CHICAGO ASSOCIATION

The annual banquet was held at Blackstone Hotel on the evening of January 14, with over a hundred men in attendance.

Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, president of the College, was the guest of the occasion, and spoke at some length on the comparative value of a high school and a college education.

Rev. Walter T. Sumner '98, bishop of Oregon and late president of the Association, who was received with enthusiastic applause, eulogized Portland, and Oregon.

At the business meeting the following officers were elected for the ensuing year. president, James A. Townsend '94; vice-president, Henry A. Haugan 03; secretary-treasurer, Thomas H. Heneage '10; chairman of executive committee, Harold E. Foreman '09; chorister, Carl A. Pfau 13.