The Audubon Societies 



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JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 

 For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XXVIII: Correlated with Botany and Physical Geography 



[Note: The following suggestive method of bird-study should prove to be of prac- 

 tical use in any school which has grounds. In city schools, it may be applied to the study 

 of birds in parks. — A. H. W.] 



THE COLLEGE GRADUATION THESIS AS A METHOD OF 



BIRD-STUDY 



By HENRY J. FRY 



"... The graduation theses are to be based upon original work. Each 

 student is permitted to select his own subject provided it is relative to 

 his major course, and is approved by the faculty committee. ..." 



Thus are the thesis regulations read yearly to each senior class of Muhlen- 

 berg College, regulations which bear a striking resemblance to all thesis re- 

 quirements in all col- 

 leges. 



One student of the 

 science department of the 

 class of 1 9 14 found his 

 subject in short order 

 without the usual rack- 

 ing of brains and waste 

 of time. His decision 

 was: 'Birds of the 

 Muhlenberg Campus.' It 

 was a subject that de- 

 manded 'original work,' 

 it was 'relative to his 

 major course,' it was 

 speedily 'approved by 

 the faculty committee,' 

 not to mention the im- 

 portant fact that it ap- 

 pealed to him as a dis- 

 tinct pleasure, instead 

 of repelling him as an 

 uninteresting piece of 

 work which had to be 

 done. 



He had long been ^ ^0^^^,^,^ op ^^^^ ^.^^^,^^^ 



