Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Charles C. Oleil, « « per CO s PC Cx ' ' Professor of Michaiiical Engineering, was born at Nortii Andover. Mass.. in 1865. He graduated rfrom the hi rh school of that place in 1881. then entered a business house in Boston for a year, and f . j again resumed his studies and began practical engineering and siiop work. In 1888 he graduated Ct . ■ from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and soon afterward secured a position as draughts- man with H. P. Worthington Co., of Brookl3n. which he resigned to accept a place as instructor r ■ in the Lehigh University in 1891. Professor Weil entered upon his work here in September. Q 1893, and since that time has overseen the building and equipment of the foundry and black- ' ' , smith shop, the remodeling of the wood shop, and has started the mechanical institutes. ,y 1 I 7 Walter B. Barrows, b. $., I = Professor of Ziiohjgy and Physiology, was born January 10. 1855, at Grantville. Mass. He attended E ' ' • T the public schools of Reading. Mass., and graduated from the high school in 1872, entering the Massachusetts Insiilute of Technology the same year. From there he graduated in 1876 and immediately became assistant in Ward ' s natural sc ience establishment of Rochester, N. Y. In 1879 he sailed from Buenos Ayres, Argentine Repubhc, under contract as a normal school teacher, but was transferred to the National College at Concepcion as assistant professor of chemistry and physics and served during his second year ' s vacation as geologist on an exploring expedition to the Pampian Sierras. Returning to the United States with many valuable specimens, he was at once appointed instructor of science at the State Normal School, Westlield, Mass., which position was - i5 yjresigned the following year to accept one as instructor of biology at the Wesleyan University, w4f Middleton. Conn., where he remained until 1886, during the last two years also acting as r; , Vy?R instructor in botanv at Trinity College. Hartford, Conn. Being appointed assistant ornithologist ; ;t of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, he went to Washington, D. C. in 1886. which position was •;- resigned in 1894 to assume his present work at the Michigan Agricultural College. Prof. Barrows was one of the charter members of the American Ornithologists ' Union, is an active member of most . of our leading scientific societies and has recently been elected to the Zoological Society of France.

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i. . t»t, « ». — — ■— .■ ■■ ■ » CHARLKS I.. WEIL. WAI IEU P.. BARKOWS.

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FRANK S. KEnZIE. WII-UAM S. HOLDSWORTH.