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accept another position soon afterward at Cornell 

 University. 



Shortly after this there arose other troubles of 

 a more serious nature. The State had made a 

 liberal appropriation for a Chemical building and 

 about the time the foundations for it were in place, 

 it was discovered that the College Treasurer, who 

 was also State Treasurer, had defaulted for a 

 large sum and the building was stopped. He 

 was not under bonds this formality having been 

 overlooked and recriminations arose in the ef- 

 fort to fix and shift the responsibility for the mis- 

 take. Several members of the faculty arrayed 

 themselves against the President, charging him 

 with dereliction in certain matters and with per- 

 forming unauthorized acts in the general manage- 

 ment of the College. In other words, a few pro- 

 fessors tried to unseat the President but were them- 

 selves unseated finally at a special meeting of the 

 Board of Trustees. Most of the members of the 

 State Assembly, and virtually every newspaper in 

 the State, took an active interest on one side or the 

 other of this controversy. I have seldom wit- 

 nessed so bitter a fight and it was very difficult for 

 me to keep out of it. 



In 1873 m Y e Y es began to fail from over-work 



