Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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School of education IN June of 1915 the establishment of the Department of Education at Auburn was authorized by the Board of Trustees. Their action was timely, for it was during the same year that the Legislature enacted the Constitutional Amendment, ratified by the people in 191G, which for the first time gave the counties of the State the right to tax themselves for school support. The revenue from these taxes resulted in such improvement in the schools of the State that Auburn’s new Department of Education found front the very beginning a greater demand for teachers it trained, than could be met. During the seven years beginning with 1915 the number of pupils enrolled in the public High Schools of Alabama was more than doubled. Today it is increasing at the rate of twenty per cent per year. The field for teachers is a wide one, and grows daily more attractive in financial as well as social recognition. Auburn trains teachers of vocational agriculture, teachers of the various high school subjects, high school principals and school superintendents. The College considers its specified field to l c the preparation of educational leaders for the rural communities,where seventy-five per cent of the population df the State live. In the fall of 1925 Dean Benner added extension courses in education to tin-resident courses already offered. Two hundred teachers in Chambers, Lee and Russell counties enrolled in these courses and received credit towards an Auburn degree. Wherever in Alabama a school position calls for unusually straight seeing, straight thinking and straight acting, Auburn spirit and Auburn training in education arc the best kind of equipment which the candidate can offer. That this is generally recognized is evidenced by the large per cent of these positions which are filled by Auburn graduates. THOMAS E. BENNER, A. B., A. M., Ed. I)., Ed. M., is a graduate of Harvard University. Dean Benner has held many important offices. He was Superintendent of Massachusetts Schools; Statistician and Editor, Alabama State Department of Education; Editor, Alabama School Progress; Editor, Alabama School Journal. When the United States entered the World War he was among the first to join the Air Service of the United States Army. Page 26

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Qollege of zAgriculture THE activities of the College of Agriculture of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute are divided among the following departments: Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Husbandry, Botany, Farm Management, Horticulture and Entomology. Each of the above departments is engaged in research work and in teaching resident students. The purpose of the research activities is to discover new facts and principles pertaining to all phases of agriculture. The broad scope of the working progress is indicated by the fact that there are eighty-nine experimental projects under way in the several research divisions. While this may appear to be a large number of subjects under test it is really small when compared with the number of unanswered questions yet to lx? solved by the research workers Marion Jacob Fukchbss, Dean Some of the more important lines of research work are listed to indicate the broad field covered. Fertilizer problems, such as the determination of the best kind and the right amount for the main crop grown; the best variety of crops for the several soil divisions of the state. Investigations in soil fertility to determine the possibility of economically increasing the crop yield; clearing cutover lands; studies in tractor-wheel construction to the end that tractors may be used more economically in l x)se soils; nutrition studies with various kinds of animals for the purpose of discovering the best feeds and rations for live stock production; the pre-coloring of satsuma oranges, so that they may be marketed earlier; boll weevil control experiments, using various poisons; variety studies of peaches and apples and experiments to determine the best method of propagating pecans. MARION JACOB FUNCHESS attended Clemson College, where he was graduated in 190S with the B. S. degree. He then entered the University of Wisconsin and specialized in soils. In 1911 he received his M. S. degree. From 1911 to 1910 he was Assistant Professor in Agronomy at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. In 1921 he served as Acting Dean of Agriculture and in 1924 as Director of Experiment Station. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Fraternities. He is also author of several technical and non-technical books. rage 25

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 Department of Home Economics AUBURN is the oldest co-educational institution in the South, women having been admitted by the Trustees in 1892. Four graduate and one hundred nine undergraduate women students are registered in 1923-1924. Fifty per cent are registered in the Department of Home Econom-ics, and with the exception of one in the Department of Architecture and two in the ScIkx)! of Pharmacy, the remainder are registered in the general course and in the School of Education. The Department of Home Economics was established in 1922, and it now includes courses in Food, Clothing, Household Administration. Home Economics, Education and Home Economics Extension Training. The Extension Service owns the Practical Home which is used by the students in this department as a laboratory for the study of home management and for carrv-ingout research work such as: The use of electrical appliances in home-making process, including refrigeration, heating and lighting the home; the use and care of other equipment such as plumbing and lighting fixtures; dishwashing and laundering of clothes with modern equipment. Students in this department may be prepared for the following professions: Home Making, Home Economics Research, Teaching Home Economics, Home Demonstration Work, Hospital Dietitian Work, Tea Room and Cafeteria Management, Hotel Housekeeping. Home demonstration agents arc employed in thirty-eight counties. At present there is a great demand on this College for graduate Home Demonstration Agents. AGNES ELLEN HARRIS is a graduate student of Columbia University. It was there that she received the B. S. degree. She is a member of National Home Economics Association, Chairman Home Economics Section of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, Council of the Southern Region of Research Committee, Chairman of Living Costs Committee of Alabama League of Women Voters, Chairman Department Rural Social Problems, and Alabama State Conference Social Work. Agnes Eli.ex Harris Dean of Women I’agc 37