•^'■t- ^-1 Clarence Luther Her rick. 5 



associates? Let us note at least a few of them. One reason 

 for this power was undonbtedly the perfect sincerity of his de- 

 votion to science. It was so apparent from even a sHg^ht ac- 

 quaintance with him that he loved it and believed in it as a pur- 

 suit worthy not only of his own hii^^hest thought and most earnest 

 effort, but deserving as well the supreme attention of any man. 

 He was not given to proselyting; there was no direct appeal to 

 others to interest themselves in those things which he pursued. 

 But, given a noble mind, despising the shams which it already 

 sees constitute so large a part of modern life, longing vaguely 

 to realize its youthful dreams of mental achievement and moral 

 victory, m close daily contact with an enthusiasm so pure and 

 unselfish as that of Professor Herrick, is it any wonder that 

 the ambition to emulate him should be kindled in that mind? 

 We all know the teacher, who seems to teach for "what there is 

 in it" for himself — such small return of money, social position or 

 reputation as seems to be attached to his business ; we have seen 

 how he bolsters up his own dead interest in the progress of 

 science by sounding phrases about the dignity of scientific pur- 

 suits. No one recognizes the sham more quickly or completely 

 than the students in his class room, and with the recognition 

 his power as a teacher is gone. No one can interest another in 

 an intellectual problem in which he himself is not genuinely in- 

 terested. Even if he believes himself interested, that is not 

 _enough ; self-deception cannot save him. His students will feel 

 — vaguely perhaps, but surely^ — that the interest is not real. 

 On the other band^ the teacher with a genuine zeal for his sub- 

 ject, so simple that it never feels the need of self-assertion, al- 

 ready has his battle two-thirds won. The student unconsciously 

 detects the real article as inevitably as the sham. As it is hope- 

 less to deceive students by the parade of a simulated enthusiasm, 

 so it is unnecessary to proclaim the existence of a real one. Thus 

 Professor Herrick's intellectual honesty and genuine zeal for 

 •science found an answering note in the minds and hearts of all 

 those whose lives touched his. We who knew him felt our own 

 .ambitions purified and enobled by the contact. 



