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

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ROYAL PURPLE igio sence for a year and a half, which he spent in the study of animal nutrition in the universities of Leipsic and Zurich, returning in 1905. Shortly after his return he was elected Dean of the College of Agri- culture and Director of the Experiment Station in the University of California at a very attractive salary, but a contract, from which the regents of the Missouri institution would not release him, pre- vented its acceptance. He was recently elected to the presidency of the Colorado Agricultural College, but declined. In addition to his work in the institutions with which he was formally connected, the capacity and trarning of Professor Waters have been claimed for much outside effort. He prepared the splen- did exhibit in agriculture which Missouri made at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He gave instruction in Animal Nutrition in the Graduate School of Agriculture in 1903 and 1906 and has been asked to give a course of lectures at the session to be held this year. President Waters is a member of the honorary societies of the Sigma Xi. Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Zeta. In June, 1897, he was married to Miss Margaret Ward Watson, of Columbia. Missouri, whose accomplishments, social charm and loyalty have since been a constant inspiration and source of strength. Their only child, Henrv Jackson Waters, Jr.. was born June 3, 1900.

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ROYAL PURPLE ioio structure. Forgetting those things which are behind, he presses for- ward toward the mark of a high calling. President Waters is approachable, sympathetic and sincere; generous in approval and appreciative; frank and outspoken when differing in opinion ; courteous and considerate. He is steadily bind- ing his Faculty to himself and uniting them in giving their best service to the Institution dear to us all. He has pronounced con- victions and defi nite aims in education, but is always ready to weigh attentively the views of others. He has largeness of outlook and while he is in command its best friends may rest assured that the College ship will Sail on. Sail on, and on! The ancestors of President Waters came from Middleham, Yorkshire, England, settling in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608. Their descendants are prominent in Virginia, Maryland, the Caroknas, Ten- nessee and Kentucky. His grandfather fought in Jackson ' s brigade at the battle of New Orleans and later established a home on a farm in Ralls county, Northeastern Missouri. Though a slave-holder he was a staunch Unionist and voluntarily freed his slaves before the emancipation proclamation. The father of the subject of this sketch was educated as a civil engineer and was engaged in the survey of Texas at the outbreak of the Civil War. This event terminated this work and he engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was well-known as an extensive writer and prominent lecturer on agricultural topics. For some years he edited the Journal of Agriculture. H. J. Waters was born November 23, 1865, in Ralls county, Mo. He received his primary education in the public schools and was prepared for college by his father. He was graduated from the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri, in 1886, but re- mained there as a graduate student for two years longer. He then served the institution for two years as Assistant in Agriculture, and was then elected to the Pennsylvania professorship from which Mis- souri recalled him in 1895 to become Dean of the College of Agri- culture and Director of the Experiment Station. After several years of pronounced success in this work he was granted a leave of ab-

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