and enthusiasm. Nothing approaching it has ever before been experienced, and to those who gave of their time and energy to bring about the results the University is under lasting obligation. By the rank and file of the Alumni of the Colleges, the fact that the Divinity School was at the same time celebrating its Fiftieth Anniversary was perhaps too often overlooked. There was perhaps also in this same direction too little appreciation of the remarkable response accorded by the Doctors of the University to the invitation to return and spend a few days on our grounds. One of the most remarkable gatherings which occurred was the Alumni luncheon to the Doctors of Philosophy, at which nearly one-fourth of the eligible persons were present, filling to overflowing the accommodations of the Quadrangle Club dining room and porch. They represented. men and women who have achieved high distinction in every walk of academic and professional life. Incident to these celebrations was the announcement of two remarkable gifts, one of $200,000 for a Divinity Building, the donor for the time being anonymous, the other of a sum conservatively estimated at $2,000,000, contributed by Mr. Hobart W. Williams in memory of his parents, certain portions of the income of the capital to come to the University at once, and the entire sum to be available upon the decease of the donor. The latter gift is made for the encouragement of a high type of training for business and will, under our present organization, be available for the development of the School of Commerce and Administration. With such resources in hand, and with the present admirable organization of this division of the University, there is every reason to believe that there will be established at Chicago the most complete facilities for training of this character to be found anywhere. Another interesting feature of the year was the return of the Waseda baseball team, one of whose games was scheduled for the Celebration week. Although the visitors failed to carry back any victories over our team, they made the pleasantest impression as a group of manly and well-bred young fellows, who represented their country with great dignity and played a thoroughly courageous and sportsmanlike game. We hope that they may visit us again. Once more the attendance of the University has shown a large increase. The Summer Quarter just past was in particular of unprecedented size, 5,419 students being registered as against 4,369 students of the previous year. The total attendance from July 1, 1915, to July 1, 1916, was 8,510, as compared with 7,781 in the previous year. The gain has been distributed rather gen-. erally over the University. With the exception of the Summer Quarter, the largest absolute increase has been as for a number of years past in the Colleges. It seems impossible to supply sufficient opportunities for collegiate instruction to the young people of this part of the country. Our own experience in the rapid increase of these undergraduate college students is reflected in the attendance figures of practically all the other large institutions in our neighborhood. Ida Noyes Hall is now in daily use by the young women of the University, playing a much needed part in the development of the life of our women students. Unfortunately, the completion of the gymnasium and the natatorium has been somewhat delayed, so that these parts of the building are not as yet in full operation. Presumably the Divinity Building will be started before long, and we may venture to hope that the day may not be far distant when other buildings mentioned by the President in recent statements may be added to our grounds. We need at present very greatly an administration building and a high school building. Our work is in many particulars being very seriously handicapped by the absence of these struc tures. The only new departure in the way of developing facilities of instruction is the bringing together for purposes of military training of groups of courses which can be made useful for this purpose. It is not the intention of the University at present to reestablish the old cadet corps. A rifle club has been formed under the direction of Professor Von Noé, but adopting the advice of General Leonard Wood, the University will expect students who desire to secure the practical training of the camp and field to secure this in connection either with state military organizations or with the summer camps of the Federal Government. JAMES R. ANGELL. The Annual Chapel Service The annual commemorative chapel service was held on Tuesday, October 2, in Mandel. The first service was held on Saturday, October 1, 1892, at halfpast 12, in Cobb Hall. The order of exercises at that time has been followed annually since, in very nearly the same form. President Judson, comparing the material aspects of the University in 1892 and now, said: "At the opening in that autumn there were approximately 100 members of the faculty; there are at the present time approximately 400. At that time matriculation was just beginning; up to October 1, 1916, there have been 62,886 matriculants. In that first year, ending June 30, 1893, there were 742 students; in the year ending June 30, 1916, there were 8,510 students. There have been 10,280 degrees conferred. The grounds of the University comprised in the former instance about 25 acres; the grounds at the present time, on both sides of the Midway, but not including the land at Lake Geneva in connection with the Yerkes Observatory, comprise nearly 100 acres. The buildings then ready were Cobb Hall and the residence halls immediately south; there are now approximately 40 buildings in the quadrangles. The gifts paid in on the 1st of October, 1892, amounted to $925,813.08: the gifts paid in on October 1, 1916, amounted to $41,068,510.56. It may be added that there are now gifts, pledged and payable in the future, amounting to $4,423,600. Therefore, at this time, the total assets of the University, including land, buildings and their equipment, and invested funds, amount to $45,492,110.56. "The growth of the University in these years has been interesting and inspiring. At the same time the most significant thing, the heart of the University, in fact, is not so much its material plant, its superb buildings, and its large endowments, as its great body of alumni scattered throughout the entire country, and indeed, throughout the entire world. Many of them are reaching middle life, and they have in very many cases already made their mark on the communities in which they live. The future of the University may show other great increases in material power. It is hoped and believed, however, that the growth in spiritual energy in its alumni, in the spirit of research and the desire to ascertain truth among the faculty and graduate students, will keep pace with what may be done in mere financial growth. The best that I can wish to the students that are gathered here today is that they may be true to the best traditions of students and faculty and alumni in the quarter century just closing. The essence of that spirit is this: That the primary question shall be, not what one can get from the University, but what one can put into the University. That is the true spirit of loyalty. It is that spirit which has made the University worth loving and worth serving in the years past. It is that spirit, and really that alone, which will make the University worth loving and worth serving in the years to come; and in token of that spirit we will close our exercises today by all uniting in singing the Alma Mater." Some New Members of the Faculty Since January 1, 1916, appointments to the faculty of instructors or to higher ranks have included one woman and twelve men. Of these appointments, those to the faculties of Arts, Literature and Science in the University proper are as follows: After practicing law in New York City from 1895 to 1898 Mr. Woodward was Professor of Law at Dickinson College until 1902, at Northwestern University until 1907, and at Stanford until this year. From 1909 to 1916 he was dean of the Stanford law school. In 1906 and 1907 he was the editor in chief of the Illinois Law Review, the first man to hold that position. His work here will be chiefly in Equity and Criminal Law. ber of contributions to legal journals, a His publications include, besides a numtreatise on The Law of Quasi Contracts, and a collection of Cases on the Law of Sales. He married in 1904 Miss Elizabeth Raymond of Evanston, Ill. Out of hours he plays golf. HARRY ALVIN MILLIS, Associate Professor of Political Economy, after his graduation from Indiana University in 1895, became a graduate student and Fellow of the Department of Political Economy in the University of Chicago (1896-99). He received his doctorate in 1899. From 1899 to 1902 he was Reference Librarian of the John Crerar Library. In 1902 he became Professor of Economics and Sociology in the University of Arkansas. In 1903 he was appointed Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor in Leland Stanford Jr. University. During his leave of abscence from Stanford, 1908-10, he served as expert in charge of the western investigation of the U. S. Immigration Commission. Since 1912 he has been Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, the University of Kansas. Mr. Millis has taught at the University of Chicago during the summer quarters of 1912, 1913 and 1916. In addition to many articles in his special fields of taxation and labor problems, he has published volumes 23, 24 and 25 of the report of the U. S. 1915. Professor Millis married in 1901 Miss Alice M. Schoff and has three children. He asserts that he plays tennis. The vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor Moore of the Law School has been filled by the appointment of HERMAN ENZLA OLIPHANT as Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Oliphant was born in 1884, took his A. B. at Indiana University in 1908, and, after a few years of normal school teaching, came to the University of Chicago Law School, where he received the degree of J. D. in 1914, cum laude, the first man in his class. The following year he was an instructor in the College of Commerce and Administration, principally engaged in organizing the courses in Business Law, and in 1915-16 he was promoted to an assistant professorship. During both years he was giving nearly half his time to the Law School, where he reorganized and extended the course in Brief Making and Argumentation most effectively. In Business Law he collected and arranged material suitable for the study of the subject of the case method, producing the first satisfactory medium for the adequate teaching of this subject that has appeared. His work in the Law School will be chiefly in commercial topics. In 1904 he married Miss Jewell Sims of Forest, Ind., and has two children. Professor Oliphant is the first graduate of the Law School to be appointed a member of the Law Faculty. ERNEST WATSON BURGESS, Associate Professor of Sociology, received his A. B. degree from Kingfisher College, Okla., in 1908 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1913. After an instructorate in Toledo University he was Assistant Professor of Sociology in the University of Kansas until 1915 and of Economics and Sociology in Ohio' State University last year. He has published The Functions of Socialization in Social Evolution. He is unmarried, plays tennis and handball by way of recreation, and is particularly fond of walking. DR. JEAN FELIX PICCARD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was born in January, 1884, at Basle, Switzerland. After graduating from the Oberreal schule in Basle he attended the University of Basle for one year and then took the degree Doctor of Natural Sciences (D. Sc. Nat.), in the Swiss Polytechnic in Zurich under Professor Willstaetter in 1909. Dr. Piccard then spent five years at the University of Munich, two years as Research Associate of Professor Baeyer and three years in independent work, taking the Privatdocentship examination in 1914. In the autumn of that year he went to the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he lectured on organic chemistry, especially on the aromatic series. He has published the results of his investigations in the field of organic dyes, on inorganic problems and on catalysis in the Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft and in Liebig's Annalen. His principal fields of work include the study of aniline dyes, enzyme problems and problems of velocities of reaction. He is not married. CHARLES C. COLBY, Instructor in Geology, after receiving a degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy from the Michigan State Normal College took the B. S. degree at the University of Chicago in 1909. For the next three years he was head of the Department of Geology in the State Normal School at Winona, Minn., and from 1914 to 1916 was Associate Professor of Geology in Peabody College for Teachers, at Nashville, Tenn. He is unmarried. By way of recreation he plays tennis and golf. |