The Days of a Man 1:1892 



Other Dudley resigned an assistant professorship at Cornell to 



strong men accept the chair of Systematic Botany at Stanford. In Cali- 

 fornia he devoted himself especially to the trees, leading his 

 students on long and enthusiastic explorations of the Coast 

 Ranges and the high Sierra. No one else has studied our great 

 conifers so thoroughly or so lovingly. In recognition of his 

 work to Systematic Botany, an interesting genus of the stone- 

 crop group, found on the bluffs of the California coast, received 

 the name oi Dudley a. In 191 1 he left for Persia on a botanical 

 tour, but a breakdown in health when nearing Damascus 

 forced him to return to California, where he died in 1913, 

 leaving behind him the most fragrant of memories. 



Dr. Augustus T. Murray, a graduate of Johns Hopkins, came 

 to us from Colorado College as professor of Greek, and during 

 twenty-eight years has been one of Stanford's strongest in- 

 fluences for high scholarship and right living. Dr. Frank 

 Angell, for a time assistant to Wundt at Leipzig and imbued 

 with his methods, was called from Cornell as professor of 

 Psychology. Up to 191 7 he also served the University as chair- 

 man of the committee on athletics, standing consistently for 

 clean sport and honorable methods among students, coaches, 

 and professors. It was through Angell's agency that Walter 

 Camp, dean of athletic directors, came out from Yale as coach 

 in 1892 and 1893, since which time his name has been con- 

 tinuously honored at Stanford. In 1916 Angell was for some 

 months one of Hoover's assistants in the Commission for 

 Relief in Belgium, inspecting and reporting on the Belgian side 

 of food distribution, "a wonderful organization in everyway 

 worthy to be set alongside of the C. R. B. itself." 



As instructor in Drawing, and later professor of Graphic 

 Arts, came Arthur B. Clark from Syracuse University, a com- 

 petent teacher with whose influence on student morale I shall 

 later deal. 



The Engineering departments were now greatly extended 

 by the appointments of Albert W. Smith in Mechanical En- 

 gineering, Leander M. Hoskins in Applied Mathematics, and 

 Charles B. Wing in Structural Engineering. These men all 

 came from the University of Wisconsin — Smith and Wing 

 (like their intimate friend, David Marx) having formerly been 

 members of the Cornell faculty. In choosing them, I assured 



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