Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Shorthorn, 1933
As with Professor Stockbridge, farming and farm life were an' inheritance with our good friend, and no better foundation can'be found upon which to base the education of a teacher of agriculture. He was born in the historic old town of Hadley' on the Connecticut, in. That fertile section between Mount Holyoke and the river known as Hockanum, which, when his ancestors first settled there, was the landing place for the ferry used by the residents of Northampton and the surrounding regions when they traveled to Springfield and the towns down the river He still lives on a farm, studying his fields and his cattle.
Mr. Thayer's first teaching at M. S. C. Was during the Winter Schools of 1915 and 1916 as an. Assistant to sidney_b. Haskell, then Professor of Agronomy. He began teaching in the Stockbridge School in January; 1919, just three months after the school was established, and ever since, his interest and helpfulness, both in and out of the classroom, have been known to all. As a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee he has always been interested in helping the practical fellow, who loves the doing, but finds the theory a bit difficult. His reading covers a wide range; he delights in early Americana, and lives in an old colonial house among his books and his antiques; literature, as well as the sciences come within the range of his interest and add to his sympathy and effectiveness as a teacher.
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