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 418 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO of the Department of Sociology. The Convocation orator, Professor William Gardner Hale, Head of the Department of Latin, was the first head of a depart- ment to be appointed in the organization of the new University. The Con- vocation Ode we owe to Professor Edwin Herbert Lewis of Lewis Institute, one of the early Doctors of Philosophy of the University. Looking back fifty years, he said: It is now half a century since the beginning was made in Chicago of an institution for higher education It was a good college, and for three decades it did under many difficulties a thorough work in training students. In his retrospect of fifteen years, he gave these statistics: Of the twenty-one original Trustees seven are still on the Board, namely, Messrs. Eli B. Felsenthal, Edward Goodman, Charles L. Hutchinson, Andrew MacLeish, Henry A. Rust, Martin A. Ryerson, and Frederick A. Smith. Of the one hundred and twenty members of the faculty of the University proper in 1892-93 sixty-three are still on the faculty roll of 1905-6. Ten of the faculty have died. In the present faculty of the University proper, consisting of two hundred ninety-five members in lieu of the one hundred twenty, besides the sixty-three who were here the first year, eighteen were students in the year 1892-93 More than three-fourths of the present faculty have come since the fall of 1892. Reviewing the organization and history of the University President Judson spoke at length on "Original Ideas Which Have Lived," closing his statement with these words: The organization, modified in some details, is essentially that originally projected. Of President Harper he said: The President whose large ideas gave shape to the institution, whose energy, buoyant hopefulness, and ready grasp of business made it possible to strike out on new lines and to create that which did not exist, has gone from us. He remains with all a precious memory. He lives and will live throughout the history of the University in the great work which he accomplished and in the virile ideas which he embodied in the University and which will live through the ages. His loss is to us beyond measure. We can only, all of us, take up the work which he initiated and carry it on in the same spirit of fidelity to duty and of hope for what is to come. This was the last of the celebrations of the first quarter-century prior to that one which marked the twenty-fifth anniversary in June, 1916, in connection with which this history is published.