Clarence Luther Herrick— Tigh t . 9 
thing in professor Herrick's personality. He was learned, 
but we have known others learned too ; he was devoted to 
his work but such devotion, though uncommon, we 
may find elsewhere ;_ he was a rare teacher, but the 
country has many great teachers; he was a man of 
strong religious faith and rich Christian life, but 
that too we may parallel in other lives. But I can- 
not think of one other man who so powerfully impressed 
those with whom he came into any sort of contact with 
a real longing to find out new truth by their own effort 
and add it to the legacy of knowledge which the present 
generation has inherited from the past. His own work as an 
investigator was great ; his work as a maker and trainer of 
investigators was perhaps greater. I have never known an 
enthusiasm so contagious as his. It is no mere accident 
that both his brothers, his wife's brother, his only son and 
a large proportion of his students have caught the spirit of 
original research and made important contributions to the 
fund of new knowledge. Contact with him in class room, 
laboratory or household seemed equally efficient for propa- 
gating the germ of personal investigation. He might have 
been a great teacher even without this power, as others 
have been ; with it his success was assured and eminence 
certain with favorable conditions. * * * What were 
some of the reasons for the unquestionable power he pos- 
sessed of moulding the purposes and lives of his associates? 
Let us note at least a few of them. One reason for this 
power was undoubtedly the perfect sincerity of his devotion 
to science. It was so apparent from even a slight acquaint- 
ance with him that he loved it and believed in it as a pur- 
suit worthy not only of his own highest thought and most 
earnest effort, but deserving as well the supreme attention 
of any man. He was not given to proselyting; there was 
no direct appeal to others to interest themselves in those 
things which he pursued. F>ut given a noble mind, despis- 
ing the shams which it already sees constitute so large a part 
of modern life, longing vaguely to realize its youthful dreams 
of mental achievement and moral victory, in close daily eon- 
tact with an enthusiasm so pure and unselfish as that of 
professor Herrick. is it any wonder that the ambition to 
