Zrbc TUniversiti? of CbicacoPrice $1.00 founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOXLbe T&nivetBity of Gbfcago ©ressVOL II, NO. 20. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. AUGUST 13, 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The University of Chicago Settlement - - 167-171II. Official Notices 172III. Official Eeports: The Library; Frances ShimerAcademy - - 172-173IV. Recent Numbers of University Periodicals - - 173V. Summer Quarter University Extension Conferences 173VI. Current Events 173-174VII. The Calendar 174The University of Chicago Settlement.The University Settlement is not one of the departments of the University of Chicago, but the Universityhas assumed the responsibility for its good management in permitting its organization under the controlof a committee of the Christian Union, a recognizedUniversity organization.The Settlement was established in 1894 by a committee of the Christian Union of the University of Chicago. The house 4655 Gross avenue was selected aftercareful investigation as the best available center forwork in the district bounded by Thirty-ninth streeton the north and Fifty -fifth street on the south.The growth of the work has made necessary the removal to the present home of the Settlement, 4636 and4638 South Ashland avenue, a stone's throw from theformer location. The population of this district isabout 75,000, 10,000 of whom are voters.There are in this district 250 saloons, one to everyforty voters, and but seven churches and seven publicschools. The saloon is really the clubhouse of the working men. At its hospitable tables ideas are exchanged, business transacted, Americanism interpreted, and politicians trained. The women and children have no common meeting place, lacking even sucha social center as the saloon.The Settlement accordingly stands in the community as a Neighborhood House, a social meeting place,where the families become known to each other, andare associated together for the good of the wholeneighborhood. Here is a meeting place also for various clubs.The Settlement is not located in a "slum" district,but in a community of working people. It is, therefore, not a charity. Yet since there are many whocannot find work, the Settlement, in its effort to beneighborly, has been compelled to care for the needy.Through the cooperation of a corps of Friendly Visitors much relief work has been accomplished.The Settlement aims to use all existing organizations that have proved helpful to the needy and to become a center for cooperative work, thus giving to thealtruistic impulse in the various clubs and circles onthe South Side an opportunity to express itself and togain a personal, sympathetic knowledge of social conditions that were otherwise mere fiction.The Settlement keeps constantly in mind the requirements of good citizenship. It may be safely saidthat the money expended in carrying on its various enterprises and helping the young to gain habits of steadiness, thrift, cleanliness, and self -improvement, savesthe city the expenditure of larger sums paid out inrelief or repression. The Settlement lends a helping168 UNIVERSITY RECORDhand to the willing and awakens new desires in theindifferent.Its relations with the University promise much goodto the Settlement, and to the University also. If education is a fitting of man for life, adapting him to hisenvironment and to his age, then the University cannot afford to leave out of the experiences offered itsyoung men and women, that of knowing the life of thegreat mass of men struggling for an existence.The Settlement brings to the University the problems of real life, vital problems that need the thinkeras well as the doer to solve them. It introduces thestudent of theories and principles to the laboratory ofhuman experience, and is hence of great value to thestudent of social science. It offers a valuable supplement to the theological training of the divinity student, for it gives a training in a school where he meetsall kinds of questions and people, and must learn todeal with them with the tact and love of his Master.These are some of the reasons which induced theUniversity of Chicago, already an active champion ofUniversity Extension, to lend a helping hand in thework of the Settlement, which had outgrown thestrength of the volunteers who began it. A committee was appointed by the Christian Union, a non-sectarian religious organization of the University,representing all the different elements of the University. The committee has the privilege of adding to itsnumber representatives of other contributing bodies.This committee has undertaken to raise and disbursethe funds required for the maintenance and extensionof the Settlement, and to control the educational work.To this committee the University lends the influenceof its name and moral support. Most of the financialsupport, also, comes from members of the University.It does not seem to be generally understood, however,that the University of Chicago, as a corporation, is notable to use for the Settlement any portion of the fundswhich have been given the University. Such fundsmust be used for the purpose for which they are given,and no endowment has yet been made for the Settlement. The Settlement is therefore dependent on voluntary contributions. During the first six months of 1897the Settlement committee handled over $2000, payingthe current expenses of about $300 a month, and settling some old debts. Of this amount 30 per cent, wasraised by an entertainment prepared by the University Settlement league and the Quadrangle Club; 20per cent, was contributed at the Sunday Vesper Services in Kent Theater, and most of the rest came fromsubscriptions payable quarterly or annually. It isthus seen that only one-half the money necessary ispledged in advance and may be relied upon. There is urgent need of more steady support. Financial detailsmay be obtained at any time of the treasurer, Assistant Professor Howland.Money, however, though necessary, is not all one cangive. Helpers are needed. Especially are graduatestudents who are fitted to aid urged to becomeResidents.THE RESIDENT.The Resident is the essential factor in a Settlement,but he is in no sense an officer. His influence is thatof a friend. After he has seen a family through trialsand joys, he becomes indeed a neighbor and is giventhe right to help towards a higher life. This is whya Settlement made up of Residents has a power thatcasual visitors or workers coming in from anotherside of life do not have.What a Resident does can hardly be recorded. It istoo personal, too intimate to be put in print. If adiary were kept, it would record, for instance, howMrs. Jones was taken to the hospital ; how a Polishboy had found a summer home; how a scholarshipwas secured for a Scotch lad hungry for an education;how passes were secured enabling the Smith familyto go to the father who had found work in the West.Perhaps it would tell of the boys who " drop in " toplay games, to read, or to visit ; of the men andwomen, discouraged, wanting work, who were madeto feel that there was friendliness if not work in theworld.There is also a hope among them that in some unconventional way the religious feeling may be crystallized into a form that will recognize that the life ofChrist if sincerely followed will lead to social justiceand political purity. For the kingdom of heavenwithin will prove itself in making a kingdom of heavenwithout.Three Residents have lived three years at the Settlement, one two years and a half, one two years, andnone have been less than six months. It cannot bemade too emphatic that the name Settlement appliesonly to a neighborhood work where the workers livewith and not for the neighbors. One Resident hasmarried and has taken a flat in the neighborhood,thus making the bonds stronger between the Settlement and the neighbors.THE KINDERGARTEN.The Kindergarten with a membership limited only bythe accommodations was closed in January on accountof lack of funds. It was soon after reopened, however,the Board of Education agreeing to pay the teacher,and the Settlement to provide the room and Kinder-UNIVERSITY RECORD 169garten equipment. The rent of the room is paid by areading club of South Side young ladies. Fiftychildren enjoy these privileges and are developed inbody, mind, and soul.THE LIBRARY.Two years ago a free lending Library was openedwith two hundred books — mostly standard works.Additions have been made from time to time until thelibrary at present numbers about 1200 books, notenough to satisfy the 1050 whose names are on theregister.Besides this Central Library the Settlement hasplaced six Home Libraries in the neighborhood.Fiction is most frequently called for. The favoriteauthor is Dickens but the most popular book is theScottish Chiefs ; Pilgrim's Progress is often called for.The women often ask for "short stories," as many areso busy that they have no time for long novelsBiography, history, and poetry are asked for by Public'School teachers and children in the higher grades.Foreigners who are still wrestling with the Englishlanguage ask for books in simple easy words. Worksin Polish, Bohemian, and German would be eagerlytaken if we had them.It is hoped that before long a station of the ChicagoPublic Library may be established in the vicinity. Aneffort has been made to create a demand for it, andthe result certainly proves that there is need of one.In the meanwhile the present library has afforded theResidents of the Settlement an opportunity to makemany acquaintances in the neighborhood. The Residents have especially appreciated the use they havebeen able to make of the library in guiding thechildren into profitable reading,Some help has been given by University students inthe library but more helpers are earnestly desired.ART.A circulating collection of pictures is ready forloaning in the fall.A Decorative Art Class of girls shows real love forthe beautiful and skill in embroidering.MUSIC.From its very beginning Music has been a specialfeature of the Settlement work.The Settlement Choruses. — Recognizing the chorusnot only as a great educational but as a social factor,special attention has been directed to its organization.Two hundred children meet every week, and receivethe best musical and vocal instruction. An adult chorus formed during the first year is now knownas the "Orpheus Choral Society," an active self-governing, self-sustaining organization, thoroughlyidentified with the Settlement spirit and interests.Both choruses contribute regularly to the social andmusical life of the Settlement. This giving of thedirect results of their study is a healthful stimulus tothe progress and interest of the work.Two Mandolin Orchestras are doing faithful work.A Piano Class meets twice a week.THE SUNDAY CONCERT.The Sunday Concert seems to set the standard ofthe musical aspirations of the Settlement. Here programmes, both sacred and secular, are presentedranging from folk song to oratorio and the best worksof the masters. The first programme of this orderwas received with interest and apprehension, andestablished the fact that good Music could not onlybe given but would be thoroughly enjoyed if sympathetically presented. In this way an appreciativeaudience has been secured and has made it possibleto appeal to higher ideals than mere sensational enjoyment.COOKING.Three Cooking Classes did good work. One composed of working girls was most appreciative, whilethe class of little girls taught by one of the Universitywomen was the most interested.clubs.There are at present thirteen Junior Clubs and fourSenior Clubs. These are important factors in the lifeof the Settlement. The Junior Clubs of boys andgirls ranging in age from eight to sixteen years, meetweekly, are self-governing under carefully chosenleaders. The programme of work and play is decidedupon by the leader after a full understanding of theneeds of the special club.The Senior Clubs are the Woman's Club, the Men'sDiscussion Club, the Excelsior, composed of youngmen from eighteen to twenty years, and the MondayEvening Club of young men and women.First in point of membership and general strengthcomes the Woman's Club. This is composed of theabler women of the neighborhood; their object is toassociate women of different nationalities and differentcreeds together in a fellowship that helps each womanto be a better mother, wife, sister, neighbor, and citizen.The weekly meetings, held on Thursday afternoons,have an average attendance of forty out of a membership of sixty.170 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe Bohemian women who cannot speak Englishhave formed a club auxiliary to the Woman's Club.Both clubs expect to join the State Federation ofWoman's Clubs. Their programme shows a desirefor all 'round culture, while their practical work expresses a growing feeling of civic responsibility andsisterly sympathy. Their interest in the publicschool is shown by the petitions circulated asking forimprovements in the neighborhood schools; severalgood pictures have been presented to the primarygrades. The members are foremost in pushing thepetitions asking for a manual training centre to beestablished at the Seward School. Through thewise efforts of two members a drunken policeman wasdismissed from his beat, and finally from the policeforce.This club maintained a cooking class during thewinter and have showed much interest in the discussion of cheap and healthful foods, also of house sanitation.A class for the study of expression in English reading and writing has been formed from the membership, and this club is fast becoming the strong righthand of the Settlement.The Men's Discussion Club was small, but adjournedin the spring hoping that new life would come withthe autumn.The Excelsior Club has felt the loss of the gymnasium, but has met once a week for debate andfriendly intercourse.The Monday Evening Club has proved that withwise leadership the best way to hold boys and girlsover sixteen years of age is to organize them together.This club with commendable restraint devote mostof their evening to business, and a literary programme.The last half hour is given to social intercourse,playing games, and dancing.No club is more loyal to the Settlement, and noneshows more elements for the development of socialresponsibility.The drama of Miles Standish was presented duringthe winter. The cast was international in character,Miles Standish being a short young German, whileJohn Alden was a tall, slim Irishman, and Priscilla asweet faced Gretehen.BATHS.The three shower baths and one bath tub have beenkept busy since July 1st. Over iive hundred bathshave been given. The last week of the month therewere 170 boys, fifteen of whom are working. Theaverage number of baths per boy is two a week. On two afternoons the baths are used by girls, averagingtwenty an afternoon.Workingmen have just discovered the baths;twenty used them last week, paying five cents a bath.It is hoped that this summer's experiment will leadto the securing of a municipal bath for the neighborhood.THE VACATION SCHOOL.The Seward Vacation School is conducted underthe auspices of the University of Chicago Settlementand has enrolled 300 children who live in the immediate neighborhood, fifty in the kindergarten andforty in each of the first six grades. It is supportedby several ladies who are especially interested in thework of the Settlement, and who feel that in a longsummer vacation, children who spend their time onthe street are subjected to many demoralizing influences which would be avoided if they could attendthe daily sessions of a Vacation School.The Board of Education gives the use of the Seward Public School building, on the corner of Forty-sixth and Page streets, and provides manual trainingequipment for sixty pupils. There are twenty-oneteachers, of whom ten are engaged in the regularpublic school work during the year. The others areteachers in private schools or Kindergartens, andwere chosen because of special fitness for the workwhich they were asked to undertake.The school opened on Tuesday, July 13, and willclose on Friday, August 20. There is one sessiondaily, except Saturday, from 8:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Each morning the classes gather in the lower hall ofthe school building for opening exercises, consistingof patriotic songs, and a brief address from one of theteachers. During the three hours' session which follows, every member of the school spends one hour inmanual training, one hour in singing, and physicalculture, half an hour in Nature Study and half anhour in drawing. Three times a week each of theolder classes holds a meeting of the Clean City League.The teachers in each department aim to give theirpupils development through activity and to hold themin the school through interest in the work. Eachtries to relate the work of her department to the workdone elsewhere in the school, and in this correlation ishelped by frequent teachers' meetings. Each department has its own class rooms, where the teachers remain, the children passing from room to room. Thedepartments in the school are as follows :Kindergarten. — The aim in the Kindergarten is tobring into the lives of the children the beauty andhappiness of summer time. Each week there is anUNIVERSITY RECORD 171excursion to one of the parks or to the country. Thedaily programme is based directly upon the vital interests of these excursions.Sloyd. — Sloyd is educational work in wood. Thepupils make simple objects at first, using soft woodand only a few tools. Later they advance through acarefully arranged series of models until they are ableto make the more difficult objects and to use all of thewoodworking tools. Only a small part of this seriescan be completed in the vacation school. The boysshow an intense interest in this work, and even themost troublesome among them is willing to comeunder the rules of the school so that he may be allowed to work in the shop. This form of manualtraining aims to connect without a break the occupations of the kindergarten with the manual trainingusually given in the upper grades of the publicschools. In the vacation school every boy and girl inthe first three grades and every boy in the fourth,fifth, and sixth grades spends an hour each day in thesloyd room.Housework and Sewing. — The girls are trained inelementary Housework and Sewing while the boys arelearning sloyd. The aim in this department is toteach girls how to be more useful and helpful in theirhomes.Music. — The Music hour is divided into two equalparts, of which one is given to songs and vocal culture and the other to physical exercises. In each partthe work is grouped about three general subjects : (a)Industrial Life, (b) Civic Life, (c) Nature Study. Theaim is to vitalize the pupils and make them sensitiveand responsive to the thought expressed in vocal andinstrumental music.Nature Study. — This department aims to bring thepupils into closer touch with nature. Typical specimens of plant life are brought before the class and theprincipal parts and the functions of each are studied.The teachers in charge of the Nature Study conductexcursions into the country, each class going twiceduring the term of six weeks.Drawing. — The work in drawing is related closelyto the work of the other departments, especially Nature Study. The pupils are taught to draw from stilllife, objects, and groups, and are given some trainingin representing in perspective street scenes or countryplaces visited on the excursions. In every case theyare taught to observe carefully and to see an objectclearly before they try to draw it.Clean City Leagues. — Each of the older classes isorganized as a Clean City League, and receives systematic instruction in regard to the cleaning ofstreets, alleys, yards, and garbage boxes. The mem bers of the leagues are asked to observe the conditionof the neighborhood and to bring informal complaintsof all violations of the ordinances relating to the cleaning of the city. These complaints are sent to the CityHall and receive prompt attention from the authorities. The members are also taught that each citizenshould help the authorities by not making dirt orthrowing papers or rubbish in the streets.The Penny Savings Bank. — This Bank aims toteach thrift and to form habits of saving among thechildren in the neighborhood. It is a part of theregular work of the University Settlement and willcontinue after the Vacation School has closed.During the four weeks of the school session alreadycompleted, there have appeared to be sdme verydefinite results achieved. The children and theirparents have become so much interested in manualtraining that a petition has been started in the neighborhood asking the Board of Education to equip theSeward School as a permanent manual training centrefor the Stock Yards district. A similar interest hasbeen aroused in elementary housework and sewing,and the mothers of girls who are in these classesintend to ask that elementary housework and sewingbe made a part of the work done in the SewardSchool. The district is one which would be especiallyhelped by the addition of these departments.The Vacation School work has demonstrated beyondquestion that both parents and children eagerlywelcome an opportunity for this kind of school workduring the summer months. Over a thousand childrenhave been refused admission to the school for lack ofroom, and it has been necessary to issue a ticket toeach child admitted so as to keep outside childrenfrom joining the classes in the halls.On Friday, July 30, the parents of the pupils wereinvited to meet the Vacation School teachers in theafternoon at the school building. A large proportionof the mothers and many of the fathers attended thismeeting. The work of the school was presented inEnglish, German, and Bohemian, since many of theparents have not yet learned to speak the Englishlanguage. They all expressed great interest in thework of the school and in the plans which had beenmade for continuing the manual training, the elementary housework, and the Clean City League after theschool closes.Everybody interested in this work is cordiallyinvited to visit the school during the remaining twoweeks of the session. Many of the plans outlinedabove are experimental, but they should prove suggestive and helpful to teachers and to all friends ofpublic education. (To be concluded.)172 UNIVERSITY RECORDOfficial Notices.Official copies of the University Record for theuse of students may be found in the corridors and«halls of the various buildings in the University quadrangles. Students are requested to make themselvesacquainted with the official actions and notices of theUniversity, as published from week to week in theUniversity Record.The following changes in published announcementsare made for the Second Term :XXVII. Botany. 2 will be given as a ^ DM forthe Second Term (i. e., double work for three weeks).Lectures, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,11 : 00-12 : 00. Laboratory, Monday to Friday,8 : 30-10 : 30.XXIV. Physiology. 5A Physiological Optics(Loeb), M Second Term, 11 : 00 p.m., will be offered inplace of XXI V-5 (withdrawn). Prerequisites : XIX-1,2 ; XX-1, 2.VI. Sociology. 102 Bibliography of Sociology(Hastings) will be given as a M Second Term.Office Hours of the Deans, Summer Quarter.Graduate Students : Dean Judson, Cobb Hall,Room 9 A, Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 A.M.-12 :00 m.Senior Colleges and Unclassified Men : Dean Mac-Clintock, Monday-Friday, 12:00 m.-1:00 p.m.Junior Colleges, Men : Dean Capps, Cobb Hall,Room 4 A, Tuesday-Friday, 9:30-11:00 a.m.Colleges and Unclassified Women : Dean Bulkley,Cobb Hall, Room 4 A, Monday and Friday, 11: 00 a.m-12:00 m. ; Wednesday and Thursday, 5: 00-6: 00 p.m.Divinity School : Assistant Professor Moncrief(acting), Haskell Oriental Museum, Tuesday-Friday,9: 30 a.m.Visitors to Classes. — No one is entitled to attendthe exercises of any class unless duly registered. Permits to visit any class, for two occasions, will be givenby the President or by the Dean of the Faculties ofArts, Literature, and Science.Official Reports.During the month of July, 1897, there has beenadded to the Library of the University a totalnumber of 445 books from the following sources :Books added by purchase, 338 vols., distributed asfollows :General Library, 111 vols.; Philosophy, 33 vols.; Political Economy, 7 vols.; Political Science, 43 vols.; His tory, 3 vols.; Sociology, 28 vols.; Sociology (Divinity),13 vols.; New Testament, 4 vols.; Comparative Philology, 6 vols.: Greek, 10 vols.; Latin, 8 vols.; Romance,1 vol.; German, 28 vols.; English, 5 vols.; Mathematics,1 vol.; Astronomy, 11 vols.; Geology, 1 vol.; Zoology,1 vol.; Physiology, 3 vols.; Neurology, 6 vols.; Systematic Theology, 13 vols.; Morgan Park Academy,1 vol.; Scandinavian Seminaries, 1 vol.Books added by gift, 94 vols., distributed as follows:General Library, 74 vols.; Pedagogy, 2 vols.; Political Economy, 4 vols.; Political Science, 2 vols.; Sociology, 1 vol.; Sociology (Divinity), 5 vols.; English, 3vols.; Geology, 3 vols.Books added by exchange for University publications, 13 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 2 vols.; Political Economy, 5 vols.;Comparative Religion, 1 vol.; New Testament, 2 vols.;Church History, 3 vols.The Report of the Frances Shimer Academy, Mt.Carroll, 111. (Assistant Professor F. J. Miller, Resident at the University, Principal ; Harriet G. Blaine,Acting Dean) for the Spring Quarter 1897 is asfollows :List of Instructors with Number and Character of Courses :Blaine, Harriet G. IMj (Cicero), IMj (Caesar), 2Mj (Beginners' Latin).Wilson, William T. IMj (Biology), IMj (Physics), IMj(Arithmetic), 2Mj (Bookkeeping).Knowlton, Antha. IMj (Senior English), IMj (Junior English), IMj (French).Tunnell, Jane C. IMj (Mediaeval and Modern History),IMj (Roman History), IMj (Algebra), IMj (Arithmetic).Hall, Jessie M. IMj (Advanced German), IMj (Beginners'German).Turney, Florence. IMj (U. S. History), IMj (Geography)IMj (Grammar).Totten, Luella. IMj (Harmony), 4Mj (Instrumental Music).Jacobs, Mrs. Blanche C. 4Mj (Vocal Music), IMj (Harmony).Sherwood, Mary C. IMj (Musical History), 2Mj (Instrumental Music), (Art).Avery, Alexandra. 2Mj (Stenography).COURSES. NO. OF STULatin : 4Mj - - - 13Science : 2Mj - 8Mathematics : IMj - . 4English: 2Mj - 16French : IMj - - - 4German : 2Mj - 13History: 2Mj - - - 10Business :Bookkeeping : 2Mj 4Stenography: 2Mj - . 2UNIVEBS1TT RECORD 173COURSES. NO. OF STUDENTS.Introductory Year:U.S. History: IMj .... 5Grammar: IMj .... 4Geography: IMj ----- 3Arithmetic: IMj - 9Music :Musical History: IMj ... 4Harmony: 2Mj - 7Vocal Music : 4Mj - 19Instrumental Music : 6M j 30Art 7Number of Students enrolled during the Spring Quarter, 50.Recent Numbers of University Periodicals.The Botanical Gazette for July is the openingnumber of Volume 24. It contains the following chiefarticles: "Contributions from the Cry ptogamic Laboratory of Harvard University, XL," by RolandThaxter. " The Development of the Antherozoids ofZamia," by Herbert J. Webber. "Mexican Fungi,"by E. W. D. Holway. " Contribution to the Theoryof the Movement of Diatoms," by W. M. Kozlowski.Summer Quarter University Extension Conferences.The first of the series of conferences on the subjectof University Extension was held in the Chapel Thursday afternoon, July 29. The hour was devoted principally to a consideration of the work of the Lecture-study Department, the address being delivered byProfessor Edmund J. James, Director of the UniversityExtension Division. Professor James in the course ofhis remarks explained fully the intent and purpose ofthe University Extension movement and gave specialattention to the work which has been accomplishedby the University of Chicago. Superintendent I. N.Bridgman of Polo, Illinois, followed, representing acentre whose experience has extended over threeseasons. His remarks showed that the work has takena strong hold upon the community, and that it is nowconsidered a permanent institution toward which thepeople are looking for a large share of their intellectualfood each year. Principal D. R. Ellabarger of theRichmond (Indiana) Centre spoke concerning the experiences at his centre before the work was permanently established. The report of Miss Jennie Cleaves,secretary of the centre at Davenport, Iowa, showedthat organization to be in a particularly flourishingcondition. Davenport is one of the oldest UniversityExtension towns in the West, the work having beenestablished there seven years ago. The second conference was held Thursday afternoon,August 5, in the chapel, and was devoted almostentirely to a consideration of the subject of Correspondence instruction. The meeting was in charge ofProfessor Edmund J. James, and Associate ProfessorW. D. MacClintock spoke on " The Theory and Practiceof Correspondence Teaching." Professor MacClintockhas had about fifteen years' experience in giving correspondence instruction, and is a thorough believer in theefficiency of the method. In the discussion whichfollowed Head Professor E. H. Moore, Associate Professor O. J. Thatcher, and Assistant Professor F. W.Shepardson participated. Considerable was added tothe interest of the meeting by the testimonials whichwere given of the work of the department by residentstudents who have been engaged in Correspondence-study during the past year. Among others who spokein favor of the system were Mr. Frank W. Cheek ofMorganfield, Ky., Miss Adelaide Baylor of Wabash,Ind., Mrs. Margaretta DeBruler of Indianapolis, Ind.,and Mr. George O. Banting of Arcadia, Wis. Thereports of the year which have just been preparedshow that nearly six hundred students have been enrolled in the Correspondence-study Department, aridthe prospects point to great increase during the coming season.The next conference will be held during the firstweek in September while the Cook County TeachersInstitute is in session at the University, and will bedevoted to the general subject of University Extensionteaching.Current Events.Whereas, The University of Chicago has from thebeginning of its career recognized the fact that apedagogical department is one of the essential features of a great modern university, and has in accordance with this idea undertaken to build up a strongfaculty in said department, andWhereas, The University has freely opened its doorsduring the Summer Quarter to the teachers of thecountry, thus enabling them to take advantage of theinstruction given in the University,Therefore, be it Resolved, That we, who in somemeasure, at least, represent the teaching force of thecountry in its various departments from kindergartento university, express to those in authority our heartyapproval and appreciation of all serious attempts thusfar made in the direction before mentioned.We furthermore express the hope that what hasthus far been accomplished may prove to be but amilestone in the University's career of usefulness inits department of Pedagogy.Further, be it Resolved, That we, the members ofHead Professor Dewey's class in Educational Psy-174 UNIVERSITY RECORDchology, express to him our most hearty and unqualified appreciation of the masterly lectures he hasdelivered before us during the past term — lectures atonce so simple and clear as to be within the comprehension of the novice, and so profound and fundamental as to be of the highest value to the educationalexpert.We also express the hope that the teachers of thecountry may have frequent opportunities to profitby Dr. Dewey's clear and profound insight into theeducational problems of the day.[Signed] C. P. Cary,Charity Dye,Wickliffe Rose.(Published by request of the signers.)THE CALENDAR.AUGUST 13-20, 1897.Friday, August 13.Chapel-Assembly; Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10 : 30 a.m.Saturday, August 14.Final Examination of Philip Schuyler Allen,3:00 p.m., D 13, Cobb Lecture Hall.Sunday, August 15.Vesper Service, Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m. Address byProfessor George B. Foster, "The Christian Attitude Toward Earthly Good."Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room, 7: 00 p.m.Monday, August 16.Chapel- Assembly ; Junior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10: 30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents). Tuesday, August 17.Chapel-Assembly ; Senior Colleges. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior CollegeStudents).Senior College Preliminary Debating Contest, CobbHall, 4:00 p.m.Public Lecture : Goethe's Sonnette im Rahmen derWeltlitteratur (in German), by Assistant Professor Camillo von Klenze, Chapel, Cobb Hall,4:00 p.m. [Open to all members of the University.]The English Club meets in Room B 8, Cobb Hall,8:00 p.m. Associate Professor William D. MacClintock will discuss "The Classification of theLiterary Phrase."Wednesday, August 18.Public Lecture : The Turkish Question, by HeadProfessor Harry Pratt Judson, Chapel, Cobb Hall,4: 00 p.m. [Open to all members of the University.]Vesper Song Service on the steps of Haskell OrientalMuseum, 7: 00 p.m. All are invited.Thursday, August 19.Chapel-Assembly ; Divinity School. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Friday, August 20.Chapel-Assembly ; Graduate Schools. — Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10 : 30 a.m.Dramatic Recital of Browning's Colombe's Birthday,by C. Chapin, Haskell Assembly Room ,8:00 p.m.Material for the UNIVERSITY BBOOED must be sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., inorder to be published in the issue of the same week.