20 PROCEEDINGS OP THE PITTSBURGH MEETING 



of the people whose support made the institution possible. Through his 

 influence the board of trustees adopted the Pueblo style of architecture 

 for the university, making it unique in buildings among educational in- 

 stitutions. 



Naturally the duties of the executive office checked his work in the 

 field, and I have no information of any large contributions made to geol- 

 ogy after he left his native state, though he occasionally presented papers 

 to the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society, as well as to the 

 parent organization. He had, however, done much field work in the 

 territory and had arranged for a year's leave of absence to continue these 

 studies. Unfortunately his notes were largely destroyed by fire in May 

 last. He also organized the Geological Survey of New Mexico, but before 

 it had gotten on its feet he left the territory, for one of those eruptions 

 so volcanic-like in its severity and all too common in state institutions 

 of the distant West ended his career as a university president. 



The last few months of his life were divided between economic geology 

 and insurance, which doubtless he considered simply as a method of 

 earning a livelihood until a suitable opening in geology might be found. 

 For some months he was annoyed by severe headaches and later by stom- 

 ach disorders, the latter followed by blood poisoning, from which he died 

 on January 15, 1910, in his forty-fifth year. 



Doctor Tight was a man of robust physique, tall and athletic, qualities 

 that served him well in the long tramps over the hills of southeastern 

 Ohio and later over the plateaus and mountains of New Mexico. He was 

 an excellent observer and logical thinker. In short, he had the qualities 

 that make a field geologist, and there, in the writer's judgment, should 

 have been his life's work, and this is said without disparagement to his 

 services in the class-room, where he was efficient. His personality was 

 strong. This was well shown at the New York meeting of the Geological 

 Society in 1906, when he extended an invitation to the organization to 

 hold its next meeting at Albuquerque. On account of the remoteness of 

 the place few of the members seemed to prefer it, but Tight presented the 

 matter with such enthusiasm that the invitation was accepted. Com- 

 menting on this meeting, the Secretary of our Society writes:® 



"Tight worked hard for the success of the Albuquerque meeting, interesting 

 everybody in the town, and even securing concessions from the Santa Fe Rail- 

 road that were far greater than the size of the gathering' in itself would have 

 warranted. He was everywhere at all times and did everything that anybody 

 could for our comfort and profit. If direction was needed he was the director, 

 and if a camp rustler was called for Tight cheerfully volunteered his services. 



•Personal letter. 



