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went on till the crash came. He was virtually driven from 

 the State, retired to Europe, and never returned. 



Years afterward, the citizens of Michigan in all parts of 

 the State sought to make amends to him. The great body 

 of the graduates, who loved and respected him, with lead 

 ing men throughout the commonwealth, joined in a letter 

 inviting him to return as a public guest ; but he declined, 

 and never again saw his native land. His first main place 

 of residence was Basel, where, at the university, he super 

 intended the education of his grandson, who, at a later 

 period, became a professor at Heidelberg. Finally, he 

 retired to a beautiful villa on the shores of Lake Leman, 

 and there, with his family about him, peacefully followed 

 his chosen studies. At his death he was buried amid the 

 vineyards and orchards of Vevey. 



Though I absolutely refused to be drawn into any of 

 his quarrels, my relations with the doctor remained kindly, 

 and not a single feeling was left which marred my visit 

 to him in after years at Basel, or my later pilgrimage to 

 his grave on the shores of Lake Leman. To no man is any 

 success I may have afterward had in the administration 

 of Cornell University so greatly due as to him. 



In this summary I have hardly touched upon the most 

 important part of my duty, namely, the purpose of my 

 lecture-courses, with their relations to that period in the 

 history of our country, and to the questions which think 

 ing men, and especially thinking young men, were then en 

 deavoring to solve, since all this has been given in my 

 political reminiscences. 



So much for my main work at the University of Michi 

 gan. But I had one recreation which was not without its 

 uses. The little city of Ann Arbor is a beautiful place on 

 the Huron River, and from the outset interested me. 

 Even its origin had a peculiar charm. About a quarter 

 of a century before my arrival, three families came from 

 the East to take up the land which they had bought 

 of the United States ; and, as their three holdings touched 

 each other at one corner, they brought boughs of trees 



