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4. Old-school presidents — Bionomics — Foibles 

 of university heads — Value of higher educa- 

 tion — Making friends — Growth of Indiana 

 University — A wise board of trustees — Alumni 

 trustees — Death of Susan Bowen Jordan 



Chapter Thirteen 303 



1. Alfred Russel Wallace — Henry George — 

 Wendell Phillips — Beecher — Western hospi- 

 tality — Roosevelt and reform — Rooseveltian 

 epithets — A joyous nature — Roosevelt as 

 naturalist — Love of birds — Rooseveltia brig- 

 hanii — Deep-sea explorations — Anent the An- 

 anias Club — Civil Service in Alaska — The 

 tennis cabinet — "His Favorite Author" — At 

 his best — Roosevelt's strength and weakness 



2. The prey of -spoilsmen — Foulke — Slain for the 

 Republic — Merit, not politics — Civil Service 

 in Yellowstone Park - — At the White House — 

 McKinley's method — Funston's promotion — 

 The Mugwumps — Partisan tricks 



Chapter Fourteen 319 



1. A call to Iowa — President McBride — The 

 Jardin des Plantes — In the mountains — A 

 noted guide — "John Brow^n's body" — A 

 second visit to Pensacola 



2. Evolution of the college curriculum — The dregs 

 of learning — A radical suggestion — Disper- 

 sion of river fishes — Marriage to Jessie Knight 



— A Huguenot Puritan — Admiral Knight — ■ 

 Willoughby Lake — Quebec — Sainte Anne de 

 Beau-Pre — Luray — Jordan's Law — Gemi- 

 nate Species — Collecting in Virginia — Joint 

 studies of classic fish and fish names — A village 

 lost 



3. In Colorado — A splendid find — Twin Lake 

 Yellow Fin — Uncompahgre Pass — Lost arts 



— Utah again 



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