Alexander Winchell. bhi 
at once to his professorship, and has honored itself by maintaining him 
in that position where, unhampered, he has ever since been able to utter 
his views in the midst of the largest body of students on the American 
continent. Disgraceful asthis history is to the men who drove out Dr. 
Winchell, they but succeeded, as various similar bodies of men making 
similar efforts have done, in advancing their supposed victim to higher 
position and more commanding influence. 
He returned to Ann Arbor and again applied himself to his 
long-promised yolume, interrupted, as before, by engagements 
to lecture at summerassemblies. Nevertheless he added, as he 
states, 52,500 words to his manuscript, before his departure, 15th 
Sept., 1878, for Syracuse. 
This vear, instead of writing a series of studied lectures, he re- 
stricted himself to extemporaneous, and doubtless more popular, 
expositions. The lecture which he delivered in New York, Oct. 
25, in the Academy of Music, before the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
Convention, published in the New York Tribune, was very 
highly commended by all who were alive to the progress of ideas 
in education; and was repeatedly republished in educational 
journals. The theme was A Plea for Modernized Education. 
Having been invited to repeat the lecture in Syracuse, before the 
public, he wrote another entitled, Culture and Knowledge, in which, 
while still maintaining the proper precedence of science, he dwelt 
on the value of culture, but insisted that it comes from the study 
of things valuable for knowledge, as well as the study of dead 
anguages. This was published in full in the Syracuse Courier 
for Noy. 17, 1878. It received even more attention than the 
varlier address. He also delivered two or three other public 
addresses in Syracuse, which elicted very favorable comment from 
the press. The DailyJournal of Noy. 16, said: 
There has been a growing interest of late in the utterances of this dis- 
tinguished scholar. His last lecture, on the subject of education, is 
spoken of by all who heard it, as extremely eloquent in its delivery and 
brilliant in its thought. * * * Dr. Winchell deserves a warm place in the 
hearts of the Christian public for his masterly defense of the Bible, and 
his eloquent pleas for a full and symmetrical culture, including moral 
and religious as well as intellectual development. He is a christian 
scientist of the highest type; and Syracuse may well be proud to number 
him among her most distinguished citizens. 
Returning to Ann Arbor again he gave his leisure to the prep- 
aration of a work to be entitled Preadumites. He desired to 
investigate the subject further for his own satisfaction, and also to 
