1875II Hope of Advancement 



gested that three flies (with their progeny) would 

 devour a dead horse more quickly than a lion; but 

 three bacilli would do the work even more rapidly 

 and more completely than any number of flies. 



In 1877 I wrote for The Dial a review of Tyndall's Fhaung 

 "Floating Matter in the Air," remarking that now ^"^^[^^ 



. . . the air 



we were beginning to find out what our enemies 

 were, we should be able to fight them. That state- 

 ment proved prophetically true; medicine at present 

 stands on the firing line of science, and in no depart- 

 ment of human knowledge has the forward movement 

 been more sound or more impressive. 



In Indianapolis, for the first time since leaving 

 Cornell, I felt that my work was being appreciated, 

 not only by my students — who were always en- 

 thusiastic — but also by the powers in control. 

 Ambition, however, impelled me toward university Efforts 

 work, and I had no desire to remain in a high school. ■^°^'' ., 



° university 



I therefore used to envy my friend Snow, already position 

 established, and for a lifetime, in a college good 

 enough to call forth his best work. My removal to 

 Butler I regarded as temporary only, though useful 

 as restoring my college foothold, lost for the time 

 on leaving Cornell and Lombard. I accordingly 

 made numerous though unsuccessful efforts to secure 

 a position in larger institutions — among them 

 Purdue, where Wiley vainly tried to organize a 

 Natural History department of which I had been 

 promised the headship. 



This disappointment was only one of several at 

 about the same period. Before leaving Appleton 



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