1891] A Strong Team 



came to us from the University of Wisconsin. It had once been 

 my good fortune to ride with Marx by train from Geneva to 

 Ithaca, on which occasion I was strongly impressed by his 

 energy, enthusiasm, and solid good sense. I may add that in 

 the twenty-five years during which we were associated at 

 Stanford, my first favorable judgment was continuously 

 strengthened; as "Daddy Marx" he is the idol of generations 

 of engineers, and his unselfish services to the town of Palo 

 Alto have won him the gratitude of all his neighbors. 



From Nebraska, as professor of Economics, I called Dr. Somt of 

 Amos Griswold Warner, one of the best teachers and finest thf "Old 

 characters of my acquaintance, thoroughly respected and be- Guard 

 loved by every one. Unfortunately his health was precarious. 

 During the great railway strike of 1893 which affected all the 

 railroads west of Chicago, he was obliged to travel at night from 

 Sacramento to San Francisco on the open deck of a steamer, 

 and so contracted a violent cold; this developed into tuber- 

 culosis, of which he died after some years of exile in New 

 Mexico. 



George Mann Richardson, formerly with Remsen at Johns 

 Hopkins, left a professorship in Lehigh to take our work in 

 Organic Chemistry. As chairman of the Committee on Stu- 

 dent Affairs, Dr. Richardson showed remarkable skill, dealing 

 so fairly even when severely with delinquents that he 

 generally left them feeling he was really a friend. But not- 

 withstanding his extraordinary muscular strength, in 1902 he 

 fell victim to an insidious kidney disease. 



Melville Best Anderson, long my friend and sometime 

 colleague, resigned from the University of Iowa to fill our chair 

 of English Literature, in which field I have known no more 

 effective teacher. Dr. Anderson remained on the Stanford 

 faculty for twenty-two years, resigning at the expiration of 

 that period to accept a Carnegie Pension awarded to enable 

 him to carry on studies at Florence, a fine new metrical trans- 

 lation of Dante's "Divina Commedia" being the literary 

 work of his life. 



Fernando Sanford, a student of Helmholtz in Berlin and 

 an active investigator, was called from Lake Forest to our 

 chair of Physics, a position acceptably held by him until his 

 retirement as emeritus in 1919. Dr. Oliver Peebles Jenkins 



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