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

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Editorial. IT is said that every year the Index grows poorer in quality. Perhaps the present issue will help confirm this opinion, yet we present this to the public hoping it may be found as nmch better as it is larger, than our immediate predecessors. Our labor has been arduous, with trials such as losing two members of our board in the midst of our work, but we shall feel amply repaid if our critics decide that the perusal of this, the twentieth volume of the Index has been one of pleasure and perhaps of profit. Our purpose has been to prepare a book containing something more than a mere compilation of facts, and in this endeavor we have made a few, perhaps radical, changes from previous issues, among which we may mention the simple style of cover we have adopted. It was thought more fitting to spend our time and money on the inside rather than to expend so much on a fanciful cover, to the beauty of which, but few would give a second thought. Our college has been unusually prosperous the past year, and has taken a long step in the front rank of Agricultural institutions. The faculty, with one exception, remains unchanged. Prof. Alvord, the for- mer Professor of Agriculture, resigned at the close of the winter term to accept the position of President of the Maryland Agricultural College. Ex-President Stockbridge kindly consented to take his chair until a new professor could be secured, and many have expressed the wish that he could be induced to remain permanently. During the first portion of the year, the instruction in Agriculture was necessarily much broken, but now all seem to feel that they have received so much valuable and practical information during the short time that Prof. Stockbridge has been instructor, that it is hard to be reconciled to the thought of having to change to a new professor in January. Prof. Brooks of the Agricultural College of Japan has been secured by the Trustees to take the position vacated by Prof. Alvord, and he is expected to assume his duties in January. (5)