Price $1.00Per Year Gbe TftniverMts of CbicagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single Cop«5 Centsniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGbe tlnfverait^ of Cbfca^o pressVOL V, NO. 9 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. JUNE 1, 1900Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matterCONTENTS.I. Preliminary Programme of the Spring Finalsand the Thirty-third Convocation, Summer,1900 81-82II. Academic Day 82III. Official Notices 82-83IV. Changes in Announcements of Courses, Summer Quarter, 1900 83V. Nature Study at Wood's Holl 83VI. Scholarship in American History - - 84VII. Calendar - 84PRELIMINARY PROGRAMMEOF WE SPRING FINALS AND THE THIRTY-THIRD CONVOCATION,SUMMER, 1900.June 8, Friday. — Academic Day.2:00 P.M. The Third Annual Meeting of Faculties and Studentsof Affiliated Academies. Kent Theater3: 00 p.m. Procession to Marshall Field.3 : 10 p.m. Athletics, Track and Field Events. Relay Race,Affiliation Championship. Marshall Field,4:15 P.M. Baseball. The Morgan Park Academy vs. The SouthSide Academy. Marshall Field.June 13, Wednesday.8: 00 p.m. The Junior College Finals in Public Speaking for theFerdinand Peck prize. Declamations by DavidAllan Robertson, Benjamin Willard Robinson,Peter Cornelius de Jong, Philip Davis, JosephWilliam Priest, and Walker Gailey McLaury.The members of the Junior College Faculty will act asjudges. Kent TheaterJune 14. Thursday.8 : 00 p.m. The Senior College Finals in Public Speaking for theUniversity prize. Orations by Louise Roth, ArthurVeeder Snell, Hyatt Elmer Covey, VernonSirvilian Phillips, Charles Walter Britton.The members of the Senior College Faculty will act asjudges. Kent Theater June 15, Friday. — Junior College Day.g : 00 a.m. Athletics. Inter-House meet. Inter-Fraternity meet.Marshall Field.2 : 00 p.m. Dramatics. Rosalie Hall.4:00 P.M. Ivy Exercises. Ivy Oration by Bertram G. Nelson.Hull Court.5 : 00 p.m. Reception. The Women's Quadrangle.8 : 30 p.m. The Junior College Promenade.Chicago Beach Hotel.June 16, Saturday.4:00 P.M. Baseball. The University of Chicago vs. The University of Pennsylvania. Marshall Field.8:00 p.m. Graduate and Divinity Finals in Public Speaking forthe Joseph Leiter prize. Debate: Resolved, Thatthe United States, when at war, should have absolutecontrol of the canal to be constructed across CentralAmerica. The Graduate School will have the affirmative, the Divinity School the negative.Affirmative: Rowland Henry Ritchie, VernonSirvilian Phillips, Adna Woods RisleyNegative: Henry Martyn Herrick, Frederick Francis Parsons, George Tilden Rags-dale. Kent TheaterJune 17, Sunday.— Convocation Sunday.3 : 30 p.m. The Convocation Prayer Service. Members of theFaculties and Candidates for Degrees are invited toattend.Haskell Oriental Museum — Congregation Hall4: 00 p.m. The Convocation Vesper Service. Kent TheaterJune 18, Monday. — Alumni Day.10: 00 a.m. The Second Annual Business Meeting of the Beta ofIllinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,10:30 A.m. " College Education and Western Life," Addressbefore the Phi Beta Kappa by Professor Paul Shorey,of the University of Chicago. Kent Theater12 : 00 m. Alumni Luncheon. Haskell Oriental Museum1 : 30 p.m. The Annual Business Meeting of the Alumni.Kent Theater.2:30 P.M. Formal Reception into the Alumni Association of theMembers of the Class of 1900. Kent Theater2 : 45 p.m. Senior Class Day Exercises.The Graduate Quadrangle4:00 P.M. Baseball. The University of Chicago vs. The University of Pennsylvania. Marshall Field.7 : 30 p.m. The Annual Banquet of the Alumni.The Quadrangle Chib.82 UNIVERSITY RECORDJune 19, Tuesday.8 : 30 a.m. The Graduate Matutinal.The President' *s House3 : 00 p.m. The Thirty-third University Convocation.The Procession.The Convocation Address : " The True Scholar's Attitude toward the Past." President James G. K.McClure, D.D., of Lake Forest University.The Conferring of Degrees.The President's Quarterly Statement.The Graduate Quadrangle8 : 00-11 : 00 p.m. The Convocation Reception. The Presidents HouseJune 20, Wednesday.4:00 p.m. Baseball. The University of Chicago vs. The University of Pennsylvania. Marshall FieldJune 20-22. Wednesday -Friday.Quarterly Examinations of the Spring Quarter.July i, Sunday. Founder's Day. Congregation Sunday.4 : 00 p.m. The Congregation Vesper Service.The Founder's Day Address.The Quarterly Report of the Secretary of the ChristianUnion. Kent Theater7:30 P.M. Union Meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Associa-tioniHaskell Oriental Museum — A ssociation RoomsJuly 2, Monday.8: 30 a.m.-4:oo p.m. Matriculation and Registration of Incoming Students.10:30 A.M. Meetings of the College Divisions. Attendance required. Cobb Lecture HallJuly 3, Tuesday.8 : 00 a.m. The Lectures and Recitations of the Summer Quarterbegin.4 : 00 p.m. The Twenty-first Meeting of the University Congre-ti°n«„,.,., „ The Procession. .'.-.. .. -..;.; :'lThe 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 Hall8 : 00 p.m. The Congregation Dinner.The Quadrangle ClubJuly 4, Wednesday. Independence Day. A holiday.10:30 a.m. Patriotic Service. The Graduate Qicadr angle.5:00-7:00 p.m. University Reception to Incoming Students.The Women's Quadrangle OFFICIAL NOTICES.ACADEMIC DAYThe third annual meeting of the faculties andstudents of the affiliated academies of the University is to be held Friday, June 8. In previousyears this meeting was held on Sunday, whenthese representatives gathered in Kent Theaterand listened to a selected programme suitable tothe occasion. In the exercises of this year theformal meeting in Kent Theater at two o'clock isto be followed at three o'clock by track and fieldevents on Marshall Field, these being in generalcharge of Dr. Joseph E. Ray croft, and at fouro'clock there will be a baseball game between thenines representing the Morgan Park Academyand the South Side Academy. FOR THE DEGREE OF A.M.John Walter Beardslee, Jr. Greek. Thesis :" Scenes from the Iliad on Attic Vases." Room2 b, Cobb Lecture Hall, May 29, 1900, at 4:00P.M.James Davis Garner. Political Science andMathematics. Thesis : " The Reconstruction ofTexas." Room 1 c, Cobb Lecture Hall, June 8,1900, 4: 00 P.M.Morton Adolph Mergentheim. Romanceand English. Thesis : "A Critical Edition ofCoplas (71-275 of the Libro de Cantares delArcipreste de Hita)." Room 14c, Cobb LectureHall, June 8, 1900, at 4: 00 p.m.Edmund Kemper Broadus. English. Thesis :" Thomas Rymer as a Critic." Room 3 d, CobbLecture Hall, June 9, 1900, at 2:30 p.m.Frederick Leigh Hunt. English and History. "Thesis: "The Arthurian Legend inAmerican Literature." Room 3 d, Cobb LectureHall, June 9, 1900, at 4:00 p.m.FOR THE DEGREE OF PH.M.Elizabeth Junia Park. English. Thesis :" Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespere and HowIt Grew out of the Romantic Movement." Room3 d, Cobb Lecture Hall, June 8, 1900, at 3:30 p.m.FOR THE DEGREE OF D.B.John Chandler. Church History and Sociology. Thesis : " Humanism : Its Influence in theDevelopment of Luther." Room 26, HaskellMuseum, June 7, 1900, 4:00 p.m.Theron Winfred Mortimer. Church Historyand Systematic Theology. Thesis : " The English Stage in the Time of Charles II." Room 36,Haskell Museum, June 11, 1900, at 4: 00 p.m.Clarence Sydney Spaulding. Church History and Systematic Theology. Thesis : " IIMorgante Maggiore of Luigi Pulci as a Source."Room 36, Haskell Museum, June 11, 1900, at4: 00 P.M.UNIVERSITY RECORD 83FOR THE DEGREE OF PH.D.Robert Francis Earhart. Physics andChemistry. " Thesis : " Sparking Distances between Plates, for Small Distances.". Room 32,Ryerson Laboratory, June 5, 1900, at 10:00 a.m.Frank Lincoln Stevens. Botany and Bacteriology. Thesis: "The Compound Oosphereof Albugo Bliti." Room 23 b, Botany Laboratory, June 8, 1900, at 3:00 p.m.George Washington Paschal. Greek andLatin. Thesis : " Quintus of Smyrna, a Study."Room 3 b, Cobb Lecture Hall, June 12, 1900, at4:00 P.M.Alois Barta. Old Testament and Arabic.Thesis: "The Syntax of the Sentence in Isaiahxl-lxvi." Room 21, Haskell Museum, June 18,at 8:30 a.m.FOR THE DEGREE OF S.M.Jonathan Edwards Webb. Botany. Thesis :"A Morphological Study of the Flower and Embryo of Spiraea." Room 23 b. Botany Laboratory,June 7, 1900, at 4:00 p.m.CHANGES IN ANNOUNCEMENTS OF COURSES.SUMMER QUARTER, 1900.IV. HISTORY.2 A. Modem Europe is a Junior College Course.1 1 A. The French Revolution and the Era of Napoleon will be given as a Senior College Courseinstead of Course *77A. First half of this Mj.Course may be taken as a M.XIV. GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES.,Changes of hours :14A at 12:00, instead of 1:30 p.m.*3iB at 8:00 a.m., instead of 2:30 p.m.^40 at 10:30 a.m., instead of 2:30 p.m.^41 A at 10:30 a.m., instead of 8:00 a.m.*42 at 9:00 a.m., instead of 1:30 p.m.*5i at 7:00 a.m., instead of 1:30 p.m.XVII. MATHEMATICS.Course number 21 changed to 22. XVIII. astronomy.^23 will be given at 7 : 00 a.m.*53 is substituted for Course ^52.*57 is substituted for Course 51.Course 59 is withdrawn.xix. physics.*35 is given at 11:30 a.m., instead of at 12:00.Course 21. Change number to 14.XXI. GEOLOGY.The Evolution of the North American Continent isCourse f 2B, not 72B.1 6 A. The class will be limited to ten (nottwelve) members.XXII. ZOOLOGY.Course 26 is withdrawn.Courses *2 5D and 21 will be given by Dr.Davis.XLIV. systematic theology.17. Christian Ethics. 1:30. Withdrawn.23. The Theology of the Reformation. 1:30.New course.NATURE STUDY AT WOOD'S HOLLThe Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood'sHoll presents this summer for the first time acourse in Nature Study. The conditions underwhich this work is offered are very exceptional.It will be given cooperatively by members of theregular staff and a number of specialists outsideof the laboratory. We note the names of Professor Wheeler, Dr. Chapman, Professors Hodge,MacFarlane, and Scott, Messrs. Stone and Dearborn, and among those more intimately connectedwith the laboratory Professor Whitman and Drs.Thorndike, Davis, Montgomery, True, and Mr.Moore.The course will run for six weeks and the timewill be distributed over a wide range of topics.The plan is a radical departure from the methodsin vogue in much of the work on Nature Study,the aim being to place the course on the highplane characteristic of the Marine BiologicalLaboratory.The special announcement may be obtainedfrom Dr. Bradley M. Davis of the University.84 UNIVERSITY RECORDSCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORYThe Colonial Dames of America in the State ofIllinois have provided a scholarship yielding annually the amount of $150, to be awarded fortwo years to that student who, having finishedthe work of the Junior Colleges, shall have passedthe best examination in American History. Theaward of this scholarship will be made on thefollowing conditions : (1) The student must havehad three Majors, namely, Courses 16, 17, 18, inAmerican History, in the University of Chicago ;(2) the student must have had a general averageof "B" in the work of the Junior Colleges; (3)the student must have had credit for History 1and 2, or their equivalent; (4) the student mustpass an examination upon some period of American History, or upon some collection of papersor other original material.The award of this scholarship will be basedupon the results of a written examination, to beheld in D 8, Cobb Lecture Hall, at two o'clock,Friday, June 8, 1900, the period to be coveredbeing that between the years 1848 and i860.THE CALENDAR.JUNE 1-9, 1900.Friday, June 1.Chapel-Assembly : The Divinity School. Chapel,Cpbb Lecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m.Mathematical Club meets in Room 36, RyersonPhysical Laboratory, at 4:00 p.m.Thesis report by Mr. F. La Motte : " Determinationof all irreducible cubic and quartic equations invariant under a Tschirnhausen transformation." Note :" Concerning the principles of mechanics," II, by Dr.Laves.The Graduate Club meets in Haskell Museumat 8:00 p.m.Election of officers.Saturday, June 2.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies, 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.Sunday, June 8.Vesper Service is held in Kent Theater at4:00 P.M.Professor Chas. J. Little, D.D., of NorthwesternUniversity, will speak on "The Arminian Articles;The Methodist Articles."Monday, June 4.Chapel- Assembly : The Junior Colleges. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Germanic Club meets in Room 10 d, CobbLecture Hall, at 4:00 p.m.Programme : " Einige unechte Diphthonge imGermanischen," by F. O. Schub.Professor Will lectures in Cobb Lecture Hall, at8:00 P.M.Subject : " Some Points in U. S. Financial History."Tuesday, June 5.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.Professor Charles R. Barnes will discuss " The Theoryof Geotropism," in the light of the recent discussionof this subject by Noll and Czapek.Sociology Club meets in the Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, at 4:00 p.m.Mr. Matt W. Pinkerton, of the Pinkerton DetectiveAgency, will speak on " Crime and Criminals."Thursday, June 7.Chapel- Assembly: The Graduate Schools. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Friday, June 8.Chapel-Assembly: The Divinity School. Chapel,* Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Exercises of Academic Day begin at 2:00 P.M.(see p. 82).Saturday, June 9.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies in HaskellOriental Museum :The Administrative Board of University Affiliations, 8: 30 a.m.The Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10:00A.M.The University Council, 11:30 a.m.