in which you discussed the situation. I have no doubt that you 91 Q 

 and I could have gotten along together famously. 



Nor have I any doubt about your being able to build up the 

 school — only it appeared to me that the process would be slow, 

 still further delayed by the War, and I did not feel like giving 

 up my line of work for such a period. This, coupled with the 

 insecurity of the deanship, and pressure at this end both in the 

 form of duty and further support for research work in my 

 department decided the question finally. 



He wrote me more jocularly (June 26, 1918) : 



I have decided to stay. I took Holmes's promise for the follow- 

 ing: Salary $4500; 1000 a year for expenses of the dept; a 

 promise that he would campaign for funds to create a chair 

 in hygiene to pay at least $3000; likewise, two $500 fellow- 

 ships ; the promise, also, that he and Wolf stein would do their 

 utmost to put the status of full-time teachers in the medical 

 school on the basis discussed. ... It is hard to tell you just 

 why I lost my enthusiasm about Detroit. I think I decided to 

 stay because it was easiest — to do so satisfied my desire not to 

 be separated from those I like to work with (this includes 

 you ! ) and my desire not to give up my toys and take up the 

 big stick. Then, they told me that the exact status of this new 

 Board had not been determined. They however meant well and 

 perhaps everything would have been O K if I had gone. After 

 I refused they telegraphed again saying that they would be 

 willing to pay more if I would come. I guess they are in bad. 

 Unfortunately they took the attitude (at least so it seemed to 

 me) that I would be an effective piece of camouflage instead 

 of really giving me the power & means to paint the scenery 

 for them. How's that! 



I go to Pikeville in July but don't know just when. In the 

 meantime I am consuming numerous novels. Ervin [D wight 

 M, bachelor out of Wooster in Ohio, ardent worker in 

 Wherry's department, later graduate of Cincinnati's medical 

 school to become a distinguished West coast doctor] has writ- 

 ten a note on diabetes. I believe he has the means of demon- 

 strating the glycogenic function of the internal secretion of 

 the pancreas and if his surgical experiments & analyses bear 

 out the idea, he will undoubtedly have gotten nearer to the 



