Father arrived at Stillwater the next morning.

The interviews that followed made Stillwater history.
"My son is not an ass!" is what Hallowell senior is said to have said to Doctor Black.

"And if in four years you and your faculty cannot give him the rudiments of an education, I will send him to a college that can.
And I'll send my money where I send Peter." In reply Chancellor Black could have said that it was the fault of the son and not of the college; he could have said that where three men had failed to graduate one hundred and eighty had not.

But did he say that?
Oh, no, he did not say that! He was not that sort of, a college president.

Instead, he remained calm and sympathetic, and like a conspirator in a comic opera glanced apprehensively round his, study.