VOLUME X NUMBER 3THEUniversity RecordJANUARY, 1906SOME MAXIMS OF LIFE1BY JULES JEAN JUSSERAND, LL.D.,Ambassador of France to the United StatesHappy as I am to revisit, after nearly threeyears, this great city — much greater, of course,than it was three years ago — I must confessthat, when I was asked to come, my first thoughtwas : " I have too much to do ; it is impossiblefor me to come;" and I was about to write tothat effect.But then I reflected that this word " impossible" was unknown and unintelligible to mywould-be host — this valiant, ever-active soldierof letters, President Harper, who has neverknown defeat; who has never been abashed orafraid; who has transformed an incipient university into one of the greatest and most complete in the world ; and who, at this hour, present among us only in thought, but inspiring usall the same, fights illness with such modelenergy that, as we may hope, illness itself recedes.Why did he want me, and why did he insist?For no other reason, I am sure, than that hefelt that a French ambassador was sure to be afriend of America, and that a visitor who hadbeen accorded the reception I received from youthree years ago would be happy to come andexpress his gratitude.President Harper was right : the French ambassador is a friend of America, and the LL.D.1 Delivered on the occasion of the Fifty-seventh Convocation of the University, held in the Leon Mandel AssemblyHall, December 19, 1905. of the class of 1903 a sincere well-wisher ofyour University. How could it be otherwise ina compatriot of La Fayette, and also of Jolyet,Marquette, and La Salle, and of those earlypioneers, all of them French, who first visitedthe impressive solitudes where your city'stowers and steeples now rise, who first settledthere, first pointed out the value of the spot, proclaimed the necessity and feasibility of the canalsince dug by you to unite the lake with theMississippi River, launched the first ship whichcrossed Lake ^Michigan, and first in all the worldengraved on a map the name now famous, thenspelled " Chicagou " ? The place is, indeed,truly dear to me ; it has in my eyes somethingsacred.In this brilliant assembly, where I see represented the wit and wisdom, the strength andbeauty, of your city, many, to be sure, know asmuch, and many know more, of life than I do.I shall therefore be wise in addressing by preference those who, owing to their happy youthful-ness, have a lesser experience; that is, thesebrother-alumni, younger brothers of mine, whoare about to leave the University where theyhave been arming themselves for the fight, andwho are now entering life.The university period, the probationary orpreparatory period, is indeed, for multitudes ofmen, the one which decides all that comes after.There you are supplied with arms for struggles,105106 UNIVERSITY RECORDwith keys to unlock treasures and intellectualparadises. Manners and education have beentaught you at the same time that you receivedinstruction. Your bodies have had their shareof the tuition; for the real man is a completeman, and the rule, just now so keenly discussed,concerning the part to be reserved for sports ineducation, has been stated long ago. Two menof very different types, a French skeptic and aFrench saint, studying the question from verydifferent points of view, came to the same conclusion. The saint wrote: "Do not doubt it;it is a vice, this severity of an unsociable mindwhich forbids every diversion; sports are goodand needful ; but we must avoid going too far ;playing with excess tires the mind as well as thebody; the point to stop at is when the sportceases to be a diversion, to become an occupation.9' The skeptic wrote : " 'Tis not a soulthat is being reared, and it is not a body ; it isa man/' The saint was St. Francis de Sales;the skeptic was Montaigne. When a saint anda skeptic think the same, the chances are greatthat they are right.Attention has been paid, during your schooldays, to education and manners — so importantfor your personal happiness; real manners Imean, not the formal politeness expounded inbooks, showing at best how to raise one's hat.Real politeness, in fact, cannot be learned inbooks ; for it comes from the heart. But hearts,like minds, can be shut or can be open ; and it isthe great service which teachers render to youth,to open both. They do so with particular care,remembering the remark of your great Emerson: "The power of manners is incessant — anelement as unconquerable as fire ; " rememberingalso perhaps the remark of the earliest Englishprinter, Caxton: "He that is not mannered isno man; for manners make man."As for knowledge, I know the kind you receive. I have visited your University, read agood many of the books and reviews publishedhere. You come out, indeed, fully equipped. If you undergo fewer hardships, you are animated,I feel convinced, with the same zeal as the youngmen of the Renaissance time — that zeal so welldescribed by the diplomat and soldier, Henri deMesme, a Paris and Toulouse student in 1542:"I learned at the university," he says, "to repeat, to discuss, to speak in public; I becameacquainted with honest boys, some of whom arestill alive; I learned the frugal life of thescholar, and how to keep regular hours, availingmyself so of my opportunities that, leaving thecollege, I could recite Homer by heart frombeginning to end." Studying at the law schoolat Toulouse, a little later, he writes of himselfand his brother : " We were up at four o'clockin the morning, and, having said our prayer, wewent at five to our studies, our big books underour arms, our escritoires and candlesticks in ourhands." I do not know whether, in your case,I ought to vouch for the four o'clock, the candlesticks, and the Homer by heart ; but I feel confident I can vouch for an equal zeal.Prepared in this way, and in many others too,you are now about to pass the threshold of theUniversity, and begin life in earnest. The restwas preliminary; now business begins.In spite of the extremely varied careers youmay be called upon to follow, several facts willstrike all of you, at once. First, the extraordinary quantity of good things within your reach,and the amount of happiness ready for anyonewho knows what real happiness is. That austere sage, Pascal, noted it long ago : " Nothingis more common than good things ; the onlyquestion is to discern them; there is no doubtthat they are to be found everywhere and arequite accessible; and everybody sees them, butpeople do not pay attention to them. The caseis universal." There can be no doubt that life,on an average, is worth living. The answer tothe famous question is best given by the billionswho not only did not disdain to live their allottedtime since the world began, but were not withoutsome feeling of regret, perhaps, when the endUNIVERSITY RECORD 107came. Only, to know those good things, youmust open your eyes ; availing yourselves of thelessons received at the University, you mustlook about, look around, look as high as the sky.Don't keep your eyes nailed to your counter.Another thing will strike you : the extreme inanity of many supposed excellent things — supposed excellent only because rare and difficult toreach. The really best, those upon which ahappy life most depends, were always very accessible. They are more so now than ever; orrather, to those perennial causes of happiness,causes of pleasure of the highest order havebeen added, and placed within reach of everyone who chooses. Those fundamental causes ofhappiness lie, most of them, in ourselves, anddepend to a very large extent on our temper, ourcharacter, our manners, our comparative disinterestedness, and upon that sense of dutywhich places within reach, at every moment, thekeen pleasure of the duty fulfilled. All thisreacts on our neighbors, and increases ourchances of avoiding the sadness of solitude, andof learning what sweetness there is in friendship and in love. No better arms than those; Iassure you, to fight bad luck and the evil eye.Mind, you do not start without being well provided with them. In this again your universityeducation will prove an immense boon to you.And as for those pleasures to which I alluded,that add so much flavor to more solid happinesses, they are now accessible to all who carefor them: pleasures of the mind formerly reserved for the happy few, at the time whenmanuscripts were rare, libraries private, andinstruction a kind of privilege ; while now thesmallest sum will purchase the masterpieces ofthe rarest genius, libraries abound open to allcomers, and centers of instruction, more andmore accessible, multiply everywhere.The same is the case with many arts, nowmore accessible to the multitude than ever before: music, painting, sculpture. Today thereare public museums in every town, while not one existed in the Middle Ages and at theRenaissance. Innumerable inventions havemultiplied the means of having, in the pooresthouse, if not an original masterpiece, at least areminder of it — a copy which the owner's mindwill readily endow with the sacredness of thereal thing, and which will react on him beneficially. Holbein painted that truly great man,Sir Thomas More's portrait surrounded by hisfamily: father, wife, children, son-in-law; noone was omitted, not even the servants, not eventhe family dog. The picture has been destroyed,but Holbein had drawn a pen-and-ink sketchof it for More to send to his friend Erasmus.More inscribed on it the names of all the personages ; and from what Erasmus answered wesee that the precaution was needless, so truewas the likeness of them all. Erasmus died atBasle, and the priceless bit of paper is preservedthere, a treasure for milliardaires. Well, I havea copy of it on my table at Washington. IfHolbein saw it, he would have some trouble indistinguishing it from the original ; and the costis twenty cents.Know and remember those things : things ofbeauty, of goodness, obvious and within reach ;know how to admire. Never fail to admirewhen you can, be the question of men, of deeds,of art, of nature. To admire is one of thegreatest and purest pleasures in the world. Theuntutored man will be proud to undertake anexpensive journey, in order to gaze at theVictoria Falls, who will never notice a play oflight in the clouds, above his head, as beautifulas any bit of natural scenery in the world. Thatis too accessible for him to take notice of. Intruth, it is inaccessible to him, being above hisvisual range.One of the first questions, of a personal character, which will confront you when you leavethese precincts will be the question of wealth.It has been pending for thousands of years, and,were it only for its antiquity's sake, it is held bymany of paramount importance.108 UNIVERSITY RECORDAs a matter of fact, it has none. A modestcompetency is necessary for a fully developedlife, but a very modest and, especially in thisfecund and immense country, a very accessibleone. Happy those who do not inherit ready-made wealth. Those who do, lack, at starting,a most useful kind of training; they miss animportant kind of pleasure, which is to rise. Itis difficult to rise when you start at the top,.If, in your life's journey, wealth comes yourway, don't spurn it, to be sure. All I mean is :don't cramp your better self, and especially don'tspurn your neighbor, to get at it. It is notworth so much trouble, certainly not worth theslightest particle of remorse. So far back asthe time of Alexander, Aristotle observed thatthe man who makes wealth the object of his lifemust resign himself to a life of ceaseless troubleand fight.Anyhow, if it comes honorably to you, have it.To the honorable man it will be profitable; hewill dominate it, not be dominated by it. Butnever forget that it is not the thing which decides either the happiness or the usefulness of alife. Washington was rich, and Lincoln waspoor. Both were equally useful to their country.The possession of wealth had nothing to dowith the result ; the result was due to the natureof their souls and the quality of their hearts.On this question, the great American thinker,Emerson, has written words of deepest wisdom :" Whilst it is each man's interest that not onlyease and convenience of living but also wealthand surplus product should exist somewhere, itneed not be in his hands. Goethe said well:'Nobody should be rich but those who understand it' Some men are born to own and cananimate all their possessions. Others cannot,their owning is not graceful." Those shouldown "whose work carves out work for more,opens a path for all. For he is the rich man inwhom the people are rich, and he is the poorman in whom the people are poor." HereAmerican philosophy meets Greek philosophy. Plato has said: "Worldly wealth and honorsare, in themselves, neither good nor bad ; it alldepends on the use made of them : good, if usedwith wisdom ; bad, if not."One other thing will strike you deeply as youenter active life ; that is, the part played by dutyin a man's existence. I must confess that, when aboy, duty seemed to me a most honorable, butrather gloomy, sort of thing, the observance ofwhich was obligatory, to be sure, but not exactlyexhilarating. Experience shows that it is precisely the reverse : it is not gloomy ; it is inspiring ; it gives interest to a number of actions, thevery repetition of which would cause them tobe beyond endurance, but for this considerationof duty. Duty is the salt of life. And it is soconvenient, too; such an easy guide; such asolver of difficulties. When you are well convinced of it, most of the difficulties, uncertainties, and doubts in actual life vanish. The infallible oracle is at hand.In a life thus understood, and for which theUniversity has prepared you, you will not fail todisplay the usual American activity. I mightsay as well French activity ; for it is a commontrait, among many others, between the two nations. The French hate idleness ; no squandering is favored by them; no squandering ofstrength, of money, of time. " Time is money,"some say. Time is much better than money, wethink. Money can be replaced, remade; timecannot. This French activity was ever famous ;travelers noticed it in every period. The greatpoet Tasso, coming to France for the first time,wrote : " The French are of such a nature as tobe unable to remain motionless. They must always be doing something ; as soon as the occasion fails them, they decay ; as would happen toa palfrey left idle in the stable, or to a clockwhose wheels get rusty when they cease tomove." The disposition of all Americans isquite similar. Descendants, many of them, ofwhat was sturdiest, most audacious and enterprising in the old continent, they think, with oneUNIVERSITY RECORD 109of the earliest explorers of the New World,Raleigh's companion, Lawrence Keymis:, "Wecannot denie that the chief commendation ofvirtue consists in action: we truly say thatotium is animae vivae sepultura Tosleepe then, because it costeth nothing: to im-brace the present time, because it flattereth uswith deceitfull contentment, and to kisse securitysaying, what evill happeneth unto us? is theplaine high way to fearefull downfall." Athought of yesterday and a thought of today,expressed in our times with unparalleled eloquence — the eloquence of words and the eloquence of personal example — by the chiefmagistrate of this republic, President Roosevelt.Such activity is greatly to be praised. Life isshort and extremely interesting; there will beno lack of time for rest — afterward. We mustmake the best of today, both for our private andfor the public good. For the public good, to besure. The time is long past when anybody wasthe whole state. Especially in such great republics as yours and ours, we all feel that,modest as it may be, we have, each of us, a partto play ; we represent a tiny little wheel whichcannot stop, and cannot go wrong, withoutdamage to the great clock. In former times itwas considered good policy, good " husbandry,"to keep aloof, and look from afar. Honest TomTusser, in Tudor times, wrote these verses,which could never be commended for theirpoetry, but were praised then for their wisdom :Leave Princes affaires undeskanted on,And tend to such dooings as stands thee upon.Feare God, and offend not the Prince nor his lawes,And keep thy selfe out of the magistrate's clawes.Wisdom may be but of a very negative andterre a terre kind ! There is a better sort, whichconsists in earnestly studying the problemswhich may confront the nation, and earnestlyworking, fearlessly working, disinterestedlyworking, at the solution best for the nation;ever trying to be strong in order that justicemay prevail: "Justice without strength is powerless; strength without justice is tyrannical" (Pascal).And this activity you will use for your privategood, too. It is most natural ; it is wholesome."We must not scorn," said Montaigne, "thegifts of the great Giver." You must work yourway through life, get married, and, if you are soblessed, rear families. A great problem, doubtless, the problem of marriage, of the choice ofa fit companion, helper, consoler, friend, whowill understand, encourage, applaud, check whatmay be amiss, and do it so softly that there willbe no pain. A great problem, not an insolubleone. When the time comes for you, it willgreatly help you to remember the one and singlerule which solves it, the one and single thing tobe considered, all the others being naught. Therule has been set forth by one of the sages ofthe Renaissance, and it is this : " Such as thouwishest thy children to be, so choose thee thywife."Many other things are of importance, somany that the day and the night would pass, ifwe attempted merely to glance at them all. Onemore only shall I mention. The happiest of youwill know sad days ; the best, surrounded withwell-deserved friends, will have undeserved enemies ; the most righteous may have to feel thebite of injustice, and the cruelty of false judgments and false reports. A most importantpoint is to start in life well determined not toallow your soul to be absorbed by such contemplations — benumbed by it, as it were. Somethere be who, because they meet injustice, orfeel it, become haggard and cramped. Becausethey have seen ugliness, they can see only ugliness. They look at they world through a darkened glass. They become sour and critical;unhappy, and sowers of unhappiness; disheartened, and sowing the bad seed of dejection.Imagine travelers who, visiting a splendid country, new to them, would inspect only sewers andtake note only of dunghills. Never be one ofthose baneful people. In spite of difficulties,110 UNIVERSITY RECORDkeep your native cheerfulness and good humor.Never let bad things make you forget the goodones. Cheerfulness is one of the best sides ofreal courage, the token, in most cases, of agood conscience and of a strong soul. It seemsto many a very plain and commonplace quality.It is not. It was not so, at any rate, in the eyesof the master-philosopher Aristotle, who saw init one of the chief moral virtues ; it was not soeither in the eyes of Pascal, himself so austere,who yet wrote: "People cannot picture tothemselves Plato and Aristotle but with the longrobes of pedants. They were honest men,laughing with their friends, as other people do ;and they wrote their Laws and their Politics asa pastime; it was the less serious and lessphilosophical part of their life ; the most philosophical consisted in living simply and quietly."Well, preserve through life your youthful cheerfulness. It has a sanitary virtue; it will keepyour other qualities in order ; it adds a polish tothem ; it prevents rust from getting at them.Thanks to such citizens as you intend to be, as you shall be; to such men as this Universitymolds, year after year; practical, yet literary;who can understand business, and understandHomer also; energetic, yet kindly; afraid ofnothing except wrongdoing, the immense resources of this land, worked with ever bettereffect, will more and more astonish the world;your great country will become even greater;you will invent new methods, find new remediesfor old evils, follow at a quicker and quickerpace the road, not always sunny, which leads toprogress; never forgetting Pascal's great saying: "Justice without strength is powerless;strength without justice is tyrannical." Applause, while you act thus, will come to youfrom all the world, especially from that countrywhich elbows you on this same road to progress,which prospers under institutions similar toyours, Gallia perennis, "enduring France,"whose feelings toward you have never changed,having in early days greeted your nation's birthwith joy, and ever since her ceaseless growthwith admiration.UNIVERSITY RECORD 111THE PRESIDENT'S QUARTERLY STATEMENTAt a meeting of the Board of Trustees heldOctober 17, 1905, Mr. Frank O. Lowden, ofChicago, was elected a member of the Board inplace of Mr. George C. Walker, deceased. Mr.Lowden is a gentleman of large interests in thecity and state, and has had much successfulexperience in public affairs as well, and he willundoubtedly be a valuable member of theBoard.CORRESPONDENCE-STUDY DEPARTMENTIn the Correspondence-Study Departmentthere has been unusual activity. Registrationexceeded by 15 per cent, that of the AutumnQuarter, 1904, and thus set a new high mark;exactly one hundred instructors gave instruction, and the work of the students averagedhigh both in quantity and quality. The resultsaccomplished by students vary in differentcourses and with different instructors; but itis clearly brought out by the quarterly reportsthat both quantity and quality may be securedwhen the instructor is prompt and conscientiousin correcting and returning lessons.More changes have occurred in the teachingstaff/owing to removal from the Universityand increasing residence duties, during the lastthree months than ordinarily takes place in anentire year. It was necessary, in one case, toprovide two and, in another, three persons tocarry on the courses which formerly had beenconducted by a single individual.Most gratifying have been the indications ofa growing interest on the part of sister-institutions in this branch of the University.As an instance, one of the best-known collegesin Ohio by a vote of its faculty recently granted1 On account of the illness of the President of the University, the regular Quarterly Statement, which would havebeen presented at the Fifty-seventh Convocation on December 19, 1905, was left incomplete. ON THE CONDITION OF THE UNIVERSITY*permission to one of its students to finishdegree requirements by our full correspondencecourses, and the leading institutions east andwest have recognized credits thus gained.Perhaps the most striking illustration of thepossibilities and efficiency of correspondence,instruction was afforded by the display, in arecent exhibit of the School of Education, of aset of drawings and a series of wooden articles, including samples of joints, a small cabinet, knife-and-fork tray, and a complete carpenter s tool-chest, made by correspondencestudents who had never had previous trainingin these subjects. The courses now offered indrawing furnish the equivalent of the first twoyears' work in the best technological schools;and the four courses in wood work- joinery,wood-turning, pattern-making, and cabinet-making, represent the first two years of shop-work done in the University High School, andcover the woodwork done in first-class technical schools in these particular lines.The time has passed to determine a prionwhether or not a subject may be successfullytaught by correspondence; indeed, it wouldseem that the burden of proof will soon lie withthe opposition. We shall all agree, at least, thatmuch good is being accomplished through thisdepartment of the University, and that, if fundscould be provided, its usefulness could be greatly increased. We are looking forward to theday when some champion of popular education,seeing the opportunity, will adequately endowthis work.NEW APPOINTMENTSThe following new appointments have beenmade since September 1 :David A. Robertson, to the Headship of Snell Hall.Eugene W. Shaw, to an Assistantship in Geology.Frank C. Jordan, to a Volunteer Research Assistantship in the Yerkes Observatory.112 UNIVERSITY RECORDTilden H. Stearns, to an Assistantship in PhysicalTraining and to the Directorship of the Gymnasiumat Morgan Park Academy.Arthur G. Stillhamer, to an Assistantship in Astrophysics.Edwin G. Kirk, to an Assistantship in Anatomy.Charles A. Sartain, to an Assistantship in PhysicalCulture.William B. McCallum, to an Assistantship inBotany.Robert J. Bonner, to an Associateship in Greek.Samuel N. Harper, to an Associateship in RussianLanguage and Literature. L. Dow McNeff, to an Instructorship in the University Elementary School.Edward A. Bechtel, to a Deanship in UniversityCollege.Nathaniel Butler, to the Deanship of the College ofEducation.PROMOTIONSThe following promotion has been made sinceSeptember i :Benson A. Cohoe, Associate in Anatomy, to an Instructorship.UNIVERSITY RECORD 113THE STUDY OF HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN1BY HERMANN ONCKEN, PH.D.,Of the Philosophical Faculty (History), the University of Berlin, and Professor at the KriegsakademieIn answering your kind invitation to speakupon the study of history at the University ofBerlin, I feel somewhat embarrassed becausemuch of what I can tell you in so short a time isknown to you as well as tot me. Those of youwho have studied at German universities, andespecially at Berlin, know from your own experience what I can only try to explain in a shortsurvey. Let me say, further, that I shall omitany mention of the teaching of oriental orancient history at Berlin.The University of Berlin was founded in1810, some years after the great breakdown ofPrussia in 1806-7. In the words of Wilhelmvon Humboldt, the Prussian state aimed toreplace by spiritual power what it had lost inmaterial force. In this spirit, patriotic, yetpurely scientific, the university of Berlin,Frederica Guilelma, was founded, and in thisspirit it has continued its work.In Germany as well as in other countries oneis accustomed to call the nineteenth century thecentury of the natural sciences. But one may,perhaps with more right, call this period thecentury of the study of history — the historicalcentury in the deepest meaning of the word.Never before have we learned so well, not onlyhow to do historical work, but to consider allhuman institutions, language, law, economics,customs, culture, art, literature, and even religion from an historical point of view; and tocomprehend their nature from their own historicevolution. In short, we may say that duringthe nineteenth century all other branches ofscience have become historic, and all of themthereby have been made more profound.Thus in the most important university foundation in Germany of the nineteenth century,1 Presented before the History Club of the University ofChicago, November 9, 1905. the study of history plays an important, perhapsa decisive part.Historical research, in the proper meaning ofthat term, began at the new university withLeopold von Ranke, who came to Berlin in1825. He remained for more than sixty years,that is, until his death in 1886. In Ranke theuniversity possessed a scholar of eminent talentand literary attainment. I do not intend, however, to discuss on this occasion the great workof Ranke as an historian, although, in myopinion, his is the greatest performance in thewhole province of historical writing in Germanyduring the nineteenth century. It is only of theacademic work of Ranke, of Ranke as a teacher,that I want to speak.His greatest efficiency did not lie in his lectures, though in the earlier decades of his careerhe had a great and most attentive audience.This, however, was not his special strength. Itwas not at all easy to listen to the little manfrom whose lips the concise sentences flowed inquick and close succession, accompanied alwaysby lively gesticulations. His special force as ateacher lay in his seminar courses. It is not toomuch to say that the " historical seminar," as ithas since prevailed in Germany and has beenadopted in other countries, especially in theUnited States, springs from Ranke.Ranke himself, like Niebuhr and Schlosser,had not heard historical lectures during his ownstudent days; least of all had he enjoyed atechnical historical training. His genius brokeits own way, and the basis of methodical andcritical investigation of sources, which he himself had secured as the result of his own fortunate endowment, he was able to deliver to ayounger generation. Ranke's critical appendixto his first work was entitled " Concerning theCriticism of Some Modern Historians" (Zur114 UNIVERSITY RECORDKritik einiger neuerer Geschichtsschreiber) , andthe chief work of his entire life, as you know,lay in the region of modern history.In his seminar courses, however, he choseessentially the epochs of the Middle Ages as abasis, considering these times as a better andmore convenient object for the training of historical method and historical thinking. Whathe taught his students first of all was a thoroughand minute reading of the sources, especially theexact study of those records which have themost original value. He taught them, also, tostudy the individuality of each historical author,and to judge the value of their writings withregard to this individuality. Finally, he taughtthe student by comparing the different recordsto restore the true image of the past. Thegreater part of all that he could teach is considered today as the necessary and proper equipment of the modern student. The best that hepossessed, however, could neither be taught norlearned, namely, the consideration of all singleevents in the greater connection of world-history ; the intuitive tracing-out of all the relations between the lives of the different peoplesand epochs ; it was a gift belonging only togenius.From this seminar of Ranke, beginning in thetwenties and thirties, there have come forthmost of the best German historians; and forseveral decades, one could say, the historicalschool of Germany was the school of Ranke.In his old age Ranke named three of his pupilsas the glory and crown of his teaching, andthese three men had belonged to his seminar inthe first years of his academic career at Berlin.They were Georg Waitz, Wilhelm Giesebrecht,and Heinrich von Sybel. It is significant of themental freedom which these men enjoyed withRanke that each developed afterward in his ownpeculiar way and along lines widely differentfrom the others. Waitz became the historian ofthe German constitution in the Middle Ages,and a most exact and indefatigable editor of countless chronicles and annals in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Giesebrecht wrotein forceful and enthusiastic words his somewhat idealized history of the German emperorsfrom the tenth to the thirteenth century. Sybel,unlike the others, became afterward attracted bypolitics, and represented the tendencies of themoderately liberal Prussian middle classes.Clever and keen in his investigation, clear andbrilliant in style, he became the historian of theFrench Revolution and of the foundation of theGerman Empire under William I.Independently of the Ranke school historicalscience was represented in Berlin by G. H.Pertz, the chief editor of the Monumenta, whofor many years, with almost monarchical power,directed the publication of this immense collection. Since the death of Pertz a central management consisting of several members hasdirected the publication. At first Waitz was atthe head of this board, from 1880 to 1886 ; whenhe was called to the Berlin faculty, he was succeeded by Dummler, who died some years ago ;and now R. Koser, well known by his historyof Frederick the Great, has taken the direction.Although the central management of the Monumenta is at Berlin, several Austrian and Swissscholars share in the publication, besides a largestaff of young doctors who are also engaged incompleting the great work. The central management of the Monumenta has no immediateconnection with the Berlin faculty; but severalof its members have been at the same time professors at the university. I want at least tomention some of them who for long years exercised a great influence as teachers : Weizsacker,Wattenbach, and Scheffer-Boichorst.Besides this kind of historiography and historical research — the school of Ranke on theone hand, and the group of the Monumenta onthe other — there arose another kind of schoolin the years between 1850 and i860. This newgroup of historians was partly influenced byRanke, but they strove for different and, as theyUNIVERSITY RECORD 115thought, for higher ends. Their ideal was acloser connection between history and politics.They hoped, on the one side, to influence thepolitics of their age by profound historicalknowledge, and, on the other, to enliven aknowledge of the historic past by studying thepolitics of the present. One of the leading menof this group once declared that history shouldno longer be considered from the view-point ofthe governing class, as Ranke, according totheir opinion, had done ; nor, as Schlosser, frombelow, from the view-point of the governed ; butrather that both points of view should be combined into a superior form of historical judgment.Thus these historians wanted to participateactively in the political life of their nation, andshare in the constitutional government of theircountry. They believed that their scientificwork would profit by such activity. All wereadherents of the doctrine of constitutional government, though differing in degrees in theirpolitical convictions. They were all liberals,and during the Revolution of 1848 and the ensuing years, when the struggle for hegemonyin Germany was on between Austria and Prussia, they had formed a new ideal for the restoration of German unity. They were Kleindeutsche;that is, they longed for a Germany withoutAustria, under Prussian leadership and held together by parliamentary institutions. The political ideals of the middle class and of the liberalbourgeoisie were represented by them. To thisgroup of liberal and kleindeutsche historiansbelonged Johann Gustav Droysen, MaxDuncker, Ludwig Hausser, Heinrich von Sybel,Heinrich von Treitschke; even Mommsenpolitically stood with them — remote as hisscientific province may have been; and last,Gustav Freytag, the culture-historian and novelist, is flesh of their flesh. They were dominantin the sixties, seventies, and even in the eighties.Several of these famous men were closely connected with Berlin. Duncker and von Sybel, to be sure, never were members of the faculty,but each in turn was general director of thePrussian archives, and at the same time a member of the Royal Prussian Academy. Two ofthis group of political historians, however, haveexercised a great influence on the universityitself: First, Droysen, from 1855 to 1880,author of the History of the Prussian Polity(Geschichte der preussischen Politik), soughtto prove that for centuries the German missionof Prussia had existed; second, Heinrich vonTreitschke, who from about 1870 to 1890 wasprofessor of modern history at Berlin. Heis the straggler of that distinguished groupof Prussian liberal historians, yet one of themost celebrated representatives of the group.Therefore I shall stop a moment to give you anidea of his work — a work quite different fromthat of Ranke. His peculiar influence waspartly a result of his singular personality.When a child he had lost his hearing almostcompletely as a result of severe illness ; at thesame time he suffered from a rather seriousimpediment of speech, a sort of failure of voice.And yet, in spite of all this, he was a brilliantorator, and one of the most influential teachersthat the University of Berlin has ever possessed.Treitschke never held seminary courses ; he didnot found a school, nor did he want to foundone ; he used to make fun of the great numberof dissertations and the army of doctors whichwere turned out of the seminars. His influencelay entirely in his lectures, especially thosewhich he delivered in public before a large audience of students from all the faculties, amounting commonly to five or six hundred hearers.As his great work (Deutsche Geschichte imneunzehnten Jahrhundert) , which unfortunatelyhas not been finished, shows in a brilliant manner, Treitschke had a strong and fine artisticfeeling ; and in the spirit and vigor of his stylehe is undoubtedly one of the best German prose-writers of modern times. On the other hand,from his youth he was a champion of Prussian116 UNIVERSITY RECORDleadership in Germany ; a man of strong political feeling; one might even say, of politicalpassion. For two decades he had great influenceon the national education of the youth of theGerman universities. Thousands of those wholistened to his lectures learned to follow hispolitical ideas, and at the same time to feel thestrong spirit of national pride in which hismighty and potent nature lived.I have spoken of those representatives of thescience of history who are no longer living. Itis more difficult to discuss those who are nowteaching, and I shall therefore be relativelybriefer. You may ask me, first of all, what direction the development of the study of historyin Berlin has taken in the last decades. I shouldlike to make my answer from three differentpoints of view.i. We have become accustomed to considerthe study of history in connection with a numberof individual sciences which support historicalwork by the special and intimate contributionsto knowledge which they make, and whichthereby broaden the horizon of the special studyof history. Many of the most notable historicalworks published in recent years in Germanyhave not been written by scholars who primarilybelong to the department of history. In thisbroad sense the life-work of Adolph Harnack,for instance, is more historical than theological ;in a similar manner, Brunner, professor ofjurisprudence, and Gierke, have made brilliantcontributions to the constitutional history ofmediaeval Germany. Remember also thatMommsen, next to Ranke the most splendidname in our department, in the nineteenth century, did his best work in Roman law. Anotherexample of the fact that the intimate knowledgegained in a special branch may open quite newpoints of view, is offered by the work of HansDelbriick in his History of the Art of War in ItsRelation to World History. Last of all, thefamous political economist Gustav Schmoller,both through his own writings and through the work of others inspired by him, belongs asmuch to us as to his own special branch. I amsure that the work that Harnack is doing in hisseminar for the history of the church, and thatwhich Schmoller is doing in his seminar forpolitical economy, is to a large degree historicalinvestigation.2. We see a further specializing of history inthe various monographs produced by acute historical investigators. A master in this sort ofwork for the history of the Middle Ages wasScheffer-Boichorst, who after thirteen years atBerlin (1889-1902) unfortunately died in theprime of life. He was an excellent teacher,especially in the seminar method, and a masterof the most minute and difficult kinds of research.3. As a third characteristic feature I wouldmention the severing of that close connectionbetween politics and history which existed, aswe saw, during the Sybel-Treitschke generation.A great deal of what these men wished for andstrove for has been attained, and consequentlythe present generation of German scholars isendeavoring to emancipate itself from currentpolitical influences, which, as always, have onlya relative and passing value. You will therefore observe among Berlin historians once morea desire to comprehend rather than to judgehistorical events. This group, of which I maymention Lenz as a leading representative, hassometimes been called the young Ranke school(Jung- Rankianer) ; and though it is not a newschool in the proper meaning of the word, it iscertainly a return to the historical ideals ofRanke, before the influences exerted by Germanpolitics in the fifties came into play.Finally, I may say a word about the presentrepresentatives of historical research in Berlin.Leaving aside the departments of oriental andancient history, represented, since Mommsen'sdeath, by Eduard Meyer, well known, I think,at this University, we have at the University ofBerlin six ordinary professors of history. (1)UNIVERSITY RECORD 117Max Lenz, whom I have just mentioned, is anauthority upon the history of the Reformationand of the nineteenth century. He is a cleverand ingenious writer, best known by his Storyof Bismarck, published within recent years.(2) Dietrich Schaefer is now head of the seminary courses in mediaeval history, and a well-known writer upon the Hanseatic and northernEuropean history. (3) Hans Delbriick, who isa special authority in the field of military history — the best we have in German — is, besides, well known as one of the first publicists inGermany and as the editor of the PrussianJahrbucher. (4) Tangl is a specialist in theediting of documents and records of the MiddleAges — a pupil of the famous Austrian schoolof Sickel, which has beaten the path, followingthe brilliant example of the " Ecole des Chartes "of Paris. (5) Hintze, who works especiallyupon the comparative history of constitutions,is, with Schmoller, prominent in the publicationof the Acta Preussica, a collection of acts relating to Prussian administrative history in theeighteenth century. (6) Another professor ofhistory is Schiemann, who within the last yearhas become the head of a new seminar for eastEuropean, chiefly Russian, history.Besides these six ordinary professors, thereare three extraordinary professors and aboutseven Privatdocenten. The history departmentat Berlin, excluding ancient and oriental history,is thus composed of about sixteen instructors.Each instructor, besides his lectures, gives aseminary course in which problems of all kindsand of all times are studied.I am not able to tell you the average numberof students who study history as the chief subject, or who write a doctor's dissertation onhistorical subjects. The number of studentswho take part in the historical seminars mayamount to about two hundred each semester.The seminar has several rooms, some library-rooms and some exclusively for instruction ; the library of the seminar alone contains about tenthousand volumes.In the seminary courses the student, beforeall, is expected to learn to do independent work.Fixed opinions, no matter if they be supportedby the best authorities, are never delivered tothem by their teachers. On the contrary, all themembers of the seminar are instructed and encouraged to ascertain the facts from the sourcesthemselves ; to confirm their results by studyingand comparing the different authors, and thusto form their own opinions. We are to see oneof the most important prerequisites for all historical work in this systematic training incriticism and independence.The work of the seminar is focused on thestudy of great and decisive problems. We areof the opinion to which Lord Acton gave utterance in his inaugural address at Oxford tenyears ago, that young students should not beginto study history by studying great epochs, butrather by studying great problems — the decisive changes, and tracing out their causes andfinal motives. Many an investigation of thiskind may dissipate old prejudices — it mayremove national prejudices in views of the past,even opinions which are dear and delightful tous as a nation. But it is the high end that westrive for in our science, to understand the trueimage of the past without prejudice; and Ithink that every historical teacher is of most useto his own nation if he endeavors to educatehis young students to this sincere and continuous endeavor to ascertain the truth.In this manner the study of history has beenbegun and is carried on at Berlin University.In the year 19 10 the Alma Mater FredericaGuilelma will celebrate its hundredth anniversary. One of the historians whom I have mentioned, Professor Lenz, has been given thehonorable task of writing the history of theUniversity of Berlin. He will, I think, be ableto describe the great influence which history hashad during this entire period upon the whole118 UNIVERSITY RECORDwork of science. In closing, may I express thehope that your American universities, especiallythe American historians, and above all the historical department of the University of Chicago,may join in this remarkable festival at Berlin in1910? I hope that your University will send its representative; and I shall be very glad if onthat occasion the University of Berlin and theGerman historians may be able to return part ofthe amiable hospitality which I am enjoyinghere most gratefully.THE REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHRISTIAN UNION FOR THEAUTUMN QUARTER, 1905No attempt will be made, in this report, togive a detailed account of the organization andscope of the Christian Union of the Universityof Chicago. Such an account has been givenin connection with every quarterly report of thepresident of the Union, for two years. Thosewho are interested to learn these details arereferred particularly to the University Recordfor February, 1905, (pp. 340, 341), and to theissue for October, 1905, (pp. 72-83). Of theorganized bodies embraced within the ChristianUnion, no report for the Autumn Quarter hasbeen received from the Student VolunteerBand for Foreign Missions, the BrownsonClub, the University Settlement, and the Woman's Union. Heretofore every branch ofthe Christian Union has been represented inthe Quarterly Report. It is hoped that thismay be true of the report to follow this.Following are accounts of activities for theAutumn Quarter of those organizations thathave rendered reports:I. THE SUNDAY MORNING SERVICEReligious services were held, as usual, inMandel Assembly Hall every Sunday morningduring the Autumn Quarter, and were wellattended by members and friends of the University. The University, as heretofore, hasbeen fortunate in the men who have filled itspulpit. They were as follows:October 8, 15, 22 — Bishop John Heyl Vincent,S.T.D., LL.D. October 29 — Rev. Hugh Black, Edinburgh, Scotland.November 5— John Balcom Shaw, D.D., Chicago.November 12, 19, 26 — President William DouglasMackenzie, D.D., Hartford Theological Seminary.December 3, 10, 17 — Bishop William Fraser Mac-Dowell, S.T.D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church.On Thanksgiving Day, regular Universityservices were this year held for the first time.President William D. Mackenzie delivered theaddress.The collections were as follows :Oct. 8, $26.45Oct. 15, 44.00Oct. 22, 33.79Oct. 29, 41.76Nov. 5, 10.31Nov. 12, 24.52 Nov. 19, $22.30Nov. 26, 23.45Nov. 30, 21.58Dec. 3, 19-44Dec. 10, 19.01Dec. 17, 3375This money was devoted to the work of theUniversity Settlement.W. G. Matthews,Secretary of the Christian Union.II. THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONThe Young Men's Christian Association began its work in the Autumn Quarter of 1905with an almost entirely new set of officers.George D. Swan, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin, was chosen secretary forthe ensuing year, and began his work on September 1. Soon after the opening of the newschool year it seemed wise on the part of thepresident and vice president to resign theirpositions on account of too much necessaryUNIVERSITY RECORD 119outside work. This was very unfortunate, asthe best men who could be obtained to fill thesevacancies were unfamiliar with existing conditions. The result was a very evident lack ofdefiniteness and consistency in the work of thepast Quarter.During the month of October two receptionswere held, one to the new men just enteringthe University, and the other, a joint receptionwith the Young Women's Christian League, tothe University at large, including both students and Faculty. The stag affair was held inthe clubroom of Snell Hall, and was attendedby about ninety men, a large number of whomwere new students. The "All-University" reception was held in Lexington Hall. A committee, consisting of officers of both Associations and Faculty members and their wives received about 400 guests during the evening.The Bible-study enrolment for the past Quarter has been 108. The classes meet regularlyeach week, and are under student leadership,except in two cases. Dr. Parker, head ofHitchcock Hall, has led one class, and DeanMathews, of the Divinity School, has conducted another, which latter is made up ofleaders of the student classes. Three courseshave been offered: One in "The Life ofChrist/' one in "The Acts and Epistles/' and athird in "Old Testament Characters."The membership has increased about one-third, and now stands at 128. A branch organization has been started in the Law School,which promises to result in a permanent association.A distinct change has been made in the regulations governing Snell Hall. Heretofore noparticular requirements have been made of themen rooming in the Hall, and during the pastQuarter the Association has suffered very materially from the lack of support and from actual opposition from some of the men who livedthere. In view of the fact that since 1902 the Association has had control of the renting ofthe rooms, and has become established, a statement has been issued to the effect that in thefuture the men who room in Snell Hall mustconsider themselves as Association men. It hasseemed necessary to take this step for self-protection and advancement, and that it may beunderstood definitely that Snell Hall shouldin every sense of the word be considered thehome of the Young Men s Christian Association.The Association has been in active co-operation with the University Settlement. Regularassistants have been supplied in the gymnasium, in clubs, and in the library, especially forwork among the boys and young men. Whenoccasion has demanded, talent for entertainments of one kind or another has been procured through the efforts of the Associationofficers.One phase of the work that is very vital tothe life of any Christian oranization, and especially to that of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation, is the personal work that is beingdone by the more earnest members. Althoughthis has been very faithfully carried on hereby several willing, consecrated fellows, it is notdesirable that this report should deal at anygreat length with the matter. The workers aremeeting in two groups for a few moments ofprayer and consultation each day. Whateverthey do is done quietly and earnestly, and noone but the men most vitally interested knowsmuch of what is being undertaken or accomplished. The life of more than one man in theUniversity has been changed for the better,and the men whose prayers and energies aredaily offered for the advancement of the kingdom of God in the University of Chicago areencouraged and inspired to greater things in thefuture.George D. Swan,Department Secretary. .120 UNIVERSITY RECORDIII. THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN LEAGUEAt the beginning of the Autumn Quarter theYoung Women's Christian League found itselfwithout a general secretary, efforts to find oneduring the spring and summer having beenunsuccessful. The work was taken up by themembers, however, with all energy and enthusiasm. Letters of welcome were written to theincoming girls, and help in registering andfinding rooms and boarding-houses was givenduring the opening days of the Quarter. A"Freshman Frolic" was given the first week, atwhich over three hundred were present.Many new members have been added; overone hundred girls are enrolled in the Bible-study classes; the attendance at the weeklymeetings has averaged fifty; a mission studyclass has been formed; a Bible group meetsweekly at the School of Education; severalwell-attended social evenings have been enjoyed; several girls have been doing work inthe city settlements ; and the members are contributing to Christian work in other places bysystematic weekly giving.All this is much as it was last year. Thegrowth this year has been not so much a broadening as a deepening. One great evidence ofthis is the number of girls who have in the lastthree months given themselves absolutely toGod and His service, and the number who haveevidenced the desire to know more of theChristian life. Another proof of the spiritualdeepening in the life of the League is thespirit of prayer in which every slightest undertaking has been commenced, and at the endof these three months the League gives grateful thanks for answered prayers. We feel thatmuch of this year's growth has been due tothe inspiration brought by the twelve girls whoattended the summer conference at Lakeside,and the fourteen who went to the state convention at Decatur. Since the first of December Miss Stella Anderson has been giving part of her time to thework of the general secretary, and will continue to do this during the next three months.The Winter Quarter is opening with everypromise of continued steady growth.Margaret E. Burton,President.IV. THE DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONI. House prayer-meetings. — In Middle andSouth Divinity Houses prayer meetings havebeen held regularly every Tuesday evening.An increased attendance upon these meetingshas been noticeable; an increased "house fellowship" has been promoted thereby.2. Weekly devotional half-hour held in Haskell Assembly Hall. — There is a growing tendency among Divinity students to make theThursday morning prayer-meeting, held inHaskell Assembly Hall, an important featurein their University experience. The admirabletspirit in which the meetings are conducted andthe large number of students who attend them,are two things which may be especially mentioned as evidences of this tendency.3. Organized evangelistic endeavors. — Theorganization of the Evangelistic Band was effected in the early part of the Autumn Quarter.An unusually large number of men volunteeredtheir services. W. J. Howell and W. L. Run-yan were elected, respectively, as leader andbusiness manager. Although the active workof the Band has not in former years begun before the opening of the Winter Quarter, oneseries of gospel meetings has been conductedby members of this organization this fall, atLake Geneva, Wis. Calls for the services of theBand are numerous.4. Unorganized evangelistic endeavors. — Inaddition to the work of the Evangelistic Band,several students have from time to time responded to invitations to assist pastors ofUNIVERSITY RECORD 121churches in the vicinity of the University, inconducting special evangelistic services.5. Religious census.— -The Divinity Councilis co-operating with the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian League in making a religious census of theUniversity.V. IN GENERALAlthough the report for the Autumn Quarter is briefer than those heretofore given, it issafe to say that in many respects the work, ineach of its departments, has developed moresatisfactorily than at any other time in recentyears. The last two years have been especiallydevoted to reorganization, and to perfectingnew machinery. A marked change is noted.The actual work is engaging attention. Throughthe central office of the Union connection is be ing made between those who are willing towork, and the work needing to be done. Illustrations of this are found in the co-operationof men and women with settlement and evangelistic work. Personal religious work is being done, quietly indeed, but most effectively.A wholesome religious spirit seems most sensibly to pervade the University life, manifestingitself in general attitude and conduct, in cheerful and hearty loyalty to high standards of lifeand work, rather than exclusively in the moreconventional ways. It is safe to say that theUniversity of Chicago is among the foremostof the colleges and universities in the encouragements to be found within its premises, tothe religious life.Nathaniel Butler,President of the Christian Union.122 UNIVERSITY RECORDDOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOThe Association of Doctors of Philosophyof the University of Chicago will hold its firstannual meeting in June, 1906, in connectionwith the third quinquennial celebration of thefounding of the University.The degree of Doctor of Philosophy has beenconferred by the University upon three hundred and seventy-nine candidates, includingthose of the Winter Convocation, 1905.Of this number, fifty-six are now members ofthe University Faculties. Arranged by yearsthey are as follows :Edmund J. Buckley, 1894, Docent in ComparativeReligion.John C. Cummings, 1894, Assistant Professor ofPolitical Economy.Theodore G. Soares, 1894, Professor of Homiletics.Edward S. Ames, 1895, Instructor in Philosophy.Frederic I. Carpenter, 1895, Associate Professor ofEnglish. -Jerome H. Raymond, 1895, Associate Professor ofSociology.Myra Reynolds, 1895, Associate Professor of English.James W. Thompson, 1895, Assistant Professor ofEuropean History.Francis A. Wood, 1895, Assistant Professor of Germanic Philology.Leonard E. Dickson, 1896, Assistant Professor ofMathematics.Theodore L. Neff, 1896, Instructor in French.William I. Thomas, 1896, Associate Professor ofSociology.George E. Vincent, 1896, Professor of Sociology.Clyde W. Votaw, 1896, Assistant Professor of NewTestament Literature.Herbert L. Willett, 1896, Assistant Professor ofSemitic Languages and Literatures.Philip S. Allen, 1897, Assistant Professor of German Literature.Charles J. Chamberlain, 1897, Instructor in Botany.Lauder W. Jones, 1897, Instructor in Chemistry.Paul O. Kern, 1897, Assistant Professor of Germanic Philology. Lisi C. Cipriani, 1898, Instructor in French andComparative Literature.Henry C Cowles, 1898, Instructor in Botany.Herbert J. Davenport, 1898, Assistant Professor ofPolitical Economy.Edgar J. Goodspeed, 1898, Assistant Professor ofBiblical and Patristic Greek.Herbert N. McCoy, 1898, Assistant Professor ofPhysical Chemistry.Addison W. Moore, 1898, Associate Professor ofPhilosophy.Herbert E. Slaught, 1898, Assistant Professor ofCollegiate Mathematics.Ira W. Howerth, 1898, Assistant Professor of Sociology.Henry G. Gale, 1899, Instructor in Physics.John C. Hessler, 1899, Instructor in Chemistry.Forest R. Moulton, 1899, Assistant Professor ofAstronomy.John M. P. Smith, 1899, Instructor in Semitic Languages and Literatures.Edward A. Bechtel, 1900, Instructor in Latin.John J. Meyer, 1900, Associate in Sanskrit.Edwin E. Sparks, 1900, Professor of American History.Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, 1901, Instructor inHousehold Administration.Willard C. Gore, 1901, Assistant Professor of Psychology.Florence M. Lyon, 1901, Associate in Morphology.William B. Owen, 1901, Associate Professor ofGreek.Katherine E. Dopp, 1902, Lecturer in Education.Errett Gates, 1902, Assistant in Church History.Shinkishi Hatai, 1902, Assistant in Neurology.Charles H. Neilson, 1902, Associate in Physics.Wallace W. Atwood, 1903, Instructor in Physiography and General Geology.Henrietta K. Becker, 1903, Associate in German.Mary Hefferan, 1903, Assistant and Curator of theBacteriological Museum.George L. Marsh, 1903, Instructor in English.John B. Watson, 1903, Instructor in ExperimentalPsychology.Harry G. Wells, 1903, Assistant Professor ofPathology.Robert J. Bonner, 1904, Assistant in Greek.UNIVERSITY RECORD 123William J. G. Land, 1904, Assistant in Morphology.Arthur C. Lunn, 1904, Instructor in Applied Mathematics.William B. McCallum, 1904, Assistant in Botany.Heinrich Hasselbring, 1905, Assistant in PlantPathology.Glenn M. Hobbs, 1905, Instructor in Physics, University High School.Carleton J. Lynde, 1905, Instructor in Physics, University High School.Adolph C von Noe, 1905, Instructor in German.Six deaths have already occurred in the ranksof the Doctors of Philosophy of the University.The deceased are as follows :Rene de Poyen-Bellisle, 1894, Department of French.Died in April, 1900.Henry F. Linscott, 1896, Department of Latin. Diedin December, 1902.Eliphalet A. Reed, 1896, Department of SystematicTheology. Died in September, 1900.Mary Bowen, 1897, Department of English.Wesley W. Norman, 1899, Department of Physiology. Died in June, 1899.Arthur W. Greeley, 1902, Department of Physiology. Died on March 15, 1904, while a member ofthe faculty of Washington University, St. Louis,Mo.The following Doctors of Philosophy wereuntil recently members of the Faculty of theUniversity :Burton E. Livingston, 1901, now in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.Tenney Frank, 1903, now instructor in Latin, BrynMawr College.Oswald Veblen, 1903, now assistant professor ofmathematics in Princeton University.Charles Ingbert, 1903, now assistant physician atthe State Hospital, Independence, Iowa.Mr. Theodore C. Burgess, who received hisDoctor's degree from the University in 1898,and at that time became dean of the collegedepartment in the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, is now director of that institution. During several Summer Quarters he has givencourses in the Department of Greek at the Uni-sity. Mr. Lincoln Hulley, who received his Doctor's degree from the University in 1895, andlater became professor of history at BucknellUniversity, was elected to the presidency ofJohn B. Stetson University in 1904. Underhis administration all departments of that institution are united in harmonious and effectivework.In a five-column review, which appears inthe Wochenschrift fur klassische Philologiefor November 15, 1905, Sternkopf, the distinguished Ciceronian scholar, warmly commendsDr. W. S. Gordis' doctor's thesis on The Estimates of Moral Values Expressed in Cicero'sLetters, and expresses the hope that it will betranslated into German. Mr. Cordis receivedhis Doctor's degree at the Autumn Convocationof 1904.During the year 1904-5 thirty-nine men andfive women received the Doctor's degree fromthe University. Their major departments andpresent locations are shown as follows :Philosophy :Irving King, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.Political Economy:Murray S. Wildman, University of Missouri.History :Charles A. Paullin, Carnegie Institute, Washington, D. C.William R. Manning, Purdue University.Church History:William H. Allison, Franklin College.History of Art:Caroline L. Ransom, Bryn Mawr College.Sociology :Herbert E. Fleming, Record-Herald staff, Chicago.Richard R. Perkins, pastor, Rockford, 111.Thomas J. Riley, State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Mich.Albert J. Steelman, chaplain, Illinois State Penitentiary.Semitic Languages:Allen H. Godbey, Morrisville College, Morrisville,Mo.124 UNIVERSITY RECORDOlaf A. Toffteen, Chicago, 111.New Testament:John M. Bailey, pastor, Fairbury, 111.Greek :Frank W. Dignan, University of Chicago Press.David M. Robinson, Johns Hopkins University.LaRue Van Hook, Princeton University.Latin :Warren S. Gordis, Ottawa University.Mary B. Peaks, Vassar College.Sanskrit :Ivy Kellerman, Berlin, Germany.William C. Gunnerson, St. Louis (Mo.) HighSchool.Germanic :Adolph C. von Noe, University of Chicago.English :Charles H. Gray, University of Kansas.George C. Taylor, University of Colorado.Mathematics :Herbert E. Jordan, Brandon College, Manitoba,Canada.Robert L. Moore, University of Tennessee.Thomas E. McKinney, Marietta College.Arthur W. Smith, Colgate University.Physics :Frederick L. Bishop, Bradley Polytechnic Institute.Chemistry :Maxwell Adams, State Normal School, Chico,Cal.Nellie E. Goldthwaite, fellow, Columbia University.Oswin W. Willcox, government service, SandyHook, N. Y.William M. Bruce, chief chemist of KennicottWater Softening Co.Geology :Alfred R. Schultz, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.Zoology.Lynds Jones, Oberlin College.Horatio H . Newman, demonstrator in medicaldepartment, University of Michigan.Paleontology :Edwin B. Branson, Oberlin College.Physiology :Orville H. Brown, University of St. Louis.Botany :Martin A. Chrysler, Harvard University.Heinrich Hasselbring, University of Chicago. Clifton D. Howe, School of Forestry, Biltmore,N. C.William J. G. Land, University of Chicago.Etoile Bessie Simons, High School, Evanston, 111.William B. McCallum, University of Chicago.Robert B. Wylie, Morningside College.Mr. William G. Tight, Ph.D. in Geology, 1902, is now president and professor ofgeology at the University of Mexico, Albuquerque, N. M.Of those who have received the Doctor's degree in the Department of Geology, not a feware now holding government positions. Amongthese are the following:William H,. Emmons, 1904, assistant geologist, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. ; Frank A. Wilder, 1902, stategeologist of Iowa, and professor of geologyin the University of Iowa; William C. Alden,assistant geologist, United States GeologicalSurvey, Mount Vernon, Iowa ; Harry F. Bain,1897, state geologist of Illinois, Champaign,111. ; Henry B. Kummel, state geologist of NewJersey, Trenton, N. J. ; Nevin M. Fenneman,assistant geologist, United States GeologicalSurvey, and professor of geology, Universityof Wisconsin.Other Doctors of the Department of Geologyoccupying prominent positions are :Thomas C. Hopkins, 1900, professor ofgeology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. ;William N. Logan, 1900, professor of geology,University of Mississippi; Fred H. H. Calhoun,1902, professor of geology, Clemson College,S. C.Mr. Jeremiah S. Young, Ph.D. in Historyand Political Science, 1903, will soon publishthrough the Hinds, Noble & Eldridge Company, of New York, a volume on the historyand government of Minnesota.Mr. Samuel D. Swartz, Ph.D. in Chemistry,1897, who for some years was principal ofUNIVERSITY RECORD 125Broaddus Institute, Clarksburg, W. Va., hasrecently been appointed to the chair of chemistry in Fairmount College, Wichita, Kan.Mr. Frank B. Jewett, Ph.D., 1902, and MissFannie L. Frisbee, Ph.D., 1904, both of the Department of Physics, were married in Rock-ford, 111., on December 28, 1905. Mr. Jewettwas for two years instructor in the Boston Institute of Technology, and is now in charge ofthe Research Laboratory of the Bell TelephoneCompany, of Boston.Mr. Gordon F. Hull, who received his Doctor's degree in Physics in 1897, and has sincebeen teaching physics in Dartmouth College,succeeded to the headship of the departmenttwo years ago, when Professor Nichols, theformer head, was called to Columbia University. The work of Professors Nichols and Hullupon the pressure of light has attracted considerable attention.Mr. Robert F. Earhart, Ph.D. in Physics,1901, who went to the Ohio State Universityas instructor in physics, is now assistant professor in that institution.Mr. William Poel, director of the ElizabethanStage Society, of London, devoted several minutes in his recent lecture on "ElizabethanConditions of Stage Production" to Dr. G. F.Reynolds' dissertation on Some Principles ofElizabethan Staging. Mr. Poel said the dissertation is the best treatise on the subject everpublished, and expressed his admiration of theeducational system of America which not onlymade possible, but promoted the production of,such work by graduate students. He said,further, that it gave precisely, and with references to the best authorities for its statements,the information which a manager needs instaging an Elizabethan play; ajnd that such abook as this, if it had come into his hands whenhe became a director of the Elizabethan StageSociety, would have saved him many years of labor. Mr. Reynolds received the Doctor'sdegree in June, 1905.Mr. Raymond F. Bacon, Ph.D. in Chemistry,1904, has been appointed a government chemist in the laboratory at Manila, P. I.Mr. Hermann I. Schlesinger, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1905, is in Berlin, pursuing special investigations in Professor Nernst's laboratory inphysical chemistry. He expects to spend twoyears abroad in advanced study.Mr. George C. Taylor, professor of Englishin the University of Colorado, who, on leave ofabsence from that institution, spent last yearin residence at the University of Chicago, wasgranted the Doctor's degree at the June Convocation, 1905.Miss Nellie Goldthwaite, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1904, resigned the chair of chemistry inMount Holyoke College last summer to accept a fellowship in domestic science at Columbia University.Mr. Wallace A. Beatty, Ph.D. in Chemistry,1902, has been appointed research fellow inRockefeller Institute, New York City.The work of Otto K. Folin, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1898, as research chemist in McLeanHospital, Waverly, Mass., on problems of nutrition, is arousing considerable interest andfavorable comment. He is said to have supplied the theoretical explanation of ProfessorChittenden's well-known results on the question of nutrition.Mr. H. Heath Bawden, who received theDoctor's degree from the University in 1900,was for one year in the department of philosophy at the University of Iowa, and has sincebeen professor of philosophy at Vassar College,Poughkeepsie, N. Y.Mr. Roy C. Flickinger, Ph.D. in Latin andGreek, 1904, was a student in the Universityof Berlin during the summer semester, 1905,126 UNIVERSITY RECORDand is now in the classical faculty of Northwestern University, of Evanston, 111.Mr. Elmer C. Griffith, Ph.D in History andPolitical Economy, 1903, who was for threeyears at Yankton College, South Dakota, is nowprofessor of history and political economy atWilliam Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.Mr. Loran D. Osborne, Ph.D. in SystematicTheology, 1900, was elected to the presidencyof Des Moines College in July, 1905. He hadbeen pastor of the First Baptist Church atBloomington, 111., since 1900.EXERCISES CONNECTED WITH THE FIFTY-SEVENTHCONVOCATIONHis Excellency Jules Jean Jusserand, LL.D.,Ambassador of France to the United States,was the Convocation Orator on December 19,1905, his address being entitled "Some Maximsof Life/' The orator was introduced by Mr.Jacob M. Dickinson, of the Chicago bar.After the conferring of degrees, ProfessorHarry Pratt Judson, Dean of the Faculties ofArts, Literature, and Science, in the absence ofthe President, expressed the thanks of the University for the Convocation address in the following words :"The University extends cordial thanks toHis Excellency the Ambassador for his graceful address. He is no stranger in this place.In his visit three years ago, when he had notbeen long in this country, he taught us, or atleast those of us who needed teaching, whatmanner of man a scholarly and accomplishedFrench gentleman is. It is such representativesof his great nation who dispel the idle misconceptions of half-knowledge, and win genuinerespect and kindly feeling for their country.M. Jusserand is not merely Ambassador fromthe government of the French Republic to thegovernment of the United States. He is alsoambassador from French men of letters toAmerican men of letters ; from the culture and refinement of French life to the culture and refinement of American life ; from all that is bestin France to all that is best in the New World.We tender him our cordial personal regard,and through him extend the homage of ourrespect and admiration to the nation ofLafayette and Rochambeau, of Moliere, Racine, and Pasteur."On account of the illness of the President ofthe University, the regular Quarterly StatementwTas not given on Convocation day, but isprinted in this issue of the University Record.The Convocation Reception, which was heldin Hutchinson Hall on the evening of December 18, was largely attended. At the head ofthe receiving line, in the absence of the President of the University, was Dean Harry PrattJudson; Mrs. Judson assisted in receiving theguests of honor, who included the Convocationorator, His Excellency Jules Jean Jusserand,LL.D., Ambassador of France to the UnitedStates ; the Convocation Preacher, Bishop William Fraser McDowell, D.D., LL.D., and Mrs.McDowell; the President of the UniversityBoard of Trustees, Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, andMrs. Ryerson. Refreshments were served, andthe music for the evening was provided by theUniversity of Chicago Military Band.THE PRESIDENTS REPORT FOR 1904-7905On account of the illness of the President ofthe University, his personal report to the University Board of Trustees is not included in thenew President9 s Report for 1904-5, which appeared in January, 1906. For the same reason,and because of the loss of compositors in theUniversity Press, the publication of the Reportwas unavoidably delayed.The Report is opened by the Dean of the Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science, his report to the President covering matters of"Legislation and Administration," "Departmentsof Instruction," "Attendance of Students,"UNIVERSITY RECORD 127"Fellowships," "Scholarships," "The GraduateSchools," and "The Colleges." The Dean ofthe Graduate School of Arts and Literature discusses "Attendance," "Desirable Conditions forGraduate Work," and "University Relationswith Colleges." This report is followed bythe statistics for the Graduate Schools ofArts, Literature, and Science.The reports of the Deans of the Senior Colleges, of the Junior Colleges, of UniversityCollege, and of the Dean of Women, covertwenty-five pages ; and those of the Deans of theProfessional Schools, including the DivinitySchool, the Medical Courses, and the LawSchool, cover fourteen pages. Only statisticsfor the College of Education appear. Thereare brief reports, also, by the Dean of the College of Commerce and Administration and theDean of the Morgan Park Academy.Under the head of "Reports of the Directorsand Secretaries," appear those of the AssociateLibrarian, the Director of the University Press,the Secretaries of the University Extension Division, the Department of University Relations,the Director of Physical Culture and Athletics,the Religious Agencies of the University, theDirector of the University Houses, and thePrincipal of the University Elementary School.A distinctive feature of the President's Report for 1904-5 is the reports from the Headsof Departments, covering twenty-five pages.Reports of other officers include those of theCounsel and Business Manager, the Registrar,and the Auditor, the last-mentioned report containing twenty-four pages, which include nineteen statistical tables.A second distinctive feature of the President'sReport for the past academic year is the "Publications by Members of the University," arranged by Departments, and covering a periodfrom July, 1902, to July, 1905. This bibliography is continuous with that of the President'sReport in the Decennial Publications, excludes all material of a purely popular character, andcovers thirty-eight closely-printed pages.A NEW VOLUME BY THE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENTOF SOCIOLOGYGeneral Sociology is the title of a volume recently issued by the University of ChicagoPress, which gives an exposition of the maindevelopment in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. The book, of 750 pages, isthe work of Professor Albion W. Small, Headof the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.The nature of the work is indicated in thepreface: "The following outline .... contains the skeleton of a lecture course occupyingfour hours a week for an academic year, and ofa program of seminar work in sociologicalmethodology continuing through three years.. . . . The main objects of this syllabus are,first, to make visible different elements thatmust necessarily find their place in ultimatesociological theory ; and, second, to serve as anindex to relations between the parts and thewhole of sociological science Our thesisis that the central line in the path of methodological progress, from Spencer to Ratzenhofer,is marked by gradual shifting of effort fromanalogical representation of social structures toreal analysis of social processes."In Part I, which is devoted to the Introduction, there are chapters on the subject-matterand the definitions of sociology, and on theimpulse, history, and problems of sociology.Part II, " Society Considered as a Whole Composed of Definitely Arranged Parts (Structure)," discusses the place of Herbert Spencerin sociology, his analysis of society, and thevalue of his method. Part III, " Society Considered as a Whole Composed of Parts WorkingTogether to Achieve Results (Function)," is aninterpretation of SchafBe. Parts IV and V arean interpretation of Ratzenhofer. Part VI in-128 UNIVERSITY RECORDeludes ten chapters devoted to a " Conspectus ofConcepts Derived by Analysis of the SocialProcess." In Parts VII, VIII, and IX theSocial Process is considered as a system ofpsychical problems, as a system of ethical problems, and as a system of technical problems.Under the last-mentioned head is a chaptergiving a conspectus of the social situation in theUnited States, as contained in the present stateof achievement and in unsolved technical problems, the whole being presented under six granddivisions which include achievements in promoting health, in producing wealth, in harmonizing human relations, in discovery and spreadof knowledge, in the fine arts, and in religion.The final chapter contains this significant statement and conclusion : " For weal or for woe,we have arrived at a stage of life in which socialgravitation is more and more arrested and deflected, and perhaps reversed by social theory.Men think today about social relations, and inthe spirit of their thought they act. To do theright thing, except by accident, in any socialsituation, we must rightly think the situation.We must think it not merely in itself, but in allits connections. Sociology aims to become thelens through which such insight may be possible."A VISIT BY MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY TO THEPLANT OF THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANYAt the invitation of the National Cash Register Company, more than a hundred members ofthe Faculties and the Board of Trustees of theUniversity spent a day in the inspection of thefactory plant at Dayton, Ohio, going by a special train of five Pullman coaches over thePennsylvania line on the evening of October 29and returning on the night of October 30. Officers of the University Settlement and of theUniversity Settlement League were also members of the party.Upon arrival at Dayton the party was taken to a hotel for breakfast, and then to the Company's factory, where the morning was spentin inspecting the various processes of manufacturing the cash register, the sanitary conditions of the buildings, the many novel andvaluable features connected with the methods ofthe business, and the remarkable work in thedirection of welfare work for employees of thecompany.After luncheon at the Officers' Club an illustrated lecture on the development and presentsuccess of the great business was given in theLecture Room of Building No. 1, the illustrations being especially effective and some of themof great artistic value. During the lecture manyinquiries as to methods and results were madeand answered. Later in the afternoon opportunity was given for seeing the methods ofphysical culture for the men in the employ ofthe company, and then the party was taken bycarriage to the Woman's Century Club House,formerly the boyhood home of the president ofthe Company, Mr. John H. Patterson.A dinner for the party was given at "FarHills," the country home of President Patterson,the grounds of which were most artisticallyilluminated for the occasion. Following thedinner, President Patterson called for responsesfrom members of the Faculties and membersof the Company, and among those respondingwere Dean Harry Pratt Judson, Head of theDepartment of Political Science, who spoke forthe President of the University; Mr. AndrewMacLeish, Vice-President of the UniversityBoard of Trustees ; Mr. Alfred A. Thomas, thegeneral counsel and secretary of the Company ;Dean Albion W. Small, Head of the Departmentof Sociology and Anthropology; Mr. FranklinMacVeagh, of the University Board of Trustees ;Mr. Hugh Chalmers, general manager of theCompany; Professor Marion Talbot, Dean ofWomen; Associate Professor Frank J. Miller,of the Department of Latin ; and Associate Professor Myra Reynolds, Head of Foster Hall.UNIVERSITY RECORD 129During the evening the factory buildings ofthe National Cash Register Company were illuminated in honor of the guests from Chicago.The day was unique and highly suggestive tothe University visitors, there being especial interest shown in the enlightened business methodsof the Company, the good sense and admirablearrangements of the welfare work for employees,and the evident high quality in both the intelligence and the product of the employed. Thehospitality of the president and officers of theCompany was unstinted, and the whole tripwas without expense to the members of theparty.The arrangements for the comfort, safety, andpleasure of the University guests were complete,Mr. Charles M. Steele, of the class of 1904, having these in charge in Chicago. Mr. Steele isnow connected with the publication departmentof the National Cash Register Company.THE PUBLICATION OF TWO NEW JOURNALS IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNIVERSITYThe first number of the Classical Journal,published under the auspices of the ClassicalAssociation of the Middle West and South, wasissued from the University of Chicago Pressin December, 1905. The managing editors areArthur Fairbanks, of the University of Iowa,and Gordon J. Laing, of the Department ofLatin in the University of Chicago. The chiefcontribution in the first number is by Professor William Gardner Hale, Head of the Department of Latin, and is entitled "An Experiment in the Teaching of First and Second YearLatin." The article has a double-page exhibitof the "Principal Uses of the Latin Subjunctive." Besides editorials, and an account of thefirst meeting of the Association, there are notes,reports from the classical field, book reviews,and notices of new literature. The first volumeof the Classical Journal will consist of six num bers of thirty-two pages each; succeeding volumes will consist of eight numbers each year,and the dates of issue will be the first of eachmonth, from November to June inclusive.The first number of Classical Philology, aquarterly journal devoted to research in thelanguages, literatures, history, and life of classical antiquity, will be issued from the University of Chicago Press in the month of January,1906. The board of editors consists of Professor Edward Capps, of the Department of Greek,who is the managing editor; Professors FrankF. Abbott, William G. Hale, George L. Hen-drickson, and Assistant Professor Gordon J.Laing, of the Department of Latin; ProfessorPaul Shorey, Head of the Department ofGreek; Professor Carl D. Buck, Head of theDepartment of Sanskrit and Indo-EuropeanComparative Philology; and Professor FrankB. Tarbell, of the Department of the Historyof Art. Among the institutions represented bythe associate editors are Cornell University,the University of Michigan, the University ofSt. Andrews, Columbia, McGill University,the Universities of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,and California, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton.The January issue of Classical Philology contains a contribution on "An Unrecognized Construction of the Latin Subjunctive: the SecondPerson Singular in General Statements ofFact," by Professor William Gardner Hale,Head of the Department of Latin. ProfessorGeorge L. Hendrickson, of the Department ofLatin, contributes a note on "Tacitus Dialogus20.10," and Professor Paul Shorey, Head of theDepartment of Greek, a note on "A Case ofIotacism in Themistocles." In the same number are reviews by Professors Hendricksonand Carl D. Buck.,The first volume will contain about 380pages, and the regular dates of publication willbe the months of January, April, July, andOctober.130 UNIVERSITY RECORDA HISTORY OF EGYPT BY PROFESSOR JAMES HENRYBREASTEDCharles Scribner's Sons, of New York, haverecently published A History of Egypt — fromthe earliest times to the Persian Conquest — thework of James Henry Breasted, Professor ofEgyptology and Oriental History, who is alsodirector of the Haskell Oriental Museum andof the Egyptian Expedition of the Universityof Chicago.The volume, of six hundred and fifty pages,is based on the four volumes of Ancient Records of Egypt, published for Mr. Breasted bythe University of Chicago Press. By referenceto these volumes of translated documents in thefootnotes of the present history, all technicaldiscussion of sources is here avoided ; while, asthe author suggests in his preface, "the advantage of close contact with the sources for everyfact adduced is not sacrificed."In Book I are chapters on "The Land,""Chronology and Documentary Sources," and"Earliest Egypt;" in Book II, chapters on"Early Religion," "The Old Kingdom: Government and Society, Industry and Art," "ThePyramid Builders," and "The Sixth Dynasty;" in Book III, "The Decline of the Northand the Rise of Thebes," "The Middle Kingdom, the Feudal Age: State, Society, and Religion," and "The Twelfth Dynasty."Book IV considers the "Rise of the Empire ;"Book V discusses the "First Period of the Empire," and includes chapters on "The NewState: Society and Religion," "The Consolidation of the Kingdom," "The Religious Revolution of Ikhnaton," and "The Dissolution of theEmpire." Book VI covers the "Second Periodof the Empire," and includes chapters on "TheTriumph of Amon," "The Wars of RamsesII," and "The Empire of Ramses II." BookVII discusses "The Decadence," with chapters on "The Fall of the Empire," "Priests andMercenaries: The Supremacy of the Libyans," "The Ethiopian Supremacy and the Triumph ofAssyria." "The Restoration" and "The FinalStruggles: Babylon and Persia," are the chapter headings in Book VIII. The volume closeswith a five-page chronological table of kings,an index of thirty-two pages, and a general mapof Egypt and Nubia.The work represents many years of labor andresearch. in the libraries and museums of Europe, and in Egypt, where Professor Breastedis now in charge of the Egyptian Expeditionof the University of Chicago.The book, in the -richness of its cover, thebeauty of its typography, the frontispiece ingolden browns and delicate blues of the "Colonnaded Hall of the Temple of Esneh," and thetwo hundred other illustrations, is a highly artistic volume, that shows generous co-operationwith the author on the part of the publishers.THE AMERICAN WOMEN'S TABLE AT THE ZOOLOGICALSTATION AT NAPLESThe executive board of the Association forMaintaining the American Women's Table atthe Zoological Station at Naples and for Promoting Scientific Research by Women wishesto call attention to the opportunities for research in zoology, botany, and physiology, provided by the foundation of this table.The Zoological Station at Naples was openedby Professor Anton Dohrn in 1872 for the collection of biological material, and for the studyof all forms of plant and animal life. Underthe personal direction of Professor Dohrn andhis assistants the station has developed into aninternational institution for scientific research.Any government or association which paysfive hundred dollars annually is assigned a research table and is entitled to appoint to itqualified students, who are provided by thestation with all materials, apparatus, and assistance free of cost. One table is sometimesUNIVERSITY RECORD 131used by four or five research students in thecourse of a year.This association, which was formed in 1898to promote scientific research among women,is maintained by annual subscriptions of fiftydollars each. For the year 1905-6 the following colleges and associations are contributors:Association of Collegiate Alumnae, BarnardCollege, Bryn Mawr College, University ofChicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliff e College,Smith College, University of Pennsylvania,Vassar College, Wellesley College, WesternReserve University, Women's College in BrownUniversity, Woman's Education Association ofBoston, Woman's Advisory Committee of theJohns Hopkins Medical School, and Woman'sCollege of Baltimore.During the past seven years fourteen womenhave been appointed by the association, andvaluable papers have been published as a resultof the work done at Naples.The appointments are made by the executiveboard, and each appointee of the associationwho has occupied the table for at least threeconsecutive months may receive the title ofScholar of the Association, if, in the judgmentof the executive board, she is entitled to thisdistinction.The year of the association begins in April,and all applications for the year 1906-7 shouldbe sent to the secretary on or before March 1,1906. Application blanks and detailed information in regard to the advantages at Naplesfor research and collection of material will befurnished by the secretary, Ada Wing Mead,283 Wayland Avenue, Providence, R. I. Thechairman of the executive board is Mary E.Wooley, president of Mount Holyoke College.A RECENT BOOK ON RAILWAY REGULATIONGovernment Regulation of Railway Rates isthe title of an especially timely volume, recently published by the Macmillan Company, theauthor of which is Assistant Professor Hugo R.Meyer, of the Department of Political Economy.The book, of 480 pages, is "A Study of theExperience of the United States, Germany,France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia " along the lines of state railway control.In the preface the author remarks that thebook presents the conclusions forced upon himby twelve years of painstaking study of therailway question, that study beginning with aninquiry into the results of state industrial ventures in Australia, "which he took up with astrong bias in favor of State intervention inindustry The net result has been thedisclosure of such overwhelming proofs of theevils of state direction of industry, or interference with its natural course, that he has becomefirmly convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of railways or their rates."The book, the author adds, was published before he was able to carry out his plans forsecuring additional information, bringing statistics down to date, and for a more careful arrangement of material; but further delay inpublication would not, he says, have modifiedthe conclusions of the book, the present appearance of which is due to the possibility of actionby Congress conferring enlarged powers uponthe Interstate Commerce Commission.Part I is given up to a discussion of statecontrol in Germany, France, Austria-Hungary,the Danubian Principalities, Russia, and Victoria and New South Wales, Australia ; Part IIconsiders conditions in the United States, andincludes chapters on "The Development of theWest," " The Workings of Competition," " TheAdjustment of Railway Rates," "The Decisionsof the Interstate Commerce Commission"(covering export and import rates, the long-and-short-haul clause, etc.), and "The Port Differentials."The volume has a very full index, of thirteen132 UNIVERSITY RECORDpages, and a map showing the important industrial centers and navigable waterways of middleEurope.THE SERIES OF CONCERTS BY THE THEODORETHOMAS ORCHESTRAFour concerts, in the series of six arrangedby officers of the Quadrangle Club, have alreadybeen given in the Leon Mandel Assembly Hallby the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, under thedirection of Mr. Frederick A. Stock, the firston the evening of October 24, and the fourthon January 9. The two remaining concertswill be given on Tuesday evenings, February 6and March 6.The program for the first concert includedTschaikowsky's "Symphony No. 6, Pathe-tique," Strauss's tone-poem, "Don Juan," Wagner's "Siegfried-Idyl," and the symphonicpoem "Les Preludes" by Liszt. A popular program was given on November 14, and amongthe favorite numbers were the "Serenade foiWind Choir" by Strauss, Handel's "Largo,"and Schumann's "Traumerei," with selectionsfrom Tannhduser.On December 12 a Beethoven- Wagner program was presented, including the overture toBeethoven's Leonore No. 3, and the "FifthSymphony in C minor;" the overture to Wagner's Lohengrin, the prelude and "Isolde'sLove-Death" from Tristan and Isolde, and selections from the third act of Die Meistersin-ger. On January 9 the distinctive feature ofthe program was the playing of Mr. WilliamH. Sherwood, the pianist, who chose the "Concerto in E flat" by Liszt. Mr. Sherwood responded to the enthusiastic appreciation of theaudience by playing as an encore Schubert's"Hark, Hark, the Lark." Among the othernumbers on the program were the overture to Beethoven's Coriolanus, Schubert's unfinished"Eighth Symphony in B minor," and Svend-sen's "Allegretto scherzando." The fourth concert in the series was particularly successful, asindicated by the attendance and interest."A DECADE OF CIVIC DEVELOPMENT"Under the title mentioned above, the University of Chicago Press has recently issued avolume by Professor Charles Zueblin, of theDepartment of Sociology, which describes themovement for the betterment of Americancities that has been a remarkable phase of civicprogress in the last ten years. The volume,of 190 pages, consisting of a series of contributions to The Chautauquan during the years1902-3, under the title of "The Civic Renascence," contains chapters on "The New CivicSpirit," "The Training of the Citizen," "TheMaking of the City," "The White City and After," "Metropolitan Boston," "Greater NewYork," "The Harrisburg Plan," "Washington,Old and New," and "The Return to Nature."The book is made especially attractive by twenty full-page illustrations, showing marked artistic advance in public architecture, among themore notable being the White House extension,the new high school of Tacoma, the Boston Public Library, and the proposed Union RailwayStation in Washington, D. C.In the foreword, signed by the author atBerkeley, Cal., on the day of the public opening in San Francisco, for exhibition, of the improvement plan of that city, Mr. Zueblin remarks : "While we have long been disheartenedby municipal mismanagement and civic apathy,we must be stirred and inspired by the fact, already demonstrated beyond dispute, that thecivic progress of the last decade is greater thanthat of all our previous national existence."UNIVERSITY RECORD 133A UNIQUE SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE POETICDRAMABeginning with the afternoon of November 2a unique and striking series of lectures on " ThePoetic Drama " have been given under the auspices of the University Lecture Association, inco-operation with the University of Chicago, atMusic Hall in the Fine Arts Building, Chicago." The Art of Acting versus the Art of Talking" was the subject of the opening address,which was given by Mr. Richard Mansfield, theactor, who was presenting in Chicago at thetime an English version of Schiller's dramaDon Carlos. Three dramatic recitals in thecourse were given by Associate Professor S. H.Clark, of the Department of Public Speaking,the first two, on November 9 and 16, beingStephen Phillips' Ulysses and Paolo and Fran-cesca" and the third, Browning's Blot in the'Scutcheon. "Realism on the Stage," "TheDrama of Problems," and "The Drama ofIdeals " were the titles of the lectures given byDr. Richard Burton, Professorial Lecturer inEnglish Literature, during the month of December, the general subject of the course being" The Drama of Today."In January and February, 1905, Mr. WilliamNorman Guthrie continues the series with acourse of six lectures on "Racial Aspects of theWorld's Great Dramas," the titles of his lectures being "The Wheel of Life," illustratedfrom Hindu drama ; " Fate and the Gods," illustrated from Hellenic drama; "The ProdigiousIndividual," illustrated from Spanish and English drama; "In the Bonds of Convention,"illustrated from French drama; "The AtoningSentiment," illustrated from German drama;and "The Rights of the Soul," with illustrations from Scandinavian and Russian drama.Following the series by Mr. Guthrie will besix lectures by Professor Richard Green Moul-ton, Head of the Department of General Literature, to be given during March and April, thesubjects being as follows : " Shakspere's Mac beth recast in the Form of an Ancient Tragedy ;""Ancient Tragedy in its Simplest Form: theAlcestis of Euripides ; " " ^Eschylus' Trilogy :the Story of Orestes;" "The Electra of Sophocles;" "The Electra of Euripides;" and"Ancient Tragedy in its Wildest Form: theBacchanal Women of Euripides." Mr. Moul-ton's course, which bears the general title of"Illustrations of Ancient Classical Tragedy,"will be given in Fullerton Memorial Hall of theArt Institute, and will be open to students andmembers of the Art Institute only.THE ELECTION OF A NEW MEMBER TO THE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEESThe vacancy in the University Board of Trustees caused by the death of Mr. George C.Walker was filled on October 17, 1905, by theelection to the Board of Colonel Frank O.Lowden, of Chicago. Mr. Lowden, who is alawyer, was graduated from the State University of Iowa as valedictorian in 1885, and fromthe Union College of Law, Chicago, with thehighest honors, in 1887. He has been presidentof the Law Club, of Chicago, and professor inthe Northwestern University Law School. Hewas for three years president of the IndustrialArt League of Chicago, and for four years atrustee of Northwestern University. He wasa delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1900 and in 1904, and is now a memberof the National Republican Committee for Illinois. Mr. Lowden was the closest competitorof the present governor of Illinois for the Republican nomination to the governorship. Heis a director in a number of corporations, and isa member of the American, Illinois, and ChicagoBar Associations.A SUCCESSFUL PALEONTOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONThe University of Chicago paleontologicalexpedition to the Wind River region in westernWyoming during the past summer succeeded insecuring for the University about a ton and a134 UNIVERSITY RECORDhalf of fossils, including thirty specimens ofplesiosaurs and ancient crocodiles, and onedinosaur. The plesiosaurs belong to at leastthree new forms. The dinosaur, of which alarge part of the skeleton was secured, is of anew genus, and has been named Stegopeltalanderensis by Professor Williston, of the Department of Paleontology. It was peculiar inhaving a heavy bony armor.The new material will be described and figuredas soon as it can be properly prepared.The members of the expedition, which wasgone from the middle of June to the latter partof September, were Professor Samuel W. Williston, of the Department of Paleontology ; Mr.Roy L. Moodie, a Fellow in the same Department; and Mr. Edward B. Branson, who received his Doctor's degree from the Universityat the fifty-fifth Convocation in June, 1905.A NEW MEMBER IN THE FACULTY OF THE DIVINITYSCHOOLOn the first of January, 1906, Dr. TheodoreG. Soares, A.M., D.D., for the past three yearspastor of the First Baptist Church of Oak Park,111., began his new duties in the University asProfessor of Homiletics in the Divinity School.his predecessor being Dr. Edward Judson, whoreturned to New York City.Dr. Soares graduated from the University ofMinnesota in 1891 with the degree of A.B.The following year he was a Fellow in the sameinstitution, and received his Master s degreein 1892. For two years he was a Fellow inthe department of Comparative Religion in theUniversity of Chicago, where in 1894 he wasgiven the Doctor's degree, magna cum Irnde.Three years later the University conferred onhim the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. Hehas also received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Knox College.His pastorates included five years of servicein Rockford, 111., three years in Galesburg, andthree in Oak Park. From 1901 to 1906 Dr. Soares was a University Extension Lecturer in Biblical Literature, some of the subjects of his courses being"Literary Studies in Old Testament Masterpieces," "The Literature of Apocalypse," "TheSignificance of Jesus," and "Studies in the Lifeof Paul."A SPECIAL MEMORIAL NUMBERA special memorial number for the Presidentof the University, who died on January 10,1906, will be issued early in the month ofMarch.THE FACULTIESEighty different colleges have been represented in the registration of the Law Schoolduring the Autumn and Winter Quarters.Professor Joseph Jastrow, of the Universityof Wisconsin, gave a lecture on the subject of"The Subconscious" in the Law Building onOctober 16.Mr. John M. Zane, Professorial Lecturer onMining and Irrigation Law, began a series offive open lectures on "Mining Law" in the LawBuilding on October 19.Assistant Professor Charles E. Merriam, ofthe Department of Political Science, gave anaddress on January 6 before the City Club onthe revenue system of Chicago.The delegates to the meeting in Chicago ofthe National Council of Jewish Women weregiven a reception by the Woman's Union inLexington Hall on December 13.On November 14 Professor Charles R. Henderson, Head of the Department of Ecclesiastical Sociology, gave an address at the Institute of Social Science and Arts in the Fine ArtsBuilding, Chicago, on " Contributions of thePast to Methods of Charity."UNIVERSITY RECORD 135"The Teaching of Science" is the title of acontribution in the December (1905) number ofSchool Science, by Assistant Professor CharlesR. Mann, of the Department of Physics.In Science of December 15, 1905, is a discussion of "Recent Books on the Physics of theElectron," by Assistant Professor Robert A.Millikan, of the Department of Physics.On December 8 Mr. John Quincy Adams,Ph.D., gave an illustrated address in MandelAssembly Hall before the School of Educationon "The Beauty of Machine-Made Things."Judge Julian W. Mack, of the Faculty of theLaw School, was appointed by the governor ofIllinois as a delegate to the National PrisonConference, which was held at Lincoln, Neb.,on October 21.Under the auspices of the Vassar Students'Aid Society an author's reading was given atFoster Hall on October 28, by Miss HelenDawes Brown, of New York City, on "Oxford :Past and Present.""The Mind of the Mob" was the subject ofan address, given in the Second PresbyterianChurch of Chicago on the evening of November2,2, by Professor George E. Vincent, of the Department of Sociology."The Beginning of the Short Story in America" is the title of a contribution in the August(1905) issue of the Reader magazine, by Associate Professor Robert Morss Lovett, of theDepartment of English."John Ruskin : His Art and Social Theory. "was the subject of a lecture in Fullerton Hallof the Art Institute, Chicago, on January 2, byAssociate Professor J. G. Carter Troop, of theDepartment of English.At the reception given on January 3 by theGreek colony of Chicago, under the auspicesof Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Professor Paul Shorey, Head of the Departmentof Greek, was among the speakers. On November 12 Dr. Nathaniel I. Rubinkam,Lecturer on English Literature in the University Extension Division, gave the first of hislectures on "A Shakespearean Trilogy" inSteinway Hall, Chicago.Mr. George B. Zug, of the Department of theHistory of Art, gave an illustrated lecture atFullerton Hall of the Chicago Art Institute, onNovember 14, his subject being "Leonardo daVinci : His Life and Works."At the meeting of the Chicago Association ofCollegiate Alumnae on December 16 in therooms of the Woman's Club, Judge Julian W.Mack, of the Law School, gave an address onthe work of the Juvenile Court.Mr. Ng Poon Chew, the managing editor ofa Chinese daily paper in San Francisco, gavea public address in Cobb Lecture Hall on November 28. The speaker is a joint author ofA Statement for Non-Exclusion."Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century" was the title of an illustrated lecture givenon October 24 before the Alternate Club ofChicago by Associate Professor Myra Reynolds,of the Department of English.At the installation of Dr. John D. S. Riggsas president of Shurtleff College, Illinois, onNovember 10, 1905, Mrs. Zella Allen Dixson,Associate Librarian, gave an address on"Woman in Higher Education."On October 19, 1905, before the meeting ofthe Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs heldat Joliet, Professorial Lecturer Francis W.Parker, of the University Board of Trustees,gave an address on the value of municipal art tothe community.At the meeting of the American Academyof Medicine, held at the Northwestern University building in Chicago, Dr. John M. Dodson,Dean of Medical Students, spoke of the presentconditions in connection with the state examining boards of physicians.136 UNIVERSITY RECORDAt a classical banquet given at the Lewis Institute, Chicago, on the evening of November 16Associate Professor Frank J. Miller, of the Department of Latin, was among those who spokeof the value of classical scholarship."Second Coming" is the title of a poem in theDecember (1905) issue of the Century Magazine, written by Assistant Professor WilliamVaughn Moody, of the Department of English.The poem has a full-page illustration.Associate Professor William B. Owen, Deanof the Academic Course in the University HighSchool, was recently the recipient of a gift ofseven hundred dollars from an unknown donor,for use in connection with the School.Dr. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, of the Department of Household Administration, gavean address on November 13 before the Engle-wood Woman's Club of Chicago on the subjectof " The Legal Status of Women."Professorial Lecturer Francis W. Parker, ofthe University Board of Trustees, spoke for theboard of trustees of Shurtleff College at theinstallation of Dr. John D. S. Riggs as president of the college on November 10, 1905.The head resident of the University Settlement, Miss Mary E. McDowell, spoke on December 3 in the South Park Avenue MethodistChurch, Chicago, on the apathy of citizenstoward the projects of municipal betterment.At the annual meeting of the Illinois Federation of Woman's Clubs on October 18 at JolietAssistant Professor Alice P. Norton, of theDepartment of Household Administration,spoke upon the "Social Value of DomesticScience."Among the legislative delegates recently appointed by the governor of Illinois to the convention to consider a new charter for the city ofChicago is Senator Francis W. Parker, Professorial Lecturer in the Law School and amember of the University Board of Trustees. Professor George E. Vincent, of the Department of Sociology, gave a lecture on the evening of October 31 before the Woman's Clubof Rogers Park, 111., on the subject of "ThePsychology of the Crowd.""Opportunities for College Women in CivicLife" was the subject of an address before theWoman's Union in Lexington Hall, on November 8, by Miss Frances A. Kellor, formerly agraduate student in Sociology and Philosophy.Among the "editorials by the laity "publishedin the Chicago Tribune of October 22 was oneentitled "Missionaries Encourage Progress ofWorld," written by Assistant Professor JamesW. Thompson, of the Department of History.In the October issue of the American Journalof Theology is a contribution on "Some RecentOld Testament Literature," by Dr. John M. P.Smith and Professor Ira M. Price, of theDepartment of Semitic Languages and Literatures.Before the educational department of theChicago Woman's Club on November 1, Associate Professor George H. Mead, of the Department of Philosophy, gave a lecture on thesubject of "The School and the Life of theChild."On January 6, in Fullerton Hall of the ArtInstitute, Chicago, Mr. H. C. E. David, of theDepartment of Romance Languages and Literatures, gave a reading of Les Fourberies deScapin, by Moliere, which was presented onthe stage of the French Theater in SteinwayHall on January 16.Professor John M. Coulter, Head of theDepartment of Botany, and Dr. Henry C.Cowles, of the same Department, are on a six-months' leave of absence in Europe, to returnabout the first of April, Mr. Coulter is spending the winter in Italy, and has already visitedbotanical institutions and men in Brussels,Louvain, Paris, and Geneva.UNIVERSITY RECORD 137"Culture and Progress" was the title of an address before the fifty-second annual conventionof the Illinois State Teachers' Association, heldat Springfield on December 26 and 27, by Professor Paul Shorey, Head of the Department ofGreek.The fifth lecture in the series before thePolytechnic Society of Chicago was given onthe evening of December 8 in Handel Hall byMr. Charles L. Hutchinson, a member of theBoard of Trustees and Treasurer of the University.At the celebration of the recent reformsinitiated in Russia, which was held in St. Paul'sReformed Episcopal Church, Chicago on theevening of November 5, Professor ShailerMathews, of the Divinity School, was amongthe speakers.At a dinner given by the New England Society of Chicago on the evening of December5 at the Great Northern Hotel Associate Professor Francis W. Shepardson, of the Department of History, responded to the toast of"The Puritans."Professor Eri B. Hulbert, Dean of the Divinity School, was among those responding totoasts at the luncheon given in connection withthe installation of Dr. John D. S. Riggs as president of Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, 111.,on November 10.In the Department of Chemistry the registrations for the Autumn Quarter of 1905 weredouble those in the same Quarter of 1903.There are now fifteen men doing research workfor the Doctor's degree — the largest number inany one Quarter.Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, Head of theDepartment of Political Economy, gave an address at the annual convention of the Citizens'Industrial Association, held in St. Louis inNovember, on the subject of "Labor Unionsversus Higher Wages." Assistant Professor Harry A. Bigelow, ofthe Law School, is the editor of the new (third)edition^ of May's Law of Crimes, recently published by Little, Brown & Co., of Boston.At the annual meeting of the Mount HolyokeAlumnae Association of the Northwest, heldat the Victoria Hotel in Chicago on October 21,Mrs. Zella Allen Dixson, Associate Librarian,extended greeting from the University ofChicago.Before the Hyde Park Guild of the ReligiousEducation Association Professor William D.MacClintock, of the Department of English,gave an interpretative reading of Browning'sSaul, in Mandel Assembly Hall, on the eveningof November 21."A Study of the Sand-Dunes on the Shoreof Lake Michigan" is the title of a contributionin the November number of the ElementarySchool Teacher, by Mr. Ira B. Meyers, Instructor in the Teaching of the NaturalSciences, the College of Education."The Learned Lady as a Comic Type inEighteenth Century Literature " was the subjectof an address before the Chicago Association ofCollegiate Alumnae, at the Womans' Club onNovember 18, by Associate Professor MyraReynolds, of the Department of English."President Harper of the University ofChicago" is the subject of an appreciation in theDecember (1905) issue of the World's Work,by Mr. James Weber Linn, of the Departmentof English. In this issue, also, is a full-pageportrait of the President of the University."Trained Leadership in the Occident" was thesubject of an address before the Baptist SocialUnion of Chicago, on December 5, by ProfessorTheodore G. Soares, of the Department ofHomiletics in the Divinity School. Dr. Soaresbegan his service in the University on January1, 1906.138 UNIVERSITY RECORDAt the conference on religious and moral education, held on October 17, 18, and 19, in connection with the installation of Dr. Edmund J.James as president of the University of Illinois,Professor Shailer Mathews, of the Departmentof Systematic Theology, was the presidingofficer.Mr. Edgar Bronson Tolman, of the class of1880, contributes to the November number ofthe World To-Day a discussion of "Chicago'sTraction Question." This is a first paper, andis illustrated by a map and portraits. Mr. Tolman is special counsel in traction litigation forthe city of Chicago."On the Order of the Canterbury Tales ;Caxton's Two Editions" is the title of a contribution in the October issue of ModernPhilology, by Miss Eleanor Prescott Hammond,who was a Fellow in the Department of Englishin 1895-7 and received her Doctor's degree fromthe University in 1898.Les Petit s Oiseaux is the title of the Frenchcomedy presented in the French Theater, Stein-way Hall, Chicago, on December 12, 1905. Apublic rehearsal and two performances weregiven, and prominent in the cast was Mr. HenriC. E. David, of the Department of RomanceLanguages and Literatures.Dr. Douglas Hyde, of Dublin, Ireland, who ispresident of the Gaelic League, gave an address on January 12 in Mandel Assembly Hallon the subject of "The Poetic Literature ofIreland." Mr. Hyde also spoke on the following day in the Fine Arts Building, Chicago, on"The Folk Tale in Ireland."Professor A. A. Stagg, Director of the Division of Physical Culture and Athletics, attendedthe meeting of the National Football RulesCommittee in Philadelphia in December. Mr.Stagg was also in attendance at the annualmeeting of the Athletic Board of the Conference Colleges of the West, held at the VictoriaHotel, Chicago, on December 1. Professor Emil G. Hirsch, of the Departmentof Semitic Languages and Literatures, openedthe supplementary session of the second annualmeeting of the National Child Labor Committee in Sinai Temple, Chicago, on December 16,and also served as one of the committee on arrangements.Professor Samuel Satthianadhan of Presidency College, Madras, India, gave an addresson December 6, before the women of the University, on "The Awakening of the Women ofIndia;" on December 7 he also addressed themen of the University on the subject of"Present Day Thought in India."Among the speakers at the ninth annualbanquet of the Society of Mayflower Descendants of the State of Illinois, held on November22 at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago, wereMr. James W. Linn, of the Department ofEnglish, and Associate Professor Francis W.Shepardson, of the Department of History.Dr. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, AssistantDean of Women and Instructor in the Department of Household Administration, has beenelected general secretary of the Association ofCollegiate Alumnae. The office was first heldby Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, formerly Deanof Women of the University of Chicago.Bishop William Fraser McDowell, D.D.,LL.D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church,was the University Preacher on December 10,and on December 17 acted as the ConvocationPreacher. On December 3 Dr. Frederick E.Dewhurst, of the University CongregationalChurch, Chicago, was the University Preacher."Graft in Legislative Bodies" was the subject of an address on November 20 before theMen's Club of the Hyde Park Baptist Church,Chicago, by Professorial Lecturer Francis W.Parker, of the Law School. Mr. Parker is amember of the Illinois Senate and also of theUniversity Board of Trustees.UNIVERSITY RECORD 139On December 28, at the annual conference ofthe Society of College Gymnasium Directors inNew York City, Assistant Professor Joseph E.Raycroft, of the Department of Physical Culture and Athletics, presented a paper entitled"The Essentials and Technique of the PhysicalExamination for Competitive Athletics."At the October meeting of the Parents' Association connected with the School of Education Assistant Professor Joseph E. Raycroft,of the Department of Physical Culture andAthletics, was the principal speaker in the discussion of the necessity for medical supervisionin the School, and outlined plans for carryingit out.The Idle Actor in 2Eschylus is the title of arecent dissertation of forty pages published bythe University of Chicago Press for Mr. FrankW. Dignan, who received the Doctor's degreefrom the University in 1905 for work in theDepartment of the Greek Language and Literature. Mr. Dignan graduated from the University in 1897.At the dinner of the Commercial Club ofChicago, given in the Auditorium on November25, Professor George E. Vincent, of the Department of Sociology, spoke on the subject of"Civic Beauty and Social Unity." On the sameoccasion Mr. Franklin MacVeagh, of the University Board of Trustees, discussed the progress made in the abatement of the smoke evil inChicago.For the last two years Professor Thomas C.Chamberlin, Head of the Department ofGeology, has been a member of the Board ofManagers of the National Geographic Society,whose headquarters are at Washington, D. C.Professor Rollin D. Salisbury, Head of the Department of Geography, is also a member of thesame board, his term expiring in 1906. Thesociety is now in its eighteenth year, and has amembership of 9,000. Professor Charles R. Henderson, Head of theDepartment of Ecclesiastical Sociology, contributed an introductory note to an article in theChicago Tribune of November 13 on "Municipal Ownership in Switzerland, its Growthand Practical Workings," written by ProfessorLouis Wuarin, of the University of Geneva.The January number of the PhilosophicalMagazine, of London, has a contribution byDr. Glenn M: Hobbs, formerly of the Department of Physics, and now connected with theUniversity HJgh School, on the subject of "TheRelation between Sparking Potential andSparking Distance for Very Small Values ofthe Latter.""The Chronology of Jesus' Public Ministry"is a contribution in the December (1905) issueof the Biblical World, by Assistant ProfessorClyde W. Votaw, of the Department of Biblicaland Patristic Greek. Professor Shailer Mathews, of the Department of Systematic Theology,has a contribution in the same number on "TheImitation of Christ."At the meeting of the mathematics section ofthe Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, held in Chicago in December,1905. Assistant Professor Herbert E. Slaught,of the Department of Mathematics, deliveredan address on "Aims in Teaching Algebra."Mr. Slaught wras elected to the vice-presidencyof the mathematical section for the ensuingyear.Professor Horace K. Tenney, of the LawSchool Faculty, was recently elected presidentof the Chicago Bar Association. Mr. Tenneyis a graduate of the University of Wisconsinlaw school and has been a lecturer upon practice in the John Marshall law school of Chicago.He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and of the American Bar Association,arid is the head of the law firm of Tenney,Coffeen & Harding.140 UNIVERSITY RECORDIn the discussion of the subject of "The Aimin High School Education," at the fifty-secondannual meeting of the Illinois State Teachers'Association at Springfield on December 26 and27, Professor Nathaniel Butler, Dean of theCollege of Education, spoke from the point oiview of the university.Besides contributing the opening editorial forthe November issue of the World To-Day, entitled "Thanksgiving — Is It Hypocrisy? Professor Shailer Mathews, of the Divinity School,has a timely article on "Reforming Athletics inthe Central West." The article is illustratedby six portraits of well-known football coachesand players in the central West.The November number of the Botanical Gazette contains a contribution on "The Bogs andBog Flora of the Huron River Valley," by Professor Edgar Nelson Transeau, formerly agraduate student in the Department of Botany.The article is illustrated by sixteen figures, andis continued in the December issue of the journal."Work and Play as Factors in Education" isthe subject of a contribution in the Novemberissue of The Chautauquan by Miss JaneAddams, University Extension Lecturer inSociology and Head of Hull House, Chicago.The contribution was originally an addressgiven during the summer of 1905 at Chautauqua, N. Y.Among the speakers at the banquet of theIllinois Society of Colonial Wars, held at theAuditorium Hotel in Chicago on the evening ofDecember 6, in commemoration of the 285thanniversary of the first battle with the Indians,was Professor Edwin E. Sparks, of the Department of History, who is also Dean ofUniversity College.Assistant Professor William Vaughn Moody,of the Department of English, is one of the literary executors of the late Trumbull Stickney — Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge and Mr. John EllertonLodge being the other two. They have arranged and edited Mr. Stickney's dramatic andlyrical poems, which are published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.The University was represented at the installation, on November 24, of Charles Lee Smithas president of Mercer University, Macon, Ga.,by Professor Shailer Mathews, Junior Deanof the Divinity School. President Ira Remsen,of Johns Hopkins University, gave the inauguration address, and a large number of collegesand universities were represented on the occasion.On the evening of December 16, at the banquet given at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago,in honor of Ambassador Jules Jean Jusserand,of France, the guest of honor proposed thehealth of the President of the University, and,in the absence of the President, response wasmade by Professor Harry Pratt Judson, Deanof the Faculties of Arts, Literature, andScience.At the annual meeting of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers onDecember 1 in the Auditorium of the YoungMen's Christian Association Building, Chicago,Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin, Head af theDepartment of Geology, outlined his recentlyannounced "accretion theory" of the earth'sorigin, which opposes the long-accepted doctrine of the nebular hypothesis."On the Anomalous Tails of Comets" is thetitle of an illustrated contribution in the November (1905) issue of the Astrophysical Journal,by Professor Edward E. Barnard, of the YerkesObservatory. In the same number also is anarticle entitled "On the Spectrum of Silicon;With a Note on the Spectrum of Fluorine,"illustrated by two plates, which is contributedby Mr. John A. Parkhurst, Instructor in Practical Astronomy.UNIVERSITY RECORD 141In the January issue of Modern LanguageNotes Mr. Milton A. Buchanan, Associate inthe Department of Romance Languages andLiteratures, has a contribution on "Partinuplesde Bles. An Episode in Tirso's Amor porSenas. Lope's La viuda valenciama.""Greek Documents in the Museum of theNew York Historical Society" is the title of areprint from the Melanges Nicole, contributedby Assistant Professor Edgar J. Goodspeed, ofthe Department of Biblical and Patristic Greek.Another reprint by the same writer, from theJournal of Biblical Literature, is entitled "TheDialogue of Timothy and Aquila : Two Unpublished Manuscripts."The Librarian of Congress, in his report fox1905, records the gift of a large and importantcollection of family papers, numbering fromtwenty-five to thirty thousand, from Dr. So-phonisba P. Breckinridge, of the University ofChicago. They date from 1760 to 1904 and areof great value to students of social, religious,and political history. Dr. Breckinridge retainsthe right to the exclusive use of the collectionfor five years, but desires that "the Breckinridge Papers" shall be at the end of that time"accessible to all the world of students.""Shakespeare et Voltaire; 'Othello' et'Zaire' " is the title of a contribution in theJanuary (1906) issue of Modern Philology, byDr. Ernest J. Dubedout, of the Department ofRomance Languages and Literatures. Professor John M. Manly, Head of the Departmentof English, contributes to the same number anarticle on "The Lost Leaf of Piers the Plowman" The French ambassador to the UnitedStates, Jules Jean Jusserand, who gave the lastConvocation address at the University, is thecontributor of an article entitled "Spenser's'Twelve Private Morall Vertues as AristotleHath Devised.' " Among the directors of the Chicago Bureauof Charities for 1905-6 are Professor CharlesR. Henderson, Head of the Department ofEcclesiastical Sociology; Mr. Franklin Mac-Veagh, of the University Board of Trustees ;and Mrs. Emmons Blaine, founder of the Schoolof Education. In its work last year help wasgiven to more than 8,000 families.The head of the University of Chicago Settlement, Miss Mary E. McDowell, addressed theAmerican Federation of Labor in its session atPittsburg, Pa., on November 16, in support of aresolution requesting Congress to appropriatefunds for an investigation of conditions nowsurrounding working-women in the UnitedStates. Miss McDowell is president of theWomen's Trade Union League.Professor Shailer Mathews opens the January issue of The World To-Day with an editorial on "Taming Football." Among the portraits of typical Americans in the same numberis one of Mr. Franklin MacVeagh, a memberof the University Board of Trustees. "ThePremiers of Europe," with six portraits of present premiers, is a contribution by Mr. OscarD. Skelton, a graduate student in the Department of Political Science."Ideals in the Teaching of Mathematics" isthe subject of a contribution in the November(1905) number of School Science and Mathematics, by Assistant Professor Herbert E.Slaught, of the Department of Mathematics.On November 14 Mr. Slaught gave an addressbefore the graduating class of the ForestvilleSchool, Chicago, on the subject of mathematicsas it should be viewed by the student enteringthe high school.Ginn & Company have in press a volume entitled A First Course in Physics, by AssistantProfessor Robert A. Millikan and Dr. Henr>G. Gale, of the Department of Physics. The,book contains a one-year course in Physics and142 UNIVERSITY RECORDhas grown out of the experience of the authorsin dealing with the work of physics in theSchool of Education and affiliated high schoolsand academies. Particular emphasis is laid onthe historical and practical aspects of the subject.On the evening of November n, at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, a thousand physiciansgave a banquet in honor of Dr. Nicholas Senn,Professorial Lecturer on Military Surgery.Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, of New York City,made the presentation speech in connection withthe gift of a gold medallion, the reverse side ofwhich bore the inscription : "To Nicholas Senn,the Master Surgeon, from his Fellows, November n, 1905." A silver loving-cup was alsopresented to Dr. Senn.At the fifty-seventh Convocation of the University, held on December 19, 1905, three students were elected to membership in thePhi Beta Kappa society. Fifty-eight studentsreceived the title of Associate; one, the diplomaof the two-years' course in the School ofEducation; thirty-two, the degree of Bachelorof Arts, Philosophy or Science ; one the degreeof Doctor of Law; five, the degree of Masterof Arts, or Science; and seven, that of Doctorof Philosophy — a total of 104.Among the portraits of "typical Americans"reproduced in the November issue of theWorld To-Day, is that of Professor A. A.Stagg, Director of the Division of PhysicalCulture and Athletics. In the same number is a contribution entitled "Silhouettesfrom Life," by Miss Annie Marion MacLean,editor of Woman's Welfare, a magazine published by the Woman's Century Club of Dayton, Ohio. Miss MacLean received the Doctor'sdegree from the University in 1900.In the November (1905) issue of the SchoolReview Mr. George Herbert Locke, formerlyDean of the College of Education, contributeseditorial notes on "The Fifth Annual Report of the College Entrance Examination Board,"" President Eliot's Address of Welcome to NewStudents at Harvard," " President, Butler's Address of Welcome to the Students at ColumbiaUniversity," and "An Illustration of the Uncertain Tenure of Office in Secondary SchoolTeaching and Administration."On December 1 Assistant Professor J. PaulGoode, of the Department of Geography, gavean address on "Commercial Geography forSecondary Schools" before the Earth-Sciencesection of the Central Association of Scienceand Mathematics Teachers. Mr. Goode alsogave an address "On Climate as a NaturalResource" before the State Normal School atMacomb, 111., on December 5, and one on "TheAge of Coal" before the Louisville (Ky.)Teachers' Association on November 18.Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin, Head ofthe Department of Geology, who is managingeditor of the Journal of Geology, contributesan editorial to the November-December number on the establishment of a new journal inthat field entitled Economic Geology. One ofthe associate editors of the new periodical isCharles Kenneth Leith, Non-Resident Professor of Structural and Metamorphic Geology,who also has a contribution in the first numbeion "Genesis of the Lake Superior Iron Ores.""The Undoing of Autocracy" is the openingeditorial of the December number of theWorld To-Day, written by Professor ShailerMathews, of the Divinity School. "The Siegeof Warsaw" is contributed to the same numberby Mr. William English Walling, who graduated from the University in 1897. ProfessorMarion Talbot, of the Department of Household Administration, discusses "HousekeepingOld and New;" and Professor J. LaurenceLaughlin, Head of the Department of PoliticalEconomy, has a unique contribution on "Orchards in the Desert." The article has sevenillustrations.UNIVERSITY RECORD 143The opening contribution in the Octoberissue of the Botanical Gazette is the secondpaper on the "Regeneration in Plants," by Dr.William B. McCallum, of the Department ofBotany. The article, illustrated by ninefigures, is the seventy-ninth contribution fromthe Hull Botanical Laboratory. The eightiethcontribution appears in the same number, andis entitled "The Spore Coats of Selaginella."It is illustrated by two plates, and was writtenby Miss Florence Lyon, Associate in Morphology."The Question of Translation in ModernLanguage Instruction" was the subject of anaddress before the Modern Language Teachersof the Chicago High Schools, given in the Wendell Phillips High School on June 10, 1905,by Assistant Professor Paul O. Kern, of theDepartment of German. Mr. Kern was thecontributor, also, of an article on "Realien imneusprachlichen Unterricht" in the Pada-gogische Monatshefte (Zeitschrift fur dasdeutsch-amerikanische Schulwesen), Heft 7-8,October, 1905."On the Evolution of the Solar System" isthe title of the opening contribution in the October (1905) number of the Astrophysical Journal, by Assistant Professor Forest R. Moulton,of the Department of Astronomy. The articleis illustrated by three figures, and a plate of aspiral nebula photographed in 1902 with thetwo-foot reflector of the Yerkes Observatory.Professor Edwin B. Frost, Director of theYerkes Observatory, contributes to the samenumber an article on "Spectrographic Observations of Certain Variable Stars."During the Winter Quarter of 1906 ProfessorHenry H. Donaldson, Head of the Departmentof Neurology, will be on leave of absence fromthe University and will have charge of the research work in neurology at the Wistar Insti^tute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia.Dr. Donaldson is a member of the Advisory Board of Anatomists recently created by theWistar Institute, and he has also been electedprofessor of neurology at the Institute. It isdesired to make this institution a central station for anatomical research in this country.Primary Facts in Religious Thought, a bookof 120 pages recently published by the University of Chicago Press, is a collection of sevenessays which discuss in a popular style suchsubjects as "What is Religion?" "Religion andTheology," "Religion and Morals," "Religionand the Church," "Religion and SocialProgress," "Religion and the Bible." Thewriter of the essays is Mr. Alfred Wesley Wis-hart, who for three years was a student in theDivinity School and at one time a Fellow inChurch History.An illustrated article on "Jerusalem" is contributed to the November (1905) issue of theBiblical World by Assistant Professor HerbertL, Willett, of the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures. In the same numberis a contribution on "The Trustworthiness ofthe Gospels," put in the form of a brief catechism, by Dr. Warren P. Behan, who graduatedfrom the University in 1894, from the DivinitySchool in 1897, and received his Doctor's degree,magna cum laude, in 1899 for work along thelines of church history and sociology.The Chicago section of the American Mathematical Society held its eighteenth meeting atthe University of Chicago on December 28 and29, 1905. About thirty were present, representing the chief colleges and universities of theMiddle West. Twenty-two papers were presented, of which two were pedagogical in character and twenty were reports on the results oforiginal research. The University of Chicagowas represented on the program by ProfessorEliakim H^* Moore, Assistant Professor LeonardL. Dickson, Dr. Arthur C. Lunn, and Mr.Nels J. Lennes, a graduate student. AssistantProfessor Herbert E. Slaught was elected sec-144 UNIVERSITY RECORDretary of the Chicago section for the ensuingyear.A critical note in the January issue of theAmerican Journal of Theology, by AssistantProfessor Edgar J. Goodspeed, of the Department of Biblical and Patristic Greek, is entitled"A New Glimpse of Greek Tense-Movementsin New Testament Times." Under the head ofRecent Theological Literature, Professor Ernest D. Burton, Head of the Department ofNew Testament Literature and Interpretation,discusses "Recent Books on the Fourth Gospel." "Recent Missionary Literature" is considered by Professorial Lecturer Alonzo K.Parker, of the Department of Church History.At the fiftieth meeting of the UniversityCongregation, held on December 18, 1905, inCongregation Hall, Haskell Oriental Museum,His Excellency Jules Jean Jusserand, LL.D.,Ambassador of France to the United States,was introduced by Professor John M. Manly,Head of the Department of English. Newmembers of the Congregation were introducedby Professor Paul Shorey, Head of the Department of Greek. Associate Professor GeorgeH. Mead, of the Department of Philosophy,was elected as Vice-President of the Congregation for the Winter Quarter, 1906."A Geographic Interpretation of Chicago"was the subject of an address on October 13,1905, before the Geographic Society of Chicago,by Assistant Professor J. Paul Goode, of theDepartment of Geography, who is president ofthe society. On the board of directors are Professor Rollin D. Salisbury, Head of the Department of Geography; Associate ProfessorZonia Baber, of the College of Education ; andMiss Elsie Wygant, of the University Elementary School. The society has trebled its membership in the last two years. It is affiliatedwith the Municipal Museum of Chicago, and meets in the rooms of that organization in thePublic Library Building.In the preface to the second edition of Methods in Plant Histology, which the University ofChicago Press has recently issued, the author.Dr. Charles J. Chamberlain, of the Departmentof Botany, remarks that much more attentionin this edition has been given to the collectingof material. Several new chapters have beenincorporated, one devoted to a description ofthe Venetian turpentine method of mounting,which has largely supplanted the glycerinmethod; and others, dealing with micro-chemical tests, free-hand sections, special methods,and the use of the microscope. The first editionwas published in 1901.The title page and preface of A Concise Dictionary of the Assyrian Language, by Mr. W.Muss-Arnolt, of Belmont, Mass., has beenrecently received in the Recorder's Office. Thepublishers are Reuther & Reichard, of Berlin.Mr. Muss-Arnolt was formerly Assistant Professor of Biblical Philology in the Universityand Assistant Recorder. The new dictionary isdedicated to Paul Haupt, William RaineyHarper, and Emil Gustav Hirsch, and acknowledgment of indebtedness is also made inthe preface to Professor Robert Francis Harper,of the Department of Semitic Languages andLiteratures.In the October-November (1905) number ofthe Journal of Geology is a contribution on"The Northern and Southern KinderhookFaunas," by Assistant Professor Stuart Weller,of the Department of Geology. In the samenumber is a forty-page contribution on the"Structure and Relationships of AmericanLabyrinthodontidae," by Mr. Edwin BayerBranson, who received his Doctor's degree fromthe University, summa cum laude, in 1905 forwork in the Departments of Paleontology andGeology. The article, which was originallyUNIVERSITY RECORD 145presented as a Doctor's thesis, is illustrated bynineteen figures.The valedictory of the editor of the SchoolReview, Mr. George Herbert Locke, formerlyDean of the College of Education, appears inthe December issue of that journal. Mr,. Lockehas been the editor since the year 1900. Othereditorial notes in the same number are "Mr.Henry James on English as Spoken by theAmericans," "The Salaries of Principals ofOur High Schools, as Reported by the Committee Appointed by the National EducationalAssociation," and "Some Experiences in Connection with the College Entrance ExaminationBoard."In the December issue of the AstrophysicalJournal Mr. Robert J. Wallace, Photophysicistin the Yerkes Observatory, has a second noteon " 'Orthochromatic' Plates," illustrated byfive figures. Assistant Professor Forest R.Moulton, of the Department of Astronomy, offers "An Apology and an Explanation" to Professor William H. Pickering, of Harvard University, and a reply is made by the latter. Professor Edward E. Barnard, of the Yerkes Observatory, gives a list of the plates made byhimself in 1905, at Mount Wilson, Cal., withthe Bruce telescope, covering the region of theNova.In the November (1905) number of Woman'sWelfare, published by the Woman's CenturyClub of Dayton, Ohio, is a contribution on"Early Factory Conditions for Women" bythe editor, Miss Annie Marion MacLean, whoreceived from the University the Master's degree in 1897 and the Doctor's degree in 1900 forwork along the lines of sociology and economics.Miss MacLean recently collaborated with Professor Charles R. Henderson and others in thepreparation of the volume entitled ModernMethods of Charity, published by the Mac-millan Company. In the same number of themagazine mentioned above is an article on "A New Phase of Welfare Work," by Miss FrancesA. Kellor, who for four years was a graduatestudent at the University in the Departments ofSociology and Philosophy.A series of four open lectures on "The Relation between Religion and Science" was begun in the Assembly Room of Haskell OrientalMuseum on November 14, by President William Louis Poteat, of Wake Forest College,North Carolina. The following were the subjects of his lectures : "The Definition ofScience," "The Scope of Science," "Science inReligion," and "Religion in Science.""Women as Investors" was the subject of anaddress before the Woman's Union of the University, by Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, of Chicago, on November 15, in Lexington Hall."The Ethical Value of the Old Testament inModern Life" is the title of a contribution inthe January issue of the Biblical World, by Professor Theodore G. Soares, the newly appointedProfessor of Homiletics in the Divinity School."Men or Institutions" is an article in the samenumber by Professor Shailer Mathews, of theDepartment of Systematic Theology. Mr.Mathews also contributes to a symposium on"The Use of the Bible in Public Schools." Assistant Professor Herbert L. Willett, of the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures,and Professor Theodore G. Soares, of the Divinity School, contributes "Exposition andPractical Studies on the Life of Christ."Under the head of "Exploration and Discovery," Professor Ira M. Price, of theDepartment of Semitic Languages and Literatures, reports the recent work of the Germansin Babylon and Assur."A Laboratory Experiment in Journalism,"the opening contribution in the November issueof the American Journal of Sociology, is written by Professor George E. Vincent, of the Department" of Sociology, and summarizes the146 UNIVERSITY RECORDmethods and results of an experiment in publishing by students a metropolitan daily paperin connection with a course by Mr. Vincent on"The History and Organization of the American Press." Feasible steps in the establishment of courses on journalism in urban universities are also suggested. In the same numberof the journal is a timely discussion of "TheJapanese as Peers of Western Peoples," by Dr.Edmund Buckley, Docent in the Department of Comparative Religion. "The LiteraryInterests of Chicago" is the title of a contribution by Mr. Herbert E. Fleming, who graduatedfrom the University in 1902, and received hisDoctor's degree cum laude in 1905 for work inthe Departments of Sociology and PoliticalEconomy. Part I appears in this number andtraces the history and influence of "PioneerPeriodicals" in Chicago.The Department of Mathematics has recentlyinstalled a new card cabinet for the purpose ofgreatly extending the subject index of its departmental library, and also of making a complete index of Graduate and Senior Collegestudents in Mathematics. This new index is toshow in tabulated form all courses in Mathematics taken by each student, as well as all degrees, honors, and appointments whenever received ; complete lists, both by years and alphabetically, of all Scholars, Fellows, Masters, andDoctors in Mathematics; and, finally, a bibliography of students and instructors in theDepartment. The departmental programs byQuarters and years, beginning with 1892, andcomplete lists of courses given by eachinstructor will also be shown in tabulated form.Bishop John H. Vincent, S.T.D., LL.D., wasthe University Preacher on October 15 and 22;on October 29 Rev. Hugh Black, of St.George's Free Church, Edinburgh, acted in thatcapacity. During the month of November Rev.John Balcom Shaw, D.D., of Chicago, andPresident William Douglas Mackenzie, D.D.; of the Hartford Theological Seminary, werethe University Preachers."A Neglected Branch of the Teaching ofEnglish" was the title of the chairman's address, given on December 2j, at the eleventhannual meeting of the central division of theModern Language Association of America, byAssociate Professor Francis A. Blackburn, ofthe Department of English. The meeting washeld at the University of Wisconsin. AssociateProfessor Camillo von Klenze, of the Department of German, presented a paper on "GermanSources of Ruskin." In the section devotedto Romance languages Dr. Ernest J. Dubedout,of the Department of Romance Languages andLiteratures, contributed a report with referenceto the best French classical literature for use inmodern schools, which was read by Mr. EarleB. Babcock, a graduate student in the Departments of French and English. The discussionwas opened in this section by Associate Professor T. Atkinson Jenkins, of the Departmentof Romance. The chairman of the departmentmeeting in Germanic languages was AssociateProfessor Camillo von Klenze. At the fifthsession, Mr. Milton A. Buchanan, of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, presented a paper on the subject of Sebastian Mey's Fabulario, a Forgotten Collection of Spanish Stories (Valencia, 1613)."A Report on the Municipal Revenues ofChicago, issued early in January by the CityClub of Chicago, is the work of Assistant Professor Charles E. Merriam, of the Departmentof Political Science. In the preface Mr. Merriam gives the purpose of his inquiry: "Topresent as clear a statement as possible regarding the local revenues of Chicago; to showwhat the sources of our local income are, bywhom they are collected, and in what manner..... This examination extends only to theside of revenue or income, with some incidentalUNIVERSITY RECORD 147reference to expenditure." The report, however, includes also an analysis of defects inthe system, and points out additional sources ofrevenue that might be utilized. Part I tracesthe development of Chicago's revenue systemfrom 1 87 1 ; Part II contains a series of comparative tables covering the revenue and expenditures of Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,St. Louis, Boston, and Toronto, and also ofLondon, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Glasgow;Part III is an analysis of revenues of Chicago;while Part IV contains material suggestingnew sources of revenue. As indicated by theCommittee on Public Affairs of the club, theexpense of this report, of 160 pages, is borneby Miss Helen Culver, of Chicago, the donorto the University of the Hull Biological Laboratories.On the Chicago Vacation-School Committee,which in co-operation with the trustees of theMunicipal Museum of Chicago held an exhibition of the work of the vacation schools fromOctober 11 to November 29, 1905, were Professor Charles Zueblin, of the Department ofSociology ; Principal Wilbur S. Jackman, of theUniversity Elementary School ; Dean Henry H.Belfield, of the University High School; andMiss Jane Addams, Lecturer on Sociology.Among the conferences held in connection withthe exhibition was one on "The Public Schoolas a Neighborhood Center," in which Miss MaryE. McDowell, Head of the University of Chicago Settlement, was a speaker ; one on " Playand Exercise in Education," in which AssistantProfessor Joseph E. Raycroft, of the Department of Physical Culture and Athletics, tookpart ; one on " Civics," in which the discussionwas led by Associate Professor Emily J. Rice,of the College of Education; one on "Literature and Story-Telling in the ElementarySchool," in which Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, ofthe University Elementary School, was aspeaker; and one on "The Household Arts inRelation to the School and the Home," in which Assistant Professor Alice P. Norton, of theDepartment of Household Administration, wasone of the speakers. The conferences were heldat the rooms of the Municipal Museum, ofwhich the president is Professor George E.Vincent, of the Department of Sociology, andthe treasurer Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson, of theUniversity Board of Trustees.In the November (1905) issue of Munsey'sMagazine is a very fully illustrated contribution on "The University of Chicago," by Professor Harry Pratt Judson, Dean of the Faculties of Arts, Literature, and Science. A particularly good portrait of the President of theUniversity introduces the article, which contains, besides, portraits of Professor George E.Vincent, Dean of the Junior Colleges; Professor Albert A. Michelson, Head of the Department of Physics; Professor Marion Talbot,Dean of Women; and Dean Judson himself.Among the other illustrations are views of theinterior and exterior of Hutchinson Hall; thefagade of the School of Education facing theMidway Plaisance; a corridor in the "ToweiGroup;" a group of the dormitories for women; the Yerkes Observatory, and the interiorof the dome showing the great telescope;an interior view of Mandel Assembly Hall,looking toward the stage; and the RyersonPhysical Laboratory. Among the closingwords of the article are these :It is believed by the friends of the University thatit has only entered on the beginning of its usefulness.Not being under public control, it is limited by nostate lines, and is hampered by no possibility of political interference. Founded long after the Union wasrestored, it has no traditions of sectionalism, anddraws its students in increasing numbers from theSouth as well as from the North and the West. Indeed, every state and territory in the Union is represented in the University records, as well as Canadaand Mexico. Its first doctor's degree was given to aJapanese.The only institution between the Atlantic and thePacific seaboard states which is broadly national148 UNIVERSITY RECORDin character, which aims at the most advancedwork of research and at the highest standards for its'professional schools, and which has an endowmentfrom private benefactors in some degree commensurate with its large purposes, the University thushas an opportunity which calls for sleepless energy.THE LIBRARIAN'S ACCESSION REPORT FOR THEAUTUMN QUARTER, 1905During the Autumn Quarter, 1905, there hasbeen added to the library of the University atotal number of 5,848 volumes, from the following sources :BOOKS ADDED BY PURCHASEBooks added by purchase, 3,221 volumes, distributed as follows :Anatomy, 27; Anthropology, 10; Astronomy (Ryerson), 6; Astronomy (Yerkes), 33; Bacteriology, 10;Biology, 137; Botany, 77; Chemistry, 42; Church History, 31; Commerce and Administration, 14; Comparative Religion, 11 1; Dano-Norwegian and SwedishTheological Seminary, 3; Embryology, 4; English,232 ; English and German, 1 ; English, German, andRomance, 14; General Library, 466; General Literature, 1 ; Geography, 27 ; Geology, 9 ; German, 396 ;Greek, 42; History, 280; History of Art, 24; Homiletics, 3 ; Latin, 40 ; Latin and Greek, 4 ; Latin, Greek,Sanskrit, and Comparative Philology, 1 ; Law School,344; Mathematics, 36; Morgan Park Academy, 57;Neurology, 12; New Testament, 18; New Testamentand Systematic Theology, 2; Paleontology, 6; Pathology, 12; Philosophy, 25; Physics, 12; Physiological Chemistry, 24; Physiology, 28; Political Economy,33 ; Political Science, 31 ; Psychology, 28 ; Romance,231 ; Russian, 1 ; Sanskrit and Comparative Philology,27; School of Education, 126; Semitics, 42; Sociology, 24; Sociology (Divinity), 5; Systematic Theology, 16; Zoology, 36.BY GIFTBooks added by gift, 2,242 volumes, distributed asfollows :Anatomy, 1; Anthropology, 2; Astronomy (Ryerson), 2; Asrronomy (Yerkes), 31; Biology, 33;Botany, 4; Chemistry, 3; Divinity School, 2; English, 69; General Library, 865; Geography, 13; Geol ogy, 11; German, 1,104; Greek, 3; History, 6; History of Art, 2 ; Latin, 1 ; Law School, 3 ; Mathematics,2 ; Pathology, 1 ; Physical Culture, 19 ; Physics, 1 ;Political Economy, 20; Political Science, 2; Romance,24; School of Education, 5; Semitics, 2; Sociology,4; Sociology (Divinity), 1; Systematic Theology, 4;Zoology, 2.BY EXCHANGEBooks added by exchange for University publications, 385 volumes, distributed as follows:Astronomy (Yerkes), 12; Botany, 12; Chemistry,1 ; Church History, 4 ; Comparative Religion, 2 ; English, German, and Romance, 1 ; General Library, 228 ;Geology, 7 ; German, 2 ; Homiletics, 1 ; Law School,3 ; New Testament, 3 ; Pathology, 1 ; Physics, 1 ;Political Economy, 16 ; Political Science, 1 ; Romance,73 ; Semitics, 6 ; Sociology, 4 ; Systematic Theology, 7.SPECIAL GIFTSThe British Museum, 3 volumes — index to the library*Carnegie Institution of Washington, 3 volumes-scientific publications.Estate of P. C. Colver, 235 volumes and 4 pamphlets— miscellaneous.Mr. C. R. Henderson, 32 volumes — miscellaneous.Mrs. P. A. Marks, 32 volumes and 414 pamphlets —medical works.Republic of Mexico, 3 volumes — Mexico: Its SocialEvolution.Mr. A. K. Parker, 36 volumes and 187 pamphlets,periodicals, and miscellaneous.Mr. Karl Pietsch, 4 volumes — miscellaneous.St. Paul's Church, Chicago, 45 volumes — miscellaneous.Mr. Paul O. Stensland, 1,100 volumes — Scandinavianworks.Mr. George Wahr, publisher, 12 volumes and 24pamphlets — medical works.City of Boston, 4 volumes — city reports.City of Chicago, 12 volumes — city reports.City of Harrisburg, 7 volumes — city reports.Kansas City, 12 volumes — city reports.City of Nashville, 4 volumes — city reports.City of Philadelphia, 7 volumes — city reports.City of St. Louis, 10 volumes — city reports.City of St. Paul, 30 volumes — city reports.United States government, 106 volumes — documents.