University of Chicago WeeklySingle Copies10 Cents. VOL. I-No.-3oCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ]UN-E-ro, 1893.ALONG THE WAY. (.BY N ]EN:-IETTE CARPENTER.Down from the mountain's rugged height,A brook comes dancing in delight.Exultingly it seems to sayTo foam-flecked boulders in its way"A voice has called me to the sea.Don't hinder me! Don't hinder me!" Past rock-strewn banks and mesas brightWith poppies' silken petals white'Twixt sloping hills to sun-parched plainThat calls the distant clouds in vainThe stream runs singing of the sea,"He's calling me! He's calling me!"Now other brooklets dance to meetThe mountain stream, and voices sweetAre mingled in a murmur low,As through the level lands they flowAnd in the strain yet sings the rill"He's calling still. He's calling still."The brooklet's song is hushed at lastAmid the ocean's mighty roar,And not a wave lifts higher crestThan wave had lifted crest before. But in the shadowy mountain glenThe hare-bell swings its dainty flowerAnd feeble steps g r ow strong again.To speak the sparkling streamlet's power.Dull pebbles borrow radiant hue,The aspen claps its hands in glee,Parched lands spring into verdure newBecause the brook danced to the sea.THE DRAMA AND LIFE.BY PROF. CHARLES M. MOSS.THE FUNCTION of the drama among the Greekswas to educate. This was preeminently trueof tragedy, in which there passed before the peoplean august and impressive representation of their civiland religious institutions, and of their ancient heroesand gods. It was also true of comedy, grotesque asit was, and ofttimes objectionable from our ethicalstandpaint; for it was given in a place sacred to agod, and its purpose was to applaud the worthy andlash the unworthy. The subject of tragedy made thestage to the Athenians what the· pulpit is to us.The pulpit is, indeed, the lineal descendant of theancient stage.These limitations were soon outgrown, and for rea­sons that appear plain enough if one considers its'real relations to life itself. Edmond Scherer says, inone of his beautiful essays upon English literature,that every great advance, either in literature, art, orinvention, soon exhausts itself, because it is ransack­ed by a multitude of inferior workmen, who traversethe new field, not to create, but merely to thrive onthe genius of another. The degeneracy of the Greekand the pitiful weakness of the Latin drama are due tothis cause in large part. The former fell, it is true, with the decline of everything else. And it abettedthe decline also. The latter had no spontaneity.Both soon fell to raking over the old fires in hope offinding here and there some sparks still burning, andthe very effort to do this put out what light therewas.The deterioration of the ancient drama encour­aged men to turn from a fruitless field to human lifeitself for material and inspiration. It was found inabundance in the human heart and in those outwardforms which the spirit of men creates in order to giveitself room for exercise. The drama has never out­grown its ancient forms of tragedy and comedy; butit outgrew its old swaddling bands and entered alimitless field. Authority may need to be rebuked.vice made odious, folly made distasteful, and comedyundertakes the task. Righteousness needs to be vin­dicated, and tragedy shows how human endeavormay lead to punishment even when trying to avoid it,though it does not do this in furtherance of any theological scheme, but as a natural outcome of thosemoral circumstances which weave us all in theirbonds. Or, again, the lighter and more playful ele­ment. in life may call for representation, as the meanssinuous path. Goethe makes Faust sound the depthsof human life, only to find that doubt is baleful andfaith health giving. But it would be hard to discoverwhat the underlying principle is in most dramas thatare written. But this is not, we repeat, because hu­man life has been exhausted by the playwright.The whole field of life, it was said, is theoretic­ally at the command of the stage. But a counter­current meets us here as everywhere in our multiplexlife. An enlightened mind and a thoughtful ethicsstep in and demand a hearing. The former will notbe content with inanities, and the field receives itsfirst subtraction. The latter interferes by sayingwhat may be considered a proper subject for treat­ment shall be conducted. It says that profanityand baseness shall not be represented, except in theslightest way, and then only to be sacrificed, andthat indecency shall not be presented at all. A sec­ond limitation is thus made.N ow. if the stage could be kept within thesebounds-as it is a cause of intense regret that itcannot--it would b e a useful constructive agency,showing us in its vivid way how righteousness and�rror meet their appropriate rewards, how the graceof content is cultivated, and aiding men to re la x thestrain of life's pestering cares. Stimulation and res­traint to individuals and communities would be fur­nished, as has been done in special cases through alltime, as when Aristophanes applauded the old waysat Athens, or lashed the demagogue Cleon; when theFrench drama played so important a part in publicmovements; when Shakespeare gave us the delighof "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and the historic­al tragedies.But when the descent begins, the drama appearsunable to check a rapid and riotous issue. The fielda great dramatist opens is soon infested with marau­ders apparently bent on running all beauty into dis­grace. This, unhappily, has been the history of thedrama from the beginning. The efforts of high-mindedpeople are futile. The emptiness, the lowness, andlewdness of the drama is not a modern peculiarity.The causes doubtless exis ts in the soul of a demoral­ized humanity, and in that tendency to deteriorationwhich is noticed in the forms of every religious faiththat has arisen. Not even the worship of God is ex­empt from this destruction. It is a cause of profoundregret that both play and worship so readily breedself-decay. That a decent ethics should be compelledto pronounce against the dramatic art with suchwholesale dicta, an art that admits of such endlessforms of beauty and enlightenment, presented withall the power there is in scenic representation, ISmost deploroble from every point of view.The inevitable question that arises is, Where isthe line to be drawn between the good and the bad?Must all be eschewed because some is bad? Is aweak drama an incident of life, or is it the outcome4 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO vVEEKL Y.of whiling away a vacant hour, or a respite from thetension of life. And so on. Whatever interests 011e'slife, either in itself or another, or in the world atlarge, becomes a legitimate subject for treatment onthe stage, when the question is viewed in its largestaspect.The range of the dramatic in men's lives is hardlyappreciated. Whenever one repeats what he himselfor another has said, thought, or done, or might say,think, or do, he is acting a part, as we say. Notthat the notion of the stage preceded the familiar ac­tion of common life, or that it has a prescriptiveright to the actor's business. So one hardly noticesthe continual play of mimicry, pantomime, gesture,and grimace in the daily round of life. It is alldramatic. And it is found as much among savagetribes as among civilized men; indeed, it is constant­ly seen among the animals themselves. What is ahouse-cat doing but "acting" when it leaps into thefluffy snow, catches up a little in its paws, tosses itabout, and goes through all the antics of a splendidcatch of an unlucky mouse? Contact with life as wefind it calls into exercise this re-presentation. It isnot something fictitious, but intensely real. Its ap­plication to all, even the minutest items of life, tellsthe story of something deeper than a fictitious crav­ing. Is it not found in the forms of worship? Inthe spectacular features of certain faiths? The hide­ous dance of the medicine man? The administrationof church sacraments? In the j!ageantry that accom­panies induction into civil office, or the exit from it?The drama, therefore, finds an abundant, and, fromthe theoretical standpoint. an unlimited field for cul­tiv:ation. It merely remains for it to find out its highpriests, and have them do its great, its enduring work.Such lEschylus did for Athens, Schiller for Germany,Moliere for France, Shakespeare for England, and soon. And yet it is incredible that even their plum­mets sounded the full depth of human, life, or thatthey touched all points in the vast ccean of itsthrobbing, edJying, surging tides. But where, justnow, are high priests to be found? The process ofrefining and grubbing and attenuating is upon us.We do not cast reproach upon all this effort, becausesome of it is praiseworthy; but its tendency is to­ward the fringes of life, not its core. As this degen­eration goes on, the descent is from a noble and pro­found apprehension of those laws under which therace is doing its appointed work, is being drawn to­ward its destined goal, and is perfecting itself in theenduring elements of single and collective life, to amore and more trifling representation of scenes andwords from which the imperishable element is forgot­ten, or purposely suppressed. When Shakespearevisits retribution upon his characters, it is in con­formity with the eternal principles of justice, workingthemselves out before our eyes, or in occult processeswhich are not less j list and certain because of theirUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.of the life we live and the spiritual insight we do not Grand Pacific, and there for a time the substantialshave? The latter certainly is a legitimate inference,at present. If supposedly respectable people in ourchief city, in order to waste the hours between elevenand three at night, during which life appears barrenof any use, must erect for their surfeit a theater onwhich representations are made that a secular paper,never religious in its tone, declares unfit to be given,we may justly say that life has lost its significance inno small measure. Nor is this the only indication ofour day that such is the case. What, then, shall thecommon people do? "'\ Vhat has anyone to offer them?Nothing, except a stage whose power is gone, andwhose gift is demoralization. We sometimes wonderwhether, in some quarters, at least, our spirit is dif­ferent from that which saw the gladiators die un­moved, and that still cheers the bull-fight In Madrid,or the brute fight rn New Orleans.For every consideration urged, and for many others,the only fit words at this point are those of a friendat the burial of a friend, "It is too bad, too bad."The Weekly Admitted to the Western College PressAssocia tionThe editors of about twenty college papers metin the University Hotel, on Congress street, last Sat­urday, for the Third Annual Meeting of the WesternCollege Press Association.They were a company of exceptionally bright stu­dents, as might well be expected, .and together theymade a very representative company. A few minor mat­ters of business were disposed of first. The treasurer'sreport showed the Association not only solvent, butwith thirty-six cents of assets.Possibly the most important and interesting mat­ter to us was the application of the WEEKLY for rnern­bership.. Our brother editors treated us very wellindeed, and voted us in without an audible murmurof disapproval.The time of the morning session was largely occu­pied with the discussion of the system of rotation ofthe officers. This plan was finally thought undesira­ble, and a committee was appointed to consider therotation of the representatives of papers and toasts.Officers were then elected for the coming year.These were not designated as individuals, but aspapers, the combined editorial force of the respectivepapers exercising the duties of the officers. Theresult was:President, the Cardinal, University of Wisconsin;vice president, the Chronici«, Northwestern Universitysecretary and treasurer, the De Pauw Monthly, DePauw University. Executive Committee-The Illini,of Champaign, Ill.; the Pegasus, Eureka, Ill.; theArgus, Madison, Wis.But the best part of the program was to come.At two o'clock the editors sat down to a sumptuousbanquet in one of the beautiful dining halls of the and the creams, cakes, ices and strawberries, crowdedout all recollections of the lack of copy, the mistakesof the printer, the scoops they didn't get, and thetime-honored exchange that tells us that Daniel Web­ster was the edi tor of the first college paper.After the feast, papers' were heard as follows:Mr. M. C. Dougless, of the daily Cardinal, discussed"The College Daily, as a Means of Journalistic Edu­cation;" Mr. E. A. Gilmore, of the De Pauw Rec.ord,read a paper on "Differentiation in Journalism,"and the" Relation of the College Paper to the Col­lege Authorities," was explained by ]\'r. A. H. Mab­ley, Adel/'ert. The papers were excellent, and lis­tened to with interest, and it was much regret­ted that time was too limited to discuss them. Avery enthusiastic talk was made by Sidney J. J oh n­son, of the Northwestern World.Rob. J. Watson filled the chair in the absence ofthe president, and Mr. Kiler, formerly of the II/ini,made an excellent toast master.The next meeting was announced for the last Sat­urday in May, 1894, and the papers and toasts wereassigned. The meeting closed with a health of purecold water, drank to the founder and retiring presi­dent, Mr. Stone, of Detroit. It was a pleasant andsuccessful meeting, such as is calculated to give newinterest to college journalism, not only at home butamong our sister institutions.Literary Notes.The Handbook for Graduate students will appearfrom the press of Ginn & Co. , about June r yth.This handbook will consist of two parts. The firstwill be historical and statistical. The second willcontain, arranged by departments a list of advanceda research courses to be ge given in eleven U niver­sities of the United States, during the academic year1893-94; together with a brief account of the instruc­tors giving them.Among the latest publications of D. Appleton &Co., are "Wandering by Southern. Waters," byEdward Harrison Barker; ":?rinciples of Ethics,Vol. II," by Chas. Darwin; "Handbook to Greekand Latin Palseography," by Edward Maunde Thomp­son, D. C. L.; "Many Inventions," by RudyardKipling; and "History of England and Ireland."The 6radua ting Class.The following will receive degrees at the SummerConvocation, June 24·Minnie F. Babcock, Jesse D. Burks,Antoinette Carey, William S. Gaud,Rizpah M. Gilbert, Alvin C. Halphide,Herman von Holst, Robert F. Hoxie,Louis Bogart J oralman, Herbert Manchester,E. C. Ridpath, William Ruelkoetter,Edward O. Sisson, Edward L. 1 upper,Clarence H . Woods.6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKI.. Y.UNIVERSITY OF CHICI\GO WEEKLY.PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OFTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.EDITORS,. BUSINESS MANAGER,ASSISTANT EDITORS:Alumni,Local,Athletics,Athenzeum.University College,Snell,Morgan Park Academy,Ad vertising Departmen t, H. L. BURRH. C. MURPHYC. H. GALLIONE. A. BUZZELLS. w . JAMESONC. SPIKEH. H. MANCHESTERP. B. KOHLSAATMISS BESSIE M£SSICKF. CURRIER SMITHE. Vif. PEABODYSUBSCRIPTION RATE:ONE YEAR,ONE QUARTER, �2.00·75Office in Basement of Cobb Hall.Office Hours: 10 to II A. M., and I2 M. to I P. M.Advertising Rates made on application.• Address all communications toUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,58th St. and Ellis Ave., Chicago, Illinois.Entered as secon d-cl ass matter at the Post-Office, at Chic ago, Ill.DIVERS and sundry communications have beenaddressed to the Chicago papers from Cham­paIgn, and from graduates of the University of. Illin­OIS 111 this city, criticising in an unfair, not to sayunmanly way, Director Stagg for playing with ourball team. Mr. Stagg's reasons for playing with theteam are well enough k nown jto those who are inter­e.sted, to need no comment. Just with how badgrace it comes from Champaign to keep up this unnec­essary censure is shown by the fact that DirectorHall, hired from one of the Eastern colleges to trainthe University of Illinois foot-ball team last y(;ar,played with the t_eam on its trip West in all the gamesuntil he broke his arm and was compelled to retire,and that too when the team was contesting for thechampionship in the league. Champaign should standaside and let someone else do the criticising.** *THE importance of taking time by the forelock isjust now being realized by every student.Those who have studied hard all year, when the con­ditions were none but favorable for study, now havetheir work well in hand, and can well afford to takea day or two each week to visit Jackson Park, see agame of ball or take a trip around the city when itappears at its best. On the other hand, those who have had their "day off" every week or two in theyear, with -t wen ty-five or thirty cuts credited tothem, now find themselves confronted by the factthat they are behind with their work and will have to"hump" themselves from now until the end of theterm to pass their examinations.** *WE PRINT elsewhere the names of those whowill have the distinction of being the first toreceive degrees from the University of Chicago. Itis an honor of which they may well be proud. Asthey see their alma mater advancing with giant likestrides to a position in the front rank of institutionsof learning, they may point with much satisfaction'to the fact that they were among the very first to rec­ognize in the new institution, one which was soon tobecome one of the very best.** *ON Decoration Day the students of Grant Uni_. versity, Chattanooga, hauled down the starsand stripes and replaced them by the flag of the Con-federacy.South? Is this what education is doing for theIn a college supported as this one is bynorthern benefactors could anything more unthank­ful and disgraceful have occurred? We had sup­posed that the south so fairly beaten in this attemptto secede from the Union had after twenty-sevenyears come to a reasonable view of the situa tion andwas ready again to take the hand of the North andcall their enemies brothers. And such we still be­lieve is generally the case, but we cannot in toostrong terms condemn such action of students whoseadded advantages should have brought them morenearly to a feeling of common interest. We hopethat this unfortunate action on their part will receivesuch severe criticism from the college, world that nosuch thing will ever be attempted again, to threatenthe unity of American educational interests.** *WE CAN not forbear printing the followingextract from a letter received from John C.Hopkins, of Aurora, Ill., one of the alumni of theUniversity: "Please put me on your list and sendme ,the price of two years subscription, and I willprepay the same. I want to hear how the boys aregetting along. It is the only way the' Old Boys' cankeep track of each other." Mr. Hopkins' kind wordsare exceeded only by his liberality, and we hopemany others of the alumni may share the samespirit.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Convention of College Ilepublican Leauae.The following is the report rendered to the U ni-versity Republican Club by their representatives atAnnual Convention of The American College Republi­-can League, held at Louisville, Ky., May I I th,:- To-th e members of the Republican Club of the Uni--vers ity of Chicago.We, the undersigned, duly elected by the mem­-bers of the Republican Club of the University of Chi­,.cago to represent them at the recent meeting of theAmer ican College Republican League, beg to submitthe following report.The regular annual meeting of the American Col­lege Republican League was held in Louisville, Ky -,-on Thursday, May I I, 1893. Among �he colleges:represented were: The University of, Michigan,Missouri, Wisconsin, and California, Leland Stand­-ford Jr., Columbia, Syracuse, Purdue, Knox Center(Ky.) Dickinson, DePauw and others.Previous to the regular meeting, the college men:held a general caucus for the purpose of discussinginformally the work of the League. At this caucusyour delegates found that the organization of the.League was very loose, that its constitution was vaguein stating the aims and methods of League work, andthat, in their opinion it would be necessary to revise-the constitution and reorganize on a new basis before-the League could develop into an organization worthy.of the co-operation and support of students in thegreat colleges and universities of this country.They found, further, that although the majority of.colleg e men present agreed upon nearly all the pro­-posed amendments to the constitution, it was impos­.sible to adopt them without sixty days notice. Yourdelegates therefore felt obliged as representations of.one important part of the student body of a great Uni­versity to take a conservative position. They assuredthe other members of the convention that, as loyalRepublicans and members of a strong Republican.club, they were ready to unite with men of similarviews from other colleges and universities in any wellplanned movement that had for its aim the study ,:nddiscussion of Republican doctrines and the diffusion.of a genuine and healthy interest in practical politicsamong college students; and that they believed therewas a normal and permanent reason for such a move-..ment in the fact that every male student has a futurepolitical duty to perform and that the successful con_.duct of public affairs, especially those of the nation,depend very largely on the political intelligence and.activity of educated men. Respectfully submitted,RICHARD WATERMAN, JR.I -f(The International College, y. M. c. A, Headquarters.The 27,000 students of the colleges of the UnitedStates and Canada members of the Y. M. C. A. arearranging for an International headquarters to belocated in the halls of our own University. Mr. J. E.ReYU91ds, the Chairman of the Special Reception 7Committee will have charge of the Headquarters.We quote the following from a circular letter whichhas been sent to all the universities. and colleges ofEurope, Asia, Africa, and Australia." In our own country we have occasion to givethanks toGod that during the last fifteen years mutuallyhelpful relations have been established between 410colleges and universities, that these relations are nowsustained by the visits and efforts of four universitygraduates giving their whole time to the work, thatstate, national and international conferences have beenheld with great profit to us all, and that a develop­ment of broad, Christian activity and deep spirituallife has been gained by these various agencies.Beliving that many from the universities of theworld will a vail themselves of the occasion of theColumbian Exposition to visit our country, we wishto express the hope that they will seek to becomeacquainted not only with our material conditions, butalso with our religious life and work, and that wemay enjoy, personal intercourse with as many as pos­sible.To this end we desire to announce that all visit­ing students of every country and of whatever religiousopinions will be welcome at the rooms in Cobb Lect­ure Hall of the University of Chicago which havebeen generously placed at our disposal, where it isintended to hold vanous social and religious servicesduring the Exposition. A handbook, containingpractical information of value to strangers, with notesof special interest on university and religious mattersin Chicago and vicinity, will also be issued, which willbe presented to all foreign students on arriving in thecity.A special congress lasting one or two days will beheld at Chicago during the latter part of July, fol­lowing the Universities' congress, at which we 'trustthe universities of the 'world will be largely represented.Boarding house lists and a hand book will hefurnished to all desiring them, and counsel and direc­tion will also be given as may be desired in visitinguniversity settlemen ts and other religious and philan­thropic works in the city. Special committes at Chi­cago and New York will also render general service tovisitrng students. Any communications may beaddressed to J. B. Reynolds, Esq., Cobb LectureHall, corner 58th Street and Ellis Avenue, Chicago,Ill.Trusting that our bonds of Fellowship and mutualhelpfulness may be strengthened, we are, in behalf ofthe Students' Young Men's Christian Association ofthe United States and Canada."CLEVELAND H. DODGE,J. R. MOTT,JAMES B. REYNOLDS,L. D. WISHARD,A. A. STAGG.Cobb-Hall, Univ. of Chicago, Apr. IS, 1893.'83. Eugene Parsons has just issued a secondedition, revised and enlarged, of his monograph onTennyson. It is a pamphlet of about thirty pages,made up of an introductory note giving the titles andreferences to a large number of books and articlesconcerning the poet and his works, followed by anadmirable essay on his life and works, consisting oftwo parts, a biographical sketch of his life, and a crit­ical review of his works, and the whole concludingwith a critique exposing and correcting the numerous- .errors and conflicting statements which the authorfound in his researches for truth so far as it relatedto the poet.Mr. Parsons is not only an enthusiastic admirer,but a thorough student of Tennyson, and has givento the literary world a work of real and lasting value,concise, accurate, and written in charming language,I t should b,e carefully read and thoroughly studied byevery lover of the immortal bard.8 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.The Equipment Fund.The following extract from a letter of Dr. Good­speed's, was recently published in the Standard:" I t is now more than three months since theeffort was begun to raise the general equipment fundof the University. Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, the pres­ident of the board of trustees, subscribed $100;000,conditioned on the raising of $400,000 in addition byMay 1. Soon after the subscription was made, astringency began in monetary affairs, which graduallyintensified until it became a semi-panic. Under theseeire umstances Mr. Ryerson extended the time for meet­ing his conditions to July 1. The business situation,however, did not improve, and the work of securingsub scriptions was difficult and progress slow. Some$70,000, however, were secured 'in spite of the strin­gency of the times, but the outlook was most dis­couraging until Wednesday of last week. That wasa red-letter day in the. history of the University, forit brought a subscription to the fund of $150,000 fromJ oh n D. Rockefeller. Recognizing the very greatim portance of the raising of this fund and the diffi­culty of reaching success within the time fixed, Mr.Rockefeller has most generously come to our reliefwith this munificent subscription. It is given onthe conditions named by Mr. Ryerson. The full sumof $500,000 must be secured, and the work must becompleted by the rirst day of July."$180,000 remains yet to be raised, and it is hopedtha t this may be accomplished by June 26th, whenoccurs the Summer Convocation.Alumni Notes.N OTICE- The date of the Alumni Reunion hasbeen changed from June 22d, as announced, to Fri­day evening, June 23d. The change of date wasdeemed advisable in view of the change of date ofthe Summer Con-vocation of the University, whichwill be held on Monday, the 26th of June. Detailsare being arranged, and will soon be announced.The class of '79 is made up as follows: Five Bap­tist clergymen-Elisha Anderson, pastor Grand Ave­nue Baptist Church, St. Louis; Wm. H. Carmichael,Geneva, Neb.; C. N. Patterson, Whitewater, Wis.;Wm. J. Watson, Malvern, Ia.; S. J. Winegar, SiouxCity, Ia.Six Lawyers-- Jesse F. Church, Springfield, S.Dak.; Fred S. Comstock, I75 Dearborn St., Chi­cago; Edward B. Esher, 84 La Salle sr, Chicago;Charles F. Morey, Hastings, Neb.; Horace G. Par­kins, Havana, Ills.; Homer H. Swaney, Pittsburg,Penn.Two Journalists-Homer J. Carr; Inter Ocean,Chicago; John J. Coon, Flint, Mich.Two Teachers-Florence M. Holbrook, principalForestville school, Chicago; E. B. Meredith, princi­pal Collegiate Institute, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.One Hotel Man--Wm. H. Adams, 924 N. ClarkSt., Chicago. f\.1College Notes.Dartmouth has turned out forty college presidents,200 college professors, sixty members of congress,and twenty-four governors. Among her famous­alumni are Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate.Carter of Yale, has struck out 137 men this sea­son.Greek IS no longer required for admission intoWilliams.Cornell will celebrate its twenty-fifth ann.��.ersaryin October.Exeter held her preliminary tournament last Sat­urday. No records were equalled or broken.The matter of organizing a boating crew is beingdiscussed at the University of Nebraska.The University of Virginia has won the college:championship of the South in base ball.The University of Lepsic is worth nearly $20,000,-000. Harvard, which stands at the head in our owncountry, is worth $10,000,000.The students of Oberlin cleared $1,000 from theirlecture course. The money is to go to the Student'sSociety library.England has ninety-four Universities, and forthese employs 2,723 professors more than we do forour 360 universities.The expenses of the various athletic teams atHarvard last year amounted to $44,680.05.Even an elephant at the World's Fair stole a pailof beer and got drunk. There are great sights i�Chicago just now.-Ex.Bills have beel1 sent to every subscriber who hasnot paid up for the WEEKLY for the entire year. Thebusiness manager will be in the WEEKLY office everyday from 12 to 1 to receipt for subscriptions of thosewho do not wish to settle by mail,UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO \VEEKL Y.BASE BALLUniversity of Chicago. 14; Lake Forest University. 8.It was a game not to be dignified by the noblename of base ball that was played at Lake Forestlast Wednesday.The crowd of Varsity students who accompaniedthe home team, and who carried huge bunches ofnature's fairest dandelions with which to strew thepath of the gallant and victorions Chicagoans,returned in the gloaming heartbroken and dandeli­.oriless. Victory-noble orange-colored bird--perchedupon our brow, it is true, but it took a large amountof coaxing to make her do it. For the first fewinnings she dug her claws deep into the freshmanlike.scalps of the the festive country collegians, and.seerned loath to leave her noble stamping ground.r\.1CAPTAIN A. A, STAGG.I t was only after we had torn a lot of her feath­ers ou t in the shape of base hits, wild throws andrank muffs, that she consented to listen to our over­tures of peace.In the eighth inning the cold blooded Academianwho played short-stop for the Lake Forest aggrega­tion, drove several wild' balls into her noble breast,and the poor abused creature, shrieking loudly, flewto the friendly arms of the happy Chicagoans.We need publish no detailed account of the game.It is to be read in the error column and the sad looksof those who saw the gam�.· The score-was 14 to 8.University of Chicago 6; University of Illinois O.We are now proud of Mr. Stagg and his under­graduate pupils. We have warmed our cold shoul­der and now welcome the brave ball players to ourhearts and homes. Life is once more dear to us andthe sweet birds twitter sounds pleasant to our ears.Stagg's pitching was magnificent and the able sup­.port afforded him by Nichols and the fielders won 9the admiration of the large crowd of spectators. Forthe first time our team played with a snap and vimthat did them credit. But two errors were made,both wild throws, and they were not costly. Vaug­han's work at third was decidedly better than that ofanyone who has played the position since the redoubt­able Gale suffered his unfortunate accident.Nichols caught a fine game and batted well. Ingeneral, however, the team batted poorly, Webster,Nichols and Stagg being the only men to get hits.Frederickson picked out McGilivray and succeded indriving the ball into his sine twice,' Mac scoring thelast time. The story of the game is an interestingone.Chicago scored two in the first, two in the fourth,and two again in the sixth. The first two came inon a home run drive over the center field fence byStagg, a two-base hit by Nichols, an error by Fred­erickson, and a sacricfice by Prescott. In the fourthMcGil lrvray was hit by a pitched ball, but was forcedout at second on Webster's fly to Frederickson,which the youthful pitcher muffed, handling the ballafter it had found terra firma. A bad play on thepart of Haskell and Carniban in looking after Vaug­han's grounder and a single by Stagg scored Web­ster and Vaughan. McGillivray was again hit by apitched ball in the sixth and this, .assisted by Web­ster's hit and Roysden's overthrow of third base,scored the last two.In the two innings, the seventh and ninth) didthe Illinois men got around as far as' third base.In the seventh ·Herman got a base on balls, stolesecond, and went to third on Nichols' overthrow tocatch him at second. In the ninth Jasper got abase on balls and scampered to third on Huff'stwo-base drive.A delegation of twenty-five students accompaniedIllinois and sadly looked upon the downfall of theirpets.Nearly five hundred people were present, thegreater number of the undergraduates having turnedout. The cheer that went up at the close of Illi­nois half of the ninth, when the stnfe of ,the battlewas over, was deafening. The Orange waves oncemore!We delight in the score:CHICAGO. 1'. b. p. a .. e ILLINOIS. r. b. p. a. e.Stagg, p .... ..... 1 3 I, 8 c Roysden, rf. ....... 0 0 0 INichols, C ......... I I 10 I Fulton, sb .......... o 0 0Adkinson, 2b ...... 0 0 2 o Jasper, 3b ......... 0 0 0Prescott, r b ....... 0 0 13 I o Huff, c ........ ' ... 0 I 10 0Conover, If ........ 0 0 0 o Haskell, ss ........ 0 0 0M'Gilivery ........ I 0 0 0 0 Herman, If ........ 0 0 0 0Webster, ss .. ..... 2 0 3 o Scott. cf ........... 0 0 2 0 0Vaugh am, ,b ...... I I Frederickson, p ... 0 0 3 2Pike, cf ........ .. 0 0 0 o Carnahan, r b ...... 0 0 0Totals .......... 6 6 27 16 2 Totals ......... 0 I 24 10*-6���:�it�""::.::·.:::::::::::::·::::� 0 0I � 0 � *-6U. of I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0B"sehits o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I-IEarned runs-Chicago, 2. Home run-Stagg. Two base hits-Nichols,Huff. Sacrifice hits-Chicago, 2; Il li noi s, 3. St:uck .Out-By St�gg. 7; byFrederickson. g. Passed ball-Nlc�ols, I. Wild pit ch-c-Frederickso n. 1.Hit by pitched ball-Prescott, McGlhvray (2), Scott. Umpir e=-Templeron .10 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO \VEEKL Y.University Notes.Among the numerous World's congresses to beheld in Chicago this year, will be the congress ofUniversity students, beginning July 17· A greatmany noted questions of vital importance to studentswill be discussed: There is nothing to prevent theU niversity of Chicago from taking a prominent andactive part in this congress, and as many students aspossible should arrange to attend.The University's last gift from its founder, is $150,-000, to �e credited to the half million started by Mar­tin A. Ryerson with a hundred thousand. It is under­stood that about $100,000 more has been subscribed,and the prospects are bright for the raising of theentire half million.The class of '93 went down town the other dayand had their pictures taken in a group. This seemsto be the only relic preserved from the ruins of oldtime commencement conventionalities. Buf it . iswell enough. The class had to have some way toget - together to see what each other looked like.The Kendall County News speaks in very compli­mentary terms of Rev. Bruce Kinney, formerly a stu­dent of the University school, and a graduate of Denison. Ordination services were held at Plano, whereMr. Kinney has been preaching for some time, lastweek, at which time he was ordained and entered intohis life work with the full authority of a minister inthe Baptist chucch. The WEEKLY wishes him suc­cess.President A. H. Strong, D. D. of Rochester Theo­logical Seminary, will preach before the ChristianUnion next Sunday evening.Morgan Park J\cademy.The Academy Student's Union was a grand suc­cess. All present enjoyed the program, and if this isa prophecy of the Unions to come, no fear for theirsuccess need be entertained.The decorations in the chapel and reception roomwere exquisite, arid the committee who had this incharge deserve great credit for the way they per­forme_d their duty.Mr. Herbert R. Jordan was master of ceremonies,and after the invocation of Rev. J. M. Campbell,made a few remarks suited to the occasion.The first number was a chorus by the Glee Club,entitled, "Where Would I Be?" followed by an essayon "Woman's Clubs," by Miss Heise, who treatedthe subject in a very able manner.Mr. Smith sang a solo entitled, "The Ferryman,"and received an encore. Following this was a dec­lamation by Mr. C. F. Matteson, entitled, "Clau­dius and Cynthia."Miss Cornishes paper on "Clippings" was the. next number, and throughout its reading the audi­ence was kept in a constant state of laughter. This young lady took her seat amid great applause. Aquartette consisting of Misses Sherfy and Clissold,and Messrs. Hansen and Conant then sang, and werefollowed by a paper on "The Race Question." byMr. Switzer. The Glee Club again sang a chorus.The next number was the "Academy Poem," byMr. Gustafson, which added greatly to the enjoy-­men t of the occasion.Last, but not least, was a declamation by Mis sClissold, entitled, "The Last Hymn."After the benediction by Rev. W. D. Fuller, teaand cake were served, and a social time was enjoyedby the students and friends. Thus ended the firstStudents Union of M. P. Academy.Physical examinations have been passed by sev­eral Academy men this week.The Academy base ball team played the Acornclub Saturday. The score was 18 to 18. Anothergame will soon be played with the same club.-- The demand for rooms in the University dur­ing the summer has exceeded all expectations. 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