Last week the members of the Y. M. C. A. (968,929 in active participation) spent some little time ruminating about certain things which had occurred the week before at Washington. There the Association had held its International Convention (Canada and America). There officers were elected, speeches made, budgets read, changes made in policy. Chiefly, the thought of the 968,929 focused upon three men:
Charles Phelps Taft II,* 28, presided at the meeting with that deft assured despatch which characterized his undergraduate activities at Yale. In him the 11,000 delegates present found an...