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1915 I received from General Otis the draft of a 

 plan to ensure permanent peace. This was sub- 

 stantially identical with the suggestions made some- 

 what earlier by Hamilton Holt, 1 which afterward 

 formed the basis of "The League to Enforce Peace." 



Of the many engaged in the so-called learned 

 professions, I had more or less intimate relations 

 with a number far too great for enumeration here, 

 and those whom I shall mention are not chosen on 

 the basis of relative merit. For this is a personal 

 narrative, not a discriminating history of the in- 

 tellectual growth of California. 



Provision having been made at the beginning for 

 Sunday services at the University, we were for ten 

 years largely dependent on the friendly generosity 

 of clergymen of neighboring towns. Dr. Horatio 

 Stebbins, the wise and self-possessed successor of 

 Starr King in the First Unitarian Church of San Brown 

 Francisco, one of Mr. Stanford's intimate friends 

 and a member of the original board of trustees, 

 occupied our pulpit from time to time. Dr. Charles 

 W. Wendte, then of the Unitarian Church at Oak- 

 land, an active and scholarly man, often spoke for 

 us. 2 Dr. Charles R. Brown, the popular and effec- 

 tive Congregationalist minister of Oakland already 

 mentioned, came frequently, his terse, eloquent 



1 "A League of Peace"; The Independent, early in 1915. See Vol. II, page 665. 



2 Since his removal to Boston, Wendte has been prominent in the world 

 movement of "Free Christianity." This great international organization has 

 for its basis two purposes: the establishment of the individual "right of inter- 

 pretation" and the release of religion from all relation to the state and from 

 all control by dominating hierarchies. 



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