18793 At Indiana University 



the name of the institution was changed to Butler 

 College, and with wise management resumed its 

 former progressive attitude. A healthy school of 

 higher learning will exist for its own sake, not to 

 promote some particular religious organization. 



On leaving Irvington in June, 1879 I went 

 almost immediately to Europe with a group of trips 

 students. 1 This was the first of four similar trips, 

 characterized largely by modest living and much 

 tramping through picturesque regions, especially 

 in the high Alps. Of them I shall deal in a separate 

 chapter. With added years and new reasons for 

 travel, I went about in different fashion, as will 

 also later appear. 



2 



My position at Butler I resigned on short notice, A sudden 

 having been unexpectedly offered the professorship of trans f er 

 Natural History (which then meant Zoology, Geol- 

 ogy, Botany, and Physiology) in Indiana University. 

 I had gone down to Eloomington to serve as judge 

 in an oratorical contest, a kind of exercise on which 

 great stress was laid in those days, especially in the 

 Middle West, where successful college orators passed 

 into the state legislature and ultimately to Con- 

 gress. 2 With me went Brayton, then a candidate 

 for the already announced vacancy in Natural 



1 Among other members of these student parties in Europe, I should men- 

 tion Cornelia M. Clapp, Henrietta E. Hooker, Abby L. Sweetser, teachers in 

 Mount Holyoke Seminary; Ida M. Bunker, Fannie B. Maxwell; James L. 

 Mitchell and Samuel E. Smith, students; and Julia Hughes, afterward Mrs. 

 Gilbert. 



* Among those competing on the occasion to which I refer were several 

 typical Western orators, two of whom have since represented Indiana at Wash- 

 ington. But the prize went to Miss Jennie Campbell, a thoughtful youna 

 woman, afterward wife of the well-known astronomer, Dr. Francis P. Leaven- 

 woi th of the University of Minnesota. 



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