The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-27
AN EXPERIENCE.
A Struggle for a ProiessOrship, Failure
and Resignation.

Struggle for Proiesorship, q Failure
and Resignation.
1t was now four weeks until she was to
70 home. She looked eagerly forward to
The md and found it impossible to resist
the temptation to 90 when she should
baw finished.
The dav was calm and pleasant on which
Ruth Bailey made her graduating address
and farewell to her schoolmates in F..
Hec dress was white silk, with a rich blue
bow at her throat a little darker shade
han that of her large eyes. Her light
hair was brushed back lightly into loose
knot. making her to her friends an at
tractive picture.
Her address was original and entertain
ing-so broad. for a woman, as some OF
her vulgar hearers remarked; while she
was heartily declared by her schOol mates
to have done excellently. Among her
hearers were some "hero worshipers" and
they declared she was queen OF the day
Unconscious OF the nature of the remarks
about her. she was much gratified at the
lowers and several handsome presentsshe
received, among them GOethe's "Faust,"
with a note from her German teacher
which read:
Miss BAILEY-With kind wishes from your
friend, 5. SCHAFF.
CHANGING at this she took up her letter
addressed in the presidents well-known
handwriting.
Some two years before in the city of
c., a hundred-and-fifty- ride on
Tho fhara vra tor1nhf hxy
Prof Weatherjon summer term of
school. The branches 10 be taught besides
history, physiology, grammar and eeog-
raphy were psychology, civil government
and mathematics. Ruth's tasks in ALGEBRA
and arithmetic kept her time employed,
and caused her to slip away quietly while
her schoolmates sat discussing the mys-
teries of some problem or question already
settled, to wTestle with her new diff
culties. Fresh obstacles only added to
her strength in her determination to mas
ter them. Opposition but lent new in
terest to her campaigns in various direc-
tions. Myrtle Haswell and Ruth were
late one morning at algebra.
ibid you get them all p Ruth asked.
'NO, did not get even a statement for
the second AMI the seventh and eighth
/ haven't tried. Did your"
"Yes, they were hard, but have them
all"
Harry Markum, who had been her play
mate of childhood, came often where she
was under the shade on a rustic seat
to help her "wrestle with Hewitt's freaks
of the human mind, Schyler's radicals
and LOOMS Irlangles, as he would airily
remark
You're almost sixteen, aren't you ?" he
said 10 her one day.
Eyes, Harry" she said "but, saw, do
you notice what Brown says here that we
can see but a part of any whole at time.
For instance, in looking at a tree, we see
the leaves as a part, or in listening to q
piece OF music we first hear the treble,
Ihen skip over to the bass and listen to it.
How is he going to see the beauty of the
landscape or know the harmony OF sound
4 he cannot grasp instant reations?"
well" said Harry, che argues. be-
leve, that the transforms so fast as for us
DOT 10 realize 1t almost Perhaps his mind
was little slow and he argued from bis
own experience.
After teaching a winter term in the
country district Ruth spent year at col
le2e. She was ever ready for a debate
where her thoroughness was a benefit e
her. The intuitive perception of obstacles
and discrimination made II appear 10 he
associates as il she won without trouble Of
fear. And she noticed that this intel
lectual rivalry was ever given its due anc
welcomed generally by the men OF tn,
Glass. Those of her own sex were passive
Often she heard from home. In
Dne OF the letters they said tina
Harry Markum was now practicinl
Jaw at c.. The spring months passed
She had often said; what shall / d,
when my time here il out2 Where sinai
direct nv energies2" She applied TO
he professorship of mathematics in tn,
he college, as she was rather partial /,