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second time - - before a general audience on the 

 case against war. Shortly afterward to Liverpool as 

 to her sister institutions the truth of my words was 

 brought home, for a son of Professor Emmott lost his 

 life, 1 and Herdman wrote that three of the most 

 promising of his assistant professors had been killed in 

 the great conflict. 



Herring- From Liverpool I returned to London, where, under 



h thTunf- t ^ e aus pi ces f Sir Wilmot P. Herringham, professor 



versity of of Medicine and dean of the University, I gave two 



London lectures bearing on its future - - one a public talk on 



general university organization, the other, more de- 



tailed, before a private gathering of professors and 



officials of affiliated schools. So far as I was privileged 



to give advice, I urged unification of the scattered 



branches attached to the institution. These, being 



under separate organization and in different parts of 



the city, do not cooperate in any important way; to 



some degree, moreover, they appear as rivals. In a 



university, I argued, the whole should be vastly greater 



than the sum of all its parts, because each segment 



will be strengthened by a close relation to all the others. 



Furthermore, unity makes an enormous library possible 



and gives opportunity for members of different schools 



to carry on studies outside their individual specialties. 2 



By request also, I contributed to the London 



Daily News and Leader an article on the American 



university system. The city teachers, at the instance 



Kate of Kate Stevens, principal of a girls' school, now 



invited me to address them on the same subject, 



and the next evening gave me a dinner at which I 



spoke on Stevenson in Samoa. 



1 The father also passed away not long afterward. 



2 See Chapter xxxiv, page 233. 



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