The University Record

The University Record, the official quarterly published by the faculty, made its first appearance yesterday morning. It is a journal of about 25 pages, given up to artiles of interest connected with the niversity and edited by a comraitee chosen from the members of the aculty under the authority of the oard of Regents, in the present intance Professors Thomas and [insdale. Previous to its appearance there has never been a pulication devoted exclusively to faculty purposes, and in inaugarating the new movement, the faculty have hit upon a cönvenient means of communicating its ideas and information to students and other interested persons outside of its own circle. The present issue contains editor ials, stating the ground intended to be covered by the quarterly, which will include a record of the educational and scientific work going on under the auspices of the university, outlines of lecture „courses which are being offered in the university, mention of contributions made by members of the faculty to the rent literature of scholarship, research and discussion, meritorious work conducted independently by students at work in the university and maiter bearing on the relation of the University to the secondary schools. The president's report to the Board of Regents is included in the present number, as well as several other articles, among which are " Shortening the Undergraduate Course," "The New General Catalogue," and "The University and the High School." Under the head "The University n Recent Scholarship" aro included the reports of the various clubs and societies of the University whose objects are research and study. A complete list of the publication of the various members of the faculty from October, 1889, to October, 1890, is also to be found. A description of the more important lecture courses offered by the University follows, and the nuraber is concluded with a number of departmental notices. The -'Record" is carefully edited and is destined to fill a long feit want in the faculty. The price will be fifty cents a year or ten cents a number.