A way was opened for him, through the offer of the Hibbard Society, in London, of a traveling fellowship with two thousand dollars a year.

The honor men of the great English Universities like Oxford and Cambridge were among the competitors, but the poor country boy from Prince Edward Island was again successful, greatly to the surprise of the others.
At the end of his course in Germany, Mr.Schurman, then a Doctor of Philosophy, returned to Acadia College to become a teacher there.

Soon afterward, he was called to Dalhousie University, at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In 1886, when a chair of philosophy was established at Cornell, President White, who had once met the brilliant young Canadian, called him to that position.

Two years later, Dr.Schurman became dean of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell; and, in 1892, when the president's chair became vacant, he was placed at the head of the great university.