WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER MEMORIAL LIBRARY FROM THE NORTHThe University of ChicagoMagazineVOLUME VI FEBRUARY 1914 NUMBER 4EVENTS AND DISCUSSIONAssociate Justice Charles E. Hughes, of the United States SupremeCourt, was elected a member of the University Board of Trustees atJustice its meeting on February 4. Justice Hughes will fill theHughes, vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas W. Good-Trustee speed. He was born in Glens Falls, New York, in 1862.He was graduated from Brown University in 1881 and from the ColumbiaLaw School in I884. He began practicing law in- New York City in1884; later, however, he became professor of law in Cornell University.He was counsel in I905-6 to the famous Armstrong Insurance Commis­sion. created by the New York legislature, and the following year wasappointed special assistant to the United States attorney-general in thecoal investigation. He declined a Republican nomination for the officeof mayor of New York City and was twice governor of the state of NewYork. In I9IO he w-as appointed associate justice of the United StatesSupreme Court. He has received the degree of LL.D. from ten institu­tions, including Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and the University ofPennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent Baptists in the country;and as such it was possible to select him to make up the fourteen Baptistswhich by charter must be chosen to the Board. The alumni welcomehim heartily as a member of the official family, and hope that his accept­ance will soon involve his appearance as a Convocation Orator. Althoughthe new trustee will probably not be able to attend many meetingsof the Board, the University will have the advantage of his advice andcounsel.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEHeartily and gladly as the alumni welcome Justice Hughes, itA Notable may still seem worth calling attention to the fact thatOmission no alumnus of the University is a member of theBoard of Trustees.The total registration for the Winter Quarter was, on january 24,2,763. Last year it was 2,483; in January of 1912, it was 2,47I. TheGraduate Schools show an increase of 14 over last year;�tt:dance Senior Colleges, u8; Junior Colleges, 93; unclassified,:int:r Quarter 25· Of the professional schools Divinity holds its own;Law has increased 3I, the present attendance being 206,and Medicine 30, the present attendance being 190 (these figures ofcourse do not include Rush). The College of Education shows a gain of9. Women outnumber the men in the College of Education, 235 to 25,and among the unclassified, 53 to 44. There are I I women studyingdivinity, 17 studying medicine, and 4 studying law. In the Junior andSenior Colleges the men number 959, the women 6�4, a division of58 per cent and 42 per cent. In the totals the men number I,613, thewomen I,I50 or, again, 58 per cent and 42 per cent. ..Reports, now available, of the year from July I, 1912, to July I, 1913,show a total amount earned by students, through "student service"and in positions secured by the Bureau of Student Em­ployment, of $I63,702. 16. This is exclusive of allentrance, honor, and special scholarships. In" studentservice" is included library service to the amount of$20,448. 3I; the choir and the band, who earned $3,649.50 of theirtuition; office service, and departmental service.But it is the report of the Bureau of Student Employment which ismost interesting. Work was found for the astounding number of I,3I1students; of those, I,I94 were men and 1I7 women. The previous yearwork had been found for I,085. The total earnings in 1912-13 were$I57,35o.67, as compared with $I37,I27 .40 the previous year. Of thistotal of $I57,000+, $47,746 was earned in permanent positions securedthrough the Bureau by students leaving the University. The residentstudents held I,I31 different positions, and averaged in earnings $83.60apiece; 203 salesmen earned $I2,79I. 50; I06 waiters earned $II,358. 50;86 janitors (including movers of furniture and watchmen) earned$9,404;85; 62 tutors and governesses earned $7,935.75; and so ondown the list -including chauffeurs, motormen, cooks, trave�ogtiers,StudentsWho EarnTheir WayEVENTS AND DISCllSSION 93show-card writers�thirty-three occupations in all. The 7 in theatricalwork earned the largest average per hOur-$2.44; the 2 guards andmotormen the least per hour-24! cents. But then, they worked 680hours apiece-steady jobs, compared to the IS hours apiece of themessengers, for instance. On the list of those employed appear thenames of the leaders in nearly every kind of campus activity-membersof Owl and Serpent, class presidents, heads of dramatic and musicalsocieties, athletes, University marshals, Phi Beta Kappas, debaters.Nor is this to be wondered at, when the fact is obvious that one inevery two undergraduate men is on the list. "To earn one's own wayat Chicago, at least in part, is nearer the rule than the exception.David Allan Robertson, '02, secretary to the President, left forEurope on February 2, to be gone three months. The following notewas issued at the time from the President's Office:An Interlocking During the absence of David A. Robertson, February, March,and April, 1914, the following have kindly taken upon themselvesthe authority to decide those matters not settled in the President's Office in con­nection with the subjects set opposite their names.Buildings and Grounds, Celebrations, Correspondence, Cancellations, The Presi­dent's Office, The President; News-Letter, Official Publications, Students' Fund Society,Summer Quarter, J. R. Angell; Forman Fund, Trevor Arnett; Blackfriars andDramatics, P. H. Boynton; Phi Beta Kappa, F. D. Bramhall; Orchestral Association,J. H. Breasted; Gunsaulus Collection, E. D. Burton; Y.M.C.A. Board, J. M. Coulter;Convocation, Hitchcock House, Marshals and Aides, Preachers' Entertainment, J. A.Field; Music Library, J. C. M. Hanson; Chimes, J. L. Laughlin; Alumni andMagazine, J. W. "Linn; Preachers' Committee, Shailer Mathews; Reynolds Club,R. A. Millikan; Employment, J. F. Moulds; "Chicago Group," C. A. Paltzer.DirectorWe understand this sort of thing is I to be prohibited by federalstatute.Mr. Stagg represented the University at the meeting of the FootballRules Committee in New York City on February 6 and 7. No radicalchanges were made. Coaches may no longer roam up andNew Football down the side-lines; no players may hide among thesubstitutes on the side-lines, in order to emerge suddenlyas the receiver of a forward pass; and when an intended forward passhas been smothered the trick of deliberately throwing the ball to theground so that the pass may be called incomplete and no ground lost onthe play has been penalized by the forfeiture of ten yards. And therebyhangs a tale. Last year J. M. Sheldon in Mr. Stagg's absence took hisplace at the meeting of the Rules Committee. He pointed out theRules94 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEparticular trick just spoken of, and urged legislation. The Rules Com­mittee was amused. No such play had ever been seen in the East;therefore it did not exist. Sheldon cited a dozen instances of its use; tono avail. "Well," said he in disgust, "next fall you people will havediscovered the possibility, and will make a rule; we'll have to stand itin the West another year, I suppose." Sure enough, last fall somebright coach east of the Alleghenies saw his chance; others imitated thefashion; and now behold the legislation-a year late, but better latethan never. �The Literary Monthly has reappeared. One issue last year seemedto show an insufficient demand to justify continuing it. It has, however,been reorganized, and with the February issue begins, it isThe "Chicago hoped, a permanent and active career. The managingLiterary editor is Frank M. Webster, '14, and the business manager,Monthly" W. Ogden Coleman, '14. The first issue, of twenty-sixlarge pages, contains an essay, "Extra Muros," by Mabel Delamater,'14; "The Adventures of a Chinese Merchant," a sketch by R. H.Thompson, '14; "Goosie," a story by Janet Flanner, '16; and "TheNorthern Lights," a one-act symbolistic play by Roderick Peattie, '14,and verse. Miss Delamater's essay is unusually good, and MissFlanner's story, an amplification of a tragic incident narrated by MissJane Addams in Twenty Years at Hull-House, has skill. A poem byMargaret Rhodes, '14, "The Other," is reprinted 'in this issue of theMagazine. Subscriptions should be sent to the business manager, Box175, Faculty Exchange. Fifty cents will bring it to the close of the year.AcademicFreedomThe recent resignation of President Warfield, of Lafayette College,Pennsylvania, recalls attention to a matter which has a curious interestfor the University of Chicago. In June last the resigna­tion of Rev. John M. Mecklin, professor of philosophy atLafayette, was asked for and received. An investigationby the American Philosophical Association brought out the fact thatProfessor Mecklin had been asked to leave because his teachings werethought to be at variance with certain theological tenets held by thePresbyterian church, under the auspices of which Lafayette is con­ducted. His courses were based on modern textbooks, one of whichdevelops an evolutionary theory of religion, and his own views were inharmony with those of the textbooks. The particular interest to theUniversity of Chicago lies in these textbooks, three out offour of whichEVENTS AND DISCUSSION 95were Dewey and Tufts's Ethics, Angell's Psychology, and Ames's Psy­chology of Religious Experience, all by members of the University. Thedays of " the thumbscrew and the rack for the glory of the Lord" seemedto draw more clearly out of the mists of time as one read of the caseof Professor Mecklin; they recede again, however, upon PresidentWarfield' s resignation.Figures which will appear in the President's Report show that forthe year ending June 30, 1913, the actual receipts were $1,577,026.14,and the actual expenditures $1,576,552. 56-leaving asurplus of $473.58. Of the expenditures almost exactlythree-fourths were directly for educational purposes, andone-fourth for administration, including the expenses for buildings andgrounds. The figures are: For educational purposes, expenditures$1,125,044.98, or 73.4 per cent; for general administration, $451,107.58,or 26.6 per cent. "Millions for de fence, but not one cent for test-tubes"was the cry one heard occasionally last year, It seems to have beenexceptionally ill founded.Last Year'sBudgetUNDERGRADUATE LIFE IN THEWINTER QUARXERAlumni Wh9 have been through the grind and the gayety of theundergraduate years at Chicago may be interested in a resume of thetypical Winter Quarter-the domestic third of the year, in which neitherfootball without nor the springtime joy of youth within distracts thestudent from the even tenor of his way.Undergraduate interest in the conduct of University affairs hasbeen most strikingly manifested in the Honor Commission and in newlegislation concerning fraternities. Following the adoption by theCouncil of the regulations providing for an Honor Commission, and theappointment of members (see January issue) the Honor Commission w�sformally recognized by the Faculty at a meeting on January 3I, andis now a recognized body. I ts purpose is to pass upon all cases of dis­honesty in class work which may be reported to it. The "honor system,"in its full significance, is by no means in force. Examinations will asheretofore be proctored, and all cases of dishonesty discovered by theFaculty will be handled by the Faculty; but the Commission, as therepresentative of student sentiment, must have a strong influence.Fraternity legislation centers around the questions of "rushing"and "pledging." A committee of eleven appointed by the Inter­fraternity Council early in January, after much deliberation, recom­mended the adoption of rules providing tha t "rushing" should beconfined to the hours from 12: 45 to 8: 00 P.M. on all "school' , days(the IO: IS recess is excepted); that no fraternity should schedule morethan five appointments with anyone man i�� one week, and not morethan two in one day; and that all entertainment shall be informal, andwithin three miles of the quadrangles (this to exclude downtowndances, theater parties, and house-parties). It recommended furtherthat no high-school students, except Seniors in their second semester,should be eligible to fraternity entertainment of any sort, by chaptersor individuals, including alumni. The question of a "neutral zone" atthe beginning of each quarter, in which no student might be rushed,was much discussed, but no agreement was reached. Specific furtheraction by the University will be taken, it is believed, to prevent rush-96UNDERGRADUA.TE LIFE IN THE WINTER QUARTER 97ing of any University High School student at any time. A recom­mendation was also made prohibiting initiation of any student withless than 3 majors of resident credit and five grade points, instead ofthree as at present.The organization of classes at the University grows more definiteevery year. All four classes have instituted regular bi-weekly classluncheons in Hutchinson, which are usually attended by from 75 to100. Some member of. the Faculty speaks, and class affairs are dis­cussed. The Senior class is about to issue an elaborate address-book,giving both present and permanent addresses. The effort on the partof the undergraduates to form the acquaintance of the instructors wasfurther shown by two large rneetings=-one the women's dinner on Jan­uary 30, and the other the reception to the President and Faculty, givenby the Reynolds Club on February 5. At the women's dinner, held inHutchinson, more than three hundred were present, including aboutsixty members of the Faculty. A playlet, Facultas in urbe, by JanetFlanner, '16, was presented, and there were speeches. The ReynoldsClub reception was one of the largest of the kind ever held at the club­house. The members of the Faculty were grouped by departments,and marshals innumerable managed the formalities of introduction.The activities of the club, outside of the usual series of entertainments,were centered in the purchase of a library. A committee on subscrip­tions has secured enough, in small sums, for the purchase and installa­tion of nearly one thousand volumes, mostly of belles-lettres. Nearlyall the subscriptions were from alumni and members of the Faculty, asthe Maroon has not failed to point out; the undergraduates have beenbackward in coming forward. Whether this means that the library isan unnecessary addition to those already on the quadrangles time mustshow. It is believed that a collection of the best current literature,easily accessible, will greatly stimulate the reading habit among themen, and that the idea that" literature" perished when Tennyson diedand Thomas Hardy ceased to write novels may be counteracted.Plays, biography, and travels will be heavily invested in.In this connection the publication of a 'new songbook may be againreferred to. The book, which went to the printer on February 5, will beof a form and kind intended really to popularize the singable Universitysongs. Song-writing at the University never has been a very highlydeveloped art, in spite of the Blackfriars, but some songs there havebeen worth preserving; in time they will be haloed with tradition. Thecommittee on the songbook, headed by L. P. Payne, 'I3, president of98 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINElast year's glee club, has gone about its business in a systematic fashion,and the book will be worth owning by any alumnus.Speaking of the Blackfriars recalls their play for the year. After"a prolonged competition, the committee chose, from seven offered, TheStudent Superior, by Samuel Kaplan, '14, and Leon Stolz, '14. TheStudent Superior (of which the title probably will be changed) is a satire.It is much less conventional than any previous show, has a solid andclear plot, and is most attractive in its lines. Stolz is a son of RabbiJoseph Stolz, of Isaiah Temple; he was last year news editor ofthe Maroon, and has been identified with many campus activities.Kaplan was an editor of the Literary Magazine)' he has this year actedas dramatic critic and reviewer for the Maroon. He is the author of thereview of Mr. Lovett's Cowards, a review republished in this issue, andis probably the ablest undergraduate writer in college, 'The play willhave four performances, on Friday and Saturday evenings, May I, 2, 8,and 9. The competition for the music of the lyrics is now going on.Intercollegiate debating in the Winter Quarter centered round thecontests with Michigan in Mandel and Northwestern at Evanston onFriday, January 16. The question.concerned the passage of a minimum­wage law by the state; constitutionality being conceded. The affirma­tive, represented by Chicago, won at Mandel; it won also at Evanston,where it was represented by Northwestern. Both decisions were unani­mous. Chicago's teams were: affirmative, Arnold Baar, BenjaminBills, and Harry Rosenberg, all of the Law School, but all graduatesand four-year men at Chicago; negative, Willard Atkins, Leon Powers,and Ralph Swanson. The attendance at Mandel was the largest in thehistory of debating here. Chicago's teams, as last year, were coachedby H. G. Moulton, '07, Instructor in Political Economy, assisted byProfessor Lyman. A mass-meeting was held in Kent on the morningbefore the contests, and great enthusiasm was shown. Debating seemson a firm basis at Chicago; but it is more of a Law School than an under­graduate function, as is probably inevitable.The Maroon in the Winter Quarter has been operating under diffi­culties, on account of the enforced retirement, through illness or scholas­tic troubles, of many of its staff. The new service has been much asusual; the editorials have been unusually good, much less naive andcolloquial than the usual mid-western college editorial. The dramaticreviews have been amazingly good-quite the best published in Chicago,as a rule, in spite of the youth of their author. (Mr. Hammond 'andMr. Bennett please write.) The Cap and Gown management has alsoUNDER,GRADUATE LIFE IN THE WINTER QUARTER 99suffered losses, but is proceeding successfully as usual. The Glee Club,under the management of F. F .. Selfridge, '14, is planning a second tripto the Pacific Coast.Intercollegiate athletics in the winter center, of course, on basket­ball and track. Basket-ball to the middle West is what hockey is to theEast; skating is too uncertain to be depended on. The team so far hasbeen a great disappointment. Winning its first two games by largescores (Northwestern, 28-10, and Iowa, 43-20), it then barely nosedout Illinois, I2-II, and was defeated by Wisconsin, 16-I4, in Bartlett.Some savage criticism of Mr. Page's judgment followed, apparentlyunjustified. Goettler and Stegeman were started, Norgren being kepton the side-lines. Goettler being injured, Norgren was sent in, andproceeded to play brilliantly; but inasmuch as he had done verybadly in the Illinois game, this fine play was unexpected. Again avictory was recorded over Purdue, 20-15, after Purdue had led 15-90 .This game, too, was poorly played; it was saved by Stevenson, thesmallest man on the squad, who went in in the middle of the second halfand scored two baskets in three minutes. The five seem uneven; theydo not play hard unless they are forced to, and they throw wildly. Thechampionship, rather expected at the beginning, seems to have goneglimmering.The intra-mural series, with eight teams entered, on February Icompleted the first half of its schedule as follows:Teams Won Lost PercentageFreshmen I ........... 7 0 I,OOOLaw School. .... .. "' ... 6 I 857Freshmen II ..... ... 4 3 572Sophomores • '" "'. t' 3 4 \ 428Medics ...... . . 3 4 428Juniors. ........ 3 4 428Seniors .. . "' ...... 2 5 285Divinity ........ ... 0 7 000The second round is now being played, and will be completed in Feb­ruary. Only the first Freshman team and the Law School team haveany chance for victory. The Law School men include Boyle, '13,Catron, '13, and Scofield, '13, all well-known athletes.The track team overwhelmed Northwestern on January 31, 57-29.Ward, 'IS, had the mumps, and could not hurdle, and Russell, '16, willnot engage in athletics this quarter, so that in the hurdle-race North­western won; and Boyd fell, in the quarter. All the other runs Chicago100 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwon, in fair time. The chances for a good team continue bright. Byway of anticipatory revenge Northwestern very easily won the swimming­meet, January 23, the Chicago swimmers falling far below their previousform.An interesting development of the winter is the decision of theCouncil, under the "point system" governing the holding of under­graduate positions, not to allow athletes to hold honors in other branchesof University activity. Membership on the football, baseball, or basket­ball teams counts seven points; and as no student in any quarter mayaggregate more than 10, a special exception was at first made of athletesin other fields. This exception has now been withdrawn. The re�ultis that no athlete may be a class-officer, an editor, appear in a Black­friar play, or otherwise wear elective laurels. It will be interestingto see the result. The last two Senior class presidents have been thecaptains of the track teams; indeed as one runs down the list of Seniorclass presidents, he finds a large proportion of them athletes. A glanceat various college yearbooks seems to show that the same conditionexists elsewhere. Still, if the "point system" is to mean anything,it must necessarily hew to the line. There would, however, be anamazing smash in Chicago's athletics if the rule were administered asgoverning membership of more than one athletic team.' Norgren playsfootball, basket-ball, baseball, and puts the shot; Des Jardien playsfootball, basket-ball, and high jumps; Baumgardner plays football,basket-ball, and baseball; Shull plays football and basket-ball,and will play baseball; Gray plays football and baseball; Goettler,football and basket-ball; Stegeman, football, basket-ball, and will runthe half-mile; McConnell, football, runs the quarter, and will play base­ball; Boyd, football, and runs the quarter. What about these in con-nection with the point system? -A petition signed by eight hundred men was presented in Februaryto the Department of Physical Culture. It asked that hereafter acourse in dancing be given as part of the required physical culture work;and it is said the request is to be granted. Courses in dancing havelong been allowed as part of the work in the women's department.THE FRATERNITIES ANDSCHOLARSHIPHerewith are published the comparative scholarship records of thevarious fraternities for the Autumn Quarter, 1913. The rank of thevarious chapters for the same quarter is added for the purpose of com­parison. The grand total averages are as follows:TABLE IPledges Eli- Grade Points Grade Points AverageMembership Pledges gible at End per Member per Pledge forAHof Quartet191� ........ 194 146 106 2.15 2 06 2.101913 ....... 223 152 99 2.30 I. 68 2.05The one obvious deduction from these figures is that something wasradically wrong with the scholarship of the pledged men: 152 pledged,only 99 eligible, although eligibility requires only a total of three grade­points, a C - average, which if persisted in for three quarters is lowenough to exclude a man from college! Phi Kappa Psi pledges 7 andinitiates 3; Sigma Chi pledges 7 and initiates 2; and Delta Tau Deltapledges II and initiates 3. Of the sixteen Freshmen dismissed at theend of their first quarter for poor work, eleven were fraternity pledges.Of the remaining 141 pledges, 29, or 20 per cent, were placed on proba­tion. The pledges of only nine chapters averaged C. Reasoning fromexperience, it is fair to assume that of these 14I pledges who were allowedto remain at least thirty will be dismissed in March or in June. Thesituation is more serious than last year; it is more serious than ever beforein the history of the University. Not only "rushing" is to blame, ofcourse. The men who pledge to fraternities are, speaking broadly, themen who have had a "good time" in preparatory school. They go onhaving it here-for about three months: then" that two-handed engineat the door," which is symbolized by the Recorder and the Deans," stands ready to strike once, and strike no more." After the rushing isover, and the Three-Quarters Club has gathered up its fragments, theupper classmen urge hard work; but the mischief is done. No mannowadays who runs a quarter on the track can loaf in his first furlongand expect to finish near the leaders; no more can any student loaf in101102 - THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEhis first month and expect to pass his quarter's work. The new fraternitylegislation referred to elsewhere in the Magazine will help; but only asolidly established tradition of hard work from the start can accomplishmuch.Notable advances in scholarship rank are those of Chi Psi from six:'teenth to fifth, Kappa Sigma from seventeenth to eighth, Sigma Nufrom fourteenth to seventh, and Delta Sigma Phi from tenth to third.Declines as sharp are those of Delta Tau Delta from ninth to eighteenth(Delta Tau Delta was first in the Autumn Quarter of IgII), SigmaChi from sixth to sixteenth, and Beta Theta Pi from first to eleventh.These variations are of course to some extent accidental. But it canhardly be accident that keeps Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Upsilonsteadily near the top, and Phi Kappa Psi as steadily near the bottom.It should be noted in the figures which follow that all law students an�omitted, their grades not being accessible at this time. -TABLE IIFRATERNITIES IN THE ORDER OF THEIR RANK IN SCHOLARSHIP, AUTUMN QUARTER, 1913N � �H �� 8' v �$-4.c � rfl v20 0 ._S .S -I-<'O� in �:gS S ov krfl�� vO 'O� vFraternity ;::::l B ...a v :.=:01� b.OUl S b.O �-;::::l rog; �� VV "'C:l< < l-c� P"O b.O"d v � rflO..!:o:I VCl) ro ro v � P-I Cl)"d0 � ��8 u- kk "'C:l b.Opcd cd �P-I �c.? e 0 0 ]�� � P-I P-I < 0 Z Z P-I-- -- -_ -1- -- --Alpha Tau Omega ... · . 2 I 3 22 2.21 2 77 c+ 10 8 5Delta Upsilon .. . . .. . · . 3 2 2 67 2 88 2 75 c+ 12 6 5Delta Sigma Phi .... 10 3 2.18 3 II 2.54 c+ 10 6 AllAlpha Delta Phi ... 8 4 2'.92 I 78 2 51 c+ 17 10 '8Chi Psi ..... 16 5 2 43 2 45 2 41 C IS 8 7Beta Phi ....... .. . New 6 2.60 2 00 1.82 c- 6 3 ISigma Nu .... ..... . ... 14 7 2 72 I 98 2 37 C II 10 7Kappa Sigma. 17 8 2 72 I 65 2.19 C 9 9 .5Psi Upsilon. . . . ... . .. .. 4 9 2 04 2 36 2 16 C 22 II 8Delta Kappa Epsilon .... 13 10 2·35 I 74 2.104 C 14 9 8Beta Theta Pi. ............ I II 2·53 1. 27 2 102 C IS 9 6Phi Kappa Sigma .... 5 12 2 58 I 38 2 06 C 9 7 3Sigma Alpha Epsilon 7 13 2 24 I 70 2 04 C 17 10 8Phi Gamma Delta ... .. II 14 2.01 2 05 2 02 C 19 5 AllPhi Delta Theta 12 IS I 66 2.00 1.83 c- 8 8 7Sigma Chi ... ........ · . 6 16 I 70 I 57 I 65 C- 8 7 2Phi Kappa Psi.. ....... ... IS 17 I 49 I 20 I 38 c- 12 7 3Delta Tau Delta ....... 9 18 I 48 .81 I 10 c- 9 II 3-- -- -- -- -- -- --Lincoln House .... ....... .. . . . . .. 3 68 2 54 3 18 B- 10 8 7Washington House .......... . . .. 2 68 2 85 2·73 C+ 12 5 4"COWARDS."[Cowards, a play by Robert Morss Lovett, professor of English, was presented bythe Fine Arts Stock Company at the Fine Arts Theater on January 13, and ran fortwo weeks. It was variously reviewed, on the whole in a somewhat puzzled spirit.The best review appeared in the Maroon, on January 17; it was written by SamuelKaplan, Chicago, '14, and is here given in full.]Whatever else may be said about Mr. Lovett's play', Cowards, thereis no doubt about the fact that it is one of the truest and most unpleasantplays of its type, and because of its truth and unpleasantness one of themost powerful. The theme, in general, is that of The Blindness oj Virtue,the necessity of educating boys and girls in regard to matters of sex;but whereas in the English play, the evils resulting from ignorance arehinted at and a happy ending makes the playa palatable stage enter­tainment, in Mr. Lovett's play the situation is faced fearlessly andhonestly, and the resulting tragedy leaves the audience sick with thevery horror of it.A high-school boy and girl, through ignorance, take the almostinevitable step that their careless intimacy leads to. The girl, discover­ing that she is to become a mother, is filled with dread of the discoveryand the approaching ordeal. She deliberately cuts her finger to see if shecan stand the pain of childbirth, She betrays her secret to a musicteacher whom she met at a dance and with whom she has fallen in love,and his advice is that she preserve her respectability by submitting to anillegal operation. But she comes to desire the baby, and at first dis­misses the proposal, although she is afraid to let her condition be known.Her mother suspects, tip. ally , but refuses. to face the facts because shefears the father's anger and, presumably, the small-town scandal. Thebrother, too, discovers the truth, but his instinct is to knock the mandown. To his sister he can give no help. Then she confesses to thepreacher, but that sanctimonious soul, face to face with a genuine crisis,flies away from it in terror. Alone and helpless, then, she decides tosubmit to the operation.The fourth act, probably the most harrowing act to be seen on thestage, opens with her return from the operation, leaning, pale and weak,on the arm of the �'doctor," a bustling, business-like woman. Themother and brother are told that she has been knocked down by a street­car and must have rest. Once in the room, the girl locks herself in, and103104 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthose standing without, hearing her moans, are helpless. A terrifiedlot they are, the mother, the brother, the abortionist, the high-school boy,the music teacher, and the minister, each knowing what is going onbehind the locked door and each afraid, even in the face of the crisis, toadmit the truth to the others. The father, the blustering, noisy seacaptain, comes in, and an attempt is made to keep the truth from him,but he finally forces open the door and finds his daughter dead.The most impressive part of the play is its stern truth. Every cityand country high school and every coroner's office can repeat the storythat Cowards tells, while everyone of us has within him a germ of moralcowardice that makes him afraid to face the facts of real life. Whetheror not the moan of a dying woman is fit material for creating a dramaticeffect, or whether Mrs. Beggs, the abortionist, is an agreeable stagefigure or not are, after all, matters of personal taste. Those who go tothe theater, not so much to be amused as to get an interpretation of reallife, and in this case see life through the eyes of a man who has penetrationof vision and the courage to tell the truth, will find in Cowards a thor­oughly worthwhile play.THE OTHERI stand under a blossoming treeAnd the wind of the world blows joy to me;She stands deep in the scum of thingsAnd the wind of the'world no beauty brings.If I should stand in her poor place,And the wind of the world blow cold on my face,Should I be any purer than she-Or as pure, maybe?MARGARET RHODES, '14, in Chicago Literary MonthlyTHE UNIVERSITY RECORDThe next Convocation Orator.-Thenext Convocation Orator at the Univer­sity will be Professor J ames RowlandAngell, Head of the Department ofPsychology and Dean of the Facultiesof Arts, Literature, and Science. Pro­fessor Angell is the author of a volumeon Psychology and of Chapters fromModern Psychology, and has been presi­dent of the American Psychological Asso­ciation. He has been connected withthe Department of Psychology in theUniversity for twenty years. The nextConvocation, which is the ninetieth, willbe held at the close of the Winter Quarter,March 17.Investigation of science teaching .-OtisWilliam Caldwell, Associate Professorof Botany in the School of Education andDean of University College, has beengranted leave of absence by the Univer­sity Board of Trustees during the nexttwo months for a visit of inspection to thehigh schools and colleges of the Southwith reference to the teaching of science.The data thus collected, and materialwhich Professor Caldwell himself hasbeen working on for some years, will beused as the basis of a bulletin to be issuedby the United States Commissioner ofEducation on "The Teaching of Science."It seems to many educators that in­struction in science may be much moreclosely related to science in practical life,and Professor Caldwell is to study thepresent situation and its tendencies inschools and colleges as well as the needsof a better education by means of science.Dr, Caldwell is visiting first the univer­sity, colleges, and high schools of Georgia.Dinner to the Faculty by women of theUniversity.-Two hundred women andseventy members of the Faculty attendedthe dinner in Hutchinson Hall given bythe women of the University on the eve­ning of January 30. The speakers werePresident Harry Pratt Judson, who toldof the completed plans for the newwomen's gymnasium; Associate Profes­sor Elizabeth Wallace, of the Depart­ment of Romance; Assistant Professor Percy H. Boynton, of the Department ofEnglish; and Dr. Susan A. Ballou, of theDepartment of Latin. Miss DorothyLlewellyn, of the Senior class, was thetoastmaster. The music was given bythe University Orchestra, the Women'sGlee Club, and Miss Ruth Agar, whosang two solos. This was the first dinnergiven by the women to the Faculty, andwas highly successful in promoting itspurpose-a better acquaintance betweenthe students and the professors. Themen of the University gave a similardinner in the Autumn Quarter.A neu: form for " Modern Philology."­A change in the form of publication ofthe journal, Modern Philology, of whichProfessor John M. Manly, Head of theDepartment of English, is the managingeditor, will go into effect on May 1.During the eleven years of its existencethis journal has been a quarterly. It hascovered the entire field indicated by thetitle, including English, Germanic, andRomance philology. After the datementioned the journal will be issuedmonthly except in August and September.Three numbers will be devoted to Englishphilology, three to Germanic, and threeto Romance, while the tenth number ofeach volume will be devoted to generalsubjects. The following schedule hasbeen tentatively adopted: May, English;June, German; July, Romance; October,English; November, German; Decem­ber, Romance; January, English; Feb­ruary, German; March, Romance; andApril, General. The journal is issuedby the University of Chicago Press.Professor Atwood goes to H arvard.­Wallace Walter Atwood, Associate Pro­fessor of Physiography and GeneralGeology, goes this month to HarvardUniversity as the successor of WilliamM. Davis, professor of physiography.Professor Atwood, who is a graduate ofthe University of Chicago, received hisDoctor's degree from that institution inI903. In addition to his regular work atthe University, Dr. Atwood has beenassociated as geologist with the United105106 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEStates Geological Survey, doing specialwork for two seasons in the survey of theAlaska coal fields. He has also been fora number of years secretary and directorof the Chicago Academy of Sciences.On January 28 President and Mrs. HarryPratt Judson gave a farewell receptionin honor of Professor and Mrs. Atwood.Contributors to the "Cyclopaedia ofEducation.';-Several members of theUniversity Faculty have been contribu­tors to the recently completed Cyclo­paedia of Education, edited by Dr. PaulMonroe, of Columbia University, whoreceived his Doctor's degree from theUniversity of Chicago in 1897 for work inthe Department of Sociology and Anthro­pology. Director Charles H. Judd, ofthe School of Education, has been a mem­ber of the Board of Departmental Editors,and contributed the article on "Educa­tional Psychology"; Professor James R.Angell, Head of the Department ofPsychology, is the author of the articleon "Psychology"; Professor NathanielButler, of the Department of Education,who was formerly Director of the Ex­tension Division in the University, con­tributed the two articles on " UniversityExtension" and "Continuous SummerSessions" ; and Associate Professor OtisW. Caldwell, of the Department of Bot­any, discussed the subject of "Botany inthe Schools." Other articles and theircontributors are as follows: "Botany" byProfessor John M. Coulter, Head of theDepartment of Botany; "Psychologyof Writing" by Assistant Professor FrankN. Freeman, of the School of Education;"Educational Aspects of Penology" and"Sex Instruction" by Professor CharlesR. Henderson, Head of the Departmentof Practical Sociology; "Pedagogy of theNew Testament" by Professor ShailerMathews, Dean of the Divinity School;and "Design" by Professor Walter Sar­gent, of the School of Education.Gift to the University Settlement.-TheUniversity of Chicago Settlement in thestockyards district has recently receivedthe generous gift of three lots adjoiningthe Settlement, the donors being MissKate S. and Miss Lucy M. Buckingham,sisters of the late Clarence Buckingham,who was especially interested in the workbeing done by the Settlement and one ofits chief supporters. For a number ofyears the lots have been used for flower and vegetable gardens, over eighty chil­dren last year being engaged in cultivatingthem. The University Settlement Board,which has to do with the business admin­istration of the Settlement, has as itspresident Professor Floyd R. Mechem,of the Law School; and Professor RobertA. Millikan, of the Department of Physics,is its secretary.A University lecturer in the Philippines.-Francis Wayland Shepardson, Asso­ciate Professor of American History, hasbeen given leave of absence by the Uni­versity Board of Trustees to visit thePhilippine Islands and lecture beforethe Teachers' Assembly which meets inBaguio, the summer capital. ProfessorShepardson will give courses in his par­ticular field of American history and inthe most effective methods of presentingthe subject. This is Dr. Shepardson'ssecond visit to the Islands as a lecturerbefore the Teachers' Assembly. He isexpected to return late in the summer.Dedication of the "Cap and Gown."­Dr. Alonzo K. Parker, for twelve yearsRecorder of the University and memberof the Board of Trustees for the firstdecade of the University's existence, willhave the honor of having the annualstudent publication, the Cap and Gown,dedicated to him this year. Dr. Parkerhas been since 1901 Professorial Lectureron Modern Missions in the DivinitySchool, was for several years head ofHitchcock House, and has been recentlya trustee of Vassar College. He sailedearly this month for a visit to Italy andother Mediterranean countries.The University Preachers.-The Uni­versity Preachers for February includeDr. William P. Merrill, of the BrickPresbyterian Church, New York City;Rev. E. L. Powell, of Louisville, Ken­tucky, and Rev. C. E. Jefferson, of NewYork City. On the first two Sunday?in March Rev. J. E. White, from Atlanta,Georgia, will be the speaker, and Presi­dent Albert Parker Fitch, of AndoverTheological Seminary, Cambridge, Mas­sachusetts, will be the ConvocationPreacher on March IS.New books by members of the RomanceDepartment.-Professor William A. Nitze,Head of the Department of RomanceLanguages and Literatures, and Asso-THE UNIVERSITY RECORDdate Professor Ernest H. Wilkins, of thesame department, have prepared a littlebook of especial interest to students andteachers of French, which has just beenissued by the University of Chicago Pressunder the title of The French Verb: ItsForms and Tense Uses. It is intendedto facilitate mastery of the French verbby associating in the student's memorythose tenses which are actually related inform. Illustrative material, when quoted,is drawn from standard nineteenth­century authors.Assistant Professor Henri C. E. David,also of the Department of RomanceLanguages and Literatures, has recentlycompleted a volume in French, entitledChez N ous. It is a French first reader,with practical hints on syntax and idiom,and the author has taken the viewthroughout that not the single word butthe word-group is the true unit of speech.The book presents in an intimate waythe life of a Parisian boy. Henry Holt& Co., of New York, are the publishers.President Harry Pratt Judson madean address at the banquet given in NewYork City on the evening of January 23by the Eastern Alumni Association of theUniversity, and also attended the sessionsof the General Education Board. OnJanuary 27 he presided at a luncheon inthe Hamilton Club, Chicago, in honor ofthe Earl of Kintore, who is in this countryto promote interest in the celebration ofthe hundredth anniversary of peace be­tween the United States and GreatBritain. President Judson also was oneof the speakers at the dinner given to theFaculty by the women of the Universityon January 30•Dr . Wolfgang Ostwald, of the U ni­versity' of Leipzig, delivered in KentTheater during the first week in Februarya series of five lectures on the subject of"Colloidal Chemistry." All the lectureswere given in the evening and had a largeattendance.Associate Professor J ames WestfallThompson, of the Department of History,was recently appointed chairman of theprogram committee of the American His­torical Association, which meets this yearin Chicago. The president of the asso­ciation is Professor Andrew C. Mc­Laughlin.Associate Professor Anton J. Carlson, ofthe Department of Physiology, attendedthe sessions of the Federation of Ameri- 107can Societies for Experimental Biologywhich were recently held in Philadelphia,and gave a demonstration in the medicallaboratories of the University of Pennsyl­vania of a hunger-testing machine de­vised by himself. Professor Carlson issecretary of the American PhysiologicalSociety and associate editor of the A meri­can Journal of Physiology.Assistant Professor Bertram G. Nelson,of the Department of Public Speaking,is conducting a course in effective publicspeaking for twenty-five members of theChicago Equal Suffrage Society. Amongthe prominent women of the city who areespecially interested in the work are Mrs.Joseph T. Bowen, Mrs. Arthur T. Aldis,and Mrs. William McCormick Blair.The course will continue ten weeks."Should purpose ever take precedenceover aesthetics in the drama?" was thesubject of a debate held on January 30in Fullerton Hall of the Art Instituteunder the auspices of the Drama Leagueof Chicago. Professor Robert MorssLovett, of the Department of English,whose new drama Cowards was recentlypresented in Chicago, supported theaffirmative of the question. MauriceBrowne, director of the Little Theater,was one of the speakers for the negative.Under the auspices of the UniversityCivic League a series of lectures onwoman suffrage is being given in Lexing­ton Hall during the Winter Quarter byMrs. Ella S. Stewart, president of theIllinois Equal Suffrage Association. Thesubjects of the lectures include, "TheSignificance and Formalities of theBallot," "Issues Involved in the Muni­cipal Vote," "Issues Involved in theTownship and County Vote," and "TheVote for Presidential Electors and thePowers Conferred by the New Law Vote.""Praxiteles" was the subject of anillustrated lecture, under the auspicesof the Chicago Archaeological Society,in Haskell Museum on February 6 byProfessor Herbert Richard Cross, of theUniversity of Michigan.Mr. Jacob Riis, of New York City,gave a lecture to a large audience inHaskell Museum on January 26 on thesubject of "How New York City GotHer Playgrounds."The Southern Club of the Universitygave a reception and dance in the Rey­nolds Club Theater on the evening ofJanuary 24 in commemoration of the anni­versary of the birth of General Robert E.108 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINELee. Professor William Edward Dodd,of the Department of History, gave anaddress on the character and services ofGeneral Lee.Associate Professor Allan Hoben, ofthe Department of Practical Theologyin the Divinity School, has been nomi­nated by the Progressive party for alder­man from the Sixth Ward of Chicago andhas accepted the nomination. ProfessorCharles E. Merriam, of the Departmentof Political Science, is an alderman fromthe Seventh Ward of the city, havingalready served one term.Professor Robert Herrick, of the De­partment of English, has become a regularcontributor to the Sunday issue of theChicago Tribune, his first contributionbeing a criticism of Galsworthy's DarkFlower and Wells's Passionate Friends.Professor Herrick will write under theheading of "The By-Products of aNovelist." The list of his own novelshas now reached a dozen or more, amongthe best known being The Common Lot,Their Child, The Master of the Inn, andTogether. His most recent novels havebeen The Healer and His Great Adventure.Last year the Chicago Theater Societyproduced Mr. Herrick's first play, TheMaternal Instinct.Recent contributions by members ofthe Faculties to the journals publishedby the University of Chicago Press in­clude the following:Barnard, Professor Edward E.: "DarkRegions in the Sky Suggesting an Ob­scuration of Light" (with two plates),Astrophysical Journal, December, 1913. Breasted, Professor James H.: "TheAncient History of the N ear East"(with remarks on Western Asia, byD. D. Luckenbill), American Journalof Semitic Languages and Literatures,January. .Burton, Professor Ernest D.: "TheOrigin and Teaching of the New Tes­tament Books," IV (with Fred Merri­field), Biblical World, December, 1913;",Spirit, Soul,. and Flesh, II. t1�" ,'W��, and 'W� in the Old Testa­ment," American Journal of Theology,January.Case, Associate Professor Shirley J. :"Christianity and the Mystery Re­ligions," Biblical World, January.Goodspeed, Associate Professor EdgarJ.: "The Freer Gospels," AmericanJournal of Theology, January.Johnson, Principal Franklin W.: "TheProblems of Boyhood," Biblical World,January.Luckenbill, Dr. Daniel D.: "The Hit­tites," American J ournal of Theology,January.Myers, Professor George W.: "A Planfor Testing Methods of TeachingSecondary Mathematics," School Re­view, February.Smith, Associate Professor J. M. P.:"The Religion of the Hebrews andModern Scholarship," III, IV, Bib­lical World, December, 1913, January,1914; "The Deuteronomic Tithe,"American Journal of Theology, January.Wood, Associate Professor Francis A.:" Germanic Etymologies," ModernPhilology, January.ALUMNI AFFAIRSNewsfrom the classes.-1891 •James H. Davis (D.B. '91), formerly,of Danvers, Ill., has accepted the posi­tion of pastor-at-large for the state ofColorado and is living at Boulder; Colo.1894Edwin H. Lewis has issued, under thenom de plume of Caleb- Lewis, a book offairy tales.Ella Lonn is at the head of the re­search work of the Congressional UnionCommittee of the National Woman'sSuffrage Association, at Washington.1897William R. Bishop is head of theNormal Department in the Kern CountyHigh School at Bakersfield, Cal.1901At the annual meeting of the Archae­ological Institute of America held inMontreal January 3, 1914, Professor F.W. Shipley, of Washington University,was elected president.C. J. Bushnell-is president of PacificUniversity, Forest Grove, Oregon. VirgilV. Phelps (A.M. '04, B.D. '07) has beenappointed executive clerk at the Uni­versity of Illinois, to succeed James H.Kelley (ex-tog), Mr. Phelps has been forthe past three years pastor of the FirstBaptist Church of Grand Forks, N.D.Mr. Kelley has been elected presidentof the Colorado State Normal School atGunnison, Colo.Edwin E. Slosson (Ph.D.), presidentof the Eastern Alumni Association, hada very interesting article in the December18 issue of the Independent, entitled" AStrange Visitor at School." It must beread to be appreciated; but its funda­mental idea, ironically insinuated, is thefailure of our schools to adjust them­selves to the problems of modern life.1903Lynne J. Bevan is with Viele, Black­well & Buck, consulting engineers, 49Wall Street, New York City.Roy D. Echlin (D.B. '03) has resignedhis pastorate at Sioux City, Iowa, toaccept the position of president of BuenaVista College, Storm Lake, Iowa. John R. Macarthur, Dean of NewMexico College of Agriculture and Me­chanics, State College, N.M., has resignedhis position to take that of assistantsecretary of the Y.M.C.A., at Sacra-mento, Cal. .Lucy Rebecca Watkins has left theUniversity of California and is now atLeland Stanford Junior University. Heraddress is 347 Alma Street, Palo Alto,Cal.Charles Francis Yoder (D.B. '03) is amissionary, and also professor of Englishliterature in the new University of RioCarto, Rio Carto, Argentine, S.A.1904Edith Arnold has been engaged to filla vacancy in the Lake Geneva (Wis.)High School faculty. Miss Arnold willteach geometry and algebra.1905Charles Shull, formerly assistant pro­fessor in the University of Kansas, issuperintendent and secretary of theFederation of Jewish Charities of Louis­ville, 531 South First Street, Louisville,Ky.James E. Bell, who took his Ph.D. atIllinois last spring, has returned to theUniversity of Washington, Seattle, asinstructor in chemistry.1907Harold Atteridge is the librettist ofThe Honeymoon Express, now having' asuccessful run at the Garrick, Chicago.Clare Boeke, who has recently returnedfrom Europe, will make her home atOuray, Colo., for a time.The Sturgis & Walton Company ofNew York has just published Heroinesof Modem· Religion, under the editorshipof Warren D. Foster. I t is a companionvolume to Heroines of Modern Progress,also edited and largely written by Foster.The present volume' contains ten biog­raphies of women from Anne Hutchinsonto Maud Ballington Booth. Two ofthese biographies are by Anne ElizabethJenkins, '13 (A.M.). A bibliographyand a chronological outline showing therelation of these ten women to the his­tory of religious activity in the UnitedStates are added. The little historiesare all given in a clear, friendly style,109lIO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwith accuracy in respect to fact, butwith that color of phrase which makesreading easy.Mr. Foster, since going to Boston in1909 as an assistant editor of the Youth'sCompanion, has found time for muchwork of sociological and economic inter­est, besides his writing. He is a memberof the Homestead Commission of Massa­chusetts, and was chairman of the com­mittee which arranged for the elaborate"City and Town Planning Conference"called by Governor Foss last November18 and 19. ,(Mrs.) Marian Milne Hall, presidentof the Indianapolis Alumni Club, livesat the corner of 35th and Meridianstreets, Indianapolis, Ind.Roy Wilson Merrifield (D.B. '07) ischaplain at the Indiana Reformatory,Jeffersonville, Ind. .(Dr.) Oscar Riddle (Ph.D.) is now atthe Station for Experimental Evolutionof the Carnegie Institution, Cold SpringHarbor, Long Island, N.Y.Lucille Rochlitz is a teacher of Latinand mathematics in the Carl SchurzHigh School, Chicago.Calvin K. Staudt (Ph.D., '07) is teach­ing college and academy Bible in Whit­worth College at Tacoma, Wash., thisyear, in addition to his work as pastor ofCalvary Presbyterian Church.Clarence G. Y oran is practicing la wwith the firm of Y oran & Y oran, Man­chester, Iowa.1908Alga C. Anderson is teaching at Pekin,Ill.Robert E. Buchanan (Ph.D.), professorof bacteriology, Iowa State College, hasrecently published in conjunction withMrs. Buchanan, Household Bacteriology,from the press of Macmillan Company.J. C. Stephenson has gone to Wash­ington University, St. Louis, as in­structor in zoology.Milo M. Quaife has been appointedsuperintendent of the Wisconsin StateHistorical Society. He entered uponhis new position at Madison, Wis., onJanuary 1.1909Herman James (J.D.), son of PresidentJames of the University of Illinois, hasbeen made director of the Bureau ofMunicipal Research of the State Uni­versity of Texas, in which he is adjunctprofessor of government.H. O. Lussky, for the-past year headof the Department of Physiology at the University of South Dakota, is now en­gaged in graduate work atChicago.Herbert Kimmel is at Ottawa, Kan.Edward L. .Mcllride is traveling forHalsey & Co., and makes his headquartersin Minneapolis, Minn.Clarence W. Russell is living at Albu­querque, N.M.1910Esther Hall (Dixon) writes: "My hus­band, Karl Hale Dixon, '08, recentlydisposed of his newspaper and publishingbusiness in Southern Idaho and is nowoccupying the position of secretary of theChamber of Commerce here in Hamilton.In this posi tion he accompanied andprepared the exhibit of McIntosh Redapples from the Bitter Root Valley to theNational Apple Show held in Spokanelast month and was successful in carryingoff the highest award for the most at­tractive display. He found HerbertGaston, ex-too, located as assistant edi­tor of the Spokane Chronicle and HumeYoung, ex-too, with the WashingtonPower Co., at Long Lake, Wash. WilliamMatthews of the Law School is a juniorpartner in a large law firm, McCullom,Lee and Matthews, and his address isthe Spokane Club. He was in the lawclass of '08.."Edward McBride, '09, and his wife,Mary Archer McBride, ex-ito, and theirthree-months'-old daughter have movedto Minneapolis. Mr. McBride repre­sents the N. W. Halsey Co., in the North­west and their address is 1931 FremontStreet, South."Francis Harvey Welling, '09, and hiswife, Inez Jackson Welling, ex-ito, liveat 822 Clayton Street, San Francisco,Cal., where he has charge of a branch ofthe Federal Sign Co. With Paul J ud­son, '09, they made a 1,300-mile autotrip to Southern California in the summer."I may as well add that I have hadsome small success in magazine work, mymost recent article appearing in the Oc­tober issue of McCall's Magazine, a storyof the centralized school system as em­ployed in Southern Idaho."Charles Brookover (Ph.D.), professorof history and embryology in the medicaldepartment at the University of Arkan­sas, was made president of the AmericanMicroscopical Society at its meeting atAtlanta during the Christmas holidays.Frederick G. Henke, (Ph.D.) of thedepartment of philosophy and education,Willamette University, Salem, Oregon,has an article in the January number 0 fALUMJyI AFFAIRSthe Monist, on "Wang Yang Ming, aChinese Idealist," a result of researchwork in Chinese philosophy while at theUniversity of Nanking, Nanking, China.Grace Eaton Hauk is editorial assist­ant of Rate Research, published by theNational Electric Light Association, at1610 Commercial National Ban� Build­ing, Chicago.Tojiro Katakura resigned his positionwith the Kwantong Government inAugust, and is now connected with .theBank of Taiwan, at Tokyo, one of the -chartered banks of J apari.David B. Anderson has accepted anappointment on the house staff of Mt.Sinai hospital, New York City. He wasresident physician at the 'Robert Garretthospital in Baltimore last summer; sincethen he has been practicing in Bingham,Utah.Lee 1. Knight is plant physiologist ofthe West Virginia Agricultural Experi­ment Station. He will spend the springand summer quarters in West Virginia. -Ruth E. Leggett is teaching this yearat Caldwell, Idaho.David R. Moore (Ph.D. '10) has beenappointed professor of mediaeval andmodern European history at OberlinUniversity.Madeleine Pfeiffer is teaching in theLewisburg Seminary, Lewisburg, Va.Orville R. Post is head of the EnglishDepartment of King College at Bristol,Tenn.Rudolph L. Sauerhering is attendingthe University at Munich, Germany.Emma S. Weld is teaching in SantaAna, Cal.19IIClyde Brooks, assistant professor of'physiology and pharmacology at theUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical School,is planning the organization of a researchlaboratory for physiological research andfor the application of physiology to clini-cal work. �Henry Raymond Brush (Ph.D. 'II)has accepted the position of professorand head of the Department of RomanceLanguages, University of North Dakota,Grank Forks, N.D.A. G. Deaver is practicing law atHammond, Ind.E. Olive Davis writes delightfully fromthe Chateau de Soisy, Etiolles, France,concerning the school founded there byH. P. Williamson, formerly assistantprofessor of French at the University,which she says is attracting wide atten­tion in France and elsewhere. A cordial IIIinvitation is extended to all alumni tovisit the school whenever they are inParis. .Walter C. Eells has resigned his posi­tion as professor of mathematics at Whit­more College! Tacoma, Wash., to take aposition on the mathematics staff of theU.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.Alice Greenacre has just issued a H and­book for the Women Voters of Illinois,edited by Miss Sophonisba Breckinridge.John M. Houghland is in the oil busi­ness at Cleveland, Okla.Esmond R. Long is temporarily atPasadena, Cal. \William H. Olds, Jr., is an interne inthe New' Haven Hospital, New Haven,Conn.Preston D. Richards (LL.B. 'II),formerly assistant solicitor, Departmentof State, Washington, D.C., is practicinglaw in Salt Lake City , Utah. �Ralph E. Root (Ph.D. 'II), has re­signed his position as instructor in theUniversity of Missouri to take charge ofthe postgraduate course in mathematicsand mechanics at the Naval Academy,Annapolis, Md. He expects to com-I mence his-work at Annapolis February I.John G. Sinclair; who has been doingresearch work at �he Desert BotanicalLaboratory at Tucson, Ariz., has goneto Colombia, S.A., expecting to returnto Tucson about the middle of April, andcoming to Chicago next November.Laura Wilder (Mrs. Laurance Simpson),living in Avon, Kentucky, was examininga shotgun on the morning of .February22, when the weapon exploded, injuringher so seriously that she died the follow-ing morning. -c; Tilden H. Stearns (Law 'II) is attorneyfor the Illinois Traction System; hisaddress is 3725 North Broadway, St.Louis, Mo. -19I2M. A. Brannon, Ph.D., who has beendean of the College of Liberal Arts andhead of the biology department at theUniversity of North Dakota, has ac­cepted the presidency of the Universityof Idaho, and will take up his duties aboutthe middle of A pril.A soh has been born to Mr. and Mrs.Warder C. Allee (Marjorie Hill) at Wil­liamstown, Mass., w:here Dr. Allee is in­structor in zoology. Mrs. Allee writesthe Magazine, at least once a year, lettersof friendliness which are cherished amongits principal assets. .Edmund V. Cowdry (Ph.D. '12) isassociate instructor of anatomy at JohnsII2 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEHopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Md.N. Eleanor Dement is an instructor atLake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio.James E. Dymond is farming nearLake Zurich, Ill.Carl H. Lambach has resigned his posi­tion in the law offices of Bollinger &Block and opened an office of his own insuite 40I, Security Building, Davenport,Iowa.Joseph G. Masters, principal of theOklahoma City High School, has beenelected president of the Oklahoma Edu­cational Association.Samuel Quigley has accepted a positionat the University of Arizona, Tucson,Ariz.Gertrude R. Schottenfels is teachingin Boise, Idaho. Her address is IOqJefferson Street.Ernest L. Scott, formerly an instructorat the University of Kansas, has accepteda position as instructor in physiology inColumbia University, New York City.I913Thomas L. Ballenger is head of theHistory Department in the Ft. SmithHigh School, Ft. Smith, Ark.Ernest W. Burgess. (Ph.D. '13) re­signed his position as professor of historyand sociology in Toledo University toaccept the position of assistant professorof sociology in the University of Kansas.William F. Clarke is director of peda­gogy and practice teaching in the StateNormal School, Minot, N.D.David Tillinghast Grey is a clergymanat Breckenridge, Minn.Dr. Julia Jessie Taft, who took herDoctor's degree last summer, has beenappointed assistant superintendent in theBedford Institution at Bedford Hills,N.Y., for four years.Loyal G. Tillotson is teaching historyand physiography in the Moline (Ill.)High School.Derwent Whittlesey is singing in theGrace Episcopal Church choir, whilecontinuing graduate work at the U ni­versity.I9I4Arthur R. Robinson is practicing lawin Indianapolis, Ind.Engagements .-Paul Vincent Harper, '08, J.D. '13,and Isabel Vincent. Paul Harper is thesecond son of William Rainey Harper,first president of the University; MissVincent is the elder daughter of GeorgeE. Vincent, formerly dean of the faculties here, now president of the University ofMinnesota. The engagement is there­fore of unusual interest to Universitypeople. Paul Harper was graduatedfrom the University at nineteen, studiedSemitics for some time with his uncle,Professor R. F. Harper, and then tookup the study of law; after work bothhere and at Harvard, he returned toChicago for his degree, receiving it in1913 with high honors. After a rapidtrip around the world, he entered in thefall the law offices of Holt, Sidley, andCutting, at 5 La Salle Street. While incollege he was a crack swimmer, andtook part in the productions of theBlackfriars. He is a member of PhiBeta Kappa and of Alpha Delta Phi.Miss Vincent is a graduate of BrynMawr, 1912; since her graduation shehas been living in Minneapolis with herparents, at 10"05 N. Fifth Street. Nodate has been set for the wedding.Charles Harrison Storms, 'oS, andGrace Bertha Scott of 5835 DrexelAvenue. Mr. Storms is instructor in theInsular Normal School and a memberof the Columbia and Quill clubs ofManila. No date has been set for thewedding.Edith Alice Jackson, '12, daughter ofDr. and Mrs. Thomas J. J ack.son, 4329Indiana A venue, Chicago, and SamuelD. O'Neal of Winchester, Va. The wed­ding will take place early in February.William P. MacCracken, '09, andSusan Dickson, of Henderson, Ky."Bill" needs no introduction to recentalumni. If all his friends sent him wed­ding presents his entire income from thepractice of law would have to go forstorage.Marriages.-Grace Kendrick Rigby, '02, to EdwardR. Cameron. They live at 700 S.McLean boulevard, Memphis, Tenn.Doris Morgan, '09, to Frank J. Scott.Mr. and Mrs. Scott are living at 6630Langley Avenue, Chicago.Alice F. Lee, 'II, to Frederick C.Loweth, at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs.Loweth live at 1451 East 52d Street,Chicago.Alice Wise Kantrowitz, '12, to Fredc. Lebbenbaum, on November 25 atChicago. They live at 5508 East EndAvenue.Mary Eliza Clarke, '13, to WilliamMurray Seaton of Glasgow, in August.They will make their home in Shanghai,China.