20 The American Geologist. January, 1902. 
stones and every living thing seemed to extend hands to us in 
welcome ; they actually seemed to thrust themselves upon our 
attention and to whisper their secrets into our ears. Even 
the old familiar swimming hole was made to yield new and 
surprising facts to our wondering minds. 
By the end of the first term I foresaw that I might yet be 
willing to go to college. 
In the next term there was a class in mineralogy and an- 
other in chemistry under professor Claypole, and in the follow- 
ing term he had classes in zoology and in Latin, all of which I 
attended. My interest and enthusiasm grew continually and, 
by the end of the year, a miracle had happened, for I studied 
Latin with pleasure. 
One morning professor Claypole came into the mineralogy 
class with a fragment of labradorite which he had just found. 
It was the first specimen of this mineral found in that locality, 
it being farther south than its usual occurrence. The ques- 
tion as to how it came to be there followed naturally enough, 
then came a discussion of the transportation of stones by gla- 
ciers, and this one was made to give an affirmative answer to 
the question: Did the glacier ever extend as far south as An- 
tioch college ? 
All became very much interested in the stone that had so 
much to say to us. Finally the professor said that he had 
broken that piece from a much larger stone, and he would be 
interested to see who would bring in another part of the same 
stone. Where it was to be found was for us to discover. 
This was a challenge to our powers of observation that all 
were alert to accept, but although every one was constantly on 
the lookout for labradorite, no ene found the coveted specimen. 
Near the end of the term professor Claypole asked if any had 
succeeded, but none could report the discovery. He then asked 
if we had not observed the boulder at the college gate. We all 
knew of this, for we had passed it three or four times daily, but 
that was all; none of us knew that it was the much looked for 
labradorite. Then came his pleasant laugh at our confusion. 
When he found the labradorite himself he brought the boulder 
home and placed it there, with the freshly broken side to the 
ground, so as not to especially attract our attention that he 
might ascertain how thoroughly we saw the things about us. 
