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then his colleagues, later his friends and even his 

 family fall away, until finally he is done to death by 

 the patriotic mob. The height of irony is reached 

 in a final tableau in which his family and the people 

 at large are shown rendering homage to his statue in 

 a public square! 



The war over, reaction followed quickly and the 

 Conservative politicians held responsible for its 

 inauguration were thrown out of power. South 

 Africa was then saved to the Empire by Sir Henry Campheii- 

 Campbell-Bannerman, the liberal premier who fol- ^^^^f^- 

 lowed. Receiving the whole population (of whom '"''" 

 the Boers formed a large majority) into full citizen- 

 ship, the government turned over to them the con- 

 trol of their own affairs. Campbell-Bannerman's 

 enlightened policy thus fixed the loyalty of South 

 Africa during the Great War. Moreover, in the con- 

 fusion following the Armistice, no British statesman Smuts 

 showed to better advantage than the former Boer 

 leader General Jan Smuts. 



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The principal local event of the autumn of this inaugu 

 year was the inauguration of Dr. Benjamin Ide ^'^"^ °^ . 

 Wheeler, an accomplished scholar, late professor ide 

 of Greek at Cornell, as president of the University ^^'^^"^'^ 

 of California in succession to Dr. Martin Kellogg, 

 who had resigned not long before. Having been 

 asked to give the address of welcome at the cere- 

 mony, I took as my topic "the place of the president 

 in the American university system." His essential 

 function, I asserted, was to assume the initiative 

 in academic matters and to give to the institution 



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