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.
McCulloch sends Addams a copy of a letter she and Julia Lathrop are sending to raise funds to endow a chair at Rockford College in Addams's name. She also reports on money raised thus far.