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deep impression, carrying a message from America to the older world 

 that went far beyond the merely technical aspects of his subject. 



He was the author of important technical papers and general 

 addresses, too numerous to be listed here, and also of several larger 

 works. Among these may be mentioned the "General Biology," a 

 text-book published jointly with E. B. Wilson (1886), "The Human 

 Mechanism," published with Theodore Hough (1906), "A Short 

 History of Science," with H. W. Tyler (1917), and above all the 

 "Principles of Sanitary Science" (1902) which at once took its place 

 as the standard work on the subject and assured Sedgwick's position 

 as one of the foremost leaders in this field. 



Sedgwick's life was the uneventful one of a teacher and investigator, 

 happy in his work, in his friends and in a home life singularly con- 

 genial and rich; but even its bare outline impresses us with his versa- 

 tility and the wide range of his interests. He was a born teacher, one 

 who loved his work and kept always in view a higher ideal than merely 

 to impart information. He knew how to inspire his students and 

 followers with his own buoyant eagerness, thoroughness and tenacity 

 of purpose. He taught them to think straight, aim high and work 

 hard. A sane and good humored optimism was inseparable from his 

 personality; and not less characteristic were the sturdy common sense 

 and shrewd sense of humor with which he was wont to illuminate the 

 dry technicalities of his subject, driving home the underlying principles 

 by the use of homely and telling illustrations that made them living 

 realities never to be forgotten. In these respects Sedgwick was indeed 

 a teacher unrivalled, as many generations of "Tech" students can 

 bear witness. He made comrades of his students, and they gave to 

 him affectionate and enduring friendship. Alike by precept and by 

 the example of his own life he taught them that man does not live by 

 bread alone; that the student of science fails to attain his largest 

 measure of success if his mind be not kept open to the larger world of 

 literature, art and human fellowship. His students felt towards him 

 an almost filial regard and learned to look to him in their later lives 

 for wise and helpful counsel. In this respect he has with good reason 

 been compared to Dr. Arnold, but as one of his former students has 

 finely said: " The master of Rugby was far off on the snowy heights. 

 Sedgwick was in the midst of the rush of life and he held us by the 

 hand." 



