1890 Successors at Indiana 



The Indiana board, with whom (as I have said) 

 my relations had always been most friendly, were 

 very considerate in those days of transition. My 

 new appointment they regarded as a significant 

 honor and one that in a degree testified to their own 

 wisdom and to the high standing of the State Uni- 

 versity. Among other things they asked me to 

 name my successor and to fill all vacancies that would 

 occur in the faculty at the end of the current year. 



As president I suggested (for the second time) CouUer 

 Dr. Coulter, who had been for years my intellectual 

 "running mate." In educational meetings we two 

 had often stood together in favor of scientific studies 

 and volitional courses, especially emphasizing the 

 "element of consent" in education. Coulter was 

 an inspiring teacher, a convincing speaker, and a 

 man of genial personality, whose intellectual force 

 was felt throughout the state. He therefore seemed 

 to me the one best fitted for the Indiana presidency. 

 But this office he held for two years only, resigning 

 in 1893 to become president of Lake Forest Uni- 

 versity, soon after which he accepted the more 

 congenial duties of head professor of Botany in the 

 University of Chicago, the only institution of im- 

 portance younger than Stanford. 



Upon my further recommendation, again at the Swain 

 board's request, Coulter was succeeded by Joseph 

 Swain, already for two years professor of Mathe- 

 matics at Stanford. Swain proved to be a very 

 acceptable administrative head, showing unusual 

 tact and patience and a warm, friendly interest in 

 the personal affairs of the students. But as a member 

 of the Society of Friends, he was soon urged by the 

 trustees of Swarthmore College to undertake the 



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