of zoology at the Pennsylvania state college, where he remained for 

 nine years. 



Probably no other two men could have been found anywhere in 

 the world whose qualities of personality and education, combined, 

 would have fitted them as well as were these two, to carry on suc- 

 cessfully the post-graduate work in entomology which the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College now offered to students of this and other 

 institutions. For many years the college had been giving the 

 degree of M. Sc. for appropriate post-graduate work, particularly 

 in the department of chemistry. The new plan as patiently, pleas- 

 antly, but persistently pushed forward by the Professors Fernald, 

 outlined also, three years of required residential work with entomology 

 as the only major at first available, and with botany and chemistry as 

 minors, leading to the degree of Ph. D. The subjects of botany, 

 chemistry and horticulture have since been made available for major 

 study and agriculture and zoology are also included in the list of 

 minors. We have not time to consider here the scope of the work 

 done by the post-graduate students. It is enough to say that a higher 

 standard is set for the Doctor's degree, with entomology as a major, 

 than is required in any other institution offering similar advanced 

 work. The post-graduate courses now attract students from such 

 other colleges as Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard. Nat- 

 urally, there existed at first, strong opposition to the idea of the 

 graduate school but we believe that the results of ten years of trial 

 show its wisdom and desirability. 



It seems fitting indeed that when the trustees officially recognized 

 this work, as they did in 1908, they should have made Prof. C. H. 

 Fernald director of the graduate school. While we deeply regret 

 that failing health has forced him to retire from active official con- 

 nection with all college work, we are glad to record that he has been 

 made honorary director of the graduate school. We can most 

 heartily rejoice with him that he sees today so much of the priceless 

 fruit of his many years of labor, and that the value of his teaching 

 work has won for him recognition from the Carnegie Foundation. 



We cannot close this review without noticing briefly a number of 

 the men who were trained here for their later work in economic ento- 

 mology. Upon their success has depended in large measure, the good 

 name of the department of entomology, and the reputations of both 

 Prof. Fernald and of Dr. Fernald, as teachers of entomologists. We 

 may consider these men as forming three groups. 



The first group, containing seven names, we may speak of as 

 being the "Pioneer Group." These men were all more or less con- 

 nected with the Gypsy Moth fight and received much of their valuable 

 field training in that work. The first of these men, in point of time, 

 is E. Porter Felt of the class of '91. After leaving the college he 

 spent two full years at Cornell University, where post-graduate work 

 in entomology was then possible, taking his degree of Sc. D. in 1894. 

 As assistant to the late Dr. Lintner and successor to him as state 

 entomologist of New York since 1898, Dr. Felt has been a leader in 



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