Classics Proposed- Modern Languages Harper Library Proposed Historical GroupHARPER MEMORIAL LIBRARY GROUP OF BUILDINGS FACING THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE(From a water-color drawing after the architects' plans)The University of ChicagoMagazineVOLUME VI MARCH 1914 NUMBER 5EVENTS AND DISCUSSIONLoyal Alumni, attention! The Administrative Board of the Uni­versity approved of the program drawn up by the Executive Committeeof the Alumni Association for the reunion in June, sothat now we shall have, as planned, three days of cele­bration. Some of the undergraduate affairs have beenmoved backward and some forward, and the stage is ours, Thecelebration will begin on the evening of June 4 with class and depart­mental reunions and dinners. This is in the hands of a committeeof which M. Alvin Kramer is chairman. Friday night the main attrac­tion will be the All-University Sing, in' which will be represented notonly fraternities but as many different kinds of organizations as possible.The "Sing" will be preceded by fra terni ty reunions at the various housesand followed by an informal reception in Hutchinson Court, the differentreunion classes acting as hosts-with possibly booths for headquarters,There is also the possibility of an informal dance.At last we have secured what we have long wanted-an Alumni Day.Saturday, June 6, will be "our" day. Postals have already been sentout announcing a business meeting for 10: 00 A.M. in Haskell. 'One of theprincipal items of business will be the presentation of a new constitution.This constitution will be printed for your perusal in a later number ofthe M agazine. At 12: 00, the alumnae will have their annual luncheonand program, One o'clock will see us all on Stagg Field for the annualConference Meet. We are hoping for a special section in the grand­stand. The day, as planned so far, will conclude with the men's supperand smoker.'Just aMomentI Monday) June 8, instead of being Senior Day, will be known as "College Day,"with exercises under the direction of the undergraduates, the reception of the women'shouses, and the President's reception. Tuesday will be convocation day.IISII6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE .One of the many things with which the Executive Committee hasbeen much concerned this year is the new constitution.. Among otherchanges, it provides for the admission of the" Ex's" to the Association,on a basis of three quarters in residence and nine majors' credit. Theoffice is securing as fast as possible a mailing list of them, and you canassist materially by sending in any addresses you may have,Let me ask you-and any alumni who may read this article-areyou a member and a paid-up member? Announcements will be sentonly to the latter and you will be eager to know all about the springfestivities. Become an active part. You will receive not only theannouncements in return for that $1 . 50 but the Magazine as well.A new custom was inaugurated on Friday, March 13, when the mem­bers of the Winter graduating class were asked to meet in 12A Cobb, andbe welcomed into the Association. Mr. Rudy Matthews, class president,presided and Mr. William MacCracken, .'09, gave an enthusiastic talk.about the Association, its organization and purpose. This custom willbe continued with each class.Did your undergraduate days mean anything to you? Does yourheart beat any faster when you see the Old Maroon? Do you knowwhere your classmates are? Would you like to see them and renew your"dear old college days"? Then begin to .make your plans for nextJune. We shall look for you.AGNES R. WAYMAN, PresidentElsewhere in the Magazine will be found the address of Dean JamesRowland Angell, Orator of the Ninetieth Convocation, on "The Uni-The versity Today." Professor Angell received the degreeConvocation of A.B. from Michigan in 1890 and of A.M. in 189I;Orator and the studie.d for a year at Harvard, and another year inConvocation Germany, went to Minnesota for yet another year, andAddress then in 1894 came to Chicago, as Assistant Professorof Experimental Psychology. He is here still; but his full title now isProfessor and Head of the Department of Psychology, Director of thePsychological Laboratory, and Dean of the Faculties of Arts, Litera-­ture, and Science. Son of one of the most distinguished college admin­istrators in the United States, President-Emeritus J. B. Angell ofMichigan, he is an illustration of the common-sense of eugenics, orelse he is the exception which proves the rule that great men's sons areseldom notable-whichever you choose. At any rate, he is a man ofscholarship, administrative ability, and good fellowship, as well as oneEVENTS AND DISCUSSIONof the best speakers who ever huddled 225 words into a minute. Hisaddress, of which exigencies of space allow us to print only half in thisissue, he advised the Magazine to print in resume. But the editor wentover it with great care, and, except for a paragraph here and there, hecould find nothing to leave out. It is all definite, all full of just theinformation the alumnus and alumna want, and so it is to be given herein full, with the urgent advice to read every word of it, at the risk ofyour eyes.A letter elsewhere printed calls attention to a fact which has previ­ously been rejoiced over by the Magazine: that at least one alumnusof the old University is on the Board of Trustees, andConcerning the there have been as many as three at once. But theTrustees notable omission to which the Magazine has regularlycalled attention has been of members of the alumni of the presentUniversity. The alumni will not forget that 14 of the 21 on the Boardmust be Baptists, and that comparatively few of our alumni body are ofthat denomination. Nor will they need to be told that the questionof including alumni members in the Board is one which has interestedboth the Board itself and the President of the University very deeplyfor some time. A letter from the President to the editor of the Magazinestating these facts in some detail, however, was most welcome, andseemed to point forward to action in the comparatively near future.Two meetings have been held in the current quarter of a new asso­ciation formed for the purpose of bringing into closer acquaintancethe graduate students. There are many DepartmentalThe Graduate . .St d nt Clubs, of course, already, and III each department exists au estrong feeling of esprit de corps. But the new club isinterdepartmental; its purpose is not to advance scholarship, but fellow­ship, The first meeting was largely attended, the second more largelystill. One who has attended a good many alumni meetings is moved toremark that in his experience, outside of Chicago, those who have beengraduate students here, whether they have or have not received a degree,are likely to be present at such meetings, in quite as large numberscomparatively as those who have been undergraduates only a Thefeeling of the graduate students for Chicago, their sense of identitywith its interests, is very strong. They are an individualistic professionalunorganized body; the undergraduates are stronger sharers in the group­instinct, social, and highly organized. Even so, in later years, those whoIIS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE-have been graduate students here are quite as proud of their institution,and perhaps more surely comprehending of her purposes, than thosewho have been undergraduates.In the " University Record" of this issue will be found details ofthree new buildings for which ground has just been broken, or is to beimmediately broken-the Classics Building, Julius Rosen­wald Hall, and Ida Noyes Hall. The Classics Building,for which excavation has been going on for a month, isseparately described in this issue. Without question the era of con­struction which these three buildings inaugurate will be very striking.When they are completed the appearance of the quadrangles will againbe entirely altered and improved. As the years go on the wisdom whichorganized the architecture of our new University into a unit makes itselfmore and more apparent. The beauty of Harper Memorial is as stablealready, as harmonious, as thatof the Tower Group, erected ten yearsearlier. And by the kindness of the Board of Trustees, through Mr.H. S. Fiske, we are able to present as the frontispiece of the Magazinea picture of the Midway facade as it will appear when, the ClassicsBuilding, the Modern Language Building, and the History Buildingcompleted, arid the Midway itself gardened as it probably will be, thefinal dream of beauty that is to front the southern sun comes true. Theday is not distant; indeed, those who enter the University as Freshmenthis year may even see it perhaps before they become alumni.Three NewBuildingsThe Pr�ssAn editorial in the Nation of March 12 on "American UniversityPresses" speaks warmly of the value of such media ofpublication, and comments particularly upon the Pressof the University of Chicago:Its assortment of astronomical and mathematical signs, special type-settingapparatus, with fonts of Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Ethiopic characters,were the jealous pride of President Harper in the nineties. Many of its 26 widelycirculated journals would be impossible to any but an endowed press. Such recenttitles among its 650 books as Loeb's Mechanistic Conception of Life, McLaughlin'sThe Courts, the Constitution, and the Parties, Bronson's American Poems, and othersare calculated to excite envy in the ordinary publisher.All this is perfectly true, and even less than the truth. The Press asit stands today is one of the most striking monuments to the farsighted­ness of President Harper, and almost equally striking in the solid goodsense of its management. An example of the good judgment displayedEVENTS AND DISCUSSION II9by the Publications Committee may be found in the recent issuance ofUnpopular Government, by Albert M. Kales, a volume on our presentsystem of managing elections which has already attracted wide andfavorable notice. "It ought to be read wherever citizens are perplexedby the intricacies and distressed by the failures of government," saidthe Chicago Tribune in the course of a long editorial on March 15. Suchbooks as this, quite unlike Dr. Loeb's or Professor R. F. Harper's, seemequally, nevertheless, to show the range and value of the workof thePress.FreshmanScholarshipSome interesting figures have been compiled of the comparativescholarship of the Freshmen of the Three-Quarters Club, and the .Fresh­man girls pledged to Kalailu. The 46 Freshmentook 134courses and received 313 grade points, an average of 2.33,or rather more than C. The 46 girls took 128 courses,and received 375 grade points, an average of 2.93', or just below B.Two girls gained IS points apiece, and 16 girls had 10 or more apiece;9 gained less than 6 points each, the lowest receiving 3 points; nonewere dismissed. One man gained IS points, and 13 gained 10 points ormore each; 17 gained less than 6 points each, the lowest receivingminus 3! Two were dismissed. This showing, while extremely favor­able to Kalailu and woman's scholarship, is on the other hand not sodiscreditable to the Three-Quarters Club as some had expected. Theaverage of the club was equal to the average of upper classmen infraternities, and considerably above that of all Freshman fraternitypledges. It is evident that the Three-Quarters Club, as conducted lastautumn, was not a menace to scholastic work. �The present Senior class has talked much of democracy and heartilystriven to establish its ideals. The honor commission and the reorganiza­tion of the Senior society, Owl and Serpent, are examplesof its activity. Now the class has voted to establish,as· its class gift, a students' loan fund, permanent and incharge of a trustee. The plan is singularly wise, It is one which will inall probability commend itself to succeeding classes. Every class gifthas had an interest of its own; but this one, as an investment in human­ity, has an unusual interest. However small the income of the fund atfirst may be, it is sure to grow rapidly; to the credit of human nature,that sort of fund always does; and the class-of-rora-Scholar is likelyto feel a responsibility that will mean much to him and to the University.The SeniorClass GiftON THE MAIN ROAD: MAUDERADFORD WARRENMost of the alumni of the middle nineties will-recall The LakesideMagazine, that earliest projected of University of Chicago literary peri­odicals, which was to "rival the Century," according to the flamboyantstatement, not of its modest editors, but of the newspaper correspondentwho happened, in those days) to misrepresent college life to an indifferentpublic. That was an era when few hereabouts talked of "woman'srights" ; but among these modest editors not the least effective wasa little Canadian woman, Irish by blood, Maude Eugenia Radford.Young as she was-she was graduated at nineteen-e-she was alreadysure that she meant to follow writing as a career. Many of us at nine­teen are equally sure; few of us, like her, stick to our plan. In college,she wrote already with a knowledge of technique that lifted her workfar above the level of most of us who "supported" the college journals.Later, having taken her Master's degree in English, she taught for awhile in University College, the downtown branch of the University;writing for her was as unlucrative at first as for most people; but shecontinued steadily to practice her art. In those days, one would fancy,she modeled herself after Henry James; such of her work as one pre­serves in memory was thin to attenuation, and horribly preserved inpsychology. She wrote a textbook on English composition also, andedited classics for children.Then, one day, in 1903, she lost her pocket book, and was driven forluncheon into a little restaurant where liver and bacon were provided forfifteen cents; and there she found inspira tion for a new sort of work.A happily unrefined Irish proprietor sat unconsciously for his portrait,published as "The Wearing of the Green," in the Saturqay Evening Post.Since that time stories and articles by her have appeared in most of theleading American magazines, Harper's, Collier's; Everybody's, TheAmerican, McClure's, The Atlantic, and others. Her record is perhapsunusual; she has never had a contribution rejected. Both her articlesand short stories have concerned themselves largely with peasant types)Irish and immigrant. As a writer of Irish stories, indeed, she has noreal rival in this country, and may be compared fairly with Jane Barlowand Seumas MacManus. Her work in short fiction and in specialI20ON THE MAIN ROAD 121articles is, so to speak, her business; she carries it on regularly and suc­cessfully. She writes about three hours a day, not with the clocklikesteadiness of a Trollope, but following out, nevertheless, the beliefs thatcobbler's wax in the chair and patience may add themselves up toequal inspiration.But her recreation is novel-writing. She has published three novels(all with Harper's)-The Land of the Living; Peter Peter; and this year,The Main Road, All three are solidly and cleverly written; but thelatest, The Main Road, is so much the best that it may be called a per­formance as well as a promise.The story is laid in Chicago; certain settings, as those of the U ni­versity, and the settlement-apartment-house on the West Side, aredirectly from the author's experience. It is a sober, careful study of agirl's development by love. No resume of it will be attempted" Manycritics have quarreled with the ending, which seems indeed a littlemechanical, and what is worse, perhaps, a little sentimental in its desireto give Janet and her lover every excuse for the escape they plan. ButJanet herself, however melodramatic the paralyzed Sally may seem,moves with entire- reality through the book. Different in a thousandways from an earlier and more famous heroine, she yet, in the pure flameof her passion for love, reminds one of Jane Eyre. The present writerread on successive evenings The Main Road, and Mrs. Wharton's TheCustom of the Country; and he does not believe that only local pride con­vinced him that Mrs. Warren's heroine was quite as substantial, quiteas deserving of attention, as Mrs. Wharton's.This is not to institute comparisons at large. Mrs. Warren is feelingher way; Mrs. Wharton is cocksure, and rightly so. It is only to attempta statement with some emphasis that The Main Road is a book to betaken seriously. It is a book which is the reflection of long thought ..It is written with a competence that, in passages, rises to brilliancy; theaccount of the old speculator's last great day on the Board of Trademight be envied by great writers. One might say, without injustice,that the book is too honest to be flashy, and not sufficiently thorough­going to be unique. But it is emphatically interesting; a novel thatalumni will buy because it has been written by one of us, and readbecause they find it worth while.THE CLASSICS BUILDINGThe Classics Building, located at the northeast corner of Fifty­ninth Street and Ellis Avenue, just south of Divinity Hall, will be thewest building of the group along the Midway Plaisance, of which thecentral feature is the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library. It willbe L-shaped, fifty-two feet wide on Ellis Avenue and eighty-six feet onthe east end, and will extend one hundred and thirty-three feet alongFifty-ninth Street, leaving a space between it and the Library for afuture building of about the same length to be devoted to ModernLanguages.Architecturally the Classics Building embodies the style and spiritof the Harper Memorial Library, the towers of which will be recalledby the introduction of the gable ends. At the same time these gableswill harmonize with the Divinity building on the north. It will be builtof a warm-colored Bedford limestone, like the other buildings on thecampus, and will be strictly fireproof. There will be no wood aboutthe windows, as the mullions are to be of stone and the frames andsash of metal, the sash being filled" with leaded glass. The pitchedroof will be covered with red shingle tile. While this building will nothave the wealth of carving of the Harper Memorial Library, it stillwill be one of the decorative buildings along the Midway, with orna­mental chimneys and carved finials and bosses. The oriel windowswill be the most decorative feature of the facade; much care andattention have been given to their design. An interesting motif willbe introduced over the entrance by a loggia overlooking the campus.This building, the center of the classical studies at the University,will have on its first floor a lecture-room seating about one hundred andthirty, and six classrooms. On the second floor will be provided attrac­tive clubrooms for men and women. These rooms, about forty byeighteen feet each, will be wainscoted nearly to the ceiling. The men'sroom is to have a beam ceiling and the women's an ornamental plasterceiling with an over-all geometrical pattern. These clubrooms, whichwill have large, hospitable fireplaces, will be carried out in the mannerof the halls of the old English manor houses. Facilities will be providedfor preparing and serving light refreshments. It will be possible touse these rooms for joint gatherings by opening large double doorsconcealed in the paneling of the wall. On this floor also will be five122THE CLASSICS BUILDING 123offices for faculty members, besides the stackroom, with three research­study-rooms.r The stacks will extend up through the building from the basementto the third floor, occupying a space about thirty by forty feet on eachfloor, except in the basement where they will extend over the entire area,one-half being carried down an extra story, thus giving two tiers ofstacks in that end of the building. The lower portion will be on thesame level as the Harper Memorial Library stacks, being two storiesbelow the street. The stack capacity for books will make provisionfor a long time in the future, and eventually, when completed, thestacks will hold about 220,000 volumes. An elevator will be providedfrom the lowest level to the top floor, and will be used for carryingpassengers as well as books.The delivery counter and reading-rooms are on the third floor.The reading-room in the southwest corner is forty-eight by forty feet,with an alcove eight feet by forty feet, and is carried up two stories,the roof being supported by ornamental oak hammer beam trusses, andthe space between being paneled. It is the aim to make this room oneof the attractive centers of the campus and the most interesting roomin the building. The walls will be lined with bookcases, and the stonemullions and leaded glass windows will give the readers something ofthe impression of a bit of the old world. Opening out of this reading­room is a room for Paleography. The smaller reading-room on the northis twenty-two by forty feet. This floor also will have ;1 lecture-room,office for the library adviser, a research-study- and a stackroom, Thefourth floor will contain a museum, eighty-three by thirty-three feet,extending the entire depth of the building at the east end, and also sixoffices for members of the faculty.THE UNIVERSITY TODAyrBy JAMES ROWLAND ANGELLProfessor and Head of the Department of PsychologyIt is my purpose in the time at my although professors. are not. unknowndisposal to project against the back- who regard this condition as the Utopiaground of our brief. history certain to which they would fain be translated.homely facts concernmg our present But once students begin to come, theirstatus which seem to me significant. very number carries in its train conse-Many of these facts are doubtless quences which may have been quitefamiliar to you and my rehearsal of unforeseen, which may be welcome orthem will possess only such value, if quite the reverse. By reason of thisany, as may ,:rise from bringing the� fact I ask you to face with me certaininto context with one another. Certam considerations bearing on our studentothers however, are less generally attendance during the decade 1900-10.known and their purport is for the most In the year 1900 we registered 1,904part not fully appreciated. undergraduate students, in 1910, 3,259,Attendance.-My program inevitably a gain of 1,355 or 71 per cent. In 1900involves the use of a trifling amount of we had 1,008 graduate students, in 1910,statistical material. I am familiar with 1,358, a gain of 350 or 35 per cent. Inthe unenviable repute enjoyed by those 1900 the total registration in the Uni-who go down with their veracity into versity including professional schoolsthe sea of figures. But my figures will and unclassified students was 3,183, inin large measure be drawn directly from 1910, 6,007, an increase of 2,824 orthat eminently unimaginative work, over 87 per cent, due in considerablethe University Register, whose unflinch- measure to the establishment of theing sobriety defies impeachment. College of Education, the Law School,It seems at first thought a strange and the medical courses. This rate ofthing that the very essence of the life increase, it may be remarked, has beenof a great university should be materially more than maintained during the threeaffected by the mere number of its years since 1910. I employ the figuresstudents. Yet so it is and this fact bids for the first decade of the century merelyfair to be of crucial import for us. There because they simplify the formulationare certain social, moral, and intellectual of the obvious prophecies I am aboutvalues to be realized amid a small group, to indulge. (It is not without interestwhich evaporate or are hopelessly trans- to note that during the same decadeformed when the group is unduly en- the population of the city of Chicagolarged. On the other hand, there are increased only 30 per cent.)corresponding values to be recognized It is a matter of elementary arith-in large groupings which are not to be metical computation quite within theso readily found in a smaller company. competence of my youngest hearers toIn the public mind the increasing of the determine that with a continuation ofnumber of students is supposed to be the rate of growth experienced duringthe main interest of university author- the decade under consideration, we shallities. Nor can it be denied that first in 1920 register 5,572 undergraduates,and last much cortegiate energy goes a number almost equal to the entireinto the securing of these treasures. University population in 1909-10. � OnTruly a university with�ut students the same basis we may expect in 1920,is for most of us a dismal place, 1,819 graduate students. That is toI Delivered on the occasion of the Ninetieth Convocation of the University, heldin Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, March 17,1914. I124THE UNIVERSITY TODAYsay we shall in 1920 have more thanthree times as many undergraduatesas graduate students, assuming the rateof increase to remain unchanged.Prosperity is of course � pleasantthing; but just as we recognize the dis­advantages of that particular state ofwealth in real estate known as being"land-poor," so we are easily able torecognize the possible drawbacks·. con­nected with excessive numbers of under­graduates.In the first place in the interests of highstandards of instruction we have com­mitted ourselves to the policy of main­taining small classes for all college work,especially that of the early years, andwe have tried with large success to securethe ablest available instructors to takecharge of these classes. Any notableincrease in student attendance thereforeinvolves for us a considerable increasein the size of our staff. As studentfees do not at present at all cover thecost of instruction, it is clear that unlessthese fees are materially increased thefiscal angle of the case is not likely tobe a subject for unalloyed congratula­tion. However, this is not the reallyserious side of the matter. Most of usha ve confidence based upon experiencethat in our -community a real need ofthis kind is not likely to go long unre­lieved. The same thing may be saidof the enlarged physical plant neededto care for an increased number ofstudents. Our superb buildings, mostof them gifts of citizens of Chicago,bear convincing testimony to the civicpride and generosity upon which we maycount in this matter. Moreover, worriesof this type we are wont to delegate toour good friends, the trustees ..More perplexing is the task of keepingup the caliber of the instruction, andthe maintenance with a large corps ofinstructors of anything approachingstandardized work. I t is not easy tofind four competent men who will teachelementary French in such a manner thattheir students upon entry on advancedwork with other instructors will readilybe able to keep step with one another.Multiply the number of your elementaryinstructors by two or by four, and youmultiply your difficulties by some con­siderably larger number. And what istrue of French is equally true of manyother subjects.Another angle of the case deserves 125notice in connection with the more rapidgrowth of the _ undergraduate as con­trasted with the graduate student body.There is good reason to believe that avigorous undergraduate school equippedwith high-grade instructors and solidlyorganized courses is an asset of first-rateconsequence as a foundation for a gradu­ate school. This is not solely, nor indeedprimarily, because the former serves asan important feeder for the latter. Thecontrary is notoriously the case. Only20 per cent of our graduate students in1913 were our own Bachelors and thesame sort of thing is true of all the stronggraduate schools. A graduate schoollargely recruited from its own collegedepartments one may be sure is a feebleplant. No, it is because a well-organizedundergraduate curriculum preserves awholesome perspective for the graduateinstruction, keeps each department aliveto its pedagogical obligations, and affordsopportunity to the imperfectly trainedemigrant from some other institutionto make good his deficiencies before enter­ing on advanced work-it is for thesereasons chiefly that strong undergraduatedepartments are of value to the graduateschool. There is abundant experience tojustify this assertion.But if the time ever comes when "theundergraduate interests threaten to over­top the graduate, when they menace inany degree the maintenance of an atmos­phere congenial to research and higherstudies, when they threaten to result in aradical disproportion as between the num­ber of students and instructors connectedwith the two divisions of the Univer­sity; we may well pause and inquire whatthe signs of the times really indicate andwhat measures, if any, we should adopt.Advanced work, professional andscientific, research, and the training ofinvestigators have from the first beencherished ideals of the University ofChicago. What do these figures I havecited suggest? Rave we lost interestfor the moment in these more advancedphases of our work? Certainly not.Rave we allowed the eminence of ourstaff of scholars and scientists to sufferat all by comparison with our principalrivals? Of this there is no convincingevidence. We have lost some brilliantmen, but we have also gained some.Have we simply been giving more atten­tion to our undergraduate interests be­cause they evidently needed it? In part126 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEone must reply: " Yes, we have andfortunately." Or, finally, are we simplyexperiencing the consequences of thosegreat social tides and currents whichsurge about us, but which we neithercreate nor in any considerable degreecontrol? Is it simply that the numberof young people in our part of the worldwho wish a college education of the kindwe give is increasing faster, both abso­lutely and relatively, than the number ofthose who wish to pursue advancedscientific, humanistic, and professionalcourses? Whatever truth may residein the replies suggested to the otherqueries, I am convinced that this lastsuggestion contains the reason for four­fifths of the phenomenon under considera­tion. If this be a correct diagnosis, thecauses are largely beyond our power tomodify . We can, however, if we thinkwise, protect ourselves from some ofthe consequences, and it is not outsidethe bounds of possibility that in theinterests of maintaining a proper balancebetween graduate and undergraduatespheres, we may at some time in thefuture find it wise to hold in check byone device or another the prodigiousaccessions to our undergraduate fold.Social life.-A study of the evolutionof the social life of our students and oftheir organizations throws an interestingsidelight on the actual developmentswhich have been going on among us.From the first the institution has beensubjected to strong pressure to createthe conventional type of undergraduatecollege. Fraternities and sororities, classorganizations and clubs of myriad forms,intercollegiate athletics, and all theparaphernalia of the accepted standardsof college life have been much in evidence.Against one or another of these the U ni­versity has from time to time raised afeeble hand. Fraternities were at firsttaboo, but shortly they crept in and havebeen creeping farther every year. Soror­ities were frowned upon, but girls' localclubs presently appeared and have flour­ished moderately. They are, to be sure,not national in character and some of ourauthorities regard this as a great advan­tage. The students have from the begin­ning waged a somewhat pathetic struggleto establish classes and class senti­ment. Distrust of certain of the moreundesirable features of class organizationelsewhere has produced a rather strongfaculty opposition to such development, and the quarter system, together withthe large number of Chicago studentsliving at home, has done the rest.Nevertheless, we have substantiallysuch a system at present, althoughthe term class is not officially appliedto the organizations and the system isas yet too weak to cause any uneasinessas to disciplinary problems.Many of the social organizations likethe Reynolds Club have been activelyfostered by the University. They makeeach in its own sphere very real contribu­tions to the development of their mem­bers and taken as a whole afford an im­portant asset in the opportunities pre­sented to students by life here. Morethan once the students have shown them­selves eager and ready to undertakemeasures for the essential betterment ofour social and moral conditions in wayswhich the Faculty either could not, orwould not, attempt. The Honor Com­mission which is now courageouslyattacking the problem of dishonesty inacademic relations is purely a studententerprise and if o:it succeeds-or evenapproximates success-it will have ac­complished what the Faculty has neverbeen able to do. Similarly the "pointsystem" is a device put in operation bythe students which promises to minimizethe number of activities in which astudent can officially participate at agiven time, with benefits which are likelyto be real to all concerned. Theseinstances are simply illustrations, butthey may serve to suggest the fine spiritof our students and their sensitive alert­ness to everything which promises to, bewholesome.Intercollegiate athletics we have hadfrom the beginning and in forms whichhave ranged from mild to virulent.More than- once our relations with otherinstitutions have been strained to thebreaking-point by the consequences ofthe system, and although we believesincerely in the rectitude of our purposes,it would be fatuous folly to pretend thatall our rivals share our conviction in thematter.So-called "student activities" havealso from the first been perhaps too muchwith us and a special college board findsits main business in supervising theseactivities. The Faculty has thrown upbreastworks in the form of rules designedto keep the enemy at a safe distance, andlike most other institutions we are proneTHE UNIVERSITY TODAYto believe that we succeed fairly well inour intentions.However all this may be, the cold factremains that from students, from alumni,from many supporters, the Universityhas been, and still is, under constantpressure to develop and maintain a greatundergraduate college built on the tem­porarily accepted lines and catering to thedesire for what is known as Americancollege life.How much our actual course has beencontrolled by these forces it would bedifficult to say. But no one familiarwith our history can for a moment sup­pose them to have been negligible in theirconsequences. Any pressure to whichone is incessantly subjected produceseffects, if these be only the increasedhardening of the heart against the agents. exercising the pressure.Emigrant students.-Before turningwholly away from matters relating toour student attendance, we may wellremark the very large number of ourstudents who come to us from other col­legiate institutions with a view to obtain­ing our Bachelor's degree. I have notchanced to discover any institution whichgraduates so large a proportion of theseadopted sons and daughters. Moreoverthe number is apparently growing bothrelatively and absolutely. In I900, 66per cent of our Bachelors' degrees wereconferred upon students who had pursuedpart of their work in other colleges anduniversities. In 19I2, 88 per cent hadcome to us under these conditions. Ofthe 38 persons today receiving ourBachelor's degree 25 have had part oftheir college life in other institutions ..Various inferences may be drawn fromthese facts. If our degree were notori­ously easy to gain, this tide of emigrantswould not necessarily be complimentaryto us. If, on the other hand, our degreesare highly valued and valued for thesolid attainments they represent, suchemigrant population may well flatterour legitimate vanity. Again, if thecharacter of these migrant students sug­gests that they represent the failures anddiscards of other colleges, their presenceamong us would justify no aggressivecomplacency; whereas if they are stu­dents of high caliber who are attractedto us because of the excellence of theopportunities which we offer, they shouldconstitute one of the most palpable evi­dences of our achievement. 127An examination of the records showsthat like other students these emigrantspresent very diverse conditions. Someare brilliant and some are dull, somesurvive our demands with moderatecredit, others fall by the wayside andare cast out. Of those that gain ourdegrees the a verage secures a collegiateranking much like the average of ourhome-bred graduates, possibly a triflehigher. In the early quarters of theirresidence the migrant students are forobvious reasons likely to do less well thanlater. New methods, new surroundings,new standards, all serve for a time todisturb normal performance. But laterthey generally find themsel ves and dowork of standard grade, neither conspicu­ously better nor worse than that of ourown students ." Many are attracted here by the op­portunity to enter early upon profes­sional work. Law and medicine anddivinity and education all bring theirquota of such students.There is very little evidence to suggestthat the typical ne'er-do-well of othercolleges comes to us after failure inanother I institution. In the first place,unless the documents setting forth hisprevious record had been tampered with,we should be wholly unlikely to admithim. Moreover, it is no stretching ofthe facts to say that among studentsin our part of the world the �everity ofour standards is so generally recognizedthat a loafer feels no temptation to cometo us..One element in the case, however,which is often overlooked consists in theattractiveness of any urban institutionbecause of the supposedly greater num­ber of opportunities to secure remunera­tive work by means of which to meet theexpenses of the college course. Thenumber of times this factor has beenmentioned in response 1;0 inquiries I havemade concerning the reasons for migra­tion has frankly surprised me. It isnot less suggestive when taken in con­nection with the fact that our fees aremuch higher than those of the great stateuniversities about us.On the whole, then, while we may feelgratified at the large numbers of theseemigrant undergraduates, their presencehere cannot be taken as proving forth­with the eminence of our academicstatus in the estimate of our neighbors,nor do they contribute any unequivocal128 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEintellectual stimulus to our community services will be the. devising of meansin contrast to other undergraduates. In for eliminating useless or harmful partsthe' main they are students of serious of this machinery. That we shouldpurpose, often making their own way, and occasionally encounter evidences of some­we welcome them cordially; but they thing less than enthusiastic appreciationcertainly do not afford that demonstra- of the work of the deans by their -non­tion of our academic superiority which is administrative colleagues is perhaps tosometimes assumed and which their be accredited to the remnant of humanlarge number naturally suggests. nature left even in a body of teachers.Administration.-As contrasted with It reminds one of the tension in the navymost of our larger neighbors the U ni- between the staff and the line officers.versity has from the outset been char- Possibly we can cure it as has there beer;acterized by the somewhat paternalistic done by breaking down the distinction, andideal of .a very intimate supervision of giving everyone some administrative work.the student by his dean. President Up to about a year ago we maintainedHarper's original design called for a dean a sharp division, administratively as wellto every hundred students+an ideal to as educationally, between our Junior andwhich we have rarely' been true. In- Senior Colleges. A student somewheredeed, the rapid growth of the student in the middle of his course was transferredbody has rendered it difficult at times from the jurisdiction of one dean to thatto keep up the staff of deans to a point of another. Now a student registersat all permitting really intelligent and when he enters college with the deaneffective supervision of the individual who will be his advisor and guide through­student. The nUID ber of persons in out his entire college course.our Faculty temperamentally fitted for The reasons for this change are atsuch work and willing to undertake it least twofold. Under the curricula inis necessarily limited. These considera- force up to two years ago, we postulatedtions and others of similar character have a difference between elementary- collegemade our record a somewhat checkered work and ad vanced university workone. But we have never lost sight of that is still recognized in the formulaour ideal and never abandoned the effort which the President will presently pro­to give it expression. At present we nounce in conferring the associate's title.have a corps of extremely efficient men It was held, and with some considerableand women engaged in this work. IUs plausibility, that the work of the firsttheir business to study not only the two years involved educational andneeds of the individual student, but also administrative problems of so distinctthe entire educational problem involved a sort as to justify a radical severancein our curricula. To them more than� of administrative responsibility for theto any other group in our Faculty must earlier and the later parts of the course.we look for the detection of defects in our In point of fact the distinction was oftensystem and suggestions for improvement. rendered nugatory by the failure of theUnder our organization a dean is not student to comply with some specificonly an administrative officer responsible requirement for the associate's title-e.g.,for the welfare of a certain number of he often denied himself the consolationsstudents, he ought also to be a leader of of English 3-with the result that heour educational thinking, a contributor was frequently transferred to the Seniorto the efficiency with which our necessary Colleges only one or two quarters beforemachinery is run. Not the least of his he received the Bachelor's degree.[To be continued]THE UNIVERSITY RBCORDPresident Judson's departure for China.-=- President Harry Pratt Judson hasgone to China under the auspices of theRockefeller Foundation of New Yorkto examine and report on the situationthere in regard to medicine, surgery, andpublic health. The President is accom­panied by Mrs. Judson and by a secre­tary, and the party incl udes also amedical expert. They left Chicago im­mediately after the University Convoca­tion, onMarch 18, and sailed from NewYork on the "Imperator" March 2I,proceeding directly to Paris and thenceto Moscow. The-latter city they leaveon April 8 by the Trans-Siberian Rail­way, arriving at Peking on April 19.President Judson will visit the princi­pal plates in China where work of thecharacter in question is carried on. Dur­ing the heat of the summer President andMrs. Judson expect to spend some timein Japan, and early in the autumn theymay go to southern China, sailing fromHongkong for San Francisco and stop­ping at Honolulu on the way. Theinvestigations in China will occupy aboutsix months.New building activity at the University.­The University of Chicago this yearenters another period of building activitysuch as has characterized several otheryears of its history. Preparations arealready made for beginning at once twonew buildings that will cost together overa half-million dollars. Adjoining theWalker Museum and the Law Library,and connected with the former on all itsfloors, Julius Rosenwald Hall will beplaced. It bears the name of one of theUniversity's most generous friends, whois also a member of its Board of Trustees.This new addition to the beautiful Gothicstructures on the quadrangles will housethe Departments of Geology and Geog­raphy: Special effort will be made bythe architects, Holabird & Roche, whodesigned the University Club building ofChicago, to express the uses of the build­ing symbolically in the decorative featuresof the facade. The building will costabout $260,000. It will have admirable facilities for furthering the work of thetwo departments, including an assemblyhall seating one hundred and eightystudents.The new Classics Building of the Uni-­versity, which has already- been begun,is located west of the group of which theWilliam Rainey Harper Memorial Li­brary is the dominating building. Itwill face the Midway Plaisance, and whenthe Modern Languages and the Histori­cal buildings are added, there will- be acontinuous line of structures, a blocklong, all of which will embody the spiritand style of the Harper Library, at pres­ent the most monumental of all thestructures that have been erected on thecampus during the last two decades.The Classics Building will cost over$25°,000. The architects are Shepley,Rutan & Coolidge, who designed theWilliam Rainey Harper Memorial Li-brary. ..The third building for which thetrustees have recently adopted plans isIda Noyes Hall, intended as a clubhouseand gymnasium for women students.It is expected that the work of construc­tion will begin during the later monthsof this year.The Ninetieth Convocation.-At theNinetieth Convocation of the Universityheld on March 17 Professor James Row­land Angell, Head of the Department ofPsychology and Dean of the Faculties ofArts, Literature, and Science, was theorator, his subject being "The UniversityToday." His address appears elsewherein this issue of the Magazine.At this Convocation one hundred andtwenty-nine candidates received degrees,titles, or certificates. Of this number,forty received the degree of Bachelor ofArts, Philosophy, or - Science, and fourthat of Education. In the GraduateSchools three were made Masters ofArts or Science and three, Doctors ofPhilosophy. In the Divinity Schoolthere were twelve candidates for thedegree of Master- of Arts, two for thatof Bachelor of Divinity, and one forthat ofDoctor of Philosophy; and in the129130 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINELaw School five students received thedegree of Doctor of Law (J.D.). Amongthe candidates in the Divinity Schoolwas agrandson of the famous missionary,Adoniram Judson; and also an Armenianand a Japanese. A Japanese also re­ceived a Bachelor's degree, and a Chinesereceived the title of Associate.At the Convocation reception on theevening of March 16, President and Mrs.Harry Pratt Judson received with theguests of honor, Professor and Mrs.Angell and Professor Abel Lefranc, ofthe College de France, who has been theexchange professor from France duringthe Winter Quarter. President and Mrs.Judson will be absent from the comingJune and August Convocations.The Convocation preacher on MarchIS was President Albert Parker Fitch, ofAndover Theological Seminary, Cam­bridge, Mass.A new member of the Board ofTrustees.-The election of a new mem­ber to the University Board of Trusteeswas recently announced. Judge J. OtisHumphrey, of the United States DistrictCourt for the southern district of Illinois,whose home is in Springfield, has beenelected as successor to Mr. J. SpencerDickerson, who resigned because of hisduties as Secretary of the Board. JudgeHumphrey, who is a prominent memberof the Baptist denomination, was edu­cated at Shurtleff College. For fouryears he was the United States districtattorney for the southern district ofIllinois, and in 1901 was appointed to hispresent judicial position. At a recentmeeting of the Board of Trustees JusticeCharles E. Hughes, of the United StatesSupreme Court, was also elected a mem­ber of the Board, which now includesin its membership seven lawyers, four ofwhom are judges.A farewell dinner to Professor Shorey inBerlin.-Professor Paul Shorey, Head ofthe Department of Greek, who has beenthe Roosevelt Exchange Professor at theUniversity of Berlin during the presentacademic year, was recen tly given afarewell dinner at the Hotel Adlon inBerlin by Professor Archibald C. Coolidge,the exchange professor from HarvardUniversity. More than a hundred andfifty of the leading scholars of Germanywere present, including the Prussiansecretary of state for public instruction, the rector of the University of Berlin,and Professor Adolf Harnack. ProfessorShorey was one of the speakers a t thebanquet given by the American colonyin Berlin on Washington's birthday.Three hundred were present and theAmerican ambassador presided. Pro­fessor Shorey's lectures at the Universityof Berlin were on the subject of "Cul­ture and Democracy in America," andhe will lecture at other German univer­sities before his return to the Universityof Chicago in the autumn.Lectures on I slamism. -Dr. ChristianSnouck Hurgronje, professor of . Arabicin the University of Leiden, began at theUniversity of Chicago, on March 2, aseries of four lectures on "Aspects ofIslamism." The course was given onthe Haskell Foundation, and under theauspices of the American Committee forLectures on the History of Religions.The first lecture presented "Some Pointsconcerning the Origin of Islam," whilethe other lectures discussed the religiousand political development of Islam, andIslam and modern thought.During a leave of absence from hiswork as lecturer on Mohammedan lawat the University of Leiden, Dr. Hur­gronje spent most of his time in the cityof Mecca itself, and the result of hisstudies he published in a standard workon the subject, Mekka. In 1889 Dr.Hurgronje was sent on a mission to theDutch East India colonies, and later hisservices were asked by the Dutch EastIndian government as adviser on Mo­hammedan and native affairs. He re­mained in East India for seventeen years.At present Dr. Hurgronje, in additionto his professorial duties in the U ni versityof Leiden, is adviser to the DutchMinistry on Colonial Affairs.The University Orchestral Association.­The University Orchestral Associationannounces two more concerts in the seriesof nine during the present season, whichhas been the most successful in the his­tory of the University. All the ticketsfor all the concerts have been sold, andof these over I,IOO were season tickets.In two of the concerts, those of MaudPowell and Julia Culp, it was necessaryto have additional seats on the stage.On account of the unexpected returnof Leo Slezak to Europe the concertannounced for March 10 did not takeTHE UNIVERSITY RECORDplace, but another will be given in. itsplace at a later date. The next con­cert of the series will be by the ChicagoSymphony Orchestra under the leader­ship of Frederick Stock, on April 7 inLeon Mandel Assembly Hall; and thesame orchestra will give the dosing con­cert of the season on April 28, withHenri Scott, of the Chicago GrandOpera Company, as soloist.The Intercollegiate Gymnastic Meet.­Arrangements have been completed bythe Department of Physical Culture forholding the annual meet of the WesternIntercollegiate Gymnastic Association inthe Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymna­sium, April 4. In connection with themeet the Intercollegiate Championshipcontests.in fencing and wrestling will beheld. The events in the gymnasticmeet include exercises on the parallelbars, horizontal bar, rings, and horse, andin tumbling and club swinging. Thefencing events include the foils, broad­sword, saber, and dueling sword. Alarge entry is expected from the univer­sities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska,Indiana, and Iowa, and the Ohio StateUniversity.President Harry Pratt Judson was aguest of the Alumni Club of the Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology at itsbanquet in the Blackstone Hotel,Chicago, on the evening of February 21,when President Richard C. Maclaurinof the Institute and President A. Lau­rence Lowell of .Harvard were among thespeakers. On February 20 PresidentJudson was also a guest of honor at thereunion of graduates and students of theOld University of Chicago at the Hamil­ton Club, Chicago. President and Mrs.Judson attended a reception in theirhonor at the College Club of Chicagoin the Fine Arts Building on the after­noon of March 6 and in the evening wereguests of the Chinese Club of the Uni­versity.Mr. George B. Mck.ibbin, who receivedthe degree of Doctor of Law from theUniversity of Chicago Law School in1913, was selected by President HarryPratt Judson to be his secretary duringhis investigations in China with regardto medicine and public health. A medi­cal expert is also a member of the' party.Director Charles H. Judd, of the Schoolof Education, presented on March 20, 13Iat the meeting in Chicago of the NorthCentral Association of Colleges andSecondary Schools, the report of theCommission on Accrediting Schools andColleges. -"The Austrian Balkan Policy" was thesubject of a University public lecture inHarper Memorial Library on February17, by Professor Josef Schumpeter, ofthe University of Graz, who has been theexchange professor at Columbia Univer­sity."The Railway Terminal Problem ofChicago" was the subject of an illustratedlecture given on March 4, in the WilliamRainey Harper Memorial Library by Mr.George E. Hooker, secretary of the CityClub of Chicago. It was given in con­nection with a course on "AmericanCities;' by Assistant Professor Scott E.W. Bedford, of the Department of Soci­ology and Anthropology." Mme. de Stael et les litteraturesetrangeres " was the subject of a Uni­versity public lecture in French on Febru­ary 24, given in the William RaineyHarper Memorial Library by ProfessorF. Baldensperger, of the Sorbonne, whohas been the exchange professor atHarvard University.Mr. John R. Mott, general secretaryof the World's Student Christian Federa­tion, gave a public lecture in Leon MandelAssembly Hall on February 19, his sub­ject being "World Christianity."Professor Ernst von Dobschiitz, of theUniversity of Halle, gave two lecturesin the Haskell Oriental Museum inFebruary on "The History of the Canon,"the first, on the making of the Canon ofthe New Testament, and the second, onthe breaking of the Canon.The Playboy of the Western World, bySynge, and Kathleen Ni Houlihan byYeats, were presented to a large audi- ..ence in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall onMarch 2, by the Irish Players, for theberiefit of the University of Chicago Set­tlement, which received about four hun­dred dollars as its part of the proceeds.After the performance a reception wasgiven in honor of the players at the Quad­rangle Club. �Under the auspices of the Students'Art Club an illustrated lecture on "TheMaking of Etchings" was given in Em­mons Blaine Hall by Mr. Ralph M. Pear­son, a Chicago etcher, on February 19.Nearly a thousand dollars, has beenraised among _the women students of the132 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEUniversity for the annual support of MissMargery Melcher, who is the representa­tive of the University women in Calcutta.Practically every woman in the Uni­versity contributed to the fund. MissMelcher directs religious work in severalcolleges and high schools in India.Assistant Professor Bertram G . Nelson,of the Department of Public Speaking,is giving, under the auspices of theNational Woman's Trade Union League,a course in effective speaking for girlstudents in the trades. The sessions areheld at the Chicago School of Civics andPhilanthropy.Assistant Professor Sophonisba P.Breckinridge, Assistant Dean of Womenin the University, recently appearedbefore a joint session of the Kentuckylegislature in advocacy of the extension ofsuffrage to the women of Kentucky.Recent contributions by members ofthe Faculties to the journals publishedby the University of Chicago Pressinclude the following: Burton, Professor Ernest D.: "TheStudent Volunteer Convention of1914," Biblical World, February; (withF. Merrifield) "The Origin and Teach­ing of the New Testament Books,"ibid.; idem., ibid.; March.Goodspeed, Associate Professor Edgar J.:"A New Testament Anniversary:1514-19I4," Biblical World, March.Johnson, Principal Franklin W.: "TheProblems of Boyhood," II, BiblicalWorld, February; idem., III, ibid.,March.Merrifield,. Fred (with E. D. Burton):"The Origin and Teaching of the NewTestament Books," Biblical World,February; idem., ibid., March.Soares, Professor Theodore G. : "The.Educational Work of the Church,"Biblical World, February; idem., II,ibid., March.Williston, Professor Samuel W.: "Broili­ellus, ANew Genus of Amphibiansfrom the Permian of Texas," Journal ofGeology, January-February; "Restora­tions of Some American Permocarbon­iferous Amphibians and Reptiles," ibid.ALUMNI AFFAIRSst., Brooklyn; Treasurer, W. C. Stephens,847 West End Ave., New York; Execu­tive Committee, Milton J. Davies, 227WilloughbyAve., Brooklyn; Thomas J.Riley, 69 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn;Di. Katherine B. Davis, commissionerof correction, New York City; MissE. S. Weirick, 250 Washington Ave.,Brooklyn; M. Morgenthau, Jr., 5 LibertySt., New York. -F. H. PIKE, '0·7 (PH.D.)The Eastern Alumni Association.­The annual dinner of the Eastern AlumniAssociation of the University of Chicagowas held at the Park Avenue Hotel, ParkAve. and 33d St., New York City, Fridayevening, January 23, I9I4. Fifty-threewere present, including· President andMrs. Judson of the University. Jesse D.Burks, the recipient of the first diplomafrom the present University of Chicago"and, by virtue of this, the "oldest livinggraduate," now head of the Bureau ofMunicipal Research of the city of Phila- The Old University alumni dinner.-Indelphia, spoke of the early days at the accordance with the old-time custom, theschool when the Department of Anthro- alumni and students of the Old Universitypology maintained a private entrance to held their annual Washington Supperthe World's Fair ground for the benefit and Reunion at the Hamilton Club, on.of its students. Professor Paul Monroe, Saturday evening, February 2I. AboutChicago '97, now of Teachers, College, seventy of those who were students in the.Columbia University, gave his impres- Old University from '59 to '86 gathered'sions and experiences derived from a in the reception room on the third floor ofrecent tour of Japan and the Philippines the Club, at six o'clock,and after an hourand the Orient. Mrs. .Henry R. Cara- spent in greeting old college mates, andway, '97 (Glenrose Bell), cold storage in- President Judson and' Professor Lewisspector in New York City, spoke of the Stuart of the old faculty, who were thefight of the Housewives' League for pure guests of the evening, passed to the main'food and better living conditions in New dining-room where the supper was served.York City and the country generally. As President Judson had to meet anotherKatherine Bement Davis, Ph.D� '00, engagement, the after-dinner / programnow commissioner of correction for the was anticipated in part, and the greetingscity of N ew York, warned all the alumni of the University were extended by the(presumably including visiting alumni President in his very modest and happyand professors) that they must walk in manner.the straight and narrow path if they Music was furnished during the supperwished to keep out of trouble. No by Tomaso's Orchestra, after which Missmercy will be shown offenders of this Elizabeth Faulkner, presiding as toast­type. Lantern slides of University views mistress, suggested "The Old Universitybrought out a running fire of comment as Viewed from Different Standpoints,"from the alumni present, and President which was responded to as follows: fromJudson reviewed the recent progress in the standpoint of a theologian, Charlesbuildings and other physical improve- Richmond Henderson; of a lawyer,ments about the University. Frank, Ambrose Helmer; of a businessA nominating committee composed man, Herbert Edward Goodman; of a'of Dr. E. C. Sage, B.D. '82, Willis Haw- modern woman, Lucy Anderson Owen;ley, A.B., '80, and A. Evelyn Newman, of our best-loved professor, Lewis Stuart;'08, suggested the names of the following - of one from the Old and the New,officers for the coming year, and they Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed.were unanimously elected: President, At the conclusion of the program theDr. E. E. Slosson, Literary Editor, the floor was cleared and for an hour the hallIndependent, U9 West 40th St., New resounded to the strains of the orchestra,York; Vice-President, Mrs. Edith T. and the "calling" of John Evans Cornell,Bremer, 600 Lexington Ave., New York; while the old boys and girls indulged inSecretaries, F. H. Pike, 437 West 59th St., the Virginia Reel, Dan Tucker, and otherNew York; Miss M. L. Stone, 525 Fifth old-time dances.I33134 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe gathering was in charge of acommittee made up of Adolph JuliusLichtstern, Herbert Edward Goodman,William Leonard Burnap, Francis JamesWalsh, and Edgar Augustus Buzzell,Secretary. Those present were: Presi­dent Harry Pratt Judson, Professor LewisStuart, Lake Forest University, Dr.Thomas W. Goodspeed, Mr. and Mrs.Edgar A. Buzzell, Frank H. Clark, JohnE. Cornell, James M. Doud, Herbert E.Goodman, Frank A. Helmer, Fred W.Jaros, Adolph J. Lichtstern, Abram E.Mabie, J. Gorton Marsh, Ethelbert W.Peeke, John E. Rhodes, Max L. Sickle,Wandell Topping, George W. Walsh,Thomas R. Weddell, Mrs. Wm. B.Owen; Misses Elizabeth Faulkner, LauraB. Loomis, Myra Pollard, Fannie B.Smith, Augusta G. Stuart, Edna O.Stuart, Julia R. Tolman; and Messrs.Frank S. Cheney, Eli H. Doud, DorranceDibbell, Joliet, John C. Everett, JamesG. Elsdon, Henry C. First, Rock Island,James Goodman, James P. Gardner,T. M. Hammond, Milwaukee, George F.Holloway, Sawyer, Mich., Charles R.Henderson, John C. Hopkins, John Lang­land, Henry C. Morris, Charles W.Naylor, George E. Newcomb, Fred A.Smith, Edgar B. Tolman, Harry W.Thayer, Frank J. Walsh, Robert Walsh,George B. Woodworth.Minnesota Alumni Club.-That alumniinterests of Minnesota are definitelyestablished and organized was proved bythe successful dinner meeting of theMinnesota Alumni Club held Februarv14 at the Leamington Hotel, Minneapolis.Fifty people attended and listened to theinteresting program of after-dinner talks.It was a "coeducational" affair. Thoseeligible to come by reason of their relationto the University of Chicago includedgraduates, postgraduate students, for­mer students, and former instructors."Wives, husbands, or sweethearts" wereinvited as escorts to those receiving invi­tations to the dinner; so that the num­ber present was not made up wholly ofChicago people.The dinner table was arranged in abeautifully appointed ballroom-a fitsetting for the genial spirit of the com­pany and the scintillating and urbane witof the speakers. The president of theclub, Professor Anthony Lispenard Un­derhill, dispatched some routine business,and then, after welcoming the assembly, turned the after -dinner program over tothe toastmaster. This happily chosenofficial was William Reynolds Vance, deanof the Law School, at the University ofMinnesota. His comments providedample "reaction" on the part of thespeakers whom he introduced."Dean" George E. Vincent, new presi­dent of Minnesota, saluted the members.of the dub in one of his typical gatling­gun talks. The chief speaker of theevening was Dean James RowlandAngell, who with Mrs. Angell came up.from Chicago especially for the occasionto represent the University and PresidentJudson whose personal greeting to theclub he conveyed. Professor Angell,.after dwelling briefly on matters of cur­rent interest at the Quadrangles, spoke atlength and in a most interesting way onthe subject, "The Practical Applicationof Psychology"-a subject which has adefinite relation to one's everyday life;one which, in view of the voluminous.treatment it has had of late, requirescare­ful review; and one on which Dr. Angellspeaks with eminent authority.Mr. and Mrs. Angell were the houseguests of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent duringtheir stay in Minneapolis. Among thosepresent at the dinner, besides those whosenames have already been mentioned,.were the following: Victoria McAlmon,.Rev. E. P. Savage, C. N. Patterson,Luther Wood Parker, G. L. Gotham,.J. J. O'Connor, Milo B. Price, J. A.Mansfield, Julian H. Gist, R. H. Halsey,.Emery W. Balduf, N. J. Quickstad, J. F.Ebersole, William O. Beall, L. L. Everly,Lincoln K. Adkins, Rev. G. L. Morrill,H. B. Street, Mary Daniels, B. F. Petten­ger, Harvey B. Fuller, Jr., Mary A.Kidder, J. Anna Norris, F. D. Nichols,.E. V. Robinson, C. J. V. Pettibone, W. L.Miser, Benjamin Lee, Robert A. Hall,Mrs. C. Albert Carlson, Jessie Caplin.HARVEY B. FUI�LER, JR., SecretaryThe Alumni Council.-The AlumniCouncil held its regular monthly meetingat 7 :45 P.M., January 20, 1914, in theAlumni Office in Ellis Hall, Mr. Angellpresiding. Present were Mrs. McDowell,Mr. Angell, Mr. Bestor, Mr. Paltzer,Mr. Kramer, and the secretary. Theminutes of the previous meeting wereread and approved. The secretary pre­sented an outline for the reorganizationof the Council, stating that his objectwas merely to introduce the subject andALUMNI AFFAIRSnot to secure formal action at the presenttime and the matter was laid on thetabl� for future consideration. A reso­lution .was introduced and passed pro­viding that Alumni Council checks, untilturther notice, were to be signed byRudolph E. Schreiber and countersignedby either H. E. Slaught or John F.Moulds. The Council then discussedthe work of the standing committees. Aquestion was raised as to the need of anew representative on the Athletic Boardas mentioned in the minutes of the lastmeeting, and it was explained that thepresent representative came from thelocal Chicago Club. The remainder ofthe time was given to the discussion ofthe Committee on Alumni Clubs. Va­rious suggestions were made for infusinglife into these local club organizations,such as inviting them to found scholar­ships and loan funds, using them as ameans of University promotion amonghigh-school students, providing speakersfor them by taking advantage of tripsthat faculty members might be makingat the time, and establishing a few largeclubs for example, in N ew York Cityand i� San Francisco, and using them asmodels for the rest.The meeting then adjourned.F. W. DIGNAN, SecretaryNews from the Classes.-1878Robert Van Meigs is minister of theFirst Baptist Church of Muskogee, Okla.1902Clara Kretzinger is represented by herprize picture" The Callas," in the exhibi­tion of Chicago artists at the Art Insti­tute.William H. Haas is a graduate studentin Geology at the University this year.1903Edith Bellamy (Mrs. Forrest Shreve) isthe author of Publication No. 1947 ofthe Carnegie Institution of Washington.It deals with The Daily March of Trans ...portation in a Desert Perennial.Deo Whittlesey has entered a RomanCatholic sisterhood. When last heardfrom two years ago, she was a novice atthe Convent of the Sacred Heart inAlbany, N.Y.Julia Hobbs is living in South Pasa­dena, Cal. I351905Clyde Blair and Mrs. Blair (AnneHough) are now living in Evanston, Ill.They have three small daughters.Helen M. Weldon has recently movedto 1132 Loyola Ave., Rogers Park. Sheis a teacher in Lane Technical HighSchool.1906Mary Alma Hardman is a graduatestudent in the University this year.Elizabeth Munger is in Chicago for acouple of years. She is 11,bW living at5559 University Avenue.Strong Vincent Norton, who is truck­tire sales manager for the B. F. GoodrichCompany of Akron, recently delivered anillustrated address before the MotorTruck Club of New York City on "TireEfficiency." He writes that W. A.McDermid has joined forces with theFalcon Cycle Car Company.Grace Viall (Mrs. Charles Gray) hasmoved to 562I Maryland Ave., Chicago.Eva Erskine (Mrs. W. H. Debenham)lives at 1035 N. 7th St., Burlington,Iowa.I907Donald P. Abbott will sail in June fortwo years' study in Europe.Thyrza Barton, who has lived at theChicago Commons and been relief inves­tigator for the county agent during thewinter, has left Chicago for her home inAltadena, Cal.Helen Hendricks sailed on February 12for China, where she will teach music fora year at Saint Hilda's School, Wuchang.Pauline R. Horn (Mrs. J. P. Pope) isliving at 702 Brumback St., Boise City,Idaho.Grace Lyman is studying this year atLeland Stanford Junior University, hav­ing resigned from her position at WesternCollege.Edith Terry (Mrs. Harry M. Bremer)is living at I60 E. 9ISt St., New YorkCity. She expects to attend the worldconference of the Y.W.C.A. at Stockholmin May. Mrs. Bremer is secretary forimmigrants, of the National Board of theY.W.C.A.Lenerl Morehouse (Mrs. A. D. How­ard) lives at Fairport, Iowa, care of theAgricultural Station.Roy O. Maddox is practicing law atKansas City, Mo. His address is I5I2Linwood Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThora Brookings lives at Woodward,Iowa.Daisy Richardson (Mrs. P. C. Mar­chant) lives at 228 E. Street Vedado,Havana, Cuba.Edward Eggleston Smith is employedby the U.S. Geological Survey. He isnow in Algeria.1908Charles Laurence Baker is geologist forthe Nevada Petroleum Company at SanFrancisco, Cal.Edith Moore (Mrs. Henry Suzzallo)has returned from a journey around theworld and is living at the Hotel Manhat­tan, New York.Jennie Beery (Mrs. George M. Hough)has moved to 5007 Grand Boulevard.Grace Meigs, who has been residentphysician at the Children's MemorialHospital, has recently entered the officesof Dr. Sippy in the People's Gas Building.Jo M. Boyington has moved fromSpokane, Wash., to Dalton Gardens,Idaho. She is teaching in the Spokaneschools.Helen Mauchee (Mrs. A. B. Barnett)lives at 427 W. Islay St., Santa Barbara,Cal.Edna Secord (Mrs. Charles G. Steven­son) is living on a farm at Smith's Creek,Mich.1909Virginia Admiral (Mrs. Arthur Dady)lives at 69I8 N. Ashland Blvd., RogersPark, Ill.David F. Davis, who has been teachingGreek in Monmouth College, has resignedto accept a position as teacher of historyin the Austin High School, Chicago.Minna Hoskins, who has a studio in theFine Arts Building, has two pictures inthe exhibition of Chicago artists at theArt Institute.Robert W. Savidge is chemist for theAmerican Carbon Co., at Cleveland,Ohio.Hazel Driver teaches at Madison, Wis.Her home address is 850 Laurel Ave.1910Nova J. Beal has accepted a respon­sible position with the new State CivilService Commission of California, at Sac ..ramento. Of some two hundred persons,chiefly men, who took the civil serviceexamination for chief clerk, she passed thehighest by a considerable margin and soearned first place on the eligible list. Helen Logan Butler is doing art pho­tographyat 6045 Harper Ave., Chicago.Caroline Dickey (Tulsa, Oklahoma)spent January in Chicago visiting Jes�ieHeckman '10.Helen Dewhurst (Mrs. Edward R.Lewis) of Indianapolis, and Helen Peck(Mrs. Sanford A. Lyon) of Seattle werein Chicago during. the holidays.Richard Chadwick Miller is a farmer atGroves, Colo.Vera Bass (Mrs. Horace Tharp) is atII337 Forest Ave., Chicago.Florence Ferguson (Mrs. PrescottRitchie) is at 43 I Pleasant St., KenoshaWis. 'Gertrude Wagner is living at 4603Calumet Ave., Chicago.Gladys Hallam (Mrs. Ross O. Hinkle)is living at 3120 Broadway New YorkN.Y. "Fannie Johnston, of 5011 RochesterAvenue, is relief agent for the Legal AidSociety.I91IGeorge D. Allen is an instructor in theUniversity of Minnesota.Florence Catlin is actively campaigningfor Alderman Nance, in the Sixth Wardof Chicago. She recently arranged aseries of "political teas," at the head­quarters of the 11 linois Equal SuffrageAssociation, at which among others werepresent Thomas T Hoyne, ex-'97, Demo­cratic candidate for alderman in theSecond Ward.Ada Walker (Mrs. Dwight Dickerson)is a precinct captain in the Sixth Ward.Minerva Fitts (Mrs. H. R. Anderson)lives at 4636 Lake Park Ave., Chicago.Roberta Daley (Mrs. Wentz) lives atAurora, Neb.Helen Cleverdon is teaching at Au­gusta, Ill. Her home address is 902Leland Ave., Chicago.I912Margaret Fahey lives at 693 MargateTerrace, Chicago.E�ith T. Higley teaches Zoology andBotany at Shreveport, La.Isabel Jarvis is teaching at Geneva, Ill.Erma Kellogg is taking a course atChicago Normal School. Her address isI226 E. 46th St.W. Eugene Stanley, 'I2, has entered thelaw firm of Stanley, Vermilion & Evans,at Wichita, Kan.Mary Embree has moved to ForestA venue, Evanston, Ill.ALUMNI AFFAIRSMarguerite L. Huston lives at 1208First Ave., West Cedar Rapids, Iowa.May Knapp (Mrs. J. F. S. Marshall)lives at Stevensville, Mont.Bertha Nordenholt lives at ChicagoAvenue and Marion St., Oak Park.Myra Seymour lives at Lake Geneva,Wis.Ethel White lives at 562 E. 50th Place,Chicago.1913Marjorie Miller is teaching in NewRichland, Minn.Ruth Renwick is studying at the Uni­versity of Illinois. Her home address is5484 Everett Ave., Chicago.Cecile Van Steenberg i� teachingdomestic science at Barrington, Ill.Mary Colt (Mrs. Earnway Edwards)lives at 3438 W. Polk St.Gertrude Thompson lives at 22 SeventhAve., S. E., Aberdeen, S.D�Kathryn Williams, is employed by theUnited Charities of Chicago.EX-1914Helen Campbell lives at 6817 UnionAve., Chicago.Edith Miller lives at I I 19 E. 54th St.,Chicago.Frances Bass is studying domesticscience at Columbia University.Merle Sebring is spending six monthsin Europe. EX-19I5Henrietta Treadwell is studying do ...mestic science at Columbia University.Engagements.-Hazel Bell Kelly, '08, and Earl LatanManville.Nathalie H. Young, ex-'08, 156 EastSuperior St., to John Garfield Jordan.Mr. Jordan is a civil engineer and agraduate of the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology. The wedding will takeplace in the fall.Edith Prindeville, 'II, to Kenneth NoelAtkins. Mr. Atkins received his A.B.and M.A. from Wesleyan and was afellow in the Department of Bacteriologyat the University. He is now bacteriolo­gist in the State Department of Agricul­ture at Atlanta, Ga.Frances Meigs, �I2, to Elisha N. Falesof Lake Forest, Ill. Mr. Fales is anengineer and a graduate of Massachu­setts Institute of Technology, He hasbeen stationed at Keokuk, Iowa, during 137the building of the government damthere. Miss Meigs expects to be marriedin June and to live in Ashland, Wis.She has been in Chicago this winter visit­ing her sisters.Morriages--«Ruth Mary Porter, '08, and Harry H.Schofield of Wausau, Wis., were marriedon January 12 at the LaSalle Hotel.Emily Frake, '09, was maid of honor.Edna Walsh, ex-ir o, and Edward R.Ferriss, Law '05, were married on De­cember 20, 1913. They are living at5525 Cornell Avenue.Alice Ferguson Lee, 'II, and FrederickCurtis Loweth were married on January17. Mr. and Mrs. Loweth are living inChicago.Ruth Abigail Allen, '12, and Robert A.Geary were married in Seattle on N ovem­ber 8. They are at home at Hunt'sPoint, Lake Washington, Seattle.Katsuji Kato, Ph.D., '13, was marriedon February II to Miss Koma Noguchi,at the First Baptist Church of Chicago.Dr. Kato is the traveling secretaryof Japanese Y.M.C.A. work in America.His wife is a graduate of Defiance College,Ohio.Edith Bartruff, ex-'I4, was married onJanuary 10 to Edward Hollis Keator, ofKeokuk, Iowa. Mr. Keator is a gradu­ate of the University of Wisconsin.Deaths.-Dr. Henry R. Duffield, '78, of Pitts­field, Ill., died at Mullanphy Hospital,St. Louis, December 14, 1913. He wasborn in Pike County, Ill., on February 21,1853; after graduation from the OldUniversity in 1878 he entered St. LouisMedical College. From 1882 to the timeof his last illness he practiced medicine inthe town of his birth, Pittsfield. In 1890he married Elizabeth Ledlier, who sur­vives him.Aaron Hodgman Cole, a graduate stu­dent in the University in 1893, 1896, and1898, died on December 30, I913. Hewas born in Greenwich, N.Y., on October2I, 1856; graduated from Colgate in1884; and had taught at Colgate andother institutions. At the time of hisdeath he was a member of the faculty ofthe Chicago Normal College. A wifeand two daughters survive him.Notice has just been received of thedeath, on June 3, 19II, of Jessie C. Boy­ington, '08.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEWalter Stuart Morrison, '10, died atSan Angelo, Tex., on December 8, 1913,after a year's illness. He was a memberof the Sigma Nu Fraternity.Edith Ethel Barnard, Instructor inChemistry at the University, died sud­denly of heart-disease at her home, 410West 62d St., on March 9, 1914. MissBarnard received the degree of S.B. fromChicago in 1903, of S.M. in 1905, and ofPh.D. in 1907. She was also a memberof Sigma Xi. Since 1907 she had beenan Instructor in Chemistry. She was awoman of unusual powers of mind,which her modesty and reserve could notrender unnoticeable. She had been inbad health for some time; 'but was notthought seriously ill; indeed, she wasplanning a shopping-trip down town whenshe was suddenly stricken. She waswell known among the alumnae living in Chicago, and her death will leave a va­cancy which the University will find hardto fill.The mystery surrounding the death ofLaura Wilder, 'II, has not yet beencleared up. On N ovember 1, 1913, shemarned Lawrence SImpson, of LexingtonKentucky, where she went to live. oriFebruary 22 she was found dead in herown room, shot through the head. Itwas supposed at the time a revolverwhich she had been cleaning had beenaccidentally discharged. Later rumorsbecame so disturbing that her husbanddemanded a further investigation; thisinvestigation is now going on. LauraWilder was the daughter of Dr. WilliamWilder, of 58n Kenwood Avenue, amember of the Mortarboard, and one ofthe best-known young women in theUniversity during her four years here.THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHYC. H. Gordon, '95, writes from theUniversity of Tennessee: "There arevery few U of C men in this region so faras I am aware. Professor H. E. B u­chanan, '09, is at the head of thedepartment of mathematics. In thesame department also is Professor J. B.Hamilton, who is working for a degreein the 'University of Chicago. ProfessorBuchanan is chairman of the Committeeon Athletics and is making a great suc­cess of that work as well as in his pro­fessional work. He is a member ofthe State Board of Directors of theY.M.C.A. and treasurer of the localorganization. I am myself treasurer­general of the Phi Kappa Phi, an honorsociety comparable to the Phi BetaKappa or the Sigma Xi."Charles J. Chamberlain, '97, has justbeen elected to membership in theWashington Academy of Sciences. In1912 Professor Chamberlain was electedan honorary member of the N atur­forschergesellschaft an der K. Universitatzu Kiew.Otis W. Caldwell, '98, Associate Pro­fessor of Botany in the School of Educa­tion, spent the Winter Quarter in astudy of the high schools of the southernstates.H. C. Cowles, '98, Associate Professorin the Department of Botany, spent amonth in the-Autumn Quarter in Arkan­sas carrying on special investigations forthe United States government, the centralpoint in the investigation being the utili- zation of ecological data for determiningthe character 0 f certain parts of the Mis­sissippi bottom 1and. Dr. Cowles andG. D. Fuller, '13, conducted an Inter­national Phytogeographic Excursionthrough the United States in the sum­mer of 1913. The participants of thisexcursion were a dozen of the leadingplant geographers of the various Euro­pean countries.G. L. Brown, '00, is now acting presi­dent of the South Dakota State College,at Brookings.F. L. Stevens, '00, has resigned hisposition as director of the AgriculturalExperiment Station in Porto Rico tobecome professor of plant pathology inthe University of Illinois. He haspublished a volume entitled The FungiWhich Cause Plant Disease.Mary B. Harris, '00, has been spendingthe past two years abroad, studyingnumismatics both at Rome and at Berlin.She expects to return to this country inJune of this year.L. A. Lawson, '01, until recently pro­fessor of botany at the University ofGlasgow, has been appointed professorof botany in the University of Sydney,Australia.T. C. Frye, '02, professor of botany inthe University of Washington, spent thesummer of 1913 investigating the eco­nomic possibilities of marine algae inAlaska, under the auspices of the govern­ment.H. N. Whitford, '03, is engaged in aALUMNI AFFAIRSforest survey of British Columbia forthe Commission of Conservation forCanada. At present he is collectingdata for a land classification map whichwill show the areas for agricultural land,timber land, and waste land. Thework when finished will be a comprehen­sive report of the forest resources of theprovince.W. M. Atwood, '03, is professor ofbotany in the State Agricultural Collegeof Oregon. ,-Geo. H. Shull, '04, a member of thestaff at the Station of ExperimentalEvolution at Cold Spring Harbor, isspending the year in Europe, studyingthe work of plant breeding.M. A. Chrysler, '04, professor ofbotany in the University of Maine, gavean address before the holiday meetingof the American N aturalists on theteaching of botany to undergraduates.William Crocker, '06, Assistant Pro­fessor of Plant Physiology, spent theAutumn Quarter in Washingtonj'in workfor the Bureau of Plant Industry.Rolvix Harlan, '06, professor of soci­ology and Bible and head of OttawaUniversity, Ottawa, Kansas, has beendelivering lectures at chautauquas on"Urbanity as a Personal and SocialIdeal " and " The New Social Conscience."He is also chairman of the Progressi veParty County Club of Ottawa.Wanda M." Pfeiffer, '08, Instructorin the Department of Botany, is spendingthe Winter Quarter in Porto Rico, col­lecting material for a study of the dis­eases of' tropical plants.R. R. Gates, '08, has been appointedlecturer in botany at the Royal Instituteof Science, London.Evan T. Sage, '08, who has been con­nected with the University of Washing­ton, is now professor of Latin at the Uni­versity of Pittsburgh. He has justwritten a paper on "Petronius Poggisand John Salisbury" which is soon toappear in Comparative Philology.John C. Granbery, '09, is associateprofessor of sociology. and economy atSouthwestern University, Georgetown,Texas.Charles Brookover, '10, is now con­nected with the medical department ofthe University of Arkansas as professorof embryology and histology. He hasjust written a paper on the " NervusTerminalis in Man" and another on the"Development of the Olfactory Regionin Lepidosteus" which will shortly 139appear in the Journal of ComparativeNeurology.Frederick G. Henke, '10, who for thepast three years has been professor ofphilosophy and psychology at the U ni­versity of Nanking, Nanking, China, hasreturned to this country and is now con­nected with the department of philosophyand education at Willamette University,Salem, Oregon. His paper on " WangYang Ming, a Chinese Idealist" appearedin the January, 1914, Monist.M. L. Spencer, '10, professor of Eng­lish at Lawrence College, Appleton,Wisconsin, has published articles on"Corpus Christi Pageants in England"and William Gilmore Simm's edition of"Yemassee." He has also published abook entitled Practical English Punctua­tion.W. S. Cooper, 'II, is at present atStanford University investigating thechaparral of vegetation from an eco ...logical viewpoint.Samuel N. Reep, 'II, has resigned hisassistant professorship of sociology atthe University of Minnesota. Dr. Reepwas chairman of the Minnesota statefinance committee in the WoodrowWilson campaign.M. A. Brennan, '12, professor of botanyand dean of the colleges, University - ofNorth Dakota, has been elected presidentof the University of Idaho at a salary of$6,000. He enters upon his new positionon April I.L. I. Knight, '13". Instructor in PlantPhysiology, has been appointed specialinvestigator for the Agricultural Experi­ment Station at West Virginia.In January last Julia J. Taft, '13, wasappointed assistant superintendent ofthe State Reformatory for Women atBedford Hills, New York.N. J. Ware, '13, is superintendent ofthe University Settlement of Toronto,Ontario, Canada.Cleo Hearon, '13, is professor and headof the department of history in the In­dustrial Institute and College of Missis­sippi. Two articles by her entitled" Nullification in Mississippi" and "Mis­sissippi and the Compromise of 1850"have recently appeared in the Publica­tions of the Mississippi Historical Society.The Doctors now number 771, includ­ing 5 who received the degree at theMarch Convocation. Of the total num­ber 18 are now deceased, leaving 753living Doctors. The new issue of theDirectory, just published, shows themarranged by departments and years.FROM THE LETTER-BOXTo the Editor:I believe a great many of the alumnaeand alumni will be interested in hearingof A Cowboy in a Kurhaus, a play writtenby Mrs. George E. Vincent, which waspresented' at the Shubert Theaters inMinneapolis and St. Paul, February 23and 24.. It was given under the auspicesof a number of society women in the TwinCities for the benefit of the Women'sLoan Fund of the University of Min­nesota.Socially and financially the play was agreat success. The fact that the cast wascomposed of prominent Twin City peoplelent a special interest to their manyfriends in the audience. All the threeperformances were before packed houses.The proceeds turned over to those incharge of the Women's Loan Fundamounted to several hundred dollars.As to the play itself, it afforded a verypleasant diversion for" the tired businessman." It was patent that the play waswritten "just for the fun of it." ToMrs. Vincent it must have had a good dealof the souvenir element, suggestive of the"local color" of her sojourn in the Tyrolslast summer and her cross-mountaincamping trip through Glacier NationalPark two summers ago. Neither thewriting nor the acting of the play wasmeant to be seriously professional. Boththe author and the actors showed clever­ness, but it wa� not of the hidden, subtlesort. It was-to laugh! It came nearerbeing a farce than a comedy. At anyrate some of the roles were overdrawn tothe point of caricature; and the situationswere often very precipitate. Some of the"business)} in the play was especiallygood. �The setting for the three acts of theplay was a sanatorium in the Tyrols.Here, because of her "heart trouble,"the heroine of the play, a spirited Ameri­can girl, was taken by her managerialsuffragette aunt. Presently the cowboyappeared on the scene. His trouble likethe young woman's, was acquired theprevious summer when they both met on a ranch out in Arizona. When it was dis­covered that the picturesque, manlywesterner was only a Bostonian and aHarvard graduate, terrible disappoint­ment saddened the heart of the romanticmaiden who, to assuage her feelingsnearly married a youthful count. 'But in a series of thrilling and all butfatal accidents the Bay State" cowboy"proved his sterling qualities; and so thegirl decided she loved him as much aswhen he wore chaps and bucked bronchos·and everything was fixed up in a lovelyway. There were others, of course, whohelped to "thicken the plot": invalids at.the Kurhaus, a doctor, a nurse, an obtuseEnglishman, a German baron, a Frenchmaid, a breezy "ToIlJ. boy" from Nevada,a noble lady of the German court, police­men, lackeys, and a real live dachshund.HARVEY B. FULLE�, JR., '08To the Editor:February 4, I9I4On page 67 of your January numberthere is a statement entitled" A NotableOmission" which states that there are noUniversity of Chicago alumni on ourBoard of Trustees. In regard to thismatter, may I ask whether you consideran alumnus of the Old University of Chi­cago as an alumnus of the present Univer-:sityof Chicago? If you do, Lam quitecertain your statement is incorrect, forMr. Eli Felsenthal, '78, is an alumnus ofthe Old University and is also a trusteeof the present one.If what I say is correct, please let meknow and also change this statement insome future issue of the Magazine. If Iam not correct, please pardon me.Sincerely,ALAN D. WITKOWSKY, 'I3(Eli B. Felsenthal is an alumnus of theOld University, class of '78. The state­ment referred to has to do only withalumni of the University of Chicago asreorgariized.- ED.)