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Show S'.lALCil, SCIENTIST,'' Of' THE OLD SCHOOL. I '. A few years ago some Irreverent undergraduates under-graduates published a little book of cuii-Htures cuii-Htures and . verse entitled "Harvard Velebrltles." The first skit ran as follows:' fol-lows:' . '" "Tills Is a Shalerr ' , Falry-taler,', . : ' . Hcientlflc.- mountain-sealer. -. ' ' Penetrator . '-' '-'- ' r'-.tif r'-.tif each crater 1 i From the poles to-the equator, ' ' . i'l'amer of the hurricane. - . ' Cl'iophet of. the wind and rain, .Hypnotise ' i ' f the geyser. WUard of the froxen plain. 'Hark! What Is that deep and distant subterranean roar, a A rising near Memorial and reaching out , was a poet and philosopher. - The retori I had a basis of truth. He knew too many' different things to be the greatest living geologist. Younger and more plodding men, content-to toil In a norrower field, had. outstiipped him In that exact ana painstaking erudition which-we now call scholarship. The limits, of knowledge have- been extended Immeasurably, within with-in a generation. An Aristotle, a Leonardo Leo-nardo ;da Vinci, or a Bacon, Is a prodigy which 'we shall never see again. But 'we can not say farewell to the old order of scientist and welcome the new without an expression of regret. Today a college faculty must seek botanists, chemists, and geologists who are complete masters of their specialties, whose minute . learning learn-ing is the admiration of two hemispheres. Such men can not, however, as teachers of ardent youth, replace a Bhaler, whose Imagination suffused all the facts of hta own and other sciences with a glow of romance,-and whose, sympathies were as wide as the world. N.'Y. Evening Post. f to Gore? - VTls the rumble of applause ... Vhen the speaker makes a pause In relating, an. adventure fronjUts fund - -of earthquake lore." ' These lines are- a not Inadequate characterisation char-acterisation of that geologist, philosopher philoso-pher and poet, that man to whom all the- 'various aspects of life were as fascinating fascinat-ing as a fairy-tale, Nathaniel Southgate , Shalef. When Prof. Shaler died yesterday afternoon, af-ternoon, Harvard lost one of the most versatile and, interesting, men that have ever adorned her facuhy. By vocation a Keologist,. he took all knowledge to be his province. - In the sciences mathematics, chemistry, physics,- and the several 'branches of biology he might fairly be called an adept. ' HJs mind ranged 'through the whole realm of speculative 'philosophy; and three of his roost popular popu-lar books deal with- man in bis relation -to society; "The Individual," "The C1U-fien" C1U-fien" and "The Neighbor." , J Li Tbls extraordinary intellectual activity 'wna In part a reflex of that stimulating period In which he grew to manhood. ;Vhn he was l&i-nlled with an enthusiasm enthu-siasm which- remained undiminished till (the end of his life Darwin published ' 'The Origin of Species." The book had a profound effect upon all thinking men. It came as a fifth gospel to students of . geology and . the allied sciences. Our young men saw visions; a new haven and a new earth spread before them; the history his-tory of the universe unrolled to their wondering eyes as an epic of evolution. Spencer was quickened In his gigantic task of applying the theory of evolution to every phase of human experience. ; Huxley, trained aa a physician, plunged first Into biology and paleontology and then went on to those researches and . Speculations which be expounded in "Science- and. Hebrew Tradition." "Evolution "Evo-lution and Ethics," and his book on the 'life and philosophy of Hume. It is' with 'such men that Prof. Shaler Is properly classed encyclopedists of the nineteenth century. It is, however, but a Bhallow generalisation general-isation which makes a man the mere product of place and time. However much Prof: Shaler may nave owed to his " age and environment, he owed more to himself, to his Insatiate curiosity In the 'high sense of that word. There were scores of geologists born between , law nnd 1860. but he was the only one who made absolutely his own that often mls-I mls-I applied line of Terence. Human! nihil : a me allenum puto. He was eager to ' ' know everythlngwhich men were thinking think-ing and doing. When he accepted an Invitation In-vitation to talk to some undergraduate ' club, the members never knew what to expect. - He . might draw from his fund of earthquake, lore, or he might discuss the origin and persistence of certain devices de-vices In naval architecture. In housebuilding, house-building, and styles of clothing. This subject would naturally lead him on to tb development of the Imitative facility In man and the ethical significance of conformity to conventions of dress and behavior all illuminated with concrete ' Instances and entertaining anecdote. Whatever the topic broached in conversation, conver-sation, he had a trick of eaylng, "For Cbout three years tor one or five I gave such time as I could spare to that mat-"ter." mat-"ter." 'An Ingenious pupil once reckoned that Prof. Shaler had devoted the leisure moments of 150 years to Investigating .subjects that were not related to his spe- .clslty. In a way, this was true, for he tlrnv manv horses abreast. . Nothing shows more clearly his amas-.' amas-.' tng ' flexibility of mind than -his feat of writing five blank-verse plays in the Elizabethan manner. In order to show hat scientific pursuits do not atrophy the imagination and he referred not to ; what la - termed' "the scientific Imagination." Imagina-tion." but to that which is exhibited In poetry he turned by way of casual recreation rec-reation to ths production of these dramas, full of picturesque imagery and eloquent passages. I . ' Bt when all was-done, his opponents in argument replied that he had proved nothing: for he was not a scientist: he |