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collect together a medical faculty every 

 member of which is a master in his spe- 

 cialty. 



It is easy enough to have a good medical 

 school, and it is easy enough to be dean of 

 such a school, if you have a good faculty 

 and good students, and I owe much to the 

 students in this department. I want to 

 say that the spirit for good, honest work 

 and the inclination to be gentlemanly and 

 honorable in everything have always pre- 

 vailed among the student body in this uni- 

 versity. It is an honor to me that I have 

 been associated as teacher with some of 

 the greatest scientific men in this country; 

 however, these men do not owe their attain- 

 ments to any instruction that they have 

 received from me. They would have been 

 great and probably greater still had their 

 instruction been received from others. 



I want especially to express my personal 

 gratitude to him from whose hands I have 

 received this volume. AYhen I came a 

 student to the University of Michigan, 

 Doctor Prcscott was then, and he still is, 

 the Nestor of scientific research in this uni- 

 versity. From him more than from any 

 other man have I received the inspiration 

 for scientific work which has led me to 

 accomplish whatever I have done. I well 

 remember one of the first problems at 

 which he placed me. It was a new test or 

 a newly reported test for arsenic, reported 

 by one of the most di.stinguished of chem- 

 ists, and the doctor asked me to determine 

 its delicacy. I reported from day to day 

 and week to week as to the delicacy of the 

 test, until I was getting it down to high 

 dilutions. One day when I made such a 

 report the good doctor raised his eyebrows 

 and said that possibly I might make thafr 

 test without any arsenic present, and I 

 made it and found the result e<|ually posi- 

 tive. 



President Angell has explained how it 



is that my ela.ssmates who occupy the sec- 

 ond and third rows of seats before me, the 

 class of 1878, got through the university. 

 It was necessary, in order to get us through, 

 that the lectures be repeated to us for two 

 successive years and in this way we were 

 finally nourished sufficiently to become 

 doctors and be turned out on the world. 

 Now, my friends, in accepting this vol- 

 lune I shall not regard it as a trophy of 

 any achievement. I shall regard it as a 

 tribute of love and respect, which I shall 

 prize more highly than anj-thing else, from 

 my colleagues, my students and my friends. 

 In its pages I expect to find inspiration for 

 farther work ; in its pages I expect to find 

 comfort in my hours of rest and when I 

 am through with it I shall bequeath it to 

 my children as my most valuable earthly 

 possession. I take it, that this volume is 

 presented to me as a result of the spirit of 

 scientific research of those who have made 

 these contributions, and I wi.sh to .say to 

 the honorable board of regents that I hope 

 that you will grant me the privilege never 

 denied an old servant, to offer one word of 

 advice and to say that if you wish to main- 

 tain the glory, honor and reputation of 

 this univei-sity. you will encourage the 

 young man who is alile to do research 

 work. It was not until scientific research 

 came with experimental investigation, that 

 the world began to grow and develop until 

 within the last century its progress has 

 been greater than in all the preceding 

 centuries. It is scientific research that has 

 made the German univei-sities the very 

 center not only of science, but of letters 

 as well. I read only a few days ago a 

 very interesting hook by a graduate of 

 Oxford, entitled 'Oxford at the Cross- 

 Road,' and this man inquires whether Ox- 

 ford and Cambridge are to continue as 

 literary boarding houses, or whether they 

 are to join the great iniivorsities of other 



