Chapter X. INDIAN SUMMER

  The student diary of W. D. Hancock gives some glimpses of Miami life in 1868. The Miami Student was published 1867-73, and after a fifteen-year interval resumed publication in 1888; the burlesque ceremony of the Peace Pipe during Commencement season is described in the issue of June 28, 1871. "Miami in the 1870's" is idyllically pictured in Chapter 12 of Ophia D. Smith's Fair Oxford (Oxford, Ohio, 1947). President Stanton's 1867 inaugural address, "The Present Conditions and Wants of Miami University," is in the bound volume Inaugural Addresses, 1835-1928. TheBoard of Trustees records show the financial problems of the old college which led to the decision, in June 1873, to close the institution until its debts could be paid off and a balance accumulated for its future. The privately operated "Miami Classical School" with its gathering boys from distant places is described in Carl R. Greer, Old Oxford Days (Oxford, Ohio, 1947), pp. 18-20. Robert B. Stanton's Down the Colorado, edited by Dwight L. Smith (Norman, Oklahoma, 1965), describes Stanton's pioneer survey of the Grand Canyon. H istorical addresses delivered by spokesmen for the alumni connection with the Centennial Commencement exercises, June 12-17, 1909, were printed in the Miami University Bulletin, September 1909.