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

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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-

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16 ROYAL PURPLE igm ture, with one assistant. He received his degree of M. S. the same year. Since then the department has steadily grown until at the present there are one assistant professor, one instructor, two assistants and more needed. Forestry work was begun in 1899 and ten years later the State Forestry work was added to the department. Mr. Dickens is the author of four bulletins and parts of two others as well as pamphlets for the Extension Department and re- ports on Forestry. He is a life member of the Kansas Horticultural Society and also a member of the American Pomological Society and of the American Forestry Association. Professor Dickens has visited ever)- county in the state, either on Institute or Forestry work and has so endeared himself to the farmers that they are always glad to go to him for advice. He is also a favorite with his students and is a capable, interesting in- structor and friend. CLARK M. BRINK, Pri.D. Professor of English. Assistant to the President This is the eighth vear that the English Department has been in charge of Dr. Brink. In that time the teaching force of that department has grown from three instructors to eight, the number of students enrolled in English from a scant hundred to a thousand. Professor Brink is a New Yorker by birth and education. His preparation for college was secured in the public and academic schools of the Empire State. Entering the University of Rochester, he graduated from that institution, after four years, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, taking the highest honors in Latin, Declama- tion and Oratory. He then spent three years at the Rochester Theological Seminary, graduating with a rank that entitled him to the degree of B. D. He then entered the ministry, remaining for five years at Des Moines, in the meantime completing the work in absentia for the Master ' s degree at his alma mater. He then became the pastor of a church at Newark, N. J., taking up at the same time a course of graduate study in the English Language and Literature at New York Universitv, graduating at the end of four vears with