Everett Tryon King

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Everett Tryon King, a Junior in Harvard College, and the younger son of Professor Edward S. King, passed away this afternoon, February 22, after an illness of two weeks of pleuro-pneumonia. Although only 21 years old, he displayed an extraordinary brilliancy and versatility of mind. He took part in the work of the Harvard Observatory and showed that the ancient instrument, the abacus, could be used to advantage in calculations there. One of his latest enterprises was the study of color in the department of fine arts, a work so highly appreciated that he received an appropriation from the American Academy, the youngest recipient of such an honor. It is difficult to estimate what might have been his future, from so remarkable a beginning. He also interested himself in the higher mathematics, in illuminating manuscripts, in paleography, and was a member of the University chess club, winning the novice championship in his Freshman year. EDWARD C. PICKERING '65.