The University of ChicagoMagazineVOLUME VI JUNE" 1914 NUMBER 8EVENTS AND DISCUSSIONThe arrangements for Alumni Week this year reflected enormouscredit on the officers of the Association and the various committees .. ' .To secure the reapportionment of time which made theAlumni Week h d f h' I · ibl ith · f ;. tree ays or tea umm POSSl e WIt out mter erencewas a difficult task, but it proved justifiable. On Thursday, June 5,were held the various class reunions, accounts of which, appear else­where. On Friday evening further- reunions were held at the differentfraternity houses, and at 7:30 was the Sing. This . year the plan ofthe Sing included songs, not only by the various chapters, but alsoby other organizations-the men"s and women's glee clubs, Washingtonand Lincoln houses, and others. The chapters, too, sang�' not inthe order of their establishment, but. in the reverse order,' the. oldestlast-a wise readjustment. The evening was beautiful and the attend­ance' very large. Hutchinson Court was packed. The singing wasgood, 'but no better than last year. The songs offer too little variety,though they were run off more rapidly than last year, and so kept theinterest more lively. Beyond question" the Sing is a valuable institution.It seems possible, howeveryto improve it along the lines in which a startwas made this year. It is possible, too, that the chapter singing could beeither eliminated altogether or confined to a few chapters who .at a seriesof preliminary Sings throughout the Spring Quarter should show theirinterest in music and th-eir competence. At all events, the idea of pre­liminary Sings should be encouraged. After the Sing the moving­picture. show was given in Mandel. The, promised scenes from theChicago-Minnesota game did not appear; in their place was flashedthe correspondence regarding them, including. some very interesting189THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEdocuments. Only Sherlock Holmes could tell why Coach Williams ofMinnesota did not have them sent on. A casual reader of the lettersand telegrams involved must suppose it was because he wished to bedisobliging. In their place was substituted a wonderful " athleticromance,' in which a football hero rescued a friend from .the conse­quences of crime and won the hand of friend's sister. The footballgamewhich occupied a part of the story showed teams which appearedeager but to some degree ignorant of the rules. Besides this romantictale there were views of the Olympic games at Stockholm, and of theUniversityas it was and is. The audience was large and enthusiastic.Next fall arrangements will probably be made for moving pictures of thefinal game on the Athletic Field, which can be exhibited at variousalumni functions. The idea of an annual show is 'a thoroughly goodone, 'and the plan will be continued. 'On. Saturday morning occurred the business meeting of the CollegeAlumni Association, with the announcement of officers elected by postalvote, and the adoption of the revised constitution as..it was printed lastmonth in the Magazine. An account of this meeting appears elsewhere.Agnes R. 'Wayman, �3, was re-elected president by a vote of 340 in 572,and Frank W. Dignan, '97, was re-elected secretary. This was the firstbusiness '. meeting of the College Alumni Association which had beenheld since 1909. It was slimly attended. Evidently until the traditionextends itself of really solid business to be transacted, the alumni andalumnae will not exert themselves to attend a morning meeting. -With­out question, however, the adoption of the new constitution, with "itsbusiness-like adaptation of representation to actual conditions, willincrease interest, and gradually we shall :find our place in the conductof general University affairs. That there were many graduates oli thegrounds was made plain by the large attendance at. the alumnae break­fast in Lexington, and the men's dinner in Hutchinson, at the two ofwhich a total of more than :five hundred were present. At the men's din­ner a cabaret performance was staged, including a trick donkey; Blackfriarselections, and a discussion of the. Mexican situation, written by WillHughes, '04. There were no speeches, except by Jack Hagey, '98, whoas chairman endeavored at intervals to calm the rougher element. TheYearly Buffoon made its appearance, with its usual eclat. The Con­ference Meet in the afternoon had gone heavily against Chicago, butthat fact seemed to cast no gloom over the proceedings.Altogether the plansof the committee as outlined.in the May Maga­zine worked out to great success. The organization of affairs will befar easier next year in consequence. It is plain to the most casualEVENTS AND DISCUSSIONonlooker 'that the alumni reunions are more and more scientificallyhandled every year, and more and more successful, And anyone whoquestions whether the handling or the success is the .result of chance,· isrespectfully requested to inquire of ·John" Moulds, general chairman ofarrangements this year. Johnnie is still holding his job as cashier­but by the skin of his teeth; committee meetings and errands nearlyfinished him.Exigencies of space forbid' the reproduction this month of the Con­vocation address. But elsewhere in the Magazine appear the addressesof Professor Hale at the laying of the cornerstone of theCornerstone Classics Building, and of Professor. Chamberlin at theLaying laying of the cornerstone of julius Rosenwald Hall, anaccount of which is given inthe University Record. The exercises werelargely attended and the addresses are in each case of deep significance­eloquent of belief in the University. What is in store for us in the wayof building in the next few yearsonly the Board of Trustees knows; butwithout any question the changes are to' be great. By 'next June thecornerstone of the Woman's Building, plans for which are practicallycompleted now; the year following, Modern Language and History; in1917, the twentieth anniversary, probably the new chapel, with itsmagnificence unsurpassed in college architecture in this country-thatis a forecast. The block-and-tackles will be steadily busy for years.One prayer for. the spirit to fill with usefulness for mind and state thesehundreds of coming rooms!" We desire to express to the class of 1914 our appreciation of thefaithful work done by their committee in securing memberships to theCollege Aiumni Association. A larger number of mem-From the b hi f h b . d f h 1Alumni Council ers Ip ees ave een receive . rom t e present c assthan from any preceding one. This is another evidenceof the remarkable public spirit -which the class of 1914 has shown onevery occasion.The Alumni organization received this year a large number of newmembers who are certain to add greatly to the spirit and effectiveness ofthe alumni 'work. Members of the class who have not yet joined us areurged to do so as soon as possible. . In the meantime, our special thanksare due and are hereby tendered to theenergetic and effective com­mittee.FRANK W. DIGNANSecretary, Alumni CouncilNEW FRATERNITY REGULATIONSLate in April, after discussions covering a period of six months, theseventeen fraternities composing the Inter-Fraternity Council voted I3to 4 to adopt a new set of regulations in regard to rushing, 'pledging, andinitiating new members. On May 3 these regulations were approvedby the Board of Student Organizations, and recommended to the GeneralFaculty, which on May 10 also approved. them, and they will accordinglygo into effect at once. The regulations are too long to give in detail,but the essential principles "involved are as follows:I. Only Seniors may be rushed in high school, and not more thantwo engagements in two weeks may be made with each man.2. High-school men may not be pledged until the last month of theSenior year.(These regulations are designed to obviate at least in part the com­plaints of high-school principals that college fraternities interfere inhigh-school matters. It is further understood that by the request ofthe University there shall be no rushing or pledging of University High­School students.)3. No engagements shall be made -with college men during themorning class hours or after 8 P.M. on any week night.4. All rushing .entertainments shall be confined to fraternity housesor to moving-picture shows near the University.5. The requirement for initiation is changed from three majors andthree grade points to three majors and five grade points.'Provisions are included defining terms and setting forth the machineryfor the enforcement of the rules, which will be in the hands of the Council,but subject to the approval of the Board of Student Organizations.The special changes are in the strict limitation of high-school rush­ing and pledging; the prohibition of all "rushing" house parties, theaterparties, and "outside" dances; and the increased requirements forinitiation. Objections to the new regulations came principally fromAlpha Delta Phi a�d Delta Kappa Epsilon, which for ten' years havemaintained an agreement which permits no pledging until the fourthweek of residence. They urged the adoption of much more rigid rulesin regard to length of time in residence before pledging, and a so-called"zone of quiet," to include the first two weeks of a student's residence,during which no rushing should be permitted; with a system of formalI92NEW FRATERNITY REGULATIONS I93bidding, to be managed in part by faculty co-operation. The' Board ofStudent Organizations seemed to feel that on the whole the secondsystem was superior to the first; but the general unanimity of studentopinion was deferred to. The fact also was cited that the systemadopted was in reality only a modification of the one now in use, whichcan hardly be called a complete failure; whereas the second plan involvedradical changes, and might introduce more difficulties than it avoided.The scholastic standing of the fraternities for the Winter Quarterappears below. Compared with the standing for the Autumn Quarterthere are few radical changes. Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Upsilon, DeltaSigma Phi, and Beta Phi remain near the top, Delta Tau Delta, PhiKappa Psi, and Phi Delta Theta near the bottom. Phi Kappa Sigmagoes from r ath to zd, Sigma Chi from roth to oth, and Beta Theta Pifrom nth to 4th. The general average is considerably above that ofthe Autumn Quarter, as was to have been expected. On the other hand,it is below the average of the Winter Quarter last year. The tablefollows:I Rank Percentage I Rank Percentage PercentageRank Fraternity in in in Winter in Winter in WinterAutumn Autumn of 1913 of 1913 of 1914I Alpha Tau Omega ....... I 2·77 I 3.30 2.842 Phi Kappa Sigma ....... 12 2.06 6 2·45 2.783 Beta Phi ............... 6 2·40 New New 2.644 Beta Theta Pi .......... II 2.102 4 2.70 2.585 Delta Upsilon ...... � ... 2 2·75 2 3.02 2·536 Delta Sigma Phi ........ 3 2·54 12 2.31 2.527 Chi Psi ................ 5 2.41 9 2.327 2·458 Alpha Delta Phi ........ 4 2.51 3 2.96 2·399 Sigma Chi ............. 16 1.65 10 2.323 2.3010 Delta Kappa Epsilon .... 10 2.104 14 2.08 2.291,1 Sigma Nu .............. 7 2·37 13 2.12 2.2612 Phi Gamma Delta ....... 14 2.02 8 2.36 2.2513 Psi Upsilon ............. 9 2.16 16 1.98 2.2114 Sigma Alpha Epsilon ..... 13 2.04 5 2.62 2.15IS Kappa Sigma ........... 8 2.19 II 2.318 2.1116 Delta Tau Delta ........ 18 1. 10 IS 2.01 1.8117 Phi Kappa Psi .......... 17 I·38 17 1.83 I. 7518 Phi Delta Theta ........ IS I. 83 7 2·37 I. 42I Washington House ...... 2 2·73 Not re- Not re- 3· I9I I corded corded2 Lincoln House .......... I 3.18 Not re- Not rc- 3.15corded cordedADDRESS AT THE LAYING OF THECORNERSTONE OF THE CLAS­SICS BUILDINGIBY WILLIAM GARDNER HALE, A.B., LLD.Head of the Department of the Latin Language and LiteratureOur University came into existenceat a time of great mental exaltation.The World's Fair was in the making.I t was opened in the Spring Quarterof our first year. In the Convocationaddress which I gave at the end of thatquarter, I said:The power of the leaders of the commu­nity which is to be. the environment of the.University of Chicago has been shown in thatfair vision of civilization which, calling uponthe best genius of the whole country, theyhave evoked, for a few fleeting months, bythe shores 'of the lake. But this is not theironly work.· 'Another and more lasting visionhas in these same years been silently risingunder the shadow of the White City. When,by the hard decree of fate, the walls of thatcity have been razed to the ground, the GrayCity of 'enduring stone by the "MidwayPlaisance" will remain+witness to a stillhigher and more disinterested idealism, proof,like the Art 'Institute and the three greatlibraries, of Chicago's' deep-seated belief inthe. intellectual life. Here, in this city ofthe open mind and generous heart, in this cityof dreamers and planners, in this city wherethe pulse of American life beats full andstrong, it should prosper�My words would have died in theutterance, had they, in Horace' phrase,"lacked the sacred bard." Our sacredbard was Professor Lewis. As he hashimself said on a public occasion, thepassageI have quoted touched his im­agination; and the White City and theGray will hereafter live together in theverses of the Chicago hymn:The CityWhite has. fled the earth;But where the-azure waters lieA nobler city has its birth,The City Gray that ne'er shall die.For decades and for centuriesIts battlemented towers shall riseBeneath the hope-filled western skies.'Tis our dear Alma Mater. His high visions and mine knew nodistinction of department. They ha vebeen realized. The Gray City has risen,stone on stone, with unparalleled steadi­ness. The nightly lanterns of the con­tractor have been quenched as rarely asthe gates of the. temple of Janus wereclosed, in sign of peace, in Rome. TheCity White, on the other hand, hasbecome little more than a memory. Twobuildings alone stand. One· of - them,which now serves the humble purposes ofa restaurant, is by that function savedfor a longer life. The other, the home ofart.at the World's Fair, and the supremepride then of all its beauty, as it is todayof all the beauty of the park, is doomed.Why is it that many a citizen of . Chicagowill feel a personal grief on the day whenthe wreckers strike the first blow at it?What is the secret' of its incomparableloveliness and nobility, even in lingeringdecay? It is its harmony of part withpart, its restraint, its dignity,This dearly loved building, which im­presses. even those who know nothing ofits antecedents, is a lineal descendantof Greek and Roman art. That art hasbeen worked over by generations ofmodern minds to produce the result whichnow so satisfies us. The building is nocopy of any that - ever stood in Rome orAthens. Yet if Rome and Athens hadnever _ been, this building' would neverha ve been. And if today someone shouldask me, "How did Athens and Romelook?" I should answer, " More likethe Field Columbian Museum than likeanything else this country has to show.The- Field Columbian Museum is Greece,Rome, Italy, France, and America. Butmost of all it is Greece and Rome."The qualities of' Greek and Romanart are also those of Greek. and. RomanI Delivered on the morning of Convocat,ion Day, J une 9, 1914.194ADDRESS AT CORNERSTONE-LAYING OF CLASSICS BUILDING 195literature. We dedicate today a build­ing which is to enshrine these qualitiesin the life of the University of Chicago.It takes the form of the architecture ofthe northern races, to which our generalstyle binds us. But in spirit it standsfor the same tradition as the great build­ing in Jackson Park. It is as if thatdying monument had waited for the daywhen classical studies should have theirpermanent place assured in the Univer­sity of Chicago.How did this very modern city cometo have such a building? How did thisvery modern University come to sharein such a tradition? Are these thingsrevivals of something alien to us, or dothey belong to our own inheritance?There are several great ci viliza tions inthe world, each with its own body of greatliterature. But we are aware that thecivilization and literature of India, forexample, or of China, are not ours. Oursis the civilization of Europe. We knowwell where it had its cradle. The mapof our old home two thousand years agois the map of the Mediterranean basin,with Rome at its center. The map ofit three thousand years ago is the map ofGreece, the Greek islands, and the Greeksettlements. It was here that the civil­ization to which we belong was firstevolved. Here flourished an intellectuallife of extraordinary power and beauty.Rome carried on and built up the inherit­ance, adding the conceptions of law,political order, and the common weal tothe conceptions of beauty which had beendeveloped under Greek individualism.This Greco-Roman civilization wasextended westward and northwardthrough Caesar's conquest of Gaul, and,a little later, the Roman conquest of apart of Britain. The latter was transi­tory. The former was accomplished oncefor all. So complete was it that theGauls accepted, not only the ways ofliving, but the art and language of theirconquerors. Among the most impressiveand most beautiful remains of Romanconstruction are the temples, the theaters,and the aqueducts of Southern France.And the language of France is todaymodern Roman, the direct descendant ofthe popular Latin of the late empire.But Rome's conquest did not stophere. Though the empire was over­thrown by the barbarian races of. thenorth, the civilization was not over­thrown. As Greece, in Horace' phrase, took her rude conqueror captive, so didRome take captive later her rude con­querors from the northern world. Theways of Rome became the ways of thebarbarian races, and the Roman empire,dying as a political entity, became theRoman empire of European thought.For a while, however, the intellectuallife subsided, under many. infl uences­materialism, the shocks of the barbarianinvasions, and the repressive power of anauthoritative church. The establish­ment of schools by Charlemagne marksroughly the beginnings of a revi val.Working under the supposed authorityof Aristotle (of all things in the world),but hampered by their creed, the justi­fication of which was the main purposeof learning, these schools neverthelessserved. The thirteenth century, a cen­tury of powerful men, saw a fresh stirringof human thought. In the early partof the Iourteenth.. as we know almost bychance, from comments in the margins ofmanuscripts, and surviving collections ofchoice passages, readers in the monasteryand cathedral libraries began to rangeabout among Latin authors who had longbeen forgotten. Then came, near themiddle of the century, a group of men whoeagerly formed private libraries of Latin,copying with their own hands, and en­gaging others to copy for them. Thefirst great collector of Latin manuscriptswas Petrarch; and Boccaccio was littlebehind him in activity. It is worthy ofnotice, ·as we pass, that classical studiesand modern literature begin with thesame names. Petrarch never attainedto Greek. But in the latter part of hiscentury, in Florence, there was appointedfor the first time a professor of that lan­guage. In all the universities, professorsof Latin were appointed. For a longtime they were looked upon as dealingwith inferior matters-as being in posi­tions of lower dignity-and they receivedlower salaries than their associates. Butthey won the cause for which they fought.They successfully vindicated the right offree inquiry, the right of mankind to therational and joyous use of this earth, andthe nobility and interest to which humanlife had attained before the days of thechurch. Because they championed therights of man, they were called" human­ists." In their triumph, Europe becamehumanistic. Thus classical education isnot, as is so often thoughtlessly said, aninheritance from mediaevalism. It wasTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEthe principal engine of revolt againstmediaevalism. Classical education wasthe result of the victory of the free humanspirit.With the revival of the Classics, calledthe Renaissance, modern science also wasborn. The first means to a freer scientificspirit was found in the translation of theobservations and discussions of the Greekmedical" writers. From the, same cause,the free activity of the human spirit,came the reformation in religion. Fromthat time until now, the intellectual lifeof Europe has swept on in the currentwhich had its source in Greece and Rome.This is the inheritance into which wewere born. This is why the most beauti­ful building in the country at the presentmoment is a building evolved from Greekand Roman' architecture. This is why,in the laying of the cornerstone of theClassics Building, the spirit of Greeceand Rome is to be established in, perma­nency in the educational system of theUniversity of Chicago.,, But it is not thought and art alonethat form our inheritance from Greeceand Rome.' I have said that, withRoman civilization, the countries to thewest accepted the Roman speech. Socompletely did this triumph that, whenthe men of the north, the N ormans, aswe call them, descended upon France,they, too" accepted the civilization andthe language of the conquered. people.When they carried their power in to thenorthern island, their Roman' speech andlanguage went with them; and we havethe strange spectacle of men of northernblood imposing a Latin speech upon othermen of northern blood. The Tanguageof England became a mixed language,made up of Anglo-Saxon and NormanFrench.' To its vocabulary were after­ward' added many words taken directlyfrom Latin. We ought not, then; tothink of our native, speech as Anglo­Saxon, with some elements of Latinsuperimposed; we ought to think of it,and speak of it, as Anglo-Latin. If wecall Anglo-Saxon the mother-tongue, ofour race, then we should call Latin ourfather-tongue. No orator of today, nomatter what his subject, will be able toescape this fact in' the constitution ofEnglish. More than this, we have,' ingeneral, not taken Latin roots and builtup English' words upon them in our ownway. A great multitude of the commonwords which we use, like "orator," .. " oratory" "oration " "oratorical " wereformed i� Italy som� thousands df yearsago. The men who were shaping them.then were making modern English. Instudying the Latin language as a lan­guage, then, we are studying our own-tongue. It is strange thatso distorted aconception as that which is commonlyheld should ever have established itself,and that the study of the Latin languagein our schools should ha ve come to bethought, of as the study of somethingremote from our own interests.But three apparently easy answersare given to what I have urged, two ofthem by a recent writer in the, Outlook,whose open cry is that, now that Greek(as he thinks), has been driven out ofAmerican education, no effort must beomitted to drive Latin out also._ The first is that, while Greek andRoman literature may be of value, theyare to be .had now in translations. Butwho applies this to French and German?Who says that what we want is) not thepower to read French and . German, butbureaus .of translation, and, that" whilescientific students must have French andGerman in order to read the curren tjournals, nobody needs a knowledge ofthem for general literary education?What man who knows his German findsin Bayard Taylor'S Faust all that he findsin' Goethe's? If there is anything thatis sure, it is the untranslatability of anygreat work of literature., The second answer given, by the.samewriter, is that all our present Englishwords are in' the dictionary, and can belearned from it. It is quite' true. Theyare all there. But nobody" even if helacks Latin, ever does or ever will learnthem in this way. The child learnsthem through what he hears and whathe, reads. He builds up little by littlea linguistic consciousness. But, withextremely few exceptions, he doesmot,without Latin, gain the linguistic con­sciousness and the comprehension pos­sessed by the student who knows theirsources and the powers' of each part.,The third answer is a more subtle one.It may have occurred to some of my hear­ers when I said that the great buildingin our park is Greece, Rome, Italy,France, America. "We have inherited,"it may be said, "all that we now have.But we possess this great art now. Whatdifference does it make out of whatsources it came?" It makes this differ-ADDRESS AT CORNERSTONE-LAYING OF CLASSICS BUILDING 197ence, that no man who held this' viewcould ever have designed the building.Atwood, who gave it its form, and theFrench architect who preceded him, weredevoted students of Italian, Roman, andGreek architecture. It was .: throughtheir deep familiarity with this archi­tecture that they achieved their delicacyof feeling, their restraint, their repose.McKim, the founder of the AmericanAcademy, recognized this well when heestablished the American School ofArchitecture in .Rome, in order that, thereand in their visits to Greece, our prom­ising young architects might come to knowintimately ,the· purest and best .' archi­tectural monuments of the classical style-the style which is obviously triumph­ing in the present architectural workboth of Europe and of this new land.And what I have said of architecturemay be said of language. The studentof modern languages should go back tothe classics. ' .The modern languages ofthemsel ves do not suffice. The· finestand most delicate expression in spokenand written language today is to be foundin French. The man who does not readFrench misses one of the keenest enjoy­ments of life.. . All this, I not only grant,but urge. What. follows? The writerof the article in the Outlook already re­ferred to says that our young people,instead 'of learning Latin, should be read­ing' . such writers as Maeterlinck andAnatole France. But what do someof these men themselves think aboutthe matter? Let us listen to AnatoleFrance:'For myself, I follow the fortunes of classi­cal studies year by year with a keener andever-increasing anxiety. French culture isthe noblest and the most delicate thing.in theworld. It is growing poorer, and people aremaking the most hazardous experiments toregenerate it. How is it possible, at times socritical, to look without emotion at the littlerascal going to school in the morning; nosein air, his books on his back? He is thefuture of his' country, this poor, little devil.I am' distressed when I try to divine whetherhe will keep in full life the flame that has solong enlightened the world, or will let it goout. I tremble for our humanities.Again:To learn to think, that is the true aim ofsecondary education. � And that is why I .regret the loss of the ways in which Latinused to be taught· in the language. classes·;for, in learning Latin in those ways, thestudent used to learn something infinitely more precious than Latin: he used to learn toshape and to express his thought.Again:, I believe that, without Latin studies, thebeauty of the French genius is doomed. Allof us who have thought with some vigor hadlearned to think in the study of Latin. Idon't exaggerate in saying that in beingignorant of Latin one is ignorant of the sov­ereign lucidity of expression.. All this is true for the person of Eng­lish speech as well.if riot quite in the samedegree, yet in one of commanding im­portance. The web of, our English lit­erature is shot through and through withthe threads and patterns of classicalliterature. And in our daily speech,apart from the simple counters of thoughtafforded by the pronouns, prepositions,numerals, and auxiliaries, the Latin sideof our Anglo-Latin language heavily pre..;,ponderates. Even those who urge thepursuit of subjects which prepare one tomake an immediate living are obliged,all unawares, to call them by two Latinwords, " vocational studies" ; and theinstitutions in which they are to betaught have to be called, by one Latinword and one Greek; "vocational schools."There is a deal of' misconception on thispoint. A recent writer has said,'" A voidLatin derivatives. Use terse, pure,simple Saxon." But out of these eightwords only "Saxon" is Saxon. All therest are Latin. Science herself, indeed,bears without apparent discomfort aLatin' name; while her nomenclature isalmost wholly Latin or Greek. TheInternational .. Congress of Botanists atVienna in 1905 even went so faras form­ally to adopt Latin as the language bywhich all species should be, not onlynamed, but described.Closely akin to the helpfulness. of.classical study on this side of the field,and quite apart from its helpfulness tostudents of all modern literatures inschool or. college work, is its aid. on thelinguistic side to the student of French,Spanish, Italian, history, law, medicine,and divinity. Thus .classical study, mis­tress in. her own domain, is· the willingservant to many another department ofthe arts, sciences, and professions. . Hasshe not the right, then, to ask for the ap­preciation and sympathy without whichno department can successfully work?I have spoken of the artistic arid lit­erary aspects of classical training and ofTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEits service to the work of other depart­ments. The day is full, and -you are topass to other things. I can but barelyallude to another great aspect of ourwork, _ the scientific one, covering a widerange of interests-linguistics, epigraphy,paleography, political .institutions, pri­vate life, _ religion. You must not makethe-mistake (so easy to make, because ofour restriction of the word " science"when used alone) of - supposing that wehavegone to the natural sciences to bor­row a method. The modern scientificstudy of the classics began with Bopp'sdissertation, in the_ year 181,6. Thesplendid' modern spirit in natural sciencehardly goes back so far.But I must not leave upon your mindsthe impression that we of the classicsvalue nothing else. On the contrary, weare earnest advocates of breadth in edu­cation. We are glad- that. a colleague ofours, for five years a teacher of Latin andcovering the entire college course, is now� the lie ad of our Department of Botany;just as we are pleased to number in ourown classical faculty a man who beganhis career as an ichthyologist, and whoseearliest publication was in this field,Physics, chemistry, geology, as taught inthis University, are as truly cultural asGreek, Latin, French, German, philos­ophy, history. Only, there are two dis­tinct kinds of culture, as there are two distinct kinds of science. And our creedis that every student of the University,wherever_ his controlling work -may lie,should have something of the other kindof culture, and something of the other kindof science. We - therefore rejoice that afair sister to our Classics Building is risingat the same time with it, to be the home ofone of the great natural sciences; andweoffer congratulations for this building, aswe render thanks for ours.Our_ own home, however, will not becomplete when the present building isfinished. .We are all of one sisterhood;but classical study has a twin sister, whois still homeless. The difference betweenclassical study and modern-languagestudy is _ mainly the unimportant one - ofchronology. The two proceed by identi­cal methods. They cultivate the samegreat field, and their- respective holdingsin that field' overlap. Men in each of thetwo groups work in the other, also, andneed, not only the supporting sense ofnearness, but the actual working tools,of that other group. With our warmthanks to the memory of a citizen ofChicago, and to the sympathetic co-oper­ation of living citizens, must thereforebe joined our prayer-to some as yet silentother citizen, the giver of the future homeof the_ modern languages. And' a partof that prayer is that, for both our sakes,he may not long conceal his name.ADDRESS AT THE LAYING OF THECORNERSTONE OF THE JULIUSROSENWALD HALLIBY THOMAS CHROWDER CHAMBERLIN,· PH.D., SC.D.,.LL.D.Head of . the Department of GeologyPermit me, at the outset, on behalf ofmy colleagues, to express our. warm ap­preciation 'of the congratulations whichProfessor Hale, representing the ClassicalDepartments, has been so kind and sogenerous as to extend to us on thisoccasion. We appreciate also and wereciprocate his words in behalf of catho­licity, of sound culture, of, a scientificspirit in all lines of scholarly endeavor.Permit me also to assure the ActingPresident that we appreciate the kindwords with which he has emphasized ourrepresentative. relationships as expressedin our joint participation in these cere­monies.I t is my privilege to speak on behalfof those who for long years have enjoyedthe disciplinary value of hopes deferred.During all these years we have also beenunder the mandates of. that spirit ofscientific caution which admonishes usnot ,to accept too readily what seemsevidence of things earnestly' desired.And so we have been cautious and cir­cumspect in committing ourselves to theprospect of fulfilment of ourardent hopethat there would soon be provided a homefor the Earth Sciences. But in theserecent months, still more in these recentweeks, and even more markedly in theserecent days, there have grown up evi­dences so cogent and so impressive, thatwe feel that we do no disrespect to thespirit of scientific caution, if we, today,make a public profession of our faith so faras may be implied in the laying of a cor­nerstone. It is an old saying that thereare compensations for those who wait.Well, we have waited. We are readyfor the compensations. The adage istrue. There are compensations. Whilewe have waited, we have learned moreof our needs. While we ha ve waited we have learned more of the earth uponwhich we propose to build. I t wouldindeed be ungracious if we had inveigledthose who bear the responsibility for theinvestment of precious funds into erect­ing a superstructure on an insecurefoundation.As you have expressed your interestby joining us in these ceremonies, youmay care to know on what sort of founda­tions this superstructure is to be raised.You may so far sympathize with thiscornerstone that you may desire toknow whether it will be its lot to lie inpeace, free from wrack and strain, untilit shall be opened by some future genera­tion and reveal the records that have beenintrusted to its care. So far as thecontribution of the architects and buildersis concerned, permit me to say that thestructure rests immediately upon amonolith of concrete and steel, in effectupon a single great continuous stone.At the base of this are broad footingsbound together with gridirons of steel.In the interior of the building are otherbasal footings beneath the steel columnsthat support the ample beams which areto bind the whole structure into a unit.The bearing area upon which the weightof the structure and its contents will belaid thus reaches the' ample proportionsof 7,600 square feet.This broad base rests upon a cushion ofbeach sand 'laid down by the poundingwaves of the ancient Lake Chicago. Alayer of sand is not without its ill reputeas a foundation, and it may 'well justifythis, if the treatment appeals to its weak­ness rather than its strength. A bedof sand is weak to the cutting edge of anarrow wall, it is weak to the effects ofunderfiowage if the treatment invitesunderfiowage, but it is strong if theI Delivered on the morning of Convocation Day, June 9, 1914.199200 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEburden is laid broadly, squarely, andequably on the laminae Nature hasprepared for the resistance' of the bur­dens she puts upon them, which some-,times rise to great magnitudes.Under this cushion of, ten or, twelvefeet depth lies a bed of glacial till, atough mixture of glacial stones andglacial grindings, the contribution ef theancient glacier that made "the bed ofLake Michigan its' channel and pushed(wet thisregion and on to the southward.This old glacier, with which I have had along and pleasant personal acquaintance,was kind enough to anticipate our needs,and to scrape away from the ,surface ofthe beer, rock' all loose and decayed ma­terial and "leave a level, hard, well-planedfloor, an ideal surface for a sub-founda-tion. "From this rock floor, fifty-two feetbelow th�,. city datum, there rises a'column -of solid concrete upon whichwill be placed instruments to catch andrecord the quakes and tremors thatarise' from seismic disturbances in variousparts of the world. While we feel thatwe' are blessed .with relative immunityfrom serious dangers arising from strainsin the earth beneath this region, we wishto be in sympathetic touch with regionsless fortunate. The earth beneath' us.seems long ago to have adjusted itselfto the strains imposed by, the bodyof our planet, and to have been for agesfree' from severe disturbances.The bed rock beneath us is a thickstratum of limestone, the contributionof the ancient Paleozoic seas, whilebeneath that, in turn, lie other strata,the products of these same seas.Still below these lies the great base­ment complex of granitic and other crys­talline rocks, the deeper foundation uponwhich Nature has built her own super­structures.We might pause here; but there havecome down to us from the past agesuncanny stories about what lies stilldeeper. The ancients located theirHades there, and our" geologic forebearsdid little better in placing below us agreat lake of molten rock over whichthey postulated only a thin crust, as thesupport of all that lies above. W e havelong doubted this gruesome doctrine.We know that Mother Earth .has awarm 'heart, but we repudiate the notionthat she is either crusty or cataclysmic:Our physical and astronomical colleagues have recently done us a very neighborlyturn, in determining by skilful experi­mentation the condition of the interiorof the earth. They have given clear anddecisive evidence, reaching, we think,to demonstration, that the earth is notonly solid through and through but ishighly rigid and elastic. It is not onlynot fluid at heart, it is not even viscousin morethan the slightest degree.I think we may, now, with a confidencenever before equaled, assure' you thatthis, structure-to-be will rest, securelyupon a solid and rigid earth.The leading purpose which has guidedthose who have been responsible for theplan of this building has been service­service first, stability and endurancenext .after. I would it were possiblefor me to take you in imagination throughevery nook and corner of the buildingthat is to, be and point out the specificservices to which it is to be devoted, butI am told that a luncheon is already pre­paring for you, and there are rivalriesin entertainment which I dare not face.More than even this I, would be 'glad .totake you in a rapid flight of imaginationthrough the realm to which the EarthSciences, that are here to find a home,are devoted. Our colleagues sometimestwit us with entertaining the notion thatwe "own the earth." We admit it.But this does not satisfy our modest am­bi tions. We claim the lower hea vensalso. We are in most cordial relationswith our astronomical colleagues, andwe are at one with them as to metesand bounds between 'things terrestrialand things celestial. We, on our part,concede that the Earth Sciences are butthe domestic chapters of the celestialsciences. They, on their part, .agree thatthe sphere of the earth's influencereaches out as far as the earth's gravita­tive power overmatches the gravity ofrival celestial bodies. They have beenkind enough to compute this for us, andtell us that it lies between a million anda million and a half kilometers out fromthe center of the earth. With this we arecontent.I have referred to our effort to reachthe lower and inner sphere of this realmthrough the pier in the center of the build­ing, and thus to put ourselves in touchwith the movements that pass throughthe heart of the earth. There will soonbe erected on the pedestal in the corneryonder, a tower which will reach to' aADDRESS, CORNERSTONE-LAYING OF JULIUS ROSENWALD HALL 201modest height above the roofs about, onwhich will be located instruments thatwill ca tch and record the movementsthat pass through the upper zone of ourrealm. These two extremes of our build­ing, the one reaching down' toward theheart of the earth, and the other reachingup into the lower heavens, representthe effort made in the planning of thisbuilding to reach and, so far as may be,to cover the field to which its service isto' be devoted.The primary purpose, as I 'have said,has been that of utility, and if the archi­. tects. shall have succeeded in . clothingthe rigid requirements of this utility withanything of comeliness and grace, theywill be worthy of the highest praise.In respect to the work of the buildersyou are not left to fair words as to whatthey will do; you have caught them inthe midst of what they are doing. To seethe merits of their work I can only bidyou, in the language of my colleague,circumspice. I doubt' not Professor Halewould pronounce that differently, butyou catch my meanirig.But another foundation is necessary.Of what service is the foundation thatNature has laid and upon which she buildsof itself ... alone? .This foundation hadlain for centuries as yet unnumbered andthe winds and the clouds of our upperrealm had swept over it, and yet theEarth Sciences never grew under theseconditions alone to more than a scarcely detectable beginning. Something morewas necessary-the spirit of research, thespirit of the University, and the meanswherewith to prosecute the inquiriesnecessary to disclose the truth respectingthe earth and the lower heavens. Espe­cially and particularly, for the fruition ofthis occasion, was there need for apprecia­tion' and generosity where appreciationand generosity take tangible and effectiveforms.I wish it were in my power to clothe infitting words the appreciation which mycolleagues and the whole staff of . theUniversity feel for that expression ofgenerosity which has made this noblestructure a possibility. I wish it werepossible adequately to express our ad­miration of the .intellectual powers thatby keen, penetrating insight and masterlycontrol of conditions have found fruitionin the resources that made this gift pos­sible, and still more to express ourappreciation of that nobility of spiritwhich has, so unselfishly devoted thefruits of toil, vigilance, earnest endeavor,and persistent care to the service ofresearch and the Fromotion of education.Perhaps I might suggest, this, in somemeasure, in the deep gratification we feelthat our wish to give this tangible andlasting expression has been graciouslygiven precedence over the modest pur-, pose of the giver and that thus this noblestructure will bear for ages the name,JULIUS ROSENWALD HALL.,THE UNIVERSITY RECORD.TkeNinety-first Con�ocation.-At theNinety-first Convocation of the Univer­sity, held, on June 9 in Hutchinson Court,six hundred and thirty-seven studentswere candidates for titles" certificates,and degrees. Of the ,whole number ofcandidates, one hundred, and sixty-threereceived the title of Associate and twenty­five the two-years Certificate of theCollege of Education. In the SeniorColleges twenty-seven students receivedthe degree of Bachelor in Education andtwo hundred and eighty-six the degree ofBachelor of Arts, Philosophy, or Science-a total-of three hundred and thirteen.Inthe Law School six students receivedthe, degree of Bachelor of Laws, andthirty-three that of Doctor of Law (J.D.).In the Divinity School there were seven­teen Masters of Arts, seven Bachelors ofDivinity, and one Doctor of Philosophy.In the Graduate Schools fifty-two stu­dents were made Masters of Arts or ofScience and twenty received the degree ofDoctor of Philosophy.Among the' Associates was a Filipino,and among the Masters were a Hinduand a Chinese. .In the Divinity Schoola Japanese received the' degree, ofBachelor of Divinity and a blind man alsoreceived the same degree."The Unpopularity of GermanLitera­ture" was the subject of Dr. KunoFrancke's Convocation address. Dr.Francke has been for a number of yearsprofessor of the history of German cul­ture and also curator of the GermanicMuseum at Harvard, University. .Atthe Convocation Reception, held in thecorridor of Leon Mandel Assembly Hallon the evening of J tine 8, ProfessorFrancke was' the guest of honor.Cornerstone exerciseer=Iv: the laying­of the cornerstone of the new ClassicsBuilding, located at Ellis Avenue andFifty-ninth Street on the Midway; on.the morning of June 9, Acting Vice­President James R. Angell, 'Dean of theFaculties, made the introductory -re­marks; Secretary J. Spencer Dickerson,of the University Board of Trustees,read the list of documents inclosed in the cornerstone; Professor 'Frank BigelowTarbell, of the Department of the Historyof Art, performed the ceremony offormally laying the cornerstone; andProfessor William Gardner Hale, Headof the Department of the Latin Languageand Literature, gave the address.Architecturally the building will em­body the style and spirit of the HarperMemorial Library; the oriel windowsbeing the most decorative feature of thefacade, It will, have. a lecture-roomseating about I30, and also attractiveclubrooms for both men and women.When completed the book stacks willhold about 220,000' volumes'. One ofthe' attractive centers of the campuswill be the reading-room on the thirdfloor, the roof' to' be supported by orna­mental oak hammer beam trusses, withpaneled spaces 'between; and on thefourth floor will be a large museumextending the entire depth of the build­ing at the east end. The building, to'cost about $250,000, is the work ofShepley, Rutan & Coolidge, the archi­tects of the William Rainey HarperMemorial Library, which is the centralbuilding "of the group to which theClassics Building belongs. .At the laying. of the cornerstone ofthe Julius Rosenwald Hall, devoted tothe Departments of Geology and Geog­raphy, Acting, Vice-President Angellintroduced Mr. Rosenwald, who formallylaid the. stone; Secretary Dickerson readthe list of documents deposited in thecornerstone; and' Professor Thomas. C.Chamberlin, Head of the Departmentof Geology , gave the address.A distinguished honor for the Dean ofthe Faculties.':':_Announcement has justbeen made that the Council of the Uni­versity of Paris has formally approved thenomination of Professor James RowlandAngell, Head of the Department of Psy­chology, , Director of the PsychologicalLaboratory, and Dean of the Facultiesof Arts,Literature,and Science in the Uni­versity of Chicago, as Lecturer at theSorbonne in I9 IS. The general subjectof Professor Angell's series of lectures at202 -'THE UNIVERSITY RECORDthe Sorbonne next year will probably'. be certain phases of American education.Formation of a new Department.­By the reorganization of the formerDepartment of Pathology and Bacteri­ology a new department, that of Hygieneand Bacteriology, has been created by theBoard of Trustees. The chairman ofthe department is Edwin Oakes Jordan,Professor of Bacteriology, and associatedwith him in the work of the departmentare Assistant Professor Norman MacLeodHarris and Dr. Paul Gustav Heinemann.During the past Spring Quarter AssociateProfessor William Buchanan Wherry, ofthe University of Cincinnati College ofMedicine, also gave courses in advancedbacteriology and parasitology.By the separation of the work inbacteriology the former Department ofPathology and Bacteriology now becomesthe Department of Pathology, with Pro­fessor Ludvig Hektoen as head. Thisreorganization gives greater unity ofadministration and allows greater empha­sis to be given in the new department tothe important subject of hygiene in all itsaspects.Dean Marshall's visit to South America.-Leon Carroll Marshall, Professor ofPolitical Economy and Dean of the Col­lege of Commerce and Administration, isone of a group of twelve educators fromthe largest American universities whohave been sent ,as representatives of theAmerican Association for InternationalConciliation on a tour of South America.They' sailed on May 30 from New York,and their itinerary includes cities inBrazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru,Panama, Colombia, and Jamaica.Much of the time of the members of theparty will be devoted to becoming ac­quainted 'with the leading personalities ofthe countries visited; .and public institu­tions, and especially educational methods,will receive particular study.' The workof bringing the two Americas togetherin mutual understanding is one of thepurposes of the association under whoseauspices. the tour is to be made, andamong the educational institutions repre­sented on the tour are Yale University,Columbia, and the University of Chicago,the University of Illinois, the College ofthe City .. of- New York, the Universityof Nebraska, and the Carnegie Instituteof Technology. Professor .Marshall will. 203return to the University near the end-ofAugust.Additions to the' Order of the Coif.­The University of Chicago chapter. ofthe Order of the Coif, a national organiza­tion, membership in which is limited tostuden ts in those law schools of theUnited States which require three yearsof study, has recently added to its mem­bership the names 'of five students fromthe class of I9I4,-making a total of forty­four members in the chapter. Amongthe. graduates of the University LawSchool included in the chapter areAssistant Professor Sophonisba P. Breck­inridge, of the . Department of HouseholdAdministration; who received her degreeof Doctor of Law (J.D.) in 1904; Pro-'fessor Chester G. Vernier, of the Uni­versity of Illinois; Professor Charles A.Huston, of Leland Stanford JuniorUniversity; and Professor Victor H.Kulp, of the University of Oklahoma.The Order of the Coif is a purelyhonorary society designed to occupy theplace in the . law schools of Americawhich the Phi Beta Kappa does in the. colleges and universities. There is at-present no other national fraternity whichlimits its membership to those students oflaw who attain the highest general excel­lence in the work of the curriculum. Notover 10 per cent of any graduating classmay be elected to the order. Chaptersalreadv exist at the Universities of Penn­sylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois,Leland Stanford Junior, Virginia, andother institutions. The secretary of theChicago chapter is Professor Harry A.Bigelow, of the Law Faculty.Recent promotions.-At a recent meet-- ing of the University Board of TrusteesAssistant Professor' William D. Harkins,of the Department of . Chemistry, waspromoted to an .associate professorshipin chemistry. ' Dr. Harkins was in 1910-II a chemist for ·the United Statesgovernment and has also' been engagedin research work for the' Carnegie Insti­tution of Washington. At the samemeeting of the Board of Trustees, Asso­ciate Professor Albert H. Tolman, of theDepartment of English, was promotedto a full professorship in English litera­ture. Professor Tolman is the authorof two volumes of Questions on. Shake­speare, which have been published by theUniversity of-Chicago Press.2C4 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENew books by members oftheFaculties.�Associate Professor Martin Schutze,of the Department of Germanic Lan-' 'guages and Literatures, is the author of anewvolume, of .about I30 pages, entitledSongs and Poems. The book containsthe following groups. of' verse: Songs. ofthe Common Life, Songs of Seasons andHours� Love Songs, Poems, Discourses, 'and Epigrams. Professor Schiitze hasalso just finished for publication in thefall an edition of Goethe's Poems" whichincludes a comprehensive study ofGoethe's lyrical art. ,,'James Henry .. Breasted, Professor ofEgyptology' and. Oriental History, hasrecently . finished ,'" in collaboration withProfessor James Harvey Robinson, ofColumbia University, Outlines of EuropeanHistory, to be published in the autumn:The volume is to' be illustrated with anumber of plates . in .' color and witha series of "pen-etchings" originatedespecially for this book. The- illustra­tions are to be fully .explained so as tomake them an essential part of the text:The purpose of . the volume is to makepossible a two-year course in generalEuropean. history in high schools. Thefirst eleven chapters," devoted to thedevelopment' of oriental and' classicalcivilization, are the work of ProfessorBreasted.An educational surveY.-Dr. JohnFranklin Bobbitt, Assistant Professorof School Administration in the Collegeof Education, has recently completedan. educational survey of the publicschools in South Bend, Indiana. Dr.Bobbitt spent, two days, a' week in thework during' the Spring Quarter, andbesides the subjects of buildings, supplies,and the personnel of the' teaching force,special questions like. instruction inmechanics for a manufacturing city areto be considered in the report. DirectorCharles Hubbard Judd,' of the' School ofEducation, was associated with' Dr.Bobbitt in the survey.A ward of the Howard Taylor Rickettsprize.-The second annual award of theHoward Taylor Ricketts prize of $250'was made to Julian H. Lewis, a Fellowin the Department of Pathology, fororiginal research. in that department.The prize was established by Mrs.Ricketts as a memorial to her husband,Professor Ricketts, who died in Mexico City in I9IO .from typhus fever con- ...tracted while studying the disease. Dr.Ricketts was connected with the Depart­ment of Pathology in the University foreight years,Contests in oratory and artistic' reading.-The· J ulius Rosenwald Public Speakrngcontest; held in Leon Mandel AssemblyHall 01;1 the evening of June 4, was .wonby Mr. Willard Earl Atkins, of the' SeniorClass, who received the firstprize of $IOO.. The 'second prize' of $50 was awarded toMr. .Isador Hyman Tunfpowsky. Onthe same evening the Florence JamesAdams contest in Artistic Reading washeld, the first prize of, $7 5 being won byMiss Yetta Milkewitch, and the secondof $25 byMiss Coleen Browne.First place in the, Milo P. Jewett con­test in Bible-reading' was .. taken by Mr.'James Milton Hess, of the Senior class,.the prize being ,$50.The spring festival in Scammon Gardens.,-One hundred and fifty women' of theUniversity presented in Scammon Gar­dens at the School of Education,on June 2,A Day in S pring-. The costumes forthis spring festival, which was given underthe auspices of the Women's AthleticAssociation, were all designed by mem­bers of the .School of Education and theDepartment of Household Administra­tion. The. prologue and 'epilogue werewritten " for the occasion by Miss Mar­guerite Swawite, a graduate of the Uni­versity. Most of the dances were givenby large groups of women and by mem­bers of the Signet Chili, and the Women'sGlee Club and the University Orchestrafurnished the music.Elections 'to honorary' societies.- Thirtystudents were elected at the Ninety-first.Convocation to the Beta of Illinois Chap­ter of the Phi Beta Kappa for especialdistinction in general scholarship in theUniversity.· Of this number, elevenwere women. At the same Convocationeleven students were chosen, on thenomination of the Departments of Sci­ence, to Sigma Xi for evidence of abilityin research work' in science. Three ofthe number were women.Dr. Ira Remsen, president emeritus ofJohns Hopkins University, gave. anaddress before the Society of the', SigmaXi at a dinner in Hutchinson Hall on MayTHE UNIVERSITY RECORDI9, his subject being reminiscences ofSylvester and Rowland, the famousinvestigators associated with him in theearly years of Johns Hopkins.Professor (and Alderman) Charles E.Merriam was recently made chairmanof the committee of the City Council toinvestigate the causes of crime in the cityand suggest methods of prevention.Professor Ernest D. Burton,· Head ofthe Department of Biblical and PatristicGreek and Director of the UniversityLibraries, represented the University. ofChicago at the installation of Dr. ClarkWells Chamberlain as president ofDenison University on May 21. Presi­dent W. H. P. Faunce, of Brown Uni­versity, was also a speaker on theoccasion.Professor Albion Woodbury Small,Head of the Department of Sociology andAnthropology and Dean of .the GraduateSchool of Arts and Literature, gave thecommencement address at Iowa StateCollege . on June I I. Professor AlbertP. Mathews, of the Department ofPhysiology, also gave an address on thesame occasion under the auspices of thehonorary scholastic fraternity of PhiKappa Phi.Professor Starr Willard Cutting, Headof the Department of Germanic Lan­guages and Literatures, 'was a member ofthe Goethe monument committee whichhad charge of the dedication of the heroicbronze statue to Goethe in Lincoln Parkon June 13. The German ambassadorto the United States took part in theexercises. At the Goethe Festival heldin the Auditorium. on the evening ofJune 13, Professor Cutting was one ofthe guests of honor.Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, Headof the Department of Political Economy,is chairman of the committee in chargeof the essay competition .in economicsand commercial subjects which is opento all.American undergraduates. Amongthe subjects suggested are " Ship Sub­sidies, by Indirection," "Price Mainte­nance," "Local Study of the ImmigrationProblem," and "The Development ofTrade with Latin America." The com­petition closes on June I, 1915. Theprizes for the successful undergradu­ates are $300 and $200 •. J:'hese prizes,offered by Hart, Schaffner & Marx, ofChicago, have been awarded for the lastten year's, among the winners being stu­dents at the University . of Chicago, 205Cornell, Northwestern, and the Uni­versity' of Illinois.During the. Winter Quarter endingMarch 20 the University Librariesreceived accessions of over I 1,000 vol­umes. Of these, '5,047 volumes wereadded by purchase, 5,438 volumes bygift, and 795 by exchange for Universitypublications. .Recent contributions by members ofthe Faculties to the journals publishedby the University of Chicago Press in­clude the following:,Barnard, Professor Edward E.: "VisualObservations of. Halley's .Comet inI9IO," Astrophysica.l Journal, June.Burton, Professor Ernest D. (with F.Merrifield): "The Origin and Teachingof the New Testament Books," X,Biblical World, June.Carr, . Wilbert L.: "The Desirability .ofLatinin the Eighth Grade," ClassicalJournal; June. 'Chamberlin, Professor Thomas C.: "Dias­trophism and the Formative Processes.VI. Foreset Beds and Slope Deposits,"Journal of Geology, April-May.Coulter, Professor John M.: "Regenera­tionin Plants," Biblical World, June;(with W. J. G. Land) "The Origin ofMonocotyledony," Botanical Gazette,June.Cutting, Professor Starr W.: "Notes onWalther von der Vogelweide," ModernP hilolo gy, June.Hoxie, Associate . Professor . Robert F.:" Trade Unionism in the United. States: The Interpretation of UnionTypes," Journal of Political Economy,May.Johnson, Principal Franklin W.: "TheProblems of Boyhood," VI, BiblicalWorld, June. 'Land, Assistant Professor W. J. G. (withJ. M. Coulter): "The Origin of Mono­cotyledony," Botanical Gazette, June.Laughlin, Professor J. Laurence: "TheBanking and Currency Act of I9I3,"II, Journal of Political Economy, May.Meyer, Assistant Professor John J.: "ZurAufklarung. tiber Isoldes Gottesurteil,"Modern Philolo gy, June.Small, Professor Albion W.: "The SocialGradations of Capital," AmericanJournal of Sociology, May.Soares, Professor Theodore G. :. "TheEducational . Work of the Church,"V, Biblical World, June.A REVIEW OF THE SPRING QUARTERThe most important matter of theSpring Quarter, so Jar as the educationalaspect of the University is concerned,was the adoption by the faculties of aregulation to do away with therequire­ment of the so-called "efficiency test" inmodern languagesr. For the last threeyears all studentshavebeen required topass either four majors of one modernlanguage' (French or, German) in college,or an examination (the" efficiency test")in either language, designed totry theirability to read ordinary prose in theirchosen language easily and intelligently,Many students found that after two years'work in 'modern languages in preparatoryschool they were 'linable to pass this testj.and many preferred to begin anotherlanguage rather than to continue incollege' the 6ne� they had studied in thepreparatory-school. The result was thata large number of dasses in elementaryFrench. and German- were required. Itwas felt by some of the faculty that ele­mentary courses in languages 'were to someextent out of place in a college curricu­lum; it was felt also that the test waspractically an 'examination of the stu­dent's language work in high school, andas such was out of place in an institutionwhich accepted almost all students oncertificate. On the other hand, by thosewho advocated the' retention of the testit was pointed out .that this test did notdeprive any student of the credit he hadgained in high school, or, otherwise actas a bar to his admission; and that it wasa positive good in practically requiring afairamount of language work as an earlynucleus for the Ph.B. degree, which other­wise possessed no such nucleus. It wasnot argued that language work was initself better for a student than. work inother fields; but it was pointed out thatthe Freshman language courses acted asa kind of strainer to prevent students oftoo great an inefficiency from slippingthrough into and. clogging up the workof the Sophomore year. However, thearguments of the opponents of the testprevailed, and itis now possible toreceivethe B.S. or Ph.-B. degree from the Uni­versity with two years' preparatory206 school work in one modern language; eventhough that· work was done in the firstand second years.Further legislation in regard to thecurriculum is now before the faculty, andwill, occupy much time next year. In'brief, the questions involved are, two:(I) Do students actually duplicateTncollege some of their high-school work" as, in English composition and literature,history, political science;' geography,etc., and how far is this duplicationreasonable? (2) Should, students of un­usual capacity be enabled to substitutein part high quality of work for quantity,and so secure their degrees in less time?These two' points should both be inter­esting to alumni who have 'themselvesbeen "through the mill," and letters oneither question, to the Magazine or toDean Angell, would be heartily welcomed..' Physically the- University, i.e., thequadrangles, has undergone great changesin the past quarter. Julius RosenwaldHall, the addition to Walker GeologicalMuseum, has already, risen· through thesecond story. To' call it an addition ismisleading; it is much larger than theoriginal building, It is being rushed inconstruction as no building on the quad­rangles has been rushed since I892; itseems to leap upward in the night, andwill undoubtedly'- .unless strikes should.intervene, be completely ready for occu­pancy by January I. The Classics Build­ing goes much less rapidly; although itwas begun first, the foundations are notall in yet: The Classics Building will,when finished, involve many new features;it will in some respects resemble a club,with kitchenettes, restrooms, smoking­rooms, and other facilities for luxuriousliving .. It is a pity Horace could nothave lived to see it.Undergraduate life has been markedby the same qualities of interest indeJllocracy' and' self-government, 'thathave been. previously referred .to in theMagazine. The fraternity legislationelsewhere mentioned in this issue' is anexample. It is not perfect, but it is astep in advance. The honor commissionhas been at work faithfully, and hasA REVIEW OF THE SPRING QUARTERhandled a number of cases with a mini­mum of friction and publicity. Recentlya system has been adopted in accordance'with which the experience gained byservice on the 'commission need not belost to it each year as the members endtheir terms. The Blackfriars' perform­ance' this year was notable, setting astandard that will be useful. Thesecondweek's performances were jammed, andthe play could have run for much longer.And this in spite of the fact that thesinging was conspicuous by its absence.(Rowland George, 'I6, must be excepted;he sang splendidly.) But it is an oddthing that a university like this can pro­vide only one man in a year who can bothsing and act! The interest in music isgrowing, but far too slowly. The bandconcerts on Thursday afternoons areexcellent; the University orchestra, too,was a fine thing. But vocal music ispractically neglected or confined to thewell-meant but casual efforts of the gleeclub. Only a department of music, withspecific ,credit, will really remedy thisdefect. In passing, while speaking ofundergraduate affairs, it may be notedthat "politics" reared its unlovely headonce or twice during the quarter. Thetyranny of idealism may be none the lesstyranny; 'the, Carlylean philosophy slipswith depressing facility into the theorythat might makes right. It may also benoted that not only was a woman elected,for the. second time, to the presidency ofthe College Alumni Association, but thatalso 'a woman (Ruth Allen, 'IS) waselected president of the Undergraduatecouncil.On Wednesday, June 3, the marshalsand aids for the ensuing year were an­nounced. Frank Hurburt O'Hara wasmade Head Marshal. .O'Hara has justretired as president of the Dramatic Club.He has acted in two Blackfriar produc­tions, and has written. two plays whichhave been produced by the DramaticClub. He is, a member of Phi GammaDelta. Barratt O'Hara, the lieutenant­governor of Illinois, is his brother. Theother marshals are: Stanwood Baum­gartner, Frederick Byerly, George ·W.Cottingham, . Paul Raymond Des Jar­dien, Harry S. Gorgas, Samuel Kaplan,Edward Reticker, Kent A. Sykes, FrancisT. Ward, Samuel Wells. Des J ardien iscaptain of the football team, and Wardof the track team} Cottingham' is editorof the Daily Maroon; Byerly manager of the Cap and Gown; Kaplan author ofthe Blackfriars' play; Sykes presidentof the Junior Class; Wells president ofthe Reynolds Club; Reticker presidentof the Sophomore. debating society; andBaumgartner and Gorgas are well-knownathletes. All but two .are high-standstudents, and the tendency is more and'more strongly to require such a stand forthe office. The aids are: Ruth Allen,Katharine Biggins, Caryl Cody, HildaMacClintock, Katherine Covert, PhyllisFay, Grace Elizabeth Hotchkiss, MaryMacfronald, Edith. Noel Smith, IreneTufts. All are prominent equally inundergraduate affairs and scholarship.Athletics in the Spring Quarter wereboth interesting .and successful. . Thebaseball team lost the championship inthe final game to Illinois, after a longstruggle in a steady rain. The menfielded and batted well, and the pitchingwas good also; but on bases their workwas unusually. execrable. Lauriston W.("Dolly") Gray was elected captain forI9I5. He plays right field, and has notmissed an inning of a Conference game intwo years; he is a fine fielder and. a fairhitter. His chief opponent for the. cap­taincy was Stanwood Baumgartner,pitcher. Baumgartner broke a bone Inhis leg early in the season and was outfor a month; returning to the game, hewas never quite as effective as last year.Baumgartner has shone in baseball, foot­hall, and basket-ball, and it is with greatregret that the University sees him enteron his final year without ,a captaincy inany branch of sport. The team nextyear will be very strong. CaptainMann, catcher, Norgren, first base, andLebonati and Harger; outfielders, arelost, but there. is good material to taketheir places, and barring accident thepitching alone next year should win a�. championship.(Since the foregoing was written,Baumgartner has signed to pitch for thePhiladelphia National League team. Thisaction reduces the chances of a champion­ship nine for next' season by just about50 per cent.) -, .The track team defeated Purdue andNorthwestern easily, lost in a close meetto Illinois, won the Missouri Valley Con­ference meet, and placed third to Illinoisand Stanford in+the Conference. Cap­tain Campbell was the best miler Chicagohas ever had, with the possible exceptionof Lightbody; he placed third in the208 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEConference, but beat Lightbody's besttime, running in -4: 24�. Ward was afirst-rate hurdler, Barancik and Knightfine sprinters, - Stegeman excellent in themiddle distances, Stout a promising milerand two-miler, Des J atdien good in thediscus, and Boyd very good in the broadjump. The rest were ordinary.. Nextyear only Norgren and Thomas, the vaulter, are lost, and the Sophomoreclass will supply at least four men of classin Agar, a sprinter, Disment, a quarter­miler, Gouwens, a miler, and Windrow inthe weight events. Others may appear,and - the prospects seem good. FrancisT . Ward has been elected captairi. Hehas done the high hurdles in I5-2 and. tlie low in 25 this year.FRO-M THE LETTER-BOX-TUNGCHOU, NEAR PEKINGApril-ag, I9I4To the Editor:The dinner of the American CollegeClub held April I8 in Peking was ofspecial interest to us here who are alumniof the University of Chicago through thepresence there of President Judson, whohad arrived in the city that very after­noon by the- trans-Siberian express. Mr.Howard S. Galt, Ph.B., '96, president ofNorth China Union. College, and I. camein from our home in. Tungchou, . fifteen 'miles east of Peking, especially to wel­come him. There were present alsoJustice. H u of the Supreme Court ofChina, formerly a student in the LawSchool, and George B. McKibbin, J.D.'I3, who came with Dr. Judson, but tooka lower. seat, with the rest of. us. Itseemed good'to give the old "Go Chi­cago" again, and it sounded fully asgood to me as the fuller-volumed- yells ofthe Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, andeven Yale crowds.- .There were perhaps a hundred andfifty former students in American col­leges and universities there, about halfof them American and half Chinese, andcollege cheers and - songs were going alarge part of the time during the dinner,which, like the costumes of the men, wasin American style. I think the only manin Chinese costume was a graduate of theUniversity of Cambridge; one of thespecial guests. By courtesy of -the pre­mier of China, H. E. Sun Pao-chi, thedinner was held in the beautiful statedining-room -of the Board of ForeignRelations, the room in which Yuan Shih­kai took the oath of office as provisionalpresident. The premier himself wasthe first speaker, . using Chinese, andAdmiral Tsai, one of the. president's ad- visers, presided- as president of the club,using excellent _ English. There -werethen speeches by Professor Henry C.-Adams, lately of the University of Michi­gan, and by Professor F. J. Goodnow,formerly of Columbia and president­elect of Johns Hopkins, both at presentadvisers to the Chinese government.Both spoke on educational needs inChina, Professor Adams emphasizingthe need for education in the sciences,and Professor 'Goodnow urging the needof more education of Chinese in Chinaand less in the United States. FinallyPresident Judson was called on, and heresponded happily, closing by expressinggreat expectations for the futureof China.The corning of President Judson andhis party to North China has an unusualinterest to us of North China Union Col­lege in that it comes just at the time whenplans for_. a great union Christian uni­versity in Peking seem about ;to be con­summated. (And I may say that forthis consummation Mr. Galt may beheld largely responsible.) The last ofthe six American and British organiza­tions that are taking. part in higher edu­cational work in North China has nowtaken up with zeal the project for. com­plete union in this work, and we trustthat at no very distant date there will be, a single institution in Peking in place ofthe present_ separate ones, and one. thatwill assure to Christian education itspresent place of leadership for all the_ future, will give a .Christian tone to allthe higher intellectual life of China'scapital, and thus influence that of. thewhole nation. Large sums of moneywill be needed if this is- to be done, butwe have confidence that they will beforthcoming if the opportunity is under­stood in America. That the UniversityFROM THE LETTER-BOXof Chicago might not remain behind Yale.and Harvard and Princeton in its interestin this part of the world has been a hopecherished by some of its' members andalumni for years, and I for one greatly.hope that the visit. of President Judsonmay be the occasion for a new stirring ofinterest that shall have large results.If the plan for the new' university goesthrough' and the funds we hope for areavailable, we shall some day want moremen for the faculty. And Mr. Galt andI at least would be, glad to see more Uni­versity of Chicago men on it. If, as wesee stated in the papers, President Jud­son and his party are to be six monthsin China, this and much more ought toresult.DEAN R. WICKES, Ph.D:, I9I2WICHITA FALLS, TEXASMay 30, I914To the Editor:Secretary Dignan's explanation, ap­pearing on the first page of the Aprilnumber of the Magazine, prompts me tosay that something is radically 'wrongwhen. an expanding circulation. tends toreduce the size of the Magazine and cur­tail its field of usefulness, rather thanlead to healthy improvements.An- alumni magazine' should be thebond which holds .the alumni of a Uni­versity together. It should offer oppor­tunity for an informal discussion by thealumni on matters relating to Universityactivities. It should be the mediumthrough which we are . kept in touch withthe whereabouts and activities of ourclassmates and friends, and in it shouldappear literary' contributions by bothal umni and faculty. It should have alivening' touch of the human side of thealumni body, rather than be informa­tional only, in which respect. it nowsavors too much of an official publica- 209tion of the' University; and until thisbreath of life isinfused into it, it will notbe entirely successful from the viewpointof the alumnus ..I am not. a ware on what basis thesubsidy is granted by the U niversity­whether it precludes advertising as asource of. revenue. If advertising willproduce a revenue sufficient for expan­sion, then the business manager should bepermitted to solicit advertising, so long asthe advertising-matter is segregated fromthe reading-matter.· And if. advertising,'alone should prove sufficient for all needs,the subsidy, if incompatible with thispolicy, should be allowed to lapse. Otherhigh-class .periodicals depend upon adver­tising for the major part of their support,and I see no valid reason why an alumnimagazine should not do-likewise.It will no doubt be a strenuous taskto enlist the 'necessary support to bringabout a change which will make theMagazine self-supporting, but the .effortshould not be deferred on \ account of itsdifficulty. The University is old enoughnow to have a body of alumni •. largeenough to support a live magazine.Many are achieving success in differentlines of work. We would welcome achance to hear something of what they,are doing, a "Who's Who and Why"column, perhaps; and we would gladlyread literary contributions from the largenumber who are thus talented.Many of us are located too far away,or too closely tied down by work, forfrequent visits to the campus; and weare dependent largely upon the Magazinefor our knowledge. of University affairs.It is of more vital interest, perhaps, tothose of us who are widely scatteredthan to those nearer home to see theMagazine freed from the artificial handi­cap against which you are now fighting.Very sincerely yours,, W. E. WRATHER, '08ALUMNI AFFAI-RSResolutions to the President.-On behalfof the College Alumni Association 'of theUniversity of Chicago, and 'pursuant tothe directions' of the Association, in meet­ing assembled onJune 6, I9I4, the under­signed committee respectfully presentsthe following resolutions:_ 'WHEREAS, The annual Alumni meetingand reunion of June, I9I4, marks thedose of a successful administrative yearin the affairs' of the College Alumni Asso­ciation, and completes the record,' of theterm of the first woman president of theAssociation, andWHEREAS, The Association. has wit­nessed in the year past an unprecedentedactivity in the promotion and manage­ment of its interests" and has enjoyed theefficient and untiring efforts in its behalfof a gracious executive, now ,t4erefo!-"ebe it' ,Resolved, " That the Association extendits felicitations to Agnes Wayman,' whohas again been honored with the highestoffice of the Association, and that it ex­press to her its thanks and appreciationof her faithful, service, and further be itResolved, That Agnes Wayman has thecontinued support and abiding regard ofthe Alumni of the University of Chicago,and further be itResolved,' That these resolutions beprinted in the University of Chicago M aga­zine, and that a' copy of the resolutionsbe presented to Miss Wayman.EARL D. HOSTETTERMARIE ORTMAYERALVIN F. KRAMERCommitteeNew' Officers.-The following are theofficers and representatives on the Coun­cil for I9I4 of the various alumni asso­ciations and clubs:. College Alumni Association: AgnesR. Wayman, President;, Hugo Friend,First Vice-President; Alice - Greenacre,Second Vice-President; C. F. Axelson,Third' Vice-President; ,F.·, W. Dignan,Secretary. Three members of ExecutiveCommittee: Marie o rtmayer , SamuelMacClintock, Mary Phister. Dele­gates to Alumni' Couacil: 3 years-Agnes Wayman, Helen T. Sunny, John F.Moulds; 2 years�lbert Sherer, CharlesKennedy, Alice Greenacre, Harold Swift;I year-F. D. Bramhall, W. Scott Bond,Hugo Friend, Josephine T. Allin.The 'Association' of Doctors of Phi­losophy: Officers same as last year, ex­cept office of president, which will be heldby Daniel P. MacMillan, '99. Delegatesto Alumni Council; DanielP.MacMillan,Robert I. Bonner, H. E. Slaught.,, The Divinity . Alumni Association:P. G. Mode, Secretary.The Law School Association: A. L.Hopkins, President; M. r Phillips" Vic�­Presidentj R. -. E., Schreiber, ,Secretary­Treasurer. Delegates' to Alumni Coun­cil: Charles W. Paltzer, J. W. Hoover.Chicago Alumni Club: G. ,RaymondSchaeffer, '06, President; Ernest Stevens,'05, Vice-President; Charles F. Axelson,'07, Secretary-Treasurer. Delegate to, Alumni Council: Alvin Kramer.The I9I4 Business Me�ting.�TheCollege Alumni Association held its an­nual business meeting in Ellis Hall atIO:OO A.M., June 6, I914, President AgnesWayman presiding.Theminutes of the last business meet­ing in I909 were read and approved, andthe Secretary-Treasurer made an informalreport stating that a formal report. wou.ldbe printed, in the Magazine for July,covering the entire fiscal year. The Sec":'retaryin his report on the year's workdwelt on the great obligation of the so­ciety to the many individual alumni who.have given enthusiastic help to the devel-opment of the Association during theyear,-and particularly to Miss Wayman.A motion was thereupon made and passedthat the Secretary appoint a committeeto dra w resolutions of appreciation.The Secretary read the report of the'annual election and the meeting then tookup the question of the new constitution.The old and .new ,·constitutions were readby the Secretary, 'and there -was a longdiscussion of various points of revision.This was specially concerned ,with thelength of terms of-the officers just elected,and the constitution was finally approvedwith the provision that all officers and210ALUMNI AFFAIRSmembers of the executive committee justelected should serve for one year only,leaving a clean slate in 1915.The meeting then elected eleven dele­gates to the Alumni Council. A motionwas made and passed that the 'countshould be made later and reported in theMagazine.The " reuning " classes then pre­sented brief reports showing that in gen­eral the reunions had been' enthusiasticand in every way successful.The meeting then adjourned.F. W. DIGNAN, SecretaryI 899 Reunion . .,- The class of '99 cele­brated its fifteenth anniversary on Thurs­day, June 4, at a dinner at the City Club.vVe were surprised to learn what a smallclass we were; being used to consider our­selves great, we also thought ourselvesnumerous, and so found it hard to believethat only about 150 in all took their Bach­elor's degree at the four convocations of1899. Of these only about 60 live inChicago. Consequently it was not a verylarge gathering at the reunion, but itwas none the less a merry one, full of thespirit of '99.Percy B. Eckhart was toastmaster,and under his direction each one of usturned the toast into an autobiographycovering the last fifteen years. Letterswere read from many members of theclass who were unable to be present, andas the roll of the class was called, thosepresent told what they knew of thosewho were absent.As an Alumni Class we organized,and re-elected Percy B. Eckhart andJosephine T. Allin to plan the next re­union. We feel sure that we shall notwait five years! All '99'ers be readynext year!Those who made reservations for thedinner-members of the class and theirwives or husbands-were: Mr. and Mrs.Henry G. Gale, Gilbert A. Bliss, J ose­phine T. Allin, Mr. and Mrs. NormanK. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. WilliamFrance Anderson, Elizabeth F . Avery,Mr. and Mrs. James B. Beardslee (EthelPardee), Ainsworth W. Clark, Grace A.Coulter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.Crewdson, Mrs. Joseph Dixon, Mr. andMrs. Percy B. Eckhart, Sara Feilchen­feld, Ralph C. Hamill,' Ruth I. Johnson,Lucy M. Johnston, Paul Mandeville,Mary B. Pardee, Marilla Z. Parker, Mr.and Mrs. Willoughby G. Walling. 211There were two guests of honor,Gilbert' A. Bliss, M.A. '99, of the De­partment of Mathematics, and HenryG. Gale, Ph.D. '99, of the Departmentof Physics, who gave a very interestingaccount of the studies he and Mr. AlbertA. Michelson have made of the rigidityof the earth.JOSEPHINE T. ALLINI904 Reunion.- The decennial dinnerof the class of '04 was held at the ChicagoCollege Club on the evening of Thursday,June 4. Three weeks had proved a veryshort time in which to call the membersof the class together and but twenty-twowere able to attend the reunion. Fortyor more others let us know that they weresorry not to be there and a number ofthem added brief autobiographicalsketches. It is to be regretted thatsome fifteen notices were "returned forbetter address."The class picture and Cap and Goum of'04 caused a great deal of amusementand comment before the dinner, andeveryone registered her- or himself withwhatever details he judged to be of in­terest. Changing places between coursesgave a good chance for general visiting,and at the close of the dinner it was votedthat since everyone had enjoyed thereunion so much we ought to repeat itnext year and try to see that more peopleshared the pleasure. As a means to thisend a class secretary for one year waschosen and it is expected that furtherorganization may be effected later.Most of those present then went to theBlackstone Theater to complete thecelebration.S. F.I909 Reunion.-The Class of '09 hada very successful reunion-dinner Thurs­day, June 4, in the Quadrangle Club.Thirty-two members were present,among them President MacCracken,Mary Courtenay, Albert Long, Dan Fer­guson, John Dille, Zelma Davidson, PaulHarper, Helen Jacoby, Bess Thielens,Tom Miller, Marjorie Day, CarrieGeorge, Mary Swan, Harry Hansen, andMrs. Hansen. Winston Henry and Ed.McBride sent regrets. After songs andcheers led by "Bill" in characteristicfashion, well seasoned with jokes on thenewly-weds and numerous fiances, thefollowing toasts were given:212 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 'MAGAZINEGreetings •.. �:.,President "Bill" MacCrackenMinutes of the last meetingKatharine SlaughtChemical Athletics John SchommerStrains of Music Rosemary QuinnIn the Good Old Days Wallie SteffenEchoes from ,Lexington Mary CourtenaySongs by Request Lon Payne, 'I3Sparks from the Wire � Fred Carr,Enthusiasm rose high; it was votedto have 'a reunion every year, if possible,in the form of a dinner. The followingofficers were elected to serve for- threeyears; William MacCracken, President;Mary Courtenay, Vice-President; WalterSteffen, Treasurer;' Katharine Slaught,Secretary; Frederic Carr, AssistantSecretary.Will all members of the class of '09please respond heartily and promptly tothe letter which is being sent out thatwe may have a strong and efficient class­organization and a bigger, better re­union next year.KATHARINE SLAUGHT, Secretary5548 Kenwood Ave., Chicago1911 Reunion.-Thirty-one members'of the class of 'I I left the ConferenceMeet early and met in the Reynolds Clubfor a' tea-dance. The weather was sowarm that very little dancing was done,but everyone had.a good time. Souve­nirs were given to each one present, themen receiving a corncob pipe markedwith 'II, and the girls receiving a silverhat-pin engraved with 'II.The members held a meeting presidedover by Chairman Baldridge. Commu­nications were read from Vallee Appell,Hargrave Long, and Herbert Hopkins.The following were elected for the Com­mittee of Six which serves until our nextreunion in I9I6: Ned Earle, Will Kuh,Paul Davis, Margaret Hackett, MollieCarroll, Elizabeth Harris. When thethe meeting adjourned the class went ina body to the Esoteric reception inScammon Gardens.Those present at the reunion were:Aleck Whitfield, C. W. Slifer, CharlesGrey, Robert Brown, Norman Baldwin,William Kuh, Frances Herrick, MaryPhister, Margaret M--cCracken, MargaretHackett, Faun Lorenz, Edith Coonley,Arthur. Miller, Mitchell Dawson, EverettRobinson, Harold Earle, GeraldineBrown, Nen� Badenock, S. Eo Earle,Wilhelmina Priddy, Alfred Straube, Flor­ence Catlin, Mary Louise Etten, Ethel Kawin, James F. Meagher, ElizabethHarris, John Reddick, Everett Patchen,Roy Baldridge, Margaret Haass, AliceLee Loweth.M. C. P.North Dakota Alumni Club.-OnMarch 24 the .Nortli Dakota AlumniClub had as their guest at dinner Pro­fessor John M., Coulter, of the Depart­ment of Botany of the University ofChicago. . The dinner was held. in theCommons of the University of NorthDakota in conjunction with the U niver­sity Club. Twenty-five members of theAlumni Club were present. The shortprogram after the dinner was opened byPresident Kennedy, of the U niversityClub. President-elect Brannon (ChicagoPh.D.,. 'I2) of the University of Idaho,whose last public appearance in the U ni­versity this occasion was, .introducedProfessor Coulter who' addressed the,company on "Practical Science."The occasion was an .enjoyable oneand encouraging to the local club, whichrecently· organized. Several graduatescame to Grand Forks from. points fartherwest inthe state for the meeting. .NORMA E..PFEIFFER, '09Indianapolis Alumni Association.­At a dinner and business meeting heldon June 5 the following officers wereelected:" President, Helen Jacoby, '07;Vice-President, Margaret. Donnan, '02;Secretary-Treasurer; Martha. Allerdice,'02, I212 Park Avenue. Grace L�Clapp, 'II, who has been secretary, willbe in Windsor Locks, Conn., n�xt year.N etos from the Classes.­I904Floyd Harper is running for countyattorney of Leavenworth County, Kan­sas. The Leavenworth Post, after makingthe announcement, goes on to remark asfollows: "A graduate of the law depart­ment of the University of Chicago, FloydE. Harper came to Leavenworth nineyears ago. He was admitted to the baralmost immediately after his arrival, sincewhen .he has built up 'an enviable reputa­tion as a lawyer of sterling qualities whoenjoys a large practice." Four yearsago. he was elected judge of the citycourt,. which bench he has. since occu­pied.. During the interval not one ofhis decisions has been reversed by .aALUMNI AFFAIRShigher court, a record of which he mayjustly be. proud. Of the many casestried before him there have been fewacquittals."Judge Harper enjoys the distinctionof owning one of the largest. and completelibraries in Kansas, and ill his suite ofoffices is to be found all else of the equip­ment necessary for. the proper conduct ofthe office which he seeks. Since he cameto Leavenworth Judge Harper hasengaged in the practice of both criminaland civil law cases, and has been unusuallysuccessful in both." Judge Harper, three years after hisarrival in Leavenworth, married MissTheckla Renz, a daughter of one of theoldest and highly esteemed families of thecity. They have three children and thefamily lives in a comfortable home onMaple Avenue.". 1907James . F. Royster, for several years amember of the faculty of the Universityof North Carolina and the present headof the department of English, has' ac­cepted the professorship of English inthe University of Texas and will enterupon his duties there; at the openingof the session next fall. Royster gradu- 'ated from Wake Forest in 1900. Hetook his Doctor's degree at ,the Uni­versity of Chicago in 1907. Betweenthese periods he studied for a year inBerlin. He was one of the best baseballplayers ever at Chicago, but unfortu­nately ineligible, as a graduate student.1910Anna B. Tourner has returned ,toChicago from 'South America, and isliving at 6733 LaFayette Ave.Francesco Ventresca has left Washing­ton State College, and' is now officialtranslator in the Office of Naval Intelli­gence at Washington, D.C. Mr. Ven­tresca made the highest grades in theUnited States at a competitive examina­tion in: French,' German, Italian, andSpanish, held last January.E. R. Bowie has just graduated fromthe Hahnemann Medical College ofPhiladelphia and will spend the nextyear as interne in Hahnemann Hospital,Philadelphia.1912Hargrave Long writes from Cleveland,where he is manager of, the Service 213'Recorder Co., 2344 E. I05th St., thatalumni .activity in Cleveland is .to beboosted; and he sends in a list of ex-'s,with correct addresses, as long as yourarm. Bill McDermid is secretary andsole manager of the, Falcon Cycle CarCo., vigorously competing with HenryFord, president of the Saxon Motor Co.,both of Detroit. Hal Iddingsis athleticdirector at Simpson College, Iowa;Roger Long is vice-president of the NorthRaymond Co., North Raymond.i Maine.Ralph Young is put down as a "student"at Crown Point, Indiana. He'll besuing H. Long for libel.Ernestine Evans writes: "In theinterests of accuracy, 4 West 40th St.,and not the Yonkers address, will be mysummer number until the sun beat onthe pavements drives me to commuting.I am already so frightened of the NewYork newspaper business and my ownjob in particular that I know I shall begra teful if some traveling reader of theAlumni Magazine should by any chanceturn. up." If she is really frightened"New York must be a terrible place.Barrett H. Clark. has just published,through Henry Holt & Co., ContinentalDramas 'of Today-Outlines for Its Study.The book offers suggestions, questions,biographies, and bibliographies for usein connection with plays of twenty-oneauthors, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish,Italian, French, and German. Clarkhas tried to show how the various drama­tists construct, for their effects. The'book is likely to be extremely useful tostudents of the drama.Engagements .-Ella Augusta Spiering, '12, to SherreL. Ballard, of Sparta, Michigan. Thewedding will take place in the fall.Mamie Lee Pollard, 'II, to CharlesS. Boren, of Lewiston, Idaho. MissPollard is teaching at the Idaho Normal.Roderick Peattie, '13, to MargaretRhodes, '13. Peattie is a son of Mr. andMrs. R. B. Peattie, of 7660 .Bond Ave.,and Miss Rhodes a daughter of Dr. andMrs. John E. Rhodes of I358 E. 58th St.Dr. Rhodes. is Chicago '76, and a mostloyal alumnus. Both the young peoplewere prominent in undergraduate life,with a list of offices apiece that it wouldembarrass them to print. Mr. Peattieis a. member of Alpha Delta Phi, MissRhodes of Sigma, and Phi Beta Kappa.2I4 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMarriages .'-Onjune 18, Thomas S. Miller, '09, toJeannette Thielens, daughter of Mrs.Edward H. of 67II Stewart Ave. Moststudents of recent years will rememberboth Mr. and Mrs. Miller, and nobodywho remembers them will fail to wishthem joy. T. S., by the way, announcedamonth ago the formation of a partner­ship with W. H. and Wm. L. Sharp. of248 W. 63d St., to deal in farm mortgages.Carrie Nicholson, '12, daughter of Mrs.George T. Nicholson of 4943 WoodlawnAve., on June I5, .to Arthur MelvilleJordan of Greencastle, Indiana.FrancesMeigs, '12, to Elisha N. Fales,June 4, at Keokuk, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs.Fales will live in Lake Forest, Illinois.Horace G. Lozier, '95, to HarrietLudlow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Willis Ludlow of . Monroe, Wisconsin,on May 22, at Monroe.Neil M. Gunn, ex-'08, to Miss HelenDavis, of Davenport, Iowa, on April 18,at Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Gunn will'be at home after July I at II237 SouthPark Ave.Deaths.-Rev. Dr. John Kittredge Wheeler,former pastor of the Fourth Baptist Church of Chicago, died in May at LosAngeles, Cal., of heart disease. He wasthe son of James Wheeler, a pioneer Bap­tist of Illinois, and was born at St. Charles,Illinois, May 3, 1849. After graduatingfrom Wheaton College in 1873, Mr.Wheeler was principal, of. the publicschools of Austin ·and Marengo, Illinois.He graduated from the Divinity Schoolof the University of Chicago in 1879and received ·the degree of Doctor ofDivinity from Wheaton College.His first pastorates were at Austinand Marengo. Thereafter he occupiedpulpits in Terre Haute, Indiana, for twoyears, and in the South Baptist Churchat Hartford, Connecticut, for, eightyears. In 1893 he came to Chicago aspastor of the Fourth Baptist Church andremained here nine years. In 1903 heaccepted a call to the pastorate of theNorth Baptist Church of Camden,New Jersey, where he remained until1909, when he went to Los Angeles,California, where he had since resided.Dr. Wheeler is survived by a widow andfour children. One of his daughters isthe wife of Leroy T. Vernon, Washingtoncorrespondent of the Daily News.THE ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHYNews-notes will be collected for thefirst issue of the Magazine in the autumn.The entire space this time is devoted tothe report of the annual meeting.The tenth annual meetingof the Asso­ciation of Doctors of Philosophy of theUniversity of Chicago was held at theQuadrangle Club on Tuesday, June 9,1914. The business meeting was pre­ceded. by a social hour and the com­plimentary 'luncheon tendered by theUniversity, this being the tenth consecu­tive occasion of. this kind. . About sixty­five were present, including twenty frompoints outside the city, the same numberfrom Chicago and suburbs, and the othersfrom the University. There are nowsixty-five Chicago Doctors among theFaculty of the University and, of these}thirteen hold full professorships.There were fourteen 'candidates forthe doctorate at. this Convocation andall but two of these were present at theluncheon and meeting as guests of theAssociation. Their names and depart­merits are as follows: Department of Botany; George S. Bryon, Edward M.Harvey, and Florence McCormick; De­partment of English: Clyde C. Barnes,David S/ Stevens, and Oscar L. Olson;Department of Geology: Eliot Black­welder; Department of German: RoscoeM. Ihrig; Department of History: Theo­dore C. Pease; Department, of Latin:Clinton C. Conrad; Department of Phi­losophy: . Ethel M. Kitch; Departmentof Physics: Verne. F. Swain; Depart­ment of Political Economy: W. J. A.Donald; Department of Religious Edu­cation: Adrian A. Holtz.Members of the Association who re­sponded affirmatively to the Annual Callare as follows: 1897: Charles J. Cham­.berlain, Jessie L. Jones, Hannah B.Clark Powell. 1898: 'Henry C. Cowles,Otis W. Caldwell, H. E. Slaught, Theo­dore C. Burgess. 1899: Warren P.Behon, Henry G. Gale, Frank R. Moul­ton, Henry L. Schoolcraft. 1900: Gil­bert A.· Bliss, Anriie M. MacLean, Wil­lard C. Gore. 1901: Sophonisba PBreckinridge. 1902: KatharineALUMNI AFFAIRSDopp. I903: George L. Marsh. I904:Andrew P. Foss, Thomas E. Doubt,Murray S. Wildman. I905: Adolph C.von Noe, Frank W. Dignan, Albert N.Merritt. I906: Robert F. Hoxie, An­thony L. Underhill, Joseph Peterson.I907: Andrew F. McLeod, Rollin T.Chamberlin, Chester N. Gould, Paul G.Heinemann. I908: William D. Mac­Millon, Wanda May Pfeiffer. I909: L.Charles Raiford, Ernest L. Talbert, L.Estelle Appleton, Nelsine J. Kildahl,Edward S. Moore. I9IO: Ella H. Stoper.I9II: George M. Calhoun, TheodoreLindquist, Herbert W. Hill. 1912:Mason D. Gray, Shiro Tashiro, StellaB. Vincent, Carl Rohn, I913: EdwinaAbbott, Katsuji Kato, Albert D. Brokaw,William C. Krothwahl, Alice F. Braun­lich, George D. Fuller. 1914: Elton J.Moulton," George M. Sleight.In the nature of the case most mem­bers are unable to attend the meeting atthis time on account of duties in connec­tion with. closing exercises in their owninstitutions. Hence the number presentseems very favorable.The total, number of Doctors is now799, of whom 62 we,re added during theyear 1913....:.14. Of these, 19 are deceased,the most recent death being that of Dr.Edith E. Barnard, who died suddenly onMarch 8, 1914. She was a Bachelor ofthe University in I903, a Master in I905,and a Doctor in I907. Dr. Barnard hadbeen corresponding secretary of theAssociation and was invariably presentat the annual meetings. A fitting tributeis given her in a memorial notice in the"May Magazine.The report of. the Secretary- Treas­urer showed 'a balance from the" previousyear of $37.95 and receipts from annualdues-of the $7°.00, making the total re­ceipts $1°7.95. The expenditures forprinting, postage, clerical assistance, andsubscriptions to the Magazine were$84. 20, leaving a balance to the nextyear of $23.75.Subscriptions to the Magazine are'now, for the most part, sent directly tothe Alumni Council,and dues only, to theSecretary ofthe Association.' It appearsthat there have been over 200 Doctorson the Magazine subscription list duringthe year, which is a far larger proportionthan is shown by. any other' AlumniAssociation.The officers elected for' I9 14-15' wereas follows: President, Daniel P. Mac- 215Millon, '99; Vice-President, Thomas E.Doubt, '04; Secretary-Treasurer, Her­bert E. Slaught, '98; Executive Com­mittee, Howard Woodhead, '00, ErnestL. Talbert, '01, and the three officers.The most important item of businesswas the final report of the committeecontinued from last year to furtherformulate methods of procedure for thebetter promotion of the interests of the.Doctors in the matter of academic ad­vancement. The report was presentedby Dr. Robert J. Bonner, who gave aresume of information gathered fromvarious departments of the Universityin response to a questionnaire asking for(I) means employed for keeping infor­mation up to date concerning the degree. of success attained by Doctors in thevarious lines, research, teaching, admin­istration, general effectiveness, calcu­lated to qualify them {or filling betterpositions, and especially important postswhere' opportunities arise for recom­mending Chicago Doctors; (2) meansemployed for securing information con­cerning vacancies and for bringing theattention of authorities to Chicago Doc­tors in such a way as to maintain properdignity and yet not to miss any oppor­tunity to give effective backing to themen and women who hold our highestdegree.This report will. be elaborated andsent out to all Doctors during the autumnand copies will also be sent to all depart­ments in the University .. The new equip­ment in the office of the Board of Recom­mendations is in operation and is alreadyproving its effectiveness. .An important change in the by-lawsof the Alumni Council was presented forratification by the Association and wasunanimously approved. I The essentialfeature is the enlargement of the Council,making the membership depend upon thenumbers in the various. associations,namely, one delegate to each five hundredor fraction thereof in each association,with a minimum representation of threedelegates for each association. The dele­ga tes elected from the Doctors' Asso ...dation were the' president, D. P.McMillon, the secretary, H. E. Slaught,and Robert J.' Bonner. The Council' willhereafter hold regular meetings quar­terly, while the routine business will beconducted. by a small executive com-mittee. .In the absence of President Judson,2I6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwho is in the Orient, the Acting Vice­President, Professor James R. Angell,delivered. greetings to the Doctors andsuggested a topic which was afterwardchosen for consideration during thecoming year, namely, an investigationas to the continuation of research by theDoctors after leaving the University.Numerous suggestions were made bymembers with reference to a question­naire on matters relating to this topicand the elaboration of it was left to theExecutive Committee. This will becarried out during the year.The Association may well felicitateitself upon this tenth anniversary of itsorganization and its continued prosperitythroughout this decade. It was a dis­appointment to many not to see Presi­dent Judson, who has missed only one ortwo of these annual meetings, but allwere hearty in expressions of hope for apleasant and successful trip for him and Mrs. Judson and for their safe return indue season.. .H. E. SLAUGHT, Secretary-TreasurerLaw School Alumni Associaiion s-«At the .annual meeting of the Universityof Chicago Law School Association,Jl!ne 12, .at Hotel LaSalle, A. L. Hop­k�ns was .elected president, E. J. Phillipsvice-president, and R. E.. Schreibersecretary-treasurer. On Mr. Schreiber'srequest the Nominating Committee didnot submit his name as a candidate fordelegate to the Alumni Council. Mr.Charles W. Paltzer and Mr. J. W.Hoover were elected as delegates to theCouncil to serve for the ensuing year.Former Judge Charles S. Cutting wasthe. speaker of the evening at the banquetwhich preceded the annual businessmeeting.R. E. SCHREIBER