my text, and I would ask you to consider the doctrine contained in that statement to be a most dangerous one. I do not want to create an alarming impression of impending discord between the countries. There have been great questions in the past, and those questions have been dissolved. While at the present time perfect friendship exists between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race, no one can say what may be in store for the future; some petty, trivial thing may upset us all.

I remember, when I was a boy, reading a story about a Spanish cavalier who was one of the old adventurers of the fifteenth or sixteenth century. He had heard a legend that there was a fountain of perpetual youth existing somewhere in the southern seas. So Ponce de Leonfor that was his name-set sail in a little ship in search for the fountain of youth. And the story goes that he weathered storms and famine, and that island after island was visited and the waters were tasted by Ponce de Leon, but he didn't find himself getting any younger. As years went on he found himself getting old, and at last his companions saw that he was dying, and they brought him to an island where the legend says no bird had ever sung because there was no water on the island, and there they left him and sailed away.

I think that our quest here may be just as futile as the search for the fountain of perpetual youth if we imagine that the friendship between these two countries is going to be perpetual, unless we resort to that fountain of youth which exists in the race. It is to the youth of the race we must look to keep this friendship alive. How can you appeal to the youth of the race? Only by appealing to them year by year, to see the same sights you see and to feel the same feelings you feel. That is why we are here. It is a great idea and a noble one, and I confess that I sometimes feel almost overwhelmed by its solemnity. How can we do it? Well, we had a long and interesting discussion today, but I confess that I came away from that discussion with some anxiety lest we should become too academic and too divorced from human feelings and human sentiment.

Some of us believed that the plans we were advocating should be put into operation by memorial fellowships, to the memory of those who have been killed or have died in the discharge of their duty. Objections were made, and it was suggested that it was better to get money from the state. But I still believe that it would be better that this money should be raised by means of fellowships in memory of those who died to save the world. I would rather see this matter carried through

by memorial fellowships, given by men of substance or out of the mites of the poor. It is right and fitting, it seems to me, that in this way our plan should be put into effect, whereby the principle we are fighting for should be carried on through the perpetual streams of youth.

VICE-PRESIDENT ANGELL: If we have learned our politics from Ireland, we have learned a great deal of our philosophy and religion from Scotland, and I take great pleasure, therefore, in calling upon Sir Henry Jones, professor of philosophy of the University of Glasgow.

SIR HENRY JONES: I am very much like Miss Spurgeon in many ways, but in nothing more so than in the fact that I rise to speak with a great deal of trepidation. But in spite of that fact I have something to say to you which I think you will all be pleased to hear. I know that you will now like to hear what the ladies, of whom there are so many here this evening, so often like to give the last word: good-night. I claim that I have made the most popular speech of the evening.

VICE-PRESIDENT ANGELL: We are asked to bring the exercises of the evening to a close by singing one stanza each of the British and of the American national anthems. Before we do so I want to express our thanks to our guests for the pleasure they have given us, and to wish them Godspeed on their journey, with the hope that at some future day they may return again to this place.

And so the meeting concluded with the singing of the first stanzas of "God Save the King" and "The Star-Spangled Banner."

THE FRENCH EDUCATIONAL

MISSION

Under the patronage of the French government and with the encouragement of the government of the United States, a Mission made up of some of the leading scholars of France arrived in the United States in November. This Mission came in response to invitations from several American institutions of learning to have representative French scholars interpret to them the dominant elements of the culture of France as a means of binding France and America more closely together in intellectual sympathy.

The members of the Mission were as follows: Professor Theodore Reinach, Lieutenant Colonel in the French Army, editor of the Gazette des Beaux Arts, contributor of several important studies to the History of Greece, and a member of the "Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres"; Professor Emmanuel de Martonne, of the University of Paris, exchange professor at Columbia, 1916, one of the most widely known French geographers; Professor Fernand Baldensperger, of the University of Paris, more recently of Columbia University, who has already lectured at the University of Chicago on comparative literature; Professor Louis Cazamian, professor of English Literature in the University of Paris, the author of a notable volume on the social aspects of English fiction of the nineteenth century; Dr. Etienne Burnet, of the Pasteur Institute (Paris), surgeon in the French Army; Mr. Charles Koechlin, composer and musical critic; Mr. Seymour de Ricci, art critic and former editor of Art in Europe.

At the University of Chicago, Friday, November 29, the members of the Mission were entertained at luncheon at the President's house and in other homes. In the afternoon lectures were given as follows: "The France of Today and Tomorrow," Lieutenant Louis Cazamian. Harper Assembly Room, 4:30 P.M. "Experiences of a French Surgeon. on Different Fronts," Dr. Etienne Burnet. Ricketts Laboratory, 4:30 P.M. In the evening Lieutenant Colonel Reinach delivered an illustrated lecture on "Martyr Monuments of France" in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall. On Tuesday, December 3, at three o'clock, Mr. Charles Koechlin lectured on "Modern French Music." The program of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at four o'clock, in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, was made up of modern French compositions.

THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S QUARTERLY

STATEMENT

The work of the Autumn Quarter has been marked by the inauguration of the Student Army Training Corps and its subsequent demobilization. Applications to the number of nearly 2,000 for entrance to the Corps were received, but by reason of the delay in execution of the induction papers by the local boards, by reason of the general public belief that peace was near at hand, and finally by reason of the widespread epidemic of influenza, the actual number of men in the two sections of the Corps totaled approximately 1,300. A full report of the experiences of the quarter will be prepared in due time.

It is only just to comment here upon the unswerving loyalty with which every officer of the University attempted to carry out the program of the War Department in assisting in the training of men for the Army and Navy. It would be a pleasure to mention by name those to whose untiring fidelity we are particularly indebted for the establishment of the new conditions, but the list is too long. If the University had gained nothing else from the experience, it might still count as a great and permanent asset the evidence which has been given of the complete devotion of the members of its staff to the interests of the country and of the institution.

The total attendance of students for the quarter has been 3,192, against 3,368 for the Autumn Quarter of 1917, a loss of 176. Thanks to the S.A.T.C., the attendance in the Colleges shows an increase over last year of 120. The loss has been in the Graduate and Professional schools. It chances that we confer at the end of this quarter exactly the same number of degrees as at the Autumn Convocation a year ago, although the distribution among the several divisions of the University naturally varies a trifle.

A number of interesting gifts have been made to the University during the past quarter. Attention is directed to the following:

The Eugene Field collection, consisting of rare editions of his works, original letters, and manuscripts, presented by Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus. The gift is of special interest because of the high position already attained by the University Libraries in American literature due to the generosity of Mrs. Francis Neilson.

A manuscript volume of great interest for the early history of Kentucky, presented by Dr. William Allen Pusey, of Chicago, a valuable addition to the previous rich collection of manuscripts on Kentucky already in the possession of the University.

Very important additions have been made by Mrs. Emma B. Hodge to her previous gifts of books and original manuscripts of the Reformation period.

Mr. Andrew MacLeish, vice-president of the Board of Trustees, has presented to the University $100,000 for the erection of a building, with an expression of preference for an administration building. This is but one of a long list of benefactions for which the University is indebted to Mr. MacLeish, whose frequent generosity has marked its previous history, and whose untiring and devoted service on the Board of Trustees has been for years of inestimable value.

The last news from President Judson reported him as in good health and starting back on December 2 from Northern Persia by way of Constantinople and Paris. The date of his arrival here is still uncertain. Such messages as have come through indicate that the trip has been both interesting and successful.

Throughout the period of the war the University has strained every nerve to render the largest possible service to the common cause. More than a hundred members of its Faculty and hundreds upon hundreds of its students and alumni have entered the national service. All have regarded it as a matchless privilege to give each to the limit of his powers. Now that peace has been restored the University will welcome back her sons and daughters, and take up once again the more familiar round of her usual academic duties; but she is keenly alive to the fact that the old world which she formerly served has gone forever-that new problems and new obligations now confront her. To these she sets her hand, resolute as in the past to give the best she has of intelligence, insight, and devotion. And with this purpose in mind she will open her doors to the new year, which promises to usher in a new world.