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hours and strength to private study and give the students only the drippings of their wisdom. This fact explains why so many specialists are poor teachers. The class of teachers to which Professor Comstock belongs, look for reward less in books which bear their name, than in the manhood ofthe students they have helped to develop. It is the writeris conviction that of the hundreds of students who have been under the instruction of the Professor, there are none who would not bear glad witness to his untiring devotion to their best interests. To the narrowness of the specialist he may not plead guilty. Educated in a college of liberal arts, he has ever been an advocate of culture. Lectures on literature would not seem quite in the line of scientific work, but for a well- read, broadly educated man, the task has proved light. For him, literature is the handmaid of science, a sweet and comely maiden, whose companionship relieves life of its monotony. In the University Extension Movement he has delivered several courses of lectures which have been well attended and well received. A swift, quiet worker, he turns off work easily. Pos- sessed ot Dame Nature with a philosophic temperament and a goodly supply of self-confidence-not too much-he meets daily duty with equanimity. Of serious ministerial mien, his countenance doth yet belie his disposition. Tradition saith his college pranks were many. Certain it is, his jokes are part of current history. Of his scientific attainments and his training, the courses he offers, the well-ordered museum and library of his depart- ment are the best proof. Politically he is a Republican of the independent type. In his church affiliations, a Presby- terian, of the liberal type. In the life of the Greater Case,we may well believe that the Professor of Natural I-Iistory will bulk more and more largely 5 new honors will come to him, new responsibilities 3 and when he shall have taught his last class, and cracked his last joke- on this side--the sons of the boys who now dedicate this Annual to him as a token of their esteem, will inscribe on his tomb : A Good Man and a Wise Man 5 Our Friend and Our Daddies' Friend. A. S. WRIGHT. ..7..
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National Geographical Society. He is also a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, and of the Twilight Club of this city. The task assigned me by the editors of the Differential is a delicate one. A colleague may not speak in words of fulsome praise, nor yet be silent as to the qualities and talents which distingish a co-laborer. We would write in terms of soberness, trusting that the regard of students may lend the glow and shimmer which ever illumine the life of an esteemed teacher. And nrst, he knows how to teach. Nature fits men preeminently for only one kind of work. Major john Mason was a born fighter 3 Professor Frank Mason Com- stock is a born teacher. In the arrangement of his courses, the choice of text books and methods, he shows a keen sense of adaptation. Having had long experience in the training of all classes of students, he understands the real nature of collegiate instruction. Solid training in the essentials, col- lege education for college boys-this his fundamental prin- ciple. He disclaims belief in lectures and university methods for foundation work. In the department of natural history, which is his specialty, he expects students to touch, taste, handle. His own knowledge he obtained largely out of doors, in held and wood, on marsh and mountain. For every trout and wild duck in his museum, he can tell a good story of how trout are caught and ducks decoyed. We verily believe that, if he had his way, he would take his classes hshing or gunning once a week. 'tForest and Stream is his favorite journal, Thoreau and Burroughs among his favorite authors. His university work has been but the skeleton of his education 5 his personal experience the flesh and blood. And what he has done himself, he expects his students to do-get their knowledge at first hand. But the Doctor knows more than birds and bugs and rocks-he knows men. He has, it is commonly believed, a kind of X-ray vision, which reveals to him, not bones, but motives. There are men who despise not only a mean motive, but the man who has it. Not so with our Profes- sor. An advocate of the theory of evolution, knowing its processes to be slow, he expects to see the littleness eradi- cated with time. Many a freshman owes his retention in the institution to the waiting policy of Father Comstock. The strong optimism which characterizes his attitude toward students finds its expression in apatient, unselnsh labor for and with individuals. Believing in men, he thinks them worth saving. Many professors consecrate their best 6..
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