The Days of a Man 1917 



a thronged but perfectly orderly assemblage of men 

 and women. 



At the close many friendly students came up to ask 

 questions, but a large crowd of enthusiasts paraded 

 for an hour through the streets of the city, behind 

 the band. Next morning the New Haven Journal- 

 Courier gave a correct if not wholly sympathetic 

 account of the meeting. 



Patten, To the University of Pennsylvania I went as the 

 University guest of Professor Simon Nelson Patten, the veteran 



of Penn- to r . . . ' 



syhania economist of the institution, and that evening spoke 

 in the great hall where a year and a half before I had 

 given the George Dana Boardman Lecture. My 

 audience, almost entirely academic, filled the room 

 and showed no signs of dissent. Patten, who pre- 

 sided, introduced me in a very moderate and reason- 

 able statement deprecating hasty action in a crisis 

 of such supreme importance. 



On Saturday morning I gave an address for Rabbi 



Berkowitz in the Jewish Synagogue before a large 



and interested group, and in my talk called attention 



First to the first Joint High Commission recorded in his- 



recorded torv> i \ was a i so invited to speak in two or three of 



peace com- J * 



the churches on ounday, but other arrangements 

 precluded. 



As already stated, Congress had been called to 

 convene in special session on Monday, April 2. At 

 Washington, therefore, I found a very active group 

 of Emergency workers, hourly increased by new 

 arrivals from all sections of the country, and estab- 

 lished in headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue mid- 

 way between the Capitol and the White House. 



1 See the Book of Joshua, Chapter XXH. 



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