Table of Contents

About

Foreword

Part One: The Early Years

• My Birth and Infancy
• The District School
• Childhood’s Joys and Sorrows
• Early Religious Training
• “Spiritualism”
• A Year of Shadow
• Incidents at Brookton
• Our Last Two Years at Brookton
• Ovid and the West
• Our Kansas Home
• Religious and Other Experiences
• College Preparation
• College Life in the Seventies
• Dr. Anderson and His Talks
• The Theological Seminary of the Seventies
• My Pastorate in Minneapolis (First Period)
• My Pastorate in Minneapolis (Second Period)
• Minnesota Baptists and Pillsbury Academy
• The American Baptist Education Society
• The Chicago Policy Advocated
• The Chicago Policy Adopted
• Mr. Rockefeller Acts
• A Baptist College for Chicago—Our Canvass
• The Promise of a University
• The Pivotal Year in Our Family Life
• Our Babies
• Large Families and Family Government
• Our Church Relations and Growing Liberalism
• Music
• Life in Montclair
• Our Early Vacations
• Our Summer Home at Lake George
• Our Family Finances
• The Higher Education of Our Sons
• Our Daughters

Part Two My Years with Mr. Rockefeller and His Philanthropies

• Mr. Rockefeller Invites Me to New York
• The Organization of Mr. Rockefeller’s Private Benevolence
• Three Business Excursions
• In Mr. Rockefeller’s Private Office
• The Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines
• The Origin of the Rockefeller Institute
• The Rockefeller Institute— “The Most Interesting Thing in This World”
• University Expansion
• Mr. Rockefeller and Dr. Harper
• The Tainted-Money Controversy
• Mr. Rockefeller’s Philanthropies—Their Scope and Purpose
• Mr. Rockefeller’s Benefactions—Their Spirit
• The Origin and Policies of the General Education Board
• Farm Demonstration
• The Hookworm Campaign
• Full Time in Medicine
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Mr. Rockefeller and My Personal Relations with Him
• John D. Rockefeller, Junior
• My Resignation
• The Policies of the General Education Board—Their History
• Some Elements of an Effective System of Scientific Medicine in the United States

The Frederick Taylor Gates Lectures

• The First Gates Lecturer: Robert Swain Morison, M.D.
• Gates Lecture I: “Making the Man”
• Gates Lecture II:“Making the Career”