Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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The buildings arc thoroughly supplied with equipment with which to demonstrate in technical work; and to increase the supply, the institution lias expended the sum of $00,000 within the past year. The regular courses offered include Agriculture, Forestry, Domestic Science and Art, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil Engineering. Electrical Engineering, Pharmacy, Commerce. The new courses recently added arc Veterinary Science, and Industrial Pedagogy. During the winter a six-week's course in Agriculture, Horticulture, and Domestic Science is given; also a summer school of six weeks' duration is conducted for the preparation of teachers in the public and high schools. The members of the faculty are thoroughly and professionally trained for their vocation, having, in most cases, taken both under-graduate and graduate work in the large universities and technical schools of the East. They are reputed for their ability and skill in original research, the result of their investigations being given in the Station Bulletins, from time to time. An article of this kind would be incomplete without making mention of the cadet corps. Under the wise and efficient management of Captain U. (1. M'cAlexander the student regiment has attained a high standing; the last government inspection showing that it. with two Eastern Universities, ranks ahead of all other schools of its kind in point of military efficiency. The War Department is to lx thanked and the institution is to be congratulated on the fact that Captain McAlexander’s term of service at the O. A. C. has been extended one year, beginning August 15, 1910. A mark of the influence exercised by the institution over student life is the loyalty of the student body to every institutional interest. The extent to which the institution has endeared itself to the classmen is shown by visible tokens to be seen here and there on the campus. There are stone steps, stone seats, a fountain, a park, and a steel flag pole; and among the projects for the future arc a band stand and an alumnal arch. There is no greater attestation of their loyalty, however, than their constant devotion to high ideals. This is exemplified by the summary manner in which they have consigned to perpetual banishment the barbarous practice of hazing. The skill with which President Kerr has handled the problems arising in the varied college activities is deserving of the highest praise. The institu tion has expanded symmetrically to large proportions. The enrollment of sixteen hundred students in its various departments is indicative of its progress. As the end of the school year approaches, the subject that engrosses attention and conversation is Commencement. If the Commencement seasons of past years have been made memorable by their events and associations, much more is this years’ graduating week destined to be so remembered, not only by the Class of ’10. but by the host of men and women who claim the O. A. C. as their alma mater. The ensuing week of weeks will be eventful by reason of its elaborate programme, and the concourse of distinguished persons who are to participate in the ceremonies. The Quarter Centennial celebration now l eing planned, to occur simultaneously with the events of Commencement week, is deserving of every assistance that faculty, students, and friends can render, in order that it may be a commemoration truly indicative of the progressive spirit of the institution. 8

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(0. A. 0L At % £ui» nf a ($uart?r (Eenturg As a result of negotiations which had been in progress for several months prior to the year iss.'», Corvallis College, hitherto conducted under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was in the aforesaid year relinquished to the State, which assumed control of the institution as an Agricultural College, under the Land Grant Act of 1SG2. 1 here had been a keen rivalry between different sections of the State, each desiring to have the college established in their respective localities. Filially Benton County, in order to retain the college, as a consideration, erected at a cost of $:’o.(mo, a brick structure, now known as the Administration Building. Phenomenal has been the growth of the institution since those days of the wooden building and the two-teacher faculty. From one building, two teachers, and twenty-five students, on a campus of thirty-five acres, the school has increased to twenty-two buildings, ninety-seven teachers, and sixteen hundred students, on a campus and farm comprising two hundred twenty-four acres. Among the men whose directive force has been largely instrumental in the achievement of these results may be named Presidents B. L. Arnold, John M. Bloss, Thomas M. Gatch and V. J. Kerr; while not a little credit is due ex-Senator Thomas Cauthorn, who successfully laid the needs of the College before the Slate Legislature. Located at the head of navigation on the Willamette River, Corvallis, with its five thousand inhabitants, is an ideal situation for the College. The social and moral tone of the community is of a high order; both the town and the county arc under local option rule, and all the prominent religious denominations maintain flourishing societies. An inexhaustible supply of crystal-clear water from the snows and springs of Mt. Chintimiui. distributed throughout the city, and in the college buildings, renders sanitary conditions especially wholesome. The plat immediately surrounding the College buildings is artistically decorated with ornamental trees and shrubs, native and exotic. These forms of plant life are available to classes in Nature Study. Botany and Lanscapc Gardening. By munificent legislative appropriations made during the earlier years of college expansion, the Administration Building. Agricultural Hall, Mechanical Hall. Mining Building. Gymnasium. Pharmacy Building. Cauthorn Hall. Horticultural Building. Mining Laboratory, and Power Plant, were added to the accommodations. The left wing and the middle wing of the Central Agricultural Building, the Shops (for the use of the Department of Mechanic Arts). Waldo Hall (for girls), and Shepard Hall, all modern in structure and in every appointment, have been provided during the incumbency of President Kerr. The new Armory, just completed, is said to be the largest structure of its kind at any institution of learning West of the Rocky Mountains. Two buildings now in course of construction, the Central Heating Plant and the New Green House, will materially add to the appliance of the College.

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IBoart) of Regents of the (Oregon Agricultural College and EXPERIMENT STATION. I Ion. J. K. Weatiikkpoku. President...........................Albany I Ion. E. E. Wilson, Secretary..............................Corvallis lloN. It. F. Irvine, Treasurer...............................Portland EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS lloN. F. W. Benson, Governor and Secretary of State .... Salem Hon. J. H. Ackerman, Supt. of Public Instruction................Salem I Ion. Austin T. Buxton, Master of State Grange . . . Forest Grove APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR TERM EXPIRES. Hon. John I). Oi.wki.i............................Central Point, 1912 Hon. Wii.i.iam W. Cotton...............................Portland, 1912 Hon. Walter M. Pierce...............................La Grande, 1912 Mrs. Clara H. Waldo.....................................Macleay, 1915 Hon. E. E. Wilson.....................................Corvallis. 1915 Hon. B. F. Irvine......................................Portland. 1915 Hon. J. T. Apperson..................................Park-place. 1918 Hon. J. K. Weatherford...................................Albany, 191S Hon. C. L. Hawley.........................................McCoy, 1918 9