2^ Kcmsas Academy of Science. 



bygones be bygones? That I will; all friendship with you shall 

 be a bygone forever.' " 



On Sunday, April 9, 1865, he wrote as follows: "The most bril- 

 liant page in the military history of our nation has been written 

 to-day in characters that shall never be effaced. The Rebel Na- 

 poleon has surrendered to the Wellington Grant, and the rebellion 

 is virtually brought to a close. The enthusiasm of our troops 

 knows no bounds. The air is filled with the sound of glad huzzas 

 as the great news spreads like wildfire from regiment to regiment. 

 All along the lines hundreds of military bands are discoursing 

 martial music, and naught seems lacking to complete the happi- 

 ness of all." 



His work in the army was now over. He laid aside his career 

 as a minister of the gospel and accepted a call from the University 

 of Kansas to occupy a chair in that new institution of learning. 

 The call was made mainly through the influence of Gov. Charles 

 Robinson. Had he been at liberty to choose, he would have taken 

 the chair of the ancient languages, for bis training, his tastes and 

 his power of memory fitted him for that kind of work. But the 

 professor cheerfully turned aside from Homer and Plato, and Horace 

 and Cicero, to teach mathematics, geography, natural philosophy, 

 and any other science that might show itself in an embryonic 

 school of fifty-five students in its first year of existence. Little did 

 he dream, and never did his most intimate friends in their wildest 

 imaginings ever think, that in him was the stuff for the making of 

 a great scientific thinker, who was to turn over new pages of science 

 and widen the boundaries of knowledge. What he might have 

 done, how much of the life of ancient Greece and Rome he might 

 have brought to light through persistent research, and what addi- 

 tions he might have made to general literature, no one can tell. A 

 new world and a newer field of knowledge were for forty-two years 

 to be explored by him and the results given to science. 



Williams College never did a better thing than when she gave 

 Snow to Kansas, and Kansas never did a greater thing than when 

 she welcomed to her citizenship so great a thinker. 



What was it that this man did during the forty-two years of his 

 connection with the University of Kansas? Every Kansan knows 

 the story by heart. Twenty thousand young men and women with 

 one accord testify every day of their lives as to the value of the 

 great institution on Mount Oread, a monument to the genius and 

 guiding hand of this master builder. They know that he was a 

 splendid type of the highest class of educators. Beginning with 



