The Days of a Man 1872 



a wiry, dark, athletic, tremendously enthusiastic 

 fellow, a surprisingly able writer, with a touch of 

 Emerson's quality and especially of Thoreau's. 

 He was also an eloquent and fiery speaker. Of all 

 the young students of science I have ever known he, 

 I think, showed the greatest promise, not only for 

 intensive and original work but for versatility and 

 broad-minded interest in public affairs as well. For 

 a long time he was said to have been Cornell's best 

 student in both English and Latin, as well as one 

 of the very best in science. A sentence out of his 

 earnest address as Commencement orator in 1872 

 clings in my memory, 'I am proud of but one 

 Copeland, a negro who died at Harper's Ferry, 

 with John Brown." 



An account of our later cooperation in scientific 

 research and reference to his untimely death will be 

 found in a subsequent chapter. 



My friendship for Dudley and Copeland was 

 in cemented and extended when, with William A. 



Kellerman, another young botanist, we joined the 

 recently organized Cornell Chapter of '' Delta 

 Upsilon," of which three other good friends, John 

 Henry Comstock, John Casper Branner, and Jared 

 T. Newman, were already members. For our personal 

 aspirations were in harmony with theirs as well as 

 with the avowed purposes of the fraternity itself. 



Delta Upsilon had been founded at Union College, 

 Schenectady, back in the *4o's. Established origi- 

 nally as a non-secret society, it sometimes even 

 admitted outsiders to its meetings; and its motto, 



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