11. The faculty can run the college until a new president is found. 12. I have reason to believe that my health would be better in another climate, or from a change. 58 A Busy Life. Continued calling and crying for light until the 18th. It now appears thus: 1. No man ought to accept or continue to hold a place, the duties of which he is not able to discharge. Eeliable health needed in president. I have not been able to per- form the duties of my office for two years out of the last three. I see no prospect of being able in the future, judging from the past. Very heavy work is now demanded of the president. 2. I have opened to me now a position of great usefulness, the duties of which I can adequately discharge. 3. The risks from remaining seem to me much greater than from , my going: (1). The less I am in college and the less fully I perform the duties of my position, the less my influence and the lower my standing; the less my value to the college : the more difficult to raise my salary. (2). The danger of completely breaking down, and becoming a burden to the col- lege and my friends. (3). The danger of discontent and dissatisfaction from my salary being made so high. (4) . The risks to the college from my leaving slight. 4. If I remain, the strength of my