ULYSSES OKAXdl-; (OX. 



(in MKMdKIAM. ) 



can always see the sky, the clouds an<l the stars: he sees and feels the soil. 



and digs into it; he wanders throush the open w Is and the dark forests; 



he learns to know the streams, the hills, the growing and ripening crops, 

 and the wild aiumals ahout him; daily, even hourly, he sees the l)irds. the 

 insects, and the shy folk that ahoiind for him who wouhl he their friend; 

 the domestic animals on the farm he learns to know intimately; and he 

 learns the sweet sounds which wind and running water, and hirds and in- 

 sects make when he is hunting, tishing, or merely roaming in the woods and 

 (ields or along the streams. This is the real productive school in which all 

 country boys are enrolled : the school in which more knowledge is ac(piired 

 than in all the after years. 



Ulysses Cox early began the serious study of animals and plants. His 

 first published contribution to science was "A List of the Birds of Randolph 

 (\)nnty, Ind.," which appeared in the Ornithologist and Ofilogist. While 

 yet in his teens he began teaching in the country schools of his native 

 county. He organized the high school at Farmland and was its superinten- 

 dent. His experience in these schools led him to suggest a system of con- 

 solidated schools, since put into effect by Superintendent Driver with ex- 

 cellent results. In 1884 he graduated from Bryant's Commercial School at 

 Indianapolis. He completed the Teacher's Training course at the Ceidr.il 

 Normal College the next year and in the same year he entered tlu> ln<liana 

 State Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1889. 



After teaching two years in the Farmland high school and assisting in the 

 spring terms in the Indiana Stale Normal School, he was elected head of 

 the department of general science in the State Normal School at Mankato, 

 Minnesota, where he made an enviable record as an organizer and inspiring 

 teacher. He organized and adequately equipped the chemical and physio- 

 logical laboratories in that institution. 



Mr. Cox took leave from his teaching duties in 18!)T and entered Indiana 

 University, from which institution he was graduated in 1000 with the de- 

 gree of A. B. in zoology, his time in the University alternating with teaching 

 during part of the year. He received the degree of A. M. in 1902. 



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