Volume .11 number �2.December 2), X893.;£bof 0 .. ,<[ontent$FRONTISPIECE--Ryerson Physical Laboratory.The Folk-Spirit in English Literature,By OSCAR L. TRIGGS.The Ryerson Physical Laboratory (Illustrated).The Faculty of Physics.Musical Notes.Etchings--A Quadrangle Tragedy.As the Leaves Turn Brown.Her Heart's Desire.Coeducatrix Pulcherrima. Exchanges.The Smoke and the Spire (A Poem),By JANE K. WEATHERLOW ..A Fireside Reverie (A Poem),By ESTHER L. ANDERSON�A Day in Pisa.Pastel in Prose; Chromo in Prose.Editorial.Billy (A Sketch),By FRANK DIGNAN.A Smoker's Fancy (A Poem), A Christmas Song.By FRAXK HARRIS.By J. SPERRANS. With the Athletic Editor.Majors and Minors.The Christmas Concert.Around the Quadrangles.Among the Colleges.The Old and New Year (A Poem).Life-> Translation from the Russian,By EFFIE L. 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AU the new and most Popular Games, Bicycles, Tricycles, Wagons, Sleighs, etc" at populars. priceUniversity of Chicago Weekly.Single Copies,� 10 Cents. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DEC. 21, 1893. VOL. II, NO. I2.FOLK-SPIRIT IN ENGLlSH LITERATURE.(After Readi ng Ri ley's Poems).BY OSCA R L. TRIGGS.FOLK-LORE, in its human interests and literaryvalues, is a subject of really great, though oflittle accredited importance. Probably the topic isnot generally attractive. The very children, no longerinstructed to enjoy their heritage of fairy tradition,say at Christmas time, "0 you can't fool us. Wedon't believe in Santa Claus any more." But, in truth,this disenchanted tricksy sprite and the multitudeof fairies that follow in his train have been the happymeans of preserving for latest days certain records ofthe primitive life of the race, which the world, quiteunconscious of their meaning, yet can not willinglylet die. By the undying memories of generation aftergeneration who have believed without question allthat their fathers have believed,and who have recordedtheir story in what appears to" us as a trivial andmeaningless nursery-tale, but which is positively themost enduring of all historical forms, the history ofthe fore-world has been perpetuated. Understoodfrom the point of view of their origin, the commontales of the folk strangely reveal the ways along whichthe race has moved to civilization. In the tales, bur­dened as they are with reminiscences of early life, evenmore truly than in the dignified documents of theschools, do we gain a sense of the Infinite Will work­ing toward an end" still unknown and afar off. Wecome to learn "especially how much we owe to thepeople, the vulgar folk, the unnoticed multitude ofservants and workmen, who have all unconsciouslyfurnished us with much of the materials of civiliza­tion. To their customs we are indebted for commonlaws, to their mummeries for rituals, to their tales fornovels and poetry. This contribution of the folk toliterature is what I wish now to emphasize.Folk-lore is primitive literature. In its vanousforms of tale and ballad and myth, folk-lore is theoriginal germ of all literatures. On the side of the talefolk-lore is the parent of fiction, on the side of thesong the author of poetry. Macaulay's argumentconcerning the lays of ancient Rome is well known.Similar song material was not wanting in England." Beowulf," the first recorded epic, is of the folk-taletype. The literature following upon the introductionof Christianity, the" Genesis" of Caedmon as well asmany of the homilies of lElfric, is to be interpretedfrom the pagan folk-thought and sentiment. Again the outburst in the twelfth century of romantic storywas almost certainly due to the infusion into Europeanliteratures of the Celtic legendary hero-tales, and ofgenuine British fables. This, then, should be takeninto account when we seek for the sources of many ofthe conceptions of English fairy poetry in the roman­ces and legends of early French Chivalry, in suchdelightful stories as that of Huon de Bordeaux, whowas assisted in an almost impossible quest by Oberon,the divine child, and then in a forest glade was anointedwith supernatural chrism, and instructed in magicalsentences, and clowned "King of all Faerie." Cer­tainly for our own English literature, the source of oneof the purest and most continuous streams of poetry isthe fanciful chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth, whosehero-king, Arthur, according to Layamon's narration,was received into the world by elves; and over hiscradle the willing fairies sung a strong spell to granthim long life. In Arthur's realm the fairies might beseen at any time, so common they were, issuing fromsprings and wells, bearing in their hands vessels ofgold with food to refresh the passers by. What won­der that the Knights of the Round Table vowed toguard their beneficent allies and to slay those whodid them despite. Now this same King, born of thepeople's fancy, endowed by popular affection withmythic qualities,a product of the inmost land of fairy,has been the hero not alone of Geoffrey, but of Waceand Layamon and Malory in the mediseval period, ofSpenser in the new days of the Renaissance, and ofTennyson in the modern age of scientific facts. Andthus is fulfilled the prophesy that is written upon theKing's tombstone at Glastonbury:" Hie jaeet Arturus, rex olim, rexque futurus. "Throughout the middle ages the folk-songs con­stituted the body of the poetry of the English, and.indeed the only poetry of the great part of the people.In the early Norman period, while the songs ofProvence and the epics of the Langue d' oui wereheard in the English court, in the fields without.the people sang the old songs as in the days beforethe conquest-songs of lElfred and lEthelstan, Guyand Haveluk; and when these appear again in theguise of French Romances and chivalric epics theywere still to be recognized by the English people asthe children of their own imagination.2 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.This media-val period, too, was the era of the ballad,a form of literature which, arising out of natural in­stinctive impulse, in this case savoring of the wild free­dom and lawless life of the northern borders, wasessentially the breath, the in tenser life of the nation.The cycle of songs that gathered about the name ofRobin Hood attests particularly the influence of theyeoman. The ballad was of course the product ofactual life and circumstance, but the supernatural,the wierd and the wraith, often played a prominentpart. Fairy-lore continued to be as popular as form­erly. Chaucer, in the fourteenth century. was notaverse to puttin» a fairy tale in the mouth of theWife of Bath, who however acknowledges, '.' I spekeof many hundrid yer ago; But now can no man seenoon elves mo." Chaucer adds, with evident humor,that the reason for the elves' departure is that thefriars by their matins, prayers, and holy-water havedriven them a way from hall and tower.With the new learning in the sixteenth centurythe stream of English story was greatly enlarged by themore ancient classical myths, affording Spenser andMilton and the dramatists abundant material for fiction.But while the Courtly Makers were copying the foreignmodels, the people had their own songs on the greenand at Whitsun ales. And generally speaking themen of Elizabeth's time never cease to be English atheart and are proud to know their Chaucer as well astheir Virgil and Ovid, by no means unwilling tolisten to the strolling minstrels who would sing againthe ballads of Robin Hood and King Arthur, whichsometimes made them start, Sidney said, "morethan with a trumpet;" though as a courtier of theRenaissance he is careful to add, "what would theyworke trymmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?"As for fairies the sixteen th cen tury was itself awonder world. Spenser, recognized as the poet ofthe elfin country had only to display with poetic in­sight the mystery of the world about him. I suspectthat Shakespeare's audiences accepted Ariel as a gen­uine living creature, and regarded with expectantawe every wave of Prospero's wand. It is probablethat most of us derive our knowledge of fairy waysfrom the." Midsummer's Night's Dream," which iseasily the finest poetical realization of the fairy king­dom ever given. This Shakespeare, a cosmopolitanfellow enough, seemed to be intimately acquaintedwith all the fairies and witches of the moors and hills.Together with Ben Jonson, he exulted especially inbringing the fairy kings and queens upon the mimicstage, accompanying each train with a profusion ofpoetic imagery. As a chronicler of the fairies, Dray­ton in his "N ym phidia" of course was chief, and in" Polyolbion;" referring to the popular ballads, hemakes the prophesy:" And to the end of time the tales shall ne' er be doneOf Scarlock, George a-Green, and Much, the Miller's 50n,Of Tuck, the merry Friar, which many a sermon made�n praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws and their track '1 If the Reformation had completed its work thiswould have failed of fulfillment, for Barclay, whosebiting satire, the" Ship of Fools," fortells the era ofreform, thought it advisable to announce "I wryteone jest, tale of Robin Hode." And Langland,another forerunner of the Reformation, stigmatizedthe ballads of Robin as "idle tales." Good RogerAscham too lamented that the Bible was banished fromthe Court and "Morte Arthure" received into thePrince's chamber. Yet Milton, who was in largepart a child of the Reformation, expressed in" Comas" his poetical belief in the world of faeryand when he sought for a worthy subject for hismaturer song he turned first to the Arthurian legends"which recount," he said, "in solemn cantos thedeeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings."Among the contemporary lyrists it was given toHerrick to write in his "Hesperides" of the Courtof Mab and of the Fairy King. After the Reforma­tion the elves strangely vanished, and their disappear­ance, which was ascribed by' Chaucer to the friars, isnow imputed to the preachers. For formerly saidDr. Richard Corbet, a bishop of Holy Church,, , Their songs were Ave MariesTheir dances were procession.But now alas! They all are dead,Or gone beyond the seas,Or farther for religion fled,Or else they take their ease. "Whether the. fairies' religion was Romish, or asHerrick asserted, "part Pagan, part Papisticall," thefact of the elves' departure before the reformers isonly too evident. For this reason, and on accountof the change in literary taste. now to be considered,literature for a considerable period disdained to takenotice of fairy-lore, though Dryden gave at least atranslator's credence to Ovid's "Metamorphoses,"and to Chaucer's tale of the Fairy. Dryden, whomone is glad to see rising above the prejudices of hisage, had also a fine appreciation of the old ballads. Inhis edition of " Miscellany Poems" in 1684 and 1708he showed hospitality to "Little Musgrave and theLady Bernard," one of the most vigorous of Englishballads, and to the old favorites, "Chevy Chase,"which Ben Jonson used to say he rather hadbeen the author of than all his works, "The Millerand the King's Daughters," and to a few others. Butwhen later Addison reviewed and defended "ChevyChase" in the" Spectator," and Rowe boldly spokein favor of the" ancient song-enditers" in the pro­logue to his" Jane Shore," they were met by the ridi­cule of contemporary witlings, such as Dennis andWagstaff. Thus by the time of George r. the old. ballads had fallen into silence and desuetude. Con­ventionalism and artiticiality reigned to the exclusionof naturalness and truth. As at one time in the his­tory of the Jews, there was in England no "openvision." The year 1765 becomes therefore an im-UNlvERsrty OF CHicAGO WEEKLY.portant one when Bishop Percy republished the peo­ple's songs, not neglecting the favorite one of RobinGoodfellow, the most mischievious of all sprites. Fewbooks have had such an extensive influence in Englishliterature as the" Reliques." Here was the true andnatural utterance again, a human voice that was nottricked out with the culture of the schools. The workmust have come as a revelation to the fashionable poetswho had reduced the art of poetry to a mechanical con­trivance, and whose highest ambition, as Keats wellsaw and censured, was to mount a rocking horse andcall it Pegasus.. The contrast of the older poems, sosimple, and natural, and so full of vital life, with thestilted, formal literature then in vogue, could not havebeen greater, or if the truth had been known, more tothe disparagement of much of the" patrician verse"of the day. The poetasters of Oxford and Cambridgescorned the ballads as doggerel and the publishedwork like "the songs of Zion in a strange land,"incurred the ridicule of the literary tyrants of thetime, Bishop Warburton, and Hurd, and their fel­low Philistine, the supreme potentate of the period,Dr. Samuel Johnson. Percy himself remained longin doubt whether he might worthily collect the" bar­barous productions of unpolished ages," but finallythe publication was sent forth with profuse apologiesto Shenstone and Warton and Johnson, and with antidotes in the shape of "modern attempts in the same kind of writing "-save the mark-by Grainger andShenstone. But in spite of indifference and actualopposition, the taste for the old songs prevailed, andthe English folk-spirit, now indeed a conscious. andliterary force, taking color only from the afterglow ofcherished tradition, became nevertheless a determin­ing and very precious influence in the development ofthe literature of the present century. Scott, Cole­ridge, Wordsworth and Keats, all partook of thisnative folk-spirit. Scott relates in his Autobiographyhow, a boy of thirteen, he spent a summer's day inentranced perusal of Percy's "Reliques." What isalso noteworthy, the English songs extending beyondthe seas, affected the genius of Goethe and Schiller.N ear now to the close of the century it becomesus well, as we are solicitous concerning the future, toconsider the materials which the folk are to contributeto the formation of a new literature. Modern liter­ature is almost purely literary, a conscious product ofthe literary instinct, written by and for a separateliterary class, .and by consequence, dissociated fromthe daily life of the common people. Will this tend­ency to specialize poetic production continue, or willthe universal movement toward democracy bring thepeople and the poets once more in contact-whatheart of man may not be touched and opened, whatimpulses leading to the good and the beautiful may notbe liberated, what vital song may not issue forth?ETCHINGS.AS THE LEAVES TURN BROWN.THEY were seated in a hammock beneath the tallwhispering pines. She was a daughter of labor,born amid the cattle and the corn. He was city bornand bred, and he had come to this restful country placeamong the quiet hills to woo and win the prettycoun try lass.It was Autumn, and for weeks the Autumn sunhad been painting the trees and grass in wondroustints, until the mountains with their thick coveringof ferns and mosses were great banks of rich maroon.N ear by through the green valley rolled the littleWantan river, a belt of gleaming silver in the Indiansunlight. The soft, low ripples of the grass greenwaves broke faintly in mellow cadence on the ears ofthe happy lovers.He was whispering sweet nothings into the willingears of his beloved one, and as she sat in rapture byhis side she felt that at last she was upon the thres­hold of a new life. He had taken her little hand in hisand as he looked upon his dear one, he thought," How different she is from other girls. She has nothought of vanity or fashion. Her life has beenpassed amid these hills, old as the pyramids of Egypt,and in her heart is only truth and purity and love."Under the weeping willows stood the drowsy cows knee deep in the shady water,pool. From above waswafted down the sweet musicof those happy carolers,the birds, angel messengers -frorn Heaven The airwas filled with the drowsy hum of a bumble-bee, andthe mystic restful touch of the sweet October dayswas upon her, as she sat gazing dreamily out upon thepeaceful scene.At first she had replied to his fervent question,and the sweet words" I love you, dear," had oftencome from her sweet lips: and yet he was not satis­fied. She had half closed her eyes and was thinking,thinking of the life to come and of the part she wouldbe called upon to take in life's drama. Before hermind was stretched the field of life, broader, grander,fuller even than the scene which now spread beforeher eyes. The ineffable soothing calm of Autumntidewas upon her soul, and the magic of the afternoonhad bound and fascinated her.He had buried his face in his hands, for the real­ization of his great happiness had overpowered him.She was his, this priceless gem, the fairest of the fair.His, his to walk with through a flowery path of life.Suddenly he spoke, "Marie," he said softly throughhis parted fingers, "Marie, I have pictured in mymind a rose covered cottage by the rolling sea. Seatedbefore the open door is a lovely woman, while by herside with his arms around her is a man. The face of4 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.the woman resembles yours dear. I am the man.Around 'us play little, prattling, happy children. Be­fore us is stretched a straight broad path leading to,but many miles from our last resting place. Ad ownthat path we are to go, you and I, love; Marie, whis­per once more 'I love you.' "Marie did not respond, and Hubert went on, "Donot think me silly my own. But the sweetest wordsin life to me are, 'I love you.' Tell it me again mydove.' "Still Marie did not reply, and to Hubert the'thought came" she is lost in the labarynth of love."Still he persisted, this time to recall her from herreverie, and share with him the rhapsody that movedhis very soul. But to his ears no answer came to layits soft response upon his heart.For Marie was fast asleep.THE DALLIER,HER HEART'S DESIRE.She was fair to look upon. She was one of thosedainty little women who break hearts with a glanceand an artless word. He had just met her for thefirst time. He was unable to examine her featureswi th the cold eye of a scientific feminologist. No!He did not see that her nose was thin above andretrousse below, her mouth ill shaped, and her handsrather awkward in movement. He simply sat beforeher-a victim.' She told him of the lofty ambitionwhich had brought her to the University, of the longhours she spent in trying to become wise, of thehardships which absence from home made her fellso keenly. Finally in one grand climax, one grandburst of confiding enthusiasm, which quickened hispulse until his whole body vibrated in response to itsthrobs, she admitted that she admired more than anyother, the noble man who besieged the citadel of heraffections with-five pound boxes of Huyler's candy.B, LASE,COEDUCATRIX PULCHERRIMA.Poor boy! Every morning he appeared III the·recitation room with haggard eyes, flushed face, andthe nervous manner, which indicates a blinding head­ache. Some thought he had chosen the smooth andeasy path that is crowded by those who �ove the bowl.Some thought the great American game of poker hadstarted wheels in his cranium. Others feared thatconsumption had seized the fair youth in its fatalgrasp. Yet all were wrong.It happened one evening that I entered his roomabout twelve o'clock. All his energy was concen­trated on the putting into Spanish of several longpages of rather stupid English sentences. At first heseemedto resent the interruption. Then in half sob­bing voice he said: "She gives such long lessonsthat I can never get them." He' went on to explain,how, anxious to please his Spanish teacher who was young and fair, he "searched" every night until thewee sma' hours of the morning. That was what kepthim from awakening in time for breakfast, this madehim a disheveled, disconsolate mortal, always tenminutes late to his first class.B, LASE,A QUADRANGLE TRAGEDY.He took it up from its pretty white nest, andsighed mournfully as he noticed that the silver liningshowed up most dismally in its emptiness. Therewas an aching pain in his heart, and the sigh thatfell from his parched and tightly drawn lips was likeunto the mournful whistle of the December wind asit hurries through the leafless trees of the gloomyforest.It was the last, the very last, and he mourned theabsence of the nineteen which had gone to a better anda smokeless world. Down his sunken cheeks a greatbulby tear drop rolled on its way to the ocean, stop­ping for a moment to play leap frog with a hair whichhad escaped the eagle eye and colossal brain of thecollege tonsorial artist." I have loved thee long," the pale-faced, dove­chested Freshman murmured, "I have treasured theeup in the silvery cage. And now I must offer theeupon the block of martyrdom. Thou must go withthy twenty poor companions to the bourne from'whence no traveller returns." The bulby tear droppedupon the rich Moquet with a d-s-t. Life was dear tothe quivering little thing, and as its breath came inin short, quick, soulful pants it mournfully gazed intothe face of its master, whose frame shook as he appliedthe torch which was to end the agony of his helplessvictim. With one long deep penetrating gasp thelittle creature in its shroud of white gave up its life,and died. And as the winter's wind whispered a softsweet dirge, the pale smoke cloud from the tortureascended to its home in the sky. Life was extinct.Another tragedy had peen enacted; another cigar­ette had gone to join 'the immortal band in a betterworld.PART II.The fiend held his victim in his palsied hand as hewatched the barrels, bucket, hoops and sashes as theyrolled forth from his ruby lips. Suddenly he started,turned pale and wept. His eye had fallen upon thelittle bible which his mother had given him when hewent forth from the Kansas farm, his happy' home,to battle with Greek roots and Physiological limbs atthe Prep. School. His mother and her last advicehad been, "My son, study hard, learn to read, write'and spell well, hit the Kansas corn-cob as much asyou please, but 0, my son, beware of cigarettes!"With a violent effort the unhappy man (i, e. Fresh­man) tore himself from his chair, and reeling unstead­ily to the window he opened the casement and threwUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKL Y.the cigarette as far as his arm could carry it. Return­ing to his table he picked up the little book, and lay­ing his strong right hand upon it he swore never moreto touch, taste or handle the deadly, after whichvow he wept copious floods of salty tears. In a fewmoments he rose, picked up the book he had swornupon, looked at it and then throwing it into a darkcorner left the room. It was Hoyle's Games uponwhich he had sworn. Soon after a solitary figure wasobserved by a blue-coated guardian of the peace andpublic comfort, to make its way from the shadows ofthe gloomy dormitory pile out into the depths of thebeautiful. Said guardian of the peace watched thefigure closely and came to the conclusion that it wasa man engaged in a dynamite plot. He sent in anTo THE members of the University who frequentthe gymnasium, "Billy" needs no introduction.It is for the benefit of the unhappy few who know notthat place of delights, that this description is written."Billy" is a young man of perhaps four years ofage. He regards it as his mission in life to exercisea watchful care over the gymnasium, and accordinglyhe may be seen there at all hours of the day. A round,plump, placid face, yellow hair, dress of a nondes­cript shade of red, small, sturdy legs, plump littlearms, and very, very dirty hands'-that's Billy.His only companion is a cherished gray kitten,which he carries about, hugged close to his manlybreast. To Billy, the companionship seems to af­ford infinite satisfaction, but one cannot help wonder­iug what the kitten thinks of it. However, thatanimal seems to be of a philosophical disposition.8illy makes a point of watching every class as itgoes through its evolutions. Hardly has the prelimi­nary march begun, when his yellow head appears alarm and when seven of his gallant fellow G's. 0.T. P. & P. C. had responded to the call and hadsurrounded the hapless sneaker, there was no possi­bility of escape for him. Suddenly an awful cry rentthe clear, chill air and burst upon the startled ears ofthe Watchers. They closed in upon the suspect justin time to see him pick from the ground, not thedeadly bom b which was to create havoc among theinmates of the frowning halls beyond, not a ball ofnatures sweet and lovely beautiful, but the halfsmoked, blackened cigarette.When the squad of blue coats reached the. searcher they found him in the throes of death. Joyhad killed him! Such is life on the quadrangles.THE DALIER.BILLY,!) •above the gallery railing, and he and his kitten seatthemselves in a" chair and gravely watch the wholeperformance.Sometimes Billy condescends to come down onthe floor and play ball,-generally alone, .sometimeswith the instructor, when that gentleman has nothingbetter to do. On one occasion the instructor organ­ized a class of one for the physical training of thekitten. The exercises consisted chiefly of high climb-" ing and aerial somersaults. Instead of being shockedat this treatment of his pet, Billy was evidentlygreatly delighted, and when she fled to him for pro­tection, basely handed her over to the enemy.Billy's chief characteristic is a placid stolidity, aninvincible stoicism. Nothing moves him either tolaughter or to tears. Although all are familiar withhis appearance, few have heard him speak. WIthhis beloved kitten clasped close in his arms, hemarches solemnly about, watching everything thatgoes on and keeping his opinion to himself. Wouldthere were more like Billy! FRflNK DIGNAN.1\ Smoker's Fancy. 1\ Fireside Reverie.Airy vapors round me trailing,Deep my sleepy eyes are veiling.Far away my fancy'S sailingMid the wilds of mystic Aar ,Fairy eyes upon me beaming,Sprites and spirits past me streamingNear asleep,--andI am dreaming,In the smoke from my cigar.Shadowy dryads round me dancing,Ghoulish visions, dim, entrancing,Now receding, now advancing,Now so near and now so far.Forms of loved ones hover round me:Slu.nber' s chains have nearly bound me;Hail! at last my love has found me,Mid the smoke from my cigar. FRANK HARRIS, Before the crackling hearth we sat,With fireside fancies fed;The winds without raged cruelly,But all our cares were fled.We gazed and gazed so dreamilyInto the flames' warm heart,Her hand in mine,-yes, ever so,For death us cannot part.I thought of her dear heart that beatSo warm against mine own;What years had passed! And yet in ageMy heart was still her throne.Bow happy thus to sit and feelOne's life with mercies crowned;To be, though old, a lover stili,By love a captive pound, ESTHER L. ANDERSON6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY"city's gates. We may be able to assist a sufferingmortal. If so, it is our duty to do it. Let us remem­ber that the truest happiness consists in knowingthat we have done �ur duty by our fellow-man.UNIVERSITY OF CHICI\GO WEEKLY. we are rejoicing int he hope of soon being reunited tofriends and home, thousands upon thousands of menPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THE and women are homeless and starving within theUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.MANAGER, C. H. GALLIONEDITORIAL BOARD:HENRY C MURPHY, MANAGING EDITORE. A. BUZZELL GEORGE LELAND HUNTf!:R C. S. PIKEMISS BESSIE MESSICK. W. H. PRESCOTTJ. W. THOMPSON MISS JANE K. WEATHERLOW .T. W. MORANMISS FRANCES WILLISTON P. P. CARROLLAdvertising and Subscriptions, WILBER M. KELSOSUBSCRIPTION RATE:One Quarter, $ .75One Year (Four Quarters). 2.50Advertising rates made on application.Address all communications toUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,58th St. and Ellis Ave., ChicagoEntered as Second-Class JVl atter at the post office, Chicago, Ill.INa former issue we announced a prize of ten dol­lars to be given for the best short story submittedon or before January r yth. It has been decided toextend the time to February 1St, when all contribu­tions must be in the hands of the managing editor.We havedeemed it advisable to reprint the announce­rncnt of the prize, which will be found elsewhereon this page. This competition IS open tostudents of any department of the University except­ing those who are members of the editorial board ofthe WEEKLY.**CHRISTMAS is coming, and with it a briefrespite from teaching and study for the wholeUniversity, from proof-reading for the staff of theWEEKLY. That the recess is not longer is regrettedby many. Our college exchanges are filled withlamentation. They declare that a week is enoughonly to tantalize, and in no measured terms they cen­sure the Powers that Be. Let us rather be gratefulfor what the gods give us, and spoil not the goodwe have by vain longing after the impracticable.A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all !** *BUT Christmas was not meant to be simply a timeof recreation and pleasure, and we should notforget that while we are enjoying every comfort andhappiness, poverty and suffering are in our verymidst. Within the past few weeks we have had anopportunity to see the darker side of life; And while ** *. THE success or the Christmas Concert �1as insuredfuture happiness for lovers of music in ourmidst. The inertia that has characterized most ofthe student enterprises of the past was conspicuouslylacking in the management and carrying out of thegrand holiday concert. The enterprise and spiritof the musicians of the University is indeed com­mendable, and the fact that such an interest has beenmanifested as to permit the organization of a greatchorus and orchestra, a glee and banjo club, augurswell for success of the plans of Mr. \Villiams, thedirector of music.** *THE attention of the students is called to the factthat to make the new University Settlement inthe Stock Yards district a success, funds are necessary.P.rofessor Laughlin in his address before the UnionSunday evening clearly outlined the plans of theorganization,. and those who listened to him and toMiss Adams, must have been deeply impressed withthe importance of the work. Our next issue willcontain an article on the settlement written by a mem­ber of the committee in charge of the work. Moneyis necessary for the carrying on of the noble mission,and we wish that every student who is able mightfeel himself called upon to aid in establishment of asettlement which is certain to bring very materialbenefits to the neighborhood referred to. TheWEEKLY trusts that the projectors of the work mayreceive the assistance of the greater number of Chi­cago men and women.THE WEEKLY'S PRIZE STORY.The WEEKLY offers a prize of ten dollars for thebest story submitted on or before February first, 1894.The story must contain not less than eight hundrednor more than eighteen hundred words. The WEELKYreserves the right to print not only the prize story.but any of the other stories which may be foundworthy. Competition isopen to students in any de­partment of the U ni versity. A committee of twomembers of the faculty and the managing editor ofthe WEEKLY will judge the contr ibu tions and awardth� l?riz� :f�bruar1 loth: tIIUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO \VEEI<L'The Faculty of Physics.In presenting to our readers the sketch' of Ryer­. son Physical Laboratory, we think it not amiss topublish short biographical sketches of the men whomake up the Faculty of Physics.SAMUEL B. STRATTON.Sam uel B. Stratton, assistant professor of Physics,took his B. S. degree at the University of Hli no. sin 1885. On graduating he became instructor inMathematics and Physics, in which position he re­m lined until 1888, when he became assistan t professorof Physics. In 1890 he became professor of Physics,and in 1891 was put in charge of the department ofelectrical engineering as well.iII PROF. A. A. MICHELSON.Prof. Albert A. Michelson got his' early trammgin the schools of San Francisco. In I 86� he receivedan appointment at large to a cadetship at Annapolisfrom President Grant. He graduated� in 1873, andembarked on the us ual .two years' cruise aboard aman-o'<war. Upon his return he was ordered backto Annapolis as instructor of physics. Here he con­ducted his first original investigation on the velocityof light, a notable and brilliant series of experiments. He resigned in 1880 and went to Europe to studyphysics. Some of the most eminent men of the daywere his instructors-Von Helmholtz at Berlin,Quincke at Heidelberg, and Cornu and Mascart atParis. He studied while in- Europe also chemistryand mathematics. Returning in 1881, he filled the'chair of physics at the Case School of Applied Science, ,at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1889 he accepted the chairof physics at Clark University, where he remaineduntil he was offered the head professorship in theUniversity of Chicago.GEO. M. HOBBS.Mr. Hobbs, instructor in physics, was graduatedfrom the University of Illinois in 1891, and was in­str uctor in physics there for two years.To Mammon.How with' ring false the world appears to-night!Has blinded greed so undermined my trnstThat time, disease, corruption, moth and rustSeem to attaint all holy in my sight]Has love of gain so rudely dulled the sense,That Virtue seems to speculate in chance,And does high Heaven deserve Suspicion's glanceBecause her mercy asks no recompense!0, haste the day,- the quiet restful hourWhen plain deeds shall rival their professions,And when the earnest of religion'S power• Shall woo us back from gold concessions.When men shall know that God no worship heedsBut kindly thoughts enthroned in timely deeds.FREDERICK ARTHUR STOWE.Life.From the Russian of Poushkine.o useless gift, 0 gift of chance,o life, why wast thou giv n to me? .Or why, by some mysterious fate,Was certain death ordained for thee.Who from the void of nothingnessWith ill intent has brought me out;My soul with singing passions filled;My reason whelmed in storms of doubt?There is no aim in life beyond;The heart is void 1 all reason vain;The endless turmoil of this lifeBrings weariness akin to pain. J. SPERRANS.8 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY"The Christmas Ccncert.The Christmas concert held Tuesday evening,brought out a large and appreciative audience whichfilled the beautiful auditorium of Kent Laboratory.It seemed as if every lover of music in the Universityand vicinity was out to greet the musical organizationIII this, their first public appearance. At eighto'clock, two by two in classic cap and gown of sombreblack the University Chorus, the Orchestra and GleeClub filed slowly and majestically (as the steps wouldallow) down toward the platform to the music ofhearty cheers from the audience.The program as given below was carried out inevery detail, and in many cases the performers wereobliged to respond to the great applause by givingextra selections. The Glee Club was especiallyfavored with applause. After their first number" Lauriger Horatius " they responded with two othersongs one of which described the learned boy" Zeke."Schneider's Band meet with favor, and the club nowwell established in the affections of the audience tolda tale of ,; The son of Erin who loved the land of theshamrock, the place where the beefsteak goes. " Thefinal verse which referred to the intellectuality of theChicagoan was particularly well received, and theclub now sang the old "Julia how's the Poodles?"The instrumental solos of Miss Fern Shores alsodeserve special comment. Her playing was listenedto with the keenest delight. The vocal solos of MissMay Howell and Mr. Baker were also well received.PROGRAM.OvertureThe University OrchestraHoly. Hol�, Holy Cou1ZodThe University ChorusSolo-Mr. Grafton G. BakerSonata for Violin and PianoMr. Theodore Spiering, Mr. Walter SpyLaurigerHoratius YaleThe University G:ee ClubAndante Spianato e polonaise, op. 22,Miss Fern ShoresJ a. Tho art like a flower1 h. Dawn Clwti7fJiCRSomersetMr. Grafton G. BakerInflammatus from" Stabat Mater"The University ChorusSolo--Miss May HowellINTERMISSIONWaltz--" Impassioned Dream ..The University Orchestra RossiniR o sas- LindenBallade, op. 22 RtineckeMiss Fern ShoresJ a.p. BarcarolleZephyr ondricekJ£uba)'Mr. Theodore SpieringSchneider's Band MundyThe University Glee ClubSpring Song 'Wei!Miss May HowellViolin Obligato--Mr. H. C. HullingerThe Hallelujah--" Messiah ..The University Chorus lJandel The Smoke and the Spire.Over the city the smoke hangs gray;Will it never be lifted by night or by day?As it shifts and it drifts by the wind borne aloft,Or falls, like a pall, so grim and so soft,While over the city the smoke hangs gray.All we would know the smoke shuts out;Madness or vision ?-the truth of the doubt!What is there hidden of shrouded history-­Glory or gloom at the core of the mystery?All we would know the smoke shuts out.'Higher and higher the smoke rolls dense;Is that dull sullen roar from a fire intense ?Once kindled by evil, now fed by desiresOf traffic and passion that never tires,As higher and higher the smoke rolls dense?Lo, a single rift in the smoke swept way;Showed a gleaming cross on a spire to-day;Good is in Sod om ? Oh then we can wait,For the gold will be purged from the evil and hateWith a rift in the smoke swept way.JANE K. WEATHERLOW.The Old and New Year.The old year's going;Let'him go!He closes the book of ninety-threeAnd holds it fastIn his icy grasp;It's growing dark He cannot see.The old year's going;Let him go.The new year's coming;Let him come!He brings the book of ninety-fourWith pages whiteUntouched and bright;And bids us mourn the past no more;The new year's coming;Let him come! EFFIE A. GARDNER.}\ Christmas Song." Glory in the highest"Sang the angel throng;Filled were heaven's archesWith the swelling song.On the earth-land peace,Filling souls of menHeart to heart unitedBy love's diadem.Good will unto men,Bells ring out the lay!Tell again the angels' songOf joyous melody.Let the angel's echoFill thy soul to-day!May the little Christ-childIn thy heart home stay!Find there room and shelterAll thy lifetime long;Then to thee the' realnessOf the Christmas song.EFFIE A. GARDNER.UNIVE:RSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLYQAROUND THE QUADRANGLES.FOSTER NOTES.THE Classical Club met in Foster Hall o n Fridayevening, at the invitation of Miss Jackson, tohear Prof. Shorey give an "impressionist version" ofthe Frogs of Aristophanes. The study of the classicshas become so solemn a business, the earth of erudi­tion .lies so heavy on the great dead, that a studentmay hardly venture to smile at a Greek jest till he issure the scholiast and the editors will bear him out:and sometimes he is driven to publish with foot-notesreasons for the mirth that is in him, as Tammas.Hag­gart was forced by the nature of his environment toestablish by dialectic his claims as a humorist. Prof.Shorey follows a different method, and one more di­rectly convincing to the average man. No one whoheard his rendering of the Frogs will ever doubt that,whatever else Aristophanes may be, he is imperishablyfunny. Sohitur cac!zinnando.The task of rendering unto Cesar his legitimateshare in the performance would be unprofitable, andeach hearer must form his own opinion as to whereAristophanes ends and Prof. Shorey begins. Themethod employed can be elucidated by example only,and one or two must be offered, with the warningthat the phraseology in which they are here clothedis furnished by a fallible memory and is probably nomore true to life than the portrait of an amoeba. At1. 141, Dionysus was made to say "you can't get awayfrom the almigh ty dollar! How did it get down here?And Herakles replied, "George Washington broughtit." At 1, 650, Dionysus cried out in his pain, "thedevil !"-and added piously, "can quote scripture toserve his purpose." '1 he great joke in 866 ff .. certainlyone of the best jests in the world, was permitted tostand on its own merits. Aeschylus says: "I wouldrather not compete with Euripides down here inHades. We are not on an equal footing." "Why?"asks Dionysus. "Because my works did not die withme," answers Aeschylus, "but his are all here."The parodies of Aeschylus and Euripides were repro­duced in terms of the Victorian poets, and at thisstage it was hardly possible to stifle the convictionthat the reproduction was considerably more amusingthan the original. An occasional reading of theGreek, however, gave Aristophanes his innings, andthe lilt of his metre was enforced by a topical song,dealing with such burning themes as the man"Who helps himself from the reference shelf to the book the les­son was gat in,Or scans his Greek as in prose men speak and forgets to do it inLatin."The festive scene at Foster Hall last Saturdaynight would have revealed to any observer that lifeat the University is not all work, and that when pleas­ures do come, they are thoroughly enjoyed. As I stood in the midst of the festivi ty one littlemoment unoccupied, and it was only one, I wasimpressed with the fact that there was not a singleuninterested face before me."Table Number SIX", composed of Misses Jackson,Weatherlow, Dougherty, Cook, Morgan, Bennett,Schwarz and Hopkins, tried to give sixty people alittle taste of happiness, and with life looking blue onaccount of impending examinations, this was mostacceptable. Nothing was left undone that mightappeal to cultured and <esthetic taste. Luxuriouscouches tempted one with their coziness, enhancedby dainty little dishes of candy placed near by. Onelittle corner was never unoccupied,-a cozy seaton the stair landing, the most alluring spot imagin­able. All thoughts of work and care took flightunder the influence of the beautiful music which cameat exactly the right moment,-when you were com­fortably settled. But soon the merry strains of awaltz called you back to the world of reality, and setyour feet flying over a floor which could not be sur­passed. Or, if you did not dance, there were otherslike yourself who preferred to discuss the comingconcert or the latest book.Between dances there was frappe to be found inthe dining room, served by a little maid daintilydressed in the house color.During the course of the evening, in an informaland delightful manner the foll'owing program wasrendered:Piano Solo,Vocal Solo,Violin Solo,Mandolin and Guitar Duet,Vocal Solo, Miss CookMr. Alfred WilliamsMr. ChaseMessrs. Grant and GainMr. Alfred WilliamsPiano Solo, Mr. Wardner WilliamsThe charm of it all was the pleasant way in whichour hostesses made us feel at home, We were notstrangers but friends.The whole evening, with its diversity of entertain­ment, was characterized by a tone of culture and refinement which is so often wanting in a so-called"school-girl party." Yet the college songs that weresung lacked none of their usual gayety nor the youth­ful hearts any of their youth. It was a most enjoy­able evening. A GUEST.B22CH2:� H.\'LL.On the morning of Saturday the sixteenth, thosewho first emerged from Beecher beheld an over-shoeof goodly size ice bound upon the step. Who is itlingers so late these chilly nights, that at last he isforced to flee away, leaving his garment in the graspof Jack Frost? Like the Lady of the Aroostock,Beecher "wants to know".10 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEK1., V.There's a little list at Beecher that is hung aside the door,And contains a half a dozen names or more,And one shows in every feature that she is a sorry creatureWhen she adds her name to those aside the door.For we're longing to go home, that's the burden of my "porne".To hie us from each musty, dusty tome.What a joy to fly from quizzes in a train that fairly whizzes,To the bosom of one's family and home. Like the cruel list of Sulla hangs the tablet by the door,And the hearts of the proscribed sink more and more,As perchance some lucky sinner, that is bidden out to dinner,Goes and scratches out her name beside the door.But if we are good and brave, our reward we're sure to have,And we'll dream of Santa Claus 'neath Beecher's dome­Sliding down our tested flues, 'filling all our socks and shoes,Just the way he always does at Home Sweet Home.PASTEL IN 'P ROSE.HUSH! my love is singing. And I, from my darkcorner, look out on this loveliness whosemagic power has changed the world for me.The lamp, with its pink shade, cas'ts a glow overthe marble fairness of her arms and brow, whichmakes me think of the sunset blush lingering on thepure white banks of snow. The flush is reflected inthe dull gleam of the onyx in the slender column, andthe golden Cupid at its base, warmed by the suffusedradiance, seems to smile with contentment that, Atlas­like he may bear this tiny sphere of light for so peer­less a Psyche.Hush! my love is singin g.Her fair shapely fingers linger caressingly on thekeys, and her deep, deep eyes' look upward as ifbeseeching pardon from the birds in upper air forborrowing their sweetest notes. Then her soft glancefalls gently on the flowers at her side whose daintyheads seem drooping beneath these waves of melody.The fragrant luminous air wraps my. love in anebulous, roseate halo. The pink rose in her hairhas sunk beneath the dark waving tresses, as. if 111 .avain effort to rival the sister roses in her 'cheeks.Her rose-colored robe sweeps outward from hergraceful form with silvery lights and violet shadows,and the warmth of color is absorbed by' t'he long,gleaming bands of light in the, polished floor and theebony depths of the piano. 'Hush! my love is singing. And yet, I would notthat the listeners should hear the louder, more tri­umphant strains my heart is uttering, which soarthrough roof and sky up,-up to Heaven's gates,for ithas found its love.Now, the song is silcntj=-but my heart sings on,for my love loves me.CHROMO IN PROSE.Hush! my love is singing. And I, from the horsehair sofa, look at my love,while, by reason of the cast in my eye, I seem to belooking at the opposite side of the room.The lamp, with its stiff green shade sends up apenetrating subtle fragrance of kerosene, and thelight casts a ghastly choleraic hue over the features ofmy beloved.Her emerald eyes glance upward from under hercolorless lashes; her topaz teeth gleam dully, and hercheeks are tinged with an amethyst glow of excite­ment.Hush! my love is singing.The red geraniums on the window shelf seem toquiver with anguish as the powerful strains of herfalsetto voice float outward and drown the din of thefire department thundering past. The accordionwails a mournful dirge, as the long thin arms wreathein and out in tortuous circles .:She sings" Good-night my love." (I never takehints. )Hush] my love .is singing.Her 'green tarletan dress so scant in the skirt andfull in the sleeves, with its rich trimmings of whitetor cho n lace, even holds' a romance in its folds, forhad we not haggled over the price of it at the base-, ment counter a few days before?My weak eyes, weary with their prolonged enrap­tured gaze, seek the Brussels carpet, whose immensecircles of blue roses, and red forget-me-nots sink intomy brain with the oft-repeated, "Good night, mylove. Sweet be thy dreams."Hush! my love is singing.But now the song is silent.The policeman rapped on the door saying: "U n­less she bez silent, I'll have ye both up to-morrowmornin' for disturbin' the pace." And with the lastinterrupted high note echoing in my throbbing heart,I melt away into outer darkness. M.An organization known as the Melancholy Club,has made its appearance in our midst. To theuniniated the appearance last week of several stu­dents, mostly upper classmen, . wearing a badge ofsombre black was food for comment. Contrary toexpectations it was not a new" frat" which had comeinto the University and under the ba, but a simpleassociation of students organized for the idea of mak- ing a better college feeling and a closer friendshippossible among its members. It will be run after thepolicy of the Hasty Pudding at Harvard, and theemblem of the Melancholy is a black badge with agrinning skull having the letter" M." and (N. B.) ingold on the forehead.Th€'! D. K. E. initiation ceremonies occurred at theGrand Pacific Hotel last Friday night.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.THE RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY:By far the most symmetrical, and undoubtedly the. most beautiful building on Chicago's campus, isthe new physical laboratory .. A masterpiece of archi­tectural grandeur, unique in its construction, it standsa model of its kind, probably unsurpassed by any col­lege building in the country; a headquarters whichthe physics department may well be proud of. Noeffort or expense has been spared to make this struc­ture perfection, 'and its equipment is most thorough.Unbounded gratitude is due the donor, Mr. Ryerson,for his generous munificence; he has done for physicswhat Yerkes, Kent and Walker have done for' astron­omy, chemistry and geology, with the result that ourscientific department bids fair to be the most com­plete in the country. Ryerson Physical Laboratorystands just east of Kent Chemical, and northeast ofCobb Hall. It is built of the same material as theother University buildings, namely Bedford limestone,and is one hundred feet in width by eighty feet inlength. The main feature by which this building isdisti nguished from the others in construction' is asquare tower in the centre, which adds greatly to itsbeauty and symmetry.Professor Stratton superintended the erection inperson and so far not few errors in constructionhave appeared. The building is supphed with com­plete heating apparatus, which can be used as a director indirect system; the ventilation throughout isperfect. The west rooms on the first and second floorsare entirely freely from ironwork; they are to bedevoted to experiments in electricity and magnetism.The laboratories on the first floor have heavysl ate tables constructed on piers.The other laboratories throughout' the buildingare fitted out with heavy slate brackets firmly plantedin the thick walls. These are quite as good as piersfor physical work.Ducts and channels have been left between thewalls so that pipes or wires may be run through at anytime without difficulty. In the middle of the building,just opposite the entrance, is an elevator for use in con-'veying apparatus to the upper floors. This elevatorextends from bottom to top of the building, as doesthe large shaft parallel to It, to be used for mercurygauges and pendulum experiments. A noticeablefeature of the laboratory is the great economy ofspace; every inch of room has been utilized.The floors of all the halls in this structure are mosaic and the wainscoting is marble. Cherry hasbeen used for the interior wood-work. The first flooris devoted to research work, and each room on thisfloor is a laboratory complete in itself. They' con­tain gas for light or fuel, water, electricity for lightand power, vacuum and compressed air.The mechanician's room on this floor will containa complete line of small tools and machinery forinstrument making and repairing. On this floor, also,are situated, the directors' laboratory, two largeconstant temperature rooms, a balance room, and alaboratory for experiments involving use of mercury.These rooms are all furnished with automatictemperature regulators. The offices of the facultyare located on the second floor. A large lecture-roomcomprises the east end of this floor, and contains allconveniences for work of demonstration. .Adjoining the lecture-room and connected. with itis a large apparatus and preparation-room.' The restof this floor is devoted to general laboratories, chem­ical and optical laboratories and photographic dark­rooms.The third floor contains a large laboratory forgeneral students, which, in connection with its appa­ratus and preparation-room, will furnish quarters forthat large body. It is complete and perfect in everydetail; every facility and modern improvement isemployed to make possible the greatest degree ofaccuracy in experiments.' Two other laboratories onthis floor can be placed at the disposal of general'students if desired.The class-rooms, together with a spacious libraryand reading-room and apparatus rooms, are all onthis floor. The fourth floor has a large hall, thirty-.five by seventy-five feet, and twenty feet high, whichwill be used for experiments in light and electricity,requiring large force. The equipment is most com­plete throughout, and we may look forward withreason to some valuable research work in this depart­ment.One of the special features of the University ofChicago is the graduate work, and the physics depart­ment will not be behind the others in facilities forresearch work. The completion of the physicallaboratory completes our scientific department. Thefour great branches of science are now established;we may justly anticipate great results.THOS. W. MORAN.A LETTER FROM PISAc : EVEN cities have their graves," says Longfel-low, and it certainly seems that Pisa, oncefamous for its wealth, its commerce, its fine harborand its .magnificent palaces, has tasted the sweets ofdeath and is 110W slowly reviving, fanned into life again by those desirous of seeing its world renownedarchitectural structures. "Pisa la Morte" or Pisathe dead, the I taJians call it, with a little regret intheir voices that some more enthusiastic title canrio t.be applied to it. 1112 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.We had left; 'Genoa, the superb" behind lis andthe "Eternal City," the "Lily of the Arrio" and the"Quee� of the Adriatic" were before us-ready towelcome and capivate us with their manifold charms,but this quaint old city, whose very stones breatheforth' 'regrets and recollections of the past" had forus a weird charm which still lingers around ourmemories of it.Our guide was waiting us at the station-not bydesign, but merely by accident--and immediatelypounced on us, and the poor flies were struggling inthe spider's web. He was a little hunch-backed manwith a very loud voice and an exceedingly cross face,and we listened meekly and modestly to words whichnever reached our ears but floated over our heads tothe inhabitants a few blocks away.We drove through the narrow old streets pastthe deserted looking palaces, once the gay homes ofLord Byron, Galileo and the Medici, and drank froma well in the square In front of this latter palace.Several dark-eyed little children that might haveserved as models for cherubs watched us wonderinglyfrom a distance, while the older ones came forward,imploring for "un p'titson-un p'titson," but our heartshad become quite seared and we had learned when itwas charity to withstand the outstretched hand.We drove over the bridge, one of the finest inEurope, and along the Arno, to the square-whichholds the objects which make Pis a so interesting totravellers-the baptistery, the cathedral, the CampoSanto and the famous Leaning Tower. The baptist­ery is a round building surmounted by a statue ofJohn the Baptist, and contains a beautifully-carvedpulpit of Parian marble which is so precious thatwhen the place is occupied four officers are stationedto guard it.A most remarkable thing is the celebrated musicalecho. When four according notes are struck, thesound is thrilling, like the diapason effect of a greatorgan-the note repeating itself again softer andsweeter in the vaulted dome until the note by "dis­tance made more sweet" is caught up by angel'svoices and never lost.Our cicerone sang forth in stentorian tones a fewnotes, but as his voice cracked most painfully on thelast the echo was not all melody, and he exclaimed,"Oh, I am sick, .I am sick," in an Italian-Americanaccent.The cathedral, a noble structure, with its fourbronzed gates is built in the shape of a Latin crossand its cupola resembles a huge crown. The altarswere designed by Michael Angelo, and some paint­ings by Andrea del Sarto are worthy of attention-buta large bronze lamp swingingto and fro attracted uslongest-for no doubt Galileo often sat where wewere and gazed upward, with eyes which saw somuch, at that lamp, and the busy brain of the boy of eighteen there decided that a pendulum might beused to measure time.We gazed upward at the Leaning Tower of purewhite marble and listened to the bells ring out fromits towers. Though we were told the view was beau­tiful and extensive from the top, we were content tolook up and wonder at and admire this wonderfulstructure.The Campo Santo, the City of the Dead, nextattracted us. The earth contained inside its marblewalls was brought from Jerusalem in the eleventhor twelfth century, and is said to have the propertyof decomposing a body in two days. The walls ofthe cemetery are covered with frescoes representingbiblical and religious subjects. One particularly no­ticeable one was a fat old monk, clinging to an angel'shand, who was striving to lead him to heaven, whilethe devil grasped his feet, and seemed equally anx­ious to lead him to hell. Thus our good and badinclinations are ever striving to master us.It was now growing late, and after making a fewpurchases from a marble store near we walked backthrough the narrow streets to our hotel.As evening came on the weird quiet city lost someof its charm, and it was with heavy hearts that welooked forward to the many hours that must elapsebefore our train left.The wind was blowing, and the sky was overcastwith heavy black c1ouds--that seemed to bear in theirembrace a fierce tempest-but we decided to walkacross the town and view it in its evening garb. Aswe went along we met a strange spectral procession�four black-robed figures-carrying torches-andbearing a body, covered with a shroud, to its lastresting-place. As the Italians passed they raisedtheir hats and perhaps whispered a prayer-but noone shed a tear as the body was hastily carriedthrough the dimly lighted streets. It may have beenthat he had none left on earth to mourn him, and hadalready found many friends to welcome him c n theother shore; or it may have been that grim Cholera­who was then stalking through Europe, had touchedhim, as he passed, and friends must stand asidewhile a loved form was carried to an untimely grave.But 'old Father Time must roll along, though attimes he seems only to creep when we wish he wouldhasten by-and at iast it was time to say farewell tothis little city which has not yet fully awakened fromits long sleep. It was without a sigh or a backwardlook that we left «Pisa la Morte" behind and rolledaway to catch our first glimpse of the eternal city"kissed by the rays of the morning sun." E. G. M.The Glee Club will appear beforethe Chicago pub­lic at Central Music Hall March 22. During theEaster holidays a trip will be taken, arrange men tshaving been made by which many of the large west­ern cities will be visited.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.WITH THE ATHLETIC EDITOR.T·HE indoor athletic games at the gymnasiumprovide a pleasant entertainment for Saturdayafternoons, and should be well attended. Last week'scontests were interesting, the basket ball game beingtolerably exciting, and the track events fairly good.Laning's running high jump of 5 feet 4 inches estab­lishes a new university record, and was, perhaps, thebest effort of the day. The mile run brought outthree men, Todd, Laning and Keen. A good raceresulted, Keen winning by a yard from Tood. Thelist of events with results was as follows:Quarter-mile run-Handicap: Stone, 72 yards; Clarke, ISyards; Holloway, scratch. Stone, first; Holloway, second-time,not taken.Half-mile run-Handicap: Clarke, IS yards; McClintockand Stone, 109 yards, and Wolff, 72 yards, 14 yards being scratch.McClintock, first; Wolff, second; Clarke, third-time, 2:20.One-lap run, about ISO yards-Dickerson, first; Mandel,second.Mile run--Keene, first; Todd, second; Laning, third; Wolff,out on fifth lap-time, 5:20.Running high jump--Laning, 5 feet 2 inches; Ramsey,S feet1 inch; Stone, 4 feet 7 inches. Laning in record jumped, 5 fee4 inches.A. A. Stagg was starter; J. E. Raycroft time­keeper, and Henry Gale referee. A game of basketball followed the contest, in which the" I I :45 " gym­nasium class worsted the" 9=45 "class by a score of7 to 2. Butterwor th umpired.. That we had the material for a fine '93 foot-banteam, and that thett alent was not brought out duringthe regular s�ason was proven beyond a doubt by theresult of the indoor game at Tattersalls Saturdaynight. Northwestern had, perhaps, the strongest team she ever put upon the field. Her men were infine condition; they had new mass, and individualplays, and still the score of 22 to 14 gives Chicagothe championship over the suburban collegians."What might we not have done this year with Allencaptain with full power to perform a captain's duties,"is the wail of the enthusiastic Chicago men. In Allenwe had a clever player, a man whose acquaintancewith the game made him a necessity on the line whenwe lzad to win. In Allen captain, we have a clearheaded, shrewd general, a man who understandsthe true meaning of his title. He is at the head of amagnificent array of foot-ball talent, and as he re­marked in his address of acceptance after the elec­tion, "we m us t have a team to win games, and wewill train to that purpose." The play of ChicagoSaturday night showed that a different spirit hadbeen infused into the same team which was wont togo upon the field with the hope, as one man expressedit " of keeping the other team from winning, not towin ourselves." Everything considered we may lookforward to better results next year. The game withNorthwestern was characterized by better individualand team work. Knapp's work at left half was bril­liant, his dodging tactics calling forth great applause.The fir�t half closed with 'Chicago ahead, the ballhaving been touched down three times for Chicagoand twice for Northwestern. The score stood 16 to10. The second half brought the score up to 20 forChicago and 14 for Evanston. The game couldhardly be called scientific, the arena being much toosmall for regular foot-ball tactics, yet it demonstratedour superiority over the suburb.MAJORS AND MINORS.A Christmas story (not) by Charles Dickens,appears on page vi.Pof. J. Laurence Laughlin and Miss Adams, ofHull House, spoke before the Christian Union Sun­day evening.The Glee Club will appear before a Chicago pub-,lic at Central Music Hall March 22. During theEaster holidays, a trip will be taken arrangementshaving been made by which many of the large west­ern cities will be visited.At a meeting held Thursday for the purpose ofreorganizing the Democratic Club of the University,George L. Hunter was elected President and HowardRoosa Secretary. The executive board consists of J.A. Voight, H. Roosa and T. W. Moran.Hereafter board at the Commons is to be paid bythe week in advance. The board of directors wascompelled to make this change to do away with somany bad bills. At first the tickets will be sold at $3.50, but will be reduced whenever the receipts willpermit. A public meeting is soon to be held, atwhich a full statement for the past year will be made.And hereafter a statement of expenses and receipts isto be published regularly in the WEEKLY.J. F. Hunter leaves to-day for Denver, Col.,called there by the sickness of a brother. He willnot return to the University until the spring quarter.The Dension Club met Thursday evening with Dr.and Mrs. Miller, at 5410 Madison avenue. Officerswere elected as follows:Preside.nt-Dr. F. J. Miller.Vice President- J. O. Smith.Correspondent--Dr. F. J. Shepardson.Secretary--Bruce Kenny.The Senior Class reception announced for Wed­desday evening last has been postponed until afterthe holidays. Early in January the class will inaug­urate a series of receptions and socials to the differentdepartments of the U nive�sity..VI ADVERTISEMENTSREMEMBER YOUR FRIENDS.�IntliffestiIJllHorst ord's rAcid 'PhosphateIs the most effective and agreeableremedy in existence for preventingindigestion, and relieving thosediseases arising from a disorderedstomach ... , ..DR. W, W, GARDNER! Springfield,Mass., says: "I value it as an ex­cellent preventative of indigestion,and a pleasant accidulated drinkwhen properly diluted with water,and sweetened."Descriptive pamphlet free on application toRumford Chemical Works,Providence,R. I.Beware of substitutes and Imi­tations. For sale by all druggists.FULTON MARKET CoS. E. Cor. 55th and Monroe Ave.Fine MEATS and Vegetables.A specialty in Vermont and Elgin Cream­ery Butter, and Fresh Eggs.NEW UNIVERSITY PINEvery Student should have one.of the New University Pennant PinsDesigned and Sold byCHACE & DUDLEY.Also for sale at University Press 1\ Christmas Story.(NOT) BY CHAS. DICKENS.It was a bitter cold night; ofcourse, in a Christmas story, youdon't expect goO in the shade-thehouse-tops wore a mantle of white,and the clear full moon was mirror­ed in the icy stream--or stream ofIce. This was without. Withinthe household was hushed in slum­ber, and no sound was heard savethe ceaseless ticking of the clockupon the stairs. The fire in thehuge grate gave forth little ringsof smoke, and the flames witheredand twisted, as they wended theirway upward. Suddenly a muffledsound was heard, it came nearerand nearer, louder and louder itsounded, when, 10, the stillnesswas broken by a pair of large plaidtrousers from Cnttenden's.( To be conttnued.)Henrietta. ApartmentsCor. 58th St. anb Jackson Ave.Elegant furnished rooms and board forstudents at reasonable rates. For ratesenquire at h ou se , JOHN HARMON_o!g.__ �_i;'-�" .GUITARS,Mandolins, Banjos, Zithers." Best in the World."Every "Washburn" Instrument isthe product of our special machin­ery and presents noble character­istics. We stake our reputationupon their excellence. A beautiful.• Washburn Souvenir Catalogue,"containing portraits of leadingartists, ana. prices and full descrip­tions of these instruments, Free.TEST YOUR SlCiHT FOR@ ASTIGMArrrSM @� � (IIIII� = Save yourself time and trouble. Send a list ofnames, addresses and size of package, and weWi�UllY aod corr ect ly.PURE, FRESHBonbons AND DELICIOUSChocolates.Also a Choice Line of Holiday Novelties.161 State Street,2132 Michigan Avenue.--- __Branches of 863 Broadway, N. Y.STUDENTS!When you need 'something finein the LUNCH line, call atWi�sworl�'s Cash Gro(�rf,.Ingleside "A.ve. li 55th St.We keep a full line of FancyGroceries, Cigars and Tobacco.Call once and you will be our Customer. .550 55th Street ..N. B.--We make a specialty ofFINE CANDIES.By closing one eye, if these lines do not appear equally black to you whenholding it from one to three feet distant from the eye, the difference in shadeis caused by astigmatism, which is a defect in the vision, and very frequentlycauses severe headaches. This trouble can be entirely remedied by Glassesground specially to correct this defect.We Examine Eyes Free of Clierge!We Value our Reputation!We Guarantee Se tisrec tiontAnd our success has been due to the merits of our work.BORSCH, OPTICIAN, Interior Lindsay Bros'., g,Il and 13 Monroe Street,J03 East Adams St. Telephone, Main 737. CHICAGO.ADVERTISEMENTS VllGOWNSMay be ordered on Tuesday andThursday between 9:40 and 10:40a. m., in the basement of WalkerMuseum.COTRELL AND LEONARD,G. N. KNAPP.CHARLES fl. TAFT, D. M. D.DENTISTHYDE PARK OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, 540rJefferson Ave. Hours, 910 I2:30. Tel-ephone, Oakland 335.CITY OFFICE, r 102 Colu mbus MemorialBuilding, corner Washington and StateSts. Ho urs, 2 to 5. Tel. Main 3856Graduate of the Academic andDental departments of HarvardUniversity, and late Instructor ofOperative Dentistry in HarvardDental School.METCALFE'S ..sCH<DLS...... For.Dancing, Deportment & Physical CultureNOW OPEN FOR INSTRUCTION.South Side, 137 E. 22d SI.West Side, 667 W. Congress St.Send for circular. Add ress, 137 E. 22d St.Members of American National Association ofTeachers of Dancing, BUSINESS NOTICES.FURNISHED ROOMS.-FOR RENT-A few desirable flats inthe Beatrice, 57th St. and Madison Ave.;six rooms and reception hall; hot and col dwater; hot water heat; passenger elevator;finest plumbing, gas ranges, and everymodern convenience, rents only $35 and$40. (12-1t)To RENT-Several well-lighted furnish­ed rooms in a private family; good heat;home comforts; rates very reasonable.Mrs. W. H. DeLong, 270 56th street, cor.Madison Ave. (9-5t�(')-To RENT- T\Yo or three furnishedrooms in private family, steam heat, bath,gas, etc. .'1656 Washington avenue, corner57th street. Very cheap. (7-6r>")-FOR RENT.-Cur. Madison avenue and68th street. No. 5763 Madison avenue andNo. 3r5 58th street,ROOMS, FLATS OR HOUSE.An excellent opportunity for students, singlyor in clubs, to get first-class quarters in themost desirable location, at low prices.T. W . .HAMILL, 5763 Madison Ave.-FOR RENT.-Furnished rooms andflats, 5420 Monroe avenue, Single roomsor en suite. Apply on premises. J. G.PRATT. (ro-4t)-To LET.--A large, well furnished frontroom to one or two gentlemen. 5759Madison avenue. (r1-3t)-Information can be given at Students'Express Co. of suite of rooms, which maybe had very cheap after January 1. Nearthe University, and fitted 'with all modernappointments. (tf)--FOR RENT.-As soon as completed,N. 6052 Sheridan Ave., 2 blocks from theUniversity, elegant ten-room stone frontresidence. Steam heat supplied by owner.Address, Andrew J. Hirsch, 401, TheTacoma.To RENT. --Furnished room for twoladies, with use of kitchen for light house­keeping, if desired.-To RENT-Large, light, steam-heatedroom with bath, gas, etc.; cheap; secondfloor. 5550 Drexel Ave (r a- 1t7(-)-5628 Jackson Ave. Furnished roomsand board; modern conveninces: ladiespreferred; reasonable. (12-1t*)- $4.50 per week for board; steam heat;bath-room, - hot and cold water, etc. 5825Kimbark Ave; 3d floor, north flat. J. L.Dooruhein. (r2-3t�c)-The Rosrtlie Villa Cottages, 5735 Rosa­lie Court, will make special rate-s for fur­nished house of 8 rooms and furnished flatof 6 rooms; with or without first classboard. Please call. (I 2-r 1''(-)--The \VEEKLY is kept on sale at theoffice of the University Press and the Stu­dents' Express Co.--Tutoring in Latin, German and mathe­matics; terms, Soc per hour; eight years'experience. E. A. Wolfe, 5517 JeffersonAve. [r z 2*)GOTO DAVIS FORGent's . Furnishing . Goods,Under Hotel Norwalk,Cor. Cable Court and Jefferson Ave.LAUNDRY WORK A SPECIALTYPackages Called For and Delivered.SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE. --Mr. Boyd of the Harcourt, 57th Streetand Madison Avenue, is making speciallylow terms to University people; singlerooms, $1. 50; large double, $2 to $3 perweek; several fine suites very low, includ­ing bath, hot water, heat, light and service.(r z-r t)To RENT OR FOR SALE.--A large and con­venient home; with beautiful grounds, onGreenwood Ave., within four blocks ofChicago University, is to be rented or sold,because the owner's family is going toEurope. Can be rented furnished, orpartly furnished, for a term of years, withprivilege of buying; or sold on monthlypayments, but little more than the rent,Apply on premises to owner,T.W. HEINEMANN,54I8 Greenwood Ave.MISCELLANEOUS.-A good meal can be had at the KeeneHotel Cafe. Rates are very reasonable,being four dollars for a ticket good fortwenty-one meals. (rotf)--Pressing, cleaning, dyeing and repair­ing of clothing is my specialty. Drop apostal, and I will call for goods and deliverthem. Place of business, 342 63d street.(rr-52t) C. P. PETERSON, Prop.-The Ke ene and Boston Hotels havewell furnished rooms, airy and light, whichwill be rented to students at low figures.The Keene has a first-class cafe in connec-tion. 55th street and Ellis Ave. (rotf)-The office hours of the WEEKLY arefrom 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.-Tickets for Boler's barber shop maybe obtained at Students' Express Co. 'soffice. Eight shaves for $1.00.FRED STRAUSS,SILK DYE WORKSGents' and Ladies' goods Cleaned, Dved andRepaired. French Dry Cleaning a specialty. Or­ders called for anti delivered. MAfN STOREAND WORKS, 396-400 Lincoln Ave. Tele­phone, L. V. 66' Branches, I74 51d St., HydePark. and 3507 Indiana Ave., Cor. 35th St.HYDE PARK CONSERVAfORYGEORGEA W. KELSEY, Director,Cor. 53d St. and Lake Ave.Piano,Voice,Organ,Violin, Cornet,Flute,Guitar,Banjo, Mandolin,Theory,Delsarte,Elocution.Evening lessons a specialty. Special termsmade to banjo. mandolin, guitar and glee clubs.Soloists furnished for concerts and any number ofmusicians for receptions or dancing parties.VIII ADVERTISEMENTSw. I. HALL,.Bakery---AND E!iILLo..Restaurant.115 Fifty-Third- Street.•• WW4CJElW •• UUQ,* { .....Also Dealer inPure V ermon tMaple Sugarand Syrup.THAT WHICH IS WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING WELL··********I·'... BEATTV •.•Printing.. Engraving,Binding.----:._._fINE work is 0111' specialthence the above motto iscarried ou t to the letter inevery department of our estab­l ish men t-, Our facilities con­sist of the best and most modernof everything necessary in theequipment of a first-class print­ing house, and we feel certainthat we can gratify every desireof even the most fastidious, 111the execution of all work in ourparticular line. THE HOTEL BI\RRYFormerly the Raymond-Whitcomb-6rand.FIFTY-NINTH ST. I\ND l'\I\DISON I\VE ..Facin.g Midway Plaisan.ce.BARRY BROS., Proprietors.A First-Class Hotel with all appointments. Elec­tric lights, steam heat, elevators, separate bath witheach suite of rooms, recption rooms, and dancing hallfor use of guests.Telephone, telegraph, barber, billiards, bowlingalley and gents' smoking room on main floor. IllinoisCentral suburban and through trains stop within one­half block.Dining Room Service if Desired.This elegant hotel has reserved its best rooms' forthe accommodation of the Faculty and Students ofthe University.WEBER & PFEIFERDYERSI\ND--CLEf\NERSMain Office and WorKsBook and Catalogue work aspecialty. Estimates given on 4430-42 STATE STREETshort notice .Persons connected with theUniversity desiring printing mayleave their orders at the office ofthe WEEKLY, where they will re­ceive prompt attention ....All work done promptly, andguaranteed to be first-class.BEATTY5321-23 Lake Ave., Chicago."" .. HYPE PARK . HYDE PARI{ Office, 5619 Jefferson Ave.GENTS' CLOTHING CLEANED, DYED ANDREPAIRED.Dyeing and Cleaning of Ladies' fine dresses aSpecialty.�·Mr .. George Davis, of Students' Express Co .: basement CobbHall, will act as our agents for University,ADVERTISEMENTS IIXOpposite World's Fair Grounds. Telephone, Oakland 960.Jackson ParkLivery andBoarding Stables.Special �ttention eiven to UniversityTradeJ. H. KINTZ, PROPRIETOR.On Fifty-Seventh St. One Block West of South Park Sta.Choice Cut Flowers,Decorative Plants,All Kinds Garden Work,Choice Roses. TELEPHONE, OAKLAND 8� .art Sloral ([ompany39 t t COTTACIE CIRQUE AVE.Branch, No.6, 43d St.Estimates given for decoration of Receptions,Weddings, Balls, Parties, Etc .Greenhouses and Nursery at Evergreen Hill, Blue Island.Palm and Show Houses at 280-290 Fortieth St.NORM�NDIE HQT�L�********************************5742 and 5744 Monroe Ave.Private Family Hotel. Three blocks east of the(J nivei si ty. Strictly first-class in every respect.Steam Heat and Electric Lights in every room, alloutside rooms, nicely furnished, private baths, andthe best hotel service. Special inducements made toUniversity Students and Professors from Nov. r st. Calland see us before locating elsewhere. Terms the -lo w­est, location the best. ELMER E. HARTZELL, Prop. Highest Award in Photographyat the World's Columbian Exposition.Reduced Rates to University Trade.Before ordering��.�--������������;i:� Engravings*��:I����-�����-�-===�....... WRITE TO ...... "Vogeler Bros.53 La Salle Street,ehicago.The illustrations in this journal are done bythe above firm.ADVERTISEMENTSCash Paid!for Second-Hand University andHigh School Text Books,FULGHUM�SBook Store.... 291 55th St ....Between Monroe & Madison Aves.H. BOLER'SShaving Parlors.... With a full'line of ....Cigars, Tobacco and Smokers'. Articles. .265 55th Street, Hyde Park.Cor. of Madison Ave.F. LEONARD ..Wholesale and Retail Dealer i 1Pure Country Milk and Cream,5314 Monroe Ave.,Hyde Park, Chicago.. "ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED",Students' Express Co.,·Basement of Cobb Hall.Trunks brought to and from alldepots, and delivered to allparts of the city.Agents for CLEAVER'S LAUN­DRY, special rates toStudents.Check-room for the safe keepingof packages and valises.Daily papers on sale.GEO. DAVIS, Mgr.'Or. �Ibert Peacock,'Or. S· 'R. Peacock,Physicians and Surge-ons,277 55th Street, Chicago.Hours, 6-11 a. m., 3-5,7-9 p. m.Telephone. Oakland 946. KENWOOD INSTITUTE ....Day and Boarding School forGirls, 5001 Lake Ave. (Ken­wood), ehicago. Anaffiliatedacademy of the tI n lve r-s it.y ofeh icago. This Institute enter­ed upon its eighth year Wednesday,Sept. 27, 1893. Graduates fromthis school are received withoutexamination at Madison Uni- .versity, Ann Arbor, Mich., Vassar,Smith,and Wellesley Colleges. Forcatalogue and information, addressMISS }\. E. BUTTS, Principal.Established I892 .THE JOUTH JIDE JC.HCIDL5442 Drexel A venue.Prepares for any College or University.Quarters commence January I, April I,July I, October I. Tuition, $30 per quar-ter in advance. E. O. SISSON, A. B.,R. P. SMITH, Ph. B.,Princioals.CROWN PEN CO. FOUNTAIN AND GOLDPEN MAKERS.78 STATE STREET �WORLD'S FAIR.CHICAGO.169� •CARR BROTHERS,.... DEALERS IN ...Stoves, Tinware, Hot-Air FurnacesHouse Furnishing Goods, Crock­ery and Glassware.II6 53d St., Hyde Park.Windsor Livery eomp'y,.., .Operating ..... . . HYDE PARI( HOTEL STABLES ...5208 Lake Ave., Chicago.Telephone, Oakland 42. The most perfect equip­ment and service.LEROY PENNOYER, Gon '] Manager.T. C. BOWEN. ,JOHN R. GAT!::S.T. C. BOWEN &: CO"UNDERTAKING PARLORS.3913 COTTAGE GROVE AVE."relephone Oakland 845.M. CHRISTV,_ELECTRICIAN AND... LOCKSMITH.Electric Bells. Burglar Alarms.5222 LAKE AVENUE. WRIGHT, KAY & CO.Importers andManufacture Jewelers ......... Detroit, Mich ..... ,Fraternity. Badges. Send for price list.* THE. SIMPLEX PRINTER. *A new invention for duplicating copIes ofwritings or drawingsFrom an original, on ordinary paper with anypen, one hundred copies can be made. 50 copiesof typewri te.r manuscripts produced in 15 minutes.Send for circulars and samples. Agents wanted .LA WTON &- CO.,20 Vesey Street, New York.BU"RKE 13"Ros.Wholesale and RetailMEAT DEALERS ...Tel. Oak. 887. 5442-5444 Lake Ave.Edwin F. Daniels. C. W. Campbell.EDWIN DANIELS & CO.COAL and COKE355 DEARBoR� ST., CHICAGO. Tel. Harrison 461C. P. VAN INWEGEN.COAL.140 53d St., Branch Office, 272 57th St.,.... CHICAGO ....Tel., Oakland 997.JOPER JCHGDLOf Oratory, Elocution----and Delsarte17th Year. (Incorporated). Complete or par-tial course, Diplomas granted. Methods mod­ern, thorough, practical. Able and experiencedteachers in each department. Send for catalogueHENRY N. SOPER, 26 Van Buren St., City.I. LEES & CO.,Cleaning, Dyeing and Repair­ing of Ladies' and Gents'Clothing.. ANew System Used in Dyeing ..S. E. Cor. Jefferson Ave. & 55th St.ADVERTISEMENTSA. MCADAMS,Successor toJ. GOODE & CO.,COR. 53D ST. & KIMBARK AVE.· · · Slori5t****UNIVERSITY TRADE SOLICITED,****Having my greenhouse so con­veniently situated, I can supplyanything wanted in the way ofDECORATIONS, FRESH CUTFLOWERS, AND PLANTS,on the Shortest Notice. Ordersby Telephone will have promptattention,.... .. 'phone, Oakland 863 .······OFFICIAL .INTERCOLLEGIA TEfOOT B4Ll-----... ·PRICE, $5.00·· ..Has been officially adopted for the secondyear by the Intercollegiate Association, andmust be used in Match Games..,. ·SPALDING'S····OFFICIAL FOOT BALL GUIDE, 1893,By WALTER CAMPNow Ready. Fully Illustrated. Price IOCSend for Foot Ball Catalogue FreeA. G. SPALDING ff BROS.Chicago. New York. Philad�lphla,· PARK TH!: COMMONSCigar StoreAnd Tonsorial Parlors .:T. V. SHERIDAN, Proprietor....... A Full Line of. .....ImportedKey Westand DomesticCigars _*** Box Trade a Specialty ***267 and 27 I 57th St.The National Columbian HotelOffers Special Inducements to Students in the way of ROOMS, withor without BOARD.The hotel contains Thirty-FiveLarge Rooms. Steam Heated,Electric and Gas Lighted, Stationary and Shower Baths, ModernConveniences.. , , ,CALL AND GET PRICES·· ..LEONAIlD & T A YLOIl. Under tile Management of tileStubents Of tqe , , , ,. Untoersitu of <fqicago.REGULAR BOARD NOT TO EXCEED$3.50 PER WEEK.21 MEAL TICKETS, $4.00.Single Meals, 25c .Established 187tl.H. M. ROLSTON.. Dealer in ....FINE . FUNERAL . FURNISHINGS.5347 Lake Ave., Tel. O. 852.PULLMAN, 4 & 6 Casino Building, Tel. 50.smmTHING NEW IN PHOTOGRAPHY,25 Cents for 12 Photographs.Send your Photograph and get 12 copied, am!have them returned in ten days, with the p h o t o-graph you send. No till-types copied.F. u. WALSH,353 PERRY ST., TRENTON, N. J.\l\lHAT CHEERFOR CHRISTMASWe will sell for the Holidays .Crown Cooking Raisins, per lb 07Leghorn Citron, new, per pound 20Orange and Lemon Peel, " 2061b. box London Layer Raisons 75r lb . box Cleaned Sultana Raisins ISdb. box Cleaned Currants IONew Currants, perpound 07Guaranteed Pure Sweet Cider. gal 35Sweet Orang�s, pe�, doz 20Lemons, choice, 2041b. box Choice New Figs 75Extra quality new California Prunes. lb. 07·White Clover Honey, none better, lb ... 20BACKUS & SISLEY,N. W. Cor. 57th St. & Jefferson Ave.We have the best equipped Market 011 South Sid eXlXll ADVERTISEMENTS.This Letter was sent to---- ........ �@� CLEAVER'S LAUNDRY �@103 to 107 E. 38th Street,Bet. Cottage Grove and Langley Aves.--------It speaks for itself:Send us your order to call. Distance no Delay. Re­sponsible, Reliable, Prompt,Telephone, Oe k len d 988. »; W. eLE�VE� & eo.Dry Goods! ..Men's Furnishings!Trunks, Valises, Etc.!Can be bought of�. "R. PO"RTE"R, Special DiscountOn Shoes ....Corner 53d St. and Lake Avenue.At Lower Rates than anywhere in thecity. Special discount to the Facultyand Students of the University ofChicago. Call and get discount card. To the Faculty and Students ofthe University of Chicago. Calland get discount card, and buyyour Shoes at ...Corner Lake Ave. and qd St.A. oR. PORTER. PORTER & BOSVVORTH·S145 Fifty-Third Stre�t.STUDENTS0'. 0��L..t2I/)co���C0•>,...,C��f- Who want Good Table Board at ReasonableRates, will do well to patronize the....---------��",..,....---.--*****�-*****?*'*��*******-��-****-�,*�***«-*?�********71E-********** *t 1 2 3 4 5' 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 �! f* No.. Series A. �m im IDoman's �aking Q:O.'S m* ** .. '. Nestanrant . . . -** ** -*: 57th St. and Rosalie Court, CHICAGO, ILL. m: *�-**** �* *t UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STUDENTS' MEAL TICKET '0 !tt* � i* *: m........ {j) :* ** -*m 13 14 1 5' 16 17 18 19 20 21 t* . ************71�**�-*71�*�****�-').;7iE-�**?********.,***************"*-** ::2o�:rQ)..,(JQ�0'..,3:�Q)(/l3:(/l(/l�a.\l\J oman's. Bak.. ing C·ompanyRosalie Cafe.The pleestuitest and most popular dining rooms au the Sout.li Side.. U'niversity Tailor,......... ...._...._.. ............. �� .. ," Cum "Bona Venia."CRITTENDEN;.Special offer to Students\ Full Dress Suit,"No, Algernon, I cannot be yo", wife I cannot trust mvself wi th S ilk . Lin ed, 'one who uses so little taste. You l;iave mortified me to death thisevening by appearing as my escort in a rented dress suit. If you 0 1 $ 55had worn one of Crittenden's suits, it might have all been very n Ydifferent. Farewell!"27 WABASHAVENUE RIGHT ON THE CORNERUNIVERSITYPHARMACY!560 East 55th Street (Cor. Ingleside Ave.)R. R. BOWEN.! PROPRIETOR.. .Pure Drugs and Fine Pharrnaceut.tcat Prepara­tions, 0 ruggists' Sun dries, Toi let Articles, .Perfu mery, Etc.r,�"-Ei'-Delicious Soda ""\Vater�_}--.iPrescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night.-� - �;:Xs�_o;(iii�;;,�����:�!£�Ef�����,,-'I'/:J_THE RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY.Supplement to' the 'UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ViEEKLY, Dec. 2 r , I�93·NOTES.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.MUSICALTHE UNIVER, tTY CONCERTS.THE CHRISTMAS concert given by the Univer­sity Chorus, the University Glee Club, theUniversity Orchestra and Soloists Tuesday evening,December r cth, was the sixth concert given at theUniversity. Last year five concerts were given.-thefirst four being a series of Cham ber Concerts. I t isthe present plan to give a concert each quarter. Itis hoped that the- Quarterly Concerts will become amost interesting feature of our University life-some­thing to be anticipated with pleasure by every mem­ber of the University. All the concerts given thusfar have been of a very high order of excellence.UNIVERSITY VESPERS.Vespers will occur upon the last Sunday afternoonof each quarter at 4 0' clock, unless circumstancesmake it necessary to hold this service earlier.Two Vesper services have already been held. Atthe first, held J u ne 25th, the choir of the St. Paul'sCh urch assisted. A t the second, hel� December r oth,we were assisted by the choir of the First Presbyter­ian Church. These services have been most delight­ful,and were greatly enjoyed by all present. Univer­sity Vespers will be hereafter anticipated with keenpleasure. -It is a beautiful feature of ConvocationWeek.THE UNIVERSITY CHORUS.The University Chorus, now in its second year, wasorganized in the fall of I892. It has for object its studyand rendering of the master pieces of vocal com posi­tion. It is managed by a committee of six from itsmembership, who, together with the leader, considerall points of interest pertaining to the Chorus. Thepresent committe are Miss Cora Roche, Miss DemiaButler, Miss Frances Williston, Mr. Charles Spencer,Mr. J. H. Grant, Mr. J. E. Raycroft, and the leader,Mr. Wardner Williams. Any member of the Univer­sity who can read the music studied is entitled tomembership. The membership fee is placed at fiftycents per quarter. Interest in the work of Chorushas increased since its organization. The Chorus atpresent, numbers about seventy-five members. It ishoped that all the advanced singers of the Universitywill unite with the Chorus and assist in making it agreat success. The U niversi ty Chorus rehearses onTuesday evenings.CHAPEL SERVICE.The first official meeting of the University of Chi­cago, was the Chapel Service held upon the openingday of the University, Oct. r st, I892. No one who was present at that service will ever forget the inter­est manifested on that occasion, or the profoundimpression left by the service. Here were assembledthe Board of Trustees, the Faculty,and Student body,for the first time, representing not only all parts ofour own country, but foreign countries as well, alluniting in praise and thanksgiving to God.This quiet, restful service of prayer and praise hasproven one of the most interesting features of:, ourUniversity life-one which no student of the U niver­si tycan afford to omit from his U niversity experience.In addi tion to the devotional service and addressesfrequently given by members of the Faculty andinvited speakers, we are occassionally favored withspecial music by eminent musicians.The special musicians who have appeared at 'thisservice are:Mr. Edouard Remenyi-Violinist.Mr. \V. C. E. See boeck-Pianist.M r. George Ellsworth Holmes-Bass.Mr. William H. Sherwood--Pianist.l'vIr. S. E. J acobson-- Violinist.Miss N eally Stevens-Pianist,Mrs. Clara Murray--Harpist.Mr. Emil Liebling-Pianist.Mr. G. F. Root-Address.THE DIVINITY SCHOOL MUSIC CLASS.This is a music class devoted to elementary in­struction in vocal music in the Divinity School.This class m e et s- on \1\1 ednesday afternoons in theLecture Room of Cobb Hall, at 5 o'clock, andis free to all members of the Divinity School.The work of this class is devoted to musicalnotation, sight reading, and chorus practice. Al­though the work of this course begins and closes withthe Divinity School year, students may enter at anytime, providin g they are prepared to do so.THE MANDOLIN CLUB.The Mandolin Club for the present season ISunder the leadership of Signor Tomaso. The club iscomposed of both mandolin and guitar players. Atpresent there are .over fifty members in the Ma nd o­lIn Club. The high reputation of Signor Tomasoas an instructor of the mandolin, together with hiswide experience in conducting Mandolin Clubs, givesassurance that our club will meet with great success.Miss Pettish, Signor Tamaso's assistant has in chargethe guitar players of the' club, so that instructionupon both the mandolin and guitar is provided at thesame time. The club rehearses on Wednesday eve­nings, at 7 o'clock.