Chapter XIII. "THE SPIRIT OF THE INSTITUTION"

   Alfred H. Upham described "the Centennial of Miami University" in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XVIII (1909), 322- 44. In an M.A. thesis, Guy Potter Benton: His Effect on Miami University (Miami University, 1950), Peter Joseph Vogt treated the years 1902-11. Fielding H. Garrison's John Shaw Billings, A Memoir (New York, 1915), contains Billings' account of keeping bachelor's hall in the dorms and his memories of the Miami library in the middle 1850's; once during a vacation period he made a burglar's entrance by way of a trap door in the roof and had a whole library to himself. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (Boston, 1915) recounts Carnegie's response to John Shaw Billings' suggestion that he use his fortune for the creation of public libraries. The history of Lewis Place, since 1903 the home of Miami presidents, is told in Ophia D. Smith, Old Oxford Houses (Oxford, Ohio, 1941). Helen Benton Minnich's memories of Lewis Place appeared in the Miami Alumnus, January 1967. The typescript diary of Katherine Shideler pictures the life of a Miami coed 1904-5.