1874] Appleton Collegiate Institute 



then both surprised and pleased I to learn that 

 even indirectly the boy's life had touched mine, 

 he to know that the story was of my making. I also 

 recall with pleasure the admiration, almost vener- 

 ation, of both Mr. and Mrs. Stanford for the edu- 

 cational ideals and personality of Agassiz, who was 

 once their guest in San Francisco. As a matter of 

 fact, when the large Zoology Building (now Jordan 

 Hall) was erected, a marble statue of Agassiz of tanford 

 heroic size was one of the two placed over the portal, 

 the other being that of his patron and associate, 

 Humboldt. 



But to return for a moment to Miss Macdonald, 

 or rather to Mrs. David McRoberts, for such she 

 became a year or two after her arrival in San Fran- 

 cisco, where her husband, a Scot, was for a time on 

 the staff of the Call. Shortly after their marriage, 

 however, Mr. McRoberts was appointed reporter 

 for the House of Commons, and they settled down 

 in Chelsea. After some years they returned for a 

 time to San Francisco, Mrs. McRoberts taking a 

 leading part in the local suffrage campaign. Later 

 still they went to the mining district of North 

 Australia in search of a fortune, and from there, 

 about 1900, McRoberts wrote me of the sudden 

 death of his brilliant wife. 



With the end of my one year at Appleton the 

 Collegiate Institute ceased to exist, although founded 

 but three years before by Mr. Anson Ballard, an 

 enthusiast in education, who at his death endowed 

 it with considerable real estate. The financial 

 panic of that period, however, punctured land 

 booms, and the property proved quite unsalable. 



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