University of Chicago WeeklySINGLE COPIES10 CENTS.MERTON ABBEY IN SURREY.CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 3, 1892.BY OSCAR L. TRIGGS.[The art-firm referred to was formed in 1861 by thePre-Raphrelite brothers, Madox Brown, E. Burne-Jones,Rossetti, Webb and Morris, with the intention of design­ing and manufacturing stained-glass windows, mosaics,wall-paper, artistic furniture, and general householddecorations. ]The work of the Morris Manufactory is carried onat the village of Merton Abbey, which is a few milesup the Thames from London, and far enough from thecity that nature still lingers in its environs, and thebirds find room for joyful song. It seems that GilbertNorman, Sheriff of Surrey, built an abbey here in thetwelfth century for canons of the order of St. Augus­tine. King Stephen and Matilda endowed their servicewith rich gifts. In 1236, a parliament was held withinits walls which enacted the "Statutes of Merton,"wherein the nobles answer the priests who sought toshape the civil in accordance with the ecclesiasticalcode: " We will not change the laws of England." Inthis spot, thus early sacred to English liberty, is beingworked out an experiment in industrial production, theprinciples of which, could they be adopted by our fac­tory system, would tend to make our workmen better,freer men.A grey stone mansion, half hidden in trees andshrubbery; stands by the roadside at the edge of thevillage. Behind the house, under the great elms, aregrouped the low and unpretentious buildings of thefactory. From the neighboring gardens comes anodor of grass and rose. The air is tumultuous withthe songs of birds. The crows caw in the far elms.At one side, the slow waters of the Wandel, gatheredhere into a lily-covered pond, are coaxing a mill-wheelgreen with moss lazily to turn. Willows grow alongthe banks of the stream and bend down over it; willowsandsky are reflected from its surface. Over all thereis a sense of sunny summer. It is a scene which tellsof sympathy and loving harmony with nature. Thereis no air of the factory, no clang of machinery, no hasteor distraction. Within the buildings men and womenare at work weaving at looms, dyeing or printingthe silk and woolen cloths, and putting together thepainted windows.In the designing room is Wm. Morris himself. VOL. 1- No.8Half-finished sketches are scattered about the tables,some angel figures evidently by the hand of E. Burne­J ones. Morris is dressed in plain clothes and wears,as usual, a blue flannel shirt. He is short of staturebut robust. The features of his face are large andrugged, but full-blooded, luminous and finely modelled.A sensitive poet's expression is in the eye and lurksabout the mouth beneath the grey beard. His head iscovered with curly grey hair which he brushes backover his forehead with his hand as he leans to his work.One feels in the presence of a strong and vital person­ality who is in love with labor and all the life of theworld.In speech when aroused by his theme, Morris israpid and nervous. For thirty years he has' claimedfor art a place in common labor. He pleads first ofall for simplicity of life. From simplicity of lifewould rise up the longing for beauty and artistic crea­tion, a desire which can only be satisfied hy makingbeauty and art a very part of the labor of every manwho produces. Labor, he ·argues,is but a preparationfor living; it is our very life. And the rewards of labor?-the reward of creation, the wages which God gets.Art comes back most to the ar tist.. Everything madeby man has a form, and that form is either beautifulor ugly. The one gives pleasure; the other is aweariness. Decoration is simply the expression ofman's pleasure in successful labor. And the priceof pleasure ?-simply permission to the workmen toput his own intelligence and enthusiasm into what heis fashioning; simply permission to make his hands setforth his mind and soul. Only then is labor sanc­tified, because then it is in the direction of a man's life.A structure should rise out of the soul. Order ormeaning is the moral quality of structure. Makematter express a meaning and the worker becomes amoral master.For the present industrial system with its machineand machine operators, Morris has no hope. Themachine, the great achievement of the nineteenth cen­tury, which promised to relieve our drudgery, has in­stead increased our burdens. Our wonderful inventionswhich, in the hands of far-seeing men, might be used tominimize the. labor of the many, are used only for theenrichment of the few.2 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.FOOTBALL: A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.Morris, therefore reverts, in his conception of anideal future, to the traditions of labor in operation inthe middle ages, when the human meaning wrapt up inthe term "hand-made" was well known, when thehandicraftsman took pride in his work.By the truest instinct the poet turns thus: When to­day the traveller by some happy chance comes upon thework of that early day, some homely cottage or richerabbey-church built into sweet accord with the familiarnature-he is touched by their human meaning andfilled with an untroubled happiness. However un­equal men were in their social relations as king andcommon folk, the art of that day was free and demo­cratic. All men shared in art. By labor many a manslave in body was freed in soul. And art grew andgrew great until the material world seemed to be heldwith the spirit rule. Then Gothic art came to its end.The life of the Renaissance made all things new; andstrangely, while the difference between Icing and sub­ject has been destroyed, art has become the birthrightof the few.For himself, Morris repeats the conditions of lifeout of which pu�e art can spring. He is, a man beforehe is a poet. He chose to live before he wrote. He,has cultivated body, heart and brain. Whether de­signing or writing, his work is done with evident easeand pleasure. By his' own example Morris calls usback to the human, back to that labor which is highestlife.ESSAY PRIZES.The American Humane Education Society, throughGeorge T. Angell, president, offers .$700 in prizes tostudents of all· American colleges, universities andtheological schools in the United States for essays onthe importance of humane education in all our higher. institutions of learning-the object being to preventcivil and international wars and crimes of violence,and also cruelty to ,the dumb races, upon which man isso dependent. For the first essay $200 is offered; forthe next best $150, also three others of $100, $60 and$40 for the best practical plans of promoting humaneeducation. None of the essays must exceed 6,000words. 'The committee to decide upon the comparativemerits of the essays will be appointed by Hon. W.T� Harris, National Commissioner of Public Educa­tion, Washington,' D. C., Phillips Brooks, D. D., and. William Byrne, D. D., of Boston. Mr. Angell will- send, gratuitously, condensed information on the sub­ject to all who ask for it. The essays must be sent toGeorge T. Angell, 19 Milk street, Boston, on orbefore March 1, 1893; must be signed with fictitiousnames and accompanied by a sealed envelope contain­ing the real name and address of the writer. ARTHUR KAISER.Continued from last week."So that by this means sometimes their necks arebroken, sometimes their backs, sometimes their armes,sometimes their noses gush out with blood, sometimestheir eyes start out, and sometimes hurte in one place,sometimes in another. . For they have the sleightsto meet one betwixt two [goou point, this], to dash himagainst the hart with their elbows, to butt him underthe short ribs with their griped fists and with theirknees to catch bim on the hip and picke him on hisneck with a hundred such murthering devices. Andof her groweth envy, rancour, and malice, and some­times brawling, murther, homicide, great effusion ofblood, as experience daily teacheth."Verilie, verilie, Master Stubbes, thou speakest likeunto an oracle; yea, as one familiar with ye foote-ballgame. Mayhap thou thyself wast once a foote-ballplayer, for surely thou knowest what it is to tackleand to hack. (We call it slugging.) Only a con­verted foot-ball player could speak with such insightand acuteness.However, though there was thus considerablesweeping and' unjust opposition to foot-ball, all themanly men were not dead yet. In 1602, Carew speaksof the game in this frank and hearty manner. Heallows both its good and its bad points:"The play is verilie both rude and rough, yet suchas is not destitute of policies in some sort resemblingthe feats of war. I cannot well resolvewhether I should the more commend this game for itsmanhood and exercise or condemn it for the boister­ousness and harm it begets; for as on the one side itmakes their bodies strong, hard and nimble, and putsa courage into their hearts to meet an enemy, so onthe other part it is accompanied by many dangers,some of which do even fall to the player's share, forthe proof whereof when the hurling is ended you shallsee them retiring home as fr om a pitched battle withbloody pates, bones broken, and out of joint, and suchbusiness as serve to shorten their days. Yet all isgood play and never attorney or coroner troubled forthe matter.". This is certainly a very fair and candid statement,for it is true that foot-ball was in those days compara­ti vely ferocious, and unfortunately the days of " slug­ging " are not entirely ended yet. But surely thesturdy and truthful Carew knew a good thing when hesaw it, and recognized the fine points of foot-ball play­ing as well as its" seamy side."And so have others, and the Stubbeses and the.Elyots and" all the king's horses and theking's men"UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.have not been able to knock out foot-ball from the listof manly sports and pastimes.Very apt and very pleasing are the allusions ofsome of our poets and prose writers to foot-ball as theyknew it. Immortal Shakespeare, who, like the Bible,has said something on about every subject under thesun, in this wise shows that the game was not unknownto him:" Am I so round with you as you with meThat like a football you do spurn me thus?You spurn me hence and he will will spurn me hither;If I last in this service. you must case me in leather."Comedy of Errors, Act ILAgain, in King Lear, Act. 1, Scene IV:Steward. I'll not be strucken, my lord.Kent. Nor tripped neither, you base football player.(Tripping up his heels.)Lear. I thank thee, fellow.In the following lines the more modern poet,Waller, shows he perceived the true" inwardness" offoot-ball :" As when a sort of lusty shepherds tryTheir force at football; care of victoryMakes them salute so rudely breast to breastThat their encounter seems too rough for jest."Best of all are the lines of that sweet and manlysinger, Sir Walter Scott. In the "Lay of the LastMinstrel" occur the following lines:" Some drive the jolly bowl about,With dice and draugths some chase the day,And some with mery shout,In riot, revelry, and rout, .Pursue the football play."On the fifth of December, 1815, a great foot-ballmatch took place at Ettrick Forest, between men fromEttrick and men from Yarrow. One party was backedby the Earl of Home and the other by Sir WalterScott, who was the sheriff of the forest. "The Wiz-ard of the North" wrote two songs for the occasion.The cheery, musical lines quoted at the head of thisarticle are taken from one of them.The ., Spectator, " on a visit to Sir Roger de Cov­erly, saw among other things a foot-ball match, and inclosing his note says: " Having played many a foot­ball match myself, I could have looked longer on thesport, had I not observed a country girL"Among these allusions, I must not forget one bythat quaint and gossipy old diary writer, Pepys, Inhis Memoirs, Vol. I, is the following entry for Jan. 2:"To my Lord Brouncker's by appointment, in thePiazza, Covent Garden: the street full of foot-balls,it being a great frost."Foot ball maintained its popularity in Englandthroughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies, being, however, most flourishing at about 1600. In the beginning of the present century,though still popular in Scotland, it began to decline inEngland and in 1830, Shrove Tuesday, as the " Foot­ball Day," died out, although on the Isle of Purbeckit has continued still to be celebrated. But along in thefifties a revival began, though in a somewhat differentform. In the great schools such as Rugby, Harrow,Eton, and Winchester, foot-ball began to be a very pop­ular game. The kind of game played grew out of theexigencies of the playground. At Rugby the play­ground permitted the old practice of tackling and run­ning with the ball. Indeed, not until 1877, was hack­ing forbidden. Foot-ball at Rugby is familiar to mostreaders through the famous" Tom Brown.' ,. At Har­row and Winchester the foot game prevailed, while atEton there were two games, "At the Wall" and' 'Inthe Field," the latter being a mixture of the Rugbyand the kicking game. The numbers playing on aside in the schools,. says 'Walter Camp in his recent" American Foot-ball," was twenty, but in 1877, atthe request of Scotland, the number was reduced tofifteen.From the. schools revived foot-ball spread to theuni versities and the towns. Both forms of the game,the Rugby and the kicking game, had many adherents.The devotees of the latter form were the first to organ­ize into an association for rules and settlement of dis­putes. In 1863, they formed the Foot-ball Associationand adopted the Cambridge rules. The players of theRugby game, to which number belonged the celebratedBlackheath and Richmond Clubs, did not band togetheruntil 1871, when the Rugby Foot-ball Union wasformed. In 1871, the great international footballmatch took place between Scotland and England ac­cording to Rugby rules; in 1877, a similar one accord­ing to Association regulations. In 1873-74, the greatCambridge-Oxford contest took place.Besides in England and Scotland, foot-ball hastaken a strong hold in Australia, New Zealand, Can­ada, and the United States. In New Zealand the Rug­by game is played, while in Australia the game playeddiffers from both the Rugby and the Association games.In our own country foot-ball became known during thelast quarter of a century. The Association game hasbeen played here extensively, but rather by nativeEnglishmen than by Americans. The American Inter­collegiate game is deri ved from the Rugby Union rulesof 1875, and differs considerably from the Rugby gameof to-day. In 1876, the first game under Rugby ruleswas played by American colleges at New Haven. In1884, the American Intercollegiate Foot-ball Associa­tion, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Wes1eyan,and University of Pennsylvania, was formed. Sincethen, foot-ball has been growing in popularity in nearly. all the American colle�es and jn general interest.4 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY ..THE CHEATED DEVIL.QUATRAINS.THE LILY'S LOST LOVE."I could love you, if I chose!"Said the blushing, rich, red rose,­"But I won't-my heart's content­Lily fair, you've not a cent.". POESY'S PARADOX.Our poet sang of sunrise,With its colors gold and red;But at 9 a. m, we found himStill sleeping sound in bed.THE PLACE �OR HIM.A college man to Hades went,­Cast out from joys of Heaven,­He was too tough to roast or burn,So they put him on their "leoen,"I A STARTER."May I kiss you once? " he said."Why once?" she asked, then blushed quite red;"'Tis merely a starter-for some one has said­'That others will follow, when once they are ledl'"HOW IT HAPPENED.Till midnight past he studied hardFor an exam. at eight next day;And then in bed till ten o'clock,He slept his chance away.C. s. P.THE SONG OF THE SLOT.There's a balm for every sorrow,1"here's some joy in every lotWhen a nickel you can borrowAnd drop it in the slot.When you feel yourself forsaken,When your friends you count as naughtAnd you find your gum is taken,Drop a nickel in the slot.1£ your false friends, friendship feigning,Depress you with the thoughtThat you in weight are gaining,Drop a nickel in the slot.Upon journeying, if the partingIs with vague misgiving fraught,Insure your life on starting,Drop a nickel in the slot.When you're weary with life's battleAnd the sun beats fierce and hot,At the tank a nickel rattle,Drop it softly in the slot.There's no balm for any sorrow,No joy can hidden lurkWhen the nickel that you borrowWill not make the engine work. (FROM THE GERMAN.)The Arabs had plowed and harrowed their field,When up came the Devil to the top-" Over half of the world the scepter I wield,I expect my share from your crop."But an Arab's cunning is known to renown,They told him, "The lower half's thine."The Devil, however, will never stay down;"N 0," cried he, "the top shall be mine."So agreed; he goes home; they sow turnips at once;And now when the harvest is here,The Arabs take roots, the Plutonian princeGets nothing but leaves for his cheer.When time again led ill another year,The Devil in anger did cry," The lower half this time for me, d'ye hear? "The Arabs sowed barley and rye.As soon as the days of the harvest arriveThe Arabs take in all the grain;The Devil on straw and on stubble must thrive,Only fuel for fires he doth gain.THE FRESHMAN CLASS RECEPTION.The first class of the first university of the West madeits first bow in society last Saturday evening, and, tojudge from the number present and th.e enthusiasm shownduring the evening's entertainment, the event was a greatsuccess.Over one hundred young women and men were gatheredin the pretty parlors of the Hotel Beatrice when the festivi­ties began at eight o'clock, and many more came in laterin the evening. The reception committee, including MissBell, Miss Butler, �Miss Roche, Mrs. Clark, and MissPurcell, together with Mr. Stone, Mr. Hewitt and Mr.Pike, received and introduced the guests to the hostess,Miss rralbot.The parlors were decorated with the 'varsity color,and looked very inviting under the glare of the multitudeof flashing lights that made the" old gold" shine out inreal and beautiful brilliancy. There were nearly fouryoung men to one young woman, but this only tended tomake the evening the more enjoyable-for the youngwomen.After the introductory ceremonies bad been completed,the company filed upstairs, where for three ho urs theymade merry with many amusing social games. Lightrefreshments were then served.Among those present were: Misses Hall, Goodhue,Brown, Roche, Messick, Williston, Hulbart, Haft, Eliza­beth Butler, Chandler, Bell and Purcell. Messrs. Ray­croft, Chase, McGillivray, Dudley, Holloway, Keen,Atwood, Walker, Peabody, Bowers, Hamelt, Todd,Friedman, Wheeler, Smith, Nichols, Cameron, Sloan,Mitchell and McClintock.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.--Professor T. C. Chamberlin reviews G. FrederickWright's Mcm (mel the Glacial Period III the Dial forNovember 16.-Mr. Oscar L. Triggs, Docent in English, has anarticle on "Robert Browning, the Poet of Democracy,"in the October number of Poet .Lore.-D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, have just publishedShelley's "Prometheus Unbound," edited by Vida D.Scudder, professor of English in Wellesley College.--The library of the English department already con­tains several of the leading literary weeklies, such as TheDial, The Critic, Poet L01°e, Shakespeariana; and TheLitercm) WOl·lcl.--Mark Twain has settled down for the winter, withhis family, at Florence Italy. He has just sent a stoi:YA HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY. By B. C. Burt, A. to the CentUJ"Y, which will appear in the January number.M. 2 vols., .crown 8vo. Chicago: A. C. McClurg It is called "'"rhe £1,000,000 Bank Note."& Co. $4.00. -Messrs. A. C. MC,Clurg & Co. have published a newThe work covers the history of modern philosophy edition of Miss Harriet Monroe's "Valeria, and Otherfrom the, renaissance to the present. A brief biography Poems," in which is contained the Columbian Ode read atof each author is given, followed by a list of his principle the dedicatory ceremonies of the World's Columbianworks 'and a summary of his philosophy and of his rela- 'Exposition.tion to the history of modern thought. The two volumes -Messrs. W. R. J enkins, Editeur et Libraireare very neat, and cover the period concisely and com- Francais, No. 851 Sixth avenue, New York, has issued apletel�. The style is clear. French volume interesting to French scholars. It isentitled, "Les Prosateurs Franyais du XIXme. 'Siecle,"with biographical notices of the writers by C. Fontaine,B. L., Litt. D.--Swan Sonnenschein & Co., of London, will publishbefore Christmas a volume on Bl"OwJdng and WMtmanas Poets of. Democracy, by Mr. Oscar L. Triggs, of theDepartment of English in the University. The bookwill appear in the well known Dilettante series, whichalready includes, among others, Browning's Message toHis Time, by Ed ward Berdoe, and Goethe, by OscarBrowning.-Among the recent books published by members ofthe University we note The Sleeping Princess, California,by Alice Edwards Pratt. Miss Pratt is a graduatestudent ill the d epart.ment of English. The book is anillustrated poem written in California. The illustrationsare from pictures taken by the author herself. The vol­ume is valuable both from its contents and as a specimenof book-making, and especially of California book-making.The publisher is William Doxey, of San Francisco.-The Department of Political Economy in the Univer­sity of Chicago wi ll issue about Dec. 15 the first number ofThe Journal of Political Economy. It will appeal'quarterly, at $3.00 a year. The contributors comprisemany of the leading economists of Europe and America,such as F. A. Walker, E. Benj. Andrews, Emile Levas­seur, Gustav Cohn, Max Wirth, and others. ProfessorJ. Laurence Laughlin will be editor-in-chief, and writersof all shades of economic belief will be welcomed to itspages. The Journal will be published by the UniversityPress of Chicago.BOOK NOTICES.THE NATURE AND ELEMENTS Ol!� POETRY. By EdmundClarence Stedman. 1 vol. crown 8vo. Boston:Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1. 50.This volume contains' the substance of the valuableseries of lectures delivered by Mr. Stedman at Johns Hop­kins University in 1890. It reviews compactly the greatpoetry, of the world, ancient and modern; defines the na­ture of poetry; considers its various forms, and discussesBeauty, Imagination, Truth, Passion, Genius as constitu­ents of poetry. Taken with Mr. Stedman's "VictorianPoets" and" Poets of America," it forms a complete andmasterly treatment of poetic literature. It is a volumewhich every student of literature should possess.CHILDREN OF THE POOR. By Jacob A. Riis, author of" How the Other Half Lives." Illustrated. Square12mo. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50.Mr. 'Riis has given in this volume an explicit,straightforward statement of facts, and personal impres­sions. The book points out great social dangers, but italso points out the remedies. Pity for the condition ofthe children of the poor must surely be aroused by thecirculation of this volume.LITERARY CHAT.The University of Onicago is already a great book­center. More than seven hundred book-readers and book­lovers are gathered in our community. Such a literary,constituency demands some means of learning and dissem­inating facts of interest concerning its own book-produ­cers. 'The WEEKLY purposes in this column to give tothe students of the University each week a careful esti­mate of a few of the best of the "new books," announce­ments of forthcoming publications, and especially "lite­rary chat" about matters of interest in the book world,and particularly that part of it which concerns the Univer­sity. You may expect to find here items of interest con­cerning the books and magazine articles which membersof the University are publishing; announcements of theUniversity journals, and, in fact, everything of literaryinterest possible to be gathered.-Professor Ernest D. Burton will soon publish anew edition of his Moods and Tenses of New TestamentGreek.Oscar Bolza (Reader, 1888-89)-Associate Pro­fessor of Mathematics, University of Chicago.Henry H. Donaldson (Ph. D., 1885, Instructorand Associate, 1883-84, 1885-89)-Pl'ofessor of Com­parative Neurology, University of Chicago.Frank H. Fowler (Graduate Student, 1890-91)­Fellow in Comparative Philology, University of Chi­cago.Harris Hancock (A. B., 1888)-Assistant in Mathe­matics, University of Chicago.J. Miller Hill (Graduate Student, 1888-92)-Hon­orary Fellow in Greek, University of Chicago.Felix Lengfeld (Fellow, 1887-88, Ph. D., 1888)­Docent in Chemistry, U niversity of Chicago.James A. Lyman (Ph. D., 1892)-Docent inChemistry, University of Chicago. .Franklin P. Mall (Fellow and Assistant, 1886-89)-Professor of Anatomy, University of Chicago ..William D. McClintock (Graduate Student, 1880-82)-Assistant Professor of English Literature andDean of the College of Literature, University or Chi­cago.Arthur K. Rogers (Graduate Student, 1891-92)­Honorary Fellow in New Testament Literature; Uni­versity of Chicago.Edward A. Schneider (Graduate Student, 1885-86)-Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Uni­versity of Chicago.Albion W. Small (Reader, 1888-89, Ph. D., 1889)-Head Professor of Social Science and Dean of theCollege of Literal Art, University of Chicago.Henry N. Stokes (Fellow, 1881--82, Ph. D., 1884)-Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University ofChicago.Harry M. Ullmann (A. B., 1889, Ph. D., 1892)­Honorary Fellow in Chemistry, University of Chicago.T. B. Veblen (Graduate Student, 1881-82)-Fel­low in Political Economy; University of Chicago.Shozaburo Watase (Fellow, 1888-90, Ph. D.,1890)-Reader in Cellular Biology, University ofChicago.William C. Webster (Graduate Student, 1889-90)-Fellow in History, University of Chicago.Charles O. Whitman (Fellow, 1879)-Head Pro­fessor of Biology and Head Professor of Animal Mor­phology, University of Chicago.Robert W. Wood (Graduate Student, 1891-92)­Honorary Fellow in Chemistry, University of Chicago.6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.-The Biblical Wodd, which the University Presswill soon issue, takes up the work of The Old and NewTestament Scudent, which has passed into the possessionof the University of Chicago. It is no large claim toassert that the former journal was useful in the cause ofBible study. The proof of this is shown by the Student'scirculation-large in point of numbers, wide in the terri­tory whence its readers came, and the influences goingout from it to stimulate and improve the study of theBible. With its successor the same general aim will bepursued, the same general policy followed-yet a policyand an aim made more effective by larger facilities andwider opportunities. The editorial management is inthe hands of the following gentlemen of the Biblicaland related faculties in the University of Chicago:William R. Harper, Ph. D., President of the U ni­versity, and Head Professor of Semitic Languages,Managing Editor; Ernest D. Burton, A. B., B. D.,Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis;Ira M. Price, B. D., Ph. D., Associate Professor of theSemitic Languages and Literature; G. S. Goodspeed, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Comparative Religion and.Ancient History; R. F. Harper, Ph. D., AssociateProfessor of the Semitic Languages and Literatures.P. G. Nordell, D. D., Assistant Professor of New Testa­ment Interpretation and Exegesis. The Bibical World ispublished in monthly issues of eighty octavo pages, at asubscription price of $2.00 a year.MR. GLADSTONE ON ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES.We have before us the full text of the remarkableaddress on mediseval universities which Mr. Gladstonerecently delivered at Oxford. The most interesting fea­ture of the oration was the extended and candid com­parison of the two great English universities in respectof the distinction of their graduates. Mr. Gladstone ac­knowledged that, while in mediaeval times Oxford haddecidedly eclipsed her sister seat of learning, yet since theReformation the relative position of the two institutionshas been reversed, and consequently the meed of honormust be awarded on the .whole to Cambridge.-N. Y. Sun.FROM JOHNS HOPKINS.The preliminary register of students of Johns Hop­kins University announces a total enrolment of 513.There are 313 graduate students, including 21 fellows.The colleges and universities represented number 135.Following are the Johns Hopkins men whoreceived appointments to the University of Chicago.Out of a total of 95 recent appointments announcedthere were 21 to the University of Chicago.Edward W. Bemis (Ph. D., 1885)-UniversityExtension Associate Professor of Political Economy,University of Chicago.Adolph Bernhard (A. B. 1889)-Fellow in Chem­istry, University of Chicago. The ladies' gymnasium at Morgan Park has under­gone many improvements and is again ready for occu­pancy. The pleasant weather for out-door exercise duringthe repairs made the depuration very light.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY NOTES.There is to be an informal meeting, a kind of self­reception, of the members of the University College, Satur­day evening, Dec. 10, at the Beatrice, for the purpose ofgetting acquainted with each other by having a generalgood time.. The Biological Club met on Wednesday, Nov. 30, forthe purpose of organizing a Journal Club. This organi­zation will supplement the work of the parent club, and.will meet bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 4 p. m.Four regulations in regard to absences are announced.They are important and should be carefully read by everystudent contemplating a "cut."Rev. J. R. Gow, pastor of the First Baptist Churchin Hyde Park, spoke to the students in chapel Wednes­day. His address was a strong protest against the so­called" business necessities" of fin cle siecle existence.The nucleus of a university band gathered in thechapel Wednesday evening.The Drexels and Anti-Drexels met on the foot-ballfield last Thursday. The teams lined up:Drexel. Position. Anti-Drexel.Keith Left end � __ Keene .. Barnes .. Left tackle Speer.Whitson Left guard Burks.Bowers Center Loeb.Axelson Right guard Campbell.Lanning Right tackle Tait.Hewitt Righ tend Pike.Atwood Right half , Heil.Bliss Left half Holloway.rrodd Quarter-back Moran.Nichols Full-back Shaw.Umpire, Raycroft. Referee, McGillivray. Score,10-10.At chapel service Thursday a letter of condolence tothe parents of the late T. H. Cunningham was read andapproved.The Political Science and History Club met Wednes­day evening. Prof. Lawrence, by proxy of Mr. Shepard­son, and Mr. Seares were the principal speakers. " TheProbable Program of the Liberal Party in the CorningParliament" was under discussion.Mr. Wyant was elected captain of the foot.ball teamThursday evening at a meeting of the eleven in Mr.Stagg's rooms at the Vendome. After the election a sup­. per was served. Whether the aforesaid supper was "on"Mr. Stagg or Mr. Wyant is not a matter of news.Mr. James Peabody, editor of the Railroad Review,addressed the Political Economy Club 'I'hursday eveningon "The Necessity of the Government Control of thePooling of Railway Earnings." Mr. Peabody'S remarkshad the weight of his special knowledge of this subject,and a unanimous vote of thanks was tendered him by the, Club. 7EXCHANGES.The opening of the Chicago University is decidedlythe most talked-of subject in the college world to-day.This institution has a large endowment, with a presi­dent and faculty picked from all the higher institutionsof learning in this country, who are men of the dayand men who have determined that the Chicago Uni­versity shall head the list of the educational institu­tions of the United States. Whether or not this willbe the case, time alone can show.-The Journal, Uni­versity of Alabama.A STARTLING RESEMBLANCE.Mrs. Grubb out-Shylocks ShylockIn a manner quite unique,For she takes from every boarder,A pound of flesh each week.- Brunonian.A-lively dispute is going the rounds of the collegepredS in regard to the amount of reading matter issuedper week. By the measurement taken by the CornellSun, the lJ. of M. Daily and the Sun rank at thehead of the list. -lJ. of M. Daily.There are two of the nine college dailies which theSun has entirely overlooked, the Cardinal and theNews. The Cardinal is printed in type a size smallerthan that of the Sun and averages at least 90 inches ofreading matter. The News is printed in the same sizetype as the Oardinal and averages 100 inches of read­ing matter.- U�iversity News.The University of Chicago recently purchased bycablegram from Berlin, a library of 280,000 volumes,including 200 manuscripts dating from the eighth to. the nineteenth century.-The Oberlin Review." Prithee why these blushes, maiden,Why these cheeks like peaches ripe? "Thus I questioned, thus she answered," From sitting by a hot steam pipe."- Unit, Iowa Oollege.In our opinion, one of the most potent agencies inthe politics of this country is the growing interest thatcollege men are taking in it. In spite of the (to saythe least) undignified thrusts of a certain well-knowncorrespondent of the Cincinnati Oommercial Gazette,the "Massachusetts dudes, wishy washy college pro­fessors and dainty collegians" are becomming an im­portant factor in the politics of our country. Andwhy should not the 5,000 college professors, 90, uoostudents and vast number of alumni, take interest inthe great questions of the day? Does a knowledge ofhistory, science of government and international law,vitiate a man's views on political questions? Doesindependence of character; courtesy to all men and loveof truth make men less patriotic ?-J. H. M. on" 11wOolle�e Man in Polit1:cs," Denmieon Oollegian.THE WEEKLY hereby offers a year's subscription. to the writer of the best university song-wordsonly. Contributions must be in before Feb. 1st, andwill be submitted to competent judges. The song mustbe a university song and not burdened with allusionsthat might make it local to some certain department.We need a university song. We need the univer-sity feeling of fellowship. A university song is a greatcultivator along this line. Let us but make the songsof a university and we care not who makes the laws.There is already considerable verse-making talentamong us. With this, and a lofty idea of the nobilityof the subject, we should soon have a song embodyingall the loyalty and love we already feel for our uni­versity.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.E. M. FOSTER.C. H. GALLION.EDITOR,BUSINESS MANAGER,ASSOCIATE EDITORS:Literary Department,Graduate School, -Divinity School, -Academic College, -ASSISTANT EDITORS:Freshman Class,Sophomore Class,Junior Olass,Political Science, -SUBSCRIPTION AGENT, - ARTHUR W. ALLEN.ARTHUR KAISER.- BRUCE KINNEY.OHARLES SUMNER PIKE.- MISS DEMIA BUTLER.GALEN L. TAIT.A. O. WILKINSON.O. rr"-B. GOODSPEED.- P. B. KOHLSAATSUBSCRIPTION RATE.ONE YEAR, (Three Terms)ONE TERM, $2.00.75Advertising rates made on application.Address all communications toUNIVERSITY OF OHICAGO WEEKLY,144 Monroe Street. Ohicago, Tllinois.Entered as second-class matter at the Post-Office, at Chicag-o, Ill.AND still it comes. And still more it ought tocome. And still more it will come.The University is three-quarters of a million dol­lars better off than when we last went to press. Thedonations now coming, and hereafter to come, are notattracted by the pyrotechnics that played around theinauguration of the' university. The University ofChicago is now receiving money on the basis of actualwork done and promises fulfilled. Every cent hereaf­ter donated is a testimony to the actual present valueof our institution.*-)(- *THE UNIVERSITY students will have next yearspecial privileges not enjoyed by members of anyother like institution. Weare neighbors of theWorld's Fair - and next-door neighbors at that. 'Vecan run over and. borrow a little saleratus or soap withconsummate ease.While there is time to get ready, we ought tothink of every possible way of utilizing our oppor-'tunities. We can be chair-wheelers, guides or ordinarysight-seers. The second suggestion is the best. Whocan compete with the students of the university forthese positions � Weare supposed to be fairly conver­sant with the world in a theoretical way and we haveall the ad vantage of proximity for an actual study ofthe fair in a practical way. This is a thing to thinkof. Besides the good round simoleons which the em­ployment will bring, there will. be the pleasure ofshowing Horatio how few things in heaven or earth hehas wot of. ** -x-WITH THIS issue Mr. C. H. Gallion takes thebusiness management of the WEEKLY. Mr. Gal­lion is a newspaper man from Champaign and theground up. In this editorial announcement of his ac­ceptance let it also be said that there is now more hopefor the W EEKLi-' S regular appearance. The first ofJanuary is approaching and the management havesworn terrible vows that it shall appear on time fromthe first of next year.** -)(-IN CONNECTION with the above it may be saidthat the trouble is in the nature of 1892. It is aleap-year and its characteristics are contagious. Thisis a 'fair and legitimate explanation. It is not nownecessary for Steward Hammond to try to explain ouraffairs for us. He has called this a tri-weekly, comingout one week and trying to come out the next. Lethim now settle back at ease and turn elsewhere thosesparkling glints that scintillate from his massive domeof thought.** *SHORT STORIES, farces and comedies have madesmall appearance in college journals. They are,nevertheless, literary modes of great value. They areremarkably adapted for the reproduction of real life.They are less heavy than dialectic prose and fully asattracti ve as poetry. The WEEKLY would be glad toopen its columns to more of this work.** *SCARCELY WISE, perhaps, was Mrs. Dixson.when she wrote that charming and forceful articleon libraries for the last issue. One cannot read such apresentation of the value of her department withoutwishing to spend more time in bothering the librarians.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.IN MEMORY OF THE LATE T. H. CUNNINGHAM.Christian, friend and son and brother;Scholar, man: with thee have diedLoves and longings scarce by otherTo be raised and satisfied.We had dreamed from thy progressing,Growth of soul and growth of heart,All mankind should gain a blessingFrom thy character and art.But with early honors blending,With the first fruits of man's love,Carne a no bler One commendingAnd rewarding-God above.As the river rushes onwardBearing mighty ships to sea,When the great sun calls it dawnward.To a higher ministry.'So when lives like thine are givenTo the bettering of man,Oft God calls the soul to heavenTo succeed beyond its plan.Thine is but the old, old story.By the sacred singer taught,Of a spirit bound for glory,Nearer home than it had thought.On the stone they raise above theeLet them write thy life's great dream:'That all men should learn to love theeAnd through thee to Christ esteem.Say not that our dreams are broken,Call not idols ashen heaps,Till we hear Goel's judgments spoken,See the scattered seeds He reaps.-F. P. E., U. OF c.In speaking of the late Timothy H. Cunningham,the Dennison CoZlegictn says:During his course he was honored with the Presi­.dency of Cicero and Calliopean societies and in 1889was made Editor-in-Chief of the Collegian, all ofwhich offices he filled with the same punctilious faith­fulness that characterized his routine work. He was.also assigned tutor's work in the Academy during hislast year. He had hosts of friends. It is safe to saythat Dennison University has had. the training of fewbrighter intellects, and few men have gone from herhalls with more radiant prospects. But this bright.sun has hastened to an early setting. A life of studyhas but prepared him for the tomb. Yesterday thewhole world was open before him; to-day nothing isleft but a fond memory and the thought of what hemight have been. He lived a stainless life and died apeaceful death. One of his favorite quotations, "Sic. transit gloria muruii;" is again illustrated. 9THE OLD AND THE NEW PREACHING.The purpose of preaching is always the same. It is topersuade men to accept Christ as their Saviour, and toobey Him as their Master. The preacher aims to bringthe entire life of his hearers under the power of the Gos­pel. If he is an evangelist, his chief design is to inducemen to begin the Christian life. If he is a pastor, hemust do the evangelist'S work; and, in addition, he musttry to lead on those that have set out to follow Christ,.into all the rich experiences of a matured discipleship.The subject of preaching is also unchangeable. It isalways and everywhere the Gospel. And the Gospel,now as in the days of our Lord on earth, is the good newsthat there is a way of deliverance from the consequencesand the power of sin, and from the love of sinning.But the application of the Gospel is not always thesame. In primitive heathenism, the Kimple fact that theSon of God became incarnate and died for the redemptionof men, is news-the good news that Christ brought.Merely to state this fact in central China, or interiorAfrica, is to preach the Gospel. There are quarters ofevery great city of Christendom where the same thing istrue, but it is not true in our average congregation. Thepeople in the pews know this fact just as well as thepreacher in the pulpit. Most of them have never seen thetime when it was consciously news to them. They grewup into the knowledge of it, and in early childhood, asfar back as memory reaches, held it as a sort of intuition.In fact, it is extremely difficult to make preachinganswer to the definition of proclaiming good news to themin any true sense whatever. The most that can be hopedfor is to keep in such close sympathy with their daily liv­ing as to bring freshly to them Sunday by Sunday theadaptation of the Gospel ·to their latest perplexities andpleasures, sorrows and joys.So of the old and the new preaching of, say a centuryor half a century ago, as compared with to-day. Theobject is the same. The subject is the same. If there isa difference it must be in method.The old, or older, preaching, was primarily theologi­cal. The sermons of the average pastor for ten or twentyyears would make a fairly complete "body of divinity."'I'he new, or newer, preaching is religious. The pastorthat gets the public ear to-day gives the people religioninstead of theology. This is to say, not that he is ignor­ant of theology, or discards it from his study, or banishesit from his pulpit, but that his theology is based on hisown experience, and given out in the form of practicalpiety. He makes quite as full use of the atonement asany of his predecessors have made, but not as a cold doc­trine, the foundation of a massive logical system of Chris­tian philosophy; instead he handles it as a vital, presentfact, on which men that are now sinning and sufferingmay rely for instant help.-[Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D.D.in The Seminary Student .UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Ihe Kent Law School CHAI RS0/ Chicago.Improved Methods, Uniting Theory and Practice.TERMS BEGINSEPTEMBER 15, 1892,JANUARY 5,1893, ANDMARCH 23, 1893.For Circulars, addressMARSHALL D. EWELL, M. D., LL. D., Dean,95 Clark Street, CHICAGO.Richmond Straig-ht Cut No. JCIGARE fTESAre made from the brightest, most delicately flavoredand highest cost GOLD LEAF grown in Virginia.This is the OLD AND ORIGINAL BRAND OF STRAIGHTCUT CIGARETTES. and was brought out by us in theyear 1875. 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