CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE 691 
one of the most salient traits of his strong personality. He always 
seemed to realize that one must dig to discover, and that after he 
had brought forth his results and built them into a logical structure 
there would still be winds that would blow and storms that would 
beat and that, as a matter of course, the world would always be 
probing and pooh-poohing whatever he advanced, and so it was 
for him to lay the foundations so well and to brace the parts so 
firmly that the structure could meet the stress sure to be brought 
to bear upon it. Thus too he seemed quite willing to have his 
products go to the test and quite ready to accept the issue. This 
intellectual sturdiness and steadfastness, abetted by an instinctive 
adherence to purpose, stand out as conspicuous traits in the whole 
career of President Van Hise. 
When he, in his turn, became an instructor, he repaid his debt 
to Irving by inspiring a gifted student of his own, young C. K. 
Leith, who in after years became his own close companion and 
co-worker. These three names, Roland Duer Irving, Charles 
Richard Van Hise, and Charles Kenneth Leith, will always stand 
together in the geology of the central crystalline area of our con- 
tinent as a scientific triumvirate. Their great work is so inter- 
twined that no one may completely separate it. Of this gifted trio 
Van Hise formed the middle bond. 
The dominant qualities we have noted appear‘in quite another 
form; there was geographic persistence and centralization. It is 
a rather notable fact that from birth to death Van Hise’s great 
activities, notwithstanding their breadth, clustered about his early 
home and centered in his native state. He was born at Fulton, 
Wisconsin, not thirty miles from his final resting place at Madison. 
His higher educational career began and ended at the University 
of his native state, to whose greatness he largely contributed. 
His scientific researches started with studies on the ancient rocks 
that form the nucleus of “Isle Wisconsin,’ and he seems ever 
to have come back to its symmetrical structure as a geologic 
standard. His public service, broad as humanity though it 
was, had its center and spring in the higher welfare of the 
people of Wisconsin and of the great commonwealth to which it 
belongs. 
