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in and less Greek. Relieved by the assur- 

 ance that in alternate years the qualification 

 of your President was an interest in educa- 

 tion and literature, I gladly accepted, not, 

 however, without such anticipatory qualms 

 as afHict an amateur at the thought of ad- 

 dressing a body of experts. Not an edu- 

 cated man in the Oxford sense, yet faint 

 memories of the classics linger — the re- 

 sult of ten years of such study as lads of 

 my generation pursued, memories best ex- 

 pressed in Tom Hood's lines : 



u The weary tasks I used to con ! 

 The hopeless leaves I wept upon ! 

 Most fruitless leaves to me ! " 



In a life of teaching and practice, a mere 

 picker-up of learning's crumbs is made to 

 realize the value of the humanities in sci- 

 ence not less than in general culture. 



To have a Professor of Medicine in this 

 Chair gives to the Oxford meeting an ap- 

 propriate renaissance — shall we say medi- 



