The University RecordVolume XV JANUARY I929 Number 1DEDICATION OF THE CHAPELIN A dusty storeroom of the University there reposes almost forgottena drawing which has significance at this time when the Chapel isbeing visited and studied by so many interested thousands of Chicago's citizens, to say nothing of those of the country at large. It is thesketch by Henry Ives Cobb, the architect who designed the first buildingsof the University. It shows an imaginative disposal of various structuresof the just-born institution whose halls were about to "rise beneath thehope-filled western skies." The sketch is interesting, showing how comparatively restricted was the space upon which the University was tobegin its building program. The University in 1891 owned only the sixcity blocks now occupied by the "main quadrangles" and those whichwere soon to be known as Marshall Field, now Stagg Field. Dr. T. W.Goodspeed, in his inimitable history of the University, describes thisdrawing as "an elaborate sketch embodying his [the architect's] planfor the disposition of the buildings on the entire site." "It was in reality,"wrote the University historian, "a picture, giving a bird's-eye view of theUniversity as it would appear with all the buildings completed. It made amost imposing and attractive picture. It was not intended to representthe buildings as each would appear in solid brick or stone so much as toindicate the general arrangement and distribution of the various structures. It divided the site into six quadrangles, each surrounded withbuildings, leaving in the center a seventh, the main quadrangle, givingunity to the whole design. While this general plan for the grouping of thebuildings was not formally adopted, the construction of the buildings wasbegun and continued, so far as the original site of four blocks was concerned, in accordance with it." But, it may be said, this plan was notfollowed except in a few instances, and the only particular in which ap-12 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDparently it had influence was in the determination that at least withinthe limits of the four blocks of land there should be a series of quadrangles.EARLY PLANSIt will be seen by the reproduction of this time-worn sketch that itwas then proposed to locate the University Chapel on about the axis ofFifty-eighth Street facing what was Lexington, now University Avenue.The imaginative Chapel was a comparatively small building suitable forthe uses of a college as was at first the objective of those who wereplanning a new University of Chicago to succeed that which ceased toexist in 1886. This chapel was to be, unmistakably, a Gothic building,but how insignificant compared with the impressive cathedral-like building which has just been formally dedicated!Doubtless the new Chapel has been sufficiently described in the columns of the University Record by photographs reproduced and by impressive statistics. The additional photographs reproduced in this issue,however, will preserve for future generations its aspects as it appeared inthe autumn of 1928. However, a few words with reference to the two organs may be given. They are beautifully and effectively revealed andconcealed by the wood carving at the chancel end of the building and bythe screen at the south or narthex end. The carving of the oak is largelythe work of Alois Lang, a cousin of the celebrated Anton Lang of Oberam-mergau. The larger organ is at the east side of the chancel, with a console having 4 manuals and 103 stops, the other with 2 manuals and 23stops. The two are used for antiphonal choral singing or chants. Theorgan is a remarkable and, to non-professionals, a complex piece of mechanism having something like seven thousand pipes, besides chimes, electrically controlled blowers, air ducts, air filters, and motors. It was installed by the Skinner Organ Company of Boston, and cost approximately$80,000.THE SERVICES OF DEDICATIONThe dedication services of October 28, 1928, might be said to havebegun at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees held December 19,1 9 10, when Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, then president of the Board, presented a letter from the Founder, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, which contained these words, since then so frequently quoted:It is my desire that at least the sum of $1,500,000 [a part of his "final gift" of$10,000,000] be used for the erection and furnishing of a University Chapel. As thespirit of religion should penetrate and control the University so that building whichrepresents religion ought to be the dominant feature of the University group.SOUTH FRONT OF THE CHAPEL ON DAY OF DEDICATIONDEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL 3How well the Trustees and the architect have met the expressedwishes of the donor was evident to all who, having approached the Chapelfrom north or south, or from east or west, realized how its wide windows(and especially when lighted) and its massive tower are the "dominantfeature of the University group," indeed, of the entire vicinage. Thosewho were permitted to hear the dedicatory addresses, to listen to hymnand chant and choral singing and prayer, appreciated also how sincere isthe effort of the Dean and the others in charge to create such a vitalspirit of religion that it shall "penetrate and control the University."The day of dedication was free from rain, if not jubilant with sunshine. Large congregations of ticket-holders thronged the building, acompany composed of members of the faculties and their families, students, invited guests, donors of funds, and other friends. The size of theaudience was necessarily limited by the seating capacity of the building,and many would-be attendants were unable to gain admittance. Happilyfor the disappointed, the Chapel was subsequently opened for inspectionand personal meditation each day as well as on Sundays. On each Sundaysince the dedication the congregations have filled the house.The services of the dedication were solemn but not gloomy, dignified but not dull, beautiful but not sentimental, spiritual but not emotional, religious but not theological. So stimulating were the proceedings,so fervent were the addresses, and so charged with interest to present-day as well as future friends of the University, that they are here fullyrecorded.The morning service began with a processional, the people standingwhile the long procession consisting of members of the choir, members ofthe faculties, Trustees of the University, distinguished guests, ActingPresident Woodward; the Dean-elect, Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, the son ofthe Founder, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. — in all, something like threehundred persons — proceeded down the central aisle and found theirplaces in the chancel. The procession was led by students carrying theUnited States flag, and, for the first time, the recently adopted Universityflag. The latter is a banner of maroon, edged with gold braid, upon whichis placed the embroidered coat of arms of the University. At the meetingof the Board of Trustees, held November 8, this flag was adopted as theofficial flag of the University, and hereafter will be displayed on suitableoccasions.The opening hymn was "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" (Isaac4 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDWatts) sung to the tune "St. Anne." Then followed "Sentences," by theDean and the people:The Lord be with you; And with thy spirit.Lift up your hearts; We lift them up unto the Lord.Praise ye the Lord; The Lord's name be praised.The anthem was "Veni Creator Spiritus," by G. P. da Palestrina.The invocation was offered by Rev. Rufus Matthew Jones, of Haverf ordCollege, Pennsylvania, his words being as follows :"O God in whom we live and move and have our real being, closerto us than breathing, nearer than hands or feet, help us this morning togo down below our ordinary levels of thought and feeling to those healing,vivifying springs and currents of life that come from thee. We thank theefor the beauty and majesty of this house of worship and we pray thatthou wilt fill it with thy presence and hallow it with thy spirit. May manygenerations of men and women be prepared here to be transmitters ofthy life and spirit, and may they be girded and equipped for service andfellowship in the world around them. And may they learn here to endurehardness and suffering as well as to give praise and thanksgiving for thylove and thy everlasting arms of comfort. Amen."The hymn, "Oh, Worship the King," to the tune "Hanover," preceded the reading of the Scripture by James Minott Stickney, a studentof the Class of '29, and, in turn, by an anthem, "Exultate Deo," by daPalestrina.Acting President Woodward delivered the following address:ACTING PRESIDENT WOODWARD'S ADDRESSIt is fitting that the first words addressed to this congregation shouldbe an expression of gratitude to the Founder of the University, whoseleadership in intelligent philanthropy has earned for him the homage, notof a nation, but of a world. Eighteen years ago, when he made what hedeclared to be his final gift to the University, he requested that a sufficientpart of it should be devoted to the erection of a chapel. A deeply religiousman, he knew the value of religion; with characteristic clarity of visionhe saw the place which religion should occupy in an institution devoted tothe service of truth, and the consequent importance of an impressive center of worship and service. With all our hearts we wish he were here today. We earnestly hope that when from his son he learns of the ineffablebeauty which his generosity has been the means of creating, his happinesswill be commensurate with our gratitude. We pledge to him the devotionof our best effort to the end that his great purpose shall be faithfully carried out.DEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL 5There are others — leaders who are gone — whom we sorely miss today. President Harper, into whose brilliant pattern of the University theChapel and all of which it is a symbol fit so perfectly; President Judson,in whose able administration the gift was made, and to whom it broughtenduring joy; President Burton, who threw his marvelous energy, withstimulating enthusiasm, into the congenial study and development of theplans. Nor .shall we forget Bertram Goodhue, whose likeness is happilyperpetuated by his associates above the tower door, the architect whowith insight and imagination sensed the religious spirit of a modern university, and with originality and skill embodied it in a design of singulardignity and grace. To the memory of these men, and to all who have contributed of their thought and labor to this building, we pay our tributeof gratitude. They have wrought faithfully and well.But the task is not done. The purpose of the donor, which is ourpurpose, is not yet accomplished. The physical structure is indeed complete. The sturdy buttresses and noble tower, the broad bays and soaring arches, the cunning carvings in wood and stone — all these delightour eyes and lift up our hearts. We like to think that such beauty as thismust exert a lasting and beneficent influence upon all who dwell in theshadow of these walls. Some of us even dare to dream that this Chapel,like the choicest monuments of medieval religion, may some day becomea Mecca to students of architecture and lovers of the beautiful. Butthough it become as Chartres or as Sainte Chapelle, it will not fulfil ourpurpose, unless, from week to week and from year to year, there is herepreached a gospel so intellectually honest and morally courageous, sofree from intolerance and superstition, so harmonious with our knowledge of life, so radiant with love, as to draw the students of the University eagerly within these doors, and to send them forth with that understanding which makes men gladly obedient to the laws that govern theirlives.Nor can such a gospel be preached effectively from this pulpit unless we who teach in lecture halls and laboratories are equally honest,tolerant, and wise. There are those who believe that the atmosphere of auniversity is detrimental to, if not destructive of, religion. But unless weof the faculty are false to the very purpose of the University, this cannotbe so. Truth may indeed destroy dogma, but it must, in the nature of thecase, be the foundation of religion. And the great truths which the scientific achievements of the past century have disclosed to us, revealing, asthey do, the essential unity of all things and holding out the promise of6 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDlimitless advancement in knowledge, constitute, it seems to me, a sounderbasis of true religion than mankind has ever known before.No; there is in the University but one possible danger to religion.That danger is that the truth may be so narrowly, so irreverently, taughtby us as not only to break down a particular religious belief with whichthe student comes to our doors, which may be inevitable, but to sendhim forth cynical of human virtues and indifferent to the things of thespirit. This we should be constantly on our guard to avoid. And as wededicate this Chapel to the uses of religion, may we dedicate ourselves,afresh, to the faithful service of truth, to the reverent and constructiveteaching of truth; highly resolving that this Chapel shall not have beenbuilt in vain, but that the youth of this University shall be here enabled,with our help, to lay broad and deep the foundations upon which to builduseful and happy lives.The address of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., followed that of theActing President. He spoke as follows:ADDRESS BY MR. JOHN DAVISON ROCKEFELLER, JR.I am here as the representative of my father. His first gift to theUniversity of Chicago was made in 1889. It took the form of a pledgeof $600,000 toward a million dollars which was being raised by the American Baptist Education Society, to make possible the founding of theUniversity. My father's last gift to the University was made in 1910, aportion of it being designated for the erection of this Chapel. I quote thefollowing from the letter of gift:As the spirit of religion should penetrate and control the University, so thatbuilding which represents religion ought to be the central and dominant feature ofthe University group. The Chapel may appropriately embody those architecturalideals from which the other buildings, now so beautifully harmonious, have takentheir spirit, so that all the other buildings on the campus will seem to have caughttheir inspiration from the Chapel and in turn will seem to be contributing of theirworthiest to the Chapel. In this way the group of University buildings, with theChapel centrally located and dominant in its architecture, may proclaim that theUniversity in its ideal is dominated by the spirit of religion, all its departments areinspired by religious feeling, and all its work is directed to the highest ends.Thus may it be that this building, so simple and beautiful in design,so lofty in architecture, dominating the surrounding buildings as it does,shall for all time serve to remind those who sojourn here that the spirit ofreligion does penetrate and control the University and that all its departments are inspired by the religious feeling and all its work directed tothe highest ends.In this day of materialism, when ease and luxury, the quest for pleas-I ««Mir~3N •V •M;:!if::!* ' -iiii'. ill' • '"AN EARLY SUGGESTION FOR SITE OF THE CHAPEL! • > is-itv of ChicagoJallliBlUuk'ii.r¦jeilMMM-*#¦$3^^THE NEW UNIVERSITY FLAGDEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL 7ure, the selfish gratification of desire, are so much to the fore, such outward and visible evidence as this building gives of the beauty, the majesty, the dominating influence of religion in the material world, is ofinfinite value to remind us of the power and the peace which it alone canbring into our lives.There are those who tell us that religion is dying out, that it is nolonger in fashion, that there is no place for it in the modern world. Whilethis may be true of many forms of thought and practice that have beencalled religious, nothing could be farther from the truth if one is thinkingof the religion of Jesus Christ. That professor in any university — whatever his own religious views may be — who makes light of such vital religion, who belittles it, who seeks to undermine his students' faith in it,is unfit to be a leader of youth, is faithless to his trust. That student whothinks it is a mark of independence, of breadth of mind, of freedom, toscoff at such vital religion, to cut himself adrift from those abiding principles of truth and character revealed in the spirit of Jesus, is only givingevidence of his own limited vision.It is true that the religion of today is not the religion of the last century. Superstition, tradition, human authority are no longer accepted bythinking men and women as religion. Upon the sure and solid foundationof truth are they building their religion, and upon that alone. Christ istheir authority for so doing, for it was He who said, "And the truth shallmake you free." Courageous is the youth who resolves to test his religiousbelief by standards of truth and by nothing else. Helpful is the professorwho sympathetically and wisely leads his students to apply that test.And without fear may it be applied, for thereby only is the dross refinedaway and by that very process is the pure gold of vital religion made themore clearly and convincingly visible.In applying the test of what is truth in religion, one should be prepared to accept as evidence what one would accept as proof of truth inthe physical world. There are truths in the realm of mathematics, forexample, that can be demonstrated beyond the peradventure of a doubt.The same is the case in the realm of chemistry. Again, in the physicalworld there are things the reality of which can be established by sight,,or touch, or sound, or smell, such as a sunset, a tree, the song of a bird,the fragrance of a flower. At the same time, no less well-established afact in the physical world is the existence of wireless waves. Surely no onewho has talked over the radio telephone from New York to Londondoubts their reality; and yet they have never been seen or touched. It is.obvious, then, that there are truths in the physical world, commonly ac-8 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDcepted as such, the existence of which cannot be directly established bythe senses but only by observing the phenomena that result from theirexistence and action. Why, then, should we be less willing to accept similar evidence of the existence of truth in the spiritual world? Who, forexample, has ever seen a mother's love with the eye or felt it with thehand or heard its heartbeat with the ear? And yet, is there anyone herewho by cunning argument or power of logic could be made to doubt thereality of his mother's love? Again, who can prove by the methods of thelaboratory the existence of beauty, of goodness, of heroism, of self-sacrifice? In spite of that fact, is their existence any less real than the material of which this chapel is built or the people who fill it? With perfectsafety, therefore, and with absolute confidence in the result can youyoung men and women pursue your quest after the eternal verities inreligion if you will accept as the criterion of reality in that realm the samekind of evidence that you accept as conclusive on many matters in therealm of nature and of feeling.In another particular does the religion of today differ increasinglyfrom that of the last century, namely, in its growing tolerance. Thatstatement having been made, however, it must regretfully be admittedthat a condition approaching general religious tolerance is still hardlymore than a thing profoundly to be desired. The terms under which theoriginal gifts to this university were sought were strictly sectarian. Notonly a large majority of the board of trustees, but the president as well,had to be chosen from the adherents of a single religious denomination.However, just as in the light of experience and of the passing years theseterms have been liberalized, so has a broader and more tolerant religiousspirit been developing in this land and in other lands as well. At thesame time, in spite of the progress which has been made, youth finds itselfconfused and irked as it stands at life's threshold and is confronted withan almost infinite variety of religions and sects. It stands aghast at thesorry and un-Christlike spectacle of good men and women hurling anathema at each other because of differences of theological belief and denominational partisanship. When a ship is sinking and those on boardsee death staring them in the face, no one stops to consider whether themeans of self-preservation offered is a boat or a raft, of what materialit is built or by whom, what its type may be or its dimensions. The solequestion asked is, Does it give promise of saving life? By a similaranalogy, since all Christians believe in God and strive to be followers ofJesus Christ, youth quite rightly is unable to see what real difference itmakes by which of many doors one enters into fellowship with the In-»*3I b» ift I V- R *# »•lit x1[ \\ i-!5L '* 1 BE tI'-"/ I < ¦I "i rlieN"V W* ' '¦ ' ft.rifl 1 p^ \ f N4 ." 1 r \M a ;ui B :£ 1 ' i 1*11 \ •¦r \ * |wa^-;; ~~r ~: -~**m s •S^^''~''""::'MM ¦ - — —ssk:. . *¦•.. . i ggg mm ^w•; ,- .UNIVERSITY CHAPEL AS SEEN FROM WOODLAWN AVENUEDEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL 9finite, so long as one enters in. Too often Christian people are like thegood old Baptist sister, who, imbued with what she thought was a spiritof great magnanimity and feeling sure at the end of a long interdenominational dispute that she had found a way out, said, "You gin a littleand I'll gin a little and we'll all be Baptists."Is it strange, then, that the younger generation, from being at firstconfused and irked by our multiform theologies, then aghast at the un-Christlike attitude of so-called religious people, is tempted to say to itself,"If this is religion, to insist on sectarian differences and to quibble aboutnonessentials, when sin is rampant in the world and evil is omnipresent;if church members are more interested in whom they will keep out of theirreligious bodies because of theological differences than they are in helpingpeople to be strong in body, clean in mind, and pure in heart, we willwaste our time with nothing so hypocritical and useless; rather will wegive all religion a wide birth and have none of it." And to the extentthat such a conclusion is reached, the intolerant sectarians of our churchesare largely to blame. If Christ were on earth today I fancy there wouldbe but one church — the Church of the Living God. Its terms of admissionwould be love for God as he is revealed in Christ and his living spirit, andthe vital translation of that love into a Christlike life. Its atmospherewould be one of warmth, freedom, and joy. It would pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom ofGod or his church. A life, not a creed, would be its test; what a mandoes, not what he professes; what he is, not what he has. Its object wouldbe to promote applied religion, not theoretical religion. As its first concern it would encourage Christian living seven days a week, fifty-twoweeks in the year, rather than speculation about the hereafter. It wouldbe the church of all the people, of everyone who is fighting sin and tryingto establish righteousness.But while the present generation is not infrequently repelled ratherthan attracted by religion as it too often finds expression in the bewildering variety of churches of today, and while it has an ever lessening interest in what men say in their churches about Christ, it is vitally interestedin Christ himself. If ever youth is able to grope or force its way throughritual, creed, authority, and all the almost insurmountable barriers bywhich man has surrounded Christ, it is attracted by his understandingpersonality, held by his clear insight into human problems and thrilledby the sheer courage of his life and death. When youth finds itself thusface to face with the Christ and tries to think and feel and do as he didthat it may be like him, then does it discover that the secret of his life10 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDwas love, and that love, dominating the life of the individual and permeating and directing all his relations with his fellows, is in its essencetrue religion. True religion in action, is living the Christ life. It is goodness not in form but in substance. It is even-handed justice to the weakas well as to the strong; the highest integrity, whether in the classroom,the office, or the mill; clean living; high ideals; the greatest adventurethat life has to offer in standing for the right often against heavy odds,in helping to build a better, happier, more beautiful world, in overcoming evil with good. True religion means an abiding faith in God and inour fellow-men; it means service, sacrifice, the joy of life well lived, andthe peace of God, which passes understanding. That kind of religionevery human being needs and, whether he admits it or not, yearns for.That kind of religion no one can afford to be without. I have urgent needfor it every day in my business; you young people need it in the classroom, in your athletic and social activities ; the world needs it. May thisChapel with its beauty and inspiration help all those who cross its threshold to lay hold upon a possession so priceless. And may there be centeredhere a religion of activity and service as well as a religion of contemplation and abiding faith.This building has been made possible by one who is known to theworld as a builder of industry, a financier, a philanthropist. To his sonhe is known as the most loving, understanding, inspiring father any sonever had. That son also had a mother whom he holds in tenderest memoryand whose influence on his life he can never overestimate. It is today hishappy privilege to be the medium through which, in her memory, thecarrying out in perpetuity of the high purpose for which this edifice waserected is to be assured.As president of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, I am authorized by the trustees to offer to the University an endowment fund1to be known as the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, and tobe used to promote the religious idealism of the students of the University and of all those who come within its gates, through the broadest andmost liberal development of the spiritual forces centering in and radiating from this Chapel.The service of dedication, said responsively, the people standing, andconducted by Professor Arthur Holley Compton, chairman of the Boardof University Social Service and Religion, was in these words :1 Mr. Rockefeller subsequently permitted the publication of the announcementthat this fund amounts to one million dollars. This gift was accepted by the Boardof Trustees at its meeting held November 8, 1928.INTERIOR OF CHAPEL LOOKING NORTHDEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL IITo the expression of our faith, our hopes, our visions and ideals, our confidence thatknowledge more and more may grow and human lif e may be enriched ; to the worship of God,We dedicate this House.To the freedom of the spirit in the knowledge of the truth, to the new commandment that we love one another, to the experience of abundant life; to the religionof Jesus,We dedicate this House.To the contemplation of beauty, to the understanding of music, to the art of meditation, to communion with the Unseen and Eternal,We dedicate this House.In memory of those men of the city who believed in wisdom and righteousness, andhere founded this fellowship of scholars for the guidance of youth,We dedicate this House.In memory of the great scholars and teachers, who have passed from us, true successors of the men of light and learning whose graven forms and mystic presenceare about us here,We dedicate this House.In memory of the sacrifice of Science, of those who in the search for knowledge werefaithful unto death,We dedicate this House.In memory of those who heard the call to arms and gave their lives for liberty andright, believing that their sacrifice might bring the world to peace,We dedicate this House.In memory of those who going forth from our fellowship into the varied ways oflife served their generation with devotion, and in faith that the sons and daughtersof the University shall be citizens worthy of their high calling and shall add theirheritage of noble memories in days to come,We dedicate this House.That comradeship may here be found, scholars of all interests, masters and disciples in the way of learning, people of the school and people of the city, all worshiping together may find that they are one,We dedicate this House.That here we may be humbled by the sense of human failure, that we shall not seeka selfish safety from the evil of the world, that we may ever see the vision of arighteousness for which all of us shall labor and shall pray,We dedicate this House.That all who are weary and heavy laden, all who suffer and are disappointed, allwho are lonely and afraid, may here find rest unto their souls,We dedicate this House.The dedication hymn, "All Things Are Thine," sung to the familiartune, "Duke Street," and the offertory (the offering was for the University of Chicago Settlement) came next upon the twelve-page program.There were other "Sentences":The city of learning dwells in the Great City, not alone to understand butalso to share its life. We share its wealth and power; we would also share its12 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDstruggle and its need. In the hour of worship we would express our sense of fellowship as we bring some gift to build the House of the Friendly Spirit.Then an anthem, "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" (seventeenth-century German melody), the presentation of the offering (over $1,300),and the doxology.The formal installation of Dr. Gilkey as Dean of the UniversityChapel was begun by an address by Acting President Woodward, whosewell-chosen words follow:INSTALLATION OF THE DEAN OF THE CHAPELAlthough it is for the Trustees to act upon the generous offer withwhich Mr. Rockefeller concluded his fine address, I cannot let the occasion pass without attempting to express our gratitude. The confidencewhich he and the Foundation have in us gives us new faith in the success of our venture; our hearts are touched by the beautiful spirit inwhich the gift is made; we deem it a high privilege to be permitted toshare in cherishing the memory of his mother; we can only hope that weand our successors may prove worthy administrators of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, "to promote the religious idealism ofthe students of the University."The University has always had a chaplain — that is to say, a memberof the faculty who served as chaplain and faithfully devoted no small partof his time to the duties of that office. But with the erection of this building, and with the attendant effort to broaden and vitalize our religiousprogram, it was felt by all that we should need the undivided thought andenergy of a man specially qualified, not only to preach from this pulpit,but to advise our students, to help them in the solution of their personalproblems, and to organize their interest in religion and social service. TheBoard of Social Service and Religion, which is a joint faculty-studentboard under the chairmanship of Mr. Compton, instituted a nation-widecanvass for the right man, regardless of creed or sect, to fill this difficultand important post, and after a long and thorough search they foundhim close at hand — so close, in fact, that his house had been moved fromits original foundations to a neighboring site in order to make room forthis Chapel. And I think it a significant and promising fact that it wasthe student members of the Board who really took the initiative in bringing about his appointment.For many years the beloved pastor of the Hyde Park Baptist Church,he is a preacher of international reputation, particularly in demand bycolleges and universities. A member of the Board of Trustees and aDEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL 13teacher in the Divinity School, he is already a familiar and influential figure in University affairs. A generous friend and neighbor, he has longenjoyed our confidence and affection.It is my pleasure to instal in the chair of the Dean of the UniversityChapel, Charles Whitney Gilkey. It is an office of grave responsibility. Iknow that he will be faithful to the trust we repose in him: I bespeak forhim the support and co-operation of all who are interested in the adventure in religion which we inaugurate today.The response of Dean Gilkey was in these words:RESPONSE OF DEAN CHARLES WHITNEY GILKEYWhen we visit the cathedrals of the Old World, we find the structureitself often referred to as a "fabric." The word carries for most of us theconnotation of a piece of pliable woven material like cloth ; but the moreclosely we examine the complicated interdependent construction of greatstone buildings like these, put up without the support of steel, with theirinterweaving of weight and support of thrust and counter-thrust, themore appropriate become the implications of the word "fabric."This Chapel likewise is a fabric. The lines that interweave so subtlyto build up its massiveness and its beauty come from the master-handof a great architect, who has bequeathed to the generations as his lastgreat work this masterpiece of original and creative Gothic. One of themost eminent of American architects, visiting this Chapel for the firsttime within the last two weeks, said after an hour's careful study that heshould consider it the great church of modern times — Europe as well asAmerica included.But into the construction of this fabric there have been woven otherlines than those that were planned by the genius of the architect andbuilt up then in stones that the builders have well and truly laid. Intoit has gone the vision of its generous donor, put into memorable wordsthat have been read already by his son today, and that will remain theclassic interpretation of the meaning of this Chapel for as many generations as it shall stand here — a spiritual capitol for the "City Gray thatne'er shall die." Into it have been woven likewise the hopes and faithsof three successive presidents. Only yesterday I received a letter from abeloved former member of this faculty, Miss Elizabeth Wallace, fromwhich I quote:Many many years ago I was walking one day with Dr. Harper across the Quadrangles, when he stopped suddenly and in his peculiarly emphatic way said, "Wemust do more for the religious life of the student. It is a necessity. And we cannot14 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDdo it successfully until we have a beautiful and fitting house of worship. I dreamoften of what it should be." And then we fell to talking of what form it should takeand of the immense value of beauty in the expression of religion. These days I oftenthink of that conversation. The dream is at last realized and untold possibilities inspiritual development are unfolding. And faith ! we need them !As if it were only yesterday, I can myself hear again the restrainedexcitement in President Judson 's well -remembered voice as he read atthe December Convocation in 1 910 the memorable sentences concerningthe Chapel from the letter accompanying Mr. John D. Rockefeller's finalgift. And there come back to me with poignant vividness the memoriesof long talks with President Burton on his way across the Atlantic forthe last time, to study the English cathedrals one by one before the plansfor this building took final form. Clearest of all to me personally, as asacred commission on this day of my installation to this high office, comethe memories of the last words that President Burton ever said to me,sitting in his invalid's chair just before his final operation: "I have beentrying to put on this piece of paper the vision of the University's futureas I have been seeing it anew these last few days. I wish I might live tillthe June Convocation to put it then into speech. And for that future,the moral and religious life of the University is more fundamental andimportant than I have ever realized before."When we visit, Baedeker in hand, the great churches of Rome andthe cathedrals of England, we usually find mention, along with the architect and the patron, of some pope or bishop or prince who was the drivingforce behind the actual construction of the building. So has it been withthis Chapel also. Let it be remembered today, and as long as this building shall dominate these quadrangles, not only that it embodies the generosity and the vision of John Davison Rockefeller, and that it showsforth in massive and beautiful stone the architectural genius of BertramGrosvenor Goodhue; but also that it is itself a memorial of the energyand creative faith of Ernest DeWitt Burton.But if this building is to fulfil the functions which its donor and itsplanners intended, it must do much more than perpetuate a heritage andtraditions from the past. Times have changed, and the thoughts of menhave changed, fast and far since 1910; and if this building is to be simply a fabric of stone, however high the hopes and however great thegenius that planned it, it would remain at the best but a monument, andat the worst a tombstone. We to whom it is committed today in trust —a trust that has just now been made the more heartening, and yet alsothe more responsible, by the establishment in such liberal terms of theAFTER THE DEDICATION— THE SON OF THE FOUNDER AND THEACTING PRESIDENTDEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL 15Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund for its endowment— have atask facing us that is strikingly similar to the problem which Goodhue sosuccessfully solved in its architecture. He did not slavishly copy theGothic tradition, but used it as a well-attested foundation on which tobuild this original and creative work of his own, that derives plainlyenough the earlier Gothic, and yet goes out beyond it. So likewise mustwe build our new program for this Chapel upon all that is well attestedin the religious experience that we have inherited; and yet we must beready to adventure forth upon new and creative experiments in the reshaping of religious thought and tradition to meet the new needs and opportunities of modern university life. Was there ever such a chance andsuch a challenge for religious leadership?But it is a chance and a challenge that no one of us and no few ofus can answer alone. This Chapel must become a social fabric, as well asa fabric of stone. We must make it the home of a fellowship of aspiration and consecration in which students and faculty alike shall share.This service itself has helped us all to realize that it is not the words ofany one of us, but rather the participation of all of us, that alone candedicate this Chapel. We must never think of this building as simply agreat auditorium in which one man speaks while others listen. Only bywhat we do here together, all sharing and all stimulated by the sharing,can it be made a home for the idealism of the University. This Chapelmust never be a rock from the hillsides of the past, that has rolled downinto the stream of the University's life and turned it aside; it must rather be a channel through which that stream shall pour in fuller measure,and be directed toward the wheels that wait for spiritual energy to turnthem.And yet — here is the paradox of religion — this task that no one ofus can do alone is one to which all of us can contribute. It grows uponmany of us that the Chapel will serve the University and the communitynot least by its daily invitation to each and everyone of us to come in forleisure and quiet alone, to invite our souls, and to think what life is allabout. We begin to suspect that this Chapel, open as it will be all dayevery day, may prove to be serving spiritually more people within a givenperiod who thus come in to see its beauty and find themselves answeringthen its silent summons to meditation, than by all the attendance at itspublic services of worship, even though it be crowded every Sunday.I have said almost nothing of our program, which remains to beworked out; all too little of our gratitude for the added trust that hasbeen reposed in us today by Mr. Rockefeller's announcement; and little,i6 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDexcept by implication, of the honorable and responsible office in which Ihave just been installed. But if I have shared with you any real sense ofthe challenge and opportunity that are before us here together in theyears ahead, you will share with me the deep conviction that the only appropriate conclusion for a religious service like this is a prayer of dedication; and that not for the Chapel only, but no less for ourselves.PRAYER OF DEDICATIONThere followed the prayer of dedication offered by Dean Gilkey:As this morning the first level beams of the sunrise touched this tower with new beauty and promise, before our dull eyes yet knew that itwas day; as last night amid the threatening shadows, while we were stillanxious as to what the coming day might bring, these towers caughtthrough the clouds the splendor of the moonlight while we stood hushedbeneath its sudden beauty, and found new hope and faith reborn withinus — so let the light of thine own presence and blessing rest upon anddwell within this house, this day and all the days that it shall stand; andso let all who gather around and within its walls find reborn within them,from the Unseen and Eternal, new faith and hope and love.O God, who dost reveal to the uplifted minds and hearts of men newvisions of beauty and goodness and truth, and dost then give skill totheir hands, insight to their minds, and courage to their hearts, untilthese visions are turned into reality; we give thee hearty thanks todayfor all those whose visions and whose faithfulness are built into this newtemple: for the nameless men of long ago who first saw the beauty andfelt the aspiration of upward lines and pointed arches like these, and thenwith patient hands first turned them into enduring stone; for the geniusof the architect, the integrity of the builders, and the faithful skill of theworkmen, who together have made for us this structure; for the generosity and not less for the foresight and insight of the founder of this University; and for the vision and faith of those great leaders whose dearmemory and courageous spirit abide among us still.Grant now unto us, into whose present keeping this great trust iscommitted, that we may have minds and hearts fit for this new estate.Help us to think freshly, to feel deeply, to dare greatly, to live worthily.Forbid that within these walls we should fear any new truth, or dodgeany new fact, or proclaim anything that is not so. Be thou our Guide ashere together we seek to transcend our own littleness and partiality, ourown complacency and our inadequacy. So make our lives and our common life thy dwelling-place, and worthier thee.We would gather within our prayer of dedication not alone this houseDEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL 17that we have builded, and ourselves who would be made worthy to worship together therein. We pray no less for all those— students and teachers and passersby alike — who down the generations shall pause as theypass to look and wonder; for all who shall turn aside within these walls tomeditate, to listen, and to pray; for all who shall here find themselvesborne upward on the wings of music, of beauty, and of aspiration; forthose to whom there shall be granted here a new and worthier vision ofthe meaning of life, and a new awareness of the presence of God withinit. Send them away with new courage to face life and to transform it, toovercome the world and to rebuild it; with new understanding and sympathy for all sorts and conditions of men; with new experience of thelife more abundant, the faith more triumphant, the love more unfailing,which Jesus brought to men; with new awareness of the unseen and eternal that is not far from any one of us; with new confidence in which tolive, and then to die, in faith and hope and love. And unto them and untous, fulfil these and all our petitions, not according to our asking, but according to what thou seest they and we have need of, this day and evermore. Amen.The hymn "Lead Us, O Father," and the benediction, pronouncedby Dean Gilkey, brought the services to a close.THE AFTERNOON SERVICEThe morning service of October 28 was that of dedication; the afternoon service was one in which music played the principal part, togetherwith an address by Dr. Rufus M. Jones, of Haverford College. TheApollo Musical Club, Mme. Claire Dux, soprano, and Jacques Gordon,violinist, had prominent parts in a program of rare beauty, one whichexemplified the efficacy of efforts to make as nearly perfect as possiblethe acoustics of the auditorium.The first lecture in the Chapel was given on November 7 by President Ernest H. Wilkins, of Oberlin College. His subject was "Truth Increasing." The union ministers' meeting under the auspices of the Chicago Church Federation was held in the Chapel on Monday, October29. The address was given by Professor Rufus M. Jones, of HaverfordCollege. The ministers, something like three hundred in number, were theguests of the University at luncheon served in the Reynolds Club.The first wedding in the Chapel, on November 7, was that of MissMarion A. Plimpton, daughter of the Auditor of the University, to Mr.Harold E. Jennings, each a former student of the University.The first funeral, on November 16, was that of Thomas ChrowderChamberlin, LL.D., Professor Emeritus of the Department of Geology,honored and beloved from the foundation of the University in 1892.i8 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDTHE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICE AND RELIGIONThe University Board of Social Service and Religion, appointed bythe President of the University, has general oversight of the religiousservices supported by the University and of the program in the Chapel.It is composed at present of the President, the Vice-President, the Recorder, and the following appointed members: Faculty: A. H. Compton,chairman; Shailer Mathews, vice-chairman; E. S. Ames; Algernon Coleman; Ruth Emerson; Edith Foster Flint; T. V. Smith; D. H. Stevens.Students: Alice Benning, Jane Mullenbach, Minott Stickney, RussellWhitney (undergraduates), Leslie Blanchard, Allen Heald, Lucia Jordan, Kenneth Rouse (graduates). The executive officer of the board isCharles W. Gilkey, Dean of the University Chapel.The musical staff of the Chapel consists of the following: . organistand choir master, Mack Evans; assistants, Walter Blodgett, FrederickMarriott, Maude Bouslough Minnema, soprano; Clara M. Schevill, contralto; Ralph G. Sanger, bass; Siegfried Weng, cantor.The Chapel Council is composed at present of students who havetaken an active part in the shaping of the Chapel program. The ChapelCouncilors served as ushers at the services of dedication, and as guidesto the building when open for inspection. The members of the Councilare: Russell Whitney, chairman; Alice Benning, vice-chairman; EdnaWilhartz, secretary; Annette Allen, Daniel Autry, Donald Bickley, Wan-zer Brunelle, Elizabeth Bryan, Mary Elizabeth Cooley, Charles Cutter,Louis Engel, Elmer Friedman, Aldean Gibboney, Harry Hagey, DorothyHartford, Harold Haydon, Frances Holt, John Jackson, Priscilla Kellogg, Walter Kincaid, Jane Mullenbach, Muriel Parker, Robert Porter,Frances Rappaport, Georgia Robison, Margaret Stephenson, MinottStickney, Caroline Teetzel, Gregory Vlastos, Leila Whitney, ElizabethWhite.The Chapel is open on week days as well as on Sundays from 9 a.m.to 6 p.m. for public inspection and personal meditation. There is a preaching service every Sunday morning at 1 1 while the University is in session,and a musical service every Sunday afternoon at 4. A brief service is alsoheld every Friday at noon. There is a period of organ music every weekday afternoon except Saturday at 5 o'clock. During the Autumn Quarterthere were regular services in the Chapel on Wednesday evenings. Aguide to the Chapel, explaining its architecture and sculpture, written byProfessor Edgar J. Goodspeed and published by the University of Chicago Press, is available through any bookstore at $1.00.THE LAURA SPELMAN ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL FUNDTHE satisfaction of the University in the completion of the beautiful new Chapel was further augmented at the time of its dedication by the receipt of the following letter:October 19, 1928University of ChicagoChicago, IllinoisThe trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial have authorized meas its president to tender you an endowment fund of $1,000,000 with the followingstatement :"The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund is hereby established by theLaura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, which was founded by John D. Rockefeller inmemory of his wife, whose life was devoted to Christian service. The purpose of thefund is to promote the religious idealism of the students of the University and ofall those who come within its gates, through the broadest and most liberal development of the spiritual forces centering in and radiating primarily from the Chapel."It is the desire of the trustees of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial thatfor the carrying out of the purpose stated, the income only shall be used, and further, that the principal shall become a part of the general endowment of the University.If this fund is accepted by you, the trustees of the Laura Spelman RockefellerMemorial will be glad to have proper record made by you of its desires as just stated,so that they will always be kept in mind by those who administer the fund, and alsoof the statement of gift, so that its memorial character and purpose will likewise always be kept in mind by those who are ministered to through its instrumentality.Upon hearing from you that you are prepared to accept this fund, paymentthereof will be made on requisition of your treasurer, either in cash or in securitiesat their market value on the date of payment.(Signed) John D. Rockefeller, Jr.PresidentIn formally accepting this endowment fund, the Board of Trusteesof the University voted "to record the special appreciation of the Boardfor the liberality, not only of the gift itself, but of its purpose and spiritas expressed in Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s letter of October 19, and inhis address at the dedication of the Chapel on October 28, the Boardrealizing that the gift of the Chapel itself by Mr. John D. Rockefeller in19 10, and this generous endowment of it by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1928, constitute together a responsibility and an opportunity for the working out of a vital relationship between education1920 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDand religion which are unique in the history of higher learning in America; and to authorize the Committee on Buildings and Grounds to erectat some appropriate place in the Chapel a suitable tablet, or tablets, onwhich there shall be inscribed the memorable words written by Mr. JohnD. Rockefeller in 19 10 to express his hope and purpose for the Chapel,and also the not less significant words in which Mr. John D. Rockefeller,Jr., in the letter announcing the gift from the Laura Spelman RockefellerMemorial has stated the purpose and spirit of the endowment fund inmemory of his mother, this inscription, perpetuating in the Chapel thesequotations from the records of the Board, to serve as a reminder not onlyto those responsible through the years for the administration of theChapel, but also to the large numbers of those who enter it daily, of thedesires and purposes of the donors who have built and endowed it."£oJa COo W*¦< i—tK H<j h-!3S <Pm¦ a W=3-5 Mh HPn-c O¦H CO•1 «fti WSi PQs swft<QwooaoCO<C/5 «OPL,o Ho 2;J wuK.«» ws3 aTHE ORIENTAL INSTITUTETHE following brief resume of an address delivered by ProfessorJ. H. Breasted before the American Historical Association at itsrecent meeting in Indianapolis, gives information of interest tothe entire University constituency.After tracing the development of orientalistic discovery during thepast century, and calling the still unstudied ancient lands of the NearEast "one of the gravest responsibilities of present day historians," Dr.Breasted announced that the Oriental Institute of the University is assured a new building and a large endowment for teaching and for researchin the early history of man.The Oriental Institute is the first laboratory organized for the studyof man and especially his early career. The Institute is assured a splendid new building, an annual grant which insures the maintenance of itsresearch projects for the next ten years, and an endowment for teachingwhich will enable it to call to its ranks a group of the leading orientalistsand historians of the world. The new funds now available form the largerpart of plans for a total endowment of several million dollars thus placingthe Institute and its program of research and teaching on a permanentbasis. Henceforth it is possible for the first time to look upon the Institute as a permanent agency for meeting the great responsibility of savingand interpreting to the modern world the vast body of perishing humanrecords which still lie scattered far across the distant lands of the ancientNear East. The surviving remains and monuments in Egypt alone probably exceed in bulk all those of the combined ancient world outside of theNile Valley. The enormous extent of the surviving monuments of Western Asia likewise, has hardly been suggested by modern excavations. Itis appalling to behold these priceless memorials of man's past rapidlyperishing with every passing year. The monuments of the ancient Eastare calling for a new crusade, and the task of saving them for science isthe greatest responsibility confronting the historian anywhere in thewhole range of historical research.21NEW RESIDENCE HALLSONE of the greatest needs of the University happily is about tobe supplied. As was pointed out in the July number of theUniversity Record there are altogether too many studentsobliged to find shelter in private apartments and houses — they can hardlybe called homes — in the general vicinity of the University, sometimesnear and sometimes far removed from the quadrangles. The lack of residence halls for women especially was shown, something like 750 womenstudents being obliged to find places to live in other than University residence halls. The article went on to say:At this late day it is unnecessary to set forth the advantages of the dormitorysystem both for men and women students. The social contacts, the cultural stimulus,the broadening of horizons, which follow in the train of association in Universityhomes, need no special pleading. Granted the good effects of such group life, the inadequacy of it at the University is unfortunate. Notwithstanding the fact that theUniversity inspects and oversees the rooms, houses, and apartments to which incoming students are directed, at best many of these residences are removed from theUniversity Quadrangles and from the center of student life and activities. The lonesome, homesick girl feels forlorn enough when living among her fellow-students, butin a hall bedroom or third-story-apartment back room, without friends or evenacquaintances, too often gloom settles upon her as thick as a "pea-soup fog." Furthermore, while many landladies supervise the comings and goings and the visitorsand visiting of their tenants, students living away from their Chicago homes andoutside of residence halls cannot possibly be guarded and guided as are those blessedwith the thoughtfulness of a Miss Talbot, a Miss Wallace or a Miss Reynolds, tomention only three of the worthy women who have made the women's halls of theUniversity places to which to look back upon as radiant with charm.The development of a finer type of student life at the Universitywith the majority of the students, graduate and undergraduate, living inquadrangles on University land, eating in dining-halls, and playing inadjacent recreation fields, will be the result of the recent adoption of aprogram for the construction of University residence halls to cost $5,-000,000. The announcement, Acting President Woodward is quoted assaying, should put an end to the rumor, utterly without foundation, thatthe undergraduate colleges are to be abolished.Construction of dormitories for about 400 men and 380 women, at acost of approximately $3,000,000, will be begun as early in the spring aspossible. It is expected that several of the units will be erected south ofthe Midway. The Board of Trustees is prepared to build additional units,22Modeled by Alice L. SiemsJULIUS STIEGLITZ— BRONZE PORTRAIT BUSTNEW RESIDENCE HALLS 23but further construction has not yet been authorized. The financing ofthe plan to build the residence halls is made possible by the generous cooperation of Mr. Julius Rosenwald. The University has on hand fundswhich are available for investment in dormitories, and Mr. Rosenwald,by agreeing to contribute up to 40 per cent of the construction costs, hasmade feasible the comprehensive plans of the Board.As was reported in the July Record the present dormitories, north ofthe Midway, house about 320 men and 290 women. When the units nowauthorized are complete approximately 1,400 students will be providedfor. In the near future the total may be raised to 2,000. Although therewill undoubtedly be some overlapping, the plan contemplates the housingof graduate students, so far as may be practicable, on the north side ofthe Midway, and of undergraduates on the south side.Acting President Woodward declares that the implications of thisprogram of dormitory construction and its meaning to the future of theUniversity are far reaching. The new dormitories will not only in largemeasure solve the housing problem, but will make it possible to provide,for a large proportion of the student body, those stimulating associationsand wholesome influences outside the classroom which are essential to awell rounded educational program.One of the important features of the dormitory project will be ampleprovision of recreation grounds for intramural sports immediately adjacent to the new halls. The halls will be of the section type, each sectionserving a group of perhaps thirty-five or forty students. The halls will bearranged in quadrangles. It is expected that plans will soon be completed.THE UNIVERSITY FLAGTHE Board of Trustees at its November meeting adopted aUniversity flag. When the dedication of the University Chapelwas under consideration the architects and others agreed thatappropriate color would enhance the impressiveness of its interior. DeanGilkey in a report to the Board said that in the light of this proposal,"Acting President Woodward made the suggestion that the national flagand a flag bearing the University coat-of-arms might well be carried atthe head of the procession, and stand against the pillars on either side ofthe chancel steps. This suggestion met with such general approval thatsuch a flag was at once ordered. Mr. J. Spencer Dickerson, better thananyone else, knows how much time and trouble was taken to secure theright combination of colors and quality of work on this flag, with reference not only to the appearance of the flag itself, but to its suitability tothe interior of the Chapel. The use of the two flags so generally commended itself at the services of dedication that the Committee of theBoard of University Social Service and Religion, in charge of the Chapelservices, voted that the two flags should be carried every Sunday morning at the head of the choir procession, and should stand in their respective positions not only during the services, but all day every day whilethe Chapel is open."The University flag is of the same proportions as the national flag.It is of the official maroon color with a gold fringe. Upon this maroonfield is placed the coat-of-arms of the University embroidered in its appropriate colors upon a white ground. The flag was used at the dedication of the Chapel and continuously since then. It has served admirablyto provide color, as was hoped, as well as to provide a certain official dignity to the processions. It is presumed that when made of bunting thegold fringe will be dispensed with. There are many occasions when itsuse will be appropriate. Eventually, no doubt, on special occasions boththe United States flag and the University flag will be displayed simultaneously from two flag-poles. When the Administration Building iscompleted two flagstaffs rising from ornamental bronze, or cement, orstone bases similar to those of St. Mark's Plaza, Venice, will, it is expected, be placed in front of the building. The illustration showing thefirst official flag which appears upon another page gives an imperfectidea of its form but no idea of its colors.24From the Painting by Ralph ClarksonTHE LATE THOMAS CHROWDER CHAMBERLINDEATHS OF MEMBERS OF THEFACULTIESTHOMAS CHROWDER CHAMBERLINNEVER in the history of the University has death removed inone quarter so large a number of well-known members of thefaculties as during the Autumn Quarter of 1928. No fewerthan five men, each of whom had left his imprint upon the life of the institution, had inspired his students, had carried on research and published the results of investigations and studies, ended their careers. Several of them had retired and earned the honorary "emeritus" after manyyears of fruitful service, two of them were still actively engaged in carrying on their work.Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Geology, died November 15, 1928, at the age of eighty-five. Hewas born in Mattoon, Illinois, September 25, ^STResigning the presidency of the University of Wisconsin in 1892 to become head of theDepartment of Geology at the newly organized University, ProfessorChamberlin was one of that distinguished group of scholars with whomPresident Harper surrounded himself. Having become interested in theproblem of the earth's formation, from a study of the rock formation ofsouthern Wisconsin, he advanced the famous "planetesimal theory," nowaccepted as supplanting La Place's nebular hypothesis, in 1896. For thisachievement he was awarded the Penrose Medal, most coveted honor ingeology, in 1928. His book The Origin of the Earth explains the birth ofthe planets as the result of interaction between the sun and a passing starwhich swerved past it three to five billion years ago. In his last book, TheTwo Solar Families, Professor Chamberlin presented his "chondrulitichypothesis," a corollary to the "planetesimal theory," explaining theorigin and growth of satellites, planetoids, comets, and meteorites. Thisbook was published only six weeks before his death. Professor Chamberlin received his Bachelor's degree from Beloit College and carried on hisgraduate study in the universities of Wisconsin and Michigan. He taughtat Columbia and Beloit and was president of the University of Wisconsinbetween 1887 and 1892. He was at various times state geologist of Wisconsin, geologist of the Peary Expedition, president of the Chicago andIllinois Academies of Science, research associate of the Carnegie Foundation, and editor of the Journal of Geology.2526 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDImpressive funeral services were held in the University Chapel onNovember 16. The Carnegie Institution at Washington was representedat the funeral by Professor L. E. Dickson. Doubtless other organizationsand societies were represented by delegates. Interment was at Beloit,Wisconsin. The funeral services were conducted by Dean Charles W.Gilkey, from whose notable tribute to the life and character of ProfessorChamberlin the following paragraphs are taken:For whom more fittingly could this first memorial service in the UniversityChapel, our own Westminster Abbey, be held than for Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin? We honor him first and foremost as a great scientist. The outstanding contribution to human knowledge made by this University thus far in its history haslain in the field of the natural sciences, and we gather today in honor of one whohas been one of our foremost few in that great field. We honor him not less as agreat philosopher in science. President Mason used to tell us laymen in these matters about specialists who "know more and more about less and less, until at lastthey know everything about nothing." Not so was it of Dr. Chamberlin's scientificcompetence. His very thoroughness in the quest for truth in his own field led himfarther and farther out until he became at last one of the great scientific philosophers, not only of our own but of many generations.We honor Dr. Chamberlin finally as a public man. It is not by accident thatChamberlin Rock, the magnificent boulder on the highest point of the Universityof Wisconsin campus, bears on its commemorative tablet these significant words:"To commemorate the services to Wisconsin of Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin."With a true insight the tablet has recognized the fact that the services of ThomasChrowder Chamberlin to Wisconsin were even wider than those he gave so devotedly to the state university. He was an eminent servant of the state; and thereforewe honor not simply the scientific scholar, not simply the comprehensive philosopher, but finally the man. We remember with admiration the strong sense of dutythat took him to his five years of administrative labor at the University of Wisconsin that was not particularly congenial to him, but that he felt to be his plain duty.We remember likewise his prodigious capacity for labor, that was as marked in hiseighties as it had been in his sixties and his fifties. We remind ourselves not leastthat his greatest intellectual achievement began when he was well past fifty yearsold, was carried forward to completion through his sixties and seventies, and received its final and classic statement from his own pen in the eighties, being completed on his eighty-fifth birthday. That is a fact of encouragement and challengeand promise to many of us younger men which we shall not soon forget.Among these great human qualities we must also reckon his insight — I knownot how to describe it except by calling it religious — into the deeper meaning ofthings. And finally, his optimism! One of his colleagues has told the story of amemorable discussion with James Bryce, who had advanced the familiar theory thatin a cooling world there can only be a comparatively little while for humanity tosurvive. It was Dr. Chamberlin who in reply not only corrected his statement ofthe scientific facts but opened long vistas down uncounted millennia ahead, throughwhich humanity may learn, may grow and overcome. It was the natural scientistwho sounded the note of an unconquerable optimism, an optimism based upon hisown faith — to use his own phrase — "in the integrity of the universe."From Painting by Alois DelugTHE LATE JOHN MERLE COULTERDEATHS OF MEMBERS OF THE FACULTIES 27JOHN MERLE COULTERProfessor Coulter was another college president who was induced bythe magnetic Harper to leave the headship of a well-known institutionof higher learning to become a professor of the new University of Chicago. He had been president of Indiana University for two years, andwhen invited to come to Chicago in 1896 he had been president of LakeForest University for three years. From that date until he retired asprofessor emeritus in 1925, he was head of the Department of Botanyof the University. For over half a century Dr. Coulter was a teacherand administrator. Few American educators have given so many yearsto study, to teaching, and to research, while his contributions to theliterature of his own particular field of work were many and useful. Fordecades he was editor of the Botanical Gazette. He served as presidentof the American Botanical Society and as president of the American Association of University Professors and of the American Association forthe Advancement of Science. He was a member of many scientific societies. He was a leader in the development of the science of botanyas teacher, writer, and investigator. He saw no conflict between scienceand religion, and his efforts to interpret the modern point of view withreference to evolution were irenic, scholarly, and decidedly helpful. Thelong list of the scholarly publications from his pen is a notable index ofhis industry and ample evidence of the wide sweep of his research.Dr. Coulter was not only a leader in the department of science towhich he devoted more than half a century of stimulating activity, hewas an administrator who won the lasting friendship of his colleagues,and created friends and admirers among the many hundreds of studentswhose work he directed and inspired. So enthusiastic was his devotion tohis favorite field of labor that, notwithstanding his seventy-four years,three years ago he accepted the position of adviser of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, New York, in which servicehe was engaged when on Sunday, December 23 -, 1928, his remarkablecareer came to an end. Funeral services were held in Yonkers; and atWarsaw, Indiana, the place of burial, there was a private service.Dr. Coulter was born in Ningpo, China, November 20, 1851. Hewas graduated from Hanover College and received his doctor's degreefrom Indiana University in 1884. He was botanist for the United StatesGeological Survey in the Rocky Mountains in 1872-73. He taught thenatural sciences for his alma mater and biology at Wabash Collegebefore he was called to the administrative direction of Lake Forest University and Indiana University. In 1874 he married Georgie M. Gay-28 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDlord, who survives him. A son, Merle C. Coulter is a teacher in the Department of Botany of the University, and three other children survive,John G., Grace A., and Mrs. E. R. Yarnelle. An excellent portrait of Dr.Coulter from the brush of an Austrian artist, Alois Delug, hangs in aplace of honor in Harper Library Reading Room. It is reproduced forthis issue of the Record.FLOYD RUSSELL MECHEMThe University has met another great loss, following so soon thedeath of Dean Hall. On December n, 1928, Floyd Russell Mechem,LL.D., Professor of Law in the Law School for twenty-five years, passedaway after a short illness with a bronchial cold. Professor Mechem'sUniversity record as it appears in the Annual Register is exceptionallybrief, but his record in the affection of his fellow teachers and in thegratitude of his students is without limit. After his admittance to thebar in 1879, he practiced his profession in Battle Creek and Detroit,Michigan. In the latter city he founded the Detroit College of Law, ofwhich he was dean for two years. For eleven years and until he wasappointed professor of law in the then recently established Law Schoolof the University he was Tappan professor of law of the University ofMichigan. Aside from the useful service Professor Mechem performedas teacher in the Law School, he will long be remembered for his notablecontribution to the literature, if that is the proper word to describe it,of law — law books, in any event — on "agency," "partnership," "damages," and "cases" without number. His law books have had the widestcirculation and are regarded as authoritative in the highest degree. Histireless pen contributed innumerable articles which appeared in publications devoted to law.Professor Mechem was married to Jessie P. Collier of Battle Creek,Michigan, in 1884, who survives him. He leaves two sons, John CollierMechem, of the First Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, and ProfessorPhilip Russell Mechem, of the law school of the University of Kansas.Funeral services were held in the University Chapel, our Westminster Abbey, as Dean Gilkey has described it, on December 13, conductedby Dean Shailer Mathews and Dean Charles W. Gilkey.Professor Mechem attached himself to his students by more thanadmiration for his classroom ability and his delightful personality; hedrew them to him by real affection and by the charm of the man himself. Professor James Weber Linn in the Herald-Examiner has paid ajust and tender tribute to Professor Mechem's character. ParagraphsFrom Painting by Leopold SeyjfertTHE LATE FLOYD RUSSELL MECHEMDEATHS OF MEMBERS OF THE FACULTIES 29from this appreciation from a colleague in the University may fittinglyfind a place here supplementing this necessarily brief characterization ofa worthy teacher and a great man.On the day of the announcement of the death of Professor Floyd R. Mechemcomes a letter from a well known Chicago lawyer, saying, "I think Professor Mechem the greatest teacher I ever had; one of the most lovable characters I ever met.I doubt if any other teacher in recent years had the real affection of his studentsas had Mr. Mechem." This will not be the only letter of the sort I shall receive.At seventy he was as sympathetic, as industrious and as stimulating as he hadever been. And he taught against a background of national and international recognition as a legal scholar which could not fail to be impressive even to the most casualof his pupils, who seldom remained casual in his courses. There was in his look,as in his attitude toward irresponsibility, a latent sternness. But his eyes, sofriendly, so humorous, one dares to add so tender, betrayed that look; as his inextinguishable passion for "the under dog" betrayed that formal attitude. As a lawyer,he was self-made; as a philosopher, he was molded by his early environment ofstruggle for attainment; and so both his legal knowledge and his social philosophyhad sharp edges. For himself he had built up standards from which his intellectualjudgments never departed. No student "took advantage" of Professor Mechem, ordreamed of trying to do so. But his spirit was the gentlest. To the day of his deaththose "clouds of glory" which Wordsworth finds in childhood trailed about him.Any sincerity of spirit leaped to meet his sincerity, which it was impossible, underany circumstances, to doubt. Goodness, if not peace, followed him all the days ofhis life. Peace did not follow him, only because he was so profound a hater of shamand pretense and saw it with such clearness wherever it existed. He could not shuthis eyes to the false and rely on "muddling through somehow."He left unfinished his work on "The Re-statement of the Law of Agency,"on which he had been chiefly engaged for the last five years. But in a truer sensehe left no work unfinished. His life was his work — a life of industry, a life of scholarship, a life of material accomplishment, but, above all, a life of influence. It isimpossible to imagine that influence ceasing. Hundreds, perhaps, in his long yearsas a teacher, thousands, of young men have by reason of that influence a higher ambition, a finer sense of responsibility, a warmer humanity than could otherwisehave been theirs.ALBERT HARRIS TOLMANProfessor Tolman, a member of the Department of English practically from the beginning of the University and until his retirement in1925, died December 25, 1928. He was born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, June 17, 1856. He was graduated from Williams College in 1877.He won his doctorate in the University of Strasburg in 1889 after having studied at Johns Hopkins University for two years. He received thedegree of L.H.D. from his alma mater in 19 16. He was principal of thehigh school at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, for three years and beforehis appointment as assistant professor at the University taught in the30 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDdepartment of English at Ripon College, Wisconsin. He was respectivelyassociate professor and professor in the University and served as Deanin the colleges for five years beginning with 1895. Funeral services wereheld in Joseph Bond Chapel on December 28.Rev. W. L. Goldsmith, of the Hyde Park Congregational Church,had charge of the funeral service. Dr. Gerald B. Smith, of the DivinitySchool, paid a worthy and deserved tribute to the work and characterof Professor Tolman, and from this address the following portions aretaken:In my first acquaintance with Professor Tolman I discovered that he was bornin the Berkshire Hills not far from my own old home. His memory of that NewEngland region was keen, and his interest in it and in the occurrences of its laterhistory never ceased during his life. This New England origin and ancestry are thenecessary background for the understanding of Dr. Tolman's life and work. Healways carried with him something of that puritan inheritance which is so sure ofitself and so vigorous in its convictions that it stands out with a ruggedness anddistinctiveness all its own.Dr. Tolman went to Williams College while Mark Hopkins was still living andacting as college pastor and professor of moral philosophy. The atmosphere of thiscollege in those days must have strongly reinforced his inherited idealism. Thepurpose of education was conceived to be that of enabling a student to come toright convictions concerning the great issues of life. When once the truth had beendiscovered, the principles of stern morality bade one be loyal to that truth at allcosts. Life was conceived to be a serious matter, and a college education was expected to fit men to be the serious leaders of a serious-minded society. Dr. Tolmancarried into the work of research the uncompromising idealism which in a differentrealm had characterized the ideals of college education in New England. Nothingshort of a complete mastery of the facts to be learned would satisfy him.In his teaching, Professor Tolman was desirous that his students should obtainfrom the course that fundamental and exact knowledge which is indispensable toreal learning. He therefore undertook to bring them into first-hand contact withthe questions which must be raised and with the sources from which answers to thequestions must be obtained. He was unusually thoughtful in devices for enablingthe students thus to enter the ranks of real scholarship.In all of his work there was something of the reserve which characterizes thepuritan character. With all his friendliness and generosity of spirit he did not findit easy to make intimate friendships. Accustomed as he was to reliance upon himself and upon his own studies for his convictions, he apparently regarded men in anindividualistic fashion. He was untiring in his endeavor to help them find the materials out of which they must fashion their own convictions, but he expected everystudent in self-reliant fashion to work out his own salvation. The books which hepublished, entitled Questions on Shakespeare, illustrate this pedagogical method ofhis. One who uses this help to an understanding of Shakespeare will find himselfled to an enormous amount of labor in discovering and relating a thousand details.When he has completed this study he will find himself in possession of a reallyextraordinary amount of reliable knowledge enabling him to interpret the play withhistorical and dramatic correctness.DEATHS OF MEMBERS OF THE FACULTIES 31I shall always think of Professor Tolman as a high-minded descendent of thePuritans set down in the very un-puritanic city of Chicago. His real home was inthe realm of scholarship rather than in the busy life of an industrial city. The idealism which he brought from Williams College was vigorous and firm to the veryend. But the uncompromising righteousness demanded by his categorical imperativedid not fit in well with the devious ways of modern politics and business. Professor Tolman was constantly giving utterance to high-minded ideals of publicpolicy and public service, but he discovered that these ideals were not shared byeveryone and that he must live in relation with people and social practices representing other standards. His unfailing kindly spirit prevented him from becomingbitter. This spirit of self-reliant integrity prevented him from forming many closeand intimate friendships. Most of us knew him as a man who was captain of hisown soul, whose integrity was unquestioned, who could be counted on the rightside on questions where moral principles were involved, and who was an intelligentand interested participant in all important University movements. But his innerself remained for the most part hidden from men. His passion for exactness madehim easily impatient with carelessness or superficiality in any realm.It is well in these days, when experimental and tentative philosophies of lifeare so current, to recognize the fine qualities in this self-reliant New England Puritanism. After all, conscientiousness is essential to good living. To have known Professor Tolman's stalwart uprightness, his relentless devotion to exactness, his unwavering devotion to what he believed to be religiously and morally right, and hiskindly spirit of human sympathy is to acknowledge the debt which the Universityowes to him.ALEXANDER A. MAXIMOWAnother distinguished member of the University faculties closedhis career when, on December 3, 1928, Dr. Alexander A. Maximow,Professor of Anatomy, suddenly died from heart disease. This life, remarkable for its dramatic incidents, its devotion to research, and its accomplishments, reads almost like a story of the land of his birth. He wasborn in St. Petersburg in 1874. In 1899 he received the M.D. degreefrom the Imperial Military Academy of Medicine, and was given aD.Sc. degree, honoris causa, by Trinity College, Dublin, in 191 2. Heheld the rank of Actual State Councilor in the Imperial Russian Armyfrom 1896 to 1917. From 1903 to 1922 he was professor at the ImperialAcademy, and from 1918 to 1922 he was also a member of the facultyat the University of St. Petersburg.Though he was a world-authority on the nature of blood and connective tissue, it was only a daring escape from Bolshevist Russia thatenabled him to continue his researches unhampered in the United States.He was teaching histology and embryology at the Imperial MilitaryAcademy of Medicine in St. Petersburg at the time of the Czar's overthrow. Though he was a member of the old aristocracy, Dr. Maximowwas a moderate liberal and he became a major-general in the army of32 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDPresident Kerensky. After the Soviet revolution of 191 9, which he opposed, he tried to leave Russia but was detained by the Bolshevists alongwith other scientists. He was able in 1922, however, to make a perilousflight across the ice of the Gulf of Finland during a heavy fog. With himon a sleigh pulled by smugglers were his sister, who later became hislaboratory technician, and his wife, former leader of the imperial ballet.The remainder of the load consisted in his sixty-pound microtone forslicing laboratory specimens, the lenses of his microscopes, the records ofhis experiments, and some spare clothes.Though he had been wealthy enough to support his own laboratoryin St. Petersburg, he arrived in Sweden practically penniless. He hadbeen offered a post at the University of Chicago, but the censorship ofhis mail left him without assurance that it was still available. With thehelp of the American ambassador to Sweden, Ira Nelson Morris, passageto the United States was financed by the University.Dr. Maximow was one of the first scientists to emphasize the functional approach to anatomy rather than the structural and descriptiveapproach. Many of his most effective researches were done on livingtissue, which he preserved alive and growing in blood plasma. One of hisachievements was the production of all types of blood cells from onesingle type. He was the author of more than seventy articles and booksdealing chiefly with histology and embryology, written in English, Russian, and German. The pathology of respiratory diseases, of malignantdiseases, and of inflammation were among his particular fields of work;and he had recently discovered that the tubercle bacillus, the germ oftuberculosis, can live and grow in body cells without discommoding theindividual cells.The funeral was impressive. It was held in Joseph Bond Chapel,Rev. Mulia Timon conducting the services in accordance with the ritesof the Greek Orthodox Church, the famous Russian Kedroff quartettetaking part. The honorary pallbearers were: Frank Billings, LudvigHektoen, Dallas B. Phemister, Robert R. Bensley, Frank R. Lillie, Frederick C. Koch, and Anton J. Carlson. Active pallbearers were Drs. William Peterson, E. A. Fennel, James B. Herrick, Preston Kyes, GeorgeW. Bartelmez, Charles H. Swift, and B. C. H. Harvey.THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESBy JOHN F. MOULDS, Secretary of the BoardSPECIAL COMMITTEESTHE following persons have been appointed a committee on arrangements for the annual dinner of the Trustees to the Faculties: Charles F. Axelson, Chairman, Messrs. J. Spencer Dicker-son and Charles W. Gilkey.The following members of the Advisory Committee on the Administration of the Lasker Foundation for Medical Research have been reappointed for one year from January i, 1929: Dr. Franklin C. McLean,Dr. Dallas B. Phemister, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, Dr. H. G. Wells, Mr. A.D. Lasker, and Dr. Alfred E. Cohn.UNIVERSITY BOARDS FOR 1 92 8-2 9The following University Boards have been appointed for the academic year 192 8-2 9 :Board of University Publications : Gilbert A. Bliss, Ernst Freund, W. D. Har-kins, F. R. Lillie, John M. Manly, Shailer Mathews, J. W. Thompson, QuincyWright.Board of Student Organizations, Publications, and Exhibitions : C. S. Boucher,Elsa Chapin, M. C. Coulter, W. H. Cowley, Gertrude Dudley, Gladys Finn, D. J.Fisher, Mrs. Edith F. Flint, Mrs. Letitia F. Merrill, F. H. O'Hara, and Mrs. BarbaraM. Simpson.Board of Admissions: Roy W. Bixler, Algernon Coleman, B. C. H. Harvey,C. H. Judd, D. A. Pomeroy, Charles A. Shull, H. E. Slaught, David H. Stevens.Board of Physical Culture and Athletics : Gilbert A. Bliss, R. T. Chamberlin,M. C. Coulter, D. J. Fisher, H. G. Gale, E. R. Long, R. V. Merrill, J. F. Moulds.Board of Libraries: C. S. Boucher, P. H. Boynton, Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, A. H. Compton, H. A. Millis, W. A. Nitze, T. V. Smith, L. D. White.Board of Laboratories: H. H. Barrows, Harvey Carr, W. D. Harkins, C. J.Herrick, C. H. Judd, F. C. Koch, E. J. Kraus, H. H. Newman.Board of Museums: J H. Bretz, C. C. Colby, F. C. Cole, A. C. Noe, R. S.Piatt, E. F. Rothschild, Edward Sapir.Board of Hospitals: Frank Billings, A. J. Carlson, Ludvig Hektoen, E. E.Irons, E. O. Jordan, J. L. Miller, D. B. Phemister, H. G. Wells.Board of Medical Affairs : R. R. Bensley, Frank Billings, E. V. L. Brown, A. J.Carlson, E. O. Jordan, D. B. Phemister, G. E. Shambaugh, Julius Stieglitz.Board of University Social Service and Religion: A. H. Compton (Chairman),Shailer Mathews (Vice- Chairman), E. S. Ames, Algernon Coleman, Ruth Emerson,Mrs. Edith Foster Flint, T. V. Smith, and D. H. Stevens.Board of Vocational Guidance and Placement: H. H. Barrows, Katherine3334 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDBlunt, W. H. Cowley, F. N. Freeman, F. A. Kingsbury, W. J. Mather, H. I. Schles-inger, H. E. Slaught, L. L. Thurstone.Board of University Extension: W. H. Burton, Algernon Coleman, H. C.Cowles, J. R. Hulbert, C. F. Huth, F. A. Kingsbury, H. I. Schlesinger, G. B. Smith!Board of Alumni Relations : H. II. Barrows, M: C. Coulter, E. T. Filbey, Mrs.Edith F. Flint, Rowland Haynes, C. F. Huth, J. F. Moulds, Gertrude E. Smith.BUILDINGSAuthority has been given for the construction of the following newbuildings for which the University has funds available: the two dormitory units which Mr. Julius Rosenwald >s gift has made possible; theBernard E. Sunny Gymnasium for the Laboratory Schools, to be locatedon Kenwood Avenue between Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets; andthe Nancy Adele McElwee Memorial in conjunction with the GertrudeDunn Hicks Memorial, to be located at Ellis Avenue and Fifty-ninthStreet, adjoining the Billings Hospital.RETIREMENTSThe following members of the faculties will retire at the end of theirrespective appointment years with the title "Professor Emeritus": C. J.Chamberlain, Professor of Plant Morphology and Cytology; A. C. McLaughlin, Professor of History; A. W. Moore, Professor in the Department of Philosophy; G. W. Myers, Professor in Education; C. W. Votaw,Professor of New Testament Literature; H. L. Willett, Professor ofSemitic Languages and Literatures.APPOINTMENTSThe following appointments, in addition to reappointments, weremade by the Board of Trustees during the Autumn Quarter, 1928:Florence H. Smith, as Assistant Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Home Economics and Chief Dietitian in the University Clinics for one year from January 1, 1929.S. McKee Rosen, as Instructor in the Department of Political Science, on a two-thirds7 time basis, for one year from October 1, 1928.Mrs. Jewell Schultz, as Instructor in the Department of Pathology,under the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute, for one year from November 1, 1928.Dr. Ferdinand Seidler, as Clinical Instructor in Surgery, in the Department of Surgery of Rush Medical College, for the period fromDecember 1, 1928, to June 30, 1929.THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 35Dr. Ralph Beckert Bennet, as Research Associate in the Departmentof Physics, for two years from October i, 1928.Elizabeth A. Hughes, as Research Associate in the School of SocialService Administration for one year from October 1, 1928.Professor Paul Haensel, formerly of the University of Moscow, asLecturer in the Department of Economics for the Spring Quarter, 1929.F. C. Church, to give instruction in the Department of History forthe Spring Quarter, 1929.Otto Welton Snarr, to give instruction in Education in the Collegeof Education for the Winter Quarter, 1929.Charles B. Congdon, as part-time physician on the Student HealthService, for the Autumn Quarter, 1928, and the Winter, Spring, and Summer Quarters, 1929.Dr. John Favill, as special consultant on the Student Health Service,for one year from October 1, 1928.Walter Blodgett, as Assistant Organist for one year from October 1,1928.Frederick Marriott, as Assistant Organist for one year from October1, 1928.Ernest C. Miller, as Assistant Recorder of the University for elevenmonths from November 1, 1928.The following have been appointed as the Medical Staff of the Country Home for Convalescent Children for a period of twelve months fromOctober 1, 1928: Dr. Charles A. Parker, Chief of Staff and AttendingOrthopedic Surgeon; Dr. E. J. Berkheiser, Attending Orthopedic Surgeon; Dr. D. B. Phemister, Consulting Surgeon; Dr. F. C. McLean, Consulting Physician; Dr. George E. Shambaugh, Laryngologist and Otologist; Dr. William G. Reeder, Oculist; Dr. Frederick B. Moorhead, OralSurgeon; and Dr. E. H. Oelke, Attending Physician.LEAVES OF ABSENCEThe following leaves of absence have been granted by the Board ofTrustees during the Autumn Quarter, 1928:Nathaniel W. Barnes, for one year from October 1, 1928, in orderthat he may serve as Director of the Bureau of Research and Educationof the International Advertising Association.James H. Breasted, for the Winter Quarter, 1929.Robert E. Park, from April 1, 1929, to December 31, 1929, in orderthat he may visit the Orient to attend two congresses and to carry oncertain studies in his field.36 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDRESIGNATIONS AND CANCELLATIONSThe following resignations were accepted by the Board of Trusteesduring the Autumn Quarter, 1928:Arthur L. Tatum as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, effectiveDecember 31, 1928.Walter L. Dorn, as Assistant Professor in the Department of History, effective October 1, 1928.Dr. William J. Quigley, as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicinein Rush Medical College.Miss Lottie N. Ingram, as a member of the Library Staff, effectiveSeptember 5, 1928.William B. Harrell, as Assistant Auditor of the University, effectiveNovember 15, 1928.The following appointments have been canceled by the Board ofTrustees during the Autumn Quarter, 1928:W. A. Law as part-time Teacher in the University High School forthe year beginning October 1, 1928.Jose Vasconcelos as Professorial Lecturer in the Department of History for the year beginning July 1, 1928.George Wobbermin as Professorial Lecturer in the Divinity Schoolfor the Autumn Quarter, 1928.DEATHSThe deaths of the following members of the faculties occurred during the Autumn Quarter, 1928:Dr. Oscar Ellis Chase, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics atRush Medical College, on September 16, 1928.Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Professor Emeritus of Geology andPaleontology, on November 15, 1928.Alexander A. Maximow, Professor of Anatomy, on December 3,1928.Floyd R. Mechem, Professor of Law, on December 11, 1928.John M. Coulter, Professor Emeritus of Botany, on December 23,1928.A. H. Tolman, Professor Emeritus of English Languages and Literatures, on December 25, 1928.GIFTSMr. Alvia K. Brown has given to the University the sum of $23,640on an annuity arrangement, the principal of the fund to be added to theTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 37endowment of the University and income only used for the educationalwork of the University after the decease of Mr. Brown and his wife.An anonymous donor has given the sum of $250,000 to be held bythe University and administered in perpetuity as an endowment fund inhonor of Charles Henry Markham, and to be known as the "CharlesHenry Markham Fund." The net income from the fund is to be used inthe teaching, research, and clinical activities of the Departments of Medicine and Surgery as now or hereafter conducted by the University, including the medical and surgical care and hospitalization of patients inthe clinics of said departments.The Trustees of the Friendship Fund have renewed their previousgrants and will provide the sum of $5,000 per year for three years beginning July 1, 1929, for support of work in Russian Language and Institutions.One-half of the estimated expenses of an African Expedition of theGeology Department in search of fossils of early vertebrates in the Permian formations of Cape Colony and the Orange Free State has beenprovided by the gift of an anonymous donor.Mead, Johnson & Company, Evansville, Indiana, have provided thesum of $3,900 together with the necessary amount of ergosterol, for certain studies in physiological chemistry under the direction of ProfessorF. C. Koch. The aim of the grant is to obtain accurate information onthe questions involved in the dosage and toxicity of irradiated ergosterol.A grant of $2,750 has been received from the Committee on Research in Syphilis, New York City, for the use of Dr. S. William Beckerin a research project in syphilis.The Evaporated Milk Association has renewed its previous grant byproviding the sum of $2,000 for a fellowship in the Department of HomeEconomics, and for the expenses of a research project which is expectedto throw light upon the nutritive value of evaporated milk.The E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Incorporated, havepledged the sum of $2,700 for a fellowship in the Department of Chemistry.The continuation of the study under the direction of Dr. H. J.Shaughnessy, of the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology, of theeffects of different types and methods of ventilation on the health of pupils in selected schools of certain Chicago suburbs is assured by the grantof $2,000 from the New York Commission on Ventilation, of New YorkCity.An allotment has been received from the Smithsonian Institution,38 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDWashington, D.C., of $1,000 from the appropriation for co-operativeethnological and archaeological investigations between the SmithsonianInstitution and establishments in the various states, for excavations in aseries of mounds near Kankakee, Illinois, under the direction of Professor Fay-Cooper Cole, of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.The following contributions have been made to the special book fundof the Medical School: $500 from Mr. W. J. Chalmers; $500 from Mr.George Ade; $150 from Mr. Charles C. Stringer; $25 from Mr. AlfredE. Meyer; $1,000 from Mr. C. K. G. Billings to be credited to the "C. K.G. Billings Medical Book Fund"; and $500 from Mr. Paul E. Gardneron a pledge of a total amount of $2,500, to be credited to the "Paul E.Gardner Medical Book Fund."There has been received from Dr. T. J. Williams $1,000 for a fellowship or fellowships in physiology for the year 1928-29, the holder orholders to assist in research on cataracts.The Society of Colonial Wars has renewed its scholarship in the Department of History for the year 1928-29 by a gift of $225.Mrs. Edward E. Ayer, in memory of her husband, has given for useat Yerkes Observatory the five-inch telescope which has been in use atthe Observatory for some years as a loan from Mrs. Ayer.Mr. Henry H. Porter has contributed the sum of $1,000 to be expended for the work of the Yerkes Observatory under the direction ofProfessor Frost.Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has pledged the amount of $40,000, oras much thereof as may be necessary, for the expenses of an Assyrian expedition of the Oriental Institute, and for the purchase of the B. MoritzCollection of Arabic manuscripts.A subscription of $1,000 each has been received from Mr. James A.Patten and Mr. Henry J. Patten toward the expenses of the Hittite Expedition of the Oriental Institute during the year 1929.Mrs. Florence P. Luckenbill has presented to the University thetechnical library of her late husband, Professor D. D. Luckenbill. Thelibrary consists of about 500 volumes in the field of Assyriology, and thecollection is to be kept together as a memorial to Professor Luckenbill.Mr. C. H. Koenitzer has written and presented to the University amanuscript history of the old University of Chicago and a collection ofother papers of interest and value, relating to that institution.Under the will of H. G. B. Alexander, deceased, a bequest of $200,-000 is made as a trust fund for certain members of his family, and at thetermination of the trust upon the death of the last survivor of the bene-THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 39ficiaries, the entire bequest, both principal and income, is to be paid tothe University as endowment for the purpose of promoting instructionand research in the executive and administrative management of business affairs, particularly as they relate to insurance in its casualty and lifebranches.Under the will of Charles W. Oker, deceased, the University is therecipient of the residue of his estate. It is estimated that the bequest willamount to about $50,000.The former gift of Mr. Julius Rosenwald of $5,000 for a studentloan fund in memory of Dr. Thomas W. Goodspeed has been redesignated as a fund, the income from which is to be used for incidental expenses of the Department of New Testament.Beginning with the year 1929-30, the sum of $25,000 is to be allocated from the former gift of Mr. J. J. Dau for the establishment of the"Catherine Cleveland Fellowship in History."MISCELLANEOUSThe date for the annual dinner of the Trustees to the faculties hasbeen set for Thursday, February 14, 1928.The Autumn Quarter was closed on December 14, 1928, one weekearlier than usual, in order to prevent the further spread of an epidemicof influenza. The Convocation scheduled to be held December 18 was,therefore, canceled and degrees conferred in absentia.The University has agreed to administer the fund of the StudentsFund Society as a loan fund for needy students.AMONG THE DEPARTMENTSTHE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGYBy Frank R. LillieTHE first head of the Department of Zoology, Professor C. O.Whitman, was at the same time the organizer of all the departments of biology established during the first two years of theUniversity and was actually head of biology during the first year. Afterthis year separate departments of zoology, anatomy, physiology, andneurology were established from members of the original staff, whilebacteriology still remained for some years within the Department ofZoology, and botany was newly organized.Professor Whitman conceived of the University in general as an organization primarily for the advancement of research, and this ideadominated his conduct of the department. He was indeed the most activeman of his generation in America in the promotion of facilities for research in zoology. He was the first director of the Marine BiologicalLaboratory, which under his direction acquired the organization andleadership that has made it the most active center of biological researchin the world; he also founded two journals of zoological research, theJournal of Morphology and the Biological Bulletin, among the first national journals in this field in America, and in other ways he was influential in promoting the advancement of biological research throughoutthe country. He was a natural leader, and a distinguished original contributor to zoological literature in his time.PROGRESS OF THE DEPARTMENTThe Department of Zoology since Whitman's time has continued toplay an active part in national zoological affairs. It has paid more attention to undergraduate instruction, but it has never surrendered the position that research is its prime function; and all its members have beenselected for their promise or accomplishments as original scholars. During the thirty-seven years of the existence of the University it has recommended eighty-four candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.These now occupy, for the most part, academic positions, though a fewhave gone into research institutions, government positions, and museums.Among them are seven professors in the University of Chicago in theDepartments of Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Education, and40AMONG THE DEPARTMENTS 41heads of departments, professors or assistant professors in the Universities of California, Texas, Indiana, Illinois, Wyoming, Kansas, Ohio,Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Philippines, at Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Oberlin,Brown, Harvard, Yale, and numerous other institutions. They have carried with them the spirit of the department for the advancement ofzoological research.THE EVOLUTION PROBLEMThe center of interest in Professor Whitman's work was the evolution problem, whether he approached it from the embryological side, asin his work on Clepsine, from the side of classification as in his work onleeches, or from the genetic side as in his well-known work with pigeons.The situation may be said to remain the same today with more specialization and subdivision of functions — thus on genetics (Newman on twins,Wright on mammalian genetics), physiological zoology (Child — the axialgradient, theories of senescence, etc.), ecology and animal communities(Allee), embryology (Lillie, Willier), biology of sex (Lillie, Moore). Allof these subjects contribute more or less directly to the evolution problem. The research work of the graduate students contributes to the research programs of members of the staff and has thus a setting andfundamental value that "stunt" problems do not possess. The department is known for its concentration on definite problems. Other fields ofzoology are represented in other departments of the University, thuspalaeontology in the Department of Geology, protozoology in the department of Bacteriology and Hygiene, general physiology in the Department of Physiology, and parts of embryology in the Department ofAnatomy.THE WHITMAN LABORATORYFor many years the department shared its building, the Hull Zoological Laboratory, with pathology and bacteriology and with the biologicallibrary. After the needs of the department and of its guests had forced aseparation, the demand for additional space and special facilities for research was temporarily met by the erection in 1925 of the Whitman Laboratory of Experimental Zoology, two blocks away. This provided much-needed quarters for living animals, and facilities and equipment for operative and experimental work.But with it all zoology is still inadequately represented and supported in the University in spite of the generous treatment it has receivedfrom the administration. As the basic part of animal biology with its relations to medicine, to agriculture, to forestry, to the fisheries, it shouldbe more adequately developed, both with reference to its existing re-42 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDsearch projects, and also to those problems in its own field that relate itto medicine and economic biology. Under the latter, perhaps no expansion would be more profitable than into the field of entomology where theproblem of insect carriers of disease relate it to medicine, and the innumerable problems of agricultural, forest, and industrial pests relate it towide additional fields of human interests. Without in any sense duplicating the work of national or state agricultural or forestry stations in entomology the University could contribute to the effectiveness of theseagencies by a more basic consideration of problems in keeping with itsfreedom from political and direct economic responsibilities.THE DEPARTMENT OF GREEK LANGUAGEAND LITERATUREBy Robert J. BonnerONG the distinguished scholars whom President Harper assembled in the faculty of the new University of Chicago wasPaul Shorey at the head of the Department of Greek. He hadalready achieved in Bryn Mawr an enviable reputation as an inspiringteacher and a productive scholar. His main fields of interest were philosophy and literature including both interpretation and appreciation. Hisedition of The Odes of Horace, which revealed Horace as a poet to thestudent and set a new standard in editing the classical poets, appeared in1898. His studies in Plato, beginning with his Munich doctoral dissertation on Plato' 's Ideas, culminated in his Unity of Plato's Thought whichappeared in the "Decennial Publications of the University of Chicago."This elaborate monograph has since been supplemented by numerouspapers and reviews of Platonic literature, and especially by papers on"Plato's Laws and the Unity of Plato's Thought" and on "The Originof the Syllogism." It was favorably received by competent reviewers.The Revue Critique pronounced it definitive. Its main thesis has receivedincreasing recognition direct and indirect, and is frankly accepted as thebasis of von Arnim's book, Plato's Jugenddialoge und die Entstehungs-zeit des Phaidros. It will be reprinted with additions as a part of thespecial research work on which Mr. Shorey is now engaged.SHOREY, TARBELL, AND CAPPSBut Mr. Shorey's interests were not confined to these fields. Morethan two score of doctoral dissertations that have been prepared underhis guidance in philosophy, religion, rhetoric, oratory, drama, language,literature, and style bear testimony to the range and thoroughness of hisscholarship. With him was associated Frank Bigelow Tarbell. At firstAMONG THE DEPARTMENTS 43his interests were divided between Greek literature and institutions, andarchaeology. But eventually he devoted himself almost exclusively toarchaeology. With sound technical scholarship he combined a keen appreciation of the masterpieces of ancient art. This somewhat rare combination made a wide appeal even outside the classical departments. It ismuch to be regretted by the Greek department in particular that as yetno successor has been found to carry on the work in this important andconstantly expanding field.Among the younger members of the Department of Greek wasEdward Capps who soon won recognition for himself as the leading American scholar in the field of scenic antiquities. He was editor of the "Decennial Publications" to which he contributed an important, paper onsome phases of the history of Athenian comedy. The dissertations of hisstudents were mainly in the field of scenic antiquities.Though the chief work of the faculty was in the graduate school theneeds of the undergraduates were not neglected. The older type of collegecurriculum was modified so as to introduce the student at once to thesimpler Greek literary masterpieces. The inspiring teaching of WilliamBishop Owen established a tradition of good undergraduate instructionin the department. The disappearance of Greek from the secondaryschools of the Middle West presented new instructional problems to thedepartment involving additional work for the comparatively small staff.Elementary courses covering the three years high-school curriculumwere established. An effort was made to lighten the labor of learning toread Greek by deferring or omitting material which diverted attentionfrom the main purpose of elementary instruction. These courses wereintended for Freshmen and Sophomores, but they soon began to be elected by students of graduate standing in Latin and other departments whodesired to repair deficiencies in their previous training with a view totaking graduate courses in Greek. In this work the department has beenfortunate in securing instructors who have maintained the tradition ofgood teaching without interference with their investigative work.CLASSICAL PHILOLOGYIn 1906 the founding of Classical Philology, a quarterly journal devoted to research in the languages, literature, history, and life of classicalantiquity, afforded a much-needed medium for the publication of thework of the faculty and alumni of the classical departments, and servedto stimulate productive scholarship in America. Under the editorship ofMr. Shorey it has won a place among the leading journals in the field.The resignations of Mr. Capps and Mr. Owen and the retirement ofMr. Tarbell coming in quick succession involved serious losses to the de-44 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDpartment. Their successors, however, have successfully developed newfields in graduate instruction. Henry W. Prescott, who came from theUniversity of California as associate professor of classical philology, forsome years offered courses in Greek epic and dramatic poetry in combination with his work in the Latin department. For some years his workhas been wholly in Latin. His recent book on the development of Virgil'sart is the fruit of his studies in the epic.Robert J. Bonner, a graduate of the department, while continuing togive some undergraduate instruction has devoted himself to Greek history and law. In the field of Attic law the publications of himself and hisstudents have been recognized abroad as the work of a co-operatinggroup. His recent book on Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens isintended, as the subtitle, The Genesis of the Legal Profession, indicates,quite as much for the lawyer and general reader as for the student of theclassics.In 192 1 Miss Gertrude Smith who received both her Bachelor's andDoctor's degrees from the University joined the faculty. Her teaching isstill largely undergraduate, but her participation in graduate instructionis increasing. Starting with her dissertation on The Administration ofJustice from Hesiod to Solon, she has made important contributions tothe history and organization of the Athenian homicide courts which augur well for her future as a productive scholar.LATER PROGRESSIn recent years Mr. Shorey has filled important lectureships both inEurope and in America. In 19 13-14 he was Roosevelt exchange professorin Berlin, and in 1924 he gave lectures in four Belgian universities and atthe Sorbonne. He has given the "Harris Lectures" in the NorthwesternUniversity, the "Turnbull Lectures" in Johns Hopkins, the "Lane Lectures" at Harvard, the "Sather Lectures" in California, and addressesbefore the American Academy of letters of which he is a member. Mr.Shorey has contributed largely to the literature of "apology" for theclassics. His articles in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "The Assault onHumanism" were reprinted in book form, and the second enlarged editionof his Case for the Classics with copious bibliography has recently appeared. Mr. Bonner and Miss Smith are collaborating on the history ofthe Greek judicial systems. The first volume dealing with the primitiveperiod and Athens, entitled The Administration of Justice from Homerto Demosthenes, is due to appear this year.Mr. Shorey is again giving the "Sather Lectures" at the Universityof California. His lectures there form the framework of a large researchAMONG THE DEPARTMENTS 45in the history of Platonism. At the same time he is continuing his workon the Loeb edition of The Republic, the first volume of which is nowfinished. With the assistance of students there and here he is conductingseveral other research projects, among, which are the interpretation of thePlatonic philosophy, especially from a stylistic point of view, a work onthe meanings of Greek particles, a study of the evolution of Aristotle'sphilosophy, and the collation and revision of a number of his publishedand unpublished essays and notes.The majority of the fifty-six doctors of the department are engagedin teaching. They are located in leading American and Canadian universities and colleges, including Columbia, Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins,Princeton, Wesleyan, Wellesley, Michigan, Northwestern, Iowa, Colorado, California, and Oberlin in the United States and McGill, Queens,Toronto, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in Canada. Two are college presidents. A considerable number have continued to publish. Several areranked among the leading scholars in their fields.There has been a steady growth in numbers both in the graduate andundergraduate courses since the war. In 1924 the undergraduate students in the classical departments with the assistance of two members ofthe Greek faculty founded Eta Sigma Phi, a national honor society withChicago as Alpha chapter. There are at present over thirty chapters inthe organization.Greek perhaps more than the other departments in the group suffersfrom the lack of courses in archaeology. Back of the earliest Greek literary records lie centuries of civilization revealed by the labors of thearchaeologist. Without some knowledge of this constantly increasingmaterial the student of Greek culture of the historical period is at a disadvantage. There is urgent need for more fellowships with better stipends if we are to compete with other graduate schools that are well provided in this regard. Practically all of our graduates go into teaching,where the chances of employment on tolerable financial terms are comparatively few. Adequate fellowships that materially lessen the expenseof preparation are needed to attract the best type of student.One of the pressing needs of the Classical Department is more fundsfor books. The Classics Library has always been a good one, partly asthe result of the many books which came to us from the Berlin collection. But it has suffered severely in recent years because of inadequateannual appropriations. As a result not only the classical departmentssuffer in their instruction and research but also other departments whichmake much use of the Classics Library.BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTERThrough an oversight the name ofAssociate Professor Glattfeld was omitted in the review of the research workof the staff of the Department of Chemistry which appeared in the October issue of the University Record. Dr. Glatt-feld's work on the sugars has receivedinternational approval and, in fact,brought to this country from Budapestan international research Fellow to workon the sugars during the past two years.Professor William A. Nitze, Chairman of the University's Department ofRomance Languages, was created Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor onNovember 13 by President Doumerguefor his service in the spreading of Frenchculture. The decoration was conferredby Count Charles Ferry de Fontnouvelle,the French consul in Chicago.An exhibition of paintings by thelate Professor Walter Sargent was heldunder the auspices of the RenaissanceSociety in Wieboldt Hall in December.University preachers during the Autumn Quarter were the following: October 7, Charles Whitney Gilkey, D.D.,Dean of the University Chapel ; October14, Shailer Mathews, D.D., Dean of theDivinity School; October 21, Rev. Frederick Norwood, City Temple, London;October 28, Professor Rufus M. Jones,D.D., Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College; November 4, Dean Gilkey;November 11, Rev. Lynn Harold Hough,D.D., Pastor of the American Church,Montreal, Canada (two Sundays); November 25, Rev. Henry Sloan Coffin,D.D., Professor of Practical Theology,Union Theological Seminary, and pastorof the Madison Avenue Church, NewYork City; December 2, Dean Gilkey;December 9, Rev. Carl Wallace Petty,D.D., pastor of the First Baptist Church,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Mr. Max Epstein, Col. John Roberts,Dr. Frank Billings, and Mr. E. R. Em-bree have been added to the Board ofTrustees' special Committee on the University Clinics. On October 8, 1928, in HutchinsonHall, the annual "homecoming" dinnerof the faculties was held. The customary greetings to those who, during thesummer, had been scattered the countryover and had sailed the seven seas, asusual, preceded the gathering at the tables. There was an attendance of 229.Acting President Frederic Woodwardpresided during the after-dinner speaking. Mr. D. H. Stevens, Secretary tothe president, read the names of 123new appointees to the several faculties,those of the number who were presentrising when their names were called.Among those who were introduced, although not a new member of the faculties, was Professor W. A. Craigie, recently knighted by King George. MissMarion Talbot, recently returned fromthe Near East, where she had served asacting president of the Woman's College, near Constantinople, gave a graphic description of the work in which shehad spent the preceding months andespecially of the advance which the republic of Turkey is making in governmental reform and in the furtherance ofeducation. Mr. Edward Chiera, a recently appointed Professor of Assyriol-ogy and editor of the Assyrian Dictionary, was enthusiastic in his report ofprogress made by the Oriental Institutein Mesopotamia and other places in AsiaMinor in excavating remains of ancientcivilizations. Dean S. D. Works, of theGraduate Library School, told of theorganization of this new branch of worknow housed in Harper Library in spacevacated by classrooms and other offices.Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, recently appointed Dean of the University Chapel,spoke of the new problems set before theUniversity community in the opening ofthe Chapel. The completion of thisbuilding, a notable achievement of creative beauty, affords a unique opportunityfor service and provides the Universitywith one of its greatest moral assets.The Department of Public Relations,in charge of W. V. Morganstern, hasbeen moved to Mitchell Tower fromHarper Library where it had an office46BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTER 47since it was first organized under the direction of Mr. Henry Justin Smith, nowmanaging editor of the Chicago DailyNews.The Department of Art of the University is the custodian of a most interesting moving-picture film which isowned by the University. This film, inseveral reels, depicts the modeling, casting in bronze, and the shipping to theUnited States of Ivan Mestrovic's hugefigures of Indian warriors mounted onprancing horses. The work of modelingthe figures was done at Zagreb, the capital of Jugoslavia, where the artist hashis studio. The Bulletin of the Art Institute declares that the filmed storymakes as exciting a drama as Cellini'sfamous casting of the "Perseus." A writer in the Bulletin thus describes thesculptures : "Two nude warriors gathertheir bodies in sudden energy, as oneprepares to hurl his spear and the otherbends his bow. The lithe corded figuresseem welded to their titanic horses;mount and rider are one in the stress ofthe moment. From years spent in depicting his own semi-barbaric heroes,Mestrovic* has gained the ability to generalize on all men of heroic mould. Whilemost equestrian statues, have honoredthe tradition of Verrocchio and Dona-tello, Mestrovic, with typical eclecticism,has gone back to the Italian Renaissance.The heads of these horses, with muscledjaws, thick, arched necks, and simplifiedmanes, suggest the archaic Greek, butwhatever of borrowings the sculptormay have made are lost in the dramaticidea." The Renaissance Society of theUniversity showed this film at one of itsrecent meetings. These bronze figureshave been mounted upon dark* granitepedestals placed near Michigan Avenueat the approach to the Congress StreetBridge.Only students who have alreadygraduated from college with the Bachelor's degree, and who have had experience in library work, are admitted foradvanced training toward the Master'sdegree or the doctorate in the new Graduate Library School at the University.The chief method of the school will beindividualized research in the problemsof library science and theory. Budgetappropriations for, the libraries of theUniversity amount to $380,000, asagainst $175,000 ten years ago. Dr. Llewellyn Raney, Director of Libraries,recently head of the Johns Hopkins University Library, is reorganizing the book-distributing system.The committee having in charge theproduction of a portrait of Mr. JamesHayden Tufts, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, of which committeeProfessor George H. Mead is chairmanand J. Spencer Dickerson treasurer,awarded the commission to Mr. John C.Johansen, of New York and Stock-bridge, Massachusetts. He recently completed the portrait which is a veritablework of art and a most excellent likeness. While the painter was at workupon the canvas he received notice thathe had been awarded by the jury of thecurrent Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculptures at the Art Institute,Chicago, the William M. R. Frenchmemorial gold medal for his painting,"Portrait of the Artist's Family." Mr.Tufts's portrait is temporarily hangingin the Quadrangle Club. Doubtless itwill eventually find its permanent resting place in the new Social ScienceBuilding, recently begun, east of HarperMemorial Library. A remarkably faithful reproduction of the portrait, in colors, forms the frontispiece of this issueof the Record.Mr. Johansen is the painter of theportrait of Professor von Hoist whichhangs in Hutchinson Hall. He likewisepainted the portrait of Elihu Root nowin the Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York. At the close of the WorldWar he was commissioned by the UnitedStates government to paint portraits ofseveral of the leading participants inthat conflict. In this connection it maybe interesting to know that the artistsselected to paint the portraits presentedto the University are recognized withhonors in the world of art. Mr. LeopoldSeyferrt, painter of the portraits of DeanHall and Professor Mechem, not longago received the $1,000 Art InstituteLogan prize for the former portrait.Theodore Johnson, from whose brushcame the portrait of Professor Bigelowof the Law School (a reproduction ofwhich appears on another page), received the $2,500 Logan prize for a portrait at the recent exhibition at the ArtInstitute. In the recent competition forthe Chicago World's Fair poster, W. P.Welsh, who painted Professor Freund's48 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDportrait, received the first prize of $1,500as well as the third prize. Other artistswhose work appears in buildings of theUniversity have also recently been recipients of awards by juries of their artist peers — notably Malcolm Parcell,who painted President Burton's portraitand Paul Trebilcock who painted thatof Dean Mathews. Painters and sculptors are not selected by the University'scommittee on account of their ability towin prizes but, having been selected, it isreassuring to know that the committee's judgment is fortified by professional opinion.The Board of Trustees has accepteda bronze bust of Dr. Julius Stieglitzwhich is to be placed in the George Herbert Jones Laboratory. The bust wasmodeled by Mrs. Alice L. Siems of theMidway Studios, Chicago. A bronzebust of the late Professor J. U. Nef, alsoto find an honored place in the newlaboratory, is to be modeled by Mr.Leonard Crunelle, the sculptor of thememorial bas-relief of President Judson. These sculptures conform in size tothe bust of Professor Alexander Smith,already owned by the University. Dr.Smith during his lifetime was a memberof the faculty of the Department ofChemistry. The Smith figure was modeled by Ulric H. Ellerhusen, who hasproduced many of the figures whichadorn the University Chapel. The threebronze pieces will give distinction to thelaboratory the building of which hasproceeded so far that it has reached theroof line. A reproduction of Mrs. Siems'sadmirable work appears upon anotherpage of this issue.The influenza epidemic which sentscores of students to the hospital and totheir homes caused the closing of theUniversity for a time during the lastportion of the Autumn Quarter. Classeswere discontinued and public gatheringsof the University were necessarily notpermitted. This situation unfortunatelyrequired the postponement of the regular Convocation and the delivery of theConvocation Address by Mr. Silas H.Strawn, of Chicago. Among the minorcasualties was the removal of the editorof the University Record to the company of other members of the Universitygroup in Billings Hospital. Pneumoniahas not facilitated the production of this quarter's issue of this journal whichtranscribes the major events of University progress.Report has been made showing thatthe total cost of the medical group ofbuildings including the Billings Hospitaland the Physiology Building to date hasbeen $5,322,489.D wight S. Brown has been appointed assistant auditor of the University assuccessor to W. B. Harrell, the latterhaving been chosen as auditor of theRosenwald Foundation.Construction of the new Social Science Building was begun in November.It is to occupy the space between Harper Library and Foster Hall. A pictureshowing the building appeared in theApril, 1928, issue of the University Record. Coolidge & Hodgdon are the architects. The cost is estimated at $575,000.Professor Arthur H. Compton hasbeen awarded the gold medal of theRadiological Society of North Americafor his studies of the nature of X-rays,the work which won him the NobelPrize. Presentation of the medal wasmade at the annual convention of the society in Chicago recently.Dr. Edwin 0. Jordan, Professor ofBacteriology and Chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriologyin the University of Chicago, has beenappointed Cutter lecturer in preventivemedicine at Harvard University for theyear 1928-29. The rapid development ofthe importance of bacteriology in modern life has made necessary a ninth edition of Professor Jordan's standard texton bacteriology, a volume of some 700pages and 190 illustrations. A great dealof new work on certified milk, milk analysis, and modern methods of pasteurization is included, as well as improvedmethods of water examination. Professor Jordan's own work in the Universitycovers advanced bacteriology, public-health problems, and sanitary surveys.He is a member of the InternationalHealth Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is the author of Food Poisoning and joint editor of The NewerKnowledge of Bacteriology and Immunology, a collection of late researches inbacteriology prepared by the leadingeighty research men in the field.ATTENDANCE IN THE AUTt rMN QUARTER, 1928December 12 1928 December 13, 1927Gain LossMen Women Total Men Women TotalI. Arts, Literature, and Science:i. Graduate Schools —430509 352148 782657 4005io 389134 789644 13 7Science Total 93965492524 50052470944 1,4391,1781,63468 91060696133 52360174543 1,4331,2071,70676 62. The Colleges-Senior 29728Total 1,6032,5421567895 1,2771,777203156 2,8804,3191761010411 1,6002,5101437802 1,3891,91229595 2,9894,42217212897 4154 109Total Arts, Literature, andScience II. Professional Schools:i. Divinity School —Graduate Unclassified 2Chicago Theological Seminary —Graduate Unclassified Total 25783 4422 301205 232190 4825 280215 212. Graduate Schools of Medicine —Ggden Graduate Schoolof Science —10Unclassified 8 1 9 9Total 183171311271 22213n 205191441381 198151381312 26914 224151471452 4 19Rush Medical College —Post-Graduate Fourth- Year 3Third-Year 7Unclassified 1Total 276454236145413 2616133 302502249148413 286483224118602 2349127 309532236125602 13231 7Total Medical Schools (lessduplicates) 303. Law School —Graduate Senior 19Unclassified Total 4255213 1677 44159110 40452 1946145 42351147 18834. College of Education —13Total 5656128185 14151811 707i146196 760137233 65142232 7274159265 1 25. School of Commerce and Administration —Graduate 3Senior 13Junior 7Unclassified Total 20720211 35772057 242972268 223172 41701648 264871848 1042 226. Graduate School of Social ServiceAdministration —Graduate Senior Total 24 1099 1339 19 98 117 1697 . Graduate School of Library Science —Total Professional Schools . . .Total University (in theQuadrangles) i,4233,96533i 2752,05228 1,6986,017359 1,3683,878324 3202,23234 1,6886,110358 101 93Deduct for duplicates Net total in the Quadrangles. 3,634 2,024 5,658 3,554 2,198 5,752 94[Continued on page 50]50 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDATTENDANCE IN THE AUTUMN QUARTER, 1928— ContinuedDecember 12, 1928 December 13, 1927 Gain LossMen Women Total Men Women TotalUniversity College-255107102163 396692260S4i 651799362704 268104104217 426627247481 69473135i698 '"68"116 43Total 627 1,889 2,516 693 1,781 2,474 42Grand total in the University . 4,261J>9 3,91343 8,17482 4,24743 3,97937 8,22680 2 52Net total in the University . . . 4,222 3,870 8,092 4,204 3,942 8,146 54ATTENDANCE IN THE AUTUMN QUARTER, 1928Graduate Undergraduate UnclassifiedArts, Literature, and Science Divinity School Graduate Schools of Medicine —Ogden Graduate School of Science Rush Medical College Law School College of Education School of Commerce and Administration Graduate School of Social Service Administration Graduate School of Library Science Total (in the Quadrangles) .Duplicates Net total in the Quadrangles .University College ,Grand total in the University.Duplicates Net total in the University.Grand total i,4392802053012497i9792,6512162,4356513, 086443,042 2,81218960265283,2541483,io61,1614,267364,2318,092 6821131061171177048212819FRANK J. LOESCHConvocation Orator, March 19, 1929