The University RecordVolume XV OCTOBER I929 Number 4SCHOOL AND LEISURE1By JOHN ADAMS SCOTTHead of the Department of Classics of Northwestern UniversityANY of the really great, whose contributions to language andto civilization can never pass away, have themselves gone intocomplete oblivion. Such a one was he who first gave to theplace where we lay our dead the name "cemetery/' which means a placeto slumber. Thus, centuries before Shakespeare, this man made permanent and universal the poetic idea conveyed by such phrases as "ourlittle life is rounded with a sleep," or "after life's fitful fever he sleepswell"; but the genius whose forgotten name I wish today to honor is hewho first took the word for spare time, for leisure, the Greek word scholaor in English spelling "school," and gave to it the meaning and the contentthat the word school has ever since maintained. Plato seems to have beenthe first to use in literature the word school with its later meaning, but heuses it so much as a matter of course that we can hardly doubt that schooland leisure had long been regarded as identical. It is impossible to thinkof a better word than this word for "spare time" to describe the thing wemean by "school." No one can go to school or take up any intellectualpursuit without a certain economic leisure, and it is just the lack of thisleisure that has kept so large a part of our race so long in ignorance.INDISPENSABLE CONDITIONS OF CULTUREThere are two indispensable conditions of culture and of education.They are a certain amount of food and a certain amount of spare time,1 An address delivered in the University Chapel on the occasion of the One Hundred Fifty-sixth Convocation of the University, August 30, 1929.M175176 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDtime to be given not to the needs of the body but to the enlargement of themind.Two things have been extremely rare until the last century — thesetwo essentials, food and leisure. The farmer who cut his grain with ascythe or a sickle, and then threshed it with a flail or by driving domesticanimals over wheat or barley as it lay on the threshing-floor, then winnowed by tossing it in the air, could produce with the help of all hisfamily little more than that family consumed, while for the great mass ofhumanity hunger was always just around the corner. Athens, in orderto meet that grim need, prohibited the exportation of all grain, prohibitedthe lending of money on any vessel that did not bring a return cargo toAthens, and prohibited any ship which had sought anchorage in anAthenian harbor from sailing to its destination without first sending mostof its cargo, if that cargo was grain, to the city.We can hardly imagine how frugal was the fare of all classes, and howrare it was for the people not to be hungry. Homer allows Menelaus totell the story of his wanderings and the mighty marvels he had seen. Hehad visited the Nile and seen its monuments in their grandeur of threethousand years ago, but they made not the slightest impression on themind of that ancient king; yet he did find a land that astonished him, forhe found a place where "prince and shepherd have meat, and cheese, andmilk the whole year round," not a sumptuous fare, but, even so, he hadfound a land where the people had enough to eat. It was no mere courtesythat at the king's place at table there was generally put an extra portionof food and of drink, and those were not idle words that Sarpedon spoketo Glaucus, his associate in battle, "Why do we have larger portions ofmeat and fuller cups of wine in time of peace, except that we may thebetter face dangers in time of peril?" Here is the first great advantage inthe acquisition of knowledge that we have over the ancients, we have anabundance of things to eat. The mowing-machine, the self-binder, thethresher, the tractor, and the locomotive have made food so abundant, souniversal, that it is the producer and not the consumer that has becomeeconomically imperiled. If the farmers of today could return to the implements of a century ago, there would be no farm problem, but it wouldonly be a city problem with hungry people bidding for food. The greatmaladjustment in the case of the farmer is that he works as many hours aday with his enormously productive machinery as his ancestors did withthe scythe and the flail. He has not forced these inventions to give himleisure, or, to use the Greek word in English dress, it has not given himschool.SCHOOL AND LEISURE 177This use of leisure is not only the economic but the intellectual centerof the farm problem. Farmers will not be idle, but they must learn someother use for the extra time machinery has brought them than the production of an increased surplus of unneeded grain.WOMEN WITHIN AND HARD AT WORKThe ancient man, in the mass, as already said, had little food, and hehad even less spare time, the tools with which he worked allowed him butlittle leisure, but little chance for mental improvement, yet some of theoccupations in which the men were engaged were seasonal, farmers hadcertain annual periods of rest, and sailors remained in port during therougher months of the winter. Some men did have spare time and it wasthese men that gave to leisure the meaning that now belongs to the wordschool, but the work of women was not seasonal, it was perpetual. Theirtasks were the rearing of the family, cooking, spinning, weaving, butabove all the grinding of the meal and the flour. Homer had a boundlessimagination, but one thing never entered his mind and that was awoman with spare time; the old men of Troy might have sat at the gatesand "chattered like grasshoppers" but the women were within and hardat work. When fickle and handsome Helen is first seen in the Iliad sheis busy with her toil, weaving at the loom, and when she reappears in theOdyssey she is spinning. When Hector bids farewell to Andromache hetells her to go back to her house and to mind the loom and distaff, and toattend to her work. Nausicaa, the charming sixteen-, or nearly sixteen-,year-old princess, the only daughter of a rich king, arises early that shemay take a mule cart loaded with the soiled clothing of her big brothersto the washing place, and she washes this clothing, apparently with asmuch pride and delicacy as a modern princess would dedicate a hospitalor a battleship. But worse than anything else and than all else combinedwas the constant need to grind the meal and flour. I suppose the mill atwhich women worked has caused more misery than any implement oftorture that has ever been devised. When Odysseus came home in theguise of a beggar and slept unknown in his own palace, he listened to thewomen grinding at their mills, twelve of them worked through the night,eleven fell asleep at their grinding, but one poor thing, feeble and exhausted, prayed to Zeus to free her somehow from the toil that wascrushing her life, from the suitors who demanded the flour which sopainfully came from her mill. It is some such a scene as that whichEcclesiastes reveals "and the grinders shall cease because they are few"or "when the voice of the grinders is low." The women of all antiquity,i78 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDlike poor blind and fettered Samson, were forced to grind in their prison-house.No city of all time has produced so many men of the very highestrank as Athens, yet in this educated audience I doubt if five people canname any other women who were born in Athens than Xanthippe, famousfor scolding her husband, Socrates. We can hardly doubt that the womenin Athens had as much ability as the men, her modern sister proves this,since in our coeducational institutions we are hard put to find scholastichonors which are not all taken by the women. Sometimes we slyly add,"These honors shall go half to men students and half to women students," and this is not intended to make it any easier for the women.Then why did so few Athenian women reach distinction? Theywere spinning, weaving, or grinding, they had no leisure, no school, theyhad nothing but labor, and this sad condition they shared with all theother women of their day. Let me read to you the description of thegood woman as she is described in the last chapter of the Book ofProverbs in our own Bible:Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies.The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need ofspoil.She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar.She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portionto her maidens.She considereth a field and buyeth it ; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.She perceiveth that her merchandise is good, her candle goeth not out by night.She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.She stretcheth out her hand to the poor, yea, she reacheth forth her hands to theneedy.She is not afraid of the snow for the household; for all her household are clothedwith scarlet.She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.She maketh fine linen and selleth it ; and delivereth girdles to the merchant.She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.The husband of such a woman might have a little leisure, a littletime to show his fine raiment while he sat among the elders, he mighthave had a little time for school, for intellectual improvement, but howabout that virtuous woman herself? She was essentially a beast of bur-SCHOOL AND LEISURE 179den. Homer, when fixing the prizes for the games in honor of Patroclus,estimated the value of a woman of many accomplishments at the worthof four oxen. It is hard for me to speak as an expert in such matters, butI would appraise the good women in Proverbs who did so much overtimework at twice that worth or at eight oxen; perhaps her husband wouldnot part with her for nine. There was no escape from her continuous toilfor that woman or for that woman's daughters; the work had to be done,the flax and the wool must be made into cloth, the grain must be ground.To emancipate her would have meant ruin for herself and ruin for herfamily.The great advance made by modern women, their power and theirfreedom, were brought about by no moral enthusiasm, no wave of socialreform, no advanced legislation. No social change can be lasting thatis not economically sound. Whatever else economics may be, it is notsentimental. The men who invented machines that spin, machines thatweave, and machines that grind revolutionized the condition of womenand broke their bondage. These men gave to them that leisure, thatspare time, that school, that chance to be companions on equal footingwith their brothers, sons, or husbands which has made all this socialconvulsion.People whose work is now done by machines must not be cast adriftor allowed to perish; they must be kept alive if for no higher motive thanto provide instruments to eat up or wear out the material these machinescreate.PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERSThere has been a complete economic reversal; the ancient statesmanor economist was concerned almost entirely with increasing production;his modern counterpart is interested mainly with cutting off competitionor increasing consumption. Modern advertisements could have had noancient equivalent, for modern advertisement is concerned almost exclusively in finding a means of disposing of surplus production. Wecannot continue to invent labor-saving machinery without a steady reduction in the number of producers; yet we cannot dispose of thisincreased production without a steady increase in the numbers of consumers. It seems to me inevitable that the hours of labor must continueto be reduced, and that the leisure, the spare time, which was for somany ages the privilege of a small class of males, and then only duringtheir youth or decrepit old age, should become a universal possession.The ordinary mechanic either now has a forty-hour week or is strivingto obtain it, while millions do not work even that much. The mechanici8o THE UNIVERSITY RECORDwho works 40 hours a week has 128 hours to himself each week, that is,18 hours for six days and 20 for the day that remains. Nothing that thelast century has produced is so important, so fraught with evil or withgood, as this rapidly mounting leisure, a leisure of no social class, andof no period or age of life.The future of our civilization largely depends on the use we makeof these economically unemployed hours, these idle hours. The greatwriter of songs, Isaac Watts, wrote, "For Satan finds some mischief stillfor idle hands to do." We can regard these idle hours as hours of temptations, as harvest seasons for Satan, or we can give to them the importanceand the aspirations of the Greeks, when they called them hours of self-improvement, school. Their problem was a small one, as but few hadleisure, and that few had leisure only in their youth, or at an age whenpowers wrere feeble. Our problem embraces, or should embrace, all ourpeople, for all our people have or deserve to have spare time. We stillcherish the ancient notion that education belongs only to the period ofyouth, and that going to school, with all it implies, should end at an earlyage, that those in middle life, and beyond, learn not at all or only withgreat difficulty. My own observation and experience give me an entirelydifferent opinion. Schliemann grew to manhood in poverty with no sortof advantages, struggled long with want, achieved great business success,and after retirement from business took up the study of Greek, thenlater of Homer, for whose interpretation he was to achieve such astounding results. I myself induced a man, who wrote to me regarding varioustranslations of Homer, to take up the study of Greek for himself, so thathe might appreciate the beauties of that poet in the poet's own melodiouslanguage. This man, I found out later, was nearly fifty years of age, hehad dropped out of school in childhood and knew nothing of the intricacies of grammar or of syntax, yet in an incredibly short time, certainly less than three years, he wrote me: "I owe more to you than toany one that lives, for you put into my hand the golden key that hasopened for me the palace of enchantment, you have changed my life to asong. I can read Homer just as well as you can." And he can. Thesetwo examples, which can be multiplied, convince me that education andthe joys of the mind are not the exclusive possession of the young, butbelong alike to all. This vastly increases the field, the opportunities, andthe obligations of our universities.THE PANGS OF MENTAL HUNGERThe man or the woman at fifty has the same mental hunger, needsthe same mental nourishment, as the boy or girl of fifteen or twenty. WeSCHOOL AND LEISURE 181make little distinction between the bread, the milk, the meat, the pie, andthe fruit we serve at our tables, whether the tables be set for people oftwenty or people of seventy. Whatever years remain to me are just asmuch my all, mean just as much to me, as the years that lie before myson or my daughter. No man ever comforted himself for a boil, a felon,or a toothache by saying that he was well along in life, so it will notmatter. The pangs of mental hunger are as keen at fifty as at twenty.The misused or unused spare time of our adults is the greatest wastecivilization has yet known. Here is where the "gems of purest ray serene,the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear." Here is where "flowers wastetheir fragrance" and where unsuspected roses "blush unseen."Life for most of us is the constant repetition of the things we havealready done. Indeed, it is this very repetition that makes us experts.The housewife must set and reset the same table, must wash again andagain the dishes she has already washed so many times before; theteacher must correct year in and year out the same mistakes; must tryagain to inspire the same unaspiring youth; the dentist must still lookat the same or some kindred cavity, and must with sympathetic voicespeak the same assurance, "This won't hurt much" or "It won't lastlong." I can see but one cure for the monotony of the recurring round ofthose daily duties which make up the useful life, and this cure is fortunately the cure for the problem which lies in the mounting leisure of allclasses: and that is that in addition to our vocation, our vocation whichprovides us with a living, we should all have an avocation, somethingthat makes living a thing of music and of joy.Become interested in something worth while, some famous person,some age, some plant, some form of life or of nature, and the monotonyof life becomes endless delight. Here there are no barriers, no terms ofadmission, the doors are always open, and as you advance you will besurprised to find that people all over the world are interested in thatsame thing, and that soon they will become interested in you. The fieldshould be a very narrow one at first. We are all members of the humanfamily, and citizens of a great nation, but there must be some placewhere we can be reached, some place for the postman to deliver us letters,for telegrams to be brought, and for telephone calls to come. Attachyour studies to a single thing, until that thing forces you to enlarge yourhorizon. It was the "place to stand" the philosopher needed before hecould move the world, and the smaller the area on which you take yourstand the more likely you are to hold it. Those broad scholars, thoseuniversal scholars are rarely learned or even intelligent in the fieldswhere they can be measured by experts.182 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDTAKING THE HORROR OUT OF ADVANCING YEARSI know nothing comparable to an avocation for taking the horrorout of advancing years and out of retirement from business or from aprofession. A man with an avocation looks to retirement as a greatopportunity to spend more time with the thing he craves. He retires withthe same feelings a man returns to his family for a vacation at home,happy now that he is free to live with those he loves; but a man withno hobby, no mental pleasures, has little use for his present leisure andlooks to the increased leisure of retirement with horror. The saddestthing I know is not some poor woman struggling to support her orphanedchildren; she has something for which to live, but it is a person withplenty of time and plenty of wealth, yet who has no further use foreither than the acquisition of more spare time and more wealth, neitherof which he can use. If there is a place of despair, a place of wailing inthis city, it is the club where assemble retired men who have no avocation,no worth-while hobbies.Golf has no joys for the man with an annually ascending score. Ignorant people, unthinking people, may say that men play golf for theexercise, for the fresh air, but all golfers know better. Take the hopesof "pars," "birdies," and "eagles" out of the breast of a golfer and he is aruined golfer, his membership is for sale, and if he is by chance a life-member of some club he hopes that soon he will create a vacancy. Eccles-iastes has no words of bitterness to describe the mental outlook of a manwho having intimately associated with birdies finds himself scorned atlast by Colonel Bogey. Old people who play golf must have their pleasures elsewhere. Even bridge-whist begins to pall, for the partner whoknew when you bid spades that you intended to play diamonds may havegone on, and the new partner may leave you to your mortification andyour spades. Old people who play bridge must have their pleasures elsewhere.A man who has ignored the unprofitable, non-dividend-bearing joysof the mind faces a gloomy future, but I never knew a man with anavocation who did not grow in happiness as he advanced in years.Such people are all around us, it is no counsel of perfection, no extinct species of which I speak. Since Homer is my own field I wish tospeak of a few men who have found their joy in working with him. Homeris a large subject and mastery of his poetry and his age costs much, yetif one were asked to name ten men who in recent years have done mostto advance Homeric scholarship and most for the comprehension of thatmighty poet, at least five of that ten would be men who never taughtSCHOOL AND LEISURE 183Homer, men who loved him and studied him simply for the joys of themind. One of these men was an indigo, cotton, and saltpeter merchant,two were bankers, one is an architect who became an archaeologist, andone a retired member of the East India Company. Each of these menprospered in his business or profession, his vocation, but the fame ofeach rests upon his avocation. Other names are on the doors whereSchliemann controlled his great business, his name is never heard in themarts of trade or on the exchange, but the Schliemann of the hobby, theenthusiast, has taken a share in the immortality of Homer.LEAF, THE BANKER, THE SCHOLARWalter Leaf is not unknown in this city, which he twice has visited.He succeeded so well in his vocation that he advanced from one bankingposition to another, until he was at the head of one of the greatest banking systems of the world, and the deposits of his bank reached almosttwo billion dollars. He was president of the London Chamber of Commerce, then of the World's Chamber of Commerce, yet he found timeto produce a shelf of books on Homer. When the Great War came onhe added to his duties as president of a great bank the greater burden ofbeing one of a small committee, part of the time its chairman, whichcarried the enormous burden of financing the British Empire. One dayhe wrote to me:We have just parted with our only son, who has gone on his ship with his company to the front, and we do not know whether he will be sent to the Dardanelles tofight the Turks or up the Tigris River in the direction of Bagdad. What we shallhear from him, or when we shall hear from him, I cannot even guess. Half of mybanking force is now engaged on the various fronts, and the difficulties of continuingare enormous. To all this is added the financial burdens of the Empire. To relievemy mind and to help me carry my added obligations I am resolved to do an entirelydifferent piece of work. I hope to produce a new book on the geography of Strabo.And he did. The book was begun and finished during the war. The fameof Leaf, the banker, even now depends almost entirely on the accomplishments of Leaf, the scholar.When Cicero came to Rome he hoped to win a living and a place asan advocate, and he tells us that in order to rest his mind from the turmoil of the court and the Forum, he took up the study of language, ofpoetry, and of philosophy, simply an avocation with no thought but theradiant joys of the mind. Cicero in his vocation would have long beenforgotten had not Cicero in his avocation become the dominant literaryinfluence in European culture.An exact parallel is our own Albert J. Beveridge. He aspired to1 84 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDbecome a successful attorney, and he was; he had ambitions for a highplace in politics, and he was early in life a leading United States senator;but he had a hobby: he loved to ponder the careers of famous men, toimagine to himself the circles in which they moved, to trace the sourcesof their success, to find out what they had read, what they had heard,and who influenced them. He had thus an astounding ability in imaginingfor himself and in picturing for others the setting of great historic scenes.I know of nothing to surpass his description of the session of the Virginia convention which discussed the adoption of the United States Constitution, or his portrayal of the Supreme Court at the time of theannouncement of the Dred Scott Decision. Beveridge, the lawyer, andBeveridge, the United States senator, will be remembered because he isthe same Beveridge who wrote the life of Marshall and the half-completed story of Lincoln. Cicero as an example may seem too remote, butBeveridge is one of us.Nothing is too small for an avocation, nothing too insignificant tobring in its argosies of benefits and of pleasures. A friend of mine is anenthusiast regarding angleworms, and he sees in these footless, armless,brainless, headless creatures the real supporters of civilization. Hour byhour, and year by year, they eat and dig, they dig and eat, and what theyeat they transform to rich productive soil. It is they, he tells me, thathave kept fertile so long the fields of England, and England could betterspare her navy and her colonies than these stupid things that shun thesunlight and feed on dirt.Have an avocation and get it early, something that will not desertyou, something that will put you in touch with kindred spirits everywhere, something that will rob old age of its bitterness, and will makeretirement seem like a glad holiday. This will restore to modern sparetime, to abundant spare time, to universal spare time, the old Greekfeeling for leisure, for school.THE KINDNESS OF PEOPLEAt this moment in the program it is customary for the speaker, whois expected to be a man of eminence, to point out to the new graduatesthe steps by which he traveled to reach his exalted station, but I am nota man of eminence. This great honor was given to me, this honor I somuch appreciate, because I have for so many years been a friend of theofficials who have this Convocation in charge, and also because theywished to show a courtesy to a neighboring university with which Ihave so long been connected. However, if I have not achieved eminence,SCHOOL AND LEISURE 185I have, at least, had many and varied experiences, and I have knownmany people both within and without the circle of a university. I wishto make one remark about my own impressions of life. It has not beenthe thing I expected to find. Life has been a constant surprise to me, andthe thing which surprises me is the kindliness of people, kindliness everywhere. This great University, given freely and given unselfishly by manymen and ungrudgingly carried on by many Trustees, our hospitals, ourhomes for the aged and the friendless, all are typical of the thing in lifethat impresses me most. Paul quotes Jesus as saying, "It is more blessedto give than to receive." These words are the life in practice of half thepeople I know. I want to close by repeating this sentence. The thing inlife which has impressed me most is the kindliness of people.AN ART BUILDING FOR THEUNIVERSITYt | ^HE friends of art in the University were inspired and delighted1 when it was announced at the meeting of the Board of TrusteesJL that Mr. Max Epstein, of Chicago, had offered to provide fundsto build an art building. Mr. Epstein will be remembered as the liberalfounder of the dispensary of the University Clinics and as a generousdonor of funds for the enlargement of the University's medical work.While, of course, some details remain to be settled, it is expected that thenew building will be erected on the block on which the Chapel stands.Mr. Epstein's letter to the Board of Trustees is dated August 30,1929, and contains the following particulars and conditions of his offer:The achievements of the University of Chicago in the fields of medicine and science have been noteworthy. Its researches have contributed materially to our knowledge of the laws of nature. Its encouragement of research and study of the varioussciences has attracted to itself a body of earnest investigators, teachers and students,whose efforts have resulted in the dissemination of a wider and a more intelligent understanding of the principles, laws and aims of science.There is another important field to which this University should devote itselfwith the same zeal, namely, art; that record and expression in form and color of thehistory of humanity. I believe that the University of Chicago should offer to theyoung men and women who are its students and to the public at large, the opportunity of learning the significance of art, both as a history of the life of the past and asa living and inspiring force in the present. The creation of an art center at the University will bring together a body of teachers and students of art and will result inthe spreading of a sincere and informed appreciation of art.The first step to this end is to provide the necessary environment and facilitiesfor such work. I am, therefore, pleased to avail myself of this opportunity, and willprovide the funds for the erection of an art building. This building should be erectedon a suitable site on the campus of the University of Chicago ; should be beautiful indesign, fitting to express the spirit of the fine arts, and should be large enough tocontain lecture-rooms, class-rooms, laboratories, a library, rooms for an extensivecollection of photographs of art works, and adequate rooms for the exhibition oforiginal paintings and sculpture.To erect such a building, I hereby agree to contribute the sum of one milliondollars, payable as and when the money is required. The design and plans for thisbuilding shall be submitted to me for approval.I suggest that this building be called and known as "Institute of Fine Arts ofthe University of Chicago, founded by Max and Leoia Epstein."I believe it important to the success of this Institute that a separate board beestablished for it so as to enlist the aid and services of those men and women who186MAX EPSTEIN, DONOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF FINEARTS OF THE UNIVERSITYAN ART BUILDING FOR THE UNIVERSITY 187are especially interested in art and in the work of this Institute. It is expected andparticularly desired that interested Trustees of the University of Chicago also become members of this board.It is the purpose of this Institute, through research and study, to arrive at abetter understanding of the principles of art and its function and place in humanlife; to teach the history of art and to interpret its meaning; to bring, from allcountries, men eminent in art to lecture and to teach ; to give facilities to interestedfriends to lend their art treasures to the Institute for exhibit and study; to extend,by bulletin and radio, the benefit of its teachings to the people of the Middle West;to be a fountainhead from which shall flow a deeper and wider interest in the lovefor all things beautiful.It is not the intention that this Institute will, in any way, conflict with the functions and activities of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is rather hoped and expectedto aid and enlarge the usefulness of the Art Institute and its great art treasures bystimulating an informed and lively interest in art and awakening the public at largeto a deeper appreciation of the beautiful things to be found therein.In the study and development of the idea of this Institute I have consultedwith Prof. A. L. Mayer of Munich; Bernard Berenson of Florence; Sir CharlesHolmes and Sir Robert Witt of London; Prof. Paul Sachs of Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Prof. John Shapley; Frederick P. Keppel, President of theCarnegie Corporation of New York and others. The article written by the late Professor Walter Sargent of the University of Chicago was found very helpful and suggestive.FOUR SONNETSBy OZORA S. DAVISLate President of the Chicago Theological SeminaryILast night a message sobbed across the milesThat sundered us from him for whom we prayed.The morning found us dazed and sore dismayed,Although upon the earth the sunlight smiles.Amicus moritur! No charm beguilesThe mind that faces truth. No tricks are playedWith those who reason and are unafraid.We shun illusion and enchanted isles.Collega moritur! The flag is low.Today we softly walk and slowly speak.His place is vacant in the Chapel line.And yet, we fathom in the deeps belowA strength to aid us when our hearts are weak.We flee from human pain to help divine.IITis not as if one fell in full retreatForspent and wounded, cumbering the van.He moved full-armed, courageous, and a manWho bore our standards, fearing no defeat.For him the call to onset was so sweetAs fits a martial soul; his Leader's planHe followed as that soldier only canIn whom both gentleness and courage meet.And now, thank God for such a soul to bearThe flags of truth and love so far aheadThat we who follow fighting see them shine!And give us strength anew, great God, to dareFace craven foes of truth, when from our deadWe catch the flag he loved with love divine.188FOUR SONNETS 189IIIImmortal love's pure chivalry he showedTo every humble toiler at his side;The lowliest found his labor dignifiedBecause a brother lightened half the load.Beside the weak with sturdy step he strodeUntil his strength the straggler vivified.To every call for help his voice replied.He trod the path that love and duty showed.Oh! this was knighthood's pure and holy grace!This was our Arthur, conscience to us all !And this was Galahad, the stainless heart !Through God's eternal years, before His faceHe still shall fare ; he still shall hear the callOf mortal need ; he still shall bear our part.IVI loved him here, strong, brave, serene, and good ;And all the memory of that past is mine.But now I love him in a world divineIn fellowship of heavenly brotherhood.And, in that realm so poorly understood,Whose depths I cannot plumb with my scant line,I find him worthier of my friendship's shrine;He dwells today in closer neighborhood.And as, in those dear days, he found my soulThrough human words and clasp of mortal hand,I know that he will find me now, and proveMy master in all generous, sweet control,Still rare companion, in a fairer land,And worthier of my true, undying love.TWO WELL-DESERVED TRIBUTESON BEHALF of the Trustees of the University a letter draftedby Trustees Gilkey, Sherer, and Bond was sent to Vice-President Frederic Woodward, recognizing the signal service heperformed as Acting President of the University in the period betweenthe resignation of President Mason and the coming of President Hutch-ins. The text of the letter to Mr. Woodward is as follows:At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University held on May 9, 1929,there was unanimous expression of appreciation of your able guidance of the affairsof the University as its Acting President, and, following a resolution of the Boardthen adopted, we were appointed a committee to send its message to you.The Trustees consider it highly fortunate that after the resignation of PresidentMason you were willing to undertake the burden of directing the administration ofthe University in addition to carrying on your work as Vice-President. The membersof the various committees with whom you have met so often and so faithfully speakwith enthusiasm of your tactfulness and good judgment. The progress which the affairs of the University have made is evidence of the unfailing care and ability youhave given to its administration. The Senate resolution transmitted to our Board impressed all of the Trustees as a notable evidence of your success in this important anddifficult task. Only those who know the many problems of the University constantlyrequiring solution can understand how great are the demands that this task makesupon the ability and strength of the head of the administration. May we say alsohow much pleasure our Board has had in the closer personal relations arising fromour work with you as Acting President.On behalf of the Board of Trustees, then, we send to you its deep appreciationof your great service to the University as its Acting President.At the meeting of the Board of Trustees held June 13, 1929, the resignation of Dean Charles W. Gilkey as Trustee of the University wasregretfully accepted. The President of the Board appointed a committee consisting of Trustees Dickerson, Bond, and Sherer to express to himthe appreciation of the Trustees for the service he rendered on behalf ofthe University during the ten-year period of his trusteeship. The reportwas unanimously adopted at the meeting of the Board held July 1 1 andis as follows:Charles W. Gilkey in 1919 was elected a Trustee to succeed Judge J. O. Humphrey, who died in 1918. For these ten years, a decade during which the Universityhas made noteworthy progress, Dr. Gilkey has served in many useful ways, in theBoard, in the University community, in the city, in the religious world at home andabroad, served unostentatiously, faithfully, and efficiently. A pastor with a largechurch under his care, a preacher with a vital message, whether that message was de-190TWO WELL-DESERVED TRIBUTES 191livered in his own pulpit or before thousands of students in the United States, inEurope, and in India, he has never been too busy to give his time, his thought, andhis experience to the affairs of the University. In the councils of the Board his opinions have been wisely formed and tactfully presented. He has borne his full share ofwhat might be called the drudgery of trusteeship. He has been a member of committees in whose meetings hours were spent on necessary but unspectacular investigation. He was chairman of the Committee on Instruction and Equipment in whichhis knowledge of men and educational methods was of great usefulness in the choiceof new members of the faculties. He rendered valuable aid in the organization of theUniversity Clinics. In two memorable instances as chairman of the committee on thepresidency of the University he led its Faculty and Trustee members to unanimity intheir recommendations, followed in turn by unanimous and enthusiastic action bythe Board. More than one Trustee has spoken of his prayers at the opening of meetings of the Board in which he reverently voiced the higher aspirations of its membersand the dependence of the University upon the wisdom which can come only fromdivine guidance.Recalling the splendid service which Dr. Gilkey has rendered so freely and sohelpfully, the Board of Trustees places upon its records its sense of appreciation ofthat service so unselfishly and so delightfully rendered. As he is entering the inspiringservice of the deanship of the University Chapel the Trustees assure him of theirconfidence in his direction of this most important mission — the stimulation of the religious thinking and the righteous doing of countless young people drawn hither fromthe ends of the earth.THE EDWARD L. RYERSON FELLOWSHIPS IN ARCHAEOLOGYON JANUARY 17, 1929, the University received from the estateof Edward L. Ryerson, of Chicago, the sum of $50,000 for thepurpose of establishing scholarships or fellowships in the Department of Archaeology of the University.The following rules for the administration of the fund have beenadopted:1. That the fellowships shall be called the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowships in Archaeology.2. That so far as possible the fellowships shall be traveling fellowships so that theholders can spend at least part of the year in studying excavations and collectionsin foreign countries. In case, however, the candidates in any one year are not sufficiently advanced in their work to profit by study abroad, some of the revenuefrom the fund may be used for one or two resident fellowships. For example, inany year there may be two traveling fellowships of $1,250 each or of $1,500 and$1,000, respectively; or one traveling fellowship ($1,500) and one ($1,000) or two($500 each) resident fellowships.3. That the fellowships shall be allocated primarily to Greek and Roman archaeology ; but if in any year the applicants for either traveling or resident fellowships inthe Greek or Roman field do not show satisfactory qualifications, the fellowshipsshall be available for students of oriental archaeology.4. That the appointments shall be made by the President of the University on therecommendation of the Classical Conference or of the Oriental Institute.192From left to right: Bernard A. Eckhart, Percy B. Eckkart, Marion Eckhart, Roy O. West,Julius Rosenwald, Dean Harry G. GateANOTHER CORNERSTONE IS LAIDECKHART HALL CORNERSTONELAIDTHE University Record for April contained a general descriptionof Bernard Albert Eckhart Hall, the cornerstone of which waslaid with appropriate exercises on July u, 1929. The buildingis made possible by the generous donation of him whose name it bearsand represents another forward step in the present noteworthy era ofbuilding on Universit}^ property.Dean Henry G. Gale presided on the occasion, presenting the severalpersons who took part in this service which marked the progress of construction of this much-needed building. An unusually large companygathered, including Trustees, members of the Faculties of Mathematics,Physics, and Astronomy. Mr. Gilbert A. Bliss read a paper describingthe uses which the new hall will serve and .the facilities which it will provide. Portions of this address follow:THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCESI hope in the time allotted to me to emphasize for a moment the importancewhich our sciences seem to us to have in the modern scheme of life, and to describethe great impetus which this wonderful new building will give to the development ofthese sciences here in the Central West.The contribution of the mathematical sciences to the fabric of the civilization inwhich we live is not always easy to explain to the non-mathematician. To those ofus who have specialized in mathematics and its sister sciences it is a commonplace tosay, for example, that the union of mathematics and astronomy in celestial mechanics, now long well known but always marvelous, is the essence of the science of navigation without which mariners would still be groping their ways across the seas afterthe fashion of the early discoverers of these western continents. It is a commonplaceto us also to say that mathematics and physics have been joined with great effectiveness in the modern theories of electromagnetism, whose development is one of themost striking contributions of recent generations to the comfort and progress of ourrace. These are only two of the domains in which mathematics is associated in activeprogress with other sciences. I have chosen to mention them especially becausemathematics, physics, and astronomy will be housed together in the new building,and because the most recent expressions of their union, the theory of relativity andthe new quantum mechanics, are among the most aggressively pursued objects of research of modern times, theories whose results have startled scientists, and largergroups as well, out of scientific complacencies which have seemed permanently established and which have their origins as far back as the researches of Newton andhis contemporaries more than two hundred years ago.193194 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDIn order to emphasize the great advantages which the new building will bring tous I am tempted to speak perhaps too long of the difficulties of our present situation.In our Department of Physics, in the Summer Quarter, it is not uncommon for agraduate student to set up a screen across the corner or the end of a large laboratoryroom. Behind the screen he collects his apparatus, and there, surrounded by it, hemay imagine himself snugly ensconced in his private laboratory, on the verge of thediscovery of powerful methods of measuring the diameter of a Betelgeuse, strippingatoms of electrons, analyzing the properties of isotopes, or scattering electrons withphotons, which will startle a somnolent scientific world from its self-satisfied complacency.But soon all this will be changed. Imagination of this sort will no longer benecessary when Eckhart Hall is completed. The basement and first floor of this newbuilding will be given over to research laboratory rooms for physicists. For theirpurposes this is the most important space of all since it is free from the vibrationsand disturbances of the upper stories. On the first floor there will be also a largelecture-room holding 250 people, where demonstration lectures may be given beforelarge groups of students, and where we may entertain suitably the visitors who gatherhere for meetings of our national scientific societies several times a year.On the second floor of the new building there is to be a beautiful library room,unusually well lighted and attractively finished, with stack space for books and arrangements to make them readily accessible which are all that one could desire.Across the hall is a social room with an adjoining exhibition room, in which ourphysics and mathematics clubs can hold their social or scientific meetings. Such meeting-rooms have proved themselves of the greatest value in encouraging discussionand co-operation between students and Faculties in other departments, but our meetings for these purposes have hitherto necessarily been confined largely to the hallways. On the second floor also will be offices and more classrooms. No longer willit be necessary, in making out a schedule, to search nervously for space in which tohold our classes, instead of giving our first consideration to the welfare of our students and the presentation of our sciences.On the third floor of Eckhart Hall will be seminar rooms and offices, one foreach of our mathematicians and mathematical astronomers, with a number morewhich until our departments grow can be used by visiting summer Professors, visiting National Research Fellows, and Fellows of our own departments. Offices areprosaic things but I cannot overemphasize the importance of this provision in thenew building. From Junior-College instruction onward much of our work is done inconference with individuals or groups of students, and with our more advanced thesisstudents the most significant work which we do is entirely of this sort. In our everyday routine of instruction and research there is no more discouraging check whichone can experience than to enter one's office, with a student or a new research ideawhich promises to be fruitful and which needs immediate examination, only to find,as we now often do, the office already occupied. We need places which we can callour own, where we can gather our books and manuscripts about us. It is duringsummer quarters, which many of us spend in part or all in the neighborhood of theUniversity, that our best research is frequently done, and on such occasions we needmore than ever the companionship of books and the seclusion of a private workroom.On the fourth floor of the building there will be workrooms, each presumablyECKHART HALL CORNERSTONE LAID 195shared by a number of advanced students who have been definitely accepted as candidates for higher degrees. This seems to me again a most important provision forthe work of our departments. At no stage is scientific companionship more inspiringand helpful than during that difficult period in a student's career when he is struggling with his first research problem. In our departments hitherto we have neverbeen able to provide for our students the physical surroundings which would encourage this sort of companionship. Lectures of professors alone will never makehearers into scholars. At some time in his career the graduate student who succeedsand becomes an authority in his field must forsake the role of the passive listenerand begin to model his own scientific experiences. We are counting heavily upon ournew fourth floor as a laboratory of transformation of passive students into activescholars.In planning for the new building we have done our best to proceed wisely anddeliberately, in order that every future need of our departments shall be provided foras far as we can see them. We have been encouraged beyond measure by the interest of the Trustees and officers of the University, and by the generosity of thedonors who have made this building possible, and we are determined so to contributeto the cause of education and to the advancement of human knowledge that the nameof Bernard Albert Eckhart Hall shall take a place of great distinction beside that ofRyerson Physical Laboratory in the annals of our sciences.Mr. John F. Moulds, Secretary of the Board of Trustees, read thelong list of documents contained in the sealed copper box enclosed withinthe stone, a list which included the customary array of appropriate material and specimens of the new United States paper currency issued onthe day before.The donor, Mr. Eckhart, happily surrounded by members of hisfamily, pronounced the stone properly placed, the rain which precededand followed the ceremonies fortunately ceasing, although the clatter ofriveting machines, the pounding of pile-drivers, the creaking of excavators, all gave audible evidence that this was only one part of the present University program of building.A luncheon at the Quadrangle Club followed, at which forty or morefriends of the University and of the donor listened to an address deliveredby Mr. Percy B. Eckhart, son of the donor and himself a graduate ofthe University. A few paragraphs of Mr. Percy Eckhart's address aregiven:MR. PERCY B. ECKHART SPEAKSEven in the face of foreign and some domestic criticism, no well-informedperson doubts the honesty of purpose of the best men in either the field of businessor science. There are industrialists without number who direct the work of our largecorporations with the true spirit of the pioneer. They are burdened by the fact thatthey are servants of two tyrannical masters, the stockholder, who justly demandsprofits that he may have his dividends, and the public, which, with equal vehemence,requires adequate service at the lowest possible cost. These rigidly fix his working196 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDconditions. Thus limited he must still carry on for the love of the game without losing sight of his ideal. Standing shoulder to shoulder with the business man who freely gives the best he has to public service both in times of peace and war is the man ofscience who, refusing to accept comfort and profit that he may work on in the truespirit of his calling, as freely donates his discovery to the use of the world or assignshis patent to the university. The university man, if he is to add his utmost to thegeneral fund of knowledge must be untrammeled by any thought that his work shallat once yield financial profits, and he has looked and will look to the business man tohelp establish and maintain this working condition.The results of successful work in the two fields of endeavor are most diverse.It is no disparagement of the business man's achievements to say that he realizes asacutely as the philosopher in the university that the material things with which business has immediately to do will soon disappear. Any work of man's hands lasts buta limited time. It is the results of man's creative mentality that survive. It is theideas, the stock in trade of the scientist and scholar, which live and last. If the manof affairs is to be a factor in retarding the annihilating processes of time, he mustally himself with some work which contributes something permanent or precious toman's sum of accurate knowledge. No man is worthy of a place as a leader in thecommercial world who does not understand this fact.After a building has stood through the years, who is to appraise the work of thehewer of stone over that of the carver of wood? Both men may in time be forgotten,yet they have felt the immortal joy of creation. The erection of a structure, beautiful and adequate, to forward work of wide significance, has given my father deepesthappiness. The men who are to direct the work done within its walls have alreadyadded astonishingly to human understanding. It is easy to comprehend the sense ofprivilege my father feels when he realizes he is to aid in the future work of these menof imagination, courage, and transcendent ability whose past achievements have sosignally honored our great and much-loved University.FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTOF THE COMPTROLLERTHE annual report of the Comptroller of the University, Mr. Nathan C. Plimpton, was recently presented to the Board of Trus-teers. It provides information concerning the financial situationof the institution accompanied by elaborate financial and statistical tablescovering the fiscal year, July i, 1928 — June 30, 1929. The report statesthat "it is gratifying to be able to report that the income for the supportof the various activities has been more than sufficient to provide for theoperating expenditures. There was/' it reports, "a notable increase inendowment funds and the amount of the reserves is larger than at theclose of any previous year."The balance sheet indicates that the total assets of the University,including funds held as agent and temporarily, amount to $88,357,337,an increase of $10,545,116 over those reported a year ago. These figuresare a remarkable contrast to those which President Harper, with glowingcountenance, predicted to Mr. Arnett the University would report:"Nothing less than $50,000,000 some day in the future will representthe endowment and property the University will possess," he said insubstance. Furthermore, these figures represent the "book value" ofsecurities while the price at which they could presumably be sold, the"market value," would add $14,894,944 to the assets, or a total of $103,-252,281.The total expenditures under the combined budget (including theUniversity General Division, Graduate Library School, Graduate Schoolof Social Service Administration, Rush Medical College, Medical School(South Side), and University Clinics) were $5,991,496. This is exclusiveof the expenditures of the University Press, of the University Commons,and of the several dormitories. The operations of the Commons produceda surplus of $18,425 and of the dormitories of $33,507, a total of $51,932.Of this sum, $5,000 was reserved for the purpose of replacing worn-outequipment and the remainder applied to the educational work of the University.The total amount of gifts received during the year was $6,926,-601.06. Since the foundation of the University the total amount of giftspaid in is $80,865,633.81. The foregoing figures do not, of course, take197198 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDinto account the unpaid balances of pledges, which aggregate approximately $20,000,000.The amount received from student fees was $28,601 less than duringthe previous year. "Several factors may be assigned to the decrease infees from students," says Mr. Plimpton, "such as high scholarship standards, the lack of adequate dormitory facilities and tuition rates muchhigher than prevail at the surrounding state institutions."The University expended for food, service, etc., in its several dining-rooms and cafeterias, during the year, $410,005. Room rents collectedamounted to $130,628.The report closes with these significant words which are a tributeto the wisdom and care of Trustees, University presidents and administrative officers:During each of the last twenty-six years it has been possible to report annuallythe adequacy of income or support received during the year to meet the operatingexpenditures. It appears to one who has served the University for more than a quarter of a century that this record of keeping faith with the University's financialideals, together with the revival of the inspiration possessed by those participating inthe early history of the institution have resulted in establishing and maintaining confidence in the administration of the University on the part of alumni and friends,and in placing the University in its present position of preeminence and usefulness^While the figures and financial achievements set forth in the foregoing summary of this informing report are assuring as well as enlightening, they are not to be regarded as even hinting that the University hasreached its financial goals or has met all of its financial needs. The veryfact that its finances have been well managed is a potent reason for intrusting the institution with other millions, for the growth of the city, andthe country, and the developments of the sciences and the humanities,demand further gifts to meet increasing needs and widening opportunities.A FRENCH TRIBUTE TO PAULSHOREYf g ^HE July number of the Bulletin de r Association GuillaumeB Bude, the organ of the chief classical association of France, con-JL tains a twenty-page article by Professor A. Dies on the work ofProfessor Shorey, entitled Un Platonisant dyAmerique Paul Shorey. Thearticle which is favorable throughout describes with many quotationsProfessor Shorey's Platonic studies and among other comments says :I have come to know his work too late, scattered as it is through so manyAmerican journals, which are usually inaccessible to a provincial Platonist. But astroke of luck has at last placed here, on my desk, a few of the more outstandingparts of this enormous work ; and the few lines quoted above help me to understandthe very great pleasure I took in reading them. This "Unity of Plato's Thought" isindeed the center of Shorey's life as a Platonist. Here no more than in his otherworks, has Shorey sought to impress by bulk: he knows that the worth of a book isnot measured by its weight. For all that, there is in these eighty-eight octavo pages,with their crowded lines, their wealth of notes, the material for a sizable volume.There is here above all a profound study of all of Plato's literary activity; and evenwhen one could differ on this or that detail with an author, who for all the breadthof his views seems to neglect no detail, one must say that even at the present day,this book shows no signs of age.It is this book, indeed, which we must consult for a detailed refutation of allthese theories, which rend at will the unity of Plato's thought. Shorey's idea grew inbreadth and depth: he can affirm it while examining one after the other all theparts and most essential problems of Plato's philosophy, as well as all the dialogues:rooted and nourished for so many years in Plato's profoundly unified and marvel-ously diverse thought, it has gained the while if not in combative force, at least inerudition ; and his unwearied and courteous, but terribly precise polemic in behalf ofit spares its adversaries not one of the contradictions or at times egregious blundersto which they are led by their system of interpretation.For the period following 1903, as for the preceding period, I can call attentionto only a few more important works: if my article pretended to be anything like acomplete bibliography, it would do a real injustice to the rich diversity of Shorey'sproduction. Specialists know the variety and worth of his notes on textual criticism,reviews, and discussions of specific points ; and the curious reader will find the necessary information in the various works on bibliography.It is not only to the pupils of Brochard, but to all friends of Platonism and ancient literature that I should be glad to have recalled — I do not say revealed — whatone of the most alert, lucid, and French in feeling of these cosmopolitan scholars ofAmerican universities has done for Plato.199THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESBy JOHN F. MOULDS, Secretary of the BoardTHE UNIVERSITY STATUTES AMENDEDTHE Statutes of the University have been amended to providerepresentation of the Chicago Lying-in Hospital and Dispensaryon the Board of Medical Affairs. In order to accomplish thisthe end of the final sentence of paragraph k of Section 2 of Article XV ofStatute 13 now reads: ". . . . the Presbyterian Hospital, the Children'sMemorial Hospital, the Central Free Dispensary, the Home for DestituteCrippled Children, the County Home for Convalescent Children, and theChicago Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary."STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARDThe following standing committees of the Board of Trustees havebeen appointed to serve for the year 1929-30:Finance and Investment: Charles R. Holden, Chairman; William Scott Bond,Vice- Chairman; Howard G. Grey, Frank McNair, Eugene M. Stevens, and JohnStuart.Buildings and Grounds: Thomas E. Donnelley, Chairman; E. L. Ryerson, Jr.,Vice- Chairman ; Sewell L. Avery, H. B. Barnard, Martin A. Ryerson, and JohnStuart.Instruction and Equipment: William Scott Bond, Chairman; Albert W. Sherer,Vice- Chairman ; Laird Bell, Wilber E. Post, Julius Rosenwald, and James M.Stifler.Development: Sewell L. Avery, Chairman; E. L. Ryerson, Jr., Vice- Chairman;Harrison B. Barnard, Frank McNair, Robert L. Scott, and Eugene M. Stevens.Press and Extension: Thomas E. Donnelley, Chairman; Robert L. Scott, Vice-Chairman; Eli B. Felsenthal, Samuel C. Jennings, and Albert W. Sherer.Audit and Securities: Charles F. Axelson, Chairman; Harry B. Gear, Vice-Chairman ; Laird Bell, Samuel C. Jennings, and James M. Stifler.SPECIAL COMMITTEES OF THE BOARDThe following persons have been appointed a committee in referenceto the inauguration of the President of the University: From the Trustees: Messrs. Laird Bell, J. Spencer Dickerson, Albert W. Sherer, JamesM. Stifler and John Stuart; from the Faculty: Messrs. Frederic Woodward, Gordon J. Laing, Charles H. Judd, Thomas V. Smith, and JamesW. Thompson, with David H. Stevens, as alternate for Mr. Woodward.Mr. Bell was appointed Chairman and Mr. Laing Vice-Chairman of thecommittee.200THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 201DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGYBy action of the Board of Trustees on August 8, 1929, a new department of the University, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,was created. Appointments in this new department are, for the most part,to be concurrent with appointments to the staff of the Chicago Lying-inHospital and Dispensary, whose facilities are now available to the University for teaching purposes under contract between the Hospital andthe University.NEW BUILDINGSThe Board of Trustees has authorized its standing Committee onBuildings and Grounds to proceed with the erection and completion ofthe residence hall for nurses and the International Flouse, with expenditure within the respective funds when they are available.APPOINTMENTSIn addition to reappointments, the following appointments weremade during the three months prior to October 1, 1929:Dr. Fred Lyman Adair, as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,from October i3 1929.Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,from October 1, 1929, and as Chairman of the Department, for threeyears from October 1, 1929.Alfred E. Emerson, of the University of Pittsburgh, as Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology, for three years from October 1,1929.Dr. Theodore Friedemann, as Assistant Professor of Chemical Bacteriology in the Department of Medicine, and Bartlett Memorial Fellow,for one year from September 1, 1929.Dr. Eloise Parsons, as Assistant Professor of Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, for one year from October 1,1929.Harold Granville Blue, as Instructor in Education in the College ofEducation, for one year from October 1, 1929.Ruth Cowan, as Instructor in the Department of Home Economics,for the Summer and Autumn Quarters, 1929, and the Winter and SpringQuarters, 1930.Arlyn Eilert, as Instructor in the Department of Home Economics,for one year from October 1, 1929.Dr. Harold Entz, as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Sur-202 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDgery upon the Douglas Smith Foundation, for ten months from September i, 1929.Dr. Byron F. Francis, as Instructor in Medicine and Resident Physician at the Edward Sanatorium, for one year from August 15, 1929.Everett Wesley Hall, as Instructor in the Department of Philosophy,for one year from October 1, 1929.Isabel Noble, as Instructor in the Department of Home Economics,for one year from October 1, 1929.Francis J. Pettijohn, as Instructor in the Department of Geology,for two years from October 1, 1929.Paul Radin, as Visiting Instructor in the Department of Anthropology, for the Winter Quarter, 1930.Dr. Knute Axel Reuter, as Instructor in the Department of Medicine,for one year from July 1, 1929.Ernest R. Shaw, as Instructor in the School of Commerce and Administration, for one year from October 1, 1929.Dr. Loh Seng Tsai, as Instructor in the Department of Pathology under the Sprague Memorial Institute, for one year from August 1, 1929.Dr. Margaret Kirkpatrick Strong, as Instructor in the GraduateSchool of Social Service Administration, for one year from October 1,1929.William E. Vaughn, as Instructor in the Department of Chemistry,for the Autumn Quarter, 1929, and one year from January 1, 1930.Dr. Patrick A. Delaney, as Research Associate in the Department ofPathology, for fifteen months from April 1, 1929.Dr. Howard J. Holloway, as Clinical Associate in Obstetrics andGynecology at Rush Medical College, for one year from July 1, 1929.The following persons have been appointed as Teachers in the Laboratory Schools: Alice Campbell, Dorothy Thompson Cope, Robert Fey-erharm, Eleanor R. Holmes, Anna W. Kenny, Miriam Lee Lewis, MaryMcAllister, Viola Manderfeld, Lloyd Burgess Sharp, Bernice A. Tucker,G. E. Van Dyke, Frank Goodman Williston.Dr. Helen V. McLean, as Lecturer in the School of Social Service Administration, for the Autumn Quarter, 1929, and the Spring Quarter,1930.Nora Milnes, as Lecturer in the School of Social Service Administration, for the second term of the Summer Quarter, 1929.Dr. A. A. Swaim, as Lecturer in the Institute of Meat Packing, forthe Autumn Quarter, 1929, and the Winter Quarter, 1930.Arthur P. Scott, as Secretary of the Department of History, for theSummer Quarter, 1929.THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 203Ernest Bernbaum, to give instruction in the Department of English,for the Autumn Quarter, 1929.Isaac Joslin Cox, to give instruction in the Department of History,for the Autumn Quarter, 1929, and the Winter Quarter, 1930.Mary A. M. Lee, to give instruction in the Department of Home Economics, for the Autumn Quarter, 1929.Virgil B. Heltzel, to give instruction in the Department of English,for the Winter Quarter, 1930.Bernice Wait, to give instruction in the Department of Home Economics, for the Autumn Quarter, 1929.Carmen V. Frazee, case worker in the Medical Social Service, in theGraduate School of Social Service Administration, for two months fromJuly 1, 1929.Winston H. Tucker, as Curator in the Department of Hygiene andBacteriology, for one year from July 1, 1929.LEAVES OF ABSENCEDuring the three months prior to October 1, 1929, the followingleaves of absence were granted by the Board of Trustees:David H. Stevens, Associate Dean of Faculties, for six months fromJanuary 1, 1930, in order to assist the General Education Board in studiesrelating to college education and to schools of education.Dr. Nathaniel Allison, Professor in the Department of Surgery, fromFebruary 1 to April 1, 1930, in order that he may continue his researchstudies abroad.Samuel K. Allison, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics,for the Autumn Quarter, 1929, and the Winter Quarter, 1930.Dr. Friedrich Hiller, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, from October 1, 1929^0 April 30, 1930.Robert S. Piatt, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, for the Winter Quarter, 1930, in order that he may complete certainfield work in the Argentine.M. Erskine Jones, Teacher in the Laboratory Schools, for the Autumn Quarter, 1929.ADJUSTMENTSThe appointment of Dr. William Franklin Moncrieff as made inJune by the Board of Trustees has been changed so that Dr. Moncrieffwill have the rank of Associate Clinical Professor in the Department ofOphthalmology at Rush Medical College.Dr. Peter D. Ward's appointment has been changed so that he now204 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDis Assistant to the Director of the University Clinics instead of Assistantto the Director of the Billings Hospital.RESIGNATIONSThe following resignations have been accepted by the Board ofTrustees during the three months prior to October i, 1929:Dr. Ralph B. Seem, as Director of the Albert Merritt Billings Hospital, effective September 1, 1929. Dr. Seem becomes director of theStanford University Hospital at San Francisco, California.Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes, as Professor Emeritus in the Department ofObstetrics and Gynecology of Rush Medical College.Clarence R. Rorem, as Associate Professor in the School of Commerce and Administration, effective September 1, 1929.Dr. Clarence J. McMullen, as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Rush Medical College.William H. Cowley, as Executive Secretary of the Board of Vocational Guidance and Placement, effective October 1, 1929.Theodore A. Mueller, as a member of the Library Staff, effective September 14, 1929.Caroline V. Roberts, as Research Assistant in Crystal Structure inthe Department of Physics.DEATHKatharine M. Stilwell, a Teacher in the Elementary School of theSchool of Education from July 1, 1901, until her retirement, October 1,1926, died on July 26, 1929.GIFTSMr. Hay den B. Harris and the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, astrustees, have appropriated the income from the Bartlett Memorial Fundfor use by the University for a period of five years with the understandingthat the University will use the entire income or so much of it as is accepted for the purpose of payment of the salary of a biological chemistwho will collaborate with Dr. Oswald H. Robertson in research worklooking to the finding of a satisfactory serum for the treatment and cureof pneumonia, and with the further understanding that the Universitywill furnish the laboratory requirements in connection therewith, andthat the man who is employed by means of the fund shall be known as aBartlett Memorial Fund Fellow. The Bartlett Memorial Fund was created by the bequest of Mrs. Norman W. Harris, mother of Mr. HaydenB. Harris, of $100,000 to the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, the fundthus to be known in honor of Dr. Joseph Bartlett, the signer of the Dec-THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 20slaration of Independence and the head of a long line of physicians, amongwhose descendants were Mr. Harris' grandfather, Dr. Israel Gale, and hisfather, Dr. Jonathan Greeley Gale, his uncle, Dr. Newton Gale, and hisbrother, Dr. Walter Channing Gale.Dr. Walter H. O. Hoffman has given $20,000 to the University tobe known as the Walter H. O. Hoffman Fund, subject to an annuity tohimself during his life, the principal and accumulated interest of which,at Dr. Hoffmann's death, to be used for such purposes of the Universityas its Trustees may determine, but preferably in the support and development of teaching and research in the care and nurture of children,with special reference to the dietary treatment of children under fiveyears of age, as now conducted at the University Co-operative NurserySchool.Miss Gwethalyn Jones has given the University $25,000 to be addedto the Frank Billings Clinic Fund.There has been appropriated by the International Students' Extension $12,250 for promotion of welfare work among foreign students atthe University during 1929-30.Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman have each pledged $5,000 forthe support of the University Clinics in memory of their son, KennethSawyer Goodman.An additional pledge of £80 has been made by Mr. Martin A. Ryerson for the purchase of manuscripts by Mr. John M. Manly.Mr. Jesse L. Rosenberger has added $1,458.51 to his previous contributions to be distributed as follows: $958.51 to the principal of theSusan Colver Rosenberger Educational Prize Fund in order to make theprincipal of the fund, $4,000, and $500 to the principal of the Rosenberger Medal Endowment Fund in order to make that principal, $2,500.The Quaker Oats Company has granted the University $1,000 tocover the expenses of a special study of rolled oats to be made by MissLydia J. Roberts of the Department of Home Economics.The Delta Sigma Club of the University has added $500 to theDelta Sigma Loan Fund. Loans from this fund will hereafter be made bythe University without the recommendation of the club.A scholarship of $250 has been provided during 1929-30 for a graduate woman student in the Department of Anthropology through the generosity of the Chicago Women's Aid.The following anonymous gifts have been accepted by the Board ofTrustees: $1,800 for salary of a technician to assist Dr. Ezra J. Kraus inthe Department of Botany; $800 for the renewal for the year 1929-30206 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDof fellowships in the Department of Home Economics; and $200 for theAstranon Fund, which is administered by Professor Frost at Yerkes Observatory.MISCELLANEOUSMr. Robert L. Scott has allocated his previous gift of $10,000 to theUniversity Clinics, a room in the Clinics being named for him.The building used by the School of Commerce and Administrationhas been moved from its previous site at the corner of Fifty-eighth Streetand University Avenue to a site at the corner of Fifty-eighth Street andIngleside Avenue, west of the Press Building.WORKS OF ART IN THEUNIVERSITYPORTRAITS IN OILSubjectAnderson, GalushaProfessor of Homiletics inDivinity School, 1892-1904Angell, James RowlandProfessor in Departmentof Psychology, Dean ofFaculties, Acting President, 1920Bartlett, Adolphus ClayTrustee of University,1900-1922Bigelow, Harry A.Law School, 1904-Billings, Dr. FrankProfessor Emeritus ofMedicineBillings, Albert MerrittBailey, Justice Joseph M.Trustee, 1890-95Burton, Ernest D.Professor, Department ofNew Testament, Director,University Libraries, President, 1923-25Burton, Ernest D.Chamberlin, Thomas C.Prof essor of Geology, 1892-1919Cobb, Silas B.DonorCoulter, John M.Professor of Botany, 1896-1925Cowles, Henry C.Department of Botany,1897-Foster, NancyDonor of Foster HallFreund, ErnstLaw School, 1894-Frost, Edwin B.Professor of Astrophysics.1898-Goodman, EdwardLate Treasurer BaptistTheological Union,Trustee ArtistFrederic PorterVinton, BostonRalph Clarkson,ChicagoRalph ClarksonChicagoTheodore Johnson,ChicagoRalph Clarkson,ChicagoRalph Clarkson,ChicagoFranklin Tuttle,ChicagoMalcolm Parcell,Washington, Pa.Thomas D. Tall-madge, New YorkRalph Clarkson,ChicagoRalph Clarkson,ChicagoAlois Delug,AustriaEdmund Geisbert,ChicagoAnna E. KlumpkeW. P. Welsh,ChicagoAlden F. Brooks,ChicagoAlden F. Brooks DonorsAlumni and otherfriendsMembers of facultiesand othersGroup of friends in1911Law School AssociationFriendsC. K. G. BillingsMrs. J. M. Baileyand son, CharlesFive hundred friendsMrs. and Miss BurtonColleagues, scientificfriends, and former students in1918The artistThe artistFamily of Mrs. FosterFormer studentsFormer students andfriendsMrs. Herbert E.Goodman LocationCommon Room,Swift HallHarper LibraryReading RoomHutchinson HallLaw LibraryBillings Library,Billings HospitalEntrance Hall,Billings HospitalHutchinson HallHutchinson HallCommon Room,Swift HallLibrary,Rosenwald HallHutchinson HallReading Room,Harper LibraryBotany BuildingFoster HallLaw LibraryYerkes ObservatorySwift Hall207208 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDSubjectGoodspeed, Thomas WakefieldSecretary, Board of Trustees, 1890-1914Gunsaulus, Frank WakeleyDonorHale, William GardnerProfessor of Latin, 1892-1919Hall, James ParkerDean of Law School, 1904-1928Harper, William RaineyFirst President, 1890-1906Harper, William RaineyFrom photographsHerrick, Dr. J. B.Professor Emeritus of Medicine, 1 888-1 92 4Hitchcock, Mrs. Annie McL.Donor of Charles Hitchcock HallHitchcock, CharlesHutchinson, Charles L.Treasurer, 1890-1924Judson, Harry PrattSecond President, 1907-23Judson, Mrs. Harry PrattMacDowell, Miss Mary E.MacLaughlin, Andrew C.Professor of History, 1906-Mandel, LeonDonor of Mandel HallMathews, ShatterDivinity School, 1894-Mechem, Floyd R.Professor of Law, 1903-28Michelson, A. A.Professor of Physics, 1892-Morris, WilliamEnglish poet and mastercraftsman of the VictorianPeriodNoyes, LaVerneDonor of Ida Noyes HallNoyes, Mrs. Ida (Mrs. La-Verne)Noyes, LaVerne ArtistLouis Betts,Chicago and NewYorkLouis Betts,Chicago and NewYorkVirginia HaleLeopold Seyffert,Chicago and NewYorkGari Melchers,New YorkKarl A. Buehr,ChicagoLeopold Seyffert,Chicago and NewYorkHenry S. Hubbell,New YorkWellington J. Reynolds, ChicagoLouis Betts,Chicago and NewYorkLawton Parker,Chicago and NewYorkOliver Dennett Gro-ver, ChicagoPaul Trebilcock,ChicagoMalcolm Parcell,Washington, Pa.Ralph Clarkson,ChicagoPaul Trebilcock,ChicagoLeopold Seyffert,Chicago and NewYorkRalph Clarkson,ChicagoCharles AckermanJackson, BostonLouis Betts,Chicago and NewYorkLouis Betts,Chicago and NewYorkLouis Betts,Chicago and NewYork DonorsCaptain Henry S.GoodspeedMrs. F. W. GunsaulusFormer studentsLaw alumniFormer students andother friendsFaculty and alumniof Rush MedicalCollegeFriendsFriendsMrs. JudsonFriends of the University of ChicagoSettlementFriendsMrs. MandelMrs. Joseph Bondand friendsLaw alumniCommittee, HenryG. Gale, chairmanFrederick Parsons,Waban, MassachusettsLaVerne Noyes LocationHutchinson HallSwift HallClassics BuildingLaw LibraryHutchinson HallHarper Library,Reading RoomRush Medical College BuildingLibrary,Hitchcock HallLibrary,Hitchcock HallHutchinson HallHutchinson HallMemorial Room,Ida Noyes HallUniversity of Chicago SettlementCommon Room,Swift HallHutchinson HallCommon Room,Swift HallLaw LibraryReading Room,, Harper LibraryIda Noyes HallIda Noyes HallHutchinson HallWORKS OF ART IN THE UNIVERSITY 209SubjectNoyes, Mrs. Ida (Mrs. LaVerne)Reynolds, MyraProfessor, 1894-1923; Professor Emeritus, 1923-Rockefeller, John D.Founder of the UniversityRockefeller, John D.Ryerson, Martin AntoineTrustee, 1890-Salisbury, Rollin D.Professor of Geography,1892-192 2Shorey, DanielTrustee, 1890-99Small, Albion W.Professor of Sociology,1892-1926Stagg, A. A.Director of Athletics, 1892-Talbot, MarionDean of Women, 1892-1925Tufts, James H.Professor of PhilosophyTyler, J. E.Vincent, George EdgarDean of Faculties, 1907-nvon Hoist, Hermann EduardProfessor of History, 1892-1903von Hoist, Hermann Eduardvon Hugel, FrederickWalker, CharlesFather of George C. WalkerWalker, George C.Trustee, 1890-1905Williams, Hobart W.Donor Williams FundWilliams, Eli BuellFather of Hobart W. WilliamsWilliston, S. W.Professor of Paleontology,1913-18Weller, StuartProfessor of Geology ArtistOliver Dennett Gro-ver, ChicagoWilliam M. ChaseEastman Johnson,New YorkCopy of portrait byJohn S. SargentLawton Parker,Chicago and NewYorkRalph Clarkson,ChicagoRalph Clarkson,ChicagoRalph Clarkson,ChicagoOskar Gross,ChicagoWalter D. GoldbeckJ. C. Johansen,New YorkLouis Betts,Chicago and NewYorkCarl Marr,MilwaukeeJ. C. Johansen,New YorkEdouardo GiojaEdward J. F. Tim-mons, ChicagoRalph Clarkson,ChicagoRalph Clarkson,ChicagoC. A. Corwin,ChicagoRoy H. Collins DonorsFriends and formerresidents of FosterHallJohn D. Rockefeller,Jr.Colleagues, scientificfriends, and former studentsMrs. Lena SmallHarrisGroup of alumniThirty-four friendsMembers of facultyand other friendsVon Hoist familyand friendsMrs. Frank R. LillieMrs. Harrison vanSchaickFriends and formerstudentsFormer students andassociates LocationMemorial Room,Ida Noyes HallFoster HallHutchinson HallReading Room,Harper LibraryHutchinson HallLibrary,Rosenwald HallHitchcock HallReading Room,Harper LibraryTrophy Room, Bartlett GymnasiumHutchinson HallQuadrangle Club(temporarily)Swift HallHutchinson HallPeriodical Room,Harper LibraryHutchinson HallWalker MuseumHutchinson HallHutchinson HallHutchinson HallWalker MuseumWalker Museum210 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDAT RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE*. PORTRAITS IN OILSubjectAllen, Jonathan Adams1825-90Blaney, James Van Zandt1820-74Brainard, DanielFounder, 1812-66Freer, Joseph Warren1816-77Freer, L. C. PaynePresident of Rush Medical College, 1865-92Haines, Walter Stanley1850-1923Herrick, James BryanHolmes, Edward Lorenzo1828-1900Ingals, Ephraim1823-1900Lyman, Henry Munson1 83 5-i 904Miller, DeLaski1818-1903Senn, Nicholas1844-1908SubjectChamberlin, Thomas C.Professor of Geology, 1892-1919Bronze bustCobb, Silas B.Donor of Cobb HallBust in marbleDouglas, Stephen A.Bronze bas-relief tabletHall, James ParkerDean of Law School, 1904--28Mural tablet in bronzeHull, Charles J.DonorBronze bustHutchinson, Charles L.Treasurer, 1890-1924Bronze memorial tabletJudson, Harry PrattSecond President, 1907-23Bronze tablet with portrait in bas-rreliefNorthrup, George W.First Dean of DivinitySchoolMarble bust ArtistPhillipsG. P. A. HealeyFrederick WarrenFreerFrederick WarrenFreerArvid NyholmLeopold SeyffertFrederick WarrenFreerG.P.A. HealeyCharles A. CorwinG. P. A. HealeyMicaelowski DonorHis niece, EvelynSleight Holder,1910Nathan M. FreerNathan M. FreerFaculty and alumniof Rush MedicalCollegeFaculty, alumni, andclass of 1928, ofRush Medical CollegeHemstead WashburnSCULPTURESSculptor DonorsLorado Taft, Professor J. C. Bran-Chicago ner and AssociatesLorado Taft,ChicagoR. H. Parks,ChicagoFred Torrey,ChicagoLeonard Crunelle,ChicagoLorado Taft,Chicago Gift of class"Wig and Robe" society of law studentsMembers of theBoard of TrusteesClass of 1923Alumni of DivinitySchool LocationRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryRush Medical SchoolLibraryLocationRosenwald HallStairway of CobbHallMandel Hall, CorridorLaw BuildingBiological LibraryBuildingHutchinson HallMandel Hall, CorridorSwift HallWORKS OF ART IN THE UNIVERSITY 211SubjectPalmer, Alice FreemanDean of Women, 1892-95Bronze bas-relief tabletParker, Francis WaylandDirector of the School ofEducation, 190 1-2Bronze bustReynolds, JosephBronze memorial tabletRockefeller, John D.Founder of the UniversityBronze bustRyerson, Martin A.Mural tabletSmith, AlexanderProfessor of chemistryBronze bustStagg, A. A.Bronze bustStieglitz, JuliusProfessor of chemistry,1892-St. Thomas the ApostleBas-reliefYerkes, Charles T.Donor of Yerkes ObservatoryBronze bustSubjectLandscape in oilLandscape in oil"The Old White Horse," oilpainting"The Mill Tail," oil painting"November Twilight," oilpaintingLandscape in oil SculptorDaniel C. French,New YorkCharles J. MulliganPaul Fjelde,ChicagoWilliam Couper,New YorkCharles A. Coolidge,Designer, BostonUlric H. Ellerhusen,New YorkSculpture Art Studio,ChicagoAlice L. Siems,ChicagoA. Faggivan der Straeten Associates, students,and parentsthroughA. J. MasonBoard of TrusteesBoard of TrusteesMrs. AlexanderSmithChicago AlumniClubMrs. F. R. LillieCharles E. YerkesLANDSCAPESArtistMauryMauryWalter SargentWalter SargentWalter SargentWilliam Wendt,Los Angeles, California DonorsBequeathed byLaVerne NoyesBequeathed byLaVerne NoyesM. A. RyersonHarold H. SwiftClass of 19 19Harold H. Swift LocationEast wall of MitchellTower, interiorEntrance Hall,Emmons BlaineHallReynolds ClubhouseHutchinson HallMandel Hall, CorridorKent Chemical Laboratory and thento Jones ChemicalLaboratoryBartlett GymnasiumGeorge HerbertJones LaboratorySwift HallLibrary, Yerkes ObservatoryLocationLibrary, Ida NoyesHallLibrary, Ida NoyesHallIda Noyes HallY.M.C.A. Room,Ida Noyes HallIda Noyes HallClassics BuildingAMONG THE DEPARTMENTSTHE DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGESAND LITERATURESBy Archer TaylorA LTHOUGH at the founding of the University the creation of a De-/ \ partment of Germanic Languages and Literatures was providedJL Ja^ for, the instability of the organization given to the Departmentoperated as a serious handicap to its development. Starr Willard Cuttingwas appointed Assistant Professor in 1892, and in the following yearCamillo von Klenze and Hans Schmidt- Wartenberg. Cutting, who becamehead of the Department in 1906, remained a member of the staff until hisretirement in 1922. Camillo von Klenze resigned in 1906, and at aboutthe same time Schmidt- Wartenberg was incapacitated by illness. Thesethree contributed substantially to the Department's progress. Cutting'schief contributions lie in syntactical studies and in the material improvement of the teaching of elementary German. Schmidt- Wartenberg wasone of the first teachers of foreign languages in this country to display aninterest in the phonetic researches of Abbe Rousselot. He also edited inthoroughly competent fashion a number of Middle High German texts.Von Klenze wrote a variety of articles on classical and modern Germanliterature, notably an important essay on the sources of Goethe's Ital-ienische Reise. Toward the end of the first decade three younger menwhose names are conspicuously united with the Department joined thestaff: Francis Asbury Wood, Philip Schuyler Allen, Martin Schiitze.The first two of these received degrees from the Department — Wood was,indeed, its first Doctor of Philosophy. Wood established a reputation forhis rigorous application of the sound laws of Indo-European linguistics, afield in which he published widely for more than twenty years, and forhis studies in the development of the meanings of words. Allen devotedhimself at first to folk song — in continuation of his thesis — and later tomedieval Latin poetry. Schiitze expounded the seminal ideas of Germanclassical and romantic thought.DURING THE SECOND DECADEThe second decade of the Department's history is marked by theresignation of von Klenze and the retirement of Schmidt- Wartenberg.212AMONG THE DEPARTMENTS 213During this period Goetsch and Gould joined the staff as well as a number of others whose tenure was cut short by circumstances of variouskinds. Of these last, John Jacob Meyer published a number of volumesof translations from Sanskrit and Finnish. In this decade the Department received a notable gift from Julius Rosenwald in the so-called"Hirsch-Bernays Library," which included primarily editions of theGerman classical authors. At the end of the second decade, the Department could look back upon years of steady growth, but this expansionwas soon to be cut short by the World War.Naturally no department suffered so immediately and so severelyfrom the World War. Students, both graduate and undergraduate, vanished; the faculty dwindled from year to year. Contact with Germany,the source of materials and inspiration, was completely broken. Suchblows were not mortal, but it is not surprising that they soon reduced departmental efficiency to a low point. The slow awakening of Germanicstudies after the war necessarily delayed the rehabilitation of the department for years. But a change for the better came. The most notableimprovement in outward circumstances was the removal in 1927 to amplequarters in Wieboldt Hall, provided by the generosity of Mr. and Mrs.W. A. Wieboldt. During the period after the war the Department ventured upon an administrative change of fundamental importance. Allelementary work in German was transferred to the Junior College, inwhich a new department was created. The transfer focused attention ofthe staff on the problems of elementary instruction, and as a happy consequence we have in this field Hagboldt's studies in the technique of teaching and his series of grammars and readers which put these studies to use.LATER PROGRESSIn the last few years the department has recognized the urgent necessity of providing abundant materials in certain fields for the use of students and instructors. Such collections must concern typical problemspossessing intrinsic interest and importance, and at the same time thesecollections must afford opportunity for investigations in widely separated parts of the departmental field. The most notable of such collections will soon be rendered available in the form of a copy of theDeutsches Volksliedarchiv. By photographic means more than 150,000texts of German folk songs are being reproduced for the University. TheArckiv, which unites the labors of German scholars for more than a century, has brought together all known texts of German folk songs since1700. The acquisition of this uniquely valuable collection is made possible by the generous gifts of Mrs. W. A. Wieboldt and Julius Rosenwald.214 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Archiv is being supplemented by the purchase of photostats of German folk songs before 1700. Another collection of great interest whichthe University has recently acquired is a copy of unprinted Finnish folktales, totaling 14,000 typewritten sheets. These, which it is hoped will beincreased by the gradual purchase of an equal number of pages from Es-thonia, form a basis for the study of popular tradition, particularly forsuch tales as are found in the Kinder- und Hausmdrchen of the brothersGrimm.The Department has systematically enlarged its resources in thefield of the Germanic dialects. In German literature significant materialsfor the study of particular writers have been assembled. As representative of religious and intellectual currents preceding and associated withthe Reformation, the works of Johannes Geiler von Kaisersberg have beenzealously sought after until the library now possesses an almost completeset of his writings. The rich Goethe library of Karl Heinemann, the Department owes to the kindness of Mr. W. A. Wieboldt, who has aided theDepartment so effectively. For students in nineteenth-century literaturethe Department has purchased the Kossmann collection of almanacs andgiftbooks, numbering more than 1,300. The total number of such worksin the library is now more than 1,500. The importance of such volumesfor German literary history is evident from the fact that Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea was published first in one of them. A few authors inthe later part of the nineteenth century have been selected for particularattention with a view to assembling an effective working collection, buttheir number is regrettably small.PRESENT-DAY INTERESTSThe chief interests of the Department deal now as before the warwith medieval Latin poetry (Allen), Germanic linguistics (Bloomfield),the history of the German language and of Middle Low German in thefifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Goetsch), the underlying concepts ofHerder and German Romanticism and their persistence in later Germanliterature (Schiitze). Allen's Romanesque Lyric (1928) continues hisstudies of twenty years earlier in the medieval Latin lyric. Bloomfield,who received his degree from the Department in 1909, returned to theUniversity in 1927 as Professor of Germanic Philology. He has alreadypublished extensively in general linguistics, American Indian languages,and Germanics.Since the war somewhat greater prominence has been given to Scandinavian studies: Gould has occupied himself with problems involvingAMONG THE DEPARTMENTS 215the transmission of oriental materials to the North and with studies concerning ritual, myth, and linguistics, as notably in the examination of theetymologies of dwarf-names. Allen's interest in the folk song has beencarried on by Taylor (appointed in 1925), who has extended his studiesinto the field of the dissemination of popular traditions.The immediate needs of the Department are simple and obvious. Thepreviously mentioned additions to the library are, after all, incompletein themselves and the Department needs much supplementary materialto enable students and faculty to profit fully from its resources. Theworks of Geiler, for example, can only be understood fully and correctlyagainst the background of the thought and history of the age. Almanacsand giftbooks are but one expression — striking and characteristic enough,to be sure — of the flowering of German classical and romantic literature.The Germanic languages and traditions can only be presented in the lightof local history. Considerable additions to the library are therefore urgently necessary.DEPARTMENTAL NEEDSSo far as graduate students are concerned the Department is handicapped by its creation of the Department of Modern Languages in theJunior College. Although the new organization provides, we hope andbelieve, better instruction in elementary classes, yet the Department isat the same time prevented from assisting worthy graduate students bypart-time appointments. Graduate scholarships and fellowships are consequently greatly desired, and particularly such grants as would enableour students to go abroad.Finally, the Senior College would greatly benefit by the appointmentof an instructor chosen for his ability to serve its students. Such an appointment would enable the Department to make certain rearrangementsto provide for courses in fields which are now neglected.BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTERAt the Convocation held August 30,1929, 552 students received their degrees,356 being graduate students. The oratorwas Professor John A. Scott, whose address appears elsewhere in this issue ofthe University Record. The honoraryLL.D. degree was conferred on Mr.Frank J. Loesch, of Chicago, who delivered the Convocation address at theConvocation of last March. Mr. Loeschhas recently been appointed a memberof President Hoover's Crime Commission. Mr. Loesch was presented for conferring the degree by Professor E. W.Hinton, of the Law School, who described him as "a distinguished lawyer,a public-spirited citizen, and the leaderin the fight upon organized crime."The compiler of the list of works ofart owned by the University would beglad to receive notice of any errors oromissions observable in the list. Such information may be sent to the editor ofthe University Record.The office of the Business Managerand the room for meetings of the Boardof Trustees have been moved from 189West Madison Street to the twentiethfloor of the People's Gas Building, 122South Michigan Avenue.Dr. Albert W. Palmer, pastor of theFirst Congregational Church, of OakPark, a suburb of Chicago, has beenelected to the presidency of the ChicagoTheological Seminary as successor to thebeloved Dr. Ozora S. Davis, who wasobliged to resign last Spring on accountof sickness. The Chicago TheologicalSeminary is one of the older divinityschools of Congregationalism, havingbeen founded in 1855. For many yearsits buildings were situated on the WestSide, but after it was affiliated with theUniversity it removed to an excellent sitenear the University. Its plant is one ofthe best among the buildings in the United States used for theological training.The building formerly owned andused by the Quadrangle Club has beensuccessfully moved from the site it oc cupied for so many years at the southeast corner of University Avenue andFifty-eighth Street to a vacant lot westof the Press Building. In order to permitits placing on the available space it wasnecessary to cut out twelve feet in thecenter of the building. It will be usedas heretofore by the School of Commerceand Administration until such time asHaskell Museum shall be vacant by reason of the removal of its collections tothe new Oriental Museum. The latterbuilding is to be built at the cornervacated by the old Quadrangle Clubbuilding. The Oriental Museum is to bedesignated as "The Oriental Institute —Haskell Oriental Museum" and the present Haskell Oriental Museum will beknown as "Haskell Hall."Professor B. H. Willier, of the Department of Zoology, represented theUniversity at the dedication of the FranzTheodore Stone Biological Laboratoryon Gibraltar Island, Put-in-Bay, Ohio,June 22, 1929. The new laboratory isin charge of Ohio State University. Itwas provided by the generous gift ofMr. Julius T. Stone and bears the nameof his father. Gibraltar Island is in aregion of historic interest. CommodorePerry sailed from Put-in-Bay to givebattle to the British fleet in 1813. Theisland was once the home of Jay Cooke,the well-remembered financier of CivilWar times.Professor Algernon Coleman's reporton the "Teaching of Modern ForeignLanguages in the United States," prepared for the Modern Foreign LanguageStudy of the American and CanadianCommittees on Modern Languages, hasjust been published by the MacmillanCompany, New York.The front porch of the President'shouse, at the corner of Fifty-ninth Streetand University Avenue, has been removed and a new stone doorway withthe steps inside has been added.The Board of Trustees has made anappropriation of $16,000 to cover the216BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTER 217cost of reconstruction and re-equipmentof Kent Laboratory.The trustee of the estate of Mrs. Eleanor Levering Henderson has paid tothe University the sum of $53,769. Byher will Mrs. Henderson, who will be remembered as the wife of the beloved Dr.Charles R. Henderson, for so many yearsthe Chaplain of the University, directsthat this bequest is to establish theCharles Richmond Henderson Fund, theincome of which is to be used for fellowships or scholarships for students in thedepartments of art, literature, and thesocial and physical sciences.It is expected that the dedication ofthe Social Science Building will takeplace at the time of the December Convocation.President Hutchins began his work atthe University without fuss or ceremonyon September 9. He attended his firstmeeting of the Board of Trustees onSeptember 12, when he was informallyintroduced to the members of the Boardand administrative officers by PresidentHarold H. Swift.At the invitation of the Council ofLearned Societies, a conference on a projected Linguistic Atlas of the UnitedStates and Canada was held at Yale University, August 2 and 3. There werepresent by invitation, as representing theUniversity of Chicago, Professors C. D.Buck, T. A. Jenkins, Leonard Bloomfield,and C. E. Parmenter. Professor Jenkinswas already in New Haven, having offered a course in Old French phonologyat the second annual session of the Linguistic Institute, held at Yale under theauspices of the Linguistic Society ofAmerica.The following were the Universitypreachers during the Summer Quarter:June 23, Dean Shailer Mathews, LL.D.,of the Divinity School, University ofChicago; June 30, Rev. Theodore G.Soares, D.D., Department of PracticalTheology, University of Chicago; July7, Rev. King D. Beach, D.D., St. JamesMethodist Episcopal Church, Chicago;July 14, Rev. James Moffatt, D.D., Professor of Church History, Union Theological Seminary; July 21, Rev. WilliamH. Boddy, D.D., First PresbyterianChurch, Chicago; July 28, Rev. CharlesA. Brooks, D.D., Englewood Baptist Church, Chicago ; August 4, Rev. DanielEvans, D.D., Professor of Christian Theology, Andover Theological Seminary;August 11, Rev. Albert Eustace Haydon,Ph.D., Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Chicago; August 18,Rev. Henry N. Wieman, Ph.D., Professorof Christian Theology, University of Chicago; August 25, Rev. Carl S. Patton,D.D., Professor of Preaching and ChurchWork, Chicago Theological Seminary.The inauguration of President Hutchins will take place on November 19 and20. The event will include, as at presentplanned, the ceremony of inauguration,to be held in the morning of the nineteenth in the University Chapel, with addresses by distinguished representativesof American universities and of Chicago ;a luncheon in Hutchinson Hall for delegates from universities, colleges, and theeducational foundations, and a dinner forfriends of the University at a downtownhotel, with two or three after-dinner addresses.There will be held, also, a receptionfor alumni and a student assembly onNovember 20.Harry A. Bigelow, Professor of Lawat the University, who has been appointed Dean of the Law School to succeedthe late James Parker Hall, has been amember of the Law Faculty since 1904.He has won wide recognition as a scholarand teacher. He is the author of variouscasebooks.Professor John Shapley, head of theDepartment of Art at New York University, has been appointed Professorand Chairman of the Department of Artat the University. He takes the positionleft vacant since the death of ProfessorWalter Sargent in September, 1927. Dr.Shapley, who is regarded as one of themost eminent scholars in the country inthe field of art, is president of the College Art Association, editor of Parnassusand the Art Bulletin, periodicals published by the association, associate editorof the Journal of Archaeology, and advisory editor of Art Studies. He holdsdegrees from the University of Missouri,Princeton University, and the Universityof Vienna.President Hutchins received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from2l8 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDthree colleges recently, while eight othermembers of the University Faculty werereceiving honorary doctorates at variouscommencement exercises. Oberlin College, at which he studied for two years,Lafayette College, and the University ofWest Virginia awarded President Hutchins the LL.D. degree. Vice-PresidentFrederic Woodward received the LL.D.from Northwestern University, where hetaught from 1902 to 1907. PrincetonUniversity conferred the Doctor of Letters degree upon Professor James HenryBreasted, Director of the Oriental Institute. At Harvard University Dr. CharlesWhitney Gilkey, Dean of the UniversityChapel, was given the honorary Doctorof Divinity degree and was hailed as "anexemplar of his own preaching." YaleUniversity and Ohio State Universityhonored Professor Arthur H. Compton,co-winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize inphysics, with the doctorate of science.Sir William A. Craigie, co-editor of themonumental Oxford Historical Dictionary and now professor at the Universityin charge of the Historical Dictionary ofAmerican English project, received theLittJD. at the University of Michigan'scommencement. On the same occasionRobert P. Lamont, formerly Trustee ofthe University and Secretary of Commerce in President Hoover's cabinet, received the degree of Doctor of Laws.Before leaving for Cape Town to represent the Geological Society of Americaat the International Geological Congress,Professor Rollin T. Chamberlin was given the Doctor of Science degree at Be-loit College. Dr. Henry Nelson Wieman,Professor of Christian Theology in theDivinity School, received the Doctor ofDivinity degree from Park College, hisalma mater. Professor Edward W. Hin-ton, professor in the Law School, received an LL.D. from the University ofMissouri, where he was Professor ofLaw, 1904-13, and Dean of the LawSchool, 1912-13.Several hundred chiefs and secretariesof police of the leading cities of the United States will be invited to participate ina conference on police statistics at theUniversity this autumn. Professor Leonard D. White announces that the conference will be the first project of the University's newly established center for thestudy of police methods, which is to beheaded by August Vollmer, chief of police of Berkeley, California, who has been appointed Professor of Police Administration. Chief Vollmer is to be directorof the conference, with Commissioner ofPolice W. J. Rutledge, of Detroit, as associate director, and Bruce Smith as consultant. The plan is to provide intensivetraining in the proposed methods of classification of crime and of police reporting suggested by the Committee on Statistics of the International Association ofChiefs of Police. This system, devisedfor the association by Mr. Smith, has already been adopted in Detroit, and probably will come into general use throughout the country. President Hoover'scommittee on law enforcement and observance has named two University professors to aid in the national crime survey, Dean Edith Abbott and Chief August Vollmer. Dr. Abbott, Dean of theUniversity's School of Social Service Administration, has been chosen to head thework on "criminal justice and the foreignborn" for the Hoover committee. DeanAbbott has done extensive research workon problems of crime and immigration.Professor Vollmer has been called toWashington to act as consultant for thenational committee in its police survey.One hundred and twenty-five tons ofstone from the palace of Sargon II, including some of the finest examples ofAssyrian sculpture ever recovered, are enroute to the University as a result of thefirst year's excavations by the University's Iraq expedition. Professor EdwardChiera, Assyriologist for the Oriental Institute and director of the expedition,who has returned to Chicago from thesite, reported the salvaging of an immensemass of relief work, carved some 2,700years ago on the walls of Sargon's courtyard, the discovery of the palace of oneof Sargon's successors to the throne ofancient Assyria, and the discovery of awalled city between the palaces. Amongthe relics being shipped to Chicago forstudy and display in the new OrientalInstitute building about to be erected area stone bull, weighing about forty tons,which guarded Sargon's gateway ; all thefragments of frieze work which covereda corridor nearly 100 feet long ; a figureof Sargon himself; and slabs showingemissaries from Syria and the Hittitecountry bearing gifts for the king. Thefigure of the bull, which has the beardedhead of a man and the wings of an eagle,is 17 feet long and 18 feet high, the largest ever found. The finds were made inBRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTER 219the mound of Khorsabad, twelve milesfrom Nineveh and fifteen miles from theTigris River. At Chicago the fragmentswill be assembled and inscriptions translated. Approximately 6,000 square feetof relief work will become available formuseum purposes. An amount of material equal to that which is en route toChicago was turned over to the museummaintained by the Iraq government,which co-operated with the Chicago men.Professor Chiera will return to Khorsabad next winter with his party to continue the work.Plans for the new building to housethe work of the Oriental Institute of theUniversity, which is to be located at thecorner of University Avenue and Fifty-eighth Street, will be drawn by the Bertram G. Goodhue Associates. The building will be planned to harmonize withand set off the Chapel. It will cost $750,-000 equipped. Its erection was madepossible by grants announced in December. It will be Gothic in design, of limestone construction, and will inclose threesides of a small quadrangle. It will provide museum space more than doublethat now available in Haskell Museum,quarters for an enlarged faculty, classrooms and workrooms, and a large lecture hall.At least half the undergraduate menat the University are earning part or allof their way through school. Figures recently compiled show also that approximately one-fourth of the women undergraduates are employees as well as students. Out of 2,764 undergraduates forthe three quarters of the last academicyear a current total of 1,065 were knownto support themselves entirely or in part.The latter figure included only thosewith whom the University's Board ofVocational Guidance and Placement hadcontact, and does not include those whosecured employment without consultingthe board. Figures for the previous yearindicate that the student body, including both undergraduate and graduatestudents, earned more than $300,000.More than a third of that sum was paidto students working for the Universityas waiters, clerks, library attendants,messengers, etc. Extramural employmentof students ranged from traditional jobsas stenographers, tutors, salesmen, watchmen, laborers, ushers, chauffeurs, musicians, reporters, and houseworkers to bricklayers, investigators, chimneysweeps, lecturers, and professional athletes. There was one air-mail flyer.Dr. John Adams Scott, Professor ofGreek and Head of the Department ofClassics at Northwestern University, whowas the orator at the One Hundred Fifty-sixth Convocation, August 30, hadbeen lecuring on Herodotus and Homerduring the University's Summer Quarter.Dr. Scott has been associated with Northwestern University since 1897. A formerstudent at the universities of Gottingenand Munich, he received the Ph.D. atJohns Hopkins University and LL.D. atIllinois College.Forty-seven Freshmen, graduates ofhigh schools, are entering the Universitythis autumn on the new "two-year honorscholarships" provided by an alumnus ofthe University. They were chosen on thebasis of scholarship, character, health,and the promise of leadership, standardsvirtually similar to those used in the selection of Rhodes Scholars. Six are Chi-cagoans. Twelve were chosen from Illinois high schools, six from Indiana, fourfrom Missouri, three from Kansas, twofrom Wisconsin, two from Oklahoma,and one each from Tennessee, Nebraska,Montana, South Carolina, Michigan, andOhio. When the number of honor scholarships was raised this year from sixteento forty-seven the total number of scholarships available for Freshmen was increased to over 126. For all undergraduates the total of 298 fall tuition grantsavailable last year was divided among346 students. Thirteen states are represented among those receiving scholarships.Gifts totaling $410,000 have beenmade to two institutions for crippledchildren affiliated with the Universityand operated under its medical guidance.The Chicago Home for Destitute andCrippled Children, which will shortly behoused in buildings contiguous to theUniversity Clinics, has received $350,000under the will of the late Dr. FrederickB. Skillman, of Oak Park. Mrs. JamesN. Raymond, of Chicago, has given $60,-000 to the Country Home for Convalescent Children for the erection of theJames Nelson and Anna Louis RaymondBuilding on the home's property atPrince's Crossing, Illinois.220 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDDispatches from Constantinople report the discovery, by professor MartinA. Sprengling of the University's Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures, of a 5,000-year-old village inAnatolia containing valuable relics. Professor Sprengling has been searching forthe remains of pre-Babylonian and Hit-tit e civilizations in the Near East. Turkey has authorized the University tofound a Hittite museum at Angora nextyear. Dr. Shailer Mathews, Dean of theUniversity Divinity School, opened thefirst meeting of an executive committeerepresenting eleven religions, August 19,at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. Thecommittee is preparing for a universalpeace conference. "The intelligent cooperation of mankind is necessary to prevent a recurrence of war," he said."Peace is not merely the maintenance ofthe present status."ATTENDANCE IN THE SUMMER QUARTER, 19291929 1928Gain LossMen Women Total Men Women TotalI. Arts, Literature, and Science:i. Graduate Schools —1,011639 1,192246 2,203885 1,086681 i,376247 2,462928 25943Total 1,65029910873 i,4384©5150160 3,088704258233 1,767251114100 1,623425149179 3,390676263279 28 3022. The Colleges-546Total 4802,13022787513 7152,153452154 i,i954,283272109017 4652,232242169618 7532,3763010158 1,2184,6082722611126 23Total Arts, Literature, and325II. Professional Schools:i. Divinity Schools —16Chicago Theological Seminary —219Total 323140 6616 389156 372i45 6318 435163 462. Graduate Schools of Medicine —Ogden Graduate School of Science —714 14 26 2 28 14Total 154141023510 161121 170151143610 171171164017 2011051 191181264518 21Rush Medical College —312Third- Year 98Total 1613H16230382 14308 17534i17030382 19036112221302 173753 20739812724302 4368 32Total (less duplicates) 3. Law School — 57Total 23225618 819126225 24021632243 17523332 827030273 18329333305 574. College of Education —77162Total 498735 442141324 49110148211 58754433 573241749 6319961712 2 1405. School of Commerce and Administration —1357 1Total 129131 338919712 16210220713 125II3 547517313 1798620313 16 176. Graduate School of Social ServiceAdministration —41Total 154 12710 14214 14 108 122 20147 . Graduate School of Library Science —Total Professional Schools . . .Total University (in Quad- 1,0633,193184 7162,86916 i,7796,062200 i,io53,337191 8433,21923 1,9486,556214 169494143,009 2,853222 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDATTENDANCE IN THE SUMMER QUARTER, 1929— ContinuedGraduate 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 . .Grand total in the University . 3,088362156165170101102144,158 9626824850271,3255,862 23327INDEX TO VOLUME XVAmong the Departments: The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Archer Taylor), 212; The Department of Greek Language and Literature (Robert J. Bonner), 42; The Department of Mathematics (H. E.Slaught and G. A. Bliss), 97; The Department of Physiological Chemistryand Pharmacology (F. C. Koch), 161;The Department of Zoology (Frank R.Lil lie), 40Annual Dinner to the Faculties, TheTrustees', Addresses by T. V. Smith,Julius Stieglitz, Sewell Avery, andFrederic Woodward, 63Art, Works of, in the University, 207Art Building for the University, An, 186Attendance: in the Autumn Quarter,1928, 49; in the Winter Quarter, 1929,112; in the Spring Quarter, 1929, 173;in the Summer Quarter, 1929, 221Bell, Laird, portrait, facing 76Bigelow, Harry A., portrait, facing 20Board of Trustees, The (John F. Moulds),^S, 90? 147, 200; Appointments, 34, 91,148, 201; Appreciation of Services ofFrederic Woodward, 147; Auditor'sTitle Changed to "Comptroller," 90;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 201; Election of Officers andTrustees, 148; Gifts, 36, 94, 157, 204;New Contributory Group Life Insurance Plan, 90; Promotions, 92, 152;Resignation of Charles W. Gilkey asTrustee, 147; Retirements, 34; Standing Committees of the Board, 90, 200;University Boards for 1928-29, 33Botanical Laboratory, The New, illus.,facing 165Breasted, Dr. J. H., Receives the Rosenberger Medal, illus., facing 148Brief Records of the Quarter, 46, 105,165, 216Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder, Deathof, 25; portrait of, facing 25Chicago Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary, The (Joseph B. De Lee), 124;Design of the New, illus., facing 124 Comptroller, From the Annual Report ofthe, 197Convocation Addresses: Shall the LawTriumph? (Frank J. Loesch) ,51; President Hutchins' First, 118; School andLeisure (John Adams Scott), 175Cornerstones Laid: Bernard A. EckhartHall, 193; Bernard E. Sunny Gymnasium, 128Coulter, John Merle, Death of, 27; portrait, facing 27Cowles, Henry C, portrait, facing 20Davis, Ozora S.: Four Sonnets, 188Dean of Women in the University, 136Deaths of Members of the Faculties:Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, 25;John Merle Coulter, 27; Floyd RussellMechem, 28; Albert Harris Tolman, 29;Alexander A. Maximo w, 31Dedication of the Chapel, 1Diploma, The New, 83Eckhart, Bernard A., Hall, 79; AcceptedDesign for, South Front, illus., facing79; Cornerstone Laid, illus., facing 193Epstein, Max, portrait, facing 186Fiske, John Billings, Prize Poem (AlfredV. Frankenstein), 133Flag, Official University, 24Four Sonnets (Ozora S. Davis), 188Frankenstein, Alfred V.: John Henry:An American Episode, the John Billings Fiske Prize Poem, 133Gates, Frederick T., Memorial of, 81Germanic Languages and Literatures,The Department of (Archer Taylor),212Gilkey, Charles Whitney, Address atDedication of Chapel, 13; Tribute to,190Greek Language and Literature, The Department of (Robert J. Bonner), 42Hutchins, President Robert Maynard:First Convocation Address, 118; TheNew President, 115; portrait, facing223224 INDEX TO VOLUME XV115; President and Mrs. HutchinsVisit the University, illus., facing 117;New Administration Begins Happily,The, illus., facing 175John Henry: An American Episode, theJohn Billings Fiske Prize Poem (AlfredV. Frankenstein), 133Loesch, Frank J.: Shall the Law Triumph? 51; portrait, facing 51Mathematics, The Department of (H. E.Slaught and G. A. Bliss), 97Maximow, Alexander A., Death of, 31Mechem, Floyd Russell, Death of, 28;portrait, facing 28Midway Studios and the University, The,144; Midway Studios Family, The,illus., facing 144Oriental Institute, The, 21Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology, The Department of (F. C. Koch),161Portraits, Recent, of Members of theFaculties: Henry C. Cowles, facing 20;Harry A. Bigelow, facing 20; JuliusStieglitz, facing 22.Power Plant, The New, 84; Design for theNew Power Plant, illus., facing 84;Tunnel Reaches the Quadrangles, The,illus., facing 169Quadrangles, The, Henry Ives Cobb'searly drawing of proposed buildings,illus., facing 6Quantrell, Ernest E., portrait, facing 76Quarterly Statement, Acting PresidentWoodward's, 86Residence Halls, New, 22Roberts, Bobs, Memorial Hospital forChildren, The, 130; Colonel RobertsLays the Cornerstone of the BobsRoberts Hospital, illus., facing 128;Latest Addition to the Midway Clinics,The, illus., facing 130Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr.: Addressat Dedication of Chapel, 6Rockefeller, Laura Spelman, MemorialFund, 19Rosenberger Medal Awarded to JamesHenry Breasted, 147 Ryerson, E. L., Fellowships in Archaeology, The, 192Scott, John Adams: School and Leisure,175Shorey, Paul, A French Tribute to,199Smith, George Otis, portrait, facing 76Smith, Gerald Birney, Death of, 138;portrait, facing 138Social Science Building, The, 89 : Designsfor, illus., facing 89 and 90Stieglitz, Julius, Bronze Portrait Bust,illus., facing 22Stifler, Dr. James Madison, portrait,facing 143Sunny, Bernard Edward, Gymnasium,The, 127; Bernard Edward Sunny Laysthe Cornerstone of the Sunny Gymnasium, illus., facing 128Tablets (Edward Hillman, Charles Richmond Henderson), 80Tolman, Albert Harris, Death of, 29Trustees, New (Laird Bell, George OtisSmith, Ernest E. Quantrell), 76; (JamesM. Stifler), 143Trustees' Annual Dinner to the Faculties,The, 63Tufts, James Hayden, portrait, facing 1University Chapel, Dedication of the, 1;Acting President Woodward's Address,4; Address by John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., 6; Response of Dean CharlesWhitney Gilkey, 13; An Early Suggestion for Site of the, illus., facing 6;South Front of the, on Day of Dedication, illus., facing 3; University Chapelas Seen from Woodlawn Avenue, illus.,facing 8; Interior of, looking North,illus., facing 11; After the Dedication —The Son of the Founder and the ActingPresident, illus., facing 14University Flag, The, 24; illus., facing 6Wilson, John P., Memorial Foundation,The, 78Woodward, Frederic, Tribute to, 190Zoology, Department of, (Lillie, FrankR.), 40