Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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TECHNIQUE BOARD LAURENCE COLLETT HART, Editor-in-Chief CLAUDE FRANCIS CAIRNS, Business Manager ROSSLYN SMYTHE-MARTIN, Assistant Business Manager ' ELLIS WETHRELL BREWSTER, Treasurer RHYS HARROWER NORTH, Art Editor THOMAS EDWARD SENIOR, Faculty Editor EUGENE L. MACDONALD, History Editor WALTER PAUL MUTHER, Athletic Editor ALLEN RUSSELL ATWATER, Society Editor ZENAS CROCKER, Jr., Statistician ROGER MORSE FREEMAN, Photograph Editor WILLIAM DE YOUNG KATZENBERGER, Grind Editor ALLEN FRANK BREWER, Assistant Business Manager HENRY HAVELOCK THOMPSON, Assistant Business Manager PAUL CHARLES WARNER, Assistant Art Editor FREDERICK HUNT KENNEDY, Assistant Art Editor m [8]

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TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS |N the summer of 1845 the Professor of Geology in the old and famous University of ' irg•inia while on a visit to the White Mountains of New Hamp- shire met there a law ' er, the distinguished author of the New England Genealogical Dictionary, Mr. James Savage of Boston, with his family. The acquaintance thus begun gradually ripened into intimacy until in 1849 Mr. Savage ' s eldest daughter, Emma, became Mrs. William Barton Rogers, under which name she is destined to be forever remem- bered and loved by all Technology, long after our memory of her has passed over into tradition. For four years after her marriage Mrs. Rogers lived with her husband in the historic quadrangle of the University of Virginia, but in 185.5 Dr. Rogers resigned his professorship and with his wife removed to Boston. From the very beginning of her acquaintance with Pro- fessor Rogers, Emma Savage took the deepest interest in scien- tific subjects, especially geology — alwa s a favorite study of her husband ' s — but hardly less in physics, chemistry, and meteorology. And when, in 1858, Darwin and Wallace gave to the world their theory of natural selection, and the great move- ment toward evolution began in earnest with the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, Mrs. Rogers, like her hus- band, became an ardent evolutionist. With Professor Rogers she watched the establishment and development of the Law- rence Scientific School at Harvard and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. With him she travelled widelv, and bv travel came to know many of the leading geologists and other scien- tific men of P urope. With him she attended scientific con- [ 9 ]