Memorial Address—Charles Keridall Adams. 
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year—as he said once to the students of the University of Wis¬ 
consin—he saved money enough to buy a dozen good books in 
general literature, and read them. 
Graduated in 1861, he went on to the Master’s degree in 
1862, was then appointed instructor in Latin and history, as¬ 
sistant professor of history in 1863, and in 1867 full professor 
of history, with the privilege of spending a year and a half in 
German arid French universities. The man he succeeded in 
the chair of history was the then young Andrew D. White, who 
had perhaps chiefly influenced his student career, determined 
his choice of a specialty, nominated him for 1 his own chair on 
leaving, suggested him, I think, as his successor ini the presi¬ 
dency of Cornell, and remained all through life his closest 
friend. Connected with the University of Michigan twenty- 
eight years!—five as student, twenty-three 1 as: member of the fac¬ 
ulty—he came to be regarded perhaps as its most eminent pro¬ 
fessor, and was dean of the school of political science from its 
establishment in 1881. First, as non-resident lecturer on his¬ 
tory at Cornell (1881-5), and later as president (1885-92), 
he became thoroughly familiar with that Eastern institution 
which is doubtless most nearly of the style of the Western state 
university. He* had been chairman, too, of the building com¬ 
mittees 1 of the great libraries of the University of Michigan 
and of Cornell, something significant in view of his later con¬ 
nection with that beautiful structure which will remain as his 
chief monument at Madison—the Historical Library. At the 
age of fifty-seven, in the maturity of his powers, learning, and 
experience in affairs, he came in the autumn of 1892 to the 
LTniversity of Wisconsin. 
A paragraph from a paper which I prepared for local use 
at the time of his resignation last autumn sums up some of the 
qualities of the man as well as the striking results of his nine 
years’ administration : “Dr. Bascom’s thirteen-year adminis¬ 
tration had put the young institution on a sound basis of schol¬ 
arship, had filled the state with a fine body of alumni loyal to 
their president and fond of their alma mater, and had made 
inevitable and easy the transition from a small college to a big 
university. Dr. Chamberlin’s* five-year regime had been 
marked by greatly accelerated growth in numbers and develop¬ 
ment of university temper and spirit. The latter found Sci¬ 
ence Hall built, and he began and all but finished the Dairy 
