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providence, was cut off in the midst of his days and in the fullness of his power, William McKinley."

Dean Harry Prat Judson delivered the address on behalf of the University, his subject being "Leadership in a Democracy." At the close of his address, Dean Judson formally presented the President for the degree of LL. D.

Dr. Harper, addressing the President, said: "Theodore Roosevelt, scholar, soldier, statesman, chief magistrate of the Republic: For effective service in the advancement of the higher life of the Nation; for intelligence, integrity and courage in the administration of public affairs; for tireless devotion to the public honor in the settlement of grave questions of social order and the conservation of the vital interests of sister republics; and especially for the dignity, fidelity and unselfish devotion to the public good with which exalted duties, assumed at the summons of an appalling calamity, have been successfully discharged, the Trustees of the University of

Chicago, on the recommendation of the University Senate, admit you to the degree of Doctor of Laws in this University."

The doctorial hood was hung about the President's shoulders by Recorder Parker and Dr. Harper handed him the diploma, engrossed on parchment and bound in gold-tooled red mo

rocco.

At the close of this ceremony the President assisted in laying the cornerstone of the University Law Building in the presence of 10,000 persons.

In a short address, he said:

"It is of vast importance to us as a nation, that there should be a foundation deep and broad of material well-being. No nation can amount to anything great unless the individuals composing it have so worked with the head or with the hands for their own benefit, as well as for the benefit of their fellows, in material ways, that the sum of the national prosperity is great. But that alone does not make true greatness or any

thing approaching true greatness. It is only the foundation for it, and it is the existence of institutions such as this that stand as one of the really great assets of which a nation can speak when it claims true greatness.

"You need honesty, you need courage, you need common sense. You, the graduates of this university, you, the undergraduates, upon you rests a heavy burden of responsibility. Much has been given to you; much will be expected from you. If you fail in it you discredit yourselves; you discredit the whole cause of education. And you can succeed and will succeed if you work in the spirit of the words and the deeds of Dr. Harper and of those men, whom I have known so well, who are in your faculity today."

At 7 o'clock in the evening the President was entertained at dinner at the Auditorium Hotel by one hundred and ten representative Chicagoans. There was but one toast drunk and but one speech made. Mr. Frank O. Lowden, the presiding officer, said:

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"Intellectual supremacy is good, physical prowess desirable, but, better than all, and without which none can succeed, is an upright

character."-Evanston, Illinois.

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THE BANQUET IN CHICAGO

The most notable men of a great City are gathered at this feast.

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