Lincoln 

 Mills 



The Days of a Man C1892 



try home, Hacienda de la Posada de Verona, in the 

 Livermore Valley. 



Susan With Mrs. Susan Lincoln Mills, the venerable 

 founder and first president of Mills Seminary for 

 women, I soon became well acquainted. As a 

 graduate of Mount Holyoke, she had developed her 

 school on the same lines; and when Mount Holyoke 

 was expanded to the rank and title of a college. 

 Mills followed, while at the same time retaining its 

 elementary departments. This situation, however, 

 had become anomalous, for it is no longer possible 

 successfully to maintain college and secondary work 

 in the same institution. Accordingly, at my advice, 

 Mrs. Mills was persuaded (even if rather reluctantly) 

 to abandon the preparatory work. The transition 

 from seminary to college, necessarily abrupt, brought 

 about a sudden and somewhat disconcerting re- 

 duction both in enrollment and in income, but later 

 years have abundantly demonstrated the wisdom 

 of the move. From time to time I visited the 

 institution both as friend and counselor, for like 

 every one else who knew the founder, I valued 

 highly her sterling intelligence and devotion. 



Among my new friends I counted also the heads 

 of several private secondary schools of a high order. 

 William T. Reid of Belmont, our near neighbor, 

 was a man of genuine learning and broad vision, a 

 Harvard graduate who had been for a time president 

 of the State University, and who from the beginning 

 supported us loyally. A little farther off, at San 

 Mateo, Dr. A. L. Brewer and his son, William A. 

 Brewer, both men of gentle breeding and scholarly 

 taste, in charge of St. Matthew's School for Boys, 



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