UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Single Copies10 Cents. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 18, 1�95. VOL. III, No. 27.THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.Nothing could be more appropriate as an introduc­tory remark to this short sketch of the UniversityPress than to recall the words spoken by PresidentHarper at the Spring Convocation of last year. Afterannouncing the annulment of the contract existingbetween the University and the University Press ofChicago, and d welling at length on the importance ofc. w. CHASE, Director.the Press being an organic part of the University,he said: "The question is not one merely of conven­ience and economy, but a question of far greater mo­ment. The printing press is to be considered as trulya part of a university'S equipment as the machineryof the physicist or the microscope of the biologist.Its possibilities in connection with university workhave never been fairly tested. When ten or twentyyears hence the story shall be written of what theUniversity Press has done for the University, menwill begin for the first time to realize that its estab­lishment at the period of the University's beginningwas no foolish dream or idle vision."The Press was first organized in the summer of1892, and was incorporated under the name of' theUniversity Press of Chicago, and D. C. Heath, theBoston publisher, R. R. Donnelly of the LakesidePress, and W. R. Harper representing the University,were the incorporators. One year ago the UniversityG. W. A.bought out the interest of outside parties and therebybecame sole owners of the corporation. The namewas changed to The University of Chicago Press, andthe printing office was removed to the Universitycampus. No radical changes were made and thePress simply continued in the line of work laid downat the time of its incorporation.The removal of the printing plant to the Universitytook place April 4, 1894, and not only has the estab­lish men t of the U ni versi ty Press verified the wisdomof the president's statements of a year ago, but it has,in scores of instances, demonstrated the necessity ofhaving the printing office in the immediate neighbor­hood of the University for the preparation of pro­grams, bulletins, and the like. The loss of time inin terchanging "copy" and "proof' , would morethan offset any advantages that might be derived fromJEROME W. WALKER, Foreman Composing Room.having the Press located in the heart of the city. Onthe other hand, there are some disadvantages. con­nected with the present arrangement, chief of thesebeing the separation of the composing room from thepress work department, the composing work beingdone at the University, and the press work down town.This state of affairs, however, will, it is hoped, soonbe remedied by the equipment of a complete printingestablishment at the University. The plans contem-280 UNIVERSITY on CHICAGO WEEKL Y�plate the erection of a Press building, the basementof which is to be used as a power house. Under itsroof, everything which belongs to the modern printingand publishing house of to-day will find a place. Itwill contain all the apparatus and material necessaryto the composing, printing and binding of all kinds ofpublications.UNIVERSITY PRESS DIVISION.According to the statutes of the University, thePress constitutes one of the five divisions of the Uni­versity. The work of. the Press is organized underthree departments, namely, the Department of Print­ing, the Department of Publication, and the Depart­ment of Books' and Apparatus. A director is ap­pointed by the Board of Trustees for its manage­ment. Mr. C. W. Chase is the present director. Heis a graduate of Harvard of the class of '72. Aftergraduation he became a member of the Massachusettspar but soon gave up the law to enter business. Forthe five years preceding his coming to the Universityhe was business manager of the Forum.The unique feature of the University of ChicagoPress is the centralization in this one department ofthe work which is done in other universities in manydepartments. Like the Johns Hopkins UniversityPress and other university presses, it manages thepublication and distribution of the books and maga­zines which bear its name. But unlike them, it doesits own printing instead of contracting for it. Andbesides this distinctively press work, it is the generalpurchasing agency of the University, through whichevery purchase is made. This is work elsewhere de­volving upon the library and the museum and theother different university departments. All books forthe general and departmental libraries are purchasedthrough it, as are also all material and apparatus forthe museums and laboratories.' Through the book de­partment, over 4,000 titles were purchased last year,embracing foreign and home publications and aggre­gating some 40,000 volumes. The entire businessmanagement, as well as the publishing and distribu­tion of the six departmental journals, also devolvesupon the press division.This centralization has its great advantages and alsoits disadvantages. It brings unity, order and systeminto the purchasing and publishing of the University.But it concentrates into one office a vast amount ofwork, which the present accommodations are scarcelyadequate to handle.The book store. located in Cobb Hall, is also ownedby the University and is a part of the Press division.Its object is to accommodate students and professorsin their purchase of books, and not to make moneybeyond the running expenses. Books are there soldas cheaply as it is possible to buy them, with a slight additional percentage to pay for handling. The storeis unfortunately too badly cramped for room, properlyto take care of its steadily increasing business. Withbetter accommodations this important branch wouldcorrespondingly increase in usefulness. The retailbook department is now in the hands of O. R. Ryer­son, and Warren Chase has charge of the stationerydepartment.THE COMPOSING ROOMS.The present location of the printing office is in theeast half of the library-gymnasium building, adjoin­ing the general library. In this room a very large,varied and complete outlay of type has been placed.Indeed, when the contemplated complete printing es­tablishment is placed upon the campus, very littleaddition to this portion of the plant will be necessary.Already it compares very favorably with the largepublishing houses of the country. And in variety oftype in certain lines and quality of work, it canscarcely be excelled. The office is provided with afull assortment of musical, mathematical and astro­nomical signs, German and Greek type and old Eng­lish letters, and there are now on the way from Ger­many full fonts of type in the Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic,Ethiopic, Assyrian, Coptic, and other languages.Twentymen on the average are employed, and severalstudents have found remunerative employment in thisdepartment.The foreman of the composing room is JeromeW. Walker, who has had charge of the office since itsremoval to the University. He has filled his pecul­iarly difficult position with a tact and precision thatcomes from a long and attentive experience. BeforeMr. Walker assumed charge of the office he had beenmanager for six years of a large publishing house inPhiladelphia. '1"0 him, in a large measure, is nodoubt due the fine typographical work turned out.A better man for the place would be hard to find.The department prints all official programs of theUniversity, the Annual Register, the Quarterly Cal-, endar, all stationery and official papers, and in addi­tion does all the work for the Morgan Park Academy.The journals and periodicals set up and printed bythe Press are the Journal 0/ Political Economy, theJournal 0/ Geology, the Biblical World, the UniversityExtension World, and the Astrophysical Journal.Hebraica., which heretofore has been issued in NewHaven, Conn., will soon be added to the other pub­lications of the University Press. The Press inau­gurated its book publishing department by issuingCohn's Finanezuissensch.aft, translated by Thorstein B.Vebten, Ph. D. The volume is a large octavo, con­taining 812 pages. Several other books will soon fol­low, and a number of theses in book form have alreadybeen published.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Bravery and Cowardice.In martial fields, 'mid smoke and glare,While hideous death was everywhere,He'd won un perishing renown,And gained the victor's laurel crown;No hero could with him compare.The wildest exploits he would dare,Nor threat of peril ever fear,The gage of battle once flung down,In martial fields.But yet I've seen him shake and stareAnd tremble and grow pale, nor dareTo meet his vis-a-vis stern frown ;­She was a lady clerk down townAnd he was buying underwear,In Marshall Field's.J. W. LINN.Telford Story and Poem Competition.Through the generosity of Mr. John H. Telford,men's furnisher at 55th street and Kimbark avenue, theWEEKLY is enabled to announce thirty dollars in goldfor a short story and a poem competition. Therewill be three prizes distributed as follows:For the best short story, $15.For the second best short story, $5.For the best poem, $10.Following are the conditions:I. The competitor must be an undergraduatestudent at the University of Chicago in present attend­ance.2. Noone person shall offer more than one poemand one story.3. The story must be not less than eight hundrednor more than sixteen hundred words in length.4. The poem must be not less than fourteen normore than fifty lines in length.5. The stories and poems must not have been pre­viously published, and the WEEKLY shall have theprivilege of retaining for future publication any or allman uscri pts offered.6. The manuscripts must be type-written, or legi­bly written in ink on one side of the sheet, andsigned with a nom de plume and not the name of theauthor. A sealed envelope shall accompany eachmanuscript containing the real name of the authorand the nom de plume.7. The manuscripts must be handed in at theWREKLY'S box, Faculty Exchange, not later than12 M., May 25th.Mr. R.oot's Lecture.A happy combination of the serious and the humor­ous was the noticeable characteristic of Mr. Freder­ick W. Root's lecture last Wednesday in Kent Thea­tre. The subject, "The Evolution of Musical Taste,"was developed in a manner that impressed many sali- 281ent points upon the audience, and at the same timethere was left, by the free use of mirthful anecdoteand illustration, an effect similar to that usually pro­duced by our popular humorists. Owing to the brieftime allowed him, Mr. Root was compelled to abridgehis lecture, omitting the special treatment of manydivisions of the subject.The President's New House.Those who have visited Dr. Harper's new house, atthe corner of Lexington avenue and Fifty-ninth street,have united in pronouncing it a structure in whichbeauty of material and design are remarkably com­bined with commodiousness and comfort. Neitherlabor nor expense have been spared in its construction.The house and stable will possess every modern con­venience, and the architectural features of both build­ings, without and within, are of a firm, even severetype, similar to that of the other University buildings ..The woodwork is principally of oak.'The architect, Mr. Henry Ives Cobb, has skillfullymet the purposes peculiarly characteristic of the houseof a university president, especially in the library, andin the means of entertainment found in the receptionand dining rooms. The first named is the prettiestroom in the building. It is located on the west sideof the first floor, and is entered through double doors,opposite which are the fireplace and mantel. Shelvesfull of books conceal the walls on either hand, and the.room is lighted by large, elevated windows.' Thewest wall of the dining-room is covered by an amplesideboard, and the room is abundantly lighted by win­dows facing the east.,The total cost of house and lot is $40,000. Mr.Jacob Rodatz and the W. E. Frost Mfg. Co. are theprincipal contractors. President Harper has alreadybegun to move his household goods from his presentresidence, and will probably be installed in the newhouse by May I.Musical Notes.Owing to the illness of Mr. Wardner Williams lastweek, the Easter vesper service was omitted.Several volumes of books on musical subjects havebeen collected, to form the nucleus of a musical library .Contributions, either of money or of books, will begratefully received from members and friends of theUniversity.The program of the musicale Wednesday was givenby Mrs. M. H. Lemmel, soprano, and Miss CorinneMay Clark, pianist. Mrs. Lemmel is a resident ofWhitewater, Wis. She sang from manuscript sixselections of her own composition.282 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY�MANAGER "big games" left. But now, since this recent decis­ion everything a�pears in a new light. It is very. probable that Harvard's team will be allowed to play$ 752 50UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLYPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.EDITORIAL BOARD.FRANK W. WOODS, - EDITOR-IN-CHIEFASSOCIATE EDITORS:- A'!'HLE'!'IC- SOCIAL- RELIGIOUS"WOMEN'S HALLSG. W. AXELSON,WILBUR T. CHOLLAR,WAL'!'ER A. PAYNE, -MAR'!'HI\ L. Roo'!',WILLIAM P. Lovm-r, }WILBUR W. BASSE'!''!',JOHN H. HELL, - LOCALCALENDARCHARLES H. GALLION,SUBSCRIPTION RATE:One Quarter,One Year (Four Quarters),Office Hours, 9.30 TO 10.30, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.Advertising rates made on application.Address all communications toUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,58th Street and Ellis Avenue, Chicago.The 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.Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice, Chicago, Ill.WE announce with regret the resignation, be­cause of pressure of other duties, of Mr.Warren P. Behan from the editorial staff.Mr. Walter A. Payne, president of the Y. M. C. A.,has consented to assume Mr. Behan's duties as editorof the religious department.THE University of Michigan has extended aninvitation to President Cleveland to stop over atAnn Arbor and address the students there, onhis way to Chicago, in case he accepts the invitationto speak in this city. It is to be hoped that the Uni­versity of Chicago has already given him a similarinvitation. Such men, unless spoken for early, arehard to secure, for they receive countless invitationsto speak.AN item which appeared in the issue of February14th of the WEEKLY, regarding the retirementof Dr. Hourwich from the faculty because ofcertain opinions which he was alleged to hold, we findto be incorrect. In justice to ourselves we wish tosay that the statement in question was published only after careful investigation and upon what we deemedthe best authority. Documents have, however, sincebeen shown to us which indicate that we were mis­informed. We take pleasure in withdrawing thestatement in question, and in saying that Dr. Hour­wich's resignation was not asked for on the groundsindicated.THE prospects for football in the East are muchbrightened by the recent vote of the Board ofOverseers at Harvard. With Harvard forbid­den to play and with Princeton and Yale unwillingto play with Pennsylvania, the outlook was verygloomy. The Yale-Princeton contests were the onlynext fall, and the Harvard-Yale, the Harvard-Prince-ton, the Yale-Princeton, and the Pennsylvania-Har­vard games will then arouse the same enthusiasm asin the past; but Harvard will never be allowed toplay unless " the serious evils and abuses connectedwith the game as now conducted can be corrected."We believe that they can be corrected.ATTENTION is called to the Telford PrizeStory and Poem competition described inanother column. Thirty dollars in gold areoffered as prizes. The prize stories and poem will bepublished in the WEEKLY in June. The competitionis limited to undergraduate students of the University,and the time allowed for preparation is six weeks,the last hour for the acceptance of manuscripts being12 M., Saturday, May 25. The judges will be chosenfrom among distinguished writers and literary critics.There will probably be three judges for the shortstory competition, and three other judges for the poemcompetition. The WEEKLY short story competitionlast year aroused great interest, and was won by MissMaude Radford. Her production, entitled "TheConversion of Caroline," was republished from theWEEKLY in a half dozen papers.NOW that Spring is spreading her mantle ofgreen over the land the old warning aboutkeeping off the grass becomes pertinent anew.The reasons why students should follow the walkand avoid cutting off corners, and should endeavorto persuade others so to do, must be evident to thecommon sense of the most simple. When the viewUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.from one's own chamber window is endangered and,when the possibility of taking the smallest pride orpleasure in our own campus is involved, motives ofthe purest selfishness, it would seem, would causestudents to stick to the walks. The average offender,however, follows Rip Van Winkle in the slippery sen­timent, "I won't count this time," or cherishes thedelusion that his heels this once will not do anyparticular damage. But the fact that his offense isnot an unrepeated one soon causes the discouragedgrass to abandon 'the struggle. Exercise a littlethoughtfulness in this matter, and the campus, forthe beautifying of which so much money is being ex­pended, will soon form a fit setting for the magnifi­cent gray buildings which adorn it.BROWN University has instituted an admirable, educational feature, which Chicago does notseem yet to have adopted. It is the offering ofcourses in Greek and Latin masterpieces in English,for the sake of science students and others who feelthe need of acquaintance with the literary classics ofthe ancients, but who do not feel justified in spendingthe time requisite to their study in the original. Thebest English translations are used and the classes areconducted by the same professors that teach thecourses in Latin and Greek. The instructor, familiarwith this literature in the original tongues, can re-im­part to the translations much of the charm which islost in the rendition from one language to another.Even for students who have a knowledge of Latinand Greek, such courses for literary study wouldhave an advantage of continuity and completenessand freedom from technical difficulties that similarwork in the original does not have. If ProfessorShorey or some of his fellow instructors in the depart­ment of Greek were to offer a few courses of this sort,we prophesy that there would be few classes in thewhole curriculum more popular.UNIQUE as the University of Chicago is in manyways, there is perhaps no feature more originalin conception and more ambitious in executionthan its University Press. There are, it is true, manyuniversity presses, but none of these have so organica connection with the university proper, or are devel­oped upon the same lines.The Johns Hopkins University Press was the firstuniversity press organized in this country, and it stillleads in bulk and importance of publications, Its printing is done by contract with firms outside of theuniversity. Columbia's publications are in the handsof Macmillan's. The Quarterly Journal of Economicsand Harvard's other publications are issued for andnot by that university.Here at Chicago, the University assumes the entireresponsibility for the management, the distributionand the printing of its six journals, its books andpamphlets, and its other publications. The compos­ing is all done upon the campus. For a university,the output must already be considered very large.The grand theory upon which the University of Chi­cago is based is the investigation and propagationof truth-a propagation which makes full use of everyavailable agency, including not alone the class-roomdesk, but also the university extension platform andthe printing press.Another unique feature of the Press is its functionas the purchasing agency for the whole University.The buying, instead of being distributed among thedifferent divisions-the libraries, the museums andthe departments-is centered entirely in the Univer­sity Press.The University of Chicago Press is still an experi­ment. Its success or failure lies with the future. Itmay, and probably will, be necessary to modify thepresent system in some respects. But the experimentis being tested in no half-hearted fashion, but upona magnificent scale. There have, indeed, been com­plaints. The machine is still new, and does not yetrun altogether smoothly. The force of employes istoo small, and the accommodations inadequate tohandle satisfactorily the enormous work of the depart-·ment. But when the University of Chicago Press ishoused, like the Clarendon Press, in its own magnifi­cent building, with its large force of employes fullyorganized, and its vast work completely systematized,it will then be known far and wide as one of thegreat institutions of the world.Smoking at Minnesota.The faculty of the University of Minnesota has pro­hibited smoking on the campus, and the college paper,the Ariel, in speaking of the decision, says: " Settingaside the moral and hygienic aspects of the question,it certainly is not the best kind of an advertisementwe get when the first object that greets a visitor's gazeis a dozen or twenty young men smoking pipes or cig­arettes." This seems a hit like paternalism in col­lege government. 283the last inning. Nichols and Jones batted the ballall over the field. The 'Varsity team appeared innatty new uniforms, with the word "Chicago" inmaroon letters across the breast, and this fact proba­bly had something to do with the victory. Thescore:284 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ·WEEKLY.Basket Ball.The Central Young Men's Christian Associationwon the championship of the City Basketball leagueon Saturday night by defeating the University teamat the Association building. The first half, while notfast, was close and abounded in good plays. The'V arsi ty scored the first goal by a "free throw" byHubbard. Central tied the score only after manyattempts. Haser secured a goal from a skillful playon a failure of a "free throw." The visitors wereplaced again in the lead by another goal from a "freethrow" by Hubbard, who would have made the 'Var­sity's score much larger had not Central made so fewfouls. Central scored its next goal on a "free throw"by Buss. At call of time the score stood 2-2. In thesecond half Central secured the first goal on-a throwfrom the field by Buss, but the score was again tiedby the visitors on a goal from field by Rothschild. At9:.40, with but ten minutes to play, Central struck aswift gait and goal followed goal almost as rapidly asthe referee could put the ball into play until six morehad been put to Central's credit. During this timethe ball passed into Central's territory but once. The'Varsity lost the game largely through poor guarding,but principally through the close guarding of thehome men and the last ten minutes' team work, whichhas never been equaled on the Central's floor.Baseball.The baseball team made its debut last Friday bydefeating Hyde Park High School in a slow game,27 to 0. The battery was Brown and Gilchrist in thebox, with Jones behind the bat. The'Varsity menbatted Dyas and Linden at will, but the infield workof our team was not perfect. The good work of theteam was kept up Saturday when Captain Abells'colts vanquished the Evanston High School team witha score of 21 to 5.Clarke and Pike were the battery, except in thefirst two innings when Jones was the receiving end.For the Evanstonians, Sickles and Moses inter­changed in the box and behind the bat. Outside ofDe Golyer at short stop the High School boys playeda plucky game, but the unlucky short stop was re­sponsible for several runs.Clarke started in by giving three men base on balls,but soon settled down, and but three clean hits weremade off his delivery and two of three were made in Uoj Chicago RBPA E HighSchool RBPAENichols c f . 5 5 1 0 0 Sickles, c p . 1 1 3 9 1Clark, p ·3 2 010 0 Holabirdzb . .0 1 0 0 0Jones, c-rf . 3 4 3 0 0 Crippen, If .0 0 0 0 0Pike, r f-c .2 3 7 4 1 Foster, 3b . .0 0 3 5 IGrant, If . .2 2 0 0 I Dingee, rb . .0 0 9 0 1Hering, s s . . I 2 4 1 0 Moses, pc. .2 2 4 5 0Winston, 3b .0 1 2 1 2 Kimbark, cf . .2 1 3 I 1Rothschild, 2b .2 0 0 0 0 McConnell, rf . 0 0 1 0 0Abells, rb ·3 2 10 I 0 DeGolyer, ss . .0 0 4 1 7Totals ..... 21 21 27 17 4 Totals. . . . 5 5 27 21 IIUniversity of Chicago. . . . . 0 7 0 5 0 3 0 3 3-21Evanston High School ..... 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1-5Wild pitch-Clark. Passed balls-Jones, I j Sickles, I;M03es. Three-base hit-Sickles, Pike. Two-base hit-Nich­ols, Jones, Winston. Earned runs-Chicago, II; Evanston,4. Bases on balls-Sickles, Holabird, Foster, De Golyer,Jones, Pike, Grant. Hit by pitched ball-Moses, Kimbark.Struck out-By Clark, IO; by Moses, I; by Sickles, 2. Lefton bases-Holabird, Foster, Sickles, Dingee, Moses, Jones (4)Pike (2), Grant, Hering. Time of game=-a.rg. Umpires­Vaughn and Brown.The University of Michigan baseball team hasplayed all but two of the games in its southern trip.The remaining games are University of Illinois, April20, at Champaign ; Notre Dame, at Notre Dame,April 22.The ball team of St. John's Military Academy com­pletely shut out the University of Wisconsin in a gamelast Saturday.Track Athletics.The third indoor athletic contest came off Saturdayin the gymnasium, and two records were broken.Peabody made the half-mile run in 2:13 2-5 andHerschberger put the shot 33 feet 9 inches. Theresults were as follows:Thirty-Five-Yard Dash-Entries: Lamay, Coleman, Sass,Mosser, Holloway, Steigmeyer, Wooley. Steigmeyer first,Wooley second, Lamay third. Time-o:43-5.One-Quarter-Mile Run-Holloway and Lamay were the onlyentries and finished in a slow race in the order named. Time-1:03 3-5.One-Half-Mile Rnn-Entries: Peabody, Drew, Sass, Cole­man. Peabody first, Drew second, Time--2:13 2-5. Drewwas a close second.Running High Jnmp-Steigmeyer, 5 feet 2 inches; Hersch­berger, 4 feet II inches; Wooley, 4 feet 10 inches. Steigmeyermade an exhibition jump of 5 feet 4 inches.Shot Put-Herschberger, 33 feet 9 inches; Nef, 33 feet 3inches; Garry, third; Steigmeyer, fourth.Football at Harvard.The B�ard of Overseers at Harvard University, in ameeting held last week, voted on the question of foot­ball as follows:UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.r. The question of continning or abolishing the game ofntercollegiate football is within the powers of the athleticcommittee under the standing rule of the corporation.2. It is the opinion of the Board of Overseers that intercol­legiate football should be abolished unless it can be shown thatthe serious evils and abuses connected with the game can becorrected.The Board of Overseers has thus placed the footballquestion in the hands of the Athletic Committee-whatever they determine to be subject to the approvalof the corporation, the president, and the Board ofOverseers. The athletic committee is strongly infavor of the game, and the continuance of the sport atHarvard is no doubt assured.University Calendar.Notices for the ensuing week, which are of general interest,may secure insertion in the Calendar by being lift with Mr.Heil in the Weekly box at the Faculty Exchange, before 9 : 30a. m., Monday.Thursday, April 18.'1 : 30 p. m. Meeting of Y. W. C. A., Lecture Room, Cobb.Friday, April 19.12: 30. Meeting of Senior Class, Lecture Room, Cobb.6: 45 p. m. Meeting of Y. M. C. A., Lecture Room, Cobb;topic "Temptation," James I: 12.Saturday, April 20.3: 30 p. m. Baseball, University vs. Northwestern at Evans­ton.8: 00 p. m. Basket Ball, Intercollegiate vs. University.Sunday, April 21.7: rs p. m. Joint Meeting of Y. M. and Y. W. C. A., Lec­ture Room, Cobb.8: 00 p. m. Address for Medicine Students by Dr. Geo.Dana Boardman, Subject, "Parable of Healing." Chapel.Monday, April 22.3: 00 p. m. Monthly Reception at Foster Hall.Wednesday, April 24.12: 30 p. m. Address to University College by Director F. J.H. Skiff, of Field Columbian Museum. Subject," The Museumand the University." Faculty Room.5 : 00 p. m. Musical Recital. Mr. B. Bicknell Young, bari­tone. Kent Theater.Thursday, April 25.I : 30 p. m. Meeting of Y. W. C. A. Lecture Room, Cobb.Friday, April 26.6: 45 p. m. Meeting of Y. M. C. A. Topic" Helping EachOther," Gal. 6 : 2. Lecture Room, Cobb.Saturday, April 27.8 : 00 p. m. Basket Ball, University vs. Englewood. Gym­nasium.Academic College Days.Mr. S. H. Clark and Dr. E. H. Lewis have beenasked to act as judges of the original plays that werehanded in for Academic Day. This committee hasfull power to reject any or all of the plays offered.The athletic committee is composed as follows:H. T. Clarke, Jr., Chairman.P. G. Woolley, J. S. Brown,W. O. Wilson, C. V. Bachelle. 285Miss Elizabeth Butler has been pledged to the Mor­tar Boards.President Slocum, of Colorado College, was a guestat luncheon in Kelly Saturday.Miss Weeks, a Vassar friend, has been visiting MissReynolds during the past few days.Miss Osgood gave a pleasant "sugaring off" toseveral of her friends in and out of Beecher, on Mon­day night.Miss Emiline Bartlett, of Foster, gave an informallittle party to the fifth floor girls. The guest of honorwas Miss Sarah Tunicliff.Mrs. McClintock will deliver an address on "Real­ism" to the members of the order of the MortarBoard, and their friends on Saturday evening.Rev. and Mrs. George Dana Boardman were theguests of honor at a reception given Tuesday eveningby Professor W. C. Wilkinson, at his residence on58th street.Miss Emily R. Gregory and Miss Whitney (Oberlin,'94) were guests at Kelly from Thursday until Satur­day. Miss Gregory is a sister of Dr. Casper ReneGregory, of Leipsic, who is to teach in the Universityof Chicago during the summer quarter.In the Kelly House meeting, Wednesday evening,there was an interesting discussion on the rules andregulations of the leading women's colleges. Thedomestic and social life of Wellesley, Vassar andSmith was given in detail, but the prevailing senti­ment was that for the higher education of women,for the University life, the broader system was prefer­able.Phi Kappa Psi.The Fourth District Council of the Phi Kappa PsiFraternity was in session at the Great Northern Hotelon Wednesday and Thursday. Delegates were presentfrom Leland Stanford Jr., the Universities of Michigan,Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, Beloit Col­lege and Northwestern University, as well as from theAlumni Associations of the" Twin Cities," Omaha,Denver and Kansas City. The Chicago Alumni Asso­ciation and the local chapter acted as hosts, and enter­tained the members of the council wi th a smokingconcert at the Great Northern on Wednesday evening,and a banquet at the Auditorium Hotel on Thursdayevening.286 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Banquet of the Lion's Head.The Lion's Head Club held its first annual banquetat the Windermere hotel on Saturday evening. Thosepresent were H. M. Austin, Dr. Kent, Prof. GeorgeGoodspeed, H. T. Clark, Jr., the recently initiatedmember, and the regular members of the club. Fol­lowing the feast of good things there were toasts. J.E. Raycroft, president of the club, acted as toast­master.Snell Farce.On the night of April 26, inthe Club Rooms of'Snell Hall, the boys of the House will make their ini­tial bow as comedians in a bright little farce dealingwith the humorous side of college life, entitled" TwoCollege Chums." The cast of characters is as fol­lows:Harry Meredith,} C 11 ChFred Park, 0 ege urns .... J. E. RaycroftForest Grant. .. J. W. Linn, ·R. N. Tooker, . Frank Hering. F. D. Nichols. C. C. MacomberMrs. Huntoon, Fred's aunt ...Fanny Morrison, her niece ..Mollie Wainwright •.......Muggins, a colored servant.. .Kate, an Irish servant. . . . .The House will be thrown open, and after the farcean informal reception will be given.Journal of Political Economy.In the March issue of the Journal of Political Econ­omy, published by the University, the first article byMiss S. M. Hardy on" The Quantity of Money andPrices, 1861-1892," presents the results of an elabo­rate investigation into the truth of the generally re­ceived doctrine, that the decline of prices in the UnitedStates during the last thirty years, has been due to thedecreased quantity of money in circulation. Thepaper is a clear and able presentation of a very intri­cate subject. It is illustrated by several charts.The much mooted question of ,: The Relation ofSociology to Economics," is discussed by Head Prof.A. W. Small. Other articles are" Public Ownershipof Mineral Lands in the United States," by G. O. Vir­tue, and "Credit Instruments in Retail Trade, ", byDavid Kinley. In the" Notes," a short extract on"Belgian Monetary Legislation" is published fromone of the forthcoming Economic Studies of the Uni­versity, by H. P. Willis. There are the usual numberof scholarly book reviews on recent publications.Through Service.The Nickel Plate Road (N. Y. C. & St. L. R. R.), the favor­ite line between Chicago and the East along the south shore ofLake Erie, being the shortest line to Cleveland and Buffalo,offers a splendid through car service to all classes of passen­gers. Magnificent Wagner Sleepers and Dining Car daily onthrough trains to New York and Boston. For reservations ofSleeping Car space and further information address J. Y. Cala­han, General Agent, 199 Clark street, Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Hancock, of Burma, led the Foster Prayer­meeting Wednesday evening.On account of the illness of Dr. Wardner Williamsthere was no Easter service, as advertised, held onthe cam pus last Sunday.The first number of the Baptist Missionary Reviewhas been issued in India. The editors are AmericanBaptists, with nine corresponding editors.At a meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet last Sat­urday morning it was decided to recommend to theAssociation that it issue a Hand-book to be ready fordistribution among new students by the opening ofthe Autumn Quarter. .At the meeting of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation last Friday. evening, three new memberswere received. The meeting to-morrow evening willbe led by Mr. F. E. Goodell; subject, "Temptation."At this meeting the names of several students, candi­dates for membership, will be presented.An interdenominational convention of Christianministers is to be held in Virginia during the presentmonth. The list of those who will take part includesI I 9 Methodists, 114, Baptists, 30 Presbyterians, 15Lutherans, and I I Episcopalians. The convention isc�lled to discuss the office of the Holy Spirit.Bible Study Under Prof. Burton.Although Professor Burton is supposed to be takinghis vacation, he is now conducting two Bible studyclasses for the young men of the University. In oneclass are eight young men who meet with him' at hishome each Sunday afternoon for the study of the Lifeof Christ. The other class of 'which mention wasmade last week, meets in the Faculty Room eachSunday morning at 9 o'clock. The class, thoughnow quite large, having something over thirty mem­bers, is yet open to those University students whoare anxious to do Bibie study work during the re­mainder of the Quarter.Address to Science Students.Last Sunday evening Dr. Boardman delivered thesecond of his popular lectures in the chapel of CobbHall. His subject was" Nature a Pledge of Grace,"and the discourse, though of interest to a popularaudience, was intended primarily for the science stu­dents of the University, to whom special invitationshad been sent. The speaker took a broad view ofUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.his subject, dwelling at length upon the infrangibilityof divine law, physical and ethical. To him the sta­. bility of natural law is an inviolable pledge of thestability of moral law, and to scientist' and Christianalike is an inspiration.The subject of next Sunday's lecture is "TheHeavenly Healer," and will be addressed specially tostudents of medicine.Divinity Conference.,', Prejudice Against Ministers; its Basis and Cura­tives," was the subject of an interesting DivinityConference held in Cobb Hall last Monday. Differ­ent sides of the subject were first presented by Messrs.Patchell, Aitchison and Case, and an open discussionfollowed. Rev. L. A. Crandall and Professors A. W.Small, N. Butler and W. C. Wilkinson and othersoffered remarks. The consensus of opinion seemed tobe that many judgments against the ministry are sim­ply judgments against individual ministers, and thereis no greater prejudice against the average type ofminister than against' the members of other profes­sions, trades, or occupations.Alumni.'94�L. B. j'oralman writes from Denver, Col.:I can truly say that I am very much pleased with the collegespirit which has been manifested since I left and I think it, ingreat measure, due to the efforts of the WEEKLY.Majors and Minors.Prof. H. H. Tolman has an article in the April AtlanticMonthly upon the" Expressiveness of English Sound."The management of the WEEKLY takes pleasure in announc­ing the enlargement, beginning with this issue, of the paper.. Mr. S. E. Swartz, fellow in chemistry, has been appointedprofessor of chemistry and physics at Shurtleff College, UpperAiton, Ill.Mayo Fesler received a telegram Monday of his father's sud­den death. He left immediately for his home, Morgantown,Ind. Mr. Fesler's many friends here regret his sad loss.Professor Iddings of the Department of Geology is arrang­ing to take a geological party to Colorado this summer upon agovernment survey. Several University students will accom­pany him.Prof. Nathaniel Butler will deliver commencement addressesbefore the students of Eureka College on May 23, and the Ga­lena High Scboo1 on June 20. He will speak before theNortbern Illinois District Association of Teachers on April 26.A class for the art of conversation is being conducted at theHotel Barry, under tbe leadership of Madame Helene Sherry,who bas organized a series of classes for the development oftbis art which she considers ranks as high as any of the finearts. This Club is called the Severine, named after the literaryand philanthropic lady of that name, whose salon is famous inParis to-day. In the archives of this Club are two books writ­ten by her and presented with her autograph to ber sister ofAmerica, Helene Sherry. A sister club at Englewood is calledRambouillet, after the Marquis so famous in Paris in 1615. 287The leader hopes that this will be the commencement inAmerica of those brilliant coteries which made the Frenchwomen so famous and snch a power in the politics of Europe .The officers are: President, Mrs. Charles Fowler; secretary,Miss Bodine and treasurer, Mrs. Henry Skull.The object of the Club is to develop fluency of vocabularyand power of language. The first day's exercise consisted ofaccepting and refusing after elections to the presidency ofClubs.W. X. Sudduth, dean of the College of Dentistry, in theUniversity of Minnesota, and a well known hypnotist andwriter on dental subjects, has resigned from that universitywith the purpose of pursuing special studies at the Universityof Chicago.The editor of the Journal, Mr. Slason Thompson, read a veryable and interesting paper before the Press Club in the FacultyRoom Monday evening on the subject, "Independence inJournalism." Mr. Thompson believes independence should beregarded as an ideal, to be sought but never realized, by everyjournalist.The second session of the moot court of the Law Club washeld Monday evening, Judge Wilson presiding. In the caseof Hughes vs. Kelso, continuance was granted until next ses­sion. Complaint of Wm. Kelso against Howard Roosa andJohn B. Dorman was filed. Warrants were issued to the newconstable, I. B. Hymen.Head-Professor Chamberlin returned last we�k from an im­portant geological investigating tour for the U. S. survey inMississippi and the South. He was accompanied by E. C.Perisho. Two weeks were spent in gathering material for fur­ther study and in. making scientific observations of the geo­logical formation of the region.Arrangements are being consummated for the departure ofa geological expedition under Professor Salisbury to spendthe next few months' making a government survey of New.Jersey. Mr. Peet of the Universityand Mr. Knapp will accom­pany the party, which will leave about the middle of April.Professor Salisbu ry expects to spend the latter half of thesummer in Greenland.I subscribed for a magazine November, 1891, paid $1 for oneyear's subscription; they have sent the paper ever since. Canthey compel me to pay when I subscribed for a year?Yes, if you took it. The law supposes if a man takes aperiodical he has the benefit of it and should pay for it. Theperiodical should have been refused when the SUbscription ex­pired.-Chicago Daily News.The King of Siam has celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversaryof his ascension to the throne by presenting to every promi­nent college and university iu the United States, including thisUniversity, a set of th irty-nine volumes of a Siamese book,the" Tripitaka." The inscription is in English, French andGerman, and reads as follows:"This edition of the sacred writings of the Southern Bud­dhists, the Tripitaka, has been published by order of his Maj­esty .Sorndetch Phra Paramindr Maha Chulalon-Korn PhraChu1a Chomk1ao, King of Siam, on the twenty-fifth anniver­sary of his ascension to the throne, and is presented by him incommemoration of this event to the University of Chicago."Prof. Paul Shorey has just returned from a lecture tour dur­ing which he spoke at Vassar, U. of Michigan and U. of Wis.He met with a most flattering reception everywhere he spoke.The Daily Cardinal at Wisconsin has this to say:" Professor Shorey is one of the most brilliant and distin­guished of the younger Greek scholars in America at the pres-288 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKL"1.ent time. He is one who has little in common with thatancient type of the Greek professor, which has become pro­verbial, whose admiration was always aroused by the strikingmanner in which the great Greek classics illustrated the rules ofthe Greek grammar, and for him the language only has signifi­cance as a revelation of the Greek mind and heart. His workas a scholar is primarily literary aud he has contributed largelyto the literary and critical journals of the country."Literary Notes.Degeneration, by Professor Max Nordau, the remarkablework which is attracting so much attention abroad, is pub­lished in this country by D. Appleton & Co. This brilliantanalysis of the literary, sesthetic and social phases of the endof the ceutury includes an examination of decadence inFrance, the work of Maeterlinck in Belgium, Wagnerism inGermany. Ibsenism in the north, and other aspects of contem­porary sestheticism which are dissected with a thoroughnessthat renders the book a most remarkable contribution to so­cial psychology. This fascinating and most suggestive bookgives a picture of the sesthetic manifestations of the times,drawn with rare adroitness, vigor and command of satire, andit will be found to hold a place which has not been occupied.Mr. Edmond Kelly, who has been so prominent in themovement for municipal reform in New York, has written abook of peculiarly timely interest which discusses Evolutionin its application to the religious and political life of the day,with illustrations drawn from recent events in New York.This book is an attempt to show that the Evolution of to-dayis differentiated from the Evolution which preceded the ad­vent of man by the factor of conscious effort; that man, byvirtue of his faculty of conscious effort, is no longer the prod­uct of Evolution but the master of it; that the chief ally ofthis faculty is religion, and its most fruitful, though as yetneglected field is politics; that an alliance between religionand politics is essential to progress in the struggle of human­ity with evil and with pain; and that this alliance must prac­tice the gospel of effort and not that of laissez faire. The pub­lishers will be D. Appleton & Co.Book Reviews.A Sketch of the History of the Apostolic Church, by Oliver J.Thatcher. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. .We take great pleasure in calling attention to this usefullittle book by our own Professor Thatcher. Its three hundredneatly printed pages present in a brief, available f�rm a gen­eral view of the history of the Apostolic Church. It is, as itpurports to be, a sketch. It is greatly condensed and its verycompactness renders impossible the vividness of detail andthe- felicities of style which a more extended work might pos­sess ; yet it fills its own purpose, which is a useful one, and isfar more practically helpful to the busy student than a moredetailed history would be. It gives in epitome the results ofmodern scholarship, and though but an outline, it has the im­press of the originality and personality of the author. It islucidly written, with not a superfluous word in the book. Wecan recommend the book to a11 who wish to get a general viewof this important period and also to such students as are fa­miliar with the history of the time, .but who desire a schol­arly and.clear summary.Paul and Virginia, (" Laurel-Crowned Tales n Series), byBernardin de Saint-Pierre. Translated, with a biographicaland critical introduction by Prof. Melville B. Anderson, ofStanford University. (A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago; $I.oo.) It would be impossible to estimate how many thousands ofhearts have been touched by this tender little French tale. Ithas been translated into many tongues and reprin ted a count­less number of times. Altogether aside from its historicalvalue as a picture of the state of sentiment among the aggress;ive spirits of the days of Rousseau, when" Back to Nature! "was the cry, there is a simple undying charm about this pa­thetic story that has never failed to make itself felt even in thecrude translations which have so often obscured it. But wedoubt whether this charm has ever been for English readersso potent as in this graceful and conscientious translation andthis tasteful 16 mo. edition of 218 neatly printed pages. Aninteresting and valuable biographical and critical introductionadds greatly to the usefulness of the book.Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis.(Harper and Bros., New York; through McClurg's; $2.50.)This volume comes as a fit companion to the life of GeorgeWilliam Curtis recently noticed in these columns and its con­tents serve as an illustration of much that is said in that biog­raphy. Nine essays upon Emerson, Hawthorne, MadameRachel, the actress, Thackeray, Sir Philip Sydney, Longfellow,Holmes, and Washington Irving are collected in this volume.Who is there that we would rather hear talk of these men than -Curtis, who knew all but two of them personally and whosemany-sided sympathy enabled him to understand and appre­ciate them as few have been able to do? One's pleasure waversin reading these essays, between the goodness of the matterand the charm of the manner. They are written in Curtis'ripest and happiest vein, with that exquisite choice of wordsand that rich and varied play of fancy and wit that character­izes " Prue and I" and the" Easy-chair Essays," and that makesGeorge William Curtis one of the most accomplished of Eng­lish stylists. A student of English cannot do better than tomake of Curtis a companion. This volume is handsomelybound in buckram of an olive tint.An Important Opinion Concerning Andrews' Stephens' Plead­ing, by J ames DeWitt Andrews (of the Chicago Bar).The text of Stephens' first edition is given intact. Writtenin 1824. The whole is modernized by new chapters and notes.Judge Townsend, author of "Connecticut Practice," andProfessor in Yale Law School, writes:UNITED STATES COURTS, JUDGE'S CHAMBERS,'}NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 24, 1894. \MESSRS. CALLAGHAN & CO., Chicago, Ill.Dear Sirs ::---1 have been very favorably impressed by thethorough and skillful treatment of the subject of pleading byMr. James DeWitt Andrews.My experience in teaching the subject showed me how diffi­cult it was to explain to the ordinary student the developmentof the -various code systems from that of the common law.Mr. Andrews has so clearly and logically shown the de­pendence of the code procedure on the common law pleadingand its development therefrom, that his work may be advan­tageously applied in studying the code provisions of any of the.different States.The introduction to the study of the subject is clear, briefand accurate.Among the many good things in the body of the work theexplanatory note on page 108, the expansion of the distinctionbetween the common counts and assumpsit on pp. 85 et. seq.The arrangement of the book in four parts, and the refer­ences to cases, deserve special commendation.Altogether the book seems to me the best all around book forstudents that I have ever seen, and I take pleasure in heartilycommending it to the profession. Yours truly.WM. K. TOWNSEND.One volume, 600 pages, $4.00 net. Callaghan & Company,Chicago. (-I f)r1}I