UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Single Copies10 Cents. VOL. III, No. 47.CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 12, H�95.LeTTeR FROM THe MeXICAN eXPeDITION.For two weeks past our party has been. in southernMexico, visiting Puebla, Tlaxcula, Cholula, Oaxaca,and the ruins of Mitla, Monte Alban and San Juan deTeotihuacan.Our stay in Puebla was of nearly a week. Fromthat city as headquarters we visited Cholula andTlaxcula. Puebla was founded under the namePuebla de los Angeles, the city of angels, in 153 I, andclaims angelic protection. It is one of the brightest,cleanest and most beautiful cities of the republic.The Plaza is one of the finest we have found, shadedby fine trees, ornamented by statues and flowers. Onthree sides it is surrounded by long arcades, known asportales, under which many of the shops are located.The southern side is occupied by the great, .darkcathedral, .which rivals that of the capital and ex­ceeds it in beauty of interior decoration. This inte­rior is of gold, onyx and marble. The altars are ofonyx, ornamented with many white marble statues.The chapel gratings are of wrought iron, coveredwith gold. The immense pillars are draped in crim­son velvet and the combination of this with the gold,onyx and white marble, and the handsome carvedwood of the organs, gives a beautiful effect.The city as seen from the hill of Guadaloupe tothe southeast is one of the fine views of the country.Its many church spires and domes rise above the flatroofs of the houses, the tall towers of the cathedraland San Francisco predominating. Many of thesechurches are handsomely tiled. This hill is crownedby two old fortresses, remnants of the French occupa­tion.Tlaxcula, some twenty miles from Puebla, is in­teresting as the first town occupied by the Spaniards,.:__the place, where the. first Christian sermon waspreached and where the first converts were made.On a hill above the town, reached by a beautifulavenue of trees, stands the old church said to be thefirst built on the American continent. In it are pre­served the old pulpit whence the first sermon waspreached and the font at which the first converts, thefour senators of the Tlaxculan republic, were bap­tized. Ev.erything about Tlaxcula is old. The Plazais almost untouched by modern innovations; the oldsolid masonry seats remain, and the fountain bears a date early in the seventeenth century. In the museumare preserved the sword and standard of Cortes. Theview over the valley from the hill is very fine,-thelittle city below and the surrounding hills, on whichare the ruins of the old Indian town.At Cholula we visited the great pyramid·,: thelargest in Mexico, constructed of adobe brick; stillplainly discernible. Cholula is also a town wherethere is little that is new.; everything important savethe railroad dates back: a hundred years and more.One of the most interesting buildings is the churchof the. Indians, now being repaired. Its roof- con­sists of sixty-three domes supported by sixty-fourpillars. While at Cholula we visited the Iittle In­dian village of Cuantlantzinco, where a picture tell­ing the story of the, conquest, executed shortly afterthe Spaniards achieved their victory, is preserved.This we photographed.It was still dark on the morning when we went tothe station to take the train for Oaxaca, and we hadan opportunity of seeing the SUN rise over the twogiant volcanoes - Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl.These mountains are to the west of the city, while tothe east is the Malinche, a peak which falls just shortof the snow line. As the .sun rises behind the peak itsshadow falls on the volcanoes, shrouding them, thevalley and the city in darkness. As we alighted atthe station the first gleams of light were striking theimmense snow fields. In a few moments the li.ghtshadtraveled down the slope and a rosy glow covered thepeaks as the sun rose higher behind Malinche.Hardly had we got under way when the sun washigh enough to flash its light upon the great glisten ..ing dome of Orizala to the eastward. For severalhours we were f�vored with a view of these three greatsnow clad mountains, the highest-Orizala, toweringmore than eighteen thousand feet, and Ixtaccihuatl,the-lowest. sixteen thousand five hundred feet.That day's ride was over one of the greatest sceniclines in America, down through the canons of the'Tomollin and up that of los Cues. Leaving Puebla;more than seven thousand feet above the sea, by noonwe had dropped down to less than two thousand feetand were in a canon where the heat was terrific. Thenwe began to climb again. We went up, up, up, twoIt bears a tablet, now much overgrown, cut by Alex­ander von Humboldt.Mitla is a thorough Indian town. The little hutsof canes and thatch are surrounded by hedges of or­gan pipe cactus and great trees of the broad leaf kind.The Indians are better looking than any others wehave seen and also more timid. For a day we ram­bled round among them, and over the ruins.These old ruins, whether temples or palaces, is amooted question, are scattered in several groupsthrough the villages. A prominent guidebook saysthe parchments that bore the builders' tracings havemoldered to ashes in the "century of centuries" thathas passed. The idea is a beautiful one, but it hardlyseems probable that buildings of adobe faced withstone would withstand the elements ten thousandyears. They are old, however. When the Spaniardsfirst penetrated the valley they found them as now,roofless and crumbling, giving evidence that in thedistant past they must have. been the pride and gloryof a people well advanced.One group is embraced within the parish churchand curacy, another is only a cluster of crumblingadobe walls; two groups, however, are in fair pre?er­vation, standing near together a little apart from thehuts. They each form an imperfect quadrangle, oneside of each being gone. The northern building ofthe northern. quadrangle is best preserved. The ex­terior is covered with an intricate Mosaic in smallpieces of stone set into the adobe filling of the walls,The interior is all thus decorated. Entering througha triple doorway, the lintels of which are .enormousblocks of stone, one finds himself in the "hall ofmonoliths" down the center of which is a line of sixgreat pillars .. The walls of this hall have lost theirmosaics. Through a low vaulted passage, entranceis had into a square chamber, on every side of whichare long narrow apartments, opening into it by widedoorways. ,The day after the return from Mitla we ascendedMonte Alban, the summit of which is covered withmounds and pyramids, with passages faced withcarved stones; also terraces with fortifications, and longwalls surmounted by mounds. While on the mount­ain we were caught in a rain-storm,-one of thoseenergetic business-like tropical downpours,- andmost thoroug'hlysoaked.The ruins of San Juan, de Teotihuacan we visitedon our way north. There we had an adventure. The.government has been excavating San Juan in antic­ipation of the Congress of Americans in October,and among other things has cut a tunnel into thePyramid of the Moon. One of our party entered thetunnel alone without a light and after proceedingsome fifty feet in safety walked into an interior cham­ber, falling about fifteen feet. The walls were smooth514 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.hundred and fifty feet to the mile until the altitude ofPuebla was gained when a drop of two thousand feetinto the valley of Oaxaca was made. The road windsaround great peaks, towering a thousand or twothousand feet above, now on a shelf on the mountainside, now supported by a stone wall, now across theriver onto the other side. The scene changes at everymoment, and every view seems finer than the preced­ing. N ear the top of the ascent a place is passedwhere the canon is S9 narrow that the channel is filledfor the road bed and tunnels cut for the stream. Therocks all through both canons are contorted; tilted andtwisted in wonderful manner. In the Tomollin canonare red sandstone cliffs eroded into the most fantasticshapes-domes, battlements, turrets, here a palisadedwall, there the semblance of a feudal castle withdonjon towering above.Oaxaca is called the most Mexican town in Mexico-and, indeed, it seems least touched by the outsideinfluences which are modernizing the more northerntowns. The huge Mexican sombrero holds its own inOaxaca more than elsewhere, among the upper classes,and the Indians are little different from what theywere when their ancestors were conquered by theSpaniards more than three centuries ago. In the vil­lages around the city they are unable to speak Span­ish, still clinging to their native idioms. At Mitla wefound them unable to comprehend quantos, "howmuch ?" a phrase we have found the natives elsewhereready to respond to with alacrity and good roundprices. I might add the latter are present at Mitlaas well.The drive of thirty miles across the country toMitla is full of interest. The carriage is drawn bysix mules, two wheelers and four leaders harnessedabreast. The box is occupied by the driver and aboy, the former handling the reins, and plying a longlash on the somewhat reluctant leaders, the latterusing a shorter whip on the wheelers. As a conse­quence good time is made. We left our hotel on thePlaza in the early morning and after a trying rideover the so-called city pavements, found ourselves ona passably good highroad. Here we met a curiousprocession, people from the villages coming into townwith produce,-men and women hurrying along in aswinging walk with heavy loads on their backs,clumsy ox carts with 'half solid wheels often of differ­ent diameters, drawn by a team of bullocks harnessedby the horns, burros with large panniers of vegetables,fruit, charcoal, etc., with women or children seatedabove. Our dri+er evinced a most cheerful disregardfor the rights of others; the authoritative manner inwhich he hurried the carts and burros out of the waywas quite amusing. At Tule we stopped to see thebig tree, an enormous cypress gnarled and buttressed,more than one hundred and fifty feet in circumference.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKL Y.masonry and he couldn't climb out, so the Indianguide sent for candles and a rope .. The position ofthe prisoner was not pleasant, however, in pitchydarkness and without ventilation so he dug his toesinto the chinks of the masonry and spoiled a fine storyby climbing out himself, somewhat bruised and verydirty but not seriously hurt. R. O. SHREVE.Final Week-Eugene' Field.A movement was inaugurated in the University lastquarter by which each Senior class in the last weekof the quarter closing its undergraduate work pro­vides for the members of the University and theirfriends some popular entertainment of high grade.Each class determines what entertainment it will pro­vide. This took the form in the University. CollegeFinals lastj une of a mock convocation., The NinetyFives, No. Four, have decided on an entertainmententirely different from that of their predecessors andhave provided for their friends a literary and musicaltreat. Eugene Field, the popular author of patheticand humorous verse, has consented to be present andread several selections from his own writings, andMr. Bernard Listemann will furnish two violin solos.The entertainment will be given in Kent Theater,Monday, September 16, at 8 p. m. The program forthe evening is as follows :PART 1.Readings :-r. Father's Way, }2. Winkin' and Bl in kin", M F' ld3. The Little Bow-Legged Boy, r. ie .4. Our Two Opinions, .Violin Solo. -. . . . . ; , . . Mr. Listemann.PART II.Readings :-1. Little Boy Blue, ,2. Night Wind, 5 M F' ld3. Uhland's Three Cavaliers, r. ie •4. Seein' Things at Night,Violin Solo. . . . . . '. . ... Mr. Listemann.PART III.Readings :-1. Long Ago, }2. Casey's Table d' Hote, Mr. Field3. The Wanderer, .4. Just Before Christmas,As is seen from, the program, Mr. Field will readsome of his most charming bits of pathos as well assome of his inimitable humor. By the courtesy ofMr. Field, the WEEKLY furnishes its readers thisweek "Our Two Opinions," one of the selections tobe read Monday evening.On Tuesday evening, from 8 : 00 to I I : 00 0' clocka reception will be tendered the graduating studentsand some of their friends by President and Mrs. Har­per at their home, corner of Lexington avenue and Fifty-ninth' street. Friday, September 20, at 8: 30a. m. the Graduate Matutinal will be held at thePresiclen t' s house.Our Two Opinions.EUGENE FIELD.Us two wuz boys when we fell out,­Nigh to the age uv my youngest now;Don't rec'lect what t'wuz about,Some small deeff'rence, I'll allow.'Lived next neighbors twenty years,A-hatin' each other, me 'nd Jim,-He havin' his opinyin uv me,'Nd I havin' my opinyin uv him.Grew up together 'nd wouldn't speak,Courted sisters, 'nd marr'd 'em, too;"Tended same meetin'-house oncet a week,A-hatin' each other through 'nd through!But when Abe Liukern asked the WestF'r soldiers, we answered,- me 'nd Jim,­He havin' his opinyin uv me,'Nd I havin' my opinyiu uv him.But down in Tennessee one nightTher wuz sound uv firin' fur away,'Nd the sergeant allowed therd be a fightWith the Johnnie Rebs some time nex' day;'Nd as I wuz thinkin' uv Lizzie 'nd homeJim stood afore me, long 'nd slim,-He havin' his opinyin uv me,'Nd Ibavin' my opinyin uv him.Seemed like 'we knew there wuz goin' to beSerious trouble f'r me 'nd him;Us two shuck hands, did Jim 'nd me,But never a word from me or Jim!He went his way 'nd I went mine,'Nd into the battle's roar went we,-­I havin' my opinyin uv Jim,,'Nd he havin' his opinyin uv me.Jim never come back from the war again,But I haint forgot that last; last nightWhen waitin' f'r orders, us two menMade up 'ud shuck hands, afore the fight."Nd, after it all, itssoothin ' to knowThat here Ibe 'nd yonder's Jim,-­He havin' his opinyin uv me,'Nd I havin' my opin_yin uv him.THE Tribune says that the total donations by giftand will in this country since January I, counting iri­dividual sums exceeding $1,000, are as follows: Janu­ary, $1,698,900; February, $r,873,300; March, $736,-550; April, $I,3Ii,IOO; May, $4,239.5::0; June (todate) $575,600. Total, $ro,434, 150. Of this amountcolleges and' uni versi ties have received $4,075,75°;hospitals, $1,593,000; churches, $789,000; and libra­ries $208,000, or nearly two-thirds of the total. Theremainder, $3,768,400, has been distributed amongmuseums, art galleries and various classes of charity.515516 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY 'OF CHICAGO WEEKLY son even this water is too warm for drinking. Noth­ing short of cold distilled or filtered water should beused.PURLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.EDITORIAL BOARD.FREDERICK DAY NICHOLS,WILLIAM PIERCE LOVETT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF- ASSISTANT EDITORASSOCIATE EDITORS:HENRY AUGus'!'uS PALMER,GUS'!'AVE WILLIAM AXELSON,WALLACE WAL'!'ER A'!'WOOD,'W AL'!'ER A.' PAYNE,JOHN HENRY HElL,WILBUR WHEELER BASSE'!''!', }HE�RY TEFF'!' CLARKE,HARRY DAVID HUBBARD,ABRAHAM BOWERS, LI'£ERARY- A'!'HLE'I'IC- SOCIAL- RELIGIOUS IN our account of the exercises in connection withlaying the corner-stone of the Hyde Park Baptistchurch, we find that we did not give Mr. J. M.jackson's remark concerning President Harper's sub­scription to the new building quite correctly. Thefact is that no one has subscribed a larger amount thanDr. Harper, he being one of three who are contribut­ing one thousand dollars each to this important enter­prise. No one of these gentlemen is a rich man. Weunderstand that there is not a really rich man in theALUMNI church. The success of the enterprise, so far as it is. assured, is due to the marked liberality of men inLOCAL moderate circumstances. This is an interesting, as itCALENDAR is certainly a most creditable, fact.CHARLES H. GALLION, MANAGERWILBER M. KELSO, ASSISTANT MANAGERSUBSCRIPTION RATE:One Quarter, $ 75One Year (Four Quarters), 2 50Office in Cobb Hall, Hours, 8.30 to 5.30.Advertising rates made on application.Address all communications to. UNIVERSITY' 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.IN view of the agitation for schools of journalism inuniversities it is int�resting to note the work beingdone in this, direction by college student publica­tions. Many leading newspaper men have receivedtheir .first inspiration and training on the staff of' thecollege paper. Not less than a dozen former editorsof the WEEKLY now hold positions with newspapers in_ Chicago and other cities.NOW that the work of the football squad is fairly. begun, let us have a much needed improve-ment in the gymnasium service, namely, betterfacilities than now exist for quenching the thirst ofour heated athletes. Now only city water, of a kindrecognized to be impure, is available, and at this sea- W· HV not have a Students' Exchange? TheFaculty Exchange is a ready and convenientmeans of intercommunication for members ofthe Faculty, but there is no corresponding means forcommunicatiotf with and among the students. Theracks on floors A and D of Cobb Hall serve some pur­poses, but they are inadequate in accommodations andlimited in possibilities. Why may there not be anorganization carried on entirely by the students, tomeet the growing needs of the student community?Here every student could leave his home address assoon as he come's to the University, his University ad­dress, reporting changes whenever they occur, and hisfuture address when he departs. Arrangements couldbe made for the careful forwarding of mail, expresspackages, etc. Then too, for the purposes for whichthe racks are used, a students' exchange would bea great improvement on the present system. Couldit not be made so much of a convenience that theRegistrar's office would allow compensation for serv­ice just as it does for service in the Faculty Ex­change?AFTER the considerable space which the localnewspapers have been devoting to the pros­pective University football team, after thetwo weeks of practice on Marshall Field, after themany rumors of new men and new tactics which havepassed current of late on the campus, it seems fittingthat the WEEKLY say a few words about the trainingpolicy to be pursued this fall by the management.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.In the first place, it is more than doubtful whetherany real acquisitions to the eleven will report for workthis autumn. A bird in the hand is worth two in thebush, and the football team of the University of Chi­cago is going to be composed, in all probability, ofsuch candidates as report for practice during the nexttwo or three weeks. Any" star" player who strollsout on the athletic field about the first of October willnot meet with the encouragement he expects. It isright that this should be so, for the "star" withbroken wind and lazy movements is too much occu­pied in thinking well of himself to be able to play anyfootball, while the one who has stolen his place awayfrom him is, in nine cases 0t;tt of ten, merely someordinary player with a fair amount of grit and a de­termination to train, be the personal cost what it may.Training-s-that's the main thing. If any member,present or future, of the Maroon eleven would godown to New Haven or Cambridge, and see what acourse of sprouts the teams are put through there, hewould not complain of anything in the way of train­ing asked of him here. There is a false opinion cur­rent here in the West that the main article of tablediet at Yale and Harvard and Pennsylvania' is Bass'Ale, that the players at these institutions have littleto do except to put their pictures in the newspapers,and that these men win games because of their per­sonal prowess. Nothing could be farther from thetruth. It is doubtful whether greater care is exer­cised in diet and in the regulation of habits, anywherein the worlcl, than is exercised at these Universitieswith the eleven. Petty vices and injurious habits arelaid aside. Why is it that men at these places arewilling to make such sacrifices in order to get on thefootball team? Because there is no greater honor pos- .sible for them than to be one of a victorious team.Why does not the same spirit prevail here at Chicago?Simply because the situation is not rightly under­stood. Let us consider the outlook for a moment.We are to meet this autumn at least four teams ofsuch strength and ability, that, if we do not take morethan usual care, we will be snuffed out like a candle.The situation in the West is different from that of anypreceding season; our rivals are expending everyeffort possible to win this year, and we must do like­wise. Now, we have a great chance. We have asgood and earnest an athletic trainer in Mr. Stagg asour colleges have ever seen. We have a captain, who is careful, of large experience and yet radical in hismethods; and it is a matter of common belief thatthe material this fall is unusual, both as regards theamount and the quality.Let us " play whist" on the field.complaint, no matter what happens. Not a word ofLet us try toreturn in some measure to the University what she hasdone for us. Let us be earnest and honest in thematter of training, and we will win.At the Sign of the Three Ball Inn.J. w. L.My relations are numerous, I have them by the score,I love the poor �mes somewhat, the rich ones rathermore .. But of all my dear relations who are blessed with lots of tin,I am fondest of my-uncle living at the Three Ball Inn.I often go to see him and I never come awayWithout some little token of his generosity,For he is richer, oh , by far. than Crcesus could have been­My benevolent old uncle living at the Three Ball Inn.His clothes. are bright and shining-at the elbows and theknees •.He seems, like Agamemnon, a king of ancient'grease.His nose is sociablyriuclined, and wants to meet his chin­Perhap� y01J_ kuowmy uncle living at the Three Ball Inn?When I find my winter overcoat has got too warm for spring,I take it to my uncle, and he doesn't do a thingBut keep it for me safely, 'long with my watch and pin,My careful1ittle uncle living at the Three Ball Inn.He has a pleasant little room all filled with curios,That have been given to him by different men he knows;For he is very-popular among his kith and kin,And he has many nephews calling at the Three Ball Inn.There are boxiug-gloves and fencing-foils hung up along thewalls;There are swords and guns of every sort, and cricket bats andballs, .T�ou.gh_my uncle's not athletic, you would think he must havebeen,Before he took up quarters there at the Three Ball Inn.But there are many other things; there's china there galore,And rings and pins and watches, almost like a jewelry store,And suits of clothes so queerly cut that they provoke a grin.Oh, it is a great collection, there at the Three Ball Inn.He has sets of ivory chessmen, and a silver-mounted flute;Guitars, and stringless banjos, and an old trombone, sanstoot. .In fact he has the orchestra, from drums to mandolin,Although he doesn't playa note, the.,re at the Three Ball Inn.And in the curious old room he sits behind a shelf,And gh�es his nephews good ad vice (he follows it himself):.« ,�ever lose sight of principal, my boy, through thick or thin,And you will be as well off as I, who own the Three Ball Iun."I'm very strongly drawn to him, as I have cause to be;I take great interest in him, he takes it out of me.And if anyone i"S present who has my cousin been,Why, three cheers for onr uncle, the host of the Three BallInn. 517518 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.Football Season Opened.Saturday was the break of dawn in the footballworld at the University of Chicago. The season oftouchdowns and canvassbacks was auspiciously ush­ered in before a thousand spectators. , The game wasnot a brilliant exhibition of football, but for an" opener" it can be considered a success. It can notbe said that the 'Varsity team played, but the gamerather served the purpose of trying new material, Inthis respect it was satisfactory, since all that could beasked of the men for the first time in the game wasdone.Clarke was tried at quarter and considering the cir­cumstances did very well. The passing of " Phil"Allen was not accurate, but this can be easily reme­died by a few days practice .. The whole trouble lay inthe fact that the veteran center has for five years beenin the habit of rolling the ball back instead of tossingit to the quarterback. Black played a strong gameat left guard but was rather severely handled in thefirst half of the game and had to retire with his leftelbow badly sprained and bruised. He will probablybe laid up for several weeks. Tooker, who in prac­tice during the week cut a deep gash above his lefteye, played left end in the first part of the game.The injury which he received to his knee last summerapparently interfered with his playing to a consider­able extent and he may have to retire from the gamefor the rest of the season.Brown, who hails from St. John'S Military Acad­emy , made his initial appearance and showed up quitestrong. His tackling was good,· but in blocking heseemingly lacked experience, and the same can alsobe said of Pike, for they both allowed their man tointerfere seriously with Herschberger's punting.Whitehead, a new candidate for right end, playedwith a vim and a dash that should make' him a formid­able candidate for this position. His judgment inhandling his opponent, however, was not the best.Naturally Williamson at tackle received more thanordinary attention from the coachers along the sidelines. He was frequently given the ball and invaria­bly made good gains. His principal fault seemed tobe the fear of hitting the line too hard, and of notpushing forward when tackled. This will no doubtbe remedied in the future. Taken all in all, he playedhis position in a way that gave the assurance of a strong man, and one hard to dislodge from the placehe is trying for.Of the other men, Spickler's not altogether scientificbut exceedingly picturesque way of playing the gamedelighted the spectators outside of the ropes. If gritand nerve, helped on by enthusiastic zeal, cut anyfigure in the game, the candidate for left end will beheard from later on. Bowers and Simpson held theirmen and broke through well. Axelson was put inplace of Pike who. went to full back in the second half.On the Englewood team Egbert and Teetzel playedthe strongest game. Capron and Russell were alsoright in the fray, and McGinnis did some good line,bucking.' The fault with the team playas a wholeseemed to lie in the fact that instead of using theirswift backs and ends they relied almost wholly on linebucking with little or no gain. Twenty and fifteenminutes halves were played. The final score was 28to o. The teams lined up as follows:Englewood H. S. U.ofC.{Tooker.Spickler.Williamson.Black.Allen.{Bowers.Simpson.Allen.Whitehead.Clarke.Brown.{Pike.Axelson.{. Hersch berger.Pike.The Englewood Y. M. C. A. football team will meetthe 'Varsity eleven on the athletic field next Saturdayafternoon at 4 0' clock.Talcott .... , Left eud ..Capron .Hutchinson. . . .Flocken. · Left tack l« .· Le�t guard .· Center ...Evans. . . . . . · Right guardRussell ...Egbert ..Wadsworth.Teetzel .. · Right tackle.· Right end ..· Qnarter back .· Right half.Ferguson .. · Left half ...McGinnis. . . . . · Full back ..Stagg the Champion.The open tennis tournament closed Saturday withProfessor Stagg an easy winner. At no stage of thetourney was the champion very seriously ern bar­rassed, and he has won every match played in straightsets. The only one who gave him any trouble, andwho came very near proving a stumbling block to theprofessor, was Linn, but even he, after a rather hardstruggle, succumbed to Stagg's lobbying by the scoreof 6-3, 8-6.Patten, who defeated Chalmers 8-6, 5-7, 6-2, fell aneasy victim to Stagg's accurate placing. Althoughhe rallied at times throughout the final match, hissmashes out of bounds proved to be costly. Staggplayed a steady game and kept his opponent well onthe back line by frequent . lobbying and good placingon the sides. .The following men who have been defeated byStagg have entered the second tournament: McClel­land, Dougherty, Winston, Patten and Linn. Rand,Lansingh, Hill and Wadsworth have been chosen forthe invitation tournament. 519520 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.autumn quarter opens; there will be room for several A typographical error in the last issue of the WEEKLYcandidates who are active and ready and willing to . made us say that Mr. Joseph Flint is coaching the Universitywork. football team. Truth to the fact compels us to say that it is'The ice has finally been broken and a game be­tween the University and the University of Wiscon­sin has been arranged. The contest will take placeon Marshall Field, November 2, and may possibly bean annual event. N ext Saturday the 'Varsity elevenwill play the Young Men's Christian Association, ateam of Englewood, but no game has so far beenarranged for September 2 r ,J ohn V. Crum, the Iowa sprinter, met his first de­feat last Saturday on Travers Island. In a rooyards trial heat with Weefers, Goodwin and Lee, .hewas defeated by the former at the tape by about ayard. Weefer's time was 0 : 10, but since some ofthe best timers in the country have taken Crum ino : 9 4-5 there is little danger of defeat in the finaltrial.The Mandolin Club.The WEEKLY presents with this issue a cut of theUniversity Mandolin Club. This club has given con­certs in many of the cities in northern Illinois andsouthern Wisconsin, and the record of its trip lastChristmas vacation to Racine, Milwaukee, Sheboy­gan, Fond du .Lac, Oshkosh 'and Rockford, is 'simplya list of such successes as only effort and applicationcan accomplish .. The club was started in the autumnof '93 and has in two years firmly established itself asa permanent musical organization.As the last days of the Summer Quarter draw nearand the leaders of the various clubs and organizationsare taking an inventory of the material they have onhand, those interested in the Mandolin Club are busyfilling up the vacancies in the old ranks with pros­pective candidates. There will be some importantchanges in the club this year .. It is the purpose ofthe officers to make the club larger, increasing its size,perhaps, to fourteen members. This change, togetherwith the fact that some of the old players will not re­turn, will leave vacancies for several new men. Allof last year's players will be here except Mandel, whowill be out of the city, and Hobart, who graduates inthe autumn. Bliss and Stewart will be on hand toplay, and Bond, Jackson and Chace will probably havetheir old positions. Lamay, Smith and several newmen will doubtless try for the mandolin positions.Both Stone and Stiegmeyer return to the Universityin the autumn, but Steinwedell will not return andwill be greatly missed when it comes to arranging theparts. The club will have the same officers as lastyear and are especially fortunate in having their oldleader, W. S. Bond, for another season.No doubt valuable material will be found after the Mrs. A. A. Stagg will return from her eastern va­cation next Tuesday.Miss May Lewis, of Kelly Hall, will teach in thepublic schools of Louisville, Ky., her home, duringthe next year.Miss Myra Reynolds, in company with her sister,Miss Emily Reynolds, and Miss Weatherlow, are soonto leave the University to spend their vacation atLakes Mackinac and Geneva and to visit other placesin Wisconsin.Program of Convocation Week.September 30, Monday.- 8: 30 A. M. to I : 00 P. M., 2: 00 P.M. to 4 : 30 P. M.-Matriculation of incoming students. (Stu­dents will find it to their advantage to consult with their Deansat this time.)October I, Tuesday.-8 :30 A. M. to 12: 30 P. M.-Matricula­tion and Registration of Students. 12: 30 P. M.-ConvocationChapel Service. 2: 00 P. M.-Meeting of Board of Trustees ofthe Theological Union. (Faculty Room.) 3: 00 P. M.- TheUniversity Convocation (the University Quadrangle), Addressby the Rev. A. B. Bruce, D. D. 8: 00 P. M. to II: 00 P. M.­The President's Reception.October 2, Wednesday, 8: 30 A. M.-The Lectures and Reci­tations of the Autumn Quarter begin. 9: 30 A. M.-Meeting ofthe Alumni of the Divinity School, and Service in Memory ofProfessor Boise and Professor Jensen, (Chapel Cobb LectureHall). 2: 30 P. M.-Divinity Conference. Subject: Noticesof Recent Books (Chapel Cobb Lecture Hall). 6: 00 P. M.­Banquet of the Alumni of the Divinity School.October 3, Thursday, 9: 30 A. M.-Meeting of the North­western Baptist Educational Society (Chapel Cobb I.. ectureHall). 2: 30 P. M.--Divinity Conference (Chapel C�bb Lecture'Hall). 8: 00 P. M.-Annual Meeting of the Theological Union.Address by the Rev. Z. Grinnell, D. D. (Second Baptistchurch). .October 6, Sunday, 4: 00 P. M.-Vespers (Auditorium ofKent Chemical Laboratory. 8: 00 P. M.-Convocation Sermon,Rev. J. K. Wheeler, D. D., First Baptist Church.l1.ajors and Minors.Professor Bruce's lectures continue this week daily at fouro'clock.Rev. John Henry Barrows and two daughters will returnfrom Europe Sept. 15.Over 3123 students have matriculated in the University dur­ing the past three years.Prof. A. C. Miller will not conduct classes in the Universityduring the autumn quarter.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY,the Northwestern University team, not that of Chicago, whichis receiving his attention.Charles Roby will be here this week and will begin trainingfor the 'Varsity eleven.The Geological class returned Saturday from their summerexpedition through Illinois.Messrs. Harry Holloway and Clifford McGillavray leavenext Monday for Cornell University.Addison Ewing returned to the University yesturday and willprobably begin football practice at once.The examinations for admission to the Academic Collegeswill be held in Cobb Hall, Sept. 18, 19 and 20.Quarterly examinations for the current quarter will be heldnext week Wedbesday, Thursday and Friday.Dr. von Klenze read a paper before the Germanic Club Mon­day, on the subject" Lenau's Nature-Sense."Steward-T, M. Hammond has been drawn 011 the jury of theSuperior court and will begin serving next Monday.Mr. Glenn M. Hobbs, Assistant in Physics at the University,has resigned his position, and will enter business in the city.The examinations for evening school certificates will beheld at 7 o'clock this evening at the West Division HighSchool.Dr. J. P. Smith, Associate Professor of Palaeontology inthe Leland Stanford University, visited at the University lastFriday and Saturday.Head Professor W. G. Hale, accompanied by his wife and,son, and Miss Stover of the secretary's office, sailed Saturdayfrom New York for Rome. 'Miss May Rogers, '95, has received an appointment as in­structor of Latin History in the college preparatory depart­_ merit of the Chicago Grammar schools.Mr. 1'. J. Taylor, '94, who has been a graduate student at theUniversity for the past year, has been elected to a fellowshipin German at the University of-Missouri.About 250 of the summer students have already registeredfor work during the Autumn Quarter, which is quite an in­crease over the corresponding registration last year.At the finals in the tennis tournament just completed atHamilton, Ontario, Carr B. Neel won another championshipcup. He defeated E. P. Fischer, of New York. Score: 6-r,6-3, 6-4.Mr. J. Scott Brown returns to-day from Northern Michiganwhere he has spent the last two months fishing and hnnting.He will be seen chasing the 'pig skin on the gridiron by theend of the week.On Tuesday, Capt. Ralph E. Tredway, of the Yale Universitycrew, left his home at Sioux City, Iowa, for the East, where heis to begin training for a race which it is reported will be ar­ranged between the Yale and Oxford crews.There has just been issued from the press of the WEEKI.. Y atwo thousand edition of the Steinmann Institute (Dixon, Ill.)catalogue, and a twenty thousand edition of the InstituteWorker, the monthly periodical of that institution.Crum, the Iowa spriuter, received his first defeat in the 100-yard dash last week in a preliminary race with a Mr. Weefe rs,of New York. Harry Cornish, of the Chicago Athletic Club,. fearing that Crum has not received fair play, left for New Yorklast Monday, to champion his favorite athlete.Registrar Howard B. Grose has announced that he has re­ceived an appointmentto the editorial staff of the Watchman,one of the leading papers of the Baptist denomination, pub- lished at Boston. His resignation has not been officially an­nounced, but he will probably accept his new appointment.The public examination of Oscar L. Triggs, instructor inEnglish, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, will takeplace next Monday at 9 : OO-II : 00 A. M. Messrs. McClintock,Blackburn and Angell are the committee. Title of thesis:Lydgate's "The Assembly of the Gods."R. O. Shreve sends another article this week from the Mexi­can expedition. In a personal letter he says: "All the partyare as well as could be expected. A temperature of +40° at6 a. 111. and +II5° at noon as we had last week, and about60° all day as it is here, is likely to cause a few coIns."Mr. and Mrs. George E. Robertson started Tuesday eveningon a two weeks' journey westward. They will visit LakeMinnetonka, Omaha, Denver, Colorado Springs and Manitou,returning by way of Kansas City. Mr. Robertson says hewill possibly leave his card on the summit of Pike's Peak andin the Gardens of the Gods.Recorder H. B. Grose has returned from the east andassumed his official duties. He spent the summer at his sea­side home, Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard. Mr. Grose givesenthusiastic accounts of the tennis playing of Carr Neel,whom he saw defeat Chace at Newport.W. H. Jackson, an under graduate student, met with a bad'accident, last Friday, while riding a horse. The animalstumbled, broke the saddle girth and fell to the ground, pin­ning his rider, who had been thrown by the breaking of thegirth beneath him. No bones were broken, and Mr. Jacksonnarrowly escaped serious internal injury.The following students will receive Bachelor's degrees at thenext convocation:(A. B.) Harrison B. Barnard, Maria Beatty, Martha L. Root.(S. B.) Joseph M. Flint, Ralph H. Hobart.(Ph. B.) Faith Benita Clark, Ettie L. Hulbart, Emery R.Yundt, Walter A. Payne.The following will receive Academic Certificates:(A. B.) Mary B. Baird, Lucy L. Bennett, Charles K. Bliss,Edwin P. Brown, William P. Drew, William A. Higgins, JohnS. Lewis, Jr., Alfred E. Logie, R. N. Tooker, Jr.(Ph. B.) William S. Bond, Jr., Waldo Breeden, Percy P. Car­roll, Henry T. Clarke, Jr.', Theodosia Kane, Harry A. Lipsky,Walter A. Payne.The woman whistles to stop a car,And it stopped short as she did it ;But it wasn't the whistle, but more by farThe face she made when she did it. -Ex.The University.TO J. D. R.On- Atlas' mighty shoulders rests the sky,The ancients said; and always meaning lay,Lies yet, in myths, a poet bids me say:Lo l here a heaven that no sensuous eyeBeholds, whereon the stars of learning vie,Where sun of truth and moon of art obeyHarmonious law,-what pillar is its stay?What force gigantic heaves tbat vault on high?Thou hast thine Atlas, too, 0 starry Dome!A man who rose to bear aloft thy weight,Magnanimous, colossal in his power;And while thy stars revolve, thy comets roam,His fame abides; linked with thy shining fate,A mortal name snrvives its little hour.-Mrs. L. T. Weeks.521v ADVERTISEMENTS.Classified Business Notices.ROOMS.To RENT-A PLEASANT ROOMwith or without board. Inquire,M. E. Barker, 5825 Kimbark Ave.FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHEDrooms ill very pleasant sunny housewith board. 5737 Madison avenue.NICELY furnished rooms in privatefamily. Bath, gas, piano and allhome comforts. $1.50 per week. 6041Champlain Ave., MISS LuCY HAMIL'fON.MISCELLANEOUS.UNIVERSITY SHAVING PARLOR,556 55th St., between Ellis and En­gleside. 35-48t.COLLEGE BOOKS BOUGHT, SOLDand exchanged. Fulghum's Bookand Stationery Store, 29[ E. 55th Street.HAVE YOURWATCHES REPAIREDat Hinkley's, 2IO, 55th St. Cleaning.$1.00; mainspring, $1.00; crystals, 15c.38-tfHA VE YOUR SCREENS REWIREDnow, S. M. Hunter, 5524 JeffersonAve., carpenter and general jobbingshop, shelving, etc. 25-48tBOOK SHELVES MADE SO THEYcan be taken down and used for ship­ping boxes. Ingham & Dobelman, Car­penters and Builders, 306, 57th St. 38-48tHAVE YOU A KODAK? DEVELOP­ing and Printing Kodak and PhotoSupplies for amateurs. Informationcheerfully given. Boston Photo Fur­nishing Co., 126 State st. 38-IItTHE ONLY ESTABLISHMENT OFits kind in the United States. Pantsmade to your measure, and we makethem to order at $4.00 a 'pair, no more,no less; 500 of the best quality andstylish goods to select from. ApolloCustom Pants Mfrs., 161 5th Ave., Chi­cago. I -48tfUNIVERSITY EXPRESS CO., OF­fice in basement of Cobb Hall. Bag­gage to and from all depots. Goodsforwarded by all express companies.Money - orders. Laundry office (specialrates).STARVED ROCK..,- Students who, have visited this famous Rock onIllinois river will be interested in a newand complete historical sketch of theRock (84 pp.), illustrated by about 50 en­gravings, by Eatou G. Osman (U. C.,'79), 177 La Salle St., Chicago: price, 50cts.GOODRICH' LINE.ESCANABA AND RETURN, $13.00.Meals and berth included. Distance800 miles. Time 4Yz days. This is themost delightful time of the year to visitthe Green Bay Country. The atmos­phere is particularly healthful and invig­orating. The combined air of the lakesand the great pine forest of Wisconsin isan almost infallible cure for hay fever.Write for full particulars to H. A. Bonn,Gen'l Pass. Agent. Office and Docks,foot of Michigan Avenue.New Photograph Studio Near the UniveisityA. H. Armour & Co. have opened anew and commodious studio at 231 55thstreet and is prepared to take class andsociety photographs. His gallery is oneof the best on the South Side. YHLLOWSTONE PARK TOURISTS.IF YOU CONTEMPLATE A TRIPthrough Yellowstone Park during themonth of September and desire to seeevery interesting sight in this Wonder­land you can do so by engaging AdamGassert, of Cinnabar, Montana, the rail­road terminus. Mr. Gassert has every­thing necessary for making a tour of thePark. Guides and complete campingand fishing outfits furnished if de,'!3ired.For further information, write or' tele­graph Adam Gassert, Cinnabar, Mon-tana. 'Another Half-Fare Excursion.To Boston via the Wabash. On ac­count of the twenty-sixth Triennial Con­clave of the Knights Templar, Boston,Mass., the Wabash road will sell excur­sion tickets, Chicago to Boston. at thelow rate of $19.00 for the round trip. Fortickets via circuitous routes, a higherrate will be charged. Tickets will be onsale at Wabash ticket office, 9i Adamsstreet, Chicago, August 19 to 25, inclu­sive. The return limit is September 10,but an extention to September 30 can beobtained at Boston. Ask your localagent for a ticket via Wabash NiagaraFalls Short Line. For maps, time tablesand full-information as to routes, etc.,write F. A. Palmer, A. G. P. A., 97Adams street, Chicago. 40-4tSpecial Service to Cleveland.The fast train on the Nickel PlateRoad, leaving Chicago at I: 30 p. m.,arriving in Cleveland at II: 30 p. m., isthe best day train between Chicago andCleveland. Give it a trial and be con­vinced. Uniformed colored porters incharge of day coaches. Lowest rates toall points. For further information ad­dress J. Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, IIIAdams St:, Chicago, Ill. 37-7tShooting the Chutes.Sixty-third street and Cottage Groveavenue. Open every afternoon and even- 'ing.No'rrcrs.e--Begiuning Monday July 22,and until the close of school vacation,ladies and children will be admitted from2 until 6 P. M., excepting Sundays, at thefollowing reduced rates of admission(ride included): Children, 5c, ladies, IOC.Extra rides, 5c.PAUL BOYTON CHUTE CO.40-5tTickets at Reduced RatesWill be sold via the Nickel plate Roadon occasion of the meeting of the German Catholic Societies of the UnitedStates at Albany, N. Y., Sept. 15th tor Sth , For further information addressJ. Y. Callahan, Gen'I Agent, III AdamsSt., Chicago. 45-3tThe Nickel Plate Road has authorizedits agents to sell tickets at greatly re­duced rates to Albany, N. Y., on occasionof the meeting of the German CatholicSocieties of the United States in thatcity, Sept. 15th to r Sth. For particularsaddress J. Y. Callahan, Gen'l Agent, IIIAdams St., Chicago. 45-3t Amusements.William H. Crane, who is one of themost popular comedians upon the Amer­ican stage, will begin a month's engage­ment at McVicker's Theater on Monday.The play he is to present during thattime is an American comedy by MissMartha Morton, the most successful ofall the women dramatists, and is caned., His Wife's Father." It has beenweighed in the East and not been foundwanting. In one city it has had a ruuof fourteen consecutive weeks, and itproved to be one of the' few real successesof the last dramatic season in New York.The company to be seen in hissupport iswell balanced, and the comedy will begiven with all of its original scenery andproperties.At the Schiller Theater on Sunday,Edwin H. Royle's" Mexico" begins thesecond week of a successful two weeks'engagement. In spite of the hot weatherand unusual counter attractions, Mr.Royle's handsomely mounted romanticdrama obtained the approval of good­sized audiences. In accordance with thepromise made at the beginning of thisengagement to revive the favorite com­edy of " Friends," that piece will suc­ceed " Mexico" for the last half of thepresent week, beginning Thursday night,Lucius Henderson being added to thecast appearing in "Mexico," playing hisold part of Adrian Karjo, the actor pia­nist. Beginning Sunday, Sept. IS, Kellar,the magician, assisted by Mrs. Kellar,will follow Mr. Royle's company at theSchiller. Those who have taken painsto familiarize themselves with the ques­tion of magic in the form of first theat­rical attractions are aware that Kellarpossesses no superior in h is chosen field.During the past year Kellar has devotedhimself especially to delving into themysteries of oriental esoteric phenom­ena. As a result of his researches in thisinteresting domain of magic he promisesthat his program for the present sea­son will offer a number of really mar­velous new feats. Among those will be"Projections of the astral body," and"The annihilation of space," and othermysteries which have puzzled studentsand scientists for generations. ," Young Greer of Il"entucky." A novel ofthe Blue-Grass Country, by EleanorTalbot Kinkead, will shortly be issuedby Rand, McNally & Company, ofChicago.Miss Kinkead, who is a resident ofLexington, Ky., is already favorablyknown to the public through her book,"'Gainst Wind and Tide," publishedtwo or three years ago. She is to becongratulated that she has resisted thetemptation, succumbed, to by so manyyoung authors, of following up her firstsuccess by a series of hurriedly-writtenand ill-digested stories. Her presentwork is much stronger in every respectthan its predecessor and bears the marks'of an excellent talent held well in handand polished by a liberal application ofthat rare article, "elbow-grease." Thisconstitutes an old-fashioned formula forsuccessful writing that is recommendedto the consideration of the modern schoolof slipshod "one-every-week" authors.