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the University of Cincinnati, he started the Journal of Compara- 

 tive Neurology, and when he returned to Denison (in '93, I 

 think) he had the courage to continue the publication of the new 

 periodical, altho' the "Bulletin" was still being published. The 

 success of the "Journal'' has continued under the able leader- 

 ship of his brother, Professor C. Judson Herrick, so that we 

 have for a long time had the singular spectacle of one small col- 

 lege issuing regularly for a long series of years, two high class 

 periodicals devoted to different fields of scientific investigation, 

 each honored with a long list of valuable exchanges of its own 

 class. I do not believe any American college of equal size can 

 duplicate this record. And it is due principally to the cour- 

 ageous initiative and devoted labors of him whose memory we 

 honor tonight. 



The fourth innovation, due principally at least to Professor 

 Herrick, was the complete revision of the work in science in 

 the course of study leading to the B. S. degree at Denison. When 

 he returned to Denison in 1892^, after his three years' absence 

 at the University of Cincinnati, he was relieved of the work in 

 Geology and enabled to give all his time to Biology. He plan- 

 ned a number of new courses and advocated a complete revision 

 of the last two years of the B. S. course. At this time the B. 

 S. student at the beginning of his junior year had had two years' 

 work distributed over four sciences (chemistry one year, min- 

 eralogy, physiology and botany, one term each) in addition to 

 the elementary science required for admission to college. Be- 

 fore him lay 2 1/3 years' work required, 2/3 elective, distributed 

 over five sciences (a year of physics, zoology, astronomy, one term 

 each, and geology two terms, with the possibility of electing 

 one term each of chemistry and histology). In a word he could 

 not get more than one year of work in any one science during 

 his whole college course (except in the case of chemistry v.-here 

 the maximum was four terms). Professor Herrick proposed 

 to change this, so that each student at the liegnning of his junior 

 vear should continue some one science through the remaining 

 two vears of his course, this science to be cither biol ogv, chcm- 



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