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so few material appliaiiees to help biiu. I shall nevei- forget the last 

 rime he visited my laboratory in Washington. After leaving Hanover he 

 iiad come to Washington and taken a position as a clerk in the I'ension 

 Othee. At the time I speak of he was 90 years of age, but still clear of 

 mind and firm of step. It Avas soon after the inauguration of Benjamin 

 Harrison as President of the United States. One morning Doctor Scott 

 stepped into my otiice. He seemed uneasy and wore a worried look. 

 When I in(iuired in regard to his health, he said it was most excellent, 

 but he added, "Strange to say, I have become a victim of the Re- 

 publican administration. (General Harrison has insisted on me com- 

 ing to the White House to live with him and has dismissed me from my 

 position in the Pension Oltice." He continued. "I am a gentleman of 

 leisure now. aisd I think I would likt- to come and study chemistry with 

 .vou." It is only when we can look back on a life-work such as that done 

 by Doctor Scott that we can realize the inestimable blessing of his career 

 to humanity. Two years after that the end came peacefully to his exist- 

 ence. I can not help thinking that the feeling of love and interest taken 

 in him by the I'resident, expressing itself in the desire that he should pass 

 his last days in the comfort and honor of the White Houi-e. may have 

 shortened his life. If he could have kept at work, which was his nurm.il 

 condition, he might have rounded out the century. 



Scientific instruction given during the period I speak of at Wabash 

 College was in cliargc of Professors Campbell and Hovey. Professor 

 Campbell is still in the harness — possibly almost the only one of tlie old 

 guard that still wears his armor. 



At the present tini(> chenii.stry, biology, Itotany. njatluunatics. physics 

 and astronomy are all sejiarate departments. The change at Wabash 

 has taken place gradually and progressively, so that it is not possiide to 

 designate these segregations by any particular i)eri(;d. It will be sutHcient 

 to say that it lias been the constant effort at Wabash to keep up with tlie 

 new without disparaging the old. Wabash is anotlur of the so-called 

 small colleges which has established for itself a i)lace and a reputation 

 of the highest character. AVe have so many illustrations of institutions 

 of this kind in Indiana that the sneering remarks which are often made 

 about the small colleges of Indiana meet Avith a merited rebuke AAhen one 

 takes the trouble to investigate the great work which has been accom- 

 plished by them. 



At Earlham College instruction in science was given by Professors 



