In a pause of the conversation the President had quietly remarked: "I've about made up my mind to send Walter Page to England.

What do you think of that ?" Colonel House thought very well of it indeed and the result of his conversation was this telephone call, in which he was authorized to offer Page the Ambassadorship to Great Britain.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 7: Mr.David F.Houston, ex-President of the University of Texas, and in 1912 Chancellor of the Washington University of St.
Louis.] [Footnote 8: Charles R.Van Hise, President of the University of Wisconsin.] [Footnote 9: Clarence Poe, editor of _The Progressive Farmer_.] [Footnote 10: The reference is to the meeting of the Southern and the General Education Boards.].