RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY ANNEXThe University of ChicagoMagazineVOLUME V DECEMBER, 1912 NUMBER 2EVENTS AND DISCUSSIONNothing which the Magazine could print would be quite so interestingas news of our alumni-is it necessary to say, including the alumnae?Yet the provision for securing this information is mostNews of the !unsatisfactory. The absence of class interest at Chicagois desirable from various points of view, but it results dis­astrously in this connection. For only through class secretaries, up tonow, has any institution ever succeeded in getting a steady flow ofinformation about graduates. We who are trying to conduct the Uni­versity of Chicago Magazine depend on Mr. Slaught for news of theDoctors of Philosophy, Mr. Merrifield for news of the divines, and theywork faithfully; but concerning those who have been mere undergradu­ates we depend upon most uncertain sources-press clippings, letters inrenewal of subscription, and the friendly notes of the few inspired soulswho are really eager for the comradeship of the alumni. These thingsbeing so, will not you who read this feel a personal responsibility inco-operati�n? Send us any news you have, of anyone who has everattended the University. Others, interested in it, will in turn send usnews of somebody whom you may have loved long since and lost awhile,The secretaries of the various associations can be of particular service.But so can you.AlumniSolicitude on the part of the municipal authorities has resulted in theestablishment of a fire drill, which is to be carried out monthly by allclasses in Cobb Hall. On the sounding of the gong, thestudents rise and stand at attention. The instructor pre­ceding, all then, row by row in order, march down thehall to the fire escape at the rear end. Here the instructor in his turn35Fire Drillsin CobbTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEstands at attention while the students file past back to the classroom;the drill not as yet requiring th� actual descent of the fire escape. Firemarshals are situated at the head of the stairs on each floor at the timeof the drills to urge on recalcitrant instructors and to infotm them ofcertain finer details of the evolutions. At the first drill, on November27, the gong was sounded at 12: 05, and all classes had filed past theescapes and returned to their respective rooms by 12: 09. Some timewas consumed in the return; it is estimated therefore that the hall canbe emptied by this system, in about three minutes. 'A movement of considerable interest in November was the forma­tion of the University Grand Opera Association, for the purpose ofThe Grand enabling its members to attend more performances ofOpera the opera than the regular prices would permit to most ofAssociation us at the University. At a meeting in Kent theater onNovember 6, at which 250 were present, it was decided to issue blanksto be signed by all those who wished to. become members of such anorganization, with a statement appended of the number of performanceseach signer would attend. Up to November 26, the opening date ofGrand Opera, more than 400 students and members of the faculty hadsigned, with a promise to attend about 2,200 performances. The GrandOpera management in turn agreed to reduce prices to members of theUniversity Association as follows: $3 seats reduced to $2; $2.50 seatsto $1.50; $1.50 seats to 75 cents. Membership in the Association is5� cents; it is open to all students and members of the faculty and theirwives. It entitles the holder to one seat for any performance at thereduced rate. This seat can be applied for only at the office of theAssociation. Notice of application is then sent to the Auditorium office,and the ticket may be secured by the applicant at any time after seven0' clock on the evening of the performance. The preliminary arrange­ments have been in the hands of an organization committee consistingof Dean Lovett, Assistant Professor Field, and D. A. Robertson, '02,secretary to the President.Still further reduction of prices is offered next year, perhaps even thisyear, by a system of endowment. Common friends of the Universityand of Grand Opera have already given sums aggregating $600 to beapplied toward such reduction. If a permanent fund of $10,000 or morecan be raised, as seems likely, some 400 students would be enabled toattend five performances each, in balcony seats, for 25 cents an evening.Detai s of the permanent organization are now being worked out, aridEVENTS AND DISCUSSION 37will be announced later. The Association is unfortunately not open toalumni.Wisconsin is the football champion of the Conference, and receivesour hearty congratulations. A championship was about due at Madison;though we cannot quite agree, nor do we suppose Wis­consin herself believes, that the team was a greatone, it was a good one, and deserves its honor. To Minnesota alsocongratulations are due. The day is past when aspersions may beoffered upon the amateur character of her men. To construct awholly new eleven and fit it for such encounters as those with Wisconsinand Chicago was not a small feat; nor could it have been easy to visitjustice in the height of the season upon so valuable a player as Tollefson.Finally we congratulate ourselves. As last year, our team finally founditself. Without strikingly brilliant players, but with a great willingnessto work, steady courage, and absolutely perfect harmony, they wentforward to better and better deeds. Second place in the Conference isFootballnothing to be depressed over.Congratulations, in particular, to one man-Joseph Lawler, '13.Lawler entered the University from Hyde Park High School, in the fallof 1909. On his Freshman team he was called" a pluckylittle end, but too light." In 1910 he tried for end on the'varsity-vainly. But he never missed a practice. In 19II he triedagain-this time for quarter. He got into a game or two, and wasgiven a C at the end of the season. That was encouragement. Thisfall he was almost the first man out for practice. It was his last chance;he takes his degree in December. Paine was regular quarter; Smith wassecond choice; what hope for Lawler? He did the best he knew. AtMadison Paine was hurt. Against Northwestern Smith and Lawlerplayed alternate quarters. Lawler showed the better. He got hischance against Illinois, and played his head off-fast, steady, judg­matical. Came the last game against Minnesota; Lawler running theteam. He tries a forward pass, and it works. He shoots play afterplay, fast as the men can recover, straight into the line, running downto within two yards of the goal. One down left, for the first victory infour years over Minnesota. Not through the center this time, butswinging around the end-absolutely first-rate judgment just when itwas needed-and off the field goes Lawler, football hero in the secondhalf of the final game of the last quarter of his last year as an under­graduate. Is there any lesson here in perseverance? Good luck in thelaw school, and afterward, to Lawler, '13!LawlerTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe annual agitation regarding the return of Michigan to the Con­ference was more animated this year than usual, but ended in the con-ventional way. Rumors were thick that at the meetingMichigan and N b d . f M' hith C f on ovem er 29 an 30 a representative 0 IC ngane on erencewould ask to have her case reviewed. Nothing of thesort happened, however; and the Conference adjourned after voting, 6to 3, not to permit a student in law or medicine to compete after takinghis undergraduate degree. Professor Albion W. Small is now Chicago's.representative.Another meeting, however, held also on November 30, was slightlymore promismg. The editors of various student newspapers cametogether, formed an association called" The Alliance of Western CollegeDailies," and as their first action passed the very interesting resolutionswhich follow:I. Competition between Michigan and the Conference colleges is desiredby the students and alumni of the Conference colleges as well as by Michigan.2. After reviewing conditions at the several colleges we have decided thatthe points at issue are:A) Faculty control of athletics.B) Training table.3. The faculty control.-Conference rules provide for "full and completefaculty control of athletics." But, in at least one Conference college, Minne­sota, students are in virtual control. At Minnesota the board of control con­sists of two faculty men appointed by the Faculty senate, two alumni, andeight students elected by popular vote. The only power held by the facultyis that of veto and not of legislation.At Michigan we find the following situation: The Board consists of fourfaculty men chosen by the Faculty senate, the graduate director of athletics,three alumni chosen by the board of regents of the university, and but threestudents appointed by the student "board of directors" which is composedof the graduate director of athletics and of the 'varsity team managers who areelected by the student body. Further, the board of regents, a body appointedby the governor of the state, has final authority.We believe that this system is the same in spirit and practice, although notidentical in form, as at the Conference colleges. We believe then that thisdifference is a matter of mere technicality and that the real point at issue liesin the matter of the training table.4. The training table.-The training table system at Michigan is as follows:A private individual runs the table for profit, charging each member of the'Varsity Squad, assigned to the table by the coach, four dollars per week fortwo meals a day. Whatever deficit arises is made up by the Athletic associa­tion, this deficit being about $800 for the past year. In at least two Confer-EVENTS AND DISCUSSION 39ence colleges a so-called training table exists where team members eat togetherbut pay the full amount of the board. It is generally conceded, and we believethat these tables conducted in this fashion are in accord with the spirit andletter of the Conference rules. Hence:5. The actual difference between Michigan and the Conference lies in thefact that the Michigan Athletic association contributes partially to the supportof the training table. If this feature can be eliminated there remains no logicalground for the further separation of Michigan and the Conference colleges.PRESIDENT A. H. OGLE, Daily IlliniSECRETARY C. F. G. WERNICKE, JR.,Wisconsin Daily NewsMEMBERS: H. J. DOERMANN, Minnesota DailyC. B. CONRAD, Daily IlliniP. H. WALSH and H. L. WILSON,Daily NorthwesternF. W. PENNELL and K. B. MATTHEWS,Michigan DailyH. L. KENNICOTT, LEON STOLZ, andB. W. VINISSKY, Daily MaroonThe Alliance, by the way, is to be not for the year only but for thefuture, and is not to confine itself to co-operation in athletics.Donald Breed, '13, and Roderick Peattie, '13, in collaboration, wonthe annual play contest of the Order of the Blackfriars, according to thedecision of the judges, announced November 26. Sevenplays were submitted for this year's contest, but thejudges, who included four members of the Department ofEnglish at the University, Henry D. Sulcer, '06, andRichard Henry Little, dramatic critic of the Chicago Examiner, unani­mously selected the play of Breed and Peattie. The play was announcedunder the title of The Frolic of the Friars, but the authors say that thistitle is only temporary. The play, which is not local in its situations,was said by the judges to be fully equal in spirit, development, andcharacterization to any which had previously been given by the Black­friars. Of the authors, Breed is from Freeport, Ill., where he led hisclass in high school. He is manager of the Dramatic Club, and waspresident last year of the Junior class. Peattie is a son of Mr. and Mrs.Robert (Mrs. Elia) Peattie, of Chicago. Both Breed and Peattie aremembers of Alpha Delta Phi. The play willbe given early in May, andwill be managed by Howell Murray, '14, who was appointed on Novem­ber 20. Other appointments to the executive staff of the BlackfriarsThe NextBlackfriars'PlayTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEinclude Harold Wright, general costumer; Thomas Hollingsworth,property man; John Baker, chorus master. Murray was property manlast year, and Wright was assistant costumer. The Blackfriars, as usual,expect to spend from $2,500 to $3,000 upon their production.President Edmund J. James, of the University of Illinois, who ischairman of the committee of selection of a Rhodes scholar for the stateof Illinois, has just received word from Oxford, England,Rhodes in regard to the Rhodes Scholarship examinations held in���:�:ns Chicago in October. Robert Valentine Merrill, Univer-sity of Chicago, '14, passed the examinations in mathe­matics, Latin, and Greek, and Charles Conger Stewart, '14, passed theexaminations in Latin and mathematics. Merrill is the captain of thefencing team and Stewart of the tennis team, and a member of Phi BetaKappa. They were the only Illinois students to qualify. A successfulexamination does not insure the appointment of a candidate to a scholar­ship, inasmuch as only one scholar is selected in anyone year. The statecommittee of selection will meet early in December to select a candidate.At that time the candidates who have passed the Oxford examinationsthis year, and those who have passed in previous years and are stilleligible-ten men in all-will appear before the committee. The scholarchosen will begin work at Oxford in October, 1913.THE NEW RYERSON LABORATORYWhen the Ryerson Physical Laboratory was built in I893, it washoped that at some future time a building might be added on the northfor the machine shop. Thishope has now been realized in a very satis­factory way. The addition which has just been completed, and con­nected with the main building by a corridor on the main floor, is sixtyfeet square and three stories high-a building which would make a fairphysical laboratory in itself. Moreover, improvements are by no meansconfined to the addition. The first floor and basement of the old build­ing have been rebuilt to meet the increased demands of research. Notonly the machine shop, but all of the heavy dynamos and motors, theliquid-air machine, etc., have been transferred to the new building, sothat the main building is now practically free from all vibratory dis­turbances caused by the presence of heavy machinery-a matter of verygreat importance in nearly all lines of delicate research.The top floor of the addition is devoted to the laboratory work inelementary physics under Professor Mann. This floor occupies only thenorth half of the building, in order not to interfere with the lighting ofthe old building.On the second floor are a large laboratory thirty by sixty feet, forelectrical testing, a small lecture room, a dark room, and the storage­battery room, in which two new sets of Edison storage batteries havebeen installed. 'Each set is composed of lOS cells, one of forty and theother of fifteen ampere capacity. The old set of zinc accumulators hasbeen moved to this room.On the main floor are the students' workshop, the laboratory machineand instrument shop with stock rooms, the dynamo and motor room, theswitchboard room, and a small electrical laboratory. All of the largerdynamos and motors of the laboratory have been placed in one room,and are connected on a large switchboard seven feet high and fifteenfeet long, which has sixteen permanently mounted instruments, voltmeters, ammeters, etc. The main switchboard room, immediatelyadjoining, contains two large boards with six additional instruments.By means of the main switchboard, seven feet high and sixteen feet long,any desired current may be sent either from the machines in the dynamoroom or from the storage batteries on the second floor, to any room in4142 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEeither building. The distributing board was designed by ProfessorKinsley.In the basement of the annex a new ventilating system has been.installed which supplies fresh air to all the rooms in both buildings. Alarge laboratory for general work, a high-temperature room and a low­temperature room, the carpenter shop, the liquid-air plant, and thecarbon-dioxide cooling plant occupy the rest of the basement. The chieffunction of the cooling plant will be to control the temperature in two ofthe rooms in the basement of the old building.The changes in the old building have been extensive. The entireinterior has been freshly painted, and rewired throughout, both forelectric light and power circuits. An automatic freight elevator runningfrom basement to attic is now in operation. An automatic telephonesystem connects all the rooms in both buildings. The basement floorhas been lowered a foot and a half, and thus twelve new research roomshave been secured. These rooms are especially useful on account oftheir constancy of temperature and great stability. Three of the roomshave been lined on walls, floor, and ceiling with four inches of cork andprovided with ice-box doors, They can be maintained at practicallyperfectly uniform temperature for an indefinite length of time. One ofthese rooms, at the west end of the basement, is kept at ordinary tem­peratures, and contains Professor Michelson's machines for the ruling ofdiffraction gratings. The other two are low-temperature rooms, to bekept, one at 0° Fahrenheit and the other at 0° Centigrade, by the carbon­dioxide cooling plant, and will be especially useful for some of ProfessorMillikan's work which requires not only constancy of temperature butair of extreme dryness.The rooms at the east end of the building, formerly occupied by theshop, the liquid-air plant, dynamos, etc., have been rebuilt and are nowavailable for spectroscopic work. The concave grating, formerly on thethird floor, has been installed there. To insure fire protection andincreased stability the eighteen rooms of the first floor were rebuilt, theold wooden flooring was removed, and new maple floors laid on rein­forced concrete.By the remodeling of the basement and the addition of the newbuilding the space available for research work has been approximatelytrebled. Relief from the crowded condition of the laboratory wasimperative as research work was being seriously impeded. By theremoval of the mathematics and astronomy library to the fourth floor,the large lecture room on the third floor, formerly occupied by theTHE NEW RYERSON LABORATORY 43library, has been left free for classroom work. This room had becomemuch too small for the departmental libraries, and the need of it as alecture room has been urgent for several years. The new quartersshould be of ample size to accommodate the library for years to come.Opening from it are two new offices for instructors in the Departmentof Mathematics.Although the Ryerson Laboratory, even with the addition, is not solarge as the laboratories at some institutions where large numbers ofengineering students receive instruction in elementary physics, it is safeto say that it is not excelled at any university, either in this country orabroad in the number and desirability of the rooms now available forphysical research.HENRY G. GALE '96A REVIEW OF THE FOOTBALL SEASONGAMES PLAYEDOct. 5· Chicago, 13; Indiana, 0Oct. 12. Chicago, 34; Iowa, 14Oct. 26. Chicago, 7; Purdue, 0Nov. 2. Chicago, 12; Wisconsin, 30Nov. 9 Chicago, 3; Northwestern, 0Nov 16. Chicago, 10; Illinois, 0Nov. 23. Chicago, 7; Minnesota, 0,-,Games won, 6, lost I. Total points scored, Chicago 88, opponents44. Touchdowns, Chicago 12, opponents 6. Goals from field, Chicago2, opponents I.The following men received C's for their work: Re-enacted, CaptainCarpenter, Canning, Fitzpatrick, Freeman, Kennedy, Lawler, Norgren,Paine, Pierce, Sellers, and Whiteside. New men, Coutchie, Des J ardiens,Gray, Harris, Huntington, Scanlan, Skinner, Smith, Vruwink.The Captain for 1913 is Nelson H. Norgren.The football season of 19I2 ends with the Conference ranking asfollows: Wisconsin, Chicago, Minnesota, Purdue, Northwestern,Illinois, Iowa, Indiana. It has been on the whole a successful year,for Wisconsin, Purdue, and Northwestern; a disappointment to Illinois,Iowa, and Indiana, and about what was expected for Chicago andMinnesota.On September 20, when practice began, Chicago depended ontwelve veterans, including Captain Carpenter, Paine, Whiteside, Sellers,Freeman, Canning, and Lawler, who were playing their last season,and Norgren, Pierce, Harris, Kennedy, and Fitzpatrick in their second.The new men of most promise were Des Jardiens, Vruwink, Bennett,Smith, Scanlan, Skinner, Coutchie, Huntington, Baumgartner, Parker,and Gray.From the beginning of the practice four positions were practicallydecided+ Captain Carpenter at tackle, Des Jardiens at center, Vruwinkat end, fwd Norgren at halfback. Both guards, one tackle, and one endwere wholly open to competition. Behind the line Paine had the leadfor quarter, but Smith was expected to run him very close. Kennedy,Gray, and Coutchie were all men of whom much was hoped in the half­back positions, and Bennett was supposed to lead Pierce a trifle in therace for the fullback's place.44A REVIEW Or: THE FOOTBALL SEASON 4STHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe first upset came in Bennett's withdrawal from college on theopening day, on account of parental objections to football; the secondwhen Gray was discovered to be ineligible by reason of being uponprobation. Bennett returned with his father's consent to play, a weeklater, but Gray was not removed from probation until after the four­week reports were in. To Bennett's absence that first week, in largepart, may be ascribed the slow development of the eleven. For Mr.Stagg had made up his mind that Bennett was a very able player;when he came back on Octoberz, Mr. Stagg promptly shifted the wholeback field to make room for him, though this shift necessitated doinga we�k's work all over again. Bennett, partly because of ignorance ofthe game, partly because of injury, played in the Iowa game in a mostdisappointing fashion. In the next week he was hurt once more, soseverely that he could not again be used. Again, therefore, the backfield had to be shifted, and more valuable time lost. As a result theteam was nowhere near ready for Wisconsin, which was met so earlyas November 2.The first game of the year was with Indiana, on October 5. Chicago'sline up was as follows: left end, Vruwink; left tackle, Sellers; left guard,Whiteside; center, Des Jardiens; right guard, Harris; right tackle,Carpenter; right end, Skinner; quarter, Paine; left half, Smith; righthalf, Norgren; full, Pierce. Skinner went in for Huntington; Freemanfor Harris; Scanlan for Sellers; Lawler for Paine; Fitzpatrick for Smithand then for Pierce, and Kennedy for Fitzpatrick.The game was a scramble, with the line playing weakly, and theback field uncertainly. Des Jardiens showed his ability to follow theball and back up the line, and Norgren gave evidence of unusual poweras a punter; otherwise the game was not notable.Iowa was defeated on the following Saturday, October I2.The line up was: left end, Vruwink; left tackle, Sellers; left guard,Whiteside; center, Des Jardiens; righ guard, Freeman; right tackle,Carpenter; right end, Huntington; quarter, Paine; left half, Coutchie;right half, Norgren; fullback, Bennett. Skinner went in for Hunting­ton; Harris for Freeman; Scanlan for Harris; Fitzpatrick for Coutchie;Kennedy for Fitzpatrick; Pierce for Bennett.Chicago scored I3 points in the first quarter, and then proceededto slump. On wide swinging end runs the Iowa halves gained almostat will for a time, and at the end of the third quarter Iowa led I4 to I3.At this point Pierce was substituted for Bennett, who had been doingnothing of importance, and the veteran promptly carried the ball forA REVIEW OF THE FOOTBALL SEASON 47three touchdowns in fifteen minutes. But again the general raggednessof Chicago's offense and the spasmodic nature of her defense were tooplain.Purdue followed two weeks later, much heralded. Chicago linedup as follows: left end, Vruwink; left tackle, Sellers; left guard, White­side; center, Des Jardiens; right guard, Harris; right tackle, Carpenter;right end, Huntington; quarter, Paine; left half, Coutchie; right half,Norgren; fullback, Pierce. Smith went in for Coutchie; Fitzpatrickfor Smith, and Scanlan for Harris.Five minutes after the game began Vruwink blocked one of Purdue'spunts, and fell on the ball so near Purdue's goal that a touchdown waseasy. Sellers kicked the goal, and the crowd settled down in an ticipa­tion of a big score. Thereafter for 55 minutes Purdue kept Chicago onthe defensive, crowding her ever more closely, and when the final whistleblew, the Purdue men were prancing with eagerness on Chicago's eightyard line, a first down, and forty yards of steady gain behind them.Purdue might not have scored, but you will get few of her alumni tobelieve it. Clearly" though Chicago had won her first three games, shehad not yet found herself.In the week that followed before the crucial game with Wisconsin,the drill was long and hard, and the men learned a good deal; butmost of the work had to be on the attack, which had showed itselffrightfully undeveloped. As a consequence, defense suffered. OnNovember 2, the eleven went up to Madison, still inchoate. Gray waseligible, and all the others except Kennedy in good condition, however;so there was hope, in spite of Wisconsin's known strength. Chicagolined up: left end, Vruwink; left tackle, Sellers; left guard, Whiteside;center, Des Jardiens; right guard, Scanlan; right tackle, Carpenter;right end, Huntington; quarter, Paine; left half, Gray; right half,Norgren; fullback, Pierce. In the second half, Skinner went in forHuntington; Canning for Scanlan; Freeman for Canning; Smith forPaine, and Fitzpatrick for Norgren.The game was a nightmare to Chicago men. In the first halfWisconsin scored once, but the play was very even, and Chicago waslearning Wisconsin's plays rapidly. Between halves Mr. Stagg wasfairly confident that victory might perch upon the Maroon banners.But five minutes after the half began, while all was going well, Butlerof Wisconsin, who throughout had played in a fashion to do no creditto the ethical standards of his Alma Mater, for the third time kickedNorgren viciously as they lay together on the ground. Norgren,THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE(very naturally) struck at him, and was (very properly) disqualified,and Wisconsin given haH the distance to the goal-line. Almost simul­taneously Vruwink, who had been playing an excellent game, suffereda double fracture of his jaw. He concealed the fact and played on,but much iess effectively. These two misfortunes turned the scale.Chicago's defense, shaken and overanxious, became demoralized, andWisconsin ran up a total of thirty points. The Chicago offense, Grayleading, succeeded in scoring twice, but the end was a severe defeat.As in the week following the Minnesota defeat last year, Chicagoslumped again before the Northwestern game, which came upon Novem­ber 9. It was a tea-party. The line up for Chicago was: left end,Skinner; left tackle, Sellers; left guard, Harris; center, Des Jardiens;right guard, Scanlan; right tackle, Carpenter; right end, Huntington;quarter, Lawler; left half, Gray; right half, Norgren; fullback, Pierce.Smith alternated at quarter with Lawler. In second half Whitesidewent in for Harris; in last quarter Fitzpatrick went in for Norgren.Paine's knee was hurt at Madison, and he was unable to hobble.Neither Smith nor Lawler showed much football sense, .though Lawlerran back punts very well. The Chicago attack was absolutely futile;Norgren only showed any spirit. On one occasion, having the ball oneyard from the goal-line on a touchdown, Lawler waited so long beforedeciding on the proper play that the referee penalized the team fiveyards. Gray being then given the ball gained four yards, but of coursethe ball was lost on downs, and Northwestern's goal was never sub­sequently threatened. Sellers however,' came into the limelight bykicking a goal from placement prettily.Followers of the eleven would by this time have become completelydiscouraged but for one thing-the recollection of last season. It willbe remembered that after the crushing defeat by Minnesota, North­western completely outplayed Chicago, being defeated only by goodluck, but that subsequently the team found itself, defeated Cornell­Wisconsin in successive games, and ended in' a blare of trumpets; whynot again, the University reasoned? All the next week rumors ofeffective practice were common; and when on Saturday the men facedIllinois at Champaign, a good game was looked for. Expectationswere realized. The line up was: left end, Huntington; left tackle,Sellers; left guard, Whiteside; center, pes Jardiens; right guard,Scanlan; right tackle, Carpenter; right end, Skinner; quarter, Lawler;left half, Gray; right half, Norgren; fullback, Kennedy. At beginningof second half, Vruwink went in for Huntington; Pierce for Kennedy;in fourth quarter, Freeman went in for Sellers. 'A REVIEW OF THE FOOTBALL SEASON 49Right from the start Chicago played first-rate football. Lawlerran the team, in the first quarter, faster than any Chicago team hasbeen run since 1905. He slowed a bit later, but the attack continuedfine. Kennedy, who played through the first half, was a power. Thedefense was beautiful. Scanlan from guard and Skinner from endcovered everyone of Norgren's long punts to the complete discom­fiture of Silkman, the Illinois quarter, who had to catch them; andNorgren's tackling was the best the writer has seen by a Chicago player.The game was won by a long run by Norgren, and a succession of savagebucks by Kennedy. Later a long forward pass, Norgren to Vruwink,put the ball in position for a place kick, which Sellers neatly accom­plished. Illinois was never nearer than forty yards to Chicago's goal.Minnesota remained to be faced in the final game. She had beatenIowa 54 to 6 and Illinois 13 to 0, and lost to Wisconsin 14 to o. Oncomparative scores, therefore, she was superior. Moreover she wasable to use Solem at tackle and Erdahl at half, who had been incapacitatedat the time of the Wisconsin game. At the last moment, too, Paine,who had been saved for this his final contest, hurt his knee again, andcould not play, and Sellers likewise was too lame to be used. Never­theless Chicago was confident. She was" coming." The result justifiedher confidence. The line up: left end, Vruwink; left tackle, Scanlan;left guard, Whiteside; center, Des Jardiens; right guard, Harris;right tackle, Carpenter; right end, Skinner; quarter, Lawler; lefthalf, Gray; right half, Norgren; fullback, Kennedy. At end of firstquarter Pierce went in for Kennedy. At beginning of second half,Harris and Whiteside changed places.The first half was absolutely barren of result, the ball resting bothat the end of the quarter and at the end of the half, exactly in the middleof the field. Both teams gained well by hard complicated runningplays; the forward pass being used only twice by each team, everytime unsuccessfully. But Norgren was outpunting �Shaughnessy; andChicago was playing fast and hard. At the beginning of the secondhalf Norgren ran the kick-off back to the center of the field, and fromthat time till the end of the game, Minnesota never once had the ballin her possession in Chicago territory. Ten minutes after the start ofthe half Norgren dropped back and sent a 40-yard pass to Skinner, whowent on to the Minnesota 25-yard line. Seven plays took the ball tothe 2-yard line, fourth down. The Minnesota secondary defensegathered close for a buck. Fatal error! Lawler shot Gray away roundthe end over the line; Des Jardiens and Harris broke through to inter­fere, and Gray swept back behind the posts again; Lawler kicked an50 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEeasy goal; .the game was won, and again the season ended with a triumph.This was the first victory over Minnesota in four years, a college genera­tion, and was an especial satisfaction to Captain Carpenter and theother men who were playing their final game.Honors of the season go to the following men, and their number showswhat an even team Chicago had: Carpenter, Scanlan, Sellers, Harris,Vruwink, Des Jardiens, and Skinner in the line; Norgren, Pierce, Paine,Gray, Kennedy, and Lawler behind it. Whiteside, considering every­thing, was not quite up to the form expected of him. Captain Carpenterwas a disappointment up to the Illinois game; thence on he playedbeautifully. Sellers won the Northwestern game by his place kick.Scanlan played better and better; in the Illinois game he was the starof both lines, not excepting Des Jardiens. Harris came into his ownin the Minnesota game; he shone there almost as brilliantly as Scanlanthe week before, upsetting his men with consummate ease and followingthe ball everywhere. Skinner was hardly considered at the beginning,but both against Illinois and Minnesota he was the most useful end onthe field-fast, stubborn, and cautious. But the greatest honorsamong the linemen go to Des Jardiens and Vruwink ; Des Jardiens byfar the best center in the west, and Vruwink, the headiest and nerviestend. To play twenty-five minutes with a fractured jaw without fearor hesitation, may be foolish, but is certainly notable, and John Vruwink'sname is likely to be remembered for some years.Behind the line Paine in his final season, showed the same qualitiesthat have always marked him. Off the field, boyish, humorous, a high­stand student; on the field, fierce, clever, eager-it was a bitter dis­appointment to him and his many friends that injuries should keephim out of the last two games for which he was eligible. Kennedyknows little football; on account of injuries, he has been in only eightscrimmages and part of five games in his two whole seasons. But hehas one idea-to hit what he hits, hard. And when he hits, somethinggenerally gives away. Pierce is absolutely dependable, and on defensefar better than Kennedy. Gray, in his first season, was the nearestto brilliance of any back field man; his writhing, sliding runs were veryfine. Lawler is commented on elsewhere. Norgren, for his punting,his bucking, his forward passing, and his steady powerful defense was,with the possible exception of Des Jardiens, probably the most valuableman in the team.What of next year? There remain, in the line, Des J ardiens forcenter; Harris for guard; Scanlan, for tackle, and Vruwink, SkinnerA REVIEW OF THE FOOTBALL SEASONand Huntington for ends. Behind the line are Norgren, Pierce, Kennedy,and Gray. Besides these, of this year's squad, Baumgartner, Smith,Coutchie, and Fitzpatrick are all valuable men; Bennett, who shouldbe a wonder, may find himself, and Weil, two years fullback at Amherst,will be available. Of the freshmen, Hardinger, Presnell, Shull, Schively,and Whiting in the line, and Russell, Moulton, Foote, and Acker behindit are good enough to push the 'varsity men very hard; not to mentionCaptain Stegeman, who is heavy enough for a tackle and fast enoughfor a half. Coach Page told the writer he would not trade the Freshmanline this fall, even, for the 'varsity. That makes the outlook bright.On the other hand, except Norgren and Harris of the veterans, Coutchie,Baumgartner, and Fitzpatrick of the second string, and Weil of thenew men, everyone might get into trouble with his studies. So noman can tell what a year may bring forth. There is, however, noimport duty on hope.THE UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Orator for the December Convoca­tion.-At the Eighty-fifth Convocationof the University, which will be held onTuesday, December 17, in the LeonMandel Assembly Hall, the Convocationorator will be Edwin Erle Sparks, Ph.D.,LL.D., President of Pennsylvania StateCollege. President Sparks was for twelveyears a member of the Department ofHistory at the University of Chicagoand one of the most successful lecturersin the Extension Division of the Uni­versity. He is an alumnus of the OhioState University, was a graduate studentat Harvard, and received the degree ofDoctor of Philosophy from the Univer­sity of Chicago in 1900. He is the au­thor of Expansion of the AmericanPeople, The Men Who Made the Na­tion, and Foundations of National Devel­opment.The University Orchestral Association.­The fourth season of the UniversityOrchestral Association opened on N ovem­ber 5, with a concert by the TheodoreThomas Orchestra, the program includingBeethoven's Fourth Symphony, a violin­cello obligato by Bruno Steindel, asymphonic sketch by Director FrederickStock, and the Mephisto Waltz by Listz.On October 29 the University organist,Mr. Robert W. Stevens, gave a lecturereci talon the first concert program.Similar recitals will be given in advanceof each concert. Full program noticesalso are published in the Daily Maroonon the Friday preceding each orchestralconcert, the writer being Mr. FelixBorowski, the musical critic of theRecord-H erald, Rudolph Ganz, thefamous Swiss pianist, gave the firstartist recital in the series of concertson November 27. The audience waslarge and showed its appreciation byrecalling the artist six times after hisinterpretation of Chopin's Polonnaise.Schumann, Beethoven, and Listz werealso represented on the program, and Mr.Ganz played two of his own compositions.The third concert of the series was givenby the Theodore Thomas Orchestra onDecember 10. On January 2 I Eugene Ysaye will give a violin recital and onMarch I I Alice Nielsen will give a songrecital. Although the concerts are main­tained primarily for the students of theUniversity there is a growing demandfrom the general public for tickets. Sofar more than a thousand season ticketshave been sold, and in addition aboutone hundred and fifty special admissionswere sold for the Ganz recital, fifty of theseats being on the stage.Change in editorship of "The BiblicalWorld."�Dean Shailer Mathews, ofthe Divinity School, who was for eightyears editor of the World To-day, assumesthe editorial management of the BiblicalWorld with the issue of January, 1913.Professor Ernest D. Burton, head of theDepartment of Biblical and PatristicGreek, has been the editor-in-chiefsince the death of Professor William R.Harper, who founded the magazine.For thirty years the Biblical Worldhas been the exponent of progressivereligious thought, and in the announce­ment for the ensuing year the new editorsays that the magazine will stand for thechurch at work quite as much as thechurch at study and for contemporaryreligious interests as well as for biblicalstudy. One of the special series for thenew year is in preparation by ProfessorCharles R. Henderson, now in India asthe Barrows lecturer for the Universityof Chicago; and Professor Mathews him­self will contribute a series on "The Con­test between the Natural and theSpiritual Worlds as Seen in the FourthGospel." Special editors will presenteach month the most important currentwork in religious education, in socialsettlements, mission fields, and biblicalscience.President Harry Pratt Judson attendedthe recent meeting of the General Educa­tion Board in New York City, when con­ditional appropriations of $455,000 weremade by the Board to the followinginstitutions: Baker University, Kansas;Central College, Missouri; LawrenceCollege, Wisconsin; Mississippi College;THE UNIVERSITY RECORDUniversity of Denver; and Penn School,South Carolina. At the celebrationof Yorktown Day at the Hotel La Salle,Chicago, by the Sons of the AmericanRevolution, President Judson discussedthe subject of "The United States andForeign Relations,". and on November22 he spoke at the Grand Pacific Hotelbefore the University of WisconsinAlumni Club on the subject, "Are ThereToo Many Universities?"Professor Paul Shorey, head of theDepartment of Greek, began a series oflectures on November 14 before theWashington University Association inSt. Louis, the subjects of the lecturesbeing "The Case of Euripides," "Aris­tophanes," and" Athens Fin de Siecle."Other lecturers in the course are Pro­fessor Nathaniel Schmidt, of CornellUniversity, and Professor George BurtonAdams, of Yale University.In a recent address before the Minne­sota Pathological Society Professor Lud­wig Hektoen head of the Departmentof Pathology and Bacteriology, dis­cussed the epidemics traceable to con­tamination of milk with streptococci,particularly the epidemic of sore throatin Chicago last winter which involved notless than 10,000 cases and was traced to'contamination of a definite milk supply.Dr. Hektoen's conclusion was that theonly safeguard against contaminationof milk with streptococci and other dis­ease-producing bacteria is pasteurizationaccording to 'approved methods.Professor Robert' A. Millikan, of theDepartment of Physics, who recentlypresented papers before the DeutschePhysikalische Gesellschaft in Berlin andthe Dundee meeting of the British Associ­ation for the Advancement of Science,gave the annual Sigma Xi address at theUniversity of Kansas in November andalso an address before the Kansas StateTeachers Association in Topeka on thesubject of "Recent Discoveries in Physicsand Chemistry."The Department of Philosophy, aftereight years in the Law Building in con­miction with the history and socialscience departments, is now permanentlyestablished on the fifth floor of the West­Tower of the Harper Memorial Library.The new quarters include three offices 53for the staff, a seminar room which canbe used as a conversation room whennot needed for the meeting of the seminar,and an especially attractive graduatereading and study room. The books ofthe department are now all shelved in thisroom, and for the first time the depart­ment feels itself adequately housed.In the Department of Geology AlbertDudley Brokaw has been made anInstructor in Mineralogy and EconomicGeology; Associate Professor StuartWeller has recently been doing field­work for the Illinois Geological Survey;Assistan t Professor Albert Johannsen iscompleting a textbook on PetrographicMethod; and Mr. Leonard G. Donnellyis finishing a report on the physiographyof the lower Kaskaskia Valley to bepublished as an educational bulletin bythe Illinois Geographical Survey.The Reynolds Club has enrolled for theAutumn Quarter of 1912 the largestmembership in its history-r-g jo regularmembers and 198 associate members, atotal of 757. The club is under the con­trol of an executive council of :fiveofficers elected annually by the activemembers, and two members of theFaculty appointed by the UniversityBoard of Student Organizations. Anyofficer of the University, or former mem­ber thereof, is eligible to associatemembership in the club.At a recent meeting of the Blackfriarsa new departure was made by electingto membership three of the Faculty, inrecognition of what they have done forseveral years in promoting the successof the organization. The new facultymembers are Associate Professor JamesW. Linn, and Assistant Professors DavidA. Robertson, and Percy H. Boynton,who are all connected with the Depart­ment of English and have given longservice as judges and critics of new plays.They were among the judges that passedon the six comic operas recently sub­mitted in competition.Graduate students in the Departmentof Botany have received the followingappointments from other institutions forthe present year: Joseph S. Caldwell,Fellow in the Department, to be professorof botany at the. Alabama Poly tech ...nic Institute; Charles A. Shull, to be54 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEassistant professor of plant physiologyat the University of Kansas; Ansel F.Hemenway, to be professor of biologyat Transylvania University, Kentucky;Claude W. Allee, to be instructor in plantphysiology at the University of Illinois;Norma E. Pfeiffer, to be instructor inbotany at the University of NorthDakota; and Rachel E. Hoffstadt, to beinstructor in charge of biology at MarshallCollege, West Virginia.Zonia Baber, Associate Professor ofthe Teaching of Geography and Geology,advocated at a recent meeting of theChicago Geographical Society, the per­manent reservation. of four notablephysical formations in the immediatevicinity of Chicago-Stony Island, aravine on the North Shore, Rock Canyonat the Sag, and the dunes at Dune Park,Indiana.A new appointment in the Departmentof Pathology and Bacteriology is thatof Dr. Frank K. Bartlett, who is a gradu­ate of Rush Medical College and also ofthe University of Chicago. The chiefwork of investigation in the Departmentis now being conducted by members ofthe Sprague Memorial Institute staff,who are also members of the Depart­ment, and concerns the chemical phasesof tuberculosis.The gold bar of Menes, stolen from theHaskell Oriental Museum last February,has been recovered through a privatedetective, by whom it is reported to havebeen discovered buried on Fifty-sixthStreet, just north of Marshall Field.Menes was the first Pharaoh of UnitedEgypt and began to reign about 3400 B.C.The bar bore the name of Menes beauti­fully engraved in clear-cut hieroglyphics,although as an ornament its exact purposeis unknown. When returned· to theUniversity, the inscription had been com­pletely hacked out, largely destroyingthe value of the ancient relic. It wasthe oldest piece of dated and inscribedjewelry in the world. The thief wasconvicted on finger-print evidence.John Merle Coulter, head of theDepartment of Botany, recently gavethe annual college-day address at theWestern College for W omen in Oxford,Ohio, and assisted at the laying of thecornerstone of the new gymnasium. Pro- fessor Coulter also is giving before theCollege Endowment Association in Mil­waukee, Wis., a series of scientificlectures, the subject of the first being"The Evolution of Sex."During the month of October JamesHenry Breasted, Professor of Egyp­tology and Oriental History, continuedhis series of lectures on the new founda­tion in the history of art established atBrown University by General Rush C.Hawkins. Professor Breasted had openedthis. new lectureship last March and willfurther continue it next March. In con­nection with the eastern trip recentlycompleted, he also lectured at Vassar onthe U niversi ty of Chicago. Expedi tion tothe Soudan, and at Wells College on the"Origin of Religious Ritual."Professor Israel Abrahams, of Cam­bridge University, England, gave atthe University in November a seriesof lectures on the subject of "TalmudicMaterial on the New Testament."Professor Abrahams is a reader ofRabbinics at Cambridge and is regardedas an authority in that field of scholar­ship. He is the author of Jewish Life inthe Middle Ages and also of Chapterson Jewish Literature. Receptions weregiven in his honor by Mr. Julius Rosen­wald, a trustee of the University, andby the Divinity Conference at theQuadrangle Club.Charles Scribner's Sons announce forpublication in the near future a com­panion volume to "The Essentials ofEnglish Composition," by AssociateProfessor James W. Linn of the Depart­ment of English. The new volume willconsist of selections from English andAmerican literature designed to illus­trate the four chief forms of prose­description; narration, exposition, andargument.Professor John M. Manly, head ofthe Department of English, has recentlycontributed a biographical introductionto the two volumes of Poems and Playsby William Vaughn Moody, publishedby the Houghton Mifflin Company.Mr. Moody, author of The Great Divideand The Faith Healer, was formerlyAssistant Professor of English at theUniversity of Chicago.THE UNIVERSITY RECORDRecent contributions by members ofthe Faculties to the journals publishedby the University of Chicago Press:Atwood, Associate Professor WallaceW.: "Some Triassic Fossils from South­eastern Alaska," Journal of Geology,October-November.Baskervill, Assistant Professor CharlesR.: "Sidney's Arcadia and The Tryall ofCheualry, Modem Philology, October.Chamberlain, Associate ProfessorCharles J.: "Two Species of Bowenia"(contributions from the Hull BotanicalLaboratory 162), with four figures,Botanical Gazette, November.Dargan, Assistant Professor E. Pres­ton: "Shakespeare and Ducis," ModernPhilology, October.Fuller, George D.: "Evaporation andthe Stratification of Vegetation," Botani­cal Gazette, November.Judd, Professor Charles H.: Studies inPrinciples of Education, VI. "Initiativeor the Discovery of Problems," Ele­mentary School Teacher, November.Leavitt, Associate Professor FrankM. : "Some Sociological Phases of theMovement for Industrial Education,"A merican Journal of S ociolo gy, November.Mathews, Professor Shailer: "TheSocial Origin of Theology, n AmericanJournal of Sociology, November.Slocum, Assistant Professor Frederick:"The Attraction of Sun-Spots for Promi­nences" (with three plates), AstrophysicalJournal, November.Smith, Associate Professor Gerald B.:"The Function of a Critical Theology,"Biblical World, November.Recen t addresses by members of theFaculties include:Atwood, Associate Professor WallaceW.: "Alaska and Its People," meetingof public school teachers, Lake Forest,Ill.; November 6.Boynton, Assistant Professor Percy H.:"What Literature Offers to the General 55Reader," Chicago Hebrew Institute,November 20.Butler, Professor Nathaniel: Addressbefore the Logan County (Ill.) Teachers'Association, November 29; "Aims andMethods in the Study of Literature,"Chicago Hebrew Institute, November I.Coulter, Professor John M.: "PlantBreeding," Fullerton Hall, Art Institute,Chicago, November 9.David, Assistant Professor Henri C. E.:"Victor Hugo et les Enfants," address atformal opening of the French Club ofEvanston, October 14.Goode, Associate Professor J. Paul:"America in the Philippines," WestEnd Woman's Club, November 9.Judd, Professor Charles H.: "Develop­ment of Initiative in the Child," TeachersFederation, South Bend, Ind., November2I.Leavitt, Associate Professor FrankM.: "Vocational Training in the PublicSchools," High School Conference,Urbana, Ill., November 21.Linn, Associate Professor James W.:"Heroes, Heroines, and Marriage,"Chicago Hebrew Institute, November 13.Moulton, Professor Forest R.: "TheStarry Heavens," City Club, Chicago,November 13; "The Solar System,"Evansville, Ind., November 22.Moulton, Professor Richard G.: "TheBook of Job," Temple Emanuel, Chi­cago, November 27.Shepardson, Associate Professor Fran­cis W.: "The Challenge of the City,"South Side Business Men's Association,Chicago, November 21.Soares, Professor Theodore G. :"Young People's Contribution to CivicWelfare," City Welfare Exhibit, JohnMarshall High School, Chicago, N ovem­ber 21.Terry, Professor Benjamin: "TheEducated Man and Business," Associa­tion of Commerce, Grand Rapids, Mich.,November 20.FROM THE LETTER-BOXTo the Editor:It begins to look from this distance asif the alumni were really getting a jumpon themselves, and I am for giving thema boost. Please ask the authors ofthe addresses and "contributions toknowledge," who have been crowdingthe Magazine heretofore, . to get theirarticles printed separately if they desirethe alumni to have them. I believe allthe fellows would like what I want inthe M agazine-a sort of chatty, newsywrite-up of what is going on at the Uni­versi ty, as well as more of the personalparagraphs so we can know what otherfellows are doing around the country.If you can line up this sort of thing forus we will rise up and call you blessed,and send in more subscriptions, andspread the glad tidings to the other fellowswho think the Magazine is still runningin the old rut. But if you do not, weshall likely take a run into Chicago andcall you damned, and stop the paper.I started this for a formal letter telling ,you to put me on the subscription list,and I find that it has become a sort ofregulation kick from the old subscriber.That is not what it is meant to be. I amjust trying feebly to point out that whatwe fellows away from the U want is toknow what you fellows at the U are talkingabout and laughing about and swearingabout. We want a campus reporter whowill tell us the "inside" news about whois the" goat" and who is the" ProminentCitizen" when the Magazine gets intoprint each month.Regards to all, dear editor, from Prexto the slave you announce you have inyour office, and best wishes for a bullyresult. Do not, by the way, overlookthat idea of President Judson's foranother reunion for the twenty-fifthanniversary. We all had a good timeat Brent Vaughan's Party, and we wantanother, and you can bet that the nextone will be bigger than his, because thefellows who did not go are swearing attheir luck.Sincerely,HENRY M. ADKINSON, '96 To the Editor:Maya pious lay brother raise his voicein defense against the profane wordshurled against the Cloister of the Black­friars? Perhaps the writer is too faraway to judge first hand and again per­haps he has too recently doffed the cowlto be unprejudiced. At least let himventure an opinion.I am no skilled disputer to answerpoint for point Mr. Pfeffer's attack andif I be fair I must admit that somethingof the world has entered the sacred por­ta�s-a specialization that looks a bitaway from the amateur and seeks foran unholy perfectness. But let me saythat this is but a reflection from thetendency of the age and will, destroyitself in the heat of its own fire. I cannotdefend it but I think I can ignore it.Says the Reformer: ".... thegrueling, nerve-straining work [of re­hearsal] interferes with the legitimatebusiness of the college student." I wouldanswer this by saying from experiencethat as hard as the work is, it is not harm­ful and that the eligibility rule takescare of the studies. Further might Imention a certain congenial minimumthat remains a constant quantity in thestudent's book work. This congenialminimum is a sum of required plus de­sired. The desired is proportional tothe amount of personal interest awakenedby subject and professor. When thedesired passes a certain point it auto­matically excludes the Blackfriars, foot­ball, and other harmless joys-valuablejoys.Why valuable? Oh, because. Lookhere, Mr.' Reformer . You know theBlackfriars and the Settlement danceare the two best single insti tu tions in theUniversity, because they teach you thefact that you are a brother, with abrother's love, in a family, with a family'sresponsibilities, and not a selfish "I," orworse, a conceited "we." And, too, theman who earns his way to Friarhoodwith hand or foot is no honor-grabber.They take easier ways. He's there forthe game and he's bound to learn.FROM THE LETTER-BOXAlso. From what police-suppressedliterature did you conjure up that uglyillusion regarding men in women's dress?H oni soit in the first place and then re­member that a healthy mind won't beaffected any more, by a braided wig thana healthy rib by three nights in a tightcorset. Granting the worst, fellows arethe harshest judges of fellows and thecampus a tmosphere is a pretty cleanfilter-in America at least.The characterization of the showsthemselves, "that Cohan stuff," was alittle rough. I am prejudiced of course,but you, Mr. Alumnus-who-knows, don'tyou think the Reformer got his "dope"from the La Salle instead of Mandel?And you, who have danced or type­written your way into membership, withme, haven't you gathered some memo­ries, didn't you make some friends thatyou couldn't have made on the "C"bench or at the Score Club, and all inall didn't you have a darn good timeand no hang-over?Pfeffer, you led a wild life yourself incollege. How many times have yourefused to have an ice-cream soda anda pretzel with me after rehearsal becauseyou were chained to a galley? And weare both living.No. Let the Holy Brothers go theirway. If they reward honest effort anduse the blue pencil a little, the deans willdo the rest and the neophytes will comeout at worst with a few sore toes and alot of healthy fellowship. Prosit!A BLACKFRIAR AUTHORTo the Editor:The letter of B. 1. Bell, '07, in theNovember issue of the Magazine will,I hope, raise up defenders of Alma Mater.For my part, I want merely to matchup Mr. Bell's experience with my ownfrom two points of view; as an Alumnaand as a teacher.First, whether or not Mr. Bell's feel­ings and statements represent truly theattitude of the men toward the Uni­versity, I' may say that from my ownobservations they do not represent theattitude of the women. But I do notbelieve Mr. Bell does justice to "nine outof ten of the graduates" of all sorts andconditions, men and women; at least histen and mine do not overlap.As an alumna, I feel that at two pointsMr. Bell's generalizations are unfair tothe student body as a whole: in his in- 57sistence on their sense of the undueindifference of the faculty to the indi­vidual student, and in his assertion thatin general the students are undulyindifferent to their work-that "theirhearts are in the wrong place."Mr. Bell admits that he himself foundtwo of the faculty discriminating enoughto teach him. Many of us are gratefulfor the genial genius of that "one inthe English department" or "the otherwho taught mathematics"; but I believethat in other cases, students, discerningenough to choose individual instructors,"not merely stereotyped things" calledmembers of the faculty, usually dis­covered in their work something morethan "a dry routine matter,. nearlyunrelated to their own innermost thoughtsand feelings." As to the instructors wholectured to classes as to " a mass of peoplewho paid fees," my own recollection ofthe tone and make-up of certain requiredcourses goes far to justify such an analy­sis on the part of the instructor. Andthe dean, with his" two hundred callowyouths to minister to "-Mr. Bell him­self is moved to pity his intolerableplight! .Furthermore, as we balance the valuewe have received from the University ofChicago with the indebtedness othersacknowledge to other institutions, manyof us realize that though we have not hadthe benefit of the ultra-paternalism+-ormaternalism-characteristic of the so­licitous guidance of smaller institutions,yet we have learned to stand upon outown feet, to expect judgment uponresults and not upon intentions; inother words, to live the life of the worldand accustom ourselves to its criteria,and not to prepare to live through aperiod of idealistic isolation from reallife.Mr. Bell must admit that in all pro­fessions there is diversity of gifts; inthe ministry he must find that thegenius of the preacher and the genius ofthe pastor are rarely united in one man.So in the teaching profession, we do notoften find together the zeal of the mis­sionary and the erudition of the scholar.The man combining the two is one ofthe great teachers of the time, we arelucky if we meet one or two such andshould be thankful. But many students,asking less than perfection in an in­structor, value the zeal when they findit, and yet profit by the erudition also.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENot all would accept the definitionMr. Bell implies of the "Things real,Things interesting" for which collegiansstrove. A large number of students canbecome interested in beauties of matterand method though presented by themost impersonal of scholars, and cango on to follow up pleasantly by them­selves interests started in the classroom.But possibly such students fall into thesubnormal class which Mr. Bell charac­terizes as "warped bookworms"!Finally, as a teacher, I cannot refrainfrom one more suggestion: that theposition of an in structor as a conspicuousobject for attack by an army of youngegoists-for every student is inevitablyan egoist, be he a high -school Freshmanor a prospective Ph.D .-certainly justifiesa resort at times to desperate measuresof self-defense. The story of the headof a department who was refused admis­sion at the door of a new colleague by avigilant maid with the statement that"Professor --- is not at home tostudents" is not necessarily indicativeof a hostile, snobbish attitude on thepart of the faculty toward the students; rather it might suggest the weary despera­tion of a man forearmed only aftersuffering many unmitigated assaultsfrom a persistent opponent.As a mathematical proposition, howmuch time can an instructor give toeach of one hundred and fifty studentswhen he teaches eight or ten hours aweek, serves as dean, acts on variouscommittees, takes part in civic andsocial activities in the town, and devotesadequate time to professional study?Time and strength are both limited, andonly one who has known what it oftenmeans to be cornered in a quiet retreatin the library to be detained in the book �store, to be waylaid in the hall, to becalled to the door or telephone from thedinner-table, to be buttonholed at theintermission of a concert, by voraciousstudents, frequently demanding not somuch information as personal favors,can understand the desperate satiationwhich drives an instructor to retreat tothe last ditches of indifference, and tothrow up impenetrable earthworks ofimpersonality.HELEN SARD HUGHES, '10ALUMNIThe Chicago Alumni Club.-The annualfootball dinner of the club was held atthe University Club on the evening ofWednesday, November 20. About 125were present, including Mr. Stagg andthe football squad. The speaking wasbegun by Brent Vaughan, '97, who, bigwith epigram, could not wait to be intro­duced before delivering himself of thestatement that in his judgment Mr. Staggwas the gentleman who had kicked thestern from Northwestern and the noiseout of Illinois, and had, moreover, put thego in Chicago. Amid ironical cheers hesat down, and President Richberg thenbrought the speakers of the evening tothe attention of the diners. J. W. Linn,'9'7, read a hopelessly original poem,beginning as follows:When I read the announcement sent out forthis dinnerI chortled with joy; 'twould be doubtless awinnerThat moment ecstatic, when old stars nowrheumatic,No longer dynamic, round-bellied and static,Lived over the days of their former achieve­ments.Resulting so often in mournful bereavementsOf excellent families whose scions theyhurledWith a crash to the gridiron, dead, dead to theworld!We'd badger the Badgers, and go for theGophers. ,These boys of the present would seem likemere loafersCompared with the players who once tied thecanSo often and firmly on dear Michigan!Phil Allen would tell of the moment historicWhen, filled with caloric, as bold as a WarwickHe blocked with his face the fierce punt ofVan DoozerThat Evanston bruiser, whose sinews andthews wereThe object of awe all along the northshore.And fell on the ball for a touchdown, begor!At this point it wandered into thequicksands of reminiscence, and waslost. The real business of the eveningfollowed-"Famous Moments of For­gotten Games," by Hamill, '98, Gale,'96, Speed, '00, Norman Anderson, '02,Herschberger, '98, and Phil Allen, '95.All were interesting, but that lineal AFFAIRSdescendant of Sapphira, Dr. Allen,carried off the honors with a tale of howin the Western Reserve game at Cleve­land he swam over the goal-line carryingthe ball in his teeth. Following thereminiscences, the squad were introducedone by one to the alumni, and Mr. Staggthen spoke briefly, hinting at an occa­sional mood of discouragement, but say­ing emphatically that he had no intentionof dropping his work. The feature ofthe dinner was as usual the " YearlyBuffoon "-.-this time an "election extra"with a list of candidates recommendedfor various offices, and their advertise­ments. As examples of these "recom­mendations" the following may be noted:Our Campaign Motto: "Let thepeople drooL"Vote for Charles F. Roby for Surveyor,"One of the best linemen Chicago everhad. He laid out lots on Marshall Field.way back in 1895.""Dotty Doc Hamill for Coroner.Formerly a resident of Dunning andhighly spoken of by those who knewhim there.""For Assessors, Harold H. Swift andPercy B. Eckhart. Every Reginald andAubrey in the community should votefor Harold and Percy."The Chicago Alumnae Club.-Chicagois about to have an employment bureaufor college women. It should be ofespecial interest to University of Chicagowomen. New York, Philadelphia, andBoston have somewhat similar bureausbut the local plan is being worked outindependently. The name is the ChicagoCollegiate Bureau of Occupations.The immediate purpose of this bureauis to secure remunerative employmentfor college-trained women-e-particularlyin non-teaching Jines. Its more generaland its real purpose is to investigate andto develop opportunities for trainedwomen, to broaden the field of remunera­tive employment for them, and to in­crease their efficiency in such employment.It is planned to use the accomplish­ment of the immediate purpose as thetool for the accomplishment of the moregeneral one; to learn what particular5960 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEtraining and what particular ability isespecially needful in each kind of work; tolearn of the opportunity for advancementor promotion and what work leads wellto what other; to consider carefully thetraining and the ability of each womanto be placed in a position and the progressof each one already put at work andalways to select very carefully the workfor the woman and the woman for thework; further to advise with collegestudents and others concerning the factslearned and the conclusions drawn.This is very close to the work whichsocial workers have been doing for theboy and the girl leaving grade schooland which they have called vocationalcounseling. The college women areputting into practice for themselves theprinciples which they have been preach­ing for others.The organization which is to accom­plish these results consists of represen­tatives from each of the alumnae clubsin the city of Chicago. Thus a localgroup of women from each college bearsa share of the responsibility. It is hopedultimately to make the bureau pay foritself and no more, but the work is begunupon donated money, raised by theseco-operating organizations, as they arecalled, and for all time the services ofeveryone-except the members of the officeforce are to be voluntary. Women fromnine co-operating organizations havebeen working for some time and atpresent other organizations also areplanning to help. The Chicago AlumnaeClub of the University of Chicago hasbeen actively interested from the begin­ning. It feels that it should bear anespecial share of the burden, becausewomen from our university must bymere force of geography be the especialbeneficiaries.The local alumnae club wishes aU ofthe graduates of the University to knowof its new work. It sincerely hopes andbelieves that it is rendering a permanentservice to the alumnae and to the Uni- �versity as well and it earnestly asks theinterest and the assistance of the wholepast and present University.SHIRLEY FARR, '04ALICE GREENACRE, '08Des Moines Alumni Club.-The Clubon November 18 entertained at dinner,Miss Ella Flagg Young, '00, superin­tendent of schools of Chicago, who made the principal address on the dedicationof the East High School building. Anaccount of the dinner will appear in thenext issue of the Magazine.News from the Classes.-1896J. E. Raycroft published on October 30in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, anarticle concerning the Department ofHygienic and Physical Education, ofwhich he has been in charge at Princetonfor two years. Among other things, hehas abolished fees for the use of tenniscourts!eX-I896Mrs. Slawka Grouitch (Mabel G.Dunlop), wife of the Servian minister toEngland, has been put in charge of theAmerican headquarters of the ServianRed Cross Society. She is endeavoringto raise a fund of $100,000 for the reliefof the Servian wounded.1898John F. Hagey of the First NationalBank of Chicago, urged upon the ChicagoAssociation of Commerce at its annualmeeting, the passage of a Federal law tosafeguard the securities now offered forloans by railroad bills of lading.1903J. A. Gladstone Dowie was ordainedon November 3, as a deacon of theEpiscopal Church. He will assist Rev.Herman Page of St. Paul's Church inKenwood.1908Miss A. Evelyn Newman continues asgraduate secretary of the Studio Club,35 East 62d St., New York City.1909S. S. Visher has collaborated withProfessor E. C. Perisho, '95, S.M., in aGeography of South Dakota, published byRand, McNally & Co. Both are mem­bers of the department of geology of theUniversity of South Dakota. ProfessorPerisho has been dean of the college ofarts and sciences and state geologist forsome years. Mr. Visher became aninstructor in the U ni versi ty of SouthDakota in 1910 and has been most offour summers in fieldwork in all partsof South Dakota for the State Survey.He expects to return to the universityfor further graduate work.ALUMNI AFFAIRS 6r1910Francesco Ventresca is assistant pro­fessor of modern languages at the StateCollege of Washington, Pullman, Wash.I9IIHenry T. Louthan, A.M., is professorand head of the department of history,in Mercer University, Macon, Ga.Myra G. Reed is on the editorial staffof McCall's Magazine. Her address is257 West Eighty-sixth Street, New YorkCity.Marriages.-'03-'05. Hayward Dare Warner toGrace Kendall McKibben, '0S, onOctober22, 1912, in Seattle, Wash. Mr. Warneris a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity,and a former University Marshal. Heis now in business in Denver as an assayerand chemist. Mr. and Mrs. Warnerwill make their home at 1347 Steele St.,Denver, Colo.'0 5. Clara L. Primm to GeorgeDouglas Byers of the American Presby­terian Mission in Haiuan, on July 16, atShanghai. Their address will be Kiung­chow, Island of Haiuan, China.'07-'10. Sanford A. Lyon to HelenPeck, '10, in December last, at LakeForest, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon's addressis 200 Colman Bldg., Seattle, Wash.'08. Robert Lincoln Kelley, to LeonaBlanche Raser of Chicago, November 6.At home, Pierre, S.D.'10. Charles William Barton to VioletHullinger, on Nov. 27. Their addresswill be 6607 Randolph St., Oak Park, Ill. Barton is a member of Alpha DeltaPhi.Members of the University havereceived announcements 'of the marriageon November 4, of ·Dr. Ernest W.Parsons, Ph.D. '12, to Miss FrancesLyda Paisey of Burlington, Ontaria.Dr. Parsons, who received the degreeof Ph.D. summa cum laude in the Uni­versity last June, was the third to receivethat honor in the Divinity School. Hehas recently accepted the pastorate ofthe First Baptist Church of Saskatoon,Saskatchewan. While in residence atthe University the last four years hetook active part in the work of theDivinity School, and served as secretaryof the New Testament Club last year.'12. John Henry McLean, to Ida E. A.Waitt of Dorchester, Mass., September 19.Deaths.-'02. Wilbur Condit Gross, died onNovember 30, after a lingering illness ofmany months.Wilbur Gross was born in ChicagoJanuary 18, 1879 and graduated from theEnglewood High School in 1897. Thefollowing year he entered the Universityof Michigan where he continued for twoyears until 1900, when he entered theUniversity of Chicago. In 1902 he wasgraduated with the degree of A.B. andhas been until recently associated withhis father in the wall safe business.Wilbur Gross was a member of BetaTheta Pi Fraternity. He was a brotherof Florence and Helen Gross. He issurvived by a wife (Morgia Stough, '08)and one child, Peter, three years of age.THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHYC. A. Shull, '04, has been appointedto professorship in plan t physio logyin the U niversi ty of Kansas.C. W. Allee, '12, has been appointedto an instructorship in plant physiologyin the University of Illinois.At Ohio State University numerouspromotions have recently been madeincluding that of R. F. Earhart, '00, toa full professorship in physics.Why Go to College? is the title of anexceedingly neat little pamphlet of75 pages, compiled by G. F. Reynolds,'oS, professor of English and rhetoric atthe University of Montana.Mary P. Blount, '08, has resigned her position at the University High Schoolto take an instructorship in science inthe Chicago Teachers College.Orie L. Hatcher, '03, has been pro­moted to an associate professorship incomparative and Elizabethan literaturesat Bryn Mawr College.Caroline L. Ransom, '05, who isassistant curator of Egyptian antiquitiesat the Metropolitan Museum, NewYork, is spending a vacation in Germanyand expects to return to this country inFebruary. ."The Influence of Local TheatricalConditions upon the Drama of theGreeks" is the title of an article by RoyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEC. Flickinger, which has been reprintedfor private circulation by the ClassicalJournal.John, L. Tilton, '10, is professor ofgeology and physics at Simpson College,Indianola, Iowa."Determination of the Constants inEuler's Problem Concerning the Mini­mum Area between a Curve and ItsEvolute" is the title of an article by E. J.Miles, 'ro, in the Annals of Mathematicsfor September, 1912. He also has anarticle on "Surfaces of Minimum Resist­ance" in the Bulletin of the AmericanMathematical Society for November,1912. Dr. Miles is instructor in mathe­matics at Yale University.The Doctor's dissertation of H. F.MacN eish, '09, on Linear Polars of thek-Hedron in n-Space, has recently beenpublished by the University of ChicagoPress. Dr. MacN eish is instructor inmathematics at Yale University.H� W. Hill, 'II, is professor of Englishin the University of Nevada, Reno,Nev.M. A. Chrysler, '04, is professor ofbiology at the University of Maine. 'Frank H. Fowler, '96, has received anappointment on the classical staff at theUniversity of Utah.Anna W. Starr, 'I I, is professor ofbotany in M t. Holyoke College.The president 'of the Eastern AlumniAssociation is E. E. Slosson, '03, literaryeditor of the Independent. He has recently been on a scientific trip toAustralia at the invitation of the Victo­rian government.Ernest Emerson, '09, who was formerlyresearch instructor at the Universityof Chicago has recently been appointedto an assistant professorship in chemistryat Amherst Agricultural College.A. W. C. Menzies, '10, formerlyinstructor at the University of Chicago,has been appointed to the professorshipand head of the department of chemistryat Oberlin College.Wm. F. Luebke, 'II, is a member ofthe staff in the Germanic department atthe State University of Iowa.C. J. Bushnell, '01, is professor ofsociology and politics at LawrenceCollege, Appleton, Wis.G. F. McKibben, '05, is professor ofromance languages at Denison University,Granville, Ohio.Allen D. Hole, '10, is head of thedepartmen t of geology a t EarlhamCollege, Richmond, Ind.Letitia M. Snow, '04, has been pro­moted to an associate professorship inbotany at Wellesley College.C. Everett Conant, 'II, has beenelected a corresponding member of theAcademie Malgache, of Tananariva,Madagascar, in recognition of his re­searches in Indonesian (Malayo-Poly­nesian) philology. He is professor andhead of the department of modernlanguages in the University of Chatta­nooga, Tenn.THE DIVINITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONChanged addressesr=Dt : H. C. Mabie,'75, and wife may be addressed at 55Earl's Court Road, Kensington W.,London. Their second son and his wifeare to be in London for quite a season, hepursuing his art studies in the KensingtonSchool of Design.Rev. W. H. Garfield, '04, closed hispastorate at Ottawa, Ill., Nov. I.Dr. Alfred W. Wishart, pastor of theFountain St. Church, Grand Rapids,Mich., is preaching a series of morning sermons on "A Constructive View ofOrthodoxy," including the followingthemes: "The Catholicity of theChurch"; "Christ the Divine Man";"Salvation through the Cross"; "TheForgiveness of Sins"; "The Inspirationof the Bible"; "Heaven and Hell." Inthe evening a series is in progress on"Old Parables and Their Modern Mes-sages.FRED MERRIFIELD, '01Secretary-TreasurerNELSON HENRY NORGRENFootball Captain 1913 GEORGE KUHPresident Upper Seniors, 19I2-13. Track Captain I9I3UNDERGRADUATE AFFAIRSGeneral.- The Henry Strong scholar­ships were awarded this fall to MissMartha Green, Donald Breed, LeroyCampbell, Robert Presnell, and WilliamA. Shirley. Each scholarship carries$200. . . . . Eleven candidates out ofseventy-five were chosen for membershipin the University Dramatic Club onOctober 29. The Club appeared in itsregular autumn quarter performance onFriday, November 22, in the Reynolds' Athletics.-C. C. Stewart, '13, wasClub Theater. More than 200 were elected Captain of the tennis team onturned away after the hall was filled. November 2. He is a member of PhiThe plays given were Ryland, The Greek Beta Kappa ..... Two swimming meets,Vase, Op-'o-me Thumb, and Mrs. Ford's the first held on November IS, and theFace, the latter by Donald Breed, '13. second on November 22, indicate betterF. H. O'Hara, 'IS, and Winnifred Cut- prospects for the swimming team thanting, '13, carried off the honors of the for the last two or three years. In bothevening ..... In the straw vote for meets the 'Varsity defeated the Freshmen,president, concluded on November I, although the star of both was Ray White,Roosevelt won with 407 votes; Wilson of the Freshman team. Of the upperwas second with 356; Taft third with 70; classmen, Moore, Neff, and Donald Hol-Debs fourth with 19, and Chafin last lingsworth showed to best advantage, andwith 4. . . . . The annual Settlement of the freshmen, Ray White and Pavlicek.dance was held in Bartlett on the evening In the relay race, the men averaged aof December 7. The chairmen of the trifle less than 23 seconds for the fortycommittees were R. D. Matthews, Re- yards. Ray White won the 2: 20 in theception; Donald Hollingsworth, Finance; first meet in 2: 55 and in the second meetBernard Vinissky, Publicity; William in 2: 56 ..... The cross-country teamHefferan, Decoration; Erling Lunde, Re- finished last in the Conference race onfreshments; Howard Keefe, Printing; November 23; .66 in all started, andGeorge Leisure, Music; and Dorothy Captain Bishop, the first Chicago man toFox, Entertainment. One hundred and finish came in 27th. Byerly, second manfifty students made up the committees. for Chicago, was 49th. . . . . Twenty-.... The first number of a new maga- one Freshmen were awarded "1916"zine to be called The University of Chicago numerals in football by Coach Page, fourLiterary Monthly will appear in January. more received the 1916 reserve honors,.' . ;. . At the class elections on N ovem- while five more were given squad jerseys.ber IS, the following were elected: The men awarded the numerals were,Upper Seniors: Class President, George Captain Stegeman, Moulton, Russell,Kuh; Vice-President, Mary A. Whitely; Boyd, Shull, Whiting, Redmon, Acker,Secretary, Dorothy Fox; and Treasurer, Foote, Kendall, Matsou.Eparks, Shively,William Hefferan. Lower Seniors: Presi- Gordon, Sellers, Beckwith, Cole, Hard-dent, Ernest Reichmann; Vice-president, inger, Presnell, and Petrich. The reserveSuzanne Fisher; Secretary, Arline Brown; awards were made to Hawley, Stewart,Treasurer, Harvey Harris. Upper Jun- Hatcher, and O'Connor, while jerseysiors: President, Donald Delaney; Vice- were given to Hirsch, Stout, Olmstead,president, Katharine Covert; Secretary, Anderman, and Taylor ..... NelsonMabel Becker; Treasurer, S. Baum- Henry Norgren, '14, was elected captaingartner. Lower Juniors: "President, Wil- of the football team for 1913, on Novem-Iiam Ewart; Vice-president, Frederick ber 25. The only other candidate wasBurky; Secretary, Dorothy Vanderpool; Stanley R. Pierce, fullback. Norgren isTreasurer, Joseph Gary. Eight hundred one of two men in the history of the Uni-and fifty-two votes were cast in the elec- versity to win four major C's-his beingtions. Kuh, the new president of the in football, baseball, basket-ball, andupper seniors is also captain of the track track, all gained in his Sophomore year.team. He is a member of Washirigton Norgren is just twenty-one, lives in Chi-House Robert Allais, 'IS, won the cago, and prepared at R. A. Waller High.Iowerjuniorextemporary speaking contest He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi.64 on November 19 ..... Forty-nine menwere initiated into the Three-quartersClub on November 26, the largest numberin the history of the Club ..... Thedebating squad for the intercollegiate de­bates to be held in January was selectedon November 18. The men chosen wereConrad, Cook, Hammond, Hunt, Peters,and Soble. -