299:, and other courses. He influenced the curriculum taught at the college, which became renowned for entomological study. He was renowned at the school for the class known as Zoology 220, for which he maintained high standards, and which many students had to repeat, including future McGill University professors. In 1924, he became one of thirteen members of the newly established Sigma chapter of the
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