Xenos Young Clark, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, was born in 1855.
His fellow Founder, Brooks, used to say that he was "a brilliant son of a brilliant father".
--His father had been a personal assistant to Agassiz, later adjunct professor of zoology at Harvard. (
p. 18)  His father's final posting was at Massachusetts Agricultural College - "Aggie" - where he built the first house upon Mount Pleasant Hill.
His son, enrolling, brought to Aggie a "splendid mind and a facile pencil, the latter indeed instigating many a college joke." (
p. 23) Barrett characterized him as "lovable in all his ways, a genius, brilliant, versatile, perhaps erratic."
Clark had received much of his early schooling in the preparatory department of Kentucky University, of Harrodsburg and then Lexington, KY, prior to his family's move to Amherst.
He was twenty-one years of age in 1873, and a sophomore, when he and five others began their lifelong bond in the rooms, laboratories, sheds and fields of Old North College, one of the three principal buildings at M.A.C. (p. 23)
Xenos Young Clark, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, was born in 1855. His fellow Founder, Brooks, used to say that he was "a brilliant son of a brilliant father". --His father had been a personal assistant to Agassiz, later adjunct professor of zoology at Harvard. (p. 18)  His father's final posting was at Massachusetts Agricultural College - "Aggie" - where he built the first house upon Mount Pleasant Hill. His son, enrolling, brought to Aggie a "splendid mind and a facile pencil, the latter indeed instigating many a college joke." (p. 23) Barrett characterized him as "lovable in all his ways, a genius, brilliant, versatile, perhaps erratic." Clark had received much of his early schooling in the preparatory department of Kentucky University, of Harrodsburg and then Lexington, KY, prior to his family's move to Amherst. He was twenty-one years of age in 1873, and a sophomore, when he and five others began their lifelong bond in the rooms, laboratories, sheds and fields of Old North College, one of the three principal buildings at M.A.C. (p. 23)
Xenos Young Clark