Addams offers praise of John Dewey' and his work for social welfare, criminal justice reform, education, and peace. The speech was given on October 19, as part of a seventieth birthday celebration in New York and published in the Survey.
Opdyke asks Addams to find someone in the psychology department at the University of Chicago to counter an article written by Professor Hugo Münsterberg that claimed women were not fit for jury duty because they are stubborn and will not listen to arguments.