At the outset it must be said that much of this is the direct result of Prof. Clark's work on the lecture platform. Before he had been here two years he began giving a course of lectures for his classes on the Roman Forum. From the first these lectures were open to the High school students and towns people. Within two years more he was included on the staff of the Chicago Daily News lecturers. In this work he has spoken fully one hundred times in the last ten years. He has lectured an equal number of times in Wisconsin and his audiences have grown from the group first gathered in his classroom to ten and twelve hundred a night in his Chicago halls. One of the best features of his lectures is that so many of his slides are made from his own negatives. The same is true of four of the fifteen hundred pictures of Italian scenes and monuments at the disposal of his students. These slides and pictures are in a way a unique record of his travels in Italy during the past five years.

In his teaching Prof. Clark aimed to give his classes the opportunity to see and handle for themselves such relics of Roman life and history as could be secured for their study--to introduce the laboratory method into the study of the languages. For this purpose he began purchasing types of the coins and pottery used by the Romans from earliest times until late in the Christian era. It is this collection which is so valuable both historically and intrinsically. The coins have come, some from Germany and others from Italy, singly or in groups as representative pieces were found. This year finds them arranged for the first time in their chronological order and they represent in their various groups periods from 250 B.C. to 500 A.D.

The choicest of all the collections, however is the group of specimens of clay, terra cotta and glass. Here for instance, is a cinerary urn made by the Etrustcans [sic], there a toilet box found in the tomb of a noble lady. Beside it are drinking cups of almost every style known to the Romans and above are the jars in which wine was mingled at thier [sic] banquets. Beyond are vases, showing by their shape and ornamentation the development of Roman civilization, and in the corner are grouped sixty or seventy excellent types of Roman lamps.

One word must be said with regard to the Library. It has grown to number more than two hundred volumes and it includes not merely the various editions of classroom text books but such authorities on Roman life and excavations as Lanciam. It has been made far more valuable by the recent addition of the sixth volume of the Corpus and four volumes of the almost priceless works of Piranesi.

Space will not permit more than a brief reference to the pictures, the plasters, the marbles or the exquisite bronze statuette from Pompeii which beautify the room.