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group of Kansas-Stanford friends, including Kellogg, 

 Campbell, and William H. Carruth, then of the 

 University of Kansas, but who twelve years later 

 succeeded Anderson at Stanford. This park is noted 

 for the majesty of its setting, for the Green-back 

 Trout which swarm in the two Thompsons and the 

 near-by St. Vrain, for the rare Evening Grosbeak 

 nesting in its sparse forests, for the big Mountain 

 Sheep of its snowy slopes, and for its beautiful 

 cerulean Columbine, the "state flower" of Colorado. 



iV.£.^. While abroad the previous year, I had been elected 



for 1915 president of the National Education Association of 

 the United States for 1915. This session was held 

 at Oakland, California, during the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition in San Francisco, a special effort being 

 made to give the gathering international significance. 

 Thus representatives from most of the nations of 

 the world were invited as guests and asked to appear 

 on the program. Notable among the visitors were 

 The Dr. Ferdinand Buisson of Paris, formerly minister 



Buissons Q^ Education — who afterward published an appre- 

 ciative volume on his impressions of the congress 

 and of the American school system — and his 

 brother, Benjamin Buisson, director of the Schools 

 of Tunis. The resolutions passed by the association 

 (largely drawn up by Dr. Ellwood P. Cubberley of 

 Stanford) constituted a ringing indictment of mili- 

 tarism, its causes and effects. My presidential 

 address dealt with "Eugenics and War," a topic 

 vital to any coherent statesmanship; and numerous 

 persons of prominence spoke in favor of international 

 conciliation and expressed their hope for a speedy 

 ending of the great fratricidal conflict. 



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