THE ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH CONVOCATION

The One Hundred and Fourteenth Convocation was held in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, Tuesday, December 23, at 4:00 P.M. The Convocation Statement was made by President Harry Pratt Judson.

The award of honors was announced. The election of the following students as associate members to Sigma Xi was announced: Lyman Chalkley, Jr., Henry Leon Cox, Marie Farnsworth, Anne Braid Hepburn, Samuel Jacob Jacobsohn, Robert Stern Landauer, Clarence John Monroe, Elsie Marie Plapp, Emil Durbin Ries, Herman Bernhard Siems, Stewart Duffield Swan, Margaret Fitch Willcox. The election of the following students as members of Sigma Xi was announced: Theodore Hieronymus Bast, Hugo Leander Blomquist, William John Crozier, Harold Clifford Goldthorpe, Aubrey Chester Grubb, William F. E. Gurley, Evelyn Gertrude Halliday, Samuel Chester Henn, Isadore Meyer Jacobsohn, Hilary Stanislaus Jurica, John Wayne Lasley, Louis Leiter, Mayme Irwin Logdson, Frank Paden McWhorter, Elizabeth Wilhelmina Miller, James J. Moorehead, Adolf Carl Noé, Walter Lincoln Palmer, Lydia Jane Roberts, George Ross Robertson, Frank V. Sander, Max Sasuly, William Frederic Schroeder, Paul Joseph Sedgwick, William Allen Smiley, James Hollingsworth Smith, Warren Braman Smith, Mable Stockholm, Helen Mabel Strong, Frederick Karl Swoboda, George Addison Talbert, Harriet Williams Van Nostrand, Arthur Herman Weiland, Derwent Stainthorpe Whittlesey, Elizabeth Pauline Wolf, Sybil Woodruff. The election of the following students to the Beta of Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was announced: Arthur Cohen, Ben Herzberg, Carl Gilbert Johnson, Leah Pearl Libman, Cyril Vincent Lundvick, Esther Sable, George Dumas Stout. Honorable mention for excellence in the work of the Junior Colleges: George Harold Caldwell, Harry Wesley Cartwright,

James Carlin Crandall, Albert Clinton De Witt, Frank Lowell Dunn, Edna Helen Eisendrath, Lucile Gillespie, Kenneth Hancock Goode, Dorothea Marguerite Harjes, Elizabeth Katherine Lindquist, Ruth Lovett, Marion Catherine Lydon, Abe Matheson, Hazel Matilda Mattick, Earl Altimont Miller, J. Shelton Raban, Minnie Reiss, Flora May Sanders, Luther Martin Sandwick, Josephine Marguerite Stroud, Robert Joseph West. Honorable mention for excellence in the work leading to the certificate of the College of Education: Cherrie Phillips. The Bachelor's degree was conferred with honors on the following students: William Robert Baker, Grace Tinker Davis, Benjamin Goldberg, Eva Louise Hyde, Agnes Jacques, Richard Anderson Jones, Leah Pearl Libman, Cyril Vincent Lundvick, Laura Waples McMullen, Harold William Norman, Helen Mary Northrop, Frederick Nymeyer, Arthur Waterman Rogers, Charles William Schwede, Clara Victoria Severin, Edward Theodore Soukup, Lewis Hanford Tiffany. Honors for excellence in particular departments of the Senior Colleges were awarded to the following students: Harriet Frances Glendon, Home Economics; Benjamin Goldberg, Botany; Earl Henry Hall, Botany; Mabelle Alice Hay, Botany; Agnes Jacques, French; Leah Pearl Libman, Mathematics; Cyril Vincent Lundvick, Chemistry; Cyril Vincent Lundvick, Anatomy; Laura Waples McMullen, Philosophy and Psychology; Laura Waples McMullen, General Literature; Harold William Norman, Law; Helen Mary Northrop, German; Charles William Schwede, Chemistry; Edward Theodore Soukup, Political Economy; Lewis Hanford Tiffany, Botany; Mabel Toles, Spanish.

Degrees and titles were conferred as follows: The Colleges: the certificate of the College of Education, 8; the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 3; the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, 43; the degree of Bachelor of Science, 29; the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in Education, 10; the degree of Bachelor of Science in

Education, 1; the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in Commerce and Administration, 3; The Divinity School: the degree of Master of Arts, 2; the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1; The Law School: the degree of Bachelor of Laws, 2; the degree of Doctor of Law, 7; The Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science: the degree of Master of Arts, 9; the degree of Master of Science, 6; the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 6. The total number of degrees conferred

was 129.

The Convocation Prayer Service was held at 10:30 A.M., Sunday, December 21, 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 Theodore Gerald Soares, Ph.D., D.D., Professor of Homiletics and Religious Education and Head of the Department of Practical Theology, University of Chicago.

Mr. Trevor Arnett, Auditor of the University of Chicago, has been appointed an additional secretary of the General Education Board, to which a new gift of $50,000,000 has just been made by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. Early in January Mr. Arnett will accompany other officers of the Board on a trip to educational institutions in the South. For the present Mr. Arnett will divide his time between the University of Chicago and the General Education Board.

At the thirty-second meeting of the American Economic Association held in Chicago from December 29 to 31 Associate Professor Harold G. Moulton, of the Department of Political Economy, presented a paper on "The Price Question and Banking Policy"; Professor Harry A. Millis, of the same department, discussed "Immigration and Immigration Problems"; and Dean Leon C. Marshall, of the School of Commerce and Administration, took part in a discussion of "The Teaching of Economics." Dean Marshall was chairman of the committee on local arrangements.

Professor Julius Stieglitz, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, recently appeared before a subcommittee of the United States Senate to give evidence on the importance of establishing American independence in the manufacture of finer

chemicals, especially the finer organic chemicals, which in the past have been almost monopolized by Germany. Assistant Professor Gerald L. Wendt, also of the Chemistry Department, recently addressed the Western Roentgen Society on "The Physical Factors Underlying the Use of Radium and Radium Emanation."

The University of Chicago Post of the American Legion, recently organized at the University with some three hundred members, has as commander Norman Hart, vice-commander Royal Munger, and secretary-treasurer G. K. Bowden. Dean James Parker Hall, of the Law School, presided at the meeting of organization in Kent Theater, when a formal application was made for affiliation with the national organization. Assistant Professor Rudolph Altrocchi, of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, who was in war service in Italy and France, is chairman of the membership committee.

A new University of Chicago alumni club was recently organized at Peoria, Illinois, by fifty-four graduates and former students, after an address on the growth of the University by Dean Nathaniel Butler, of University College. Harry Dale Morgan, A.B., '06, was elected president; Dr. Sidney H. Easton, S.B., '10, vice-president; and Anna Jewett Le Fevre, secretary-treasurer.

The University Preachers for the Winter Quarter, 1920, are as follows: January 4, Rev. Charles LeRoy Goodell, St. Paul's M.E. Church, New York City; January 11, Dr. Goodell; January 18, Rev. John MacNeill, Walmer Road Baptist Church, Toronto; January 25, Rev. John Timothy Stone, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago; February 1, President J. Ross Stevenson, Princeton Theological Seminary; February 8, Rev. Elijah Andrews Hanley, First Baptist Church, Rochester, New York; February 15, Professor Albert Parker Fitch, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; February 22, Professor Fitch; February 29, Dean Lee Sullivan McCollester, Tufts College, Massachusetts; March 7, Dean McCollester.

The University of Chicago Press announces for immediate publication a new number in the Publications of the

Geographic Society of Chicago under the title of The Geography of the Ozark Highland of Missouri. The author, Dr. Carl O. Sauer, of the University of Michigan, received his Doctor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1915.

New impressions of successful books announced for January publication by the University of Chicago Press included the following: A Short History of Belgium, by Professor Léon Van der Essen, of the University of Louvain, to which the author has added a new after-thewar chapter; A Short History of Japan, by Ernest W. Clement; A Manual for Writers, by John M. Manly and John A. Powell; Literature in the Elementary School, by Porter Lander MacClintock; The Psychology of Religion, by George A. Coe; and The University of Chicago: An Official Guide, by David A. Robertson.

An important new volume in the "University of Chicago Nature-Study Series" was also announced for the same monthA Field and Laboratory Guide in Physical Nature-Study, by Elliot R. Downing. Two volumes in this highly successful series have already appeared-A Field and Laboratory Guide in Biological Nature-Study and A Source Book of Biological Nature-Study.

Four hundred and twenty men who were in service in the recent war, either in the army or navy, have been given scholarships or partial scholarships on the La Verne Noyes Foundation for the Winter Quarter at the University of Chicago. The scholarships are distributed among men from thirty-nine states, the largest number of assignments being to men from Illinois. Other states represented by considerable numbers are Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Most of the present holders of the scholarships were in service fourteen months or more, and the majority of them saw service in France.

The chief considerations on which the awards have been made are length and character of service, need of the man, and scholarship. The number of applicants was at least twice the number of assignments.

Director James Henry Breasted, of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, is now in Egypt, where the members of the Institute's expedition are

being assembled at Cairo. The heartiest co-operation on the part of both the British and the French authorities has not only made possible but is materially facilitating the undertaking of explorations. The party will leave for the Tigro-Euphrates Valley about February IO. After reaching the port of Bosra, the sites of ancient Babylonian and Assyrian civilization will be visited. The route will then be westward through Aleppo and southward to Beirut on the Syrian coast. Other districts will be studied if time permits. The members of the expedition are to be back in Chicago by October first.

For the large registration in the new Institute for Church Workers at the University of Chicago, practical courses in Bible-study, religious education,church organization, and recreational activities are being given in Emmons Blaine Hall every Monday evening during the present quarter.

Dean Shailer Mathews, of the Divinity School, Dr. J. M. P. Smith, and Dr. Shirley J. Case are conducting the courses in Bible-study; Professor Theodore G. Soares, Head of the Department of Practical Theology, and Dean Frank G. Ward, of the Chicago Theological Seminary, have charge of the courses in Sunday-school methods; Dean Mathews, President Ozora S. Davis, of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and others discuss the relation of the church and the community; and Associate Professor Joseph M. Artman, Director of Vocational Training, discusses the religious development of the child.

One of the important features of the Institute is the practical attention given to non-equipment games and recreational programs under the direction of the Physical Culture Department of the University.

"The Art and Architecture of Roumania" was the subject of an illustrated lecture at the University of Chicago on January 30 by Professor Charles Upson Clark, formerly director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. The lecture was given under the auspices of the Chicago Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, of which society Professor Gordon J. Laing, of the Department of Latin at the University of Chicago, is secretary.

Professor Paul Shorey, Head of the Department of the Greek Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, is giving two courses of lectures at Johns Hopkins University, one a seminar in Plato and the other a course on the history of Greek philosophy. In 1912 Dr. Shorey was Turnbull lecturer in poetry at Johns Hopkins.

Professor Charles H. Haskins, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, who was attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, gave a largely attended public lecture on "The Peace Conference at Paris" at the University of Chicago on January 28. Dean Haskins, who formerly was professor of European history in the University of Wisconsin, was American member of the Conference Commission on Belgian and Dutch Affairs and a member of the special committee on Alsace-Lorraine and the Saar Valley.

The members of the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson to view their art collection at their home, 4851 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, on January 25. The collection, which is of remarkable range and interest in the history of art, was explained by Walter Sargent, Professor of Art Education at the University, and Dr. Richard Offner, of the Department of the History of Art.

The Renaissance Society, which is especially active this year, has just given an exhibition of the sculpture of Alfeo Faggi for ten days in the Classics Building, and under its auspices Dr. Frank J. Mather, Jr., professor of art in Princeton University, lectured in January on "Masaccio and Realism." The president of the society is Professor Gordon J. Laing, of the Department of Latin, and the secretary is Mrs. Henry Gordon Gale.

The remarkable interest in the rebuilding and new equipment of the University of Louvain in Belgium made especially timely the appearance of Professor Maurice de Wulf, of the faculty of that institution, as a lecturer at the University of Chicago. Professor de Wulf lectured in the Classics Building, February 5, on "The Social Philosophy of the Thirteenth Century: The Individual and the Collective Group."

Official announcement is just made of the total registration at the University of Chicago for the Winter Quarter, 1920.

In the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science there are 451 men and 251 women, a total of 702. In the Senior Colleges there are 512 men and 419 women, a total of 931; in the Junior Colleges, 819 men and 535 women, a total of 1,354; and Unclassified students, 120, a total for the Colleges of 2,405.

In the Professional Schools there are 163 Divinity students, 212 Medical students, 304 Law students, 216 in Education, and 545 in Commerce and Administration, a total for the Professional Schools of 1,440. The registration for University College is 1,203.

The total registration for the University, excluding duplications, is 3,006 men and 2,466 women, a grand total of 5,472.

One of the pleasant incidents connected with the visit of M. Maurice Maeterlinck to the University of Chicago on February 13 was the presentation to him by President Harry Pratt Judson of A Short History of Belgium written by Professor Léon Van der Essen, of the University of Louvain, and published by the University of Chicago Press. The book has a chapter on Belgium's heroic part in the war.

The same volume is to be presented in a special binding to King Albert, of Belgium, to whom the book is dedicated by the author. The binding is in full black morocco with back stamped in red and gold, representing the Belgian colors, and with the coat-of-arms of the University of Chicago stamped on the side. In the making of the book it is interesting to know that the little volume was sewed by an Englishman, bound by a Belgian, and finished by a Czecho-Slovak.

Associate Professor David D. Luckenbill, of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, who is expected to join the expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University now being conducted by Director James Henry Breasted, was delayed in Paris by the strikes in Italy but left for Trieste on January 26, whence he sailed for Alexandria. The date set for the party to leave Egypt for the TigroEuphrates Valley was February 10.

Dr. Luckenbill, who received his Doctor's degree from the University of