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JOHN CASPER BRANNER 
with Branner covers fifty-two years, the first two as fellow stu¬ 
dent and fraternity brother in Delta Upsilon, the next thirty as 
fellow-teacher and co-worker in science in Indiana and in Cali¬ 
fornia, three more as my successor and colleague in administra¬ 
tion of the educational work to which I gave the best twenty- 
five years of my life, and, finally five years of retirement from 
active responsibility to the congenial work of writing out of the 
fullness of experience. In all these years he lived up to his motto, 
‘I can get along without the respect of my neighbors, but not 
without the respect of Number One.’ And in maintaining self- 
respect, he won the regard of his neighbors of -whatever degree. 
A righteous life helps to strengthen all who come in contact with 
it. ‘There is always room for a man of force and he makes 
room for many.’ 
“I may say that I joined Delta Upsilon in 1870 because Branner 
and Comstock, two of my dearest friends, were already in it, 
and I couldn’t afiford to stay out of Heaven when they were . 
looking over embrasured in its balcony.” 
President R. L. Wilbur adds: “Dr. John Casper Branner’s 
outstanding characteristics were a love of order and truth, fidelity 
to every obligation, and a respect for the rights of others. He had 
the keenest sense of loyalty and of devotion. 
“As the founder and head of the Department of Geology, at 
Stanford University, he showed rare foresight and executive abil¬ 
ity. Much of his success was due to the fact that he gave a gen¬ 
eral course in Geology to all of the students in the University 
who desired to take the work, and that he insisted on giving the 
elementary work in his own way to the students electing Geology 
and Mining for their life work. He took the greatest interest in 
watching the development of his students, particularly in those 
who became associated with him in the educational field. Be¬ 
cause of his insistent industry in his lifetime he was able to do 
an unusually large amount of scientific work. He was remark¬ 
able in his punctuality. It was a saying among the students that 
you could set your watch when you saw him pass from his home 
to his laboratory in the early morning. 
“His long and careful studies made of Brazil deeply interested 
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him in the problems of the whole South American continent. 
In the development of the Branner Geological Library, the work 
