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SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS 411 seemed to be troubling him was the question whether there was anything more he could do for certain members of the University whom he named. So, seeking to the last to do some service to others, "passed the great heroic soul away." It was the end of an era in the University's life. This book would have a chapter on President Harper's administration were not so much of what has been written simply a history of that administration. Among the multitudes of tributes to him none more completely summarized his University work than that one written by Lyman Abbott and printed in The Outlook ten days after President Harper's death: An executive to whose sagacious energy the University of Chicago is a splendid monument, an administrator from whose instinctive observation and unfailing memory no detail escaped perception and recording, we believe that his greatest and most permanent influence is due to an idealism .... that enabled him to create a new type of University. The distinguishing char- acteristic of the German university is scholarship President Harper in the University of Chicago has given the world a new type, because a type animated by a different spirit and proposing to itself a different aim. If we may define the spirit of the English university by the word "culture" and that of the German university by the word "scholarship," we may define that of the new type that President Harper has given to the world by the word "ser- vice." .... The difference which we here note is relative, not absolute, a difference not of essence but of emphasis. The older college of the English type produces gentlemen. The newer college of the German type produces scholars; and doubtless the University of Chicago has produced both scholars and gentlemen. But the unconscious emphasis of the first has been on quiet culture, of the second on zestful investigation, of the third on preparation for an active American life. The scholarship which the first has regarded as a means and measure of self -development, and the second as an end in itself, the third has regarded as an equipment for service. At the time of President Harper's death Dr. Judson was per- forming the President's duties. Dr. Judson had been the one man to be summoned to the President's assistance in the summer of 1892 to assist in the general work of organizing the University. He had exhibited such practical wisdom, such organizing skill, and such genius for administration that as Dean of the Faculties he had from the beginning been the second officer in the University. When the President was absent Dean Judson performed his duties. If a proposed policy was questioned he was called in, as in the case