University of Chicago WeeklySINGLE COPIES10 CENTS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 5, 1892.SLUMMING, AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL.CHARLES R. HENDERSON,To visit the haunts of misery, vice and crime out ofmere curiosity is detestable. It reveals a morbid andvile taste and it is an insult and inj ury to those whosepoverty prevents them from resenting the affront. Itseems to be a "fad" with a certain number of idle,luxurious and supercilious members of .society to dragthemselves throngh the haunts of social filth withontany moral or social purpose.But the case is different with people who have bnsi­ness among the poor, who know what they are to seek,and whose purpose is reformation. It did not taintthe lofty spirit of John Howard and the pure soul ofElizabeth Fry to enter these dark abodes of ruin. Itdoes not darken a sunbeam to perform its errand. oflight in a gloomy and naughty world. The elevationof purpose and the previous preparation determinewhether the visits are to be useful or harmful. Thereare not a few to whom such visits are simply a covel'for personal vice..Usually one who goes simply to see and learn candiscover little of value. They learn most who go, not toincrease their own stock of knowledge but to give ablessing. Thoreau sat still in the forest, as a livingcompanion of all that lived, until the' 'small, beadyeyes" twinkled about him, and timid creatures becamebold to play in his presence. The hospital surgeon,the missionary visitor, the agent of the relief society,the sisterly teacher of poverty-smitten children discovermuch where the sensation.seeker finds nothing. News­paper reporters are well equipped, by nature and prac­tice, for sounding these dolorous depths; but they findwhat they are sent to find, and the hopeful featuresoften escape them. The fact is that only a few per­sons have any bnsiness to seek contact with the de­praved members of society, and these need thorough in­struction in sociology and in the results of accurateprevious in vestigations. Such preparation for usefulresearch has seldom been offered by our institutions ofhigher learning.Ministers of the churches, missionaries in cities,benevolent persons of all classes need not only warmhearts and keen sagacity but also discipline in socialscience. Those who have neither warm hearts, com­mon sense nor social science should stay at home, watchtheir diamonds sparkle, play with their poodles and goto the opera to disturb their neighbors by loud gossip. VOL. 1- No.-4AN OUTSIDER ON THE THEOLOGUES.To the Editor of the Weekly:I wish to forestall a certain criticism in advanceby saying that I heartily approve of the noble workfor which the divinity students are preparing them­selves, and I do not use the word approve in its pat­ronizing sense, but with a heart full of sympathy.Nevertheless, there are a few points where anyclass of men are likely to be weak. Achilles wasnot the only one whose mother forgot the heel. Indeed,it is to be suspected that in many cases the hold wasobtained from the other end, and part of the headmissed the magic waters.To see ourselves as others see us was a wish surelynot monopolized by Robbie Burns, and if the theologueshave only a little of that desire, I am sure they willtake no offense at these few thoughts. Remember,my friends, that this is only one man who sees you asyou probably do not see yourselves, I mayor maynot be the index of a general class.First .. You are too clannish. You don't mix enoughwith the rest of us. You claim, perhaps very rightly,that you arc engaged in the noblest calling on earth,and have no time to waste with those whose aims arelow�r. You are enveloped in a sort of ecstatic ideal­ism, or else a pedantic fear that you won't rememberevery Hebrew verb. You take pleasure in the fact thatyour enjoyments are of the internal, nobody-else-has­them type. The pain that possesses you when you seeothers pass by these great things is mixed with a cer­tain complacency at your own beatific permanency �nthem. Have you seen a man indoors near a grate fire,when the cold rain is beating the window pane? Helooks sadly out at some weather-beaten traveler, butwould rather stay near the fire than go into the wet andwalk with the layman. Again, you seem to have acontinual fear that we, who are not of your aims, will .do or say something that your professional dignitymust needs resent. Emerson denounced that sort ofthing as disguised egotism, and it is impossible for atyro at writing like myself to say anything more force­ful.Second. You are very generally more concernedabout your mental and moral condition than your physi­cal. This may be said of others than theological stu-2 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.dents, but I believe it is truer of them than of any otherclass of brain workers. The value of a sound bodyappears small to you in comparison with mental andmoral science, and old testament history. The samespirit that incited the monks of olel to the lashing of theflesh incites you to cut your out-of-door exercise for achapter or two more of some dry work, whose aromawill perfume some future sermons with the odor of ananeesthetic. How much better if that same sermonwere filled-with the tale of God's goodness to his physi­cal world-the one world, by the way, that we have tolive in. The average divinity student acts asif he reallybelieved the compositor intelligent who shifted the lineline" Sermons in stones, and books in the running brooks,"into" Sermons in books, and stones in the 'running brooks."Of what avail shall be your bending over dry tomeswhen you should be out where the animals are andw here the action of physical things around yon lendsyour own body the magnetism of their healthy life.The people who sit in pews to-day must he vitalizedwith the contact of a vital intelligence before they canfeel the truth with even a portion of the force withwhich it fell from His lips. A vitalized intelligencecannot live in a de-vitalized shell. The days when paleerudition held men's attention have passed. They werethe days of the multitude's awe. The power of thepriest in the dark ages was the power of his monopolyof knowledge. It is true that this same priesthood wasthe conservator of the eternal truth, but this peculiarpower over the people was that of his superior educa­tion. "Ve are now enjoying the fruits of the renais.sance and all men read, all men know. Away out inDenver a young theological graduate addressed whathe presumed to be a wild-west church congregation oflot-boomers, mining men and money takers of the mar­ket place. He spoke to them learnedly on the externalevidence of Christianity, and afterwards told one of thedeacons that he had talked over the heads of his au­dience, and he had-although there were twenty-eightcollege graduates holding pews in that church. Theywere there to get help through the ever new tale of thehappy, healthy Christian spirit. They were not thereto review their Christian evidences.Third. You are not cultivating a sympathy for allforms of human life. You are learning how to do thusand so with each order of society. You are, theoreti­cally, aware of the exactcondition of the criminal anddependent classes. You have figured the cause and cure.of crime and poverty down to a mathematical certainty.You are engaged in practicing for a stiff game of chesswith the devil, and you have great preliminary skill inmentally moving :ahont the classes and the masses- kings,queens,lmaves and pawns. Nevertheless, until younot only know, but feel the pangs and p�easures of them- whose teacher and preacher you are to be, you are fight­ing an opponent whose strongest attacks are on thefeelings. The devil will give you ready leave to holdthe mind of a man so long as you leave him the heart.You are learning to get your sermons from libraries andnot from IHe. How much life can you see whensqueezed up in a text-book? Is it any wonder, then,that you sometimes drop out flat? Go out among menand feel with them when they fail and when they suc­ceed, when they smile and when they sorrow, when theyswear and when they pray. Don't try to sympathizeat long range, or feel by proxy of book. The troublewith many of you is with your satisfaction at beingsafe in the arms of the great institution of the church.Its magnificent equipment gives you very naturally anexalted idea of her permanence and security. But thechurch cannot live without the continual revivificationof life. Unless her pastors go out, as did Christ, andfind their institutions in the hearts of men and theirsystem in an obedience to the simple" follow me" ofhim who led his disciples among all peoples, unlessthey. do this, the institution of the church is but askeleton, and the organization of the church a drywater-way. The papal church of Rome had, many oen.turies ago, a marvellous organization and a magnificentinstitutionalism of buildings and ceremonials, yet it allwent down before a man who nailed theses on churchdoors. The spirit, the real life of the church, creptout of the hollow nave, and lodged on the outside ofthe door in plain sight of the street, where real life ebbedto and fro. Is the theological training of to-day driv­ing the real church into the street?A GRADUATE STUDENT.HOW TO LEAD A RELIGIOUS MEETING.We cut from an exchange the following excellentsuggestion, for class-leaders and religious workers ingeneral. The meetings of our different church societiesare too freq�ently run on glittering generalities andnothing is done. This is not saying that secular societies are more careful. They are not. Neither arethey so open to criticism. Every thing is expected ofthem who are connected with church work.The following is general enough to apply to anygathering of Christians:1. Make the meeting an object of prayer.2. Prepare your remarks carefully and thoroughly.3. Do not exhaust the subject but emphasize someparticular point.4. Always have something in reserve.5. Have some one ready to speak first.6. Have a number of good songs ready.7. Close exactly at the appointed time.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.FOR FRATERNITIES.The arguments which may be cited in support of thefraternity in the life of the man after graduation, allapply, and with greater force, to the fraternity in col­lege. For under the very best of circumstances, thelodge in post-college days necessarily conflicts with thehome. It may be questioned why the husband andfather needs factitious ties on which to vent his zentleoemotions, when his family circle invites full confidenceand sway of tender feeling.�ut none of these objections may properly beurgedagamst the college fraternity. The student has in col­lege life no family ties =-no natural bonds of love andfriendship. In a sen se he is Ishmael, and anythingwhich brings more humanizing influence into his life isto be commended.What are some of the arguments in favor of frater­nities in college?First. Brotherhood-and this in its truest sense.The writer feels a warm glow inspire his pen as he thinksof his fraternity brothers-brothers in the ties of honorand integrity, quick to commend, and faithful to re­prove. Instances of brotherly love and devotion crowdinto the mind, but they are easily duplicated in thememory of every student reader, and need not be re­corded.This brotherhood in the fraternities means aid inmoral affairs-pride in a common standard of integrityand an unwillingness to sully that standard. Nor is thisa'rnere sentiment. The writer does not doubt but thatevery fraternity man has at some time in his college liferefused to do some meanness, because of his feeling ofobligation to his fraternity. And when to this esprit ducorps is added the direct personal influence of man overman, of the older over the younger, of the weak overthe strong, we have surely a sufficient reason for the exist­ence of the fraternity.It may be urged that college Y. M. C. A. 's and sim­ilar agencies would perform this work better than thefraternity. The answer is that, while such influencesare invaluable, they are of necessity impersonal and am­�ulatory. There cannot be, in a body of students,in such media, the direct contact and shoulder-rubbinzwhich can be found in the fraternity. 0. Next to the moral benefits of the fraternity stand theintellectual aids. These are manifold.If the contact of mind with mind in the class- roompure and simple is stimulating, it needs no elaborateargument to prove that greater and constant contact inthe fraternity hall is also stimulating. For, whetherthe fraternity carries on work by formal programs ornot, it invariably sees constant mental activity.It is often urged that fraternities kill the various lit- 3erary societies of the college. It might be an interest­ing question as to the right to li ve of most of them'. 'but WIthout entering into this discussion, it can be safe-ly asserted that, where these societies are visrorous and. 0active, the fraternity is an invaluable aid. When eachfraternity represented in the society is especially inter­ested in strengthening its men, the result cannot fail tobe general in the society, and when the society is weakand moribund, the seeds of decay may generally befound in some other cause than the pernicious activityof the fraternity.It must be conceded that there have been instanceswhere the fierce rivalry of fraternities killed off the lit­erary societies. When this is the case, one of two con­ditions is bound to exist. Either the fraternities haveundertaken the work formerly performed by the socie­ties, in which case to the beauties of the fraternitythey have added whatever of merit may exist in thesocieties, and are, for all intents and purposes, the socie­ties under another guise,-or they do not do this work.This latter condition, the writer believes, is abnor­mal, and calls for no particular comment, the in­stances being so rare as to fall without the rule.N or is the social influence of the fraternity to be de­cried. While this phase of college life is too prominentin some fraternities, yet, unless carried to extremes it,cannot be questioned that it is extremely valuable. Itis the honorable boast of the fraternity that it improvesthe social tone of its members.It is sometimes urged that fraternities tend to pro­mote exclusiveness among the students and to fostercliques and jealousies.An honorable exclusiveness is all right. Comrade­ship among congenial spirits is and always will be thebadge of nobility. Every great soul has belonged tosome fellowship club. Why not admit that this naturaldrawing together can be governed by formulated prin­ciples of common purpose and aim as by accident of for­tune?As to cliques and conspiracies in college affairs,whether political or otherwise, it is the belief of thewriter that they arise out of the souls of conspirators;not because they belong to fraternities, or do not, butbecause they naturally love secrecy and darkness ratherthan the open light of day.The writer, having seen both, from the outside andf.rom. within, t�e workings of the fraternity in collegelife, in conclusion would say that if he had to live overhis college days, he would part with any phase of itsooner than with the fraternity life, which he enjoyed.The moral and mental quickening he there recei ved isstill his stimulus. The brothers 0of his fraternity areto-day the friends of his soul. He is a firm believer inthe value of the fraternity in college life.AN OLD COLLEGE MAN.A telegraph office will soon be established at the Uni­versity. N either students. or professors are allowed theuse of the telephone now in the building. It is the exclu­sive property of the administrative officers.The advocates of civil service and free trade have ef­fected a temporary organization. 'I'here are many in theuniversity who lean toward the independent in politics.Prof. Butler reports that the work of the UniversityExtension department is rapidly increasing. T'he amountof student work is greater than ever before. New centresare rapidly being formed, and the whole Northwest isalive.with the idea. Prof. Butler's next course will be atHull House.4 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY NOTES.The lle\vspapers are reporting President Harper'shouse burned and his library destroyed. It was not hishouse, but a house which he owned that suffered. Prof.'Bergeron and family were occupying the bouse at thetime, and had barely time to escape. The fire caughtfrom a barn in the rear and spread rapidly to the house,driven by the high wind then prevailing. Prof. Bergeronhad no insurance on his personal effects, and they "were alldestroyed. Very fortunately all of his books bad not yetarrived, and only part of his �ibrary was destroyed. Theloss on the house was about $3,000. It was insured for$2,000.The rain has played havoc with football practice, justat a time when we heed it. The boys are anxiouslyawaiting the appearance of the gymnasium, where rainydays don't make so much difference.Stagg refereed the match between U. of ..w. and U. ofM. at Madison last Saturday.Twenty-two alumni of Dennison are teaching or study­ing at the University. The faculty is represented byProfessors Castle, Burton, Shepardson, Miller and Price.Among the divinity students are Chas. Paine, C. II. Ta­mer, A. W. Kenyon, J. M. Criswell, U. S. Davis, J ..M.Lockhart, R. P. Smith, Bruce Kinney, JYI. B. Price andD. Shepardson, Jr. In the graduate department are C. T­B. Goodspeed, T. H. Cunningham and F. C. Ewart.On Monday the regular weekly meeting of the BaptistMinisterial association of the city was held in the lectureroom of Cobb hall. Many of the divinity students werein attendance. Dr. Henderson spoke on the religious lifeof the university, and was followed by Drs. Small, North­rup arid Shepardson.According to the electrician the boys are tamperingwith the thermostats regulating the temperature of therooms. If somebody will kindly hang a baby rattle neareach thermostat it may turn the attention of the guiltyones.The prohibitionists are out in full force. They metSaturday at 2 P. M. One minute speeches were madeand several suggestions were favorably considered. Ajoint triangular debate between the advocates of prohibi­tion, high license and local option was under considera­tion. The following committee was appointed on resolu­tions: W. C. McN aul, E. E. Starkweather and L. Wy­ant, of the divinity school; L. D. Milliman, from thegraduate school; R. F. Hoxie and J. F. Hunter, of theuniversity college; R .. E. Brenneman and H. D. Hub­bard, of the academic college. This committee was alsoempowered to secure a good speaker for the meeting atwhich a permanent organization shall be effected.Prof. Ira M. Price, of the Semitic department, deliv­ered at Ann Arbor last Saturday the first of a series oflectures on "The Post-Exilic History of Israel" beforethe Students' Christian association of the U niversi ty ofMichigan. The University News now has a cozy office in the base­ment next the postoffice, with office hours from 10:'30 to12 :30. The News is printing more and better news mat­ter than any college daily in the country.The new yell was tried last Saturday under unfavora­ble conditions. Our boys had no particular finger in thepie. The U niversity of Michigan and Northwestern wereconsuming all the pastry on that occasion. The tempta­tion to spring our little sonnet was admi ttedly great, butshould have been overcome. It was out of place. Let uskeep our surplus vocality until our team plays U. of M. 0)'Northwestern. Then, if noise can win the game, oldgold will float high that day.Many of the boys went to the U. of JYI. and N orth­western game last Saturday. There was a notable sympa­thy among o ur men for Jewett, the U. of JYl. half back.A man who shows the magnanimity of refusing to namehis injurer is surely entitled to sympathy. Jewett onlyerred on the side of generosity. The man who hurt himmay have been animated by that despicable spirit that stillattempts to draw the color line, or perhaps it was merebrutality. Both are equally despicable. Should our teammeet the U. of JYI. let us remember to treat every opponentfrom the same footing.During the meeting of the Freshman class last Fridayafternoon the question of having a class poet was discussedpro and con by the members of the class. All of theyoung ladies present were highly in favor of the plan, butthe young men--who were in the majority-cruellycrushed their hopes by voting in the negative. Such,alas, has been the fate of poets always! During the samemeeting it was decided that in the Freshman class meet­ings hereafter the cap and g�vm should be worn by all themembers present. As this is the first class to take actionon this matter, it has been sarcastically suggested by anenthueiastic and witty co-ed. of '96 that the seniors andother upper-class men might do well now if they followedsuit and adopt the "cap and bells" as a suitable substi­tute.Wednesday evening, Oct.26, Dr. Foster entertained thoseof the Beatrice students who sit at her table. F'riday eveu­iug the Beatrice studcut members of the choir enjoyed herhospitality. Many prophecies for the future happinessUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.and success of the great U. of C. were made in the game ofthe evening-' 'Telegrams."Friday evening, October 27, the Freshman class ofAnn Arbor had its first banquet.Miss Talbot and Mrs. Crow went last week to Wash­ington, D. C., to attend aconvention of women graduatesof fifteen colleges. The organization is one of fifteenyears' growth, and has for that time interested itself in alleducational movements of benefit to women. Miss Talbotstopped a day at Bryn Mawr after she left Washing­ton.Thoughtful Student in Beginning Class (after a longharangue by the professorj vv-Don't know, but it strikesme this is rather 'wearing on the ,green,.' " .Although, so far, no suggestions as to the college yellhave been made by the Beatrice students, for some timepast the more studious' members of the household havebeen brought back from the world of thought to the worldof reality by the cry resounding through the corridors:Be-at-rice!Be-at-rice!Pud-ding! Pud-ding!Be-at-rice!The Republican dub met and adopted a constitutionMonday, Oct. 31st, at 1 :30. Chairman Ellis called themeeting to order, and Secretary De Graff read the minutesof the last meeting. The following officers were elected:President, H. R. Caraway; Vice President, H. C. Elli::;;Secretary, R. A. J. Shaw; Treasurer, H. F. Williams.Independent Political club of the University of Chi­cago, met Monday afternoon, Oct. 31st. The following,officers were elected: President, George B. Waldron;Vice President, T. C. Griswold; Secretary and Treasurer,H. F. Hoxie. The objects of the club, as stated in thereport of the committee on organization, are as follows:(1) To emphasize and promote independence in politicalthought and action. (2) To afford a free and unbiaseddiscussion of such questions as relate to the political well­being of society. (3) To criticise and seek the remedy ofall abuses of political organizations. All who approve orare interested in independent political thought and actionare invited to join.Prof. Henderson's class in the conditions of depend­ency enjoyed a trip through the Horticultural departmentof the W orId's Fair Monday afternoon. Supt. Samuelsdemonstrated the laws governing the propagation ofplants and the securing of variety.Mr. O. S. Triggs, of the Department of English Lit­erature, has the leading article in the October number of"Poetlore," his topic being "Robert Browning as thePoet of Democracy."When the buildings of the old university were torndown the material was bought and used, in part at least,to build a church building at the corner of 38th street and"\Vabash avenue for the 'new Calvary Baptist Church. Itis an interesting coincidence that the first men to occupy 5the new pulpit are members of the new University of Chi­cago-Dr. C. R. Henderson on the 23d, Mr. II. B. Hutch­ins on the 30th, and, we understand, Mr. Butler on nextSunday.A meeting of students in political science was held inProf. Judson's class room on Monday afternoon. It wasdecided to form a political science club, and Prof. Judson,Mr. Perrin and Miss Fox were appointed a committee topropose a plan of organization. The dub seems likely tobegin its history with a, large and enthusiastic member­ship.The Chicago branch of the Society of Biblical Litera­ture and Exegesis met at 2:30 P. M. Oct. 29, ill Parlor44, Grand Pacific Hotel. The various theological schoolsin or near the city, were well represented, as was also theUniversity of Chicago. It was resolved by the gentlemenpresent that au independent biblical society should be organ­ized, and accordingly the "Chicago Society of BiblicalResearch" was formed. In the absence of the presidingofficer President Harpel', of the University, was asked tooccupy the chair. After discussing various articles ofconstitution the meeting adjourned to meet December 10.There were present from the university President Har­per, Prof. Burton, Prof. Goodspeed, Prof. Nordell andMr. Hoot.A member of Prof. Lawrence's International Law classsubmits to the readers of the W EHKLY the following Ori­ental version of our President's political status. It is theheading of a formal communication from the Dey of Al­giers to President Madison, and bears date of 1816: "TQhis Majesty the Emperor of America, its adjacent and de­pendent provinces, coasts and wherever his governmentmay extend. Our noble friend, the support of the kingsof the nation of Jesus, the most glorious amongst theprinces, elected amongst many lords and' nobles, thehappy, the great, the amiable James Madison, Emperor ofAmerica, may his reign be happy and glorious, and hislife long and prosperous;FOOT BALL.Northwestern defeated our 'Varsity eleven in a wet andslippery game on Wednesday. The teams were arrangedas follows:N. W. Position. 'Varsity.o berne Left end Allen.Culver Left tackle Brenneman.Wilson Left guard Smith.Peirce Center Rulkoetter.McCluskey Right guard Knapp.Ehle Right tackle Wyant.Stebbins Right end Chase.Griffith . Quarter-back Raycroft.N oyer; Right half-back Stagg.Keuuico tt . . Left half-back _: McGi1linay,Shepard . __ Full-back _ � __ . __ � Rapp.6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.EDITOR,ASS'T. EDITOR (Divinity School)ASS'T. EDITOR (Freshman Class)BUSINESS MANAGERS, E. M. FOSTER- BRUCE KINNEY.- MISS DEMIA BUTLER.� C. S. PIKE.( P. B. KOHLSAAT.SUBSCRIPTION RATE.ONE YEAR, (Three Terms)ONE TERM,Advertising rates made on application.Address all communications toUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,144 Monroe Street. Chicago, Illinois.Entered as second-class matter at the Post-Office, at Chicago, Ill.THE THEOLOGUES are made the object of a goodnatured invective from a graduate student in thisweek's issue. Some of the points are rather strained,but the evident sincerity of the writer makes the articlea valuable contribution. Now for the other side!,'\--1(- -1(-CABLE CAR INSTINCT is receiving some atten­tion from speculative philosophers in the East.This instinct, they aver, is a sort of extra sense whichproclaims the proximity of a cable or horse car whenthe din of the city makes the danger unseen and �n­heard. The students who have come to the Universityof Chicago from localities where there is less bustleshould carefully culti vate the cable-car instinct.-x­* ,'toTHIS PAPER is not the newspaper of the Univer-sity. It is the students' magazine. It is here toshow you how your thoughts look in print. Thus farvery few of the aforesaid thoughts have made their ap­pearance in manuscript form. The professors are do­ing nobly and readily respond to the editor's feverishcry for "copy.' , They are furnishing articles thatought to be in the great eclectic and literary magazinesof the country. Of course we are glad that they arein the WEEKLY, but we want them to prove an incent­ive to the students to try to do likewise.•x­->� ,'to"N' 0 OTHER student honors," says a UniversityNews editorial of Monday, Oct. 31st, ;, willever be worth as much as those obtained in athletics."Here we take issue. The glory of the foot-ball heroperishes with his disappearance from college life. Ourown good Stagg is an exception, but his fame was wonas much by his manly, christian character as by hisstrength and skill of muscle. It is to be, admitted thathonors obtained in athletics receive ,more evident ap- plause than that which falls to an intellectual victor.The sky rocket has a high old time going up but itcomes down a mere stick. Perhaps the young fellowwho bends over noxious gases and takes honors inchemistry may some day enrich the world with a dis­covery. Then the hard work that gave him that honorin his student days will go into history, while the foot­ball man's glory is buried in the back numbers of somenewspaper.$2.00.75 MEMORY BO OKS IN COLLEGE.(Contributed.)The old timc interest in J ournals and so-calledMemory Books seems to be re-awakening among someof the students. Some who had thought it "too muchtrouble" to write out the accounts of the days as theypassed, have begun to see how easy a thing it is, afterall, to jot down the amusing, interesting, or helpfulevents of the week.Most, if not all, sentimental journals do only harmto the writer, but the writing of outline sketches of theexperiences of college life will develop in the writermethod and a due "sense- of proportion." In afteryears, when this year-so full of interest to the educa­tional world--has become historic, this little record ofthe daily life in a great, new institution will bring backbrightest memories of this life among so many noblesouls." There is naught better than to beWith noble souls in company;There is naught dearer than to wendWith good friends faithful to the end."The Memory Book is a modification of the journalidea. Filled with clippings, photographs, concert-pro­grams, lecture-synopses, and souvenirs of all sorts,with marginal comments by the collector, it is, to many,more interesting than the mere written diary.Both ways are good when planned with thought.Either way-any way-but do let us keep records ofsome sort of these bright days, that, when they areover, the memory of them may bring back as stronglyas possible the spirit of the student life and compan­ionships.THE BAPTIST MINISTERS' CONFERENCE OF CHI­CAGO .At the invitation of the officers of the university theBaptist Ministers' Conference of Chicago held its regularweekly meeting in Cobb Lecture Hall Monday morning,Oct. 31.Rev. Mr. Vosburgh called the meeting to order at1 0 :40� and after a prayer by Dr. Walker and a song theminutes of the previous meeting were read by the secre­tary.Further routine business was d ispcnsed with and thetime given up to some of the professors of the universityUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.who were present. Dr. Henderson first spoke on the re­ligious life of the university. He said he believed thatresults would eminently j ustify the act which made theDivinity School a part of the university. Here men wouldbe taught how to combat every phase of religious errorknown to the world as they could be taught in no otherway.Dr. Small followed with a talk on Christianity and, sociology. He said they were not trying to substitute so­ciology for Christianity, for the greatest text-book in theworld on sociology was the New Testament.Dr.' Nordell then spoke in behalf of the aims of theNew Testament department. .Dean Hulburt made a few remarks about the divinitystudents, and said he believed that the doctrines of thechurch were safe in the hands of such men as would leavethe Divinity School.He was followed by Dr. Johnson, who said that theUniversity of Chicago was not an institution founded torival other Baptist schools, and testified how he hadtalked with representative men of such schools as DeRMoines, Shurtleff, Ottawa and Denison, and in every casethe report had been that these schools had been stimu­lated, and that they had more students instead of fewer.At this point Dr. Harper announced luncheon in thoCommons, and the conference adj ourned.Most of the ministers attended chapel and listened toDr. O. P. Gifford's address.They all expressed themselves as highly pleased withthe present status of the university, and the more thanbri lliant prospects for the future.UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.The University Extension courses so far announcedfor November are as follows:November 7.-Professor Judson, at Union Park.November 7.-Dr. Shepardson, at Newberry Library.November IO.-Prof. Butler, at Hull House.November 12.-Prof. Bensley, at Riverside.November 13.-Prof. Moulton, at Englewood.November 15.-Prof. Moulton, at Detroit.November 15.-Prof. Lawrence, at Kenwood.November 15.-Prof. Starr, at Highland Park.November 16.-Prof. Moulton, at the University.November 18.-Prof. Moulton, at Newberry Library.November 21.-Prof. Bemis, at Plymouth Church.BY PROlf. MOVLTON.At the People's Institute, West Van Buren street neal'Leavitt, on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Prof. RichardMoulton will give a course of six University Extensionlectures on "'l-'he Literary Study of the Bible." Fol­lowing are the subjects and dates of these lectures:November 13.-An Interpretative Recital of the Bookof Job.November 20.-'rhe Three Unities in Biblical Litera­ture.N ovember 27.-An Interpretative Recital of Deuter-onomy.December 4.-Epic Poetry of the Bible.December 11.--Lyric Poetry of the Bible.December 18.--Biblical Literature of Prophecy. 7OFFICE HOURS.The Presi.dent- William R. Harper, room 9, floorA, 1 to 2:30 p. m. (except Tuesdays and Saturdays.)The Examiner-F. F. Abbott, room 8, floor A,9 :30 to 11 :30 a. m.The Recorder-C. R. Henderson, room 8, floor A,2 to 3 p. m.The Registrar-H. B. Grose, room 1, floor A, 9 :30to 12:30 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m.Dean of the Graduate School-s-The President (act- .ing), room 9, floor A, 1 to 2:30 p. m.Dean of the Divinity School-E. B. Hulbert, room3, floor D, 2 to 3 p. m.Head Dean of the Colleges-H. P. Judson, room4, floor A, 11 :30 a. m. to 12 :30 p. m.Dean in the College of Liberal Arts-A. W.Small, room 4, floor A, 11:30 a. m. to 13:30 p. m.Dean in the College of Literature- W. D. Me­Clintock, room 4, floor A, 11 :30 a. m. to 12 :30 p.m.Dean in the College of Science-To C. Chamber­lin, room 4, floor A, 9 :30 to 10 :30 a. m.Dean (of Women) in the Graduate School and theColleges-Alice Freeman Palmer, room 4, floor A,10 :30 a. m. to 12 :30 p. m.Dead (of Women) in the University Colleges­Marion Talbot 10 :30 to 11 :30 a. m.Director of University Extension-George Hen­derson, room 5, floor A, 2 toSecretary of Lecture-Study-e-N. Butler, jr., room5, floor A, 11 a. m. to 12 m.Secretary of Correspondence-O. J. Thatcher,room 5, floor A, 11:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m.Secretary of Class Work and Examination-C. N.Zeublin, room 5, floor A, 10 to 11 a. m.Secretary of Library and Publication - F .. W.Shepardson, room 5, floor A, 9 to 10 a. m.Secretary of District Organization and Training-E. W. Bemis, room 5, floor A, 3 to 4 p. m.Director of University Press-room 3, floor A, 9to 11 a. m. and 2 to 5 p. m.The Steward-To M. Hammond, room 1, floor A,8:30 a. m. to 12 m.The U n iversi ty Press will soon begin active operations.Several periodicals will be put out from its management.Among these are the Univers'ity Extension TVodd; TheBiblical World, which supplants the Old and.Neu: TestamentSt?lclent)· a journal of political science; a journal of polit­ical economy; a journal of geology; and a journal ofastronomy. This latter publication will be an importantappearance in scientific circles on account of the univer­sity's future possession of the largest refractory lens andthe best laboratorial equipment of any government or edu­cational institution in the world.8 UNIVERSiTY. 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