Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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ELON HOWARD EATON Elon Howard Eaton was bom in Springville, N. Y.. Oct. 8, 1866. I Ic came of an old English American family which had immigrated to this country about 1635. Mr. Eaton's early school days were inter- rupted by ill health and so he was sent into the woods and fields where first began that knowledge of and enthusiasm for the study of nature and animals which has continued all his life. In 1881. he entered Griffith Institute, Springville, N. Y., where he prepared for college entering Rochester University in 1885. While in college, Mr. Eaton had a brilliant athletic record playing tackle on the football team and representing his college in sprinting, hurdling, and high jumping. II is record for the 220-yard dash, twenty-two and two-fifths seconds, has never been equalled in Rochester. During the school year of 1888-1889, he taught in Canandaigua and so it was not till 1890 that he received his degree A.B. At his graduation he was elected to i it k and three years later his Alma Mater honored him with the degree of A. M. F r the next four years he taught in Canandaigua Academy, leav- ing to accept the position of Master of Science in Bradstreets School in R ehester. With the exception of one year spent as graduate student in Biology in the School of Philosophy, Columbia University, where he was also prominent in athletics, he continued with this work till coming to Hobart to become professor of Biology in 1908. Mr. Eaton is a member of the American (frnithologist Union and of the American Forestry Association. He is a fellow of the Rochester Academy of Science and of the American Association for the advance- ment. He is also actively engaged in the Boy Scouts Movement, being a scout master. Although he never sought for public office, he was recently prevailed upon to act on the Geneva Health Board, where his knowledge of the right thing to do is of great advantage. He is the author of several important books among which are: “The Birds of Western New York, 1901, and “Birds of New York, Memoir IV, New York State Museum, 1910. He is also a member of the advisory council of “Bird Lore and also since 1906 has been State Ornithologist. 3

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aHri lErljfl of ilj? § ?ttfra nineteen hundred twelve VOLUME L Published by the Junior Class of Hobart College MCMXI

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With our limited space it is hard to portray such a one as Prof. Eaton whose whole scheme of life is so broad and whose interests are so many. Were he but a biologist, the task would not be so difficult, but he is a man whose knowledge extends over so many fields that we are bewildered. Nor does his influence extend only over his lecture rooms. Teaching a course that is of itself interesting to most college men, he enlarges upon his subject to such an extent that already his courses are among the most popular on the curriculum. Bringing into the class room that enthusiasm and love of the out of doors that he seems to embody, he seems not to be lecturing but to be answering the very questions that we want to ask him. He has always been an uncomprising advocate of temperance in all things, but his knowledge of college men is too great to lay down for them a set of “Don’ts. Rather by appealing to the better nature of his classes, has he sent more than one of us from his room with resolutions to do better. But no praise of mine could be greater than the verdict that Hobart has passed on him all during his stay with us. Prof Eaton is square. And so to our true friend and be- loved Professor “Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower. We dedicate this book.