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Indiana, of which a former student of mine, Dr. 

 William A. Millis, is president, granted Marchant the 

 well-deserved honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 

 1919 Jane Addams, G. Stanley Hall, and I were 

 elected foreign vice-presidents of the National Wel- 

 fare Association. 



During my stay in London I again took luncheon 

 with the staff of The Nation. Massingham, its editor, 

 represents the far-sighted liberal minority in British 

 politics. Nevinson's appreciation of Thoreau's stand 

 for liberty touched my heart. With Hobson too I 

 renewed my former acquaintance. 1 



T. Fisher Unwin, publisher, anti-militarist, and 

 free trader, son-in-law of Richard Cobden, whose 

 acquaintance I had also made in 1910, showed me 

 varied courtesies. In his home I now met for the first 

 time Alfred G. Gardiner, editorial writer for the Daily 

 News and Leader, a young man of energy and spirit, 

 alert to the meaning of events and possessed of a 

 power of character-analysis quite unique among 

 journalists. His illuminating, vigorous, and original 

 editorials rank with the best of their kind anywhere. 

 His sketches of leading men- 'Pillars of Society," 

 ; ' Prophets, Priests, and Kings," and 'The War 

 Lords" -give such vivid pictures of prominent 

 personalities that the reader cannot help feeling he 

 actually knows the individuals in question. 



At Unwin's also I became acquainted with Lord 

 Welby, then past seventy but wielding still the sane 

 influence which had made him a power in the Liberal 

 party. If men of the type of Henry Campbell-Banner- 

 man, Lord Courtney, of whom I shall soon speak at 



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