flat, who knows but that red tape might unwind as steadily and swiftly as a stock ticker?)

As it was, Washington held up its hands in amazement at the speed with which Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Mead had put through the Arizona transaction. Rarely in the history of the Indian Bureau (I think this was the sweeping assertion) had a "deal" for the Indians been consummated so swiftly, so informally, and with so little expense. Roosevelt himself was "de-lighted!" He declared that Mr. Mead must be retained in some way in work for the Indian.

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I don't know if there's any vacancy that you could immediately fill in the Government Indian Service," said Mr. Roosevelt, "but I want you to go right on working for the Indians, and of course your expenses must be paid, you must have the proper authority, and you must have some kind of a salary, so that you will not be at a loss." For all Mr. Mead's efforts for the good of the Indian prior to this time had been made at his own personal expense.

Mr. Roosevelt did not ponder long. If there were no vacant office in Indian affairs appropriate to what he wanted Mr. Mead to do, he had no doubt that it lay in his prerogative to, create one. He would make a new office and appoint Mr. Mead to it.

"You will be my agent," Mr. Roosevelt repeated to Mr. Mead, "and you will report directly to me."

He had again cut red tape into ribbons, and I think there must have been a twinkle in those keen though earnest eyes of his when the title of "Special Super

It was Christmas Day when Mrs. Mason and I drove in a canvas-topped cart through the Arizona desert to Camp McDowell, where was situated the new reservation of the Mojave-Apaches. Pelia and his wife had driven in to the railway at Phoenix to meet us. Mr. Mead was personally conducting us to the house of the missionary agent on the reservation, and our visit to the Indians had the warmth of a home-coming.

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On the way we met a white man on a splendid black horse. "Say, Mr. Mead," he called, "if the ladies in your party want to ride while they're on the reservation, I've gentled two ponies in my string and they can have 'em to use as long as they like." This was the man who had threatened to shoot Mr. Mead if he took Pelia East!

That afternoon Mr. Mead rode with Pelia to each farm now turned over to the Indians by the settlers. The Mojave Apaches could still hardly believe that the white men were really going. The Indians took the land in communal tribal ownership, and the portions were allotted to the different families by the chief. Mr. Mead noticed that Pelia had taken the worst parcel for himself.

"Why is this?" said Mr. Mead. "You're the chief. You should have the best land."

"I am the chief," said Pelia, "and therefore I must see that all my people are content. They are beginning a new life. If the whole band is to be happy, then every man in it must be satisfied. I give the best land to the growlers." I

As the Indians moved across the reservation with Mr. Mead, looking over each abandoned farm, it seemed as though a miracle had indeed been wrought. It was the miracle of personality. Two dominant wills had turned the despair of the Indians into a great hope.

That night the Mojave-Apaches gathered for a great dance in honor of their "savior," as they called Mr. Mead. Indians of neighboring tribes had ridden over to rejoice with them. It was a ceremony of thanksgiving for their land. A huge bonfire burned on the open desert; its flames seemed to lick the deep bluepurple of the sky. Brilliant moonlightsuch moonlight as Easterners have never -touched cactus and mesquite and lit the horizon line of hills. Around the fire the Indians moved with rhythmic step, a great circle of singing humanity silhouetted against the blaze. The song beat on the desert stillness with the pound of the drum till it seemed as though the heart of the earth-mother herself were throbbing in gladness for her chil dren. Every now and then the rhythm changed, and men and women in groups of three moved backward and forward into the flare of the firelight and out into the peace of the moonlight in the social walking-dance" of the Apaches. All night they danced and for three days they rejoiced. "We have our land," they said; "we are men again.'

For once, the country's promise to the native Americans had been rescued from the Nation's scrap-basket by Theodore Roosevelt.

"O name of Cambridge, O most pleasant sound!

Deep in my heart the love of thee is found."

-Abraham Cowley (1618-1667).

DURING last autumn, from Wash

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ington to Minneapolis and from Houston to Boston, I preached a sade. Perhaps I might venture to quote from the speech, somewhat amended, which I made to the Faculty of the University of Chicago on Friday, Novem-. ber 8, 1918:

I am extraordinarily anxious to do something about demobilization in the American Army. Already we are receiving in England a considerable number of gentlemen from what we used to call the colonies, but we now use the longer expression," from his Majesty's dominions beyond the seas," which means the same thing. A number of these gentlemen are already studying with us. We have prepared a number of short courses for officers, and we are prepared to give

after a term or two terms' residence some sort of certificate signed by the teacher. I might remark that professors: are comparatively rare in English universities. Most teaching is done by men who have not that title. The certificates will be signed by some accredited teachers, and we hope that American universities will recognize them as credits helping toward the final degree.

We at Cambridge want to get hold of your soldier boys. Peace has not come yet, in spite of the evening papers; but won't want as many of your officers you in France during the armistice period as you have now. Let them come to some one of our universities for a few months or, perhaps, years. The tragedy of these Allies' boys' lives-I know it because I live among them-is that they have lost their education. Many of them didn't really know what education was, and yet they told me that that was what they felt most in this war. So I do earnestly hope, as I told the War Office folk in Washington, that some provision will be made for your young men to come, whenever they can, to all the universities

of the Allies, to get the education they seek.

Well, my crusade has succeeded. Some three weeks ago a couple of thousand American students came to our island, and a week later two hundred arrived in Cambridge. Their arrival wasn't, of course, exactly when or how they and we wanted. To begin with, they turned up at 3 A.M. on a cold March morning and had nowhere to lay their heads. Then, again, we should have preferred to have them dribbling in in small numbers, say ten a day, as accommodation is extraor dinarily scarce at present in Cambridge. Finally, they arrived only a day or two before the commencement of the Easter vacation, and it required some " wangling," in which the Master of Emmanuel took a leading part, to persuade our University teachers to rise to the occasion. However, they did rise, as they always do rise, and short courses of lectures were arranged, which began on March 10, in a very great variety of subjects. These were

continued till April 11, when our guests left for a fortnight's Easter holiday.

Divinity was perhaps the subject that was best organized. Owing to the help of the Rev. G. A. S. Schneider, of Caius College, courses were arranged by Professor Bethune-Baker on "The Sermon on the Mount," by the Master of Selwyn on the "Galatians," by Dr. Tennant on "The Relation of Theology and Natural Science," by Mr. S. A. Cook on " Aspects of Comparative Religion," by Mr. T. R. Glover, well known in the New World, for he was professor for some eight years in Canada, on the " Progress of Religion in the Ancient World," and by other eminent divines on diverse topics. The divinity students were also happy in that they were housed in two or three of our graduate theological colleges and not in town lodgings.

It would be impossible to enumerate the very varied subjects which are being studied by the soldiers from the front, but one may pick out as typical Mr. Fay's lectures on "Economic History,' Mr. Oldham's on "The History of Geographical Discovery," Dr. Marshall's

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Agriculture," Professor Prior's on"Architecture," Mr. A. B. Cook's on "Greek Sculpture." Dr. Cunningham, the Archdeacon of Ely-at one time exchange professor at Harvard-lectured on "The History of the County;" Dr. Holland Rose, on "Naval History;" and Mr. Coulton, on "Social Life in England." Eight courses on various branches of law were given, one by Professor Hazeltine, who was educated at Brown University and Harvard. A club for the lawyers has been established and here periodic papers are read. Opportunities were also given for hospital classes and medical work under Professor Sir Clifford Allbutt, Professor Macalister, and Professor Sims Woodhead. Modern and mediæval languages were also well represented, and included a course on "Dutch Literature" by Dr. Latimer Jackson. English was another favorite subject, and, although one would not have expected it, a certain number of our American Army students plunged into the study of elementary Hebrew. Besides these short courses, various single lectures were given by different authorities. The Master of St. John's lectured on "Undergraduate Life Thirty Years Ago," and Dr. Giles on the same subject in the Middle Ages. The Vice-Chancellor gave one or two lectures

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"Insects and War." The various libraries and museums have also been thrown open to our guests.

The number of students from the armies in France who applied to come to British universities was 8,000. Of this number but one-quarter came to our shores, 1,200 men and 800 officers. Of the 2,000 selected, 1,200 applied for Oxford and Cambridge. The number actually sent to Cambridge amounts to just under two hundred. We understand that Oxford was unable to receive them during the vacation. Of the 200 students in residence, over a hundred are taking the arts course, 30 are taking law,

and 30 science; 23 are taking theology, and 7 agricultural and technical courses. Practically every State is represented. New York State leads with 20; Califor nia is a good second with 13; Illinois, Massachusetts, and Ohio each have 10 representatives; Yale and Harvard each have 15; Cornell, 9; and California, 8. Of our student guests, 50 per cent have graduated, 17 per cent have post-graduate degrees, and 33 per cent have not yet taken their first degree. One or two colleges have been unable to receive any guests, as they are occupied by the nurses of the First Eastern General Hospital or by officers of the British army under special training. Among the remaining colleges they are distributed as follows:

One gathers from the conversation of our new friends that one of the features which struck them greatly was the narrowness and multiplicity of our winding streets. They all seem parallel to one another and they all run into one another. But our guests gradually overcame the difficulty of finding their way about our tortuous lanes, which are so different from the rectangular system to which they are accustomed at home.

I think what gave them the best impression of the beauties of the town as a whole were certain airplane photographs, in which the colleges and courts stand out like wedding-cakes and the multiplicity of green commons and open spaces in the heart of the town are revealed. For Cambridge is set in a flat area-flat as Louisibridge is set in a flat area-flat as Louisiana-and there is no eminence to afford a bird's-eye view.

Our friends are learning a good deal about architecture. Our oldest churches and buildings date back a thousand years, and the difference between the good and the bad style of some of our more recent structures is readily appreciated. The custom of afternoon tea and after-dinner coffee appeals to our guests as an admirable opportunity of getting to know the students and also the naval officers, who lingered on through the vacation almost as long as the Americans, for the Admiralty has honored us by sending five hundred young naval officers for a kind of mental rest cure after four years of war strain. The absence of a gymnasium astonishes some of our friends, but they realize that, while athletics are not so intensive here as in America, they are far more general. The scattered disposition of the colleges is unlike anything they are accustomed to on their own campus, where university buildings are not separated from one another by all sorts of shops and houses. I think they have grasped the notion that the colleges stand to the University in pretty much the same relation as the individual States stand to the

Federal Government in the Union, and they appreciate the fact that each college has its own treasures, its own beauty, and its own tradition. The "honors" system, again, is new to them. They think it strange that a student reading for honors may read for three years without any periodical university examinations, and they are interested to learn that oral examinations play a very considerable part in the placing of the students in the class list.

The existence of the external examiner is also a novelty to the American college graduates, and they recognize that it widens the scope of the examination. Where there are no external examiners the student can succeed in defeating the examiner by getting up his professor's lectures only, and not studying the subject as a whole. In fact, the outside examiner introduces fresh air into what may have been a somewhat restricted and professorial atmosphere. They note that our terms are shorter than theirs, but here I do not think they quite appreciate the fact that at Cambridge many of our abler students spend some six or seven weeks in residence in the long vacation. They are also interested to find that many of the students do a good deal of work at home during the vacations, and they are rather inclined to attribute this to the fact that our undergraduates devote a somewhat excessive time to social activities during term time in Cambridge. With regard to material things they note, as every American would note, the absence of baths in some of the colleges. These colleges are, however, in a minority, and the attitude of an elderly head of a house at the sister university who, after listening to the suggestion of some progressive young don that hot-water baths should be installed in the college over which he presided, exclaimed, with horror in his voice, "Why? The young men are only up eight weeks!" is rapidly passing away. England used to lead the way in sanita tion, but undoubtedly the palm for plumbing has "gone West." Everything is so concentrated on the campus in an American university that our scattered and by no means adequate lecture-rooms, involving sometimes a walk of a quarter of an hour between one lecture and another, cause comment. On the other hand, the number and the wealth of the various museums has greatly impressed them. The "class" rivalry, which has so beneficent an effect in American institutions, one class vying with another in helping their university forward, is replaced as regards sport by intercollegiate tests. An Oxford or Cambridge man has a double allegiance, one to his college and one to his university, and between the two neither university gets the financial support which is so wonderful a feature of the universities of the West.

Every one of these American students has joined a college. They are matriculated and they are full members of it. They are going back to their own country as Trinity men, Jesus men, Caius men, Christ's men, and so on. They will go