UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Single Copies10 Cents. VOL. III, NO.8.CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 22, 1�94.A Plea for College Poetry.1.In casting about for a place wherein to spread one'sfoliage, it is to be wondered at that poets have solittle made use of the soil which covers with moreor less depth the heights of higher learning. Springand the ocean, the rose and the stars have long sincefurnished nourishment to such a luxuriant growth offancy, that it is very questionable if it does not con­ceal more snakes and other loathsome creatures, thanafford a retreat for birds and things which so delightus. Hence poets have much felt the need of new sub­jects, upon which to launch their song, and overwhich to spread their wings of inspiration. The patri­arch, Homer, himself, indeed, though his eye be keptever on the Olympus and the gods, which as it wereis true of all poetry, yet he speaks continually ofhuman concerns, which rise and pass away; normight anyone ever know the whole meaning of thatpoetry except those well-tried heroes who followedtheir leaders back into Hellas or scattered in theirwanderings among the isles of the JEgean. Surelythe little war upon Troy were a poor affair, that outof it should spring that monarch tree, under whoseverdure we yet sit and listen. Men now contend atother things, nor yet the less do they perish in thestruggle. When I see the thousands of young menand women, who follow whithersoever it may lead, theburning thirst for knowledge, or who continually con­gregate in those places where that light doth rule inthe ascendant, I much wonder if the search and wan­dering with these be not greater than with Ulysses;and if the aim which they have in view be not noblerand more beautiful than the sacking of a little city ofpirates. At least, a few mosses and lichens may beseen already growing upon the rocks, and it were wellto consider if some crevices may not be found, inwhich a stronger vegetation might take root and flour­ish.II.The most vigorous portion of life is now often spentin college attendance. The old college frivolity andindiscretion is gone. When one must fight againstgrey hairs, he ceases to quarrel with the moments, buttreasures and uses them. Such a one wears no badgeof imagined superiority, purchased at the price ofdays of idleness and nights of dissipation. He looksupon his fellow students as the vanguard of that actual world which he must conquer, and to which hemust conform be means of intellectual efficiency. Ifthere is no poetry in such a state of things, then thereis no poetry in life itself. The false distinctions arebroken down. College life is real life thrown undersomewhat new conditions, and consequently requiringa somewhat different poetical symbolization; in whichshall be expressed a slightly different cast of emotionsand feelings.III.There are many evils yet to overcome, and hereinour future college poet may employ his humor andhis satire. Some students who still have about theman air of the meadows, condemn harshly the garb bywhich the scholar may signalize that he is such; thathe is not of the common herd; and that he is near inaffinity .with his masters and rulers. With such stub­born spirits it were well that the example of our neigh­boring University be followed, and they be compelledunto wholesome uniformity. One of my rural Germanfriends expresses himself as to this subject in thefollowing impertinent manner. I give his poem placehere only that the great enormity of such perverseopinions may be clearly seen. My friend knowsenough English to have partly forgotten his mothertongue:THE CONVOCATION.Der Rand hinauf! die baumelnden DingenDie schwartzen OberkleiderDie manner alle sind verklingenDie Frauen nur entscheiden,Ein Madchen mit dem kurzen HaarEine thorichte WanderinWessen Stimme war sehr grob und KlarSie redete an den Anderen.Und mehrere Fraulein sind erschrecktDie auf der Biihue sitzenDer Schnurrbart pfliichten und ver:BeehtUnd beissen ihn und itzen.* * * -x-Lebewohl meiner Hut! Adieu meine Hosen !Ieh muss ein Fraulein werdenDie Madchen iiber dem Rade stossenWir miissen weiehlich geberden.This very ungrammatical and reprehensible rhym­ing gives me occasion to mention that the Germanshave much poetry upon the romantic features of stu­dent life. There is "Frisch auf zum Wandern" byBuchheim, "Bundeslied" by Follen, and many others82 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.which are not now to be had at my fingers' ends.From the" Bundeslied" I will quote:Gliihend fiir Wissenschaft,Bliihend in j ugendk raft,Sei Deutschland's JiingerschaftEiu Bruderbund.Certainly it gives a better ring to speak to students asthey are, as men and women, and not as riders of thecollege goat, which our own poet, Holmes, has some­times seemed to do.IV.Possibly the strongest plea for the cultivation ofcollege poetry is to be found in the fact that thegreater knowledge of the students will enable themto comprehend and enjoy a higher and more accuratesymbolization of the emotions and feelings. And tomake this general statement clear, I will proceed atonce to illustrate it. Let us assume certain conditionsand feelings as given, and note how the theory of theemotions is likely to modify their poetic expression.It has suddenly cleared up, then, after a rain, wewill say. Here is one way of expressing the feelingsof the occasion, adapted to our factory atmosphere:After rainThe clouds take form again;Into the sky o'erheadOne casts the golden lines of thought,But in vain when the misty leadHangs heavy and the earth has wroughtIts conquest of the air.Or e'en the primal blue,Though a thousand glimmerings tempt the eyeTo linger,-yet it changes not.I move and wander, but the stars remain;And in the cloudsMy surging thought will seek its likeness.In their effulgent forms appearsThe calm of long agoAnd the sweep of future years.Alone,Unknown,Dear clouds I love you so !Now, in this little squib, everything is on the out­side. In every line there runs the figure of ourthought sitting for a cheap tin-type picture in theclouds, and the attention is directed wholly to the tin­type, and not to the real thought and feeling.Wordsworth was more accurate, when he said, of asimilar occasion:" My heart leaps up when I behold,A rainbow in the sky.So was it when my life began,So is it now I am a man,Or let me die."Here it is asserted that the wish to remain alive isdependent upon the elevation of the cardiac appara­tus at sight of a rainbow. But every student ofJames or Wundt will at once recognize that this car­diac elevation is only a part, or the first conscious effect of that bodily reaction to an idea, which we callemotion. Given the idea and bodily tissue, and theemotion follows inevitably. Wordsworth reallywished for correct ways of thinking, and seized uponthe portion of the bodily reaction which best indicatesthat correctness. But there are hundreds of othersymptoms of this bodily reaction, plainly evident inany instance of strong emotion. Are these unfit forthe expression of that which they really are-i. e.,emotion-merely because less prominent and moreunusual? It is just at this place that the studentspirit of exactness, of introspection, and of innova­tion may make itself felt in the extension and enrich­ment of poetical language and methods.-e. g.:When angels sweep the clouds awayAnd the heavens laugh and kiss you,Then a tremor passes throughEvery fiber of your tissue.How the sweet eolian music fallsAnd thrills each limpid muscle;How the spirit chorus breathes its songWhile dances each corpuscle:No longer shall my soul despair,But climbs and mounts this era,As infinite powers cast their spellAnd echo in my viscera.My stolid friend across the wayOf corpulent propensityIs thunderstruck and wholly dazedBy his emotional immensity.And so one might continue to infinity,-so great aresource does this theory of our feelings offer to poeticexpression. If the newness of such views makesthem seem ridiculous to some, I must remark thatthis theory is not to be laughed out of court. By itsaid much of life and history becomes an open book.Enough has been said to indicate that college lifehas many unawakened strings of harmony waitingthe touch of the muse. The man of ephemeral fan­cies listens to the strains of Shelley; the man in thefurrow may hear the enraptured chords struck outfrom the soul of Robert Burns; all other orders oflife have their poetic. oracle more nearly it seems tome than that order of eager earnest spirits whichpretends to make constant pilgrimages to every shrineof truth or inspiration-the university students.Poor Muse! I have fancied her standing outsidethe campus railing, looking disconsolate upon herchildren within, and weeping like Rachel at their un­merciful butchery. Let us change the figure, andimagine her so standing in the life of each and everystudent. What a hallo of anticipation, what a "Yar­row Unvisited" the youthful fancy finds in collegelife as it appears in the future! Shall we take thetestimony of those who look back upon it as theirpoint of widest prospect? or shall-we accept the newspirit that the college means to us only a disposition )UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.of mind, �hat we are on the heights and by heaven'sgrace we will stay there? In either case we are underhallowed skies. But under these hallowed skies thesturdy Anglo-Saxon genius is being betrayed. Thereare traitors in the camp in a thousand disguises.Long ago, 0 Muse! those locked the gates to theewho fell down and worshiped the Baal of AncientLearning. Forsake us not yet! Tarry yet a littlelonger in thy patience! Out of our mists we willagain cross the Alps, we will pierce the spray of thethe German Ocean once more; we will throw downthe walls, and on the Olympus of Higher Learningthou may'st take up thy eternal dwelling place.J. W. BRAY.) College Verse.I,oVE'S HOPE.Through brazen barsThe silvery starsLook down on a maiden securely holden,While the zephyrs lightAnd the moonbeams brightFind a try sting-place in her hair so golden.She gazes and sighs;To her heavenly eyes,The bright ones of evening are dim, in her weeping;And her lily hands,With their fettering bands,She extends toward the west where her hero is sleeping.For his country he died;O'er the desert wideThe foe in his cruelty carried and bound her,But on wings like a doveHer soul in its loveMounts away from the desolate darkness around her.With closing eyesShe dreamily sighs," I shall rest in the arms of my love till the morning."Ah, yes-she awakes,And his hand she takes,But, 'tis where they await not the day in the dawning.o love, thou art glad;o love, thou art sad;Yet who is so skillful as safely to bind thee?Fear not thou death's pain,N or foeman, nor chain ;Earth and heaven are small enough there, love, to findthee.LAPSUS LINGU.A:t."Do you know the language of flowers? " she said,As she gave him a rose-bud, beautiful, very.He happened to step on a thistle just then,And gave her the whole vocabulary.-University Herald.A DESCENDING SCAI,E.I wish I had a billion,I'd even take a million,How happy with a thousand I would be!I would howl if! had twentyI'd consider ten as plenty," Say, pardner, can't you let me have a V? "-Ex. There was an old lady of PnnkinvilleWho thought" swear words" so shocking,That she'd not even pass the dam,Nor even darn a stocking.-Andover Union.MY NIECE.Her baby faceInfantile grace­Hangs o'er my head.Recall I mustHer winning trust,To faith be led.Sweet confidenceDeriving thence,I firmer treadIn duty's path.Such influence hathHer portrait shed.- Brunonian,They roasted him at college,This" pious" student man,When sent to teach the cannibals,They followed the same plan. -Wrinkle.Where are you going, my pretty maid?I'm going a-compussing, sir, she said.May I go with you, my pretty maid?If you'll carry my books, kind sir, she said.Do you know what's in them, my pretty maid �Just text and margin, kind sir, she said.What is your major, my pretty maid?I study flirtanthropy, sir, she said.Then we can't marry, my pretty maid,No, but let's be engaged, sir, she said.-The Student.Quoth the Prof.:" A fool can ask questionsWhich a wise manCannot answer."Quoth the student:" I suppose that's the reasonWhy so many of usFlunk, sir."-Ex.A STRIKE.When the German horse and the Latin horse,And the French horse and the Greek,With the Spanish horse and the Hebrew horseIu· council together speak,The question will be-" Shall we work so much,Unless our wages they raise? "The common opinion wil Ifheu be suchThat the vote" will all be "neighs."-Brunonian.A Sophomore bold and careless and gay,One afternoon of a winter day,Fixed himself up and went to a play.It was Richard III. and a matinee.The Sophomore sat in the front parquet,All was serene as a day in May,Until King�Richard began to pray," A horse! a horse!" in a faithful way. 83· 84 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,.When the Sophomore sprang from his seat, they say,And cried, the poor king's fea rs to allay,"I'll get you a horse without delay,I know how it is-I have felt that way."-Wabash.The Senior is the climaxOf earthly good, 'tis true,If you cau cap the cl imax,Why not gown him, too?-Ex.TRIAl.S OF A BUSINESS MANAGER.An undertaker's" ad" he sought,Alas, the fates forbade,For the undertaker smiling saidHe'd take it out in trade.- Trinity Tablet.Professor Bemis on the Election.Professor Bemis' views on the meaning of the recentpolitical landslide will be of interest to University stu­dents. who are interested in political studies. Theinterview was courteously granted to a member of theWeek(y staff."There is a large and growing element of discon­tented people in this country," he said, "who, look­ing first to one party and then to the other for help,are becoming more and more convinced, whetherrightly or wrongly, that legislation can help them.Old parties encourage this in the masses by layingupon the tariff or other big reforms responsibility for agreat deal of our industrial evils. This discontentedelement which turned to the Democratic party in r892now turns to the Republican party, and may turn,within two or three years, to a third party or to theDemocratic party again." Of course everyone thinks of the tariff as havinggreat influence upon the election, and certainly theuncertainty prevailing for a long time as to what Con­gress was going to do did have an important effect.The tariff, however, is not to my mind so much a ques­tion of theory as one of practical experiment, and it istoo early yet to determine what the effects of the recenttariff law are going to be. As it will, however, betwo years before the tariff will be raised again we shallhave some opportunity of determining whether ourdepression will last that long· and thus reveal anyclose connection with the very recent reduction. It ishardly likely, however, that a tariff carried out byeither party in the partisan spirit which usually char­acterizes such action, and by such wholesale swallow­ing by one house in Congress of the action of the otheras occurred lately, will be any very fair test of the prin­ciple of either free trade or protection." Very important in its effects was the division uponthe sil ver question in the Democratic Congress. Whilethere is a great problem connected with the silverquestion and needed changes in our national banking system, yet it must be admitted that the business menof the country are disturbed by a large portion of theDemocratic party in Congress that leaned towardnational free coinage of silver independent of anyin ternational agreement and refused to provide anadequate gold supply at Washington. I say thisdespite my conviction that Europe and America aremaking a great mistake in not having some agreementfor international bimetallism. But it seems dangerousfor one nation to try free coinage of silver under thepresent conditions. I do not know of an economist ofany considerable standing, no matter what his radicalviews may be in a certain direction, who thinks differ­ently on this point. On the other hand the farmersof the West probably deserted the Democratic partyfor the Populist to a considerable degree because theDemocratic party was not sufficiently committed tofree coinage of silver." There were the Homestead strike in r892 and thefeeling that protected manufacturers were not sincerein claiming that they advocated protection in order tobenefit labor that were responsible for part of the Dem­ocratic majority. Likewise, the handling of the Pull­man and railroad strikes this summer by PresidentCleveland was a factor in a landside in the other direc­tion, as almost all agree. The present cabinet has notseemed to take that interest in preventing the abusesof railroad management or controlling other monopo­lies that it should have done. Notice, for example,how Postmaster-General Wanamaker's efforts for apostal telegraph were dropped like a hot coal by hissuccessor. Such things necessarily have an effect inthe midst of a growing feeling for public regulation ofthe monopoly problem." One of the greatest factors of the present indus­trial depression, a depression which has, of course,enormously injured the party in power, is its world­wide character-in Australia, the Argentine Republicand Western Europe. This must convince one thatthere are deeper causes and deeper remedies to besought than either tariff changes, long or short hoursof labor, silver money, paper or gold. The world hada panic in 1857, when an inflation of prices was goingon as a result of the discovery of gold in California andAustralia; while Australia, at present under the eight­hour day and with government control of railroads,has perhaps suffered as keenly as ourselves. It is myopinion that the steady decline in prices, or what isthe same thing, the real appreciation of gold since r873as the result of the general increase of silver coinagethroughout Europe as well as America, has contributedto a considerable degree to our present depression.'" But while everyone, even of the Democratic party,is confessing to great blunders and divisions in partycouncils it is not possible to throw all the blame ofdefeat on a, world-wide depression in business."UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Communication.To THE EDITOR :-In a University which hastaken so advanced a stand in educational methods, acourse like Assistant Professor Tolman's "EnglishLiterature (10)" seems strangely out of place; of thesame course as given by Miss Reynolds, nothing butpraise is to be said. The course is required of allAcademic students and is designed to furnish such ageneral practical knowledge of English literature asno educated man can afford to be without, and toarouse and stimulate a love for the masterpieces of ourlanguage that shall bear fruit in a more intimateacquaintance with their beauties through further read­ing and study. To many it is the only taste of liter­ary study which they get in Colleges. It should be acourse of great interest,-indeed one would think itscarcely possible to make it uninteresting. Yet underProf. Tolman it is made as dryas the old-fashionedcourses in Latin and Greek. Disregarding all princi­ples of induction, the class is first put through a bookof versification, just as they used to do with the Latingrammar, and are required abstractly to memorize thetechnical names of a vast number of metres, with thecharacter and number of feet in each. These techni­cal and unimportant details, the acquisition of whichhas occupied a large portion of the term, are retainedin memory from fear of flunking until after examina­tion, and then promptly forgotten. And the class, sofar from having attained a keener perception of thedelicate harmonies of sound, and a heightened appre­ciation for the melodies of the poets, has developed a'profound and life-long disgust for everything that goesby the name of a metre. " Merchant of Venice" suc­ceeds Parson's" Manual of Prosody," and is taken upfrom the standpoint of Rolfe's dry, linguistic notes,while the marvelous beauty and power of the playitself is, as far as the class is concerned, unanalyzedand unappreciated.Scott's poems are made the basis of an exhaustivestudy of the geography-the geography mind you !­of Scotland. And Matthew Arnold's "Sohrab andRustum" is found peculiarly rich in geographicalallusions and is studied in the same way, while thestrange beauty and power of the poem itself, and itspeculiar significance as an embodiment of the literarytendencies and ideals for which its author stood andfought are unemphasized. And so the work dragsdrearily on. All these details of mythology and geog­raphy, which are relentlessly required ofthe class have,to be sure, a real value and throw a certain light uponthe classics studied, but should be, one would think,merely incidental in a University course in EnglishLiterature. The result is inevitable. Literature,which is a living, breathing thing, becomes in the eyesof the class, a rattling of dry bones and the little tasteand love for the beauties of art which they may pos- 85sess, lies in danger of being quenched forever. Prof.Tolman himself as a teacher of the externals, themechanics, the technique of literature has few equalsand is a credit to the University, and his work withthose specializing in English is invaluable. But hisvery education in Germany, where almost exclusiveemphasis has been laid upon that phase of literarystudy, has done much to unfit him for teaching arequired elementary course in literature. And thatsuch a man has been put in charge of such a course,is a pity and a shame. STUDENT.University Vandalism.The laws of meum and tuum ought to be as strictlydefined in college cirIes as in the outside world. Col­legiate dignity should not be lowered, nor collegiatemorals degenerated by breaches of decorum, or ofhonesty such as are not tolerated in either drawing­rooms or courts of justice. What would the socialverdict be upon guests' who robbed their hostess'stable of its costly decoration, or to put it more plainly,what would the judge say to' petty thieves whosnatch flowers and ribbon from a private table?On the occasion of the University Union Fridaynight, the committee had gone to some expense andno little trouble to decorate the refreshment table withflowers and ribbon. The head of Beecher kindly con­sented to lend a vase of white chrysanthemums which. had been given to the house, and one of the youngladies lent seven yards of ribbon to add to the tableeffect. To this borrowed property was added severaldollars' worth of crimson chrysanthemums, the moneyfor which was contributed by the graduate clubs.The U ni versity vandals began their work early onthat occasion. Before the president and his party hadentered the room, the table had been robbed of a partof the flowers and the eesthetic effect destroyed, andwhen the latest guests partook of their refreshmentsthe table was utterly stripped of flowers and ribbon.The same persons who accepted the hospitality of theUnion thought it an appropriate return to carry offproperty not their own, and had not even the graceto leave it until the other guests had departed, butseized it, openly or surreptitiously, whenever thewhim seized them. Such vandalism is an outrage andshould not be tolerated in th'is University.The committee who borrowed the ribbon and flowershave been placed in a most difficult position, whenobliged to explain to the owners that their propertyhas been stolen, and as to the other flowers they naturally fall to the committee upon whom has devolvedthe labor of the decoration.It is not only the lack of social courtesy and ofsauoir vivre but of common honesty, which charac­terizes the acts of Friday night. It is tithe to cryhalt! to these University vandals.86 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLYPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.CHARLES H. GALLION, MANAGERHENRY C. MURPHY, MANAGING EDITORT. W. MORAN,E. A. BUZZELL, •WILBER M. KELSO, ASSISTANT EDITOR- ALUMNI- ADVERTISINGSUBSCRIPTION RATE;One Quarter,One Year (Four Quarters),OFFICE HOURS, 9.30 TO 11.30 $ 752 50The WEEKLY may be found on sale at the office,of the University Press,McClurg's, Brentano's, Curry's, and all News Stands South of 39th Street.Advertising rates made on application.J ddress all communications toUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,58th Street and Ellis Avenue, Chicago.Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Pustuffice, Chicago, Ill., " THEN THE University of Chicago Glee, Sere­VV nade and Banjo Clubs are ready to go 011 theirChristmas trip there will be no better trainedcollege musical organizations in the country.The great interest which is taken in these organiza­tions by members and friends speaks well for the musi­cal tastes of the student. With the very opening ofthe scholastic year the Glee and Serenade Clubs wereactive in reorganizing and within the past week an­other club has sprung up and will contest the honorswith the Serenade Club. The Banjo and Guitar Club,under the able instruction of Mr. Schaeffer, a well­known banjo and guitar performer, and with so manyclever men on its membership roll, should become apopular organization. Already there are more appli­cants than there are positions and there is every pros­pect for a good club.The Serenade Club, under the direction of SignorTomaso, is practicing daily and has become, even atthis early date, remarkably proficient.The Glee Club is energetically rehearsing nightlyand has in Dr. William Carver Williams a most ca­pable instructor whose- experience in the drilling ofcollege g.lee clubs has been wide. The wisdom of thechoice of Mr. H. E. Hewitt as leader, has beenproven. His spirit and that of the president andother officers has been communicated to the' other members of the club, the consequence being that allare stimulated to better effort and harder work. Be­tween now and Christmas several concerts will begiven in the city, both clubs making their first appear�ance this evening. The Christmas trip will probablybe the most important one of the year, it being theintention of the manager to arrange for concerts in St.Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and other Northwesterncities, the last point to be visited being Lincoln, Ne­braska.We again call the attention of the student to theWEEKLY'S offer of a prize for a Chicago .song. Theoriginal offer was to give a prize of five dollars for thebest words and music for a Glee Club song. Wehave received several contributions of verses for asong but no words and music and we have decidedto change the offer. A prize of ten dollars will begiven for accepted words with music, or if no suchcontributions are received five dollars will be awardedthe writer of the best words for a college song. Stu-·dents who have any ability in the direction of writingcollege verse should be willing to give up a little timeto the work of preparing a suitable glee, for in so doingthey will be aiding the Glee Club and themselves, aswell.True appreciation of the efforts of the Glee Clubmay be shown better by contributions of songs thanby kindly compliments or earnest wishes for success.'BUT A week remains now before the Thanks-giving Day game with Michigan and too muchcannot be done within this time to make thecontest an unqualified success. The position of Chi­cago as the metropolis of the West and the importanceof the two institutions-with their alumni and largeclientele of friends, that meet on the gridiron- makethe event one of vast interest. But in addition to theinterest in the game as a mere contest between twolarge institutions of learning, and, in fact, overshad­owing it, is the importance that these ThanksgivingDay contests will have in the development of Westernathletics. Heretofore, the dream of the athletic asso­ciations of Western colleges has been to send a teamEast, and a few doubtful victories against weakenedand disdainful teams have been thought a sufficientreturn. But before the West can have a dignifiedstanding in amateur athletics, the teams here must bedeveloped and strengthened. They must be able tocall forth the strongest efforts of Eastern competitors.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY. 87Surely the quickest way to bring this about is to show the main points of the subject. To grasp the maina full and generous appreciation of the efforts of themen who are now striving to put athle!ic contests inthe West on a meritorious standard. If free andadequate commendation is given the athletic teamshere, it will do more than anything else to stem thecurrent that is carrying eastward the strong men ofthe West. It is then of considerable consequence thateverything possible is done to make the game nextThurdaya success. Every student should attend andbring as many friends as possible. Arouse enthu­siasm. Cheer the players. Let nothing be left undonethat will advance the pleasures of the day. We be­lieve our team will win and are willing to stake ourprospects for turkey and cranberry sauce after thegame, that Captain Allen will leave the field withMichigan's scalp at his belt. But we also believethat a sportsmanlike contest, college enthusiasm anda warmly hospitable treatment of the visitors, every­thing in fine that will make the day live pleasurablyin the memory, is of more moment than a victory.Let everyone do his part and we are not fearful of theoutcome.THE following recipe for a daily theme should beclipped and pasted in the hat of each member ofthe English C class. At Harvard where it wasfirst tried students found it a valuable aid in theirwork. Our students who follow its instructions owethe Harvard Advocate a debt of gratitude.Take a suggestion which can easily be obtained,and should, if possible, be fresh. Select some wordscarefully and beat them up thoroughly with the sug­gestion, but in such a way that no lumps may form.For spice, put in some thoughts-it is always betterif they are your own. Let the mixture simmer for aday or two and skim at odd moments. When it hascleared, heat rapidly to a boiling point, remove andserve hot.PROFESSOR SHOREY said in his speech to theteachers of the conference last Saturday, thatcramming for examinations was legitimate, yetlet no one rest on the wings of time till the crammingtime comes, in the lame hope, that "legitimate"cramming will carry him through. Cramming is afine art in which few are artists. To be a successful"crammer" one must, as Prof. Shorey says, memorizethe right thing. To cram effectually one must grasp points one must have a natural instinct for selectionskillfully guided by the stress which the professor laysupon the principal ideas in the classroom. To appre­ciate this stress one must have a general knowledge ofthe subject-matter before he enters the classroom.The best way to cram for an examination is to try toabsorb and assimilate the leading facts and ideas fromday to day, and if one does this as he goes along thecourse it will result in the steady improvement ofthe mind, while cramming will take its legitimateplace finally by the easy gathering of these facts inhand for a successful examination.Fraternity Matters.The local Sigma Chi organization which has beenbanded together for the past year, consisting ofMesrs. Atwood, Arnold, Stevens, Wolf, Miller, Lowy,Hall, Calvert and Dibell, has disbanded. Hall andDibell have gone to the Phi Kappa Psi; Atwood hasjoined Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Arnold, Stevensand Wolf have entered the ranks of the Omega Club.According to the local petitioning body, the trium­vers wished to grant them a charter before Thanks-. giving, but the boys thought that considering theirsmall number and scattered position, acceptancewould have been impracticable. They realized thattaking into consideration the number of fraternitiesnow in the field and those about to enter, they wouldbe unable to maintain the position aspired to. Thegeneral impression now is, that with the additionalstrength it has acquired, the Omega Club will begranted a charter from Psi Upsilon.The Banjo Club.Mr. Arling Schaefer, who delighted the large audi­ence at the musicale, Wednesday of last week, hasbeen secured as instructor for the Banjo Club, whichwas organized Thursday.Ralph Hobart has been elected leader of the cluband R. N. Tooker, president. The provisional. mem­bers are:First Banjo-Ralph Hobart, R. N. Tooker, W. P.Behan, Pershing.Banj orine - Joseph Campbell.Guitars- Hall, Steigmeyer and Steinwadel.It is understood that the membership of the clubwhen fully organized will be fifteen.The Banjo Club will accompany the Glee Club onsome of its trips. At the Central Music Hall andother Chicago concerts all three clubs=-Olee, Sere­nade and Banjo, will give the programme.88 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.The Difference.He (just 10.)She kissed me to-day,I shouldn't have let her;Be that as it may,She kissed me to-day.I really can't say,.If she'll ever know better;She kissed me to-day,I shonldn't have let her.He (10 years later).I kissed her to-day,I teased for an honr ;She couldn't say nay,I kissed her to-day.I feel just as gay,As a budding young flower;I kissed her to-day,I teased but an hour.c. s. P.Alumni Notes.It will perhaps be of interest to the readers of theWEEKLY to know that two of the successful candi­dates in the recent election received their educationin the University of Chicago.The law office of Newman & Northrup, 80r Cham­ber of Commerce, is a distinctively University of Chi­cago office. The firm, with assistants, consists ofJacob Newman, '73; George W. Northrup, '80; Wm.M. Northrup, , 86; Solomon O. Levinson, '86; RobertG. Hall, , 86, and Charles T. B. Goodspeed, , 89.J. Frank Aldrich, just elected for a second term inCongress as representative of the fifth congressionaldistrict, was a student for a number of years, after­wards going East to complete a special course in poly­technics. He was Commissioner of Public Works,under Mayor Washburne and has been for some yearsprominent in local politics.Judge Christian C. Kohlsaat of the Probate Courtwas a member of the class of '67 and is a mem­ber of the Alumni Association of the University.He was appointed to his present office by Gov­ernor Fifer in r889 to fill the vacancy caused bythe death of Judge Knickerbocker, and was electedfor a term of four years at the election of r890, andthis fall re-e1ected for a second term. He is verypopular with the bench and bar of the city and en­joys the justly earned confidence of the people, as isevidenced by the fact that in the last election he ranseveral thousand votes ahead of his ticket.We are glad to note the progress made in Frater­nity life at the University. It was one of the featuresof life in the old University, al,though we had no chap­ter houses such as the one pictured in the last issue ofthe W EEKL Y • We are glad to see the student of to-day following in the footsteps of his father; for ex­ample, 'we notice in the account of the Phi Kappa Psichapter, the name of Dorrance Dibell as one soon to beexposed to the tender mercy of the Phi Psi Goat.His father, Dorrance Dibell, of the class of '66 U. ofC., now judge of the Circuit Court of Will County,was a member of Beta chapter of the Phi Psi Frater­nityaway back in the '60S. Other members of theIllinois Beta in those days were Robert E. Neighbor'67, Byron B. Blake '68, W. Eugene Bozworth '69,Alonzo D. Foster '69, T. B. Pray, '69, Robert D.Sheppard ' 69.'86 Lincoln M. Coy was married to Miss Alice E.Wood at the 41St street Presbyterian church on Tues­day evening November 20, Rev. H. A. Johnsonofficiating, assisted by Rev. Thomas C. Hall. A re­ception followed at the residence of the bride'sparents, 40r6 Michigan avenue, after which thecouple left for a two weeks' trip to New Orleans.They will reside at the" Chateau," No. 4417 In­diana avenue, where they will be at home January 8,1895.Mr. Coy is the senior member of the law firm ofCoy & Brockway (also of '86) is an active member ofthe Alumni Association of Phi Kappa Psi, treasurerof the 4Ist street Presbyterian church, secretary ofthe Carleton Club, etc. The bride is a daughter ofMr. James Wood of the well-known commission firmof Wood Brothers, doing business at the Stock Yards.Amusements.Julia Marlowe Taber, Monday, Nov. 19, 1894:Second week's Repertoire will be as follows: Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, "The School ForScandal.' Thursday and Friday nights, "Belle'sStratagem and Chatterton." Saturday Matinee, " TheSchool For Scandal." Saturday night, "Ingomar."In producing William Haworth's latest and greatesteffort, "On the Mississippi," the proprietors and man­agers have the fullest confidence that the drama is onewhich will entertain, interest and instruct all classesof people, and will deserve the most liberal patronage.No endeavor or expense has been spared to make itworthy of extraordinary public attention, and to thatend it has been given a more complete and brilliantequipment than has been accorded any other stage ef­fort made during the past decade.Stuart Robson's annual visit is always welcomed bya very large proportion of the theatre-goers of thiscity, not only on account of their regard for the genialand excellent actor himself, but because each succes­sive year of Mr. Robson's career presents somethingnew and pleasing to break the routine of repetitionand mediocrity in the realm of dramatic happenings.Mr. Robson has done more and more elaborate com-UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.edy productions within the past eight years thanalmost any other actor who devotes his attention tothe lighter forms of entertainment. His revivals of"The Comedy of Errors," " Twelfth Night,"" Merry Wives of Windson," and many others of theforemost works of the masters of English drama willhave the first place in the annals of stage history inthis country, and his original productions-scarcelyless numerous than the revivals-have within a fewyears placed him in the front rank of English speak­ing comedians. His coming to the Chicago OperaHouse is marked by one of the most important produc­tions of the year, that of the new comedy by M.Adrian Barbusse, the celebrated French author,which is entitled" The Interloper," or "The Feet ofVenus." This production marks the first incursionon the part of Mr.' Robson into the fertile fields ofFrench drama since he produced "Forbidden Fruit,"nearly a score of years ago.Julia Marlowe Taber will give a special Thanksgiv­ing Matinee on Thursday afternoon, November 29.Seats for both .matinee and evening performance cannow be ordered. " Ingomar" will be the afternoonbill and" Romeo and Juliet" will be given at night." Shore Acres," with a fine company of players andentire new scenery, will playa four weeks' engage­ment at McVicker's Theatre in January next. Theauthor, Mr. James A. Herne, has WOll a great successas Uncle Nathaniel, a part originally created by him,and first seen in this city.Pauline Hall and her opera company will present" Dorcas" at the Chicago Opera House at the conclu­sion of the Stuart Robson engagement. This piecehas achieved a success wherever it has been presentedand is said to be the brightest and most artistic mu­sical skit which has recently been put before the pn b­lie.Football Schedule.Sept. S. Englewood High School, o. University'32.Sept. IS. Englewood High School, o. University22.Sept. 22.46.Sept. 29.Oct. 6.Oct. I I.Oct. 13.Oct. 17.Oct. 20.Oct. 24.Oct. 27.Oct. 3I.Nov. 3. Manual Training School, o. UniversityChicago Athletics, 12. University, 4.Northwestern, o. University 46.Rush Medical, 6. University, 14·Beloit, o. .University 16.C. A. A. (ad Team), o. University 20.U. of Wisconsin, 30. University, o.C. A. A., 30. University, o.S. U. of Iowa, IS. University, IS.Prairie A. C., o. University, 26.Purdue, 10. University, 6. 89Nov. 7.Nov. 10.Nov. 2I.Nov. 29. Englewood Y. M. C. A., o. University, 4.Lake Forest, o. University, 2S.U. of Illinois, at Chicago.U. of Michigan, at Chicago.SECOND TEAM.Hyde Park H. S.-. University,-.Hyde Park H. S., 12. Universityo.Princeton-Yale School, o. University,Sept. 2.Oct. IS.Nov. IS.16.Nov. 17. Morgan Park Academy, 6. University,S.The Stoddard Lectures.The lectures this week are on Norway and are at­tracting quite as much attention as those given hith­erto. The views used in these lectures are the verybest attainable. Next week will be the last, and thelecture one that every student and professor shouldhear. "The Passion Play" has attracted attentionover the entire globe and Mr. Stoddard's descriptionof it is always given with a dramatic effect that neverfails to impress his hearers. Those who h�ve andthose who have not heard the other lectures of theseries; cannot affordto miss this one.Majors and Minors.Foster Hall received Monday.The Semitic Club meets with Dr. Hirsch this even­ing.Joe Flint will return for work in the Universitynext week.The Cap and Gown has elected as assistant businessmanager O. J. Arnold.The Kunitz String Quartette gave the programmeat the musicale yesterday:Dean Hulbert will begin to-morrow afternoon acourse of four lecturers on "The History of Missions."Among those of the faculty who attended thetwelfth annual Baptist convention at Detroit lastweek were President Harper and Prof. W. C. Wilkin­son.Dr. Wm , Cleaver Wilkinson will speak before theChristian Union in the chapel Sunday evening, No­vember 25, at 7:45 o'clock. His theme will be(( Orthodoxy: What it is, and what it is worth."A large crowd of University men accompanied thesecond team to Morgan Park Saturday and watchedthe Academy team go down before Paterson's men.Considerable football talent is developing in the Acad­emy, and in future years the University can look tothat school to furnish it with good players. Dickey;the Morgan Park right half-back, showed up welland will be a valuable man by the time he enters theUniversity.by Mrs. William Penn Nixon, Miss Nixon, Mrs.Riser and Mrs. Martha Foote Crowe. Tea was servedby eight pretty young ladies-residents at Foster.When his present American visit is concludedConan Doyle will write an article for The Ladies'Home Journal on American women, telling ., HowYour Women impressed Me."A boxing club has been organized with Gale, Hall,Campbell, Walling, Haywood, Atwood, Lackner, N eel,Sincere, Steigmeyer, Randall, Rand, Wooley, LawMoran, Daugherty, Bond, Howard for its members.,J. E. Raycroft is training the classes which meetMondays and Saturdays. So many have applied formembership it is probable a special instructor willhave to be secured.To-night the Glee Club makes its initial bow beforea Chicago audience. It will assist in a concert to begiven by the congregation of Christ's Chapel on theNorth Side. The club will give four numbers:, 'There was an old Woman," "Maid of Athens,""A Catastrophe" and "Good-Night, Beloved," -thelatter being a solo by Mr. Fred D. Nichols and clubaccompaniment.The Serenade Club also makes its first appearanceto-night in Englewood, where a programme of twelvenumbers will be given in the Presbyterian Church.To-morrow night the University College receptionand ball should be attended by every member of theUniversity. The arrangements are perfect and a de­lightful party should result. Tickets may be securedfrom H. R. Caraway and other members of the com­mittee.The Fraternities have been active during the pastweek. With the rejection of the Sigma Chi petition­ers the Omega club pledged O. J. Arnold, Louis Wolf,Jr., R. W. Stevens of that body. Friday evening theOmego gave an initiatory banquet at the Windermereto its new members who had been taking different de­grees during the afternoon. The members of theOmego club who were present were H. R. Johnson,W. S. Bond, H. Daugherty, Philip Rand and HarryStone.The local Phi Kappa Psi chapter will this eveninggive a house party in honor of the new initiates, whoare C. D. Dibell, John T. Campbell and James E.Hall. Over fifty alumni will be present. Kinsleyhas been engaged to cater and Hand's orchestra willfurnish the music.90 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Prof. Burton's subject at the Sunday meeting was, The Epistle to the Romans."The board of trustees bas finally adopted maroon asthe official color of the University.Princeton-Yale School fell easy victims to our sec­ond team Thursday. Paterson and Axelson playedwell.Might it not be well for the 'Varsity team to do somepractice in secret between now and the ThanksgivingDay game.The Serenade Club has been invited to a privatebazaar to be held at the residence of Hon. Harlow N.Higenbotham, Nov. 29th.Dr. Ed Baker Hulbert, Dean of the Divinity School,addressed the Christian Union last Sunday evening,Nov. 18, on "Sowing Wild Oats."Hayrick.- "Did they give your son a good markat college? "Treetop.- "Pretty fair; forty-two inches chestmeasure."-New York World.At the annual business meeting of the Mt. HolyokeCollege Alumnse Association of the Northwest, re­cen tly held in Chicago, our Librarian, Zella AllenDixson, was unanimously elected President of the As­sociation.Prof. Moulton, whose picture we give, has justreturned from England and will give lectures duringthis quarter on a circuit comprising Freeport, Sterling,Princeton. Rockford and Springfield. He will con­duct a course of lectures in toe city during the winterquarter.The Hyde Park Glee Club has organized as fol­lows: Wheeler and Campbell, first Tenor; Frazer,Gilson and Brice, second Tenor; Lewis, Shephardand Perkins, first Bass; Irwin, Kilbourne, Preston,White and Ray, second Bass. The boys are pro­gressing very rapidly under the able tutorage of Pro­fessor Knorr.Rejected manuscripts may be recovered by theirowners if called for between the hours of 9 : 30 and10 : 30 A. M. The following rejected contributions arenow on hand: Prose, "Billy," "The Open Door,"" Josh ua' s First Game," "A Modern Juliet," "TheFreshman's Return." Verse, "Plighted Troth,"" To Inez," " My Dream of Bliss," "Smoke Rings,"" My Arbor," "Does He Know? "Foster Hall's first reception of the year was givenon Monday, and the large crowd which attended borewitness that the memory of Foster's open hospitalityhad not been effaced from students' minds in the fewmonths of vacation. The beautifully decorated par­lors were crowded from four till six, and every new­comer and old visitor was made to feel thoroughly athome. Miss Myra Reynolds was aided in receiving The Mortar Board.The" Mortar Board" is the name of the new soci­ety for women which has been organized within thepast week. The society is not established on tbe basisof a Greek letter sorority, but as a local organization,which purposes to be both literary and social, ".UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.It will have literary meetings from time to time atwhich only members and invited guests shall be pres­ent.The colors of the" Mortar Board" are dark blueand gold. A design for a pin has been decided upon.The charter members of the new organization are:Anna H. Wilmarth, Helen O. Hewitt, Agnes S. Cook,Margaret Purcell, Edith E. Swartz, Nellie L. Jones,Marilla W. Freeman, Helen B. Thompson, GraceFreeman, Mabel Dougherty.In Literature.The two famous Yale athletes, A. A. Stagg and H.L. Williams, have utilized their experience in thepreparation of a work which must be the standardguide to football. Their Treatise on A merican Football,which is to be published immediately by D. Appleton& Co., contains instructions for beginners, hints ontraining, separate chapters for all the positions, andchapters on teamplay , signals, etc., with 69 full-pagediagrams of plays, showing the positions to be occu­pied by each man. The amended rules of the gameare added, and the book, while invaluable for players,is hardly less useful to spectators who wish to under­stand the plays. Messrs. Hiukey , Bliss, Cumnock,and Casper W. Whitney are among the experts whorecommend this timely work.Along the R.iver.The little towns on the shore of the Upper Missis­sippi are connected by a " bottom road" which runsalong by the river with a high bluff on the other side.In the witching hour of night a more lonely placecannot be found, nor one more suggestive of horrors.Here and there the traveler sees the covered wagonsof the movers camped out for the night, which re­mind him of wild tales of the plains. The dead treeshold out their leafless branches as if they were tOLtured creatures begging for aid. The river, a broadexpanse of glassy light, looks cold and treacherous;the wierd reflections on its surface point back inmemory to the face of a friend who was drowned.The leaves of the cotton-wood trees move with a.faint rustle and silvery light, like shadows of thedeparted. There our travelerj enters a long coveredbridge, where he seems fairly to force his way throughthe darkness, with never a gleam of light except fromthe fiery-eyed dragons of fancy. As he emerges fromthe bridge and the rumble of the wheels dies awayhe sees a dark object in the road just ahead. A mur­dered man? A ruffian crouching there with villain­ous' intent? A quiver of suspense. The carriagewheels graze by. Then comes a familiar grunt. 0that grunt! How delicious ! Not very musical yousay. No, but a grunt is better than a groan any day.E. L. THE Chicago National College of Music loctated inthe Atheuseum building, 26 Van Buren street, beganits fifth year with a largely increased membership ofpupils in the various departments.Dr. H. S. Perkins, the director and president, hasadded to his large faculity, Mr. Alexander Krauss,violinist, a graduate of the Vienna (Austria) Conserv­atory of Music: Mr. Josef Laendner, viola, 'of theNuerzburg (Bavaria) Conservatory and Mr. FrederickDreibrodt, contra- bass-all leading musicians in theThomas orchestra. While all the higher branchesare thoroughly taught by first- class instructors, therudimental part of music has a conspicuous place,­including sight-singing and reading, which is taughtby Dr. Perkins. A class in this department willbegin Monday evening, November 19, and day-classat four o'clock Saturday afternoon, November 24, inroom 42 B of the college.Business Notices.Czarinas and lorgnettes add the finishing touchesto a lady's toilet. Send for shopping list, C. D. Pea­cock, Jeweler, Corner State and Washington Sts.8-5t.Storm doors and weather-strips at Hunter's, 5524Jefferson avenue. 2-8t*Thos. Keene, Merchant Tailor. The best fits inChicago warranted. 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