I was Regional Forester at Portland, Oregon, 

 I was asked to speak at a ceremony dedicating 

 a forestry cabin at Oregon State University 

 to George Peavy, and I chided him jocularly 

 for asking me to laud him when he had refused 

 me a job in my hour of needo 



Michigan Agricultural College 



We spent the winter of 1901-02 in Detroit. 

 At that period we were thinking about a college 

 for me, though I had not finished high school. 

 My education so far had been obtained during 

 alternating periods of attendance at public 

 school and a private school, Clark s Classical 

 School for Boys, on Euclid Avenue in Pasadena. 

 I went to Clark s when we could afford it, 

 to public school at other times. 



Through friends in Detroit who had two sons 

 there we learned about Michigan Agricultural College, 



