Edward Claypole, The Teacher.—Richardson. 27 
There was a moral here that he never put into words, but we all 
understood it. It was one that his whole life emphasized: 
“See and understand the things nearest you.” 
Our course in zodlogy developed largely into a course in 
comparative osteology. When we became familiar with the 
fact that the frame work of most animals was made after one 
plan, and then began to study the variations in that frame- 
work in different animals, variations that came about as re- 
sults of different habits, and to meet the needs of different en- 
vironments, the whole class became intensely interested in the 
work. 
I remember going home to the farm that summer fully 
resolved to return the following autumn with many new skele- 
tons for the college museum. 
It was certainly something new for a boy who had never 
exhibited keen interest in anything, and who had a solid and 
well deserved reputation for laziness, to be found staying up 
into the night, time and again, after days spent in the harvest 
field, to prepare the skeletons of animals that he had caught; 
and for this same boy who had always hated school, to be 
anxiously looking forward to the opening of another college 
year. The home folks were very much impressed with this 
change, and so indeed were the neighbors, some of whom shook 
their heads in doubt concerning the future of one so erratic 
and vacillating. 
But, alas, owing to financial troubles, Antioch college tem- 
porarily closed its doors, an occurrence that a year earlier | 
should have viewed with considerable satisfaction, but which, 
coming when it did, seemed to me a terrible calamity. ; 
Professor Claypole went to Pennsylvania to take up work 
in connection with the geological survey of the state, and I 
never again was able to profit by his instruction. 
That one year brought about a complete change in my at- 
titude toward an education, a complete change in my ideas as 
to what an education meant, and professor Claypole alone 
was responsible for it. It is no wonder then, that I have al- 
ways felt that here was a debt I could not pay; and that he, 
to a greater extent than any one person, marked out for me my 
life work. 
Professor Claypole’s great power as a teacher did not rest 
