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

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ROYAL PURPLE igio 11 Professor of Chemistry is now an advisory member of the State Board of Health and one of the food analysts for the Board. The Chemist of the Experiment Station is in charge of the analysis and inspection of fertilizers under the State laws relating to those articles. He is also authorized to make analyses for the State Dairy Commis- sioner. The great increase in the number of students and hence in the number coming to the Chemistry Department, together with the great enlargement of the Experiment Station and official Chemistry work has more than filled the capacity of the Chemistry and Physical Science Hall. At present there is probably no department so badly crowded for space as this. Among the more important lines of work undertaken in the de- partment during the last nine years have been digestion and nutrition experiments with prairie hay and alfalfa, milling and baking tests of wheat and flour, comparison of the digestibility of bleached and unbleached flour, investigations concerning the percentage of water and the occurrence of copper in oysters, and a beginning has been made in a chemical investigaton of Kansas soils. BENJAMIN L. REMICK, Ph-.M. Professor of Mathematics Along about the time of Cleveland ' s administration, when things were rather dull, the professors about Cornell College amused them- selves by watching a young magician pick all sorts of mathematical paraphernalia right out of the air. Eater they employed him as In- structor of Mathematics. Thus began the career of Professor Remick as a teacher. After resigning his position at his alma mater, he held positions of interesting importance with several of the large Western Universities and Colleges, eventually landing at K. S. A. C. as Pro fessor of Mathematics. When he assumed his present position, three teachers were able to take care of the work. At present twelve teachers, with a number of student assistants, are working over time in order to start the embryo mathematicians onward to fame.

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10 ROYAL PURPLE ioio passed the examination for a life diploma as a Swiss teacher. He then returned to Canton College and finished the five-year technical course. He then took a course in Civil Engineering in the Uni- versity of Berns, after which he worked for a time as a geodetic surveyor. In 18 ' 68 he landed in New York without resources other than perseverance and willingness to work. How well he succeeded may he judged from the fact that nine years after landing in Xew York he had become the head of the Department of Industrial Drawing at K. S. A. C. During lv ' s long period of service here, his ability as an instructor and as an advisor in building matters has moved him stead : lv upwards. At the time of the organization of the four- year course in Architecture, in 1904, he was made head of that De- partment, which position he now holds. JULIUS TERRASS WILLARD, D.Sc. Dean of Science, Professor of Chemistry Professor Willard is a native of Kansas of whom the state should be proud. His work in the College ranges from student to Dean, the intermediate portions always indicating a steady climb toward the top. Dean Willard received Irs B. S. degree at K. S. A. C. in 1883; was Assistant in Chemistry, 1883-87; student : ' n Johns Hopkins University, 1887-88; received his M. S. at K. S. A. C. in 1888; he was Assistant Chemist of the Agricultural Experimental Station, 1888 to 1897; Chemist Experiment Station, 1897 to ; Professor of Applied Chemistry, 1897 to 1 ( »01 ; Director of the Ex- periment Station, 1900 to 1908; Professor of Chemistry, 1901 to ; received D. Sc. from K. S. A. C, 1908. He is a member of a dozen or more of the leading National Scientific Societ: ' es and his work has earned for him a prominent place in Who ' s Who in America. At the time that he became head of the Chemistry Department, in 1901, the total number enrolled in all the Chemistry classes for the year was 031 ; in 1909 and 1910 the number was 2,417. Since 1901 Lhe Experiment Station work has greatly increased, and several lines of State work have been assigned to the Chemistry Department. The

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12 ROYAL PURPLE ion BENJAMIN F. EVER, E.E. Professor of Electrical Engineering Prof. Ever, the man at the head of the Electrical Engineering Department at K. S. A. C, has a reputation among the scientific men of his profession as being one of the foremost men in the country when it comes to training young men for electrical engineer- ing. Men whom he will recommend are in continual demand throughout this section of the country, one of the largest electric man- ufacturers : ' n the East employing technical graduates from only three Western schools, K. S. A. C. being one of the three. Prof. Eyer ' s early hi story as a teacher was in connection with the Physics department in the Topeka High School. He is a gradu- ate of Armour ' s Institute of Technology and later took a course in Experimental Engineering with the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York. He is a full member of the American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers and takes an active part in their an- nual conventions, thus keeping abreast of the newest ideas along electrical lines. HERBERT F. ROBERTS, M.S., LL.B. Professor of Botany This serious-looking gentleman is the builder of the Botany Course at K. S. A. C. as it stands today. Five years ago two men had charge of the Botany work and but one course of advanced work was required. Today six men are on the staff and four ad- vanced courses are requ ' red. The course is the best in the West and is one of the best in the country. The breeding work in wheat and alfalfa is the most extensive of any in the United States. K. S. A. C. has reason to boast of this department, for this is the only Agricultural College in which Plant Physiology, Plant Pathology and Plant Breeding are required courses and are taught by spe- cialists. Although of Botany, by Botany and for Botany all the time, Professor Roberts is a very broad man. He graduated from the University of Kansas, A. B., ' 91 ; Northwestern University, EL. B., ' 93; K. S. A. C, M. S., ' 97, and was a graduate student of the Uni-