Chapter VIII. MORNING PRAYERS AND MIDNIGHT REVELS

  The diary of Joseph Brady reflects undergraduate life at Miami, 1843-48. The journal of David W. McClung covers the college year 1982-53. Isaac Anderson's student diary spans the first six months of 1854. Abner Jones' journal treats the years 1854-58. Chapter 34 of E. N. Clopper's An American Family (1950) draws upon the diary of Edward W. Clopper, Miami, 1861, for an account of college life, 1858-61. A sketch of "Old Miami" by David Swing appeared in the Chicago Alliance, July 14, 1877; the account describes his college years, 1848-52. Joseph Fort Newton's David Swing, Poet-Preacher (Chicago, 1909), describes Swing's years in Oxford, 1848-52. J. W. Scott's own account of the origin and early history of the Oxford Female College appears in the Miami University Bulletin, January 1930. Professor Stoddard's lecture notes are in the Faculty File of the Miami Collection. The ceremonial "Burial of Logic" is described in Abner Jones' student diary; it was recalled by Waldo F. Brown in the Miami Student, May 1899. A printed program of the ceremonial burial by the Class of 1856 is in the Miami Collection.