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. 

 fatten, - To the Uuivetsity of Pennsylvania I went as the 

 Unwersity guggt of Ptofcssor Simon Nelson Patten, the veteran 

 lyivania ecouomist 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- 



Zeace^com- '^^^Y-^ I ^as also invited to speak in two or three of 



mission the churches on Sunday, 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. 



' See the Book of Joshua, Chapter xxii. 



