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America, I ventured the suggestion that one way 

 would be to furnish to some American university a 

 competent professor to give instruction in Japanese 

 Fruitful history and politics. After considerable conversation 

 among ourselves, Mr. Shiraishi, Asano's right-hand 

 man, announced that the gentlemen present were will- 

 ing to set aside a moderate sum for such a purpose, 

 but thought it better to wait until they could get 

 together an amount sufficient to maintain the chair 

 for a period of years. Stanford University, moreover, 

 would be their choice. 



The postponement I took as a form of polite with- 

 drawal. A year or so later, however, Shiraishi and 

 his associates, through our friend Numano, brought 

 up the matter again, offering to endow a Japanese 

 professorship at Stanford, perhaps permanently. The 

 proposal was gratefully accepted, and one of our own 

 graduates, Dr. Yamato Ichihashi, who had just re- 

 ceived the degree of Ph.D. at Harvard, was chosen 

 by me for the position. In this he has now been 

 maintained for seven years with entire satisfaction 

 to the University as a whole, as well as to his sup- 

 porters in Japan. Proving to be an able teacher of 

 Economics, as well as interpreter of ' ( things Japan- 

 ese," he also gives certain courses in that depart- 

 ment in addition to those on Japan. 



The An interesting affair for Mrs. Jordan alone was the 



Yamamoto tea arranged by Madame Tatsuo Yamamoto, wife 

 of the newly appointed Minister of Finance, who 

 gathered in her hospitable home a fine and representa- 

 tive group of women. This included a number of 

 teachers who had led or were leading in the modern 

 education of girls; several, though of advanced age, 

 were still active heads of private institutions. A 



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