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Otaki as president, Abe and Spooner as secretaries, 

 and Mitsukuri and Schneder as honorary advisers. 



Leaving Yokohama the following day on the 

 Nippon Maru, we were accompanied by three youths 

 bound for Stanford Abe of Sendai, Eitaro lijima 

 of Niigata, and Masashi Yoshimi of Yamaguchi. 

 At Honolulu this group was augmented by Yakano- 

 suke Fukukita, a favorite pupil of Miss Fujii, a well- 

 known Japanese teacher there. 



lijima, a student in Economics at the Imperial 

 University, had called one evening with a notebook 

 full of choice English and German quotations, occa- 

 sionally fragmentary, as in the following: 



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"The way to dusty Death." Shakespeare. 



The book also contained an outline of the conversa- 

 tion he planned to have with me; unfortunately, 

 however, when the time came he forgot all his fine 

 phrases. Eleven years later I found him a customs 

 official in Korea, where he afterward became a mine 

 manager. 



Yoshimi, a country scnool teacher, had sent me 

 his Curriculum Vita, expressing a deep desire to go 

 to Stanford in spite of serious lack of money. A 

 quick-witted and willing fellow knowing some Eng- 

 lish, he cooked his way through, but did not long sur- 

 vive graduation. Fukukita developed into an accom- 

 plished English student, assistant to Dr. Fluegel on 

 the Chaucer Dictionary. In 1911 we found him 

 interpreter for the American Embassy at Tokyo; 

 he is at present serving as secretary to a great busi- 

 ness corporation. 



On the boat I discovered my two monkeys, faith- 

 fully sent up from Nagasaki according to the arrange- 



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