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as a teacher. We who were Sedgwick's "boys" will think of 

 our Chief as of a second father. 



Yet he led us to the heights no less surely, if he led us always 

 in warm and human fashion. It was not necessary for him, like 

 the eastern sages, to go into the wilderness to learn the secret 

 of selflessness. He knew it always. After a long and intimate 

 talk with a student, he ended with the words "I think you can 

 be a very useful man." Not a rich man, not a successful man, 

 not an influential man; a useful man. That was his secret. I 

 believe that never in his life, in matters great or small, did he 

 say to himself, " Is it pleasant to do this? " " Is it to my interest 

 to do this?" but only ''Will this be useful?" 



So, in this time, when the world seems very barren without 

 his personal presence, his pupils and his colleagues and his friends 

 can have but one thought — to labor more diligently and untir- 

 ingly, that Sedgwick's spirit of service through knowledge may 

 still bear fruit throughout the coming j^ears. 



C.-E. A. WiNSLOW. 



