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Past Convocation Speakers

June 3, 2023
Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law in the Law School and Professor of Political Science.
"Conversation and Democracy"

June 4, 2022
Wendy Freedman, John and Marion Sullivan University Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College.
"Our Evolving Universe"

June 9, 2021
Deborah Nelson, Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College.
"A World in Common"

2010-2019

June 15, 2019	Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "What You Can Do to Change Capitalism"
June 9, 2018	Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Service Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "Mind The Gaps"
June 10, 2017	Ka Yee C. Lee, Professor, Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the College. "A Lifetime of Learning"
December 9, 2016	Amanda Woodward, William S. Gray Professor of Psychology and Deputy Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Division of Social Sciences. "Learning to Speak"
August 26, 2016	Juan de Pablo, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Theory and Simulations in the Institute For Molecular Engineering and The College; Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute. "Fate, Preparation, and Opportunity”
June 11, 2016	David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Departments of History and Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College; Dean of the Division of Social Sciences. "A Time of Mind"
March 18, 2016	John Carlstrom, the Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor, Professor in the Departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College. "Our Expanding View Of The Universe"
December 11, 2015	Judith B. Farquhar, the Max Palevsky Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology and the College. "Slowing Down Reason"
August 28, 2015	Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College. "The World As Stage"
June 13, 2015	Shulamit Ran, Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Music; Artistic Director, Contempo. "Why We Make Art"
March 20, 2015	Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor, Department of History and the College; Chair, Department of History. "Striving for Incompleteness"
December 12, 2014	David Archer, Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College. "The Great Carbon Conspiracy"
August 29, 2014	David Meltzer, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Economics, and the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Chair, Committee on Clinical and Translational Science; Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine; Director, Center for Health and the Social Sciences. "Mean and Variance"
June 14, 2014	Kerwin Charles, Deputy Dean, Edwin and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at Chicago Harris. "Type and Context"
March 21, 2014	Adam Green, Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Deputy Dean, Division of Social Sciences; Associate Dean in the College; Associate Professor, Department of History and the College, “Happiness Gained Through Struggle”
December 13, 2013	David E. Wellbery, Leroy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Departments of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, and the College; Chairman, Department of Germanic Studies; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, "Faust's Despair and the Life of Learning"
August 30, 2013	Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor, School of Social Service Administration, Law School, and the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab, Codirector, University of Chicago Urban Education Lab, "Thinking About Thinking"
June 15, 2013	Abbie J. Smith, Boris and Irene Stern Distinguished Service Professor, University of chicago Booth School of Business, "Corporate Governance: Is it Personal?"
March 22, 2013	Richard Rosengarten, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature in the Divinity School, "In Retrospect"
December 14, 2012	Sidney R. Nagel, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck Institute, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, "The Power of Observation"
August 24, 2012	Marsha Rosner, Chair, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, Charles B. Huggins Professor, "Who Owns You?"
June 9, 2012	Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis Sebring Professor of Sociology, "The Life of the Mind and Social Action"
March 16, 2012	Charles M. Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor of Social Service Administration, "Democracy Remix" (Given by Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost)
December 9, 2011	Dwight N. Hopkins, Professor of Theology, Divinity School and the College, Director of MA Studies in the Divinity School, "Values for Living"
August 26, 2011	Martha Feldman, Chair, Department of Music and Mabel Greene Myers Professor, Department of Music and the College, "Strangeness as Substance"
June 11, 2011	David A. Strauss, The Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, "Coming of Age, in Law and in Life."
March 18, 2011	T. Conrad Gilliam, Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Biological Sciences Division, "Genomics: Can De-Coding the Past Predict the Future?"
December 10, 2010	Ann L. McGill, Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing, and Behavorial Science, "Without Saying a Word: The Powers of Mimicry, Contagion, and Synchrony"
August 27, 2010	Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, "Be Careful What You Rub Out"
June 12, 2010	Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, “Historical Contingency and Ultimate Aims"
March 19, 2010	Neil Shubin, Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, "Learning to See"

2000-2009

December 11, 2009	Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, "The Uses of 'Ex-Centricity': Cool Reflections from Hot Places"
October 9, 2009	Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, "On Laying Siege to Problems"
August 28, 2009	Shadi Bartsch, Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics, "Being Yourself, and Other Strange Ideas"
June 14, 2009	Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, "Politics, Finance, and the Crisis"
June 13, 2009	Olufunmilayo (Funmi) Olopade, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Global Health, "Democratizing Education to Eradicate Poverty and Improve Global Health"
March 20, 2009	John Mark Hansen, Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor Department of Political Science and the College, Dean of the Social Sciences Division, "The Educated Citizen"
December 12, 2008	Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, "Crisis and Change"
August 29, 2008	Bruce D. Meyer, McCormick Tribune Professor, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, "Public Policy and the University"
June 15, 2008	Steven Neil Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Graduate School of Business, "A Pep Talk: What Can You Learn from Successful CEOS?"
June 14, 2008	Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor, Divinity School, "Thinking More Critically About Thinking Too Critically: Reading Past the Classics"
March 21, 2008	Yali Amit, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, the Committee in Computational Neuroscience, and the College, "Keeping Our Moral Compass"
December 7, 2007	James L. Madara, M.D., Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Pathology; Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine; Chief Executive Officer, University of Chicago Medical Center; University Vice-President for Medical Affairs, "The Unpredictable and Unassailable"
August 24, 2007	José Quintáns, William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of Pathology, and the College; Associate Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, and of the College; Master, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program, "Make it Easy, It Is Going to Be Hot"
June 10, 2007	James E. Schrager, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management, Graduate School of Business, "Searching for Strategy"
June 8, 2007	Danielle Allen, Dean of the Division of the Humanities, and Professor, Departments of Classics, and Political Science, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, "What’s in a Name?"
March 16, 2007	Gil J. Stein, Professor, the Oriental Institute, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College; Director, the Oriental Institute, "Searching for Truths or Finding Truth: Some Thoughts from Archaeology"
December 8, 2006	Thomas C. Holt, James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History and the College, "1965-2006: Your Commencement and Mine"
October 27, 2006	Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University, "The Inaugural Address"
August 25, 2006	Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, "Why People Hate Economists (And Why We Don’t Care)"
June 11, 2006	Kevin M. Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, "Seeing the World through the Economic Lens"
June 9, 2006	James K. Chandler, Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Committees on the History of Culture and on Cinema and Media Studies, and the College; Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities, "Education in the Interrogative Mode"
March 17, 2006	Susan E. Mayer, Professor and Dean, the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, "World Opportunities"
December 9, 2005	Susan Gal, Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, and the College, "Some Truths about Lies"
August 26, 2005	Dr. Jonathan Moss, Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care; Professor, the College; and Chairman, the Institutional Review Board in the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, "Could Morton Do It Today?"
June 12, 2005	Harry L. Davis, Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management, Graduate School of Business, "Being Silly, Seriously"
June 11, 2005	Cathy Cohen, Professor, Department of Political Science and the College; Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, "Race, Politics, and the Costs of Compromise"
March 18, 2005	Richard A. Shweder, William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Human Development, Department of Psychology, and the College; Faculty Associate (Professor), Department of Anthropology; Member, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, "The Fun Index"
December 10, 2004	Christopher A. Faraone, Professor, Departments of Classical Languages and Literatures, and New Testament and Early Christian Literature, the Committees on the Ancient Mediterranean World and on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College, "The Things You Carry With You"
August 27, 2004	Angela V. Olinto, Chair, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics, "Nature’s Puzzling Answers"
June 13, 2004	Gary S. Becker, University Professor, Departments of Economics and Sociology, and the Graduate School of Business, "Business Schools Within Universities: The Right Mix"
June 12, 2004	John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Political Science and the College, "The United States and the World in the 21st Century"
March 19, 2004	Thomas A. Witten, Professor, Department of Physics, the James Franck Institute, and the College, "There’s Treasure Everywhere"
December 12, 2003	Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, "Politics, Finance, and the Crisis"
August 29, 2003	Lars Peter Hansen, Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, and the College, "Value in an Uncertain Economy"
June 15, 2003	Richard H. Thaler, Robert P. Gwinn Professor, Graduate School of Business, "Finding Your Cello"
June 15, 2003	Andrew Alpher, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Trustee, The University of Chicago, "Remarks"
June 14, 2003	Halina Brukner, Vice-Chairman and Professor, Department of Medicine, "Wearing White: Reflections in a Changing Environment"
June 14, 2003	Mark Siegler, Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Medicine, Committees on Clinical Pharmacology and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, "Medical Progress and the Doctor Patient Relationship"
March 21, 2003	Daphne Preuss, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, the Committee on Genetics, the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the College, "Intellectual Breadth and Responsible Leadership"
December 13, 2002	Bill Brown, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College, "Art as Education"
August 30, 2002	John T. Cacioppo, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology, and the College, "The Risks and Rewards of Irrational Thinking"
June 9, 2002	Ann L. McGill, Deputy Dean and Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing, and Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Business, "Possibility and Responsibility"
June 8, 2002	George Chauncey, Professor, Department of History and the College, "Sexuality, Intimacy, and History"
March 15, 2002	John A. Lucy, Interim Dean, Division of the Social Sciences, Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, Associate Dean of the College and Professor, Committee on Human Development, Department of Psychology, and the College, "Understanding Perspectives"
December 7, 2001	Jeanne C. Marsh, Professor, School of Social Service Administration, "Altruism Examined"
August 24, 2001	Robert A. Fefferman, Louis Block Professor, Department of Mathematics,"A University of Chicago Education and the Pursuit of Truth and Beauty in Mathematics"
June 10, 2001	Harry Davis, Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management, Graduate School of Business, "The Professional and the Amateur"
June 9, 2001	Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor, Law School, Divinity School, Department of Philosophy, and the College, "Political Animals: Luck, Need and Dignity"
March 16, 2001	Susan M. Kidwell, Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences, the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College, "Finding Good Ground"
December 8, 2000	Homi K. Bhabha, Chester D. Tripp Distinguished Service Professor in the Division of the Humanities and the Department of English Language and Literature, Art History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, "Only Connect: Scholarship, Fellowship and Survival"
November 2, 2000	Don Michael Randel, President of the University, "The Inaugural Address"
August 25, 2000	Anne Walters Robinson, Claire Dux Swift Professor, Department of Music, and Professor in the College, "Yes, No, Perhaps: Teachings from the Dialectic of the Middle Ages"
June 13, 2000	Austan Goolsbee, Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, "What’s so New About the New Economy?"
June 10, 2000	Hanna Holborn Gray, Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History and the College, President Emerita of the University, "Getting the Third Degree"
March 17, 2000	Philip Gossett, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Music and the College "The Humanities Inside and Outside the Academy"

1990-1999

December 10, 1999	W. Clark Gilpin, Dean and Professor, the Divinity School, Professor in the College, Acting Director of the Martin E. Marty Center, "Experiments in Solitude"
August 27, 1999	Susan L. Lindquist, Albert D. Lasker Professor of Medical Sciences in the Department of Molecular Genetics and cell Biology, the Committees on Developmental Biology and Genetics, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the College, "Unity and Diversity: Lessons From a New Biology"
June 13, 1999	James E. Schrager, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Graduate School of Business, "Why is The University of Chicago Great?"
June 12, 1999	Elaine Fuchs, Amgen Professor, Departments of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Committees on Genetics, Developmental Biology, and Cancer Biology, the Cancer Research Center, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "Shapes of an Education at The University of Chicago"
March 19, 1999	Michael S. Turner, Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College; Chairman, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, "The Universe is Speeding Up"
December 18, 1998	Daniel Garber, Lawrence Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, and the College, "Teaching What Cannot be Taught"
August 29, 1998	Robert B. Pippin, Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy and the College and Chair of the Committee on Social Thought, "Teaching What Cannot be Taught"
June 14, 1998	Marvin Zonis, Professor of Business Administration in the Graduate School of Business and the College, "Taking Risks: Students and States"
June 13, 1998	Jonathan Lear, John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, and Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College, "Crossroads"
March 20, 1998	Kevin M. Murphy, George Pratt Shultz Professor, Graduate School of Business, "Education and Work"
December 12, 1997	Craig B. Thompson, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, the Committee on Immunology; Member, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director of the Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research, "Better Living Through Biology?"
August 29, 1997	Ralph Lerner, The Benjamin Franklin Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College, "An American Education?"
June 15, 1997	Merton H. Miller, the Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Finance in the Graduate School of Business, "The Chicago Financial Economics Tradition: Some Practical Lessons"
June 14, 1997	Melvin Shochet, the Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kirsten, Jr., Professor in the Division of the Physical Sciences, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, "Scientific Literacy and Liberal Education in a Technological Age"
March 21, 1997	Joel Snyder, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Professor in the Committees on Visual Arts and General Studies in the Humanities and in the College, "In Defense of Images"
December 13, 1996	Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor in the Divinity School and in the Committee on International Relations, "Our Dangerous World"
October 26, 1996	Gary S. Becker, A.M. '53, PH.D. '55, University Professor in the Departments of Economics and Sociology, "The Production of Human Capital at Universities"
August 23, 1996	Keith Moffat, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, "Only Connect: the Beast and the Monk"
June 9, 1996	Eric J. Gleacher, M.B.A. ‘67, Trustee, The University of Chicago, Chairman of Gleacher NatWest, "Taking the ‘Safe’ Route"
June 8, 1996	Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School, the Department of Political Science and the College, "The Dean Has No Rights"
March 15, 1996	Marta Tienda, Chairman and Ralph Lewis Professor, Department of Sociology, "Diversity and the Meritocracy"
December 15, 1995	Philippe Desan, Professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Master, Humanities Collegiate Division, Associate Dean, Division of the Humanities, "‘A Well-Made Rather Than Well-Filled Head’: A Humanist’s View on Education"
August 25, 1995	James J. Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, and the College, "Human Ability and the Return to Skills"
June 10, 1995	Kenneth S. Polonksy, Professor, Department of Medicine, and Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, "The Use and Misuse of Personal Information in a Technological Age"
March 17, 1995	Wadad Afif Kadi, Professor and Chairman, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, "The Dialogue Between Civilizations"
December 16, 1994	Kenneth W. Warren, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, "Some Notes on Exclusiveness"
August 26, 1994	Robin M. Hogarth, Deputy Dean and Wallace W. Booth Professor, Graduate School of Business, "Varieties of Uncertainty"
June 11, 1994	Colin Lucas, Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, Professor, Department of History, and the College, "Knowing the Past, Inventing the Future"
March 18, 1994	Elizabeth Helsinger, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, and the College, "Outside, Over There"
December 16, 1993	Anthony P. Mahowald, Louis Block Professor and Chairman, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, "Knowledge and Change"
October 20, 1993	Hugo Freund Sonnenschein, President of the University, "The Inaugural Address"
August 27, 1993	Andrew Abbott, Professor, Department of Sociology and the College; Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, "Professions and Professors"
June 12, 1993	Ralph Wallace Nicholas, William Rainey Harper Professor of Anthropology and the Social Sciences, "Academic Work"
March 19, 1993	James Watson Cronin, Professor, Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, "Some Thoughts of a Physics Professor"
December 18, 1992	Sheila Fitzpatrick, Professor, Department of History and the College, "Changes of State"
August 28, 1992	Merton Howard Miller, Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, "How Much Research is Enough?"
June 13, 1992	David Martin Bevington, Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature, and the College, "Only in Chicago"
March 20, 1992	Tetsuo Najita, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, "A University Where Twains Meet"
December 13, 1991	Arthur Harold Rubenstein, "Birthdays, Anniversaries, and a Centennial"
October 3, 1991	Barry Dean Karl, Norma and Edna Freehling Professor, Department of History and the College, "Let Knowledge Grow?"
August 30, 1991	Michael Mussa, William H. Abbott Professor, Graduate School of Business, "Practical Lessons of Economic Sciences"
June 15, 1991	Wayne Clayson Booth, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of English Language and Literature, Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods, and the College, "‘What’s Your Evidence?’ ‘Why Do You Ask?’"
March 22, 1991	Susan Lindquist, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Committees on Developmental Biology and on Genetics, and the College, "The Biological Revolution"
December 14, 1990	Norman Marshall Bradburn, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Business, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, and the College, and Director of the National Opinion Research Center, "Remembering"
August 24, 1990	Robin M. Hogarth, Wallace W. Booth Professor, Graduate School of Business, "Metaphors for Decisions"
June 9, 1990	Dennis J. Hutchinson, Associate Professor in the College and Lecturer in the Law School, "Two Cheers for Robert Maynard Hutchins"
March 16, 1990	James Paul Hunter, Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the College, "Minding Our Business, Minding America"

1980-1989

December 15, 1989	Stuart Malcolm Tave, William Rainey Harper Professor in the College and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, "Getting Real"
August 31, 1989	Dr. Albert Dorfman, Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, Committees on Genetics and Developmental Biology, and the College, "Rational Discourse"
August 25, 1989	Kenneth Ronald French, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"
June 10, 1989	Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Professor of Law, "On Going Our Separate Ways"
June 9, 1989	Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Professor of Law, "On Going Our Separate Ways"
March 17, 1989	Elizabeth Helsinger, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College, "Now and Then: Occasions for Speech"
December 9, 1988	Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr., John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics and the College, "What Economists Do"
August 26, 1988	Paul M. Hirsch, Professor, Graduate School of Business and Research Associate (Professor), Department of Sociology, "Fundamentals and Flexibility: Chicago’s Approach to Creativity"
June 11, 1988	James Michael Redfield, Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, "Maintenance"
June 10, 1988	Jonathan Lear, James Michael Redfield, Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, "The Price of Everything"
June 10, 1988	James Michael Redfield, Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, "Mentoring"
March 18, 1988	Dolores G. Norton, Professor, School of Social Service Administration, "Of Time and Achievement"
December 11, 1987	Anthony C. Yu, Professor, Divinity School, Departments of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations and English Language and Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and Chairman, Committee on Comparative Studies in Literature, "Babel Redux"
August 28, 1987	Charles Lipson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director, Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security, "Historical Memory and America’s Role in the World"
June 13, 1987	Ellen T. Harris, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Music, "Creativity in Academia"
March 20, 1987	Stephen Mack Stigler, Professor and Chairman, Department of Statistics, and Professor in the College, "The Science of Uncertainty"
December 12, 1986	Janet Davison Rowley, Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Medicine and of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, the College, Franklin McLean Memorial Research Institute, and the Committee on Genetics, "Can You- And Should You - Know Your Genes?"
August 28, 1986	Robert Seiji Hamada, Professor and Deputy Dean, Graduate School of Business, "Anyone Who Still Uses a Typewriter is Hopelessly Obsolete"
June 14, 1986	Leon Richard Kass, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts of Human Biology in the College and Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, "We Never Win Many Ballgames . . . ."
March 21, 1986	Janel Mueller, Professor and Chairman, Department of English Language and Literature, and Professor in the College and in the Committees on General Studies in the Humanities and Art and Design, "On Beginnings and Endings"
December 13, 1985	Sherwin Rosen, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Professor, Department of Economics and in the College, Associate Chairman, Department of Economics, and Research Associate, Economics Research Center, National Opinion Research Center, "Making a Living"
August 30, 1985	Robert T. Michael, Professor, Department of Education and in the College, and Director, National Opinion Research Center, "Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty"
June 15, 1985	J. David Greenstone, William M. Benton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Political Science and the College, Member, Committee on Public Policy Studies, and Research Associate, Cultural Pluralism Research Center, National Opinion Research Center, "The Education of Abraham Lincoln"
March 22, 1985	David Malcolm Raup, Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman, Department of Geophysical Sciences, and Professor, the College and the Committees on Evolutionary Biology and the Conceptual Foundations of Science, "Extinction and Global Habitability"
December 14, 1984	David Gale Johnson, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics and in the College, "The World’s Poor: Any Good News Lately?"
August 24, 1984	Harry Lendall Davis, Professor and Deputy Dean, Graduate School of Business, "The Living University"
June 9, 1984	Geoffrey Richard Stone, Professor, Law School, "Celebrating ‘Brown’"
March 16, 1984	Robert Haselkorn, Fanny L. Pritzker Professor, Departments of Biophysics and Theoretical Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry and in the College, and Chairman, Department of Biophysics and Theoretical Biology, "They Pay You For That"
December 9, 1983	Akira Iriye, Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of History and Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in the College, and Chairman, Department of History, "On the Eve of 1984"
August 26, 1983	Merton Howard Miller, Leon Carroll Marshall Distinguished Service Professor, Graduate School of Business, "American Management and Management Education: Too Nearsighted or Too Farsighted?"
June 11, 1983	David Tracy, Professor, Divinity School, "On Thinking with the Classics"
March 18, 1983	Janellen Huttenlocher, William S. Gray Professor, Departments of Education and Behavioral Sciences and in the College, "The Study of Mind"
December 17, 1982	Paul Wheatley, Irving B. Harris Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Department of Geography, and the College, and Chairman, Committee on Social Thought, "Asking About Asking: Reflections on the University Experience"
August 27, 1982	Sam Peltzman, Professor, Graduate School of Business and Editor, Journal of Political Economy, "The Higher Education as a Declining Industry"
June 12, 1982	Donald Nathan Levine, Professor, Department of Sociology and the College, Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and Associate Dean of the College, and Associate Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, "Ironies of a Convocation"
June 11, 1982	Donald Nathan Levine, Professor, Department of Sociology and the College, Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and Associate Dean of the College, and Associate Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, "Ironies of a Convocation"
March 19, 1982	Peter Florian Dembowski, Professor and Chairman, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Professor, the College, "The Important and the Essential"
December 16, 1981	Edward Shils, Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Sociology, "Remembering a University"
August 28, 1981	Barry Dean Karl, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor, Department of History and the College and Member, Committee on Public Policy Studies, "Disposable History: It’s the Little Things That Count"
June 13, 1981	David Martin Bevington, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, "What was William Shakespeare’s Convocation Like in 1586?"
March 20, 1981	David Norman Schramm, Professor and Chairman, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Professor, Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, "Synthesis and Diversity"
December 12, 1980	George Joseph Stigler, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics and Graduate School of Business, and Director, Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, "Inside and Out"
August 29, 1980	Robert Z. Aliber, Professor, Graduate School of Business, and Chairman, Committee on Public Policy Studies, "Passages on Politics"
June 14, 1980	John Hope Franklin, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History and the College, "Clio’s Vision"
March 21, 1980	Robert Rathburn Wilson, Peter B. Rizma Professor in the College and Professor, Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, "Scientific Literacy"

1970-1979

December 18, 1979	James Samuel Coleman, University Professor, Department of Sociology and Member, Committee on Public Policy Studies, "Policy, Research and Political Theory"
June 16, 1979	William Julius Wilson, Professor and Chairman, Department of Sociology, "Dilemmas of Social Progress"
March 23, 1979	Alan Gewirth, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Philosophy, "Universality and the University"
December 15, 1978	Norman Harry Nachtreib, Professor, Department of Chemistry, the James Franck Institute, and the College, "The Purposes of a University"
October 6, 1978	Hanna Dorothea Holborn Gray, President of the University, "The Inaugural Address"
September 1, 1978	Keith Michael Baker, Professor, Department of History, Morris Fishbein Center for the Study of Science and Medicine, Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, and the College; Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division; and Associate Dean of the College and of the Division of the Social Sciences, "Memory, Judgment, Choice"
June 10, 1978	Philip B. Kurland, William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, the College, and Professor, Law School, "Lament for Camelot"
March 17, 1978	Rory W. Childers, Professor, Department of Medicine, "The Affirming Flame"
December 9, 1977	Neil Harris, Professor, Department of History, "Boundaries"
November 14, 1977	Charles Brenton Huggins, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research, "The Cultivation of Excellence"
August 26, 1977	Helen Lorna Puttkammer Straus, Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and the College; Dean of Students in the College, Dean of College Admissions, Associate Dean of the College, "Explanations"
June 11, 1977	Jonathan Zittell Smith, William Benton Professor of Religion and Human Sciences in the College, Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, and Associate Dean of the College; Professor, Divinity School; and Professor, Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Associate Dean of the Division of the Humanities, "Birds, Beasts, and Stubborn Little Stones"
March 18, 1977	Philip Wesley Jackson, David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Education and Behavioral Sciences; Chairman, Department of Education; and Member, Committee on Public Policy Studies, "Ceremonious Words"
December 10, 1976	Edgar Gustavus Epps, Marshall Field IV Professor, Department of Education, "Research and Social Policy"
August 27, 1976	Edward Weil Rosenheim, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, "Town and Gown"
June 12, 1976	Charles Ernest Oxnard, Professor, Departments of Anatomy and Anthropology, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College, and Dean of the College, "The Curmudgeon Correspondence: Letters from an Old Don to a Young Professor"
March 19, 1976	James Moody Gustafson, University Professor, Divinity School, "Obligations to Future Generations"
December 12, 1975	Albert Victor Crewe, Professor, Departments of Physics and Biophysics and Theoretical Biology, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, and Dean, Division of the Physical Sciences, "Did You Get What You Came For?"
August 29, 1975	Karl Frederick Morrison, Professor and Chairman, Department of History and Professor, Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, "Where are the Prophets?"
June 14, 1975	Martin Emil Marty, Professor and Associate Dean, Divinity School, "Tradition, verb (rare)"
March 21, 1975	Charles William Wegener, Howard L. Willett Professor, Master of the New Collegiate Division, and Associate Dean of the College, "The Mercy of God and About Twelve Minutes"
November 8, 1974	Karl Joachim Weintraub, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor, Department of History and the College; Chairman, Committee on the History of Culture, and Dean, Division of the Humanities, "A Present of Past Things"
August 30, 1974	Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Professor, Department of Political Science, and Associate Dean, Division of the Social Sciences, and Professor, Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, and Associate Dean of the College, "Principles and Games: Conduct in the Conduct of Foreign Policy"
June 15, 1974	Wayne Clayson Booth, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, and Chairman, Committee of the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods, "Sieves and Sewers: The Open Mind and the University"
March 22, 1974	Nathan Alexander Scott, Jr., Shailer Mathews Professor, Divinity School, and Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, "The Cloud of Unknowing"
December 14, 1973	William Hardy McNeill, Robert A. Milliken Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History, "Rites of Passage"
October 26, 1973	Wayne Clayson Booth, George M. Pullman Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, and Chairman, Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods, "Knowing in Ceremony"
August 31, 1973	Arnold Warren Ravin, Professor, Departments of Biology and Microbiology, Committees on Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, and the Conceptual Foundations of Science, and the College, "The College and the University in a Pre-Figurative Age"
June 9, 1973	Roger Henry Hildebrand, Dean of the College and Professor, Department of Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute of Nuclear Studies, "1893"
March 16, 1973	Jacob Warren Getzels, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology, "Problem Finding"
December 15, 1972	Soia Mentschikoff, Professor, Law School, "Awareness"
June 10, 1972	Arthur Friedman, Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, "Publish or Perish"
March 17, 1972	Richard Peter McKeon, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, Department of Philosophy, and the College, "Where We Are and Where We Are Going"
December 17, 1971	Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa, Professor and Dean, Divinity School, "The World Has Many Centers"
September 3, 1971	George Robert Hughes, Professor and Director, Oriental Institute, and Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, "In Search of Wisdom"
June 12, 1971	Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, and Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, "The Place for Scholarship"
March 19, 1971	Abraham Adrian Albert, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Mathematics and the College and Dean, Division of the Physical Sciences, "Federal Support of the Physical Sciences in Universities"
December 22, 1970	Sidney Davidson, Arthur Young Professor and Dean, Graduate School of Business, "Where is the Evidence?"
September 4, 1970	Harold A Richman, Dean and Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration
June 13, 1970	The Honorable Ramsey Clark, Former Attorney General
June 12, 1970	Allison Davis, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Education, "The Age of Anger - and Fear"
March 20, 1970	Jerald Carl Brauer, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of the History of Christianity and Dean, Divinity School, "The Passing of Freedom?"

1960-1969

December 12, 1969	Robert Benjamin Uretz, Professor, Department of Biophysics, and Associate Dean, Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, "To Keep a University Great"
August 29, 1969	Don Richard Swanson, Professor and Dean, Graduate Library School, "Communication among Scholars"
June 14, 1969	Edward Hirsch Levi, President of the University
March 21, 1969	Phil Caldwell Neal, Professor and Dean, Law School
December 13, 1968	David Gale Johnson, Professor, Department of Economics and Dean, Division of the Social Sciences, "The Conquest of Hunger"
November 14, 1968	Edward Hirsch Levi, President of the University, "The Inaugural Address"
August 30, 1968	Robert McCormick Adams, Professor of Anthropology, Oriental Institute, "The Academic Community"
June 7, 1968	George Wells Beadle, President of the University
March 15, 1968	Stuart Malcolm Tave, Professor of English, Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division and Associate Dean of the Humanities, "The Relevant University"
December 15, 1967	Lee Alvin DuBridge, President, California Institute of Technology, "Fountainhead of Knowledge"
September 1, 1967	Harry G. Johnson, Professor, Department of Education, "The United States and the Developing World"
June 10, 1967	Robert Eugene Streeter, Professor of English and Dean of the Division of the Humanities, "The Temper of a University"
May 5, 1967	George Wells Beadle, President of the University
March 17, 1967	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President, Fund for the Republic and Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
December 16, 1966	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor, University of Chicago, 1951-1960; Vice-President, Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
September 2, 1966	Alton Aquilla Linford, Professor and Dean, School of Social Service Administration, "Toward Responsible Entry"
June 11, 1966	George Wells Beadle, President of the University
March 18, 1966	George Pratt Schultz, Professor of Industrial Relations and Dean, Graduate School of Business, "The University in Times of Change"
December 17, 1965	O. Meredith Wilson, President, University of Minnesota, "Two Voices but the Same Song"
September 3, 1965	Roald F. Campbell, William Claude Reavis Professor of Educational Administration, Chairman of the Department of Education, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education, "Public Decisions for Urban Education"
June 12, 1965	Edward Hirsch Levi, Provost of the University
March 19, 1965	Wayne Clayson Booth, Dean of the College and George M. Pullman Professor of English, "Mister Gradgrind 1965"
December 18, 1964	Francis S. Chase, Professor, Department of Education, "In Defence of Caprice"
September 4, 1964	Joseph Sittler, Professor of Theology, The Divinity School, "A Special Kind of Courage"
June 13, 1964	George Wells Beadle, President of the University, "What’s in the Mind"
March 20, 1964	Theodore Otto Yntema, Vice-President - Chairman, Finance Committee, Ford Motor Company, and Trustee of the University, "Education - Some Neglected Opportunities"
December 13, 1963	Alan Simpson, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of History and Dean of the College, "The Genius of the College"
August 30, 1963	Abraham Adrian Albert, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Mathematics, and Dean, Division of the Physical Sciences, "The Goal of Excellence in a University"
June 8, 1963	George Wells Beadle, President of the University, "On the Importance of Diversity"
March 15, 1963	Henry Stanley Bennett, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Committee on Biophysics, and Dean, Division of the Biological Sciences, "Knowledge and Values"
December 14, 1962	Sterling Moss McMurrin, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, "Education and American Culture"
August 31, 1962	Wilson Allen Wallis, Professor and Dean, Graduate School of Business, and Professor, Departments of Economics and of Statistics, "The Importance of Error"
June 9, 1962	George Wells Beadle, President of the University
April 27, 1962	Karl Barth, Professor Emeritus of Dogmatics, University of Basel, Switzerland, "The Spirit"
March 16, 1962	Chauncey Dennison Harris, Professor of Geography, "The New World of Learning After Graduation"
December 15, 1961	The Very Reverend Theodore Martin Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, "Change and the Changeless"
September 1, 1961	D. Jerome Fisher, Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, "Science and Human Beings"
June 10, 1961	George Wells Beadle, Chancellor of the University, "The Open Mind"
May 4, 1961	George Wells Beadle, Chancellor of the University, The Inaugural Address"
March 17, 1961	William T. Hutchinson, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of American History and Editor, "James Madison Papers," "To the Unknown"
December 16, 1960	Jerome G. Kerwin, Professor, Department of Political Science, "Centers of Mischief in Politics"
September 2, 1960	Arthur Frank Burns, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
June 11, 1960	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University
May 1, 1960	Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, Governor of New York, "Human Equality and the Law"
March 18, 1960	Ronald Crane, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of English Language and Literature, "The Chicago Tradition"

1950-1959

December 18, 1959	George Joseph Metcalf, Professor and Chairman of the Germanic Languages and Literatures, "Looking into the Past and Looking into the Future"
November 26, 1959	Sir Julian Huxley, Alexander H. White Visiting Professor of Anthropology, "The Evolutionary Vision"
August 28, 1959	Gertrude E. Smith, Edward Olson Professor of Greek and Chairman of the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, "Ancient Patterns of Education"
June 13, 1959	Glen Alfred Lloyd, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
March 20, 1959	Thorfin R. Hogness, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Chicago Midway Laboratory, "Science and Its Goals"
December 19, 1958	Joshua C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Art, "Knowledge in Search of a Mind"
August 29, 1958	Charles Carlyle Colby, Professor Emeritus of Geography, "Perspective in Contemporary America"
June 14, 1958	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University
March 21, 1958	Dr. J. Roscoe Miller, President, Northwestern University, "Who Will Push the Button?"
December 20, 1957	Dr. William Bloom, Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anatomy, "Education in the Satellite Era"
August 30, 1957	Robert Manning Strozier, Dean of Students and Professor of French (President-elect, Florida State University), "The Independent Spirit"
June 8, 1957	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University
March 15, 1957	Dr. Paul Chesley Hodges, Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Radiology"Your University and Mine"
December 14, 1956	Napier Wilt, Dean of the Division of the Humanities and Professor of English "Higher Degrees and Lower Standards"
August 31, 1956	Walter Bartky, Vice-President of the University in charge of Special Scientific Programs "Feedback"
June 8, 1956	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University
March 16, 1956	Quincy Wright, Professor of International Law, "The Human Spirit in the Atomic Age"
December 16, 1955	David Dowd Henry, President of the University of Illinois, "Old Issues - New Meanings"
November 11, 1955	Mr. Walter Lippmann, Author, Writer for the New York Herald Tribune, "The Changing Times"
September 2, 1955	Francis S. Chase, Professor and Chairman, Department of Education, The University of Chicago, "The Universities and the Reconstruction of American Education"
June 10, 1955	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University, "The Educated Man"
March 18, 1955	Earle Ludgin, Trustee of the University, "Grace under Pressure"
December 17, 1954	Willard Frank Libby, Commissioner, United States Atomic Energy Commission, "Scientific Education"
August 27, 1954	The Reverend H. Richard Niebuhr, Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale University, Divinity School, "Theology - not Queen but Servant"
June 11, 1954	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University
March 19, 1954	David Rockefeller, Trustee of the University, "A Time for Positive Decision"
December 18, 1953	Newton Edwards, Professor of Education, "Education for Decision-Making in a Democracy"
August 28, 1953	Maurice F. Seay, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Education, "From the Campus to the Community"
June 12, 1953	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University
May 8, 1953	Wesley A. Sturges, Dean of the Law School, Yale University, "Fifty Years of Legal Education"
March 20, 1953	Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen, Professor of Ancient History, "Scholarship for Pleasure"
December 19, 1952	Laurence M. Gould, President of Carleton College, "Some Divided Point in Time"
October 3, 1952	Franklin David Murphy, Chancellor, The University of Kansas, "Medicine’s Expanding Horizons"
August 29, 1952	William Fielding Ogburn, Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Sociology, "Some Changes and Problems in the Next Forty-five Years"
June 13, 1952	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University
March 14, 1952	The Reverend John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., President, The University of Notre Dame, "Graduating to the Good Life"
December 21, 1951	Carl H. Kraeling, Professor of Hellenistic Oriental Archeology and Director of the Oriental Institute, "The Assurance of Things Not Seen"
October 18, 1951	J. E. Wallace Sterling, President, Stanford University, "The Disciplines of Freedom"
October 18, 1951	James Bryant Conant, President, Harvard University, "The Independence of our Universities"
October 18, 1951	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Chancellor of the University, "The Inaugural Address"
August 31, 1951	Henry Townley Heald, President, Illinois Institute of Technology, "Doubts and Decisions"
June 20, 1951	Ernest Cadman Colwell, President of the University, "Is Adventure Still Possible?"
June 15, 1951	R. Wendell Harrison, Vice-President and Dean of the Faculties, "Retooling for the Jobs Ahead"
March 16, 1951	Detlev Wulf Bronk, President, The Johns Hopkins University, "The Scholar in an Age of Action"
December 22, 1950	Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, "The Measure of Our Strength"
September 1, 1950	Alonzo G. Grace, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Education, "From Potsdam to Bonn"
June 21, 1950	Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chancellor of the University
March 17, 1950	Andrew Conway Ivy, Vice-President of the University of Illinois in charge of Professional Colleges in Chicago, "Literacy for What"

1940-1949

December 16, 1949	Robert Manning Strozier, Dean of Students in the University of Chicago, "Where are the Humanities?"
September 2, 1949	The Reverend John Beaumont Thompson, Dean of the University Chapel and Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, "Values and Scientific Temper"
July 11, 1949	Albert Schweitzer, Medicial missionary and musician; Nobel Laureate; Doctor of Laws
June 22, 1949	Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chancellor of the University
March 18, 1949	Doctor Friedrich Wasserman, Professor of Anatomy, "Medical Education in the Old World and in the New"
December 17, 1948	Frederick Champion Ward, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College, "On Independent Thought"
September 2, 1948	Paul Gray Hoffman, Trustee of the University and Administrator of the Economic Co-operation Administration, United States Government, "Business Is More than Business"
June 23, 1948	Ernest Cadman Colwell, President of the University
March 19, 1948	Cyril Orvin Houle, Associate Professor of Education and Dean of University College, "Adult Education in the University"
December 19, 1947	William Hay Taliaferro, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor of Parasitology and Chairman of the Department of Bacteriology and Parasitology, "Science in the Universities"
August 29, 1947	Garfield V. Cox, Robert Law Professor of Finance and Dean of the School of Business, "Free Enterprise versus Authoritarian Planning"
June 13, 1947	Ernest Cadman Colwell, President of the University
March 21, 1947	Fay-Cooper Cole, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology, "Surveying Our Prejudices"
December 20, 1946	Stanley Pargellis, Librarian, The Newberry Library, Chicago "The Need for the Amateur"
August 30, 1946	Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, Vice-President of the University and Dean of the Faculties "Science and the Humanities"
June 14, 1946	Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chancellor of the University
March 22, 1946	Reuben Gilbert Gustavson, Vice-President of the University and Dean of the Faculties, "Three Possible Worlds"
December 21, 1945	Ernest Cadman Colwell, President of the University, "The Free University"
September 14, 1945	Joseph A Brandt, Director of the University of Chicago Press, "The Disciplined Scholar in an Undisciplined World"
June 15, 1945	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 23, 1945	Laird Bell, Esq., Trustee of the University
December 15, 1944	The Reverend Reinhold Niebuhr, Alexander H. White Visiting Professor, "The Microscopic and the Telescopic Views"
September 8, 1944	Aaron John Brumbaugh, Professor of Education and Dean of Students, "Education for Tomorrow"
June 16, 1944	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 24, 1944	Chester Whitney Wright, Professor of Economics, "The Growing Responsibilities of the Citizen"
December 17, 1943	Albert Eustace Haydon, Professor of Comparative Religion, "Toward a New Synthesis of Culture"
September 10, 1943	John Albert Wilson, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Oriental Institute, "New Frontiers for the University"
June 18, 1943	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 26, 1943	Simeon Elbridge Leland, Professor of Government Finance and Chairman of the Department of Economics, "The Struggle to Control Inflation"
December 18, 1942	Paul Roberts Cannon, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology, "Will Food Win the War and Make the Peace?"
September 11, 1942	Avery Odelle Craven, Professor of American History, "American Traditions and the Present Crisis"
June 19, 1942	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 20, 1942	Edith Abbott, Professor of Social Service Administration and Dean of the School of Social Service Administration, "New Frontiers in Public Welfare"
December 19, 1941	James Fred Rippy, Professor of American History, "The Future May Be Brighter Than You Think"
September 29, 1941	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University, "The Next Fifty Years"
August 28, 1941	Robert Redfield, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, "How Shall the City Attempt Philosophy?"
June 10, 1941	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 14, 1941	James Rowland Angell, Litt.D., LL.D., Ph.D., President Emeritus of Yale University, "The University and the Currents of Life"
December 17, 1940	Robert Andrews Millikan, Ph.D., Sc.D., Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and Chairman of the Executive Council, California Institute of Technology, "Let Knowledge Grow, Let Life Be Enriched"
August 23, 1940	John Merriman Gaus, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin; Visiting Professor of Political Science on the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation, "The Region and the University"
June 11, 1940	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 15, 1940	William Fielding Ogburn, Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology, "Four Problems Facing the Class of 1940"

1930-1939

December 19, 1939	Richard Peter McKeon, Ph.D., Professor of Greek, Dean of the Division of the Humanities, "The Way We Talk"
August 25, 1939	John Edward Anderson, Ph.D., Director and Professor, Institute of Child Welfare, University of Minnesota; Visiting Professor of Education, "The Quest for Maturity"
June 13, 1939	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 14, 1939	Percy Holmes Boynton, Professor of English, "The Man of Science and the Man of Letters"
December 20, 1938	Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D., Professor of Modern History, "The United States Faces the World"
August 26, 1938	William Homer Spencer, J.D., Professor of Business Law; Dean of the School of Business, "Reflection on Regimentation"
June 10, 1938	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 15, 1938	Shirley Jackson Case, Ph.D., D.D., D.C.L., Professor of the History of Early Christianity; Dean of the Divinity School, "Law and Gospel"
December 21, 1937	James Weber Linn, Professor of English, "Oh, See, Can You Say?"
August 27, 1937	William Clyde DeVane, Jr., Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Department of English, Cornell University; Frederic Ives Carpenter Visiting Professor of English, "The Humbler Part"
June 11, 1937	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 16, 1937	John Albert Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Egyptology; Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures; Director of the Oriental Institute, "Exploring Civilization"
December 15, 1936	Arthur Holly Compton, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, "Can Science Point the Way?"
August 28, 1936	Charles Hubbard Judd, Ph.D., LL.D., Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor and Head of the Department of Education, "This Era of Uncertainty in Education"
June 16, 1936	George Edgar Vincent, Ph.D., LL.D., Sociologist; Trustee of the China Medical Board, "The Pain of Thinking"
March 17, 1936	Albert Wentworth Palmer, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Practical Theology; President of the Chicago Theological Seminary "Our Tragic Trust in Violence"
December 17, 1935	William Duncan MacMillan, Ph.D., Sc.D., Professor of Astronomy "Science and Belief"
August 30, 1935	Gordon Jennings Laing, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., Professor of Latin and Dean of the Division of the Humanities, "The General and the Special in Education"
June 11, 1935	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 12, 1939	Shirley Jackson Case, Ph.D., D.D., D.C.L., Professor of the History of Early Christianity; Dean of the Divinity School, "The Profits of Education"
December 18, 1934	Edward Scribner Ames, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Philosophy; Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, "A Philosophy of Life"
August 24, 1934	Gordon Jennings Laing, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., Professor of Latin; Dean of the Division of the Humanities, "The Academic Prospect in 1934"
June 12, 1934	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 20, 1934	Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, Ph.D., D.D., Ernest D. Burton Distinguished Service Professor of Biblical and Patristic Greek; Chairman of the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, "The Great Tradition"
December 19, 1933	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
August 25, 1933	Edwin Oakes Jordan, Ph.D., Sc.D., Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Bacteriology; Chairman of the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology, "A Great Opportunity"
June 13, 1933	Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University
March 21, 1933	Shailer Mathews, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Historical Theology; Dean of the Divinity School, "The University and the Reconstruction of Democracy"
December 20, 1932	Robert Maynard Hutchins, LL.D., President of the University
August 26, 1932	George Alan Works, Ed.D., Dean of Students and University Examiner, "Some Factors Influencing the Development of Higher Education in the United States"
June 14, 1932	Chauncey Samuel Boucher, Ph.D., Dean of the College; Professor of American History, "Current Trends in College Education"
June 14, 1932	Ernst Freund, Ph.D., J.U.D., LL.D., John P. Wilson Professor of Law, "Law School and University"
March 15, 1932	Charles Hubbard Judd, Ph.D., LL.D., Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Education; Dean of the School of Education; Head of the Department of Education, "Scientific Studies of Education"
December 22, 1931	Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LL.B., A.M., LL.D., Professor Emeritus of History, "History"
August 28, 1931	Paul Shorey, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Professor of Greek Language and Literature, "Rhetoric and Education"
June 16, 1931	Robert Maynard Hutchins, LL.D., President of the University
March 17, 1931	James Hampton Kirkland, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Chancellor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, "The Permanence of Scholastic Ideals"
December 23, 1930	Robert Maynard Hutchins, LL.D., President of the University
August 29, 1930	Edith Abbott, Ph.D., Litt.D., Dean of the Graduate School of Social Service Administration, "The University and Social Welfare"
June 10, 1930	Robert Maynard Hutchins, LL.D., President of the University
March 18, 1930	Henry Suzzallo, Ph.D., Director of the National Advisory Committee on Education, "The Cultural Function of the Fine Arts"

1920-1929

December 17, 1929	Edwin Bidwell Wilson, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the Social Sciences Research Council, "What is Science?"
November 19, 1929	Robert Maynard Hutchins, LL.D., Fifth President of the University, "The Inaugural Address"
August 30, 1929	John A. Scott, Ph.D., LL.D., Head of the Department of Classics, Northwestern University, "School and Leisure"
June 11, 1929	Robert Maynard Hutchins, LL.D., President Elect of the University
March 19, 1929	Frank Joseph Loesch, LL.D., President of the Chicago Crime Commission, "Shall the Law Triumph?"
August 31, 1928	Dewitt Henry Parker, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "The Significance of Art in the New America"
June 12, 1928	Max Mason, President of the University
March 20, 1928	Charles Edward Merriam, Ph.D., LL.D., Chairman of the Department of Political Science, "Metropolitan Regions"
December 20, 1927	John Matthews Manly, Ph.D., F.R.S.L., Professor and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, "Education That Educates"
October 31, 1927	James Rowland Angell, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., President of Yale University, "Medicine and the University"
September 2, 1927	Daniel Evans, D.D., Professor of Christian Theology, Andover Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "The Meaning and Value of a Liberal Education"
June 14, 1927	Frank Billings, M.D., Sc.D., Professor Emeritus of Medicine, "Medicine and Human Progress"
March 15, 1927	Dr. Herman Niels Bundsen, Commissioner of Health, City of Chicago, "Your Next Step"
December 21, 1926	The Honorable Katherine Hancock Goode, Member of the Illinois General Assembly, "Woman’s Stake in Government"
September 3, 1926	Augustus Raymond Hatton, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Political Science, Western Reserve University, "Representative Government in the Light of Modern Knowledge and Modern Life"
June 25, 1926	Harry Pratt Judson, LL.D., President Emeritus of the University, Presented His Royal Highness, Gustav Adolph, The Crown Prince of Sweden, for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws
June 15, 1926	Max Mason, President of the University
March 16, 1926	Walter Ansel Strong, Publisher, The Chicago Daily News "Newspapers and the New Age"
December 22, 1925	The Reverend Charles Whitney Gilkey, D.D., Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago "The University of Chicago as an International Institution"
September 4, 1925	Frederic Austin Ogg, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, "New Tests of Representative Government"
June 16, 1925	Charles Henry Markham, President of the Illinois Central Railroad, "The Challenge of a Retrospect"
December 23, 1924	Julius Stieglitz, Ph.D., Sc.D., Chem.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, "Chemistry in the Service of Man"
August 29, 1924	John Merle Coulter, Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, "The International Mission of Universities"
June 10, 1924	The Honorable William E. Dever, Mayor of Chicago, "The University and National Leadership"
March 18, 1924	William Edward Dodd, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of American History, "The Great Tradition"
December 18, 1923	Albion Woodbury Small, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, "Address to the Graduates"
August 31, 1923	Miss Mary E. McDowell, Head Resident of the University Settlement, and Commissioner of Public Welfare of the City of Chicago, "Social Service in Chicago"
June 12, 1923	Ernest DeWitt Burton, Acting President of the University
March 20, 1923	Henry Clinton Morrison, LL.D., Professor of Education, and Superintendent of the Laboratory Schools, "The Readjustment of Our Fundamental Schools"
December 19, 1922	Harry Pratt Judson, President of the University, "The President's Charge to the Graduates"
September 1, 1922	Ernest DeWitt Burton, D.D., Director of the University Libraries, Professor and Head of the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, "Education in a Democratic World"
June 13, 1922	Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus D.D., President, Armour Institute of Technology. "The Heroism of Scholarship"
March 21, 1922	Walter Dill Scott, Ph.D., LL.D., President of Northwestern University, "Progress in Human Engineering"
December 20, 1921	Gordon Jennings Laing, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Latin, "The Humanities and the Trend of Education"
September 2, 1921	William Darnall MacClintock, Professor of English Literature, "Personal Culture and the Present Time"
June 14, 1921	The Honorable Frank Orren Lowden, Former Governor of Illinois, "The Problem of Taxation in a Democracy"
March 15, 1921	James Parker Hall, Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School, "Free Speech in War-Time"
December 21, 1920	Harry Pratt Judson, President of the University
September 3, 1920	James Henry Breasted, Ph.D., Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History and Director of the Oriental Institute, "The New Past"
June 15, 1920	David Prescott Barrows, Ph.D., President, University of California, "Is America Responsible?"
March 16, 1920	Conyers Read, Ph.D., Professor of History, "The Political Progress of the English Workingman"

1910-1019

December 23, 1919	Harry Pratt Judson, President of the University, "The President's Charge to Graduates"
August 29, 1919	William Ezra Lingelbach, Ph.D., Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania, "The Peace Conference in the Light of History"
June 10, 1919	Richard Green Moulton, Ph.D., Professor of Literary Theory and Interpretation and Head of the Department of General Literature, "The Turning-Point in the History of Culture"
March 18, 1919	Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LL.D., Professor and Head of the Department of History, "The Implications of Democracy"
December 17, 1918	Harry Pratt Judson, President of the University
August 30, 1918	The Honorable Francis Warner Parker, A.M., LL.D., Trustee, "The Franco-American Alliance"
June 11, 1918	The Very Reverend Sir George Adam Smith, LL.D., Litt. D., F.B.A., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University, "The Universities and the War"
March 19, 1918	The Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, "The Universities and the War"
December 18, 1917	Harry Pratt Judson, President of the University
August 31, 1917	Jesse Siddall Reeves, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, "Democracy and the Law of Nations"
June 12, 1917	Charles Andrews Huston, A.B., J.D., S.J.D., Dean of the Law School, Leland Stanford Junior University, "Our Nearest Neighbor: Some Thoughts on Our Relations with Canada"
March 20, 1917	Richard Green Moulton, Ph.D., Professor of Literary Theory and Interpretation and Head of the Department of General Literature, "The Study of Literature and the Integration of Knowledge"
December 19, 1916	His Excellency Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Chinese Republic to the United States of America, "China and the United States"
September 1, 1916	Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., President of Delaware College, Newark, Delaware, "Constructive Citizenship"
June 6, 1916	James Oliver Murdock, On Behalf of Students in Residence; William Scott Bond, On Behalf of Alumni of the College; Edwin Herbert Lewis, On Behalf of Alumni of the Graduate and Professional Schools; Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, On Behalf of the Faculties of the University; Martin A. Ryerson, President On Behalf of the Board of Trustees; Mr. Harry A. Wheeler, On Behalf of the City of Chicago; and Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., On Behalf of the Founder of the University
March 21, 1916	J. Laurence Laughlin, Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Political Economy, "Economic Liberty"
December 21, 1915	The Honorable Walter L. Fisher, LL.D., Formerly Secretary of the Interior, "Preparations for Peace"
September 3, 1915	Nathaniel Butler, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Education, "Liberal Education and the Time-Spirit"
June 15, 1915	Theodore Marburg, A.M., LL.D., Former Ambassador to Belgium, "Informed versus Emotional Will of the People"
March 16, 1915	Myra Reynolds, Ph.D., Professor of English Literature, "The Education of Women in England in the Eighteenth Century"
December 22, 1914	Charles Richard Van Hise, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University of Wisconsin, "The Federal Anti-Trust Legislation"
August 28, 1914	Roscoe Pound, Ph.D., LL.D., Carter Professor of Jurisprudence, Harvard University, "Legalism"
June 9, 1914	Kuno Francke, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of the History of German Culture and Curator of the Germanic Museum, Harvard University, "The Unpopularity of German Literature"
March 17, 1914	Dean James Rowland Angell, A.M., Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology, "The University Today"
December 20, 1913	Abram Winegardner Harris, Sc.D., LL.D., President of Northwestern University, "College Days"
August 29, 1913	John Holladay Latané, Professor of History and International Law, Washington and Lee University; Professor-elect of American History and Head of the Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, "Our Relations with Japan"
June 10, 1913	His Excellency Jonkheer John Loudon, Netherlands Minister to the United States, "How Holland Manages Her Colonies"
March 18, 1913	James Hayden Tufts, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, "The University and the Advance of Justice"
December 17, 1912	Edwin Erle Sparks, Ph.D., LL.D., President of Pennsylvania State College, "Learning to Live"
August 30, 1912	Henry Churchill King, D.D., LL.D., S.T.D., President of Oberlin College, "The Contribution of Modern Science to Ideal Interests"
June 11, 1912	The Honorable Franklin McVeagh, A.B., LL.B., Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, "Education and the Voter"
March 19, 1912	George Edgar Vincent, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University of Minnesota, "An Old Guide for New Times"
December 19, 1911	Inazo Nitobe, LL.D., Professor, Imperial University, Tokyo, "American Influence in the Far East"
September 1, 1911	Henry Eldridge Bourne, D.B., L.H.D., Professor of History, College for Women, Western Reserve University, "The Liberation of Good Will"
June 13, 1911	Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador to the United States, "The Foundations of the German Empire"
March 21, 1911	Charles Hubbard Judd, Ph.D., LL.D., Director of the School of Education, "Individualism in the Choice of Studies"
December 20, 1910	Albert Ross Hill, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University of Missouri, "Some Successes and Failures of the American College"
September 1, 1910	Roscoe Pound, Ph.D., Professor of Law, "The Law and the People"
June 14, 1910	The Reverend Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, D.D., LL.D., President of the Armour Institute of Technology, "A Great Library"
March 15, 1910	John Merle Coulter, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Botany, "Practical Science"

1900-1909

December 20, 1909	The Honorable Andrew Jackson Montague, LL.D., "The South and the Nation"
September 3, 1909	Judge Emlin McClain, LL.D., Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, "Our Common Humanity and the Common Law"
June 15, 1909	George Adam Smith, A.M., D.D., LL.D., Professor of Old Testament Language, Literature and Theology, United Free Church College, Glasgow, "American and Other Interests in the Relations of Christianity and Islam"
March 16, 1909	Paul Shorey, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Greek Language and Literature, "The Spirit of the University of Chicago"
December 18, 1908	The Honorable John Watson Foster, LL.D., Former Secretary of State, "The Development of International Law"
August 28, 1908	His Excellency Joaquim Nabuco, LL.D., Litt, D., Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, "The Political Approach of the Two Americas"
June 9, 1908	George Herbert Palmer, A.M., LL.D., Litt.D., Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Politics, Harvard University, "Specialization"
March 17, 1908	Andrew Sloan Draper, LL.D., Commissioner of Education for the State of New York, "The Rational Limits of Academic Freedom"
December 17, 1907	William Henry Welch, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Pathology in Johns Hopkins University and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "Medicine and the University"
August 30, 1907	Walter Hines Page, Editor of World’s Work, "The Writer and the University"
June 11, 1907	The Right Honorable James Bryce, LL.D., His Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, "What University Instruction May Do to Provide Intellectual Pleasures for Later Life"
March 19, 1907	George Edwin MacLean, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the State University of Iowa, "American Expansion and Educational Efficiency"
December 18, 1906	Hamilton Wright Mabie, L.H.D., LL.D., Writer and critic, "Works and Days"
August 31, 1906	William Watts Folwell, LL.D., Professor of Political Science in the University of Minnesota, "Culture, What and How"
June 12, 1906	William Gardner Hale, LL.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Latin, "The Continuing City"
March 20, 1906	Floyd Russell Mechem, A.M., Professor of Law, with introduction by James Parker Hall, LL.B., Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School, "The Responsibilities of the People for our Laws and Legal Institutions"
December 19, 1905	His Excellency Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand, LL.D., Ambassador from France to the United States, with introduction by Jacob McGavock Dickinson, of the Chicago Bar "Some Maxims of Life"
September 1, 1905	Hamlin Garland, Writer and poet, with introduction by Robert Morss Lovett, Associate Professor of English, "Vanishing Trails"
June 13, 1905	William Peterson, LL.D., C.M.G., Principal of McGill University, Montreal, with introduction by William Gardner Hale, LL.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Latin, "The Earliest Universities and the Latest"
March 21, 1905	Herbert Putnam, Litt.D., Librarian of Congress, with introduction by Clement Walker Andrews, A.M., Librarian of the John Crerar Library, "The State and Research"
December 20, 1904	Jane Addams, Head of Hull House, with introduction by Marion Talbot, Associate Professor of Household Administration and Dean of Women, "Recent Immigration, a Field Neglected by the Scholar"
September 2, 1904	Hugo de Vries, Professor of Botany and Director of Botanical Gardens and Laboratories of Plant Physiology in the University of Amsterdam, with introduction by John Merle Coulter, Professor of Botany in the University of Chicago, "The Evidences of Evolution"
June 14, 1904	Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., Professor of Law in Harvard University, and Dean of the Law School in the University of Chicago, with introduction by Ernst Freund, Professor of Law in the University of Chicago, "The Place of Professional Education in the University"
March 22, 1904	John Merle Coulter, Representative of the University; Eduard Meyer, Representative of the German Guests of Honor; Address by His Excellency, the Imperial German Ambassador to the United States of America, with greeting from the German Emperor; Greeting from the President of the United States of America. Presented by the Dean of the Faculties of the University
December 22, 1903	The Honorable George W. Ross, Premier of Ontario, with Introduction by James B. Forgan, Esq., President of the First National Bank of Chicago, "The Political Cleavage of North America"
September 3, 1903	John Temple Graves, Esq., Newspaper editor and orator, Atlanta, Georgia, "The Problem of the Races"
June 16, 1903	Daniel Coit Gilman, LL.D., President of the Carnegie Institution, with Introduction by Henry Herbert Donaldson, Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology, the University of Chicago, "Prospects of Science in the United States at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century"
April 2, 1903	Harry Pratt Judson, Professor, "An Address on Behalf of the University"
March 17, 1903	Reverend Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, D.D., President of the Armour Institute of Technology, "The Heroism of Scholarship"
December 16, 1902	William Henry Maxwell, A.M., Superintendent of Schools, New York City, with Introduction by John Dewey, Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the School of Education, "The American Teacher"
August 29, 1902	Elisha Benjamin Andrews, D.D., LL.D., Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, with Introduction by Francis W. Shepardson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American History, "The Crisis of Democracy"
June 17, 1902	Henry Smith Pritchett, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with Introduction by Rollin D. Salisbury, Dean of the Ogden Graduate School of Science, "The Service of Science to the University, and the Response of the University to that Service"
March 18, 1902	Albert Shaw, Ph.D., Editor of the American Monthly Review of Reviews, with an introduction by Harry Pratt Judson, LL.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, "The Outlook for the Young Man in the New Social and Economic Order"
December 17, 1901	John Franklin Jameson, Professor and Head of the Department of History, with Introduction by Frederick Jackson Turner, Director of the School of History, and Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin, "The Influence of Universities upon Historical Writing"
August 29, 1901	The Reverend Professor Caspar René Gregory, D.D., LL.D., Dr.Ph., Professor, University of Leipsic, "Education and Labor"
June 18, 1901	Martin A. Ryerson, President On behalf of the Board of Trustees; Frank Frost Abbott, Professor, On behalf of the Faculties of the University; Arthur Eugene Bestor, President of the Class of 1901; George E. Adams, Esq., On behalf of the City of Chicago; John D. Rockefeller, Founder of the University; "The Decennial Addresses"
March 19, 1901	His Excellency Mr. Wu Ting-Fang, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of China to the United States, "Chinese Civilization"
December 18, 1900	Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D., President of Princeton University, "The Idea of God in Intellectual Inquiry"
September 18, 1900	The Reverend George C. Lorimer, D.D., Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, "Race Problems in the Light of Education"
August 10, 1900	General Joseph Wheeler, Representative for Alabama, "The Influence of the University of Chicago and Our Pacific Possessions"
June 19, 1900	James G. K. McClure, D.D., President of Lake Forest University, "The True Scholar’s Attitude Toward the Past"
April 2, 1900	The Honorable David Jayne Hill, LL.D., Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, "The Place of America in World Politics"
January 2, 1900	Arthur Twining Hadley, LL.D., President of Yale University, "Our Standards of Political Morality"

1893-1899

October 2, 1899	The Right Reverend John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, "The University and the Teacher"
July 1, 1899	The Honorable James Burrill Angell, LL.D., Ann Arbor, President of the University of Michigan, "The Old College and the New University"
April 1, 1899	The Reverend Henry van Dyke, Professor of English Literature, Princeton University, "Democracy and Culture"
January 4, 1899	The Honorable Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, former U.S. Senator and Union Major General in the Civil War, "American Imperialism"
October 17, 1898	The Reverend Alonzo Ketcham Parker, D.D., Attached to the University of Chicago, "The Firm Foundation of National Peace"
October 1, 1898	The Reverend Charles Cuthbert Hall, D.D., President of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, "Some Essential Elements of the True Academic Spirit"
August 2, 1898	Professor Gaston Bonet-Maury, D.D., Professor, the University of Paris, "The University of Paris"
July 1, 1898	The Honorable William L. Wilson, Lexington, Virginia, President of Washington and Lee University
April 1, 1898	William Knight, Professor, St. Andrews University, Scotland, "Poetry and Science: Their Affinities and Contrasts"
January 3, 1898	The Honorable James H. Eckels, Chicago, Ex-Comptroller of the Currency, "Public Leadership"
October 1, 1897	The Reverend Amory H. Bradford, D.D., Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Montclair, New Jersey, "The Unity of the World"
July 1, 1897	The Right Reverend John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Chancellor of the Chautauqua System, "The Church and the University"
April 1, 1897	Her Excellency, The Countess of Aberdeen, Ottawa, Canada, "The University and its Effect Upon the Home"
January 1, 1897	Henry D. Estabrook, Regent of the University of Nebraska, "Lafayette"
October 1, 1896	Augustus H. Strong, D.D., LL.D., President, Rochester Theological Seminary, "Modern Tendencies in Theological Thought"
July 1, 1896	The Reverend George Adam Smith, D.D., Professor, Free Church College, Glasgow, "The Service of the Old Testament in the Education of the Race"
April 2, 1896	Prince Serge Wolkonsky, Prince of the Russian Empire, "Memory and Responsiveness as Instruments of Culture"
January 2, 1896	The Honorable William Eustis Russell, Former Governor of Massechusetts, "Individualism in Government - A Plea for Liberty"
October 1, 1895	Alexander Balmain Bruce, D.D., Minister, Free Church of Scotland, "The Future of Christianity"
July 1, 1895	Emil G. Hirsch, Ph.D., Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Philosophy, "The American University"
April 1, 1895	Chauncey M. Depew, LL.D., Regent of the University of the State of New York, "The Present: Its Opportunities and Perils"
January 2, 1895	Seth Low, LL.D., President of Columbia College, "The University and Its Relation to Questions of the Times"
October 1, 1894	The Reverend John Henry Barrows, D.D., Pastor, Chicago Presbyterian Church, "The Greatness of Religion"
July 2, 1894	Albert A. Michelson, Head Professor, "Light Waves and Their Uses"
April 3, 1894	John M. Coulter, President, Lake Forest University, "Some College Fallacies"
January 2, 1894	Ira Remsen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, "The Chemical Laboratory"
October 2, 1893	Henry Drummond, D.D., Professor, Glasgow, Scotland, "Some Aspects of Evolution"
June 26, 1893	William Gardner Hale, A.B., Head Professor, "The Place of the University in American Life"
April 1, 1893	Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Ph.D., LL.D., Head Professor, "The Mission of the Scientific Spirit"
January 2, 1893	Hermann Edouard von Holst, Ph.D., Head Professor, "The Need of Universities in the United States"

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