£be Tttntversitip of CbicagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Single CopiesUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOUbe TdntpersitB of Gbtcago pressWL Mj NO. 28. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. OCTOBER^, 1897.Entered in the post office Chicago. Illinois, as second-class matter.CONTENTS.I. The Unity of the World. By the Rev. AmoryH. Bradford, D.D. 227-233II. Official Notices - - - - - - - - 233III. Official Reports : Library 233IV. Religious - 233V. The A. G. Spalding & Bros. Prizes .... 234VI. Current Events 234VII. The Calendar 234The Unity of the World*BY THE REV. AMORY H. BRADFORD, D.D.Mont Clair, N. J.History is making so swiftly in these days that it isdifficult to understand or interpret the meaning ofevents as they pass. The people of every age haveregarded their own as peculiar and critical, and theyare right. Not only every century but every decadehas something which makes it unique. What distinguishes our time is not its scientific discoveries, itsliterature, its art, its education, although these areall enough to command attention. By what then willour time be known for in the coming days ? My answerto this question is contained in a phrase which it ismy purpose to make the subject of this address : TheGrowing Unity of the World.The thought indicated, and I believe clearly visiblein the trend of current events, is so stupendous andrevolutionary that it may well absorb the attention of* The Convocation Address delivered on the occasion of theTwentieth Convocation of the University, held in theUniversity Congregational Church, Chicago, Friday,October 1, 1897. those who in any way are seeking the progress ofcivilization, or as I prefer to express it, "The advancement of the kingdom of God."The unity of the world ! With Mohammedan intriguing against Christian ; with all Europe armed tothe teeth and standing on the verge of a conflagrationwhich the mistake of a fool or the blunder ofan enthusiast may any day ignite ; with anarchytrying to destroy government, and government seeking to suppress anarchy ; with the nation whichprides itself on marching in the foremost files of timerefusing to have a treaty of arbitration; with thebuilding of navies, the casting of great guns, the marshaling of millions of men, and with conceited andcombative young men on two of the greatest thronesof the world not much prospect of internationalunity. At first sight the prospect may not seemencouraging, but forces among the nations sometimes move as among the clouds. Often masses ofominous clouds for a moment will shut out the lightand fill the world with dread. You look at them andsee they are moving in one direction while high abovethem move other and deeper masses in other directionsand in obedience to other winds. He who sees onlyarmies, armaments, and navies, with the signs of conflict and conflagration which, Heaven knows, arenumerous enough, is not to be trusted when he speaksof the tendencies of the times, for he fails to observehigher forces which are using all these relics of barbarism for larger and nobler ends. We must knowhow the higher winds are blowing before we can. knowin what direction the world is turning.228 UNIVERSITY RECORDFully recognizing the forces of division and disinte-gration which are at work, I ask : What are some ofthe facts which give significance to our subject, andmake the unity of the world no iridescent dreambut the most conspicuous and prophetic reality ofmodern history?For the first time there is no longer any new continent to be explored. The heart of Africa is ceasing tobe dark. Asia, America, and all the islands, are nowalmost as well known as the regions about the Mediterranean, which once comprised the known world.Only the continents of ice around the two poles stillrefuse to open their secrets to man. Every part ofthe globe is known to every other part. Thibet hasbeen visited and Korea has ceased to be a hermit-nation. There are no longer any preserves. Thediscovery of all the lands of the globe has beenquickly followed by an amazing process of tying together. Steamships, telegraphs, railroads, have nowliterally abolished distances. There is sober sense inthe old jest which called the passage of the Atlantic "crossing the ferry." It is hardly more than aferry which is annually growing shorter. We go toJapan and China in less time than fifty years ago ourfathers crossed to England.! But railways and steamers are slow beside the telegraph which literally beltsthe globe. The significance of this is in the fact thatstate secrets are henceforward impossible. Russiamay flirt with France to her heart's content, but thereis no obscure corner in which the dalliance may go on.Turkey may try to stir up the hill-tribes of India, butshe has to do it with the eyes of Europe upon herFrance and Germany, jealous of England, may secretly resolve to try to equal or surpass the Britishnavy, but every subject of the Queen, not only inEngland but in her colonies, will know all about thescheme as soon as most Frenchmen. The changes toresult from this annihilation of distances cannot bemeasured. The back yards of the nations touch oneanother. Even the imperial bedrooms seem to havetelephonic walls sensitive to the thinking of theiroccupants, which publish their plans as soon as theyare matured. The old style of statecraft, which wasonly diplomatic subterfuge and which made diplomacyto signify governmental lying, has had its day, andmust cease for the simple reason that lying aboutwell-known facts is not profitable business for so-calledstatesmen. Machiavelli, and indeed even Bismarck,would find little to do in this decade.The world is not only known, but intercommunication of various kinds is binding it so closely togetherthat a whisper in one nation echoes among all the nations. As a natural result all the world practically thinks about the same subjects. The same books areread in all lands. The same news finds a place in thepapers. Carlyle became famous in America beforehe was appreciated in Scotland ; and Emerson's American appreciation followed his warm reception inEngland. Heretofore this intercommunication of intellect has been chiefly limited to so-called Christiannations, but now the long sleeping millions of China,Japan, India, are being waked up by the thrills of acommon life. Indian and Chinese literature arestudied on these shores quite as thoroughly and intelligently as in the Orient. A Harvard professor doesnot hesitate to say that he knows more about Buddhism than Dharmapala. The hymns of the Vedas arequite a fad in these days. Herbert Spencer is read inJapan and India almost as much as in England. Professor Romanes declared that the ablest original investigator along Darwinian lines, since Darwin, was amissionary in Japan. The great thoughts of the greatthinkers are the common property of the world; andevery nation is influencing the thinking of every other.There is a growing unity in the world's thought.With the unifying of thought something like theunification of language is proceeding. Commonthought requires a common language for its vehicle.The following facts are significant :J. Mulhall in his Progress of the World makes thiscomparison of the seven languages of civilization :" One hundred years ago French was spoken by thelargest number of people over thirty millions (30,-000,000). Since then it has increased to 50,000,000.The Russian stood next 30,000,000 ; today, 75,000,000.Then came the German, nearly 30,000,000 ; now morethan 75,000,000. Then the Spanish by 26,000,000; nowby 42,000,000. The Italian by 15,000,000 ; now by 33,-000,000. The Portuguese by 7,000,000 ; now 13,000,000.But what of the English language ? A century agoit was spoken by less than 20,000,000; today it isspoken by more than 110,000,000. The English a century ago was used by only 12 per cent, of the peopleusing these seven languages ; today, by nearly 30 percent, of them. Then the German-speaking peopleoutnumbered the English by one-half. Now theEnglish outnumber the German by nearly the sameratio. One hundred years ago these seven languagesof civilization represented a little over 150,000,000;now more than 400,000,000."These figures by no means prove that a centuryfrom now the Anglo-Saxon speech will dominate theworld, but they do show that the tendency towardunity in language is unmistakable and swift, andfrom present appearances the future speech of theworld will greatly resemble our own.UNIVERSITY RECORD 229.In other ways the unification of the world is going on.Tides of emigration are moving backward and forward. The English in all the lands are pioneers oftrade and industry. More Irish axe in America thanin Ireland ; Germans and Italians enough to foundstates are already resident in New York and Chicago.On the other hand Americans not a few prefer theolder civilizations, much to the disgust of the jingoeswho can imagine no excellence which wears a dresscoat or enjoys a table d'hote dinner. The moving toand fro of these tides of life is making great changeseven in distant nations. The people are beginning tolive alike, act alike, speak alike. In short, they areshowing that there is a deep and true meaning in thephrase, " citizen of the world."While silent forces almost unobserved are overturn-incT world-old traditions and linking together theminds and hearts of men, equally great changes areappearing on the map of the world. The imperialidea in Great Britain is now a mighty reality. Thecolonies are leading in the movement for federation.and an empire which includes India, Australia, NewZealand. Canada, the British Possessions, South Africa, as well as the British Islands and other less conspicuous provinces and colonies, is in itself an objectlesson in the possibility of unification among the nations.' Instead of a divided Germany there is now oneempire ; instead of many petty states there is now aunited Italy. The Triple Alliance, and the combinedoperations of the great powers, show that that Englishsociologist was not far afield, who in 1884 declared thatthe child was already born who would see a UnitedStates of Europe as there is now a United States ofAmerica.These facts of science, exploration, politics, are allprophetic. They all proclaim the approaching unityof the world the sublimest fact about which menare now thinking. There is already more thancompetition among the nations ; there is cooperation, enforced, to be sure, but none the lessprophetic. No nation today dares to act ' aloneexcept in home policy. The effort of statesmenis to secure the strongest alliances. Autocracies likeRussia woo republics like France and do not find themaidens reluctant. The movement is not swift but itis evident, The tides in spite of occasional eddiesare all setting in one direction. There is dawningupon the consciousness of the most receptive spirits avision of the brotherhood of man; a time when allthat now causes enmity and strife shall go and in itsplace be the recognition of common interests and theimpulse of a common destiny. There may be one moregreat war in civilization but I doubt if there will be more. That war may come soon. It may be neededto show how silly in view of the march of events areall the armaments of the nations. Such a strugglewill not hinder but rather hasten world-wide unity.That unity will not mean the obliteration of racialdistinctions. Africans will still be dark and Anglo-Saxons fair ; French will still be mercurial and Germans phlegmatic. The suns of the tropics will continue to do their work on the face and in the blood.The history of individual nations will not be f orgotten?but the heroic souls of the past will be no longerregarded as the exclusive possession of one little landbut as the pioneers of the world's unity. Then Francewill honor Bismarck ; England, Washington ; Americaclaim as her very own Cromwell, Wellington andNelson. Cromwell did as much for America as Lincoln,and Washington as much for France as Napoleon.Some day we shall understand that those great enoughto largely influence the world are the common prop-perty and pride of the race. Now we make laws forparticular men and for favored localities : then lawswill be made for man, and the interests of no class begiven precedence over another. War will go of necessity. There will be a United States of the world ;and Germany will no more think of fighting Englandthan Massachusetts of fighting New York. A dream.Of course, but on this point I insist it is not abaseless dream. It is rather a vision suggested bycold facts which are evident to all. The entire content of this providential movement I am not presumptuous enough to try to sketch. Only the outlines of the picture are visible as yet ; but year byyear some new detail finds its proper place in whatwill some day be a finished and glorious reality.The causes which will produce this result will notall be spiritual. War itself will make war impossible.Navies will be perfected until they will be useless indeed it is a question if they are not so now. Nationswill have to agree because they dare not differ. Selfishness will find that her interests parallel those ofself-forgetf ulness. But whatever the causes, whetherthey be good or bad, the result will be the same. Andthe condition will not be an unmixed blessing. Largebodies are difficult of operation. Intrigue will stillfind places in which to work. The size of the institu^tion may make it clumsy. I have not read history toso little account as to think that a United States ofthe world would mean instant millennium. Unity willcome long before human nature will be sanctified.Nevertheless that unity is an essential step to thetriumph or the kingdom of God, which will includeall nations and peoples not only in law but also in love.Because I believe this will be the next great advance230 UNIVERSITY RECORDin the history of the world, and that civilization willwait on progress in this direction, I venture to callyour attention to the duty which these facts lay uponall men, especially those with intellectual and spiritualvision. It calls for dispassionate recognition andappreciation of facts.The bane of the world today is prejudice. Prejudice separates men more than oceans, and prejudiceis always the child of ignorance and egotism. TheAmerican laughs at the Japanese who claims to bedescended from the sun, but how many Americans,even if it were true, would have the courage todeliver the message which the Japanese Commission sent to their country when they had learnedsomething of Europe and America: "These peopleare not the barbarians; we are the barbarians."There is division and strife in the world becauseof ignorance and egotism. We glorify our institutions as unique because we do not know thatother nations, as France, Switzerland and England,are quite as free as ourselves, while in those countriesliberty is even better protected than here. We boastof progress, and then fan the fires of sectionalism.And we are like others. The worst hindrance tounity of the world is prejudice. It is always blind.It will not see that all men are made of one blood ;that color is only skin deep ; that racial differencesare due to environment rather than to creation.Study and travel are slowly destroying insularity andprovincialism. The European who visits the UnitedStates learns that we are not all callow and young ;and the American who goes abroad, if his eyes arein his head, quickly sees that we have quite as muchto learn from elder nations as they from us.History needs to be read from the point of view ofits interior forces, a point of view, by the way, fromwhich it has never been written. Now the study ofhistory is divisive. Each new generation keeps alivethe passions of those preceding. There are two sidesto the story of the American Revolution, yet we readbut one. The bloody shirt is still waved in this country by those who have not learned that men equallyhonest and intelligent could fight for the integrity ofthe individual state with as fine a patriotism as othersfor the maintenance of the Union. Before the unityof the world can be made a blessing there will need tobe something like justice done by man to man in theinterpretation of his motives and the measurement ofhis manhood.Three points seem to me to require especial emphasis.There should be a sympathetic study of the world.Emphasis in schools, colleges, and universities shouldno longer be placed on :what once separated nations, but on what now unites them; and that foolishform of patriotism which thinks no nation has ahigher mission than self-aggrandizement should befrowned upon, whether it storms in senatorial halls,struts around the exchanges, or pours its noisomenonsense through a corrupt and corrupting press. Thewar is over sane men will no longer wave the bloodyshirt ; the Revolution ended a hundred years and moreago ; brothers with common interests will not insiston being enemies simply because when they were boysthe big one tried to whip the little one and got beatenat the game. Wise men laugh at the little brutalitiesof boyhood if they do not bury them and nationsshould do the same ; and the university and the pulpit must take the lead in destroying prejudice. Ityields only to wider intelligence. That comes slowly,and seldom from commercial or political leaders. Theuniversity and the pulpit are the hope of the world.They may be sneered at as impractical and visionary :Punch may caricature the one, and Puck the other.The Senator from Massachusetts in solitary omniscience may look down upon Harvard and Yale and Amherst, but it is not altogether arrogance for ministersand professors to think they know almost as muchabout international problems as the brewers, the express presidents, and the mushroom mine-owners whoin some way contrive to find seats in the Senate of theUnited States.Others may t&ke narrow views ; we must take largeones. Others may imagine that the world revolvesaround this republic or that empire ; we must showthat it has a different axis and a larger orbit. Othersmay read history in the light of prejudice ; we mustread it in the light of progress. Others may searchthe past to find what in ruder days separated ; if westudy the same past we shall find in it prophecies ofthe unity which some of us believe has begun to berealized on the earth.An ampler privilege also is ours. The progress ofevents, the increase of intelligence, and a clearer appreciation of the teachings of Jesus, have broughtinto a prominence it can never lose, the greatest ofpolitical and the most practical of spiritual doctrines the Brotherhood of Man. Never before was thattruth grasped with the same clearness or firmness.It is now leading the world; Machine politicians,owners of railways and factories and jingo statesmenare trying to ignore it, but the universities and thepulpits are more prophetic. " I do not know what weare to do with Oxford," one of tbe most eminent andintelligent Englishmen in public life said to me lastsummer, "its students and prof essors are all becoming socialists." Technically he was not correct, forUNIVERSITY RECORD 231they are not socialists as that word is usually undertook but they have had a new vision of the brotherhood of man and they are preaching the doctrine sothat caste and hoary abuses are beginning to tremble.One of the obstacles in the way of statesmen whowould embroil the world in war is the opposition ofthe laboring classes in all lands, who rudely but yettruly have learned that men are brothers who wereintended to cooperate rather than fight. The obstreperous young man who now rules Germany is irritatedby this fact, but cannot alter it. The universities atone end of the scale and the factories at the other areteaching the same truth men are brothers; theyare made to help one another. Only vaguely has thisdoctrine been grasped by the masses, and they mustbe helped to follow the lead they have found to itslogical end. Brotherhood is not yet having an easytime of it. Race prejudice in the United States seemsas bitter as ever. The most eminent citizen of Alabamahas to ride in a Jim Crow car in the state of which heis the chief glory. Paul Lawrence Dunbar is commended to the reading^grorld by William D. Howells,and feted by the. literary celebrities of Europe, butwhen he returned to America hotels and restaurantsare shut against him. Lynching because of race isstill so common as to make the cry of Americansagainst outrages on Armenians a derision. In Russia,to say nothing of other lands, the Jew is still houndedlike a wild beast, and the Stundists are treated likedogs rather than men ; while in Turkey an Armenianis regarded as foreordained to the sword. And yet therecognition of brotherhood is growing as never before.It is a rising tide which those who fear for their placesor their profits may try to sweep back with their littlebrooms or frighten by their loud threats but tidesare not hindered by threats or brooms. What may bedone to promote brotherhood, and so the unity of theworld, ethical and spiritual as well as physical ? Menof culture and religion at least may insist that allshould be judged by what they are and not by thecolor of the skin or the shape of their nose. ThatUnitarian minister in Cambridge who broke an engagement to deliver an address before a Club because themeeting was to be held in a hotel in Boston which theday before had refused entertainment to a coloredbishop ; and that Massachusetts politician who at theSt. Louis Convention insisted that if the hotel whererooms had been engaged should make discriminationbecause of race and color the entire patronage of theMassachusetts delegation would be withdrawn, havenot yet received all the credit which belongs to them.May their tribe increase !. The college or universitywhich does not open its doors without regard to raee or color should have been in the fourteenth centuryrather than the nineteenth; and the church whichdiscriminates against any man can be called Christianonly by courtesy. The good bishop in Les Miserablesnever asked what was a man's name or where he wasborn, but only "has he a need?" The republic ofletters and the republic of religion should know norace lines. If they are brave, persistent, consistent,sometime the idea may get into the pachyderm ousheads of politicians that a German or an Englishman is a brother of the American ; that it is as greata sin to cause starvation in Lancashire as in Scrantonor Pittsburgh ; and that ostracism of either Africanor Jew is a relic of barbarism. Now we magnifypatriotism, and we do well if by it is meant such a loveof country as insists that its best ideals shall have ascope for development ; if we exalt our native landthat it may hasten the victory of brotherhood and sobe a blessing to the whole world. But if by patriotismis meant only the aggrandizement of a larger selfcalled the nation, then we are the enemies of whatis best for our country and the foes of progress.Before prejudice will disappear and brotherhood beregnant and enduring there must come into commerceand industry, as well as philosophy and theology, alarger and truer conception of the value of man. Thisis sure to follow in the wake of the doctrine of DivineImmanence, which may almost be said to be the contribution of the theology of our time to the thoughtand life of the world. This is not a new doctrine ; it isthe Divine Omnipresence christened with a new name ;but only now is the truth fundamental in the oldthought receiving adequate emphasis. Its influencemust be revolutionary in economic and politicalideals, as well as in theological. In the. old dayswhich we would recall only for their lessons Whittierwrote of a brother-man in a slave mart :" In that sad victim then,Saviour of pitying men,I see Thee stand."The doctrine of the Divine Immanence cannot stopshort of the affirmation that there is something of Godin every human being ; therefore race prejudices are ashame, national rivalries barbaric, and war a crime.However that doctrine may be formulated the resultwill be the same. It must destroy much that hasbeen venerated, and work a revolution in thoughtand conduct. Jesus was the typical man, and hedeclared: "He that hath seen me hath seen theFather." It is well that truths so radical and far-reaching are appreciated slowly, for otherwise thechanges in society would be destructive rather thanconstructive, When a doctrine of the first rank cpmes232 UNIVERSITY RECORDinto prominence it never disappears. It takes its placeamong the formative forces of character, thought andinstitutions. The changes which an appreciation ofthe immanence of God must work all run parallelwith the growing unity of the world. They make discriminations between man and man founded onwealth, race, nationality, little less than grotesque.Commerce has said that labor is a commodity to bebought and sold like other commodities. No, saysthis truth, labor is a man working ; in man is something divine and you cannot treat him as an object ofbarter. Manufacture has said, Man is like any othermachine, to be used for all that he is worth and thenthrown aside. No, says this truth, man cannot be amachine, for he is the living expression of the divinethought, and a machine is only something of humanmanufacture. Politics has treated the masses of menas herds of cattle, to be driven here and there by theman with the longest whip and the most faithful dogs.But this truth implies that in all men is somethingwhich if given room for development will work benefitand blessing. The tendency among the nations hasbeen to build walls of separation, but this truthcompels all to understand that the divine purpose isnot that humanity should be divided into little lotscalled nations to be kept forever separate, but ratherthat it should be like the ocean which rises in cloudsonly to fall again in dew and rain, or like solar energy,which is one and the same whether it bloom in aflower or flash in a storm.This doctrine teaches that man as man, every maneverywhere, in all time, is, ever has been, and alwayswill be a child of God. Therefore the employer whogrinds the face of a man is grinding something ofGod : whoever grows rich by starving hisfellowmen isstarving something of God; whoever lessens povertyand crime, suffering and sin, and makes conditions inwhich humanity can rise, is helping to hasten thattriumph of love which will be the kingdom of God. Iknow the difficulties of this subject, and how it seemsto force upon us Tennyson's triumphant conclusion :That not one life shall be destroyedNor cast as rubbish to the voidTill God has made the pile complete.But we must not turn aside from a truth because it isdifficult to adjust it to other truths. The significanceof this doctrine for us is this : In the very time whenthe unity of the world is beginning to show itself asinevitable and glorious there rises into a predominantplace in human thinking a teaching which, carried toits logical conclusions, will make that unity not onlyformal but also desirable. It is a magnificent stepforward. It necessitates brotherhood : it shows that there is something elemental underneath this greatmovement that can be resisted no more than the ebband flow of the tides or the sweep of the constellations.The unity of the world is approaching. Nationsalready are touching elbows. State secrets are henceforward and forever impossible. Distances are growing shorter as ships fly faster. Thought girdles theglobe more quickly than light. The republic of manwill succeed the divisions on the map of today. Thatchange will carry measureless blessings, and help topromote numberless more; but the unity of the worldwill mean little unless at the same time prejudicegoes and brotherhood comes. Enemies are not madefriends by being tied together. "The federation ofthe world" will impose great and solemn obligationson all who have vision and faith in God and man. Nothought to me is so inspiring as this : I shall not seethe reality, neither will you ; but science, discoveryand the movement of the nations is creating entirelynew conditions. Those new conditions at first willresult in new forms of friction, and there will be strongtendencies to revert to the older order, but that willnot be final. Jesus reached the sublimest heights ofprophecy when he prayed that his disciples might beone, and his prayer was prophetic of more than aunited church, because a church in which all themembers are united in the love of the Father for theSon, is itself a prophecy of a united world. Thatis an ideal worthy of the enthusiasm of the loftiestsouls. No one can do much to hasten it, but each mancan do something ; at least so far as he has ability andopportunity he may seek to lessen prejudice and increase knowledge ; he may live as a brother to all withwhom he has any relations ; he may enter a little wayinto the splendor of the truth which teaches that Godis in every flower that blushes, every tree that bearsfruit, every mountain that rises toward heaven; inthe bending and tender sky, in the burning stars ; butstill more in every human being, pervading all, hallowing all and infinitely transcending all.In all the generations, and among all religions exceptthe Chinese, there has been an ideal of a golden agefar in the distance, but sure to come, when hopes,dreams and prophecies of the peoples and their faithswould become reality. That dream reached its finestflower in the central doctrine of Christianity whichJesus called the kingdom of God ; which St. John sawas the Holy City descending out of heaven from God.That is "th.6 far-off divine event toward which thewhole creation moves/5 But even the creation ismoved by human hands. God accomplishes his purposes in many ways* The unity of the world hasUNIVERSITY RECORD 233behind it elemental forces. The removal of prejudiceswill be a slow process ; the prevalence of brotherhoodwill increase with a truer appreciation of the natureof God and the value of man. In the meantime theworld needs leadership; not Titanic men like theheroes of old, but those who believe in God and Providence ; who are sure that truth cannot long be defeated ; men who are rational optimists ; who becausethey believe in the Divine Fatherhood believe also inhuman brotherhood ; who see in the growing unity ofthe world the prophecy and promise of a state in whichbrotherhood can work to its logical end a society fromwhich national divisions have disappeared, race prejudices died out ; in which all discriminations otherthan those essential to character are unknown ; asociety which will realize the divine ideal of thekingdom of God and the Holy City.Where shall the world look for such leaders ? forthe men "who can rule and dare not lie ?" For thosewho can say of their work," but being done,Let visions of the night or of the dayCome, as they will ; and many a time they come,Until this earth he walks on seems not earth,This light that strikes his eyeball is not light,This air that smites his forehead is not airBut vision."Where shall the world look for its truest, wisest,bravest leaders ? They must largely come from ouruniversities. For one I wish to bear witness to thefact that our American colleges and universities arerising to their privilege and duty, and daring to standalone until the slower people see from which quarterthe light will break. Many elect souls among us arealready catching clear glimpses of the unity which isapproaching, and beginning to feel thrills of inspirationat the possibility of being permitted to do a little toward hastening the day when the federation of theworld shall be a reality and the sway of love unbrokenand eternal. He who unselfishly in this good causeserves his God, his country, and his fellowmen, thefuture will welcome as King Arthur was welcomed," When there came, but faintAs from beyond the limit of the world,Like the last echo born of a great cry,Sounds as if some fair city were one voiceAround a King returning from his wars."Official Notices.The Examining Physician's office is on the firstfloor of the Physiology building, at the south end.Free consultation hour for students is held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 11:30a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Official Reports,During the month of September 1897, there hasbeen added to the Library of the University a totalnumber of 415 books from the following sources :Books added by purchase, 273 vols., distributed asfollows :General Library, 18 vols.; Philosophy, 15 vols.; Pedagogy, 3 vols.; Political Economy, 5 vols.; PoliticalScience, 32 vols.; History, 1 vol.; Sociology, 18 vols.;Sociology (Divinity), 7 vols.; Comparative Religion,18 vols.; Semitic, 15 vols.; New Testament, 6 vols.;Comparative Philology, 32 vols.; Greek, 19 vols.;Latin, 9 vols.; Latin and Greek, 1 vol.; German, 5 vols.;English, 36 vols.; Physics, 1 vol.; Chemistry, 15 vols.;Systematic Theology, 11 vols.; Morgan Park Academy,3 vols. ; Latin, New Testament, and Church History, 2vols.; Anatomy, Neurology, Palsantology, Zoology,Physiology, 1 vol.Books added by gift, 139 vols., distributed as follows :General Library, 125 vols.; Pedagogy, 3 vols.; Sociology, 2 vols.; Sociology (Divinity), 2 vols.; New Testament, 1 vol.; English, 1 vol.; Mathematics, 1 vol.;Chemistry, 1 vol.; Geology, 1 vol.; Zoology, 1 vol.;Church History, 1 vol.Books added by exchange for University Publications, 3 vols., distributed as follows :New Testament, 1 vol.; Haskell Museum, 2 vols.Religious.The Chaplain's office hours are Tuesday, Thursday,Friday, 1:30-2:00 p.m. in C 2, Cobb Lecture Hall.The Young Women's Christian Associationwishes to announce that through the kindness of theChristian Union and the Faculty they have been permitted to use the southwest room on floor D of CobbLecture Hall as a lounging room for the use of thewomen of the University. This room, which will befurnished by individual gifts, will be open from 8:30a.m. to 5: 30 p.m. Hot chocolate and tea will be servedat five cents per cup between 12: 30 and 2:00 p.m.The Young Women's Christian Association beganits weekly prayer-meetings on Thursday, October 7,at 10:30 a.m. in Haskell Lecture Hall. All women ofthe University are urged to attend these weeklymeetings. Those who are newcomers are cordiallyinvited to take this opportunity of becoming acquaintedwith the officers and members of the association whowill take great pleasure in giving what assistancethey can in beginning the year's work.234 UNIVERSITY RECORDThe A. Q. Spalding & Bros. Prizes,The contest for the A. G. Spalding & Bros, prizeswill consist of three exercises on each of the followingpieces of apparatus : Horizontal Bar, Parallel Bars,Side Horse, Long Horse, and Rings, three exercises intumbling and club swinging for not less than threenor more than five minutes. All exercises are voluntary,i. e., none "set" or compulsory.The prizes will consist of books to the value of $20,|12, and $8, and will be awarded to the first, second,and third best all round performers respectively.Decisions will be based upon the difficulty of theexercises, correct execution, and "form." The judgeswill be expert gymnasts not connected with the University.The contest is open to all students who are amateursand will take place the latter part of December.Current Events.The Anniversary Chapel Service. The sixthanniversary chapel service was held in the Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, at 12:30 p.m., Friday, October 1.The order of exercises used October 1, 1892, wasreproduced without change, and the same personsparticipated. The programme was as follow :Organ Prelude. Andante con moto Calkin.The Lord's Prayer. (Congregation.)Led by the President.Doxology. (Choir and Congregation.)Hymn No. 301 - - - - Laudes-Domini.Responsive Reading : Psalm 95.Led by the President.Hymn No. 371 - - - - Laudes-Domini.Scripture Reading : Genesis, chap. 1 ;John, chap. 3.Dean Harry Pratt Judson.Prayer. Galusha Anderson, D.D.Hymn No. 1124 ... - Laudes-Domini.Gloria.Benediction.Dean Eri B. Hulbert.Organ Postlude.Communion in E minor Batiste. THE CALENDAR,OCTOBER 8-15, 1897.Friday, October 8.Chapel- Assembly ; Graduate Schools.- Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Saturday, October 9.Administrative Board of University Affiliations,8:30 a.m.Faculty of the Junior Colleges, 10:00 a.m.The University Council, 11 : 30 a.m.Sunday, October 10.Vesper Service. Kent Theater, 4:00 p.m.Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,Haskell Oriental Museum, Assembly Room, 7: 00p.m.Monday, October 11.Chapel Assembly ; Junior Colleges. Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Junior CollegeStudents).Tuesday, October 12.Chapel-Assembly; Senior Colleges. Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m. (required of Senior CollegeStudents).University Chorus, Kent Theater, 7:15 p.m.Wednesday, October 13.The Zoological Club meets in the Lecture Room ofthe Zoological Building, 3:00 p.m. ?Head Professor Whitman: "The Results of Crossing theWhite and Brown Ring-doves."Assistant Professor Wheeler : " Two Cases of Mimicry."Thursday, October 14.Chapel Assembly ; Divinity School. Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.Frtday, October 15.Ch apel- Assembly ; Graduate Schools. Chapel, CobbLecture Hall, 10:30 a.m.The Mathematical Club meets in Ryerson PhysicalLaboratory, Room 36, 4:00 p.m.Associate Professor Maschke wiJ] read on "Symmetric andAlternating Linear Groups in 3 and 4 Variables."Note by Professor Bolza " On Cantor " I.Material for the UNIVERSITY RECOED must be sent to the Recorder by THURSDAY, 8:30 A.M., inorder to be published in the issue of the same week.