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pology, but on the advice of an instructor I also signed up for this course. It turned out to be one of the most engrossing, and most valuable, of all my subjects. The noted Professor Hans Kroeber conducted it. He had the priceless gift of being able to fire the imagination of his students, to communicate his enthusiasms. He breathed life into the antiquities. He would hold an artifact in his hand and explain what it was and for what purpose it had been used, pointing out some unusual characteristic or design or form that would have escaped the untrained eye. A particularly fine collection of Peruvian artifacts had been donated to the University by Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Professor Kroebel and an assistant, Lila O'Neal, were commissioned to catalogue the collection. Miss O'Neal later published a fine, definitive history of Peruvian textiles. As part of our classroom work, we were assigned from time to time to assist in the cataloguing and preservation of the fabrics. The advice to study anthropology was excellent Counsel. Today, I pass it on, emphatically, to young people