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Francisco I. Madero had been the first free President of Mexico and was greatly respected. Venustiano Carranza ran him out. Madero came to New York and lived uptown somewhere in an apartment. At any rate, a good many people began to know him a little. He was a very scholarly and high-minded person. He had acquaintances in the university world. I think he had been a university man himself. He began to be asked to make a little lecture here, or a little talk there. He was always very cautious about it because it was a great hazard to him.

I remember going to James Harvey Robinson's house and Madero was there. It was that kind of a gathering that he would be asked to. You were asked ostensibly to a party. Parties in those days did not mean whisky and soda. They really didn't. You were told that it was a private gathering and that you'd better not say too much about Madero being present. There were enemies who would like to assassinate him. His comings and goings, where he lived and who he knew were not to be noised abroad in the community.

He made very interesting conversation that evening. There were other people like Robinson there - the scholars of Columbia were there and some others. I knew the James Harvey Robinsons in a variety of ways. I took his great course. I was always going up to Barnard or Columbia to take