The Days of a Man 1879 



Indianapolis, where Catherine Merrill, professor of 

 English, had been for years an inspiration to all, 

 young or old, who were interested in literature. 1 

 Scarcely less appreciated was my friend, Melville 

 B. Anderson, who had held the chair of Modern 

 Languages and who now went to Knox College. 

 The third of these beloved heretics was Charles E. 

 A Hollenbeck, the librarian. And as Butler was 

 danger- l ar g e ly dependent upon the city patronage, the at- 

 tempt to revive denominational intolerance greatly 

 harmed the institution. 



During the weeks of dissension before my de- 

 parture, I took strong ground against the proposed 

 changes, severely criticizing the president for yield- 

 ing to pressure of which, in my judgment, he really 

 disapproved. Meanwhile, at Dr. Jameson's request, 

 I recommended Rathbun as my successor. My 

 allies on the board voted for him, but the outside 

 majority elected Dr. Oliver P. Hay, a young man 

 who had written articles on science for church 

 papers, and who, it was thought, would be less pro- 

 nouncedly an evolutionist than either Rathbun or 

 myself. Hay, finding material for the study of 

 fishes already at hand in the collections I left at the 

 college, proceeded to extend my operations in the 

 Alabama Basin by a survey of the fauna of the 

 state of Mississippi. He has since become a high 

 authority on fossil vertebrates, and his views on 

 Darwinism were quite as radical as mine! The other 

 vacancies were duly filled with members of the 

 Back Church, theologically quite safe. Later, under the 

 p res id enC y o f ) r s cot Butler, son of the founder, 



1 Miss Merrill was soon afterward reappointed, holding the chair of Eng- 

 lish until her voluntary retirement in 1883. 



