8 DUDLEY MEMORIAL VOLUME 



Students — Professor Dudley was one of the most successful teachers of 

 botany this country has ever produced. And I am confident that that 

 success is to be attributed to a great extent to the human and personal 

 rather than to the technical part of his methods as a teacher. 



He was always at the service of his students. No hour of the day 

 or the night was inopportune when a student wanted his advice or direction. 



His personal influence during his early manhood was the finest and 

 most wholesome that I have ever found among men, whether old or young. 

 Professor W. R. Lazenby of the University of Ohio, who was a classmate, 

 writes of him: "I may say for myself that I owe Dudley a great deal. 

 I roomed with him my first year at Cornell, and he had a great influence 

 for good over my life. I think, all in all, he was one of the best men 

 I ever knew — ^pure gold." 



Dudley was a warm hearted, genuine lover of nature in all her forms 

 and in all her moods, and this gave him that enthusiasm without which a 

 teacher is not a teacher. No man could have fitted more perfectly into 

 the sentimental side of botany — if botany has any such side. The colors, 

 the beauty, and delicacy of flowers and plants, their lives, their kinships, 

 their histories — all appealed to the artistic side of his nature. 



This love for and appreciation of nature, however, was his despair 

 as well as his constant delight. His soul overflowed with affection for it 

 all, but he was so sensitive to the defects of language and of other methods 

 of representation that he rarely undertook to give expression to his love 

 for it. 



But I would not have you imagine that he was a botanist and nothing 

 but a botanist, neither was he a scientific man to the exclusion of other 

 interests. Indeed he was deeply and generally interested in everything 

 human and spiritual. 



At heart he was a poet. I shall never forget the glow of enthusiasm 

 with which he read to me, when it first appeared, Longfellow's Morituri 

 Saiutamus. He always had about him the works of the best poets and a 

 few pictures and other works of art of the first quality. 



His was 



"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, 

 And all the sweet serenity of books." 



To be rather than to appear was the steadfast principle of his life. 

 Modesty, gentleness, unobtrusiveness, decorum, and purity of life were his 

 most prominent characteristics. He never did anything for the sake of 

 display; he never courted popularity. His whole life, within and without, 

 was one long, living protest against vulgarity in all its forms. 



