The Days of a Man 1887 



quainted in connection with my attendance at a 

 trustees' meeting at Ithaca earlier in the year, and 

 who for thirty-three years has been my helpmate, 

 friend, and critic. For as James Stephens observes, 

 to marry a university woman is to have ever after 

 "a critic on the hearth." In these pages, however, 

 I may only hint at what her companionship has 

 meant to me. 



Miss Knight was the daughter of Charles Sanford 

 Kni S nt > a veteran of the Civil War, and Cordelia 

 Cutter Knight, both formerly of Ware, Massa- 

 chusetts. On Mr. Knight's side there was a dash 

 of French Huguenot blood which shows itself 

 plainly in the olive complexion, dark hair, and big 

 black eyes of his children, a feature persistent 

 through succeeding generations. 



Admiral Mrs. Jordan's elder brother is Rear-Admiral 

 Knight Austin M. Knight, retired, but recently on duty in 

 Washington as president of the Naval Board of 

 Awards - - an appointment received with general 

 satisfaction among navy men as guaranteeing fair- 

 ness and intelligent discrimination. For some time 

 previous to our entrance into the war, Admiral 

 Knight was president of the Naval War College at 

 Newport; in this capacity he made a signal success. 

 During the period of our participation in the war 

 he was commander of the Asiatic Squadron and 

 senior naval officer at Vladivostok under circum- 

 stances which required marked qualities of force 

 and discretion. A man of broad culture and re- 

 sources outside his special professional field, he is 

 best known as the author of "Seamanship," an 

 exhaustive treatise and accepted text on the subject. 

 He has also, I believe, the honor of having been in 



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