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lines required for entrance to college; and the 

 student teachers acquired experience and secured 

 funds to pay their expenses. 



I wish that the methods of instruction, practice 

 and government which prevailed in my time at the 

 I. A. C. could be written down in detail and sent 

 out for the use of the farm schools which are now 

 springing up ; which of necessity will be conducted 

 under similar conditions and will receive pupils 

 not unlike those that attended the Iowa College 

 in the beginning. They should be fundamentally 

 correct when applied to institutions of a similar 

 character. 



In the third year of my stay at Ames, internal 

 troubles began discord between the Trustees 

 and some members of the faculty. William A. 

 Anthony, the Professor of Physics, had made ar- 

 rangements to go east and study during the winter 

 vacation ; but the Trustees required him to remain 

 at the College to attend to the plumbing of some 

 of the new buildings under construction. This 

 meant his doing a large part of the work with his 

 own hands for skilled workmen could seldom be 

 had in this locality. He obeyed at this time but 

 it was the straw which caused this man of excep- 

 tionally diversified and eminent qualifications to 



