Gbe TUntvereitip of ChicagoPriCC $f.OO FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOXTbe TRniveveity ot Gbicago iptessVOlTTv, NO. 34. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. NOVEMBER 24, 1899Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The Seventeenth Meeting of the UniversityCongregation ----- 203-204II. Walker Prizes in Natural History - - 204-205III. University of Chicago Men in the War - 205IV. Calendar - - - - - - - 206THE SEVENTEENTH MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITYCONGREGATION.Twenty-eight members of the University Congregation met in Congregation Hall, November17, 1899, at 4 : 00 b.m. in a special meeting forthe consideration of the following proposition."That the administrative advantages securedby requiring students to register for two quartersin advance are insufficient to counterbalance theeducational disadvantages of the requirement."In the absence of the chaplain, Dean Mac-Clintock offered the prayer. The executive committee presented the following recommendationwhich was adopted : " That the next regularmeeting of the Congregation be held January 3,1900, at 3 : 00 p.m., and that the Congregationdinner be held on the preceding evening,namely, January 2, at 7 : 00 p.m."In opening the discussion of the question Mr.Small offered an amendment, changing the phraseology of the proposition. This amendment was adopted, and the amended proposition takenup for discussion read as follows": That the advantages secured by requiring students to registerfor two quarters in advance are insufficient, exceptin the case of Junior College students, to counterbalance the disadvantages of the requirement.In speaking in favor of this proposition Mr.MacClintock said that whenever there is a realchoice open to the student, the unit of registration should correspond to the course unit, /. e.,the quarter ; but this is not the case with respectto the Junior College students, since their choiceis very limited.Mr. Small urged that the two-quarter registra-tion is contrary to our quarter system, that to beconsistent we should abide by our quarter unitwith which the element of flexibility is bound up.Moreover, to take an illustration from his owndepartment, students are not able at the beginning of their work in Sociology to choose wiselyfor two quarters in advance. A quarter's workgives them a new outlook, from which in manycases they would choose differently for the following quarter.Mr. Judson presented the considerations whichled to the adoption of the two-quarter registration ; they were 1 ) Administrative: The labor ofregistration was diminished by one half, both for204 UNIVERSITY RECORDadministrative officers and for students. Thislabor was particularly trying in the AutumnQuarter, in which both old and new studentsregistered in the greatest numbers and at thesame time ; 2) Educational : The desirability ofthe student having a coherent plan of study, ofsaving him from helter-skelter choices. Thespeaker remarked, that on the whole the practicalworking of this system had not met with seriousdifficulties. It wras quite possible that its bearingupon different departments of study was different.He added that the graduate student council wasopposed to the two-quarter system.Mr. W. R. Harper remarked that one otherreason for the two-quarter registration system, wasthe hostility of students to frequent registration ;the desire was to reduce machinery in the officeto the advantage of the student.Mr. Gurney, having called attention to theoriginal plan of requiring provisional registration for three quarters in advance, suggested thedesirability of this in view of the arguments urgedin behalf of continuity. To this the difficulty ofsecuring satisfactory announcements of coursesfor three quarters in advance was stated.Mr. Blanchard called attention to the frequentchoice by students in their ex tempore addressesin the Department of Public Speaking, of thesubject, "The Evils of the Present RegistrationSystem," and the arguments urged by them, viz.,the student's ignorance of the system he wishesto study, his inability to decide beforehand theamount of work in any one line desired, and thedesirability of choice between instructors.To this Mr. MacClintock replied that it seemsto be a mere convention on the part of many students to object to all forms of registration andespecially to changes in them. Most of the objections disappear when the student is asked to understand the regulations and suggest reasonablechanges in them. Since any system of registrationwould be thus conventionally objected to, theseoppositions should be heavily discounted in advance. Dean Talbot reiterated the advantages of thetwo -quarter system : 1) The student with the aidof the dean gives more time and consideration tothe choice of a consecutive and logical course ofstudies ; 2) the student's attention is not distracted, when taking one course of study, by thenecessity of considering new work, and a feelingof stability is thus secured. Dean Talbot alsourged that, should the one quarter system of registration be adopted, students ought to be allowedthe option of registering for six months in advance if they desired.The proposition as amended was then unanimously adopted by the Congregation.Other speakers having spoken in favor of granting an option as to the registration period, DeanTalbot offered the following motion : "That registration for two quarters in advance be madeoptional for Unclassified, Senior College, andGraduate students." The motion was adopted.These actions having been recommended to theproper administrative bodies, the Congregationadjourned with the benediction.WALKER PRIZES IN NATURAL HISTORY.By the provisions of the will of the late Dr.William Johnson Walker, two prizes are annuallyoffered by the Boston Society of Natural History for the best memoirs written in theEnglish language on subjects proposed by a committee appointed by the council. For the bestmemoir presented a prize of sixty dollars may beawarded ; if, however, the memoir be one ofmarked merit, the amount may be increased toone hundred dollars, at the discretion of the committee. . For the next best memoir, a prize notexceeding fifty dollars may be awarded. Prizeswill not be awarded unless the memoirs presentedare of adequate merit. The competition for theseprizes is not restricted, but is open to all.Attention is especially called to the followingpoints : 1) In all cases the memoirs are to bebased on a considerable body of original and un-UNIVERSITY RECORD 205published work, accompanied by a general reviewof the literature of the subject. 2) Anything inthe memoir which shall furnish proof of the identity of the author shall be considered as debarringthe essay from competition. 3) Preference willbe wen to memoirs showing intrinsic evidenceof being based upon researches made directly incompetition for the prize. 4) Each memoir mustbe accompanied by a sealed envelope enclosingthe author's name and superscribed with a mottocorresponding to one borne by the manuscript,and must be in the hands of the secretary on orbefore April 1 of the year for which the prize isoffered.subjects for 1900.1. Stratigraphy and correlation of the sedimentary formations of any part of New England.2. A study in palaeozoic stratigraphy andcorrelation.Samuel Henshaw,Secretary.Boston Society of Natural History,Boston, Mass., U. S. A.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEN IN THE WAR.During the war with Spain the following University men were in active service in the U. S.Army or Navy. There may be others concerning whom no word has been received. Anyinformation of the kind may be sent to the University Recorder.Samuel W. Stratton, Associate Professor ofPhysics, First Lieutenant, U. S. Navy; served onthe " Lancaster" and the "Texas."Atwood, Harry F., Ph.B., '98, First Ills.Cavalry.Chace, FIenry T., Jr., S.B., '96, First Ills.Cavalry, Troop C.De Sombre, William E., Junior College student, Second Wis. Infantry, Co. E ; served inPorto Rico.Flanders, Knight' F., A.B., '98, First Ills.Infantry; served in the Santiago campaign. Lansingh, VanRensselaer, S.B., '96, ThirdU. S. Vol. Engineers, Co. E.Leffingwell, Ernest D., Graduate student,U. S. Battleship "Oregon;" served in the battleoff Santiago.LeMaitre, Paul G., Junior College student,First Ills. Infantry, Co. L; served in the Santiagocampaign, died of yellow fever in the army hospital at Siboney, Cuba, July 31, 1898.Lloyd, Henry, Graduate student, First Ills.Infantry, Co. L; served in the Santiago campaign.Lozier, Horace G., A.B., '94, Graduate student, First Ills. Infantry, Co. L, afterwards assigned to First Provisional Engineers, Co. A.Martin, E. Whitney, Senior College student,Fifty-first Iowa Infantry; served in the Philippines.Morgan, Thomas S., Senior College student,Engineer in U. S. Volunteer service; served onthe U. S. Collier " Cassias."Northrup, Alfred S., A.B., '94, Sixth U.S.Cavalry, Troop H.Page, Cecil, S.B., '98, U. S. Battleship "Oregon;" served in the battle off Santiago.Pershing, Ward B., S.B., '98, LieutenantSixth U. S. Artillery.Sharpe, Walter S., Unclassified student, FirstIlls. Cavalry.Smith, Wtebster T., Junior College student,U. S. Battleship "Oregon;" served in the battleoff Santiago.Starkweather, Earnest E., Divinity student,Third Miss. Infantry, Co. C, transferred to U. S.Hospital Corps; served in hospitals at Lexington,Knoxville, Atlanta, Savannah.Stevenson, George E. T., D.B., '99, FirstIlls. Infantry, Co. H.Tolman, Cyrus F., Jr., S.B., '96, Graduate student, First Ills. Infantry, Co. L.Alumni of the Old University and of the Theological Seminary atMorgan Park. ,Tolman, Edgar B., A.B., '80, Major, FirstIlls. Infantry; served in the Santiago campaign.Odell, Delivan D., D.B., '85, Chaplain.206 UNIVERSITY RECORDTHlE CALENDAR.NOVEMBER 24— DECEMBER 2.Friday, November 24.Chapel-Assembly: The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Physics Club meets in Room 32, Ryerson Physical Laboratory, at 4: 00 p.m.Papers: "The Effect of Temperature upon UraniumRadiation," by Mr. F. T. Jones ; " Thermo-electro-motive Forces at High Temperatures," b}' Mr. R. H.Rice; "Experiments on the Conservation of Energyin the Human Body," by Mr. C. C. F. Lorenz.Saturday, November 25.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies in HaskellOriental Museum :The Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 8:30A.M.The Administrative Board of Libraries, Laboratories, and Museums, 10: 00 a.m.The Faculty of the Graduate School of Artsand Literature, 11:00 a.m.The University Council, 11:30 a.m.Sunday, November 26.Vesper Service is held in Kent Theater at4: 00 p.m.Monday, November 27.Chapel- Assembly : The Junior Colleges. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.New Testament Club meets in the parlor ofMiddle Divinity House at 7: 30 p.m.Messrs. Atkinson, St. John, and Schoemaker will discuss the New Testament usage of the words " Gehenna, Hades, and Hell ; Heaven, Paradise, Eternity,and Everlasting." All New Testament students areinvited.Tuesday, November 28.Chapel-Assembly : The Senior Colleges. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. Botanical Club meets in Room 23, BotanicalLaboratory, at 5:00 p.m.Mr. F. L. Stevens will review Kleb's work on Sapro-legnia mixta and also Hartog's article on the allegedfertilization in Saproiegnia.Mr. M. J. Iorns will review MacDougal's paper onsymbiotic saprophytism.Wednesday, November 29.Division Lectures : The Upper Seniors, Congregation Hall, Haskell, at 10:30 a.m.; the LowerSeniors, the Lecture Room, Cobb Hall ; theUpper Juniors, Room 16, Kent.Zoological Club meets in Room 24, ZoologicalLaboratory, at 4:00 p.m.Mr. V. H. Loewe will speak on "PhotographingInsects and other Animals."Thursday, November 80.Chapel-Assembly: The Graduate Schools. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.-Young Women's Christian Association meetsin Haskell Museum, Association Hall, at 10:30A.M.Friday, December 7.Chapel Assembly : The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m.Mathematical Club meets in Room $$, RyersonPhysical Laboratory, at 4:00 p.m.Mr. Moulton : "A particular class of periodic solutions of the problem of three bodies."Notes : " On Cremona Transformations, V," by Dr.Slaught; "On Unilateral Surfaces, II," by AssociateProfessor Maschke.Saturday, December 2.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies in HaskellOriental Museum :The Administrative Board of Physical Culture and Athletics, 8:30 a.m.The Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 10:00A.M.The University Senate, 11: 30 a.m.Material for the CALENDAR must be sent to the Office of Information by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M.in order to be published in the issue of the same week.