Bird lore - Project Puffin

The Audubon Societies 261
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 demanded
'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
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