PUBLISHING, Not for Pn4lt-but lor Service'The modern printing-press is the key to large-scale production. of good books. Running at high speed, it attains quantityin output without a sacrifice of quality. Printing on surfacesof d.ifferent sizes" on various kinds and grades of paper, it produces,hour after hour, the pages that are to be bound into' the finished book.Electrically driven, self .... inking, fed automatically or by hand, it is one of thewonders of the modern world.The cylinder press prints from type-forms or plates that are. locked in ,a horizontal position on the bed of the press. To thisinked surface the paper is carried in large sheets by a rapidlyrevolving cylinder, which is skilfully padded with thin layers 'of tissue wher­ever tests have shown that a portion of the page would otherwise receivea faint impression. Similarly "made ready," the platen press prints froma vertical type-form to which the paper, in small sheets, is carried by a��� .,(If" In the, p. ress.rooms of the University �f Chicago Press the pages ofJ Dr, Roy L. Moodie's Antiquity of Disease are now being printed.'The Mtehle. cylinder presses are turnin. g out the illustrationsand the text of the book Itself, while the plateQ. presses are print­ing the descriptive jacket in which the volume will be sold.THIS IS THE SIXTH OF A SERIES OF ADVERTISEMENTS'THAT WILL DESCRIBE .THE MAKING OF GOOD BOOKS ATTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS�bt mnibtr�it!' of C!Cbicago Jflaga�intEditor and Business Manager, ADOLPH G. PIERROT, '07.Editorial BoardC. and A. Association-DoNALD P. BEAN, '17.Divinity 4ssociation-A. G. BAKER, Ph.D., '21.Doctors' Association-HENRY C. COWLES, Ph.D., '98.Law Association-CHARLES F. McELROY, A.M., '06, J.D., '15.Sch091 of Education Association-FLoRENCE WILLIAMS, '16.The Magazine is published monthly from November to July, inclusive, by The Alumni Council of TheUniversity of Chicago, 58th St. and Ellis Ave., Chicago, Ill. The subscription price is $2.00 per year;the price of single copies is 20 cents. llPostage is prepaid by the publishers on all orders from the UnitedStates, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama Canal Zone, Republic of Panama, Hawaiian Islands, Philip­pine Islands, Guam, Samoan Islands. llPostage is charged extra as follows: For Canada, 18 cents onannual subscriptions (total $2.18), on single copies, 2 cents (total 22 cents); for all other countries inthe Postal Union, 27 cents on annual subscriptions (total $2.27), on single copies, 3 cents (total 23 cents).llRemittances should be made payable to The Alumni Council and should be in the Chicago or New Yorkexchange, postal or express money order. 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XV CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1923 No.6FRONTISPIECE: THE JUSTINIAN MANUSCRIPTCLASS SECRETARIES AND CLUB OFFICERS 203EVENTS AND COMMENT ......•••..................... ; ..............••.................. 205CEREMONY AT MANUSCRIPT PRESENTATION .................................•..........•• 207THE BLACKFRIARS SHOW, "THE FILMING OF FRIARS" ....................••......•.....•• 208ALUMNI AFFAIRS .••...•.••..••.....•.....•••.......................................•• 210CHICAGO DEANS (A SERIES). DEAN PERCY HOLMES BOYNTON .•........................ 214THE LETTER Box ..•.................... : ...............................•...........•.•• 215NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES ................•••.......••••...•....•...............•••..• 218ATHLETICS •.••............................. '0' ••••••••••••••••••••••• '.' •••••••• ' 219D NIVERSITY NOTES 220SCHOOL OF COM.MERCE AND ADMINISTRATION •.•........................................• 223SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (GEOGRAPHY COURSES) NOTES ...............................•... 224BOOK REVIEWS ..........................•• . .................................•..••...• 226NEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS ..........................•...•....•....•••... 228MARRIAGES, ENGAGEMENTS, BIRTHS, DEATHS •••.............•.••.....••.• '; ..•.......••.. 240201THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE.Theof the AlumniUniversity Councilof ChicagoChairman, CHARLES F. AXELSON, '07Secretary-Treasurer. ADOLPH G. PIERROT, '07.THE COUNCIL for 1922-23 is composed of the following delegates:From the College Alumni Association, Term expires 1923, ELIZABETH FAULKNER, '85;THOMAS J. HAIR, '03; LEO F. WORMSER, '05; ALICE GREEN ACRE, '08; WILLIAM H.LYMAN, '14; MRS. RUTH DICKINSON, '15; Term expires 1924, MRS. WARREN GORRELL,'98; CHARLES S. EATON, '00; FRANK McNAIR, '03; MRS. GERALDINE B. GILKEY, '12;PAUL S. RUSSELL, '16; MARGARET V. MONROE, '17; Term expires 1925, JOHN P.MENTZER, '98; HENRY D. SULCER, '05; CHARLES F. AXELSON, '07; HAROLD H. SWIFT,'07; ELIZABETH BREDIN, '13; JOHN NUVEEN, JR., '18.From the Association of Doctors of Philosophy, HERBERT L. WILLETT, PH.D., '96; HERBERT E.SLAUGHT, PHD., '98; MRS. MAYME LOGDON,' PH.D., '21'. 'From (he Divinity Alumni Association, E. J. GOOD�PEED, D. B., '97, PH.D., '98; OSCAR D.BRIGGS, . ex-'09; A. G. BAKER, PH.D., '21. ' .From the 'Law School Alumni Association, S. CLAY JUDSON, J.D., '17; CHARLES F. McELROY,A.M., '06, J.D., '15; BENJAMIN F. BILLS, '12, J.D., '15.From-the School of Education Alumni Association, R. L. LYMAN, PH.D., '17; J. ANTHONYHUMPHREYS, A.M., '20; MRS. GARRETT F. LARKIN, '21.From the Commerce: and Administration Alumni Association, FRANK E. WEAKLY, '14;,DONALD P. BEAN, '17; JOHN A. LOGAN, '21. ,From the Chicago Alumni Club, WILLIAM MACCRACKEN, '09, J.D., '12; HOWELL W. MURRAY,'14; RALPH W. D'AVIS, '16. '.From the Chicago Alumnae Club, GRACE A. COULTER, '99; MRS. HOWARD WILLETT, '07; HELEN'NORRIS, '07.From the University, HENRY GORDON GALE, '96, PH.D., '99.Alumni Associations Represented in the Alumni Council:THE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'President, CHARLES F. AXELSON, '07, The Rookery, Chicago.Secretary, ADOLPH G. PIERRQT, '07, University of Chicago.ASSOCIATION OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHYPresident, HERBERT L. WILLETT, Ph.D., '96, University of Chicago.Secretary, HERBERT E. SLAUGHT, Ph.D., '98, University of Chicago.DIVINITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONPresident, W. H. JONES, '00, D.E. '03, 4400 Magnolia Ave., Chicago.Secretary, A. G. BAKER, Ph.D., '21, University of Chicago.LAW SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONPresident, S. CLAY JUDSON, J.D., '17, 38 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.Secretary, CHARLES F. McELROY, A.M., '06, J.D.,.'15, 1609 Westminster Bldg., Chicago.SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONPresident, W. E. MCVEY, A.M., '20, Thornton High School, Harvey, Ill.Secretary, FLORENCE WILLIAMS, '16, University of Chicago.COMMERCE AND ADMINISTRATION ALUMNI ASSOCIA nONPresident, FRANK E. WEAKLY, '14, Halsey, Stuart & Co., The Rookery, Chicago.Secretary, MISS CHARITY BUDINGER, '20, 6031 Kimbark Ave., Chicago.All communications should be sent to the Secretary of the proper Association or to theAlumni Council, Faculty Exchange, University of Chicago.The dues for Membership in either one of the Associations named above, including sub­scriptions to the University of Chicago Magazine, are $2.00 per year. A holder of two or moredegrees from the University of Chicago may be a "member of more than one Association insuch instances the dues are divided and shared equally by the Associations involved.CLASS SECRETARIES-CLUB, OFFICERSCLASS SECRETARIES'98. Herman von Holst, 72 W. Adams St.'94. Horace G. Lozier, 175 W. Jackson Blvd.'96. Charlotte Foye, 5602 Kenwood Ave.'96. Harry. W. Stone, 10 S. La Salle St.'97. Scott Brown, 208 S. La Salle St.'98. John F. Hagey, First National Bank.'99. Josephine T. Allin, 4805 Dorchester Ave.'00. Mrs. Davida Harper Eaton, 6744 Kimbark Ave.'01. Marian Fairman, 4744 Kenwood Ave.'02. Mrs.· Ethel Remick McDowell, 1440 E. 66thPlace.'03 Agness J. Kaufman, Lewis Institute.'04. Edith L. Dymond, Lake Zurich, Ill.'05. Clara H. Taylor, 5838 Indiana AV'e.'06. James D. Dickerson, 9246 S. Robey St.'07. Helen Norris, 72 W. Adams St. '08. Wellington D. Jones, University of Chicago.'09 Mary E. Courtenay, 1538 E. Marquette Rd.'10. Bradford Gill, 175 W. Jackson Blvd.'11. William H. Kuh, 2001 Elston Ave.'12. Harriet Murphy, 4830 Grand Blvd.'13. James A. Donovan, 209 S. La Salle St.'14. W. Ogden Coleman, 2219 S. Halsted St.'15. Mrs. Phyllis Fay Horton, 1229 E. 56th St.'16. Mrs. Dorothy D. Cummings, 1124 E. 52nd St.'17. Lyndon H. Lesch, 1204, 134 S. La Salle St.'18. Barbara Miller, 5520 Woodlawn Ave.'19. Mrs. Carroll Mason Russell, 5202 Woodlawn.'20. Mrs. Theresa Rothermel, 1222 E. 52nd St.'21. John Fulton, Jr. (Treas.), 4916 Blackstone Ave.'22. Mina Morrison, 5600 Dorchester Ave.All addresses are in Chicago unless otherwise stated,OFFICERS OF UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CLUBSAtlanta and Decatur, Ga. (Georgia Club).Pres., M. H. Dewey, Emory University,Oxford.Boise Valley, Idaho. Sec., Mrs. J. P. Pope,702 Brumback St., Boise.Boston (Massachusetts Club). Sec., Her­bert L. Willett, Harvard University,Cambridge, Mass.Cedar· Falls and Waterloo (Iowa). Sec.,Harriet L. Kidder, 1310 W. 22nd St.,Cedar Falls, Ia.Chicago Alumni Club. Sec., Ralph W.Davis, 39 So. LaSalle St.Chicago Alumnae Club. Sec., Mrs. CharlesHiggins, 203 Forest Ave., Oak Park.Cincinnati, O. Sec., E. L. Talbert, Univer­sity of Cincinnati.Cleveland, O. Sec., Nell C. Henry, Glen­ville High .School.Columbus, O. Sec., Roderick Peattie, OhioState University.Connecticut. Sec., Florence McCormick,Connecticut Agr. Exp. Station, NewHaven.Dallas, Tex. Sec., Rhoda Pfeiffer Hammill,1417 American Exchange Bank Bldg.Denver (Colorado Club). Pres., FrederickSass, 919 Foster Bldg. .Des Moines, Ia. Sec., Hazelle Moore, Rol-lins Hosiery Mills..Detroit, Mich. Sec., Lester H. Rich, 1354Broadway.Emporia,. Kan. Pres., Pelagius Williams!. State' Normal School. 'Grand Forks, N. D. Sec., H. C. Trimble,University of North Dakota.Honolulu, T. H. H. R. Jordan, First Judi­cial Circuit.Indianapolis, In9-. Sec., Alvan Roy Ditt­rich 511 Board of Trade Bldg.Iowa. 'City, Ia. Sec., Olive Kay MartinState University of Iowa.Kansas City, Mo. Sec., Florence Bradley,4113 Walnut Street.Lansing, Mich. (Central Michigan Club).Sec., Stanley E. Crowe, Mich. Agr, College.Lawrence, Kan. Pres., Professor A. T.- Walker, University of Kansas.Los - Angeles, Cal. (Southern CaliforniaClub). ,Sec., Miss Eva M. Jessup, 232West Ave., 53.Louisville, Ky. George T. Ragsdale, 1483So. Fourth St.Milwaukee, Wis. Sec., William Shirley, 912Railway Exchange Bldg. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. (Twin CitiesClub). Sec. Charles H. Loomis, Merch­ant's Loan & Trust Co., St. Paul.New York, N. Y. (Alumni Club). Sec ..Lawrence J. MacGregor, care Halsey,Stuart & Co., 14 Wall St.New York Alumnae Club, Sec., Mrs. HelenePollak Gans, 15 Claremont Avet, NewYork City.Omaha (Nebraska Club). Sec., Madeleine1. Cahn, 1302 Park Ave.Peoria, Ill. Pres., Rev. Joseph C. Hazen.179 Flora Aye.Philadelphia, Pa. Pres., W. Henry Elfreth,21 S. Twelfth St.Pittsburgh, Pa. Sec., M. R. Gabbert, Uni­versity of Pittsburgh.Portland, Ore. Pres., Virgil A. Crum, 1313Northwestern Bank Bldg.St. Louis, Mo. Pres., Bernard MacDonald,112 So; Main St.Salt Lake City, Utah. Pres.,. W. H. Leary,625 Kearns Bldg.San Francisco, Cal. (Northern California·Club.) Sec., William H. Bryan, 406 Mont­gomery St.Seattle, Wash. Pres., Robert F. Sandall,603 Alaska Bldg.Sioux City; Ia. Sec., Dan H. Brown, 801Jones St.South Dakota. Sec., E. K. HiUb.rand, Mit­chell, S. D.Tri Cities (Davenport, Ia., Rock Island andMoline, Ill.). Sec., Miss Ella Preston,1322 E. 12th St., Davenport.Vermont. Pres., Ernest G. Ham, Randolph.Vt.Virginia. Pres, F. B. Fitzpatrick,. EastRadford, Va.Washington, D. C. Sec., Gertrude Van Hoe­sen, 819 15th St.West Suburban Alumnae (Branch of Chi­cago Alumnae Club). Chairman, Mrs.George S. Hamilton, 367 Franklin Ave.,River Forest, Ill.Wichita, Kan. Pres., Benjamin Truesdell,412 N. Emporia Ave.FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVESManila, P. 1. Sec., Dr. Luis P. Uychutin,University' of Philippines.Shanghai, China. John Y. Lee, ShanghaiY. M. C. A.Tokyo, Japan. E.' W. Clement, First HighSchool.The' Justinian ManuscriptThe photograph shows the Authenticum or Novellae Constititiones of Justinian, the most important of the five medievalmanuscripts presented to the University by the alumni at the M arch Convocation .. It shows two pages of the main body of themanuscript of the Justinian laws with the marginal notes or comments on each side. The pages of the manuscript are about12 inches wide and 18 inches long. The photograph, of course, does not bring out the rich illumination and coloring which hasled competent critics to state that it is the most beautiful of th e few Justinian manuscripts in existence. Not only as a medievaldocument of high importance, but also as a rare example of t he highest art of the Bologna School of manuscript-making ofthe twelfth century, this "Justinian" is a unique treasure now in possession of the University. ():)o....�l!1��........�l"':i:J�V)........f...j�a�()�........Qc:;")a��c:J��........�t!'lUniversity of ChicagoMagazineTheAPRIL, 1923 No.6VOL. XVThe article on the aims of the Universityin developing graduate work and raising theNew standard of work done in theStandards undergraduate d epar t m e n t s ,contributed to our March num­ber by Acting President Burton, set forthclearly scholastic aims which are but thelogical aims for any great institution thatseeks to carryon educational endeavor oftrue university character and purpose. Wewere pleased to present Dr. Burton's articleto our alumni readers at a time when theaims of the University in this regard werebeing "reported" to the public in highly­colored, sometimes psuedo-comic, and oftendistorted fashion. As a result of this news-­paper treatment two questions irose in thetninds of many alumni: What will becomeof the College? What will become of ath-1etics?Acting President Burton's timely articledisposes of any doubt as to either the Col­lege or athletics. The College will continueto be, as it always has been, an establishedpart of the University, and its· aims will beto develop, what colleges should develop, thewell-rounded man or woman who has bene­fi ted by its training and influence. It shouldbe obvious to anyone who will note thedevelopments of the last three years thatthe private universities, with their compara­tively limited resources and opportunitiesfor expansion, can not successfully. meetthe demands for a college education by anyand all, regardless of numbers, who seekentrance to the classrooms. Since the num­bers must be limited, it is both the dutyand the right of such universities to see that only those should be admitted whose prepa­ratory training, character, and abilities givebest promise of successful work and prog­ress during their student years. More andmore the emphasis must inevitably comeon quality-on quality as broadly anddemocratically based on intellectual ability,character, and promise of attainment ofdefinite results. Chicago is riot an exceptionto the rule in this development. Practicallyall of the large private universities, east andwest, are confronted with the same problemand. are seeking to solve it in the same way.As to athletics, it should be evident fromDr. Burton's statement that the object ofthe University is not to harbor a curi­ous collection of college "anaemics" or "un­social individualistic storehouses of knowl­edge." The object of the College, aspreviously stated, will be 1'0 produce well­rounded men and women, "men and women,"as Dr. Burton puts it, "physically strong,socially cultured, intellectually equipped andtrained, morally courageous and broad hori­zoned." In such a· program athletics andathletic ideals must necessarily play an im­portant part. So far as athletes are con­cerned, Dean Robertson, in commenting onthe contemplated program, said: "If entrancerequirements are increased, I do not anti­cipate that the standing of the University inathletics will be lowered; athletes are gen­erallv well above the average scholastically."Regarding the student attitude and theuncalled-for attitude of some alumni theDaily Maroon has well said: .'"The matter of an increase in entrancerequirements and scholastic standards for205206 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGA2INEstudents who are admitted to the Universityis causing an amount of discussion entirelyout of proportion to its importance. Newregulations have not been formed yet, al­though they are being considered by afaculty committee."The desire of the faculty is to excludefrom the University the tyre of people whodrop out, or are expelled, sometime duringtheir first year in residence. These menand women are almost always ineligible forpublic appearance, and are on probation,and can neither offer the University any­thing nor be more than a hindrance toothers who are associated with them in theirclass work. Classes are overccrowded now,and it .is often impossible to get instructorswho are qualified to teach even the elemen­tary courses."An investigation of the facts proves thatthe University is striving to keep out onlythose people who are almost entirely detri­mental to the best interests of the wholeinstitution. The greatest possibility of harmlies in the inaccurate propaganda which isbeing circulated, and by no one more thanactive undergraduates. Nothing will injureour chance to get men of proved athleticability more than for Chicago students andalumni falsely to infer and report that theUniversity is rapidly becoming a graduateinstitution, that freshmen are not wanted,that it will .be impossible for the man withan average 'mind to remain here, once he isadmitted, or that fraternities will be deadwithin five years. True members of theUniversity will prove their loyalty to AlmaMater by repudiating such statements whenthey hear them spoken, and by themselvesstating only the facts of the case."Individuals here and there may have gone"off the track" in their attitude toward thiswhole matter. But, so far as our alumni inthe mass are concerned, we are confidentthat they appreciate both the necessity andthe desirability of raising the standards ofwork in all departments of the University,and will heartily support sound advancesmade in that direction.* * * * *Beginning with the Summer Quarter, 1923,the tuition fees .at the University will be ap­preciably increased. The amountsTuition' of increase are noted elsewhereIncreases in this number of ·the Magazine.The purpose of the increase is tomaintain the standard of education work setby the University, in the face of the constantincrease in operating costs. The present an­nu.al income from tuition fees does not pro­vide fos more than one-third of the actualrunning expenses of the University. Evenwith the increase, tuition fees will pay forabout half the actual operating costs of theinstitution; and, as compared with tuitioncharges at other large private universitiesand colleges, tuition charges at Chicago will' still be among the lowest. In face of suchfacts the conservative increase soon to beput in effect is fully justified.Ever since conditions began to changemarkedly, as a result- of the Great War, ithas been evident that tuition fees had to beincreased. The present advance marks buta steady and unavoidable rise begun a fewyears ago. It is gratifying to note, however,that the present advance will be accompan­ied by an increase in scholarships and fel­lowships, which will largely offset the in­crease in fees, as far as promising studentsof Limited means are concerned. In this waythe University is making every fair' effortto prevent foreclosure of its educational op­portunities for the needy and deserving.And, indeed, the new charges themselves arefar from "excessive"-particularly in viewof the fact that the student pays but part ofthe actual cost of his or her education and inview of the high type of education affordedby Chicago.* * * * *The coming June Reunion affords arrun­usual opportunity to the classes that will thisyear observe special class an-Special niversaries. At the. 1922 Re-Class union, .under a new plan. poutAnniversaries in effect last year, the anni-versary classes were calledupon to make a special showing, in' classattendance, in the class parade, and on theprogram of Alumni Day events. The anni­versary classes responded with real enthu­siasm; their floats in the parade, their"stunts" on Alumni Day, their special classdinners and parties were very large. factorsin making the entire Reunion a pronouncedsuccess.The coming Reunion "puts it up" to theanniversary classes of this year to carryonthe plan, so successfully begun in 1922.· Theclasses of '98, '03, '08, '13, and '18 have itlargely in their hands to advance the plan,to make our 1923 gathering one 'of the bestour Quadrangles have witnessed. These areall "good classes;'; all of them have alumniand alumnae who have been among our lead­ers in class and alumni affairs; The presentyear, however, offers them their first realopportunity to make outstanding class show­ings at a Reunion. We know. of no reasonwhy they will not "deliver." In fact, theyhave had committees working on their par­ticular celebrations for some time; if sincereinterest and preparations of committees area gauge, our special class anniversaries willagain be notable. But committees alone cannot "win banners." It is the members of theclass, their hearty response, their loyal, en­thusiastic support and attendance that guar­antees success. We urge all members ofthese classes to support their committees.Important class anniversaries come but sel­dom-see that yours are duly and properlyobserved. Stand up for your class! .CEREMONY AT MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTATION+11�lill_I;II�III1�illl_III1_IIII_lIn_IIII_lill_"II_IIII_"II_1I"-Un-III'I-lln-IIR-UII-IIR-n"";"'IIH __ lln_lIll�n._"II_IIII_alI-IIII-n"--_+I mI Ceremony at Manuscripts Presentation I� I+�U-an-Ull-IIII-IIIl-JlII-III1-IIII-II-IIII-IIII-IIII-IIII-IIII-11n-UU-Pl:I-I"_IIIf_lIl1_Un_IU_Ua_IIII_U"_IIII_UII_Un_ln_Un_n+A notable feature of the One HundredTwenty-eighth (March) Convocation wasthe presentation of the - five valuable manu­scripts, described in our March number, tothe University, through Mr. Charles F. Ax­elson, '07, Chairman of the Alumni Council.The manuscripts were carried in the Con­vocation Procession by two of the CollegeMarshals and one of the College Aides. AsMr. Axelson rose to speak, they mountedthe platform bearing the manuscripts. AsMr. Axelson mentioned the several manu­scripts, he received them from the Marshals­and Aide, and presented them to the ActingPresident, who in turn handed them to Mr.Hanson, Associate Director of the Libraries,and Mr. Henry, Head of the Readers De­partment, who stood beside him. In present­ing the manuscripts, Mr. Axelson said:Mr. President: As Chairman of the AlumniCouncil I speak on behalf of the entirealumni body of our University. Comparedwith the alumni of other great universitiesWe are few in number and young in years.However, among us there is a constantlygrowing appreciation of the importance ofthe University of Chicago among the edu­cational, institutions of the world, and withthat appreciation there is an eagerness toassist in every possible way toward main­taining her rank as one of the leaders. Withthis idea of assistance in mind, the alumniundertook about three years ago to raiseand did raise a modest sum - of money, apart of .the income from which was to beused to foster the best interests of theUniversity. After having taken care ofnecessary expenses in connection with thefund there recently became available someof this income. At about the same timewe learned of the keen desire of some mem­bers of the -faculty, in the interest of re­search' work, for the acquisition of certainoriginal, rare, and valuable manuscripts,written in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth,and fourteenth centuries, and now obtain­able as a result of post-war conditions inEuropean counrties. The alumni appreciatethe value of research work of this characterand they seriously propose to assist in itsencouragement.With money available from the Alumni�ndowment Fund, supplemented by addi­tional gifts from two sources, namely, in­dividual alumni and friends of the U niver­sity, we have purchased five volumes whichI now take pleasure in presenting to theUniversity.This volume labeled "Magna Charta,"Contains a copy of the Magna Charta and acollection of the principal statutes of thedav, written in the Fourteenth Century. This Register of W ritts is a collectionof legal writs as used by the early Englishlawyer and was written about the year 1320.These Yorkshire Manuscripts-there aretwo 'of them in one volume-contain atreatise on the Nine Sciences written at theend of the Thirteenth Century, and a seriesof sermon sketches written at the beginningof the Fourteenth Century.This collection of ten manuscripts waswritten in England about the year 10'75. Itcontains among other features the Miraclesof the Virgin, and is decorated with a re­markable painting of the Virgin and Child,grotesques and initials.I now present to the University a copyof what i-s known as the Authenticum orN ovellae Constitutiones of Justinian. Ac­cording to the best information obtainable,it ,is the first manuscript of any part of theJustinian Corpus Juris that has ever foundits way to this country. The best evidenceis that it was written at Bologna about theyear 12:50. It is glossed, rubricated andfinely illuminated with one miniature, nu­merous historiated initials and ornamentaldecorations. Aside from its great value asan original text, it is regarded as the mostartistic manuscript of its kind in existence.The alumni hope that this is only thebeginning of similar contributions to ourAlma Mater. We trust that, as her needsare unfolded, we shall in part at least beable to care for them. We are particularlyhappy, Mr. President, to make this presenta­tion on this occasion, the first convocationpresided over by yourself as Acting Presi­dent of the University.In accepting the manuscripts, ActingPresident Burton said:"I t is with peculiar pleasure, Mr. Axelson,that on behalf of the University I receivefrom your hands this gift of the AlumniFund Committee on Manuscripts. Notablefor their antiquarian and paleographic inter­est, even more so as sources for historicalresearch-for everyone of them is impor­tant for some .phase of the social, moral orintellectual life of our ancestors-these man­uscripts have_ for us their greatest si�nifi­cance in the fact they come to us from' theAlumni and testify to their interest in theUniversity. Because of their form and con­tent they will be made the subject of dili­gent study: because of their intrinsic worthbut especially because of the source fro�which they come, we shall count themamong our proudest treasures and guardthem with jealous care. They mark a newstep in the development of relations between(Continued on page 222)208 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE+n_lIn_IIII_IIII_III1_r:II_IIII_IIII_IIII_IIII_lIn_IIII_IIII_IllI_IIII_IIII_IIIt_1III-U�II"_I1II�III1_all_II.�M"_H._II"_tl._It._ •• _u._+I "The Filming of Friars" I" 1923 Blackfriars Show I! i+_.11_1111_1111_1111_'111_1111_1111_1111_1111_;111_1111_1111_II_llll_IIII_IIII_lflI_."I1��III_II"_nll;_IIII_ItII_IlII_IIII_1111_1111_1111_1111_:111_11+Lester Westerman, '2,3, One of the LeadingMenThe ShowColor, harmony and unbounded enthusi­asm, with the good old smashing, dashingchoruses, have been mixed in just the rightproportions to make "The Filming of Fri­ars," t,o be presented in, Mandel Hall onMay 4-5 and' 11-12.The jovial Friars have put up 'their cowlsand are,' about to make the dusty -jour neyfrom the Midway to Hollywood. For the1923. play takes a. transcontinental leap andintroduces its hero-heroine to the wickedvamps and the· golden-haired ingenues of thewest.Given an. intriguing and charming storyby Earle Ludg in, ex;-'·22, Mr. HamiltonColeman. is preparing a musical comedy thatwill make "Sally" look like a performanceof: "The. Golden Giant Mine" in Hopkins;Michigan. Pretty girls rivaling' the protegesof Florerize Ziegfeld will abound, dance' andsing their way to the hearts of the audience.:The scenery is attractive and expertlyconstructed. Color· schemes range all theway' from the green of woodland dells tothe dazzling draperies of Cleopatra's livingroom, not to mention local color and a littlerouge. It will be a "real show"-sutpassingeven the national standard of Friar shows. Important Opening SurpriseIn the first fifteen minutes of "The Film­ing of Friars" is a clever surprise for theaudience. In justice to all who arrive atMandel. Hall before 8 :30, the doors will beclosed. to late comers as the curtain risesand will not be reopened until 8 :45.The MusicThis year the B_lackfriars have somethingmore to offer than the usual musical com­edy of university calibre. There are richlyinterwoven tunes and melodies, harmoniesand orchestrations-songs that would fit anytype of show,. from opera to "highbrow"revues, and all of them songs that "stay."They are, whatever their classification ac­cording to type, popular. There are twentynumbers in all! ranging from the operaticN elson Fuqua, '24, as Mrs. Horace Ruther­fordto the "whazz"-the combination of melodyand rhythm that marks a first-class musicalshow.Variety and excellence in the musical num­bers have been gained by the new way inwhich the competition was conducted. Inpast productions the music has been limitedby the lyrics originally written into theshow. But this year's book presented anopportunity to allow the song-writers a. greater range. They were asked to submitany type of song-music, with accompanyingJ7HE FILMING OF FRIARS}lyrics written either by the song-writer orby a collaborator.As a result there are included in "TheFilming of Friars" a sentimental "moon"Song, a beautiful waltz, and some extremelyclever novelty numbers which might easilybe used by J olson or Kantor, and thus cre­ated "national song hits." The songs se-lected are: ."Ivory Hunters of Zanzibar" .· Ear le-Ludgin-Knowles Robbins"I Want to Go to College in the Movies"· Earle Ludgin-Knowles Robbins"Ptolemy Ptoddle" .· Earle Ludgin-Knowles Robbins"Moon-Maiden" Leslie River"Is Isabelle In?". Russell Pierce-Leslie River"I ungle. Nights". Russell Pierce-Leslie River"Hollywood Bound" .· Russell Pierce-Leslie River"Mr. Coue Blues" Knowles Robbins"Cairo Honeymoon" Knowles Robbins"You and I" ... John Webster-Robert Pollak"Who's Kissing You" .· Sam Levy-Semon Newfield"Won't You Marry Me?" .· Sam Levy-Marvin Brook 209"Romancing" Marvin Brook"King Tut" Don FooteWhazz"Whazz" is a new kind of music. It willbe used to make the 1923 Blackfriars' pro­duction a melodious success. "Whazz" is akind of super-jazz. It is syncopation re­fined and toned until it has become virtually"jazz art." The 1923 Blackfriar companyhas this musical slogan:. "Whazz is what jazz tried to be."Eccentric bands and eerie notes fromwhazz artist's clarinets will put whazzacross the Mandel Hall footlights. Whazzwill mean the moment supreme for moderndance music.Over the RadioListen for "The Filming of Friars" overthe radio, broadcasted by station KYW ofthe Westinghouse Electric Company. Theprogram will start at about 11 :45 p. m.Tune your set to 400 meter wave length .. Hear it over the radio-see it in Mandel!"'"- --- -Dan Protheroe, '25, as a Hollywood moviestar, Nelson Fuqua, '24, as the mother, Wil­liam Kerr, '25, as Helen Rutherford. -- --- -- ---- ----- ------ ------------- -=a -210 THE UNIVERSITY' OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEALUMNIS. Edwin Earle, '11 .Chairman of the 192,3 ReunionThe appointment of S. Edwin Earle, '11,(generally known as "Ned"), as Chairmanof ,the 1923 Reunion is simply anothermethod of assuring the success of ouralumni gathering which will culminate thisyear in the activities of Alumni Day on Sat­urday, June 9th. Ever since graduation"Ned" Ear le has taken a leading part in theannual gatherings, not only of his exception­ally "live" class of Eleven but of the alumnigathering in general. For years he has been"producer," as it were, of the Sing, manag­ing it with such constant success that it isnot too much to say that he, more than anyalumnus, made the Sing one of our trulyfamous alumni events. This year we losehim for the Sing-but to gain him towardmaking the entire Reunion a pronouncedsuccess.S. Edwin Earle has been President of theNorthern Banknote Company of Chicagosince 1917, .one of the largest companies inthat business. He is a member of the Ham­ilton, the South Shore and the Skokie Coun­try clubs. During his college days he wasvery prominent in student activities; he wonhis "C" for three years in track. He is amember of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity andof Owl and Serpent senior society. Withcharacteristic energy he has organized his A F FA I RSReunion committees and started the "game"for a big Reunion. "Ned" fully deserves thesupport of everybody. Let's get behind himand help him to realize his ambition-to "putover" the largest, by far, and most enthu­siastic Reunion we have ever held.Dean Mathews Addresses Large Meeting ofSouthern California Alumni ClubThe University of Chicago Alumni Asso­ciation of Southern California had a greatmeeting on Monday, March 12, at the Uni­versity Club of Los Angeles. One hundredand five, the largest attendance at anyprevious meeting in the history of the asso­ciation, greeted our speaker, Dr. ShailerMathews.The beautiful new home of the UniversityClub was made additionally attractive withquantities of spring flowers. From 5 :30 to6 :00 an informal reception was held. Thecourses of the dinner, which was served at6 :00, were interspersed with piano and vocalnumbers.The president, Dr. A. H. Sutherland, '10,then introduced the speaker. We all thor­oughly enjoyed Dr. Mathews' talk. In hisusual interesting way, he put us in touchwith the present-day life of our Alma Mater.In order to leave for the North on an earlytrain, Dr. Mathews was obliged to leaveshortly after 8 :00 P. M.The annual election of officers resulted inthe selection, of the following:President, Dan Ferguson, '09.Vice-President, May Heap, '08.Secretary, Eva Jessup, '07.Treasurer, Dr. John V ruwink, ex.All who attended were enthusiastic overthe success of the meeting and we hope tohave many more during the coming year.Eva Jessup, '07, Secretary.Central Michigan Alumni Club Dinner andBridge PartyMarch 21, 1923.The Central Michigan Alumni Club of theUniversity of Chicago held a dinner onMarch 14 at the Flower Pot Tea Room,Michigan Agricultural College. We strovefor informality this time-with the resultthat we felt quite well acquainted after asociable evening of bridge, following anespecially good dinner.The chief business of the evening wasthe election of Stanley E. Crowe, ex" asSecretary':' Treasurer, to fill the place of thepresent Secretary, who will be in residenceALUMNI AFFAIRSat the University of Chicago this Spring.quarter,Those present were: Marie Dye, '14, Ph.D.'22; Ruth Cowan, '18, M.S. '22; JosephineHoffarth, '17; Dell Henry, '21; Stanley E.Crowe, ex; Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Darlington;Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Eldridge; VernonG. Grove, ex; Howard D. Lightbody, M.S.'17, and Mrs. Lightbody; Louis C. Plant,M. S. '04, and Mrs. Plant; Mr. and Mrs.J. W. Scott; Hall Ivan Sippy, '21; Fred 1.Walker, '08, and Irma Gross, '15.I am enclosing the material concerningthe personnel of the club, which you re­quested soon after its formation.Sincerely,Ima Gross, '15, Secretary.Farewell Reunion to Miss ReynoldsInvitation to Foster Hall AlumnaeMiss Myra Reynolds has been Head ofNancy Foster House for thirty years. Shewas the first fellow in the University andhas been for years Professor in the EnglishDepartment, and she is now . retiring.Among the various little ceremonies of fare­well is a reception in her honor to the fac­ulty, her friends, and the friends of mem­bers of Foster Hall, and alumnae of FosterHall living in the vicinity, on April thir­teenth, and a Foster Hall Reunion on Juneninth. Miss Reynolds' academic workcloses with the Winter Quarter, but she isstaying on through the Spring Quarter inFoster for the purpose of writing some sortof history of Foster Hall. She hopes thatthis history will be ready for the June Re­union. Unfortunately, the records are ratherscanty and Miss Reynolds would be particu­larly pleased if any of the Foster Hall Alum­nae would send any data that could be in­cluded in such a history.In October Miss Reynolds takes up her:esid�nce in Greenwich, Connecticut, vary­lllg this residence by winters in California,with possible springs and autumns at Lake­side, Michigan.It is hoped that many of the Foster Hallgirls will be present at the reunion on June9th. Arrangements are being made to fur­nish dinner, breakfast and lodging fer onenight at a moderate price to those who applyearlv. The girls of Foster and variousfriends have united in recent gifts to theHall, the result of which will be that theparlors will be a lovely surprise 'to a11 whocome .back.Mr. Stagg Addresses Big Ten Meeting inSt. .LouisMarch 14, 1923.Dear Mr. Pierrot:. You will 'probably be interested in receiv­lllg the enclosed program of the SecondAnnual "Big Ten" Banquet, which was heldat the 'Chase Hotel here, on March 2. Thebanquet was a tremendous success in every .211way. In addition to the athletic directorsand coaches from the Conference U niver­sities, we had with us Mayor Kiel and otherrepresentatives of the Chamber of Com­merce and the city of St. Louis. MayorKiel was very much impressed and he is a"Big- Ten" man from now on.The "Old Man" was really the honorguest of the evening. He gave an inspir­ing address on "The National Meet," point­ing out the increasing interest that is beingmanifested in it by all college athletes andby the public, and emphasizing its far­reaching importance in the physical andmoral development of our youth. B. C.("Beano") MacDonald will send, you someclippings from the St. Louis papers, relat­ing to the "Old Man."MacDonald, '20, was Chairman of Ar­rangements; Stewart D. Chambers, '07, wason the Publicity Committee. There was astrong Chicago representation. Fred Lueh­ring, Ph.M. '07, the new Director of Ath­letics of the University of Minnesota, gavea very fine address. In having Fred Lueh­ring there too, we felt that the Universityof Chicago was very well represented.With kindest regards, I amSincerely yours,Walter McAvoy, '07,Chairman, Banquet Com.Cleveland. Big Ten Club PlansThe Cleveland Big Ten Club intends tobe more than a club in name only. At itsannual meeting and banquet at Hotel Win­ton recently it declared in favor of a per­manent organization with the maintenanceof suitable club rooms so limited in equip­ment as to bring membership within themeans of the recent graduate or studentwhile trying to establish himself as a citizenof Greater Cleveland.I t also expressed its in ten tion of effectinga better understanding between the ten uni­versities that compose the Western confer­ence and the institutions, industrial, com­mercial, professional and educational, ofGreater Cleveland. I t will try to advise thehigh school student in deciding on a col­legiate career, regardless of his athleticability, and aid the graduate of any of theBig Ten colleges in advancing in his pro­fession in Cleveland.The meeting, which was the. second an­nual affair of the Big Ten Club and attendedby 300 members, was addressed by Ma i,John L. Griffith;' Prof. Thomas French ofOhio State, president of the Western Con­ference; E. P. Boer, president of the BigTen Club, and Prof. Edward Gardner, Uni­versity of Wisconsin.Maj. Griffith emphasized the need of ath­letics declaring that while the country mightbe divided upon the idea of universal militarytraining, it was becoming almost unanimousthat the country needed universal physical212 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEtraining and the colleges, particularly thoseof the Western Conference, were trying tosupply the demand. He told how 40',000students now were receiving athletic train­ing in the Big Ten and that 2,000,0'00 per­sons would witness the Western Confer­ence football games this fall, also refutingthe statement that the huge stadiums, beingerected would be a menace to amateursports.Prof. French detailed some of the dutiesof the Western Conference, which, he said,had no intention of expanding beyond itspresent limit of ten members. He referredto the fact it was the first conference of itskind, and since had been copied by the Ohio,Missouri Valley, Rocky Mountain, PacificCoast and Southern associations, with theproject now under discussion to form a con­ference in the east. He also remarked theeast was twenty years behind the west inathletics and cited numerous cases to provehis assertion. He, too, decried proselytingand referred to the fact that Ohio Statehad turned' down high school athletes whohad tried to induce O. S. U. to pay theirexpenses through school.The Big Ten arbiter also spoke on thedemocracy of athletics and declared collegesports preached anti-bolshevism. Referringto, proselyting, he advised the 300 graduatespresent that it was not good sportsmanshipfor an alumnus or a group of alumni to goout and hire athletes to go -to a certain col­lege. because it was a deed that ten.dedtoward professionalism and debauched theathlete thus hired. In short, Maj. Griffith'saddress was one of the best sermons onclean sportsmanship and the value of com­petitive athletics ever preached.Prof. Gardner spoke along the lilies ofthe democracy of college life, saying thegreatest democracy was obtained by thecollege that maintained large dormitoriesand had a college commons.President Boer advocated a unity of spiritamong the Big Ten graduates, declaringthat instead of bidding among themselvesfor the acquisition of a few scholastic ath­letes, they should act more as counsellorsin steering the high school student, regard­less of his athletic ability, to the Big Tencollege where his educational wants bestcould be served.Victor Sincere, Chicago, '97, acted astoastmaster.Chicago Geologists at Annual MeetingMarch 27, 1923.During March 22-24 inclusive, the sixthannual meeting of the American Associationof Petroleum Geologists convened at Shreve­port, Louisiana, with an attendance of nearlyfour hundred. The Chicago Alumni had aluncheon on Friday, March 23, in the privatedining room of The Inn, at Shreveport.There were forty present. Mr. Richard A. Conkling, ex, acted as chairman.Notice was taken of the great blow Pro­fessor Salisbury's death dealt all geologists,and talks were given by Mr. Frank W. De­Wolf, '03, and William E. ("Bill") Wrather,'07, relative to the arrangements now madeto run the .Depar tmen t of Geology at Chi­cago. Mention was also made of the ap­pointment of Dr. Burton .as our new Presi­dent; several of the people did not knowof this change.Chicago Spirit was shown at all times,and in the evening at the banquet of theAssociation suitable cheers and Chicagosongs were given. The group attending theChicago meeting was largely the same groupas last year, with a few "lost sheep" and afew new ones added to the fold. Trustingthis may be;' of interest to the Alumni, Iremain, Very truly yours,Mrs. Winnifred Conkling, '12,S.M. '14, Secretary.Oklahoma City, Okla.West Suburban Alumnae Club ActivitiesApril 3, 1923.We are with Chicago, here in Oak Park,though nearly all of us are busy housewivesand many of us thrice busy mothers! Thereare about forty-five of us, composing theWest Suburban Alumnae of the Universityof Chicago. We pay $1.50 yearly dues, keep­ing $0.50 for our own treasury and sending$1.00 to the Chicago Alumnae Organiza­tion downtown. We are just finishing ourthird year. The first year we didn't do muchbut meet once a month for tea and chatabout Chicago. The second year we madeclothing for a self-supporting girl studyingat the University.The third year we made clothing,' paidone quarters' tuition for this ambitiousyoung woman, and are making plans to as­sist her financially this spring quarter '1923.We made hundreds of little cakes for ourcard-party to raise the money for our pro­tege's tuition. We carried tables and chairs,covers and cards, for this party. One ofour members opened her lovely home forthis day. We made, last April, and expectto make this April, dozens of sandwichesfor the annual tea we give the Oak Park.High School Senior girls at Ida Noyes toget them interested in attending the U ni­versity. We haven't much money, but wehave a lot of "pep" and we put every ouncewe've got into furthering the interests of ourAlma Mater.The year-book program of the Club, madeup by the Club in an attractive Marooncover, shows meetings every month thisyear. The Annual Meeting, with electionof officers, will take place on May 9th, atthe home of the Misses Rowlands, 621 SouthElmwood Avenue, Oak Park.Mrs. Virginia Folkes Lewis, '14,West Suburban Alumnae Club.ALUMNI AFFAIRSChicago Alumnae Club Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting of the ChicagoAlumnae Club was held in connection withthe Club's Annual Spring Luncheon on Sat­urday, April 7th, at the Chicago CollegeClub. Miss Lucy Driscoll, '08, was thespeaker on this occasion. She reported onthe manuscripts given to the University atthe March Convocation through the alumni.The manuscripts were on exhibition. A moreextended report of this meeting will appearIn the May number. .Other Recent Club MeetingsDuring the last few weeks a number ofclub meetings have been held. The North­ern California Alumni Club held an "All"Star" meeting at the Hotel Stewart, SanFrancisco, on March 16th, at which DeanShailer Mathews and Professor Frederick M.Blanchard were the speakers. Dean Math­ews also addressed alumni meetings at Port­land, Seattle, and Missoula, Montana. OnMarch 30th our Georgia Alumni Club helda meeting at Atlanta. Professor S. H. Clarkwas the guest. of honor and speaker. TheIndianapolis Club has been holding infor­mal meetings during the winter season.The Cleveland Club has been very busy dur­ing the last two months, having held fourimportant meetings in that time. Full re­ports of these various gatherings have notyet reached us. The reports will be pub­lished in the May number.Plan Alumni Club at Ann Arbor, MichiganMarch 27, 1923.Dear Mr. Pierret:Since receiving your letter of January 31, Ihave talked with other Chicago men in AnnArbor about your suggestion on organizingan Alumni Club here. I feel sure that a num­ber would welcome some such organization.One obstacle is apparent at the outset. AnnArbor as a whole, and the University. ofMichigan in particular, is flooded with or­ganizations.. A single individual usuallyowes support to several. .However, I shall try to see a good numberof Chicago alumni sometime soon, and soundthem out. Meanwhile, if you have definiteSuggestions which might help make an or­ganization meeting a success, I shall beglad to receive them. I must warn youthat I am not in a position to make a whirl­wind canvass of the situation. It will takequite a while to get around.Yours very truly,Alfred L. Nelson, Ph.D., '16.Department of Mathematics,University of Michigan.-Concerning the A. A. U. W.College women some forty years ago feltthe necessity for continuing some kind' of 213association after college days and alumnaeof eight colleges in those days' formed an or­ganization which has since 'become nationalin scope-the American Association of U ni­versity Women. This unites educational in­terests of college women of 130 colleges anduniversities throughout the United States insuch a manner that they meet socially tof<?rm new and further 'old friendships, todISCUSS all phases of education art musicl�w, home. economics, social s�rvic�, medi�cine, public health, journalism-in fact allthe branches of knowledge which are clas­sified in a college catalog. They study theirhome communities to see in what way edu­cated women may be of service in addingculture and comfort to the communities inwhich they live. They offer scholarships totempt talent and genius, they administer .loanfunds to ambitious but not wealthy youngpeople, they offer fellowships for, foreignstudy that students may know students andcolleges in other lands, and they. give teasand. luncheons and dinners and plays andmusicales and lectures. They try in everyway to interest young people to make themost possible of their talents and oppor­tun. ties, whatever they are, and they tryto add to their own store of knowledge afterthe wonderful beginning of colleg-e. days.The American Association of UniversityWomen now has some 200 branches locatedin every state except four in the UnitedStates. Besides the. many thousands. ofmembers these branches represent it hashundreds of general members who are iso­lated . from other 'college women but whowish to keep themselves allied with educa-tional progress. .The A. A. U. vV. two years ago in con­junction with college women. of Englandand Canada organized the InternationalFederation of University Women whichnow comprises national organizations ofcollege women of seven teen countries or­ga!lized for the purpose of acquiring friend­ShIP for and better understanding of othercountries, their problems and their people.Club Houses are being established as rap­idly as possible in the various capitals of theworld. Already the A. A. U. W. has onei� the capital city, Washington. N egotia­tions are under' way for one in London'Par is has one at 4· rue de Chevreuse; andBrussels has its headquarters at Maison desEtudiantes.Dr. Smith Meets Sioux Falls AlumniDr. Gerald B. Smith, of the DivinitvSchool, addressed a meetinz of alumni re­siding in and near Sioux F"'alls, South Da­kota, on March 23rd, at Sioux Falls. Themeeting was held at the First BaptistChurch, and was in. charge of the Rev. Er-nest J. Chave, A .. M., '20. .2'14 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEDean Percy H. BoyntonIn our March number appeared a pictureof the alumni cast that had presented theRestoration play, "The Beaux Stratagem," afew weeks previous. Inthat cast you probablynoted Dean Percy H.Boynton, dressed in earlyEighteenth Century cos­tume-for all the worldone of the careless "dan-­dies" of the Queen Anneperiod. Today we presentDean Boynton in a rolehe most generally as­sumes in University af­fairs, and one in whichmost of our readers willrecognize and recall himmore readily.The University of Chi­cago was but ten yearsold when Percy Boyntoncame to the quadranglesas a graduate student andassociate in English. Hisconnection with the U ni­versity has remained un­broken for over twentyyears.Percy Holmes Boyn­ton was born at Newark,New Jersey, October 30,1875, the son of a clergy­man. He was educated in the grammarschool at Boston, and in the preparatoryschool at Newton, Massachusetts. He thenattended Amherst College, receiving hisA.B. in 1897; the following year he receivedhis A.M. degree at Harvard. While atAmherst he rapidly developed a naturalinterest in literary work and became Editor­in-chief of the Amherst Literar» Monthly,one of the best college literary papers inthe country. For the four years after gradu­ation from Harvard, 1898-1902, Mr. Boyntonwas a teacher in a Boys' School in St. Louis.He then came to the University of Chicagoin 1902.While a graduate student he became atoncean assistant in the English Department,with which department he has been con­nected ever since. He is at present AssociateProfessor of English. Some years ago hebegan to specialize in American Literature,in which field he is now regarded as anauthority. His publications, besides a num­ber of occasional articles, include the follow­ing volumes:' London in English Literature,1913: Principles of Composition, 1915; Ameri- can Poetry, 1918; A History of AmericanLiterature, 1919; A School History of Ameri­can Literature, and Milestones of AmericanLiterature (an anthology), now in press. In1912 he was appointedDean in the Colleges ofArts and Literature, aposition he has occupied,with distinct ability andgreat help to the studentsin his charge, for overten years.Dean Boynton is thetype of dean who thor­oughly understands thestudent, his problems,and how to solve them.His interest in under­graduate affairs is evidentfrom the services he hasrendered as member ofthe Reynolds Club Li­brary Committee, LayMember of the Black­friars, Representative ofStudent Publications onthe Board of StudentOrganizations, adviser tothe D ram a tic Club,Counselor for his fra­ternity, the Psi UpsilonChapter, and in othercapacities. Dean Boynton,in his contact with theUniversity community, has been a UniversityMarshall, Secretary of the Quadrangle Club,and President of the University OrchestralAssociation; after a term as Secretary, heis now President of the University Settle­ment Board. He is a member of theQuadrangle and University clubs. In 1914he was Secretary of instruction for theChautauqua Institute. He is frequentlycalled upon for lectures at other educationalinstitutions, clubs and associations.On October 11, 1902, he married MissLois Damon, of St. Louis. The Boyntonshave two children, Holmes, age 16, andDamon, age 15.Dean Percy H. Boynton is an unusuallysuccessfull combination of. teacher, scholar,writer, lecturer, dean . and "good fellow."None of the younger members of our Fac­ulty and administrative forces has . coritri­buted more to the University, to wholesome,worth-while student life; or to the U niver­sity community than he. Many of ouralumni will happily recall him in the"fond recollection" of their student days atChicago.Dean Percy H. BoyntonTHE LETTER BOX 215r··'�"""'"""'"'""'"""""""'"'""";'�:'"'W'�::;::,","";'::'.,","" .... w'"", •••• u."Q"u,'"'"u·i�f"""111II11II1II1I1I1II11II1I1I1II1I1II1II1I111I1I1I11II1I1II1II1I1I1I1II1II1I1I1II1II1I1II1I1I11I1II11I1I1I1I1I1I1I1I11II1II1II1II1II1I1I"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111;:;A Word from MoscowAMERICAN RELIEF ADMINISTRATIONRUSSIAN UNITMoscowFebruary 8, 1923.My dear Mr. Pierrot:The Alumni Magazine comes quite regu­larly three weeks after it is mailed. I keepthem in the office to show to the students.They admire the buildings and the gargoyleson. to cover.I have met a U. of C. graduate' here, acorrespondent for a Peking newspaper, MissGertrude Beasley. I think her class was '15.We have tea together frequently and skiitogether less frequently. She has spent oneyear in Japan, one in China" and expects tospend one more in Europe before returningto the Land of the Free.Y ours sincerely,Elizabeth Bredin, '13.Concerning Manuscripts and Medieval LifeIn the MS. formerly belonging to thatfamous scholar and notorious thief, GuilielmoLibri, the most interesting feature is un-t doubtedly the collection of Miracles of OurLady. The life of the middle centuries ofthe Middle Ages-not only the' religiouslife, but the social, the artistic, the literary­centered in the cult of the Virgin. AsHenry Adams says in his book on M ani-de­Saint-Michel and Chartres, "Society hadstaked its existence, in this world and thenext, on the reality and power of the Virgin;it had invested in her care nearly its wholecapital, spiritual, artistic, intellectual, andeconomical." Nothing-not even the pain l­ings and carvings of' the cathedrals-givesus as clear an insight into the psychology ofmediaeval men and women, high and low,learned and unlearned, pious and profane,into the motives which governed their ac­tions and shaped their lives, as do these,naive, picturesque, and often touchinglyPoetic little stories of the ways in which shehelped those who loved her. The presentcollection is an early bne-the twelfth, thir­teenth and fourteenth centuries are those towhich most collections belong-and it hasthe added interest of dating from England.Owing to the zeal of the agents of HenryVIII, English MSS. of Miracula SanctaeVirginis are very rare. There are severalscholars in the University who would beglad to study this MS. (This is one of themanuscripts presented by the alumni at theMarch Convocation.-Ed.) The fourth MS., the Co'mpendiutn Moraleof Roger of Waltham, is likewise most im­portant for the understanding of mediaevallife and thought. It is a gross and funda­mental error to suppose that the MiddleAges were idealistic and unpractical. It isindeed hardly an exaggeration to say thatnothing was done in them or valued forother than purely practical ends. Thegigantic structure of mediaeval religionwas intensely practical; with the exceptionof a few mystics, everyone, saint and sinner,prayed,' gave alms, established charities;built churches, monasteries, and hospitalsfor the. very practical purpose of saving theirown souls, which could be saved, as theythought, only try doing such things. Litera­ture and art were equally practical in theiraims. Art existed to teach doctrine or toinspire to good works. Literature wasvalued almost solely for the lessons ittaught-lessons of chivalry, of government,of prudence in the concerns of daily life.Such work as this Compendium are collec­tions of examples to teach by di:rection, orby warning, how one should live to besuccessful. They are therefore of the high­est value for the interpretation of the idealsand the motives of our ancestors. ,If any scholar could offer the world rea­sonable assurance of a method by which hecould form a true picture of life on theplanet Mars, he could immediately procureany amount of money necessary to carryout his project. But the inner lives andmuch even of the external history of themen and women who lived before us onthis earth are unknown to us, or only partlyunderstood. Indolence has caused us tothink of them as precisely like ourselves;prejudices-partly religious and partly dueto an unwarranted pride developed duringthe so-called Renaissance-have caused usto distort the motives and undervalue theachievements of the first fifteen Christiancenturies .. Only now is the uncolored whiteligh t of tireless and unprejudiced investi­gation being turned upon the past. Thescience, the art, the literature, the economicand social life of the past are being studiedas never before. We of the University ofChicago should do our share in this work.Some of us have made contributions whosevalue is recognized by the world, of scholars;but we are eager to do more, and we believethat. with the aid of friends to furnish thematerials for investigation, the part of, theUniversity in reconstructing accurately and216 THE UNIVERSITY of CHICAGO MAGAZINEtruly our knowledge of that past - out ofwhich our own life has grown can be evengreater than it has been.Yours very truly,John M. Manly.News from Teheran, PersiaTeheran, Persia.I just came from the school where I tolda Physics class about Michelson, Gale andMillikan, whose text they use. I also wasintroduced to the school boys at chapel thismorning. I am to live in the dormitory, Ibelieve, as head of the hall, out at the col­lege, a mile or so from the central compoundhere in the city.We arrived in Teheran November 5, aftera seven-hour trip a la Ford from Kasvin,about 90 miles. We had spent She nightthere, arriving from Ramadan the eveningbefore. We were lucky in getting a room,too, because the town was full of the Persianarmy returning to Teheran from fighting theKurds up around Tabriz. A big desperado,Simco, has been operating up there. Thisarmy defeated them but he escaped. InKasvin we saw several of Simco's men.The most queerly dressed fellows I eversaw. Ordinary shoes, baggy, black bloom­ers, a slit skirt of three or four panels atight fitting; green, woolen blouse and' ahigh, broad, brown felt hat with no brim,but a black and gray shawl wound aroundwhere the brim should be. The queerestthing was the sleeves. The green blousehad tight, straight sleeves,' but at the wristsa piece of white muslin was attached, anenormous piece about a yard or so square.I don't know what they used them for; allI saw them do was wrap them around theirarms-they looked like sofa pillows. Thesemen are the most terrible desperadoes, youknow. The Kurds have the reputation ofshooting at sight. -We stayed in Ramadan two days andthree nights, waiting while the Fords wereoverhauled, but we did not mind becausewe were with the mission folks and enjoyedourselves immensely. There is a fine crowdthere and we met no end of good people.Some others, Near East workers, came infrom Tabriz and the last day we were thereand that night there were 35 Americans inthat Persian city of about 80,000 people.The Kerrnanshah-Harnadan trip was ter­rible. We had a high pass (Asatabad, over8.000 feet) and we had to walk about halfthe way over and then one car broke downand the sun set, and it was really cold upthere. Finally we got the car fixed andafter a few more punctures reached Rama­dan at about 11 :00 P. M. The folks therewere perfectly great-they gave us a hotmeal at that late hour and made us entirelycomfortable; very hospitable, all of them.I had r.eached Tiaruq on the morning ofthe twentieth, Sunday, after taking 14 hours to make 120 miles north a.nd east a bit fromBagdad. All of the others had gone aheadto Kermanshah. I had to wait a day inBagdad to get my Persian visa on the pass­port. I'm glad I had to wait that day,though, for it delayed me long enough toget some mail for us which had just arrivedthree hours before I left, at the Americanconsul's. The personnel in each missionstation here is excellent. Their homes arenicely furnished and very comfortable.Things look very promising.There is a remarkable opportunity herealong with a very pleasant situation andthe best possible people to work for andwith-mission folk, I mean. The enroll­ment of the boy's school is 525. The workbegins with kindergarten and at present iscarried only through the high school. Inthe near future junior college. work will begrven. The central compound in the citycontains three residences, a fine chapel, thegir ls' school, the boys' school with theirplaygrounds, and numerous small buildings.It is about six or seven acres in extent andhas been mission property for several years.There are many large trees a bout the placewith several small grass plots and flowergardens.The mission owns several acres in thenortheastern part of, the city and there aretwo residences and the hospital there. Inthe opposite quarter of town we have justpurchased a small piece of land with build­ings which are to be used as a dispensary'and chapel for the lower classes of people,those living in that section. It is a curiousfact that the church here has a strongerhold on the higher class of Persians ratherthan the laborers. There is a fine Persianchurch of about fifty members who are Per­sians and fifty who are Armenians-all areactive workers. These -- people are quiteready to put anyone out who does notmean business. A few blocks from the cen­tral compound, _ near one of the city gates(the town is walled) the mission owns a.Iew more acres which are vacant now butsome day will be covered by the buildingsof the women's college. Mrs. Russell Sag-ehas already given the money. A short dis­tance outside the city, just beyond this gatenear the other property, is ground for thecollege, about sixty acres in all. Dr. Jordan'shouse and one other are the only buildingsout there now besides the boys' boardinghall which is a substantial two-story buildingaccommodating about seventy-five when full.It is a wonderful location for such an insti­tution, and will probably have several build­ings erected before many decades. T ust tothe north are the Shimarron Mountains,12,000 feet, and about 40 miles east and abit north is the snow-capped peak of Derna­vend, 20,000 feet.(Continued on page 237)The Tomb of TutenkhamonTHE LETTER BOX-�-TUTENKHAMON 217By special invitation of Lord Carnarvon and Mr.Howard Carter whose excavations in the Valley of theTombs of the Kings, at Thebes, have had such im­portant results, Professor and Mrs. James HenryBreasted, who were on their way down the Nile ill De­cember, were invited to inspect the tomb of Tutenkh­arnon, the last monarch of the Eighteenth Dynasty.A letter received by Mrs. Judson, from Mrs. Breasted,gives the following graphic account of the visit."We were requested to come without anyof our staff of helpers and without mention­ing to anyone where we were going; soleaving our donkeys and donkey-boys at therest-house near the temple of Der el Bahriwe proceeded to enter the Valley of theTombs of the Kings by way of the steepand difficult path over the Gebel."But, leaving all details of our reachingthat wondrous Valley of the Tombs, let metell you of the tomb of our quest. At theentrance we found Mr. Howard Carter andhis assistant, Mr. Callander. Mr. Burton,photographer for the Metropolitan Museumexcavations, was, at the moment, in thetomb, making exposures by the powerfulelectric lights which have been installedthere. We waited till these were completed.Mr. Carter asked if my lady friend and Iwould feel hurt if Mr. Breasted and Mr.Winlock (of the Metropolitan Museum) h�dthe first view of the tomb. Imagine anypetty soul being hurt under such circum­stances! This, for which these patientscholars had hoped for years! A royal tombof the Pharaohs, undisturbed, as it had. lainthese three thousand, two hundred and fiftyyears, in all its magnificence and splendor!We were more than content to sit aboveand wait our turn indefinitely. But we werenot asked to do that. Soon Mr. Carter beck­oned us to enter the first doorway and sitoutside the second and actual entrance ofthe tomb and view what seemed to be adream rather than a reality. Before us lay,piled to the ceiling, the paraphernalia' of. anEgyptian king. Golden couches; goldenchariots, inlaid with precious stones; a golden.chair, with a scene upon the back, of theking and queen, wrought in wondrous colorsof enamel and precious stones; chests, inlaidwith ivory in patterns or in hieroglyphs;chests of all descriptions-one especiallybeautiful, with painted designs of huntingscenes of wild animals and processions sodelicately drawn and colored that it wouldvie with any Japanese art of the finest type;these chests all filled with precious articles of various kinds such as royal robes, sandals,a golden head-rest, rolls of linen, goldenserpents and no .one knows what all, sinceonly a few of the covers have, been raised,lest anything come to grief of this' preciousoutlay, which has lain these thousands ofyears in the silence of the tomb."So limited is the space and so numerousare the articles that but two persons maybe allowed to enter at a time. Under oneof the couches are many sealed cases offood; some of these are in the form of fowland animals. Between two of the couches,on. the floor, stand four carved. alabastervases of such exquisite workmanship, that,for beauty alone, to say nothing of theirage, they would be priceless. Then thereare about a dozen canes or staves of mar­velous workmanship. I might enumeratemany more of the objects, but I should tellyou something of a second chamber, intowhich no one has yet entered, but can peer,by stooping, under one of the couches,through a small, square opening in the wall.The strong electric light reveals 'objects ofall descriptions piled to the ceiling on allfour sides of the room. Drawing one's headback one sees on the right, against' the wall,two life-size statues of the king, with san­dals of gold upon their feet, and each witha gilded staff grasped in both hands. Theseseem . to be guarding the space betweenthem and this space is of white plaster an dcovered with great seals of the king, Tutenkh­amon, whose royal cartouche is to be seenin other objects in the same chamber. Here,it is believed, is the entrance to the burialchamber of the king, and in February, whenthis chamber is to be opened, will be foundthe king, lying as he was laid away, threethousand, two hundred and fifty years ago.There are indications that ancient tombrobbers have hastily taken from the firstchamber the objects of solid precious metal. and it is possible that they did the same tothe inner chamber, and the mortuary priests,discovering it, proceeded to seal it up again,together with the outer entrance, just as itwas found by Mr. Howard Carter. My hus­band has been able to aid Mr. Carter inthe identification of the tomb and to explainwhy it escaped discovery or vandalism inmodern times. He will be sent for in Feb­ruary to aid in the opening of the mortuarychamber. How fortunate that he should bein Egypt at this time! It is the event of alifetime.".218 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENE"WS OF THEQUADRANGLESFamiliar signs of spring and "signs ofwarning"-"Keep Off the Grass"-have ap­peared simultaneously, along with the manycomplications ever-attendant upon the adventof the Spring quarter. Yet despite the lureof early spring days the work of the Uni­versity must go on, and with it renewedapplication to the books laid aside for theweek vacation preceding Easter Sunday.And together with it all must go the cease­less effort of the undergraduate activitians.Perhaps the most important of the activi­ties now preparing for the last quarter isBlackfriars. The dates set for the 1923show, "The Filming of Friars," written byEarle Ludgin, ex-'22, directed by HamiltonColeman, and managed by Abbot FrankLinden and his staff, have definitely decidedupon as May 4-5, 11-12. A double cast isat work now on the book; from this groupthe final roles will be filled. Forty-five 'menhave been selected tentatively for the choruswork. "Whazz" is the name Mr. Colemanhas applied to the music of this year's show.A more complete review of the facts con­cerning "The Filming of Friars," togetherwith a summary of the book, and some of themusic, appears elsewhere in this issue.On the night of April 7 the W. A. A. heldtheir annual Festival in Ida Noyes. Mar­garet Slingluff, president, Marion Jaynes,who had charge of the Festival arrange­ments, and their corps of assistants, pre­sented to the campus "A Night in Paris,"with Parisian ballets, booths, and costumescombined to make an effective miniature re­production of the French city.Elections in various organizations havenot yet got well under way. . The electionof officers in the Interfraternity Council re­sulted in the choice of Clarence Brickman,'24, for president; Howard Amick, '25, forvice-president; Harold Woods, '24, for cor­responding secretary; Paul Decker, '24, forrecording secretary; and Edwin Forkel, '24,for treasurer. ,The annual "Hit the Walk" campaign, inan' endeavor to protect the appearance ofour campus at a time when the grass is justbeginning to resume its greenness and life,has been sponsored by the UndergraduateCouncil. This organization, working in co­operation with the Building and Grounds de- partment of the University, has undertakento arouse student sentiment to a point wherethe grass-walker will be outside. the pale ofundergraduate society, 'while the Groundsdepartment has provided chains and "signsof warning" about the campus.To fill the vacancy caused by LennoxGrey's departure from the Honor Commis­sion, Egil Krogh, '�3, was recently chosento complete the spring term on. that body.In a chess match held under the auspicesof the Y. M. C. A., the Y. M. C. A. teamrepresenting the University of Chicago de­feated the University of Illinois, Saturday,March 31, by a score of 5-3. Goetz, repre­senting the local association, was the out­standing player, winning both of his games.This is the first chess match held betweenWestern Conference universities. A 'secondmatch has been scheduled with the Y. M.C. A. at Northwestern University, and willbe played in the near future. The score fol­lows:Chicago IllinoisB. Goetz vs. C. McBride, 2-0.L. Tindall vs. L. Andrews, Yz-1Yz.A. E10 vs. O. Koerfer, 1Yz-Yz.H. Kraus vs. J. Leach, 1-1.Chicago 5, Illinois 3.A translati�n of "Pepita" from the .Span­ish of Quinters by Associate Profe.ssor Eliz­abeth Wallace and Mrs. Otis Skinner willbe presented for the first time in Chicago atthe performance to be given by the Gar­goyles Saturday April 28, in Mandel hall.The same perfo�mance will also include. anoriginal one-act play.The production . staff, as announced, in­cludes Dan Rich, scenic director;" OliverPetran, ticket manager; Edna' Kiem, 'pro­gram manager; Mari Bachrach, house man­ager; Robert Pollak, publicity manager;Elizabeth Hyman, assistant stage director;and Mrs. Marian Barr by special appoint­ment of the dramatic board has been createdcostume director. Mrs. Barr has had con­siderable experience in costuming and isdesirous of seeing at the tryouts anyone in­terested in this branch of dramatic produc­tion.Two orchestras featured the biggestFreshman mixer of'the year which was heldApril 6, from 4 to 6 on the second arid-thirdfloors of the Reynolds club .. This was anexclusive freshman party and one of thesnappiest ever held., ,W� L River, '25.ATHLETICS 219With the arrival of the Spring Quarter,activities in outdoor sports began, and aftera hasty survey the outlook may be said tobe more promising than in the past few"years. In track, tennis and golf prospectsfor a successful season appear unusuallygood, while baseball continues to lag inthe distance with a fair possibility that theVarsity may make 'a better showing thanthe team of last season.The Track TeamIn consideration of the great perform­?-rices of the Varsity track athletes in thel11d90r' 'Conference meet at Evanston, theMaroon runners should cut a reasonable·figure in the outdoor dual meets. Led byCapt. Eg il Krogh, -who won the mile runIn the Conference meet,' and who incident­ally has not been defeated in the mile runthis year, the team is possessed of somebrilliant performers in the middle distanceevents, but the field events and short dis­tance runs present the greatest problem of'Coach A. Stagg, who is again at the helmfor a busy season. ', ·Bates, Jones, Stitt, McFarland and Pyottare the men who will wear the Maroon inthesprints, while Capt. Krogh, Bourke, Ken­nedy,' Stadter, Kemman and Spruth willcompete on the distance runs. Russell andD.ickson are the high jumpers. Frida andMichals will compete in the weight events.It. is likely that relay teams will be sentto both the Drake and Penn games, whichcom� on April 28. A one-mile team com­posed of Pyott, Jones, Stitt and McFarlandwill compete in the Penn games, while Capt.Krogh, Spruth, Bourke and Kemman willmake up the team which will represent Chi­c�go at the Drake games.The Baseball Team. The Varsity. baseball team has been work­Ing out for the. past few weeks under thedirection of Coach Nels Norgren, and willopen the 'Big Ten season with Northwesternat Evanston on April 14. Practice gameswith industrial teams in the vicinity of Chi­cago have been arranged so that the menwill be in condition for the opening clasheson the card. George Yardley is the only "C"Inan to report for work with the veterans,�chultz, Forkel and McGuire. Bob Howell,Infielder from the freshman team of lastYear, is the best of the' large squad ofnew men' to report and will likely draw theassignment at second base.The success of the team depends in .largeIneasure on the pitching staff.. which at pres- It- I!.ent is none too strong. Should Roy Arnt,star flinger of last year's yearlings, be eli­gible for competition, the Varsity wouldhave a fair chance to win the. majority ofits games, for Arnt demonstrated that he isof Conference calibre.' Other pitchers whodeserve mention are "Lefty" Weller, whoworked in some of the Big Ten games lastseason, and "Bill" Weiss, Varsity basket­ball guard. Schultz, McCullough, Cody andJ. Howell appear to be the class of the out­field candidates.At the close of the Big Ten Basketballseason Campbell Dickson, '24, was electedto lead the team next year. He is a juniorin the University, a member of Owl and Ser­pent and Psi Upsilon. Five men wereawarded the major "c." They are as fol­lows: Capt. Yardley, center; Captain-electDickson, forward; Barnes, forward, andDuggan and Weiss, guards.National Interscholastic BasketballTournamentThe 1923 National Interscholastic Basket­ball Tournament, conducted by the AthleticsDepartment in Bartlett Gymnasium April 3-7, was the most successful basketball tourna­ment ever held. With 31 states represented,teams from every section of the country, itwas truly "national." All of the teams werechampions of states or districts and theirchampionship "class" was obvious in all ofthe games; many of the games were veryclose, a margin of one or two' points oftenwinning after an, exciting finish or an over­time session. Four excellent teams foughttheir way into the semi-finals on Friday,April 6-Charleston, S. c., Kansas City,Kans., Muskegon, Mich., and Rockford, Ill.The finals, on Saturday. resulted as follows:National champions, Kansas. City; secondplace, Rockford; third place, Charleston;fourth place, Muskegon. Mr. Stagg awardedthe trophies on Saturday night. Capacitycrowds saw the games, which kept the Gym­nasium in a uproar throughout the contests.The Athletics Department, and particularlyHerbert ("Fritz") Crisler, '22, who was incharge of the tournament, deserves fullestcommendation for managing so successfullysuch a great athletic event.John F. McGuire, '24.,220 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINETribute to President .Emeritus Harry PrattJudsonIn his appreciation of President EmeritusHarry Pratt Judson, .Acting PresidentErnest De Witt Burton at the March Con-. vocation quoted the words of the resolutionpassed by the University Senate: "Underhis presidency the student body has largelyincreased in number, the' material resourcesof the University have been more than dou­bled, several of the most beautiful buildingshave been erected, and its prestige and in­fluence greatly enhanced. The freedom ofinvestigation and teaching which under his.administration his colleagues have enjoyed,his strict adherence to a, wisely 'conservativefinancial policy, his skill in administration,his unfailing courtesy, and his distinguishedpublic 'services in war and peace, have en­deared him to his associates and have re­flected honor on the University."The New Dean of' the FacultiesAt the request of Acting President ErnestDe Witt .Burton the Board of Trustees hascreated the office, of Dean of- the Faculties,.defining the duties of the new officer as co­operation with the .Pr esident in matters per­taining .to the educational administration ofthe University. To the .new office the Boardof Trustees have elected a member, of theFaculties who has served' the Univer sityfrom its foundation and is intimately ac­quainted with its life-Professor JamesHayden Tufts, Head of the Department ofPhilosophy and former Dean of the SeniorColleges. 'Dean Tufts, who has been active in thelife of Chicago, especially in the adjustmentof labor difficulties, is, the author of Ethicsof Co-operation, Our Democracy, and a vol­lime on Ethics (with John' Dewey), and isthe editor of The International J ournal ofEthicS'.Accommodations for Missionary Students at. the UniversitySixteen. furnished apartments, equippedfor housekeeping, are' provided at the U n';­-versity for the use of foreign missionarieswho come to the University for study. Anincreasing number of the missionaries, re­turning from their fields of work on fur­lough, take up residence work 'at the Uni­versity, and, as' most of them are marriedmen with families, this .provision for theiraccommodation has been made,' It isproposed to increase it as funds may beprovided for the purpose. .. University Tuition IncreaseSweeping changes in the tuition fees ofall the schools and colleges of the U niver­sity will go into effect at the beginning of- the Summer quarter, 1923. The new sched­ule will affect all students whether or notthey have been in residence previous to theSummer quarter, according to a recentannouncement from the President's office.The present annual income from tuitionfees does not provide for more than 011e-. third of the actual running expenses of theUniversity. The new schedule will be intro­duced in order to maintain the standardsof educational work set by the University,in face of the constant increase in operatingcosts. The action of the Br.ar d of Trusteesin advancing the tuition schedule was takenafter a study of the subject, lasting more,than two years. The Board is anxious toadhere to a liberal policy in the matter ofcost to the individual student.The advance in tuition charges will be'accompanied by an increase in the numberof scholarships and fellowships, which willlargely offset the increase as far as promis­ing students of limited means are concerned.It will also make it easier for the Universityto retain upon its staff, members whosedistinction leads other institutions to wishto secure them.The tuition for the Colleges of Arts.Literature, and Science will be increasedfrom sixty to seventy-five dollars a quarterfor three subjects. The fees for the Schoolof Commerce and Administration are to beraised to eighty-five dollars. This includesthe material fees. Tuition in the Medicalcourse will be raised to eighty dollars.The tuition fees for the Graduate Schoolsof Arts, Literature, and Science will be sixtydollars, regardless of the number of subjectstaken. Tuition for the Law School and theCollege of Education is scheduled to beseventy-five dollars. The Divinity Schoolwill raise its fees to sixty dollars. .The Summer catalogue which has alreadvbeen issued is being recalled in order toadd an insertion concerning the new, sched·ule of fees. Additional majors in all butthe Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature.and Science must be paid for pro rata. Thetuition for the Correspondence school wilJremain the .same.The annual college tuition charge hasbeen only $180.' The new schedule WIll raisethe tuition fees in the Colleges of Arts.Literature, and Science to $225. The officialstatement from the President's office offersthe .following comparison of tuition chargeshere with otherthe country: throughoutUNIVERSITY NOTES 221U IJ:iversitiesAnnualTuitionInstitution Charge-Leland Stanford, Jr $225Dartmouth � . . .. 250.Harvar d 250Brown " , .. 250Carleton College. 250Princeton 300Vassar 300Ricketts Laboratory SouthThe Department of Bacteriology of theUniversity occupied its new Laboratory, tobe known as "Ricketts Laboratory South,"in the first week of March. Ricketts Labor­atory South is a fireproof building, onestory in height, situated a few yards to thesouth of Ricketts Laboratory, and has beenerected at a cost of $50,000. It will add morethan 50 per cent to the floor space of theDepartment . of Bacteriology, which is al­ready using one-half the space of RickettsLaboratory. The Department's facilities forresearch have been doubled by the erectionof the new laboratory. The building willcontain sixty-six hundred square feet offloor space, and includes one general labora­tory, one chemical laboratory, five researchrooms, and an animal room. Like RickettsLaboratory, it bears the name of HowardTaylor Ricketts, Assistant Professor in theUniversity, whose researches in typhus feverled to the discovery of the' nemedy for thatgreat scourge, ahd who lost his life inMexico' City in May, 1910, from the feverwhich he was engaged in studying.University Preachers for April and MayThe first University Preache� for Aprilat the University of Chicago will be DeanCharles Reynolds Brown of Yale DivinitybSchool, New Haven, Connecticut, the dateei_ng April 15. Dr. Henry van Dyke ofPnnceton University. Princeton. New J er­sey. will be the preacher on April 22 and, 29 ..W��e first preacher in May w_ill be Bishopillam F. McDowell of Washington, D. C,th.e date being- May 6. Bishop McDowellwill also be the preacher on May 13. Dr.C·C ornelius Woelfkin of Park Avenue Baptisthurch, New York; City, will be the preacheron May 20 and 21.Educators from Oth�r Institutions to OfferCourses in DivinityD.II� addition to 'the regular faculty of the. IVtnlty School who will offer courses dur­lng. the coming Summer quarter at 'theUnIversity will be well-known biblical schol­aCrs from' other institutions, 'including, Frank. hamberlin Porter and Douglas Clyde Mac­Intosh; of the Yale Divinity School; Alex­inder' R. Gordon. of' the Presbyterian Col-ege of Montreal; Frances Albert Christie and Franklin Chester Southworth, of theMeadville Theological School; Thomas, Wes­-ley Graham, of the Oberlin Graduate Schoolof Theology; and George Cross, of theRochester Theological Seminary.Other members of the Summer quarterfaculty will include Louis Herbert Gray,Associate Professor of Philosophy in theUniversity of Nebraska, and Antranig ArakelBedikian, pastor of the Armenian Evangeli­cal Church, New York City.Physical Directors Hold Annual Conventionat the UniversityThe Middle West Society of PhysicalEducation will hold its annual conventionat the. University of Chicago this year fromApril 19 to 21. Mr. William James Moni­law, head of, the Department of PhysicalEducation of the University High and Ele­mentary Schools, is president of the society.About five hundred physical directors fromall the men's and women's colleges, theYoung Women's Christian Association, play­leagues, public and private schools, normalcolleges, and normal,. colleges of physicaleducation are expected to attend. Therewill be a demonstration of physical. activitiesin Bartlett Gymnasium, from three to fiveo'clock on the afternoon of April 20, fromseven to nine o'clock in the evening, andfroni nine to ten o'clock five of the world'sgreatest swimmers will exhibit their skillin strokes and fancy diving. This will takethe form of an illustrated lecture" and 'suchexperts as Sybil Bauer, the only woman everto have broken the world's men's record inthe back stroke, and John W eisrnueller, theholder of several world's records, willdemonstrate. Owing to the seating capacityof Bartlett Gymnasium, admission to thisswimming meet will be by ticket only.American Home Economics Association toMeet at the University in the SummerThe sixteenth annual meeting of. theAmerican Home Economics Association isto be held at the University in the Summerquarter, the sessions lasting from July 30to August 3. Many of the meetings of theassociation will be held in Ida Noyes Hall,the beautiful clubhouse for women; MandelAssembly Hall,' and the laboratories.Among the well-known women in homeeconomics who' will be on the program arePresident Alice F. Blood; Executive Secre­tary Mary E. Sweeny, and Miss IsabelBevier. The Department of Home Eco­nomics in the University, which has plannedits summer work with the Association meet­ing in mind, will have, in addition' to itsregular staff, instructors from other institu­tions, including Professor Genevieve Fisher,of, the Carnegie Institute of Technology;Assistant Professor Alma Binzel, of theUniversity of Minnesota .and Cornell Uni­versity; and Assistant Professor ElizabethGoodrich, of Simmons College.'222 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE. Remarkable Collection of Balzac SecuredA remarkable collection of Balzac, con­sisting of first editions only and containingone hundred and seventeen volumes, wasrecently acquired by auction at the Ander­son Galleries, New York, by the Universityof Chicago Library. This acquisition,known as the "Croue Collection of Balzac,"will prove of great interest to all, those whoare interested in the art of fiction. Here theworld's greatest novelist may be seen in theprocess of altering and improving hiscraftsmanship. Balzac's career is repre­sented in all its phases, from his earlyOeuvres de [eunesse through the last work ofhis pen, Les Parents pauvref.The Croue Collection was formed by aFrench bibliophile in the days when it wasstill possible to amass first editions of Bal­zac. The transaction at the Anderson Gal­leries was probably ·the most notable saleof Balzac material ever made in this country.The collection was secured for the HarperMemorial Library through the promptnessof President Ernest De Witt Burton andthe exertions of Professors William A.Nitze and E. Preston Dargan, of the De­partment of Romance Languages and Liter­atures, whose History of French Literaturehas recently appeared.A Gift to the' University for Social Research, Announcement is just made of a gift of$21,000 to. the University of Chicago to makeexperimental studies "for the purpose ofexamining the possibilities of social re­search, using the city of Chicago as a labo­ratory." This sum is given specifically forthe purpose of testing the question whethersurveys of this type are practicable. Shouldthe results of this preliminary survey provefavorable to more extended. investigations itis hoped that citizens of Chicago may see inthis fact an opportunity through the U ni­versity of Chicago of serving the city andcontributing to its betterment.Attendance a1: American ,UniversitiesAttendance at American universities andcolleges .for the present collegiate year ex­ceeds past records in all except a few' in­stances, according to a detailed report on140 approved institutions in .. the currentissue of "School and Society," written byRaymond Walters, dean of SwarthmoreCollege and. an associate editor .of "Schooland Society." The' increase over last yearin full-time regular students was two percent; in grand total enrollment (includingsummer school and part-time students) the.incr ease was 14 per cent.'!�' The measure in which attendance hassoared since the war is shown in statistics;Qf 29 -typical universities which now have 56per cent more, full-time students than in 1918 and 87 per cent more in grand totalenrollment.The largest institution in the United Statesin number of full-time regular students isthe University of California,. with 14,061.Columbia University is second with 10,308,Illinois third with 9,285, Michigan fourthwith 8,703 and Minnesota fifth with 8,586.Counting all, resident students, full-time,part-time and summer school, Columbialeads with a grand total enrollment of 27,339.California is second with 20,983. Next inorder are the University of Pennsylvaniawith 14,534, College of the, City of NewYork with 14,067 and New York University,with 12,336.In number of non-professional graduatestudents, Chicago is third with an enroll­ment of 950. The 1922 summer school en­rollment of Chicago, 6,474 students, wasthird in' size. .Organized Social Work at the UniversityFrom its foundation the University ofChicago has carried forward a great socialwork in the Stockyards district of Chicagothrough the University . of Chicago Settle­ment, of which Miss Mary McDowell is thehead resident. The University of ChicagoSettlement League, composed lagrely ofwomen from the University community; wasorganized to raise funds and. work for thesuccess of the Settlement, and many under­graduate entertainments' at the' Universityare constantly contributing to' its support,the Settlement Dance in 1920 ne ting $4,700,and in 1922, $6,300. . ,;.. ;Many students also, in connection withtheir courses, engage in social and philan­thropic work, particularly in the field ofsociology. A graduate student in that de­partment, Mr. Clifford Ray Shaw, recentlyspoke before the Committee on Public Af­fairs of the Union League Club of Chicagoconcerning his work, with boys on parolefrom the. St. Charles School. Mr. Shaw.who raised $200 at the meeting, works underthe, auspices of the Chicago Woman's Cluband in connection. with the state: juvertileparole officer for Chicago.Ceremony at Man�s.cripts Presentation(Continued from page 207)the University and its alumni. '"In the name of the University, I thankyou and. the Alumni whom .yoU r�,l?re�ept,and all who have been associated with yOtlin this notable gift."The manuscripts will be on view afterConvocation in Mitchell Tower, at the northend of the cloister."In accordance with Acting President Bur�ton's concluding announcement, the .maI1tl�scripts were displayed in a case under theAlice Freeman Palmer .. Tablet, and wereseen by a large number of those who at�tended the Convocation.SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AND ADMINISTRATION+"--III1_III1_I1I1_I1I1_I1I1_III1_III1_IIII_IIII_IIII_IIII_IIII_lln_III1_II"_IIU-nn-lin-nll--lm-IIH�IUI-Un-JlII--IIII-IIIt-IIII�nll-nll"""'IIH-,+i . 0 • ,Ii School.of Commerce and .Administration .ji . Reading Lists for the School of Commerce Students :1+_.II_HI1_IIU_IIII_IIII_1111_III�nll_IIU_HII_IIII_nll_lIll_nn_1111_1111_1111_011_011_1111_811_1111_1111_ ... _110_1111_1111_111l-fl"-lIn-ll�As part of the general work of coordinat­ing courses in the School of Commerce andAdministration, a committee of the Facultyhas compiled a series of reading lists for theSchool of Commerce students. The first ofthese which is called "A General ReadingList" contains about two hundred titles aridis classified 'according to the following head­ings: .(1) Problems of adjustment to thephysical environment; (2) Problems of tech­nology; (3) Problems of finance; (4) Prob­lems .of marketing; (5) Problems of risk;(6) Problems of personnel; ('i') Problems ofadjustment to social environment; (8) Ad­ministrative control. It will be observed thatthese group headings tie up very closely with· the classification of subjects in the School ofCommerce curriculum. The books On thislist are now being purchased by- the U niver­sity library and will be available for Schoolof Commerce students in Harper Library.In addition to the general list, there hasbeen' compiled a series of "ConcentrationReadings" on the following subjects:(1) Physical environment of business; (2)Technology; (3) Finance; (4) Governmentfinance; (5) Marketing; (6) Foreign trade;(7) Transportation; (8) Purchasing ; (9)Risk; (10) Personnel; (11) Statistics; (12)Accounting. These lists are made up ofQooks not. already on the general list andwill facilitate specialization by the student· within . the . scope of his special interest.About three hundred titles appear on these· concentration. lists ..Finally there is a "Supplementary Read­ing" list containing about two hundred andfifty titles which represents the followinginterests: (1) General discussion of economicand political subjects; (2) Biography; (3)General literature; (4) The Fine Arts; (5). Religion and Ethics. These. books' are being· special1y ordered for a house library whichwill be' kept at the old Quadrangle ClubBuilding which is now headquarters of theSchool of Commerce and Administration.In making these reading lists, the pointof 'view of the School toward business edu­cation has been kept constantly in mind.That point of view has been distinctly broadand liberal as indicated by the scope of sub­jects listed in its curriculum. It is the theory'of the "General Readings List" that all stu­dents should become acquainted with prac­'tically all titles on the list, thus getting a· cbrnprehensive understanding of their edu- cational program. By this means the Fac­ulty hopes to bridge those gaps which areinevitable in a curriculum of formal courses.By putting the initiative largely upon thestudent, it is hoped, too, that he will do forhimself what the instructor by the natureofthings cannot do for him in the ciassroom.But this problem of mental enlargementextends beyond the bounds of the businesscurriculum and includes very properly. thosesubjects which customarily have been asso­ciated with a "liberal education." It is quitesignificant that professional schools gener­ally are endeavoring to broaden the outlookof their students to the end that they willbecome more socially minded in the conductof their professional lives. It seems espe­cially important that those who are beingtrained for business pursuits should get thissocial attitude toward their tasks. Therefore,the Faculty has made a part of its readingprogram the books UpON. the SupplementaryList. In choosing these titles the FacultyCommittee enjoyed the co-operation of otherdepartments of the University and has,therefore, a feeling of confidence in submit­ting a list of readings which are outside ofits technical field. .There are at least two contrasting viewswith respect to this kind of reading for tech­nical students. In the first place there is thebelief that the product of the business schoolshould be a well-trained business man; thatemphasis should be put clearly upon train­ing, and that in no narrow sense. Undoubt­edly the admission would be made that were. more time at the student's disposal, and th,edemands of professional training Iess.: rigor­ous, the whole list of cultural subjectsshould be included in the scope of the stu­dent's program of study; but facing the real­ities as they see them, those who entertainthis view would. seriously limit the scope ofsuch a list.There is another view which holds that.the,main purpose of" any educational institutionis to produce men-not simply businessmen, however' well trained they may be. Atthe bottom of this v'iew is the fact' that pro­Iessional training and cultural developmentmust be harmonized, with social welfare, aswell as individual welfare, as the objective.I t is this second view which the School ofCommerce and Administration stands for,and it is the hope of the Faculty that thesereadings which are about to become avail­able will help to that end.224 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThe School of EducationThe Trend of Elementary and Secondary School GeographyEdith Putnam ParkerMost recent changes in geography cur-, ricula ,of elementary and secondary schoolsare the results of efforts to "rationalize" and"humanize" the subject. At the root of thesemovements is a sound policy of reor ganiza-, tion based on the newer philosophy of geog­raphy. By some educational leaders whosebanners bear these catchword devices muchis being advocated, however, that trainedgeographers' deplore as unscientific or irrel­evant.Until rather recently, an encyclopedic mis­ce llany of facts about the location, size, shape,climate, topography, drainage, flora, fauna,people, and, industries of various parts of theworld comprised almost wholly the "geog­raphy" of elementary and secondary schools.Unfortunately geography as outlined inmany curricula continues to be so consti­tuted in spite of the remonstrances whicheducators have been making against thegazeteer-like nature of this mass of -inforrna­tion, but the trend is distinctly away fromsubject-matter of this type. Away towardwhat? At the university level there has beendeveloping a science of geography, whichdeals with the relationships between manand his natural environment, In the latestpresidential address before the Associationof American Geographers, an' address de­voted in large part to portraying the char­acter of this new science, the phrase "humanecology" was used as synonymous withgeography. By this .definition, much subjectmatter that commonly has been called geo­graphic is excluded from that category.Since human ecology is concerned with ex­plaining men's adjustments to their naturalenvironments, only those facts and princi­ples which contribute to such explanationsare geographic. By the organization of facts,'in such a way that students are led to reasonfrom- them to explanations of adjustments,geography is "rationalized." It is "human­ized" in that it deals with factors of thenatural environment only so far as is neces­-sary in order to make clear human adjust­.ments to them. The trend, then, in elemen­tary and secondary school geography is-toward the substitution of the relatively new. geography, geography of the "human ecol-ogy" ,type that has been developing at the.university level, for the older type consist­ing of .a huge collection of descriptive facts.In .view- of the meaning attached to theterm geography for so long a time, it is notsurprising that the name still is applied fre­quently, even in such publications as the latest Year Book of the National Societyfor the Study of Education, to materials thatare not geographic in the new sense of thatword. This is due to the fact that evenamong those who are aware that a change istaking place and who cordially welcome it,there are many who do not yet have an ade­quate understanding of what is involvedtherein. In accordance with the newer ideaof geography it is not true, for example, thatthe mere name of a city or the mere descrip­tion of the climate of a place constitutes inany unit of work a geographic dement. Thehabit of thinking of geography in the olderway is established so firmly that even afterthe theory of the change is accepted, prac­tice in many instances lags far behind.The eager acceptance of the central view­point of the new geography without a realunderstanding of its principles has led tocertain tendencies that are unfortunate, ifnot dangerous. The idea of citing humanrelationships to natural environment hasappealed as so worth while that many gen­eralizations which cannot be substantiatedhave been made concerning these humanadjustments. The use of the problemmethod, although it has been an importantaid in attracting attention to the centraltheme of the new geography, nevertheless�as contributed to this tendency as used bymany teachers untrained in the science. Thechief. danger of such a procedure lies in thefact that children cannot develop a soundscientific attitude if they are permitted togeneralize unwisely.In some of the social science programsthere is evident a tendency to regard the solefunction of geography that of describing the"stage background" against which varioushuman dramas are enacted. Since the sto­ries of these dramas are interrupted seri­ously by going into much detail concerningrelations between the actors and the com­plex of elements comprising the stage set­ting, such mteractions are cited at best onlyincidentally and in very general terms. Atworst they are cited not at all-the back­ground merely is "viewed." While this te�­dency to see each drama in its setting 1Sadmirable, it is a fallacy to believe that theincidental mention of certain of these ad­justments in general terms can give anunderstanding of geography which will en­able students to make better adjustments, totheir .natural environment than they other-.wise could have done. If this goal is notreached, one of the more valuable contribU-SCHOOL OF EDUCATION-GEOGRAPHYtions which geography can make to educa­tion is withheld.Published tests in a subject are in generalconservative and valuable indicators of itstrend and degree of progress. The recentgeography tests deal in part with causalrelationships. This treatment reflects therationalization movement. However, manyof the relationships dealt with in these testsare not those between man and his naturalenvironments. Instead, they deal whollywith factors. of climate or topography andso are climatological or physiographic incharacter' rather than geographic. This in­dicates the tendency to cling to the old andto accept the new at the same time. Thetitles of various portions of these tests de­note the confusion that exists in some quar­ters as to the' real nature of the subject. For.example, a section captioned "MiscellaneousGeography" tests the knowledge of a con­glomeration of facts most of which a:re notin the new sense geographic at all. A section· entitled "Causal Geography" emphasizesidea of relationships, but in the very factthat such a section is set apart from otherportions by a special title, there is the im­plication that only a part of the subject isof this nature. Incidentally, the terrn "causalgeography" suggests "geography whichcauses something else," rather than thatwhich deals with certain causes and effects.By setting apart another section of the same· test under the title "Trade Routes and TheirProducts," the authors imply that the exist­ence and location of trade routes are factsunrelated to the relationship type of geog­raphy. Real geography, however, shows howthese trade routes have been chosen by menas adjustments to various combinations of· factors in the natural environment. As a· matter of fact, then, nothing is better"causal" geography, in the sense in whichauthors of the test use this term, than thereal geography of trade routes. In short,there is clearly reflected in recent tests theinfluence of the rationalizing movement, butthere is evidenced just as clearly the factthat only a beginning has been made bymost educators along this line of reorgani­zation.The newer elementary texts likewise showvery plainly the trend of the subject .. In­deed, the recent publication of three newseries of grade geography was due 'in nosmall measure to the fact that the older textsdid not meet the needs which the acceptanceof the newer theory had created. The verytitle given to the Smith series, "HumanGeography," points to the changed emphasis"in the subject. Moreover, in each of theserecent series the material is so organized asto stress mere facts less' and relationshipsmuch more than in earlier texts. An addi­tional striking emphasis in these later booksis that upon regional geography. Since inorder to understand man's adjustment to his. natural environment, adjustments to the en- 225vironments in specific regions must be stud­ied, most geographic material. of necessity isregional in character. The increased stressput on regional treatment, then, is corollaryto the new emphasis on human adjustmentsto environment. .Two of the more important courses ofstudy in elementary geography recently pub­lished are those for the states of Pennsyl­vania and California. Besides showing thesame tendencies obvious in the texts, bothof these courses follow the one-cycle plan.This. is a radical departure from 'the time­honored scheme of studying each continenttwice, once in the lower grades and again inthe upper grades. So long as the study ofgeography involved primarily an attempt tolearn facts, there was value in repetition.The one-cycle plan is a much more suitableone for the presentation of geography of the"human ecology" type.'The "geography" of high schools has con­sisted, for the most part, of physiographyand economic geography. Since physiog­raphy is not part of the new geography, thetendency to give less attention to it isthoroughly in line with the general trendtoward "human ecology," as is also the trendin economic geography. Revisions in thelatter point toward making it a study not ofmere facts concerning regions of production,movements of commodities, and the like, butrather of the adjustments man makes to hisnatural environment in the carrying on ofactivities to meet his economic needs. Inthe high school curricula recently proposedby a committee of the Association of Colle­giate .Schools of Business, regional studiesare recommended in connection with each ofthe last. three years' work. In the Universityof Chicago High School, a new departmentof geography recently has been establishedto conduct experimental work in high schoolgeography of the newer sort. It is in charge. of H. M. Leppard, recently Headmaster ofthe Model Normal Training School, Ottawa,Canada. One of the major problems withwhich the National Council of GeographyTeachers now is concerned is that of thehigh school geography curriculum. It seemsprobable that in the relatively near futurethe activities noted above together with sim­ilar endeavors will rapidly further progressalong the lines indicated, and that in duetime the new science of geography will betaught not alone in universities, but also inthe elementary and secondary, schools.ANNUAL REUNION DINNERSchool of Education AlumniFriday, May 11, 6 P. M.Ida Noyes Hall Welcome!.226 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBook ReviewsFruiting Tassel of Pod CornThe Story of the Maize PlantBy Paul Weatherwax(The University of Chicago Press)"The annual storehouse of a nation's need,From whose abundance all the world rnavfeed."Here is a case where the poet's fancy can­not be gainsaid, and where his contentionsare borne out by even a very litt le delvinginto the story of maize and its influence'upon the peoples of America, and of theworld. The economic point of view is dis­tinctly not that from which Mr. Weather­wax has approached his study; but so im­portant is this aspect, and so thoroughly isthe author imbued with it, that his enthus­iastic discussion of maize as botanicallyunique is tinctured always with the convic­tion that it is economically indispensable.The main portion of the book is, then, de­voted to the biological individuality of theplant, a phase which Mr. Weatherwax seemswell-fitted to handle, and one which haslong awaited the exhaustive and compre ... hensive treatment that has here been ac­,corded it.In controversial points the author clearlydefines his position. There have been manytheories to prove that maize arose sporadic­ally at various points of the compass, but ascientific examination has proved to hissatisfaction the existence of but a singleorigin of the plant, probably in Central America and Southeast Mexico. To hesure, the distribution was rapid and wide,but from America it emanated and to Amer­ica it still distinctively, belongs,' by reasonof a production three times as great as thatof all other nations combined. That manyof the factors which determine this standmust be hypothetical is due to the totalabsence among plant life of anything whichmay be taken as the wild prototype of theculti va ted plant: not a single specimen hasever been found with any characteristicswhich are not also in the living plant. Thestudy of genetics, however, is becoming in­creasingly valuable, and it is through ex­perimentation on these lines that the trueancestor may finally be established.While there is much to interest the lay­man of only mildly scientific inclinations, itis evident that the little volume's real reasonfor being is the group of chapters devoted tothe technical discussion of maize structure,anatomy and functional processes. Herewe see again the same enthusiasm whichmust have first inspired the book, and nodescriptions are too technical to warrantthe omission of a brief word for the realbeauty of the thing.Of particular interest to the farmer mustbe the chapter on ecological relations, andthose concerned with seed and planting, til­lage, harvesting, and breeding. To thislast Mr. Weatherwax points emphatically.The farmer must, he says, understand some­thing of the botanical nature of maize andthe fundamentals of its genetics before thevery harmful' infections due to inattentivebreeding on neighboring fields can be eradi­cated. Cooperative breeding is stronglyr ecornmen ded.It is enlightening to discover that althoughmaize is so interwoven now with the life ofmodern nations that no resource could re­place it without precipitating an economicrevolution, there ape still potentialities ofthe plant untouched commercially, and agreat future for these is predicted. Forexample, breeding for decreased or increasedoil or protein is a possibility that has only. been hinted at and that suggests a usefulfuture for itself.The last two chapters are devoted to in­stances of the vast part that maize hasplayed in lore and myth of tribes and races,in their art and literature, and even in shap­ing policies and forming habits and cus­toms. In the sacred architecture and art ofthe Indians maize was prominent no lessfor its beauty than for its worth. The tem­ple at Cuzco, the most magnificent in Peru.SCHOOL OF EDUCATION NOTESwas a notable example with its immensesilver vases filled with corn and its gardenfilled with life-size maize plants of gold andsilver.That we today do not exalt maize in afashion comparable to aboriginal enthusiasmmay reasonably be attributed not to a de­crease in its importance-it is the basis oflife and prosper ity of the great nations ofAmerica now as truly as it ever was in thebrightest days of Inca or of Aztec-but tothe increased complexities of our liveswhereby we subordinate the less obvious andre-act to the superficialities rather than tothe fundamentals of our existence. The Storyof the Maize Plant impels a new respect forthese foundations.Anti-Scalping Bill of Little U �eThat a bill recently introduced in thestate legislature providing for the punish­ment of scalping would be of little accountin solving the difficulties that surround thesale of tickets to University football gamesis the opinion of G. O. Fairweathr, assist­ant business manager of the University."The bill, if passed, would tend to dis­courage scalping, but would not solve ourproblem. At present there is a federal lawunder which we operated last fall. The effi­cacy of such a law would depend entirelyon the enforcement of it by the state." +. u- •• - •• - •• -.a-"-"-"_'I __ ";'_"-"'-.+!. it School of Education Notes I+11-HII-IU-Mn-tin-lli-al-."-ln_I._ •• _ •• _li_n_n+To School of Education Alumni, Stu­dents, Faculty, Friends:You are cordially invited to at­tend the ANNUAL SCHOOLOF EDUCATION REUNIONAND DINNER at six o'clock inIda Noyes Hall on Friday, Ma.y11, the last day of the Conferenceof Secondary Schools. NotifyMr. W. G. Whitford, School of.Education, as. early as possible,that you wiII be present. The'charges wiII be $1.25 per plate.Plan to attend. We'll be gla.d towelcome you! 227The Education Club felt extremely fa­vored to be addressed by President Burtonduring the busy opening days of his admin­istration. President Burton discussed a num­ber of the fundamental problems which con-(Continued on page 233)Awell-Iighted roomSpells comfort and cheerAnd a U. of C. Lampadds memories most dearGet Yours NowBronze or green-coat-of-arms in base$5.50 each, postpaidThe University of Chicago Book Store5802 ELLIS AVENUE228 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO' MAGAZINENEWS OF THE CLASSE SAND ASSOCIATIONSCollege Association'98-Henry ]. Smith, a Chicago' journalist;recently published "Deadlines," a volume ofstories of newspaper life; it has gone into asecond edition and has been adopted by sev­eral schools of journalism for their readingcourses.'06, ex-George D. Buckley, formerly pr esi­dent of the Crowell Publishing Co., of NewYork, is now in Chicago as the Editor ofthe Chicago Herald and Examiner. .'06:-VV. H. Sherk, A.M., is professor ofmathematics in the· University of Buffalo,New York.'07-'Bernard 1. Bell, president of St. Ste­phen's College, New York, delivered a seriesof Lenten noon-day addresses at the Gar':'rick theatre, Chicago.'07-Arthur G. Bovee, head of the FrenchDepartment of the University High School,will be director of the Paris Branch of thenoted Middlebury, Mass., French School forthe summer of 1923..'07-Helen . .Hendricks is spending the win­ter season at the Community House, 352West 27th St., . New York City.UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.. The downtow:n department ofThe University of Chicago116 So. Michigan Avenuewishes the Alumni of the Univer­sity and their friends to know thatit now offersEveni,ng, Late Afterno.on andSaturday ClassesTwo-Hour Sessions Once or Twice a Week• Courses Credited Toward University DegreesA limited number of courses will be offered in theevening on the University Quadrangles in additionto courses given downtown.Winter Quarter begins January 2•Spring Quarter begins April 2For Circular of Information AddressNathaniel Butler, Dean, University College,The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 'OS-Mary Reynolds Morton is passingthe winter at her Florida home, North St.Petersburg.'09-Herbert Kimmel is director of theTraining School of the State Normal Col­lege at Bowling Green, Ohio.'10-Frances Madison Orchard' is sellingadvertising for the Butterick PublishingCompany; her home is at 126 Hickory St.,Hinsdale, Ill.'11-Bessie L. Ashton, M.S. '16, is instruc­to� in geography at the University of Illi­n ois.'11-C. LeRoy Baldridge, nQted for hissketches on the War and, later, on China,had a color sketch, entitled "Head of aCoolie," which was regarded as the best ofthe contributions from sixteen Chicago art­ists at the March' annual exhibition of theSociety of Independent Artists, held at theWaldorf-Astoria, N e,w York.;11-I. M. Ristine, M. A., is chief of theRehabilitation Divisions, U. S. VeteransBureau, for the Eleventh district, at Denver,Colorado.Chicago Alumni­have a unique chance for Serv­ice and Loyalty.Tell your ambitious friends whocan not attend classes about the450which your Alma Mater offers.Through them she is reaching thou­sands in all parts of the country and indistant lands.For Catalogue AddressThe University of Chicago(Box S) Chicago, IllinoisNEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONS'13-Ellsworth Bryce is division sales andadvertising manager of Sun-Maid RaisinGrowers, 211S Jenkins Arcade, Pittsburgh.'13-0live Gray, A. M. '20, is assistantsuperintendent of City Schools at Hutchin­son, Kansas. She went to Hutchinson in1921 to fill this newly-created position; shehas an article on "Supervision of Instruc­tion" for the Elementary School J ournal.'13-Mary Louise Porter is Associate Pro­fessor of Modern Languages at MeredithCollege, Raleigh, N. C.'14- J ohn Fletcher Welle meyer, A. M., isprincipal of the Senior High School atQuincy, Illinois..'15-Florence Bradley is in the SeniorDepartment of Physical Education of theWestport High School, Kansas City. Shehas been Secretary of our Kansas CityAlumni Club for two years.'15-Lester R. Dragstedt, S. M. '16, Ph.D.'20, has resigned as assistant professor ofthe Physiology at the University, and willleave after the Summer quarter to becomeProfessor of Physiology and Chairman ofthe Department of Physiology and Phar­mocology at Northwestern Medical School.'15-George S. Lyman, who drew. thecover for our Magazine, is now with Wil­liams and Cunnyngham, advertising, in theTower building, Chicago.'15-Hays McFarland, ex, was recentlyappointed vice-president and director ofsales of the Bassick Manufacturing Co.,-Chicago, producers of the Alemite highpressure lubricating system equipment forautomobiles and industrial machinery.'17-Mary C. Duncan is attending theNew York State Library School, at Albany.'is-Gladys Campbell was recently awardedthird prize for her poem entitled "A Poemfor Tired People" in a poetry contest con­ducted by the Chicago Woman's Club.'is-D. B. Eisenberg is production man­_ager of the A. C. McClurg Co., Chicago.'is-Marie Schmidt, recently returnedfrom a five months' trip abroad, now residesat ·5733 Blackstone Ave., Chicago.'20-1. Goodman is busy teaching English,coaching basketball and directing. the or­chestra at Ripley High School, Michigan.'20--Mrs. R. H. B. Smith (Ruth Mallory),formerly at Hanover, New Hampshire, nowresides at 256 Roosevelt Ave., Syracuse, N.Y.'21-Lacy Dell Henry is Bacteriologist atthe Michigan State Health Laboratory,Lansing.. '21-Mar.garet Shook is doing field workfor the State Department of Education inCivilian Rehabilitation at Birmingham, Ala.'21-Charles R. Smith, S., M., is chairmanaUf �he Department of Chemistry at Western111011 College," Le Mars, Iowa.'21-Margaret M. 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Old and .NewThe best of the new booksand a complete line of schooland college text books.Write us for the hook you want.·WO'ODWORTH'SBOOK STORESV. A. WOODWOPTH. '06, ProprietorUniversity Book Store, 1311 E. 57th St.Hyde Park Book Store, - 1540 E. 63rd StreetEnglewood Book Store, 6212 Stewart AvenueOur new "Loop Store"112 So. Wabash Ave., {near Monroe St.)Telephone Dearborn 2259The orders of Teachers and Lih,ariu Solicited +'---,,-.,-,,-"-"-1.-"-',-.,-,,-,'-"--"-+! i1 C. and A. Association ,1 i+"�"II-.II_.n_ •• _'JI_tlN_'R_.H_II"_lIn_ •• _ •• _n._a+School of Commerce and AdministrationWinter .Quarter Alumni DinnerActing President Ernest D. Burton wasour guest of honor and the principal speakerat the Winter Quarter Dinner of the Schoolof Commerce and Administration AlumniAssociation. Dr. Burton revealed to us earlyin the evening the information that it wasDean Marshall's birthday, and the eveningwas therefore a double celebration of wel­come to the new executive of the Universityand of the Dean's birthday."There were other surprises which thecommittee-Wm. H. Lyman, '14, GeneralChairman-provided. "Bill" Lyman is nowin trouble, for all of us who attended thedinner are ready to elect him as permanentchairman of the Entertainment Committee.The first speaker, Mrs. Wm. H. (CharlotteVail) Wiser, '14, dressed in native Indiancostume, spoke of Indian arts and crafts.She read native Indian poetry and illus­trated her talk with examples of Indian art,pieces of glass, shawls, and silk which sheand Mr. Wiser brought with them from In-dia. .Capt. John W. Gorby, Publicity Managerof the Cyclone Fence Company and Chair­man of the Speakers Bureau of the Associa­tion of Commerce, gave an interesting anal­ysis of the present business and financialsituation. Capt. Gorby believes that the pres­ent optimistic situation will continue to lastuntil January 1. He bases his opinion on:1. The large earnings of the railroads­the present traffic being the heaviest knownin U. S. Railroad history.2: The prosperity of the lead, copper, coaland petroleum industries.3. The present building boom.4. The expansion of the automobile andautomobile accessories industries.5; The increased value of raw matters,particularly cotton.6. Credit reserve.7. Optimism of the American people.He also predicted an increase in the priceof consumers' goods during the rest of 1923.Those of you who were not there missedanother treat. Capt. Gorby was a collegeclassmate of Dean Marshall, and before hisremarks he told us some shocking facts frotIlthe early chapters of Dean Marshall's life.I t seems that the Dean was a reporter 011the Podunk News Leader, and, among otherexperiences, is an exciting tale of-but wedon't want to repeat the story to those whOmissed the excitement of Capt. Gorby's nar­ration. Moral for absentees! Corne next timeand share in the excitement.The real pleasure of the evening was Pres'iident Burton's speech. In his quiet, forceftlNEWS OF THE CLASSES AND ASSOCIATIONSmanner he presented his personal convic­tions about the ideals which should motivatethe educational process. Education shouldnot be a question of mass production nor ofundue emphasis either upon. the so-called"bread and butter" type of education, nor,on the other hand, upon the purely culturalor intellectual side. The curricula and facili­ties of educational institutions should beshaped so as to develop men and womenequipped and trained not only to enjoy life,but at the same time, to play their part andto give an account of themselves in theirbusiness, in their profession, in politics, orwhatever life work they select. The Univer­sity is more concerned in quality than innumbers-more interested in education thanin amusements. He expressed the hope thatthe University might continue its rapid prog­ress during the· next few years and continueto lead other institutions in the country­not because others have fallen behind, butbecause we have made actual progress andcontributions along definite lines.The President asked for the support ofthe alumni in discounting sensational reportsthat the University is about to put into ef­fect radical changes or destructive policies."We are in a large city, the papers of whichnaturally prefer to employ with spectaculareffect whatever rumors or hints come tothem. We do intend to improve all parts ofOur work, but progress must be slow andnothing that deserves preservation will bedestroyed. We hope that the alumni willassist in combatting such· rumors and thatthey will give the Trustees, the Faculty, andthe Administration the confidence and sup­Port which they need."The alumni of the School of Commerceand Administration pledge you that support,President Burton, and with it whateverother contribution we are able or may becalled upon to render.Dwight Powers, '17, has recently beenappointed Chief of the Clerical Training De­Partment at Western Electric Company.Stanley Roth, '18, holds the position ofpersonnel manager at L. S. Ayres and Com­Pany, Incorporated, Indianapolis, Indiana.Pauline Vislich Young, '19, is studyingl1ledicine at the University of Chicago.Edna Clark, '20, is Industrial Secretary forthe Y. W. C. A. at Quincy, Illinois.Elinor Hayes, '21, is doing developmentwork in the Psychological Testing Depart­l1lent at the Western Electric Company.Lester L. Lehman, '22, is working as costestimator in the Accounting Department ofthe Federal Electric Company.Nira E. Cowen, '22, was married to Rob­ert B. Irvin, February 10, 1923. Her newaddress is 1282 West Decatur Street, De­catur, Illinois.b Catherine Debus, '22, is with the ChicagoJ.\.etort and Fire Company. The First National BankOF CHICAGOand its affiliated institution, theFirst Trust and SavingsBankoffer a complete, con­venient and satisfactoryfinancial service inCommercial BankingForeign ExchangeTravellers ChequesDepartment for LadiesInvestment BondsReal Estate Mortgagesand CertificatesSavings DepartmentTrust DepartmentThe stock of both banks is owned by the samestockholders. Combined resources exceed$330.000,000Northwest CornerDearborn and Monroe Sts.Chicago 231232 THE UNIVERSITY· OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE+.-�-�.� .. -.-- .. - .. - .. - .. - .. - .. - .. - .. - .. -.+! i1· Divinity Association i1 i+.n-IM-IU- ... - •• -U .. -In-lin-lIu-au-un-IH- •• -na-n+]. W. Bailey, Ph. D., '.04, President ofColorado Woman's College, has accepted anappointment to the chair of New TestamentLiterature in Berkeley Theological Seminary,California.Eugene A. Lower, A .. M.,. '22, has re­signed from the Rogers Park Baptist Churchto. enter the pastorate of the First BaptistChurch, Kewanee, Ill. -Rev. ]. H. Hoff, D. B., '18, Secretary ofthe Walworth County Y. M. C. A., locatedat Delavan, Wis., is reported to be doing agrade of rural Y. M. C. A. work which hasbecome the standard throughout the CentralWest.Rev. Robert L. Kelley, D. B., '08, has anarticle in the January "Association Men" on"The County Y. M. C. A. and the Townand Couritry Church."Rev. L. Ernest Sunderland, D. B., '09, issuperintendent of the City Mission Societyof the Protestant Episcopal Church, NewYork.Dean Shailer Matthews and Dr. Gerald B.Smith have been addressing alumni gatheringsthis month; reports are found under "AlumniAffairs."J/tTkis Jt{inufe +n-n- •• - •• - •• -IH- •• - •• - •• - •• -III1-III-IIH-nl-I'tI Law School Association I+111_.n_an_.It_'U_'Ii_.n_.U_HII_NII_nll_.n_ •• _.a_u�.Hon. J. Louis Brown, LL.B. '0'9, recentlya judge of the Circuit Court in Salt LakeCity, Utah, has retired from the bench andresumed practice at 500 McCormick Build­ing.William J. Galbraith, J.D. '09, finished histerm as Attorney General of Arizona in De­cember, 1922, and has returned to privatepractice at 20'7 Heard Building, Phoenix,Arizona. .Clarence A. Graham, LL.R '23, may beaddressed at 21 North 4th Street, Zanesville,Ohio.Harold F. Lindley, J.D. '12, is a memberof the firm Gunn, Penwell & Lindley, Dan­ville, Illinois.'Dan H. McNeal, J.D. '23, is connectedwith the Illinois Legislative Reference Bu­reau -in Springfield, Illinois.Samuel W. Overton, J.D. '23, is practicingat Bank of Commerce Building, Memphis,Tennessee.Alison Reppy, J.D. '22, Professor of Lawin the University of Oklahoma, announcesthe birth of a son.Steadman G. Smith, LL.B. '23, is practic­ing with Elmer G. Schnackenberg, LL.B. '12,at 9206' Commercial Ave., South Chicago.'�a traveler inJapan, a shopper in Paris,a motorist in California, a trans­atlantic voyager-each is paying forgoods or services - with an A· B·A "'_"1IJ ••Cheque, the official travelers' chequeof the American Bankers Association.A t this minute, in all parts of the world,A· B· A Cheques are smoothing thefinancial pathway for many thousandsof travelers.Being certified, A·B·A Cheques .are·the only travel cheques accepted bythe U. S. Government in paymentof customs duties. A B A ,American. Ch.. A��!�!W�n eques"::TRAVEL MONEY"Ask for A·B· A Chequesat -your bank.The Agent of the American Bankers Association for these cheques is-BANKERS TRUST COMPANYNEW YORK PARISSCHOOL OF EDUCATION NOTESSchool of Education Notes(Continued from page 227)cerned education, not only at the collegelevel but also at the level of. elementary andsecondary education. He brought out thefact that many of the fundamental problemsrun throughout the entire gamut of educa­tion from kindergarten to the graduateschool. He dwelt on the necessity of re­search as a means of solriITgtl'iese educa­tional problems and commented on the fact"that the University of Chicago and theSchool of Education laid great stress onthese aspects of education.On May 10 and 11 will occur the Thirty­fifth Educational Conference of the U niver­sity of Chicago with administrative officersand teachers of cooperating secondaryschools. These schools are scattered over aterritory almost equal in extent to what isknown as the Mississippi Valley. The con­ference brings together represen ta tives ofthese schools though in much the largestproportion from Chicago and immediatelyadjacent territory. In addition to the prin­cipals and teachers of high schools this Con­ference brings to the University a numberof hundreds of high-school pupils who takepart in competitive honor examinations. Theadministrative officers of the schools holdsessions for a day and a half for the discus­sion of problems of school organization.The last half day is devoted to departmental sessions which are concerned with problems,pertaining to the teaching of the respective;high-school subjects. The maximum attend­ance at these conferences so far was 1,938.In connection with the administrative anddepartmental sessions the following mem=:bers of the School of Education faculty will :respectively discuss the' followin-g subjects:Mr. Filbey, "Training Opportunities and Re­quirements for Public-School Personnel,ServIce;" Miss Edith Parker, "An Evalua- ,tion of the Use of Pictures in Geography;"Dr. Freeman, "Types of Educational Mo"'tion Pictures;" 1fr. Ernest F. Hanes, "Eng­lish in' the University High School;" Mr.Arthur Bovee, "The Relation betweenGrammatical Knowledge and Reading Abil­ity."At the meeting of the North Central As­sociation of Colleges and Secondary Schoolsrecently held in Chicago, Mr. .j udd waselected president for the ensuing year. For,the past five years he has been chairman of ,the Commission on Higher Institutions inthe Association.Mr. Filbey, who has succeeded. Dr. Butler ias Dean of University College, took charge iof the registration at the beginning of the 'Spring Quarter.Miss Grace Storm spent a month 'duringthe Winter Quarter on a cruise in the Carib­bean Sea conducted by the White Star Line.SMITH SAUER MOTOR CO.2436 SO. MICHIGAN AVEDISTRIBUTORSTHESTURD,yCASED. UNDERHILL SMITH Ex'12 CLARK G: SAUER '12234: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINERALPH C. MANNING, '00, J. D. '03Realtor and Insurance Broker,Chicago West Suburban Real EstateTowrr and Country Homes210 West Liberty Drive Phone: 195Wheaton, IllinoisHorne Ownership is True CitizenshipJames M. Sheldon, '03INVESTMENTSWithBartfett , Frazier Co.111 W. Jackson Blvd.Wabash 2310Paul H. Davis & @ompangMembers Chicago Stock ExchangeWeare anxious to serve you inyour selection of high grade in­vestments. We specialize inlisted and unlisted stocks andbonds-quotations on request.PauU-l; Davis, 'II Herbert L Markham, Ex.'06Ralph W. Davis,'16 Byron C. Howes, Ex.'13N. Y.LifeBldg.-CHICAGO- State 6860.MOSERSHORTHAND COLLEGEA business school of distinctionSpecial Three Months' IntensiveCourse for university graduatesor undergradua tes given quarterly.Bulletin on Request.PAUL MOSER, J .: D., Ph. B.'116 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago She visited many interesting points on thetrip beginning with Havana and includinga motor trip across Jamaica, a trip acrossthe Isthmus of Panama, a journey inlandto the mountain city of Caracas in Ven­ezuela, and stops at many other points tothe last one, Bermuda. 'Miss' Harriett Wedgwood, Acting Chief ofthe Division of Hygiene, U. S. Bureau ofEducation, Washington, D. c., gave an in­teresting talk to the Home Economics stu­dents in March.On their way East at the close of theWinter Quarter, Mr. and Mrs. Sargent spentseveral days in Oberlin, Ohio, where Mr.Sargent lectured before the Oberlin Art As­sociation and the Parent-Teacher Associa­tion. Some twenty or more of Mr. Sargent'slandscapes had been on exhibition through­out March at the Dudley P. Allen MemorialArt Building of Oberlin College.On Sunday, April 8, Dr. Nathaniel Butlergave the address at the dedication of theAuditorium of Community House in Evan­ston, Ill. The Auditorium will bear the nameof Kenneth McLeish, the distinguished avia­tor and son of Andrew McLeish, one of theoldest trustees of the University of Chicago ..Miss van Pappelendam and Mr. Sargentserved on the jury of selection of the recentTwenty-seventh Annual Exhibition by, Art­ists of Chicago and Vicinity at the Art In­stitute of Chicago. Mr. Sargent had three,paintings in the exhibition and Miss vanPappelendam five.Among the members of the faculty of theSchool of Education who made contributionsto the program of the Department of Super­intendence at its meeting in Cleveland arethe following: Department of Superintend­ence-"School Provision for the ExceptionalChild," Mr. Buswell; "How Modern Busi­ness May Aid in Reconstructing the Cur­riculum," Mr. Judd. National Council ofEducation-Final Report of the Committeeon Reorganization of Seventh, Eight andNinth Grades, by Mr. Judd. Departmentof Elementary-School Principals-"The Pos­sibilities of the· Elementary-School Princi�pals hip from the University Point of View,"Mr. Gray. Educational Research Associa­tion-"The Validity of Methods Employedto Determine Spelling Vocabuary," Mr­Breed; "Critique of Statistical Method," Mr.Holzinger. National Association of Sec�ondary-School Principals-"The Cost ofSecondary Education," Mr. Judd. NationalSociety of College Teachers of Education-·"The Function of the University School ofEducation," Mr. Judd. "The DeterminativfNEWS OF THE CLA�SES AND ASSOCIATIONS.of Curricula for the Education of Teachersin SecondarySchools," Mr. Reavis. NationalSociety for the Study of. Education-"Meth­ods of Securing Social Science Material for_ the Schools," Mr. Judd.Mr. Lyman made two addresses at theconference of the Iowa State Teachers ofEnglish in Secondary Schools held at theUniversity of Iowa on February 23 and 24.He discussed "Innovations in RecentCourses -of Study in English" and "RecentStudies in the Nature of Reading Proc­esses.".+� .. _.n_ •• _ •• _ •• _a"_ •• _ •• _u._ •• _ •• _ •• _aa_a+f· School of Education ," 1+tI-aa_ •• _aa_a.�.lt-a.� •• _II._,.�u._""_.a_u._ +- '06-Mrs. Charles Gray (Grace M. Viall,Ed.B.) is author of a book published byForbes & Co., Chicago, 'entitled "Every Stepin Canning." .'10- James B. Shouse, A.M., is Head ofthe Department of Education, Marshall Col­lege, Huntington, W. Va.'l1�Sarah F. Ross; Cert., has a book inpress with the MacMillan Company. It is asupplementary silent reader for the secondgrade and is called "Reading to Find Out."'14-Daniel Green, S.B., is Director ofVocational Education for the public schoolsof. Richmond, Indiana.'15.,--Mabel R. Loucks, Ph.B., is Principalof the Linne School, Chicago, Illinois.'16�N ona Grace Finney, Ph.B., will beon furlough from the mission field in 1923.She is Asst. Superintendent, A. B. Mission,Karen School, Moulmein, Burma, India.- '16-Bess Lee Powell, Ph.B., since Octo­ber, 1921, has been Head of the Home Eco­nomics Department, State Teachers College,Valley City, N. D. Miss Powell was for­ll1p' erly connected with the University oforto Rico. .'17-Aden E. Hubbard, S.B., is Principalof the High School, Wellington, Illinois.· Ex. '17-Since his return from Lima, Peru,Ernest C. Phillips has been Asst. Professor01 f Industrial Education at the University of· lIinois.'18-Bertha Blasingame, Ph.B., is Head of��e English Department of Hardin College,-lvl.exico, Missouri.h '19-Mary E. Buell, Ph.B., is teaching. Orne economics in Des Moines, Iowa.'20'-Mrs. H. S. Campbell (Mary H. Ship­leey! Cert.) is living at 6230 Woodlawn Ave.,· hlcago. . .'20-Margaret J. Foglesong, A.M., is HeadSf the English Department, State Normalchool, Spearfish, S. D.'20-DeWitt T. Petty, A.M., will returnto the United States in July after spending The Corn ExchangeNational Bankof ChicagoCapital and Surplus .. $15,000,000OFFICERS -IERNEST A. HAMILL, CHAIRMAN OF THEBOARDEDMUND D. HUt-BERT, PRESIDENTCHARLES L. HUTCHINSON, VICE-PRESI,..DENTOWEN T. REEVES, JR., VICE-PRESIDENTJ. EDWARD MAASS, VICE-PRESIDENTNORMAN J. FORD, VICE-PRESIDENTJAMES G. WAKEFIELD, VICE-PRESIDENTEDWARD F. SCHOENECK, CASHIERLEWIS Eo GARY, ASS'T CASHIERJAMES A. WALKER, ASS'T' CASHIERHUGH J. SINCLAIR, ASS'T CASHIERC. RAY PHILLIPS, ASS'T CASHIERFRANK F. SPIEGLER, ASS'T CASHIERWILLIAM E. WALKER, ASS'T CASHIERDIRECTORSWATSON F. BLAIR CHARLES H. HULBURDCHAUNCEY D. BORLAND CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON�DWAkD B. BUTU. JOHN J. MITCHELLBENJAIIlIN CARPItHTEa MARTIN A. RVERSOJ'fCLYDE M. CARR J. HARRY SELZHENRY P. CROWELl. ROBKRT J. THORNEERNEST A. HAVILL CHARLES H. WACKEREDMUND D. HULBERTForeign Exchange Letters of CreditCable TransfersSavings Department, Jamea K. Calhoun, Kgr.·3% Paid on Savings Deposits 235THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE, 236Albert T eachers' Agency25 E. Jackson Boulevard, ChicagoEstablished 1885. Oldest Agencyunder the same active management.FREE REGISTRATION to University of Chi­cago students, On returning docu­ments a College President wrote:_ "I am grateful _ for the promptattention you always give to ourappeals for help. I am especiallygrateful _ for the courteous atten­tion given to me on my personalvisit to your office in September.It was a surprise to- see so manyManagers, Clerks, Stenographers­all earnestly engaged in their work,and_ to meet so many groups ofschool - men from day to day, onthe same errand as myself."Students and Alumni of the Uni­versity are always welcome. It costsyou nothing to interview our Man­agers and will bring results Wehave the business.Other offices437 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.Symes Bldg., Denver, Colo.Peyton Bldg., Spokane, Wash.$1.00Starts aSavingsAccount $100.00Opens aCheckingAccountFIRST 701. SERIAL GOLDMORTGAGE- - 10 BONDSOn Hyde Park PropertyThe bonds are certified and regis­tered by the Chicago Title & TrustCo. and the title guaranteed for thefull amount of the bonds.UNIVERSITY STATE BANKA CLEARING HOUSE BANK1354 East 55th StreetCorner Ridgewood four years in Europe. He has been work­ing on a commission establishing a highschool in Constantinople under the auspicesof the Y. M. C. A.'21-Carl D. Davis, A.M., is Superintend­ent of Schools at Cherokee, Oklahoma.'21-Malcolm E. MacGillivray, A.M., isconnected with the English Department ofthe Fresno Technical School, Fresno, Calif.'21-Margaret Seymour, Ph.B., is Assist­ant in Biology and Medical Departments ofLindenwood College, St. Charles, Mo.'22-Bertie J. Floyd, Ph.B .. is Instructorin" Education, State Normal School, SanMarcos, Texas.'22-Cynthia M. Jones, Ph.B., teaches civ­ics and English in the Union High School,Grand Rapids, Michigan.'22-Boyd M. McKeown, A.M., is Super­intendent of Schools, Knox City, Texas.Botulinus Germ Lurks in, "Hootch"Noteworthy developments in connectionwith the study of botulism, a food poisoncarrying with it a high mortality rate, arerevealed in a report to the Surgeon-Generalby Dr. J. c. Geiger, epidemiologist of theUnited States Public Health Service and atpresen t connected with the bacteriologicaldepartment of the University. Recent ex­periments and research work conducted un­der the direction of Dr. Geiger show thatpo.sons peculiar to spoiled foods can be ab­sorbed through the unbroken skin, a discov­ery of no small importance in the medicalworld; and that the deadly toxin lurks inhome brewed liquors, a revelation not ofimportance to the field of medicine alone."The absorption of botulinus toxin seernfnot limited to any particular portion of thegastro-intestinal tract, but may occur on orfrom any mucous surfaces, broken skiaareas, or fresh wounds," Dr. Geiger says. Itwas pointed out, though, that absorption ofthe poison through the unbroken skin too:kplace only when the contaminated food waSvigorously applied to the skin surface.In the case of botulinus poisoning fro!1ihome brew, samples of liquor which ha;dcaused six deaths on a ranch in CalifornIawere sent to Dr. Geiger at the Universitywhere analysis of the moonshine showedthat it had developed a real kick-10 percent. But along with the alcohol was fOUl1,dthe deadly botulinus which had developedin the course of fermentation as the resultof using spoiled fruit in the brewing. Sostrong was the toxin that all deaths oC�curred within twenty-four hours after par:taking of the beverage.Another interesting point made in the �e�port is that potency does not increase WIthacidification of the poison as has heretofo.rebeen thought. This was shown when whItemice were inoculated with the botulinllStoxin and hydrochloric and lactic acids.THE LETTER BOX 237-and after all, whatother cigarette isso highly respectedby so many men?FATIMACIGARETTESLIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO.The Letter Box(Continued from page 216)The boarding department of the school issmall at present, only 27 boys are included;but it is increasing rapidly and before longwill again be full as it was last year. ThereWas no summer camp this time and severalboys who went home in the Spring did notteturn; others have been waiting until thenew teacher arrived, "the head of the hall."I'm to take over three classes: EuropeanBistory, Life of Christ, and English. Later�'m to have a couple more, I believe, oneIn Physiography and another in Commercial�eography. The classes ayerage about 25In number of students.Recently we visited the royal palace andSaw lots of interesting things: the buildings;the rooms, furnishings and various gifts to the Shah from foreign countries. The rugswere magnificent. The best ones were fromKerman, others from Khorassan ; some ofpure silk, others of silk and wool. Onewas worth $40',0'0'0' and numerous othersvalued at $10',0'0'0', and that's conservative,too. Everything Persian, except the rugs,was tawdry, gaudy and tarnished, or sadlyin need of repair-an exact analogy of thegovernment. Some of the foreign gifts werevery fine indeed, but covered with dust andall but ruined. We saw a good model ofthe Peacock throne. The original, kept inthe treasury, is of gold with numerousprecious stones, myriads of diamonds andone. immense emerald. We· closely in­spected the alabaster throne used at publicfunctions regulatly-a beautiful piece ofwork. The Peacock throne is used forcoronation only. Although the grounds wereTwenty�seventhYear The Love Teachers' AgencyFree EnrollmentTelephone 1353.;.W A. A. LOVE,Manager62 Broadway Fargo, North Dakota--238 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEC. F. Axelson, '07SPg.CIAL AGENTNotthioesiem Mulual Life Insurance Co.900 The RookeryTelephone Wabash 1800'BRADFORD GILL, '10 WILLIS H. LINSLEY, '01GILL, LINSLEY & MIDDLETONALL INSURANCE FORMS175 WEST JACKSON BOULEVARDTELEPHONE WABASH 9411 CHICAGORalph H. Hobart, '96HOBART & OATESCHICAGO GENERAL AGENTSNorthwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.900 The RookeryEarle A. Shilton, '14REAL ESTATEUPPER MICHIGAN AVENUE BUSINESSAND FACTORY PROPERTY637 No. Michigan Ave. Superior 74RAYMOND j. DALY, '12I nveslmenl SecuritiesWITHFederal Securities CorporationCHICAGORandolph 7500John J. Cleary, Jr., '14ELDREDGE & CLEARYGeneral InsuranceFidelity' & Surety BondsInsurance Exchange BuildingTel. Wabash 1240 .ChicagoCornelius Teninga, '12REAL ESTATE and LOANSPullman" Industrial DistrictTeninga Bros. & Co, 11324 Michigan Ave.PULLMAN 5000.john A. Logan, '21Investment SecuritieswithH. M� BYLLESBY & COMPANY208 So. La Salle St. W�bash 0820 fairly well kept, there was a rather dis­interested and neglected atmosphere aboutthe whole place.Your letter from the University has justbeen received. Mail is delivered here allSunday. Friday, you know, is the Moha�­medan Sabbath; but they never observe Itas we do our Lord's- Day. Last Tuesd�),was the Prophet's birthday. All they. dl�was shoot off fireworks and have a goOtime. Shops were not. even closed in theafternoon.Do you remember Arthur C. Boyce jllthe Department of Education, studying u111der Prof. Judd? He is head of the schoowhile Dr. Jordan is away. He studied atthe University of Chicago about '12, '13 and'14; fine man. One evening I took dinnerwith Mr. and Mrs. Morker, a youngpreacher and wife who have been out hereonly a short time, less than a year, I belie.ve.Guess how we spent the evening? Lookl111through the 1914 Hyde Park High SchookAnnual. She was an alumna of Hyde Par'14. We found scores of mutual friends.So do Chicago people show. up everywhere.Taylor Gurney, '21.Joseph Fishman, '15GENUINE NAVAJO RUGS & NOVELTIESdirect from IndiansFor prices. addressDANOFF, FISHMAN COMPANYGallup, New MexicoSam A. Rothermel ' 1 7Insurance·withMOOREj CASE, LYMAN & HUBBARD625 Insurance Exchange Wabash 0400Luther M. Sandwick '20WithH. M. ·ByUesby and CompanyInvestment Securities, 208 S. LaSalle St. -Wabash 0820PLEASE NOTE THAT THEMAGAZINE PRINTSAlumni Professional CardsFOR RATES. ADDRESSALUMNI OFFICE. UNIVERSITY �I·OF CHICAGO· !iTHE UNIVERSITY OF, CHICAGO MAGAZINELET us FACE frankly this questionof "Pull."It does exist in business. ThePresident of a Company hires theson of a trusted friend. Why? Not:merely because the young man isthe son of a friend; but because thePresident believes that good bloodwill tell.A Chicago graduate, who is ageneral manager, hires a Chicagograduate as an assistant. Why? Not:merely because the younger man isa Chicago man, but because thegeneral manager believes thattraining will tell. 239Il� Cincinnati the Board of Directors of a financial institution wasIGenCOllS. idering several men for the -po.si. tion of Vice President andlolderal Manager. The successful applicant-the man who nowj"ith B that coveted position-has written an account of his interviewthe Board of Directors.I h"I stated my experience," he writes, "and added thatAl ad completed the Modern Business Course of theexander Hamilton Institute."I. then learned that several members of the Board�ere subscribers to the Institute. They evidently knew. at the knowledge obtained from the Course and Servicegives a man a thoro grasp of the controlling forces of busi­Aess, and fits him to hold a responsible executive position.t any rate, I was selected ••. "1'here . C" . h f h' , "'H h�u]J. are men In incinnati w 0 say 0 t .IS man: e as alecuW:th. t.he Directors." They are right. But the "pull" is a per­� t' egltlmate one. The Directors, who owe a part of their successleea e training of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, picked himIhos�s: they believed that the same training had made him a man'1" .JUdgment they could trust.;OUr 11s. does not mean that every man who completes the InstituteIf'' aBe Is "taken care of" in business. Business does not "take carellybody. It does mean, however, that with the knowledge and From a draWinK h J. Henrrself-confidence that this training gives,you have an added asset-a favorableintroduction to the 200,000 worth-whilemen who are enrolled with you.'The Alexander Hamilton Institutemakes no exaggerated claims and at­tempts to exert no pressure. It askssimply for the privilege of laying the fullfacts before thoughtful men. The factsare contained in a lIS-page bookletentitled "Forging Ahead in Business."Reading it may be the means of bring­ing you in touch with men who will vastlywiden your opportunities for success.1A.:::ie:-H::.�o:;nsti;:te :1l 741 Astor Place, New York City,.,Send me "Forging Ahead in : t:',·\; 'II Business" which I may keep Iith t bli ti ModernI WI' OU olga IOn. -= II Name ----------------p�i:,;i-h_;�-------------·--·····-'·--- II �d�;e��s .. ., .. II ------.. -1Bu�i�ess I�-�����;;Eii5������E5����;E��I�· �P�Os�ltEIO�n·;---�·--;--·�-··;--·;---�·--5�-�---2---;---i---5---i----i---�--·�---E---�.� :2 E ; II :; n " H " H .. H ct It u" II It . II Ii II n tI It II Ie cc II U II It II Ii II It II fllI "'E Bit"" " It CiCanadian Address, C.P.R. Blda., TorontoAustralian Address, 42 Hunter Street, SydneyCopyright, 1923, Alexander Hamilton Institute240 THE UNIVERSITY OF ·CHICAGO MAGAZINEHow the PilgrimFathers got their meatFood and shelter were the great questions withthe first settlers in New England.Shelter they could obtain, such as it was.Food was more difficult.At first they subsisted precariously on game,and fish, and corn which the Indians taughtthem to plant and use. 'But they missed their beef.Eight years later there was a fair supply of cat­tle in the Colonies, in spite of wolves and theIndians, small, stringy animals-but beef.Each family had to prepare its own animals forfood in those scant, hard-working days.November mornings found them at the work byearly daylight. By night the meat was "cooled"in the crisp autumn air.It had to be smoked or salted, or made intosausages for the winter's store-a tedious taskwith results that would scarcely win approvalfrom a modern taste, accustomed to the fresh,clean, wholesome meats of today.A descendant of those resolute, resourcefulpioneers-Gustavus F. Swift-was one of thefirst to place meat packing on a basis whichcould take care of the expanding needs ofthe nation.Today Swift & Company, still building on hisvision, helps make the food wealth of the nationavailable. Branch houses supply the larger con­suming centers. Refrigerator cars carry meat,under constant refrigeration, to towns andvillages not supplied by b:anch houses.Modern winter breakfasts, in contrast with thefrugal fare of those early days, offer such a tastytreat as Brookfield Sausage-made from themeat 'of selected porkers, delicately seasonedwith pure spices and savory herbs.Swift & Company's service is performed withskill and thoroughness. Its profit from allsources over a long period of years has aver­aged only a fraction of a cent a pound.Swift & Company, U. S. A.Founded "868A nation - wide organization owned by more than45.000 shareholders I.. A �a�iageS, Enga��:n;s, A 'fBirths, Deaths., ,'_.'�.--'--'-.'--.--'--'--.--'--.---I----+:martiage�Josephine F. Leach '14, to William B.Guitteau. At home, Monterey Apartments,Toledo, Ohio.Jessie W. Jenkins A.M. '18, to Victor Ed­win Pinkham. At home, Albert Lea, Minne­sota.Elizabeth (Betty) Brown '20, to Louis R.Dooley '22, February 3, 1923, in Chicago.At home, 300 East 55th Street, Chicago.Robert S. Platt, Ph.D� '21, to HarriettShanks ex. '23, December 30, 1921, in Chi­cago. Professor Platt is Assistant Professorof Geography at the University of Chicago.Bessie Barth '21, to Kurt Dreyfus. Athome, 4838 North Central Park Avenue,Chicago.Leta Runyon "21, to H. K. Weitz. Athome, 5717 Waterbury Drive, Des Moines,Iowa.Ariel Parke '22, to Lawrence E. Murphy,A.M. '21. At home, Fredericktown, Missouri.Mary Ruminer '22, to Paul West Cook.At home, 4742 Lake Park Avenue, Chicago.Frances Elaine Crozier '22, to PercivalTaylor Gates '22. At home, 945 East 53dStreet, Chicago.JSittb�To. Harold L. Axtell, Ph.D. '06, and Mrs.Axtell (Gertrude Bouton) '07, a daughter,Muriel Beth, January 11, 1923, at Moscow,Idaho.To Hargrave A. Long '12, and Mrs. Long,a son, Edward Thornton, January 20, 1923,at Chicago.To Norman C. Paine '13, and Mrs. Paine,a son, Edgar Katherman, January 19, 1923,at Exeter, California.To Clinton D. Swickard '14, and Mrs.Swickard, a son, Clinton Daniel, Jr., N overn­ber 19, 1922, at Charleston, Illinois.To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Llewellyn(Elizabeth Spafard) ex. '16, a son, RobertDewey, December 12, 1922, at Chicago.To John v: Chapman '15, J.D. '17, andMrs. Chapman (Eva Richolson) ex. '18, .ason, Stuart Lee, February 25, 1923, at ChI­cago.To John E. Joseph '20, and Mrs. J osep�,a son, John Winn, January 3, 1923, at ChI­cago.To Malcolm E. MacGillivray, A.M. '21,and Mrs. MacGillivray (Genevieve Davies),a son, David Edwards, December 28, 1922,at Fresno, California. 'Cost $10- you can sell themfor thousandsWhy is a used book unlike a used car1Because the more you use it, the moreyou can sen it for. �Books make brains, and the world payshigh for brain power,Tbe bulg,ing dome on the library is worthemulating. It marks the way to bulgingpockets.Don't take our word for it. Ask some ofthe old grads, the men who have gone out,. before yO'U to sell their books. 'Some have sold them for more thanothers. Why ? Just. ask.But, you may say, books are not theonly thing. You're right.Still" they help.P,,6lisfzeJ intlte inierest 0/ Btec-r ."etd Development byan Institution that wm, 6e "elped by what.eVer "elps 'her"dtlst,.?'e$f"em Electric CompanyThis advertisement is one 0/ a series in studentpublication'S., It ma� "f!mind alumni of their oppor�tunity to' "elp the undergrad.a1e� by s,tlggesti'on and'advice, to get more out 0/ nis /our years,. i:i,, � :I,,1; i-"d","itA's Finn'so« IlFelll" Storel'.;GOdeeplyen.oughintothe industry to produce them.average human heart, ,They're the Tiffany, or theand there you will find a keen Steinway.of the clothingsense of appreciation of the business."fineness of things." One feels a certain" pride of"0, ,�hat a"l>eautitul stone po.ssession" in the owner­-� Tiffany.i You are proud ship 'of a Capper & Capperof It. You tell someone that : 'suit-hecause of the finenessyour .pian� is a Stelnway-« of it. You've never seen any­and It brings a 'flush of thing quite so beautiful as.pleasure. our Easter suits at $85, And'It is natural for all of us to yet, if you wish to pay .butenjoy nne things-especially $60, or even $50, you'll getfine doilies, f?r elegance in a' very pleasant surprise,dress usually IS an Index to Capper&Capper clothes arecharacter. absolutely the highest inCapper & Capper dothes are quality, hut consistentlythe finest to -be. had in Am�,"" low priced, They' re therca today, We had to raise definite result of a "newthe standard of the clothing order of thinking .. '·lO.N,D()INCHICAG'OST. 'PAUL'D'ETROITMILWAUKEIEMfN'NEAPOLl.,)TfDO CAiclZ[!J' Stores:Michigan Avenue .at Monroe StreettuuJ' HOTEL 'SH,ERMAN, CJot.h..ing Sold ,Ill "otA Staru