(NEW SERIES) Continuing THE UNIVERSITY RECORD, Vol. XIII, and "The University Record" EDITOR DAVID ALLAN ROBERTSON Vol. VI CONTENTS FOR JANUARY 1920 No. 1 FRONTISPIECE: CHARLES HITCHCOCK: PORTRAIT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MRS. CHARLES HITCHCOCK: PORTRAIT CHARLES HITCHCOCK SILAS B. COBB: PORTRAIT The University Record is published quarterly in the months of January, April, July, and October by the University of Chicago at the University Press, 5750-58 Ellis Ave., Chicago, Ill. The subscription price is 50 cents per year; the price of single copies is 20 cents. Orders for service of less than a halfyear will be charged at single-copy rate. Postage is charged extra as follows: For Canada, 8 cents on annual subscriptions (total 58 cents), on single copies, 2 cents (total 22 cents); for all other countries in the Postal Union, 12 cents on annual subscriptions (total 62 cents), on single copies, 3 cents (total 23. cents). Patrons are requested to make all remittances payable to The University of Chicago Press in postal or express money orders or bank drafts. Business correspondence should be addressed to The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. Entered as second-class matter January 14, 1915, at the Post-office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of August 24, 1912. You have been given parchments reciting the action of the University of Chicago in bestowing on you the respective degrees to which you are entitled. In the Latin formulas you will find that you are granted all the rights and privileges of those academic degrees. I now call your attention to the converse of those rights and privileges-the obligations which you now incur. We hear much of rights but too little of the correlative obligations. Remember that every right, whether in accordance with the law of the land or of those still more fundamental moral laws which are vital to all political and social structure, carries with it a duty which the individual owes society, quite as much as society owes respect of individual rights. With each new right and privilege, therefore, you at once come under the obligation of a new duty. By virtue of your degrees you are admitted to the great body of our citizens who have enjoyed the benefit of college life or of professional training. In a certain sense, therefore, you belong to a body selected from their fellows by special opportunities. Accordingly, while you rest under all the common obligations of citizenship, you also are under special obligations incumbent on all who have had such opportunities. I charge you always to remember what you owe to Alma Mater. This obligation is not discharged by cheers in a crowd of one's fellows, still less in later life by contributions from one's abundance. Loyalty to Alma Mater implies obedience to its best teaching, devotion to truth, using one's powers always and everywhere so as to keep the name of the University stainless in the lives of its sons and of its daughters. First used at the One Hundred and Fourteenth Convocation in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, December 23, 1919. |