EARLY MANHOOD IN THE MIDDLE WEST 155 



I remember that the kitchen door, which faced 

 on what was then the main drive, opened on the 

 very line of the road. The wood for the stoves 

 had been deposited in saw-log lengths at the 

 kitchen door to be chopped up into stove-lengths. 

 There, cutting stove-wood, I first saw Mr. W. T. 

 Hornaday, who is now the Curator of the Bronx 

 Park Museum and Director of the New York 

 Zoological Gardens. I little thought then that 

 that stubby, bronzed lad at the wood-pile would 

 ever attain so useful and distinguished a position 

 as he now occupies. 



All college students were then required to work 

 two and one-half hours daily, being paid an aver- 

 age wage of about eight cents an hour. From 

 forty to fifty were detailed each morning to the 

 farm. Having more hands than I could easily find 

 work for, I decided to clear up the campus, which 

 consisted of about ninety acres. The heterogene- 

 ous rubbish due to many changes and much build- 

 ing was gathered in wagon loads, sorted and piled 

 up. The knotty logs at the kitchen door were 

 moved from their ancient resting-place and added 

 to the useless scrap pile ; and the vast accumulation 

 of chip manure was hauled away, which widened 

 the drive-way from about twelve to its original 



