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

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ttiimi December 19, 1906 Wednesday to January 2, 1907, Wednesday Winter Recess January 2, 1907 Wednesday. Fall Semester resumed at 8 A. M. February 6, Wednesday, Fall Semester Ends February 7, Thursday, Spring Semester begins at 8 A. M. March 27, Wednesday to April 2, Tuesday, Spring Recess April 2, Wednesday, Spring Semester resumed at 8 A. M. June 19, Wednesday, Commencement Exercises Vacation Thirteen Weeks September 19, Thursday, Fall Semester at 8 A. M. cl;

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THE 1908 INDEX VOLUME XXXVlII During his career at this college, Dr. Lull has steadily pushed forward in his work as an investigator. One summer was spent at the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, while on the invitation of the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Lull spent two summers working among the fossil deposits of the Bad Lands.. Among the published results of his investigations are — Memoir on the Fossil Foot- prints of the Jura-trias of North America; a monograph on The Ceratopsia, (with J. B. Hatcher) ; articles on Adaptive Radiation in Vertebrates, published in the Amer- ican Naturalist, as well as frequent contributions to The American Museum Bulletin, The Journal of Geology, and others. In June of 1906, Dr. Lull accepted an appointment to Yale University as Assist- ant Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, and Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleon- tology in the Peabody Museum. Because of the wider field, the greater opportunity. Dr. Lull is to be congratulated upon his new station. Equally should Yale be congrat- ulated that she has added to her corps of instructors a man with whom Massachusetts most reluctantly parts. To the quality of his work at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, a host of enthusiastic students speak most eloquently. Another witness, silent, but none the less eloquent, may be found in the results of his curatorship of the Museum. His influence has been felt in all departments of college life, and always for good. With a keen love for the out-door life, he sympathized most heartily with the athletic interests of the college, while the weight of his influence has been thrown toward clean spcrt and the love of the sport for itself rather than as a means of self-aggrandizement. What records of the early days may still be hidden within the earth, unread, one cannot know. But it is certain that, in the future as in the past. Dr. Lull will work on steadily in the path that he has chosen, Searching Nature ' s secrets far and deep. For what he has given the college through all his years of service here, we rejoice, to his career in the future we look with anticipation, and with all good wishes for his When through many a year his fame has grown, we, his associates at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, passed far beyond those days but not beyond their memory, shall hold in pleasant recollection the years when we were all workers together. (j cA: 3i Ar t 4it r x i x;;

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12 THE 1908 INDEX VOLUME XXXVlII Foreword HE 1908 INDEX BOARD for the Junior Class presents this, the thirty-eighth volume of the Index. In compiling the book two main objects were kept in view. In the first place, to make it a class book, a book to which the men of 1 908 may turn in future days and find chronicled and pictured therein the many happenings and incidents which go to make the days spent in college the hap- piest days in life. Secondly, to picture, in a more general way, the life of the college as a whole in a manner that will be pleasing to the student body, inter- esting to the general public, and iristructive to secondary school men who are considering the choice of a college. If we have succeeded in doing these things, the work is a success. The reader must decide. Finall y, we earnestly thank every person who by thought, word, or deed, has helped to make the book less unworthy of Old Massachusetts.