PROCEEDINGS FOR 1917 XLIII 



a feeling of real sympathy, real kinship, and a feeling of unity such 

 as never existed before; that he will feel that he is an ally not only in 

 name, but one in deed also. 



Address by Mr. Godfrey. 



It seems to me, Your Excellency, and all of you, that in the last 

 month I have had three of the most memorable occasions that can 

 come to any man. First, when, a few weeks ago, I had the honour, 

 in my position as a member of the Council of National Defence, to sit 

 at that first historic dinner which the President of the United States 

 gave to Mr. Balfour, that first dinner that marked the formal estab- 

 lishment of that bond which we had so long desired and which we 

 hailed with such great pleasure. (Applause). That in itself would 

 hav'e been a historic moment for a man's life. 



But again, on Thursday last, when I, as senator of a society not so 

 old as the Royal Society of London, but yet our oldest and, we claim, 

 our most distinguished — as senator of Phi Beta Kappa, existing in 

 unbroken line for 141 years, instituted under Thomas Jefferson, 

 with the traditions of Oxford and Cambridge behind it, the honoured 

 society of the United States — when I, speaking for the senate and 

 for the eighty-nine colleges and universities making up the society 

 of Phi Beta Kappa, had the honour to recommend the admission of 

 Arthur James Balfour and ten graduates of Oxford and Cambridge 

 to membership in that society — (applause) — an honour which Mr. 

 Balfour was good enough to say was the greatest we could give from 

 the universities and colleges of America, and the greatest that the 

 Mission could receiv'e. I am here on one other errand, for Sir Thomas 

 White, of your own government, was elected, being present with the 

 mission at that time, and it is to be my pleasant duty later on to 

 confer upon him that membership in Phi Beta Kappa. (Applause). 

 And then to-night to be here and to be a partner with all of you 

 in the one essential thing of bringing every ounce of our energy into 

 the winning of this war. (Prolonged applause). Because there is 

 nothing else that matters. (Applause). I care for the universities; 

 I care for the academic life, for all the learning that is a part of all of 

 us, a common bond, our own great nation seeking to learn 

 from your newer, fresher life, and from that old, splendid life 

 of Britain; but our energy, every bit of it, must go towards one 

 thing, and that is success in this struggle for liberty and for de- 

 mocracy (Applause.) I have the honour to represent, as well as by 

 senatorship in Phi Beta Kappa, I have the honour to represent in 

 the Council of National Defence, the subjects of engineering and of 



