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submit to an operation for appendicitis, and in July went 

 abroad with family friends, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gil- 

 man Stanton of Winchester, Mass., but was home again 

 the last of August; in 1903 he went to Nassau and Florida, 

 and in 1905 to Florida. The last three years of his life he 

 was obliged to wear a corset, or as he called it "a harness, " 

 for osteo-arthritis. His life was one long fight with disease, 

 but the moment there was any improvement in his condi- 

 tion, he was back at his post, for he felt that a necessity 

 was upon him and he must work. His indomitable energy 

 could not be restrained, and he never knew how to hus- 

 band his strength. The talent of repose was denied him. 

 He could not do nothing; he could not lie by. 



The trustees of the College did everything in their power 

 to relieve him of work. They voted him vacations without 

 loss of salary; and when he was elected chairman of the ex- 

 ecutive committee of the Association of Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations, they allowed him the neces- 

 sary time to attend to those duties, which often required 

 long absences from the college; as in the case of the Second 

 Morrill Act hi 1890, when he was in Washington most of 

 the time for more than two months. These are only illus- 

 trations, among many, of their thoughtfulness. 



Some account may now be given of four of his enforced 

 pauses, the only ones of which any record is left. He sailed 

 for England August 31,1891, in company with his wife, 

 who remained with him at Southampton until October 11, 

 when she returned to America, as he was sufficiently re- 

 covered to be left alone. On October 13 he wrote: 



"I skipped down to the island of Jersey for four or five 

 days, and took notes which I hope to work up into a lecture 



