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 364 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO from seventeen to twenty-one denominations represented A most gratifying development of recent years has been the increase of active mission- ary interest in the school, and also the increase in the number of missionaries on furlough who come to the Divinity School for three or four quarters' work. It was estimated that last spring [1914] there were in the University as a whole more than seventy persons who had been, or were to be, foreign missionaries. Attention is called to the fact that the administration of President Judson and Dean Mathews has been marked by the expansion of the Department of Homiletics into Practical Theology and Religious Education, the correlation of the departments of History and Church History, the development of the vocational curriculum and the exten- sion of the policy of affiliation to seminaries in the case of the Chicago Theo- logical Seminary. The members of the Divinity Conference edited three journals, the Biblical World, the American Journal of Theology, and the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and there were among them such producers of books as President Harper and his brother R. F. Harper, and Professors Burton, Mathews, Foster, Gerald B. and J. M. P. Smith, Anderson, Henderson, McLaughlin, Scares, Gunsaulus, Case, Hoben, Breasted, Dodd, Price, Willett, and George S. and Edgar J. Goodspeed. Rarely has any faculty possessed so large a proportion of editorial and journalistic writers and producers of books. The Divinity School was from the first a vital, growing, pro- gressive part of the University. Its professors assisted materially in welding into unity the faculties of all the schools and departments, entering heartily, with all the faculties, into that larger life which made the four hundred and more instructors of the University a singularly unified body with a common life and common interests. In the same way the Divinity students, with the students of other departments, entered into the common life of the University and were never a segregated body. Although a part of the University, the Divinity School remained under the control of its own Board of Trustees which met regularly four times a year to transact its business. The Secretary, the Counsel and Business Manager, and the Auditor of the University Board held the same offices in the Divinity Board. The two Boards always worked together in absolute harmony. The Uni-