University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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(UltarlPH iStrltntnnli Tii u rrBmt ' O every t eneration of graduates from the L ' ni ' ersity of Chi- :ago, D r. Charles Richmond Henderson, to whom this book s dedicated, is known. After the turmoil of registration is iver, the first clear impression which the freshman receives s (if the kindly ])ersonality of the I ' niversity Chaplain as he Ulends his first Junior College chapel; four years later, as he swings dut if .Mandel with his diploma, the same gentle-voiced figure is in his mind. Pr. Menders, m has won world-wide reputation as a sociologist, but it is as chaplain that he has obtained the firm individual grip on the soul of e ery Chicago man and woman. Dr. Henderson was born at Co -ingt()n, Ind.. December 18, 184S, the son of Albert Henderson. His grandfather. Dr. John I,ambert Kichm.ind. a physician of Indianapolis, was a friend of Henry Ward I ' .eecher. Himself a teacher of medicine, he was one of the founders of Denison University and Franklin College. After having studied at the Lafayette, Ind., High School and Kalamazoo College, Dr. Henderson received the degree of A.B. in 1870 from the old Chicago I ' niversity. He was awarded honors in the Junior and Senior years. After studying political economy under ' an lluren Denslow he was graduated from the Theological Seminary in 1873 and in the same year was granted the degree of A.M. from the old University. Both of these baccalaureate degrees were confirmed by the new L niversity. In 1883, he received the degree of D.D. from the Seminary. In 1901 he received the degree of Ph.D., smiiina cum laiidc. at the University of Leipsic in economics and statistics. In 1873, Dr. Henderson became pastor at Terre Haute, Ind. ' hile there he established the Charity Organization Society, was a trustee of the Rose Orphans ' Home, helped to secure legislation needed for public libraries, and provided lectures for workingmen. Leaving Terre Haute in 1882, he became pastor of the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Detroit and remained there until he came to the University at its inception in 1892. While pastor in Detroit, he was made chairman of the committee which settled the street car strike of 1891-2. Dr. Henderson is a member of various societies, among which are the American Economic Association, the American Sociological Society ; he was president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections in 1899 and president of the National Prison Association in 1902, and has been presi- dent of the National Chihlren ' s Home Society since 1899. He has been a

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®lf l00k OR the thirteenth year since these gray walls rose by the azure inland sea, the Cap Gown presents its record of life in the Univer- sity of Chicago. It tells of effort in laboratory and classroom, of activity in col- lege and class, of the whirl of college journalism, and the glitter of college drama, of the rush of society, of triumph and defeat on the athletic field — of all that actually is on and about the campus. To portray this life simply, truthfully, and with understanding has been our aim, as representa- tives of the Junior Class. WARREN DUNHAM FOSTER HARRY ARTHUR HANSEN HELEN FISHER PECK WILLIAM PATTERSON MacCRACKEN, JR. WALTER STUART MORRISON

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director of charitable organizations in Terre Haute and Detroit and is one of the prime movers of the Chicago Bureau of Charities. Governor Deneen appointed him secretary of the Industrial Insurance Commission. He went as the official delegate of the United States to the International Prison Congress at Budapest in 1S ' 03. and in that year was appointed by the per- manent committee of the International Workingmen ' s Insurance Congress as American representative ; in 1908 he was reappointed to report on the prog- ress of industrial insurance at the congress at Rome in October. The publications of Dr. Henderson have been as numerous as his activi- ties have been ' igorous. He is a contributor to the American Journal of Sociology, American Journal of Theology, Journal of Political Economy, Dial, Proceedings of the National Prison Association, the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthrophy, and Charities Review (now Charities and Commons ), and various other papers. He wrote an article for Jahrbuecher fuer Nation- aloekonomie und Statistik, 1898, on Poor Relief in tlie I ' nited States. Among his books are Introduction to the Stud v of the 1 )cpcii(lL-nt, Defective and Delinquent Classes; The Social Spirit in America; Social Settle- ments ; Social Elements (now translated into Japanese) ; Modern Methods of Charity, and Modern Prison S ' stems, and Industrial Insurance (in German and English ), and the Poor Laws of Indiana (in P ' rench ), the Eco- nomic Problems of the Smaller Colleges of Illinois (dissertation in German). Since its founding he has been Chaplain of the University. He is now Professor of Sociology and head of the Department of Ecclesiastical Sociol- ogy. From 1892 to 1894 he was Recorder of the University in addition to his other duties. Since 1883 he has also been a trustee of Kalamazoo College. For professional uses. Dr. Henderson has studied Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French, Italian, Spanish and more recently Russian. But after all is said, the more intangible elements of Dr. Henderson ' s achievements have made the greatest impression upon succeeding Uni -ersity classes, ' hether on the stage in Mandel. or in the little otTice in Cobb, or somewhere about the campus. Chaplain Henderson ahva ' s radiates the same universal kindness. To the student in trouble or perplexity he has always rendered encouragement that really counted because it came from his heart Dr. Henderson is great as a sociologist and practical reformer, but he is greater as a man.