Sbe ^University of CbicaaoPrice $J,00 founded by john d. rockefeller Single CopiesPer Year 5 CentsUniversity RecordPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITYCHICAGOXTbe Xlnivetsitv ot Chicago ttxeseVOL. V, NO. 14 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 3:00 P.M. JULY 6, 1900Entered in the post office Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matterCONTENTS.I. Independence Day Celebration - - 145II. List of Students ----- 145III. Miss Gould's Visit 145IV. University Reception - 145V. Current Events 146VI. Official Report: The Library - 146VII. Calendar 146-147INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION.Independence Day was celebrated at the University with exercises held in Kent Theater at10:30 A.M. Dean Judson acted as President ofthe day and delivered a short introductory address.He was followed in short speeches by ProfessorJ. S. Riggs, of Auburn Theological Seminary,who discussed the attitude which should be takenby citizens toward the religious problems of theday, by Professor H. Morse Stephens, of CornellUniversity, who discussed the Fourth of July asviewed from the standpoint of the mother country,and by President Butler, of Colby University, whoindicated what the Fourth of July means to anAmerican. The speeches were interspersed withmusic furnished by the Imperial Quartette ofChicago, the audience joining in one or twoselections. LIST OF STUDENTS,An official list of the students in residence inthe various schools and colleges of the University,during the Summer Quarter, 1900^ will be published in about ten days.MISS GOULD'S VISIT.Miss Helen Gould and party visited the University last week, and spent several hours viewingthe halls and museums. The party was escortedthrough the University by Miss S. P. Breckinridge, acting head of Green Hall.UNIVERSITY RECEPTION.The University Reception to incoming studentswas held in the Women's Quadrangle on theafternoon of the Fourth of July, from 5 to 7o'clock. About 400 students were present. ThePresident and Mrs. Harper were assisted inreceiving by the members of the. Faculties, yphpwere divided into groups corresponding to thedepartments of instruction, /. e., Historical,Languages, Science, and Divinity.' *' Lfght refreshments were served, and patriotic music wasplayed by the University Band.146CURRENT EVENTS.Mr. Alfred Charles Johnson, a memberof the Graduate School of the University,who has held the Graduate Scholarship inPolitical Science during the year just closed,died at the residence of his mother, Mrs.Christina Johnson, Sunday morning, July i,at i : oo o'clock.Mr. Johnson matriculated in the UniversityApril i, 1896. Entering without advancedstanding, he attained his Bachelor's degree inten quarters of residence, graduating withhonorable mention from the Senior Collegeof Arts July 1, 1899.As a member of the Military Company, andof Lincoln House, Mr. Johnson took an activeinterest in all the student affairs of the University.All who knew him felt that he was a studentof great promise in his chosen profession —the law. He had just completed his year'swork at the Chicago Law School where he hadattained honor for the excellence of his work.His energy, which seemed so great, at lastsuccumbed to the demands which his enthusiastic devotion to his work made upon it, andafter a very brief illness, he died on the anniversary of his graduation from the University.OFFICIAL REPORTS.THE LIBRARY.During the month of June 1900, there has beenadded to the Library of the University a totalnumber of 236 volumes, from the followingsources :Books added by purchase, 103 volumes, distributed as follows :General Library, 3 vols.; Philosophy, 4 vols.;Pedagogy, 4 vols.; Political Economy, 7 vols.;History, 4 vols.; Sociology, 24 vols.; Sociology(Divinity), 1 vol.; Anthropology, 4 vols.; Comparative Religion, 9 vols.; New Testament, 3vols.; Comparative Philology, 11 vols.; Latin,1 vol.; Latin and Greek, 1 vol.; German, 2 vols.;Chemistry, 3 vols.; Zoology, 16 vols.; Physiology, RECORD2 vols.; Botany, 1 vol.; Homiletics, 2 vols.;Department XVI (Literature in English), 1 vol.Books added by gift, 87 volumes, distributedas follows :General Library, 62 vols.; Political Economy,4 vols.; Sociology, 2 vols.; Sociology (Divinity),1 vol.; Semitic, 2 vols.; New Testament, 1 vol.;English, 13 vols.; Physics, 1 vol.; Divinity, 1 vol.Books added by exchange for University publications, 46 volumes, distributed as follows :General Library, 13 vols.; Pedagogy, 3 vols.;Political Economy, 5 vols.; Comparative Religion, 5 vols.; New Testament, 1 1 vols.; Botany,3 vols.; Church History, 6 vols.THE CALENDAR.JULY 6-14, 1900.Friday, July 6.Chapel- Assembly : The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Open Lecture by Professor Riggs in the Chapelat 3: 30 p.m.Subject: "The Synoptic Problem — its presentstatus."Open Lecture by Professor Warren, LectureRoom, Cobb Hall, at 3:30 p.m.Subject: "Voltaire, Diderot."Open Lecture by Professor R. G. Moulton, KentTheater, at 4: 30 p.m.Recital : "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus."Open Lecture by Professor J. Rendel Harris inthe Chapel at 4:30 p.m.Subject: "The so-called Logia or Sayings of Jesus— their critical value in the interpretation of otherdocuments."Open Lecture by Professor R. D. Salisbury, KentTheater, at 8:00 p.m.Subject : "The Great Caiion of the Colorado " (illustrated with stereopticon views).Saturday, July 7.Open Lecture by Professor J. Rendel Harris inthe Chapel, 10: 30 a.m.Subject : " The Diatessaron, or Harmony of the Gospels made by Tatian."Open Lecture — Associate Professor Charles Zueblin conducts a visit to the Calumet HarborSaturday morning.Sunday, July 8.university settlement sunda y.University Vesper Service in Kent Theater at4:00 P.M.Addresses by Associate Professor Zueblin and MissMary MacDowell.Union Meeting of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation and the Young Women's ChristianAssociation is held in Association Hall, Haskell Museum, at 7 : 30 p.m.Monday, July 9.Chapel- Assembly : The Junior Colleges. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Address by President Nathaniel Butler.Open Lecture by Professor Abbott, CongregationHall, Haskell, at 3:30 p.m.Subject : " The City of Rome ; Street Scenes ; theLife of the Common People." (Illustrated).Open Air Band Concert on the University Quadrangles at 4:30 p.m.Tuesday, July 10.Chapel-Assembly : The Senior Colleges. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Address by President Nathaniel Butler.Open Lecture by Professor Riggs, CongregationHall, Haskell, at 3:30 p.m.Subject : " The Christ of the Fourth Gospel."Open Lecture by Professor Warren, Lecture Room,Cobb Hall, at 3:30 p.m.Subject : " Shakespeare's Influence on the FrenchDrama."Open Lecture by Professor Moulton, Kent Theater, at 4:30 p.m.Subject: " Ancient Tragedy as Religious Worship."Sociology Club. Mr. Victor Falkenau, Chairman of the Contractors' Committee, will speakin the Lecture Room, Cobb Hall, at 8:00 p.m.Subject: "Analysis of the Building Trades' Strikewith Conclusions about the Solution."Wednesday, July 11.Open Lecture by Professor Riggs, CongregationHall, Haskell, at 3:30 p.m.Subject : "The raison d'etre of the Group of PaulineEpistles."Open Lecture by Professor Moulton, Kent Theater, at 4:30 p.m.Recital : " Sequel Plays to the Agamemnon."Open Lecture by Dr. Laves, Congregation Hall,Haskell, at 4:30 p.m.Subject: "The Advance of Astronomy during the1 9th Century." (Illustrated.) r RECORD 147Piano Recital by Frederick Horace Clark in KentTheater at 8:00 p.m.Thursday, July 12.Chapel- Assembly: The Gradtcate Schools. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Address by Professor Shailer Mathews.Open Lecture by Professor McGiffert, Congregation Hall, Haskell, at 3: 30 p.m.Subject : Primitive Conception of the Church."Open Lecture by Professor Warren, LectureRoom, Cobb Hall, at 3:30 p.m.Subject : " Hugo, Dumas, and Scribe."Open Lecture by Associate Professor CharlesZueblin, Congregation Hall, Haskell, at 4:30p.m.Subject: "Municipal Sociology; Public Works."(Illustrated.)Open Lecture by Professor R. G. Moulton, KentTheater, at 4: 30 p.m.Subject : " Destiny as a Dramatic Motive."Friday, July 13Chapel-Assembly : The Divinity School. Chapel,Cobb Lecture Hall, 10:00 a.m.Address by Professor Shailer Mathews.Open Lecture by Professor Riggs in the Chapel,Cobb Hall, at 3: 30 p.m.Subject : The' Three Great Heresies of the ApostolicAge."Open Lecture by Professor Warren, LectureRoom, Cobb Hall, at 3:30 p.m.Subject : " Dumas fils. The Stage of Today."Open Lecture by Professor R. G. Moulton, KentTheater, at 4:30 p.m.Recital : " The Bacchanal Women of Euripides."Public Reading by Mr. F. M. Blanchard, KentTheater, at 8:00 p.m.Subject : " The Merchant of Venice."Saturday, July 14.Meetings of University Ruling Bodies, HaskellOriental Museum :The Administrative Board of University Affiliations, 8:00 A.M.The Faculty of the Senior Colleges, 10:00A.M.The University Council, 11:30 a.m.Associate Professor Zueblin conducts a visit tothe Drainage Canal on Saturday morning.FIRST CLASS TABLE BOARD — 5635 Lexington av.Good location, only one half block from Quadrangles.The Journals of the University of ChicagoBEING THE DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FOUR MONTHLY,ONE WEEKLY, ONE BI-MONTHLY, THREE QUARTERLY,AND ONE SEMI-QUARTERLY PUBLICATIONS^*^THE BIBLICAL WORLDEdited by President W. R. Harper. A popular illustratedmonthly magazine. 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