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Haskell fouinlatiini. a man wIkj whik- delivering his important tures at the I ' niversity in December endeared himself more th L ' niversity community, and whose death therefore has been by ovir institution as l)y the Iniim Thenld ical Seminar}-, i presided, (ieneral illiam r.(»ith if the Salvation . rniy while lean tour inspired an audience in Mandel with in- , creased respect for the courage and self-sacrific manifested by the members of his great body in thei effort to uplift the most despondent members o society. In addition to these lectures many on science might be listed. So numerous, however, are they that it is impossible to say more than that the Uni -ersity of Chicago was during the Christmas hol- idays the meeting-place of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The unusual suc- cess of this meeting as regards number in attendance as well as the quality of the discussions culminated in a distinctively University of Chicago triumph — the great dinner to Prof. Michelson on his return with the Nobel prize. At this dinner in the Auditor- ium all the prominent scientists of America were present. So close was their relationship tn tin- University during the days of the meetings that this convocation of scientists may be considered one of most interesting and important features of our extra- University interests during the past year. David Allan Rober-x-son. series of lec- an ever to the felt as ket nly -er wl ich he on his Amer-
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Slir ntitrrsily ' s HtHttora sity (it Lliicaso .1- us or to look, iiig here to set us with their ise who have come as visitors — President EHot of Harvard, President Whi-eler of CaHfornia, Professor Gros- venor of Amherst, the head of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa — those who ha -e come as speakers on educational topics — President G. Stanley Hall, Superintendent Chancellor of Washington — and those men of letters and the stage who have spoken for various clubs in the Uni- versity — Hamlin Garland, Donald Robertson, and a host of others — there have been five principal ,L;rou])s of contributors to extra interest in our Uni- versitv life. The formation of the (iermanistic Society of Chica,iL; ' o, of which I ' resident Jud on is chairman, has made it possible to brin- ' to our city Ger- man scholars .f ])romineiu ' e. active in the I ' atherlaiid or in their adojited country. Some of these have come to the L ' ni ersity ; notalily Professor I uno Francke and Professor Hugo Miinsterberg. The relationship of the L ' niversit}- to the Alliance Frant aise has fostered a friendship, too, with M of France: hence this year we ha ' e had isits fron Madelin of the Alliance Fran(;aise. M. Henry Brue, editor of Le Temps, and, most conspicuou our French guests, the Abbe Klein, who conducted during the summer quarter an unusually interesting religious service in Mandel Id all. The work of the Historical group of departments has been illustrated by lectures formal and informal by Professor Burr of Cornell and Professors Daggett and Goebel of Har- vard, McPherson of Johns Hopkins, Judge Clelland of the Municipal Court of Chicago, R. R. McCormick, president of the Sanitary District of Chicago, ami William Jennings Bryan. In the religious field the t • most notable -isitors have been the Reverend Charles Cuthbert Hall, who twice represented the Univer- sity of Chicago in the F ar F ast as lecturer on the
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