Sbe THniversfrs of ChicagoPflCC $1.00 FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single CopiCSPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOGfoe TUniverettE of Cbicago ipreseVOL V, NO. 40 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3;00 P.M. JANUARY 4, 1901Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matterCONTENTS.I. Tfce University Senate to Professor vonHoist - 361-362II. Official Notices - - - ... 362III. University Open Lectures - 362IV. Official Reports : The Library - - - 363V. Calendar - '- - ... - 363THE UNIVERSITY SENATE TO PROFESSOR VON HOLST.When, on account of ill health, Professor vonHoist was compelled, during the present yearalso, to give up his active work in the University,his colleagues and friends were deeply moved.Professor von Hoist has been so conspicuous anornament of the University since its beginning,and has been so deeply interested not merely inthe inner workings of the University, but also inits relation to the larger life in the city and state,that his absence is felt as a personal loss to manyin the University circle. The University Senate,as the body with which Mr. von Hoist was mostclosely connected, appointed a committee earlyin the autumn to prepare a letter to him, expressing its interest and sympathy in view of hiscontinued ill health and his temporary absencefrom the University. The President appointedas the committee Messrs. Laughlin, Anderson,and E. H. Moore, and at a meeting held Novem ber 3, 1900, a letter was presented which washeartily and unanimously approved. The Recorder of the University was directed to see thatthe letter was suitably engrossed, to obtain thesignatures of the members of the Senate, and toforward it to Mr. von Hoist, who is spending thewinter in Tlbretice, Italy. Tfe letter was placedfor engrossing in the hands of Mr. C. L. Ricketts,who prepares the University diplomas. As received from him and sent to Professor von *Holstit was engrossed in French round hand uponhand-made paper, illuminated in red, and placedin a case of green morocco leather lined withmaroon silk. A copy of the letter is here given:The University of Chicago.To Professor Hermann Eduard von Holst,Florence, Italy.Your colleagues and brothers in the Senate of the University of Chicago, on the occasion of your departure eventemporarily from the University, cannot allow it to passwithout aa expression of their cordial regard and affectionate sympathy. In a company of scholars you have beenconspicuous for scholarship and the maintenance of scholarly ideas; in the work of laying the foundations of a newAmerican university your preeminent conscientiousness: andstrenuous devotion to the highest educational aims havebeen appreciated and admired t. in winning the confidenceand trust of the- community in the new University your362 UNIVERSITY RECORDreputation and conspicuous manhood have been one of theforemost elements of our success; and in teaching alikestudent and colleague the value and weight of the scholar indiscussion of great questions before the public, your fearlessadvocacy of what you believed to be right has made libertyof opinion and speech easier for the brotherhood of scholarsin all the institutions of this country. Your distinction hasbeen our pride; your success has been our success; andyour absence is our loss.Not only have you won the highest honor which the academic world can offer to a scholar — the abiding confidencethat you always studied solely to arrive at truth — and whichno additional years of university labor could enhance ; butyou have, without seeking, also won both the respect andaffectionate regard of your brothers in the Senate and inthe University.In testimony of our profound regret and sadness at yourdeparture and of our affectionate sympathy and personalliking for you, we wish herewith to append our signaturesas a remembrance from old friends and co-workers, hopingthat health and years equal to your great deserts may stillbe granted, to you, by a kind Providence, and that you maysoon come home to us again.November 3, 1900.OFFICIAL NOTICES.Howard Crosby Butler, Esq., of PrincetonUniversity, will deliver an illustrated lecture on"The Deserted Cities of Syria," under the auspices of the Chicago Society of the ArchaeologicalInstitute, in Congregation Hall, Haskell Museum, on Wednesday, January 9, at 4:00 p.m.Members of the University are invited to attend.Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus will give a series offour lectures before the students of the DivinitySchool oh "The Great English Poets of the latterhalf of the Nineteenth Century." The lectureswill be given at 4:00 p.m. on January 14, 16, 21,and 23. After an introductory lecture on Words:-worth, Coleridge, and Shelley, the remaininglectures are occupied with Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. UNIVERSITY OPEN LECTURES.Two courses of Open Lectures will be given atthe University during the Winter Quarter. Bothcourses are open to members of the University onpresentation of matriculation cards. Others cansecure tickets at the Office of Information andExchange. Both courses will be given in Haskell Assembly Room, and will be illustrated withstereopticon views.AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF PAINTING.1. Tuesday, January 8, 4:00 p.m. — Introductory: "SomeProblems of ^Esthetics ; How to Study a Picture."2. Tuesday, January 15, 4:00 P.M. — "Early Italian andModern Pre-Raphaelite Painters."3. Tuesday, January 22, 4: 00 p.m. — " Classicism in Painting ; The Rule of Reason."4. Tuesday, January 29,4:00 p.m. — "Romanticism inPainting ; The Freedom of Feeling."5. Tuesday, February 5, 4:00 P.M. — " The History ofLandscape Art."6.. Tuesday, February 12, 4:00 p.m. — "National Types:A Survey of Representative Painters and Their Characteristic Work."!This course will be given by Dr. O. L. Triggs,who will conduct classes, and visits to the ArtInstitute and other galleries of the city, for thosemost interested in the work.The second course will be given on alternateMondays at 4:00 p.m., by Mr. Ernest Ingersoll,author of Country Cousins, Wild Neighbors, andother popular books on Natural History.PHASES OF ANIMAL LIFE AND INTELLIGENCE.1. Monday, January 14, 4:00 P.M. — "How the Worldwas Stocked with Life."2. Monday, January 28, 4:00 P.M. — "Animal Facultiesand Achievements."3. Monday, February ii, 4:00 P.M. — "Making a Livingin the Animal World." *4. Monday, February 25, 4:00 P.M. — "Love and WarAmong the Animals."5. Monday, March 11, 4:00 p.m. — "Home and Societyin Animal Life."6. Monday, March 25, 4:00 P.M. — "Man's Debt to theAnimals."Each lecture of the course, except the second,is finely illustrated with superior colored orchemically-toned lantern pictures, reproducedmainly from photographs of living wild animals.UNIVERSITY RECORD 363OFFICIAL REPORTS.THE LIBRARY.During the month of December 1900 there hasbeen added to the library of the University atotal number of 434 volumes, from the following sources :Books added by purchase, 198 volumes, distributed as follows :General Library, 12 vols.; Philosophy, 3 vols.;Pedagogy, 3 vols.; Political Ecanomy, 6 vols.;Political Science, 2 vols.; History, 6 vols.;Classical Archaeology, 2 vol.; Sociology 8 vols.;Sociology (Divinity), 5 vols.; Anthropology, 3vols.; New Testament, 3 vols.; Comparative Philology, 2 vols.; Greek, 29 vols.; Latin, 5 vols.;Romance, 3 vols.; German, 8 vols.; English, 15vols.; Mathematics, 11 vols.; Astronomy (Ryer-son), 4 vols.; Astronomy (Yerkes), 9 vols.; Chemistry, 10 vols.; Physics, n vols.; Church History,2 vols.; Systematic Theology, 7 vols.; Homi-letics, 4 vols.; Morgan Park Academy, 25 vols.Books added by gift, 149 volumes, distributedas follows :General Library, 90 vols.; Pedagogy, 1 vol.;Political Economy, 2 vols.; Political Science, 1vol. ; New Testament^ 1 vol. ;_ Latin, ^i^vol^ English, 2 1 vols^ ; Astronomy ~( Yerkes)~ "30* vols..;Geology, 1 vol.; Physiology (Lab.), 1 vol.Books added by exchange for University publications, 87 volumes, distributed as follows :General Library, 43 vols.; Pedagogy, 1 vol.;Political Economy, 4 vols.; History, 1 vol.; Sociology, 1 vol.; Comparative Religion, 7 vols.;Semitic, 3 vols.; New Testament, 4 vols.; Astronomy (Yerkes), 13 vols.; Botany, 1 vol.; ChurchHistory, 3 vols.; Homiletics, 6 vols.THE CALENDAR.JANUARY 4-12, 1901.Friday, January 4.Chapel- Assembly : The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Saturday, January 5.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies, HaskellOriental Museum :The Board of Physical Culture and Athletics, 8: 30 a.m.The Board of University Affiliations,10: 00 a.m.The University Senate, 11:30 -a.m. Sunday, January 6.congregation sunday.The Congregation Vesper Service is held inKent Theater at 4:00 p.m. *The Congregation Sermon is preached by , the Rev.F. W. Gunsaulus, D.D. The choir of Sinai; Congregation sings.Monday, January 7.Chapel- Assembly : The Junior Colleges. 'Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall; 10:30 a.m. (required ofJunior College students).Tuesday, January 8.Chapel-Assembly: The Senior Colleges. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required ofSenior College students).Dr. Triggs lectures in Haskell Assembly Roomat 4: 00 p.m. on " Some Problems of ^Esthetics:How to study a picture."Wednesday, January 9.Division Meetings are held at 10:30 a.m.Bacteriological Journal Club meets in Room40, Zoological Laboratory, at 4:00 p.m.H. E. Davies : " Recent work upon pus-rforming bacteria."Howard C. Butler lectures on "The desertedcities of Syria," in Haskell Assembly Hall at4:00 P.M.Thursday, January 10.Chapel-Assembly: The Graduate Schools. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Friday, January 11.Chapel- Assembly : The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Mathematical Club meets in Room 35, RyersonPhysical Laboratory, at 4:00 p.m.Assistant Professor Dickson reads : " Concerning theabstract group isomorphic with the general linearfractional group, with a discussion in particular ofthe groups of orders 60, 168, 504."Note : "Klein's theory of the top," by Mr. Hamilton.Saturday, January 12.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies, HaskellOriental Museum :The Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 8: 30 a.m.The Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10 : 00 a.m.The University Council, 11:30 a.m.Announcements of £**™™RRStrY __ OF CHICAGO PRESSENGLISHThe Assembly of Gods; or, The Accord of Rea- The;Treatment of Nature in English Poetry Be-son and Sensuality in the Pear of Death. By tween Pope and Wordsworth. By Myra Rey-JOHN Lydgate. Edited by Oscar Lovell nolds. 280 pages. Royal Svo, paper, net, 7%TRIGGS. 192 pages. 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