LECTURES Lectures at the University of Chicago are of three classes: 1. Lectures arranged by one particular department, instructor, or club, for the members of that department, or of some one class or club, to which other members of the University may or may not be admitted. The departmental lectures are in the nature of more or less informal class talks for which the department or instructor concerned assumes responsibility. 2. Lectures arranged for the Summer Quarter known as "University Public Lectures." 3. All other open lectures known as "Public Lectures" are arranged for through the President's office and with the sanction of the President of the University, by the Director of Public Lectures, Nathaniel Butler. The Haskell Lectureship of Comparative Religion was established by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell on May 5, 1894. It provides for at least six lectures to be delivered annually at the University. In accordance with the expressed wish of the donor, these lectures are intended to set forth the relations of Christianity to the other faiths of the world. The Haskell Lectures are administered by the following committee: The President of the University, chairman; Professors E. S. Ames, E. J. Goodspeed, A. E. Haydon, G. B. Smith, J. M. P. Smith, J. H. Tufts. The Haskell lecturers have been: John Henry Barrows; Charles Cuthbert Hall; George Foote Moore, of Harvard Divinity School; Duncan B. Macdonald, of Hartford Theological Seminary; J. M. DeGroot, of the University of Berlin; Morris Jastrow, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania; Franz Cumont, of Brussels; A. V. Williams Jackson, of Columbia University; Maurice Bloomfield, of Johns Hopkins University; Carl Bezold, of Heidelberg University; Dr. Christian Snouck Hurgronje, of the University of Leiden; Massaharu Anesaki, of the Imperial University of Tokyo; Frederick Jones Bliss, Beirut, Syria; Kenneth Saunders, Bombay, India. The Barrows Lectureship was founded by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell on October 24, 1894. It bears the name of the late John Henry Barrows, D.D., an honored minister of Chicago whose "catholicity of spirit and prolonged, laborious devotion gave to the Parliament of Religions [held during the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893] in so large a measure its remarkable success." The lectures upon this foundation are given, usually biennially, by leading Christian scholars of Europe, Asia, and America, and are intended to present the great truths of Christianity, and its harmonies with the truths of other religions, to the scholarly and thoughtful people of India. The names of those who up to the present time have delivered these lectures are as follows: John Henry Barrows, President of Oberlin College, 1896, "Christianity—the World Religion"; Principal A. M. Fairbairn, Mansfield College, Oxford, 1899-1900; Charles Cuthbert Hall, President, Union Theological Seminary, 1902-3, "Christian Belief Interpreted by Christian Experience," 1906-7, "The Witness of the Oriental Consciousness to Jesus Christ"; Charles Richmond Henderson, University of Chicago, 1912-13, "Social Programs in the West"; Charles Whitney Gilkey, 1924-25, "The Personality of Jesus." The Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation was established by the heirs of Norman Wait Harris and Emma Gale Harris on January 27, 1923, for "the promotion of a better understanding on the part of American citizens of the other peoples of the world, thus establishing a basis for improved international relations and a more enlightened world order." The present plan for carrying out this purpose is the establishment during the summer quarter of an annual institute consisting of public lectures, round table conferences, and university courses relating to a common field of international relations of current importance. The first institute dealt with the problems of European reconstruction and extended from June 24 to July 18, 1924. Sir Valentine Chirol of England, Professor Herbert Kraus of the University of Königsberg, Germany, and Professor Charles de Visscher of the University of Ghent, Belgium, were the foreign lecturers. The second institute dealt with problems of the Far East, and extended from June 30 to July 18, 1925. Count Michimasa Soyeshima, of the House of Peers of Japan; President P. W. Kuo, of Southeastern University, Nanking, China; Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead, C.B.E., Peking, China; Mr. Julean Arnold, U.S. Commercial Attaché, Tientsin, China, and Mr. Henry K. Norton, of New York, were the lecturers. The income from the Emily Talbot Foundation, endowed by Dean Marion Talbot, will eventually be devoted, by means of lectures, publication, and research or similar means, to the advancement of the education of women. The Nathaniel Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund was created by Mr. Jesse L. Rosenberger, a student of the Old University of Chicago, and Susan E. (née Colver), his wife, a graduate of the Old University of Chicago, Class of 1882. It is a memorial to Mrs. Rosenberger's grandfather, Nathaniel Colver, D.D., a noted Baptist divine and abolitionist, who aided in founding what is now the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. The income from this fund, when available, is to be used to defray the expenses of lectures or lecture courses, to be given, preferably in connection with the Divinity School, by persons of eminent scholarship or other special qualifications, on religious, biblical, moral, sociological, or other vital subjects. The Colver-Rosenberger Lecture Fund was given by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Rosenberger, in part to honor the memory of the latter's father, Rev. Charles K. Colver, a man of rare character and scholarship. The income from this fund, when available, will provide lectures which are intended to add to the sum of practical human knowledge and to aid in the solution of the vital problems of human life. The lectures are to be kept, preferably, in the field of sciences relating to human society and welfare, the particular topics to be determined by the Board of Trustees. The Hiram W. Thomas Lectures, for the perpetuity of which funds were provided by Mrs. Vandelia Varnum Thomas, are to be given by representative men "of the larger faith." The lectures are intended to express the ever-growing thought of the world in religion and life. The lectureship is a memorial to Dr. Hiram W. Thomas, a minister distinguished in the history of Chicago. The William Vaughn Moody Lectures were established by an unnamed donor for five years beginning with 1917. A second gift in 1922 continued the foundation. The fund provided for lectures in various fields. The committee in general charge of these lectures consists of Professors Andrew C. McLaughlin, Nathaniel Butler, Edgar J. Goodspeed, Paul Shorey, and David H. Stevens. The following have delivered William Vaughn Moody Lectures: 1917, Alfred Noyes, Paul Elmer More, Stephen Leacock, Wilfred Wilson Gibson; 1918, William Lyon Phelps, John Masefield, Lord Charnwood; 1919, Robert Nichols, Vito Volterra, Ernst Dimnet, A. V. W. Jackson, John Galsworthy; 1920, Yone Noguchi, George E. Woodberry, William Roscoe Thayer, Margaret Deland, Hugh Walpole, William Butler Yeats; 1921, David George Hogarth, Louis Untermeyer, J. Holland Rose, Charles Mills Gayley, Edwin E. Slosson; 1922, Robert Frost, Bliss Carman, Irving Babbitt, Albert Mansbridge, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Amy Lowell; 1923, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Sven Hedin, Frederick James Eugène Woodbridge, James Henry Breasted, Hamilton Holt, Fridtjof Nansen, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, Terrot Reaveley Glover; 1924, Richard Le Galliene, Raymond Macdonald Alden, James Rowland Angell, Walter de la Mare; 1925, Carl Van Doren, Ernest Dimnet, Raymond M. Hughes, Dallas Lore Sharp, Alfred, Noyes, Willa Cather; 1926, Ernest H. C. Oliphant, Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, Charles Cestre. |