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roof of variegated color. The Gothic feeling will be attained less through expensive stone carving than through the masses and lines of the building, although there will be some ornamental work on the structure.

The building is one hundred and forty-five feet, nine inches long, and from forty-eight feet to seventy-three feet, six inches wide. The clubhouse will contain 354,000 cubic feet-twice as large as the present building. The construction is fireproof throughout.

The main entrance in Fifty-seventh Street is marked by a porch, flagged with New York bluestone. Through a vestibule one enters a lobby sixteen by thirty-four feet paved like the vestibule in bluestone. The walls of the lobby are Bedford stone, the ceilings sand-finish plaster with oak beams. The ladies' reception room, fourteen feet by eighteen feet, contains a stone fireplace. The walls of this room are paneled, the floor black terrazzo. Adjacent are the other rooms of the women's suite. In the lobby, south of the entrance to the ladies' rooms, is the lobby leading to the men's coatroom, lockers, and shower-rooms. The rest of this floor is given over to service-rooms including three maids' rooms and two janitors' rooms, a restaurant storeroom and a building storeroom. Returning to the lobby one finds directly opposite the entrance the counter of the office, and behind this outer office an inner one with a vault. From the center of the south wall of the lobby an entrance leads past the office and telephone booths to the south door, which opens on the tennis courts. To the right of this corridor is the cardroom, fourteen feet, six inches, by twenty-three feet. Through a door in the west wall of the lobby one enters the billiard-room, thirtyfive feet by forty-six feet, large enough for eight tables, with a split brick fireplace in the alcove at the north end of the room and a raised oak platform in the bay window at the south. This room has a concrete floor; the walls are brick and stone, and the ceiling has heavy beams with ornamental plaster. Returning to the lobby we find to the left, just outside of the billiard-room, the stone stair with wrought-iron rail leading to the second floor. Just at the head of the stair a door leads to the left to a private dining-room eighteen feet by twenty-two feet, six inches. To the south directly opposite the stair and south of the gallery connecting the dining-room and the lounge is the inclosed porch, in which there is a large stone fireplace. This porch overlooking the tennis courts and protected from sun and storm is likely to become a favorite room. The lounge is at the west end of the building on this same floor. It is a room twenty-two by forty-nine feet, with a large fireplace at the north end and a bay window at the south and two large

mullioned windows in the west wall. The walls are paneled in oak to the ceiling; the ceiling is plaster, between oak beams. A door from the lounge and a door from the gallery lead into the writing-room, twelve feet by twenty-one feet, with vaulted ceiling and terrazzo floor. The cardroom occupies the space between the lounge and the closed porch to the south of the gallery. The rest of this floor is given over to the kitchen and dining-room. In the northeast corner is the kitchen with adjacent pantries, cold storage, elevator, service stairs, pastry-room, and maids' dining-room. The main dining-room was planned not only in relation to the kitchen but in connection with possible entertainments to be given in the Club. The dining-room itself is thirty-six feet by fifty-five feet. The floor is black terrazzo. The dining-room is wainscoted with oak to a height of seven feet, and the walls above the wainscot are of stone to the ceiling. The south wall has a large stone bay window flanked by large mullioned windows. The north wall has in it a large fireplace. In front of the doors to the kitchens and pantries is a screen concealing the passageway between the private dining-room and kitchen but revealing a large mullioned window to the north. To the east of the dining-hall, really a part of it, is the so-called breakfastroom, which has an oak floor raised above the floor of the dining-room. For breakfast or during the holidays the large dining-room will be shut off, and the few patrons of the dining-room will be put in the breakfastroom, which will have the south and east sun. For entertainments the breakfast-room will serve as a stage fifteen feet by twenty-seven feet with a proscenium eighteen feet wide. The audience can be seated not only in the dining-hall but in the inclosed porch, the gallery, and the private dining-room. In this way provision can be made for over four hundred and fifty seats with a good view of the stage.

The third floor is given over to living quarters, twenty-one rooms being provided, all with baths, including a suite to be used as a University guestroom.

EVENTS: PAST AND FUTURE

THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIF

TEENTH CONVOCATION

The One Hundred and Fifteenth Convocation was held in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, Tuesday, March 16, at 4:00 P.M. The Convocation Address, "The Political Progress of the English Working Man," was delivered by Conyers Read, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Chicago.

The award of honors was: Harold Lasswell and Max Wester, Civil Government Prize; Marian Esther Manly, The John Billings Fiske Prize in Poetry. The election of the following students as associate members to Sigma Xi was announced: Dorothy Marian Ashland, Ira Sprague Bowen, James Milton Elgin, Vestus Twiggs Jackson, Alfred Edward Jurist, Arthur Preston Locke, Henry Castle Albert Mead, Ray Will Metcalf, Avery Adrian Morton, Eloise Parsons, Harold John Stockman, Imogene Dolores Willard. The election of the following students as members of Sigma Xi was announced: Ira Garnett Barber, Clarence Ehnie Broeker, Ying Chang Cheng, Marie Dye, Warren Walter Ewing, Daniel Jerome Fisher, Margaret Bradley Fuller, Forrest Alva Kingsbury, Katharine Lucille McCluskey, Arthur Crane McFarlan, Motonori Matsuyama, Edison Pettit, Lillian Grace Reynolds, Garvin Dennis Shallenberger, Herman Bernhard Siems, Williams Ralph Smythe. The election of the following students to the Beta of Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was announced: Samuel King Allison, Blanche Beatrice Boyer, David Mandel Halfant, Samuel Jacob Jacobsohn (June, 1918), Carl Gilbert Johnson (December, 1919), Donald Henry King, Harold Leo Klawans, Vera Bena Leibovitz, Luella Esther Nadelhoffer, Edgar Burke Reading, Emil Durbin Ries (June, 1919), Esther Sabel (December, 1919), Ruth Emily Worthington.

Honorable mention for excellence in the work of the Junior Colleges: George William Adams, Isaac Bencowitz, Carroll Lane Fenton, John Gifford, Julius Gordon, William Drumm Johnston, Jr., Carolyn Nicholas Macdonald, Victor

Carl Milliken, Herman Theodore Mossberg, Henry Albert Rabe, Milton Steinberg, Emma Elizabeth Straub, Zok Tsung Wang, Ruth Elvira Westlund, Edward DeWitt Wines, William Augustine Zeiler. Honorable mention for excellence in the work leading to the certificate of the College of Education: M. Ethel Brown. The Bachelor's degree was conferred with honors on the following students: Simon Harry Alster, Edgar Bernhard, Blanche Beatrice Boyer, Stanley Maxwell Crowe, Irma Estevan Cushing, Kathleen Knox Foster, David Mandel Halfant, Samuel Jacob Jacobsohn, Carl Gilbert Johnson, Ernest Oliver Larson, Vera Bena Leibovitz, Ivy Isabel Lidman, Mary Virginia Milligan, Dewey Self Patton, Joseph Jerry Pelc, Emil Durbin Ries, Esther Sabel, Ida Douges Staudt, Winfred Marcus Wagner, Edith Carrie Wilson. Honors for excellence in particular departments of the Senior Colleges were awarded to the following students: Simon Harry Alster, Political Science; Edgar Bernhard, Law; Blanche Beatrice Boyer, Latin and Greek; Clara Adaline Chamberlain, English and General Literature; Irma Estevan Cushing, English; David Mandel Halfant, History and Political Economy; Samuel Jacob Jacobsohn, Mathematics; Samuel Jacob Jacobsohn, Physics; Carl Gilbert Johnson, Anatomy and Physiology; Ernest Oliver Larson, Anatomy; Vera Bena Leibovitz, Political Economy; Ivy Isabel Lidman, English; Ivy Isabel Lidman, Romance; Joseph Jerry Pelc, Chemistry; Emil Durbin Ries, Chemistry; Esther Sabel, English; Edith Carrie Wilson, History.

Degrees and titles were conferred as follows: The Colleges: the certificate of the College of Education, 6; the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 2; the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, 41; the degree of Bachelor of Science, 20; the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in Education, 9; the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education, 1; the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in Commerce and Administration, 7; The Divinity School: the degree of Master of Arts, 1; the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, 2; the degree

of Doctor of Philosophy, 2; The Law School: the degree of Bachelor of Laws, 1; the degree of Doctor of Law, 6; The Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science: the degree of Master of Arts, 6; the degree of Master of Science, 3; the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 5. The total number of degrees conferred was III.

The Convocation Prayer Service was held at 10:30 A.M., Sunday, March 14, in the Reynolds Club. At 11:00 A.M., in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, the Convocation Religious Service was held. The preacher was the Reverend Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, D.D., LL.D., President of Armour Institute of Technology.

THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIX

TEENTH CONVOCATION

The address at the One Hundred Sixteenth Convocation will be delivered by President David Prescott Barrows, Ph.D., 1897, LL.D., of the University of California. Dr. Barrows was born in Chicago, June 27, 1873. He received his A.B. at Pomona College in California in 1894 and in the following year received from the University of California the degree of M.A. In 1897 he was made a doctor of philosophy of the University of Chicago, his department being anthropology. In 1900 he went to Manila as superintendent of the schools of Manila. Subsequently he became director of education of the Philippine Islands, resigning in 1909 to become professor of education and dean of the graduate school of the University of California. In 1911 he became professor of political science and in 1913 dean of the faculties. In 1917 he was a major in the American army and was on active duty as intelligence officer in the Philippine Islands. Later he served in Siberia, especially at Vladivostok.

The Phi Beta Kappa address will be delivered by another doctor of the University of Chicago, Edwin Emery Slosson, Ph.D., 1902, Chemistry. Dr. Slosson was born in Albany, Kansas, June 7, 1865. He received the degree of B.S. from the University of Kansas in 1890 and in 1892 the degree of M.S. From the University of Chicago he received the degree of Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1902. He became a member of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Kansas. After serving as professor of chemistry in the University

of Wyoming and chemist of the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station from 1891 to 1903, he gave up his university work and devoted himself to literature, especially the popular exposition of scientific subjects. In 1903 he became literary editor of the Independent, of which for many years he has been managing editor. In 1912 he was appointed one of the staff of the School of Journalism of Columbia University. He is the author of Great American Universities, 1910; Major Prophets of Today, 1914; Six Major Prophets, 1917. Dr. Slosson's subject at the annual meeting of the Beta of Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be "Americanization-Uniting the United States."

GENERAL ITEMS

The famous poet and playwright, William Butler Yeats, delivered a William Vaughn Moody Lecture at the University of Chicago on the evening of March 2. The subject of his address was "The Friends of My Youth." Mr. Yeats was a guest of the University many years ago when his play The Land of Heart's Desire was presented in the Reynolds Club Theater.

Announcement is made from Paris that Professor Albert A. Michelson, Head of the Department of Physics, has been made a foreign associate member of the French Academy of Sciences, to succeed the late Lord Rayleigh.

Announcement is made that among the new members of the Divinity School Faculty for the coming Summer Quarter will be Professor T. R. Glover, of St. John's College, Cambridge University, England. Professor Glover, who has been university lecturer in ancient history at Cambridge and Wilde Lecturer in comparative religion at Oxford, will give courses in the Department of Church History during the School Term of the Summer Quarter. Professor Glover rendered conspicuous service in the war in connection with the Y.M.C.A. organization.

Professor Anton J. Carlson, Chairman of the Department of Physiology, has recently been made an honorary M.D. by the University of Lund, Sweden. Professor Carlson has also been made a

corresponding member of the French Biological Society.

Assistant Professor Rudolph Altrocchi, of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has recently been made an officer d'Académie by the French government in recognition of his war services as an American liaison officer at Lyons and as commandant of the school detachment. Before going to France Professor Altrocchi was associated with Captain Charles E. Merriam in Italy in connection with the Bureau of American Propaganda, and later was awarded a diploma of merit by the Italian govern

ment.

The sculpture exhibit of Albin Polášek, the Chicago sculptor, which was recently opened under the auspices of the Renaissance Society in the Classics Building at the University of Chicago, continued until March 5. Mr. Polášek, who gave the opening address on "The Art of the Sculptor," is head of the department of sculpture at the Art Institute, Chicago, and has had many honors, among them the award of the Prix de Rome at the American Academy in Rome, the Widener Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Logan Medal at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Assistant Professor Gerald L. Wendt, of the Department of Chemistry, has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of the Radiological Society of North America. Dr. Wendt, who for a year was junior chemist in radioactivity, United States Bureau of Mines, and later Instructor in Quantitative Analysis and Radioactivity, University of Chicago, was appointed to his present position in 1918.

Students of literature will be especially interested in the announcement of the coming of George Edward Woodberry, the American poet, to the University of Chicago for a lecture, May 4, on the William Vaughn Moody Foundation. His subject will be "Longfellow."

Mr. Woodberry, who for many years was professor of comparative literature at Columbia, is the author of The North Shore Watch, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe in two volumes, and The Inspiration of Poetry as well as the editor of Shelley's

and Poe's complete works and the collected poems of Rupert Brooke.

In response to an invitation to be guests of the Japanese universities, the University of Chicago baseball team will visit Japan in the Spring Quarter, leaving Chicago at the close of the quarterly examinations at the end of March. The team will play practice games in California for two weeks, probably with the teams of Leland Stanford Junior University and the University of California. The squad, including six Seniors, three Juniors, and three Sophomores, will be led by Clarence Vollmer, captain, and will sail on the "Tenyo Maru" from San Francisco on April 17.

Games will be played with Waseda University in Tokyo and with other universities in Japan, and the players will return to Chicago in time for work in the Summer Quarter. In 1910 and again in 1915 University of Chicago teams visited Japan, and were highly successful, winning ten and twelve games respectively.

At the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Professor Frank R. Lillie, Chairman of the Department of Zoology at the University of Chicago, was elected member of the Division of Biology and Agriculture, National Research Council, to serve three years. He was also made a member of the advisory board of the American Society of Zoologists. Professor Charles Manning Child, retiring president of the society, has been made a member of the executive committee for five years.

The Learned Lady in England; 16501760 is the title of a new volume by Professor Myra Reynolds, of the Department of English at the University of Chicago, which is to be issued this spring as one of the Vassar semi-centennial series. Dr. Reynolds, who is a graduate and trustee of Vassar College, has also written The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry published by the University of Chicago Press. She received her Doctor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1895.

Among the new and forthcoming volumes announced by the University of Chicago Press are an Introduction to the Peace Treaties, by Arthur Pearson Scott;

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