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ing of that country on a large scale. Associated also with Hoover 

 while the latter was United States Food Administrator, he 

 attended conferences of the Inter-allied Scientific Food Com- 

 mission in Paris and Rome. Meanwhile he took an active 

 part in the National Research Council at Washington, of which 

 he is now permanent secretary. 



During all this time his efforts were supplemented by Mrs. Charlotte 

 Kellogg's splendid services both at home and abroad. As the Kellogg 

 only woman in the "C. R. B." to be admitted to Belgium, 

 she worked unremittingly for the welfare of its women and 

 children; to her devoted ability they gratefully testify, and 

 her name will not soon be forgotten by them. More recently 

 she has traveled through Poland and Serbia, with a view to 

 ascertaining the outlook and needs of her sisters there. 



One of the most important additions of the year, though George 

 not in the teaching staff, was George A. Clark, secretary to ^^^''^ 

 the president, and later academic secretary of the University. 

 Clark entered Stanford in 1891 as a graduate student in Latin 

 from Minnesota. His conscientious and methodical devotion 

 to all phases of executive work made him an indispensable aid 

 throughout my administration. Absolutely devoid of self- 

 interest, he never shirked a duty and never forgot a detail. 

 His relation to the Fur Seal commissions (of which he was also 

 secretary) I shall later mention. By his death in 1916 the 

 University was deprived of one of its most valued members. 



In the summer of 1893 six more professors were added to 

 the staff. Nathan Abbott, in Law, a graduate of Yale, was a 

 unique character, fond of paradoxes, and a great favorite with 

 his colleagues; in 1907 he left to accept a chair at Columbia, 

 where he still remains. Dr. Edward A. Ross, a Johns Hop- 

 kins man, came from Cornell as professor of Economic Theory 

 and Finahce; in 1900, he left Stanford, accepting a chair 

 of Sociology in the University of Nebraska. Dr. John E. 

 Matzke, a well-known philologist, was called from Johns 

 Hopkins to the chair of Romanic Languages, as successor to 

 Dr. Todd. This position he filled most acceptably until his 

 lamented death in 1913 in the City of Mexico, whither he had 

 gone as Stanford's representative at the inauguration of the 

 National University there. 



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