The University RecordVolume XIX JULY I93 3 Number 3THE RETIREMENT OF DEANSHAILER MATHEWSBy SHIRLEY JACKSON CASEf | "^IME, that unemotional arbiter of our destinies, has broughtI round the day which releases Dean Shailer Mathews of theJL Divinity School of the University of Chicago from his long andstrenuous academic activities and elevates him to the dignity of emeritus.Probably no more eloquent tribute could be paid to him on this occasionthan to present an unadorned recital of outstanding items in the distinguished service he has rendered to the Divinity School, to the Universityas a whole, and to the world at large during the last four decades.HISTORICALDean Mathews joined the faculty of the Divinity School in July, 1894,as teacher of New Testament History and Interpretation. Previous tothat time he had been professor of history and political economy in ColbyCollege, Waterville, Maine. But he was graduated from the NewtonTheological Seminary in 1887, where he had been under the instruction ofthe late Professor Ernest D. Burton, the first head of the New TestamentDepartment in the Divinity School when the new University of Chicagowas established. In 1888 and 1889 Professor Mathews had been givenleave of absence from Colby to teach New Testament at Newton duringan illness of Professor Burton. On coming to Chicago, Professor Mathewscontinued to teach in the New Testament field until 1905, when he wasmade the head (later chairman) of the department now known as Christian Theology and Ethics, in which he has taught general courses in theology and specialized in the history of Christian doctrine.1651 66 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDAs a teacher Dean Mathews has always attracted large enrolments inhis classes. A roll call of his old students would bring thousands of responses from men and women representing various types of Christianservice not only in the United States and Canada but on every foreignmissionary field. His boundless vivacity and contagious enthusiasm havemade even the most recondite theological themes take on new reality andmeaning, while his sensitivity to the higher values of religious living in thepresent has been a perpetual inspiration to each new generation of students. Always a loyal disciple of truth, but never a slave to dead and dry-as-dust statistics, he has persistently stressed the importance of genuinescholarship, not merely as an end in itself but as the indispensable equipment for a functionally effective leadership in the Christian ministry.TRAINED MENAs a matter of course, the great majority of the students who havecome under Dean Mathews' instruction have become pastors of churches.They aggregate today thousands in number, serving in various Protestantdenominations in different parts of the United States and Canada as wellas in evangelistic activities on many mission fields. With a breadth ofvision and a foresight that have been truly prophetic, Dean Mathews hasrendered a further service to the Christian ministry by building into thecurriculum of the Divinity School special courses of advanced study suitedto the needs of men preparing to teach in other seminaries. Thus his influence in training men for the pastorate has spread over ever widening circles as these teachers, nearly two hundred in all, have taken their placeon the faculties of some one hundred theological institutions in Americaand abroad.Research has always been one of Dean Mathews' keenest interests, andhe has been a tireless worker in the field of his own specialization. Herehis work has been unique. By his emphasis upon the social aspects ofChristian life and thinking he has become the founder of a new type oftheological interpretation. To list his numerous books, periodical articles,and editorial enterprises would require more space than is available at thepresent moment. This statistical information is readily accessible elsewhere.1 A glance at this extensive body of data reveals a wide range of1 See Publications of the Members of the University of Chicago (Chicago, 1904), pp.46 f., 175; Publications of the Members of the University of Chicago, IQ02-1916 (Chicago,191 7), pp. 449-52; and the appropriate entry in "Publications of the Faculties" in subsequent numbers of the President's Report; also the chapter by E. E. Aubrey on "Theology and the Social Process" in the volume The Process of Religion (New York, 1933)edited by Miles H. Krumbine and published in honor of Dean Mathews' seventiethbirthday.DEAN SHAILER MATHEWS 167interest and an indefatigable industry, yet at the same time a concentration of attention upon the central theme of the significance of religion inthe varied activities of mankind during past ages and at the present time.ADMINISTRATIONIn addition to a full program of teaching and a continuous concern withresearch, Dean Mathews has rendered conspicuous service as an administrator. He served the Divinity School as junior dean from 1899 to 1908,and for the last twenty-five years he has borne the full responsibilities ofdeanship. From the outset he has entertained very definite and forward-looking ideals as to the task of a theological institution in a universitysetting. He has never consented that it should be merely a school forprofessional training in which the faculty as schoolmasters could discharge their full duty by passing on to students a traditional body ofopinions and techniques, the acquisition of which would adequately equipthem to be competent ministerial practitioners. Dean Mathews has insisted that the highest measure of practical effectiveness can be insuredonly by cultivating among both faculty and students a spirit of researchin all areas of religious knowledge and activity. This policy aimed atincreasing the sum of human knowledge in the field of religion, and atteaching students how to find their way about amid new issues, as theyin future would face the constructive task of religious leadership.To house and finance and provide a sufficient faculty for a DivinitySchool that would carry on research in connection with professional training demanded the solution of many problems. This was the task facedby Dean Mathews at the beginning of his administration. Under hisleadership the school has abandoned its original abode among the mummies of Haskell Oriental Museum and acquired its own new home inSwift Hall. Joseph Bond Chapel has also been added to its equipment,as well as buildings containing thirty-one apartments for students. During this period special funds for the Divinity School have increased by$1,200,000, in addition to the establishment of several new scholarships,fellowships, and loan funds. Important changes in the curriculum andadditions to the faculty have also been realized. When the University wasestablished forty years ago biblical studies held the center of interest inthe theological field and were provided with a teaching force that outnumbered almost two to one the entire instructional corps in all otherdivinity departments. Doctrinal, practical, and historical subjects takentogether were served by scarcely as many faculty members as one foundin either Old or New Testament. Under these circumstances neither adequate instruction nor effective research was possible in these neglectedi68 THE UNIVERSITY RECQRDfields. Under Dean Mathews numerous changes in the curriculum andadditions to the faculty have been made in the interests of better proportion, with a special emphasis upon giving a practical and wide foundationfor professional courses.SERVING THE GENERAL GOODIn a wide range of University activities Dean Mathews has freely givenof his time and wise counsel for the general good. For thirty-three yearshe served on both the Publication Committee and the Press Board of theUniversity of Chicago Press. He has been a member of numerous standing committees or other administrative boards, such as University Publications, Social Service and Religion, Libraries, Vocational Guidance andPlacement, Co-ordination of Student Interests, General AdministrativeBoard, Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees, Committee on theHiram W. Thomas Lecture Fund, Committee on Radio, Committee onUniversity College, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Sacred Literature, and member of the Board of Trusteesof the Baptist Theological Union. He has also long been a member of theboard of the University of Chicago Settlement, and was chairman of theboard in the year 1896-97. He has been active in the life of the Quadrangle Club, serving as its treasurer in 1894-97 and its president in 1902-3. He has not rendered a mere perfunctory service in any of these capacities, but has always given himself with zest to the duties of office.Dean Mathews' extra-mural activities have been exceedingly wide intheir range and important in their significance. No good cause has everappealed to him in vain for counsel and support within the city and in thenation and the world at large. In the civic life of Chicago he has taken avigorous part for many years, serving in various capacities and especiallyas chairman of the Voters' Clearing House. He visited Japan as a representative of the churches of the United States in 1915, and was state secretary of war savings for Illinois in 191 7-18 and vice-director in 1918-19.He has been a trustee of the Church Peace Union since 1914, and is atpresent chairman of the executive committee of the World Conference onInternational Peace through Religion. Since 191 2 he has been director ofreligious work of the Chautauqua Institution and is chairman of its Executive Board of Trustees. He has also been active in the Religious Education Association and in the Federal Council of Churches of Christ inAmerica, serving as president of the Federal Council in 1912-16. He waspresident of the Western Economic Society from 191 i to 1919, and is amember of various learned societies, e.g., Phi Beta Kappa, the AmericanDEAN SHAILER MATHEWS 169Historical Association, the American Society of University Professors, theSociety of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, the Chicago Biblical Society.In the work of the Baptist denomination he has held many positions ofresponsibility. He was president of the Northern Baptist Convention in191 5-1 6; chairman of the committee on the Baptist Five- Year program,and of the Three Million Dollar Campaign; president of the Baptist Executive Committee in 1907-18; president of the Chicago Baptist Executive Council in 1910-19, and of the Chicago Co-operative Council of CityMissions in 1908-15; president of the Chicago Federation of Churches in1929-32. He is also a member of the Committee on Progress through Religion in the Century of Progress Fair for 1933.As a special lecturer Dean Mathews' services have been much in demand. He delivered the Haverford Library Lectures in 1907; the EarlLectures at Berkeley, California, in 1913; the William Belden Noble Lectures at Harvard in 1916; the McNair Lectures at the University of NorthCarolina in 1918; the Slocum-Bennett Lectures at Wesleyan Universityin 192 1 ; the Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt University in 1926; the IngersollLecture at Harvard in 1933. And he is under appointment to deliver theBarrows Lectures in India in 1933-34 and the Cole Lectures again atVanderbilt University in 1934.Honorary degrees have been conferred upon Dean Mathews by ColbyCollege, Oberlin College, Miami University, Pennsylvania College, University of Rochester, Brown University, Chicago Theological Seminary,Faculte Libre de Theologie Protestante de Paris, and the University ofGlasgow in Scotland.Dean Shailer Mathews sails in September for the Far East as lectureron the foundation of the Barrows Lectures on Christianity. As he leavesthe University he cannot but have vividly in his memory the receptionand dinner given in his honor by his colleagues on April 28. At that timetwo hundred or so among his admirers and friends were present in thedining hall of Judson Court of the College Residence Hall for Men.After dinner Vice-President Woodward, who served as toastmaster, felicitously introduced three speakers who with words eloquent, sympathetic,appreciative, occasionally and intentionally amusingly extravagant, paidtheir tribute to the "Dean, Oh what a man, Mathews." They recorded hiscountless achievements in administration, in teaching, in authorship, instimulation of thought and study in theology and religion, in leadershipin search for truth, and in attaining a saner view of the Bible and Christian theology k The three speakers — and no finer tribute to Dean Mathews170 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDcould be found than in selecting these special representatives from the University at large rather than from the Divinity School — were Paul Shorey,A. C. McLaughlin, and Gordon J. Laing. Mr. Woodward's introductoryremarks were not only charmingly addressed to the three speakers butalso adequately described the quality, the comprehensiveness, and thelong continuance of Dean Mathews' service in and for the DivinitySchool, the University, and the Christian world.The Baptist Theological Union is the corporation the object of which"according to its charter, enacted in 1865, is to " be the founding, endowment, support, and direction of an institution for theological instruction,to be styled 'The Chicago Baptist Theological Institute.' " The "insti-tute," by agreement with the University entered into in 1891 and subsequently amended in 1898 and 1925, became the Divinity School of theUniversity. At their meeting held April 26, 1933, the Trustees of the Theological Union appointed Dr. Shirley J. Case, professor in the DivinitySchool of the history of early Christianity, dean of the school as successorto Dean Shailer Mathews. Professor Case's appointment had been madeafter the recommendation of his appointment by the President of theUniversity and by the Committee on Instruction and Equipment of theBoard of Trustees of the Theological Union. At the meeting of the Boardof Trustees of the University on May n, 1933, in conformity to the agreement between the Union and the University, the appointment of DeanCase was confirmed.THE THEOLOGICAL UNION RECALLS DEAN MATHEWS'SERVICEA T THE meeting of the Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union/ \ held on Wednesday, April 26, 1933, the following tribute to theX J^ work and character of Dean Mathews, prepared by a committeeconsisting of J. Spencer Dickerson, William Clancy, and Robert L. Scott,was adopted:The Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union cannot permit Shailer Mathews tosever his connection with the Divinity School of the University of Chicago without expressing their profound appreciation of his long and faithful service. With the life of theUnion for forty years he has been closely identified.The Baptist Union Theological Seminary, organized in 1863, became the DivinitySchool of the University when the latter institution, thanks to the foresight and liberality of John D. Rockefeller, was founded. It was a condition of Mr. Rockefeller's giftwhich led to the creation of the University that the seminary which had carried on itswork with considerable success as a denominational institution should become part ofthe University to be. It may well be imagined that the years after the Union of theseminary with the University were a period of hesitancy and readjustment.It was the Divinity School, whose relationship to the Baptist denomination and tothe University, to say the least, was necessarily somewhat uncertain, that there came in1894 a young teacher from one of the oldest and most conservative of Baptist theologicalseminaries. He was called to teach New Testament history and to interpret its message.The risks involved, both for the new professor and the new school, were evident if notactually threatening. Because of the views of President Harper, which were regardedas theologically radical, and these views were believed to be dominant in the DivinitySchool, there was pronounced opposition by some groups and in some places.But from the day when Shailer Mathews left the hilltop at Newton Center andwalked across the University "quadrangles," which existed only in imagination, untilthis day, nearly four decades later, the Divinity School has moved onward, onward ininfluence, in attendance of students, in the approval of thousands of thinking people.No little part of this progress is due to the professor whose brilliant class-room teachingwas appreciated by his students, and was described to prospective students and to thepublic. Even more, the growth and usefulness of the Divinity School are due in nosmall degree to the tactfulness, wisdom and efficiency of its administration which beganwhen in 1899 it was committed to Shailer Mathews as junior dean. And his influencebecame even more widespread when in 1908 he was appointed dean. Meanwhile, thefield of his class-room work was altered when he became respectively (1905) professorof systematic theology and professor of historical and comparative theology (1906).It is estimated that during the period of Dean Mathews' connection with the Divin-171172 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDity School something like 11,000 students have attended its classes. It is impossible toevaluate or to overemphasize the beneficent influence which his teachings and examplehave had upon the Christian ministry of this country not to say upon the whole Christian world. In 1897 he began to offer courses on "The Social Teaching of Jesus" andfrom that time until today his classes have been enriched not only by a variety of theological courses, particularly courses in the history of doctrine, but have repeatedly expounded his views on the church and society.During the twenty-five years Dr. Mathews has served as dean of the Divinity School,the institution he has so well administered has been established as one of the outstanding theological schools in the country. Gradually emerging from a theological seminaryof the old type, it has become a school dominated by the modern spirit. Thanks in nosmall degree to the wisdom of its dean, while it has changed, it has never lost its essential Christian point of view. Its faculty acknowledges the need for a progressive outlookand attitude but its emphasis, and especially the emphasis of its dean, has been uponthe necessity of following and exemplifying the spirit of Jesus Christ.Dean Mathews' influence has been exerted in the class-room, in administration, inthe pulpit, as editor, and by means of his books. Few men have been so often calledupon to speak upon popular platforms for and to the churches. He has addressed manythousands of edified hearers in probably every state in the union and in many foreigncountries. He was an ambassador of the churches to Japan. He has participated in innumerable councils of religious organizations throughout the Christian world. He hasbeen honored by election to positions of leadership in organized Christianity, positionsrequiring the exemplification of sound judgment and administrative ability. Honorarydegrees have been conferred upon him by numerous institutions of learning. His booksupon theological, historical, and social subjects have circulated by the thousand. Particularly have his writings interpreted the message of the gospel of Christ as applicableto the conditions and needs of a changing social order.Mindful then of what he has accomplished for the betterment of the world, intellectually, religiously and socially; thankful for the service he has performed for theDivinity School and the University, the Trustees of the Theological Union hereby placeupon record their sense of gratitude for this long and effective service. They appreciatewhat he has done during a period of social and theological change and what he will stillcontinue to do in serving his fellow men.The tribute has been engrossed, signed by all members of the Board ofTrustees and presented to Dean Mathews.THE NEW DEAN OF THEDIVINITY SCHOOLBy WILLIAM CREIGHTON GRAHAMA FEW years ago a layman who had just listened to a sermon byShirley Jackson Case approached the preacher after the service^ and said to him, "Well, mister, you just look down the barrel andshoot, don't you?" It is the fact that this characterization is accuratethat accounts for the practically unanimous satisfaction in DivinitySchool circles, student and faculty alike, over his appointment as dean.If anything may compensate us for the loss, in perplexing times such asthose we live in, of the leadership of that great human being, Dean ShailerMathews, it is the knowledge that we are to be led by a man who hasalways known where he wanted to go and has never yet failed to arrive.Under Mr. Case the progressive traditions established by Dean Mathewswill be zealously guarded and wisely enhanced.EDUCATIONAL BEGINNINGSThe academic career of the new dean is an exemplification of his giftof the "single eye." He began, in the "Bluenose"1 tradition to which hewas born, by acquiring, with characteristic thoroughness, a broad basisof culture so that the first stage of his teaching career was passed as anexponent of the science of mathematics. After four years in this, by comparison, simple field, he transferred his attention to the Greek languageby the thorough mastery of which he laid the foundations for his laterachievements in the fields of New Testament interpretation and the earlyhistory of the Christian church. Within nine years of his receiving thedegree of Ph.D. from Yale University, in 1906, he had achieved his professorship in the Department of New Testament in the University ofChicago. Two years later, in 19 17, his progress as a scientific historianwas recognized by his appointment to the professorship of Early ChurchHistory and New Testament Interpretation. From this time on he gainedsteadily growing recognition as a historian and finally, in 1923, becamechairman of the Department of Church History. This quiet but continuous progress within a definitely defined field was the direct result of that1 The term "Bluenose" in the popular parlance of Canada means a native of themaritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.173SHIRLEY JACKSON CASENEW DEAN OF THE DIVINITY SCHOOL 175resolute concentration of industry and attention which never fails tobestow dignity on the object of it. It may be safely said that the worth tohumanity of that area of interest known as history has been definitely increased by Mr. Case's devotion to it.The Chicago environment was, in itself, calculated to be stimulatingto one whose interests had already begun to follow a sociological trendwhen he arrived within our quadrangles. Dean Mathews was by then welllaunched on that emphasis upon "the social aspects of Christian life andthinking"2 which was to create for him a significant place in the history oftheological interpretation. In his own field Mr. Case soon became an influential participant in the endeavor to confirm the thesis that theology isa product of social life. One of his distinct contributions was the introduction into the study of the social origins of Christianity of the consideration of the influence of the Graeco-Roman environment on Christianthought and institutions. The appearance, in 1914, of his Evolution ofEarly Christianity is now regarded as constituting a milestone in theprogress of the social approach to the study of early Christian history.This interest in the environmental factor was sanely balanced by acorresponding interest in the great personality of the founder of theChristian movement. Mr. Case has thoroughly explored all the sourcesdealing with the historical Jesus and with later interpretations of the significance of his personality in a trilogy of volumes produced over a periodof twenty years. The first of these, The Historicity of Jesus, appeared in191 2. The second, Jesus: A New Biography, remarkable for its clear andconvincing analysis of the growth of the records in the gospels, was published in 1926. Last year the trilogy was completed by his Jesus throughthe Centuries. The three volumes enable the reader to follow with ease hisview of the facts about the founder of Christianity and the developmentof the interpretation of those facts among his followers.LEARNED SOCIETIESThe learned societies related to his fields of interest have been veryably and faithfully served by Mr. Case. He has always been active in thebiblical societies and in 1926 served as president of the Society of BiblicalLiterature and Exegesis. But to the American Society of Church History,of which he was president in 1924-25, his contributions have been of anexceptionally conspicuous nature, illustrating his power both to analyzeand to influence situations. It is not too much to say that he is entitledto a large share of the credit for expanding this organization into a truly2 Cf. "The Retirement of Dean Shailer Mathews," p. 165 of this issue.176 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDnational society the operations and influence of which extend all over thecontinent. The actual attainment of this national status is, moreover, oneof the strongest claims which the society may now advance in support ofits application, at present pending, for membership in the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies. To Mr. Case's initiative is also due, in largepart, the publication of the Church History Quarterly and the society'srecent entry into the field of book-publishing.One of the greatest and most far-reaching contributions of Mr. Case togeneral theological education was made through his chairmanship, in1931-32, of the church-history deputation sent to the Orient by the American Society of Church History and Dr. John R. Mott, chairman of theInternational Missionary Council. The work done by this deputation hasbeen succinctly stated in its Report* Now that a year has elapsed, it maybe claimed that the deputation performed a signal service for Christianeducation in the East by imparting to students and teachers alike a newconception of the functions which can be performed for the churches ofthe Orient by those who are willing to devote attention to the churchhistory field. This new conception was, briefly, that the study of churchhistory, in the seminaries of the East, should be made to center in thehistory of the Christian movement in oriental lands, and in the environmental factors that are influencing its development there, ratherthan in the history of the church in the West. The result of this counselhas been to stimulate effectively the interest of oriental Christians in thegreat chapter of the church's history which they themselves are writing.A fine start has, moreover, been made toward the collection and preservation of current source materials which will be of priceless worth to laterhistorians. The highest values of the service rendered to the Easternchurches by the church-history deputation will doubtless manifest themselves in a greater sense of freedom and a deeper feeling of obligation in theleadership of those churches to achieve in their own milieu a genuinetransplanting of the great tree of Christian culture. The deputation hasdone much to influence the church in the East to think of itself as dedicated to the task of transforming Eastern ideals, philosophy, and institutions by whole-hearted participation, in the spirit of Jesus, in the greatsocial movements which are now transpiring in those lands, for Mr. Caseand his colleagues will surely have inspired those who came in contactwith them to see history not merely as the accumulation of factual dataabout the past but as an approach to the understanding of the present.3 Cf. Report of the Church History Deputation to the Orient, published by the International Missionary Council.NEW DEAN OF THE DIVINITY SCHOOL 177SCHOLARLY RESEARCHThis conception of history is characteristic of Mr. Case and has profoundly influenced his idea of the nature and function of scholarly research.With him the mere compilation and organization of facts does not in itself constitute research, and higher education consists of something morethan the acquirement of a bag of methodological tricks. Unless one issadly mistaken, his efforts as dean of the Divinity School will be bent,as have those of Dean Mathews before him, toward the development ofa type of research activity which will train the researcher himself, throughthe understanding of the social significance of the facts which he assembles, to know how to analyze the social situations in which he findshimself, and how to conduct himself so as to influence those situations inthe direction of progress. Mr. Case will undoubtedly strengthen PresidentHutchins in his laudable ambition to "restore ideas to their rightful placein the educational scheme."The new dean was ordained to the ministry and spent one year in thepastorate before beginning his academic preparation for his vocation.During five of the years he spent at college he discharged the pastoralfunctions for two neighboring churches. He has, ever since those days,cherished a deep interest in the preparation of men for the active ministryof the church. This side of the Divinity School's task will benefit bothfrom this interest and from his lifelong habit of thinking in terms ofsocial functions and movements. For him Christianity is charged with thehigh responsibility of spiritualizing the social process, and for the discharge of this responsibility nothing is of more paramount importancethan the development of a ministry which is capable of influencing modern social trends. One may confidently predict that under his leadershipthe training of ministers will be intelligently planned with direct referenceto the social functions which they should exercise and that not leastamong these will be placed the obligation to comprehend and propagatea distinctively Christian philosophy of life.Because of what he has done, then, but even more because of what he isand, therefore, because of what he will do, those who have the best interests of the Divinity School at heart welcome the new dean as one whosegift for true friendship and stimulating colleagueship entitles him to standin a place of leadership.B^^^^^HAMOS ALONZO STAGGAMOS ALONZO STAGGAPPOINTED JANUARY 29, 1892; RETIRESJULY 1, 1933AS ALREADY announced in the University Record and, probably,/ \ in every paper in the United States which gives any attention toX JL university athletics, Amos Alonzo Stagg is leaving the Universityand the field which was named in his honor and has accepted a coachingposition at the College of the Pacific, at Stockton, California. Such a longperiod of service as his, extending over four decades, and such service ashe performed are probably unprecedented in the history of American institutions of learning. At this time, just as officially he is closing his connection with the University, it is due to him and to the institution towhich he so faithfully gave his best efforts that there should be recordedsome tribute to the man and the coach.He who writes these words all too briefly and too inadequately honoring him who is believed to be the first athletic director ever appointed asa member of a university faculty happened to be in the modest office ofthe University on the day, some time during 1892, when the young athlete, recently graduated from Yale and late a husky instructor in theY.M.C.A. Training School of Springfield, Massachusetts, reported, if notfor duty, at least reported his presence. The office was on one of the upperfloors of what had formerly been the Board of Trade building, situated atthe southwest corner of Washington and LaSalle streets. Cobb Hall hadnot been completed and the University possessed at the Midway no roomin which even to receive its mail. In this downtown office were carried onthe activities which eventually led to the opening of the University. Undoubtedly Dr. T. W. Goodspeed and Dr. Harry Pratt Judson receivedStagg, one of the first members of the faculty to arrive in Chicago.The yellowing pages of the University's records show that the action ofthe Trustees which led to Stagg's acceptance of the Chicago appointmentwas that taken as early as February 2, 1891, when the minutes containthis statement: "It appearing in statements made by Dr. Harper thatsome immediate steps are needful toward filling certain chairs in theUniversity, it was voted that the committee on organization and facultiesbe authorized .... to confer with Professors Reynolds, Abbott, Mc-179i8o THE UNIVERSITY RECORDLaughlin and A. A. Stagg of Yale University." It was not until January,29, 1892, however, that the Trustees elected Stagg together with sixteenother members of the faculty of the not-yet-opened University. Of thisgroup only one other than Stagg is still in the University's service— Professor C. D. Buck — although a majority are still living. Thus begana career which was to cover the administration of five presidents and theentire life of the University until this day.The University Record boasts no "sports page." Its tribute to him whowas the "Old Man," dearly beloved, worshipfully admired and almostidolized while he was yet young, must be confined to some of the characteristics of the man as distinguished from the athletic coach. It must beconceded, nevertheless, that he would not have been so remarkable a manhad he not been also a successful coach, and, even more, he would nothave begun to be so famous a coach had he not been a man of highestrectitude. He has from his youth schooled himself in self-discipline: discipline of appetite — he drinks not, neither does he use tobacco; disciplineof temper — unlike the coaches of sporting fiction, although at times dramatically outspoken, he is never profane. He is easy to meet and sympathetic in word and deed. Unless his undergraduate conscience warns himthat he has done something of which he should be ashamed, the freshmanathlete even though just released from the farm yard or the high schoolneed not fear the wrath of the man — more exalted, in student opinion,than the President of the University.While always desirous of adequate funds for athletics, he has neverbeen eager to acquire money for himself. His University salary, like thoseof so many professors, has been — as compared with professional athleticsalaries — almost ridiculously small. A Babe Ruth salary check to Staggwould be as unexpected as it would be embarrassing. The appropriationsfor athletic purposes have been carefully guarded.During all these years Amos Alonzo Stagg has been a tower of strengthof the University. He has sanely developed his athletes, developed theirminds and characters as well as their arms and legs. He has emphasizedthe potency of self-mastery in its effects on scholarship and on its efficiency on the football field. Contestants with "U. of C." on their sweatersdo not dispute with umpires, or deliberately spike their opponents. If, nowand then, they allow excitement instead of judgment to direct their energies, they are quite sure during "halves" to have their attention terselyand unmistakably called to the error of their ways and to the lack ofcontrol on their conversational muscles. It has been said of him: "He hasbeen vigorous in his fight against professionalism and evasions of honesty inAMOS ALONZO STAGG 181any form and initiated such practical reforms as the 'one year residence'rule for freshmen and the restrictions against migrant athletes. His ownteams have been noted for their sportsmanship and his influence in thisrespect has been widespread. Mr. Stagg has always insisted that victoryat the price of unfair methods is not worth having; that sport which doesnot contribute to character has no justification. He has steadfastly refused to use his position for any personal gain, declining to take advantageof opportunities that would commercialize his prestige." No wonder thatten generations of students, as generations are reckoned on universitycalendars, have paid loyal tribute to this model coach and honest man.Alumni continue to tell their children, and are beginning to tell even theirgrandchildren, of the character and deeds of this beloved "Horatius atthe Bridge" of University athletics where the day was saved for cleansportsmanship and upright manhood.Is it any wonder that President Harper not long before his death wroteof Mr. Stagg:The story of Mr. Stagg's work in university athletics in the West is a long story, onethat reaches far out in many directions, and one full of significance. I first became acquainted with Mr. Stagg when he was at the height of his student athletic career atYale. For three years he was a student in my classes. An attachment was formed between us which, so far as I am concerned, has grown closer every year since that time.I remember distinctly the interviews in which we discussed the question of his coming toChicago and taking charge of the Department of Physical Culture and Athletics. It wasevident that he had certain ideals of athletic work and of athletic policy, and his comingto Chicago was dependent wholly upon his having every opportunity to work out theseideals. He came; he was given the opportunity he desired, and as a result it is not toomuch to say that western athletics have been altogether transformed. I do not mean tosay that there would have been no change in these twelve or fifteen years in western college athletics if Mr. Stagg had not come to Chicago. This, of course, would be absurd.But I do mean to say Mr. Stagg has contributed to this transformation more than allother agencies combined. His intense love of pure sport, his incorruptible spirit, his indefatigable effort, his broad minded zeal and his absolute fairness of mind and honestyof heart have exerted an influence upon western university and college athletics thathas been felt far and wide and produced results of which we may all reasonably beproud.When in days to come from Mitchell Tower nightly the chimes ringout the "Alma Mater," their notes will call to mind the life and characterof Amos Alonzo Stagg, for it was his gift, made in 1905, which has permitted the bells to ring all these years. Although the sound may die, theinfluence of sterling character will live.THE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SECOND CONVOCATIONTHE SUMMER convocation was held in the University Chapelin two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon ofa perfect day, June 13. The chapel was well filled on both occasions. The higher degrees, including one honorary degree, were conferredin the morning and those for undergraduates in the afternoon. The degrees conferred during the academic year, 1932-33, reached a total of1,617. They were conferred as follows: To Bachelors of Arts, Philosophy, or Science 913; Bachelors of Laws 7; Masters of Arts or Science335; Bachelors of Divinity 4; Doctors of Law (J.D.) 63; Doctors of Medicine 143 ; Doctors of Jurisprudence (J.S.D.) 3 and to Doctors of Philosophy149, besides 173 four-year certificates in medicine. Since October 1, 1892,the University has conferred 35,559 degrees.The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon BenjaminN. Cardozo, recently appointed justice of the Surpreme Court of the United States, "in recognition of his achievements as a judge, as a legal scholar,and as an eminent leader in the adaptation of the law to social needs."Judge Cardozo was formally presented to the President of the Universityfor the ceremony by Dean Harry A. Bigelow.Announcement of the winners of various prizes and medals, some thirteen in number, and of scholastic honors was made prior to the bestowalof degrees.President Hutchins read his convocation address at both convocationsessions as follows:PRESIDENT HUTCHINS' CONVOCATION ADDRESSFour years ago most of us entered the University of Chicago together. I promisedyou then an interesting time. I promised better than I knew. Nobody had told meanything about the depression. Nor did I have much idea that what is still called theNew Plan would descend upon the heads of you and me. I have felt many times that Ishould apologize to you for the peculiar stresses and strains to which you have beensubjected^ Do not misunderstand me. I accept no responsibility for the depression.But I must admit that the University owes you some explanation for the profound irritation it has caused you by reconstructing itself while it was educating you. Accordingto the practice of this institution and most others of its size, the President greets theentering class on opening day and does not see it again until he distributes the degrees.I apologize too for that. I am forced to grasp these last fifteen minutes together to tell182CONVOCATION 183you what I think we have been trying to do. You may feel when I have finished thatneither the ideas nor the results justify the excitement that has prevailed and the dislocation you have suffered; You may be right. If experience shows you are, I hope theUniversity will recognize it and abandon policies that have demonstrated their useless-ness.What the University has been trying to do may be briefly stated: it has been tryingto become a university. Of the changes that have taken place those popularly known asthe New Plan have been the least important. They have attracted most attention because they are most easily understood and are of the greatest interest to the generalpublic. But they were superficial symptoms of a more significant development, the development of a university. To free students from compulsory attendance at classes, fromthe deadening influence of the credit system, from grades, from course examinations,from arbitrary time requirements — all these things are nice things to do and haveproved successful things to do as well. But they cannot compare with the performanceof the task upon which the University has been engaged, which is the task of clarification.The first step was taken in 1930, when the five divisions were established. This madeit clear that we thought there was a distinction between general education and advancedstudy. General education was to be the function of the college, advanced study of theupper divisions and professional schools. This action defined a college, and a university,and by implication a college in a university. A college is an institution devoted to general education. A university is an institution devoted to the advancement of knowledge.A college in a university is an institution devoted to discovering what a general education ought to be.Now I am very far from saying that such definitions as these will solve all the problems of the higher learning. Even after they have been agreed upon an institution cannot rise to excellence without an excellent faculty, libraries, and laboratories. But I doventure to assert that unless these definitions are made an institution cannot be a university. It may have an excellent faculty, libraries, and laboratories; if it does not knowwhat it is doing it will have them only by accident, and it will not have them long. Inproof whereof I may refer to the frequent charge that an American university does notexist. We know that great scholars exist and that many of them have splendid facilitiesat their command. But, as I have often said here, a university is a community of scholars. If the community is burdened with activities not related to scholarship, if theemphasis of the community is on something other than scholarship, if its attentioncannot be given to scholarship, it must shortly cease to be a community of scholarsand become merely an association of professors and pupils.Now the resolution of the University in 1930 was to be a community of scholars.The confusion caused everywhere by the four-year college of liberal arts was banished.The new college was to be the seat of educational experiment- It received such independence as to relieve it of the domination of those nbt interested in its aims. It wassupposed to work out the best general education it could, irrespective of the demands ofthe divisions and schools. The divisions and schools, on the other hand, were free to beas scholarly as they could without obligations commonly denominated collegiate. University as distinguished from collegiate work came down from the graduate level to thebeginning of junior year. The American student was now in a position to enter upon ascholarly or professional program in a scholarly and professional atmosphere at the samestage at which the British and Continental student had for centuries been doing it.1 84 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDBy this act of clarification the University got ready to be a university. The changes inthe curriculum and regulations in the college, the divisions, and the professional schoolsthat have sin|ce occurred have followed inevitably from this decision. One realm ofambiguity remained — the relation of the high school and the college. This is one of themost baffling questions in education; The Chicago version of a possible answer to it waspresented in January when we incorporated the last two years of University High Schoolin the program of the college. This organization removes all doubt as to the function ofthe high school and the college. The new four-year unit is not to train students for theuniversity, but to give them a general education, without regard to their destination.The high school, below this unit, is definitely preparatory to it. The ancient argumentas to whether the high school should prepare for college or prepare for life is at an end.The result of your Alma Mater's decision to be a university, therefore, may be nothing less than a reconstruction of the educational system in America. I cannot think thatyou are so wedded to that system that you have been unwilling to have this experimenttried, even at the cost of some personal inconvenience. I do not believe that Americanstudents, teachers, and scholars are inferior. Rather they seem to me frustrated, andfrustrated by the system. Students have been put through a mill designed to createin them a deep distaste for intellectual pursuits. Teachers have been diverted from theirimportant task to go through the forms of scholarship. Scholars have been burdenedwith educational problems which did not interest them and which many of them wereincompetent to handle. With vast resources, intelligence, and ability, education andscholarship in America have fallen short of their own ideals and the demands of the present day.With good students, good teachers, and good scholars we have not been doing a goodjob. What the University of Chicago has done is to release students, teachers, andscholars so that they can be as good as they are. What we accomplish here in the futurewill depend on our selection of students, our selection of professors, and the state of ourfinances. We shall no longer be in a position where no matter how good all these thingsare we are nevertheless unable to make good use of them. We have set ourselves free.At a time of great crisis in the history of the world I should think it impertinent todiscuss matters of educational administration with you if they were only that. If thereis a causal connection between the kind of education we have and the kind of world weget, the kind of education your predecessors received clearly left something to be desired. Certainly they have presented you with serious problems which as you know toowell already will confront you as you leave these halls. Today the best education isnone too good for the young American; he will need it all. And the country needs tohave him have it, for it requires trained intelligence as never before. We have been suffering from the overproduction of every commodity but brains.The scholar's impartial view — who else has it? — may be the basis of plans for ourregeneration. Universities should develop ideas and establish knowledge, the obviousneeds of any time. If they do not dp so they are not universities. Your Alma Mater,then, has not been engaged in amusing academic byplay. It has been struggling to become a university, for the sake of the world into which you are now going and for thesake of your successors in this place.AMBASSADOR TO GERMANYPROFESSOR WILLIAM E. DODD, until recently chairman of theUniversity's Department of History, of which he has been a member since 1908 when he left Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, tojoin the University, has been appointed ambassador to Germany. TheSenate has confirmed President Roosevelt's selection. The appointmenthas met with enthusiastic approval by Mr. D odd's colleagues in the University and by those the country over who are familiar with his abilitiesand his fitness for the high duties to which he has been called. Student andteacher of American history, he has achieved a reputation as a fearlessand just interpreter of its facts. A southerner by birth and education, hehas taught his classes and the many hearers of his addresses and lecturesthe desirability of exemplifying patriotic charity and the necessity of understanding the causes of old-time sectional differences of opinion. He isan admirer of Lincoln and of Lee. He wrote a popular biography of President Wilson. He knows the Old South by inheritance and research. Twoof his most interesting books are Statesman of the Old South and The CottonKingdom, the latter one of the "Chronicles of America" series. He haswritten often and well of the dramatic events of American history and haswell explained their significance and meaning. Thoroughly conversantwith United States history and diplomacy, he cannot but be a helpful andirenic representative of his country. A former student of a Germany university, he is linquistically competent. In a Germany worn to the boneby war and by the peace after war; distracted by heated internal politicaland social differences; feeling the manifest distrust and hatred of othernations — distrust and hatred which had their beginning long before theWorld War — our country is now to be represented by a distinguishedliberal, a man still in the prime of life, a student informed of his own country's traditions, fair-minded in his attitude toward European problems,with no selfish ends to serve or political aspirations to further.185THE JOHN BILLINGS FISKEPRIZE POEMLATTER SPRINGBy ELDER JAMES OLSONThe Committee which awarded the prize to Elder Olson consisted of the followingpersons: Eunice Tietjens, Thornton Wilder, and Robert Morss Lovett.The announcement of the winner of the prize was made at the June Convocation.This was the thirteenth competition for the prize (there was no award in 1932), whichwas established by Horace Spencer Fiske in memory of his father, John Billings Fiske,an honor graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York.Having as it were a latter spring come to close up the season of my youth. —De QuinceyIWISHES FOR HIS POEMHave at its sourceNo moodBut sorrow, not less perforceTo the heart than blood.Evoke, to devise this thing,Some influence fierce as waves',As the rage of springTrembling with storms of leaves:Such influences as defineThe hue, the exact designOf the roseEven before its earliest leaves unclose.May the infinite move withinThe infinitesimal,As in the particleThe atom's planets spin:Integral and completeAs forests in a seed,( As the blueOf all heaven in a prism of dew:186JOHN BILLINGS FISKE PRIZE POEMBright, perfect, and austereAs the star-clearFrost-flakeNo storm may bend or break:Stilled and significant at onceAs .Amid ancient grassBones.When it is wrought at last,Though its seed were unrest,Though very doomThe soil whence it must bloom,Let it forget what griefGave it birth,As from infernal earthThe innocent leaf —Let it recall no moreThan flower or fruitThe darkness at its core,The chaos at its root.nNOT WITH SOUNDNot with burnished stringsStretched to a hollow shell,Not with the wave's bell,Nor any bird that sings :Not with the rainy noiseOf leaves, nor rain's own sound,Not with the devious voiceOf rivulets underground:Nor flutes nor viols, no,Nor sound of the strict budBreaking in wintry wood,Nor thin tinkling snow,Nor any sound divinedAs music or as word,— Stricken with love, the mindCries out, and is heard.188 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDIIIARABESQUELove given from the sighing breast,Once lost from the heart's core,Is dark as the expense of bloodTill the heart beats no more.And happy heart, to spendThat dark weight and go free,Were even the wisdom gainedThereby what it once seemed to be.Alas, for all its cost,It is a simple thingA child could tell, at most.It is that when love is lost,Not wanted, cast away,Love dies: (and who shall sayWhere ruined love has end,In cold seawater,In flying mist, in air,— Who shall say where?)It is that of all this amazement and pain,The brilliant wound and the stain,The bright harm, the royal grief,Naught shall remainTo blazon one rose-leaf,To illumine a prism of snowOr a rainbow's crystal, toIncline the course of windA gull's wings' width, to bendThe worn sea to a wave.It is that of all the full heart gaveOnly the burden may remainIn the breast of him that gives.This, simple as it is,Is all love's wisdom. ThisIs all that love can tell,And the mind knows this well:But the heart breaks if it believes.JOHN BILLINGS FISKE PRIZE POEMIVELEGY AT THE END OF SUMMERNow were the shape of beauty lostSave for your courage, lovely ghost:Save you take heart, to perish now,It were undone as leaf from bough.Weep not for what is lost and flown;You are the wind, and the wind gone:Weep not for what is flown and lost;You are the brief diaphanous ghost,You are the dream that none could stay,The bloom broken and blown away,The twirling leaf, the falling bird,The stolen that could not be restored,The rainbow's circlet, the glass of sky:You are the lovely that must die.Yet if lamenting still it grievesFor rose unclasping stainless leaves,For dancers stilled in the loud fall,For youth leaf -crowned at carnival,Say to the heart, Be still, you mournThe ruin of what was never born:Say to the tongue, Speak not, you lie :These have not lived and cannot die;These are as the pure perfect sunChangeless at evening and at dawn;These are as music, that ends not,Though lute and minstrel be forgot,Though nevermore in coronalOf gilded harp that music shallMove in glimmering strings againAs the wind moves in glimmering rain.Think, though the blossom blaze with rime,The seed yet sleeps secure in Time:The harp, though its strings resound no more,Stands yet unwrought, a tree in flower,Nor yet hath the flown bird bent wing.Still is it summer and colored springAnd the wild autumn too, no lessThat this be winter's wilderness,Though in black leaves the winter swanDrift with her pale image, blownOn the dark waters of a dream,Though the snows gather and the dimYear go underground, though youHave end at last in frosty dew,Though here your glowing limbs lie still:And silence take the darkening hill.THE UNIVERSITY RECORDvDIRGEWhere is he now that shook to hearThe cuckoo cry, these many springs?Now shapes the wooden branch its bud.The dull snake stirs in the dark hill.Where is he? Fares he well or ill?The spider spreads its glistening rings.The royal pheasant walks the wood.The cuckoo's cry is hung on air.VIMADMAN'S TALEWhen the leaves were turned to silver and goldI went through the wood where the wind blew cold.When the boughs were glazed with a sheen like bloodI put on my cloak and I went through the wood.The frost smoldered on tree and stone:Not a twig nor a stem of grass but shone:All gold and silver the leaves were:And at nightfall I found my dear.She lay like light beneath the dark willow;Fallen leaves were her bed and pillow;Her hair as leaves of gold was ruddy;Like leaves of silver blazed her body,And the light of her lit the leaf -strewn floorAnd the leaves: and I stood: I wept no more.All gold and silver my lady wasAs the leaves fallen upon the moss :As the leaves fallen from bough and spray,Silver and gold my lady lay:In truth I think no prince that may beHad ever so strange and proud a lady.Then I praised death, that had wrought this dustInto a metal bright as frost,Substance of snowflakes fallen from the stars,And crystals of moons and meteors,Changing the stuff of a flower-petal,Cobweb-light, into precious metal:And I took juniper and thymeAnd pine-boughs powdery with rimeAnd wove her a shroud of fern-leaves thereAnd kissed her eyes and covered her,JOHN BILLINGS FISKE PRIZE POEM 191And still the glow of her limbs looked through,Cold as the moon, as frosty dew,As winter leaves : and I lay downAnd covered her body with my own,And even so at her side all nightI could not sleep for the fierce light.VIISPRING GHOSTJust now, in snowy woods somewhere,The first arbutus leaves break clearSecretly, while yet the dayLies an hour or so away:And trees know : the barbed crystal starWanes westward, and at five there areLanterns borne slowly toward the shedAmid the dark snows, and in bedWan sleepers sigh and turn: at sixA frosty light comes up and takesThe topmost vane above the barnsAnd cattle stand with hay in hornsBeyond the luminous window-squareTo watch the red round sun in air,And harness brightens on the wall,And rump by rump in the dim stallAmid the glimmering straw the broadPale stallion and his mare must standAnd in the changing glow beyond,Fabulous, with bright smoky breath— The fire-breathing beast of myth —The new colt, rusty-haired and rough,Drinks silver water from the trough,And mice peep sharp-eyed out from straw.By mid-morning the first thawDiscovers leaves and fragile bonesOf field-mice, and bird-skeletons :Unlocks the well-pump, cracks the gyveOf small streams nervously alive :Draws from the charged earth the deep wormThat stony hail and winterstormDrove under, and disturbs the sleepOf buried serpent coiled more deepThan cold : the thawed prismatic airFlows bright and chill as snow-water,192 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDAnd shards of ice break loose and go,With prints of birds' feet in blank snow,Till puddles blue as ice must lieReflecting cloud and branch and skyAnd wings : and the slow spring at lastBuilds up what autumn has laid waste.And he that walks, arisen againFrom himself, that grief had slain,That all year under burning frostSlept, but half as his own ghostComes forth once more, and now alone,(Almost transparent in the sun)Shall find the iridescent thinCorselet of the serpent's skin,Cast when the pulsing snake no moreThat diamond armor might endure,And find that feather once let fallBy last year's vivid bird, and shallFind that silken winding-clothWherein the worm became the moth,And even last year's molted leaf :But shall find nothing of his grief,Nor find, though he search down the lost yearThe barb that pierced him, anywhere,Nor find, in the scarce-flowering brakeFallen, nor drowned in the clear lake,Nor crumpled amid winter grass,The slain youth that he once was.FinisDR. BREASTED RETURNS FROMTHE NEAR EASTN^EWS of recent discoveries of a great aqueduct, temples, andancient records were brought by Dr. James Henry Breastedupon his return to Chicago from a visit to the twelve expeditions of the Oriental Institute of the University in the Near East. One ofthe most important of the recent discoveries was that of a section of athirty-mile aqueduct built by Sennacherib, king of Assyria about 705 B.C.Dr. Thorkild Jacobsen, who came to the institute on a Swedish fellowshipand is now with Dr. Henri Frankfort, field director of the Iraq expedition,made the discovery."Dr. Jacobsen was out in the country when he noticed a native sittingon a row of blocks, some of which bore the inscription of Sennacherib,"Dr. Breasted said. "On inquiry, he found that the blocks had come fromnear by. Following the clue, he found what he reported to be a bridgeover a river. We received a concession to investigate, and found that the'bridge' was a section of a great stone aqueduct. This section, one thousand feet long and eighty feet wide, magnificently built, carried the waterover a river. It is supported on pointed arches, and their use in this fashion is the earliest known. This aqueduct is the earliest in existence, andundoubtedly influenced the Romans in their construction. Twenty-fiveto thirty miles long, it carried water from the Kurdish Mountains toNineveh, and among other uses watered that city's famous gardens. Eachpier contains a building inscription of Sennacherib, and, when translated,it was found that he called the aqueduct 'Sennacherib's channel.'"The Annals of Sennacherib give an account of this 'channel,' whichhitherto had not been identified, and also give the names of a whole seriesof villages past which it went. In one of the villages near the route of theaqueduct Dr. Frankfort found a purely oral tradition that these ruins hadbrought water for the gardens of Nineveh. The tradition has the names ofthe villages as Sennacherib listed them, although the names have longsince changed. That tradition had been passed down by word of mouthfor 2,600 years."Dr. Breasted told how Gordon Loud, who has charge of the architectural survey of Khorsabad under Dr. Frankfort, found in the palace atemple previously unknown, sacred to Nabu, who is referred to in the193194 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDOld Testament as Nebo. "One of Nabu's functions was that of god ofwriting, and we have hopes of rinding in the temple various importantrecords. Mr. Loud also found at Khorsabad a large clay tablet which listsninety-three Assyrian kings, reaching far behind our earliest known chronology of the Assyrian line. The earliest we knew was a king Ushpiawho hung in the air, so to speak. This tablet has eight kings precedingUshpia, and all the succession after him. It covers a period of thirteen orfourteen hundred years, from about 2200 B.C. to 730 B.C."Dr. Breasted flew 5,000 miles by airplane in the Near East in visitingthe expeditions, sometimes covering in five minutes distances that on earlier trips by camel had required a day.TRIUMPH OF PERSEPOLISBy WILLIAM ROSE BENET"Dr. Breasted said, 'there has never been any discovery like it anywhere in WesternAsia since archaeological excavation began there almost a century ago.' "— New York Times'Ts it not rare to be a king, Techelles — !"— And dig in triumph to Persepolis?Peer into excavations on your belliesAnd marvel at the length of time it isSince Xerxes had the Hellespont to flogAnd proud Darius won kingshipthrough his steedAnd Alexander, drunk on love and grog,Thrust fire among the rooftrees of theMede!Is it not rare to be an archaeologist,Digging black lime beneath the burning sun,Confounding the historical apologistWith resurrection of a Babylon!For now again the moon on Zagros mountainFills ample terraces with light, to flowOn colonnade and plinth and stair andfountainOf centuries on centuries ago.Rigid the horsemen and the charioteers,The slaves and palace guards withsword at knee, Conquerors of the unconquerable years,Loom from the stone like scarlet tapestry;And where at zenith fell that Asian artOnce more it lifts to light, its time being full,Unflawed, unblemished, in varied counterpartOf life beneath the lion and the bull.Thus, soon enough, the splendors that wecherishDark earth will seal But, afteraeons of time,Will something of an art that did notperishSpeak to the future from the prisoninglime?Will some great semblance then, whenearth is fallingFrom spectral ruins in a dark abyss,Clamor with comparable awe, recallingThis final triumph of Persepolis?— Saturday Review of LiteratureDEATH OF HOWARD G. GREYTHE Secretary of the Board of Trustees announced at the Aprilmeeting of the Board of Trustees the death of Howard G. Grey.The special committee on memorials presented the followingtribute to the life and service of Mr. Grey which was unanimously adoptedand a copy ordered sent to his family:The board records with sorrow the death of Mr. Howard Graves Grey who was aTrustee from 1900 until his death on April 1, 1933, serving for a time also as vice-president and in various other capacities.Mr. Grey's services to the University, in a variety of ways, were exceptionally valuable. He understood and was in sympathy with the highest ideals in education. He hadthe advantage of a thorough schooling both in this country and abroad and along withhis business activities he maintained the habits of a student and reader all his life. Herendered valuable service to the University by placing at its disposal his experience andskill in many directions, particularly in matters pertaining to real estate. Through hisfamily substantial additions were made to the University's resources. Five of his sixchildren were at some time matriculated among the students of the University, affording an expression of confidence worthy of remembrance.Mr. Grey was a lover of the good, the beautiful, and the true, and evidenced hisregard for these fine qualities by a lifelong support of useful agencies for the advancement of a sounder and more beautiful social order.The board is grateful for his years of service and extends to his family its profoundsympathy in their loss.At a subsequent meeting of the board it was announced that Mr. Greyhaving been, as his will declared, "for about thirty years a Trustee,having given much time and received in return much pleasure and benefit from such membership on its board," had bequeathed $15,000 to theUniversity. "I wish this legacy to be applied in the discretion of its Boardof Trustees, to or towards the acquisition of some collection for any ofits museums, or to or towards an appropriate installation for exhibitingany of its present or future collections, or to or towards any specialscientific or medical investigation, or research; the earnings of the fundshall be added to the principal sum until its use shall have been determined."Mr. Grey served the University as first vice-president of the Board ofTrustees for many years. When in 1927 he resigned this office the boardadopted a testimonial of which it is desirable to reproduce a part. Thetestimonial which was presented by a committee comprised of Julius195196 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDRosenwald, Thomas E. Donnelley, and J. Spencer Dickerson containedthe following sentences:The scrupulous care you have given to every duty that has devolved upon you, thewisdom you have shown, the days you have freely given to the work of committees, attimes to the limit of your strength, these services are known and appreciated by us all.Now that you have resigned the office of vice-president, the duties of which office youhave taken so conscientiously, we, a committee appointed by the board, are glad to express to you on behalf of the entire membership our appreciation of the tasks you haveassumed on behalf of the University, to assure you of the high personal esteem in whichyou are held, and to put on record our gratitude for the quality and the quantity ofservice you have rendered.DR. HERVEY F. MALLORY RETIRESDR. HERVEY F. MALLORY, who upon his retirement at the| end of the Spring Quarter becomes secretary emeritus of theHome-Study Department, was tendered a complimentarydinner by his associates and friends on the evening of May 27 in JudsonCourt.Dean Carl F. Huth of University College, who will succeed Dr. Mal-lory, presided, and introduced the following speakers: Professor Clem O.Thompson of the University's Department of Education, who summarized the findings of his exhaustive study of the Home-Study Departmentfor the University's survey; Mr. F. A. Moore, executive director of theAdult Education Council of Chicago; City Superintendent of SchoolsWilliam J. Bogan, who was once a home-study student; Mr. W. S. Bitt-ner, associate director of the Extension Division of Indiana University,who dwelt on the extent and general acceptance of correspondence teaching; and Professor W. S. Lighty, director of extension teaching of theUniversity of Wisconsin, who brought out the distinguishing features ofthis method of instruction and stressed its possibilities as an educationaland socializing agency.Some of the facts to which Dr. Mallory called attention in his reviewof the work in the University showed that during the last four decadesmore than 53,000 students had enrolled for instruction by correspondence;that of the 162,000 who had established student relations with the University 34,000, or 1 out of every 5, had done so first through the department; that the 594 members of the faculties who had taught in the Home-Study Department included three of the five presidents, the three successive deans of the Divinity School the heads of several departments ofAMONG THE DEPARTMENTS 197instruction, and scores of those who through their productive scholarshipand research had brought honor and distinction to the University ; that 117of those who at the present time are officers of instruction and administration here have at one time or another made use of home-study courses;that the existence of home-study work has pushed the University campusnorthward 125 miles beyond the Arctic Circle, southward through theBelgian Congo and Madagascar to Capetown, South Africa, and eastward to a point fourteen days by coolie train beyond the head of navigation on the Yangtze; that the present student body contains representatives of nearly 300 vocations, ranging from college deans and home-makers to first-year high-school students and day laborers; and that thefees collected through the Home-Study Department in the four decadeshave totaled more than $2,100,000.Dr. Mallory entered the University as a graduate student in Semiticson October 1, 1892, the day the institution opened, was granted a fellowship the following year, became secretary to President Harper in thespring of 1896, and secretary of the Correspondence Study, later (1924),the Home-Study Department on April 1, 1898. Thus, through studentand official eyes he has witnessed the growth of the institution from thevery beginning.AMONG THE DEPARTMENTSTHE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHYTHIRTY YEARS AGO AND NOWBy HARLAN H. BARROWSTHIRTY years ago the University of Chicago established a department of geography, the first university department of thekind in America. Its success has helped much to establish geography firmly as a subject of instruction and research in universities andcolleges throughout the country. Seventeen other American universitiestoday offer graduate work leading to the doctorate in geography, and thisdepartment is represented prominently on the faculties of thirteen ofthem. Eighty per cent of the collegiate institutions of the country nowgive undergraduate courses in geography, many, perhaps most, of whichare taught by former students of this department or by persons trainedin turn by them. Former students of the department also teach in universities in Britain, Belgium, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, and China.In the three decades since the department was founded, its teaching198 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDstaff has grown from one member to eight, its courses have increasedfrom three or four to more than forty, and the number of its graduatestudents has advanced from two or three to seventy or more in certainsummer quarters.FOUNDERS OF THE DEPARTMENTThe department was most fortunate in having Dean Rollin D. Salisbury as an executive head from its establishment in 1903 until 191 9. Askilful organizer, an inspiring leader, a teacher beyond praise, he established enduring policies and standards of performance for the department.Fortunate also was the department in having J. Paul Goode as its firstteaching member. He did brilliantly an amazing amount of pioneeringwork, and became the foremost cartographer of America. Through hissuperb atlas and his hundreds of excellent maps, many of them on projections that he invented, as well as through the influence of his undyingpersonality, he, too, still participates in the work of the department.TEACHING AND RESEARCHThe department is organized to provide instruction and to promote research in geography; to meet the needs of students who wish to obtainsome knowledge of the subject as a part of their general education; to furnish part of the training for students preparing for business careers; toprepare students for positions as teachers of geography; and to train students for research in the science.That emphasis upon teaching always has gone hand in hand with emphasis upon research has been due chiefly to the influence of ProfessorSalisbury, to the fact that most students in the department are undergraduates who desire only a cultural contact with geography, and to thefurther fact that most of those who pursue graduate work in the department become teachers. Members of the staff have helped to developgeography as a subject of general education in part by writing twelvetextbooks. Some of them are texts for elementary schools and high schools,since from the outset the department has recognized its obligation to helppromote education at lower levels.Various members of the staff and various former students of the department have made major contributions toward the improvement ofmethods of geographic research, especially those used in the field — thegeographer's basic laboratory. In recent years, they have, indeed, carriedsome phases of the technique of field work to a high degree of refinement.No one can hope to master, save in a general way, the geography of theworld, and accordingly the department always has encouraged, so far aspracticable, regional specialization by members of the staff, in both in-AMONG THE DEPARTMENTS 199struction and research. At present they have a score or more of regionalresearch projects under way that relate to areas in North America (Colby,Jones, Leppard), Latin America (Piatt), Western Europe (Leppard),Eastern Asia (Jones), Soviet Lands (Morrison), and Australia (Taylor).These projects include studies of landscapes, of various types of landutilization, of the localization of manufacturing industries, of regionalequipment for industry, of the patterns, forms, and functions of individualcities and of metropolitan areas, of interregional trade and trade routes,and, in some cases, of all aspects of man's occupation and use of unit areas.Other investigations in progress are concerned with historical geography(Barrows), climatology (Taylor), and the problems of teaching geographyat different levels (Parker).NEEDS OF THE DEPARTMENTThe resources of the department in maps, periodicals, reports of foreign governments, and publications of other kinds are very inadequate.Both instruction and research suffer as a result. The urgent need for manymaps to serve not only the Department of Geography but also other departments and individuals and organizations outside of the University wasrecognized some years ago by the Director of Libraries and the UniversityAdministration. Accordingly, a separate map library in charge of acurator was set up in 1929 in Rosenwald Hall and a policy of vigorous expansion adopted. The map collection now contains some forty thousandpieces. It is planned to increase the holdings as rapidly as practicable to400,000 pieces. In his report on the University Libraries, Dr. Raney says,"No American university has done anything big about maps. This University could hardly perform a more welcome service to the central regionthan to set up such a reservoir of information." The Library Survey revealed the need of the departmental library for some ten thousand volumes already published and led to the recommendation that its subscription list of serials be extended by 176 titles.The department needs adequate quarters for the growing map collection, a drafting room, more workrooms for graduate students, laboratoryclassrooms for advanced regional courses, and laboratories for Collegeclasses, none of which can be provided in Rosenwald Hall. This buildingwas designed and equipped for geological work, not geographical work,and for some years all of its rooms and facilities have been needed by theDepartment of Geology.Another major need of the department is a provision for contributionstoward the expenses of staff members engaged in field surveys in remoteareas.EDWARD CHIERAAugust 5, 1885 — June ioy 1933By MARTIN SPRENGLINGA S WE register its losses, the University of Chicago acquires new/ % weight and dignity before our eyes. This is particularly true ofJl JL. the department, and more especially the subdepartment, ofwhich Professor Chiera was an outstanding member. As we look backfrom this fateful day, we recall first of all the unique figure of WilliamRainey Harper, creator of a great mid- western university and of the firstdepartments of Semitic Languages and Literatures in America worthy ofthe name, built around the older Old Testament Department, with finejudgment, never destructive, constructing round the Bible a study of thegreat world of the Near East, then just coming within our ken. Then J.M. P. Smith stands out as the man who maintained Old Testamentstudies on a solid foundation of exact philology while building upon thesesurveys in English commensurate to the needs of a modern DivinitySchool. We remember George Stephen Goodspeed and his comprehensivepresentation of Mesopotamian history and civilization. The figure ofEmil G. Hirsch, sharer and fosterer of Harper's dream and work, standsout well marked on the receding horizon.Nearer by, still vivid in the memory of not a few of us, stands RobertF. Harper, the first representative of careful study of Assyrian and Akkadian letters in the new University and the new department. As if itwere but yesterday, we find his successor, Daniel D. Luckenbill, continuing his work and expanding it by the creation of the great Assyrian dictionary project. Then, just as the great expansion of a great departmentinto the new Oriental Institute was taking shape under James HenryBreasted's creative hands, came Edward Chiera.His training and his driving vitality were just what was needed at thispoint. The oldest of twelve children, eleven of whom survive him, of afine Italian Protestant family, he started out in life with the exact humanistic training imparted in the gymnasium-lyceum at Ancona, Italy.After finishing his military service in Italy, he presently followed hisfather, when the latter came to America to become the pastor of the FirstItalian Baptist Church at Philadelphia in 1907. His early American200THE UNIVERSITY BUDGETS 201studies, which led in 191 1 toaB.D.andin 191 2 toaTh.M.degreeatCrozerTheological Seminary, gave him a just appreciation of biblical and theological values. At the same time, his A.M. in 191 1 and his Ph.D. in 1913,at the University of Pennsylvania attest his expanding interest in thegreater world of the Ancient Near East. An instructorship at Pennsylvania, 1913-22, working with men like Hilprecht, Clay, Jastrow, Poebel,served him as a magnificent, severe apprenticeship for the greater workthat was to come. The excavation at Nuzi, 1924-25 and 1927-28, and itsresults were his first masterpiece.It is not surprising that, thus prepared, we find him in the OrientalInstitute, inaugurating Oriental Institute excavation in the Iraq with thegreat dig of Khorsabad, 1928; expanding the work on the dictionary intoa great, well-oiled machine; building round his single chair a departmentwith one of the world's greatest philologians at his side and a staff of assistants great and able enough to carry on in his absence, as he was preparing for new work in the field; and exploring tirelessly his favoritecorner of Nuzi.The great cherub-bull of Sargon and the Assyrian room of the museumare for a wider public his greatest and most lasting monument. For himself these were minor achievements beside his contributions to our knowledge of a new past in the Near East. In our minds his work, bearing themark of his vigorous personality and organized to go on even without hishand at the helm, keeps his memory fresh.THE UNIVERSITY BUDGETSPRESIDENT HUTCHINS in May addressed the following communication to members of the several faculties. As will be observed, while conditions are not such as both members of thefaculties and the administration would prefer, they might be muchworse :All budgets of the University for the year 1933-34 were finally adopted by the Boardof Trustees on May 1 1 . The preparation of these budgets has been a task of extraordinary difficulty, for in order to avoid a general reduction of faculty salaries at this timeit has been necessary to make every possible adjustment that would result in a savingand to adopt extreme measures of economy. I wish to thank not only the administrativeofficers but also the members of the research and teaching staff for their assistance andco-operation.The Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of the Officers' Committee, recently202 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDenacted a general reduction of administrative, technical, and clerical salaries, effectiveMay i, 1933, on the following scale: a reduction of 10 per cent on the first $5,000 ofsalary; a reduction of 15 per cent on the second $5,000 of salary; a reduction of 20 percent on the third $5,000 of salary; a reduction of 40 per cent on the remainder of salary.On its own initiative the board further enacted that no such salary reduction should exceed 20 per cent of the entire salary.The Medical School (South Side) has a separate budget and receives no support fromthe general endowment of the University. The recent reorganization of teaching servicein the Summer Quarter, University College and Home Study, which has substantiallydiminished the income of a very large proportion of the other faculties, has not affectedthe faculty of the Medical School. In view of this fact, and in order to provide for indispensable research in the medical laboratories, the salaries of the faculties in the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics,with a few exceptions, have been reduced, effective July 1, 1933, in accordance with thescale applied to administrative officers throughout the University.In more prosperous years the regular budgetary provision for the purchase of booksfor the University libraries has been generously supplemented from reserves or fromother funds. In the budget for 1933-34 it has been found necessary, as a last resort, toredUce the appropriation for book purchases (apart from special funds) from $70,350to $35,200.To a greater extent than ever before the University is now dependent upon tuitionincome. In making the general budget for 1933-34, it has been estimated that the income from student fees will equal that of the current year. If this expectation is notrealized, or if the income from investments suffers a further substantial shrinkage, itmay become necessary to revise the budget by a general reduction of faculty salaries. Iearnestly hope that this may be avoided.THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESBy JOHN F. MOULDS, SecretaryELECTION OE OEEICERS AND TRUSTEESAT THE annual meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 8, 1933,/ \ the following Trustees were re-elected in the class the term ofX .m. which expires in 1936: W. McCormick Blair, William ScottBond, Cyrus S. Eaton, Charles R. Holden, Frank McNair, Albert W.Sherer, George Otis Smith, James M. Stifler, John Stuart, and John P.Wilson.The following officers were elected: president, Harold H. Swift; firstvice-president, Thomas E. Donnelley; second vice-president, WilliamScott Bond; third vice-president, Laird Bell; secretary, John F. Moulds;corresponding secretary, J. Spencer Dickerson.The following officers were appointed to the respective offices for theterm of one year and until their successors shall have been appointed:treasurer and business manager, Lloyd R» Steere; comptroller, Nathan C.Plimpton; assistant treasurer and assistant business manager, George O.Fairweather; assistant comptroller, Harvey C. Daines; assistant secretary, William J. Mather; assistant secretary, Lyndon H. Lesch.APPOINTMENTSIn addition to reappointments, the following appointments have beenmade during the three months prior to July 1, 1933:Dr. Percival Bailey, now Professor of Neurology in the Department ofSurgery, as Professor of Neurology in the Department of Medicine, concurrently.Henry Frankfort, as Research Professor of Oriental Archaeology in theOriental Institute concurrently with his appointment as Field Director.Major Preston T. Vance, Field Artillery, U.S.A., as Professor andChairman of the Department of Military Science and Tactics.Herschel W. Arant, as Visiting Professor in the Law School for thesecond term of the Summer Quarter, 1933.Bernard Fay, as Visiting Professor in the Department of History forthe Summer Quarter, 1933.Lon L. Fuller, as Visiting Professor in the Law School for the SummerQuarter, 1933.203204 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDEugene A. Gilmore, as Visiting Professor in the Law School for the firstterm of the Summer Quarter, 1933.Luther Gulick, as Visiting Professor in the Department of PoliticalScience for the first term of the Summer Quarter, 1933.Charles 0. Hardy, as Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics for the Autumn Quarter, 1933.Harris F. Rail, as Visiting Professor in the Divinity School for the second term of the Summer Quarter, 1933.William A. Robson, as Visiting Professor of Public Administration inthe Department of Political Science, for the Spring Quarter, 1933.Charner M. Perry, as Assistant Professor in the Department ofPhilosophy.Malcolm P. Sharp, of the University of Wisconsin, as Visiting AssistantProfessor of Law in the Law School, for one year from October i,1933-Paul Weiss, of Vienna, Austria, as Assistant Professor of Zoology.Carlotte H. Agerter, as Visiting Instructor in the Department of Nursing Education for the first term of the Summer Quarter, 1933.Robert W. Beasley, as Instructor in the School of Social Service Administration.Eleanor J. Flynn, as Instructor in the School of Social Service Administration.Marguerite Kidwell, as Instructor in the Department of Physical Culture.Hans A. Klagsbrunn, as Instructor in the Law School for the SpringQuarter, 1933.Jefferson B. Fordham, as a member of the summer faculty of the LawSchool for the second term of the Summer Quarter, 1933.Helen Martin, to give instruction in the Graduate Library School in theSummer Quarter, 1933.Charles Stern Ascher, as Lecturer in the Department of Political Science.Walter W. Cook, as Lecturer in Education, in the Department of Education for the Summer Quarter, 1933.Gustav Egloff, as Lecturer in Chemistry, University College, for theSpring Quarter, 1934.Dr. Frank Gunderson, as Professorial Lecturer in the Department ofHome Economics for the Summer Quarter, 1933.Don Clifford Rogers, as Lecturer in Education, in the Department ofEducation for the Summer Quarter, 1933.THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 205Dr. Heinrich Kliiver, as Research Associate in the Department of Psychology for the Spring Quarter, 1933.Shirley J. Case, appointment as Dean of the Divinity School by theBaptist Theological Union confirmed.A. H. Kent, as Dean Pre-Professional Students in the Law School.W. W. Sweet, as Acting Dean of the Divinity School for the period fromJuly 1 to July 21, 1933.E. E. Aubrey, as Chairman of the Department of Christian Theologyand Ethics.C. R. Baskervill, as Chairman of the Department of English.Charles J. Herrick, as Chairman of the Department of Anatomy.Dr. William Taliaferro, as Chairman of the Department of Hygiene andBacteriology.C. H. Beeson, as Acting Chairman of the Department of Latin for thefirst term of the Summer Quarter, 1933.G. J. Laing, as Acting Chairman of the Department of ComparativePhilology.Sewall Wright, as Acting Chairman of the Department of Zoology forthe Spring Quarter, 1933.Pompeo Toigo, as Head in the College Residence Halls for Men for theSpring Quarter, 1933.PROMOTIONSThe following promotions were made by the Board of Trustees duringthe three months prior to July 1, 1933:George D. Fuller, to a professorship in the Department of Botany.Gertrude Smith, to a professorship in the Department of Greek.William Bloom, to an associate professorship in the Department ofAnatomy.Charles 0. Gregory, to an associate professorship in the Law School.Dr. C. B. Huggins, to an associate professorship in the Department ofSurgery (Genito-Urinary) .Wilber G. Katz, to an associate professorship in the Law School.Dr. John R. Lindsay, to an associate professorship in the Departmentof Surgery (Oto-Laryngology).Dr. Elven J. Berkheiser, to an associate clinical professorship in theDepartment of Surgery (Orthopedics), Rush Medical College.Dr. William D. McNally, to an associate clinical professorship in theDepartment of Medicine (Materia Medica), Rush Medical College.Dr. Alexander Brunschwig, to an assistant professorship in the Depart-206 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDment of Surgery (General) and to an assistant professorship in Roentgenology in the Department of Medicine.Mary B. Gilson, to an assistant professorship in the Department ofEconomics.Dr. Hilger P. Jenkins, to an assistant professorship in the Departmentof Surgery.Dr. Mary M. Lyons, to an assistant clinical professorship in the Department of Surgery (Anaesthetics), Rush Medical College.Dr. Gordon H. Scott, to an assistant professorship in the Departmentof Surgery (Oto-Laryngology).Wilma Walker, to an assistant professorship in the School of SocialService Administration.Dr. Theodore E. Walsh, to an assistant professorship in the Department of Surgery (Oto-Laryngology).Dr. Nora B. Brandenburg, to a clinical instructorship in the Department of Surgery (Anaesthetics), Rush Medical College.Margaret Creech, to an instructorship in the School of Social ServiceAdministration.Ruth Gartland, to an instructorship in the School of Social Service Administration.James A. Harrison, to an instructorship in the Department of Hygieneand Bacteriology.Dr. Henry R. Jacobs, to an instructorship in the Department of Medicine.Dr. Max Jacobson, to a clinical instructorship in the Department ofOpthalmology, Rush Medical College.Dr. Robert E. Johannesen, to a clinical instructorship in the Department of Medicine, Rush Medical College.Dr. Henry B. Permian, to an instructorship in the Department ofSurgery (Oto-Laryngology).Dr. Henry T. Ricketts, to an instructorship and residentship in theDepartment of Medicine.Dr. Abraham M. Serby, to a clinical instructorship in the Departmentof Medicine, Rush Medical College.Dr. Fay H. Squire, to a clinical instructorship in the Department ofSurgery (Radiology) Rush Medical College.Dr. John T. Stough, to an instructorship and residentship in the Department of Surgery (Opthalmology).Dr. Eugene F. Traut, to a clinical instructorship in the Department ofMedicine, Rush Medical College.THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 207Dr. Paul C. Bucy, to an assistant professorship in the Department ofSurgery (Neuro- Surgery).Dr. Alice McNeal, to an assistant clinical professorship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rush Medical College.LEAVES OP ABSENCEH. E. Hay ward, Professor in the Department of Botany, further leavefor the period from October 1, 1933, to March 31, 1934, inclusive, on account of illness.Dr. Theodore E. Heinz, Instructor in the Department of Medicine,leave for two months from June 15, 1933, in order to do research abroad.Simon Freed, Instructor in the Department of Chemistry, for one yearfrom July 1, 1933.Irving E. Muskat, Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry for one year from October 1, 1933, in order that he may take up postgraduate research in Europe under the direction of Professor Karrer ofZurich.RESIGNATIONSEdward B. Stevens, Instructor in the Department of Greek, effectiveFebruary 1, 1933.Maurice Walk, who was to have given instruction in the Law Schoolfor the Summer Quarter, 1933, effective June 19, 1933.DEATHSEdward Chiera, Professor of Assyriology and Editor of the AssyrianDictionary, on June 20, 1933.Howard G. Grey, Honorary Trustee, on April 1, 1933.GIETSFrom the Carnegie Corporation of New York, an appropriation of$20,000 to the Graduate Library School toward the support of a study ofthe public library in relation to public administration.From an anonymous donor, a pledge of $13,000 for the continuation oftwo-year honor scholarships in the college.From Mrs. Anna Louise Raymond, $12,000 for the purpose of establishing a perpetual loan fund for students, to be allocated a;s follows:$7,000 to the Law School as a further addition to the "Anna Louise Raymond Fund" established in 1932 for loans to law students, and $5,000 tocreate a loan fund for general University purposes, to be known as the"Anna Louise Raymond University Loan Fund."208 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDFrom Mr. Sewell L. Avery, a pledge of $2,000 to continue for 1933-34the "Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Fellowship" in government finance.From the French government, through Mr. Rene Weiller, Consul inChicago, 50,000 francs for the special benefit of the Maison Francaise.From the Wander Company, Chicago, a pledge of $1,750 for the support of special studies in the Department of Physiology under the direction of Dr. A. J. Carlson.From Mr. Emmet C. Barr, an alumnus of the University, $447.33, tobe used for the benefit of the School of Business.From Mr. R. T. Miller, Jr., $150, to match the amount offered by theUniversity as a half-scholarship for a student entering the college.From the Kramer Research Fund, $113, for the purchase of a KeelerOphthalmoscope to be used for research problems in the Division ofOphthalmology of the Department of Surgery.From an anonymous donor, $50, for one-half the Spring Quarter tuition of a student in the Social Sciences Division.From Mr. Robert S. Landauer, of Highland Park, Illinois, an alumnusof the University, a valuable contribution of his services in improving theX-ray treatment equipment in the Department of Roentgenology.From an anonymous donor, $2,000 (in addition to the $3,000 previously reported) to provide visiting professors for the current year.From an anonymous donor, a pledge of $500 for a fellowship in the Department of Chemistry for the year 1933-34.From the National Council of Jewish Juniors of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $400 to be added to the scholarship fund of the School of SocialService Administration.From the Chicago Alumnae Club, $200 to cover the tuition for theSpring Quarter, 1933, of two club scholarship students.From Professor H. A. Millis of the Department of Economics, $50 topay a part of the tuition of a needy student.From the H. M. Ferguson Trust, $3,286.84 received in settlement ofthe University's interest therein ; allocated for the use of the Committee onDevelopment.From the National Research Council of Washington, D.C., a pledgeof $1,500 for special research in the Departments of Zoology, Chemistry,and Anthropology, this amount to be allocated as follows: (1) to the Department of Zoology, $400 for the study of the relationships betweennumbers of animals and the formation of autotomatisms in birds, underthe direction of Professor W. C. Allee; (2) to the Department of Chemistry, $300 for the study of the hybrids of boron, under the direction ofTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 209Professor Hermann I. Schlesinger; and (3) to the Department of Anthropology, $800 for the pictorial survey of Mississippi Valley archaeology,under the direction of Professor Fay-Cooper Cole.From Eli Lilly & Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana, a pledge of $2,000for Eli Lilly Fellowships in the Department of Chemistry for the year1933-34.From the Leila Houghteling Memorial Fund, $200 as an initial contribution toward a fund to be called the "Leila Houghteling Loan Fund"and to be used to assist especially trustworthy students who need occasional help other than tuition.From Mr. Charles H. Swift, $575 to purchase a collection of 1,150printed American plays. This collection will supplement the Charles H.Swift Collection of American plays which the University has had for several years.From Mr. John Hertz, $10,000, which completes his gift of $75,000paid during five years for the support of research work on sex hormonesand pituitary extracts.BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTERAccording to the Statutes of the University a department "shall consist ofmembers of any faculty .... regularlyappointed to give instruction or carry onresearch in one of the well-recognized divisions of study and investigation. It shallhave power to determine from time totime the general policy and work of thedepartment." It will be noticed how fundamental a part of the University organization are the departments. Believingthat a real educative service could therebybe performed and encouraged by the enthusiasm of President Mason, the University Record with the January, 1927, issue began a series of articles under thegeneral heading: "Among the Departments." In each quarterly number sincethen there has been printed one or moreof these articles providing bird's-eye viewsof the several academic departments ofthe University. Thanks to the co-operation of the chairmen of departments orof selected contributors, practically theentire University has thus been described.These articles have related the developinghistory of each of these departments, haveset forth their activities, and have showntheir needs if they were to be adequatelystaffed and equipped. The entire group ofarticles provides a fairly complete and accurate view of these segments of therounded institution. Almost the entiregroup of departments having been surveyed and the budgetary bugbear havingglared at the appropriation, with this issueof the University Record "Among the Departments" will cease to be published.However, as Daniel Webster said to Senator Hayne, "The past at least is secure."Some people have strange impressions¦ — one cannot say ideas — of the University. Someone was criticizing the "University" the other day for something ithad done, while it developed later thatthe fault, if any there was, was that ofBlackfriars. An individual recently wascomplaining that the "University ofChicago" had interfered in some art situation in a manner displeasing to the speaker. It transpired that it was not the University at all which in the opinion of the critic had sinned but the Renaissance Society. The University almost invariablysteers a safe and wisely chosen course inits actions and in its refusals to act, andis not to be censured for the opinions ordeeds or decisions made by some minorassociation in the University microcosm.Unquestionably the highest point ofinterest during the opening exercises forthe Century of Progress Exposition, onMay 27, was when Professor EmeritusFrost, of Yerkes Observatory, described theprocesses by which the light of the starArcturus set in motion the lights of thefair. The whole ceremony was dramatically organized and when the lights burstforth upon the vision of thousands of people seated in the darkness near the Hallof Science there was evident both sentimental interest and almost tearful response.The Department of Political Sciencehas published its annual report coveringthe calendar year 1932. It deals with theinstruction provided for research, graduate, and undergraduate students and thepractical and consultative work carried onby members of the departments. The report is a significant indication of the valueand character of the service which members of the department are performing instimulating in municipalities and in widerfields better public administration as wellas in training men and women to carry onsuch administration wisely and practically. Two new research projects have beenbegun. One opens up the general problemof fiscal control of administrative operations and will seek to lay bare the actualworking of the new pattern of administrative organization in the state governments. The second undertaking, whichwas still in course of discussion at theclose of 1932, involved the study of the relationship between the school system andmunicipal government. There are nownine organizations of responsible governing officials located on or near the University quadrangles, and interested in thedevelopment of professional standards ofadministration.210BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTER 211The Howard Taylor Ricketts prize isgiven annually on the anniversary of thedeath of the heroic young doctor who gavehis life in the cause of medical science. Hedied May $, 1910, of typhus fever contracted while investigating in Mexico theravages of this disease. The prize, awarded to a student or students of the University presenting the best results in pathology or bacteriology, was divided equallythis year between James A. Harrison andOram C. Woolpert.Dr. E. O. Jordan was elected chairmanof the board of scientific directors of theInternational Health Division of theRockefeller Foundation at the Aprilmeeting.The London Illustrated News in itsissues for March 25 and April 1, 1933,printed nine pages of reproduced photographs and text descriptive of the recentdiscoveries and restorations at Persepolis,the ancient capital of Persia, a projectcarried on successfully by the Oriental Institute of the University. These remarkable illustrations almost equal in theprominence given to them some of thosewhich appeared in this journal after thecontents of Tutenkhamon's tomb nearLuxor were brought to light. The ChicagoTribune, in its issue of May 14, also published a page of reproduced photographssimilar to those which appeared in theLondon journal.The orthopedic department and members of the Clinics especially interested inorthopedic surgery have secured for theHall of Science of the Century of ProgressExposition an exhibition of the work carried on by the Home for Destitute Crippled Children. The exhibits consist, inpart at least, of two dioramas which showthe work of the hospitals. One consists ofIndians, small in size and modeled inplaster, camped near a sky-blue lake beyond which may be seen a range of purpling mountains. By means of these carefully modeled figures are shown the primitive methods used by the aborigines incure of disease and in healing of wounds.In the other model is shown the interiorof a ward in the orthopedic hospital withbeds in which recline miniature patientseach with characteristic bandages or attachments. Through the windows may beseen beautifully portrayed the familiartrees and lawn of the Midway Plaisance. The dioramas are the work of LeonardCrunelle, sculptor, and of several members of his skilful family. Mr. Crunelleproduced, among other outstandingworks, the striking monument to theNegro soldiers placed in Grand Boulevardand the Lincoln statue, the soldier of theBlackhawk War, at Dixon, Illinois.William A. Nitze has sailed for Europe.He attended in Brussels the meeting ofthe Union Academique Internationale towhich he was appointed the official American representative of the American Council of Learned Societies. The council iscomposed of delegates of all the Americansocieties and academies that represent thefield of the humanities and history.Dr. Edward L. Compere, assistantclinical professor of surgery, attended thecongress of the Pan-American MedicalAssociation recently held in Dallas, Texas.He was elected secretary of the section onorthopedic surgery. Speakers from theUniversity included Dr. Compere and Dr.Louis Bothman, associate clinical professor of opthalmology.In recognition of his interest in Provident Hospital and in medical educationof Negroes, a testimonial banquet was recently given in honor of Dr. Franklin C.McLean, formerly director of the University Clinics.Among the 250 additions to the list ofnames appearing in the Biographical Directory of American Men of Science aspublished in the fifth edition appear thenames of thirteen persons from the faculties of the University. Among them are:Dr. George W. Bartelmez, in anatomy;Dr. Benjamin H. Willier and Dr. LincolnV. Domm, in zoology; Dr. Esmond R.Long, formerly in pathology; Dr. FrankN. Freeman, in psychology and education; and Dr. Libbie Hyman, formerly inzoology. Harvard ranked first with sixteen representatives in the new list; California, second with fifteen; and Chicagoand Yale tied for third with thirteen.Harvard has granted sixty-two degrees tothese new members. The Universityranked second with forty-two degreesgranted, and Columbia third with twenty-nine.Announcement is made that the American Council of Learned Societies has212 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDmade awards to six members of the teaching staff of the University in order to permit them to continue work in the severalfields to which they have devoted theirenergies. In several instances, at least,this advanced work will be pursuedabroad. The members of the facultythus honored are: Robert J. Bonner,chairman, and Gertrude E. Smith, of theGreek Department; Frank P. Johnson,assistant professor of art; Jacob A. O.Larsen, associate professor of ancient history; Harold R. Willoughby, associateprofessor of New Testament literature;and Leon P. Smith, instructor in romancelanguages. In addition to these awardsHenry Schultz, professor of economics,has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.The Joseph A. Capps prize for 1932has been awarded to Eugene L. Walsh,Northwestern University Medical School,for his "Study on the Etiology of Gallstones."Dr. E. V, L. Brown, of the Department of Opthalmology, attended the International Opthalmological Congress inMadrid in April.Dr. Arno B. Luckhardt was re-electedpresident of the American PhysiologicalSociety which met at Cincinnati in April.Among the awards of Guggenheimfellowships for 1934-35 is the name ofProfessor Thomas C. Poulter of IowaWesleyan College, who took his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the March convocation this year. Dr. Poulter is to havecharge of the physical and chemical measurements in connection with the proposedsecond expedition of Admiral Byrd to thesouth polar regions and the GuggenheimFellowship is intended to make it possiblefor him to take the necessary leave ofabsence.Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, of the ChicagoLying-in Hospital, an affiliate of theUniversity, is engaged in developing aplan for the enlargement of the service atpresent so effectively provided by thehospital and its staff. This plan proposesto make the Chicago Lying-in Hospitalthe center of eleemosynary practice,teaching, and research in obstetrics in thecity of Chicago. Affiliation with othereducational institutions besides the University of Chicago will be sought as well as relationship with other organizationsengaged in service similar to that of thehospital. This expansion of the remedialand teaching services of the hospital isdemanded by the fact that the poor ofChicago are not concentrated in one areabut are scattered throughout the city,over an area of more than two hundredsquare miles. Special provision, therefore,must be made for the distribution of thethree types of service to be offered: first,for the prenatal care of expectant mothers; second, for the delivery of the womenin their homes; third, for the hospitalization of such women who have no homes orwhose cases are too desperate to be handled in the homes. The advantages to beobtained by this expansion and the affilia-tive relationship of the hospital with otherinstitutions, it is believed, would be economical and stimulative of research,would lead to the establishment of a highstandard of obstetric teaching and practice, while benefits would accrue not onlyto the poor and, through education, to allwomen, but the wives of wage-earners,the salaried man, and the well-to-do ofChicago would all have the opportunityto enjoy the highest class of maternityservice, close to their homes. Such a planas advocated by Dr. DeLee would, hebelieves, provide in the Chicago Lying-inHospital the obstetric center of the cityand would eventually acquire international importance.Dr. Julius Stieglitz in April deliveredlectures in Buffalo on "Chemistry andRecent Progress in Medicine" and on"Molecular Rearrangements and AtomicInstability."Professor W. D. Harkins spoke beforethe American Chemical Society at its recent meeting in Wilmington, Delaware;at the University of Pennsylvania andPrinceton University on "The Neutronand the Photography of Alchemy." Laterhe appeared before the research laboratory of the Corning Glass Works and thePhysics Club of Chicago.George Oliver Curme, Jr., Ph.D. inchemistry, 19 13, has been awarded theChandler Medal of Columbia Universityfor outstanding achievements in the fieldof aliphatic chemistry, and delivered theChandler lecture at Columbia. Dr. Curmeis vice-president of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company in New York.BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTER 213Provident Hospital was moved on May15 to its new location, on East Fifty-firstStreet, the building formerly used by theChicago Lying-in Hospital. Its old location on Thirty-sixth Street had been occupied for more than forty years. In addition to the hospital building a nurses'training school is maintained. The removal is the climax of movements, made effective in 1930, which brought ProvidentHospital into helpful co-operation withthe University. The formal opening wason June 1. In the efforts to improve careof Negro patients, to raise the standard ofthe medical training of Negro physicians,and to provide suitable hospital facilities,all of which services are to be carried onin the new hospital, the late Julius Rosenwald was a sympathetic and generoushelper. It is estimated that in the newbuilding about 100,000 visits a year willbe recorded. In the opinion of the medical department of the University, theopening of the new quarters will givegreat impetus to the attempt to providepostgraduate stimulation of the Negromedical group in Chicago and elsewhereand, indeed, that such a center will havea profound influence on the question ofNegro health in the United States. Admiral N. J. Blackwood will continue incharge of the hospital.The National Academy of Sciences hasmade a grant of $500 to Professor F. E.Ross of Yerkes Observatory for the purpose of publishing a new atlas of the MilkyWay. The work of making the photographic reproductions from original platessecured by Professor Ross with his wide-angle objectives at Mount Wilson and atFlagstaff will be carried out under theauspices of the Yerkes Observatory. Eachset will consist of approximately twentyphotographs, fourteen by fourteen inchesin size, covering more than four hundredsquare degrees on one plate. The cost ofthe atlas will be approximately $20. Alimited number of sets is being offered tosome of the larger observatories at thespecial price of $10. The number of orders received for the atlas has exceeded allexpectations, showing that, in spite of thedepression, there is a demand for such acollection of photographs. The atlas willproblably be distributed in January, 1934.The University preachers during theSpring Quarter were these: April 9, Rev.Charles W. Gilkey, D.D., Dean of the University Chapel; April 16, BishopFrancis J. McConnell, LL.D., MethodistBishop of New York; April 23, Rev.Harry Emerson Fosdick, LL.D. Riverside Church, New York City; April 30,Dean Gilkey; May 7, Rev. Theodore G.Soares, D.D., California Institute ofTechnology; May 14, Dean Willard L.Sperry, D.D., Theological School in Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; May 21, Rev. James Gordon Gilkey, D.D., South Congregational Church,Springfield, Massachusetts; May 28, Rev.Beverley D. Tucker, Jr., D.D., St. Paul'sChurch, Richmond, Virginia; June 4, Rev.Ernest Fremont Tittle, D.D., First Methodist Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois; June 11, Dean Gilkey.The Graduate Library School has beengiven a grant of $20,000 by the CarnegieCorporation, effective in October, in support of a study of the relation of the publiclibrary to public administration. Thestudy will be carried out under the direction of the school with the assistance ofrepresentatives from allied departmentsof the University and the organizationsinterested in various forms of public administration.Dr. William H. Taliaferro, professor ofparasitology and associate dean of theDivision of the Biological Sciences, hasbeen appointed chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology, andwill succeed Dr. E. 0. Jordan as chairmanon October 1, 1933. Dr. Jordan is reaching the retiring age but, happily, will continue research and offer some courses tograduate students. His service to the University and to the world of science hasbeen long and notable.Dr. Charles J. Herrick, professor ofneurology since 1907, has been appointedchairman of the Department of Anatomy,his new duties beginning July 1, 1933.Dr. R. R. Bensley, who has served aschairman of the department since 1901,having reached the retiring age, relinquishes the administrative duties he hasso effectively carried on for many years.McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, conferred the honorarydegree of Doctor of Science on Dr. H. H.Newman, of the Department of Zoology,on May 15, 1933. This was the first honorary degree in science granted by thisinstitution.214 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDOn May 16 Mr. George Watson, whoas a research associate at the Universityhas been engaged on the Historical Dictionary of American English since 1927,received from the University of Oxfordthe honorary degree of M.A. in recognition of his services to lexicography. Mr.Watson was one of the leading assistantson the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary for twenty years before coming toChicago to take up his present work.Professor Leonard D. White of the Department of Political Science has left forVienna where he is representing the United States at the fifth International Congress of Administrative Sciences.With the publication of ProfessorH. H. Barrows' article on the Department of Geography there appears in thispublication the fortieth and last article ofthe series descriptive of the work of theseveral departments of the University.Each article has provided informationconcerning the beginnings of the given department, the service it is providing, andsets forth its needs. Doubtless these contributions, which have been published insuccessive issues since 1927, combine afuller and more accurate account of theacademic side of the University than canbe found elsewhere. It is to be hoped thatin better times the series may be continued.The University of Chicago Press hasrecently published two books appropriateto this year indicating the progress of thecentury: As Others See Chicago, by BessieLouise Pierce, associate professor of history in the University, and Checagou:From Indian Wigwam to Modern City, byMilo M. Quaife. The first is a reproductionof "cross-roads gossip on the grand scale."The latter is the story of Chicago in thedays long before it was Chicago.Leading scholarly representatives ofsix great religions are meeting this summer at the University, July 25-28, inclusive, under the auspices of the HaskellFoundation Institute to consider the general theme of "Modern Trends in WorldReligions." Preceding the institute Dr.Hu Shih, professor of philosophy, National University of Peiping, will give a seriesof Haskell lectures on "Cultural Trendsin China," six lectures between July 12and July 24; and following the institute Mr. K. Natarajan, editor of the IndianSocial Reformer, will give a series of sixHaskell lectures on "Social Movements inModern India," July 31-August 7.The University of Chicago Law Reviewa new legal quarterly edited by law students, made its first appearance in May.The issue is dedicated to the memory ofthe late Ernst Freund.Having offices in the vicinity of theUniversity are a number of associationsknown as "governmental organizations"which are interested in government andpublic administration. These fourteen associations include, among others, theAmerican Legislators' Association, whichexists to improve legislative conditionsthroughout the country; the AmericanMunicipal Association, composed of twenty-five state leagues of municipalities,about five thousand cities and towns thusbeing represented in an endeavor to uplift the quality of municipal governments;and the United States Conference ofMayors. The physical proximity of theseorganizations to the University makes itpossible to use its many facilities such asare found in a great research center. Unusual advantages are available to conferwith skilled statisticians, psychologists,and experts in various other fields whoare centered in and around the quadrangles. The library facilities, too, are extensive and important for the purposes ofthe group.At the two sessions of the convocationheld in the University Chapel on June 13,1933, diplomas were conferred, accordingto the report of the Secretary of the Boardof Trustees, upon 515 bachelors, 97 masters, 51 doctors of philosophy . In addition,degrees in the Law School to the numberof 58 and in other divisions includingRush Medical College certificates and degrees to the number of 158 were conferred,a grand total of 879.On June 6, 1933, the degree of Doctorof Divinity was conferred upon Harold R.Willoughby, associate professor of NewTestament literature, by Garrett BiblicalInstitute, at Evanston, Illinois, where hewas graduated in 19 18. The citation referred to Dr. Willoughby's outstandingachievements in scholarship, especiallyhis work upon the iconography of theRockfeller McCormick New Testament.BRIEF RECORDS OF THE QUARTER 215Dr. Willoughby will spend the summer inRussia and Greece, in research upon theKara Hissar Gospels at Leningrad andMS 820 in the Byzantine Museum atAthens, a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies having providedthe funds for the purpose.J Harlen Bretz, professor of geology,left early in June to join a scientific expedition which will spend the summer onthe uninhabited east coast of Greenland,far north of the Arctic Circle. ProfessorBretz will study the origin of fiords andthe geologic history of the land mass preceding the development of the ice sheet.The tenth institute of the NormanWait Harris Memorial Foundation of theUniversity of Chicago was held June 19-30, 1933. Most of the meetings of theinstitute gathered in International House.The underlying theme of this year's institute dealt with the formation of publicopinion in world-politics. Among the lecturers from foreign countrieswho had partsin the program were: Edgar Stern-Ru-barth, from Germany, president of theEuropean Customs Union Committeesand editor of Deutsche diplomatisch-poli-tische Korrespondenz; Jules AugusteSauerwein, formerly director of foreignservice of Le Matin, Paris; John W.Dafoe, of the Winnipeg Free Press; RalphH. Lutz, chairman of the Directors of theHoover War Library, Stanford University; and Associate Professor Harold D.Lasswell, of the Department of PoliticalScience of the University of Chicago. Tothe "round table" discussions providedfor consideration of different phases of theproblem of forming public opinion in world-politics numerous invited guests from different universities and public institutionsin the United States and from other countries gave helpful stimulus.By the will of the late W. G. Zoller ofChicago the University will receive a fundestimated at two million dollars for theendowment of a free dental dispensary.The trust fund is to be known as the Walter G. Zoller Memorial Fund. By theterms of the trust the University shall usethe income of the fund "for the purpose ofequipping and maintaining dispensariesand laboratories and to supply competentand skillful dental service, including diagnostic aids to the needy and poor, free ofcharge, in such manner that the greatest number of people may secure skillfultreatment to enable them to be relieved,and to prevent the numerous ills whichresult from neglect of the teeth." The dispensary endowment consists of the residue of the estate after other specific bequests are paid. This dental dispensaryadds another most useful clinic to thosealready in successful and helpful operation.Announcement is made that PresidentHutchins has been appointed chairman ofthe advisory committee having in chargethe new federal employment service. Thisservice is described as set up in conformitywith the Wagner bill passed recently as"aiming at the complete organization ofthe labor market so that we will knowwhere the idle people are and where thejobs are."In June upon Dr. Arno B. Luckhardt,Professor of Physiology, was bestowed thehonorary degree of Doctor of Laws. It isparticularly fitting that the degree wasconferred by Conception College, at Conception, Missouri, which institution is Dr.Luckhardt 's alma mater.Two farewell or testimonial banquetswere tendered to Dr. William E. Dodd, inview of his appointment as Ambassadorto Germany. The first was given by hiscolleagues at the University on June 21, inJudson Court. On this occasion the President of the University presided and thespeakers were Professor Bernadotte E.Schmitt, Professor A. C. McLaughlin, andProfessor Charles E. Merriam. Dr. Doddhappily responded. On the second occasion friends and fellow-citizens met at theCongress Hotel on June 23. Members ofthe Council on Foreign Relations, theGermania Club, the Carl Schurz Foundation, and representatives of other organizations and civic leaders were present. Amost formidable, not to say overpowering, array of fifteen speakers expressedcongratulations; applauded PresidentRoosevelt's selection and prophesied unqualified success for the professor of history in his new field of service. Amongthe speakers were Congressman Rainey,speaker of the House of Representatives;Jane Addams; and Dr. Hugo F. Simon,German consul. Of course Dr. Dodd replied to the applauding addresses andpointed out that judging by the pasthistory of Europe and the United States2l6 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDthere is reason to expect better and morepeaceful times.Professor S. H. Nerlove of the Schoolof Business of the University has been appointed one of three trustees of the Security Life Insurance Company of America.This is the second time a member of theUniversity faculty has been chosen a trustee in an important case. Federal JudgeJames H. Wilkerson recently appointedDean Harry A. Bigelow of the Law Schooltrustee of the Insull properties.Activities at the University, beginningJune 19 and lasting for more than threeweeks, reached the highest point in itshistory. The normal academic activitieswith the opening of the Summer Quarterwere augmented by meetings of more thana dozen national scientific and learnedsocieties during the remainder of June andthe first half of July. Predictions based oninquiries about courses and applicationsfor dormitories indicated that student enrolment for the Summer Quarter would be unusually high. Someone walking between Bartlett Gymnasium, where students were registering, and the President'shouse, counted motor-cars having licenseplates from thirty-one different states. Tomeet this demand the University retainedits full staff of professors and offered a fullprogram of courses and augmented itsprogram of public lectures and musicaland dramatic performances. Among thesocieties which met at the University werethe American Meteorological Society, theAmerican Mathematical Society, theAmerican Society of Agronomy, the American Society of Plant Physiologists, theAmerican Phytapathological Society, theMathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,and the American Physical Society. Distinguished members of these associationsfrom the United States and from Europewere in attendance. On June 29, the University's annual conference on businesseducation held sessions as well as the Institute for Administrative Officers ofHigher Institutions.ATTENDANCE IN THE SPRING QUARTER(Comparative enrolment report for the Spring Quarter of the year 1932-33.Based on paid registrations at the end of the tenth week of the quarter.)1932 1933Gain LossDivisions and SchoolsMen Women Total Men Women TotalI. Arts, Literature and Science, To-2,337 i,5i9 3,856 2,208 1,469 3,677 1791 The College total 762 565 1,327 781 565 1,346 197557i,575 54916954 1,304232,529 77561,427 54916904 1,324222,331 20119887369111455 35958411229 1,2321,27522684 8086109410 3335638220 1,141i,i7317630 915The Biological Sciences, total 543371162268 1241032413 4612194681 2911172230 109no1405 4002273635 '"'8' 611461391263373 106303481 2454297454 120108233i 104296566 2244047397 2125The Physical Sciences, total 571981741479 4041231 2382151710 1991293456 3432213 2331613669 2 s5419927558731,446181,095 8913753591,13327279 288412101,2322,57945i,374 19825628081,385151,114 8612523331,11224399 28438141,1412,497391,513 i39 46Total Arts, Literature, and Science (by student classification):91826II. The Professional Schools, Total. .137 35 172 148 38 186 14131 34 165 1426 353 1779 129665 119 784 7Chicago Theological Seminary, total* 68 22 90 659 18 77 626 202 828 586 1 7 7* Not included in the totals.2172l8 THE UNIVERSITY RECORDATTENDANCE IN THE SPRING QUARTER— ContinuedDivisions and Schools 1932 1933Gain "Men Women Total Men Women Total LossII. — Continued2. Schools of Medicine, net total 423 48 47i 443 38 481 10Division of Biological Sciences, to-talf 185 30 215 202 22 224 9184 30 214 17131 211 19232 32 ¦221241 19 1260Rush Medical College, total 241 16 257 38941381268 19913 91031471281 10H3118 79 10120127 1172263 17 280Graduate 161989 76 1681049 159959 97140 16810291244Candidates for LL.B 1223 25 248 204 450169438 223151 521924189 47156150 832263 551881313 3124 435. School of Social Service Adminis-294563,432 109251771,798 1382922135,230 444263,322 209342031,868 253382295,190 H596 Graduate Library School 4Total in the Quadrangles 402843,148 371,761 3214,909 3043,018 311,837 3354,855 14Net total in the Quadrangles. . 54III. University College, Total 493 1,170 1,663 460 I,3i6 1,776 H322212277723,641 3414941521832,931 5636162292556,572 18499331443,478 370502933513,153 5546011264956,631 24059 915103643,577 J42,897 986,474 853,393 883,065 1736,458 75Net total in the University . . . 16f Included in the Division of the Biological Sciences.ATTENDANCE IN THE SPRING QUARTER 219ATTENDANCE IN THE SPRING QUARTER(Comparative enrolment for the Spring Quarter of the year 1932-33. Basedon total paid registrations at the end of the tenth week of the quarter.)Schools and Divisions GraduateGain(+)orLoss(-) UndergraduateGain(+) orLoss(") Unclassified1. The College 2. The Divisions 3. Divinity School* 4. Schools of Medicine:The Division of the Biological Sciences f Rush Medical College 5. Law School 6. School of Business 7. School of Social ServiceAdministration 8. Graduate Library SchoolTotal in the QuadranglesDuplicates Net total in the Quadrangles 9. University College 1,23216521425915213813 1,141177192257168552539 - 91+ 12— 22— 2 1,3041,275 1,324i,i73932 + 20— 102+ 9+ 32+ 3+ 115- 4 H319229 in18838 — 2- 4+ 9 2322714222,2412222,019563 2,2522022,050554 + 11— 20+ 3i- 9 2,9*31012,812845 2,875*332,742727 ~ 3^+ 32- 70 8078255Grand total in the University Duplicates Net total in the University 2,58224 2,60497 + 22+ 73 3,65774 3,46973 — 188— 1 3332,558 2,507 5i 3,583 3,396 -187 333* Not including Chicago Theological Seminary.t Included in the figures for the divisions (Item No. 2).JAMES SPENCER DICKERSON1853-1933