Sbe TUnrverafts of CbtcaaoPrice $J.OO founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGO ,Gbe THntvereitE of Cbfcago fl>res8VOL V, NO. 23 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. SEPTEMBER 7, 1900Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matterCONTENTS.I. Instructors from other Institutions at theUniversity, Summer Quarter, 1900 - - 229-230II. Instructors in Affiliated Schools at the University during the Summer Quarter, 1900III. Official Notices - - - - - 230IV. Executive Bulletin No. XV : UniversityOfficial Tutors 232V. Calendar 232INSTRUCTORS FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS AT THEUNIVERSITY.SUMMER QUARTER, 1900.In addition to the statements already printedin the Record concerning distinguished instructors from other institutions, teaching at the University during the Summer Quarter, it is apleasure to give some brief account of the following :Professor Maurice Bloomfield, Professor ofSanskrit and Comparative Philology in the JohnsHopkins University. Professor Bloomfield wasa student at the old University of Chicago andmay be claimed in this sense, at least, as analumnus of the University of Chicago, althoughhe did not complete his studies there, but graduated at Furman University with the degree ofA.M. in the year 1877. He was born in Austria February 23, 1855, and completed his technicalstudent's career by taking the degree of Doctor ofPhilosophy at Johns Hopkins in 1879. Afterstudying for two years at Berlin and Leipzig heentered upon his career as a teacher at JohnsHopkins, where he has had distinguished successas a teacher and as an investigator. Among otherlearned works, he has edited for the first timefrom the original Sanskrit Manuscripts of theSutra of Kaucika, has translated the Atharva-Veda in the Sacred Books of the East, edited byProfessor Max Miiller. The titles to his contributions to the journals of learned societies andreviews on subjects connected with the history,religion, and literature of ancient India, on Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and comparative grammar, onEthnology and the Science of Religions, wouldfill a very large portion of our number. He is atpresent engaged in making ready for the press achromo-photographic reproduction of the uniquemanuscript of the Paippalada - Veda, which belongs to the University of Tubingen. ProfessorBloomfield is a member of the German OrientalSociety, a member and director of the AmericanOriental Society, and in 1896 was elected a foreign (honorary) member of the Royal BohemianSociety of Prague. He received the degree ofLL.D. from Princeton University in 1896.230 UNIVERSITY RECORDProfessor Bloomfield is offering in the University this summer courses in Sanskrit and Introduction to the -Study of the Veda.Professor Julius Goebel, Professor of Germanic Languages, Leland Stanford University.Professor Goebel was born May 23, 1857, atFrankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, where he received his early education. From 1879-82 hestudied German Philology, Comparative Philology, and Philosophy at the Universities of Leipzigand Tubingen, where he took the degree of Ph.D.Coming to America, whither his father, a well-known German -American educator, had precededhim, he was appointed instructor in German atJohns Hopkins University. While there he became one of the founders and associate editors ofthe Modern Language Notes. In 1888 he wasmade Editor in Chief of the Belletristisches Journal, at that time the leading German weekly inAmerica. In 1892 he was called to .StanfordUniversity, where he has since been head of thedepartment of Germanic Languages. Besidesnumerous treatises and articles in philological andliterary journals he has published the followingbooks : Ueber die Zukunft unseres Volkes in Ame-rika, 1883'; Ueber tragische Schuld und Suhne,1884; Zur deutschen Frage in Amerika, 1886;Poetry in the Lineburger Chronik, 1888; Amerikain der deutschen Dichtung, 1894; Gedichte, 1895;Beitrage zur Erkldrung von Goethe1 s Faust. Heis a member of the* American Philological Association and the Modern Language Association,and one of the contributing editors of AmericanaGermanica.Professor Goebel is teaching at the Universitycourses in Goethe's Lyrics and Middle HighGerman.INSTRUCTORS IN AFFILIATED SCHOOLS AT THE UNIVERSITY DURING THE SUMMER QUARTER, 1900.It is not, perhaps, generally known that one ofthe benefits accruing to affiliated schools by theirconnection with the University consists in the privileges offered to their instructors in the wayof instruction at the University.Of the regulations of the University governingthis matter the following is the most important :"The University offers free instruction in allits regular courses to all instructors on regularsalaries in affiliated colleges and academies."That the teachers in the affiliated schools recognize the value of this privilege is shown by thefollowing list of those who have been studyingduring the present quarter at the University :Bradley Polytechnic Institute. — J. L. Byrne, E. R.Breslich, F. L. Bishop, J. W. Garner, W. E. Moffatt, EmmaM. Morehouse, L. C. Plant, B. L. Remick.Kalamazoo College. — C. M. Brink,Stetson University. — C. S. Farriss, G. P. Carson, T.H. Briggs, Jr., J. P. Kalbfus.South Side Academy. — C. J. Lynde, O. M. Washburne.Princeton -Yale School. — C. W. Chamberlain, Chas.Klauber, G. F. Reynolds.Rugby School. — Clare D. Fox.Kenwood Institute. — Florentina von Massow, LucretiairT.Davidson. 'V< ;.. |; ' :' :¦¦ :. :;i.-:,'i: v.-^1^* s * ^Butler College. — O. Wilson, E. W. Abbott.Dearborn Seminary.— Mary T>. Spalding, Josephine G.Stiiwell.Chicago Manual Training School. — N. F. Smith.Frances Shimer Academy. — Gertrude Board, FlorenceTurney.Culver Military Academy. — Fritz Hagens.Elgin Academy. — G. N. Sleight, F. G. Mutterer.Harvard School. — W. C. Hawthorne.Burlington Institute. — Ethel J. Luke, F. L. Rainey.OFFICIAL NOTICES.Registration for the Autumn Quarter willbegin as follows:Divinity students will not register until the beginning of the Autumn Quarter, October 1.Graduate students in the office of the Dean ofthe Graduate Schools, Room 14, Haskell Museum.Dean Judson, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 11 and 12, 10 : 00-11 *jo and 2 .-00-4:00.Senior College students in the office of theDean of Senior Colleges, Room 13, Haskell Museum.Dean Tufts, Wednesday, September 12, g : 00-12:00.UNIVERSITY RECORD 231Junior College students and Unclassified students in the office of the Dean of Junior Colleges,Cobb Hall.Dean Smith, Junior College students, Thursday,September ij, Q: 00-12 : 00.Dean Smith, Unclassified students, Friday, September 14, Q : 00-12 : 00.Final Examinations for Higher Degrees willtake place as follows :for the degree of a.m.Ernst Rudolf Breslich. Mathematics andAstronomy. Thesis: " A Discussion of the CurvesDescribed by a Particle moving under the Influence of a Central Force varying as the Inversethird power of the Distance." Ryerson PhysicalLaboratory, September 13, 3:00 p.m.Josef Fredrik Nelson. Old Testament andArabic. Thesis : " The History of Hebrew Sacrifice from the Exodus to the Exile." Haskell21, September 14, 11: 30 a.m.FOR THE DEGREE OF PH.D.Isabelle Bronk. Romance and Germanic.Thesis : " Antoine Furetiere, a study of his life."Cobb Lecture Hall, 16 c, September n, 3: 00 p.m.Frank George Franklin. History and Political Science. Thesis : " Naturalization in theUnited States to 1861." Cobb Lecture Hall, 7 c,September 13, 3:00 p.m.Ernest Brown Skinner. Mathematics andAstronomy. Thesis : " On finite groups of Ternary nominal linear Substitutions." RyersonPhysical Laboratory 35, September 14, 3:00 p.m.Helen Bradford Thompson. Philosophy andNeurology. Thesis: "Psychological Forms."Anatomical Laboratory 34, September 7, 9: 00 a.m.William Franklin Moncreiff. Philosophyand Pedagogy. Thesis : "An Examination ofMill's Inductive Canons." Anatomical Laboratory 34, September 10, 9:00 a.m. FOR THE DEGREE OF D.B.William Harvey Fuller. New Testament andChurch History. Thesis: "The New TestamentUsage of Reconciliation, Propitiation, and Redemption." Haskell 28, September 10, 3:30 p.m.Notice is hereby given that the twenty-secondmeeting of the University Congregation of theUniversity of Chicago will be held on Tuesday,October 2, 1900, at 4: 00 p.m., in the CongregationHall, Haskell Oriental Museum. The membersof the Congregation will assemble in HaskellOriental Museum, second floor, at 3:45 p.m?, forthe procession to the Congregation Hall.The Congregation will consider :1. The following propositions :a) That a limit shoicld be put in the near future to theDevelopment of the Departmental library system. Committee, Messrs. Burton and Judson.b) That greater inducements to the cultivation of sckolar-" ship among the undergraduates should be offered bythe University, e. g., by honors, prizes, etc. Committee,Messrs. Coulter and Shepardson.2. 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, October 2,at 7:00; tickets $1.00. Places maybe reservedby addressing Dr. J. H. Boyd, Treasurer, at theUniversity of Chicago, to whom cheques shouldbe made payable.Attention is called to the regulation prescribing that at all meetings of the Congregation the fullscholastic dress be worn.George S. Goodspeed,University Recorder.September 6, /goo.232 UNIVERSITY RECORDEXECUTIVE BULLETIN.NUMBER XV,UNIVERSITY OFFICIAL TUTORS.To Officers and Students of the University of Chicago :Attention is called to the action of the University Council, taken November 18, 1896, in reference toUniversity Official Tutors, as follows :"A list of Official Tutors shall be authorized by the University, to whom students doing work outside ofclasses may be recommended. The principles governing appointments to this list are as follows :1) The Tutor is recommended by the Head of the Department of work in which instruction is given.2) The appointment is made by the President.3) The supervision of the system is exercised by the University Extension Division."In accordance with this action an official list of Tutors has been prepared and is kept on file in the Officeof the University Extension Division. All inquiries for Tutors and requests for tutorial employment may bemade at that office.GEORGE S. GOODSPEED,Recorder.The University of Chicago,September 1, 1900. WILLIAM R. HARPER,President.THE CALENDAR.SEPTEMBER 7-14, 1900.Friday, September 7.Chapel-Assembly : The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Saturday, September 8.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies, HaskellOriental Museum :The Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 9:00 a.m.The Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 9 : 30A.M.The Faculties of the Graduate Schools, 10: 00A.M.The University Senate, 10: 30 a.m.Sunday, September 9.Vesper Service in Kent Theater at 4:00 p.m.Professor Bloomfield will speak on "The EssentialIdeas of Hindoo Religion." Monday, September 10.Junior College Finals in Public Speaking.Chapel, Cobb Lecture Hall, 10: 00 a.m.Tuesday, September 11.Chapel- Assembly : The Senior Colleges. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10: 00 a.m.Thursday, September 13.Chapel-Assembly: The Graduate Schools. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Friday, August 14.Chapel-Assembly: The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Senior College Finals in Public Speakingare held in Kent Theater at 8 : 00 p.m.Material for the CALENDAR must be sent to the Office of Information by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., in order to be published inthe issue of the same week.