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chemist in Boston. Would I look him up and, if his 

 attainments and personality seemed satisfactory, 

 consider him for a position ? 



On visiting Boston, therefore, I went out to 

 Brookline to see Dr. Stillman, and being thoroughly 

 pleased, at once offered him our chair of Chemistry. 

 This he as promptly accepted, declining to consider 

 an advance from his company, for that, he said, 

 would only tend to confuse his mind. We thus 

 secured one of the wisest teachers I have ever 

 known, and one of the most thoroughly beloved; 

 his dear wife, I may add, has ably seconded him in 

 every relation and few other Stanford homes have 

 contributed as much as theirs to the social well- 

 being of our community. Stillman remained for 

 twenty-six years in active service at the head of his 

 department. On my acceptance of the chancellor- 

 ship in 1913, he became vice-president of the institu- 

 tion, retiring on August i, 1917, at the conventional 

 age limit of sixty-five years. 



From the University of Indiana came Branner in Geology, 

 Swain in Mathematics, Gilbert in Zoology, and Campbell in 

 Botany. The Indiana group included also Earl Barnes (then 

 recently from Cornell) in Education, and a few younger men 

 as assistants. Among the latter was John A. Miller, an ad- 

 mirable teacher of Mathematics, since professor of Astronomy 

 at Swarthmore. With Branner, Swain, and Gilbert my readers 

 are already very familiar, but Dr. Campbell needs a second 

 introduction. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he 

 afterward spent considerable time in Germany, acquiring there 

 a reputation for methodical work and brilliant technique. As 

 a scientific investigator he ranks with the first in his field, being 

 at the same time greatly admired by his associates as an ac- 

 complished man of wide experience and travel. 



Charles David Marx, our professor of Civil Engineering, a 

 graduate of Cornell and formerly assistant professor there, 



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