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personal friends and the trustees, however, were not with- 

 out grave apprehensions. About the middle of December, 

 1904, while waiting for a car at Holyoke, he took a chill 

 which utterly prostrated him. This attack was much more 

 alarming than any he had as yet experienced. Again his 

 friend Colonel Tyler made it financially easy for him to go 

 wherever it was thought best, and have his wife as his 

 companion. The trustees were not to be outdone, and at 

 a meeting held January 2, 1905, voted to give him six 

 months' leave of absence with full pay. The motion was 

 made by Mr. William H. Bowker, one of the graduates of 

 the first class sent out from the College, who spoke with a 

 good deal of feeling, and there was a very warm expression 

 of sympathy and affection for the president in this new 

 trial. 



Here is his own account of his condition, written Decem- 

 ber 27, 1904:- 



"This last attack seems to have knocked things upside 

 down and left me as far as health is concerned in a pretty 

 shaky condition. To state very briefly, there is a slight ef- 

 fusion of serum in the lung cavity, which is gradually being 

 absorbed. Then there is a constant emphysema of the lung 

 which keeps me short-breathed. My limbs are slightly 

 swollen, but the most serious trouble is some irritation of 

 the urinary organs. Anyway, as near as I can find out the 

 doctors propose to keep me in the house until everything 

 is cleaned up and then send me South till warm weather. 

 For eleven days I have not had a bit of anything solid, 

 nothing except milk and soda water, and I think I am 

 slowly improving, but it is not absolutely strengthening.*' 



The improvement he looked for was very slow and on 



