CHARLES CRAWFORD STROUD was born in Thompson, Connecticut, October 26, 1870, and prepared for college at the Putnam High School and Dean Academy.

He entered Tufts in 1890, and received the degree of A. B. with honorable mention in History in 1894. Throughout his college course he was a prominent athlete, playing upon the Varsity foot-ball and base-ball teams, and acting as manager of the latter in the year 1892-93. He was equally prominent in all the other branches of athletic sport.

For one year after graduation Mr. Stroud served as Instructor in Greek, Latin, and Athletics at the Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester, Vermont. In the Fall of 1895 he returned to College Hill to coach the foot-ball team, and soon after was appointed Instructor in Physical Training.

Mr. Stroud is a member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. He is at present a matriculate of the Tufts Medical School.