distinguished astronomers who have been students at Michigan may be said
to trace their academic lineage back to his acceptance of this position.
His successor, James C. Watson, was his pupil and Professor C.K. Adams
in his memorial address on Professor Watson said: "During the senior
year the Professor of Astronomy lectured to Watson alone. And I remember
years afterwards hearing Professor White say to one of his historical
classes that the best audience any professor ever had in this University
was the audience of Dr. Bruennow when he was lecturing to this single
pupil." Dr. White dwells with particular appreciation on the little
musical circle formed by Dr. Frieze, Mrs. White, and Dr. Bruennow, which
may well have been the original impulse for the future development of
musical interests in the University and the community. Dr. Bruennow's
quiet simplicity, which led those "who knew him best to love him, most,"
sometimes led to humorous situations, as on the occasion when President
Tappan requested Dr. Bruennow to find some one to take his place at
morning prayer the next day. This commission was performed with Teutonic
literalness, for each of the professors interviewed was greeted abruptly
with the somewhat startling question, "Professor, can you _bray_?" He
returned to Europe at the same time Dr. Tappan left the University, but
his influence remained in the work of his students and the scholarly
traditions he established.

Andrew D. White, Yale, '53, came as Professor of History and English
Literature in 1857. His influence was only less vital than that of Dr.
Tappan and Dr. Frieze because his active service with the University was
to last but six years. He was a very young professor, indeed--only
twenty-four--but he had had the best of training in France and Germany
and was inspired by a vision of a chair of history alone, unencumbered
by any allied, or supposedly allied, subjects; something apparently
unknown elsewhere, certainly at Yale, his Alma Mater.

He tells with relish in his "Autobiography" of the attentions paid him
by the students. As soon as they caught sight of him at the station they
asked him if he were going to enter the University. Of course he was.
They immediately proceeded to "rush" him, not discovering that he was
the new Professor of History until he signed the hotel register. His
students were often older than he was and his experiences were many,
particularly when he had it out with one stu