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Title: The days of a man, being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
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Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., World book co.
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attended thereunion of the class of 1883, a group which hadfared with me from Rock Castle River to Cumber-land Falls and Cumberland Gap thirty-seven yearsbefore.2 At Cornell In connection with my trip to Bloomington I wenton to Cornell to make a sort of farewell visit, thoughnot really the last, I hope. Dr. Jacob Gould Schur-man, president of the institution for twenty-eightyears, had already resigned, and Albert W. Smith, agraduate of 1878 and one of our early Stanford fac-ulty, was acting president until a permanent headshould be chosen. The Comstocks entertained meat their charming cottage in the forest across FallCreek, and old friends and new vied with each otherin making me welcome. I had the pleasure also ofcalling on Minnie Mitchell Barnes at the old brickfarmhouse on the East Hill, to which we boys ofthe Grove used often to find our way on Sundayevenings. Our good friend is now a well-preserved 1 See Vol. I, Chapter vm, page 186. 2 See Vol. I, Chapter x, pages 246-249. C774 3
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DAVID STARR JORDAN, 192! From clay model of bust by Cartaino Scarpitta, a bronze cast of which is to be presented to Stanford University 19203 Old Friends Again woman well along in the seventies, with the samekeen eyes and sweet voice.1 In the great hall I spoke on Europes Plight andAmericas Duty to a very large audience, practi-cally all the students, who seemed much gratifiedbecause I called the acting president by the endearing Albertname of Albert. From Ithaca I went to New York to renewacquaintance with Hamilton Holt, Colonel House,John Mez, and other associates. There the six Stan-ford men who under direction of Bruce Bliven havemade the New York Globe an organ of liberalism,gave me a dinner at the Park Avenue Hotel, an eventlong to be remembered. One evening I took Mez,Mrs. Mez, and Susan Bristol, once my stenographer atStanford - - now engaged in journalistic work in theEast- -to see Drinkwaters Abraham Lincoln as Aportrayed by Frank McGlynn. This seemed to me °f Lincolnan im

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