The Days of a Man 



left De Pauw to accept our chair of Physiology, from which he 

 retired as emeritus in 1916. James Owen Griffin, who had 

 acquired at Cornell a reputation for remarkable patience and 

 skill in teaching, took up the work in German, retiring as 

 emeritus in 1916. 



Not all Besides those enumerated above, most of whom remained 



remained permanently at Stanford, a number of others belonged to the 

 original group but sooner or later resigned to take positions 

 elsewhere. Among these were Dr. George E. Howard (in 

 History) from the University of Nebraska, to which institu- 

 tion he afterward returned; Dr. Henry A. Todd (in French) 

 from Johns Hopkins, soon called to Columbia; Samuel J. Brun 

 (his assistant) from Cornell, later an attorney in San Fran- 

 cisco; Ernest M. Pease (in Latin) from Smith, afterward en- 

 gaged in business; and Dr. Thomas D. Wood (in Organic 

 Training) from Harvard, since 1900 a professor at Columbia. 

 Two others, Horace B. Gale (in Mechanical Engineering) and 

 Dr. Arthur G. Laird (in Greek), remained for one year 

 only. 



Dr. William Howard Miller, reputed to be one of the most 

 brilliant graduates of Johns Hopkins, came as assistant pro- 

 fessor in Mathematics but died of tuberculosis before the end 

 of the year. A fine sonnet in his honor, "First Dead of Stan- 

 ford Scholars," was written by his colleague, Martin W. Samp- 

 son, who joined our ranks in January. 



The chair of Entomology, established in anticipation of a 

 School of Agriculture (never developed), I offered to Corn- 

 stock, the leading teacher in his field. But by special arrange- 

 ment covering a period of three years, he divided his time 

 equally between Cornell and Stanford, thus laying the founda- 

 tion of our strong department of Entomology. 



As librarian came Edwin Hamlin Woodruff, a Cornell man, 

 then in charge of the Fiske Library in Florence, and so 

 eminently fitted to gather books for the new institution. Wood- 

 ruff was later transferred to a professorship of law, a position 

 even more to his taste, from which he was called to the new 

 Law School at Cornell, of which he afterward became dean. 



During the year additional teachers were needed. Among 

 those newly appointed were: in English, three young scholars, 

 Alphonso G. Newcomer, a Cornell graduate of admirable 



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