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•so fow material appliances to help him. I shall never foi'get the last 

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

 had come to Washington and taken a position as a clerk in the Pension 

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

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

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

 stepped into my office. 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 lie- 

 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 Office." He continued, "I am a gentleman of 

 leisure now, and I think I would like to come and study cliemistry with 

 you." It is oidy when we can look l)ack on a life-work such as that done 

 by Doctor Scott that we can realize the inestimable Itlessing 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 Hou^^e, may have 

 shortened his life. If he coidd have kept at work, which Avas his mirmal 

 condition, he might have rounded out the century. 



Scientific instruction given during the period I speak of at Wa1)ash 

 College was in charge of Professors Campliell and Ilovey. Professor 

 ('ampl)ell is still in the harness — possibly almost the only on" of the old 

 guard that still wears his armor. 



At the present time chemistry, biology, botany, matheniatics, physics 

 and astronomy are all separate departments. The change at Wabash 

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

 designate these segregations by any particular peridd. It will l)e suffici'-nt 

 to say that it has Ijeen the constant effort at Wabash to keep up with the 

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

 small colleges which has estalilished for itself a place and a reputation 

 of the highest character. ^Ye 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 with a merited rebuke when one 

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

 plished by them. 



At Eai'lham College instruction in science was given liy Professors 



