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istrv, g"eology or physics. ( Civil engineering- was later added to 

 the list.) 



Professor Herrick came to me with the general plan, and 

 after we had worked it out in detail, it met the approval of the 

 Faculty and was adopted. It has always seemed to me that this 

 marked an educational epoch at Denison. It was a definite 

 adoption of the Johns Hopkins plan of electing one fixed, logical 

 course of study out of a considerable number of carefully plan- 

 ned courses, instead of the hap-hazard election of a lot of isolated 

 terms w^ork having no unity or logical sequence among them- 

 selves. It was another case where Professor Herrick's indepen- 

 dence of traditioiv led to* important results for Denison. 



A sixth reason for Professor Herrick's ability to arouse the 

 spirit of scientific research in others we find in the breadth of 

 his interests and sympathies. He did not follow the fashion of 

 extreme specialization so characteristic of our time. Before he 

 came to Denison he was State Mammalist of Minnesota, at Gran- 

 ville he was botanist, zoologist, geologist and neurologist, not 

 merely teaching but investigating along all these lines. While 

 in New Mexico he added work as a mining engineer to that of 

 geologist and neurologist, and in his last months we hear of 

 his resuming study and waiting along philosophical lines, a la- 

 bor which had been begun many years before. And so under 

 his tutelage we find one of his students inspired to be a botanist, 

 another a biologist ; several became geologists and others neu- 

 rologists. And to all he was able to extend such counsel, stimu- 

 lus and sympathy, that his infiuence became one of the deter- 

 mining forces in their lives. 



And this brings us to the last reason that I will name to 

 explain Professor Herrick's power over his students ; namelv, 

 his personal interest in them, not alone in their scientific devel- 

 opment, but in all their joys and troubles. Quoting again from 

 Air. Woodland's letter : "To the student he was never a pro- 

 fessor with awe-inspiring dignity, but rather a companion and 

 friend There seemed to be some great pressure in- 

 cessantly driving him to work, yet wth it all we never entered 



