PROFESSOR SCUDDER 



facts and their orderly arrangement was ever 

 accompanied by the urgent exhortation not to 

 be content with them. 



• 'Facts are stupid things,' he would say, 

 'until brought into connection with some gen- 

 eral law.' ■ 



At the end of eight months, it was almost 

 with reluctance that I left these friends and 

 turned to insects; but what I had gained by 

 this outside experience has been of greater 

 value than years of later investigation in my 

 favorite groups. 1 



•Professor Edward S. Morse writes: 'As I remember 

 Mr. Scudder's article, ... he has stated clearly the method 

 of Agassiz's teaching — simply to let the student study inti- 

 mately one object at a time. Day after day he would come 

 to your table and ask you what you had learned, and thus 

 keep you at it for a week. My first object put before me 

 was a common clam, Mya arenaria.' 



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