PROFESSOR SGUDDER 



facts and their orderly arrangement was ever 

 accompanied by the urgent exhortation not to 

 be content with them. 



'Facts are stupid things,' he would say, 

 'until brought into connection with some gen- 

 eral law.' 



At the end of eight months, it was almost 

 with reluctance that I left these friends and 

 turned to insects; but what I had gained by 

 this outside experience has been of greater 

 value than years of later investigation in my 

 favorite groups. 1 



1 Professor Edward S. Morse writes : ' As I remember 

 Mr. Scudder's article, ... he has stated clearly the method 

 of Agassiz's teaching simply to let the student study inti- 

 mately one object at a time. Day after day he would come 

 to your table and ask you what you had learned, and thus 

 keep you at it for a week. My first object put before me 

 was a common clam, Mya arenaria.' 



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