A Galaxy of Guests 



in France and England as well as in Germany, which 

 came near provoking general war over the Morocco 

 question. 



Early in the year Miss Ida M. Tarbell spent Ida 

 several weeks at the University studying international Tarbett 

 relations and other similar matters. She and I then 

 planned to work together on a book entitled "The 

 Case against War"; but crowding events permitted 

 war to frame its own case, and Miss Tarbell has since 

 devoted her high talent to methods of conciliation 

 between capital and labor as distinguished from 

 international struggles. 



A notable visitor of about the same date was the 

 late Dr. Raphael Blanchard, then dean of the medical 

 school of the University of Paris. 1 Like most profes- 

 sors from Europe, Blanchard seemed especially in- 

 terested in the sororities, the charm and independence 

 of those groups of young women who plan their 

 homes, borrow the money necessary to build, run 

 their own establishments, and take care of them- 

 selves. At one of the houses he photographed Uni- 

 versity girls at work in the garden. When we went to 

 the train he said he preferred not to leave then, as I 

 was obliged to do, but would like to be driven back 

 to the campus that he might make further studies 

 and more photographs! A young German professor 

 who visited Stanford during the same period re- 

 marked that I "could not understand how strongly 

 these educated young American women appeal to us 

 German professors!" 



ProfessorLutoslavski from the University of Cracow 

 in Galicia gave a number of interesting talks before s 

 varied audiences. He bore a sheaf of original opinions 



1 See Chapter xxxiv, page 247. 



