William Russel Dudley
Published: 2015-07-03
Total Pages: 164
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Excerpt from Dudley Memorial Volume I doubt if there is any time in men's lives when they come to know each other as well as they do in their college days, especially when they happen to have the same studies, to be in the same classes, and to be much thrown together by any circumstances whatever. Professor Dudley and I belonged to the class of 1874 in Cornell, we had some of the same studies, we belonged to the same fraternity, and as students we had about the same ups and downs. Aside from these mutual interests we were thrown together still more by the fact that Dudley, being a student in the scientific course, had botany in the early part of his studies, while I in the course in Greek and Latin took botany near the end of my college work, and so it came about that in our senior year he was instructor in botany and I was his pupil. As enthusiastic students and as intimate friends we tramped together every hill, explored every gorge and penetrated every swamp for many miles around Ithaca. Under his guidance I came to have a personal acquaintance with and affection for every flowering plant of the region about Cayuga Lake, and for Dudley always a deeper love and a greater esteem. The first piece of scientific work I ever did - a study of the fibro-vascular bundles in the palms - was undertaken and carried through under his guidance. On the slopes of the hills west of Ithaca it was he who pointed out to me for the first time the deep marks cut in the hard rocks by the ice of the glacial epoch. Thus Dudley was not only my first and principal instructor in botany, but he was also, in a way, my first effective instructor in geology. We college professors are more or less given to the discussion of methods of instruction, and it is no uncommon thing to hear this or that man's methods found fault with. I dare say such criticisms are well enough in their way, but after all is said and done there remains one supreme test of a teacher that is often lost sight of in these discussions, and that is his results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
