body by threats of what the other would do. He had to keep this up 

 through most of his administration and, shortly after my homecoming, 

 a Trustee asked Sloane: "Does Dr. McCosh crack the Board over the 

 Faculty's heads the way he cracks the Faculty over our heads?" He 

 found it necessary to work more and more through the Board and, 

 for a considerable period, the Trustees were a good deal of a nuisance 

 to the Faculty. This undue preponderance corrected itself in course of 

 time. 



Dr. McCosh saw plainly that, to carry out his plans, he needed a much 

 larger and stronger Faculty. He had secured Professor Young, one of 

 the most distinguished astronomers then living, but the funds at his 

 disposal did not permit him to call many men of established reputation 

 and, therefore, he secured as many promising youngsters as he could. 

 Fine, Magie, and Marquand were brought back; William Libbey, who 

 had been studying physical geography in Berlin, returned to assist Dr. 

 Guyot in that branch of his work, and now "Jimmie" was reaching out 

 after Osborn. After his return from England, Osborn had gone to the 

 Johns Hopkins marine laboratory at Beaufort, N.C., and Dr. McCosh 

 asked me to go and see him, as soon as he should have returned from 

 Beaufort, and learn under what conditions he would be willing to accept 

 a Princeton appointment. This I did and the upshot of it all was that, 

 to my supreme delight, my dear friend accepted the call and remained 

 with us for ten years. "Eager and gifted youth," Dr. McCosh called 

 this group, all of them his own pupils, and he gave them the most loyal 

 friendship and support. 



The autumn of 1880 was one of the radiant periods of my life, when 

 I seemed to have gained everything that heart could wish and with an 

 outlook as promising as any one in my position could expect. To say 

 nothing of my engagement, what immense good fortune I had had! I 

 was settled, so far as one could judge, for life, in the spot which, above 

 all others, was dear to me. I was among my own family and the friends 

 with whom I had grown up, I was in the college that I loved, one of 

 my dearest friends was associated with me, and I had the work which 

 I particularly wished to do. The world was my oyster and I had not 

 yet learned the limitations which put so disappointing a boundary to 

 one's achievements; in that ever memorable fall, I was fairly intoxi- 

 cated with the joy of living. 



Adding greatly to my enjoyment, was the society of young bachelors 

 who took their meals together at the University Hotel; it was like go- 

 ing back to Cambridge. McMaster, soon to become so famous as an 



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