NUMBER 8THE UNIVERSITY IJfCHICAGO WEEKLYPublished every Friday, During Summer Quarter, June 28th to Auqust 30th.Friday, Augllst 16, IB07VOLUME XIArt as a Career for the College Man. W. M. R. French�.Professor Starr's Congo Collectionje- Varsity at The HagueSouthern Club + Campus Notes and CommentA N ew Mexico Spring + EllersleySubscription price, 50 cents tot the quarter; 25 cents tor each term. Subscriptions recetved at theotiice in Ellis Hall, or at the Ititormd IOn Otiice,• ,. . .' ,. .• .• . .. - .. .. . ' �-- -� _. ' .••. '.:.� .. - , .,.. , .= - - .• -- -. : ""'''''�',",'>' ,.fl""�':'::-:' .;..:."",\,\:0' I ._ -. : '. '.)\,·t 1'1'''';'J< ...THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY. 113.MOSSLERCO.�1.ver·Clothes.50 Jackson Boulevard.F!NAL CLEARANCEAny Suit,Values to $35.We have includedabout 200 more suitsfrom 0 u r regularlines, values up to$35. This gives amagnificent selec­t tion at $15.Any Overcoat(light weight) $20or_ Cravenette,Values up to $35.Broken sizes.A 20 per cent dis-count off all regularlines, .including Dress Suits and Tuxe­dos. They're great values. Some me­dium weights among them, too. Cometoday!Salesrooms, Second Floor.MOSSLER CO.Clever=Clothes50 Jackson Boulevard.Twelve FactsRegardingThe Correspondence Study DepartmentOF THE)1 "UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO1. The University has .maintained a. Correspondence-study Department con­tinuously since if opened in 1892.2. The Department has 'grown 'steadi ly from _year to year.3. More than six thousand students . hav� . established connection with theUniversity through it.4. Over one hundred and twenty members of the University Facultiesare now giving correspondence-course;;.. ' � I.,j5. The plan in general is to offer as many as possible of the courses given inthe class-rooms of the different div-isions of the University, so that thosewho have dropped out of high school or college may continue theirstudies.6. There are, in addition, many ·courses designed primarily, for those in differ­ent professional vocations, especially teachers.7. Any amount of admissiop. W01;"k and one-half .of the college work re­quired for a Bachelor's degree-may be done by correspondence.8. Each' student selects his course or courses and advances as rapidly as hisability and 'application permit.''.9. One receives the maximum of personal. �ttfntion in a correspondencecourse. . '10. Many qualities, such as �elf-reliance) initiative, perseverance, and accuracy,are peculiarly encouraged and, developed by thi,s method of instruction.11. Scholarships are awarded to those who satisfactorily complete a given num­ber of courses.12. Work may begin at any time.. For further information inquire atthe office of the Correspondence StudyDepartment, Cobb Hall, 3A.The University of Chicago WeeklyVol. XI. No.8.Friday, August 16, 1907Art as a Career for the College ManBy W. M. R. FRENCH(Director of the Art Institute ot Chicago)I.lustrated by Reproductions of Work of Frederick M. Grant, N�d Hadle y, Homer Conant and OthersHEN a person conversant with art and art­ists is consulted as to the advisability ofan educated young American choosingthe practice of art as a profession, his re­sponse is not without hesitation. Thepicture of theunsu c c e ssfulpresents itself immediatelyto his mind, the host of wist­ful, amiable, deserving art­ists he has known, who havecountedso little in this rudeworld. I think most direct-ors of art schools would as­sent to the general policy ofdiscouraging as many would­be .artists as possible, trust­ing that those who persistagainst all -Iiscouragernentswill be enough to meet thedemands of the world. Theconsiderations, however, arenot all on one side. In anyprofession or business theproportion of the successfulis not very great. The sta­tistics of failure in mercan­tile pursuits are quite fright­ful, only a few escaping ac­tual bankruptcy. It may besaid that art is a lottery in) which there are many blanksand few high prizes, and itis true that a very smallnumber of artists achievegreat fame and fortune. Butit is also true that the total number of artists is smallcompared with other professions, and that in everycity there are a few artists who enjoy at least localreputation, good position, and fair income. Perhaps,also, it may be argued, even in a' mercantile age, thatthe happiness which a man derives frem the practice of his regular occupation is worth taking into account.It is not uncommon for the mercantile or even the pro­fessional man to find his business uncongenial, thedaily task irksome and distasteful, so that he is gladto retire from it at the 'earliest opportunity. The art-ist on the other hand is al-ways in love with his occu­pation. Whenever he is ac­tually at work upon his can­vas or his clay, and feelshimself at all successful inattaining the effect at whichhe aims, even if he has pri­vate trials and annoyances,he enjoys a very distinct andexalted kind of happiness,and a happiness that neverfades so long as his facultiespersist. It would be wrongto balance this enjoymentagainst the suffering of one'swife and family, but it maybe just as well to starve onsomething that one loves ason something that one hates.The immediate question iswhether a -university gradu-'ate may hope successfully topursue the career of a paint­er, sculptor, illustrator, ordesigner. It is undeniablethat some of the best artistsand art educators think thattechnique is so overpower­ing a consideration in artthat the young artist shouldabandon everything else at sixteen or seventeenyears of age, and devote himself entirely todrawing and painting. . Of course this leavesno time for a university education. From thisview I am inclined. to dissent, although I cer­tainly would- have a university student, whc �d'STUDY FROM STILL LIFE(Mr. Hadley is from the University of Nebraska)Ned Hadley :1I!- I- • • • • • • • - - • - •• _- • •• ••• ••• - • -. • _ •• __ '" _ ,_._",_, � 4 .�.�7';�� ._116 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.determined' to become an artist, take up draw­ing and painting as soon as possible .and pursue themas recreations during his college course. .Recreationsthey certainly would' be t� a student of literature, sci­ence, and language, ,who at the same time had a tastefor art, and during holidays _ and vacations much ofthe preliminary elementary practice might be done.With regard to the amount of technical practice nec­essary for a professional artist, Mr. Hamerton, theEnglish critic and artistof the - last generation, """� �- '"'--�-remarked that an ama-teur painter need not de­spair of acquiring a pro­'fessional technique, be­cause' with- three hours'practice a day for a pe­riod' of about r sevenyears he' would be ableto' paint pretty well.� university manwho is humble mindedand willing to applyhi�nself to the practicalproblems of art mayhope to acquire his pro­fession in about thesame period that wouldbe required for . anyother profession. "Inorder to succeed," saidan eminently successfulman of business, "it isnecessary to conform toall the conditions ofsuccess." This axiom­atic proposition suggestsa variety of interestingreflections and question­ings which_ we cannotnow pursue, but is ob-,viously as applicable toart as to business. Tech- ',.,'..:0:'......-',/ apprenticeship in the practice of his art. Nevertheless,QY virtue of their artistic perceptions, intellectualforce, and imaginative qualities, backed by a deter­mination to expre�s themselves through painting, theyproduced interesting and even. beautiful pictures, andthe critic can only lament that they did not unite agood technique with their other qualities. It does notneed tp be pointed out that to seek success 'in' a sim­ilar manner-s-that is, aside hom a mastery of execu-tion, is a very uncertainand inadvisable enter---'----�... .I. II pnse.The university stu­dent, or .r ather the ed­ucated, cultivated man,has an immense ad-·vantage as an art stu­dent, presuming ofcourse equal artistic in­stincts. Many studentsof art are youths ofslender attainments, whoare averse . to regularand sustained exertion,and who fancy they aregoing to find an easyway to fame and for­tune. Perhaps by someskill in academic draw­ing or. some happy ar­rangement of light andshade, they achieve. acertain success, and takeprizes in the local exhi­bitions. But for themost part they soon at­tain a not very high ta­ble land of production,in which they remainand are lost. I t is �10tI'I they are mediocre men.nique we must have, al- And it is a fact thatthough certain artists I there is some difficultyhave. managed to get .�'-- ".__ ��. J in finding suitable youngon surprisingly well painters and sculptors towithout any very. per- FIGURE STUDY FOR MURAL DECORATION be sent to the Americanfect development of it, Frederick M. Grant School at Rome-that is,notably the- - English (Mr. Grant is a college man) young men of artisticPre- Raphaelites. Rossetti was- certainly never the promise and of such general attainments that they'master o{ his medium, and Watts' painting is often can sustain themselves among their French and Ger­childlike, not to 'say childish, and this for reasons t1;at man fellow students and reflect credit upon the Amer­are obvious to careful, readers of their biographies, 'ican school. I think it will be found that most ofpamely, that neither of them ever served any proper the eminent American painters and sculptors of the. 1so much that they a�emediocre artists as thatTHE UNIVERSITY os CHICAGO WEEKLY.COMPOSITION-Frederick M. Grant"present day are persons of good antecedents, not in many instancesactual university graduates (though Simmons, Millet, Crowninshieldand Taft are university men), but from educated and intelligent fam­ilies. The university man then, as a person of broa"der culture andwider scope, has a decided advantage in the field of art.At the present moment the opportunities for the successful prac­tice of art in America are considerably better than ever before. Thepainting of easel pictures, landscape or figure, has always been a pre­carious business, dependent upon the fancy of chance purchasers, butthe patronage is probably better now than hitherto. A portrait painterof distinct excellence finds ready practice i� the larger cities. Thefield of modern illustration furnishes a business as stable and regularas other pursuits, in which there are high prizes for the gifted, a goodliving for those who distinguish themselves in a moderate degree, anda support even for those who do not rise above "commercial art."But the best hope of art in America is in the" increasing use of muralpainting and sculptured decoration in public buildings and privatehouses, and in the demand for public monuments. These applicationsof art promise in another generation to furnish a sufficient field forall those who are able" to conform themselves to all the conditionsof success."The foregoing article was written for THl� U NIV:E:�SI'I'Y OF CHICAGO\lVEBKLY by Mr. French while he was spending his vacation last month.at the summer home of his brother, Daniel Chester French, the sculp­tor, at Glendale, Mass. This hamlet, which IS near the Housatonicriver about half way between Lenox and Stockbridge, is in the heartof the Berkshire hills. It was among these surroundings that the arti­cle was produced. '," .The story of Mr. French's life and the history of the Art Institutefor the thirty odd years of its existence are almost identical. In addi- "tion to building up that institution, now probably the largest art schoolin the world, Mr. French has by lectures and articles carried an appre­ciation of the meaning of art to multitudes of people, especially in(Mr. Conant, also a college mall, is a recent student at the Art Institute)COMPOSITION-Homer Conant 117II'iEDVCATIONAL NVMBERIt] F!ICOVER DESIGNFrederick M. Grant "°i _!Carpenter, the present secretary, also was identifiedwith the Institute from the first. Soon after, CharlesL. Hutchinson, Marshall Field, and many otherwealthy Chicagoans joined the movement. The Frenchgovernment recently bestowed upon him the decora­tion of the palm for his services to the world of art.But the expansion of the Art Institute from itsmodest beginning to the position it holds today is thebest mark of the achievements of W. M. R. French.THE EDITORS.118 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.ANNOUNCE NEXT WEEK'S OPEN LECTURESExtension Department Publishes Revised and Official. List of Addresses to be Delivered.The official complete list of open lectures for nextweek runs as follows:TUESDAY, AUGUST 20.3 :30 p. m. Kent Theater, ." Past, Present and Future of theEnglish Language," Professor Nathaniel But­. ler.3 :30 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "Mohammed, theProphet of Islam," Professor James RichardJewett.4:45 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "The ResurrectionFaith of the First Disciples," Professor Shir­ley J. Case.8:15 p. m. Mandel Assembly Hall, CONCERT: The GraceMethodist Church Choir and Chorus; HarlanJ. Cozine, Director.WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21.3 :30 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "Selection from theQuran and from the Traditions Relative toMohammed," Professor James R. Jewett ..4:45 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "The Christology ofthe Pre-Pauline Christians," Prof. Shirley J.Case.THURSDA Y, AUGUST 22.3 :30 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "Charles Kingsley,"Professor Arthur Stephen Hoyt.4:45 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "The Preacher's Partin Church Music," Mr. Lester Bartlett Jones.8:00 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, Deutscher Klub.FRIDAY, AUGUST 23.3 :30 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "Four Great ScottishPreachers," Professor Arthur Stephen Hoyt.4:45 p. m. Haskell Assembly Room, "Missionary Outlook.in China," Rev. W. S. Sweet.the middle west and south. He is a professorial lec­turer of the University of Chicago.Mr. French was born in Chester, N. H., inthe neighborhood of which the family had beenestablished since the colonial times. So great isthe affection it bears for the town that the sculp­tor, who was christened Daniel French, assumedthe name of his birthplace as his own middlename .. Removing to Exeter, W. M. R. French at­tended the Phillips Exeter Academy until he enteredHarvard at about 15. During the war he served gar­rison duty, although but 17, rising to the rank of cor-pout, and saw much of the mechanism of the con­duet of the rebellion through his father, who was amember of President Lincoln's administration. Afterhis graduation he came to Chicago as a civil engineer.The first work of Mr. French in Chicago was about'69, when with Cleveland, the landscape gardener, heassisted in laying out the park systems. Besides beinga pioneer in civic beautification in Chicago, Minneap­olis, Indianapolis and other cities are indebted to himin part for their 'park .systems.Shortly after the fire, he became the head of theChicago Academy of Design, which in another yearbecame the Art Institute of Chicago. Of this insti­tution he has served as director ever since. N. H. / Yale University has extended a special invitation toRuy Barbaso, the eminent Brazilian jurist and scholar,to deliver the Dodge course of lectures on citizenshipat Yale next spring. Dr. Barbaso is a member of TheHague peace conference.Arthur Hillebrand, the famous Princeton Univers­ity athlete, who is under reserve to the WashingtonAmerican League Baseball club, has signed a contractto play semi-pro ball with the South Chicago club, ashe intends to make Chicago his home.of the entire collection of Congo material, which num­bers over 3,50.0 pieces.The African money which is exhibited this weekcovers the entire field of African currency, and showsthe mediums of exchange used by the traders, consist­ing of salt, cowrie shells, beads, wire and rod, brass"tacks, and the like, that are made by the natives them­selves, and imitations of the latter that are made bywhite men, and the regular Belgian coinage of theCongo Free State. "The "material to be on exhibition next week con­sists" of the musical instruments for \�hich the darkcontinent is noted. Drums, rattles, bells, flutes, trum­pets, horns, ocarinas, whistles, and other noise-makersare in the display.The third class, the week following, will be thatof dress and ornament. African dress will be fullyillustrated, and the series will include some uniqueTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY�' li9Professor Starr Opens Collection on the Ethnography of the Congo',,,, "Anthropologist Places on View Material Illustrative of Life and Customs of Central Africa-Money, Musical Instruments, Dress and Ornament are IncludedPROFESSOR FREDERICK STARR, of thedepartment of Al�thropology, placed on ex­hibition this week the first part of a collec-tion on the ethnography of the Congo Free State. Thecollections are not intended to be either complete orelaborate, but are designed to give an idea of the scopePROFESSOR FREDERICK STARR specimens of native bark and grass cloth .. Caps, noseand ear plugs, ear, nose, thumb and toe rings, brace­lets and anklets, metal neck ornaments, weighing asmuch as thirty pounds, belts and other articles of duskyfinery are included. Toilet boxes and. accessories fordressing the hair, as well as small pillows, used to pre­serve the elaborate coiffures of African belles frompremature damage, are to be seen.Basket ware, in which for variety and beauty ofdesign, skill in workmanship, and amount of productthe Africans rival the best work of the American In­dians, will, with carved cups and, boxes, be the nextpart of the exhibition. That pyrography is not a newart is illustrated by much of this material.The last class to be displayed will either be knivesand metal work or fetishes, of both of which ProfessorStarr has a large and interesting .variety. The formerwill include knives, swords, spears, arrows, hatchets,adzes, picks, gouges, chisels, spokeshares 'and similartools, and with the weapons will be 'displayed> a num­ber of shields, cuirasses and other defensive armor.The fetishes are f�r the most part o{ the, " stick" va­riety, but there are, ma-ny -other designs, figures, gunfetishes, bundles, 'and similar objects of worship. -Inall, about seven hundred pieces will be on view .. �.lllJ,Summer Team ,Eats Up Quaker Oats Aggregation.The University 'of :Chicago' summer baseball teamwon their fourtl�. consecutive victory by defeating theQuaker Oats 'team at Marshall Field'last Saturday bythe score of 19' to' 3. The University boys had 'thebest of the argument all-along, as the Quakers couldnot touch the pitching of Page after the second inning., Jesse Harper did good all round work for Varsity;making three or four startling catches in the field, andsailing the ball out for a. home run. Carlyle alsohit well. The summer team will play the Peabody CoalCompany team, one of the best amateur clubs in thecity; next Saturday. No admission is charged.NOTICE.Hereafter the special registration of summer stu­dents with the Board of Recommendations will takeplace in the. morning between 10 :00 and 12 :00. J\l1who are interested should consult with Mr. Mitchellduring these hours.",' .., . . . , ,... .., .. - - .. -. ,.*� -1 I 120 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.�lte�utti.eX'!\Ull o f QtlttCltg.o �e.dd!lOfficial Student Publication of theUniversity Of Chicago for the SummerQuarter, 1907.�----------------------------------------Office of PublicationEllis Hall, University of Chicago,Chicago, Ill.,"I Copyright, 19.07" by The University of Chicago WeeklyEntered as SeccndElass Mail at the Chicago Postoffice, "IIj'ilI: Warren D. Foster, Managing EditorASSOCIATE EDITORSJerome N. Frank Winston P. HenryREPORTERS]. Sydney Salkey. Julius R. KlawansElton]. Moulton. James H. Gagnier.Alfred E. Stokes. Beatrice HillGeorge E. Fuller, PubHsherSubscription price, 50 cents for the quarter; 25cents for each term; . Subscriptions received. at theoffice in Ellis HaJJ, or at the Information Office.Telephone, Hyde Park 416Vol. XI. No.8EDITORIALBy the construction of an English sunken gardenm the partial quadrangle. formed by Mandel andHutchinson Halls and the BotanyCampus building, unsightly mounds of earthDisfigurement w�re left back of the Ryerson labora-tory. In the course of the eight weeksor so 'during which nothing has been done to removethis disfigurement, rank grass and weeds have grownso luxuriantly as to need but the addition of tin cansand a few more brickbats to complete the picture. Sit­uated as it is close to one of the most popular thor­oughfares through the campus, in the shadow of theTower Croup, and near Hull Court, the existence ofthe eyesore is particularly annoying. It is the firstthing inside the quadrangles which greets the eye ofthe, visitor who' approaches the University from theFifty-seventh street station of the Illinois Central. The'III:I,I,II ground should be leveled and made to conform to thestandards of the landscape gardening of the rest of thecampus at once. It is hard to see any reason why oneof the most conspicuous portions of the Universitygrounds should remain any longer in such condition."What is the use of expending so much .money andenergy in beautifying the 'campus if the effect is to beso marred by the ugliness back of Ryerson? Thereshould be no further delay in cleaning up that portionof the campus.-----+----It should be unnecessary to call attention to thedamage done by walking across the tennis courts.when they are wet. So insistent haveKeep Off the been the protests agair::,?:;t:'!h�' practiceWet Courts that it would seem th;;l.11:: the careless-ness which animates "th� offendersmust be too deep laid to be reached by ordinary attack.Even the warnings which Director �tagg caused 'to. beposted have been without material effect. It is oq\tiousthat after being tramped on playing is sef�iO'u�ly' inter­fered with until the macadamized surfaces are rolledand repacked. What need is there of anyone ,bll;t a. '. .player stepping on the courts even when the ground is'dry? In wet weather there is surely no excuse. 'Apparently the thick cement-like mud which lies onthe court after a rain is no more effective as a deter­rent than the bulletins of the Department of PhysicalCulture or the objections of the players. There is noexcuse for walking over the wet courts; don't do it.+FROM NEARER THE SOIL:Mr. N. B. johnson, the rubber at Bartlett Gym­nasium, is the. swimming instructor at Lake Harbor,Mich. The Lake Harbor Breeze, the local paper,printed the following: "Mr. N. B. Johnson is theswimming instructor and he is a dandy, if we do sayso. Mr . Johnson is a thoroughly competent physical'trainer, and a safe man to intrust with the children."THE campus philosopher says that. a socialist is aman who thinks that the world owes him a living butwants the other fellow to collect it.+Fred Leurghing, M. A., '06, former basketball andwater polo star, who is to coach again at Ripon College,was lately married in Wisconsin. He will spend aweek in training with his team at Green, Bay, Wis­consin.---+---Miss Beatrice Davies, of the junior office, is spend­ing her vacation. at Holland, Mich.A NEW MEXICO SPRING.T· HE chill, d, rizzly rains of February were alreadybut a hazy memory. For a month the sun had, shone unfailingly and the evening rains werewarm and good to sniff. The fields were greenwith a rank growth of alfalfa and the almonds, peach,and cherry trees were great blazes of white and pink.Myriads of bees, droning like the low-pitched hum ofa mighty choir, swarmed ceaselessly around each treeand·r:ose:"'bush. The Mexicans, lazier than ever, dozedpeacefully the whole day long, consuming great num­bers of brown cigarettes. Even the dogs failed to,chase the occasional rabbit that scuttled warily fromone feasting place to another; they only 10Ued con­tentedly in -the soft dust- of the roads. A flock of sheepthat was being driven to fresh pastures had stopped torest, dottingthe gray-greenhills like patches of snow.Down in the chapparal, nearer the river, a quailwas whistling to its mate. Two burros met in theyellow, road that wound lazily from house to house andrubbed noses with one another, too tired to voice theirgreetings. A pair of blue Guiana hens, their' piercingshriek subdued to a, plaintive "buck-wheat," "buck-'wheat," marched gravely from one side of the road to,the other, 'Soan, the w'estern hills shut off the lastslanting rays ofthe St111, and in the twilight no animalsmoved nor was there' a single sound to usher in theapproaching night. ' , THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY. 121AN EXORCISING WALK.R"',' 'EMEMBERING that revolving in my mind theplot of a story had quickly put me to sleep a,few hours before, I resolved to try it when Ifound myself wide awake at four o'clock in the morn­ing. From the plot to the details was a short step,and I took it. Fatal mistake! No sooner had thecha-racters begun to step out, and talk with animation,than all possibility of sleep was gone. Their insistencyand their clamor was something almost unbearable.After. vainlyentreating them for an hour to leave meto my rest, I fQse and, dressed, and walked 'out towardthe lake. The sun was hardly half an hour high, andthe morning air cool and delicious. I walked briskly,and soon began to feel invigorated', But the charactersfrom the story went along too, and refused to besilenced. They' spoke rapidly,' and made the mostridiculous blunders, and then went back and correctedthem, and altogether carr ied 011 in a most foolish andunrespectable manner. But they would not leave me.Suddenly I waJked' out from behind 'some littletrees; '�nd what I saw brought me to a halt at once,A broad blaze stretched almost from my feet to thesun" just above the horizon. And from the edges ofthe' intolerable blaze went out streamers of fire 'andcurls of smoke and dancing sparks, stretching away toeach side. It was the morning sun upon the lake. Withuncovered head, I stood there gazing at it,-alone. Allthe story-folk had left me.• ELLERS LEY.IT was late in the afternoon and I was standing onthe western crest of the Ridge at Ellersley. Theday, into which had but recently crept a sugges-tion that it really was February, gave the soft promisethat spring was almost here. Beguiled by it the budson the lone willow over at my right just beyond theforbidding wires of the fence of the Cross CountryClub had begun to swell a little. In the branches ofthe lonely 'oak on the rise to the other side of theTerminal tracks there perched a bird; fortunately thedistance and the light were such that my fear that itwas nothing more than a sparrow could not be con­firmed. Yet if he had actually been the first robin itwould have been almost a profanation for me to havediscovered him for there is an old man over towardHinsdale whose sole remaining joy is the sight of thefirst robin every spring. The bird, doubtless to removethe difficulty, started to fly. As the direction he tookwas towards Hinsdale, I, suppose he really was thefirst robin and was hurrying off to give the old manthe pleasure of seeing him. I turned my head quicklyso as to take no chances.Then the haze changed. It is never the same butthis time the difference was a little more than usual.The grass on the long slope which sweeps off to, thepurple black nothingness of no one knows how manymiles away became red brown-brown madder anartist might have called it but I do not know as I amno artist. Delacroix and his brother impressionists donot exaggerate the color of the grass and the grain andthe trees. They may be any color, or no color, or allcolors-it depends on the sun and the clouds and themood. But above the grass and the trees, the hazechanged too. It was as if some where away off inthe celestial mechanism one more slide had been pulledout allowing more radiance-not more sunlight as theprosaic might have it, to pour down. The atmospherebecame transparent-and it seldom is transparent tothose who can see, and the purple black nothingnesswas pushed way back. I could see the second rangeof hills-or thought I could which is just as well, andimagined that I could point out Palos and ChicagoRidge and even Lemont. Then a Grand Trunk traincrept along in the intervening valley and whistled forEvergreen. Its smoke, black and white and blue,mingled with the haze and it all changed again. Iremembered that the train was the 3 :40 and that itwas time for me to be off. So I turned and started totramp back to the University. i�ItEdward G. Felsenthal, '08, met Martin Flavin, '06,in Europe this summer. Felsenthal has been in Europesince the spring quarter and will sail for home on the. 31st of this month arriving here about September 10,Flavin will be' remembered as one of the leadingplayers in the Blackfiars play, " The Passing of Pahli -Khan."· •. .••_ .• , . _ ,,_ • ••• . . __ . __ " -. " - ••••• _ ...•.•••• _.- ..••••••.• _ •• �. .::'P'� •DR. MANLY PRAISES WIFE OF POET LANIER122 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.VARSITY MAN FACTOR AT PEACE TRIBUNALGeorge Fulk Presents Resolutions of Chicago and 23Other American Colleges-Student Movement.George .Fulk, of the University of Chicago, pre­sented to the international peace conference now in ses­sion at The Hague the resolutions adopted by the twen­ty-four American colleges of which he is the repre­sentative. M. de N eli doff, the president of the body,declared that the interest which had been manifestedby American college students in the agitation' for uni­versal peace was one of the strongest factors in themovement.M. de N elidoff said he attributed the strong Amer­ican sentiment toward peace to the fact that we areof one race and one origin and not a group of statesof different peoples, histories and traditions. Fulk,actor ding to the official paper of the convention, re­plied that he was convinced that civilization and Chris­tianity were the bonds which ought to produce the har­mony of the nations.Every effort will be made by the conference to fos­ter the movement among American college men. Wi11-iam T. Stead, the London journalist who did so muchto assist in the movement in this country last spring,is especially anxious' to further the cause in this coun­try. The' conference in' the course of the next fewclays will discuss the American side of the situation.The talk of war between Japan and the UnitedStates at the time when Fulk origina11y presented theresolutions was so alarming as to ca11 particular at­tention to. this country. Fulk and the other Americanrepresentatives, as we11 as the delegates of the oldworld powers, tried every means to discount the ru­mors. The" Courier de la Conference de la Paix"labeled most of the stories with a French slang ex­pression which would'seem equivalent to the Ameri­can" pipe dream."Besides the University of Chicago, Illinois, Indiana,and Northwestern are taking a prominent part in theproceedings. All of the institutions concerned have atotal of 22,968 students and 1,666 instructors.The concert next Tuesday evening will be given bythe choir of Grace Methodist church. This choir hasa most complete system of organization, and for aboutsix years has had an average attendance of more thanfifty at all rehearsals and services. The program isone of great variety, including solos by the soprano andbaritone soloists, numbers by the ladies' chorus alone,and one number by the entire choir with organ andpiano accompaniment. Tells Southern Club that Old-Fashioned WomanMoulded Career of Bard of Dixie." The most potent force in the shaping of SydneyLanier's life was his wife," said Dr. John MathewsManly, Professor and Head of the Department. ofEnglish, in his address on the poet of the land of Dixieto the Southern Club, Friday evening. "And she wasan old-fashioned woman, one of the so-called toys ofa man, but in reality the power that caused the south­ern poet to set his face steadily toward the future, andlive out what he intended." Dr. Manly read" Linesto Charlotte Cushman," " A June Dream in January,"and several other selections.The club spent the remainder of the evening indan cing.DECLARES PLANETS MAY BE INHABITEDProfessor Frost Says Other Parts of Universe MaySupport Organisms with Minds Equal to Man's."The chemical composition of many of the starsis as we11 known as is the composition of most sub­stances on our earth," was a statement made by Pro­fessor Edwin B. Frost in a lecture Monday afternoonon " The Nature of Stars." "By means of the spec­troscope the composition, age, and velocity toward oraway from us are known," he said. He also statedthat it was very probable, almost certain in fact, thatthere were other bodies in the universe upon whichminds existed equal to those of men. "Probably notmen but beings with equal mental powers," was hISdescription of them.Dr. Henderson Says Religion Must be Studied."Religious truths are no more self-evident thantruths of mathematics or science," said Professor Hen­derson in addressing the Senior College last Tuesday."One cannot know. the great truths of religion ex­cept by thought and study." He also spoke of the ne­cessity of thinking of the good and pur.e things oflife, if one wishes to be good and pure .. "That a manthinking of evil will become evil fo11ows from the sameprinciple that causes a bicycle rider who watches amud puddle to run into it," he said.Professor Frederick N ovy, of the BacteriologicalDepartment of the University of Michigan, is said tohave refused an offer from Johns Hopkins University." COLD storage" editorials are all right except whenthey relate to the weather.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY. 123PERSONAL AND' OTHERWISE.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.Pennants, Pillow Covers,PINS and FOBS,Pennants for all Universitiesand Colleges,Fraternities and Sororities.The twenty-eighth grand conven­tion of Sigma Chi fraternity has justclosed at the Jamestown Exposition.At the literary exercises held thefirst evening an address of welcomewas delivered by the lieutenant gov­ernor of Virginia. This was followedby a poem. by George Ade entitled I"The Fountain of Youth."The second day was Sigma Chi dayat the Exposition, and the businessof the day was followed by a dinnerat the Marine Restaurant and an offi­cial trip down the War Path.On the third evening supper washeld at the famous Swiss village,where the. Pekenenera family fur­nished the songs of the occasion.This was followed by a moonlightride dow� Hampton Roads throughthe array of warships. The conven­tion". closed with a banquet at the.Hotel' Chamberlain, Olel Point Com­fort, at which toasts were given tothe North, South, East, and West.HirschI Shaw was the representa­ti ve of the Chicago chapter. The W. C. KERN CO.,Wholesale Manufacturers of College Goods,411 EAST FIf·TY=SEVENTH 5n��ET, �HICAGOSOUTH SIDE TRANSFERLindsay Storage Co.Baggage » Express Wagons leave 487 E. 63rd Street 7 a. m.,.9 a. m, IZ noon, 3 p. m., 5 p. m. Dearbor� Street, 10 a. m., 3:30 p.m.Ii :30 p. m . One Sunday trip ':- Trips to Woodlawn and EnglewoodStations.Moving, Packing, Shipplng. We have careful men andequipment for moving Household Goods and Pianos in Hyde Park, Woodlawnand Englewood. Special attention given to packing and shipping.OFFICES III!,II�II�B. W. Ferguson spent a few dayslast week at Paw Paw Lake in Mich­igan. 170 Dearborn StreetTel. Harrison 4923 -i87 E. Sixty-third Streitle'. Hyde Park 1'161Bertha Fox, '07, visited the Univer-sity Wednesday. IMr. H� Obenhaus, Professor of He- �������������������������������brew in the Union Park Theological'Seminary, Chicago, has been doingwork in the University during thesummer. Union Park is the oldesttheological seminary in the city. Dean's Baggage and Express Co.SUCCESSORS TOHARDER'S BAGGAGE and EXPRESS.John Carsten, divinity student, hasaccepted a call to a church at Michi­gan City, Ind. Furniture, Pianos, Trunks, Merchandise and ParcelsDelivered to all parts of the city,depots and suburbs.B9ANCH OFF�CE:Lnformaton. Office, University oJ Chicago.O. P. Lierian, '04, Professor of Oer­-rnan at Cheney Normal College, Che­ney, Wash., visited friends at theUniversity last Wednesday.Main Office: Branch Offices:Maurice Post, '07, has accepted theposition or principal of the HighSchool at Cass City, Mich. 6154 Wentworth Avenue. 71 E. 39th St.,--48 Hubbard Court.PHILLIPS' SHIRT SALE, A STORE FOR MEN238 E. 55th StreetThe Central Institute gives special work Saturdays to teachers who wish to prepare for examination.••• ' ••• - - - 'C. - .. -.... • •••• _._ •• _ •• __ ._. __ ••• _ '" _" ._._ -- ••••••• -. -.- •• _ •• _ .. - .. __ - ••• ---.�" ,fl"'""""' .. -124our PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.Miss Lucirie Finch, aided by MissVeda Sutton, gave an entertainmentg_t Foster Hall Friday evening, forthe benefit of the Foster Fund. Se­lections from Richard III. and Ro­meo and Juliet. were presented. MissFinch sang sorne of her" dar kysongs," and told stories of the duskyfolk."Bear ye one another's burdens"was the foundation of the sermon bythe Reverend Professor Arthur Ste­phen Hoyt in Mandel Hall last Sun­day. " Weare vitally bound to outfellow man, and we must get underhis burdens and feel their pressure,"he declared. "A greater understand­ing of this duty is coming, and withit a finer sense of personal responsi­bility; Such people as Jane Addamsand Seth Low,' who love, bear, aridserve, are the hope of social prog­ress, and of personal growth."" Jimmy" Lightbody is in trainingfor the A. A. U. meet, in which he isto run unattached.Associate Professor Starr took hisAnthropology classes over to theField Columbian Museum Saturdaymorning.Albion G. Findlay of Aurora, Ill.,who was a star member of the Wis­corisin University football team frorn1902 to 1905, has been appointed di­rector of athletics at the Universityof Montana.Hugo Bezdek, who has been an as­sistant instructor in the South Parksthis summer, is stationed at presentat Armour Square pending the returnof the regular instructor from his va­cation'.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.business.$16.50 will now buy a $25 Suit$20.00 will now buy a $30 Suit:$25.00 will now buy a $40 SuitFOREMANQuality Clothes92::94-96 Washington Street,Between Clark and Dearborn THEEducational listOFo. C. 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Blackford, '09, 'has r e- tear of the Worl1, New Liogr:1,):1ic:11Dlationary, Voc .. 1Y:.;.hry of Scri:)�urcturned recently from the Bahama Is- Ncraos, Groe:!r. ::::1(1 Latin Nacncc, andE::J.;j:i8hC�1riJti:::::::J. N:tmes,Forc:ir:;:l Quo-lands, where he was inspecting some tJ.tiono,Abbrevbtions,lIetric Elyotcm.lumber lands .. Arriving at Nassau, he �33:) Paces. GOOO Illustrations.secured a 60 foot schooner and some SHOiJLD YOU NJT OWN SUCH 1\ [J;):JHnegroes, and cruised down the coast J::�:;��PJ�:ab�i���;��:'I.��;?J;:�¥!J��,;",to Abaco. It was an eleven days' per Lditaons. 11.6 Pa;:;c3 and BOO Lllustrataons.trip. When he returned to Nassau VJrlt:3for" Tho8tory of a Book"-Fro9.1 1 1.c. hi fiG. & G. MERRlAM GO., Sprin�icld, r.jass..ie spent severa wee cs 11S 111g or I n��£i�����i����iillsharks and barracuda. L\Mr. SwellThe Dresser:satisfied cus­tomer is the kind of acustomer that leaves mystore.My salesmen don'targue with you and tryto drive a sale whento lookyou come Inat my goods.We make our salesby getting thesort of stuff, andthe righteasyr�ghtputtingsort of onThe Foster Hall girls gave a danceSaturday evening.The Central Institute, Room 403, 40 Randolph St., teaches and tutors in all subjects.pnce.No sour faces instore'. We are happybecause we are doingOur custom­ers are happy becausethey are getting clothesbargains.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY.FOR THE BEST ILunches, lee Cream, &Ice Cream Sodas�All Soft Drinks, go toFURMANS'Fifty-flfth Street and Kimbark A venue.Atlas Science TabletsAtlas History Outlines.Atlas Outline Maps."Atlas Junior Series."Combined Tablet and NoteBook.Call at our office or write forcatalogue.Atlas School Supply Co.315-321 Wabush Ave.,ChicagoTheCollegeLarder.The finest eatingplace near theUniversity Campus.Home Cooking,Best of Service,Prices Moderate.M eal Tickets,$ 3 . 30 for $3.00.Tile Misses Buller,447 E. 55th St.Just west of Lexington Ave.Cat! once and be convinced. Teachers' Review Courses, preparatory to CookCounty teachers", Chicago elementary teachers',Jacobs is out practicing for the pole principals', Normal entrance, or state examinations,vault for the A. A. U. meet to be held full ceurses, July 5·The Cultural Review School enrolled morein Chicago Aug. 31. He did 11 feet students last term .than all other schools of similar6 inches several times in FreshmanAlfred North, head of the historydepartment of Terre Haute Highschool, who took graduate work inthe University 1904-6, has just re­turned to Chicago "from a trip to hishome in Oregon. TEACHERS WANTED.SPECIAL--Advance Fee not Required for aLimited Time.Science, Mathematics. Latin, German,English, History, Athtetios.For High Schools, Academies and Normals,$500 to $nooPrimary, Intermediate, and Grammar Grade Teach­ers also, Critics ,- - • $50, $80 and $1000Address---THE THURSTON TEACHERS' AGENCY,A. M. Thurston, Mgr., 378 Wabash Arue.,Chicago.PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.Fifty-two students of KalamazooCollege held a banquet Wednesdayevening in the private dining roomin Hutchinson Hall. President H. L.Stetson acted as toastmaster, and thefollowing men responded to toasts:Mr. O. T. Crissey, president of Chi­cago Alumni Association, AinsworthClark, E. A. Wreidt, Robert Gordon,Coe Hayne, and F. G. Beckwith.'About 200 members of the alumniof Kalamazoo reside in Chicago.meets last spring, and is said to havecleared the bar at a still higher markin a meet this summer.Ielle Hermann, '04, stopped o f atthe University on her way to herhome in Milwaukee, Wis., from theJamestown Exposition. Miss Her­marin will teach at West Allis, 'Nis.,next year,Mark Bailey, graduate student, hasjust finished an article of 2,000 wordson .. Latin Inscription" for the Ed­itors' Encyclopedia. ' CULTURAL REVIEW SCHOOL.:rvT.iss Clara Davis, '05, has enteredthe University for the second termof the summer quarter.Mrs. Wheaten of Kalamazoo,Mich., visited her daughter Ruth, whois a student of the University, sev­cral days last week.P. C. Stetson, '07, has accepted a Ipo s.tron as principal of the Hig:School at Bangor, Mich. character in Chicago.Correspondence courses in all subject's.O. M. HEATH, Prin ,40 E. 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Robert Van Kirk of the FirstBaptist church of Jackson, Mich., at­tended the open lectures O£ the Uni­versity this week.Ethel Todd, '07, spent Sunday ather home at Kalamazoo.DURING VACATION.Instructors and students will finda dignified opportunity for profit­able and congenial employmentduring vacation in securing ordersfor Lee and Thorp's History ofNorth Amerce, a work preparedunder the direction of the leadingeducator of the country, which hasreceived the approval of the bestpapers. Liberal terms to the pub- ,lie and to solcitors. , IFor partculars and terms, ad-·dressGEORGE BARRIE & SONS,1313 Walnut St. Philadelphia, CHICAGO, ILL.OMAHA, .NEB.COUNCIL BLUFFS,IOWAMINNEAPOLIS, MINN.ST. PAUL, MINN.PEORIA, ILL.EVANSVILLE, IND.ST. 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