24 The American Geologist. January, 290%, 
EDWARD WALLER CLAYPOLE AS A TEACHER. 
By PROFESSOR GEORGE MANN RICHARDSON, 
Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California. 
It is my purpose to speak of professor Claypole’s great 
powers as a teacher, and of the wonderful influence for good 
that he has exercised in the lives of young people with who he 
has come in contact. 
What I have to say must of course be drawn largely from 
my own experience as one of his pupils. You will therefore, 
pardon, I hope, a brief mention of my educational history 
which has no interest save as it illustrates the strong influence 
that he almost unconsciously exercised over his pupils. More- 
over, my experience, I am sure, was much the same as 
that of others of my classmates, for our individual opinions 
were singularly unanimous on all points that concerned pro- 
fessor Claypole. 
I also feel very sure that there are many pupils in this 
{Institute who already recognize the influence he has had in 
their lives, and who already value it highly. They will cer- 
tainly value this influence the more as they grow older and 
find how unfortunately rare such men as professor Claypole 
are in the world. 
As I look back over my school days in college and out, 
three of my teachers stand out from the others as men of great 
force of character, as men who stood high in their chosen field 
of knowledge, and as men who inspired enthusiasm for work 
in those with whom they came in contact, in short they were 
great teachers. Of these the first in point of time was Profes- 
sor Claypole, he was also first in the amount of influence that 
he had over me, and in the love that he inspired. 
I entered the preparatory department.of Antioch College, 
not because I wanted to go to school, but as the result of a 
truce with my mother who was sincerely anxious that I should 
gain a college education. A compromise was finally arranged, 
by which school work was to continue until the entrance ex- 
aminations for some college had been passed, when further 
education would be optional with myself. The three vears of 
study that lay before me seemed to extend into a far distant 
future. The first year at Antioch passed, leaving me happy 
