Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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h ' OV.lL I ' CRJ ' Lli Kj in 13 versity of Chicago in ' 98 and ' ' [ . From ' 99 to ' 01 he was in- structor at Washington University (St. Louis), leaving that posi- tion to become Professor of Botany at K. S. A. C. He has published several bulletins on Adulterations and Impuri- ties in Seeds, Wheat and Alfalfa Breeding, etc., and has several now on the press. He also has the MSS. of a text on plant breeding in the hands of the publishers. He made the first investigation on the prevention of smut in kafhr corn by the use of formaldehvde, this investigation alone having saved thousands of dollars to the fanners of the state. In 1908 he was sent as a commissioner to investigate the wheat conditions in Southeastern F.urope and com- piled some very valuable data. WM. A. McKEEVER, Ph.M. Professor of Philosophy William A. McKeever was born in a one-room log cabin in Jackson County. Kansas. He was reared on a farm and followed the occupat : on of farming until after twenty-one years of age. Later he taught in the countrv schools, as principal of graded schools and as superintendent of city schools. He is head of the department of Philosophy and has been in the K. S. A. C. Faculty ten years. Professor McKeever ' s method of work is such as to stimulate thought and action in others. Flis optimism has won for him the popular nickname, Sunshine and Sunny Jim. But it is not alone in the class room that his influence is felt. His book, Psychologic [Method in Teaching, was a part of the Kansas Teachers Reading Circle Course the past year and had a sale of more than 10.000 copies during that time. He is best known throughout the country as the author of The Home Train- ing Series, a set of four pamphlets which are sent out free to parents all over the country. The Cigarette Smoking Boy is the best known of the series and has been translated into a dozen dif- ferent languages. He also writes for the current magazines and frequently addresses teachers ' associations and meetings. Professor McKeever holds the degree of A. M. from Kansas Lniversitv and that of Ph. M. from the University of Chicago.

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ROYAL PURPLE wio 15 He has also taken advanced work in Philosophy under John Dewey, of Columbia; J. Mark Baldwin, of Johns Hopkins, and Josiah Royce, of Harvard. edmund b. Mccormick, s.b. Dean of Mechanical Arts Dean McCormick is a product of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The major portion of his work at K. S. A. C. has been spent in building up the present Mechanical Engineering course, being Professor of that department up to September, 1909, at which time he was made Dean of Mechanical Arts. His success in his work here is due to the fact that he is a practical man. He is shrewd in business proport ' ons and applies his principles in conducting the affairs of his department. Owing to his ability along this line and also on account of h : s natural born interest in athletics, he was the unanimous choice of the Athletic Association for General Manager of Athletics at their Fall election, ' 09. Much is due Mr. McCorm ' ck in connection with the recent appropriations of the State Legislature for the new engineering building and equipment. Also in connection with the new athletic field he has taken a strong lead and if EC. S. A. C. is ever to have adecmate appropriation for athletics he will he the man to get it. ALBERT DICKEXS, M.Sc. Professor of Horticulture Albert Dickens was horn :n Minnesota, but early in his life came to Kansas and grew up on a Rice County farm. Here he received his common school education and later worked on a stock farm. He entered K. S. A. C. in 1890 and received a degree of B. S. in 1893. He worked in the Horticultural Department of the Experiment Station during the summer of 1895 and 1896. In 1899 he became an assistant in the Department of Horticulture and Entomology ami held that pos ' tion until 1901, when the department was divided and Mr. Dickens was made the head of the new department of Horticul-