Price $J.OOPer Year ^be TRnivexBit^ of CbicaaoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Copies5 CentsNIVERSITY KECORDPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGO^be TRniveteitv of Chicago ©ressVOL. IV, MO. 33. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. DECEMBER 22, 1899Entered in the post office Chicago. Illinois, as second-class matterCONTENTS.I. A Conference of American Universities onProblems connected with Graduate Work 257-258II. Official Notices - 258III. New Course : Zoology - 259IV. The Junior Scholarship in Latin - - 259V. Current Events - - - - - 259A CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIESON PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH GRADUATE WORK.The Presidents of Harvard University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, theUniversity of Chicago, and the University of California have issued an invitation to sister institutions to a conference to be held in Washingtonsome time in February 1900, for the consideration of problems connected with Graduate work.The following paragraphs embody importantpoints in the invitation :" We beg to suggest that the time has arrivedwhen the leading American universities mayproperly consider- the means of representing toforeign universities the importance of revisingtheir regulations governing the admission ofAmerican students to the examinations for thehigher degrees. "This invitation is prompted by a desire tosecure in foreign universities, where it is notalready given, such credit as is legitimately "dueto the advanced work done in our own universities of high standing, and to protect the dignityof our Doctor's degrees. It seems to us, for instance, that European universities should be discouraged from conferring the degree of Doctorof Philosophy on American students who are notprepared to take the degree from our own bestuniversities, and from granting degrees to Americans on lower terms than to their native students." There is reason to believe that among otherthings the deliberations of such a conference ashas been proposed will 1) result in a greater uniformity of the conditions under which studentsmay become candidates for higher degrees in different American universities, thereby solving thequestion of migration, which has become an important issue with the Federation of GraduateClubs ; 2) raise the opinion entertained abroad ofour own Doctor's degree ; 3) raise the standardof our own weaker institutions." This invitation is extended to the Universityof California, the University of Chicago, ClarkUniversity, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins Univer-258 UNIVERSITY RECORDsity, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Leland StanfordJunior University, University of Wisconsin, andYale University. The United States Commissioner of Education has been invited to take partin the conference. The Federation of GraduateClubs has likewise been invited to send a delegate."OFFICIAL NOTICES.Notice is hereby given that the eighteenthmeeting of the University Congregation ofthe University of Chicago will be held on Wednesday, January 3, 1900, at 3 :oo p.m., in the Congregation Hall, Haskell Oriental Museum. Themembers of the Congregation will assemble inHaskell Oriental Museum, second floor, at 2 : 45p.m., for the procession to the CongregationHall.The Congregation will consider :1. Report from a committee, appointed at the sixteenthmeeting, to investigate the financial element involved in thesettlement of the question whether "to require universityservice of Fellows is unsatisfactory." Mr. Abbott, chairman.2. The following proposition made the special subject ofdiscussion at this meeting by vote of the sixteenth meeting :That the adoption by the Board of the University Press foruse in the official publications and journals of the Universityof the list of words with changed spelling accepted by the National Educational Association be approved. Committee :Messrs. Chamberlin and Shorey.3. The following proposition accepted at a previousmeeting :That it is desirable for the University to establish courses inthe Theory and Practice of Music, and to give credit for suchcourses toward Bachelors' degrees. Committee : Messrs. A.C. Miller and Mead.4. Such other business as may properly come before themeeting.Members of the Congregation are invited tosend to the Recorder at once questions for consideration at future meetings.The Congregation Dinner will be held at theQuadrangle Club, Tuesday evening, January 2, at7 :oo; tickets $1.00. Places may be reserved by addressing Dr. J. H. Boyd, Treasurer, at the University of Chicago, to whom cheques should bemade payable.Attention is called to the regulation prescribingthat at all meetings of the Congregation the fullscholastic dress be worn.George S. Goodspeed,University Recorder.Reports for the Autumn Quarter. — Allinstructors are requested to observe that allreports for courses given during the AutumnQuarter are due at the Recorder's Office (or theFaculty Exchange) not later than 12:00 m., Tuesday, December 26. It is of the utmost importancethat every course be recorded fully and promptly.Blanks will be furnished through the Faculty Exchange not later than Wednesday, December 20.The University Recorder.Course 4A, Drill Course in Idiomatic Vocabulary in Department XIV, Germanic Languagesand Literatures, will be given by Associate Professor Cutting instead of by Mr. Burnet as statedin the Announcements for the Winter Quarter..The following persons have been accepted bythe Faculty of the Divinity School as candidatesfor the degrees named :For the Degree of Master of Arts:Jesse L. Cuninggim.For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy :Emmanuel Schmidt. Principal department:Old Testament Literature ; secondary department : Egyptology.The Quarterly meeting of the University of Chicago Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, was held Thursday,December 21, at 12:00 m. in Haskell AssemblyRoom. The following undergraduate memberswere elected and initiated :Mary Gertrude Borough, Elizabeth Earnist Buchanan,Mary Bradford Peaks, Jean Rowan Priest, Lee Julius Frank,William Schoonover Harman, Louise Roth.UNIVERSITY RECORD 259NEW COURSE.ZOOLOGY., 50. Synopsis of the Invertebrate Groups. — Theplan of the course is to make a study of eachof the invertebrate groups, including adultanatomy, embryology, general biology, systematic relations and distribution, and covering the whole field in two years. Duringthe Autumn and Winter Quarters the workconsists of lectures, laboratory work andreading, and during the Spring Quarter ofwork in the field supplemented by study inthe laboratory of the forms collected. It isproposed to study, as far as possible, theliving animal and especial reference is therefore made to the fauna of this region.The work this year, beginning in theWinter Quarter, covers the group Mollusca.This will be supplemented by the work ofnext year covering other groups. Studentsdesiring to study particular groups or totake field-work only may register for any onequarter.Winter and Spring Quarters, 1900.Dr. Child.For hours, see Announcements for Winter and SpringQuarters.THE JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP IN LATIN.The Junior College Scholarship in Latin isoffered annually. All students who receive theirJunior College Certificates between October 1,1899 and July 1, 1900 may become candidatesfor this scholarship which will be awarded uponthe basis of, (a) excellence of class-room work inLatin (which must include the required threeMajors based upon four units offered for admission and at least one junior elective in Latin)and, (b) a special ^examination upon the subjectsnamed below to be held May 24 and 25, 1900 :1) History of Roman Literature to 138 A.D.(Mackail's "Roman Literature," and Wilkins' "Primer of Roman Literature" are recommended).2) Latin Composition.3) The Andria of Terence and the de Amicitiaof Cicero.Intending candidates for this scholarship arerequested to send their names at an early date toeither of the undersigned.F. J. Miller,Gordon J. Laing.CURRENT EVENTS.The subject of President Hadley's ConvocationAddress on January 2 will be " Our Standards ofPolitical Morality."Mr. Bailey Willis, of the United States Geological Survey, addressed the members of theGeological Club on November 29, on "A PacificAtlantis."Rev. R. F. Y. Pierce, of Philadelphia, gave anillustrated lecture on the subject, "PicturedTruth," Thursday, December 14, at 7 130 p.m., inHaskell Assembly Room.The Graduate Club met on Friday, December15 at 8:00 p.m. Professor Turner, of the University of Wisconsin, gave a short talk on " Divisionof Labor among Graduate Clubs."Rev. R. S. MacArthur, D.D., Pastor of theCalvary Baptist Church, New York City, spoke inHaskell Assembly Room, Wednesday, December13, at 10:30 a.m., on the subject "The Enrichment of the Church Service."The Senior Finals were held on Friday, December 15, at 8:00 p.m. in Kent Theater. Theprize for the best oration was conferred uponBarend Kuiper whose subject was, "A Plea forthe Boer." The President's Reception, followingthe Finals, was held in Green Hall.The Journals of the University of ChicagoBEING THE DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FOUR MONTHLY,ONE WEEKLY, ONE BI-MONTHLY, THREE QUARTERLY,AND ONE SEMI-QUARTERLY PUBLICATIONS J J* j*THE BIBLICAL WORLDEdited by President W. R. Harper. A popular illustratedmonthly magazine. Subscription price in the United States,$2.00 a year; foreign, $2.50; single copies, 20 cents.The Biblical World is devoted exclusively to biblical study, and so edited and illustrated as to affordthe greatest aid to the busy clergyman, the progressive Sunday-school teacher, and the thinkinglayman.THE SCHOOL REVIEWEdited by Charles H. Thurber. Published monthly, exceptin July and August. 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Subscription price, $2.00 a year in the UnitedStates; foreign, $2.50; single copies, 35 cents.The special aim of the American fournal of Sociology is to show that the " social problem" is bothmany problems and one problem. It has alreadymade itself indispensable to Americans who aretrying to keep informed about the general tendencies in the rapidly changing field of sociology.THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMITICLANGUAGES AND LITERATURESEdited by President William R. Harper, of the University ofChicago. Published quarterly. Subscription price, $3.00a year; foreign, $3.25; single copies, 75 cents.The object of this journal is to encourage thestudy of the Semitic languages and literatures, tofurnish information concerning the work of Semiticstudents at home and abroad, and to act as a mediumfor the publication of scientific contributions in thosedepartments. Articles are published in the German,French and Latin, as well as in English. THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGYEdited by T. C. Chamberlin. 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