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SOME IMPORTANT DEPARTMENTS 363 as reported in 1911-12 have been still further developed, so that it is now possible to provide special preparation for those intending to enter the fields of foreign missions and social service. The Divinity School until 1912 maintained as a part of its work the Swedish and the Dano-Norwegian Theological Seminaries. At this date the Swedish Seminary removed to Minnesota and the Danish work was transferred to Iowa. Although this change took away a considerable number of students the enrolment for 1914-15, including the Summer Quarter, was four hundred and ten. The faculty consisted of eighteen professors and instructors, while eleven other professors and instructors of the University whose work was closely associated with that of the Faculty of the Divinity School were members of the Divinity Conference. The following statement on the School's affiliation policy is quoted from a histori- cal sketch published in the University of Chicago Magazine, March, The hospitable attitude of the Divinity School to all denominations led to the establishment in 1894 of the Disciples' Divinity House under the headship of Dr. Herbert L. Willett, who has been Dean since that date. In 1911 the theological work formerly done at Lombard College was organized at the University as the Ryder (Universalist) House, with Dr. Lewis B. Fisher, formerly president of Lombard College as its Dean. The only remaining part of its Scandinavian work still maintained by the Divinity School has lately been reorganized as the Norwegian Baptist Divinity House under the Deanship of Professor Henrik Gundersen. The most noteworthy of these affiliations was that which in 1915 brought to the quadrangles of the University the Chicago Theological Seminary, the western divinity school of the Congre- gationalists. The Seminary and the Divinity School retain each its independence and exercise a full reciprocity in the treatment of each other's courses and instruc- tors. The University offers the hospitality of its classrooms to the Seminary and the valuable library of the Seminary will .... find quarters in the University buildings. The same sketch says further: That all denominations find the atmosphere of the Divinity School con- genial and stimulating is constantly evidenced by the wide range of denomina- tions represented in the student personnel of the school. Every quarter finds