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Excerpt from The University of Chicago Magazine, Vol. 1: Published by the University of Chicago Alumni Association; April, 1909
This approach to my theme is, as I warned you it would be, a chapter of sentimental autobiography. Mr. Chesterton has recently written an ingenious book to explain how assaults upon Christianity have made him a Christian, and Professor Royce has written an eloquent book in praise of the mere emotion of loyalty. Thought less disparagement of Chicago has. Helped to make me a Chicagoan, and I have been merely glancing at some of the moods through which I have won my way to the experience of loyalty without which, Mr. Chesterton affirms, no one can understand or rightly criticize either a creed or an institution.
Suppose it conceded that a man may entertain such sentiments for Chicago, and that our University is not the latest type of a degree-manufactory but an organism infused with a soul and a spirit, can I define that spirit? No. But I can try, and haply provoke others to do better. The Roman poet of materialism, when asked if the new. Psychology could explain the soul, said that nothing could be simpler. It was merely a mixture of two or three peculiar kinds of vapor plus an unnamable something. Similarly it might be said that our soul is a blend of the university spirit, the western and Chicago spirits, plus a nameless something of our own.
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