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

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Dr. Charles Goessmann, one of the famous; , Stockbridge, and GoodeU, was an agriculturalchefffiitf making si| stantial contributions in the field of research and training young rnen for graduate work in the German universities with such notable suc ; cess that the story came over from abroad that a puzzled registrar ,v once said to an applicant for admission, Yale, Yale, wli is, it? Is ,. it somewhere near that jVEajssni hiisptts Apvir-nltvi-Kal Grillepe? ' ' Th ' f - ,- •■ Goessmann Laboratory s a J SiOpi -mifei-e ' Goessm? experiments unfolded their wisdom for the world. 17]

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■i i - V teaiiiei- of cultural subjects, librariip.fian itp sidep ' (5f:our founding in 1867 ntil his ttfeatli iii iSMfJjj books; his recreation, a card catalogue.- 5l a perio d ' l L — p. the college as its president froin his ofRceii |jBl Pw library. ' ' ,. Frbm the doorway of tjM!itei 6gHBill BBHP . {he ' 0Tee]iWKKK 6 mml KI he distant 16 1

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It was under the direction of Kenyon L. Butterfield that this institution ultimately fulfilled its agricultural destiny. President for a longer period than any other, he tripled our student enrollment, the number of courses, the faculty, and the physical equipment on the campus. Because of his crusading spirit, the little town of Amherst came to be a national center in terms of rural leadership. It was his habit to say the classroom is the Commonwealth, and our extension service is, today, an expression of that idea. The President of the United States solicited his advice; the Society of x merican Foreign Missions enlisted his aid. His enterprise concerned itself with matters of field and pasture and market, but primarily in the interest of a happier and more wholesome country life 18