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

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THE LXDEX: VOL. XXXIV teen or lourteen hundred alumni and former students, there has but about one really turned out badly. Certainly few institutions in the country have as enviable a record. Students and alumni alike, each of us has reason to feel proud of the showing which our alumni are mak- ing in the world. The alumni of an institution and their work must show to the world the value of that institution. The positions that our menareholdin ' o and their influence in nearly every state in the country, in our possessions and in Mexico, Brazil, India, Turkey, and japan should be a means of inspiring undergraduates and of helping them to appreciate the broad educational advantages at the college. The alumni are showing to the public that the old idea, which some had, that an agri- cultural college taught one simply how to hoe, plow and rake, is certainly a mistaken one, and that men i-eceive a broad fundamental knowledge which is a foundation upon which they can build many different kinds of employment. With a broad and substantial foundation, there is little danger of being wrecked by the severest cyclone, although some injury may be done. No one realizes, better than the alumni themselves, the value of the fundamental training at their Alma Mater; and no body of alumni of any institution in the world, of the size and age of our institu- tion, is more loyal than the graduates of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. H. D. Hemenwav, ' !)o. Editor ' s Note In regard to the preceding it is only fair t(5 state that the editor was able to give Mr. Hemenway a very short lime in which to complete the article. In that time — it was only a week, and Mr. Hemenway was more than usually confined by his own work — it was of course impossible for him to get together all the data that he should have had. If theie- fore, the names of men in some particular locality seem to occupy

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE world and is consulted on subjects in his line by the leading specialists all over the United States and Canada. He is State Park Commis- sioner and holds several positions in the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, as well as in other associations for the advancement of park work. Dr. Edward W. Allen, ' 85, Vice-Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, Washington, D. C, is one of our alumni who is well known all over the United States, at least among experiment station workers; Charles S. Plum, ' 82, Director of the experiment station of Purdue University; Wheeler, ' 87, Director of the Rhode Island Experi- ment Station; Hills, ' 81, Director of the Vermont Experiment Station; Lindsey, ' 83, Chemist at the Hatch Station at Amherst and others. William H. Bowker, ' 71, President of the Bowker Fertilizer Company, has revolutionized the fertilizer business. He is known the world over. Among our prominent journalists, Herbert Myrick, ' 82, stands at the head as an editor of agricultural papers and magazines. He is also a publisher and author. Daniel G. Hitchcock is editor and proprietor of the Warren Herald. Among the prominent florists, are E. D. Shaw, ' 72, and W. R. Pierson, ' 01, Cromwell, Conn., who with his father has the largest floral establishment in New England. We have no space even to mention the names of the successful civil engineers, chemists, druggists, mechanics, electricians, dentists, teachers and superintendents, traveling men, ministers, business men, manu- facturers, seedmen, farmers and market gardeners, stock raisers, creamery managers, gardeners, horticulturalists, landscape architects and gardeners, book keepers and farm superintendents. Even a brief account of them all would fill a volume. In fact, the scope of the work that is being done by our alumni is equal to that of any other college, even though older, and each alumnus who has gone out from the college is, in his sphere, to a greater or less extent, a center and an advertise- ment for the Massachusetts Agricultural College. This fact among our alumni can be shown no better than by the statement that, out of thir-

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE more space than those of some others perhaps as worthy of mention, it should be remembered that the writer had no notes to which he could refer and very naturally would mention those with whose names he was most familiar. As Mr. Hemenway himself says in a letter to the editor: — To do justice on an article of that kind, I ought to have spent a month in collecting data which should be absolutely correct, so that none of the leaders, at least, would be omitted.