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his father’s sister, who was an excellent teacher and who gave him a little extra attention.
He had no academic difficulties. After finishing grade school, he went to Miles Junior
High School, then, he progressed to the 3-year high school in Alliance from which he
graduated in 1905. In high school he received minimal training in the sciences, primarily
astronomy and physics without laboratory work; an indifferent teacher taught these high
school courses through texts and lectures. He went for one year to the Mount Union
College Preparatory School. In this school he had a dynamic instructor who provided
courses in geology followed by biology, chemistry and physiology along with minimal
exposure to laboratory bench experiments. He then went to Mount Union College for four
years graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1910. While in college he received
the Yost Prize for scholarship. At college the courses in which he excelled, and enjoyed
most, were the natural sciences including biology, geology and mathematics; he was not
fond of and had little aptitude for classical or modern languages.