The Days of a Man 1920 



Indiana Indiana. 1 Just one hundred years later the Com- 

 University niencement program of the institution took the form 

 of a centennial memorial, an elaborate historical 

 pageant being then staged on Jordan Field. This 

 figured Dr. David Maxwell and others active at 

 different periods in the University's early history, 

 while its later development was indicated in the pro- 

 cession by three of its former heads - - myself, 

 Coulter, and Swain - - followed by Bryan, the pres- 

 ent executive. Afterward, on the Commencement 

 stage, each one of us gave an account of his own 

 labors and varied experience in the state. 



It was also at this time that I attended the 

 reunion of the class of 1883, a group which had 

 fared with me from Rock Castle River to Cumber- 

 land Falls and Cumberland Gap thirty-seven years 

 before. 2 



At Cornell In connection with my trip to Bloomington I went 

 on to Cornell to make a sort of farewell visit, though 

 not really the last, I hope. Dr. Jacob Gould Schur- 

 man, president of the institution for twenty-eight 

 years, had already resigned, and Albert W. Smith, a 

 graduate of 1878 and one of our early Stanford fac- 

 ulty, was acting president until a permanent head 

 should be chosen. The Comstocks entertained me 

 at their charming cottage in the forest across Fall 

 Creek, and old friends and new vied with each other 

 in making me welcome. I had the pleasure also of 

 calling on Minnie Mitchell Barnes at the old brick 

 farmhouse on the East Hill, to which we boys of 

 "the Grove" used often to find our way on Sunday 

 evenings. Our good friend is now a well-preserved 



1 See Vol. I, Chapter vm, page 186. 



2 See Vol. I, Chapter x, pages 246-249. 



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