THEUniversity RecordOFTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERPUBLISHED WEEKLY BY AUTHORITYVol. VI NOVEMBER 2, 1901 WHOLE NUMBER 31MONTHLY NUMBER 7THE NORTHRUP MEMORIAL NUMBERCONTENTSProfessor George Washington Northrup, D.D. , LL.D., 249-270Report of Actions of University Ruling . Bodies forJuly-October, 190 1 - 270-272University Extension Personal Notes - 272The Faculties ----- 272-274The Alumni : Notes and Communications - 274^75Official Reports : Accession Report - 275-276The Chicago Alumnae Club Meeting 276CHICAGOGbe Ullniversits of Cbicaoo pvcssANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION SINGLE COPIESONE DOLLAR FIVE CENTSENTERED IN THE POST OFFICE OF CHICAGO AS SECOND-CLASS MATTERIt Makes MuscleIt is getting to bepretty well knownthat Quaker Oatsis better than meatto build up theathlete's musclesand to sustain himin extreme exertion — just asgood for everydayworkers.Quaker Oats"stays by you."At all Grocers . Only in2 -lb. Packages, with QuakerFigure.Cook it RightDirections on PackageVOLUME VI WHOLE NUMBER 31MONTHLY NUMBERUniversity RecordSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1901PROFESSOR GEORGE WASHINGTON NORTHRUP,P.O., LL.D.An Appreciation by CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON, D.D.This eminent teacher of theology was born atAntwerp. New York, October 15, 1826; graduated at Williams College in 1854, and at Rochester Theological Seminary in 1857. He wasordained as a Baptist minister at Rochester inthe year of his graduation in theology, and afterward served as professor of church history until1867, when he became president and professor ofsystematic theology in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary of Chicago. He was relievedof administrative duties at the time of the removalof the seminary from Morgan Park and its incorporation with the University of Chicago as itsDivinity School in 1892. The honorary degreeof D.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Rochester in 1864, and that of LL.D.by Kalamazoo College in 1879.AS A PREACHER.An intimate and faithful friend of his youthdeclares that at the time of his graduation fromthe seminary Professor Northrup was diffidentand distrustful of himself, heavy and metaphysical, with but little popular power. In lateryears he became a preacher of the highestrank.His physical equipment was not an insignificant element in his success. Tall, erect, muscular,with a fund of vitality brought from rural life,with a voice which developed into an organ of remarkable carrying power, he towered like agiant on the platform and among men. Thewide sweep of his gesture made it suitable forhim to employ figures of speech and modes ofemphasis which would have been incongruous in aperson of less commanding appearance. Whilehis manner was uniformly stately, his emotionsextended over the whole range of humor, bitingsarcasm, denunciation, and pathetic appeal.THE BEARING OF THE MAN TO OTHERS.The best side of Dr. Northrup's nature andcharacter was not always known and was notalways shown; The first impression uponmeeting him sometimes did him injustice. Butthose who really came to know him discovered.that beneath the rugged, austere, and reservedexterior there beat a truly human, sympatheticheart; even possibilities of profound emotionand absolute self-sacrifice. In all the scores ofletters from students now before the writer, thefinal impression is one of an affectionate, sincere,and devoted father and friend. All else is forgotten in filial gratitude and reverence.He was the president of a struggling institution ; a man of profound and intense concentration of thought, apparently absent-minded andreserved because his soul was living in a world ofvast ideas and overwhelming cares ; and yet hisheart, as Wordsworth says of Milton's, laid onitself the lowliest duties.The tribute of President N, E. Wood of theNewton Theological Institution may be taken as249250 UNIVERSITY RECORDa typical example of the estimate of all students,and it will recall his manner in the class room :I count it one of the happiest providences ofmy life that I had Dr. Northrup for my teacher..... Every year adds to my sense of indebtedness to him. I did not understand then as wellas I do now what heavy burdens he was carrying inthe general administration of the school in thoseearly years of its struggle. I knew that hisclass room was vibrant with mighty power andthat the very atmosphere was provocative of highthinking. We had to think and to think hard,we had to summon all the powers that we had tomeet and follow the mighty master of thought.Very vividly do I recall how he used to leave hisdesk from which he dictated his notes to us, andseat himself in the high-backed chair. We knewthen that mighty intellectual forces were joinedin him for the battle, and the stir and excitementof those times come back to me even as I write.It was great teaching, the like of which I havenever known anywhere else.AS A TEACHER.Professor Northrup will be remembered chieflyas a teacher of ministers, and especially ofpreachers. The exigencies of his life made himat various times an instructor in ecclesiasticalhistory, homiletics, and interpretation, but hedevoted the major part of his time and strengthto systematic theology. In the early part of theChicago career he marked out and gave a courseof lectures covering three years of instruction inthe themes of bibliology, evidences of Christianity, and the inspiration of the Scriptures, theology in its strict sense as the doctrine of God,anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology.METHOD OF TEACHING.The basis of instruction was a brief, compactstatement of the doctrine with bibliography dictated or given out to the class in mimeographedcopies. This outline was taken up for discussion,illustration, and further proof. The students wererequired to recite substantially the exact statementof the lecture, without help or suggestion of question ; and at the end of the year and of the coursewere tested by oral and written examination, searching and severe. Dr. Northrup was graciousin his welcome of free discussion and independent opinions, but he was intolerant toward anymisrepresentation of his own instruction. Hedeclared that he was responsible only for what hehad actually said, and he was careful in his formulation and exacting in his demands upon the student. In the later period the seminar methodwas sometimes employed, and important theological works were analyzed and critically weighed.The qualities as found in his presentation ofhis subject were those which he said, in a notableaddress, were the "characteristics of good thinking ; " he was intense, clear, consecutive, profound,comprehensive, and conscientious.THE MAN. THE LIFE IN GOD.Back of all teaching and preaching was thepersonality, the deep springs of life. Prolongedand profound meditation, and devout prayer madethe truths of religion the supreme interests of hisexistence. To him God was the most real objectof knowledge. He belonged to the company ofthose who, like Moses, endure, seeing the invisible. Like Paul he had not received the meaningof Christ's life from men but by immediate revelation from God. In his prayers he talked withGod, and as he moved among men he walked withGod. Often he was a mystic and he had visionsof the Divine. He could say with St. Francis ofAssisi: "No man showed me what to do, but theMost High himself revealed to me that I shouldlive according to the model of the sacred gospel."Hence, while he prepared himself to defend theauthenticity and historical reliability of the Biblehe was not shocked or terrified by the criticalprocess which can never do more than removeerrors of fact, and cannot touch religious truth.With the members of the Society of Friends hehad discovered that one can walk by an " innerlight." VIEW OF THE BIBLE.His attitude toward the Scriptures was expressedin this form: "I do not accept the doctrine ofUNIVERSITY RECORD 251absolute inerrancy. I do not propose to defendit • nor does inspiration require it. God did notintend to make the writers absolutely infallible inhistory, science, and chronology. Do not makeChristianity stand or fall on any theory of inspiration."The writer has preserved in his notebooks acopy of Dr. Northrup's graduating oration atRochester in 1857, the original being in his handsfor study in 1873. This contains the central anddominant thought of the great teacher's life andsystem, the holiness of God. 'In the earlier period our leader made the holiness of God the central point of his teaching, andcalled it "the fundamental attribute." From thisposition he never swerved, but the formula became charged with more concrete meaning andhuman interest as he thought it out. Sometimeshe enlarged the formula by insisting upon the"ethical nature of God;" while more and morehe declared that our best conception of the Divineis found in the character of Jesus Christ. Itwould be interesting to trace the process bywhich he came to see that love which is the fulfilling of the law, includes all justice and holiness.He said : "There is an essential likeness of Godand man; they are of the same genus; ethicallyalike, not in quantity or vastness."Dr. Northrup never yielded to his convictionthat God's perfect nature must be honored at allcost, but he never repeated in later life the terrificlanguage of his graduating oration in which hedescribes the possibility of the destruction ofcreation in order to exalt God.In an interview with the writer in 1894 Dr.Northrup gave him a copy of his letter to Dr.Behrends, and said that it was a statement of themost vital points in his more recent theologicalspeculations. In summing up the argument andcondensing of his papers collected in the bookSovereignty of God* he wrote :* Sovereignty of God. Louisville, Ky..: Baptist BookConcern, 1894. I aim to show that the fundamental act of re*?demption was accomplished by God in adoptingthe plan of the universe involving his own infinite self-sacrifice in Jesus Christ, so that thecreation, the fall, and redemption are essential andeternal constituents — mutually conditioning elements — of the only plan possible to the absolutelyperfect God.I attempt to indicate the chief differencebetween men to which God has respect in choos.ing some rather than others.I believe my views constitute a living, coherentsystem, embracing the five fundamental truths orfacts which every truly biblical system must embrace: (1) The fact of the reconciliation of thesovereignty of God with the freedom of man.This reconciliation is effected by recognizing inthe divine sovereignty, as an absolutely ethicalprerogative, a principle of necessary self-limitation, or self-restraint, whereby scope is given tothe free action of the personal will. (2) The universality of sin. (3) The universality of thepromises of salvation. (4) The selection of thesaved is wholly of grace. (5) The perdition ofthose who perish is wholly their own work, sincethey possess plenary ability so to seek renewingand pardoning grace as to render its bestowmentcertain.But the point of chief importance to which Iwould call your attention is the one indicatedhear the close of the volume, viz., the tracing ofthe criticism of strict Calvinism upon every typeof modified Calvinism. All these types accept asa fundamental principle (without which theywould not be Calvinistic at all) that the decree ofelection is, in the logical order, antecedent toand irrespective of the personal action of men aspersons, which involves of logical necessity theposition and decree of non-election, pretention,(virtually) reprobation, as antecedent to andirrespective of the personal action of men as,persons, which necessarily implies the inevitabledamnation of the non-elect, whether they die ininfancy or live to the years of adult life.The alternatives then are : the acceptance ofthe infinitely abhorrent dogma pf the necessarydamnation of man, or the rejection of everyexisting type of Calvinism. I believe this posi-.tively to be beyond the reach of successful assault.The various modifications of strict Calvinism :that the atonement is universal, that man possesses252 UNIVERSITY RECORDnatural ability, that he is freed by the atonementfrom the Adamic condemnation, that his natureat birth is not hopelesly sinful, etc., have mererhetorical value, but of philosophical value theyhave none whatever, so long as the basal principle of strict Calvinism is retained.It has taken me ten years to work myself freefrom the adamantine definitions of logic of theCalvinistic system. The emancipation cameat lastin the only way in which it could possible come: — through a fundamentally new point of view— the Christian Idea of God.This experience of the emancipating power of afresh view of religious truth helps to explain astrong statement made to a class: "If we havefound a new conception of God we ought to bewilling to go around the globe to tell it."This joyful experience of discovery made ourteacher expectant, open-minded, hospitable tonew aspects of religious truth. He said : "Evolution has arisen by the immanence of God Faith which is riot rational is faith which oughtto be rejected Belief is inseparable fromknowledge and ought to be precisely coextensivewith knowledge."SOCIAL STUDIES FOR MINISTERS.One important consequence of his ethical Christian conception of the divine was his pioneerservice in enlarging the curriculum to include instruction in the practical meaning of Christianityin social relations. He was one of the earliesttheological instructors to admit this innovation,to urge that religion must become the dominantprinciple in common life, and that the preacherand pastor must prepare himself to understandsocial relations* and obligations. His own sermonsshowed the young ministers that the preachermay guide and inspire daily conduct while holding aloft the sublime and essential verities of thespiritual life as a light over all. One of his sermons on the theme, " Keeping the Body Under,"dealt in a very wise and effective way with licentiousness and the "social evil." In one of hisnotable courses of sermons in 1869-1870 we findin the list of themes : "The Philanthropy of Faith and the Philanthropy of Unbelief," and "Christianity and the World's Progress."At the time of the late Spanish War Dr. Northrup gave a lecture in which he greeted theprospect of national expansion and world-wideinfluence with ardor, and interpreted the movement with large knowledge of history.It followed from his ethical Christian conception of God that all who are devoted to holiness,love, and duty, even if misled by many an error,are in essential disposition Christian. In notesof his later seminar discussions the followingbold, yet logical deductions from his centralprinciple were recorded: "To believe in andhave fellowship with God as revealed in JesusChrist is to be a Christian I have nodoubt that a man* may be a Christian and notbelieve in the divinity of Jesus Christ. . . . .Whoever lives up to the light he has is saved. . . .God has raised up men like Buddha and Confucius to present certain phases of truth. . . . Godhas never forsaken any part of his world God is not less tender and compassionate thanJesus."In breadth of view, in depth of real sympathy,and in self-sacrifice, Dr. Northrup was a philanthropist; he loved humanity. He was not insympathy with the idea sometimes urged by extremists, that Christians can never be moved tozeal for souls by any less powerful motive thanthe prospect of endless misery for all who happento live outside Christendom. He said : " As soonas love thinks of self it is spurious. Love is self-oblivious. It is not calculating. When a mapmust be drawn painted black to move men to bemissionaries, there is a low type of Christianity."WORLD WIDE MISSIONS— PHILANTHROPY.To our teacher love of God and philanthropyare vitally one. The gospel is for mankind, andChristians are under obligations to communicateit to the entire race as rapidly as possible.Dr. H. C. Mabie writes of the address Dr.Northrup made as president of the MissionaryUnion in Cincinnati in 1891 : "The echo of hisUNIVERSITY RECORD 253resonant tones is still in my ears as I hear himsay:"The feeling I am most distinctly conscious ofas I stand before you today is that of heartache,in view of the apathy of Christian people, andespecially the apathy of our denomination, inregard to the temporal and eternal salvation ofthe vast population of the pagan nations Ispeak in behalf of a billion human beings, forevery one of whom Christ died, every one ofwhom has a place in the heart of God, every oneof whom is of as much worth in his sight as anycitizen of the great republic.JUDGMENT OF HISTORY AND THE WORLD OF SCHOLARS.If it is said that the judgments here expressedare those of partial witnesses and prejudiced ad-mirerSj and that the verdict of history and general scholarship may be different, the justice ofthe criticism may be in part admitted. We cannot tell what a future generation will think untilit has spoken; and the results of our teacher'smeditations have never been fairly placed beforethe learned world for its estimate. Only a singlebook has been published, and that in a very unattractive form, as the result of a personal controversy; and the class-room lectures exist onlyas exceedingly condensed outlines. A few lectures, addressevand sermons have been printedin full, and these convey some ideai of his literarystyle, his character, and his resources.His life was too crowded with administrativecares and multiform teaching duties to giveleisure for that minute use of special discussionswhich characterizes German theology; and it isprobable that those who lived in his presencegained more insight and illumination from hispersonality than could ever be conveyed to astranger simply through the printed page. Heinvested himself without stint in the institutionand in men, and these, father than books, mustcare for his fame, and will make it secure.We may borrow the speech of the Latin historian Tacitus, and read into it the Christian faithwe have been taught. Most books are forgottenof outgrown, Bronze and marble are only rela tively more enduring than the originals afterwhich they are fashioned; "while the form of themind is eternal, and not to, be retained or expressed by any foreign matter, or trie artist's skill,but by the manners of the survivors. Whateverin Agricola was the object of our love, of our admiration, remains, and will remain in the mindsof men, transmitted in the records of fame throughan eternity of years."A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.[From the Standard.'}There is no nobler form of leadership than thatof leadership in the thought and faith of a greatpeople. The theological thinker, teacher andauthor, in any denomination of evangelicalChristians, is one of those who contribute most tothat kind of social progress which is soundest andsurest, while by those whom he especially servesin educating their ministry, and in guarding anddefending the faith of the denomination, he isentitled to especial honor. He of whom we writein this brief sketch had a recognized place amongthe foremost of such men.Dr. Northrup was a native of the State of NewYork, having been born at Antwerp, Jeffersoncounty, N. Y„ October 15, 1826. His earliestChristian nurture was had under the happiest auspices, his father especially being spoken of as "aman of singularly devout character and life."Early conversion came naturally under these circumstances, occurring, as he believes, at the ageof twelve, although he had reached the age of sixteen when he received baptism at the hands ofthe Rev. Wilbur Tillinghast.He became what we may term an independentstudent while yet but a boy. School advantagesin his native town being very inferior, he undertook the study of Latin by himself, with suchhelps as he could command. Later, while ateacher near Utica, and in more eastern portionsof the state, he took up in a similar way the studyof mathematics, and at the time of his admissionto Williams College, in Massachusetts, in i85i,hehad passed over, already, most of the ground inthat study included in a college course. A likething was true of metaphysics. Previous to entering college he had read through no less than fivetimes a difficult book on that subject, "RationalPsychology," whole pages of which he knew byheart.254 UNIVERSITY RECORDIn 1851 he entered Williams College as asophomore. He was fortunate in having for thepresident of his college Mark Hopkins, and forthat eminent teacher he ever retained the mostreverent regard. At his graduation, in 1854, themetaphysical oration was assigned to him, thehighest honor of the class. A course at the Theological Seminary in Rochester followed, fromwhich institution he graduated in 1857.He now at once entered upon that which wasto be the work of his life. Immediately upongraduation he was appointed by the seminaryauthorities instructor in church history, at the endof the year being made full professor. His reputation as a teacher steadily grew during the tenyears of his service in this department, until hecame to be recognized as having no superior insuch service in any seminary of whatever name.While a professor at Rochester he supplied thepulpit of the First Baptist Church in that city. Itis ample testimony to the value of this servicethat during this time no less a number than 165were added to the church by baptism. His pulpitservice, wherever performed, has been recognizedas of the sort to make and leave strong impressions, especially upon thoughtful minds*In 1867 Dr. Northrup was chosen president ofthe Baptist Union Theological Seminary, justorganized in Chicago. For thirty-three years hewas the leading teacher of theology in that institution, first in Chicago, then in Morgan Park,and then again at the Divinity School of the newuniversity in the city. His reputation as a theologian has spread all over the country, notwithstanding the fact that he published but little ofhis theological system, and never issued any complete statement of his position in book form. Hisstudents treasure the manuscript and typewrittennotes and syllabi of his lectures, which are thesole public record of his work as a thinker. It isto be hoped that some more permanent and complete publication of Dr. Northrup's theology maybe possible, compiled from these lecture notesand from his own papers. The unwillingness toprint which proved so disappointing to his students and admirers was due to an almost excessivehabit of revision. He regarded nothing in histheology as fixed in point of phraseology beyondthe possibility of improvement. The great truthsof God and the universe — these were fixed, immovable, secure; but man's apprehension anddefinition of them must, in the nature of things bein constant flux, as knowledge of the scriptures and of the natural world increases and the use ofterms is modified. Among the few things whichDr. Northrup did publish was a notable series ofpapers on "The Sovereignty of God," which appeared in the Standard some years ago.Thus declining to commit himself to any largeextent in the public press, and postponing untiltoo late the book or books which he probablyhoped to write, Dr. Northrup's influence on denominational thought and life has been almostwholly exerted through his students. That thisinfluence was strong, virile, broadening, enlightening, hundreds can testify. His personality inthe class room was above all manly and candid.Many differed from him with regard to his interpretation, in later years, of certain truths. Nonecould deny his sincerity, his mastery of the historyof doctrine, his ethical fervor, his logical power.He was one of the great theological teachers ofhis time. With Robinson, Broaddus, Hovey,Clarke, and Strong, he stands among our greatestthinkers and theological educators, whose workhas made our ministry what it is. 3In a time like the present, when liberty ofthought and liberty of speech in matters theological are becoming axiomatic in many circles, itis hard to realize how audacious was the attitudeof men like Dr. Northrup and Dr. E. G. Robinsontwenty-five or thirty years ago. In claiming forthemselves and others the right to apply toChristian doctrines the rigid tests of logic andhistorical interpretation they had to meet thedetermined opposition of many elements in thecommunity. The victories they won have nowpassed into the common inheritance of Christianthinkers and teachers. Dr. Northrup never ceasedto grow intellectually. His later pupils marveledat his openness of mind, his hospitality to whatever of good he could find in recent investigationsand speculations, at an age when most men haveclosed the gates of the mind to all new comers.This happy faculty it was which kept him in theharness until so near the end. He belonged,more than most men, to two generations — thepast and the present.Dr. Northrup was much more than the head ofa theological seminary and teacher of theology.The whole subject of education at this point interested and occupied him. He realized, as manydid not, how vital to any large success in any department of such education a broad and comprehensive educational policy must be, and was oneof those who confidently believed that a timeUNIVERSITY RECORD 255must surely come when the place left vacant inthe failure of the old University of Chicago mustbe filled. Into the effort to restore what wasthus lost he entered with all his soul, and whenat a critical point in the inception of that enterprise he saw that a union of the TheologicalSeminary with the University as its DivinitySchool would meet certain conditions essential tosuccess, he was the first to propose that measure,and during all the necessary negotiations hesleeplessly guarded the denominational interestinvolved in the transfer. The conspicuous self-abnegation of Dr. Northrup at that time, and theeminent value of his counsel and cooperation,should have emphatic recognition in any historyof the University of Chicago, by whomsoeverwritten.Three years in succession he served as president of the American Baptist Missionary Union,his anniversary addresses being of marked powerin thought and delivery. Says Dr. Henry C,Mabie, home secretary of the MissionaryUnion :"The conversations we had respecting the greataddress which &s president of the union he wasto give in Cincinnati in 1891 are freshly in mymind. In the course of the preparation of thataddress he was oppressed with the situation, whenhe came to face the facts, of the habitual indifference of the great mass of professed Christians inour land respecting the moral state of the heathenwithout the gospel. He was mightily movedwith the conviction that he was charged with amessage in that annual address that should helpto alter the situation. And as he tried to pourout his feeling to me concerning what was burning within for utterance, he seemed to me likeVulcan at his forge. He was determined to utterwith superhuman boldness all that was in him,strike where it might, and, convict whom itwould. Those who heard that address will everremember it as perhaps the boldest utterance onthe immediate duty of the church to the heathenever made in their hearing. Probably the address was not received in all quarters as he hadhoped it would be, for many were not prepared,as he was, for such a conception of the churches'present immediate duty; but he cleared his skirtsof the blood of souls on that occasion. He spakeas a prophet, and went on record before angels andmen as but few men in our denominational historyhave ever done before or since. In his deceasethe American Baptist Missionary Union has lost one of its stanchest friends and the heathenworld one of its most compassionate and eloquentadvocates."Dr. Northrup died at the Chicago HospitalSunday, December 30. He had for several yearsbeen in precarious health, though pursuing hiswork in the Divinity School much of the time bysheer force of will. Several extended periods ofrest seemed temporarily to benefit his health, andup to within a few months he lectured to hisclasses with not a little of the old-time vigor.But the final breaking down of. the physicalforces came, and after a few weeks of actual sickness he passed away.THE FUNERAL.The remains of Dr. Northrup were carriedfrom the home of his son, on Kimbark avenue, toHaskell Oriental Museum, on New Year's day,where they lay in state. The funeral serviceswere held at 2 o'clock on Wednesday in thebuilding of the University Congregational Church,the house of the Hyde Park Church, where Dr.Northrup's membership had been for three years,not being regarded as large enough. Just before2 o'clock there was a brief service, with readingof scripture and prayer by Dr. C. R. Henderson,.at Haskell Museum. The family, representativesof the University, and others then proceeded tothe church. Here were present many of the students of the Divinity School, members of theGreek fraternity with which Dr. Northrup wasconnected, President Harper and members of thedivinity faculty, several of whom served as pallbearers, University trustees and ]Jniversity students. Many Chicago pastors were present, besides family friends and representatives from thedifferent churches. Dr. J. L. Jackson offeredprayer; a choir of University students sang.President Harper announced that the speakershad been chosen in accordance with Dr. Northrup's own wishes.The following addresses were made:PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OFDR. NORTHRUP.By the Rev. T. W, Goodspeed, D.D.Thirty- seven years ago Dr. Northrup wasthirty-seven years of age. I have known himjust half his life. I first entered his class roomin the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1863and shall never forget the impression he madeupon me. Tall and, commanding in figure256 UNIVERSITY RECORDstraight as an arrow, with a face of great benevolence and spiritual beauty, he presented to myeyes a noble picture of vigorous, impressive andbenignant manhood. More than a third of acentury of oppressive labors, harassing cares andgrievous sicknesses conspired with advancing ageto mar that serene, spiritual beauty, but at thattime he was my ideal of glorious, gracious, gentlemanhood. He seemed perfect in form and feature, not with the classic beauty of the GreekApollo, but with the benevolence, the purity, andthe loveliness of the Apostle John. I learned tolove him, as did my fellow students. In hisrelations with us he was always all that was suggested by his masterful yet benignant presence.Easily supreme by his splendid natural endowments and his acquired equipment of knowledgehe won by his graciousness, patience and kindness the lasting affection of us all.He so won my heart that when he came thirty-three years ago to the presidency of our own newtheological seminary, I at once threw myselfwith all the ardor of youth into the work of helping him. It was largely because of my affectionfor Dr. Northrup that when, at length, the affairsof the seminary became desperate, I was led, temporarily as I supposed, to leave the work of thepastorate, that I might assist him in removingthe debts that threatened its destruction and insecuring for it a productive endowment. Theyear "that I thought to give to that worklengthened to thirteen years. Affairs were muchmore desperate than was supposed and we enteredtogether into a long, dark, difficult struggle. Wewere brought by it into as intimate relations astwo men could well sustain. We were in almostdaily consultation. We anxiously devised waysand means together. We surrendered togetherlarge portions of our salaries. We traveled manythousands of miles together. Together we solicited help for an imperiled cause. We foughttogether a desperate battle in which few, whoknew the conditions, expected us to succeed. Itmust be remembered that during all this periodDr. Northrup was conducting the work of theseminary itself, teaching his classes and doing thework of administration. He began with twentystudents, added to the number year by year,through all the period of darkness and struggleand closed his twenty-five years in the presidencywith an enrollment in 1891-2 of 190 students, aremarkable development for a school of theology and a marvelous record of successful administration.I was always impressed by his magnificentcourage. The difficulties were, so great, thedarkness was often so dense, the struggle was solong and desperate that any man might well havegiven way to discouragement. Most men wouldhave done so and abandoned the struggle ashopeless. But while Dr. Northrup was notalways hopeful, for his was not a sanguine temperament, he fronted the battle with never failingcourage.I was profoundly affected by his generous appreciation and unvarying kindness. Never dida subordinate work with a more appreciativechief. Not only was every success warmly commended, but failure was never censured. I neverhad from him a word of criticism or complaintduring all those thirteen years. He never discouraged, but always encouraged me. There wasnever a difference of any sort between us.Through years that tried all our souls, when therewas every provocation to impatience, when wemight well have turned upon each other in ourdisappointments and failures, when I especiallymight well have been made the scapegoat forthese disappointments and failures, Dr. Northruptreated me with a gentleness, considerateness,generosity and kindness that an angel of Godcould not have exceeded. It is a personal debtof gratitude I owe to him to make this verystrong statement regarding one who has notalways been understood.The afflictions of his later years led him towithdraw within himself and made him seem tomany unapproachable. But this was not the realman. The real Dr. Northrup was one of the mostcompanionable of men, with a warm and tenderand gentle heart, with strong affections, and withan inexhaustible fund of humor. Five summervacations I spent with him in the woods. Hewas a true lover of the woods, a keen sportsman,an unerring shot with the rifle, as much at homein a tent or a log house in the forest as in theclass room, the humorist of the party about thecamp fire, the friend of the youngest in the camp.Little children loved him well. He was greatlybeloved by his grandchildren who were drawn tohim by those subtle ties of sympathy which children are so quick to recognize, and he found oneof the chief joys of his declining years in theircompanionship and love./UNIVERSITY RECORD 257But all other impressions of Dr. Northrup aredimmed by one, comprehended in one. He wasa great man. I thought he was a great manwhile I was one of his students. When I wasbrought into the most intimate relations with himI felt more strongly year by year : " Here is indeed a great man." He was put up on a largescale. His splendid physical proportions trulyrepresented the greatness of his mental stature.He was richly endowed by nature. Without earlyadvantages he so educated himself that when heentered Williams College he already had all themathematics of the college course and was admitted to the sophomore class in its last term.Thus entering almost as a junior he graduatedwith the high honor of the metaphysical oration.His powers of acquisition were marvelous. Insix months time he acquired Greek and readeverything necessary to admit to the last term ofthe second year in college, a well nigh incredibleachievement. When he graduated from theRochester seminary he was at once made an instructor and at the end of the first year a full professor. Ten years liter he was made the president of the theological seminary in Chicago andhaving been a teacher of church history assumedat once the work of the professorship of systematic theology and did it with unsurpassed success.There can be no doubt that he was led to givehis life to teaching not less by natural endowments than by the hand of Providence.But there were many sides to his greatness.He would have made a great lawyer. He wouldhave shone in senates. He did shine in the pulpit. He was a prince among preachers. Whileyet a professor in Rochester he became actingpastor of the First Baptist Church and suppliedthe pulpit for eighteen months. So attractive,powerful, searching, persuasive and illuminatingwas his preaching that a remarkable religious interest was awakened, continuing through nearlythe entire period of his service and bringing 165new members into the church. The intellectualpower, the spiritual fervor, the remarkable effectiveness of his preaching made a profound impression on the church and the city and werelong remembered.He was called to a similar service in the SecondBaptist Church, of Chicago, in 187 1. That churchhad been having a history of extraordinarygrowth. More than 1,000 members bad beenadded to it during the preceding fivQ years. The congregations filled the great audience-room.The church was devoted to its pastor and doubtedwhether any one could hold the congregationsthat crowded to hear him. The pastor, brokendown by overwork, was compelled to rest, andDr. Northrup was called in to carry on his work.The result was a new demonstration of his greatness as a preacher. The congregation continuedto fill the house. The additions to the churchwent on in almost undiminished numbers. Thepower and instructiveness of his preaching continued long afterward to be spoken of in thatcongregation with enthusiastic admiration. Theseare but illustrations of his power in the pulpit.There were few greater preachers in his day thanhe. The addresses he delivered at the opening sessions of the American Baptist Missionary Unionduring the years he was president of that bodyare regarded as almost unrivaled in their comprehensiveness of view, spiritual insight, clearness of thought and moral power.His method in preaching was to begin by giving to his hearers in the briefest but clearest waythe points he intended to elucidate, then proceedto their discussion, then repeat them in a briefsummary, and conclude with an application sonatural and inevitable that it always came withconvincing power.He preached on lofty themes, taking up thegreat things and great thoughts of God, so thatthe mere statement of his subject was uplifting, asits treatment was inspiring. His preaching wasso profound that it satisfied the best trained intellect, and so simple that the plain people couldunderstand and enjoy it. It was so clear in conception and orderly in arrangement, the illustrations so apt and the English so undented, thatevery serious hearer listened with delight. It wasas inexorable and convincing in its logic as amathematical demonstration. He kindled withthe progress of his thought. His great themeroused him and set all his powers aflame. Thenhe thundered from the pulpit with power unsurpassed. His majestic figure, his commandinggesture, and his noble voice reinforced the burning words which conveyed his great thoughts,and the audience was roused to eager attentionand lifted into loftier regions of spiritual thoughtand emotion.He lived to make preachers of the gospel. Inhim the thousand young men he trained alwaysfound their noblest example. In them he still258 UNIVERSITY RECORDlives. All over the world they are seeking to winmen to the nobler life. Many of them are presidents and professors in schools of theolpgy andtraining other thousands of ministers of God. Inall these he still lives and will ever live. Pie isnot dead. He cannot die. Pie is alive forever-more.DR. NORTHRUP AS A TEACHER AND THEOLOGICALTHINKER.By the Rev, E. B. Hulbert, D.D., Dean of the Divinity School.Twenty years ago an interview in my parlorwith the president and secretary of the MorganPark Seminary resulted in my becoming a member of its teaching staff. At that time SecretaryGoodspeed was managing the finances, ProfessorHarper was rising into fame as an expounder ofthe Old Testament, and Dr. Northrup was thepresident of the institution and the teacher ofsystematic theology. These four were broughtinto the most intimate relations, and friendshipsbegan, which, in the intervening years, havematured and ripened.I can easily name the two or three men towhom I am most indebted, and among them, ofthe influence of Dr. Northrup's mind and personality I am distinctly conscious. If I speak of histeaching and theological thinking, I must simplyreflect my own impressions after the twenty yearsin which we were so closely associated. Of courseI recognize the absurdity of attempting anythingof the sort in ten minutes. Inadequate and imperfect as necessarily must be my characterization, I think all who knew him will agree with mein these three or four particulars.In the first place, as a teacher of theology hewas master of his subject. At Rochester he hadbeen professor of church history, and in thatdepartment the bent of his mind led him to givechief emphasis to the history of dogma; so thatfrom the very beginning of his teaching career hewas immediately and directly concerned withtheology alone. For more than forty years hegave his great powers to the exploration of thisvast field. He delved into the theological loreof ancient, mediaeval and modern times. Hemade himself acquainted with the great thinkersand system-builders of the Christian centuries.He gave a painstaking and critical study to thegreat historic creeds and confessions of theChristian church. His reading and thinkingcovered the whole field of theological and philosophical inquiry and speculation. There was no thought of weight and importance which he hadnot made his own. He carried whole libraries inhis head — vast stores of knowledge, not in thememory alone, but digested and assimilated andmade ready for practical use at first hand.The denomination to which he belonged recognized him as one of her greatest theologians —altogether without a peer in these western states— in the realm of thought to which he haddevoted his life, a unique and commanding figurestanding absolutely alone.Of course, in the lecture-room this perfect andeasy mastery of every detail of his subject madeits quick and lasting impression on his students.He commanded their admiration and their reverence. They looked up to him and they boweddown before him.In the second place, he was a profound believerin the theology that he taught. He never askedanother to. accept what he did not accept himself.To his mind truth was of infinite worth, and toplay with it was a heinous crime. The speciousand the sophistical were utterly foreign to hisnature. Fidelity to truth, as he saw and apprehended it, was the regnant principle of his life.His convictions were tremendously strong.Hence his power over the men he taught. Heleft them free to believe as they pleased, butunder the spell of that all-dominating mind howcould they believe other than they were taught ?In the third place, Dr. Northrup was one of themost bounteous and prodigal of teachers. In hislecture-room, in a single hour, out of his exhaus-less stores, he poured forth a profusion of goodthings which astounded the casual visitor, butwhich had ceased to amaze the daily attendantfrom its very commonness. It was not in hisnature to be frugal and economical, and rich ashe was he only followed his bent when he lavishedhis bounty without parsimony.In the fourth place, it was a proportionalteaching, which paid a due regard to the relativevalue and importance of things. Theologicalissues which were stone-dead before the Reformation, were left in their graves, while the fundamental, central and vital questions of theology,and the questions which were engrossing popularattention, formed the staple of class-room discussion. Students went from •¦ Dr. Northrup's classroom to their pulpits and before the people todeclare the eternal verities of our religion. Theyoung minister who rode hobbies and dwelt uponUNIVERSITY RECORD 259side issues and petty concerns belied the instruction he had received.In the fifth place, he taught with boundless^enthusiasm. His mind and soul were quiveringwith life, and there was nothing dry and listless,mechanical and wooden, in his composition. Hewas on fire when he entered the class room, andat the end of the hour everything was ablaze. Hehad spiritual, intellectual, physical and nervouspowers of the first magnitude, and he lavishedthem all without stint. On the expenditure ofvital force he never wasted an anxious thought.On that one occasion he was willing to exhaust itall. The morrow must care for itself. His students caught the contagion. They went from hislecture-hall with red faces. They renewed thediscussions in their private rooms. They debatedand wrangled over disputed points. On themorrow they met their teacher eager for the fray.In the sixth place, he had no stereotypedmethod of teaching. He never handled twoclasses in the same way. He adapted himself tothe special needs of the men before him, and hedid for them the best of which they were capable.He never studied pedagogy from the books. Hewas a born pedagogue. It was in him. Hestudied his subject and his methods, himself andhis pupils, and he constantly improved.It is not a marvel that the man whose eruditioncovered the field of his department, whose thinking was clear and deep and broad and warm,whose teaching was bounteous, magnetic andinspiring — I say it is not to be wondered at thatsuch a man and such a teacher, with that impressive, uplifting personality, should command theadmiration and love of his pupils. Nor need webe surprised that many of his graduates remaintheologically exactly where he left them. Suchconfidence had they in his thinking that theyceased to think for themselves. So powerfullywere they impressed that the impression abides.But their great teacher never stood still. Hewas a progressive thinker, and to each successiveclass he gave the revelation which study andexperience and life had disclosed. As the yearswent by the revelation was modified and enlargedand enriched. When I first knew him he wasgiving his classes straight Calvinism, which heelucidated and defended with the skill of amaster. By degrees he grew out of conceit withsome of its harsher features, which, at last,became to him immoral and repulsive. I cannot undertake in the few moments at mydisposal to indicate his theological position. Itmust suffice to say in general :First, that his mind drew away from theologicalfictions, however venerable with age and howeverbuttressed by great authorities. More and morehe detected and discarded those purely humaninventions in speculative theology which have nobasis in the nature of things — for which neitherscripture nor sound reason gives the slightestwarrant. It was an eliminating process whichbrought his remaining system of doctrine moreand more into accord with reality.Second, his mind was singularly hospitable tonew truth. Every window of his soul was opento the light, and to the very end the shutters werenever down. This was remarkable in a man ofhis years. He read the latest books and discovered and appropriated the truth they had forhim with an eagerness and relish which showedthat the spring and strength of youth were in himstill. Down to the very close he was enrichinghis theology with these added truths which hehad garnered.Thirdly, it was certainly a theology of a tenderer, mellower type as the years went by. Whileit lost nothing in intellectual fire and force, itsheart qualities took a larger place. It was kindlier and warmer, more human and divine. During the years in which I knew him he had severalexalted religious experiences in which, for weekstogether, he seemed to live in the other world.In these seasons of spiritual elevation and discernment, he had visions of heavenly veritieswhich thenceforth became as real to him andeverlasting as the axioms of mathematics. Thelogician gave place to the mystic, and theseecstatic disclosures had their influence, immediate,direct, profound, upon his theology, and thisinfluence was always warm and kindly andgracious.Fourthly, for the reasons I have named, andothers, his trend was away from that old scholastictheology in which he had been trained, and. inwhich he, in turn, had trained his earlier classes,and toward that theology that is denominatednew. With the philosophical, scientific, ethicaland biblical ideas that had heen taking shape inthe last quarter of the century, he made himselffamiliar, and with these ideas he found himselfincreasingly in sympathy, and they powerfullyinfluenced all his later theological conceptions.260 UNIVERSITY RECORDIf I judge him rightly, trend is the proper word.His face was set that way ; but his theologicalthinking, both in its form and substance,belonged to the old order. Those who heard hislast public address only a few months ago beforethe Theological Union must have felt this. Hewas still exposing and destroying the fictions andfalsehoods of Calvinism, but neither the moldnor the matter of his thought displayed thecharacteristics of the newer theology. Hisinquiring and receptive spirit, the dogmas hediscarded and the modern conclusions heaccepted, all pointed in that direction, but heleft the coordinating and systematizing of hisnew conceptions an unfinished task. He was onthe way, but he never reached the goal.A great thinker and a great theologian and agreat teacher has been taken from us.DR. NORTHRUP AS AN ADMINISTRATOR AND FRIEND.By the President of the University,The words which I shall speak need not bevery many; for, many words or few, the end willbe the same — failure to say what ought to havebeen said, or even, might have been said. Itwould scarcely be more difficult for one of hissons to stand before you in this last hour and, inthe presence of his dust, to speak of him and ofhis work. When I first came under his influence— I had almost said into his family — I was a boyof twenty-two ; he was fifty-two. My relationship to him was the relationship of his old age.It was a relationship which, once begun, continued unbroken to the end.It was he who, by persistent endeavor, firstpersuaded me, although he had not seen me, norI him, to make Chicago my home. It was hewho, by his own act, provided me my first opportunity to teach Hebrew, the work my heart hadlong sought to do. It was he who, through hourafter hour, hours that passed into days and weeksand years, guided my thinking on biblical andtheological questions. One night, betweentwelve and one o'clock, in his room, I discoveredhow to read the book of Genesis and remain aprofessing Christian.It was he who encouraged me, a thousandtimes and more, to do this and that, things Icould never have done but for his approval andhis incitement. It was he whose words, spokenWith tears falling on his cheeks, led me to goaway from him and to accept an appointment inthe faculty of another institution ; for, prophet as he proved to be, he said that this experiencemight perhaps be of service for future work inChicago. It was he whose strong and upliftingwords led me to take up again in Chicago awork, the dangers and difficulties and discouragements of which none knew so well as he, with hislong experience. It was he who stood close athand, in those early days of the University whenwe were all strangers to each other, and sometimes with kindly word, at others with sternrebuke, rendered help such as no other rendered.To have known this man in these relations, inthis last and richest period of his eventful life;to have been associated with him in closest touchthroughout this long period ; to have sat at hisfeet as pupil, not through three years, the ordinary period of discipleship, but through seventimes three and more; to have felt the irresistibleforce of his powerful and, using the word literally, his tremendous personality; to have beencarried forward, and, I trust, upward by theinspiration of his spirit; to have been helpedand, in fact, guided by him at every importantpoint in my life since boyhood ; to have beenpermitted in these last years to stand by him andperhaps, now and then, to say a word of cheer, asthere was enacted before my eyes the saddesttragedy of life, that of a powerful mind clingingto life (not for love of life, but for the sake ofdoing life's work) ; this has been my privilege ;and, outside of family ties, this bond has been theone of longest duration and the closest I haveknown.Words, few or many, mean almost nothing now.You will not expect me to speak in academicfashion. Our honored colleague, our cherishedfriend, our leader of time past, our father in thespirit — what was he? How did this soul findexpression for itself and its pulsating energythrough three-quarters of a century? What werethe properties that so took hold of men, andmastered them, and made them, as it were, intoits own likeness ?You have heard this afternoon that he was apreacher. I have heard sermons from some ofthe greatest preachers; but I have never heardsermons which more profoundly stirred me, orwhich more definitely instructed me, than thosewhich came from his lips when, in the strength ofa matured manhood, before old age came on, hestood indeed, a prophet of God, and a philosopher and delivered the message that had its birthUNIVERSITY RECORD 261in a soul instructed and illumined and directedfrom on high. You have heard, and you know,that he was a teacher. No man ever met himas a pupil meets a teacher, and failed to appreciate that he was in the hands of a master-teacher.He was, of course, as has been said, a thinker.He could not otherwise have preached or taughtas he did preach and teach. He was not awriter ; his ideals were too high ; he was toosevere a critic of his own work. Perhaps, in this,he ranks higher than some of those who writethe books that live. a week, or a month, or a yearonly.He was a leader of men and an administrator.In this field of work, he was a doer ; but he wasmore than this, he inspired other men to do ;still more than this, he was a creator. In thework of building up, the world distinguishes twoclasses of leaders ; the leader who has been provided by some agency with means for doing, andthe leader who must himself both provide themeans and do ; our colleague will receive his assignment in the ranks of those who have createdsomething out of nothing. He was called to effect an important work of educational organization. It was the work of making bricks withoutstraw. To be sure, one cannot make bricks without straw or its equivalent. Our departed colleague provided the straw and made the bricks.The work was done. He did not do it alone;for no man ever works alone, much less a leader.But he so represented the cause for which helabored that others joined him. These, however,depended largely upon him for their inspiration.Again and again the trustees of the theologicalseminary would raise the question : Shall the institution be opened during the coming year ?Again and again the institution opened, without.visible means of support ; but every year itopened ; the support was secured, the work wasdeveloped, and the foundations were thus laid forthe larger work of the future. Our colleague inthose days was the general ; he was also the captain, and the lieutenant, and the private. Hegave orders ; but, for the most part, he was required to execute his own orders. It is one thingto be a general with an army at your back andwith sufficient supplies. It is easy enough to giveorders, if there is a strong staff to carry them into execution. The leader, ordinarily, employshis entire strength in the work of leadership.But here was a leader whose time and strength were in large measure occupied with the petty detail of routine execution. He was not infrequently compelled to give instruction in otherdepartments than in his own, there being nofunds to provide occupants for those chairs. Hewould spend his Sundays in the churches of thetowns and cities of the West, seeking in this wayto make friends for the institution and to securemoney for the help of students.To be the chief executive of an educational institution under the most fortunate circumstancesis, for most men, disturbing, distracting and distasteful. Under the circumstances just described,it must have been and was disheartening in theextreme. But faith in his mission carried himforward and carried forward with him the manywho through his efforts and under his leadershipcontributed toward the building up of the institution. It was he who attached to himself and tothe work the wise skill and generous help of Mr.C. N. Holden and of Mr. E. Nelson Blake, andthat of many others ; but for whose assistance theseminary could not have continued its work. Itwas he who, by his tact, led Mr. Rockefeller firstto become interested in Chicago as a field oflarge educational possibilities, and thereby prepared the way for the important work committedto our University. It was he who, by his influenceand wise management, brought about the unionof the seminary, with its many years of magnificent achievement, and the newly born University— a union greatly blessed by God both to divinityschool and university. All this was the work ofa leader, an executive ; and it was done, in spiteof difficulties arid obstacles which would haveproved insurmountable if the work had been undertaken by a soul less daring or a spiritless consecrated.In these multiform activities this soul, that hasso recently departed, expressed itself. Whatwere its properties ? Our friend, during theperiod of his life in which I knew him, was a manof much sorrow, a man known of disease. Hecarried many and great burdens, aside from thoseconnected with his official position. His was anexceedingly sensitive soul ; capable of keenestsuffering. He was by far too sensitive to be engaged in public work. Criticism based on misunderstanding of the facts, cut him to the quick ;and the very fact that he was determined to conceal his suffering from those about him made itall the more severe. For ten years or more he262 UNIVERSITY RECORDsuffered from the disease which finally broughthis death. But in all this he recognized the handof Providence; and no man ever sought moreearnestly than he to be submissive to the will ofGod, and to accept with true appreciation thedivine favor which shows itself even in sorrow.He was a man who never hesitated to sacrificehis own interests when those of others were involved, for the cause of truth and righteousness.He did, so many times, what most of us, somany times, fail to do. He spoke the word ofappreciation at the right time ; he ujttered theword of sympathy in the right place. One nightwe were together in a New York City hotel. Ihad left my family just two days before, all inperfect health. Near midnight came the message—sudden and wholly unexpected — of thedeath of the baby, two years old. That nightwhile waiting for the morning train to carry mehome, I learned the significance of human sympathy, I learned it in his room and from him.He was a man of the deepest religious spirit.His religion was of the meditative character.There was in it no shallowness, no cant. It wasthe religion of a soul instinctively religious ; butit was also of a highly intellectual type. Hismind sought, far, far down, the foundation rockon which to rest his faith. Aud this faith, broadand deep and generous, was as firm as the rockitself on which it found its*rest. Above all thingselse, to those who knew him intimately, there appealed the strength of his religious life. It wasgigantic, as compared with that of the many religious pigmies who are all about us. Thisstrength came from prayer and meditation ; fromconstant communion with his God. I have seenhim when he was wholly oblivious to outside influences, when he seemed to have been caughtup in the spirit. There were seasons in his life,and one of those was in the very last year, whenhe seemed wholly absorbed in the contemplationof that which pertains to the spiritual world ;when, indeed, he seemed to have been lifted intothe heights above. These were seasons of indescribable happiness and satisfaction. I have notknown any man whose prayers have seemed todraw me nearer to God. On that day, six weeksago, when, almost brokenhearted because hecould not finish his course of instruction, he wasat last compelled to give up work, 1 was withhim. His spirit was wholly that of resignation,and he was happy even in this great disappoint ment. Three weeks ago I spent an hour withhim. His spirit was the same. Three days before he died, when his strength was almost gone,his mind clouded by the near approach of death,his lips already incapable of forming intelligiblespeech, I was with him again. The efforts hewas making by gesture and by. tone of voice,pointed again to the controlling habit of his life— that of prayer.He was a man of high ideals and of large character. He was, among other men, a great man.It was his high ideal of achievement that sometimes made him seem sterner than he was atheart. I have received from the mouth of noman, living or dead, words relating to myselfmore critical or more severe than have comefrom his lips. Nor have these always been utteredprivately. Coming from him they sank deep intomy soul. His was a mind that lived on a higherplane than that ordinarily reached even by goodmen. He read men's hearts, and understoodthem, often as they did not understand themselves. His attitude of mind was distinctly critical. His sympathy, consequently, meant muchmore than most men's sympathy. His sternnesswas something like that of Elijah, for he couldnot endure anything that seemed like sham. Buthe had, likewise, the tenderness of an Hosea, thebreadth and the high endeavor of an Isaiah. Heis gone ; but his work so gloriously begun willcontinue. Time will show that for Chicago andthe Northwest no man in the second half of thenineteenth century has wrought a better or morelasting work directly for theological educationand indirectly for general education than didGeorge Washington Northrup.It is fitting that the first official act of the university in the twentieth century should be the actof honoring, in such simple way as men and institutions can honor, the memory of one who wasso true, so strong, and so great. True to everyprinciple of truth, as he by serious effort had discovered it. Strong, in all that makes life worthyand acceptable. Great, in having given his lifeand thought, his every energy to the building ofan institution which, with the divine favor shallprove to be a source of help and uplifting tomany of the sons of men.The closing prayer was offered by the Rev. W.M. Lawrence, D.D., of the Second Baptist Church.Oakswood Cemetery is the place of burial.UNIVERSITY- RECORD 263ADDRESS ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE BUST OF DR. NORTHRUP TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, OCT. 4, 1898.By the Rev. Frederick L. Anderson.The Alumni of the Divinity School have causeda bust of Dr. Northrup to be executed and todaypresent it to the authorities of the University.He is worthy for whom we do this thing, because for forty years he has been a great teacherof the mysteries of God and man.After all the teacher stands first. I use the wordin its broadest sense, including all teachers inprofessors' or editors' chairs, or the pulpit, at thelaboratory table, or the litterateur's desk, on themother's throne, in the inventor's den, or on thefield of action, whether they teach by word, or pen,or illustrious example. Thus defined, the teacher's office is supreme.The true measure of the importance and sacred-ness of things is the power with which they touchand influence human life. Home is a sacredplace, for here men are born, nourished and disciplined. Love is a sacred thing, for life withoutlove is not worth the living. Murder and lustare the worst crimes, for they destroy and corruptlife. Mother and father, wife and children, areour most sacred ties, for their lives are bound upwith ours. God's name is to be pronounced withprofoundest reverence, for God is the source andfountain of all life. " In him is life and the lifeis the light of men."By this test of influence on human life all ourparties and professions are graded. Idlers,whether rich or poor, enrich no one's life anddebase their own. They justly deserve all the contempt they get. Cut them down ! Why should theycumber the ground ? The vast host of toilers whotill our fields, build our cities, and distribute theproducts of the earth and the factory, are worthy ofall honor, for they support life, and make it strong.They serve their generation nobly and well.They are the broad platform on which is rearedthe splendid fabric of our civilization. And yet,their influence on life is at second hand. Theydeal directly with the soil, the brick, the mortar,the dry goods, the railroads, stocks, and gold.By almost unanimous consent those who dealdirectly with the life of men have a higher honor.The physician preserves men's physical life. Thelawyer preserves the social fabric by adjustingmen's conflicting interests with justice, andbrings peace between man and man on the basisof right. The statesman occupies even a higherposition, for he governs men by law and directs the nation's life in great crises. Justly are greatstatesmen, generals, and kings honored, who havemolded nations in wisdom and led them in thepath of progress and righteousness.But higher than physical, social, or nationalrelations, is the sphere of mind. This is theteacher's kingdom. He disciplines, instructs,directs the minds of men. And so it is not thekings, the warriors, the lawyers, the bankers, thecarpenters, the farmers, who really rule the world.It is the philosophers, the teachers who are theultimate rulers. Ideas sway all history. Confucius has molded China as none of her emperors,Buddha has had more power in the Orient thanall its kings and conquerors, Jesus has changedthe history of mankind. His teaching conqueredthe Roman empire, caused the Reformation, andis to dominate the whole world.And here again we must grade teachers by thevital test. Worthy of all honor are the teachersof the natural sciences, who teach men about theworld without. But higher still are those whoteach men about the world of thought, history,literature, and mathematics. " Know thyself,"however, is the nobler. The teacher of psychologyand ethics, of the processes "and powers of thesoul comes nearest to life. This has been thesphere of the world's four or five imperial masters, for here we touch life in its very seat andbeing.But highest of all are those who teach men ofGod. Knowledge of self must bow before theknowledge of the Most High, whom to know,says Jesus, is eternal life. Religion is the highest reach of the human mind. It employs itsnoblest faculties at their topmost ability. Itssubjects of thought are the most inspiring, itsscope is the broadest, its practical results infinitely the most important. Theology is thequeen of all the sciences. Natural science, literature, history, philosophy, all pour their treasuresat her feet, and she makes use of them all tobuild her splendid palace of truth for the gloryof God and the good of men.In this highest of spheres, Dr. Northrup hasbeen a teacher, and a great teacher for forty years.We use the word " great " advisedly. The marksof greatness in a' teacher are four : first comestrue mental vigor, a power of clear, strong,thorough thinking, a mind which does not dallywith superficial aspects, but delves deeply into thevery bowels of the problem, which retuses to be264 UNIVERSITY RECORDled from the main track to side issues, but pursues relentlessly the fundamental thought to allits conclusions.Intellectual honesty, too, there must be, honesty with himself, with his pupils, with God. Thegreat teacher has a strange simplicity and directness, due to his inability to comprehend thetwists and turns of those who say what they areexpected to say and trim their sails to every windof doctrine. The truth to him is the one greatgoal, infinitely precious, infinitely attractive. Heturns neither to the right hand nor to the left.He is neither a conservative nor a radical. He,cares naught for parties or party names. He isa truth seeker and a truth speaker, and knowsnothing of consequences. With Bishop Butler,he cries, " since things are as they are, why shouldwe wish to deceive ? " Spiritual insight must beadded. The great teacher must have the rarefaculty of knowing the truth from error. Manymental giants have dragged the world into great,mistakes by sheer strength. Many honest mengo astray, and their very honesty makes them themore dangerous, for more men will follow them.Spiritual insight depends on character. He whowills to do His will shall know. The most careful reseach, the broadest learning, the acutestpowers of mind, mere intellectual honesty cannever take the place of a character hid withChrist in God and a mind illumined by the HolySpirit. Christ, Christ in us the hope of glory;Christ in us, the way and the truth and the life, isthe only guide into the deeper mysteries of existence. Without him, man may successfully teachthe simple sciences, but never those most successfully. In the higher realms, he who is withoutChrist may be strong and brave and honest, buthe is only one of the blind leading the blind.Only a life of true obedience and prayer, a lifewhich grows beautiful in union with Christ cangive spiritual insight, a sort of divine instinct,which can discriminate truth from error and halftruth from the truth as it is in Christ.Lastly, the great teacher must have sympathywith his pupils. He must be able to understandtheir point of view. He must see their difficulties,and wisely remove them. He must love themand yearn over them as a father, that they mayknow the truth. He will lead them gently along,from light to light, encouraging them to discoverthemselves to him, that he may do them good.These four qualities, mental vigor, intellectual honesty, spiritual insight, and sympathy are foundin high degree in Dr. Northrup. No one can bein his class room without receiving a mighty impress of a mighty spirit. His strong personalitywakes men up, sets them thinking for themselves, and begets in them the intellectual imageof their teacher.Not merely because Dr. Northrup is thriceworthy of the honor do we present this bust. Itis the token of deepest gratitude and truest affection. (Turning to Dr. Northrup.) Dear teacher,we, your intellectual and spiritual sons, greet youtoday. In the year's of your instruction we learnedto love and revere you. You molded us with amaster hand ; you quickened and furnished ourminds ; you fed our souls with the strong food ofdivine truth. Some hours in your classroomwere true banquets of the Holy Ghost. Greattruths seemed to be revealed and realized in marvelous fashion, transforming us from spiritualbabes into men in Christ Jesus. In such hourswe felt our spirit grow, our view broaden. It wasnot seeming ; it Was reality. We have never lostthe impress and impetus of those hours. Youstarted us, and you started us right ; and in theintervening years we have come to appreciatemore and more what you did for us, and to loveand revere you with a deeper and more intelligent affection.So you have multiplied yourself a thousandfold. Under God, as prophet, you have sentforth a thousand prophets. At your fire we havelit our torches. From your lips we have learnedour message. The truth, as you have taught it,reaches now around the world. Such, dearteacher, is your undying honor, your inestimablereward. We present this bust to the University,but we are your joy and your crown.Nor will your mighty influence ever fail. Godmay call you hence, our tongues may be silent inthe grave, this bust may be forgotten, this greatUniversity may crumble, but your contribution totruth will never die. Truth is immortal, and hewho proclaims it does work which cannotperish.(Turning to the President.) In behalf of thealumni of the Divinity School and the friends ofDr. Northrup I present this bust to you, Mr.President, representing the University, that it mayoccupy a fitting and honorable place in the hallsof this institution forever.UNIVERSITY RECORD 265MEMORIAL TRIBUTES.The following tributes to Dr. Northrup comefrom men engaged in the work to which his lifewas given.FROM THE REV. AUGUSTUS H. STRONG, D.D., LL.D., PRESIDENT OF ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.Dr. Northrup served the Rochester TheologicalSeminary either as instructor or as professor from1857 to 1867. During the last two of theseyears he was also the acting pastor of the FirstBaptist Church of Rochester. His work in hisprofessorship was so connected with his work inthe church that the one cannot be described without the other. He brought to us a new element— an element unique and valuable, but not before represented in our seminary life — I meanthe contemplative, the spiritual, the mystical inits highest and best sense.Dr. Northrup was intellectual, critical, stimulating, in a high degree. But he added an emotional intensity, an aspiration after God, a senseof dependence, a conscious communion withChrist, which impressed all who came in contactwith him. I shall never forget Dr. Northrup'sprayers at the beginning of his lectures — plaintivecries of the child for the guidance of its Father —nor his rousing himself from reverie, when hethought himself alone, with the words : " Oh, thatI could be like God ! " His life in Rochester wasmarked by some extraordinary experiences, comparable only to those of Tennant and of theapostle Paul, when he seemed to himself to becaught up into the seventh heaven and made therecipient of communications which were beyondthe power of human tongue to utter.I was myself a member of the first class hetaught in ecclesiastical history. I have sometimestold him in a half jest that he never taught sowell afterwards. I meant only that his agonizingstruggle at that time to know the truth, and theabsolute candor with which he welcomed everysuggestion of his students, set us to work as dogmatic teaching would never have done. Welearned a method of investigation that was betterthan ready-made doctrine.Whether he afterwards persisted in followingthe same method in his teaching, I do not know.One thing I am sure of, namely, that in thoseearly years he had seized upon the essential principle of all Seminar instruction. He seldom ornever read lectures. He taught by topics; hegrouped the whole history of the church, around a dozen salient points ; he indicated under each ofthese the main questions that needed investigation ; he set us to reading upon these and tofinding the answers for ourselves ; we brought theresults into the class; vigorous and prolongeddiscussion followed ; conclusions were put by hispupils into elaborate essays. I know of no bettermethod than this of teaching advanced students.Much of my own way of managing a class Ilearned from him.The great revival of religion which followed hissupply of the pulpit of the First Baptist Churchhad the effect of sending into the ministry manyseminary students who all their lives long lookedback to him as an object-lesson for the conductof evangelistic work. When he became presidentof the Theological Seminary in Chicago, after histen years of service here, Rochester mourned hisloss, but for Chicago it was great gain, for all thathas followed there may not improperly be said tobe due to him.The reverence which his students felt for theman greatly helped their studies. Yet there wasa certain massiveness of thought and character inDr. Northrup which prevented most of his pupilsfrom getting close to him. The playful and thehumorous were not native to him. His views,however, were more somber in his earlier than inhis later years. His mind was open to truth. Helonged to know the truth. It pleases me to thinkthat, after the long struggle of his life to learnthe truth, he now no longer sees through a glassdarkly, but beholds face to face Him who is thetruth.FROM THE REV. ALVAH HOVEY, D.D. OF NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION.In the death of Dr. Northrup the Baptists ofAmerica have lost a leader of consummate abilityand worth. He stood in the first rank of hiscontemporaries as a student, a preacher, an educator, a theologian, and a man. His influencewas greatest no doubt in the middle Northwest,but it was confined to no part of the country ;through his pupils it reached the ends of theearth. His presence was always more than welcome at our yearly anniversaries, and wheneverhis voice was heard in the assembly it was listenedto with marked respect. Not many years havepassed since the highest office and honor in thegift of the American Baptist Missionary Unionwere conferred upon him, and I well remembertwo of his masterly discourses before that body.266 UNIVERSITY RECORDOne of them was distinctly theological, and theother was as distinctly missionary, but bothwere logical, eloquent, and impressive. It wasone of the rare privileges of a life time to hearthe former discourse, as well because of its intrinsic excellence as because of the light whichit cast on the work of a great seminary. Forthere is more than one central truth of religion, aluminous discussion of which will reveal the character of a whole system of theology. And it waswith great satisfaction that many listened to sucha discussion from the lips of Dr. Northrup.It is worth remembering that this honoredteacher was a student to the last. The windowsof his soul were kept open to the light of newstars in the firmament of truth until the endcame. I do not suggest that he was easily moved,or carried about by every wind of doctrine. Thiswas not the case. His reasoning may have beenin some cases bold, but it was always reverent andwell considered. While the roots of his faithreached down into the holy depths of divinegrace, we know that in his riper years he becamevery solicitous to vindicate the ways of God toman, by giving a larger place to human freedomthan many Calvinists have done. He may nothave spoken the last word on this subject, but noone can fail to admire his earnestness and power.And it is certain that he meant to honor Godrather than to flatter men in every sentence hewrote on the subject. Every thoughtful readerof his articles in the Standard on the "Sovereigntyof God in Predestination" will perceive this, andmany will regret his failure to give to the publicin book form during his own life the entire substance of his theological system. It would havebeen an able work, full of high thought and ofnoble aspiration.But personal address is often better thanauthorship. The One Teacher who will neverhave a peer wrote his words on living tablets, thehearts of men, and left the task of transferringthem to paper to some of his disciples. In likemanner Dr. Northrup, with his commandingpresence and deep enthusiasm, was called to buildfrom its foundations a school of the prophets,destined to serve mankind for ages. And sometimes he had to follow the example of Paul, earning his own salary by preaching on Sunday, whilehe served the school by teaching on every otherday of the week. Full well did he perform thisdouble task, putting his whole being into the sermon as faithfully as into the lecture. It is not,therefore, surprising that both pupils and peopleheard with interest. I can easily believe what hasbeen told me by more than one young man underhis instruction, that his lectures in the class roomwere often glorious, uplifting, full of clear, comprehensive, and vital thought. Impressions werethus made upon character and life which willnever be lost. This is the teacher's reward, andif he spares no effort to make his work perfect, sothat he can say with the apostle, "I am clean fromthe blood of all," his service will be his joy.Dr. Northrup's mind was philosophical, hisgrasp of principles firm, and his method of exposition clear. Hence his teaching was adapted toconvince the understanding of his pupils. Butthat was not all. Something more than the drylight of reason beamed from his contenance as hediscussed the great themes of Christian truth.His spiritual nature was emotional, having itsperiods of dusk and of dawn, of silent thought, andof glowing speech. His deep love of God and ofChrist blended with the current of his logic whenhe was dealing with the doctrines of salvation,and persuasion flowed from his lips in the moldsof purest logic. Thus the sincerity and richnessof his inner life added much to the force of histeaching. Through more than forty years heserved Christ in the chairs of Ecclesiastical Historyand of Systematic Theology, and we look back overhis long and useful career as that of a prince anda leader in Israel, one of the true Christian noblemen of the nineteenth century. Rochester andChicago, Hamilton and Newton, Crozer andLouisville, unite in praise to God for the nobilityof his character and life.FROM THE REV. HERRICK JOHNSON, D.D., LL.D., OFMCCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.Dr. Northrup approached my ideal of a courtly,courteous Christian gentleman, whose urbanityand dignity, blended in a winsome personality,and made him a man to meet and love.His broad, sweet catholicity of spirit did notblurr the boundary of his clearly-defined andsharply-edged intellectual convictions. He helda mediating position in some of the great fieldsof thought. In his later effort to get the essentials of Calvinism and Armenianism in the scalesof a better balance, I was deeply interested, andwhile I could not wholly agree with him, theattempt to get beneath the surface of things, andto go deep enough to find the truer harmoniesUNIVERSITY RECORD 267filled me with admiration, and confirmed a growingconviction of years that, by and by, many of tfieseeming contradictions of theologic thought willbe proved the divinest consistencies.The brave, manly, courageous, lofty soul thattenanted here awhile in the flesh, is possibly nowitinerating the universe on some mighty businessfor God. For fidelity's chief reward is largerservice.FROM PROFESSOR MILTON S. TERRY, D.D., LL.D., OFGARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE.I think of Dr. Northrup as a commandingpersonality whom no one could meet and knowarid not revere. He was remarkably giftedwith a power of intellectual penetration whichseemed part and parcel of a genius for graspingthe main elements of a subject and perceivingthem at once in their essential bearings. Hisbreadth of view and his kindly spirit were as remarkable as was his intuitive grasp of truth.There was also united with his comprehensiveness of view a poise of judgment so nicely balanced as to give his conclusions great weight withall who knew him well. These rare qualitiescombined to make him a profound theologian,an impressive preacher, a steadfast and affectionate friend. His long and honorable career gaveample proof of his exceptional worth. We donot often look upon his like, and when a masterworkman, who has long filled so large a place inthe building of God's temple, falls, there is adeep and wide-felt sense of loss.RESOLUTIONS.THE CHICAGO BAPTIST SOCIAL UNION.Since the December meeting of the SocialUnion one of its three honorary members haspassed away — Rev. George W. Northrup, LL.D.In view of the loss thus sustained by this organization, as well as by our own denomination andthe Christian world in general, it is fitting for usto pause, even in this hour of social intercourse,to pay a formal tribute to the memory of a greatreligious teacher.For more than a third of the nineteenth century, during which period the most vigorousassaults were directed against the Bible and allwhich we hold sacred in religion, on the onehand, and during which there was developed themost widespread interest in thorough study ofthe Bible, on the other, Dr. Northrup wrought, in this great center of working and thinking, asteacher of the greatest of sciences, theology./ Broad-minded in his views of essential truth,strenuous in his advocacy of the right, always afoe to blind or vicious error, always the friend oflucidity and righteousness, always open-mindedto new light and new statement of old truth,inspiring his hundreds of pupils with his enthusiasm, his learning, and his catholicity, he wasprovidentially appointed as a prophet in his day,who in largest measure realized the full anddeeper significance of that word. Living whenhe did, as he did, and where he did, his influenceupon the religious thinking of his generation wasdeep, uplifting, and enduring.The Social Union in this tribute to the memory of Dr. Northrup desires to put on record itsadmiration for the service he rendered the causeof Christian education, its profound sense of lossto the denomination and institution he served,and its sympathy for the members of his familyin their sorrow.THE SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY.The death of George Washington Northrup,D.D., LL.D., renders it fitting that we, the Senateof the University of Chicago, should spread uponthe records a brief statement of our appreciationof the worth of our lamented and honored colleague.We recognize in our late associate a man ofunusual original endowments. Nature gave hima stalwart figure arid a vigorous mind. " Hissplendid physical proportions truly representedthe greatness of his mental stature."We recognize the diligence and fidelity .withwhich he cultivated and improved these native giftswith which he was so richly endowed. Through allthe years he was a hard student. His powers ofacquisition were truly wonderful. He gave hislife specially to the study of theology. His reading and thinking covered the whole field of theological and philosophical speculation. He digested and assimilated vast stores of knowledge,and in his chosen department he was profoundlylearned.We recognize Dr. Northrop's rare gifts as ateacher. Profound in his thinking, lucid andstrong in the expression of his thought, he swayedwith extraordinary power the minds of his hearers, whether in the lecture-room, in the pulpit, oron the platform. His students gave him theiradmiration and affection. All over the world are268 UNIVERSITY RECORDmen who will never cease to think of him withreverence and gratitude. He is living again inthe best thinking and highest living of his sonsin the ministry.We recognize the truth-loving spirit with whichhe pursued his investigations and reached his conclusions. He turned the leaves of the book ofnature and the book of revelation with an open,receptive mind. In reverent juiood, docile andeager, he sought to learn their deep secrets, movedsolely by the desire to read therein the thoughtsof God.We recognize the fact that in his own personalexperience he realized the truth and the precious-ness of the religion he taught to others. Througha long life of patient research there stood forthto his mind, in ever clearer relief, the centralFigure of revelation, in whom he saw the expressimage of the invisible God, the supreme disclosure of the Divine self-sacrifice, the friend, andbrother and Saviour of his trusting soul.In his declining years, Tennyson's " Crossingthe Bar" was Dr. Northrup's favorite poem. Hehas now realized the hope expressed in the laststanza :Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me !And may there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deep,Turns again home.Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark !And may there be no sadness of farewell,When I embark :For tho' from out our bourne of Time and PlaceThe flood may bear me far,I hope to see my Pilot face to face,When I have crossed the bar.THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE DIVINITY SCHOOL OFTHE UNIVERSITY.Dr. George W. Northrup began his labors asprofessor of Systematic Theology in the BaptistUnion Theological Seminary at the opening ofthe organized work of the institution in September, 1867. He was particularly the president ofthe seminary from the first and was formallyelected to that office July 1, 1869. After a servicecontinuing through a quarter of a century he voluntarily retired from the presidency, but con tinued the work of his professorship until hisdeath, making a period of service of more thanthirty-three years. During the period of hispresidency and while the seminary was in a condition of financial weakness he performed for theinstitution a great variety of services. In addition to filling the chair of theology, he taught atdifferent times homiletics and pastoral theology,church history and the history of doctrines, logicand philosophy. He also devoted much attention to soliciting funds for the institution andrendered very great service in securing the seminary endowments. During his presidency he wasalways present at the meetings of the trustees andgave every possible assistance to the board in itsarduous labors.In all these multiform services Dr. Northrupexhibited abilities of the highest order. Hisservices in the class room were so eminently successful as to give him a place among the greatestinstructors of his time. His work as an administrator, performed under the most serious difficulties, was of the most successful character.He was a wise adviser and his services inencouraging and assisting the board of trusteeswere invaluable. He labored unselfishly and mostefficiently with President Harper to effect theunion of the Seminary with the University as itsDivinity School. His long period of eminentand successful and useful service to the Seminaryand Divinity School and to the cause of theological education is an occasion for gratitude to God.He filled out the full period of human life, dyingin his seventy-sixth year, continuing his work beyond his seventy-fifth birthday, ceasing from hislabors only eight weeks before his death. In hisdecease the Divinity School has lost a great teacher and a most faithful servant. He gave thestrength of his life to the task of establishingpermanently a great school of theology for thedenomination in this center of influence, and hisefforts were crowned with success. He rests fromhis labors and his works follow him.THE FACULTY OF THE NFWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION.By the death of Dr. George W. Northrup a distinguished teacher of Christian theology has beenremoved from your Divinity School. His careerwas one of great usefulness. An able preacher,he was also an equally able teacher. His mindwas philosophical and constructive. During histen years' service at the Rochester TheologicalUNIVERSITY RECORD 269Seminary in the chair of Ecclesiastical History,he gained for himself a high standing in his department of study and instruction ; and duringhis twenty-four years' service at the TheologicalSchool in Chicago, he added much to his reputation as a powerful teacher and leader in the Baptist denomination. We desire to cherish thememory of his worth, and to put on record ourhigh appreciation of his services to the cause oftruth, as well as our admiration for him as aChristian brother. How many have been stimulated by his noble presence, his uplifting thought,and his eloquent speech ! How many will lookback upon the hours spent in his class room asamong the most sacred and inspiring of theirlives I And we who rarely met him except onpublic occasions will never lose the impressionmade upon us by his manliness and force. Hewas truly a prince and a leader in Israel, and itwill not be easy to fill his place with a man ofequal distinction.It is a cause for regret that so small a part ofhis best work has been given to the press, and wehope that it is not now too late to preserve inthis way his theological lectures, if they were virtually prepared for the printer by his own hand.But at all events they are safe in the hearts of hispupils, and on the other shore he will certainlymeet not a few who were largely indebted to himfor their power to do good in the ministry ofChrist. So then we say to him from this dimsphere :" Servant of God, well done !Rest from thy loved employ ;The battle fought, the victory won,Enter thy Master's joy ! "THE BAPTIST MINISTERS'S CONFERENCE OF CHICAGO.Whereas, In the providence of God, the Rev.George Washington Northrup, D.D., LL.D., hasfinished a long and useful career, departing thislife December 30, 1900, andWhereas, In his departure the Baptist denomination has lost a recognized leader, the city ofChicago a useful and honorable citizen, the University of Chicago a wise and noble teacher;andWhereas, By reason of his far-reaching influence, Christian people all over the world mourntoday with us as those who share a common sorrow, therefore Resolved, That while humbly submissive to thewill of Him at whose call our brother has gone toreceive a crown of life, we record our gratefulappreciation of the conspicuous services renderedby Dr. Northrup.First, to the cause of ministerial education, beginning with his election in 1858 to the chair ofChurch History in Rochester Theological Seminary, and continuing through all the history of theBaptist Union Theological Seminary, from its organization in 1867 until it finally became theDivinity School of the University of Chicago — alife devoted to the work of training young men inthe knowledge of God's word, and preparing themto proclaim the gospel to a perishing world.Secondly, to the cause of general and -highereducation by virtue of his great influence in thefounding of the new University of Chicago, andestablishing it as a center of learning in the Northwest.Thirdly, in the office of President of the American Baptist Missionary Union where his commanding presence, his knowledge of men, hisenthusiasm in the advance of the kingdom of God,made him an ideal and inspiring director in missionary councils.Fourthly, in many pulpits east and west wherehis earnest and eloquent promulgation of scriptural truth, and his vigorous defense of Christiandoctrine, left deep and lasting impressions uponthe large audiences which constantly listened tohim.Resolved, That to the faculties and officials ofthe University of Chicago, and especially to thosewho as fellow instructors in the Divinity Schoolmost keenly feel the loss of the great teacher, weextend our heartiest sympathy.Resolved, That to the Alumni of the institutionsin which he taught, and over which he presided,we give assurance that we share with them in thegreat sorrow that has befallen us all.Resolved, That we commend the bereaved sonsand daughter to that consolation which is foundalone in Jesus Christ, to whose service their honored father devoted his best energies and consecrated his life.Resolved, That these resolutions be enteredupon the minutes of the conference and thatcopies of the same be forwarded to the faculty ofthe Divinity School, and to the family of thedeceased.270 UNIVERSITY RECORDREPORT OF ACTIONS OF UNIVERSITY RULING BODIESFOR JULY-OCTOBR, 1901.The Faculty of the Senior Colleges :Meeting of July 20. — The consideration of therecommendation of the Senate that a separateFaculty be established in the College of Commerce and Administration was postponed untilautumn.Meeting of August 24. — ) Recommendationsfor advanced standing were made as follows :Emily H. Adams, Elizabeth N. Blanding, A. B. Grace-Ion, Mary E. Jones, J. C. Paltridge, G. N. W. Teyen.The Faculty of the Junior Colleges :Meeting of August 24. — The following nameswere recommended for advanced standing :Gertrude L. Caswell, Helen A. Dow, J. A. Liggett, NinaD. Moore, Leonora Pound.Meeting of October 12. — Professor Moore presented a plan for the registration and subdivisionof students in Mathematics 1 during the AutumnQuarter and the Mathematics 2 during the WinterQuarter upon a basis of scholarship. Trial ofthis plan for six months was authorized.The Faculty of the School of Education :The first meeting of this faculty was held July20. The time for the regular monthly meetingwas appointed for the second Friday in the monthat 4 : 00 o'clock.Standing committees were appointed as follows :1. On the requirements for admission.2. On credits, degrees, diplomas.3. On extension work.4. On curriculum and interrelationship.5. On editorial work.It was voted that students shall be accepted forwork in the School of Education as follows :1. Graduates of approved colleges, universities, and normal schools.2. Graduates of high schools and academies, affiliated andcooperating with the University.3. Graduates of high schools on the accredited list of thestate universities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa,Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, Ohio, California. 4. Teachers who have had at least one year's successfulexperience, when recommended by the Committee on Credits,Degrees, and Diplomas.5. Persons who would be admitted as unclassified studentsof the University proper.The Board of University Affiliations :Meeting of October 5. — The following schoolswere accepted for affiliation :The Denver, Colo., High School.The Atlanta, Ga., Girls' High School.Elkhart, Ind., High School.The Logansport, Ind., High School.The South Bend, Ind., High School.The Davenport, la., High School.The Kansas City, Mo., High School.The Macon, Mo., High School.The St. Joseph, Mo., High School.The Helena, Mont., High School.The Board of the University Press :Meeting of October iq.— The following requestsfor the publication of Doctor's theses were presented and the requests granted :Mr. Philip S. Allen, to publish in the Journal of Germanic Philology. Mr. Maxwell Adams, to publish in theAmerican Chemical Journal. Mr. Ralph H. McKee, to bepublished by the Chemical Publishing Co., Easton, Pa.Mr. Fred B. R. Hellems, to be published by Scott, Foresman& Co. Mr. J. H. McDonald, to be published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.The Faculty of the Divinity School.Meeting of July 20. — The following recommendations for candidacy were approved :Bachelor of Divinity: Peter Clark Wright, New Testament, Church History; E. A. E. Palmquist Church History, Homiletics ; George E. Young, Semitics, Biblical andPatristic Greek; J. S. Brown, Sociology, Church History;Harlan J. Ballentine, Systematic Theology, Homiletics,Meeting of August 24. — The following nameswere recommended to the University Senate forthe degrees named :Doctor of Philosophy : Clifton D. Gray, Preston P. Bruce.English Certificate; Charles R. Betts.Doctor of Divinity: J. F. Boeye, J. W. Bailey, J. S.Brown, F. F. Parsons.Meeting of October iq. — The committee on theadjustment of the curriculum to students for aDivinity degree who have the Bachelor's degreeUNIVERSITY RECORD 271in Science, and the committee on the curriculumfor Medical Missionaries, were given six monthsin which to prepare their reports.The Board of Physical Culture and Athletics.Meeting of October 5. — It was ordered that publication of the official foot-ball games be made inthe weekly Record.The Trustees were requested to set apart andprepare the northeast corner of the athleticgrounds temporarily for the use of women.A continuance of credit for Physical Culturewas given to the members of the band for oneyear from October 1.The appointment of Mr. Sheldon as captain ofthe foot-ball team in place of Mr. Henry, whoresigned, was approved.The following men were approved as eligiblefor the foot-ball team :O. E. Atwood, J. Blackburn, W. Carey, L. M. Sheldon,C. Maxwell, E. E. Perkins, J. H. Fairchild, R. Hoolan, R.Kennedy, W. Mayer, A. Ellsworth, A. W. Greenwood, F. E.Harper, F. O. Horton, J. McNab, C. A. Blair, W. Fuller,C. S. Jennison, H. Leite, L. C. Peacock.The President was requested to submit at thenext meeting a plan for the supervision by thisBoard of the athletic work of all institutions connected with the University.Meeting of October 12. — Messrs. Conrad, Cook,and Flannigan were recognized as eligible toplay on the foot-ball team.The University Council.Meeting of July 2j. — It was recommended thatthe Friday succeeding Thanksgiving be made aholiday. The following plan for an elective system of advisers was adopted :The President to prepare a list of the members of thefaculties willing to serve as advisers. This list to be postedon the official bulletin boards and the plan to be announcedin Chapel-Assemblies and in the Record not later thanOctober 15. The distribution of ballots giving the officiallist of advisers for each college to be checked, signed, andfiled with the Dean of each student desiring to avail himselfof the system.The Recorder was directed to inform instructorsthat in case of students who have not completed in^residence the work of any course, no creditcan be given for such course upon the Recorder'sbooks until such course has been completedthrough the Correspondence Division of the University.The following minute was adopted :On the retirement of Mr. George S. Goodspeed from theoffice of University Recorder, the Council desires to expressits appreciation of his unfailing courtesy, and its high estimate of the faithful, intelligent, and effective service he hasrendered to the University.Meeting of October 2. — The report of the Committee on Codification was accepted and thereport ordered to be printed.The Board of Student Organizations, Publications,and Exhibitions.Meeting of October iq. — It was ordered thatsocial functions conducted under the auspices ofthe students should close at an hour not laterthan one o'clock a. m., and under all circumstances shall be held on Friday and Saturdayevenings or on the evening preceding a holiday.The Council of the Medical Students was organized as follows :1. The Council shall consist of twelve members, six ofwhom shall be representatives of the upper medical studentsand six of the lower.2. Three members shall be elected at the beginning ofeach quarter for a term of two quarters.3. At the first election three shall be chosen for the present quarter only and three for the Autumn and Winterquarters.The Commission on the Club for Women Students was constituted as follows :1. Miss Talbot, Chairman.2. Heads of women's houses, other than Miss Talbot.3. Three women officers of the University not heads ofhouses, these to be selected by the President and Dean ofWomen.4. Two students from each of the four divisions of womenin the University, namely, the Graduate School, School ofEducation, Senior Colleges, Junior Colleges. These representatives to be elected by the students.5. President and Secretary of the Young Women'sChristian Association.6. Five ladies, wives of members of the faculty, to beselected by the Dean of Women.272 UNIVERSITY RECORDUNIVERSITY EXTENSION PERSONAL NOTES.Friends of the University Extension work willbe glad to learn that Professor Nathaniel Butler,Jr., formerly one of our most popular lecturers,and director of the Extension Division in 1894-5,but for the past six years president of Colby University, returns to the University of Chicago thisautumn, and that a portion of his time will begiven to Extension lecturing. For the comingyear he can accept but few engagements, and histime is now fully assigned.Extension workers everywhere will welcome theannouncement of the return of Associate Professor J. H. Raymond to this field of educationalwork. He has spent his past six months travelingin Europe, visiting the capitols and principalcities in preparation of his lecture courses for thecoming year. He returns to this work with wideexperience as a public lecturer, and the centerssecuring him may count themselves among thefortunate.Assistant Professor James Henry Breasted, underappointment by a joint commission of the fourroyal academies of Germany, has, during the pasttwo years, been visiting the museums of Europefor the collection and preparation of the Egyptian inscriptions, for the Egyptian Lexicon endowed by the Emperor in 1897. Dr. Breastedwill be available for a limited number of lectureengagements in and near Chicago during thecoming year. He returned to the University October 1.Few lecturers have left more distinct and lasting impressions on their audiences than has Rev.Jenkin Lloyd Jones. A careful and thoughtfulstudent, he combines deep sympathies and broadhuman interests with a cultivated and discriminating literary taste and a clear, forcible style.Mr. Jones, wisely we think, devotes a portion (alltoo small) of his time each year to the broadereducational work represented in the UniversityExtension movement. During the past springhe spent his vacation lecturing in Birmingham,Ala., and other southern cities. Dr. Nathaniel I. Rubirikam, who has beenspending the past two years studying comparativeliterature in the principal libraries and museumsof Germany and England, returned to Chicago inOctober. During the coming year he will devotea portion of his time to University Extensionlecturing, offering to the centres the results ofhis latest investigations. In a new and especiallyattractive course he endeavors to interpret themusic-dramas of Richard Wagner, with specialreference to the author's intellectual development,to the psychological background and world-viewon which his art rests, and the thought-movementsof the age in which his creations were produced.THE FACULTIES.Recent articles by members of the Faculties :"A Record of Lost Empire in America," Edwin E.Sparks, the Chautauquan, August, 1 901." Constructive Studies in the Priestly Element in the OldTestament," William R. Harper, the Biblical World, April,May, June, July, August, September, October, 1901." The Business Side of a Great University," William R.Harper, the Saturday Evening Post, October 12 and 19,1901." Le Pantheon de Goude*a," Ira M. Price, Revue de DHis-toire des Religions, May and June, 190 1."The University of Glasgow's Ninth Jubilee," Ira M.Price, the Standard, August 10, 1 90 1." The Late Bishop Westcott," Ira M. Price, the Standard,September 7, 1901." The Day of Yahweh," John M. P. Smith, the AmericanJournal of Theology, July, 190 1." Present and Past Conditions in Education," NathanielButler, in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of theAmerican Baptist Education Society for 19.01." Notes on Zeeman Effect," Norton A. Kent, in the Astro-physical Journal for June, 1 901." The Teaching of the Normal Anatomy of the CentralNervous System of Human Beings to Large Classes ofMedical Students," Lewellys F. Barker and Preston Kyes,in the Proceedings of the Association of American Anatomists,December, 1900." On the Clinical Aspects of Plague," Lewellys F. Barker,in the American Journal of Medical Science, October, 1 90 1." Dissociationsvorgange bei den Alkylathern der Salpe-tersaure, der Schwefelsaure und der Halogenwasserstoff-sauren." (Zweite Abhandlung.) J. U. Nef, Liebig" s Annalender Chemie, Bd. 318, SS i— 57.UNIVERSITY RECORD 273" Military Training in Schools," Col. H. R. Brinkerhoff,in the Journal Military Service Institution, September, 190 1."Organization of the Egg of Unio," with four plates.F. R. Lillie, Journal of Morphology, XVII, No. 2." Note on Regeneration arid Regulation in Planarious,"F. R. Lillie, American Journal of Physiology, October, 190 1."An Improved Form of Kuhne's Artificial Eye," E. P.Lyon, School Science, September, 1901." Concerning Harnac's Theory of Improper Definite Integrals," E. H. Moore, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, July, 190 1." Concerning DuBois-Raymond's Two Relative Integra -bility Theorems," E. H. Moore, Annals of Mathematics)July, 1 90 1."The Variable Star 7792 SS Cygni," J. A. Parkhurst,Astrophysical Journal for November, 1900." Determination of the Wedge Constant of a StellarPhotometer," J. Ac Parkhurst, Astrophysical Journal, May,1901." Notes on Variable Stars," J. A. Parkhurst, AstrophysicalJournal, October, 1 901."Artificial Parthenogenesis by Mechanical Agitation,"Albert P. Mathews, American Journal of Physiology , VI, No.2, 1901. *" The Relative Abundance of Bacillus Koli communis inRiver Water as an Index of the Self- Purification of Streams,"by E. O. Jordan in Journal of Hygiene, I, 1901, pp. 295-320.Books recently published by members of thefaculties include :Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Vol. I, Roman, by Frank J.Miller, from the Chautauqua Press, 1901.A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Deathof Queen Victoria, by Benjamin Terry, published by Scott,Foresman & Co., 1901.A Translation of Spaltscholz1 s Hand Atlas of HumanAnatomy, Vol. II, by Lewellys F. Barker; Leipzig, 1901.Recent reviews by members of the faculties :Cheyne : " Encyclopaedia Biblica," Vol. II, by William R.Harper, American Journal of Theology for October, 1901.Konchelt and Heider: "Embryology of Invertebrates,"Vol. IV (Translation), by Frank R. Lillie, Science.Salmon: "Domestic Service," by Marion Talbot, Journalof Political Economy, September, 1901.Gardiner : " Paston Letters," by James W. Thompson, theDial, August 16, 190 1.Dole : " The Religion of a Gentleman," by Gerald B.Smith, American Journal of theology, July, 190 1.Low : " Old Faith and the New Philosophy," by GeraldB. Smith, American Journal of Theology, July, 190 1. Candler : " Christus Auctor," by Gerald B. Smith, American Journal of Theology, July, 1 90 1 .Herman : " Ethik," by Gerald B. Smith, American Jour-nal of Theology, October, 1 901.Herman : " Romische und Evangelische Sittlichkeit," byGerald B. Smith, American Journal of Theology, October1901.Brewster : "Aspects of Revelation," by Gerald B. Smith,American Journal of Theology, October, 1901."Huxley's Letters," by Charles R. Barnes, AmericanJournal of Theology, July, 1 90 1.Shield : " Scientific Evidences of Revealed Religion," byCharles R. Barnes, American Journal of Theology for July,1901." Principles of Religious Education," by Nathaniel Butler,in the American fournal of Theology, July, 190 1.Cheyne and Black : " Encyclopaedia Biblica," Vol. II, byJohn M. P. Smith, American Journal of Theology forOctober, 1901.Wright : " The Psalms of David and Higher Criticism,"by John M. P. Smith, American Journal of Theology forOctober, 1901.Batterbury : " Handbook to the Pentateuch," by John M.P. Smith, Biblical World, September, 1 901.Dock : " Ueber Revolution und Restauration," by C. E.Merriam, Political Science Quarterly, December, 1 90 1.Lillie : " First Principles in Politics," by C. E. Merriam,Political Science Quarterly, March, 1901.Windenberger : " Essai sur le Systeme de PolitiqueEtrangere de J. J. Rousseau," by C. E. Merriam, AmericanHistorical Rewiev, January, 1901.Rehm : " Allgemeine Stattslehre," by C. E. Merriam,Political Science Quarterly, July, iqoi.Goebel : " Edition of Goethe," by M. Schutze, in Peda-gogische Monatschefte, October, 1 90 1.Schmidt: "Edition of Sudermann's Johannes," by M.Schutze, in Pedagogische Monatschefte, October, 1 901.Beard : " Industrial Revolution," by Wesley C. Mitchell.Jou rnal of Political Economy, June ,1901.Jaanacone : " II Costo di Produzione," by Wesley C.Mitchell, Journal of Political Economy, June, 1 90 1 .Mason : " Chapters from Illinois History," by Edwin E.Sparks, American Historical Review, July, 1 90 1.McCready : " South Carolina During the Revolution," byEdwin E. Sparks, Annals of the American Academy, June,1901.Cox : " Military Reminiscences," by Francis W. Shepard-son, Dial, June 1, 1901.Thorpe : " History of the American People," by FrancisW. Shepardson, Dial, September 16, 1901.Smith : " Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the OldTestament, by Herbert L. Willett, Christian Century, July11, 1901.274 UNIVERSITY RECORDArber's edition of British Anthologies : Vol. Ill, " SpencerAnthologies, 1548-1591 ;" Vol. IV, "Shakespeare Anthologies, 1592-1616; " Vol. V, "Jenson Anthologies, 1617-1637," by A. H. Tolman, in Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare- Gesellsc haft, XXXVII, 1901.Holzinge : "Exodus," by Ira M. Price, A?nerican Journalof 'Theology, July, 190 1.Cheyne : " Encyclopaedia Biblica," Vol. II, by Ira M.Price, Dial, August I, 1 90 1.THE ALUMNI.NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS.Edwin C. Woolley, '98, received the degree ofPh.D. from Columbia University in June.Professor Charles R. Henderson, '70, is spending his vacation in Europe in study and travel.Susan G. Harding, '98, First Vice-President ofthe Association, is spending the year in Europe.Among the sons of alumni who entered theUniversity this fall are :L. E. Odell, son of Rev. D. B. Odell, '86, ofJoliet, 111., and J. H. Weddell, son of Rev. J. W.Weddell '80, of Davenport, Iowa.Annie Moore, Ph.D., 'oi, was recently electedto a position in the State Normal School of SanDiego, Cal.John M. Prather, Ph.D., '01, has been appointedto the chair of biology in the University ofCincinnati.W. C. McNaul, '93, filled the pulpit for Rev.Theo. G. Soares, Ph.D., '94, at Galesburg duringthe summer.Frank G. Cressey, '98, for some years pastor inDayton, O., has entered the University for postgraduate work.James W. Linn, '97, Assistant in English, hasreturned to the University after an extendedvacation in Europe.Rev. H. T. Coleslock, '99, former pastor atMadison, Wisconsin, has been elected to a position on the faculty of Burlington Institute, Burlington, Iowa. Eugene Parsons, ^^ is associate editor ofThe Current Encyclopedia, now published inChicago.Harvey W. Peterson, '97, holds again this yeara fellowship in the department of Philosophy atHarvard University.G. E. Congdon, '99, has been appointedinstructor in mathematics and science in SacCity Institute, Sac City, la.Charles Warren Chase, '99, who has been studying law for two years in Harvard University, hasentered a law office in Chicago.John E. Webb,'99, last year Academy Associatein Morgan Park Academy, has entered the University to continue his work for a doctor's degree.J. Q. A. Henry, '80, superintendent of theNew York anti-saloon league, has gone to England to aid in the special effort toward temperance reform.Walter H. Abbott, '96, has been chosen superintendent of construction for the Cleveland,Elyria, and Western Railroad Company locatedat Cleveland, O. ;Van Rensselaer Lansingh, '96, who has beenwith the Western Electric Company since hisgraduation, is now consulting and contractingengineer with offices in the Fisher Building.Professor Robert F. Harper, '83, is working inthe British Museum, collecting and preparingmaterial for the series of ancient records to bepublished in the near future. President Harperwill be editor-in-chief of the series.Harry D. Hubbard, '97, formerly secretary inthe President's office, has accepted the civil service appointment as secretary to the NationalBureau of Standards at Washington, D. C, at asalary of $2,000 a year. Mr. Hubbard was oneof a large number who took the competitive examination for the position. His grade was thehighest in the list. He entered upon his newduties early in October.Maudie L. Stone, '96, has resigned her positionas physical director in the Kansas State Normaland entered Johns Hopkins University for graduate work in science.Professor George S. Goodspeed, '83, who hasso successfully filled the office of University Recorder, resigned that position on October 1, inorder to devote himself entirely to his work inAncient History.Among the University of Chicago Alumni whoentered Northwestern Law School this fall are thefollowing: William E. Miller, '99; Roland T.Rogers, 'oo; Russell Wiles, '01; Robert S.McClure, 'oo ; Ralph C. Manning, '00; Lee J.Frank, 'oo; John J. Clarkson, '99.Among the articles in the current magazineswritten by alumni are the following :"On the Empirical Method of Economic Instruction."Robert F. Hoxie, '93. The Journal of Political Economy,September 1901."Some Social Aspects of the Chicago Stock-yards,"Chas. J. Bushnell, '98, Ph.D. '01. The American Journalof Sociology, October, 1901." Some Unpublished Religious Texts of Samas," CliftonD, Gray, Ph.D., '01. American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, July, 190 1." The Critical Value of the Newberry Gospels," Edgar J.Goodspeed. American Journal of Theology, October, 1901." Public Policy Concerning Franchise Values," George G.Sikes, A.M., '96. The Journal of Political Economy, September, 1 90 1.1Tn dfcemoriatmEDWIN LEE POULSON, PH.B., '00.Edwin Lee Poulson, Ph.B., '00, died at hishome 31 16 South Park ave., May 8, 1901. Hisearly training was received in the Chicago PublicSchools and the Harvard Preparatory School.He entered the University in January, 1896, andgraduated in March, 1900. A short time aftergraduation he entered the New York Life Insurance Company as an agent under his father William E^ Poulson, one of the leading officials ofthe company. Later he entered the Illinois Trust Y RECORD 275and Savings Bank, a business more to his taste,where he was engaged at the time of his death.Mr. Poulson had many friends at the University. He was always actively interested in thesocial and athletic life of the University being atone time a member of the Tennis and the Trackteam. He was a member of the Psi UpsilonFraternity.CARTER VAN VLECK BROWN, S.B., 'OI.The sad news of the death of Carter Van VleckBrown, S.B., '01, has been received at the University. Mr. Brown was well known at the University, especially in athletic circles. A sketchof his life will appear later.OFFICIAL REPORTS.ACCESSION REPORT.During the month of September, 190 1 therehas been added to the library of the University atotal number of 1781 volumes, from the followingsources :Books added by purchase, 1,280 volumes, distributed as follows :General Library, 119 vols.; Philosophy, 9 vols.;Political Economy, 14 vols.; Political Science, 5vols.; History, 546 vols.; Classical Archaeology, 2vols.; Sociology, 3 vols.; Anthropology, 1 vol.;Comparative Religion, 2 vols. ; Semitic, 3 vols. ; NewTestament, 1 vol.; Sanskrit and ComparativePhilology, 9 vols.; Greek, 53 vols.; Latin, 8 vols.;Latin and Greek, 3 vols.; Romance, 59 vols.;German, 7 vols.; English, 6 vols.; Mathematics,9 vols.; Astronomy (Ryerson), 3 vols.; Astronomy(Yerkes) 2 vols.; Chemistry, 22 vols.; Geology,4 vols.; Zoology, 163 vols.; Anatomy, 14 vols.;Anatomy (Medicine), 49 vols.; Palaeontology, 12vols.; Neurology, 19 vols.; Physiology, 15 vols.;Botany, 77 vols.; Public Speaking, 1 vol.; ChurchHistory, 1 vol.; Systematic Theology, 3 vols.;Morgan Park Academy, 6 vols. ; Commerce andAdministration, 14 vols.; Physical Culture, 2vols.; Biology, 1 vol.; Bacteriology, 13 vols.Books added by gift, 305 volumes, distributedas follows :General Library, 222 vols.; Philosophy, 1 vol.;Pedagogy, 1 vol.; Political Economy, 6 vols.;History, 1 vol.; Semitic, 8 vols.; English, 1 vol.;Mathematics, 9 vols.; Geology, 2 vols.; Zoology,276 UNIVERSITY RECORD4 vols.; Anatomy, 5 vols.; Neurology, 1 vol.;Botany, 17 vols.; Morgan Park Academy, 20 vols.;Biology, 2 vols.; Divinity, 5 vols.Books added by Exchange for university publications, 196 volumes, distributed as follows :General Library, 82 vols.; Pedagogy, 2 vols.;Political Economy, 4 vols.; Political Science, 4vols.; History, 6 vols.; Sociology, 6 vols.; Comparative Religion, 4 vols.; Semitic, 2 vols.; NewTestament, 11 vols.; Chemistry, 1 vol.; Geology,9 vols.; Zoology, 3 vols.; Botany, 40 vols.;Church History, 10 vols.; Systematic Theology,7 vols.; Homiletics, 2 vols.; Morgan Park Academy, 2 vols.; Zoology and Botany, 1 vol.During the month of October, 1901 there hasbeen added to the Library of the University atotal number of 1,772 volumes from the followingsources.Books added by purchase, 1,294 volumes, distributed as follows :General Library, 84 vols.; Philosophy, 22 vols.;Pedagogy, 4 vols.; Political Economy, 12 vols.;Political Science, 9 vols.; History, 358 vols.;Semitic, 41 vols.; New Testament, 2 vols.; Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, 8 vols.; Greek,16 vols.; Latin, 11 vols.; Latin and Greek, 1 vol.;Romance, 1 vol.; English, 483 vols.; German, 19vols.; Mathematics, 9 vols.; Astronomy (Ryerson) 2 vols.; Astronomy (Yerkes) 2 vols.; Chemistry, 4 vols.; Physics, 4 vols.; Zoology, 32 vols.;Anatomy, 3 vols.; Anatomy (Medicine) 35 vols.;Palaeontology, 2 vols.; Neurology, 3 vols.; Physiology, 4 vols,; Physiological Chemistry, 10 vols.;Botany, 2 vols.; Church History, 4 vols.; Systematic Theology, 2 vols.; Morgan Park Academy, 70 vols.; Commerce and Administration, 18vols.; Physical Culture, 1 vol.; Zoology and Botany, 3 vols.; Bacteriology, 1 vol.; Latin, Greek,Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, 12 vols.Books added by gift, 391 volumes, distributedas follows :General Library, 209 vols.; Pedagogy, 1 vol.;Political Economy, 1 vol.; History, 1 vol.; Sociology, 1 vol.; Sociology (Divinity), 4 vols.; Anthropology, 1 vol.; Comparative Religion, 1 vol.;Semitic, 13 vols.; New Testament, 6 vols.; Greek,2 vols.; English, 1 vol.; German, 1 vol.; Mathematics, 27 vols.; Astronomy (Yerkes) 39 vols.;Physics, 5 vols.; Geology, 20 vols.; Zoology, 5vols.; Neurology, 5 vols.; Botany, 1 vol.; ChurchHistory, 10 vols.; Homiletics, 1 vol.; Dano-Nor. Theological Seminary, 25 vols.; Swedish The-logical Seminary, 25 vols.; Commerce andAdministration, 4 vols.; Biology, 4 vols.; Divinity,1 vol.Books added by exchange for University publications, 87 vols., distributed as follow :General Library, 17 vols.; Philosophy, 4 vols.;Pedagogy, 3 vols.; Political Economy, 12 vols.;Political Science, 4 vols.; Sociology, 2 vols.; Comparative Religion, 1 vol.; Semitic, 14 vols.; NewTestament, 3 vols.; Astronomy (Yerkes), 1 vol.;Geology, 7 vols.; Zoology, 1 vol.; Botany, 12vols.; Church History, 4 vols.; Systematic Theology, 1 vol.; Zoology and Botany, 1 vol.THE CHICAGO ALUMN/E CLUB MEETING.The Chicago Alumnae Club held its annualmeeting Saturday, October 12, at Lewis Institute.After an informal reception luncheon was served,followed by the business meeting and election ofofficers. The President's and Secretary-Treasurer's reports were read and the Alumnae LoanLibrary work reported upon. The chairman ofthe library committee stated that there was asteadily increasing demand for books and thatnow the work is practically self-supporting,although more money might be invested in booksat any time.The following officers were elected for theyear, 190 1-2:President — Laura M. Wright, '97.Vice-President — Julia F. Dumke, '98.Secretary-Treasurer — Ida T. Hirschl, '00.Executive Committee : Anna S. Morse, '00; Olive Ma-guire,' 99; Marian Fairman, '01.Angeline Loesch, '96, Sec >- Treasurer.A meeting of the officers and committee of theChicago Alumni Club was held Monday eveningwith the general secretary, Mayo Fesler, to discuss plans for the annual alumni smoker, which,as usual, will be given just previous to theThanksgiving game. The evening of November27 was decided upon and committees on arrangements, invitation, music, and speakers wereappointed. 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