400 SUNDRY JOURNEYS AND EXPERIENCES -II 



der, presented by his sister to the Queen, and is now 

 preserved in an exquisitely wrought silver casket. 



Tuesday, November 18. 



Visited Somerville Hall for women, which shows a vast 

 advance over Oxford as I formerly knew it. To think 

 that its creation honors the memory of a woman who 

 attained her high scientific knowledge in spite of every 

 discouragement, and who, when she had attained it, was 

 denounced outrageously from the pulpit of York Minster 

 for it! Dined at Merton College with the warden, Hon. 

 George Broderick, in the hall, which has been most beau 

 tifully restored by Sir Gilbert Scott. When will the 

 founders of our American colleges and universities un 

 derstand the vast educational value of surroundings like 

 these, and especially of a &quot;hall&quot; in which students meet 

 every day, beneath storied windows and the busts and 

 portraits of the most eminent men in the history of sci 

 ence, literature, and public service? 



In answer to the question whether in American univer 

 sities there was anything like the association between 

 instructors and students in England, I spoke of the evo 

 lution of our fraternity houses as likely to bring about 

 something of the sort. The fraternal relation between 

 teachers and taught is certainly the best thing in the Eng 

 lish universities, and covers a multitude of sins. If I 

 were a great millionaire I would establish in our greater 

 universities a score or so of self-governing colleges, each 

 with comfortable lodging-rooms and studies and with 

 its own library and dining-hall. In the common room, 

 after dinner, I sat next Professor Wallace, whose book 

 on Kant I had read. He thinks the system of ethics 

 really predominant in England is modified Kantianism. 



November 19. 



To Mortimer, near Eeading, on a visit to Sir Paul 

 Hunter, who once visited me at Cornell. Extracts from 

 my diary of this visit are as follows : 



