458 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



the largest tree found on the ground was not over two hundred and 

 fifty years old, the time of the abandonment of the cemetery can not 

 be more than three hundred years ago. This would take it back to 

 less than one hundred years after the discovery of America by Colum- 

 bus. The present State of Ohio was then probably occupied by a 

 tribe of Indians known as the Eries, who were totally exterminated 

 in 1656,* and it is possible we have in this cemetery one of the burial- 

 places of this tribe of Indians. 



Catlinite pipes were unknown to the mound-builders, yet some 

 made of this material are found in this cemetery. Hogs rooting in 

 the ground find sufficient nutriment in the bones to eat them greedily, 

 and probably there would be fewer bone implements found if they 

 had not been buried in ash-pits. f Everything, therefore, tends to 

 show the comparatively recent date of this cemetery, and I would 

 state, as a reasonable conclusion, that the remains are those of a tribe 

 of Indians, perhaps the Eries, and were deposited not more than three 

 hundred and perhaps only two hundred and fifty years ago. 



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THE UNIVEKSITY IDEAL.} 



By ALEXANDER BAIN, LL. D. 



/~^ EISTTLEMEN" : By your flattering estimate of my services, I have 

 VJ~ been unexpectedly summoned from retirement to assume the 

 honors and the duties of the purple, and to occupy the most histor- 

 ically important office in the universities of Europe. 



The present demands upon the rectorship somewhat resemble what 

 we are told of the Homeric chief, who, in company with his council 

 or senate, the Boule, and the popular assembly, or- Agora, made up 

 the political constitution of the tribe. The functions of the chief, it 

 is said, were to supply wise reason to the Boule (as we might call our 

 court), and unctuous eloquence to the Agora. The second of these 

 requirements is what weighs upon me at the present moment. 



Whatever may have been the practice of my predecessors, gener- 

 ally strangers to you, it would be altogether unbecoming in me to 

 travel out of our university life for the materials of an address. My 

 remarks, then, will principally bear on the Univebsity Ideal. 



Illinois and Indiana," printed in " Proceedings of the United States National Museum," 

 1882, p. 54. 



* " Some Early Notices of the Indians of Ohio," by M. F. Force, published by K. 

 Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 18*79, pp. 1-11. 



f For an account of these pits, see " Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural His 

 tory," vol. iii. 



X Rectorial Address to the Students of Aberdeen University, Wednesday, November 

 15, 1882. 



