University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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INDEX. (goapd of ( dihors Editor-in-Chief. G. W. Cutler. Business IVlanager. Artist. L. F. Kinney. Y. Mishima. F. H. Foster. G. E. Newman. R. B. Moore. A. J. Hayward.

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INDEX. ditopial THE four pleasant years of our college life, so full of unique and never-to-be-forgotten experiences, are rapidly gliding away, and the finger of time now designates the Class of ' 88 as the one destined to give to the Avorld the eighteenth volume of the Index of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. We do not claim great literary excellence for our book ; but it is our hope that its perusal may give entertainment to those into whose hands it may fall. Since the publication of the pi-evious edition of the Index, the group of divinities entrusted with the care of the College has been con- sidei-ably rearranged. At the close of the summer term of ' 86, President Greenough tendered to the Trustees his resignation from the service of the College. His place is occupied by Professor Goodell, who is meeting the needs of the institution with excellent judgment. Major Alvord, formerly connected with this institution as instructor in military science and tactics, now fills the chair vacated at the close of last year by Dr. Miles. Mr. Alvord is vigorously at work making many and necessary changes in the stock and equipments of the farm, and in the cultivation of the land. A new and capacious corn-crib has been erected dii-ectly west of, and in contact with, the farm barn. The large tract of swamp land in the valley west of the campus has been drained and bi-ought into a tillable condition, and the assortment of live stock has been much improved by the elimination of the poorer animals and the purchase of better. The College has been presented with a valuable Jersey bull, Edithson (8948), by Mr. Lawson Valentine, of Houghton Farm, New York. Edithson was sired by Ramapo, fourth son of Eurotas (2454). Eurotas gave 778 pounds of butter in eleven months. The dam of Edithson was Lass Edith, which gave six- teen pounds and fifteen ounces of butter in seven days. A fine young