Fitchburg State University - Saxifrage Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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he Saxifrage TO PRESTON SMITH OUR MOST ESTEEMED INSTRUCTOR AND FRIEND, WHOSE TEACHING AND LECTURING FOR OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AT THE FITCHBURG NORMAL SCHOOL HAVE INSPIRED WITHIN THE STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL TRUE IDEALS OF SERVICE, AND WHOSE KINDNESS AND GENEROSITY TO THE CLASS OF 1924 WILL NEVER BE FOR- GOTTEN, WE AFFECTIONATELY DEDI- CATE THIS THIRD VOLUME OF THE SAXIFRAGE MR. SMITH WAS GRADUATED FROM BRIDGEWATER NORMAL SCHOOL IN 1888. AFTER GRADUATION HE TAUGHT FOR MANY YEARS IN MASSA- CHUSETTS, AND WHEN THE FITCHBURG NORMAL SCHOOL WAS BUILT, IN 1895, HE WAS APPOINTED ONE OF THE FIRST TEACHERS. HE STUDIED BIOLOGY AT CLARK UNIVERSITY, AND TOOK SPECIAL COURSES IN PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BOTANY, AND PHYSIOLOGY AT HARVARD COLLEGE, AS WELL AS A COURSE IN ADVANCED CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AT TUFTS. MR. SMITH IS THE AUTHOR OF EASY EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICS, AND OF COM- MON ROCKS AND MINERALS JQ Fitch burg Normal 2 J V3T

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