of the first postal system established byGovernor Spotswood, located each town where mail wasreceived, and found the time taken for news to bereceived in Williamsburg from Philadelphia and othertowns. Selections from The Colonial Cavalier, by MaudWilder Goodwin, were read from time to time to showthe dress and customs of the times.The four colonial wars were taken up briefly to showmovements toward union, and in connection with thelast, the " French and Indian" war, we are reading thelife of Washington. To understand the rival claimsof the French and English to the land between thegreat lakes, Alleghanies, and Mississippi, we reviewedthe explorations of the French, studied last year, andthe wording of the grants by the English kings to thecolonies, and discussed the value of each claim. Because of the statement made in their books thata battle was fought before war had been declaredbetween France and the English colonies, we spentsome time in finding out what formalities are expected by one nation toward another in time of war. Wetook up next the vulnerable points in the disputed territory, and discussed the reason for the location offorts.In science the children have worked in their gardens, in which were planted representatives of thepulse, grass, mustard, parsley, composite, mint, nettle,hemp, lily, and gourd families. Beside the practicalwork of learning how to plant these seeds and care forthe growing plants, they have studied the variousmethods of storing food in the seed and methods ofgermination. From experiments they have discoveredthe gas formed by a growing plant, the gas given offby a plant in the shade and in the sunlight, and themanufacture of organic matter, or food materials,by the plant from inorganic substance. After eachexperiment a record is written by each member of theclass.In number work they have estimated the cost of allthe seeds planted in the garden. They have taken aglobe and found the time it takes by steam and rail togo around the earth in each zone at the present time,and have compared these results with the time takena hundred years ago. Incidentally they compared thebreadth of oceans and continents.A potter's wheel, for use by some of the youngergroups, needed weighting, and to Group V was giventhe task of moulding the lead weights for the rim.The problem was to rind the mass of each weight tobe applied, and where they should be placed to distribute the total weight equally. By measurementthey found the diameter of the wheel to be sixteeninches. They wished to divide the rim into equalparts, and did so by first drawing two diameters atright angles to each other, then bisecting the arcwhich they subtended, making eight divisions of thewheel, and then bisecting each of these parts. Thewheel's rim was thus divided into sixteen equal parts,and one of: these sections was considered small enoughto mould in lead. A sand mould was made and thelead poured in, but when cooled and weighed wasfound to weigh three pounds. The class estimatedthat this would make the additional weight forty-eight pounds, if the rim was made up of sixteen suchmoulds. One of the children suggested attaching aweight to every other sixteenth part, or eight weightsin all ; but this was found to give twenty-fourpounds. They were told that the total weight neededwas eighteen pounds, and they are now at workestimating how much less than three pounds theymust make the eight weights to be added.In textile work and the cooking, this group hascovered in a more complete way, the work given theyounger children. In practical work they have wovenbaskets and made small canvas mats ornamented withoriginal designs.In the shop they have been at work on small bracketshelves and boxes to hold insects which they havefound on their excursions.Most of the art work has been done out of doors,by sketching in colors the trees, animals or buildingsnear the school. One day when the wind was toostrong, the children went out and looked at the street,then drew it indoors from memory.In music they have had the usual drill in songs andin the recognition of pitch.64 UNIVERSITY RECORDCalendar.JUNE 9-17, 1899.Friday, June 9.Junior College Day : All Junior College exe cisesare suspended (see p. 57).Chapel-Assembly : Divinity School. — - Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m.Graduate and Divinity Finals in Debate for theJoseph Leiter 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.Final Examination of E. C. Durbin, Room 7 C, CobbHall, 9:00 a.m. (see p. 61).Final Examination of J. A. Miller, Room 36, RyersonLaboratory, 2:30 p.m. (see p. 61).Sunday, June 11.Academic Sunday : The second annual meeting ofofficers and students of Affiliated Schools, 10:30 a.m.in Kent Theater (see p. 62).Student Conferences on Religion, Kent Theater,4:00 p.m.Subject: Christianity a Missionary Religion."Ought Philanthropy to be confessedly Christian?" byProfessor A. W. Small."Ought Christianity to be preached to the non-Christianpeoples ? " by Professor Henderson.Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Association Room, Haskell, 7:00 p.m.Subject: "The Observance of Sunday in the ChristianLife," address by Professor Barnes.Monday, June 12.Chapel-Assembly: Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior College Students).!Final Examination of H. G. Gale, Room 20, RyersonLaboratory, 11:00 a.m. (see p. 62).Final Examination of G. E. Burlingame, Room 15,Haskell, 4: 00 p.m. (see p. 62).Final Examination of Gerald McCarthy, Room 40,Zoological Laboratory, 3:00 p.m. (see p. 62).Tuesday, June 13.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. Botanical Club holds its last meeting for the Quarterin Botanical Laboratory, Room 23, 5:00 p.m.Dr., Cowles will review: 1) Lubbock on "Buds and Stipules ; " 2) Lidforss on u Biology of Pollen."Dr. Merrell will review a paper by Mile. Goldflus on the" Function of the Epithelial Layer and of the AntipodalCells in the Ovules of Compositce."One or two other short reviews may be announced later,by the bulletin.Wednesday, June 14.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.Subject : " What can we do for Christian Union ? " Leader :Mr. Barber, State Secretary of the College Associations.Thursday, June 15.Chapel-Assembly: Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbHall, 10:30 a.m.Final Examination of A. M. Smith, Room 25, Haskell,9:30 a.m. (seep. 62).Interpretative Recitals of Greek Tragedies in English,by Professor R. G. Moulton, Chapel, Cobb Hall, at4: 00 p.m.The Daughters of Troy of Euripides.Bacteriological Club meets in Zoological Laboratory,Room 40, 5: 00 p.m.Miss Annie Hegeler will report the result of her study upon"The Number of Bacteria in City Milk Supplies."Friday, June 16.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.Final Examination of J. M. P. Smith, Room 21, Haskell, 9: 30 a.m. (seep. 62).Final Examination of B. I. Bishop, Room 14 C, Cobb,2:00p.m. (seep. 62).Final Examination of F. A. Howe, Room 5 D, Cobb,4:00 p.m. (see p. 62).Senior College Finals in Public Speaking, KentTheater, 8:00 p.m.Saturday, June 17.Meetings of Faculties and Boards :The Administrative Board of the University Press,8:30 a.m.The Administrative Board for the Recommendationof Teachers, 8:30 a.m..The Administrative Board of Student Organizations, Publications, and Exhibitions, 10:00 a.m.The Faculty of the Ogden (Graduate) School ofScience, 10:00 a.m.The Faculty of the Divinity School, 11:30 a.m.