The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-02
HIGH HONOR FOR
DIR. G|LDERSLEEvE
american Scholars Are Received
With Distinguished Courtesy
at Cambridge University.
Special Correspondence of The Tines

Especial Correspondence of The Times
~ Dispatch.)
CAMBRIDGE ENGLAND, June 30--Wcs
reached England Saturday, June 10th, ar
ter a most delightful voyage. Our COM
pany aboard ship included. as you will
be interested to hear, DR.. and Mrs. Basil
5Gllderslccve, of the Johns Hopkins Un!-
versity, Mrs. virginius Newton and Miss
Augusta Daniel. Of Richmond, were fac
tors of decided interest in all the pleas
ant intercourse that relieved the passage
tof any shadow of tediousness.
We landed In the forenoon Of Saturday.
and took the first train for Bristol Which
city we reached about o'clock In the
afternoon. Nothing could have been more
charming than our travel through a
stretch of country, a-hush with the, pink
may, and filed with the bloom OF the
hawthorn hedges and the rhododendrons.
Sights in Bristol.
When we reached Bristol, we went out
sightseeing ana found a park with an
equestrian statue in It OF Sir Edward
Colston, the distinguished progenltor of
the American family Of that name, and
the direct ancestor Of Mrs. Gildersleeve.
We were. indeed. fortunate enough to
receive cards of Invitation for a dress
parade given at military school in
Bristol endowed in perpetuty by Sir
Edward Colston for the training Of the
sons Of poor English gentlemen.
The dress parade was followed by
fete champctre, both being tenderc{i in
compliment to Mrs. Gldersleeve, ;sho
was Miss Colston, OF Virginia, before her
marriage Bristol Is full from one and
to the other Of "reminiscences Of the
wealthy Sir Edward. who went before her
and who must have been as puhi.c-
spirited and charitable as possible; 80
the Bristol people could not show Mrs.
Gilderslceve too much attention.
We drove out to Clifton, not far from
Bristol. on Whit-sunday which cores
ponds In Its customs to Easter Sunday
In America. Never have seen elsewhere
such charming effects In flowers, trees
and hedges rs in Clifton, and i could
not help wishing that I could trans
plant some OF the graceful laburnums
and the lovely blossoms to our gar
dcns across the ocean, All the people
were IN new clothes. and we met the
Lord Mayors carriage filled with gayly
dressed ladies. When we returned, we
went 70 service at the Church of St.
Mary Eedclifr, "a quaint building OF stone
Where as 1t was NVhit-Sunday the floor
was strewn with rushes.
In hurried stop at Bath, reached by
a drive Of several hours from Bristol.
we were much interested In the old Re.
man baths, which have been renovated
IL
those newly built.
Wo merely passed through London, as
we arctic spend so much time there
later, and came straight on to Cambridge.
reaching here just at the right moment
to see honors bestowed by the University
upon DR.. Sandys, OF Johns Hopkins Uni
versty; Sir Robert Finley and others, and
to share In the social pleasures attendant
! upon the dlgnied ceremonial.
Lady Jeff gave dinner party to which
VIC had cards. DR.. and Mrs. Glldersleeve
and pr. Sandys received special and most
| complimentary attention, Sir Francis
! Younghusband the Thibetan hero, taking
| Mrs. Hlldersleeve to dinner and Lord
| WaL cham, who was also of tho COM
pany,, showing the most marked courtesy
! to the two American scholars and repre-
| sentatlVes OF American institutions OF
learning,
The next day the American ladies' were
dlned by the wife of tho vice-ohancellor
Of tho university. and the men attended
the annMal banquet Hp !, ! 4 1, -
hall and watched the doctors come In,
Black velvet caps-to receive their de-
! grees
1t is "a fact worthy OF attention that
degrees are only given for what they are
meant at Cambridge. Those conferred
upon Dr. sandys and DR.. Gildersleeve. az
American men Of letters, were most
| gracefully presented, the eminent scholar
| ship of both being mentioned In terms OF
Warmest praise BY tho Lord Chancellor
and Lord Walsingham,r A. B,
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