"The Days of a Man 



a beautiful gift from the two local educational asso- 

 ciations, she would have chosen to accompany me. 



In Kyoto my first lecture was at the newly estab- 

 lished Imperial University; this was preceded by a 

 faculty dinner given by its president, my old friend 

 Kikuchi. The next morning I spoke at the "Doshi- 

 sha," a private college founded in 1875 by the noted 

 Joseph Niijima, under the auspices of the American 

 Board of Foreign Missions. Besides making the 

 acquaintance of Dr. Harada, the president, we met 

 also Dr. Sidney L. Gulick, since prominent in Amer- 

 ica as a warm friend of Japan, and Miss Mary 

 Denton, the excellent preceptress. Miss Denton's 

 generous interest added greatly to our pleasure both 

 at that time and during our later hurried visit when 

 we returned from Korea. In the evening Dr. Harada 

 was host at another academic dinner. 



During the two days then allotted to Kyoto, we 

 did the best we could to secure some idea, however 

 meager, of the beauty and glory of that famous old 

 seat of the Mikados, for more than a thousand years 

 the capital of Japan. At the Nishi Hongwanji temple 

 with its magnificently decorated apartments tea was 

 served, and we were given a fine album filled with 

 reproductions of the famous ancient paintings. At 

 this time also, or during our second stay, we visited 

 the singularly chaste Gosho Palace of the Mikados, 

 the Nijo Castle of the Shogun lyeyasu, a riot of golden 

 adornment, and the wonderful Chion-in temple, and 

 had fleeting views of various other places of interest. 

 But both our visits were regrettably brief. 



Our next stop was at the great manufacturing city 

 of Osaka, where I spoke in the big city hall before the 



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