The Days of a Man 



quainted in connection with my attendance at a 

 trustees' meeting at Ithaca earlier in the year, and 

 who for thirty-three years has been my helpmate, 

 friend, and critic. For as James Stephens observes, 

 to marry a university woman is to have ever after 

 "a critic on the hearth." In these pages, however, 

 I may only hint at what her companionship has 

 meant to me. 



Miss Knight was the daughter of Charles Sanford 

 Knight, a veteran of the Civil War, and Cordelia 

 Cutter Knight, both formerly of Ware, Massa- 

 chusetts. On Mr. Knight's side there was a dash 

 of French Huguenot blood which shows itself 

 plainly in the olive complexion, dark hair, and big 

 black eyes of his children, a feature persistent 

 through succeeding generations. 



Admiral Mrs. Jordan's elder brother is Rear-Admiral 

 Knight Austin M. Knight, retired, but recently on duty in 

 Washington as president of the Naval Board of 

 Awards an appointment received with general 

 satisfaction among navy men as guaranteeing fair- 

 ness and intelligent discrimination. For some time 

 previous to our entrance into the war, Admiral 

 Knight was president of the Naval War College at 

 Newport; in this capacity he made a signal success. 

 During the period of our participation in the war 

 he was commander of the Asiatic Squadron and 

 senior naval officer at Vladivostok under circum- 

 stances which required marked qualities of force 

 and discretion. A man of broad culture and re- 

 sources outside his special professional field, he is 

 best known as. the author of "Seamanship," an 

 exhaustive treatise and accepted text on the subject. 

 He has also, I believe, the honor of having been in 



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