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the class continued, either he or I must give it up, and 

 added, I believe the trustees will prefer your departure to 

 mine. At this he protested that he had made no demon 

 strations, to which I answered that if I put him on his 

 honor he would not deny that he was the real center of 

 the difficulty ; that the others were, comparatively, men of 

 small account; and that, with him gone, the backbone of 

 the whole difficulty would be broken. He seemed im 

 pressed by this view possibly he was not wholly dis 

 pleased at the importance it gave him; and finally he ac 

 knowledged that perhaps he had been rather foolish, and 

 suggested that we try to live together a little longer. I an 

 swered cordially, we shook hands at parting, and there 

 was never any trouble afterward. I soon found what sort 

 of questions interested him most, took especial pains to 

 adapt points in my lectures to his needs, and soon had no 

 stronger friend in the university. 



But his activity finally found a less fortunate outcome. 

 A year or two afterward came news of a terrible affair in 

 the university town. A student was lying dead at the 

 coroner s rooms, and on inquiry it was found that his 

 death was the result of a carousal in which my friend F 

 was a leading spirit. Eight men were concerned, of 

 whom four were expelled F being one and four sus 

 pended. On leaving, he came to me and thanked me most 

 heartily for what I had done for him, said that the action 

 of the faculty was perfectly just, that no other course was 

 open to us, but that he hoped yet to show us all that he 

 could make a man of himself. He succeeded. Five years 

 later he fell as a general at the head of his brigade at 

 Gettysburg. 



In addition to my regular work at the university, I lec 

 tured frequently in various cities throughout Michigan 

 and the neighboring States. It was the culminating period 

 of the popular-lecture system, and through the winter 

 months my Friday and Saturday evenings were generally 

 given to this sort of duty. It was, after its fashion, what 

 in these days is called &quot; university extension ; indeed, the 



