2^6 What is the max no of students you can properly instruct? 

 How much time should teachers have for research? 

 Is time spent in research of greatest benefit to (a) teachers, 



(b) students, (c) college? 

 Should the entering class be limited to 60? 



The answers to the "research" questions are omitted. As to 

 the students, sixty could in no sense be taken care of, even 

 fifty cluttered up things and forty might approximate a work- 

 ing base. (This meant a total of one hundred and twenty 

 students for the four years; the faculty roster alone carried 

 over two hundred names.) The matter was settled in open 

 meeting. After two hours of discussion, the university's presi- 

 dent who had come in for the occasion, said: "The Board will 

 do exactly what you gentlemen advise. Your recent increases 

 in salary were made possible by increased student receipts and 

 will, of course, have to be rescinded." For ten minutes the 

 faculty went into a huddle, deciding at its termination that 

 a minimum of seventy-five could easily be placed in the next 

 session. 



In the summer of 1922 my mother was prostrated with a 

 cancer and anemia. A letter to me out of Lakeside, Ohio, where 

 Wherry had gone for rest, gave a picture of him as doctor 

 (July 25, 1922): 



I saw a report in the N Y Times about a "wonderful cure" for 

 pernicious anemia. It is some compound of germanium. I know 

 this sounds like advice from your country cousin who has read 

 an ad in the Hickville Courier-Gazette but I cannot help feel- 

 ing that it would be worth trying. We all love Mrs Leonard 

 so much that we wish to do something. . . . Margaret [now 

 thirteen] has been sketching, but finds water and rocks hard. 

 She is fond of fishing and when we have gone out together she 

 has had most of the luck — pulling in two large "sheep-head" 

 just as we were about to give up. She is as much of a fish in the 

 water as Marie and swims all around me. — You know I have 

 my reservations, but Hearst somehow or for some reason is 

 allowing Norman Hapgood to say some very plain things in 

 his International. If you haven't seen them, look them up. 



A week later he added: "I am mailing you Our medicine 



