Chapter XII. WIND FROM THE WEST

   William Oxley Thompson (Columbus, 1955), by Professor James E. Pollard of the Ohio State University, gives a full account of the life of President Thompson. Oxford and Miami University at the turn of the century are recalled in Carl R. Greer, Old Oxford Days (Oxford,Ohio, 1947). "Miami in the 1890's" is the final chapter of Ophia D. Smith's Fair Oxford (Oxford, Ohio, 1947). The Lybarger Bill is referred to in the President's Report (Miami University, 1906) and in the Miami University Bulletin, August 1916. The life of R. H. Bishop, Jr., who died in 1890, was reviewed in the Miami Student, March 1891, with reminiscences by Charles Anderson, B. W. Chidlaw, John Shaw Billings and John I. Covington. William J. McSurely's "History of the Library of Miami University" appeared in the Miami University Bulletin, February 1908; beginning with John Browne's collection of books in 1811 it traced the growth of the Library to its catalogue of 24,500 volumes in 1908. The typhoid epidemic of 1900 is referred to in a reminiscence by Stephen Riggs Williams in the Miami University Bulletin, July 1930.