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III, No. 35."CHICAGO VERSE."The Shepherd's Wooing.*I.Oh , Phyllis, sweet Phyllis, come listen my singing,The birds warble blithely,-and why should not I?Together they're flitting, together they're winging,Together they 're mating,-and why should not we?Sit here on the mosses within the cool shadow,And let me, adoring, thy worshipper lie ;Together we'll care for our sheep in the meadow ;­They love in their gambols,-and why should notwe?Yon flow'ret delights in love's arms to be lying;The soft vine's embraces adorn the tall tree;The sweet-laden bee to his mistress is flyingTo love and be Ioved.v=and why should not we?The happy-voiced brook through the fern forest slip­pingIs speeded by love, for his true love is nigb;All nature emboldened by true love is sippingThe lips of its true love,-and why should not we?II.Canst doubt how I love thee ?-Atlas! thou forgettestThose long ago days when I lived as thy slave:When I hunted my pipe-reeds in marshes the wettest,To finger the sweet shepherd airs thou didst crave.I brought for thy garlands the spring's rarest flowers;Thy leaf. cup was first to be filled at the spring;To shield thy fair beauty I fashioned green bowers;I chose thee my partner to dance in the ring.And can I forget thee because thou would'st sever?Go ask why my fellows soon tire of my song.They'll tell thee I'm singing thy praises forever,And into the morning my music prolong.Oh could'st thou but know how thy beauties tormentme,However thy face seems to hallow my sleep,My sweet, thou would'st haste of thy scorn to relentthee,And bid me the maid of my fantasies keep.III.Oh spread the glad story, ye birds sweetly singing;Ye breezes far stealing, let my song be thine;Oh whisper it softly, ye green branches swingingWhere often I wooed her,--sweet Phyllis is mine. Oh gentle-eyed sheep, for a time leave thy meadowAnd listen in gladness this joy mine and thine:We lovers reclining wi thin the cool shadowTogether will tend thee,-for Phyllis is mine.Oh flow'ret my sweet in her love's arms is lying;Oh love-adorned tree, I have found my soft vine;Thee, gold-coated bee to thy loved mistress flying,I envy no longer,-for Phyllis is mine.Not the happy-voiced brook through the fern forestslipping,Can haste to a lover more loving than mine;Emboldened by true love in rapture I'm sippingThe lips of my true love,-for Phyllis is mine.C. R. BARRETT.A Prayer.If I should grow so old and frailThat memory its calling fail,My voice lose speech, my eyes lose sight,Oh, God! remember in this plightAnd let imagination's sphereBe so increased that I may hearIn ev'ry sound that strikes my ear,That cradle-song of mother dear.When hearing's gone and touch is dead,And ev'ry sense from me has fled,Then God, I pray let visions comeAnd work the nerves of brain so dumb,Until I see with childish gleeMy mother's form bent over me­And those blue eyes and face divine,That all sublimity enshrine.Oh, let me think that I can feel,And, while in dreams I rack and reel,Allow my mother's lips to pressA big warm kiss-let fond caressBe lavished, God, as child is wont,And let no evil thought affrontWith mockery or useless sneerThis vision grand of mother dear.F; F. STEIGMEYER.*This poem received second place in the Telford Prize Poem Competi­tion.378 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.,Academic Day.Friday will be a great and glorious day throughoutthe length and breadth of the Quadrangles for fromthe break of dawn until the morn of the followingday the members of the Academic Colleges will reignsupreme. The program includes athletic games, teas,receptions, farces, fetes and the whole .is to concludewith a promenade.From 8 : 30 until 10 the Esoterics and. the membersof the Order of the Mortar-board will receive theirfriends in the parlors 'of Foster Hall. At 9 : 30 teamsrepresenting the Divinity School and the AcademicColleges will contest for superiority upon the diamondof Marshall Field. This game will be a unique af­fair as 'it will be a travesty on the national game bothin regard to costumes and disposal of players. Otherathletic events of the morning are the opening gamesof the Interscholastic tournament, bicycle races andthe chasing of a lubricated member of the swine fam-ily. ' -Special chapel exercises will be held at noon atwhich many who have never before witnessed theceremony will be present, and in fact it is expectedthat standing room will be at a premium.The would-be Thespians will be all supreme duringthe early afternoon ill Kent Theatre in two farces.The first entitled" Which is Which," deals with thetrials and tribulations of a young artist who is handi­capped by inexperienced love affairs, and domestictroubles. Cupid, however, at last conquers and allis bliss. The cast will be Mr. Capper, artist, C. Sum­ner Pike; Mr. Gargle, his uncle, R. Law, j r.: Pad­dles, dealer in colors, H. Chase; Annie Pestle, theheroine, Harriet Rew; Bertha Bingham, her friend,Harriet Seavey; Mrs. Mills, Capper's housekeeper,Miss Williston.Farce number two is entitled" My Uncle's Will"and has a plot strangely similar to a farce at presentrunning in a down-town play house. Two individuals,according to their relative's will, must marry in orderto secure his fortune. If both refuse the villain willsecure the gold. Of course the last gentleman isfeverish in his efforts to secure negative answers fromboth parties but his base efforts are finally foiled bypropitious fates. The cast will consist of the follow­ing characters: Charles Cashmore, naval officer andone of the heirs, W. Walter Atwood; Mr. Barker,the villain, R. Law, Jr.; Florence Marigold, the otherheir, Adelaide Ide.Following the farces the customary planting of theivy will occur. The ivy poet is Miss Crandall andthe prosaic production is assigned to Mr. Nott Flint.The Qu�dranglers will give a lawn fete" during therest of the afternoon and after a brief rest the finaland crowning event of the day, the Academic Prom­enade, will be held at the Chicago Beach Hotel. The arrangements for this are on a most elaborate scaleand it promises to be the most brilliant social eventever given by U niversity students.The Settlement Outing.One hundred and fifty children, comprising MissHofer's chorus class at the University Settlement, 'spent Saturday afternoon at the University. MissMcDowel l, head, and Miss Hofer, director of musicat the settlement, accompanied the children. At fourthe members of the chorus, assisted by Miss MaryVon Holst and Mr. Otto Wagner, celloist of theThomas Orchestra, gave an excellent concert in KentTheatre. The children made an excellent impressionand showed the results of careful and able training.After the concert, the children were entertained onthe campus. First a dainty luncheon was served andeach child was helped often to sugar sandwiches, cakeand lemonade. After they had stored away as muchas was possible in inner and outer pockets, all sorts ofgames were begun; ball playing and' sack races forthe boys, and the crowning of the J nne Queen for theothers. Beecher, Kelly and Foster girls came out tohelp entertain their little sisters-and see if there wasany cake left. All entered heartily into the fun, evenPresident Harper and Professor Miller with theirwives, hurried over to see Miss Reynolds, with atenl1�s racket as baton, teaching the youngsters the'Varsity yell.The Examiner asking questions in his official capac­ity, found out that the children wanted to study in theU ni versity of Chicago in order to learn how to playbaseball, and secondarily that they might becomepresident of the United States.One girl (carrying away her hat full of cake) saidher rna did fi ve washings and three ironings everyweek, but the Examiner failed to find out about therest of the ironings.The children talked and sang and played, and notuntil half-past seven did they leave off rolling downthe slight descent from the sidewalk and form in line,in various detachments, to go home. Yelling for Chi­cago and waving their handkerchiefs to the campuspeople they went away.The whole picnic did double duty; it interestedevery University student present in the Settlement,and it also proved a unique means of creating erithu­.siasm for the University.' The children made a fineimpression and are as bright and nice-looking a com­pany as can be gathered together anywhere.The University Press is about to issue a most inter­esting series of publications on the literary remainsof the Assyrians and Babylonians. The chief editoris Dr. Robert Francis Harper. The scope of thework is very extended.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ·WEEKLY.Ninth Q ua rterfy Concert.The University chorus appeared in concert lastTuesday evening in Kent Theatre, closing its thirdseason. An excellent program was presented. Theassisting soloists were Mr. Bernhard Listemann, vio­linist, Miss Emily S. Hutchinson, pianist, Miss BerthaE. Bingham, soprano and F. Day Nichols, basso.Miss Corinne May Clarke, who played recently at aWednesday musicale, was accompanist.The work of the chorus, under Mr. Williams' direc­tion, showed considerable improvement over any pre­vious concert. This is especially true of the majestic'"Spring Song," from Gade, which concluded theprogram.Mr. Bernhard Listemann is known throughout thecountry as a master of the violin, and as usual theaudience was completely under the spell of his soulfulstrains. Miss Hutchinson is a skillful pianist andher performance was well received. Mr. Nichols andMiss Bingham are well known to University audi­ences and were at their best.The following program was presented:AND THE Gl.ORY OF THE LORD- MessiahChorus. .. Handela. WARUM?}b. GRILLEN . SchumannMiss Emily S. Hutchinson.GIPSY LIFS .. . SchumannChorus.HUNGARIAN FANTASIE . . . . . . . . . .. . .. HubayMr. Bernhard Listemann.THE LORELEY . . . . . . . . . . . .... LisztMiss Bertha E. Bingham.Two LOVERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hecht. Chorus.POLONAISB, E. Major ' LisztMiss Emily S. Hutchinson.THOU'R'I' LIKE UN'I'O A FLOWER SmithMr. F. Day Nichols.WITCH'S DANSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PaganiniMr. Bernhard Listemanu.SPRING GREE'I'ING . . . . . . ..' ... GadeChorus.I'I President Harper Addresses the Seniors.On last Friday afternoon the senior class met in theFaculty room and listened to an interesting talk byPresident Harper. The meeting was by all odds themost representative that has yet been held. Dr. Har­per, in speaking of the need of a closer acquaintanceof student with student and teacher with student,said that during the ensuing year, weekly meetingsof the senior class, at which some official of the Uni­versity will speak, will probably be arranged. ThePresident said that success in life was attained onlywhen one found the thing which he was fitted to doand did it. He urged those who were about to com­plete their college courses to consider carefully whetheror not they had fot11;d their true calling, because uponthis decision depended their chance for success in life.The class will meet again next Friday at ::five, in theFaculty Room. �79Glee Club Officers.The Glee Club met last Friday and elected the fol­lowing officers for next year: H. T. Clarke, Jr., presi­dent; H. H. Hewitt, secretary; H. G. Lozier, leader.Messrs. F. D. Nichols. R. B. Davidson and H. J.Smith were appointed a committee to secure a busi­ness manager, and were instructed to report Wednes­day.Horace Lozier, who has been elected leader, gradu­ated from the University in the class of '94. He wasa prominent member of the Glee Club during thatyear and composed a number of its best songs, nota­bly the "Football Song," and the adaptation, the"Three Thinkers." He is a musician of unusualability, a finished pianist and a composer, and studiedseveral years at the Conservatory of Music, at MountVernon, Iowa, where he graduated. On the GleeClub here he sang first tenor.Mr. Lozier will take graduate work at the Univer­sity next year and under his leadership the Club willdoubtless meet with unusual success.The Nickel Plate's New Trains.The new train service of the Nickel Plate Road,which went into effect Sunday, May 19, has met theapproval of the traveling public. On all sides areheard expressions of universal satisfaction regardingthe efforts which this popular road is making in theinterests of its patrons. Three fast trains are nowrun in each direction daily. Superb dining car ser­vice; no change of cars for any class of passengersbetween Chicago, New York and Boston. CityTicket Office, III Adams Street, Tel. Main 389.Depot, r zth and Clark streets, Tel. Harrison 200.The University in Scribner's Magazine.A fully illustrated article on the University willappear sometime during the fall in Scrioner's Maga­zine. The article is in preparation by a member ofthe English department. For two weeks past Mr.Orson Lowell, the famous New York artist, has beenon the campus, making sketches of the buildings.Mr. Lowell. was formerly a resident of Chicago, butis now located in New York City. The illustrationswill be very complete, and form an important featureof the article.The Summer Vespers.The next vesper service will occur Sunday, June.30. The choir of the Cathedral of the Holy Name,consisting of forty voices, will be the special attrac­tion. The president will deliver an address to thegraduating class, which will attend in cap and gown.This address will take the place of the Baccalaureate..sermon,prone on their backs in wildly contested "Indianwrestle" and running races around the campusdespite the intense heat. This is a good sign.380 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLYPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOEDITORIAL BOARD.fRANK W. WOODS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFASSOCIATE EDITORS:G. W. AXELSON,WILBUR T. CHOLLAR, -WALTER A. PAYNE, ATHLE1'IC- SOCIA�- RELIGIOUSWOMEN'S HALLSMAR1'HA L. ROOT,WILI.IAM P. LOVETT, }WILBUR W. BASSETT, LOCALJOHN H. HELL, CALENDARCI1ARLES H. 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Com­petitors may secure their manuscripts by calling at theoffice of the WEEKLY.ASIGNIFICANT feature of life 011 the Quad­rangles this spring is the marked waking upof the Divinity and Graduate Houses. SouthDivinity especially has been conducting all sorts ofnightly field and track events and baseball games infront of the Hall, an<;l a recent �vening witnessedbearded docents and fellows 'from Graduate Housewheeling each other about in a wheelbarrow, lying WITH the .close of this Quarter a number ofvacancies upon the. editorial staff of theWEEKLY will occur. These will be filled byan election by the present staff. This is the method ofeditorial sequence in vogue on many of the leading col­lege papers in the East, as, for example, the HarvardAdvocate, the Yale Courant, the U. of M. Daily, etc.The Daily Cardinal, at Wisconsin, has decided to re­turn ·to the self-perpetuating board after a trial of asystem of general election by the students, which wasfound unsatisfactory.Capable students who desire to secure excellent,all-around journalistic training upon the staff of theWEEKLY, with the assurance of a chance to "workup," if they show zeal and ability, are requested tohand their names to the editor before Saturday nighttogether with some specimens of their work in writingnews and editorials. Many names of those desiringpositions are already in the editor's hands and aresuch as assure a strong board.ASPIRIT of fault finding and petty criticismwith regard to our University, which is tooprevalent among students, is both disloyal andout of taste. In the first place, what is a Universitybut its students and faculty, in addition, of course, tocertain mechanical arrangements. Each student is avital part of the institution. In criticising the Uni­versity of Chicago, you criticise yourself. Lack ofcollege spirit? Well, it is your own fault. If it isn'tyour fault, whose fault is it? It is certainly in as badtaste for you to go outside of the University and airyour grievances to the grave injury of your college asit is for you to make public unpleasant family matters,and criticise the baby of your own circle amongstrangers.There are many "unreconstructed rebels" scatteredthroughout this country, and they never cease tomope over the" times before the wah," and to say allsorts of unpleasant things. There are many younghusbands who ruin all the joy and pleasure of homelife by indulging a habit of referring to "how motherused to do it " upon every occasion; and by drawinginvidious comparisons for the torture of the harassedhousewife who is doing the best she can, and prob-UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKL'·_·,ably twice as well as " mother" in reality ever did.'There are at this University those who occupy a posi­tion similar to that of the unreconstructed rebel andthe untransplanted husband. And they are even moreexasperating. They come from" Hahvahd," or Yale,or Princeton, or perchance Oberlin, Brown or Colgate.They stroll about with a superior air, and deprecatewhat they see, and find little to admire. They findfault with things, not because they are inferior to, butbecause they differ from" the way we do at our col­lege." They continue to take their own college paperbut can't afford to subscribe for the WEEKLY. Theytalk incessantly about the" big games in the East,"but attend none of the games here. Although theyhave been but a short time at the University, and havemade poor use of their opportunities for observation,they do not hesitate to pass judgment upon thewhole institution and the President's method of con­ducting it. After a little further acclimatization theywill see things more clearly, but meanwhile they area damper upon college life here and a social nuisance.YALE University has recently fitted up a "TrophyRoom." Here are collected and tastefully ar­. ranged trophi�es of victories, pictures of athleticteams and relics of all sorts of Yale events. The col­lection is made as complete as possible from the earli­est times to the present. The walls of the room aredraped with banners and hung with pictures, whilehistoric baseballs and footballs and bats, and souvenirsof all sorts are grouped picturesquely about the room.Why not institute a similar custom at Chicago? Now,at the threshold of our history, is the time to begin.Pictures of all our teams and athletes should be col­lected, complete files of all student publications se­cured, and souvenirs of all significant .events in' ourhistory preserved .. A room could doubtless be securedfor this purpose. In a few years no feature on thecampus would be visited with more interest by strang­ers. And it would be there that the student of otherdays would linger most fondly, on returning to renewthe memories of old college years. Let us have a" Trophy Room" at Chicago."Sweet maid," said he,"I beg of theeTo fly, to fly, to fly with me ! "" Young fellow," said she,"Now dou't you beToo fly, too fly, too fly, with me ! " Unive rsrty Calendar.Notices for the ensuing week, wlziclt are of genera! interest,may secure insereion in the Calendar by being lift with Mr.Heii, i1z tile Weekly Box at the Faculty Exchange, before 9: 30a. m., Monday.Thursday, June 13.I : 30 p. m. Meeting of Y. W. C. A. Praise and Prayer meet­ing. Lecture Room, Cobb.Friday, June 14. .Academic Day-a holiday.9: 30 a. m. Baseball game and bicycle races.12 : IS p. m. Chapel Exercises.2 : 00 p. m. The Farces. Kent Theatre.4: 30 p. m. Ivy Exercises. Cobb Hall.5 : 00 p. 111. Meeting of Senior Class. Faculty Room.6: 45 p. m. Meeting of Y. M. C. A. Lecture 'Room, Cobb.S : 30 p. m. Academic Promenade, Chicago Beach Hotel.Saturday, June 15.9: 00 a. m , Interscholastic Tennis Meet. University TennisCourts.3: 30 p. m. Baseball. University vs. University of Michi­gan. Ann Arbor.Sunday, June 16.7: IS p. m. Joint Meeting of Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. Lect­ure Room,' Cobb.8 : 00 p. m. Meeting of Christian Union Chapel.rtonday, June 17.8: 00 p. m. Meeting of Law Club. Faculty Room.8: 00 p. m. University Finals, Tendered to the Senior Classby the University College.Tuesday, June 18.3: 00 p. m. Quadrangle Day. Celebration 011 the Campusby the Senior Class.Wednesday, June 19.s: 30 p. m. Senior Class Banquet at Hotel Windermere ..Friday, June 21.8: oo p. m. President's reception to Senior Class, at Presi­dent's house.The New Journal of Sociology.On July I, the University Press will publish thefirst number of the American Journal 0/ Sociology.The j oumal will be. published bi-monthly. Each is­sue will contain 112 pages. Dr. Albion W. Small andthe Department of Sociology are primarily responsiblefor the editorial management. Associated with them,however, are other eminent authorities. The Ameri­can Journal 0/ Sociology will be somewhat less tech­nical than the publications of other departments ofthe University, and will appeal to a far wider constit­uency than any other journal except the BiblicalWorld. 381382 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Academic Day Sports.The athlethic program of the Academic Day to-mor­row promises to be both varied and interesting. Base­ball will open the day's order of exercises and theteams who will face each other will be one pickedfrom the divines and one marshaled by CaptainHerschberger selected from those of worldly thoughtsin the Academic College.A glance at the line-up should satisfy the mostskeptical that the game will be worth seeing. Thesewill try to play the positions put opposite their names:Divinity School.Borden, r f.Smith, 3 b.Fletcher, c f.Allen (Capt.), I b.Ewing, s s.Reed, 1 f.Wyant, p.Davidson, c.Behan, 2 b. Academic College.Herschberger (Capt.}, lb.Flint, 2 6.Chase, c.Hancock, p.Gale, 1 f.McGilivray, s s.Dougherty, 3 b.Vaughn, c f.Sincere, r f.After the baseball game some of the best 'knownathletes of the University will compete for the honorof catching a Florida" razor back." The" grunter"will be incased in a coat of Armour's" best," and isclaimed to be able to cover the quarter mile inside of50 seconds.The substantial part of the program will be theparticipation of some of the crack men of the trackteam. There will be quarter, half, and five milebicycle races. Bachelle will try. to lower the milerace and will be paced by a tandem. The entries forthe half-mile race will be C. V. Bachelle, F. B. Glea­son, G. A. Bliss, H. C. Durand, C. C. Macomber, E.W. Peabody, R. Barton and C. F. Tolman. Thesame men are entered in the mile race with the addi­tion of L. W. Brookings and W. H. Jackson. Brook­ings, Barton and Peabody are not entered in the quar­ter mile race. Other track men may enter and try tobreak the University records in several events.University, 26; Northwestern, I.It was hard to concede them the one run after wehad rolled up the round number of 26 runs, and giventhem eight goose eggs and put out two of their menin the ninth. Jenks, of Northwestern, saved his teamthe disgrace of a shut-out by making a timely hit inthe ninth, scoring Leesley. Kedzie started to pitchfor Northwestern, but eighteen runs were made in the first two innings and he retired in favor of Sickles.Brown pitched for the home team and kept theEvanstonians down to five scattered hits and one scat­tered run. Nichols played a brilliant game at startand the support otherwise was excellent, only threeerrors being made, Abells being accountable for twoand Brown one. The visitors made twelve errors.Adk insonls work at the bat was remarkable, making'six hits out of seven times at the bat-one three-bag­gers, two two-baggers and two singles. Not a basewas stolen by the visitors while the 'Varsity had elevenstolen bases to their credit. Tindall umpired.Tennis.The great surprise in the tennis tournament of lastweek was the defeat of Torrey by Moffatt. The con­test was one of the most fiercely fought of the season.Torrey took the first set 7-5, but was rather easilybeaten the second set, 3-6. The third brought outall the reserve strength of both players and the gameszigzagged from one side to the other until a total oftwenty-four games had been played. At this pointMoffatt braced up and took the set and the match bythe score 5-7, 6-3, I4-I2. Professor Stagg had aneasy time with both Hubbard and Moore, defeatingthe former 6-0, 6-0 and the latter by the same score.H. J. Smith beat Woodruff 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, and Linnvanquished Hei1 4-6, 6-2, 6'3. The tournament willcontinue throughout the week.Cup Competition.The competition for the University cups will closewith the bicycle race to-morrow. The cups will thenbe ready for distribution. The following with theevents they have won will receive cups appropriatelyengraved: T. H. Patterson, 35 yards dash; H. C.Holloway, quarter mile run; E. W. Peabody, halfmile run and F. F. Steigmeyer.Michigan Withdraws.The University of Michigan has withdrawn from theWestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Thisaction it is claimed was taken as a result of allegedunfair treatment of its representatives at the athleticmeet in Chicago June I. The athletic committee hasdecided to send a team to the Mott-Haven games nextyear.An Accomplished Fact.May r oth the Nickel Plate Road inaugurated a newtrain service. The new summer schedule affords thesame number of trains as before, including throughservice between Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, NewYork and Boston. The improvements also embracethe shortening of time of trains between all of theabove cities. City Ticket Office, I I I Adams street,Tel. Main 389. Depot, r z th and Clark streets, Tel.Harrison 200.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Miss Dougherty is entertaining her mother at Fos­ter Hall.Miss Lillian Thatcher, from Pueblo, Colo., is theguest of Miss Bertha Bingham.Mrs. Gilbert Munson, of Zanesville, Ohio, is visitingher daughter, Miss Sarah Munson, at Foster Hall.Invitations are out for an " at home" in FosterHall, Friday, from eight to ten o'clock a. m. Theorder of Mortar-board and the Esoterics will enter­tain.A new club called the" Coffee House," composedof some of the younger and livelier members of Grad­uate Honse, has sent out in-vitations for a select crowdof ladies and .gentlemen to gather next week Fridayevening to eat.Professor Paul Shorey will be married to MissEmma Gilbert, in Philadelphia, on the 26th of June.Professor and Mrs. Shorey will sail for Europe on theGermania on the following day, and will visit Lon­don, Paris, Florence and Venice, returning in Octoberto their home at 5516 Woodlawn avenue.The engagement is announced of Miss Edith Rocke­feller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, to Mr. HaroldF. McCormick, a son of Cyrus McCormick, manufact­urer of the" McCormick" harvester. Miss Edith isa studious young woman, a graduate of Ogontz Sem­inary, near Philadelphia. She loves books more thansociety, and her share in the Rockefeller fortune isput at $35,000,000. Mr. McCormiek is a graduate ofPrinceton.In Honor of niss Prance.The graduate women of Beecher Hall gave a din­ner in honor in honor of Miss France, who took herPh. D. last Friday. The occasion was made delightfulby Prof. Shorey's announcing early in the evening thatMiss France had won her degree with the grademagna cum laude..' Paculty Tea.The Faculty dinner, given in Nancy Foster Halllast Friday night was unusually pleasant. The enter­tainment included several collections by the FosterGlee Club, and some original songs and two solos, byMisses Dorman and Bingham. The guests were Presi­dent and Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Crow and Mrs. Brainard,Messrs. Starr, Catterral, Boyd, Triggs, Dahl, R. F.Harper, Alexander, Smith, and Raycroft. 383Theta Nu Epsilon.Theta Nu Epsilon, that organization which is notedfor it diabolical deeds and general tendency towardthings infernal and impish, initiated a number ofhapless sophomores into the mysteries of what mayfollow after death, Friday night. The candidateswere guillotined, drawn and quartered, burned at thestake and generally mutilated to the satisfaction ofthose who were compelled to go through the sameordeal last year. The members for last year were:Messrs. R. Dougherty, Law, Brown, Clark, Bond, Randand Arnold. The incoming members are of courseunknown quantities.o Wild, Wild Woods, and Waters Unconfined.o wild, wild woods, and waters unconfined,Teach me your ways to walk; let me unwindYour devious paths iu blessed solitude,Soothed by your various voices to a moodMore quiet than my restless heart avowedEven to feel the need of; in its prideChafing at dull restraint and stretching wideIts wings to measure strength, at last it bowed,But sullenly obedient; for allThe contests that life hinted of were far;My heart was held in the enduring thrallOf the dread common place, until one star,Shining at eve, gave sight unto the.blind.I love you, woods and waters; whispering wind,I know your language; teach me more, 0 rude,Sweet savage Nature, in your solitude!A. S. C.Facilities for Travelers.The Nickel Plate Road now offers greater facilitiesto the traveling public than ever, the improved servicehaving been inaugurated May r oth. No change ofcars between Chicago, New York and Boston in eitherdirection. Superb Dining Cars between Chicago andBuffalo in both directions. Trains leave Chicago8 : 05 a. m. daily except Sunday; I : 30 and 9: 20p. m. daily for Fort Wayne, Fostoria, Cleveland, Erie,Buffalo, New York and Boston. I: 30 p. m. trainarri ves New' York 6 : 30 and Boston 9 : 00 0' clock thefollowing evening. City Ticket Office, I I I AdamsStreet, Tel. Main 389. Depot, r z th and Clark streets,Tel. Harrison 200.The Stage rtanager.Mr. Hart Conwell, director of the Chicago Schoolof Acting, recently addressed the English club on" The Influence of a Stage Manager upon a. Play."His interesting and well delivered paper deserved alarger audience. He told of the lack of scenery inShakespeare's time and the consequent inactivity ofthe stage manager, which continued until the lasttwenty or thirty years, and of the manifold duties andperplexities of the modern manager and the importantpart which he played in the production of every play:384 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Mr. F. J. Burt, state Y. M. C. A. secretary for thecollege department, attended the Y. M. C. A. meet­ing Friday evening. After September r st Mr. Burtbecomes assistant secretary in the general Y. M. C. A.work of the state.The last Y. M. C. A. meeting for the quarter willbe held in the Lecture Room Friday evening, and thelast joint association meeting Sunday evening, atseven o'clock. The latter will be a song and praiseservice, special music being one of the features of theevening.Dr. Barrows delivered the last of his series of lectureslast Sunday. The large attendance at these lecturesshows not only the high regard in' which Dr. Barrowsis personally held as a lecturer, but the keen appre­ciation which the university people feel in the causerepresented in the Haskell Lectureship.The Y. M. C. A. boys are busy this week workingup their Lake Geneva delegation. .one committeehas been busy soliciting funds, while another is or­ganizmg a delegation. Messrs. Abells and Payneheld a Geneva meeting at Morgan Park last week,and as a result, eight Academy boys will accom­pany our delegation. The boys hope to have adozen delegates found here and thus make a jointdelegation of twenty. Northwestern sends twenty­five fellows. Four hundred delegates are expectedfrom one hundred and thirty colleges. Our boyshope to be in the front rank in athletics as well as inthe regular conference work.A joint committee of the Young Women's Chris­tian Association and the Young Men's ChristianAssociation, composed of Misses Radford, Klock andJohnston and Messrs. Brown, Hewitt and Gallion aregetting out a neat hand-book for distribution to newstudents at the opening of the Autumn Quarter. Itwill contain only such printed matter as is not con­tained in University circulars and will be of specialinterest to new students; pages for memoranda willbe neatly and conveniently arranged. The book willbe bound in maroon morocco with the word Chicagostamped on the first cover an-d will be a convenientvest-pocket note-book.Undergraduate Divinity Club.There was held recently a meeting of undergrad­uate students who are considering the ministry as a, possible profession, at the invitation of President Har- per, for the purpose of organizing an UndergraduateDivinity Club. A club of about twenty members wasformed, with Harry D. Abells as president and C. B.Williams as secretary. This club occupies a positionsimilar to the club of law students, and will secureprominent speakers to address it at the University.Dr. Crandall on The New Ministry.At the invitation of President Harper, a small com­pany of undergraduate men, who are looking towarda life in the ministry or other Christian work, held aninformal conference last Friday evening in the Presi­dent's study. Professors Burton, Mathews and G. S.Goodspeed were present. The time was, spent indiscussion and in listening to a talk from Rev. L.A. Crandall, D. D., pastor of the Memorial Baptistchurch.Dr. Crandall spoke on "The New Ministry," giv­ing many of his own experiences in the work. He saidthat the" call" to the ministry does not differ greatlyfrom the call to 'any other Christian occupation.According to Dr. Crandall the new minister has avery wide field, and in onJer to cover it he must be aman of the people, a man who can be of practical useto men, not only to prepare them for the world tocome but to live rightly in the world here below.�t IA flay Song.Heydey ! for the maids of May!Love alone is the game to play!Turn on me your girlish glances,Every look my love enhances,Every smile my heart entrances,Oh , May, I pray but stay!Heydey! for the maids of May!Laughing, loving, blithe and gay!Laugh and part your lips in singing,Let my heart with echoes ringing,Haste the hours upon their winging.Oh, May, but stay, I pray!Heydey! for the maids of May!Love and life have come to stay!Still, alas! whilst I am singing,List how Cupid's bow is ringing.See how deep his darts are stinging,Oh, May, I pray away!CHARI,ES SUMNER PIKE.Book Reviews."A Laboratory Guide for an Elementary Course in GeneralBiology," Silver, Burdett & Co., Boston. This book hasbeen prepared by Prof. J. H. Pillsbury, A. M., formerly Pro­fessor of Biology in Smith College, Northampton, Mass.Its aim is to- make a work of a grade suitable for such HighSchools and Academies as provide for a course in Biology, andfor beginners' classes in colleges. The types of both Plant andAnimal life are treated in a manner at once simple and yet­thorough, so that it will be certain to afford at the same timea substantial basis for future reading and thought to the stu­dent who takes no further course, and an equally thoroughpreparation for the student who expects to pursue advancedcourses in Biology.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Hirsch, the Convocation Orator.Tuesday, July I, the summer convocation will beheld in the open air on the University campus. RabbiEmil G. Hirsch, Ph. D., Professor of Semitics of theUniversity, and pastor of Sinai Congregation, will bethe convocation orator. The same day the corner­stone of Haskell Museum will be laid, the address be­ing given by John Henry Barrows, D.D.The Egyptian Collection.At the last meeting of the Semitic Club in WalkerMuseum, Dr. Breasted of the department of Egyptol­ogyexhibited and commented upon the collection whichhe has just brought from Egypt. He told of the diffi­culties of collection and exact location, and showedmany unique and valuable objects. President Har­per, Dr. Garner, the famous investigator on the speechof monkeys in Africa, Prof. Goodspeed and Prof.Starr were present.Cornell l1.usical Clubs.Arrangements for the European trip of the CornellGlee and Banjo Clubs are nearly complete. Theclubs will sail on the steamer Paris, about June 18,fof .England. On July 4, they will give their firstconcert in London in St. James Hall. This will be adistinctly American event, patriotic songs and othermusic occupying the evening. After leaving Londonthey will see the races at Henley, where the Cornellcrew is to row. They will then give a second concertin London and make a tour of southern England,Visiting Southport, Brighton and Portsmouth. Walesand Scotland will then be visited, and finally the clubswill cross over to Ireland, visiting the principal citiesthere. 'Smoking at Ohio Wesleyan.The faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University has de­cided that next year students must discard the use oftobacco in every form. President Bashford, in anaddress at chapel service, pointed out that at Yaleonly 25 per cent of the first honor students used to­bacco, 48 per cent of the second honor, 70 per cent ofthe third honor, and 85 per cent of the fourth honormen. At Harvard 83 per cent of the students usetobacco, but for fifty years the first honor man hasbeen an abstainer from tobacco. At Cambridge about70 per cent of the students smoke tobacco, and theotber 30 per cent furnish nine-tenths of the firsthonor men. At West 'Point the use of tobacco is en­tirely prohibited. " Now," said Dr. Bashford, "nextyear we want to be like West Point in this particular,and if any student can't give up his tobacco habits,we frankly say, please seek another school.' 385l1.ajors and l1.inors.Registrar Grose has gone' to the anniversary meetings atSaratoga Springs.Mr. Silas Cobb has been awarded the building of the newChicago postoffice.There is much enthusiasm being exhibited over the Inter­collegiate Field Day.The WEEKLY has bad a printing press put into its office fordoing small job work.It is said that Harvard has made "cribbing" an offensepunishable by expulsion.In absence of Professor Vincent, Mr. 1. N. Howerth hascharge of his classes in sociology.Geo. E. Robertson left Monday for the East for a two weeks'vacation. He will attend the Yale-Harvard boat races.,...Mr. Carr B. Nee1 and Mr. N. S. Bond, the University repre­sentatives in doubles, are showing good form in their tenuis.An exchange reports that an alumnus of Williams has offereda silver cup to the class winning most points at the springmeet. 'Yale is considering the advisability of giving up compulsorychapel. It is reported that the junior class have decided towear caps and gowns on all the Sundays of Senior year.The Associated Alumni of the University will give a banquetat 6 o'clock Monday, July I, immediately after the convoca­tion. T. M. Hammond, chairman of the board has the affairin charge.Eastman Johnson, of New York City, who painted the por­trait of John D. Rockefeller, which hangs in the Chapel ofthis University, is now at work upon a portrait of ex-presidentBenj. Harrison, which has been ordered for the White Houseat Washington.The University of Michigan enrolled during the past year2,815 students, which was an increase of 156 over the attend­ance of last year. Of the fees received, 1,545 Michigan stu­dents pay $46,650, and the 1,270 students coming from otherstates pay $60,388.Miss Mae Fowler, a student at the University in 1893, hassince taken first rank in the Empire Theatre Dramatic Schoolof New York City, receiving the first prize valued at $600.00.She has recently been engaged to play the leading role in oneof Charles Frohman'S Companies.Dr. Harper and Professors Goodspeed and Miller wereamong the one hundred aud fifty guests at a luncheon tenderedthe Standard editors and proprietors. Dr. Harper spoke of the"Standard and University Enthusiasm," and Dr. Goodspeed onon the" Relation of the Standard to the Theological Union."T. L. Neff, fellow in Romance, received the sad intelligenceSunday that his sister was drowned at Kansas City the day be­fore. He had received a letter from her the same day whichstated that she was just starting out with a picnic party, and itis presumed the accident occurred on this trip. He received noparticulars and took the first train for Kansas City. Theyonng lady had just graduated from High School.By a recent action of the University authorities the rent ofrooms in the seven dormitories on the quadrangle is reducednearly fifteen per cent. Rooms in Snell Han which formerlycost $56 a quarter are now $40; rooms which were $28 are now$25; rooms which were $40 are reduced to $36, and those whichwere $33 are $28. In Graduate Hall the single rooms at $39 forthree months were reduced to $34, and the suites which were$66 are rated at $60.386 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Mr.John Lamay has been appointed assistant in the Physicallaboratory of the Summer Quarter.President H. S. Stetson, D. D., of Des Moines College, willbe in the University during the summer quarter.E. A. Read has been reappointed head of South DivinityHall, and C. E. Woodruff of Middle Divinity Hall.Miss Crucken entertained the members of the Anthropolog­ical department at her home, 6054 Sheridau avenue, Mondaynight.Dean Judson deli vers the address at the graduating exercisesof the Kenwood Institute this afternoon at half past four atthe Kenwood club before a large audience.Last Monday evening Mr. Floyd Triggs, formerly illustratoron the Minneapolis Tribune, gave a chalk talk to thirty in­vited guests in the parlors of Oraduate Hall.Mr. O. L. Triggs has been recently.elected a member of thecouncil of the Whitman Fellowship, an international associa­tion with headquarters at Philadelphia, also a life member ofthe Shakespeare Society of New York.Professor Small and Jerome H. Raymond, of the extensiondepartment, attended the Municipal Reform Convention atCleveland. Professor Small gave one of the principal ad­dresses on the Civic Federation of Chicago.Applications for information in regard to the Summer Quar­ter, have been pouring into the Examiner's office for some time.If the same percentage of atteudance to inquiry that obtainedbefore last summer obtains for next quarter, the attendancewill be over a thousand.Owing to the probable abseuce of Professor Salisbury, thesummer course in geology will be conducted by Head ProfessorChamberlain. This course consists of lectures for the firstterm at the University, and field work probably at the Dells ofthe Wisconsin River for the rest of the quarter.Judge Eliot Anthony gives the third of his lectures beforethe Political Science and History Club in the Faculty room at2 o'clock this afternoon .. The subject is "The Constitution ofIllinois." The previous lectures by Judge Anthony were"Written Constitutions and the Making of Written Constitu­tions. "Recent figures on the university extension work done by theUniversity of Chicago during the season of 1894-95 shows thatthere was a total attendance of 23,757 persons at 127 lecturecourses. The number of active centers for extension lecturework was rr6, and the number of lecturers eighteen. The av­erage attendance at each lecture was 187 and the average'attendance at each class 133.The University of Chicago will have five delegates in theconvention of the National Republican league to be held atCleveland, Ohio, j une 19,20 and 21. R. L. Dougherty and H.L. Ickes will be the regular delegates from the Republicanclub of the University, and F. H. Minard and C. B. McGilvraywill be alternates. L. Brent Vaughn, president of the Ameri­can Repuh1ican College league, will be delegate-at-Iarge.Mr. Vernon Purinton Squires was examined last Saturdayfor the degree of Master of Arts in English. The judges wereProfs. Blackburn and Shaler Mathews. Next Saturday at3 p. m., Florence Mercy Walker will be examined for the de­gree of Master of Philosophy. Her principal subject is English;secondary, Philosophy. The following will take examinationsbefore next Tuesday for the degree of Ph. D. : Henry B. Kiirn­mel in geology, James W. Thompson in history, Charles H.Gordou in geology. Summer Homes and Tours.The enterprising West Shore railroad has just issued a 200page book descriptive of the scenery along its line. The workis a fine specimen of the printer's art and is full of interesting in­formation. It is a work of history and description combined,pointing out and illustrating all the old spots made famous bythe notable occurrences in the early history of our country.The first page of cover is embossed in four colors and is itselfa model of typography. It contains the announcement,"Homes and Tours on the West Shore Railroad, Season 1895."The work is illustrated with seventy spleudid half-tone en­gravings, most of them full page and all of them rare worksof the engraver's art. Some of the most striking of them are"The Haymakers," "The Summer Girl," "A Native," "RipVan Winkle's Cottage," and a" Quiet Day on the Lake." Thebook starts out with a detail account of the many points ofinterest that the West Shore route touches, which is valuableinformation to the tourist who desires to visit along the Hud­son aud in the Catskills. This is followed by a chapter ongeneral information stating facts about living and travelingexpenses, when and where to have your baggage checked andat what points you can buy your tourist tickets at best advan­tage. A map of the Hudson River. The Catskills and thesurrounding country is inserted, showing the trend of themountains and the exact location of every place of interest.Then comes the interesting stories descriptive of the presentand the past; up Hendrick Hudson's river, under the shadowof the Catskill mountains, haunted by the shades of Rip VanWinkle and the merry men of the old Dutch days, past Haver­straw, West Point, Saratoga, Mt. McGregor and up into theAdirondacks.No other trip can give as many soul-stirring sights as a tourover the West Shore route. This book, if carried with you onsuch a 10uruey, points out all such places. There's the houseand Gallows Hill that tell the sad story of Major Andre, andnear by the house that Washington occupied; on a hill-topstands the old colonial mansion of Colonel King and a boulderof rock against which Hamilton fell; "Treason House," whereArnold and Andre prepared their treasonous plot; "StonyPoint," the "House of the Good Shepherd;" and the lighthousethat marks the site of the revolutionary fortifications whichwas taken by the British and retaken by "mad" AnthonyWayne; and there's" Anthony's Nose," not" mad" Anthony'sbut Van Corlear's, a trumpeter of old Peter Stuyvesant, andturn ing to this book the legend is beautifully told by Washing­ton Irving. There's Newburg, and it's here where Washingtonwas tempted to assume kingship, and flung the proffer backwith more than kingly scorn, and it's here the rank and fileof the army chanted the words which are the tocsin of Americanliberty, " No King but God! "And so continues the descriptiou of each town and historicspot, fully illustrated and with poems by Holmes, Wallace,Bruce, Henry Abbey, Wm. Cullen Bryant and Laura Sanderson,each telling about some noted incident or spot, until we cometo the legendary story of Rip Van Winkle, illustrated by eighthalf tone pictures.Not least is the illustrations of Niagara Falls, which place isreached by the 'West Shore route. In the last part of thisexcellent book on '" Summer Homes and Tours" is found acomplete list of excursions and the price for round trips fromleading points. This includes not only all points on the WestShore route but points in Canada and the New England states.In connection with the Fitchburg Railroad the West Shore hasa direct line from Buffalo to Boston. This. book entitled"Homes and Tours" cau be had free by applying to Wm.Cadwell, G. W. P. A., West Shore R. R., 236 Clark St., Chi­cago, Ill.