Addams gives a memorial address on Merritt Pinckney's work on the juvenile court at his funeral on June 9 at St. Paul's Universalist Church. It was published in Unity a month later.
Addams tells Lockhart that though she agreed to join the Bryan Memorial Committee, she does not wish to support efforts to establish a Bryan University in Dayton, Tennessee.
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.