Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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Qraduate School For forty years it has been the policy of Auburn to encourage graduate work. Many chairs in Southern Colleges are today filled by men who got their first training in advanced work here. Young men have received an inspiration and an impulse toward research that led later on to valuable contributions to human knowledge. Indirectly the spirit of graduate work has done much to keep undergraduate work fresh and progressive. A few scholarships are now offered but more and larger ones are greatly needed. It has been the purpose to keep the graduate work free from red tape. There are a few fundamental regulations laid down by the college. These were adopted after a careful study of methods used in the leading institutions of the South and East. The graduate work is under the direction of the Dean of Graduate Studies in co-operation with the Deans of the various colleges of the institution. Graduation from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute or from an institution of approved rank is a prerequisite for any graduate degree. For credit in any graduate course a prerequisite is the completion of the undergraduate work in that subject through the senior class, or its equivalent. The applicant for a graduate degree must spend at least nine months at Auburn in earnest pursuit of the required work. GEORGE PETRIE graduated at the University of Virginia in 1887, where lie received the A. M. degree. In 1891 he received the degree of Ph. I), from Johns Hopkins. From 1887 to 1889 he was Professor of Modern Languages and History. In 1891 he was professor of History and Latin. Since 1908 up to the present time he has been Dean of Graduate Studies of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He is a member of the American Historical Association, Alabama History Teachers’ Association, Contributor to Cyclopedia of Southern Literature, Contributor to Educational Journal, Joint Editor of Macc-Petric “American School History,” Lecturer at summer session of George Peabody school for Teachers, 1916-17, and University of Chicago, 1918. Pagt 30

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:'Board of Trustees Gov. William . Brandon I.t. Gov. C. S. McDowell, Jr. Dr. John W. Aisercromhie Dr. Victor H. Hanson Dr. W. H. Oates Hon. T. I). Samford Hon. C. M. Hon. P. S. Haley Judge H. I). Merrill Hon. Harry Her feld Hon. Oliver R. Hood Ex-Gov. Charles Henderson Hon. J. A. Rogers Sherrod Executive Dean George Petrie Dean B. B. Ross Dean J. J. Wilmore Mr. L. N. Duncan Dean D. T. Gray Mr. Roy Dim mitt Dean C. A. Cary Qouncil Dean Rupert Tayi.or Dean Thomas K. Benner Dean M. J. Punch ess Dean Agnes K. Harris Prof. M. J. Fullan Major John E. Hatch Prof. B. L. Shi rage 10

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School of Qiemistry and 'Pharmacy The Chemical Department of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute offers courses of instruction leading to degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Chemistry and Metallurgy. Graduates in the courses in Chemistry are occupying important positions throughout the country in connection with college departments of chemistry, experiment station laboratories, State a d Federal laboratories for the inspection and control of fertilizers, feedstuffs, foods and other commodities. In addition to this, numbers of men are sent out by this department in charge of important industrial plants or with laboratories which exercise chemical control over the operation of such plants. The State Chemical Laboratory is con- nected with, and is a part of, the Chemical Department of the Institution, and for Bknnbtt Battle Ross, Dean many years has rendered important and efficient service in protecting the consumers of the State. This Department also renders valuable service to the citizens of the state through the examination or analyis of plants, soils and miscellaneous products. BENNETT BATTLE ROSS received his B. S. degree from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1881 and his M. S. degree in 1880. He spent one year abroad in the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. Upon his return he held the Chair of Chemistry at L. S. U. for the term of six years. In 1893 he returned to his Alma Mater as head of the Chemistry Department, in which capacity he is still serving. In 1917 the Southern University conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him. During the World War Dr. Ross rendered valuable service to his country. He was a member of the State Board of Industrial Preparedness; Associate Member of the Naval Consulting Board of the United States, lie is a member of the Fellow A. A. A. S., Association of Official Agricultural Chemists of the United States, and the American Chemical Society. Pagt 21