Clarence King's School-days 



That department of the college was 

 just emerging from its cradle and 

 beginning the remarkable progress 

 for which it has been in later years 

 so highly distinguished. The number 

 of students was not large and they 

 had easy and familiar access to the 

 professors. The name of James D. 

 Dana gave prestige to the faculty, 

 and he exerted a powerful influence, 

 though not by the process of method- 

 ical instruction. William D. Whitney, 

 the eminent philologist (with whose 

 brother, Josiah D. Whitney, the dis- 

 tinguished geologist, King was after- 

 wards associated on the Pacific 

 Coast), was then teaching French 

 and German at the Sheffield. George 

 J. Brush, already distinguished as a 

 mineralogist, was the life of the 

 school, and his superb collection of 

 minerals was freely opened to all 

 qualified inquirers. The chemist was 

 Samuel W. Johnson. Chester S. 

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