THERecorder's Quarterly reportTO THE FACULTIES AND THE CONGREGATIONOF2C&e SSntoeratp of CbicapFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYAUTUMN AND WINTER QUARTERS, 1907-1908REPORT OF ACTIONS OF UNIVERSITY RULING BODIES{CONFIDENTIAL)The University Senate:October 5, 1907. — Voted, That the Trusteesof the University be asked to establish a University Extension Fellowship.December 7, 1907. — Adoption of the followingReport :Your committee appointed to inquire into the systempursued by the University with reference to Open Lectures,has considered the subject and reports as follows:A distinction should be made between three classes oflectures :1. Lectures arranged for by one particular department,instructor, or club, for the members of that department,class, or club, to which other members of the University mayor may not be admitted.2. Lectures arranged for by the University ExtensionDepartment to be held during the summer quarter. (Tobe known hereafter as "University Public Lectures.")3. All other open lectures — to be known hereafter as"University Public Lectures."In the opinion of your committee no action is requiredwith regard to the first two classes of lectures, except thatthe first class should be designated as Departmental ratherthan as Open Lectures. The Departmental Lecture shouldbe in the nature of a more or less informal class talk forwhich the department or instructor concerned alone assumes responsibility. The Open Lectures of the SummerQuarter arranged for by the Extension Department seem tohave been eminently successful in securing attendance andthe committee sees no occasion for disturbing the presentsystem. With regard to the third class of lectures, there is atpresent no system whatever, and this is felt in a lack of coordination, publicity, and interest taken by the members ofthe University.The committee believes that the University should assume, with regard to these lectures a more definite responsibility, and with that end in view, it recommends that, inthe future, all open University lectures (other than thoseplanned by the University Extension Department, and notincluding Departmental Lectures or lectures delivered before clubs) be arranged for through the President's officeand with the sanction of the President of the University.By this means it will be possible to make adequate provision in the matter of hours* and rooms, to adopt moreeffectual methods of bringing lectures to the notice of themembers of the University and of outsiders, and generally,to emphasize the fact that an Open Lecture (now "PublicLecture") is a University affair involving certain obligationsboth to the lecturer and to the University.It would fall to the duty of the President's office to devise proper means and methods which should be flexibleand guided by experience, and the committee therefore refrains from making more specific recommendations.Ernst FreundF. B. TarbellCommitteeJanuary 11, 1908. — Appointment of a Committee to report upon the changes in organization, constitution, anc1 conditions of membershiprequired to bring the Senate into harmony withthe scheme of reorganization now under discussion by the Gen al Faculty Committee,John M. Coulter, Jar as P. Hall, J. Laurence2 THE RECORDERS QUARTERLY REPORTLaughlin, Shailer Mathews, Paul Shorey, JuliusStieglitz, George E. Vincent.March 7, 1908. — Approval of the followingrequest, addressed to the United States Commissioner of Education, in which a number ofUniversities have already joined :It is desirable that the opinion of competent authoritiesbe ascertained on the proposal to hold an international conference of experts in phonetics for the purpose of agreeingon a universal alphabet to serve as a uniform method ofrepresenting the sounds of speech, in particular as a uniform key to pronunciation in dictionaries.March 14, 1908. — Adoption (a) of the reportof the Committee on the Reorganization of theSenate, appointed January n, 1908. Thisreport has been printed in another form; (b) ofthe following resolution :Resolved that a committee be appointed by the President to consider and report to the Senate what changes, ifany, are desirable in the present division of the Universityinstruction into departments, their correlation with oneanother, and their internal organization.The University Council:November 2, 1907. — Voted, That the followingDeans, namely, of Arts, Literature, and Science;of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Literature;of the Graduate School of Science; of the LawSchool; of the Divinity School; of the Schoolof Education; of the Medical Courses; of theSenior Colleges; of the Junior Colleges; andthe Dean of Women, be appointed a permanentExecutive Committee of the Council with authority to deal with: (a) cases of discipline; (b)distribution of scholarships, fellowships, studentservice, remission of fees, and all other formsof aid to students; (c) general routine administration. It is understood that in all matters,the Committee will report and be responsibleto the Council.February 1, 1908. — Adoption of the followingreport of a Committee to which was referred areport approved by the Board of Libraries andLaboratories November 23, 1907: Candidates for the Doctor's degree will publish theirtheses before the degree is conferred, exceptions being madein the following case only:In case the thesis is to be published by the U. S.government or the Carnegie Institution, the degree may begranted on presentation to the proper Faculty, through theHead of the Department, of a statement from the editor ofsuch journal or from the proper officer of such organization,that the thesis, in completed form, has been received andaccepted for publication.This regulation shall go into effect October 1, 1908.R. D. SalisburyA. K. ParkerShailer MathewsCommitteeBy vote of the Council, the following additionwas made to this report:The requirement of attendance upon Convocation ofcandidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy may bewaived if it can be shown that attendance involves serioushardship.The United Faculties of Arts, Literature, andScience:November 23, 1907. — Adoption of the following amendment to the University Regulations:Amend Regulations, Article VI, section 5, by substitutingfor 4 (which is void by later legislation as to curriculum)the following:4. Admission to the Graduate Schools may be conditional; and the applicant may be required to make up byresident .or non-resident work any deficiency which is adjudged to exist in the work for the Bachelor's degree. Butif the deficiency amounts to 9 majors or more, the degreewill not be recognized, and a Bachelor's degree must beobtained by resident work before the applicant is admittedto the Graduate Schools.December 7, 1907. — Adoption of the followingReport of Committee on the Proposal to Changethe Summer Quarter to a Six Weeks' Session :Your committee having considered the question submitted to it, report unanimously in favor of retaining thepresent system. Some of the reasons which seem to yourcommittee to warrant the continuance of the present policyare as follows:I. A regular quarter as opposed to a short summer schoolsession gives the University of Chicago a distinct advantageover other institutions :a) It attracts a better and more serious class of students,especially graduate students, large numbers of instructorsTHE RECORDER1 S QUARTERLY REPORT 3in high schools and professors in small colleges, who desirea full quarter of thorough work.b) It is valuable for regular students of the Universitywho desire to supplement or anticipate the work of theother quarters.c) The longer period of instruction enables students toget the spirit of study and to profit more by the second thanby the first term.d) Students are, therefore, more likely to feel satisfiedwith their progress and to return to the University for continued work.e) The full summer quarter enables graduate students totake the Master's degree in three summers. By means ofa full summer quarter, many students, especially teachers,have been encouraged to pursue undergraduate as well asgraduate courses and take degrees at the University. Thishas bound a number of influential teachers to the Institution./) Not only is it impossible to secure in six weeks the samequantity of work, but it is futile to attempt the same qualityof instruction in the briefer period.g) A very large proportion of summer students are fromthe South and these students especially desire a full summerquarter.II. The present plan utilizes the University plant moreeconomically than any other plan could do.III. The present policy is on the whole in the interests ofthe faculty. Vacation credits could not be so satisfactorilyacquired nor could vacation be so flexible as under the presentsystem.IV. In the summer of 1907, 1,275 students, out of atotal of 2,577, were registered for both terms, 449 for thefirst term only, and 353 for the second term only.As to the question of adjustment to the needs of Chicagoteachers, your committee suggests:a) That a considerable number of teachers now entera week late and are able to make up the lost ground.b) That the University of Chicago throughout the yearoffers courses open to teachers in the Chicago schools.c) That the University offers a number of courses regularly at four o'clock. If there were any considerable demand from city teachers, this policy might be extended.By a recent ruling bona-fide teachers are admitted to regular University courses at the same rates that obtain in theUniversity College.George E. VincentJulius StieglitzF. F. AbbottCommitteeThe United Faculty of the Junior Colleges:August 7, 1907. — Voted —That the parents of a student carrying less than threemajors be notified of the work done by the student, and in case a student is not self-supporting, the consent of theparents to registering for less than three majors be required.November 3, 1907. — Voted —That the Examiner for Secondary Schools be directednot to allow students who enter from secondary schools,with excess admission credits, to offer the same by examination for advanced standing until they have made a goodrecord for one quarter after admission.The Faculty of the Divinity School:December 7, 1907. — Voted —a) To revise regulations for admission to the GraduateDivinity School:Section I, paragraph 2. If the candidate's college degreewas obtained without classical Greek, he must (before takingcourse 1 in New Testament Greek) either (a) pass the examination in Greek 1 and 2 (Elements of Greek and Anabasis) for admission to the Junior College of the University,or (b) pursue in an academy or college of the Universitycourses accepted by the University as the equivalent of theabove. In the latter case the work so done will be creditedas two majors toward the requirements for a Divinity degreeif the student's college degree has been equalized with thatof the University of Chicago, otherwise toward the equalization of his college degree with that of the University.b) To repeal last paragraph of section 1) of regulationsfor admission, regarding the requirement of Latin. (SeeCircular of Information, p. 12, bottom).February 8, 1908. — Adoption of the followingresolution :The administration of men who are excused from courseexaminations on the ground that they are taking final examinations shall conform to the regulation governing candidates for the University Bachelor's degree.The Board of Libraries and Laboratories:November 23, 1907. — Approval of the following report as a recommendation to the UnitedFaculties of Arts, Literature, and Science :The candidate shall publish his thesis before receivinghis degree, or shall deposit with the University $100 to beheld until the thesis is published, or shall furnish satisfactory evidence that the thesis will appear through the columns of a reputable journal at a definite date and in conformity with the regulations as published with referenceto paper, typographical form, etc.It is herewith understood that the responsibility of thelibrary authorities for theses shall begin with the receipt ofthe published document. It is recommended that the preliminary arrangements be carried on through the executive4 THE RECORDER'S QUARTERLY REPORToffice of the university rather than by the library authorities.It is felt that the former can deal with this matter effectivelywhereas the latter cannot bring sufficient pressure to bear.For the same reason mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it is recommended that the entire list of delinquentdoctorate theses be referred to the President's office for action,and that the library be exonorated from further responsibility in the securing of publication of these theses.The above recommendations are offered by the committee as substitutes for Article 3 of the report of February24, 1906.James R. AngellJohn M. CoulterW. I. ThomasZella DixsonCommitteeThe above report was sent by the United Faculties to the University Council. See Report ofthe Council Committee on this matter, adoptedFebruary 1, 1908.January 25, 1908. — Adoption of the followingrecommendations of the Standing Committeeon the Distribution of Books received by Gift orExchange.1. All requests for gifts should emanate from or bebrought to the knowledge of the General Library. TheGeneral Library will co-operate with the DepartmentalLibraries in the matter of sending out letters, but it shouldbe understood that all gifts coming to the University arefor the University as a whole and not for any special department, and should be shipped directly to the General Library,checked up and laid before the committee for distribution.2. The committee on distribution will work on the assumption that Junior College students will work mainly inthe General Library, and that the more elementary materialsappropriate to any department will be assigned to theGeneral Library. Representatives of the different departments will, however, be given an opportunity to inspectmaterials before they are permanently assigned, with theprivilege of directing their removal to their departmentlibraries.The committee was instructed that bookssubject to distribution which are not actuallyclaimed by more than one Department may begiven to the Department claiming them.The Board of Medical Affairs:October 4, 1907. — Adoption of the followingrecommendation : In cases where it appears that students applying for advanced standing have done an amount of work which isequivalent to our first two years but whose work has beendifferently distributed over the several subjects, it is recommended that each such case be considered separately bythe Committee on Promotions of the Board of MedicalAffairs, it being understood that under these conditions thisCommittee may determine the amount of advanced standing in the Medical Courses to which each such student isentitled. It is further understood that the Committee onPromotions will adjust the credits in such case with carefulreference to the specific requirements of the several StateBoards of Medical Examiners.February 28, 1908. — Voted —That no medical instruction of any kind be given thathas not been previously announced in the catalogue and inthe time schedule, and that no changes be made in courses,as to hours or otherwise, without the consent, by vote, ofthe Board of Medical Affairs.Approval by the University Council of thisaction was given March 7, 1908.The Board of University Extension:February 3, 1908. — Adoption of the followingrecommendation of the Executive Committeeof the Board :Recommended that, in the case of courses of twelve ormore informal lectures and conferences, if such a course beoffered by any other than a regularly appointed instructorin the University, a syllabus shall have been in advance ofthe announcement of the course approved by the Head ofthe proper academic department and filed with the Secretary of the Lecture-Study Department.The Board of Physical Culture and Athletics:October 13, 1907. — Ruled, in the determinationof a case of eligibility for the football team, thatin the interpretation of our eligibility rules collegecredits may be counted twice : first, toward theannulment of entrance conditions, and, second,toward establishing the student's record for fullwork in college. It is understood that this isalso the ruling of the Intercollegiate Conference.November 30, 1907. — Voted —That no student be eligible for captaincy of any athleticteam unless he declare himself to be a candidate for a degreeand pursue a course leading to such degree.THE RECORDER'S QUARTERLY REPORT 5In reply to the following communication —,The Deans of the Junior Colleges call the attention ofthe Board of Physical Culture and Athletics to the fact thatthe permission granted to the high-school teams to play onMarshall Field on Thanksgiving Day is a violation of thespirit of the decision of the University in regard to publicsports on that day,the Department of Physical Culture and Athletics was instructed not to schedule games on Marshall Field in future on Thanksgiving Day.February 8, 1908. — Ruled by the President —That Athletes receiving remission of tuition cannot beexcused from the student service which always accompaniessuch remission, on the ground that they are members of theathletic team.Voted—a) That consent be given to a schedule of seven intercollegiate football games for next year only, with the understanding that the schedule revert thereafter to five games,with the further understanding that any college may playless than the scheduled number. b) That Mr. Stagg, as chairman of the IntercollegiateConference, be requested in counting the votes as to theseven games to make a ruling, to be reported to the Conference and entered upon its minutes, to this effect:That in counting the "for one year only" votes of Illinois,Purdue, and Chicago as affirmative (in favor of the sevengames), they are so counted as affirmative only for the season of 1908, and that they are regarded as negative for theseven-game series in 1909 and thereafter, and that thereforethe schedule reverts to five games in 1909, unless changedby further legislation.Approval was given to a classification ofintercollegiate sports :1. Intercollegiate sports shall be considered in twoclasses:a) Major — Football, baseball, track, basketball.b) Minor — Swimming, tennis, golf, cross country, gymnastics, etc.2. Minor sports shall be administered in accordance withConference rules in all respects except that competition beopen to all undergraduate students, i. e., the one year residence rule for freshmen would not apply.3. Any minor sport may be changed by the Conferenceto a Major whenever interest and competition in such sportsmay warrant.GENERAL INDEXVOL. XII, JULY, 1907 — APRIL, 1908Academic Freedom, The Rational Limits of,Draper, A. S Agricultural Guild of the University of ChicagoAlumni Association, Annual Meeting American Association for the Advancement ofScience Meeting at the University American Men of Science, Statistical Study ofAmerican . Philological Association and of theArchaeological Institute of America,Meeting of American Science Series, A New Volume in. . .Appointments, New 3, 56, 13516319-208794-9798-99118162147Attendance 10-11, 55, 89, 148BBanquet in Honor of Professor Albert A.Michelson Banquet to Retiring Professors Barker, Lewellys Franklin, The Psychic Side ofMedicine Board of Recommendations, Significant Work ofBolza, Oskar, The Life and Character of Hein-rich Maschke Botanical Expedition to the Far Northwest...Bryce, James :Portrait What University Instruction May Do to Provide Intellectual Pleasures for Later LifeChicago's Leadership in Graduate Work Chimes in Memory of Alice Freeman Palmer,Installation of Convocation, Exercises Connected with :Sixty-third Sixty- fourth Sixty-fifth . .> Sixty-sixth Copley Medal and the Nobel Prize, Award ofMillikan, R. A Correspondence-Study Department 11721-2212-1861iS3251-6iSiDavenport, Herbert Joseph,button Value and Distri- 19571161599091-9310161 Dedication of Memorial Windows to WilliamRainey Harper Degrees Conferred :Sixty-third Convocation Sixty-fourth Convocation Sixty-fifth Convocation Sixty-sixth Convocation Doctors of Philosophy:Association of 39~4i, 70-73, 131-132,Convocation Luncheon Draper, Andrew Sloan :The Rational Limits of Academic Freedom. .Portrait EEconomic Theory, A New Discussion of FFaculties, The .29-38, 62-69, 121-130,Finance 10,Geological Research in Alaska Gifts Graduate Work, Chicago's Leadership in HHarper Memorial Library Fund Harper, William Rainey :Old Testament and Semitic Studies inMemory of Dedication of Memorial Windows to 1631957116159174-17820-21135135161165-17356-572588, 14915187-88163g Identification of a Nubian Temple by JamesHenry BreastedIllustrations :Bryce, James Donaldson Memorial Library Draper, Andrew Sloan General View of the University Hull Gateway from Hull Court Hull Gateway, Figures on Law Library Lion on the Leon Mandel Assembly Hall.Maschke, Heinrich Michelson, Albert A 2411113543, 87291651006215391PAGEMitchell Tower and Hutchinson Hall 12Mitchell Tower from the Bartlett Gymnasium 55Packingtown 1 08University Settlement 108Welch, William Henry 75Installation of Chimes in Memory of Alice Freeman Palmer 161Instructors for the Summer Quarter, 1907 26JJunior Colleges 56LLaw School 100-107Lectury-Study Department 9-10Librarian's Accession Report 42, 74, 133, 181Life and Character of Heinrich Maschke, Bolza,Oskar 153MMaschke, Professor Heinrich, Addresses inMemory of:Bolza, Oskar 153Slaught, Herbert Ellsworth 155Small, Albion Woodbury 157Portrait 153McDowell, Mary E., The Activities of the University of Chicago Settlement 111-115Mead, George Herbert, The Social Settlement:Its Basis and Function 1 08-1 10Medicine and the University, Welch, W. H. . . . 75~86Michelson, Albert A. :Portrait 91Millikan, Robert Andrews, The Award of theCopley Medal and the Nobel Prize inPhysics 9I-93NNew Books:Adam Smith and Modern Sociology 59-60Anthology of English Poetry 23Church and the Changing Order, The 24English Reformation and " Puritanism, The... 1 19-120Tebtunis Papyri, Pt. II 59Interpretation of Italy during the Last TwoCenturies, The 23Laboratory Outline of General Chemistry .... 61National Development 1 18-1 19Physiography 22-23Political History of Modern Europe 60Tragedies of Seneca, The 119Value and Distribution 161Nobel Prize in Physics 90, 91-93 OOld Testament and Semitic Studies in Memoryof William Rainey Harper Page, Walter Hines, The Writer and 'theUniversity Palestine Travel-Study Class Palmer, Alice Freeman, Installation of Chimesin Memory of Personal Qualities of Professor Maschke,Albion W. Small President Judson's Visit to Western Alumni . .Professor Maschke the Teacher, Slaught, H. E.Promotions 9, 56,Psychic Side of Medicine, Barker, L. F 16043-5425161157116-11715588, 14812-18QQuarterly Statements of the President of theUniversity 7-1 1, 55~57, 87-90, 147-150Agricultural Guild 163American Association for the Advancementof Science 87Appointments, New 8, 56, 88, 147Attendance 10-11, 55, 89, 148British Ambassador 7Copley Medal and the Nobel Prize, Award of 90Correspondence-Study Department 10Degrees 55Faculty, The 55-56Finance 56-57Gifts 10, 88, 149Harper Memorial Library Fund * 87-88Increase of Resources 7-8Junior Colleges 56Lecture-Study Department 9-10Professor Heinrich Maschke 150Promotions 9, 56, 88, 148Research by Members of the Faculties 88-89School of Education 9Scientific Collections 87University College 9RAcademicRational Limits ofDraper, A. S Research by Members of the FacultiesFreedom, The,School of Education Reorganization of Scientific Collections Shaksperean Comedy in Scammon Gardens ....Slaught, Herbert Ellsworth, Professor Maschkethe Teacher 13588-89957-598726-27155PAGESmall, Albion Woodbury, Personal Qualities ofProfessor Maschke 157Social Settlement: Its Basis and Function,Mead, G. H 108-110Statistical Study of American Men of Science . . 98-99UUniversity Campus, Recent Improvements on . . 27-28University College 9University of Chicago Settlement, Activities of,McDowell, M. E 111-115 W pageWelch, William Henry:Medicine and the University 75~86Portrait 75What University Instruction May Do to Provide Intellectual Pleasures for Later Life,Bryce, James 1-6Writer and the University, The, Page, W. H. 43~54