the colleges to maintain their equipment and pay such instructors as 

 did not enter one of the services and thus, when the war ended, to 

 resume their normal functions without loss or delay. When the aca- 

 demic year, 1917-1918 began, there were only about fifty civilian students 

 in Princeton University and they were men who were physically unfit 

 for military service. Not since the Revolution had the student body been 

 so depleted. 



The Commencement of 1917 was a brilliant occasion of great historic 

 interest. Fortunately, the weather was perfect, for the ceremony was 

 held on the campus, with the platform built along the front of Nassau 

 Hall. Degrees were given to the Ministers and Ambassadors of all the 

 AUied powers, except the Serbian Minister, who declined to come, as 

 he had been overlooked in the first invitation. The principal address 

 was made by the British Ambassador, Lord Reading, formerly Sir 

 Rufus Isaacs, who amused us all by talking about "our Anglo-Saxon 

 ancestors." M. Jusserand made one of his characteristically happy little 

 speeches, ending with the hopeful phrase: "And it must be remem- 

 bered that the United States has never lost a war." 



As usual, I spent the summer at Cataumet and, as a small contribu- 

 tion to the war work, I took charge of the vegetable garden which 

 was fairly large, an acre or so in extent. This took nearly all of my time, 

 for such were my anxiety and preoccupation with the war that I was 

 incapable of doing any considerable and sustained mental work, and the 

 manual labour was a blessed relief. Recalling all the horticultural lore 

 that I had acquired in boyhood, I did very well with the garden and 

 kept the family abundantly supplied with a great variety of delicious 

 vegetables. The second summer, that of 1918, I repeated the experiment 

 and made the garden contribute more directly to the support of the 

 war. Every week, the ladies, mostly of the summer colony, met to do 

 Red Cross work, and to every such meeting I sent a consignment of 

 vegetables. These were promptly sold, at good prices, and the proceeds 

 turned in to the Red Cross fund. I have kept up my gardening ever 

 since. 



When we returned home, in September 1917, we found the various 

 training units in full operation and a French captain, in "horizon blue," 

 to aid in the work of instruction. There was but httle that I could do 

 and I felt very useless and helpless. By request, I gave a course of lec- 

 tures on the strategical use of topography, of which I had made some 

 study, and other lectures on geographical subjects, as they were called 

 for by the R. O. T. C. The few clubhouses that were still open were 



