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 214 I can be to another. You will never catch me sulking in my tent when there is work to be done for which I am, either by the literal terms of our contract, or by the ideals of our relation, responsible. And that there might be a clear understanding to begin with, he writes to illustrate the need of prescribing the boundaries between departments : For example, if it is true that is to be in the faculty, plans ought to be made at once for a bomb-proof wall between the departments we shall occupy. The best work I have done in has been on the thesis that the more writes on .... the more conclusively he proves that he is thirty years behind the times. Yet these two professors lived and labored together in perfect amity and thorough co-operation. There were nine women in the first faculty aside from those in the Library. Alice Freeman Palmer was made Dean of Women on July 25, 1892, and on August 31 Marion Talbot was associated with her, succeeding her after Mrs. Palmer's valuable but neces- sarily temporary service. It is impossible to relate in detail the story of all the appoint- ments. The complete list may be found in another place. 1 About the first of June, 1892, the secretary wrote for publication: The last gift of one million dollars, made by Mr. Rockefeller in February, has made it possible for the University to organize its faculties in. a somewhat complete way. In all departments sixty instructors have now been elected. The number will be increased by ten or twelve additional names, and then, so far as the faculties are concerned, the University will be ready to receive its students. In his simplicity the Secretary thought he was giving out authori- tative information. He was, as it turned out, only announcing the number of instructors for whom financial provision had been made. The President, feeling driven by necessity, recommended, and the Trustees, under the same spur, appointed, not ten or twelve more, but sixty. Appointments continued to be made at almost every meeting until October 25, nearly a month after the Univer- sity opened. Among those appointed were F. B. Tarbell, J. W. A. Young, F. Schevill, E. O. Jordan, J. Stieglitz, C. F. Castle, S. H. Clark, C. W. Votaw, and D. J. Lingle. 1 See Appendix.