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instructor in swimming, Miss Helen Grimes, was secured and through her 

 efforts a large proportion of our young women are now able to swim and 

 it will not bo long before this accomplishmont will be considered a necces- 

 sarj' adjunct to the training of every one of our 3'oung women. 



RESIGNATIONS. 



Professor Harry J. Eustace, who returned to take up his college work 

 at the beginning of the present year after service under Mr. Hoover in 

 Food Administration during the prccecding year in an important capacity, 

 resigned as Professor of Horticulture at the close of the current year 

 to accept a very responsible position in the advertising department of 

 the Curtis Publishing Company of Philadelphia at a greatly increased 

 salary. Professor Eustace will be remembered by his students both 

 for his ability as a teacher and his preeminent social qualities. 



NECROLOGY. 



Henry G. Reynolds, Class of 1870, died September 5, 1918, at Pasadena, 

 California. Mr. Rej^nolds served as a member of the State Board of 

 Agriculture from 1879 to 1885. On completion of his term as a member 

 he was elected as Secretary of the Board and served from 1885 to 1893. 

 Mr. Reynolds' interest in the College from the time of his entrance as 

 a Freshman never lagged in the slightest degree. 



Rolla C. Carpenter, Class of 1873, died at Ithaca, N. Y., January 19, 

 1919. This gentleman held the Professorship of Mathematics and En- 

 gineering at this College from 1875 to 1890. From 1890 until January of 

 the present year he was Professor of Experimental Engineering at Cornell 

 University, retiring from active duty at that date. Professor Carpenter 

 was one of the best known engineering instructors in the United States. 



Byron D. Halsted, Class of 1871, died August 28, 1918, at New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J. Professor Halsted acted as instructor immediately upon 

 graduation, later becoming connected with the editorial staff of the 

 American Agriculturalist and finally assuming the Professorship of Botany 

 at Rutgers College in 1878 where he continued until the time of his death. 

 His work as a Plant Pathologist had national recognition. 



From our teaching staff two deaths due to influenza are to be recorded — 

 Professor Rose Taylor of the Botany department died on December 6, 

 1918, after a week's illness. 



Dr. Domina J. Lamoreaux, who graduated with the Class of 1918 and 

 was assistant in the department of Animal Pathology, died on February 

 27, 1919, after an illness of but five days from influenza. 



The College lost two efficient, conscientious workers. 



The unclassified, employees of the College, steam fitters, electricians, 

 mechanics and day laborers have heretofore been entirely without pro- 

 tection in case of sickness or accident. During the year, however, a 

 mutual benefit association has been formed to which all the employees 

 of the College are invited to membership. This is now successfully 

 established with approximately one hundred and twentj^ men from the 

 pay roll as members. I believe this is a very proper step. 



