Harvard University yearbooks

[Erato]

Does anyone have access to Harvard University yearbooks?  I would like to know if Dwight Logan Reid [b. 1887 in Wisconsin] attended Harvard as is claimed in his obituary.  If he did, it would have been sometime between 1910 and 1917.

[Lisa in California]

I don’t have access.

However, Ancestry has several results for (just) 1910; perhaps this was him?
Dwight Logan Reid
Estimated Age: About 20
Birth Year: About 1890
Yearbook Date: 1910
School: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Location of School: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Yearbook Title: Quiver Yearbook

Perhaps he attended University of Wisconsin and transferred to Harvard?

[Erato]

He attended the State Normal School in Oshkosh in 1909/1910 (that's a far cry from Harvard).  I have a photo of him there on the Debate Team.  Then there's a gap from about 1910 to 1917.  In 1917, he was married with two kids and teaching at the Northern Normal and Industrial School, Aberdeen, South Dakota.  In 1918/19 he got a MS in agricultural education at the University of Illinois and then continued there as an instructor until about 1924ish.  At that point, he moved to Los Angeles and became the head of the science department at the David Starr Jordan High School where he remained until his retirement in 1952.  He taught physics and chemistry there and was singled out as an inspiration by Glenn Seaborg when he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951.  He must have been a great teacher.

[Lisa in California]

Wow, very impressive.  He must have enjoyed his calling.

In addition, found by an internet search for:
"dwight l reid" aberdeen wisconsin

“…and a Graduate of the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin…”
Source - Bulletin dated 1919: “Bulletin, Issues 9-17 By Illinois. Board of Vocational Education and Rehabilitation”

[Lisa in California]

https://jcast.fresnostate.edu/about-us/history-jordan-college.html
  Note: I’ve never used the site before; I do not know if the site is “safe”

It gives a very short breakdown of his degrees (dates and places); Harvard is not mentioned.

[Erato]

Here's the obituary.  Frankly, I've always doubted the bit about Harvard.  The information must have been given by his (second) wife or one of his children.  Maybe they, um, tarted up his resumé a tad.

Here's what Seaborg said: 

"Two people inspired me. One was Dwight Logan Reid, my chemistry and physics teacher at David Starr Jordan High School, Los Angeles.  Up until the time I entered high school, I had no exposure to science and, therefore, little knowledge of its possibilities. I chose literature as my major subject, and I took no science until my junior year when, in order to meet the college requirement, I took a chemistry course.  Largely due to the enthusiasm and obvious love of the subject displayed by my teacher, Dwight Logan Reid of Jordan High School in Los Angeles, chemistry captured my imagination almost immediately. I had the feeling, 'Why hasn't someone told me about this before?'  Dwight Logan Reid didn't just teach chemistry. He preached chemistry."

Seaborg also said:  "I could have told you again that I fell in love in the ninth grade with another girl, Vivian Dawson, and again sort of in college. That was the daughter of Dwight Logan Reid.  She wound up going to UCLA, Beth Reid, and I dated her for about a year."

[Erato]

Ah, thanks.  I didn't know he had taught at Fresno.  So he left Illinois in about 1922.