The Days of a Man 



second time before a general audience on the 

 case against war. Shortly afterward to Liverpool as 

 to her sister institutions the truth of my words was 

 brought home, for a son of Professor Emmott lost his 

 life, 1 and Herdman wrote that three of the most 

 promising of his assistant professors had been killed in 

 the great conflict. 



Herring- From Liverpool I returned to London, where, under 

 h tUni- t ^ ie Auspices of Sir Wilmot P. Herringham, professor 

 versity of of Medicine and dean of the University, I gave two 

 London lectures bearing on its future one a public talk on 

 general university organization, the other, more de- 

 tailed, before a private gathering of professors and 

 officials of affiliated schools. So far as I was privileged 

 to give advice, I urged unification of the scattered 

 branches attached to the institution. These, being 

 under separate organization and in different parts of 

 the city, do not cooperate in any important way; to 

 some degree, moreover, they appear as rivals. In a 

 university, I argued, the whole should be vastly greater 

 than the sum of all its parts, because each segment 

 will be strengthened by a close relation to all the others. 

 Furthermore, unity makes an enormous library possible 

 and gives opportunity for members of different schools 

 to carry on studies outside their individual specialties. 2 

 By request also, I contributed to the London 

 Daily News and Leader an article on the American 

 university system. The city teachers, at the instance 

 Kate of Kate Stevens, principal of a girls' school, now 

 Stevens i nv it e d me to address them on the same subject, 

 and the next evening gave me a dinner at which I 

 spoke on Stevenson in Samoa. 



1 The father also passed away not long afterward. 



2 See Chapter xxxiv, page 233. 



