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merce, Texas, and then returned to the Normal University at 

 Lebanon, Ohio, teaching there for four years. He has held his 

 present position since 1905. 



Professor Drushel is a member of Woodmen of the World, 

 Masonic, and Sigma Xi fraternities. Member in N.E.A., Fellow in 

 A.A.A.S., member of St. Louis Acad, of Sci. He has collected and 

 studied plants in the field or herbarium in 39 states. His winter 

 avocation is the preparation of material studied and collected in 

 the field for illustrative purposes in botany and nature-study 

 classes. 



For several years the pubHshers of The Nature-Study Review 

 have realized gratefully the staunch support given to this periodical 

 from the St. Louis contingent. This has undoubtedly been largely 

 due to Professor Drushel's activities; his influence has been ever 

 widening like the waves started in the educational waters always 

 by the projecting into them a strong and virile personality. Pro- 

 fessor Drushel has always stood for the real thing in Nature-Study, 

 for he is an out-of-doors man as well as a laboratory instructor and 

 his influence has been exerted to get the teachers into the fields and 

 to see for themselves what is there. In addition to his strong 

 qualities as ateacher he has a whimsical sense of humor that is most 

 delightful and which enables him to deal with difficult situations 

 tactfully and successfully. The Nature-Study Society of America 

 is fortunate indeed to have secured Professor Drushel for its 

 president. 



"I like a man who has had an incomplete course. A partial view, if truth- 

 ful, is worth more than a complete course, if lifeless. If the man has acquired 

 a power for work, a capability for initiative and investigation, an enthusiasm 

 for the daily life, his incompleteness is his strength. How much there is 

 before him! How eager his eye! How enthusiastic his temper! He is a 

 man with a point of view, not a man with mere facts. This man will see 

 first the large and significant events; he will grasp relationships; he will 

 correlate; later, he will consider the details. He will study the plant before 

 he studies the leaf or germination or the cell. He will discover the bobolink 

 before he looks for its toes. He will care little for mere 'methods'." — The 

 Nature- Study Idea. — L. H. Bailey. 



