UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Single Copies10 Cents. VOL. III, No. 15.CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 17, 1S95.A Faculty Board Versus a Code of Rules.Last Friday evening the presidents of the largeruniversities of the northwest held a prolonged sessionat the Auditorium hotel, and unanimously agreedupon a number of rules for controlling and purifyingathletic contests, which will be submitted to the fac­ulties of the different institutions for ratification.The meeting was notable on account of the positionof those that composed it and of. the results arrived at,In the east a meeting of this kind would "have beencomposed of students, or graduates at the most, andthe rules formulated would be submitted to the stu­dent athletic organizations in the colleges concernedfor adoption and enforcement. Athletics, however,has reached its majority in the East, while here it isstill in its nonage. There big leagues and smallleagues have been formed and each institution has astrong guard to watch over its athletics in its alumni.Here there is no league and nobody that can legislateauthoritatively on college athletics. So if the evilsnow existing are to be remedied, the college presi­dents must perforce attend to it.Eleven rules were adopted at the meeting. Thefirst one is as follows:Rule 1. Each college .and university that has not alreadydone so shall appoint a committee 011 college' athletics whoshall take general supervision of all athletic matters in theirrespective colleges or universities, and who sha11 have a11 re­sponsibility of enforcing the college or university rules regard­ing athletics and all interco11egiate sports.This suggestion, to my mind, is the very best thatcould have been made. It leaves to the committee ofthe faculty to decide all the vexed questions of pro­fessionalism and to keep college contests strictly col-.lege affairs. It is a marked departure from the usualmethod of leaving such matters to partisan studentorganizations, with their rigid code of rules, ineffec­tual to provide against all abuses that arise on theone hand and causing. hardship to individuals bytheir stringency on the other. But curiously enoughafter doing away with all necessity for rules, tenmore were adopted. The spirit of these is excellent.But there is scarcely one of them that is not open toserious objections as a hard and fast standard.At Chicago a board of athletics has been establishedand to them the report of the presidents' meeting willbe submitted. The important question that must besettled by the board is whether or not to adopt for­mally the last ten rules. A running comment on the rules will present a few reasons that may be urged. against literally following them:Rule 2. No one shall participate in any game or athleticsport unless he be a bona fide student doing full work in a reg­ular or special course, as defined in the curriculum of his college,and no persou who has participated in any match game as amember of any college team shall be permitted to participatein any game as a member of another college team until he hasbeen a matriculant in said college under the above conditionsfor a period of six months. This rule shall not apply to a stu­dent who, having graduated at one college, shall enter anotherco11ege for professional or graduate study.Rule 3. No person shall be admitted to any intercollegiatecontest who has received any gift, remuneration, or pay for hisservices on a college team.Rule 4. Any student of any institution who shall be pursuinga regularly prescribed resident graduate course within suchinstitution whether for an advanced degree or one of its profes­sional schools, may be permitted to play for a period of theminimum number of years required for securing the graduateor professional degree for which he is a candidate.The first clause of rule 2 is unassailable, but whyshould any barrier be raised against a person's freelyleaving one college to enter another ? If a studentleaves this college for another or comes here fromanother, why should suspicion be cast about him andhe be debarred from competition in athletic contests?The evil that this rule is intended to guard against isof course apparent, but in individual cases this evilmay not be present, and besides the time limit is in­adequate, if one is needed. Without the faculty com­mittee this rule would be needed; with one the sameresults could be better accomplished and no one beinjured. In the fourth rule the words "minimumtime" are ambiguous and perhaps in some cases wouldwork an injustice. A very good student may takefive years for a doctor's degree, and a very poor one,satisfied with less preparation, take the degree in threeyears. However, the faculty committee can easilydecide whether a student is prolonging his course forbaseball or whether that is only incidental to his col­lege work.Rule 5. No person who has been employed in training a col-ege team for intercollegiate contests shall be allowed to par­ticipate in any intercollegiate contest, as a member of any teamwhich he has trained, and no professional athlete and no personwho has ever been a member of a professional team shall playin an intercollegiate contest.This rule has the weight of amateur usage behindit, but it is hard to see why a man who has played ballto earn' money enough to send him through collegeshould be at a disadvantage over a man that has166 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.plowed or worked in a drug store with the same end,in view. Whatever evil such a rule could remedycould, to repeat, be accomplished by the faculty board.Rule 6. No student shall play in any game under an assumedname.Rule 7. No student shall be permitted to participate in anyintercollegiate contest if found by the faculty of the institutionto which he belongs to be delinquent in his studies.Rule 8. All games shall be played on grounds either ownedby or under the control of one or both of the colleges partici­pating in the contest, and all games shall be played understudent management, and not under the patronage or controlof any other corporation, association, or private individual.Rule 9. The election of managers and captains of teams ineach college shall be subject to the approval of the facultycommittee on athletics.Rule 10. College teams shall not engage in games with anyprofessional team nor those teams representing so-called ath­letic clubs.Rule II. Before every intercollegiate contest a list of menproposing to play shall be presented by each team or teams tothe other or others, certifying that all members are entitled toplay under the rules adopted, such certificate to be signed bythe registrar or secretary of the college or university. It shallbe the duty of the captains of the teams to enforce this rule.If in rules 8 and 10 the words" without special per­mission from the faculty" were inserted, they wouldbe unobjectionable. The principle is good but thereare exceptions. Rule I I of course would have to bemodified.To those who offer merely lip service in the effortto uproot professionalism in the field of amateur sportsa series of rules with the manifold possibilities of cir­cumventing them would be more acceptable than theunexpressed will of the board. But a notice from thefaculty to a captain of a team requesting him to dis­qualify a player for good and sufficient reasons wouldbe much more efficacious in making a high standardfor college athletics and at the sa�e time would notdisbar unexceptionable players who come under theban of a literal interpretation of rules. H. R.Quadrangle Club-House.Just opposite the library and gymnasium building,the Quadrangle Club is to erect a large club house.Fronting on Lexington avenue a little south of Fifty­seventh street, and near by the residence of ProfessorLaughlin, the structure will be erected. It will havea frontage of fifty-five feet on Lexington and a depthof seventy-five feet. It will be three stories high andwill be fitted up with all the conveniences that go tomake up a perfect club house. The upper floors willbe entirely given up to apartments for bachelor pro­fessors who wish to make their home there, while thefirst floor will contain the dining and reading rooms,library, parlors and reception rooms. In the base­ment will be the kitchen and billiard rooms. TheQuadrangle Club was organized over a year ago, and now counts over a hundred men on its membershiproll. Only members of the faculty have hitherto beeneligible to membership. Now, however, it has beendecided to admit members of the board of trustees,. and the curators of the Columbian Museum. Literarymen of Chicago who wish to take advantage of theopportunities the club offers, will be voted upon.The Quadrangle has occupied parlors on the first floorof the Barry Hotel for a year. Now, however, thatthe scope of the organization has been broadened theold quarters will not be large enough to accommodatethe needs of the club, and the new home has beendecided upon. Henry I ves Cobb has drawn the plansfor the structure and they are now being perfected.Work will be begun on the building in the spring andit will be ready for occupancy next October.Practice or Theory, or Both?Two weeks previous to the last November electionsProfessor Judson asked the members of one of theclasses in Political Science how much they knewabout the people whose names would soon appear onthe blanket ballot. Despite the fact that a large pro­portion were voters and fairly well posted on nationalissues, their knowledge of candidates was so frag­mentary as to be practically worthless. ProfessorJudson expressed no surprise at the result of his in­terrogation, but rather considered the class represen­tative of this great and free American people.Setting aside any question of the duties of citizen­ship he wished the members of. the class to be prac­tical, political scientists and so requested them tomake as careful and as 'impartial an investigation aspossible of the public records and private history ofthe candidates for city, state and county offices, andof the men running for the legislature and for Con­gress in the Thirty-fourth ward. The work was di­vided among the members of the class and a reportwas made the Friday before election.Considering the limited time and the few originalsources to be discovered in so small a space, the re­ports' were gratifying beyond expectation in theirfullness and impartiality, and every elector in theclass could then cast his vote with a moderate amountof intelligence at least. There was some talk of giv­ing the results of the investigation at a mass-meetingof the students, but nothing came of it.This University has chosen to emphasize the neces­sity of practice as well as theory in the conduct ofeducation: the work of the statistics department illus­trates its attitude; it has believed firmly in an urbanlocation for such an institution on the theory that aman's perfect development cannot be reached in thesingle process of studying books-he must live inorder to think.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.To-day the spirit of reform is invading every polit­ical entity. Among the organizations working forintelligence and purity in politics is the Civic Federa­tion of Chicago. It is making ready for war in thecoming spring election. Now, if ever, is the time for" I will " to vindicate her honesty and intelligence.This temporary plan of inquiry but followed outthe general policy of the University. What is thereto question the feasibility of making it a permanentorder, arid of thus establishing the special policy ofrequiring prolonged, impartial and thorough investi­gation of all candidates in city, state and congressionalelections, in publishing the results of the same as theunbiased report of a non-political organization, inbringing such reports to the notice of the appropriatecommittees of the Civic Federation, or other similarnon-partisan organizations, that they may use the in­formation in the campaign of education.Such a course of action would still further identifythe University with progressive methods, with theinfluences of reform, would assist in creating a betterinformed student constituency, would indirectly em­phasize the duties of citizenship and would give apractical expression to the pet theory that the studentmust not be isolated, that his future business is tolead thought rather than to follow opinion.MYRA HARTSHORN STRAWN.A Cure for Pride.Roger Smith is the scion of a wealthy Kenwood fam­ily. His grandfather's name was Smith; his father'sname is Smythe, and he used to sign himself Smythey,but recently has changed back to Smith again. Thisfact has but one connection with the story, namely, toshow how great a fop he was. Foppery was his chieffault. Aside from it he was a good fellow, a man ofculture and education. By nature intelligent and affa­ble, but reared in the midst of the artificial life, sousual among the rich, and seeing only this side of life(his station in society being sheltered from the rudetouch of the world, which broadens the mind) hisopinions were narrow and his manner affected. Pettedand spoiled from youth, he had become enormouslyproud and conceited. He was always conspicuous forthe style and costly appearance of his clothes, whichhe wore with a pompous air of self-approval, that wasgrandeur in the eyes of his followers, but very amus­ing to others. Indeed, so careful was Roger to be" proper" as he called it, and exactly ape the leadersof fashion, that, though a few looked up to him astheir model, many disliked and more ridiculed him.He was exceedingly fond of the young ladies; moreso than most young men because in addition to thenatural liking inherent in others, there was for himthe sweet pleasure which flattery afforded his vanity.While the young ladies of shallow minds looked on him with admiration as' a leader of fashion and exam­ple of "good form;"-the sweet creatures of greaterintellects were too kind-hearted to express their realopinions of him; and a few (the deeper ones) flatteredhim intentionally just for amusement. So up to histwenty-second year it seemed that the longer he lived,the prouder he grew, until one wondered when thelimit would be reached ..But at last his pride had a fall, and fell under suchhumiliating circumstances, causing laughter at hisexpense for so long a time, that gradually he wascured of conceit and is now one of the best men to befound.Attend therefore ye proud, and tremble lest thesame f�te await you! Attend, also; ye who havefriends to cure, and hear the story of the "BarrelCure for Pride."* * *One bright, cold Saturday afternoon in January, Mr.Roger Smythey, then a dignified young man of sometwenty-two summers, set out for Washington Parkto skate on the smoothly-frozen, well-kept pond, soattractive to Chicago's youths and maidens. As usual,he was arrayed in the most costly clothes of recent cut,carried a little cane, wore a tall silk hat set jauntily onthe side of his head, and a large chrysanthemum inhis buttonhole. He knew well that many pretty youngwomen of his acquaintance would be on the ice, tak­ing advantage of the pleasure and exercise afforded byold winter, and he anticipated with pleasure the im­pression which his majestic presence would cause. Hewalked leisurely up to the pond, and fastening on hisskates glided forward in graceful, outcurving sweeps,for he was a master of the art. A pompous manneron ice is much more becoming than on land, being apleasing contrast to the little jerky strokes of the manywho are satisfied with any means of keeping theirheads higher than their heels. Although there was alarge crowd on the ice, Roger, with his fancy curves,was quite conspicuous.Young, handsome and rich, it was no wonder thatthe maids who knew him were glad to show it, andhappy when he skated with them; no wonder he feltproud of his conquests. Indeed, the young womenseemed most anxious for his company, and he was notslow to notice a fact so pleasing to him.It was not long before a large part of the crowd wasintently observing Mr. Smythey, some admiring hisgraceful movements, some anxiously awaiting theirturns as his partner, and some looking enviously onthose more fortunate than themselves in his acquaint­ance. At last Mr. Smythey grew tired. He con­cluded to rest awhile and was about to start for thewaiting rooms when over on the eastern side of thepond he espied a barrel sticking up out of the ice ..Thinking he would rather sit outside and watch the167now uniformly giggled. These things saddened him.From a state of furious resistance, he became sullenand resigned. At first a few salt tears of shame hadrolled down his cheeks, but now his eyes were dry.He silently soaked. It was his first experience of therude indiffe�ence of the world to the individual, andthough it embittered, it broadened him. He wouldhave laughed and jeered at another, just as they didat him, because he could not have imagined himselfin another's place. Now his point of view waschanged, and he even smiled at his own fancy, as hethought that if some of those laughing young ladieswere in his predicament, they would be more' sober. -He realized most forcibly the good and beauty of a littlehuman sympathy, and as each successive chill ranalong his spinal column, and a new peal of laughtergrated on his ears, he wondered how one's sufferingcould be another's pleasure, and shivered at the cold­ness of people-and things.At last they chopped him out. But 10 ! more won­derful than Indian juggler's feats, though one manwent in the barrel, another came out. Mr. Smytheywent in, Roger Smith came out, and is to-day one ofthe most modest and courteous of men. If any ofyou wish to see Mr. Smith's bad qualities, go look inthe barre], for that is where he left them-but be surenot to bring any away with you.168 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLYaskaters than remain in the crowded, dirty, waitingrooms, he skated leisurely over to the barrel.Anyone who has ever skated at Washington Parkhas observed these barrels with both ends knockedout, sticking up endways from the ice, into whichthey are frozen at the lower end. The barrels are soplaced for the purpose of increasing the thickness ofthe ice over the rest of the pond, all the latent heat inthe water finding vent through such an opening.Consequently, the water inside the barrels is seldomfrozen over, as Mr. Smythey found to his cost. Seatedon the rim of the barrel watching the skaters, he wassuddenly startled by the too close approach of one ofthem, jumped backwards, slipped and before anyonecould notice his predicament, his body slid into thebarrel, his heels flew up and his head lurched forward.There he was, the pompous Mr. Smythey, stripped ofhis dignity, doubled up, his chin and feet almostmeeting, sitting in a barrel just over icy water and(Oh, horrors!) slipping further down every minute.The first thing everyone did was to laugh. Thenext was to laugh again. One cynical old reprobate,who had been watching Mr. Smythey for some time,almost choked with laughter. He lay down on theice near the barrel, over whose rim, poor Roger couldjust see him, and rolled and kicked and held his sidesand shook until he turned purple in the face. Thisproceeding did not amuse Mr. Smythey. Indeed, hehad a supreme contempt for such a shallow-brainedcreature. "You giggling idiots," he yelled, "can'tsome of you pull me out and not stand there laughingas though it were fnnny.'" He failed to see the joke.He had a humorous turn of mind, too, but he wasslipping further down every minute, and anticipationsof icy water just a quarter of an inch below the smallof his back were quite tormenting. He suffered ex­actly the opposite torture from that of Tantalus. Ofcourse the crowd soon tried to pull him out; but alas!a few downward bent nails in the barrel prevented andhe was not disposed to insist. There was no help forit. He had to stay in the barrel until they could gettools and cut him out.Poor fellow! he didn't appear to good advantagein a barrel; it was not at all " good form, you know."So far, however, he was not very uncomfortable phys­ically, until, by slow degrees, he slipped into thewater. Alas! where was his dignity then? Hewrithed and squirmed but only slipped faster for histrouble. Poor fellow, he 'was n't comfortable. Ofcourse he was in no danger of drowning, for some onecould easily hold him from going through the barrel,if it were possible for him to do so; but this fact onlyaggravated him. Had he been in real danger, thecrowd would not have thought it a laughing matter;as it was, the small boys jeered him, the cynic roaredand the young women who had so uniformly flattered, C. B.Incidents of the Football Trip.Our first meal served on the trip was on Wednes­day evening as we were leaving Chicago. Our din­ing tables were improvised, none too stable and verynarrow. This last qualification caused considerablediscomfort until the fellows got used to it. Thefirst to suffer was Wyant. He was just beginning anassault upon a plate heavily laden with the plain butgenerous fare supplied by Bishop, the cook, when asudden lurch of the car slid the plate just over the'edge, tipping it "butter side down" into his lap.At Joliet a delegation of high school students was atthe station and gave us quite a reception. Theycheered Hirshberger especially, as he is a Joliet boy." Molay," who "hazed the freshmen," receivednotice. They cheered wildly for the Chicago team,its captain and players, and loudly vociferated thefact that they themselves were" First in war, first in peaceFirst in the hands of the city police."A11en joined the team at a little town near St. Louisand "turned in" immediately in the berth overKnapp and Lamay. The hinges on the berth gaveway and the berth stopped in its descent about sixinches from the faces of the sleepers below. Nothingdaunted Allen remained where he was and those belowUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.knew nothing of the change of conditions until morn­ing.We reached Denver at 4: 30 in the morning. Ofcourse it was dark, but, nevertheless, the ever watch­ful Hering, who wanted to see Pike's Peak, was onthe lookout for that projection on the face of nature.At last he descried it, or thought he did, and awokeBob to see what on closer examination proved to be­a haystack.Just before we left San Francisco for Los Angeles,while we were waiting for the train to start, Knappthe geologist and McCaskill the biologist were rum­maging around on the seashore, the tide being out.Mac turned over a stone and found beneath a lot oflittle crabs about as large as a dollar. He and Knappfilled their pockets with them and when the porter hadmade up the berths they slipped a crab or two betweenthe sheets. The boys turned in early and soon thefun began. Wyant was just dozing off when he feltsomething cold with sharp claws come crawling uphis nether limb. He turned over bringing himselfinto contact with the other crab which used hispinchers on Wyant's delicate skin. That was enough.Wyant hunted crabs and swore vengeance. For anhour or more the perpetrators of the joke rolled andgroaned with suppressed laughter.Returning from Los Angeles to San Francisco theporter made up Rullkoeter's berth with the pillowstoward the engine. Rully objected and as the porterwas busy, made the bed to suit himself. Just as hehad finished Wyant looked up from his game of chessand said: " Why, Rull, I thought you wanted yourfeet the way the train is going." Rully said that waswhat he wanted and had got. Wyant said he wasmistaken and as all was dark outside he finally con­vinced Rully that it was so. Rully changed his bedback. But as he was finishing the job we came to asmall town and seeing the lights through the win­dow Rully perceived that Wyant had hoaxed him andsilently and in disgust turned his bed around again.Poor Bob Tooker! His misfortune began when rid­ing on the rear platform his hat, his new fawn-coloredhat for which Telford had bled him most unmercifully,blew off and went to cover the head of a tramp loi­tering by the. roadside. His next loss was his watchwhich he left as a present to the chambermaid at thehotel in San Francisco. And last at Salt Lake City heleft his valise containing his clothing and an unopenedbox of Hoffman House cigars for which he and" Nick" had blown all the wealth which remainedafter their visit to Chinatown.ONE OF THEM. 169Affiliated Schools.HARVARD SCHOOL.Robert Grinnell, who sustained a compound fractureof his shou1der- blade while practicing football, hasentirely recovered and is again at school.A Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar club has been organ­ized in the school under the leadership of Mr. Warren,gymnasium instructor. As the organization does notembrace a glee club it will give no independent con­certs, but will, in a few weeks, be prepared to rendernumbers on programs of other schools.L. L. L. JR.HYDE PARK HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.The H. P. H. S. Banjo Club will give a concert atKimball Hall, Friday evening, January 25. This willbe their first appearance in public, and the wholeschool should do everything to make their debut· asuccess, both socially and financially. The HazenMandolin Orchestra, Laura Shaw and the H. P. H. S.Glee Club will assist in rendering the evening anenjoyable one.Upon our return to school we met:Six more months of study,Congratulations for the new year,Mr. French and his new hirsute appendages,New library regulations (horrors),Molding in the halls,Newly scrubbed floors,The picture of our Banjo Club,Baseball gossip instead of football.DAN. WM. SHERN.KENWOOD INSTITUTE NOTES.The Alumnae Association of the Kenwood Institutegave a banquet at the Union League Club during theholidays. Miss Louise Scovel was elected president ofthe association for r895.The winter term opened at the school on the sev­enth of January. A number of new pupils were re­ceived, part of them for University preparatory work.A. B.R.Professor Hale Gets the Medal.Prof. George B. Hale has had conferred upon himthe highest honor within the gift of the FrenchAcademy of Sciences. Three weeks ago he receiveda cablegram from Paris announcing that the Janssengold medal for r894 had been awarded him for hisinvention of the spectre-heliograph and the researchesin astro-physics which he has made by its means.Yesterday he received a letter from Professor Janssen,director of the National Astro- Physical observatoryat Meudon, who established the prize, saying that hehad been directed by the commission making theaward to forward him the medal.170bearing the name of Mrs. Haskell in the Universityof Chicago, led Mrs. Haskell to do this wise and gen­erous and far-sighted deed.(' The Lectures are to be given in Calcutta, everyother year, and the income from the endowment issuch that we hope to command the service of theablest expounders of Christianity. It was her re­quest that I be the first Lecturer. I hope to go in thewinter of 1895 or 1896 to inaugurate the Lectureship,which Mrs. Haskell insisted should bear my name.Rev. K. S. MacDonald, D. D., editor of the Evangel­ical Review, President of the Missionary Conferenceof Calcutta, and for thirty years a missionary amongthe educated thousands of non-Christians there,writes to Mrs. Haskell expressing his heartiestthanks, to quote his own words, (for your 'noble giftto the University of Chicago, and through it to thevery people among whom I labor and have laboredthrough all these years. I thoroughly believe inlight, the purest, being thrown on the relations ofChristianity and the other religions by such men asyou have named. In my own name, and in the nameof all my fellow-missionaries to whom I have commu­nicated the good news, I desire to express our grate­ful appreciation of your noble gift and the hope andfaith we entertain that it will prove a great incalcula­ble blessing to this great country. I have no doubtmany coming ages will rejoice.'" I realize that a vast responsibility has come tome as an interpreter and exponent of Christianitywhose duty will bring him in contact and conferencewith the educated minds among the non-Christianscholars of Calcutta. Fortunately, I already havetheir good will and confidence, and that is a greatdeal. A leading Christian lawyer of Calcutta writesme, ( I believe that the proposed course ?f lectureswill be highly appreciated in India and I feel sure arepetition of. them in Madras and Bombay will beUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLYPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.CHARLES H. GALLION, MANAGERTHOMAS W. MORAN,E. A. BUZZELL, -WILBER M. KELSO, - MANAGING 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 PressMcClurg's, Brentano's, Curry's, and all News Stands South of 39th Street.Advertising rates made on application.Address all communications toUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,58th Street and Ellis Avenue, Chicago.Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice, Chicago, Ill.FEW things in the history of this daringly uncon­ventional University will arouse more interestand comment than the proposed Calcutta Lec­tureship, announced at the recent Convocation. What,in the life of other institutions, remain from year toyear but dreams, are here actualized one after anotherin bewildering succession. Suggestions made at oneConvocation which appear at the time poetic idealsbut precede an announcement, at the next Convo­cation, of their complete realization. Thus visionaryseemed the suggestion regarding a lectureship inIndia made in Dr. Barrows' address at the Autumn. ,Convocation. And yet before three months had gonethe money was at hand and the lecturer secured forits ·establishment. The following letter from Dr.Barrows, published in the Standard, will make clearthe plan of this noteworthy undertaking:II If you refer in The Standard to the Calcutta Lect­ureship which bears my name, I hope that the refer-ence will be more accurate than some of the things asked for.' Scores of the leading men of India havewhich have appeared in the dailies; therefore I writethis note. The Lectureship is a direct fruit of theParliament of Religions, in which Mrs. Haskell wasdeeply interested. The suggestion which came fromMr. Mozoomdar that there was no one in India tofound a Lectureship on the" Relations of Christian-. ity to Other Faiths," like the recent Lectureship been written to, and the publication of their replieswill indicate, I am sure, a spirit of welcome to thisplan of presenting Christian truths (in a friendly,temperate and conciliatory way' to the educatedminds of India. Yours cordially,JOHN HENRY BARROWS.""Jan. 3, I895·" .UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.THE date of the Glee and Mandolin Clubs,annual Central Music Hall concert has beendecided on. The concert will be given Tues­day, March 6, and both clubs are busily preparing forthe occasion. The enthusiastic receptions given theclubs at every point visited on the Christmas trip hasled them to hope for kindly treatment at the hands ofa home audience. It is to be hoped that the studentswill interest themselves enough in the affair to assureits success.No University organization better deserves the sup­port of the students than the musical clubs. Noneare more truly representative of the spirit of the Uni­versity. The clubs have a perfect right to expectthat every student of the University will do morethan to buy a single ticket of admission to the con­cert. They look to every man for aid and encourage­ment. Advertise the date among your friends andacquaintances. Help to stimulate a greater interestin this, the most brilliant social event of the Univer­sity year. The success of the clubs will be the Uni­versity's success and the students' success.WE are glad to learn that later informationshows that an injustice was done in brandingthe Reliance Athletic Club men as a team ofsluggers. For our account of the game, which ap­peared in the issue of the 3d of January, we wereobliged to rely almost entirely on newspaper reports.The hue and cry raised about the brutality displayedwas probably due to the inadvertence of the Westerncorrespondents. We hasten to rectify our mistake, toretract all statements derogatory to the Relianceteam. Our own players speak in the highest termsof the sportsmanlike conduct of the Californians. TheReliance Athletic Club extended to Chicago's ath­letes a hearty, Western welcome. Our players re­turned home with mingled feelings of gratitude andrespect for them. We hope that the good feelingaroused between Chicago and the Reliance Club maycontinue to exist.MISS ELIZABETH WALLACE, Reader inSpanish, and Head of Beecher House, hasaccepted the position of Principal of the Wo­man's Department of Knox College. Miss Wallacehas been a member of the U ni versi ty since its esta b­lishment and few of the Faculty have become so iden­tified with the University life and so well known andwell liked. She has been active in the religious and 171social life, as well as the intellectual. Her place inthe University Settlement work will be hard to fill.Her place in the hearts and lives of the Beecher girlswill remain hers long after she has left us and canscarcely be filled by another. The University hassuffered a real loss.THE Harvard Daily News, after printing in fullthat part of President Harper's convocationaddress relating to college athletics, makes thefollowing editorial comment:The opinions of President Harper in regard to col1ege ath­letics are sure to meet with approval from many. He standsout with that peculiar freedom and liberality so characteristicof the man aud defends what just now seems to be a favoriteobject of attack for college presidents. Dr. Harper recognizesthe great value of athletic sports in a college education, as, itis to be hoped, everyone will, some day." MANY er young man," said Uncle Eben," makes the mistake ob his life in lookin'foh consolation in poh'try when he orterbe takin' some good reli' ble liver medicine." - Wash.ing tor: Star.What immense quantities of liver medicine arebeing consumed at this University. Injunctionsagainst the man ufacturers of the medicines are inorder.rune.Her breath sceuts the air like the wildflowers sweet,That bloom in the early morn;Her presence about her a bright glow sheds,Like a beam from the bright sun born ;She has set a snare in her soft brown hairTo entrap my soul forlorn.In her cheeks two twinkling dimples lie,That cunningly come and go ;Her eyes soft and gray as the autumn skies,Have wrought me constaut woe,Filled heart and brain with a maddening pain,­A pain she can never know.Her footstep falls with a fairy tread,Ou my aching heart and brain,­The sweetest victor that ever ledA captive in her train jThe fairest sight that the earth has seen,­That the earth shall see again.Come joy, or grief, or a thousand pains,Sorrow, or bliss, or woe,On my heart for a moment she hath lain,She was mine while I held her so ;Mine tho' she spurn me a thousand times,Mine while I held her so. H. A. P,UN"IVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.The Muse At Other Colleges.LIFE'S STORY.Only a baby, life just begun,Battles un fought yet, no vict'ry won. How dear to our hearts isCash on subscription,When the generous subscriber,Presents it to view.But the man who don't pay­We refrain from description­For perhaps, gentle reader,That mau might be you.-Chatham Courier.Only a student, happy all day,Troubles untasted, laughing and gay.Only a merchant, careworn and sad,Business brings troubles, life's not a11 glad.Only an old man, feeble and gray,Tott'ring abont at the close of life's day.Only a body, senseless and cold,Suff'ring all ended, life's story told.-Oneontan. LOVE'S INSIGHT."'Tis only a page who carols unseen,Fitting your hawk's their jesses."-Pippa Passes.APPEARANCES.I watched her in church one sunny day,My lady of matchless grace,As she followed the old man's stumbling wordsWith earnestly upturned face. At his watch he looks intently,While a smile lights up his face,And I know as well as can be,There's a woman in the case.-Ex.I studied the curve of her soft round cheekAnd the fringe of her thoughtful eyes,And I mused, she is fair, and holy and meek,With a heart that the angels might prize. I rose with great alacrityTo offer her my seat;'Twas a question whether she or IWould stand upon my feet.-Ex.We walked together down through the aisleAnd out from the wide church doorAs my lady said, with her wondrous smile,"Were you ever so bored before?"- Vassar Miscellany. TRIOLET.She wears a rose upon her breast jMy heart is folded in the leaves.By fine and filmy lace caressedShe wears a rose upon her breast,And little dreams how fair a nestFor my poor heart each petal weaves.She wears a rose upon her breast;My heart is folded in the leaves.Physicians who observe the tongueDiseases of the body find.To others doth this organ redReveal diseases of the mind.-Red and Blue. -Sequoia.Life is real, life is earnest,But it might be more sublime,If we were not kept so busyDodging microbes an the time.-Ex. Light laughed the maid her laugh of scorn,As she bound the Queen's dark tresses:"Pray, is yon page to the purple born,Who sings o'er thy fleet hawk's jesses?""Nay, mock not?" said the Queen," True crowns are oft unseen."- Vassar Miscellany.., ONLY A LOCK OF GOLDEN HAIR."" Only a lock of golden hair,"The lover wrote. Perchance to-nightIt formeth on her pillow fairA halo bright. A jolly young chemistry tough,While mixing a compound of stough,Dropped a match in the phial,And in a brief whialThey found his front teeth and one cough.-Ex" Only a lock of golden hair,"The maiden, smiling, sweetly said,As she laid it over the back of the chair,And went to bed. -The Crescent.Ye listening rocks, ye sounding sea,Ye bellowing winds from o'er the lea!Oh ! tell me, if ye can tell aught,What will they call the class 00 ?-Yale Record. o Light the Lamps!o light the lamps! the night hath come !And bends her gloomy shades o'er earth,Lead kindly cheer within thy home,And give a happier spirit birth.TIME.Time is an even stream that sweeps along,Its water is deep and its current strong j'Tis fame to float upon its wave before,Oblivion to be washed upon its shore.-Red and Blue. The blinding snows now ride the winds.While Storm King leads his angry host­The struggling blasts no comfort finds,And peace from this her earth seems lost ..UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.o kindle light! no man or beastWill stand a foeman 'gainst such storms;The elements seem wont to feastAnd revel with our mortal forms.o bring the lights! then will departThe sadness lowering round the grateA joyous throb will thrill the heart,And gathered here we'll moving wait.J. LSR.Essay Prizes.The Civic Federation of Chicago offers a first prizeof $350 and a second prize of $150, the gift of WilliamA. Giles, for the best and second best essay respect­ively on anyone of the following subjects, and on thefollowing conditions;I. The Reform of the City, Town and CountyRelations in Chicago,' with Special Reference to theAssessment and Collection of Taxes.2. The Best Methods of Granting and ControllingPublic Franchises in Chicago.3. The Best Method. of Making Public Improve­ments in Chicago by Special Assessments.The competition shall be open to all persons every­where. The essays must not be more than 12,000words, and not less than 5,000 words in length; mustbe submitted to R. M. Easley, secretary of the CivicFederation, not later than February 20, 1895, must besigned by an assumed name, and be accompanied bythe true name of the author in a sealed envelopemarked " Giles Prize."Majors and Minors.The young ladies of Kelly Hall entertained theirfriends Monday afternoon.The Rev. John Henry Barrows, D. D., has acceptedan invitation to preach the baccalaureate sermon atCornell next June. /The Illinois Beta chapter of Phi Kappa Psi hasmoved from their pleasant home on Kimbark avenueto more commodious quarters at 5736 Washingtonavenue.Prof. Moulton's lectures on Sunday afternoons willbe free to students holding matriculation cards, butstudents must pay as others at Centres away from theU ni versi ty.Monday evening the Snell boys gave a royal wel­come to the football team, in congratulation for thesuccess of their trip to the coast and their safe arrivalhome. It was exclusively a Snell affair.Mr. Frank W. Woods, a frequent contributor of theWEEKLY, has a thoughtful article in the currentStandard on "The Mission of the Poet," some threecolumns in length. The editorial comment' of theStandard on the article is very flattering. 173The members of Snell House gave a reception intheir parlors Monday night at 8 o'clock to the foot­ball team.At the meeting of the English club last Tuesday,Mrs. Martha Foote Crow read a paper on, " An Eliz­abethan Unique."Professor Stagg began his course of lectures Tues­day afternoon with a paper on "Physical Exerciseand Some of its Effects upon the Body."Prof. R. G. Moulton began Sunday afternoon at 3:30a series of twelve chapel lectures on." The LiteraryStudy of the Bible." His topic was "The Book ofJob. "Friends of Mr. Estey Dunning will be pained tolearn that, on account of his being confined to his bedwith typhoid fever, he will not attend the Universitythis quarter.The sum of $22,152 has been raised for the pur­pose of erecting another woman's dormitory. Thewomen's clubs of Chicago are making an effort to ob-tain $75,000 for t-hat purpose. .The Rev. H. C. Mabie, D. D., delivered Sundayevening in the chapel of Cobb Lecture Hall; the firstof a series of seven lectures on " Antecedents of Mis­sionary Power." The subject was" Surrendered Per­sonali ty . ' ,A musical recital was given, Wednesday afternoon,at Kent Auditorium by Mrs. Ella L. Krum, soprano;Mrs. Eolia Carpenter, contralto, and Miss FlorenceCastle, accompanist. A highly enjoyable concertwas rendered.Three parallel courses of lectures are announced tobe given at the People's Institute, Van Buren andLeavitt streets, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdayevenings at R 0' clock, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 15.The lectures are to be maintained until further noticeand will be along the lines of civics and reform, artand literature, history and science.Some students have been presenting matriculationcards at University Extension Centres in the expec­tation that they would be admitted without buyingtickets.' Our Centres are under no obligations at allto admit University students any more than UniversityExtension students would be at liberty to come to theUniversity and expect to take work without payingtuition.The Oratorical club is busy preparing for the inter­collegiate debate next spring. At the meeting nextMonday night municipal reform will be discussed.H. F. Atwood will speak on "Needed MunicipalReform." William Ruhlkoetter on the" History ofMunicipal Reform Movements," and W. S. Mitchellon the" Features of British Municipalities," P. J.Electric company, President W. R. Harper, Dr. T. W.Goodspeed, Prof. A. W. Small, Prof. Harry Pratt Jud­son, Prof. Chandler, Prof. E. D. Burton, Prof. B. F.Ferry, Prof. Nathan Butler, Prof. G. S. Goodspeed,Prof. Shailer Mathews, Prof. F. J. Mi11er, Prof. C. F.Castle, Prof. D. J. Lingle, Dr. C. P. Small, Dr. F. W.Shepardson, W. B. Owen.174 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Yonsphoff on (( German Municipalities." The dis­cussion will then be thrown open to the house forextemporaneous flights.Monday night the Divinity School tendered a re­ception to Dr. Mabie in the Faculty room, at whichall members of the University were invited. Theattendance was large.George Holcomb, the genial director of the Uni­versity Express, has jnst taken up his work againafter a two weeks' serious illness. He narrowly es­caped a severe attack of diphtheria. The Weekry re­joices in his returning health.The Thursday evening lectures will be delivered byNathaniel Bntler, A. M., professor in the Universityof Chicago. The subjects announced are: Jan. 17,"General View of American Literature"; Jan. 24,"The Cambridge Group, Longfellow" ; Jan. 3 I,"Lowell "; Feb. 7, "Holmes."Rev. Henry C. Mabie, D. D., one of the nationalsecretaries of. the American Baptist Missionary Union,is giving during this week, under the auspices of theVolunteer Band, a series of eight lectures on \ mis­sions. Dr. Mabie is a man of national reputation inhis denomination. He is an effective speaker, masterof his subject, and a real spiritual power. Dr. Mabieis a graduate of the old University of Chicago. Afew years ago he traveled around the world, studyingthe mission fields of the Baptist denomination.Mr. Carlos C. Closson, Jr., has this week beenadded to the Faculty of the Department of PoliticalEconomy. On account of the sudden resignation,last quarter, of Mr. Caldwell who accepted the chairof Political Economy and Sociology at Northwestern,the department has been thus far rather short of men.Mr. Closson is a graduate of Harvard, but comesdirectly from Germany, where he has been pursuingadvanced work. He takes charge of the courses of"Descriptive Political Economy" and "History ofEconomic Theory and Scope and Method of PoliticalEconomy."The Hyde Park Baptists are contemplating the erec­tion of a new church to cost $roo,ooo. The societyhas sold its Hyde Park property and purchased groundon the corner of Woodlawn avenue and Fifty-sixthstreet. A chapel, which will be made appurtenant toa larger structure, is to be built at once at a cost offrom $20,000 to $25,000. Prof. Harry Pratt Judson ischairman of the building committee. The Hyde ParkBaptist Society, of which the Rev. John R. Gow ispastor, is at present holding its meetings in RosalieHall, Fifty-seventh and Rosalie court. Prominentmembers of the society are: Dr. J. B. Jackson, CharlesA. Marsh, President Mahon, of the Oakland NationalBank, D. A. Pierce, J. Mason Jackson of the Western Business Notices.ROOMS.For rent, at S828 Ingleside avenue, third flat, just oppositethe University, three large single rooms. Hot water heat, gasand bath.M1SCEI,I,ANEOUS.College books bought, sold and exchanged.Book Store, 291 E. Fifty-fifth street. Fulghum'StfAll kinds of sewing, mending and cleaning neatly done at5828 Ingleside avenue, third flat. 3tIndividual instruction by experts in any desired study atlowest rates can be obtained day or evening at the" Polytech­nic," lSI Throop street. Begin at any ti�e. Call or send forcirculars. S-48tThe only establishment of its kind in the United States.Pants made to your measure and we make them to order at$4.00 a pair, no more, no less; soo of the best quality andstylish goods to select from. Apollo Custom Pants Mfrs. 1615th Ave, Chicago. I-48tGent's fine shoes. Repairing a specialty, at A. Baker'sstore, SS4 SSth street. All work guaranteed. Give me a cal1.I4tfWm. Sachen, tailor, 297 55th street. Fine suits to order, $20and up. Overcoats, $r8 and up. Trousers, $5 and up. Re­pairing. 9-4tMoney Orders. Special Laundry Rates. Goods sent byfreight or express. Baggage, Moving. Universi ty ExpressCo., "Cobb Hal1." IS-StIf by some chance its hard for youTo get your pictures madeWith proper light and shadow,And proper tone and shade,It makes no difference where you are,If north, south, east or west,j ust send us on your negativesAnd we will do the rest.BOSTON PHOTO FIN. CO., I26 State. rztfAmusements.Mr. Thos. W. Keene has the past three weeks been playingto crowded houses in San Francisco. The actor was mostenthusiastically received and applauded to the echo, and onthe opening night the floral offerings were numerous andcostly. One of the 'Frisco papers asserts that Mr. Keene is thebest exponent of the character of "Richard III" in America.The same paper concludes a long article on Mr. Keene, withthe following paragraph: "Mr. Keene's welcome has been agenuine acknowledgment of his superior talent and ability asa legitimate actor and a warm expression of regard for him asa gentleman and a scholar. His performances have givengreat satisfaction to students of dramatic art, and his futurevisits will be anticipated with pleasure."