1913] ^.t Aberdeen 



Stanford, took us with him to see a dark side of Dundee 

 Scotch life, the local slums occupied by hemp workers. slums 

 It was hard to believe that there could exist such 

 sodden people in that land of initiative and diffused 

 education ! But in the wretched quarters of its cities 

 gather, as in a hopper, the weak and incompetent 

 rejected by the army as unfit, to be further depraved 

 by drink. 



At Aberdeen another hospitable home received us, Arthur 

 this time that of my friend, Dr. J. Arthur Thomson, Thomson 

 the most lucid popularizer of biological science. 



Dr. Adam Smith, principal of the University and a 

 leading exponent of Scotch philosophy, presided at 

 the meeting, which was to me one of the most agree- 

 able of my experiences during the whole tour. Aber- 

 deen, located on the edge of the Highlands, is the 

 farthest north of British universities; and the fine 

 democratic tone of it so much like that of a well- 

 equipped institution of our own West made me feel 

 particularly at home. Moreover, Europe offers no Beaten 

 better school for undergraduate work than that one 

 to which, according to Ian Maclaren, "a well-trodden 

 path leads from every cottage/' For in the north, 

 "Inverness way," the villagers are proudest of the 

 boys who have gone to Aberdeen. 



From there we now turned southward, my desti- 

 nation being Darlington in Yorkshire, while Black 

 made his way back from Edinburgh to Glasgow. At 

 Darlington the mayor presided at my address in the 

 town hall, which I chiefly remember from the interest 

 it awakened in Arthur E. Jennings, a promising young 

 man with whom I have since kept up an occasional 

 correspondence. The main values of a campaign like 

 that of mine consist first in the education of the 



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