Chapter XI. AGE AND YOUTH

   During plans for the reopening of Miami University an account of Old Miami appeared in the New York Tribune, August 13, 1884, and was reprinted in the Oxford Citizen eight days later. "An Old College Campus," by Jennie Brooks, in the Western Christian Advocate, April 17, 1912, is an idyllic picture of Miami University in the 1880's. A biographical sketch of Jennie Brooks is included in Jane Knox Skinner, Background of Oxford Town and Township (1946). The reopening of Miami University and the rivalry of McFarland and Hepburn are described in Ophia D. Smith's Fair Oxford, pp. 178-86. Bertha Boya Thompson's M.A. thesis, The History of Miami University from 1873 to 1900 (Miami University, 1954), treats men and events of the Warfield administration and gives an account of the first state to award aid to Miami. Edwin Emerson's 350-page type script An Old College Town recalls the college years of a spirited undergraduate in 1887 and 1888; Edwin Emerson's career is sketched in the Miami University Bulletin, October 1935. The beginnings of football at Miami are recalled in Carl R. Greer, Old Oxford Days (Oxford, Ohio, 1947), pp. 52-53. The first Miami vs. University of Cincinnati football game is reported in the Miami Journal, December 1888; a fuller account of that historic game is given in the Miami Alumnus, September 1948. Reminiscences of the "Dude Faculty" appear, with pictures, in the Miami University Bulletin, October 1940 and January 1941. Reference to the attempt to interest Herbert Spencer in the Miami presidency is made in Ophia D. Smith, Fair Oxford (Oxford, Ohio, 1947), p. 188.