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

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toward the maintenance of a high standard of scholarship and training in the scientific departments of this institution. Because of his able and enthusiastic leadership in the struggle to maintain the high ideals of a broad training and high standard of scholarship in the four-year courses of our college, when the commission for investigating the possibilities of developing higher education in Massachusetts visited M. A. C, Dr. Fernald was chosen by President Butterfield to present to the committee a statement of what this College is prepared to do in the way of education outside of applied agriculture, in case the commission should recommend the utilization of these facilities. His clear-cut, logical and convincing presentation of the facts and arguments in favor of the establishing of a state university here, created a very favorable impression among the members of the commission, and if our college should be so fortunate as to receive the support of the Legislature in developing into a state university, no small share of the credit for the achievement should be given to Dr. Fernald. Dr. Fernald ' s professional reputation has been founded largely upon the work which he has carried out during the period of his association with this college, and on this account M. A. C. has always occupied the highest place in his interest and affection, as is clearly demonstrated by his sending his only son to college here. Of the work he has done here, his treatises on the Digger Wasps of North America (which are standard works of reference in this subject), are perhaps the best known to his fellow entomologists, although his Textbook of Applied Entomology, which represents the culmination of his researches in the field of Economic Entomology, will doubtless be more widely known among students at large, since it is now used as a textbook in many colleges and universities of the country, and is generally acknowledged to be the best book available for the purpose. Although a man ' s publications make him known to the world at large, his ideals, character, personality and ability as a teacher have far more weight among his students and those associated with him personally; and we are more than for- tunate in having as Head of the Department of Entomology a man of Dr. Fernald ' s sterling worth, breadth of vision, and sympathetic spirit of helpfulness in his re- lations with those associated with him here. Dr. Fernald ' s exceptional ability as a teacher, his poise, facility of expression, and ability to impart his ideas clearly, forcefully, and concisely, have made his courses among the most popular electives on the campus. His unswerving loyalty and untiring efforts to maintain a high standard of scholarship at M. A. C. have earned for him the deep gratitude of all who have the best interests of our college at heart; and his scholarly attainments, broad vision, high ideals, and sympathetic attitude toward the work of the mem- bers of his department, have endeared him to those of us who have been so fortunate as to be associated with him here. That we shall continue to keep in positions of influence and authority, men of his caliber, vision and devotion to high ideals is the earnest hope of every well-wisher of M. A. C. G. C. CRAMPTON

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Xm itijin 8! a i m experiment Station bminigtration Kenvon L. Butterfield, A.M., LL.D. Sidney B. Haskell, B.Sc. . Joseph B. LindseJ Ph.D. Fred C. Kenney Henry S. Green, A.B., LL.D. President of the College Director Vice-Director Treasurer Librarian department of Agricultural (Economics! Alexander E. Cance, Ph.D. ...... Agricultural Economist Lorian P. Jefferson, A.M. Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural Economics department of Agriculture William P. Brooks, Ph.D. Edwin F. Gaskill, M.Sc. Robert L. Coffin Consulting Agriculturalist Assistarit Research Professor of Agriculture Investigator in Agriculture department of Agronomy Arthur B. Beaumont, Ph.D. ..... Professor of Agronomy department of Animal l usffeantirp Schuyler M. Salisbury, B.Sc. Agr. . . Professor of Animal Husbandry department of ISotanp Professor of Botany A. Vincent Osmun, M.Sc. Paul J. Anderson, Ph.D. Orton L. Clark, B.Sc. Webster S. Krout, M.A. Alyn S. Ball Anna M. AVallace, M.A. Professor of Botany Assistant Professor of Botany Assistat2t Research Professor of Botany Laboratory Assistant, Botany Curator, Department of Botany department of Bairp iHanufacturc Henry F. Judkins, B.Sc. Professor of Dairying department of Cntomologp Henry T. Fernald, Ph.D. ...... Professor of Entomology Arthur I. Bourne, B.A. . . Assistant Research Professor of Entomology Harlan N. Worthley, B.Sc. . . . Investigator in Entomology department of jFarm Jlanagement James A. Foord, M.Sc. Agr. . Professor of Farm Management 11