Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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REVEILLE. 23 Artillery, IT. S. A., 1886- ' 89 ; Lieutenant J. V. White, First Artil- lery, U. S. A., 1889- ' 91 ; Lieutenant G. W. Burr, First Artillery, U. S. A., 1891- ' 93 ; Captain 0. L. Steele, Eighteenth Infantry, U. S. A., 1893- ' 97; Captain II. H. Ludlow, Third Artillery, U. S. A., 1897- ' —. Director of the Experiment Station, Professor S. M. Tracy, from 1888 to 1897; Professor W. L. Hutchinson, director from 1897- ' —. The College has been fortunate above many institutions in always having an excellent board of trustees. The following distinguished Mississippians have, from time to time, made up the board: Governor J. M. Stone, 1878- ' 96 ; General A. M. West, 1878- ' 79; Hon. Frank Butkitt, 1878- ' 81; D. L. Phares, 1878- ' 80; Colonel W. B. Montgomery, 1878- ' —; W. B. Augustus, 1878- ' 81; Major T. C. Dockery, 1878- ' —; Hon. C. L. Gilmer, 1S78- , 81; Hon. L. B. Brown, 1878- ' 88; Hon. J. M. Causey, 1S78- ' S2; General J. Z. George, 1879- ' 97; Major A. M. Paxton, 1880- ' 85; Governor Robert Lowery, 1881- ' S8; Hon. II. M. Street, 1881- ' —; Dr. II. A. Minor, 1881- ' 88; Hon. Robert Powell, 1883- ' 85 ; Dr. George H. Peets, 1884- ' 98 ; Hon. J. R. Cameron, 1886- ' 94 ; Hon. John F. McOormick, 1889- ' 98 ; Hon. W. II. Morgan, 1889- ' —; Hon. A. F. Fox, 1889- ' 90; Dr. J. B. Bailey, 1894- ' 9S; Governor A. J. McLaurin, 189(3- ' —; Hon. R. C. Lee, 181)8; Hon. J. H. Sharp, 1896- ' —; Hon. A. A. Kincannon, 1896- ' —; Hon. J. R. Densmore, 18!)N; Hon. J. J. (Viiwn, 1898. The object of the education given here is to turn the bright minds of Mississippi ' s young men from the crowded professions to the great possibilities of an industrial life ; to raise agriculture, horticul- ture, and the mechanic arts to that plane of scientific theory and prac- tice to which competition and invention are steadily pushing these industries ; to show to students that it takes as much brain and knowl- edge to make a successful industrialist as it does to make a successful professional man. The success of the College has been remark- able from the first opening to the present time, the greatest number of students in any one year being four hundred and fifteen (115), the smallest, two bunded and fifty-seven, the minimum attendance occur- ring during the year following the great financial depression of 1893. Last session the attendance was three hundred and sixty-nine. The education given is broad enough for the basis of the various callings of life as is shown by the success of many of the graduates of the institution, of whom there are now more than two hundred.