1890 The Pioneer Faculty 



literary ability, much beloved, whose untimely death occurred 

 in 1914, Sampson, from the University of Iowa, since professor 

 at Cornell, and, from Indiana University, Edward Howard 

 Griggs, afterward a very popular public lecturer; in Graphic 

 Arts, Bolton Coit Brown, a graduate of Cornell, then from the 

 University of Syracuse, who later resigned to devote his 

 whole time to painting; and in Mathematics, Charles E. Cox 

 from the University of the Pacific, who afterward went into 

 business in San Jose. 



The ability to do one's best under varying circum- 

 stances and unforeseen trials was distinctly a quality 

 of most members of the pioneer Stanford faculty, 

 and stood us in good stead later on. Several of 

 them I had known for years, and I should have 

 selected other personal acquaintances except for the 

 fear of running too much in one groove. Afterward 

 some of my new colleagues expressed regret that I 

 had not put in "more of my friends" that is, 

 more men with whose personal equation I was 

 thoroughly familiar. 



Following President White's plan at Cornell, I Non- 

 early arranged for a system of non-resident pro- "****** 



f f J- - ui_u i professors 



lessors, men or distinction who should supplement 

 by lectures of an inspiring kind the regular courses 

 of study. My first choice naturally fell on White 

 himself, and in the spring of 1892 he came out to 

 Stanford to give a course in Modern European 

 History. A year later Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman 

 (soon after elected president of Cornell) gave some 

 lectures in Philosophy; and ex-President Harrison 

 addressed us on International Law, in the fall of 

 1893. In this last connection I quote the following 

 from one of Senator Stanford's letters to me, dated 

 from Washington, D. C, March 10, 1893 



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