The Days of a Man 



1:1891 



Bryan 



East in 



search of 

 professors 



affairs of that institution. To this he assented on 

 condition that a large additional endowment should 

 be raised. The amount being promptly subscribed, 

 he resigned from Indiana to accept the position at 

 Swarthmore, which he still continues to hold. He 

 has also taken a very active part in the work of the 

 National Education Association — of which he was 

 president in 1914 — ^ as well as in the movement for 

 international peace. 



With Swain's withdrawal the board once more 

 appealed to me. This time I advised the appoint- 

 ment of Dr. Bryan, under whose inspiring leadership 

 the institution has continued to forge ahead. In 

 one of its recent registers I note that each of the 

 ninety-two counties of the state is well represented 

 at Bloomington. When I became president, not 

 more than twenty had even one student there. 



In the Indiana faculty several vacancies had, of 

 course, been created by the resignation of those men 

 who were to follow me to Stanford. One or two 

 others had meanwhile been called elsewhere. I 

 therefore drew on my list of eligibles and without 

 delay selected good men for all the vacant places. 



In June, at the close of the collegiate year, ac- 

 companied by Swain and Jenkins, the latter having 

 been already appointed to the chair of Physiology 

 at Stanford, I went East in search of more pro- 

 fessors. We thus visited Cornell, Harvard, Johns 

 Hopkins, and other institutions. Swain, as the 

 reader may remember, is a giant in stature. In the 

 Delta Upsilon Lodge at Cornell we heard an old 

 song revived with a new allusion : 



Why is there but one Professor Swain? 

 There's only room for one. 



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