Volume XI Numbeb 3THEUniversity RecordJanuary, 1907THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESSCHICAGO AND NEW YORETHE UNIVERSITY RECORDOFTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOISSUED QUARTERLY IN THE MONTHS OF JANUARY, APRIL, JULY, AND OCTOBERCONTENTSPAGEConvocation Address: Works and Days, by Hamilton Wright Mabie, L.H.D., LL.D., Associate Editorof The Outlook _-.-_ 87The President's Quarterly Statement on the Condition of the University 95The Botanical Expedition into Mexico 99Results of Professor Starr's Investigations in the Congo Free State 101Exercises Connected with the Sixty-first Convocation 103Degrees Conferred at the Sixty-first Convocation 103A Commemorative Service for President William Rainey Harper 103The President's Report for the Year 1905-6 - - - 104The Death of Ernest Jean Dubedout ----- 104Meeting at the University of the Central Division of the Modern Language Association of America - 105The New Head of the Department of History - 106The Meeting at the University Of the American Physical Society - - - - - - -106The Twelfth Series of Lectures on the Haskell Foundation 107The Nineteenth Educational Conference of Academies and High Schools at the University - - 108The Meeting in Chicago of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae - - - - - - -109A Notable Series of Lectures on "Poetry and Life" ---------- 109The Meeting at the University of Science and Mathematics Teachers noThe Second and Third Concerts in the Series by the Theodore Thomas Orchestra - - - - noThe Faculties 112The Association of Doctors of Philosophy 119The Librarian's Accession Report for the Autumn Quarter, 1906 121Communications for the Editor should be addressed to the Recorder of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.Business Correspondence should be addressed to the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.Subscription,' $1.00 a year; single copies, 25 cents. 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Thepublishers expect to supply missing numbers free only when they have been lost in transit.Entered as second-class matter, August i, 1905, at the Post-Office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894.HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIEConvocation Orator, December 18, 1906VOLUME XI NUMBER 3THEUniversity RecordJANUARY, IQ07WORKS AND DAYS1BY HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, L.H.D., LLD.Associate Editor of " The Outlook "I have chosen as the title of what I wish tosay this afternoon, Mr. President, membersof the Board of Trustees and of the faculty,candidates for degrees, and members and friendsof the University, a form of words familiarto every lover of Greek poetry and interpretedby Emerson in one of his most characteristic essays, because I wish to gather about thesubject for my own support the richest possible associations, and because I wish to putbehind the word "work" the fullest and mostsignificant spiritual background.Work, in our country, by a great many menis regarded simply as a form of physical activity, engrossing, intense, masterful, many timesalmost heroically successful ; but it remains tothem still an energy outside their souls, andan effort which has no relation to> their spirits ;a form of mere external activity.Now, if that is all there is in work, then thenoise and the rush of our time have very slightsignificance beyond immediate returns. If thereis nothing of work except the mere going-forthof physical and natural power, then the resultsof work are inadequate to the sacrifice and theeffort which contribute to it.1 Delivered on the occasion of the Sixty-first Convocation of the University, held in the Leon MandelAssembly Hall, December 18, 1906. Work in its myriad forms is the greatestsingle educational influence in the world. Letus begin with that in order that we may putour feet on solid ground before we touch thespiritual side of it. I remember that one ofthe most noble-minded of the mayors of NewYork, speaking at a college dinner, introducedhimself as the head of one of the largest educational institutions or organizations in the country. Then he went on to explain how in themanifold life of a city, in its external and itshigher activities, there are continuously distilled into all of its citizenship, to everyonewho lives within its borders from the youngestto the oldest, certain fundamental ideas of life.In all the practical work of the world the finalresult is not profit in any form, nor materialacquisition ; the permanent result is educational.How blind we are to the tremendous andinexorable symbolism of the world, where everything that we touch has an ethical value or aspiritual significance! We cannot look on thevast industries of our time and not see inevery one of them the lessons and the apparatusof the university carried down to the mostobscure members of society. We are accustomed to think of our universities, colleges,technical schools, and high schools as the placesof education. Of course, they are in the high-8788 UNIVERSITY RECORDest sense ; but in still wider sense the factoriesthat line our railroads and that are found onour great waterways and by every lake shoreare the real schools of the race at large. It isin the factory, in the store, in the shop that thegreat mass of men are taught the fundamentallessons of character on which society rests.Tomorrow morning, when the bells of thefactories ring, and the whistles are blown,and the doors of the shops and theplaces of business are opened, the great school ofthe world will begin again. For in those placesthe fundamental lessons of integrity and temperance and honesty and self-control and truthfulness are taught, and have been taught sincbthe beginning of what we call business, in themost direct and practical form. And this isthe ultimate result of work.What does it mean when you look at it inthe large? What is it but a revelation ofspiritual character? What is the work of arace, a hundred years or a thousand years afterit has been completed, but a record of thespiritual nature of that race, of their ideals oflife, of their civilization, of the things that theylived for? What is the fundamental meaningof the work which the Roman has left usbut the light that it throws on his character?The very notes of the masonry we recognizeas the notes of the spiritual and ethical natureof those great builders — massiveness, solidity,courage of great constructions, high degree ofpower; these are the qualities of the race thatbuilt the highways and the aqueducts of theolder time in Europe.Is that not also true of every great race? Ithas been said so many times that it is a truism,and one hesitates to repeat it again, that if nothing remained of Greece in the way of literature, we should still have in the Parthenon aclear disclosure of what was best in the Greekcharacter — not simply a revelation of his plas tic genius, not simply a disclosure of thatexquisite sense of form, of proportion, ofharmony but, in the character of the structureitself, the genius of the man who composedit; his self-discipline, his subordination of thepart to the whole, his power of self-denial, hispower of casting aside what was unessentialand building that which was essential.If we look at the character of individualworkers, what do we get from it, aside fromthe exquisite and private pleasure that it givesus, but a revelation of the character of theworker? One cannot look at a portrait byRembrandt, for instance, without feeling thathe is in the presence of a great personality;without being aware of the fact that he is alsodealing with a man who dealt with great personalities. Here are no faces of dreamers, hereare no faces of men who are content to see thevisions of life ; here are faces of men who actedand suffered and dared and achieved ; men whonever separated the vision from the task.We idealists, who are always taking a criticalattitude toward the material development ofour country, forget that the great things in arthave never been done by dreamers, have neverbeen accomplished by men who simply sawvisions ; the greatest things that have been donewith the brush and the chisel and the pen havebeen done by men who brought to this kind ofwork the largest efficiency in dealing withactual affairs.Today, when you go through the canals ofVenice and become aware again of the beautythat once enfolded and expressed a greatmunicipality — that city which is the joy of theartist as it lies there dreaming on the shore ofthe Adriatic — it is well to remember that themen that built that city were not visionariesor dreamers, but men who dealt with the commerce of the day and the commercial opportunities of their time with a power of organiza-UNIVERSITY RECORD 89tion, which, considering their means, I shouldsay placed them on a level with the greatestmen of action of modern times.When you look at Rembrandt's picture andunderstand the character of the men whom heportrays, you are aware that you are dealingwith those who perhaps have achieved as muchof vision and of task as any other race that hasever lived ; a race who built their country firstand then made it a power as far as commercecould carry and sails could be spread, thenwaged a war for its freedom so long, so terrible, so full of vicissitude, and with such calam-tous suffering, that the little country made asacrifice for the liberty of the whole race.So it is just as well for us, who are continually preaching or trying to preach the ideal,to remember that the men who have achievedthe ideal have been men who have first dealtstrictly and efficiently with actual affairs. Now,there is no trick of dexterity about great work.It is always primarily an expression of thecharacter of a race or of a man in the plainestand most unmistakable terms. When Goethedeclared that all his works constituted one greatconfession, he put into a phrase what I am trying to say — in all work climate, soil, air, sky,race-history, personality, are brought togetherin one focus.As I think of work from this point of view, itseems to show primarily three great qualities.The first of these three great qualities isskill; that is to say, a mastery of one's toolsand one's material. We sometimes speak as ifskill were a matter of choice ; as if, if a manchose, he had a right to do his work in anymanner less than the highest efficiency of whichhe is capable; as if a man had a right, if hechose, to be an indifferent workman. No manhas a right to be an indifferent workman, because skill is conscience applied to the man'swork. It is the best way in which a thing canbe done, and the best way in which a thing cam be done or in which you or I can do it alwaysinvolves a moral obligation. A man is nothonest who does his work for the wage at theend of the week; a man is not honest whomeasures what he puts into his work exactly bywhat he is taking out of it. The only honestman is the idealist; the man who works, notfor his employer, but for his own conscience;who puts into his work, whatever he is to bepaid for it, everything that he has in him,of skill and power.This is the age of the skilled man. Thetragedy of the time, as I see it, is not the tragedyof the bad man or the bad woman — thattragedy is as old as history; but the specialtragedy of our time is the tragedy of the "half-trained man" or the "half-trained woman." Itis the tragedy of the man who is willing to doanything that he can get to do, but who has nospecial facility for doing any one thing; or ofthe woman who is willing to do anything thatis consistent with honor, but who has no training for any special kind of work It is thetragedy of a desire to work, without trainingfor dealing with the tools or the material.In such a country as ours, where the tidesof prosperity run, as they have been runningfor years past, at the flood, almost any mancan embark, trim His craft, and sail successfully. But bye and bye, when the stormcomes, as the storm must always ultimatelycome, then the man at the helm must have aperfect mastery of everything with which hedeals ; must know how to steer that craft so asto take advantage of every lull in the storm;must know where the ports of safety are.There is only one man in our modern society,from the economical side, that is safe, and he isthe man who can command his position by thesuperiority of his skill. It is often said thatmen are taken on and discharged in variousoccupations, and this in a certain sense is true;but it -is not finally true. The final truth is that90 UNIVERSITY RECORDmen engage and discharge themselves. Thereare men in every occupation whom nothing candisturb, except the occasional earthquake, whichno man can control or foresee. There are menin every place in life who are so pre-eminentlyadapted for what they are doing, have such acommand of the tools in their hands, that theycannot be spared; and no man can dischargethem unless they are willing to discharge themselves.A few years ago it was thought that what iscalled higher education was for the professions,not for the man of affairs. Today it is becoming increasingly evident that it is for the man ofaffairs also. The age belongs to the skilledman, and the future is going to belong to theskilled nation. We have two striking examplesin the last generation of what education means,from the standpoint of the dealing withmaterials; higher education, from the standpoint of the mastery of the tools and materialsof the time.One hundred years ago Germany was theteacher of the modern world. It was in Germany, earlier than that, that textbooks and dictionaries were made to a very large degree.It was in Germany that the sciences were beingfollowed with such patience, with such tirelessdiligence, with such silent and indefatigableenergy, with all the passion of the scholar; itwas in Germany that the roots of every treeof knowledge were planted. Heine said, longago, that the Germans had the roots of thetree of knowledge, the French had its flowers,and the English had its fruits. If Heine hadthought a moment he would have foreseen thatthe country which possesses the roots of thetree of knowledge will one day wear its flowersand possess its fruits also.It was Richard Grant White who said the German scholar dove down deeper, stayed downlonger, and came up muddier than any other scholar in the world. But it was the depth ofthat knowledge, it was the thoroughness of thattraining, which changed not only the history ofGermany, but of the modern world.While we English-speaking people on bothsides of the Atlantic were generally willing toacknowledge the great service of Germany toscience and to scholarship, still we said : "TheseGermans are impractical folk ; when it comes todealing with affairs they must be counted out."Then came that terrible war a generation ago.The whole world looked aghast to see twocountries of the first rank hurl themselves uponeach other. You remember how that advance,once begun, although interrupted again andagain by the most heroic and frantic devotionto France, went on resistlessly, like a wave,until the king of Prussia was crowned Germanemperor in the palace of the old French kings.At the end of the war, the French, who hadnever failed in courage, and who are perhapsthe most talented of races, sent a group of meninto Germany to investigate and report to themthe cause of that terrible disaster. These men— educators, men of letters, publicists — cameback, and said many things; but they wereagreed to this : They said it was the "thinkingbayonet" captured Paris.The German staff carried better maps ofFrance than the French officials themselves had.They knew, in figures, the carrying power ofevery railroad. Everything that could be foreseen was foreseen ; nothing was left for chance.Then we said : "Well, the Germans are practical when dealing with weapons ; they are themost highly organized military people in themodern world; but they are not successful inbusiness."Something has happened. The old university training, the thoroughness and the indomitable diligence and the fruitful patience,went from the university into the army organi-UNIVERSITY RECORD 91zation. Then in the last generation it has goneout of the army organization into the commercial organization. Thirty years ago the endsof the earth — China, Japan, India, and SouthAmerica — were largely in the hands of youngEnglishmen who could not find room at home.They went to the ends of the earth, and carriedexcellent characters, immense working power,health, and industry. For twenty years theEnglish newspapers have been filled with lettersof alarm which these young men have beenwriting home — all saying that the Germans aredriving them out. What does it mean? Whentwo young men stand together as competitorsfor position in the same market, both havingequal integrity, but one knowing three or fourlanguages and the other knowing only onelanguage, the man with the "languages" isgoing to take the place of the man of the "language."Again and again in the last twenty years theEnglish government has been questioned in theHouse of Commons with regard to what theywere going to do about German competition?What do these new schools of commerce inEngland mean? They mean this, that in Germany the manufacturing establishments and thelaboratory and the technical school have goneinto copartnership; that in Germany businessand science have come to an understanding.And when the best-trained chemist from thetechnical school, or the university, is put intothe factory or manufactory, he enables his employer to sell his product for half a penny apound or a gallon cheaper than his competitoracross the English channel and he gets themarket. I do not need to repeat the story ofthe commercial growth and the commercial success of that great, highly trained, pre-eminentlyskilful German race, which is coming to theforefront, and with which neither England norAmerica can successfully compete unless both England and America follow the lead of Germany and go into copartnership with science.It is only a few years ago* that we looked onwith intense sympathy while those tremendousRussians, giants almost every one of them,made their attack on the feeble little folk wholived in Japan. Our hearts went out to thoselittle people. How little we knew, how littlewe understood, that centuries of training hadmade the Japanese first all members of a greatsociety, in which no man thought first of hisinterests, but always of the interest of the commonwealth or of the government or of the emperor, and in which every man was pledged toabsolute obedienceThen you know how they invaded our country— as they invaded all western Europe — howthey studied in every school ; how they examinedevery military and naval station, every college,every high school.Somebody said not long ago to a very cleverwoman in a college town that the Japanese werenot an honest people. "No," she said, "theyare not; every Japanese student that comeshere takes away four times as much knowledgeas he pays for." Everywhere that has been therecord. The result was that when the warbegan that little country was armed in everydepartment. It carried surgery as it hadnever been carried before, as an auxiliary force,and the result was that the surgeon was wortha battalion in every Japanese army corps;and the result was also that the Japanese couldcount with nicety on the number of menamong their antagonists who would be disabledand the number of men in their own ranks whocould be set on their feet again. That marvelouswar, in which nothing was taken for granted,nothing done by chance! The little Davidwith the stone in his hand knew always thedistance and where to reach the giant.And these are only two of the illustrations92 UNIVERSITY RECORDwhich might be chosen to show the enormousimportance and necessity of the higher education, of the skill for the man and the nation whoare to command the resources of the next generation and the next century.In Japan, where skill is as delicate and sensitive as art, there is a family of artists in whichevery man is required to imitate the lines setbefore him slavishly for ten years before he isallowed to make a single free movement withhis hand. Now, what does that mean? Itmeans that when these artists begin to drawand to paint they do not start from the averagelevel plain; they start from a great plateau,and as they climb every foot that they gain is afoot toward the highest achievements. Thiskind of skill means freedom. No man is freeexcept the man who can use every part of himself to the highest and best advantage.The second element, the second quality, ischaracter. When I say character I do not meansimply what is called morality. I meanthe hand behind the tool ; I mean the ability todeny one's self; I mean the ability to cut offexternalities; I mean temperance; I meanchastity ; I mean repose ; I mean concentration ;I mean that steadiness which enables a man toselect a piece of work which it is going to takehim ten years to accomplish, and then holds hiswill and his hand there firmly until the endhas been reached. I mean the quality whichmakes it possible for any man of average abilityto cast down the obstacles that would preventhim from ascending to the heights.While a great many men in this world are soinvolved in changing conditions that they cannot * push against the general tide, the greatmass of men who do not succeed fail becausethey are not willing to pay the price of success ;not the price of dishonesty, of any loss of integrity, but the price of self-denial, of self-restraint, of labor, the price exacted of every man who is to be a man in the large and fruitful sense of the term.No man who does not obey the laws of lifecan be a great working force. There is a common impression that art and morality have norelation. I know that it is true that genius, inits origin at least, has no apparent connectionwith moral life; but this I also know — and Iwish that I could say it so that every youngman and young woman would believe it without needing to discuss it by experience —that no kind of genius, no matter how high orbeautiful, will perfectly husband its work unlessit has character behind it. A beautiful songmay be sung by a man who has come out of thegutter, but the Divine Comedy cannot be written, nor the plays of Shakspere, nor the workof Charles Darwin nor any other great work bepossible, save to the man with the clear eye, thesteady will, and the resolute and persistenthand. This is not a matter simply of morality ;it is also a matter of psychology.Nor can any man command the highest influence unless behind the talent that he possessesthere is also this quality which we call character. There are few pictures in history morepathetic than Mirabeau after he took his standin the assembly and made his wonderfulspeeches, discovering that all he said was nullified by his own past standing behind him, hismost eloquent words of no avail because hewas contending against himself. In strong contrast with that picture is Mr. Gladstone.Whatever anyone thought of his policies,his whole past spoke for him and with him soeloquently and splendidly and with such integrity as to make him what he once callel Dante,"a spiritual splendor."When I think of creativeness — the greatestquality in the world of work that a man can attain — I am reminded of a talk which took placebefore an open fire in a commons room in anUNIVERSITY RECORD 93Oxford College years ago, on the qualities thatare to be found in the greatest works of art.After three or four hours of discussion, contributed to by two or three of the most interesting men in England, three things were agreedto as essential in the man who does any kind ofwork with final superiority and power.The first of these was abnegation— the powerof sinking oneself out of sight, the power of soobliterating oneself that, as in Shakspere'scase, a man holds himself like "a mirror up tonature" unblurred by any mist.The second was concentration. The abilityof a man to focus all the power that is in him,and to hold it steadily and persistently toone end through long and patient years; thepower of Dante in the making of the marveloussong during those long, tedious, and lonelyyears of exile. The power of Charles Darwinworking under great disabilities, but with inflexible patience and with the simplicity ofheroism steadily pursuing one path to the endwhich has revolutionized modern thinking.And the power of intoxication ; the ability ofthe skilled man, of the trained workman, of thetested and expert craftsman, to be lifted abovehimself and out of himself.When one of the most original of modernpainters was asked if he waited for what iscalled the moment of inspiration, he said:"Certainly not, I am always at-work; and thenwhen the favorable wind comes, as it sometimes does come, with a sudden rush, my shipgets the full power of that impulse."In the old days in Concord they used tosay that Mr. Alcott would stop at Mr. Emerson's on the way to the postoffice in themorning, and in five minutes' time brush thedew off Mr. Emerson's mind. Then late in theafternoon, Mr. Alcott would return and giveback in an hour's conversation what Mr. Emerson had given him in five minutes in the morn ing. Mr. Emerson would turn to some friendthat happened to be present when Mr. Alcotthad left, and say : "Well, Mr. Alcott is certainlya very remarkable man; I do not understandwhy his genius is not more thoroughly recognized."That is an illustration of what I believe to beone of the most important facts about creative-ness, that is, keeping in the society and companionship of inspiring things; for the powerof creativeness lies in the attitude toward life.Years ago five or six men were sitting beforean open fireplace in a library in Boston, discussing the mode in which creative work isdone. Said the youngest to the oldest: "Canyou tell us how you wrote The Nautilus?""No," said Dr. Holmes, "I cannot; I do notremember; I could not if I did; I can alwaystell how I write verse, but I can never tell howI write poetry. It is just like going down intothe sea in the summer time, going down to thebeach. You step into the water and standshivering, and then you take another step stillhesitating, and you take a third step, and youwould turn back if you dared. Then, whileyou stand hesitating, a great wave rushes infrom the infinite and bears you out you knownot how nor whither."Now, it is the trained man, of character, inthe right attitude toward things whom: thatwave from the infinite reaches and lifts andcarries far beyond the reach of his habitualpower.And every man ought to give far more thanhe is paid for in this world. I am hoping andbelieving that the time is coming when nodecent man will be willing to accept full payment for what he does. I believe the line ofnobility between men could be drawn just hereand that the measure of dignity of a man's lifedepends on the relation of what he gives towhat he sells. Every man has a right to sell to94 UNIVERSITY RECORDthe highest bidder his time and his educationand his talents and his skill. But no man hasa right to sell his character ; no man has a rightto sell his genius ; no man has a right to sellhis temperament. But character and geniusand temperament are the very things that everyman ought to put into his work, no matterwhat he is paid.The great servants, the great workers, havenever been paid, never can be paid. It is impossible to pay a man like Beethoven for writingsuch music as he wrote. It is impossible topay Phillips Brooks, who leaned over the railof his pulpit so many years, pouring out thatmagnificent spiritual vitality of his until hehad permeated half a continent. If he cquldhave been paid for what he gave he would nothave had it to give. He could not sell, by thelaw of his nature. The greatest things mustalways ba given away. You cannot pay a manlike Abraham Lincoln for his public service norcan he sell for any price the sacrifice which heoffered for his country.The glory of all work and the beauty of itlies in the fact that, when it is lifted by intelligence, when it is done with skill, when character is behind it, and when it is given away,it is the supreme joy of the man to do it.How can I better close this very familiar treatment of this great theme than by recalling a little fable of the eminent Japanese painter, Ho-kusai, who in his old age was commissioned topaint a great screen. He lavished on the workall his skill and imagination, and when it wasfinished he sent it to the wealthy connoisseurwho had ordered it. Then this connoisseur inthe little town gathered all the other connoisseurs one afternoon to study the picture and pronounce judgment upon it, andthe old artist came to hear their judgment.They sat in a solemn circle around it after theoriental fashion, and each critic, having a reputation to sustain, thought he would fail tojustify his reputation if he failed to find somefault in the work. The first objected to theforeground; the second didn't like the middleground; the third thought the background defective; the fourth found fault with the composition; the fifth with the coloring; and so itwent down the line, not one man saying anything in recognition of the genius of the pictureor of the artist. The artist, who wasat the height of his reputation and of great age,sat with folded arms beside the picture; and,when they had all finished, he stepped in frontof it, bowed with the courtesy of the Orient tohis critics, and stepped backward into the picture and disappeared forever. For a man'sreward and his refuge are always in his work.UNIVERSITY RECORD 95THE PRESIDENT'S QUARTERLY STATEMENTMembers of the University, Students, and Friends :STATISTICSThe total attendance of students in the quadrangles during the current quarter is up to thatof a year ago and a little beyond. As comparedwith the Autumn Quarter of 1904, the gainin attendance is 276. The extramural workhas been somewhat modified. The railwaycourses formerly conducted in the Fine ArtsBuilding have been since last spring conductedin Grand Central Station, Fifth Avenue and Harrison Street. The number attending these coursesis 119, as compared with 278 a year ago. Thework of University College it was found necessary during the current quarter to transferfrom the Fine Arts Building to Emmons BlaineHall in the quadrangles. This was owing tothe termination of a gift which for severalyears has made it possible to carry on this workdown-town, and to other financial necessities.While, of course, the quadrangles are not soconvenient a place for teachers to reach fromremote parts of the city, on the other hand theproximity of Emmons Blaine Hall to the IllinoisCentral Railway and the Sixty-first Streetcross-town line makes it reasonably accessible;and the commodious quarters compare, ofcourse, very favorably with the scant accommodations offered in a down-town office-building.The situation in the city schools also made itvery uncertain how far teachers would feel ableto attend this work. Under all the circumstances it has been quite as much as wasexpected that the attendance this fall shows atotal of 129 teachers — a little more than one-third of the attendance a year ago.The special gains in the quadrangles are inthe Colleges and in the Law School.1 Presented on the occasion of the Sixty-first Convocation of the University, held in the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, December 18, 1906. ON THE CONDITION OF THE UNIVERSITY *THE HARPER MEMORIAL FUNDSince the last Convocation gifts have beenreceived for the Harper Memorial Fund amounting to $18,725. Thus the total sum subscribedto date is $119,000. The total number of subscribers is 775. The work of extending thesubscription is still going on actively, and giftsare coming in daily. What is desired is thatbefore the subscription is closed there shall bea long list of names. As was announced at theoutset, it is hoped the memorial library willrepresent a large number of those to whom Dr.Harper's memory is dear. I wish to say herethat, while of course subscriptions in largeamounts are welcome, at the same time no oneneed feel that his gift is out of place if it represents a small sum. Many small gifts will yielda large amount, and at the same time will contain this very vital element in representing notso much in dollars as in affection the many whowish to be on this honor-roll.NEW LEGISLATIONDuring the Autumn Quarter, while no revolutionary action has been taken by the faculties,at the same time consideration has been givento some important questions. The Board ofUniversity Relations has adopted resolutionsbearing on the question of affiliation withcolleges. The plan of affiliation and co-operation with secondary schools, as carried out bythe University during the last fourteen years,has been on the whole eminently successful.It has in many cases been influential in aidingthe development of these schools towardhigher standards. With regard to colleges,however, the situation has been different. Theplan, while sound in itself, required for itsproper execution, as was not the case withsecondary schools, the providing of considerable funds. These have not been available, andthe affiliation therefore has not included more96 UNIVERSITY RECORDthan four colleges. Another important agencywith reference to college work, the GeneralEducation Board, has within recent years beenliberally endowed and is able to accomplishthe purpose originally intended in the plan ofcollege affiliation as provided here. Underthese circumstances it is the opinion of theBoard of Affiliations that the University shouldconsider the advisability of adopting a differentplan. Of course, this matter will be consideredby the Senate before going to the Board ofTrustees.The Board of Physical Culture and Athleticshas adopted a new plan with reference to itsconstitution. The system of student representation on this board has never been satisfactoryeither to the board or to the student representatives. As the students were changingfrequently, there was a lack of continuityin their representative quality. More important than this was the fact that they sit in theboard simply on athletic questions, and therefore were obliged to wait until the board hadfinished its business with regard to physicalculture; or, on the other hand, if the athleticbusiness should precede, the student representatives were obliged to retire for other businessto be transacted. Either of these alternativeswas awkward and ill-advised. Further, thestudents of the Colleges in their councils havenow adequate means of expressing opinions onall questions, and in fact do express opinionsfrequently on matters of considerable importance ; while the alumni, whose experience inthese matters makes them keenly interested inthe whole work of physical culture andathletics, were not represented at all. Underthese circumstances the board adopted a minuterecommending to the Board of Trustees achange in the constitution of the board whereby, in lieu of the present unsatisfactory plan ofstudent representation, there should be substituted the appointment of one of the alumni as a definite and permanent member of the boardin all its activities. Meanwhile the studentcouncils will be encouraged to keep in touchwith important matters transacted by the board,and to be, as their purpose indicates, the vehicleof communication between the students and theadministration on these matters as well as onothers.The United Faculties of the Junior Collegeshave adopted a series of general resolutions, thepurpose of which is to give still further weightto excellence in scholarship among students.The matter has been referred to a commission,and will in the end be considered by all thefaculties.The University Senate has adopted an important action dealing with the distribution ofbooks acquired by gift and exchange, whichseems to settle a complicated matter in anequitable way. The Senate has also adoptedthe following minute as a request to the Boardof Trustees for amending the University statutesby the addition of the following article :On request of any two faculties, or of any one facultyby a two-thirds vote of those present, or on requestof the Senate, or on call of the President, a joint meetingshall be held of all faculties. The actions ox such jointmeeting shall have the same force and effect as if takenby the separate action of the several constituent faculties.The present system of organization offaculties has been efficient, and some of thefaculties in particular have conducted theaffairs relating to their jurisdiction with eminent success. On the other hand, a defectappears in the fact that, when large mattersoccur which interest all branches of the University, there is at present no adequate meansof discussion or legislation. The UniversityCongregation is not a legislative body, containsmany others than members of the faculties, andcannot conveniently meet frequently. Inorder to remedy this defect and give adequatemeans of expression on general subjects to ^11members of the faculties, and at the same timeUNIVERSITY RECORD 97to make the least possible change in existingorganization, it has seemed to the Acting President and to the Senate that the modification ofthe statute requested of the Board of Trusteeswill be conducive to the best interests of theUniversity.NEW APPOINTMENTSThe following new appointments have beenmade since October I, 1906:Joseph K. Hart, to the Headship of Middle DivinityHall.Clarence A. Dykstra, to the Headship of Snell Hall.Emily Cox, to an Assistantship in the Library.William Crocker, to an Assistantship in the Department of Botany.James N. Lawrie, to a Research Assistantship in theDepartment of Chemistry.James Patterson, to a Technical Assistantship in theDepartment of Anatomy.Garrett Droppers, to a Lectureship in the Departmentof Political Economy.R. Campbell Thompson, to an Assistant Professorshipin the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures.PROMOTIONSThe following promotions have been madesince October 1 :Elizabeth Dunn, Research Assistant in the Department of Neurology, to an Associateship in the Department of Anatomy.G. W. Schroeder, Fellow in Railway Technology, to anAssistantship.GIFTS PAID IN DURING THE AUTUMN QUARTER, I906ObjectFor Current expense Campus improvement • Lectures on art Railway instruction Class 1905 memorial • Fellowship in Household Administration..Scholarship, Illinois Society of Sons ofRevolution Subscription to budget, 1904-5 Yerkes librarian .* •Institute of Sacred Literature Classical journals William Rainey Harper Memorial LibraryTotal Grand total . On FormerPromises$51,250.0022,500.002,250.001,000.00202 . 7050.00100.00$77,3S2.7o On NewPromises$200 . 0080.0050.001,235.82$1,7x5.82$79,068 . 52 TOMORROWIt would be comparatively easy to sketchfrom fancy a somewhat vivid picture of theUniversity as we hope it may be in the years tocome, filling up vacant land with stately buildings, rounding out the outline of the institution with a fulness of schools and a multitudeof students and an increasing number of professors. The making of a university fairy-landin this way requires no effort, because itinvolves no large sums of money, no busy planning by faculties and trustees and architects,and nothing more strenuous than a lively imagination. The serious questions involved, in theimmediate future of the University, however,assume a different form. It seems clear thatcertain things should be sought first and othersafterward. Is it not sound policy, looking forward, to regard as of prime importance thosethings needed to complete the organization whichalready exists, leaving the adding of subsequentbranches of the organization to a later time?We have departments efficient and excellent,but which are by no means provided with thefull resources needed to do the work for whichthey are intended. Buildings, equipment, staff— all are wanted to this end. Among theneeds which should find an early supply is abuilding for the Department of Geology and itsrelated group of departments. This work hasben perforce carried on in Walker Museum —a building not intended for such purposes, andwhich by supplying them has been divertedfrom its primary intent as a museum. Moreover, great masses of material exist which cannot be placed in the museum for lack of space.If the building in question can be obtained,therefore, two things will be secured: adequatequarters will be provided for the proper workof these departments, and Walker Museum willbe released for its proper use and for the properdisplay of the great store of material now available.98 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Classical building would at the sametime finish off an unsightly corner of the quadrangles, would provide space for the group ofdepartments now housed in Cobb Hall, andwould materially relieve the pressure on thelatter building, to the great advantage of allconcerned.The work of the small colleges, interestingand important as it has proved, cannot reach itsfull fruition until these Colleges are housed inresidence quadrangles of their own.There are several departments also whichneed additions to their staff in order to offerthe rich variety of study required for graduatestudents, and in order to make most effectivetheir work of investigation. In this line at anearly date should be considered the questionof research assistants for the departments included in the humanities. The scientific staff has long since learned that it is not good economyto employ the time of a $3,000 man on workwhich can quite as well be done by a $600man. Provision of this sort would increase theproductive efficiency of these other departmentsmany fold.A further requirement of the Universityquite as important as the supplying of resourcesfor scientific work, is adequate provision for thefaculty in another way. Changed economicconditions in the last fourteen years have materially altered the situation in Chicago and inthe University, and certainly there is no morepressing need today than the readjustment ofour resources with reference to this situation.When these things are done so that we canget the full benefit of the organization now onhand, the time will be ripe for pressing on tothe addition of new forms of university activity.UNIVERSITY RECORD 99THE BOTANICAL EXP IMessrs. C. J. Chamberlain, W. J. G. Land,and C. R. Barnes of the Department of Botany,spent the month of September collecting botanical material in Mexico. The expedition wasorganized by Mr. Chamberlain, especially forcollecting and studying in the field the curiouscycad, Dioon edule, and its congener, Cerato-zamia, which so far as known grow only inMexico. In 1904 Mr. Chamberlain beganinvestigating these plants, interesting remnantsof a nearly extinct group, of which only ninegenera are known. The Botanical Society ofAmerica has twice made small grants from itsresearch funds to aid in this investigation. Itwas needful to examine more fully the distribution of Dioon and Ceratozamia, to photograph plants of various stages, and to collectmaterial for further study at home. Mr. Landwas the skilled photographer of the party, andMr. Barnes accompanied them for the specialpurpose of collecting liverworts and mosses forresearch.Xalapa, the capital of the state of Vera Cruz,was used as a base. This city, of about 25,000inhabitants, is admirably situated for this purpose. It lies on the Interoceanic railway, 250miles southwest of Mexico City, at an altitudeof 4,600 feet, half-way down the rather abruptslope where the central plateau falls off to thecoastal plain. Thirty miles up or down therailway and the altitude changes about3,000 feet, so steep is the gradient. Dry lavabeds and cinder cones, wet tropical forests withtreeferns and epiphytes galore, dry barrenhills, deep gorges and waterfalls, palm-cladhills and the tangled scrub of the hot lowlands,were all within convenient reach for a day'scollecting. These features, with the delightfulclimate and the excellent hotel accommodations,make Xalapa an ideal center for excursions.It was the original intention of the party to VTION INTO MEXICOvisit other localities, but the rich results keptthem at Xalapa, where they secured all thematerial that could be cared for in the all toobrief time at their disposal. On the returnjourney, a stop was made at San Luis Potosi,for the sake of a tramp over the cactus plainsand for photographing this curious vegetation.Seventeen days were spent at Xalapa. Theparty met with the utmost courtesy on everyhand. Governor Teodoro A. Dehesa receivedthem most graciously and provided by letter forthe kindly co-operation of all officials of thestate. Mr. Alexander M. Gaw, of the StateBureau of Information, an American, wasuntiring in his attentions and gave them mostefficient aid. Really remarkable was the uniform politeness of the people on street androad, despite the outlandish costumes andcurious bundles which might have excused ajeer. It is doubtful indeed if three Mexicansunder like circumstances would meet likecourtesy in any American city. Many newspapers in the United States were misled intoproclaiming the antipathy of Mexicans towardAmericans, which was to culminate in a massacre on Independence Day! But on that day,September 16, the party mingled freely withthe crowds in the market and on the plazas,without seeing even a suggestion of unfriendliness or hearing a whisper of discourtesy.Excursions were made to> the lava beds between Cruz Verde and Las Vigas (7,500 ft.) ;to Chavarrillo, the center of the Dioon (3,000ft.) ; to Conception, for .Ceratozamia (5,000 ft.) ;to Carrizal (1,500 ft), where is a pretty cascade; to the falls of Texolo (5,000 ft), wherethe waters plunge 300 feet into a canon ; and toVera Cruz, at sea-level. In the remaining ninedays collections were made in the immediatevicinity of Xalapa itself.The trip was highly successful. Besides the100 UNIVERSITY RECORDspecial object of the expedition, which wasfully accomplished, a large quantity of materialrepresenting the tropical ferns and liverwortswas secured, which will be useful both for classwork and for research. Some flowering plantswere collected, but the means of drying thesewas limited; moreover, the region has beenransacked repeatedly by herbarium-makers. Itwas useless to collect live plants, in spite oftheir variety and luxuriance, inasmuch as theUniversity has not yet provided greenhouseswhere they might be grown. The party wasfurnished with a liberal stock of bottles andreagents, but it was necessary to supplementthe supply, and to ship home a large box inaddition to the three trunks which were takenby the party.Among the most valuable results of the expe dition are several hundred fine photographs ofthe vegetation, en masse and in detail. A largepart of these are 8X10 plates, with a wealth ofdetail which will permit enlargement freely.Some were made in the dense forest where anexposure of three minutes was required for aplate that would be overexposed in a tenth ofa second in the open. Others were taken inpositions where footing was so insecure orroom so cramped as to make focusing well-nigh impossible. Clearing the ground was nosmall undertaking as a preliminary to manyexposures. It is safe to say that seldom hasthere been brought to bear in the tropics of theNew World the combination of botanical knowledge and technical skill represented by thesephotographs.UNIVERSITY RECORD 101RESULTS OF PROFESSOR STARR'S INVESTIGATIONS IN THE CONGO FREE STATEFrederick Starr, Associate Professor in Anthropology, has returned from Africa, wherehe has been making investigations in the CongoFree State. ,With leave of absence of sixteenmonths from the University, Professor Starrleft Chicago in September, 1905. He reachedBanana, at the mouth of the Congo River, onNovember 7, and remained in the Congo FreeState fifty-three weeks, again passing Banana,on his homeward voyage, on November 13,1906. He was accompanied throughout hisjourney by Mr. Manuel Gonzalez, as his photographer.The work planned included three distinct divisions: (a) in the Kasai district, (b) in theUpper Congo, (c) in the Cataracts regidn. (a)Nearly five months were devoted to the Kasaidistrict. Starting from Leopoldville (or Kinshasa) by steamer, a journey of almost eighthundred miles brought the travelers to DjokoPunda, close to Wissmann Falls, the limit of Kasai navigation. An overland journey of twentymiles was made to Mount Washington (Mr. S.P. Verner's concession), which was made headquarters. A mile and a half away was theBaluba town of Chief Chicoma; while threemiles distant was the town of Ndombe, Professor Starr's center of interest in that region.It was from there that the group of nativesexhibited at St. Louis in 1904 was brought —contact with which first suggested the expedition. Four tribes, differing in language, appearance, and customs, are living together, butdistinct, at Ndombe — Bakuba, Baluba, Bakete,Batua. From Mount Washintgon as headquarters studies were made of all the neighboring tribes, and large collections of objects weregathered. Of particular interest were theBatua, Wolf's pygmies.(b) Returning to Leopoldville early in May,1906, the expedition went up the main river, the Congo. Steamers run at regular intervalsof ten days. Stops were made at Bolobo, Irebu,Ikoko, Bikoro, Bolengi (Coquilhatville), Nou-velle Anvers, Lisala (Upoto), Basoko, StanleyFalls, Yakusu. These stopping-places werecarefully selected as centers of special interest.Usually ten days were spent at each point — thetime between one steamer and another. An interesting side trip was made up the AruwimiRiver to Yambuya, head of navigation and siteof the unfortunate camp of Stanley's rearguard. From Stanley Falls a trip was madeover the new line of the Great Lakes Railroad,at that time not yet actually opened for generaltravel, to Ponthierville. This road will probablyplay as significant a part in the development ofthe state as the Congo Railroad in the lowerCataracts region has done. The return journey,from Ponthierville to the Falls, was made bycanoe, in order to see the upper series of cataractsand to visit the riverine tribes. The regularjourney from Leopoldville to Stanley Falls requires twenty-four days steamboat travel ; brokenby stop-offs, Professor Starr was nearly onehundred and fifty days in accomplishing it. Thejourney down the Congo, made without interruption, was unusually rapid and was accomplished in fifteen days.(c) Leaving the railroad between Leopoldville and Matadi at Thysville station a foot-journey of something like one hundred mileswas made to Wathen, Kiakongo, and otherBakongo towns. The object of this little sidetrip was to visit the interesting boarding-schoolat Wathen (belonging to the Baptist Missionary Society) and to inspect localities wheregreat numbers of rude stone implements arefound.The expedition was notably successful; thewhole plan as arranged at the beginning wascarried out in detail. Nearly four hundred102 UNIVERSITY RECORDstereoscopic, and three hundred ordinary 5X7?negatives were made. A collection of morethan three thousand five hundred objects ofnative manufacture was secured. Twenty-eightdifferent populations, each with its own language and customs, were visited. A largeamount of material regarding the Congo languages was secured.As results of his expedition Professor Starrplans five publications : ( I ) A Bibliography ofCongo Languages, which will probably appearas a bulletin of the Department of Anthropology of the University. (2) An African Miscellany, in which will be presented a series of independent studies, each dealing with somespecial subject. The material will all be new,and among the subjects are Congo games,tooth-filing, Ntumba proverbs, the Batua, etc.,etc. (3) A series of one hundred stereoscopicviews, with an accompanying text, will beissued by Underwood & Underwood, of New York. This combination of text and pictureswill give the most real and vivid picture of theCongo Free State and its natives as they arethat has ever yet been presented. (4) Ahandbook of Native Peoples of the Congo FreeState, While in the nature of things this mustbe largely a compilation, the outline and generalpoint of view will be direct results of the expedition. (5) A Year among Congo Peopleswill be a narrative of the journey and investigation intended for the general public. Thesefive works were all that Professor Starr atfirst planned to> print. Upon his reachingAmerica, however, he was invited to write aseries of articles upon the public and politicalquestions' of the Congo, now occupying somuch attention in this country, for the ChicagoTribune. These articles appeared daily fromJanuary 20 to February 3, 1907. They weresimultaneously published by a number of otherleading papers in different parts of the country.UNIVERSITY RECORD 103EXERCISES CONNECTED WITH THE SIXTY-FIRST CONVOCATIONHamilton Wright Mabie, L.H.D., LL.D.,associate editor of The Outlook, was the Convocation Orator on December 18, 1906, in LeonMandel Assembly Hall, his address beingentitled "Works and Days." Acting PresidentHarry Pratt Judson presented the regularQuarterly Statement on the condition of theUniversity. The Convocation Address and thePresident's Quarterly Statement appear elsewhere in full in this issue of the UniversityRecord.The Convocation Reception was held inHutchinson Hall on the evening of December17, Acting President Judson being at thehead of the receiving line. Assisting PresidentJudson were the President of the UniversityBoard of Trustees, Mr. Martin A. Ryerson,and Mrs. Ryerson; the Convocation Orator,Mr. Hamilton Wright Mabie; the Convocation Chaplain, President Edwin McNeil Poteat,of Furman University, South Carolina; andProfessor Marion Talbot, Dean of Women.The music of the evening was provided by theUniversity of Chicago Military Band.DEGREES CONFERRED AT THE SIXTY-FIRSTCONVOCATIONAt the sixty-first Convocation of the University, held in Mandel Assembly Hall on December 18, seven students were elected to membership in the Beta of Illinois chapter of PhiBeta Kappa. Forty-nine students received thetitle of Associate; three, the certificate of thetwo-years' course in the College of Education;one, the degree of Bachelor of Education;eleven, the degree of Bachelor of Arts ; sixteen,the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy ; andthirteen, the degree of Bachelor of Science.In the Divinity School one student receivedthe degree of Bachelor of Divinity, and onereceived the same degree re-enacted. In the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature,and Science one student was given the degreeof Master of Arts, two that of Master ofPhilosophy, and seven that of Doctor of Philosophy — making a total of fifty-nine degrees(not including titles and certificates) conferredby the University at the Winter Convocation.A COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE FOR PRESIDENTWILLIAM RAINEY HARPEROn the morning of January 10, 1907 — thefirst anniversary of the death of President William Rainey Harper — there was held in MandelAssemby Hall a commemorative service sharedin by the student body and the faculties. Acting President Harry Pratt Judson presided;the University Chaplain, Professor Charles R.Henderson, and the University Recorder, Dr.Alonzo K. Parker, offered prayer; favoritehymns of President Harper were sung, and ananthem was given by the University Choir.The memorial exercises took the special formof the reading by Professor Albion W. Small,Dean of the Graduate School of Arts andLiterature, of six selections from PresidentHarper's own writings, the first being takenfrom an address on "Religion and the HigherLife." The second selection was from theaddress entitled "The University and Democracy." The third selection embodied PresidentHarper's ideal of the relations between facultyand students in a university, and was takenfrom the essay on "The College Officer andthe College Student." The fourth selection wasdrawn from President Harper's dedicatoryaddress for the library at Colorado College,entitled "The Old and, the New in Education."His address at the twenty-fifth anniversary ofthe founding of Johns Hopkins University furnished the fifth selection, which reflects President Harper's vision of the scope of universitywork in the future. The final selection was theclosing paragraph of President Harper's104 UNIVERSITY RECORDDecennial Report, in which he gave a forecastof the development of the University of Chicago during the second ten years of its history.THE PRESIDENTS REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1905-6On January 12, 1907, appeared from theUniversity of Chicago Press the President'sReport for the year 1905-6. It is a volume of185 pages and contains, besides the personalreport of the Acting President, Harry PrattJudson, and the regular reports from Deans,Directors, Secretaries, Heads of Departments,and Other Officers, the publications of membersof the University for the year ending July 1,1906.The personal report of the Acting President,covering thirteen pages, opens with a referenceto the death of President William RaineyHarper and his remarkable contribution to thecause of education, particular mention beingmade of the projected memorial library to beerected on the quadrangles. The subjects discussed in the report include investigation andpublication, graduate and professional work,the problem of graduate and undergraduatework, attendance of students, a flexible collegecourse, the small colleges, efficiency of work inthe Junior Colleges, technology in the JuniorColleges, University College, needed buildingsand equipment, and university salaries. Thereport concludes with a list of the gifts paid induring the year ending June 30, 1906.The reports of the Deans cover fifty-fourpages, including those of the Dean of theGraduate School of Arts and Literature, theDean of the Ogden (Graduate) School ofScience, the Dean of the Senior Colleges, theDean of the Junior Colleges, the Dean of University College, and the Dean of Women; theDeans of the Divinity School, the MedicalCourses, the Law School, the College of Education, and the Morgan Park Academy. The reports of the Directors and Secretariescover about forty pages, including those of theAssociate Librarian, the Director of the University Press, the Secretaries of the ExtensionDivision, the Department of University Relations (the Director of Co-operating Work, theExaminer for Colleges, and the Examiner forSecondary Schools), the Director of PhysicalCulture and Athletics, the Religious Agenciesof the University, the Oriental ExplorationFund, the Director of University Houses, theSecretary of the Board of Recommendations,the Manager of the University EmploymentBureau, and the Principal of the UniversityElementary School. •The reports from the Heads of Departments,covering seventeen pages, summarize the research work in progress in the various departments of the University.The reports of other officers include those ofthe Counsel and Business Manager, the Registrar, and the Auditor, the last-mentioned reportcontaining twenty-two pages, which includeeighteen statistical tables.The publications of members of the University, arranged by departments and coveringthe period from July 1, 1905, to July 1, 1906,make nineteen closely printed pages, whichconclude the volume.THE DEATH OF ERNEST JEAN DUBEDOUTErnest Jean Baptiste Dubedout, Instructor inFrench Literature in the Department of Romance Languages, died in Paris, October 16,1906, of pulmonary consumption. The unexpected death of" Mme. Dubedout occurred afew weeks later.Dr. Dubedout first came to Chicago in theautumn of 1901 as one of four appointees ofthe French ministry of public education,, his mission being to study conditions in Americanuniversity life. In October, 1902, he was ap-UNIVERSITY RECORD 105pointed an Instructor in the University, andfrom the beginning offered courses mainly inthe Graduate School.His academic training and experience hadwell fitted him for this position. Receiving hisbaccalaureate degree in 1885, he spent twoyears in Madrid, and later a period of study inBerlin. Granted the licentiate in 1888, he became professor successively in the College deTivoli, Bordeaux, the College St. Ignace, andthe College St. Joseph, Paris. In the springof 1 901 he received the degree of Docteur esLettres in the University of Paris (in Sor-bonne).His favorite studies were all in the field ofliterary criticism. Faithful to the best traditions of the Paris Faculty of Letters, he viewedliterature chiefly as an instrument of culture ; hismain function as a teacher he considered to bethe development of Jhe taste for letters. HisLatin thesis, De D. Gregorii Nazianzeni carmin-ibus, is a study ^from this point of view ofthe poetry of Gregory of Nazianze (326-89a. d. ) , whom the candidate considered the greatest among the Christian poets of that period.His French thesis, entitled Le sentiment Chretien dans la poesie romantique, aims to tracethe origin and determine the influence of thatrevival of Christian faith which in Francedates from the publication of Chateaubriand'sLe genie du christianisme. That the Christianity of the French Romanticists was essentiallyProtestant in spirit is a proposition advancedlater by Dr. Dubedout in Modern Philology,Vol. I. The former work contains fine appreciations of Lamartine, of Vigny, Victor Hugo,Musset, and Sainte-Beuve. The delicate analysis of Musset's character and talent is continued in a brief essay entitled "Edgar Poe andAlfred de Musset," which appeared inModern Language Notes, Vol. XXI (1906).To Modern Philology, besides the article men tioned above, Dr. Dubedout contributed a studyof Ronsard's diatribes against the Huguenots,the Discours des Miseres de ce temps, and acritique of Professor Lounsbury's recent volume on Shakespeare and Voltaire.*At the close of the Spring Quarter in 1905Dr. Dubedout sailed for France, for a well-earned vacation. On his return to Chicago inDecember of that year, it was found that hewas attacked by the disease to which he finallysuccumbed. Unable to resume his class work,he was granted leave of absence and returnedto France in January, 1906, his death takingplace the following October.Dr. Dubedout was a man of refined sensibility, a scrupulous sense of duty, and a fineliterary discrimination ; and his death, followedso soon by that of his wife, was peculiarly sad.MEETING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CENTRALDIVISION OF THE MODERN LANGUAGEASSOCIATION OF AMERICAFrom December 27 to December 29 inclusivethe Central Division of the Modern LanguageAssociation of America held its twelfth annualmeeting at the University of Chicago. Thesessions were of great interest and success,about two hundred persons being in attendance.At the fourth session, on December 28, atthe departmental meeting in English held in therooms of the Reynolds Club, Professor John M.Manly, Head of the Department of English,led in the discussion of problems involved inthe undergraduate curriculum in English literature ; Professor Starr W. Cutting, Head of theDepartment of Germanic Languages and Literatures, presided over the departmental meetingin German, the discussion of "The Importanceof Phonetics in Modern Language Instruction"being led by Assistant Professor Paul O.Kern, of the Department of German; and inthe departmental meeting of the Romance106 UNIVERS11 Y RECORDLanguages Associate Professor T. AtkinsonJenkins made a report of progress as chairmanof a committee on intermediate French texts.At the sixth session, on December 29 inMandel Assembly Hall, there was read by titlea paper by Professor Starr W. Cutting, entitled"Concerning the Plot of Schiller's Braut vonMessina."The chairman of the local committee havingthe meeting in charge was Assistant ProfessorPhilip S. Allen, of the Department of German ;but on account of Mr. Allen's illness his placewas taken by Mr. James Weber Linn, of theDepartment of English. Other members on thecommittee were Assistant Professor ElizabethWallace, of the Department of RomanceLanguages and Literatures ; Miss LuannaRobertson, Instructor in German in the University High School; Mr. David A. Robertsonand Mr. Percy H. Boynton, of the Departmentof English ; and Mr. Charles Goettsch and Mr.Hans E. Gronow, of the Department of German. Associate Porfessor T. Atkinson Jenkins,of the Department of Romance Languages andLiteratures, was chairman of the executivecommittee for the Central Division of the Association during the year 1906.THE NEW HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORYWith the' opening of the Autumn Quarter,1906, Professor Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, A.M., LL.B., assumed the headshipof the Department of History, formerly heldby Professor Hermann Edouard von Hoist andProfessor John Franklin Jameson. For thepast fifteen years Mr. McLaughlin has beenprofessor of American history in the Universityof Michigan, and for two years (1903-5) hewas director of the Bureau of HistoricalResearch in the Carnegie Institution at Washington.He graduated from the University of Mich igan in 1882, and from the law school of thesame university in 1885. In 1895 he receivedfrom the same institution the honorary degreeof Master of Arts. For one year (1886-7) hewas an instructor in Latin in the University ofMichigan, becoming in 1887 an instructor inhistory. After three years of service as assistant professor of history, he was made a fullprofessor in 1891.Professor McLaughlin is the author of thevolume on Lewis Cass in the "American Statesmen" series (1891) ; History of Higher Education in Michigan (1891) ; Civil Government inMichigan (1892) ; A History of the AmericanNation (1899) ; and The Confederation and theConstitution (1905). He is also' the editor ofCooley's Principles of Constitutional Law(third edition) and of a volume on The Study ofHistory in Schools. Since 1898 ProfessorMcLaughlin has been an associate editor of theAmerican Historical Review, and for fouryears (1901-5) he was the managing editor ofthe same review.THE MEETING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE AMERICANPHYSICAL SOCIETYThe American Physical Society, an organization representing research work in physics inthe United States and Canada, met on December 1 at the University of Chicago. Thesociety was organized in 1899, its first president being Henry A. Rowland, of Johns Hopkins University. Its second president was Professor Albert A. Michelson, Head of theDepartment of Physics. On its executive committee Assistant Professor Robert A. Millikan,of the same department, is the representativeof the University of Chicago.The society holds four sessions a year, oneof which is assigned to this section of thecountry. The last western meeting was held atthe University of Chicago in the spring ofUNIVERSITY RECORD 1071905 and was the largest meeting in the historyof the organization. Thirty-seven papers werepresented at that time, nine of which were byUniversity of Chicago 'men. At the meetingheld on December 1, 1906, twenty papers werepresented, six of them by members of the University. They were as follows:"On the Ruling of Diffraction Gratings," Albert A.Michelson."On the Discharge of Electrons from Ordinary Metalsunder the Influence of Ultra-violet Light," Robert A.Millikan and George Winchester."On the Effect of Temperature on Metallic Spectra,"Henry G. Gale."On the Viscosity of Water at Low Rates of Shear,"Lawrence E. Gurney."On the Change of Phase Due to the Passage ofElectric Waves through Thin Films," William R. Blair."On a New Product of the Transformation of Uranium," Herbert J. McCoy.The morning session of the society wasopened by an address of welcome from ActingPresident Harry Pratt Judson, the number inattendance being about one hundred. In theabsence of the president of the society, ProfessorCarl Barus, of Brown University, Professor A.A. Michelson acted as the presiding officer.In the interval between the morning and afternoon sessions the society lunched together atthe Quadrangle Club, which made all the mem^bers of the society its guests during their stayin Chicago. Prominent physicists who werein attendance upon the meeting were Professors Carhart and Reed, of the University ofMichigan ; Snow and Mendenhall, of the University of Wisconsin; Crew, of NorthwesternUniversity; Ferry, of Purdue University;Merritt, of Cornell University ; Kester, of OhioState University; Guthe, of the State University of Iowa; Porter, of the "ScientificShop ;" Stewart, of the University of Missouri ;Almy, of the University of Nebraska; andKnipp, of the -University of Illinois. Theprogramme was one of unusual interest. The next regular meeting is to be held inNew York City, where the society is to be theguest of Columbia University.THE TWELFTH SERIES OF LECTURES ON THEHASKELL FOUNDATIONProfessor Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D.,of Johns Hopkins University, began on December 4 a series of six lectures on "The Religionof the Veda," this being the twelfth annualseries on the Haskell Foundation. The opening lecture discussed two phases of the subject: "India the Land of Religion" and "TheVeda." The second lecture considered "ThePriestly Religion" and "The Pantheon of theVeda;" the third was on the subject of "ThePrehistoric Gods of India ;" Part I of the fourthlecture discussed "The Transparent, Translucent, and Opaque Gods," and Part II, the"Religious Conceptions and Religious Feeling in the Veda;" the fifth lecture traced "TheBeginnings of Hindu Theosophy;" and theconcluding lecture was on "The Final Philosophy of the Veda."The series was remarkable for the widescholarship of the lecturer and his power ofclear and attractive presentation. Mr. Bloom-field, who is professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Johns Hopkins University,is the editor and translator of many works inthe Sanskrit, a contributor to learned journalsand reviews on subjects connected with ancientIndia, on comparative grammar, and on ethnology and the science of religions, and is theauthor of The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha-Brahmana (1899) and of Cerberus the Dog ofHades (1905). He is now engaged in passingthrough the press a Concordance of the Vedas.The present series of lectures will be publishedin book form by Putnam the coming summer.The last series of the Haskell Lectures wasgiven in April, 1906, by Professor Duncan B.108 UNIVERSITY RECORDMacdonald of Hartford Theological Seminary,and the tenth series by Professor George FooteMoore, of the Harvard Divinity School.THE NINETEENTH EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE OFACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS ATTHE UNIVERSITYOn November 16 and 17 there was held atthe University the nineteenth Educational Conference of Secondary Schools in relation withthe University of Chicago. Five hundredteachers and pupils were in attendance, theconference being the largest of the kind in thehistory of the University.A reception and luncheon for visiting deansand principals and student competitors in theprize contests were given in the Reynolds ClubHouse at one o'clock on Friday, Acting President Harry Pratt Judson and Mrs. Judsonbeing at the head of the receiving line. Attwo o'clock was held the executive session ofdeans and principals with the AdministrativeBoard of University Relations, among the discussions being that by Professor William D.MacClintock, of the Department of English,on "How the Parents' Association Can Servethe Schools." At the same hour a writtenexamination of contestants for the prizes inEnglish, Latin, and Mathematics was held inCobb Lecture Hall, sixty students taking theexamination in English, thirty-six in Latin, andthirty-two in Mathematics. The prize scholarship in English was awarded to Mr. M. F.Carpenter, of the Morgan Park Academy ; thatin Latin to Miss Edith Prindeville, of the LakeView High School of Chicago; and that inMathematics to Mr. Joseph Nyberg, of theWendell Phillips High School, Chicago. OnFriday evening occurred the ninth annual contest in declamation among representatives ofschools in relation with the University — forty-three participating — the successful contestantsbeing Mr. John Crosby, of the Fond du Lac, Wis., High School, and Miss Lavinia Miner,of Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis. Theparticipants were all from the senior classes oftheir respective schools. The scholarship prizesare of the value of one year's tuition, or $120.At the opening of the General Conference atten o'clock on Saturday morning Acting President Judson made the address of welcome, andAssociate Professor Frank J. Miller gave abrief review of the Educational Conferences ofthe last fourteen years. Dean William B.Owen, of the University High School, presented a paper on the subject of "Social Education Through the Agency of the School."Between the morning and afternoon sessions ofSaturday the University gave an informalreception and luncheon at Hutchinson Hall tothe visiting teachers as guests.In the Departmental Conferences that ofBotany and Zoology was presided over byAssistant Professor Charles M. Child, of theDepartment of Zoology. Professor AlexanderSmith, of the Department of Chemistry, presided over the departmental conference inChemistry, new experiments for classroom demonstrations and new laboratory appliances beingshown by Assistant Prof essor 'Herbert N. McCoy, Dr. Lauder W. Jones, and Mr. ThomasB. Freas. In this conference also ProfessorJulius Stieglitz discussed "Recent Criticisms ofthe Theory of Solutions." Kent ChemicalLaboratory was open for inspection on . Saturday from nine to four o'clock. Mr. James WeberLinn presided over the department conferencein English. The conference in German, incharge of Assistant Professor Paul O. Kern,had Phonetics as' the general topic, Dr.Adolph C. von Noe discussing the question of "Why Should the Teacher of German Have a Knowledge of Phonetics," MissEdith 'Clawson, of the University High School,considering the value of phonetics from thestandpoint of the student, and Assistant Pro-UNIVERSITY RECORD 109fessor Kern discussing the subject from thepoint of view of the classroom. To the departmental conference in Romance, in charge ofAssistant Professor Elizabeth Wallace, Mr.Earle B. Babcock, of the Department ofRomance Languages and Literatures, contributed a paper entitled "La Phonetique Ex-perimentale." Assistant Professor Gordon J.Laing contributed to the conference in Greekan<J Latin, presided over by Associate ProfessorFrank J. Miller, a discussion of "Some RecentBooks in the Classical Field," and Mr. ArthurF. Barnard, of the University High School,considered "The Relation of Ancient History tothe Classical Department." "What Can BeDone to Arouse an Interest in the Study ofGreek," was discussed by Mr. Samuel C. Johnston, also of the University High School. Dr.Joseph P. Warren was in charge of the conference in History and Political Science, the general topic of discussion being the methods ofteaching history in European secondary schools.Miss Lorley A. Ashleman, of the UniversityHigh School, discussed the schools of Francefrom this point of view; Dr. A. C. von Noe,the schools of Germany, and Assistant ProfessorJames W. Thompson, the schools of England,and helps to. the study of foreign educationalwork. Assistant Professor Herbert E. Slaughtpresided over the conference in Mathematics.The conference in Public Speaking, in chargeof Associate Professor S. H. Clark, discussedthe purpose of the contest in declamation amongrepresentatives of the secondary schools, MissMartha Fleming, of the School of Education,considering the educational aspect of the subject, Assistant Professor Fredric M. Blan-chard the oratorical aspect, and Associate Professor Clark the poetic aspect.The full proceedings of the conference willappear in the January (1907) issue of theSchool Review. THE MEETING IN CHICAGO OF THE ASSOCIATION OFCOLLEGIATE ALUMNAEThe Association of Collegiate Alumnae heldits annual meeting in Chicago on November 8,9, and 10, 1906, and for one day was the guestof the University of Chicago. This associationis made up of over three thousand womengraduates, representing twenty-four of the leading colleges and universities of the country,and has branches scattered from New Englandto California. Its aim is to promote practicaleducational work. The European fellowshipmaintained by the association has been held byHelen B. Thompson, '97, Susan H. Ballou, '97,and Kate Gordon, '00. The present fellow isEdith Abbott, Ph.D., '06.The association was organized in January,1882, and for thirteen years Miss Marion Talbot was its secretary and later its president.Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge is the general secretary, holding an office the first incumbent of which was the late Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, one of the early organizers of theUniversity.Professor Paul Shorey, Miss Kate Gordon,Miss S. H. Ballou, and Miss Jane Addams wereamong the speakers at the recent meeting, andan address of welcome was given by ActingPresident Harry Pratt Judson. Over two hundred members dined at Foster Hall, and inspected the University buildings. The meetingin Chicago was considered the most enthusiasticand satisfactory in the history of the association.A NOTABLE SERIES OF LECTURES ON "POETRY ANDLIFE "Under the auspices of the University Lecture Association, in co-operation with the University of Chicago, there was begun onNovember 1 in the New Theater, SteinwayHall, Chicago, a notable series of fourteen lectures entitled "Poetry and Life." The openinglecture, "The Music of Poetry," was given by110 UNIVERSITY RECORDAssociate Professor S. H. Clark, of the Department of Public Speaking, and illustrated by hisreading of Tennyson's Elaine. "The Place ofImagination in Poetry" was the subject of alecture on November 8, by Professor WilliamD. MacClintock, of the Department of English.On November 15 Dr. Richard Burton, Professorial Lecturer on English Literature in theUniversity Extension Division, gave his firstlecture, entitled "The Art of Poetry," and onNovember 22 his second, entitled "The Missionof Poetry." Hamilton Wright Mabie gave inDecember a series of four lectures on "Life andthe Artist," the first concerning "The Workshop," the second "The Workman," the third"Craftsmanship," and the fourth "Art."In January and February the series is to becontinued by Mr. William Norman Guthrie,Lecturer on General Literature in the University Extension Division, the subjects beingPercy Bysshe Shelley, Idealist; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evolutionist ; Robert Browning, Vitalist; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tran-scendentalist ; Walt Whitman, Individualist;George Meredith, Pragmatist. Specimenpoems from each author, by way of illustration,will be given by the lecturer.THE MEETING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE ANDMATHEMATICS TEACHERSOn November 30 and December 1, 1906,there was held at the University the sixthmeeting of the Central Association of Scienceand Mathematics Teachers. At the first generalmeeting, held in Mandel Assembly Hall, Acting President Harry Pratt Judson gave theaddress of welcome, and on the programme ofsection meetings Professor John M. Coulter andProfessor Charles * R. Barnes, of the Department of Botany, were assigned the subject of"Recent Contributions to Botanical Science."In the departmental meeting in Physics, at theRyerson Physical Laboratory, Assistant Pro fessor Charles R. Mann made a report on "ACourse of Experiments in Physics," and Professor Alexander Smith, of the Department ofChemistry, presented "The Point of View inChemistry." On December 1 the sections inChemistry and Physics met with the AmericanPhysical Society, which was also in session atthe University.Assistant Professor J. Paul Goode, of theDepartment of Geography, gave an illustratedaddress December 1 before the Earth Sciencesection in Walker Museum on the subject of"Chicago's Commercial Advantage of Position."Following the address, an opportunity wasgiven to inspect an exhibit of maps and photographs illustrating the geography of Chicago,prepared by Mr. Goode for the GeographicSociety of Chicago' and installed through thecourtesy of the Municipal Museum of Chicago.In the Mathematics section, of which Assistant Professor Herbert E. Slaught was vice-chairman, Assistant Professor J. W. A. Young,of the Department of Mathematics, discussedthe subject of "Current Tendencies in Secondary Mathematics in Italy and France."THE SECOND AND THIRD CONCERTS IN THE SERIESBY THE THEODORE THOMAS ORCHESTRAOn the evenings of November 20 and December 18, 1906, in Mandel Assembly Hall, theTheodore Thomas Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Frederick Stock, gave the secondand third concerts in the fourth series providedat the University by officers of the QuadrangleClub.Among the numbers on the first programmewas the overture to "Sakuntala" by Goldmark;Wolf's serenade, with viola obligato by Mr. F.Esser; and Weber's "Invitation to the Dance."In the second part of the programme was theoverture to Dvorak's "Husitzka," opus 67;theme and variations from D minor stringquartet by Schubert, played by the stringUNIVERSITY RECORD 111orchestra; and the symphonic poem, "TheMoldau," by Smetana.Mme. Birdice Blye was the soloist for thethird concert, which was opened by the overture to Beethoven's "Egmont." The "TriptyqueSimphonique," by Blockx, and Rubinstein's"Concerto in D minor" completed the first partof the programme ; and the second part includedGrieg's "Peer Gynt," a serenade by Mosz-kowsky, and Tschaikowsky's "Marche Slave." A great variety of musical composition wasshown in this programme, eight different composers being represented.The remaining concerts in the series are tobe given on the evenings of January 22, March5, and March 26. The opportunity to hear onthe University quadrangles one of the world'sgreat orchestras will doubtless be appreciatedby the student body, the members of the faculties, and residents in this part of Chicago.112 UNIVERSITY RECORDTHE FACULTIES"Charles Darwin" is the subject of a contribution in the December number of the Chau-tauquan, by Professor John M. Coulter, Headof the Department of Botany.Acting President Harry Pratt Judson discussed American election methods before theCity Club of Chicago on November 16 andspoke in favor of a simplified ballot system.Dr. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, of the Department of Household Administration, discussed the subject of "Civil Service" before theWoman's Club of Chicago on November 28."Reaction in Russia" was the subject of anillustrated contribution in the December (1906)number of the World To-Day, by Mr. SamuelN. Harper, Associate in the Russian Languageand Literature."Whitman, the Landscape Poet" was thesubject of a lecture before the Nike Club ofChicago, on December 17 at Lincoln Center,by Professor William D. MacClintock, of theDepartment of English."Mural Decoration and Stained Glass" wasthe subject of an illustrated lecture before theNorth Side Art Club of Chicago on November26, 1906, by Mr. George B. Zug, of the Department of the History of Art."Biblical Cities," was the subject of an address on November 19 in Sinai Temple, Chicago, before the Council of Jewish Women, byAssistant Professor Herbert L. Willett, of theDepartment of Semitic Languages and Literatures.At the twentieth annual session of the FloridaEducational Association, held in St. AugustineDecember 27-30, Professor Edwin E. Sparks,of the Department of History, gave two addresses, the first being entitled "Making anAmerican," and the second, "An Unknown Patriot." "The New Conception of the City" was thesubject of an address before the Woman's Clubof Chicago on November 7, by ProfessorGeorge E. Vincent, of the Department of Sociology."The Social Value of Domestic Science" wasthe subject of an address before the NineteenthCentury Club of Oak Park, on November 26,by Assistant Professor Alice P. Norton, of theDepartment of Household Administration.The Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry, by Professor Alexander Smith, of theDepartment of Chemistry, which was publishedby the Century Company in the spring of 1906,is being translated into German and Chinese.The head resident of the University of Chicago Settlement," Miss Mary E. McDowell,gave an illustrated address before a meeting ofthe North Side Bureau of Charities of ChicagoNovember 9 on the subject of "Small Parks."To the November (1906) number of theClassical lournal Professor Paul Shorey,Head of the Department of Greek, contributesa note on "Xenophon Anab. 1.7.5," and to theDecember number a note on "Plato Crito 49 E-50 A."Recent literature on the Old Testament isdiscussed in the January (1907) number of theAmerican lournal of Theology by ProfessorIra M. Price and Dr. John M. P. Smith, ofthe Department of Semitic Languages andLiteratures."Primitive Art in North America" was thesubject of two lectures in the Art Institute ofChicago November 13 and 14, by Assistant Professor George A. Dorsey, of the Departmentof Sociology and Anthropology. "The Phi^losophy of Travel" was the subject of anaddress also by Mr. Dorsey on December 3before the Hyde Park Travel Class of Chicago.UNIVERSITY RECORD 113Sophicles' Antigone was the subject of thelast of a series of four interpretative readingsby Associate Professor S. H. Clark, of theDepartment of Public Speaking, before theChicago Woman's Aid in Sinai Temple on December 1 8."The Texture of Igneous Rocks" is the titleof a contribution in the November-December(1906) number of the Journal of Geology,among the contributors to the discussion beingProfessor Joseph P. Iddings, of the Department of Geology.Among the speakers at the second annualmeeting of the Bibliographical Society ofAmerica, held at Brown University, Providence,R. I., on December 2J, 1906, was AssistantProfessor James Westfall Thompson, of theDepartment of History.Under the general heading of "AmericanGuardianship of Cuba" Associate ProfessorFrancis W. Shepardson, of the Department ofHistory, has a contribution in the November(1906) issue of the World To-Day entitled"Rescuing Cuba from Europe."The first Chinaman to be elected to Phi BetaKappa at the University of Chicago is Mr.John Yui-bong Lee, who was given that scholastic honor at the Sixty-first Convocation onDecember 18, 1906, although he does notexpect to graduate till September, 1907.With the opening of the Autumn Quarter,1906, Mr. Hiram P. Williamson, of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, became the director of the Alliance.Francaise in Chicago, succeeding Assistant Professor Maxime Ingres, of the same department.Assistant Professor Harry G. Wells, of theDepartment of Pathology and Bacteriology,spent the Autumn Quarter- of 1906 at YaleUniversity on leave of absence. He was engaged in investigative work with ProfessorRussell H. Chittenden, director of the Sheffield Scientific School. "English Composition in Secondary Schools"is the title of the Normal School Bulletin ofOctober 1, 1906, issued by the Eastern IllinoisState Normal School, the author being FlorenceVane Skefrlngton, who received the degree ofBachelor of Arts from the University in 1904.A Winged Victory is the title of a new novelby Associate Professor Robert Morss Lovett,of the Department of English. It is among theearly spring publications of Duffield & Company, New York. Mr. Lovett's first novel,published by the Miacmillan Comjpany, wasentitled Richard Gresham.Colonel Frank O. Lowden, a member of theUniversity Board of Trustees, was elected inNovember to the Sixtieth Congress from theThirteenth Congressional District of Illinois,formerly represented by Robert R Hitt. Mr.Lowden is already the Illinois member of theRepublican National Committee.At the first annual meeting of the AmericanSociological Society at Providence, R. I., underthe auspices of Brown University, on December27, 1906, Professor Albion W. Small, Head ofthe Department of Sociology and Anthropology, presented a paper on the subject of "Pointsof Agreement among Sociologists.""Reform Football" is the title of a contribution, by Assistant Professor Joseph E. Raycroft,of the Department of Physical Culture, to asymposium in the January (1907) issue of theWorld To-Day, other contributors being Mr.Fielding H. Yost, of the University of Michigan, and Mr. Walter Camp, of Yale University.Sex and Society is the title of a new volumeto be issued in February by the University ofChicago Press. It is the work of Associate Professor William I. Thomas, of the Department ofSociology and Anthropology. "The Adventitious Character of Woman" was the title of arecent contribution by Mr. Thomas in theAmerican Journal of Sociology, which attractedwide attention.114 UNIVERSITY RECORD"The Tragic Ideal" was the subject of thefirst of four interpretative readings before theChicago Woman's Aid in Sinai Temple on November 6, by Associate Professor S. H. Clark,of the Department of Public Speaking. Thesubject of the second reading, which was givenon November 20, was Hawthorne's ScarletLetter.At the meeting of the American Federationof Labor in Minneapolis, Minn., on November17, the Head of the University of ChicagoSettlement, Miss Mary E. McDowell, urgedthat organized labor, through the federationand in behalf of the women workers of thecountry, should express itself as favorable touniversal peace.Under the title "Law Trials to CompensateInjured," Professor Charles R. Henderson,Head of the Department of Ecclesiastical Sociology, contributed an "Editorial by the Laity''to the Chicago Tribune of October 21, 1906.Mr. Henderson contributed a second editorialto the Tribune of October 28, with the title"State Must Compel Insurance."Dr. Wallace W. Atwood, of the Departmentof Geology, returned to his regular Universitywork soon after the opening of the AutumnQuarter, 1906, having been engaged in theinvestigation of the coal resources of Alaskafor the United States government. His appointment to make a special survey of Alaskanecessitates his absence from the Universityhalf of the year.In the North American Review of November16 Assistant Professor William Vaughn Moody,of the Department of English, has a contribution on "The Poems of Trumbull Stickney."Mr. Moody acted as one of the literary executors of Mr. Stickney. In the Christmas number of the Century magazine, also, Mr. Moodyhas a poem entitled The Death of Eve, witha striking illustration in color by J. C. Lyen-decker. In the dramatic contest instituted by theNew Theater of Chicago' the judges includeAssociate Professor Frederic I. Carpenter, of theDepartment of English, who is chairman ; Associate Professor Robert M. Lovett, of the samedepartment; and Mr. Martin A. Ryerson,President of the University Board of Trustees.More than one hundred plays have been submitted in the competition.In the January (1907) issue of ModernPhilology, Assistant Professor Francis A.Wood, of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has a contribution entitled "Studies in Germanic Strong" Verbs;"and Dr. Martin Schutze,of the same department,discusses "Repetition of a Word as a Meansof Suspense in the German Drama under theInfluence of Romanticism.""Science in Civilization and Science in Education" is the subject of a contribution in theNovember (1906) issue of the School Review,by Assistant Professor Charles R. Mann, ofthe Department of Physics. Under the heading of "Books Old and New in Mathematics"Assistant Professor Herbert E. Slaught, ofthe Department of Mathematics, contributesa list of books on algebra, geometry, trigonometry, plane analytics, and elementary calculus with which teachers in secondary schoolsshould have some acquaintance.Under the general heading of "EnglishBeacons of Religion and History," AssistantProfessor Edgar J. Goodspeed, of the Department of Biblical and Patristic Greek, makes anillustrated contribution to the Standard of December 8, 1906, entitled "An Old ItalianVilla," the villa Serbelloni being the specialsubject of the article. In the same series Associate Professor Gerald B. Smith, of the Department of Systematic Theology, has , anillustrated contribution on "Tintern Abbey andthe Wye Valley," in the Standard of December1, 1906.UNIVERSITY RECORD 115Among the sponsors for President TheodoreRoosevelt as a candidate for the Nobel peaceprize, conferred December 10, 1906, on thePresident of the United States by the Norwegianparliament, was Acting President Harry PrattJudson, of the University of Chicago. Othersponsors were Professor Simeon Baldwin, ofthe Yale Law School, and Professor Harberger,of the University of Munich."The 'More Ancient Dionysia' at Athens —Thucydides ii. 15" is the subject of a contribution in the January (1907) number of ClassicalPhilology, by Professor Edward Capps, themanaging editor. Professor Frank F. Abbott,of the Department of Latin, has in the samenumber a contribution entitled "The Use ofLanguage as a Means of Characterization inPetronius." Mr. Abbott also discusses "TheTheory of Iambic Shortening in Lindsay'sCaptivi."The University is one of several institutionscontributing to the support of the Naples TableAssociation for Promoting Laboratory Researchby Women. Special opportunities are providedby the foundation x>f this table for research inzoology, botany, and physiology. Applicationsfor its use during the coming year may bemade through Dean Marion Talbot beforeMarch 1, 1907. She will also furnish information concerning the thousand-dollar prize to beawarded in 1909.At the Conference on Truancy held in Chicago on December 6 and 7, Professor JulianW. Mack, of the Law School, presided over thefirst evening session in Fullerton Hall of theArt Institute. At the second evening sessionJudge Mack discussed the subject of "TheJuvenile Court and the Truant," and ProfessorFrank Billings, of Rush Medical College, whois president of the Illinois State Board ofCharities, discussed "State Schools: Separationof the Wards of the State from the PublicSchools." At the meeting in New York City, on December 31, 1906, of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science ProfessorJoseph P. Iddings, of the Department of Geology, was elected president of the section ofgeology and geography; and Professor Lud-wig Hektoen, Head of the Department ofPathology and Bacteriology, was elected president of the section of education. The Association meets in 1907 at Chicago during the lastweek of December.Director A. A. Stagg, of the Division ofPhysical Culture and Athletics, was the representative of the University of Chicago in thethird annual conference on athletics heldat the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, on December 1. The other institutions representedwere the University of Wisconsin, Purdue University, the University of Illinois, Indiana University, the University of Iowa, theUniversity of Michigan, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota.On the executive committee of the Playground Association of Chicago, organized onNovember 25, 1906, are Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson, of the University Board of Trustees, whois also vice-president of the association; MissMary E. McDowell, Head of the University ofChicago Settlement; Mrs. Emmons Blaine,founder of the School of Education; and Professor Julian W. Mack, of the Law School.The Playground Association of America holdsits second annual convention in Chicago inJune, 1907.Egyptian Antiquities in the Pier Collection,Part I, has recently been issued from the University of Chicago Press for Mr. Garrett Chat-field Pier, of New York City, formerly a graduate student in Egyptology in the University.The descriptive lists are illustrated by twenty-one plates, two of which are in colors, as arealso the eight figures in the frontispiece. Thevolume, quarto in size, is beautifully printed,116 UNIVERSITY RECORDwith wide margins, heavy plate paper, and artistic color-work. Mr. Pier in the preface saysthat he has arranged to publish the catalogue ofhis collection in several volumes.Associate Professor Frederick Starr, of theDepartment of Sociology and Anthropolgy, returned to his regular work in the Universitysoon after the opening of the Winter Quarter,1907, after an absence of more than a yearspent in Africa in investigative work along theline of anthropology. Some of the results ofhis observations are being published in a seriesof contributions in the Chicago* Tribune,beginning with the issue of January 20, 1907.Elsewhere in this issue of the UniversityRecord is published a summary of the resultsachieved by the expedition, with a list of thepublications that will appear in connection withthe work.Professor Charles R. Henderson, Head ofthe Department of Ecclesiastical Sociology,has been made president of a new organization,the Chicago Society of Social Hygiene. Professor Frank Billings, of Rush Medical College, and Professor Julian W. Mack, of theLaw School, are among the vice-presidents;and among the directors are Judge Jesse A.Baldwin and Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson, ofthe University Board of Trustees; ProfessorEmil G. Hirsch, of the Department of SemiticLanguages and Literatures ; Professor WillliamD. MacClintock, of the Department of English ;and Director A. A. Stagg, of the Division ofPhysical Culture and Athletics.The eighty-sixth contribution from the HullBotanical Laboratory entitled "The Ovule andFemale Gametophyte of Dioon" appears in theNovember (1906) number of the BotanicalGazette, the contributor being Dr. Charles J.Chamberlain, of the Department of Botany.The article is illustrated by nine figures andthree plates. The eighty-seventh contributionfrom the Hull Botanical Laboratory, under the title of "The Life History of PolysiphoniaViolacea," opens the December number of theGazette, the article, of forty-eight pages, beingillustrated by three diagrams and ten plates.The writer is Mr. Shigeo Yamanouchi, a Fellow in the Department of Botany."The Mind of Woman and the Lower Races"is the opening contribution in the January(1907) number of the American Journal ofSociology, by Associate Professor William I.Thomas, of the Department of Sociology andAnthropology. The first article in a series on"Industrial Insurance" is contributed to thisnumber by Professor Charles R. Henderson, ofthe Department of Sociology, under the title:"The Extent and Nature of the Demand fora Social Policy of Workingmen's Insurance."The third instalment of "The Origins of Leadership," by Mr. Eben Mumford, who received theDoctor's degree in June, 1906, appears also inthis number of the journal.The revival of The Deceitful Dean, the comicopera first presented in 1899 by the students ofthe University for the benefit of the Universityof Chicago Settlement, was a great popularsuccess. Three performances were given, underthe auspices of the University SettlementLeague in co-operation with the UniversityChoir and the Blackfriars, on the evenings ofDecember 14 and 15, and also on the afternoonof December 15. Some of the studentswho were in the original cast took thesame parts again. There were many changesin the original form of the opera, made byMr. James Weber Linn, of the Department ofEnglish, who also contributed several newlyrics. The proceeds for the University Settlement amounted to about $2,300."Municipal Ownership in Germany" is thesubject of a contribution in the November(1906) number of the Journal of PoliticalEconomy, by Mr. Hugo R. Meyer, formerlyconnected with the Department of PoliticalUNIVERSITY RECORD 117Economy. He discusses the question underthe two phases of the street railway and electriclighting. A note on "Historical Method vs.Historical Narrative" is contributed by Mr.Robert F. Hoxie, of the Department of PoliticalEconomy, and Professor Ernst Freund, of theLaw School, has a note "On the Legality of aBoycott in Germany." "Recent Utterances ofMr. Hill and Mr. Harriman on Railroad Problems" is the subject of a contributed note inthe December number of the journal, by Assistant Professor William Hill, of the Departmentof Political Economy; and Mr. Oscar D. Skel-ton, a recent graduate student in PoliticalEconomy, contributes a note on "Wood-Pulpand the Tariff."In the November (1906) issue of the Elementary School Teacher an article on "TextileArts as Social Occupations" is contributed byClara I. Mitchell, of the School of Education.A "Thanksgiving Song," the words and melodybeing the composition of pupils in the ninthyear of the University Elementary School, alsoappears in this number. In the December number of the journal is a contribution on "Mathematics and Its Relation to the Study of HomeEconomics in the University ElementarySchool," by Caroline M. Pierce and Jenny H.Snow, with illustrations drawn from cookingby pupils in the seventh school year. "Volunteer Field and Camera Groups in the School ofEducation" is the subject of an illustrated articleby Mr. Robert K. Nabours, of the School ofEducation. "Raisin Nouveau" is the title of a•song, the melody of which was composed bythe ninth school year Frenchjdass in the University Elementary School.Homeric Vocabularies, a book of sixty pagescontaining Greek and English word-lists forthe study of Homer, is the work of AssociateProfessor William B. Owen, Dean of the University High School, and Assistant ProfessorEdgar J. Goodspeed, of the Department of Biblical and Patristic Greek. The editors havecollected and arranged these word-lists in theconviction that the ordinary way of acquiringHomeric vocabulary is both wasteful and ineffectual. They express the belief that themastery of these lists will secure for the student"that much-talked-of thing, the ability to readHomer, and make of his study of it a meansnot simply of discipline but of enjoyment andculture." Frequency of use is the basis ofclassification, there being six classes of verbsoccurring 2,000 to 10 times, six classes of nounsoccurring 1,000 to 10 times, and the samenumber of classes of pronouns, adjectives,adverbs, prepositions, etc., occurring 10,000 to10 times. There are also equivalent Englishlists."The Contribution of Science to ReligiousEducation" is the subject of a contribution inthe November (1906) issue of the BiblicalWorld, by Professor Charles R. Barnes, of theDepartment of Botany. Among the expositorystudies on the life of Christ in this number isone by Assistant Professor Edgar J. Goodspeed,of the Department of Biblical and PatristicGreek; and also one by Professor ShatterMathews, of the Department of SystematicTheology. The December (1906) issue of theBiblical World, which marks the close oftwenty-five years of its history, contains anindex of remarkable fulness, covering the'twenty-eight volumes published since the journal took its present name in 1893. ProfessorTheodore G. Soares, of the Department ofHomiletics, has a contribution in this numberon "How to Teach the Sunday-School Lessonsfor 1907." Dr. John M. P. Smith, of the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures,contributes to this number also an "AnnotatedList of Books on Early Old Testament History." In the January (1907) number of thejournal Professor Charles R. Henderson, Headof the Department of Ecclesiastical Sociology,118 UNIVERSITY RECORDbegins a series of articles on "Social Duties."The first of a series of studies prepared by thelate Professor George S. Goodspeed for publication in book form appears in this numberunder the general title of "The Men Who MadeIsrael." Five expository studies in the OldTestament are contributed by Assistant Professor Herbert L. Willett, of the Departmentof Semitic Languages and Literatures.A Short History of Christianity in theApostolic Age, a volume by George HolleyGilbert, Ph.D., D.D., in the "ConstructiveBible Studies" edited by Professor Ernest De-Witt Burton, Head of the Department of NewTestament Literature and Interpretation, hasrecently been issued from the University ofChicago Press. The book, of 240 pages, contains twenty-five chapters, a map illustratingthe Apostolic Age, an appendix of the important political events of that age, and an indexof names and subjects. Among the full-pageillustrations are those of the Mount of Olivesas seen from Jerusalem, the Mosque of Omar,Jerusalem and the Temple of Herod, the ruinsof the city of Samaria, a general view of thecity of Damascus, a view of Jaffa, Antioch in Syria, Paphos, a general view of the moderncity of Thessalonica, the acropolis of Athens, theAcrocorinthus and the site of Corinth as itappeared before the recent excavations, and themole of Caesarea. The introduction discussesthe present knowledge of the church in theapostolic age and gives a brief survey of theextension of Christianity during that period.Part I deals with the "Primitive Jewish Churchin Jerusalem;" Part II with the "Extensionof the Gospel to the Gentiles, Occasioned byPersecution ;" Part III with the "Pauline Mission in Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Greece;"Part IV with the "Last Years of the ApostlePaul;" and Part V with "Christianity in theLatter Part of the First Century." In the preface Professor Gilbert says thatthis work has been done with a conviction that thesimple facts about the gospel in the £rst Christian generation are as interesting as a great imaginative poem,as essential to a liberal education as a knowledge ofGreek history in the time of Pericles or of Englishhistory in the reign of Henry VIII, and more inspiring, more illuminating, as regards the very spirit ofJesus, than the facts of any subsequent period in thelong history of the Christian church.UNIVERSITY RECORD 119THE ASSOCIATION OF DAt the Winter Convocation, held December1 8, 1906, the degree of Doctor of Philosophywas conferred upon eight candidates, makingthe total number to date four hundred andtwenty-two. The names of those newly addedare as follows :William Richards Blair, S.B., University ofChicago, 1904. Subjects: Physics and Mathematics.Emil Goettsch, S.B., University of Chicago,1903. Subjects: Anatomy and Pathology.Rolvix Harlan, A.B., Columbia University,1899 ; A.M., ibid., 1901 ; D.B., University ofChicago, 1902. Subjects : Church History andNew Testament.George Tyler Northup, A.B., Williams College, 1897. Subjects: Romance and Germanic.Frederick Owen Norton, A.B., KentuckyUniversity, 1893 ; A.M., ibid., 1895. Subjects :Biblical and Patristic Greek and ClassicalGreek.John Sundwall, Ph.B., Central Universityof Utah, 1901 ; D.B., ibid., 1902; S.B., University of Chicago, 1905. Subjects : Anatomy andPathology.Daniel Ambrose Tear, Ph.B., SouthwestKansas College, 1896. Subjects: Educationand Philosophy.Anthony Lispenard Underhill, S.B., University of Chicago, 1900. Subjects : Mathematicsand Astronomy.Among those in the foregoing list of newDoctors the following are already in positions:Mr. William R. Blair goes to a governmentposition at the United States Observatory,Mount Weather, Va., t6 which he was appointedlast summer, and from which he has been onleave of absence for the purpose of completingthe work for his degree at the University. CTORS OF PHILOSOPHYMr. Emil Goettsch and Mr. John Sundwallremain in the University as Assistants in theDepartment of Anatomy.Mr. George T. Northup is instructor in Spanish at Princeton University.Mr. Frederick O. Norton entered upon hisduties as professor of biblical and patristicGreek at Drake University, Des Moines, la.,in September, 1906. ,Mr. Daniel A. Tear, who has been for tenyears connected with the Chicago publicschools, is now principal of the William E.Gladstone School.Mr. Anthony L. Underhill has been sinceSeptember, 1905, instructor in mathematics atPrinceton University.Mr. Rolvix Harlan is pastor of the FirstBaptist Church of Evansville, Wis.Mr. Harvey Carr, Ph.D. in Psychology andEducation, 1905, received an appointment atPratt Institute, New York, at the beginning ofthe present academic year.Miss Etoile B. Simons, Ph.D. in Plant Morphology and Plant Physiology, 1905, was appointed in the autumn of 1906 professor ofbotany at the Western College for Women,Oxford, O.Mr. Charles Goettsch, who received theDoctor's degree at the Convocation in June,1906, in Germanic and English, is now Associate in the Department of German at theUniversity of Chicago.Miss Florence M. Lyon, who received theDoctor's degree in 1901 in Botany andZoology, was married early in September,1906, to Mr. Vincent Norton, of Chicago. Mr.Norton received the Bachelor's degree from theUniversity in 1905, and Miss Lyon was Associate in Morphology in the University. Mr.and Mrs. Norton now reside in Akron, O.120 UNIVERSITY RECORDMr. Arthur W. Smith, Ph.D. in Mathematicsand Astronomy, 1906, who for two years hasbeen instructor in mathematics at Colgate University, has recently been promoted to an assistant professorship.Mr. Richard R. Perkins, who received hisDoctor's degree in Sociology and New Testament in 1905, has resigned the pastorate of theBaptist church at Rockford, 111., to accept thedirectorship of religious and social activitiesin the Young Men's Christian Association ofToledo, Ohio.Mr. John G. Coulter was elected to the chairof botany at the State Normal School, Normal,111., and entered upon his duties in September,1906. He received his Doctor's degree from theUniversity in Botany and Geology in 1900,and had been for some time managing editorof the Manila Times at Manila, P. I.At the twelfth annual meeting of the CentralDivision of the Modern Language Associationof America, held at the University of ChicagoDecember 27-29, 1906, papers were read by Dr.Paul O. Kern, '97, and Dr. Otto Heller, '00.Dr. Philip S. Allen, '97, was chairman, andDr. Charles Goettsch, '06, -was a member, ofthe local committee of arrangements.Mr. Herman B. Almstedt, who received theDoctorate in German and English in 1900, wasmarried at Rugby, England, August 16, 1906.He returned to the University of Missouri atthe beginning of the present year, after a leaveof absence of fifteen months, having in themeantime been promoted from an assistant professorship to a professorship in German.Mr. Oswin W. Willcox, Ph.D. in Chemistryand Geology, 1904, was married October 25,1906, to Miss Margaret Kostenbauder, of Cata-wissa, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Willcox reside inLong Branch, N. J. Mr. Willcox has latelypublished a brochure entitled "The Viscousversus the Granular Theory of Glacial Mo tion," in which the relative values of the twoopposing theories of glacial motion are thoroughly discussed, chiefly from the physicalstandpoint.Following the suggestion made a year agothat small local gatherings of Chicago Doctorsof Philosophy should be encouraged, a dozenor more Doctors who are located in or nearSt. Louis gathered for an informal dinner, andfound much profit and pleasure in renewingand promoting acquaintanceship. It is hopedthat many occasions of this kind may bechronicled during the present year.Mr. Carleton J. Lynde, Ph.D. in Physicsand Chemistry, 1905, was appointed professorof physics in Washington and Jefferson University at the beginning of the present academic year. , Mr. Lynde had been for sometime instructor in physics in the UniversityHigh School and was elected vice-president ofthe Association of Doctors of Philosophy atthe annual meeting last June.Assistant Professor Leonard E. Dickson, whofor some years has been editor of the American Mathematical Monthly, resigned that position with the close of 1906, and Assistant Professor Herbert E. Slaught succeeded him.Both Mr. Dickson and Mr. Slaught receivedthe Doctor's degree at the University, theformer in 1896 and the latter in 1898, beingamong the earliest Doctors in the Departmentof Mathematics.Mr. Robert S. Padan, who received the Doctor's degree in Political Economy and Mathematics in 1 90 1, died at his home in Chicago,September 6, 1906. Mr. Padan's testimonialson file with the Secretary of the Board ofRecommendations indicate that he was a manof more than usual power in the line of hisinvestigations. To quote from ProfessorLaughlin, Head of the Department of Political< Economy :UNIVERSITY RECORD 121Without hesitation I wish to say that I have seldomhad any one under my charge who was his equal incritical and constructive thinking. His capacity for sustained and logical reasoning, aided of course by hismathematical training, is exceptional. His sanity, insight, steadiness, industry, power of application, andeconomic grasp should win him a reputation as a producer and scholar. In addition, his maturity, dignity,and experience as a teacher should make him a valuablemember of the body of instructors in any college or university.The first fiscal year of the Association ofDoctors of Philosophy of the University ofChicago closed December 31, 1906. During theyear one hundred and sixty have been subscribers to the University Record, in whichpublication some twenty-three columns jhavebeen devoted to reports and announcementsconcerning the Doctors. It is the privilege ofall the members during the coming year to connect themselves directly with this particularmeans^ of promoting the interests of the Association.The Central Association of Science andMathematics Teachers held its annual meetingat the University on Friday and Saturday, November, 30 and December 1. Among thespeakers, before the mathematics section wasAssistant Professor Ernest. B. Skinner, of theUniversity of Wisconsin, who received theDoctor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1900. Dr. Herbert E. Slaught, '98,was elected chairman of the section for theensuing year.Among those reading papers at the annualmeeting of the American Mathematical Societyat Columbia University, December 28-29, 1906,were the following Doctors of the Universityof Chicago: Oswald Veblen, '03, instructor atPrinceton University; John I. Hutchinson, '96,assistant professor at Cornell University ; FrankL. Griffin, '06, instructor at Williams College ;William R. Longley, '06, instructor; at YaleUniversity; Arthur Ranum, '66y instructor at Cornell University ; and Thomas E. McKinney,'05, acting professor at Wesleyan University.At the meetings of the Chicago section of thesame society, December 28, 1906, papers wereread by the following Chicago Doctors : Leonard E. Dickson, '96, Assistant Professor in theUniversity of Chicago; Gilbert A. Bliss, '00,assistant professor in Princeton University;and Arthur C. Lunn, '04, Instructor in theUniversity of Chicago. Herbert E. Slaught,'98, was re-elected secretary of the Chicagosection.THE LIBRARIAN'S ACCESSION REPORT FOR THEAUTUMN QUARTER, 1906During the Autumn Quarter, 1906, there hasbeen added to the library of the University atotal number of 4,108 volumes, from the following sources :BOOKS ADDED BY PURCHASEBooks added by purchase, 2,729 volumes, distributedas follows : Anatomy, 20 ; Anthropology, 8 ; Astronomy(Ryerson), 9; Astronomy (Yerkes), 32; Bacteriology,11; Biology, 8; Botany, 17; Chemistry, 28; ChurchHistory, 10; Commerce and Administration, 5; Comparative Religion, 14 ; Dano-Norwegian TheologicalSeminary, 1 ; Dano-Norwegian and Swedish TheologicalSeminary, 18; Divinity School, 13; Embryology, 1;English, 312; English, German, and Romance, 5 ; General Library, 202 ; General Literature, 42 ; Geography,17; Geology, 3; German, 52; Greek, 86; History, 427;History of Art, 21 ; Homiletics, 3 ; Latin, 70 ; Latinand Greek, 7 ; Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and ComparativePhilology, 14 ; Latin and History of Art, 8 ; Law School,211; Mathematics, 55; Morgan Park Academy, 80;Neurology, 6 ; New Testament, 41 ; Palaeontology, 10 ;Pathology, 7 ; Philosophy, 19 ; Physics, 36 ; PhysiologicalChemistry, 33 ; Physiology, 35 ; Political Economy, 26 ;Political Science, 25; Psychology, 19; Romance, 13;Russian, 3 ; Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, 107 ;School of Education, 336 ; Semitics, 32 ; Sociology, 18 ;Sociology (Divinity), 2; Swedish Theological Seminary,35 ; Systematic Theology, 24 ; Zoology, 92.BY GIFTBooks added by gift, 858 volumes, distributed asfollows : Anatomy, 4 ; Anthropology,- 1 ; Astronomy(Yerkes), 10; Biology, 5; Botany, 9 ;, Chemistry, 10;122 UNIVERSITY RECORDChurch History, 6 ; Divinity School, 5 ; English, 7 ;General Library, 565 ; General Literature, 16 ; Geography, 12; Geology, 22) German, 10; Greek, 1; History,60; Latin, 5; Law School, 10; Mathematics, 7; Neurology, 3 ; New Testament, 4 ; Pathology, 3 ; Philosophy,2 ; Physics, 9 ; Political Economy, 21 ; Political Science,2 ; Romance, 1 ; School of Education, 4 ; Semitics, 8 ;Sociology, 27', Sociology (Divinity), 4; Systematic Theology, 2 ; Zoology, 3.BY EXCHANGEBooks added by exchange for University publications,521 volumes, distributed as follows : Anatomy, 2 ; Anthropology, 2; Astronomy (Yerkes), 9; Biology, 1;Botany, 29; Chemistry, 2; Church History, 15; DivinitySchool, 28 ; English, 2 ; English and German, 1 ; General Library, 326 ; Geology, 5 ; German, 1 ; History, 4 ;Homiletics 1 ; New Testament, 7 ; Philosophy, 1 ;Physics, 5 ; Physiology, 1 ; Political Economy, 8 ; Political Science, 2; School of Education, 10; Semitics, 25;Sociology, 22', Systematic Theology, 12.SPECIAL GIFTSHelen M. Bassett, 13 volumes and 533 pamphlets — miscellaneous.Cap and Gozvn, 4 volumes — periodicals.C. T. Fenn, 23 volumes and 124 pamphlets — periodicalsand miscellaneous.R. F. Hayser, 45 volumes and 175 pamphlets — miscellaneous. Indiana State Board of Charities, 20 volumes — proceedings of National Prison Association.Lulu McCoy, 19 volumes and 24 pamphlets — miscellaneous.Maine — State of, 20 volumes and 6 pamphlets — reports.Shailer Mathews, 3 volumes — theological literature.Elizabeth L. Meigs, 13 volumes, Littell's Living Age.A. A. Michelson, 28 volumes and 242 pamphlets — miscellaneous and United States reports.Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 3 volumes —collections.Michigan State Library, 15 volumes and 29 pamphlets —reports.R. G. Moulton, 13 volumes, Modern Reader's Bible, andEnglish literature.Northern Trust Company, 1 volume, history and viewsof bank.G. H. Palmer, 1 volume, twenty-five portraits of AliceFreeman Palmer.A. K. Parker, 41 volumes and 20 pamphlets — miscellaneous and periodicals.I. M. Price, 10 volumes and 500 pamphlets — miscellaneous.Sydney, University of, 9 volumes, Journal of the RoyalColonial Institute.Marion Talbot, 21 volumes and 196 pamphlets — miscellaneous.Texas Railroad Commissioners, 6 volumes — reports.United States government, 144 volumes and 794 pamphlets — documents and reports.