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and manly bearing that was as irresistible as it was noble. 

 That disgruntled graduate was captured. His heart was 

 overborne by the better heart of his master. Subse- 

 quently he spoke to me in grateful terms of his old 

 teacher's magnaminity, as well as with admiration of his 

 greatness. Here was a typical case, showing his Chris- 

 tian willingness, commended by our Lord, to leave his 

 gift at the altar, while he went off after the alienated 

 brother, who ought rather to have come to him. This 

 spirit made him 



THE MOST HELPFUL OF MEN. 



How glad he was to build the stairway which his for- 

 mer pupils might ascend to higher activities and honors. 

 On one step of that stairway stand Vermeule and Bennett, 

 Bevier, Sproul and Van Brackle, Atkinson, Staats and 

 Blakeley, the two Hills and Luster; all of whom he 

 taught to delineate the finest geological and other maps 

 of which any State in the Union can boast. On another 

 step^ stands Mr. I. S. Upson, our efficient Librarian and 

 the clerical head of the survey. On another stands Pro- 

 fessor F. A. Wilbur, whose analyses of water, soils and 

 fertilizers are authoritative in all the counties of the State 

 and beyond. On another stands Doctor Francis Cuyler 

 Van Dyck, whom the master trained for his own colleague 

 in chemistry, physics and electricity, and who has always 

 been as warmly loved for his talents as he is highly 

 respected for his unwearied devotion to his duties. On 

 another stands Doctor John C. Smock, who made so excel- 

 lent a name for himself as Assistant State Geologist that 

 the Board of Regents in the neighboring Empire State felt 

 constrained to invite him to come up higher as Director of 

 the great museum at Albany. On another stands Edward 

 A. Bowser, L.L. D., for whom Doctor Cook obtained the 



