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sent up at the end of that administration when every vestige of 
hope was dissipated of a possible re-election. . 
Equally do I seek the pardon of those who governed Purdue 
University for contributing to his selection to a place in that 
college, where his unsatisfactory services were borne in deep 
humility and a daily prayer for the hour of relief from his 
brief career in that institution. 
I have already made my amends to the University at Boze¬ 
man, Montana, for the share of responsibility I bore in his 
selection as an instructor in that institution, where again his very 
unsatisfactory work and the well sustained charges of plagiar¬ 
ism brought forth a public rebuke that he has and continues to 
allow to go unchallenged. 
I have long since apologized to those who were sought to 
accept the position he now holds at Cornell, for urging his con¬ 
sideration for that position and those who were buncoed into 
according him a three years’ contract, the cunning outcome of 
his prior experiences in other institutions, and have many times 
uttered a prayer of sympathy for those around him, as I have 
learned from time to time of their retreat to the .solitude of 
their rooms, to suffer in secret the pangs of regret and disap¬ 
pointment that have followed his selection. With those who 
have suffered under his boorish temperament as an instructor, 
helpless to flee from his consuming egotism, I have more than 
once been called to extend sympathy and comfort. 
To the profession in the Empire State, on whose skirts he 
clung for many months, until arrangements were completed 
under sufficiently favorable auspices to enable him to obtain a 
State license and whose blighting influences already show in 
many directions, I offer my commiseration. If it were not for 
his phlegmatic earth-worm character he could not have made 
his parasitic return to association, professional and college 
work, and he would long since have gone to other pastures and 
accorded to his patient sufferers a relief that would be a lifted 
load of responsibility to which there would go up from the 
Great Lakes to Bedloe’s Island a hearty accord of Aniens. 
I plead guilty to the preparation of the proceedings of the 
association in a manner wholly in keeping with what should 
characterize the production of all scientific work. I plead 
guilty to placing this work in a competent establishment, 
where three trained and experienced medical proofreaders were 
employed ; a union shop where only the highest skilled labor 
is employed ; a house that has sent forth for years the proceed- 
