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CAnPU5 1921 September 21-24, Wednesday-Saturday — Entrance Examinations. September 28, Wednesday, 1:30 P. M. — Fall term begins; Assembly. October 12, Wednesday — Holiday — Columbus Day. November 23-25, Wednesday-Friday — Thanksgiving recess. December 23, Friday — Fall term ends. 1922 January 2, Monday — Winter term begins. February 22, Wednesday — Holiday — Washington ' s Birthday. March 24, Friday — Winter term ends. April 3, Monday — Spring term begins. April 19, Wednesday — Holiday — Patriots ' Day. May 30, Tuesday — Holiday — Memorial Day. June 24-27, Saturday-Tuesday — Commencement. June 29- July 1, Thursday-Saturday — Entrance Examinations. September 20-23, Wednesday-Saturday — Entrance Examinations. September 27, Wednesday — Fall term begins.
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articles dealing with Evolutionary Morphology. Upon receiving the Thayer Fellowship in Botany in 1917, he spent nine months in the Western and Southern States searching for fossil lignitic woods. He visited practically every region where such woods occur. In a thesis embodying the results of these researches, he was able to add one new genus and sixteen new species to science. His thesis was accepted for the doctorate in 1918, and also for publication by the Boston Society of Natural History. In 1918 he took the position in Wesleyan University as substitute for the professor who was then overseas, to teach classes in Biology and Vertebrate Zoology, preparing R. O. T. C. men for army medical work. In 1919 came the call to M. A. C. Owing to the native modesty of Doctor Torrey and his keen dislike of personal aggrandize- ment, we have no wish to eulogize here in any way; but it would be unfair to himself and to the class who are dedicating this year-book to him if we refrained from a few words of fair estimation held by faculty colleagues and the student body: a slight appreciation of esteem in which Doctor Torrey is held by teacher and individual. It would be impossible to conceive of a teacher of experience at Harvard doing work at M. A. C. without holding at M. A. C. the same high ideals which have won recognition at Harvard. Doctor Torrey is above all the scholar — one of preeminent attainment and rare capacity — and to his work in the class-room he brings the highest ideals, placing before the student the worthy goal to- wards which to strive. But his work as instructor does not end here. Having set the goal and given proper incitement towards attaining the same, he lends his whole force towards assisting the stu- dent forward, utilizing every opportunity to encourage and advance. Believing the college is an educational institution rather than a tradeschool, he has for each student scholastic ambition; permeated with the dominant scientific dogma of the survival of the fittest, he believes the college man should reach superior mental attainment. Of the highest ideals in this respect, of unswerving persistency, of mental dauntlessness, he finds it difficult to tolerate the college man of mere voca- tional ambition. A contributor to science of a now established international recognition, M. A. C. may well be proud to rank Doctor Torrey as an alumnus and an instructor, and the coming years alone may tell how long she may hold this worthy son. The man — the individual: a nature rich in appreciation of those things beyond the narrower limit of personal interest; a scientist and thinker, endowed with a most human personality — interest in life in its varied forms — helpfulness — altruism at the expense of self — bubbling over with the keenest sense of humor amounting almost to an obsession — appreciation of and keen insight into the arts, especially music, to which he reacts to an extraordinary degree — a feeling for the vital element in everything worth while; these are but a few of the main characteristics of our colleague and instructor, whose work and attainment we respect, whose individuality we esteem and appreciate. EDGAR L. ASHLEY.
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