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in the twilight, head on to the shore, but it 

 was not exactly old-fashioned to clamber np 

 thirty feet of sand and find at the top a bril- 

 liantly lighted train of palace cars with dinner 

 served. 



There was much of a social and edxicational 

 sort. Perfection of arrangement was shown 

 almost every day, when promptly on the 

 scheduled moment the train pulled into the 

 station and with equal promiJtness a local 

 committee stood upon the platform, aiid motor 

 cars or electric cars awaiting the party stood 

 in the street. There was the opportunity for 

 acquaintance with the best types of American, 

 which was by no means small, and the Amer- 

 ican members of the party in response to oft- 

 repeated questions as to the state of the polit- 

 ical weather, found the same muddled and 

 unpredictable conditions with which they had 

 become familiar east of the Mississippi Eiver. 

 One of the early stops was at Ithaca, where 

 Mrs. E. S. Tarr, bravely fulfilling the desire 

 of her lamented husband, who was to have 

 been a member of the excursion, opened her 

 home for a reception. Here the party met 

 such members of the Cornell faculty as were 

 at home during the summer, and gained some 

 acquaintance with one of our universities, as 

 they did also in Chicago, in Madison and 

 other places. Many representative people were 

 met at dinners held in Chicago, Duluth, Port- 

 land, Salt Lake City, Denver, Chattanooga 

 and many other places. At the dinner in 

 St. Paul the governor of Minnesota evinced 

 his good wit by saying that he had never 

 expected to see so many people who knew so 

 much about the earth and owned so little of it, 

 while Archbishop Ireland on the same occa- 

 sion made a speech which, if a little long, 

 was every word interesting and inspiring. It 

 was not a little interesting to the French pro- 

 fessors who sat at his side that he was quite 

 their equal in the finished use of their native 

 tongue. It is hardly to be believed that one 

 hundred representative business men of any 

 eastern town would come out by train at six 

 o'clock in the morning a distance of fifty 

 miles to meet a delegation of scholars, but 

 this was done by the men of Fargo, in North 



Dakota, and the skidding of the automobiles 

 in the wet gumbo outside of Fargo gave one 

 a lasting remembrance of the quality of the 

 black prairie soil. One of the pleasant mem- 

 ories of the Pacific coast is the hours of in- 

 spection and entertainment on the campus 

 of the new University of Washington in a 

 glorious suburb of Seattle. Indeed if any 

 European came to the coast cities expecting 

 to find things a little crude, he was obliged 

 to alter his conceptions, for he saw paved 

 streets, splendid buildings and innumerable 

 beautiful bungalow homes, embowered in 

 blossoms and greenery that never fail during 

 the twelve months. The friendliest of social 

 times was had in the Muir Woods, a splendid 

 reservation of redwoods near the Golden Gate, 

 on the day when Mr. John Muir, Mr. Luther 

 Burbank and Mr. Fred G. Plummer were 

 members of the party. At the University of 

 Utah the entire party sat on the platform at 

 the chapel service attended by a thousand 

 boys and girls and brief addresses were made 

 by one German, one Swiss and one American 

 professor. Santa Fe brought the party into 

 an old Indian and Spanish realm, and after 

 a morning with prehistoric remains, the old 

 adobe church of San Miguel was visited, and 

 the ladies and gentlemen of Santa Fe gave a 

 reception in the museum, an old Spanish 

 building, once the governor's palace, now used 

 for purposes of archeology. It was not all 

 archeology, however, for the refreshments were 

 good, the attire might have been seen in Chi- 

 cago or Philadelphia, and the reception was 

 preceded by Indian war dances, with all the 

 accompaniments of hideous sounds, feathers 

 and barbaric display to which the civilized 

 Indian is still able to return. On the home 

 journey there was a Conference on Geograph- 

 ical Education held under the presiding of 

 President Alderman at the University of Vir- 

 ginia. Here five of the foreign and two of 

 the American teachers of geography gave ad- 

 dresses on the teaching of the subject in 

 European and American universities, which 

 will be published and circulated by the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia. In Washington there 



