Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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William Flowers Hand, Ph. D. Dean of the School of Science i i TT -HAND is a native Mississippian, honoring as his birthplace the typical | ] ) Mississippi town of Shubuta. He has passed through very nearly the same educational mill that we have in that he is a graduate of A. M. College, but he has gone considerably farther in the educational way than any of us hope to go. He holds his Doctor ' s degree in Chemistry from Columbia University, and has been connected with our college in various capacities since 1893. Doc is a rather absent-minded man — a true professor — with a passion for chemistry and things chemical. He has perhaps a closer sympathy with his students in their college life than has any other man in the faculty. His services are always in de- mand as mediator or as advisor in any matters in which student sentiment is con- cerned. Perhaps the vicissitudes of his own student days at A. M. have prepared him more thoroughly for his personal contacts with us than one usually finds in the austere faculty, but it is particularly true of him that the student with troubles always finds in him a true friend, a wise counselor, and a sympathetic judge. Pagt 20

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Buzz M. Walker, Ph. D. Dean of the School of Engineering DR. WALKER has only recently been elected the next president of the college. This honor is only the latest of the many eminent honors this gentleman and friend to students has won in the field of education. Dr. Walker began as a student at A. M. with the first class to graduate here in 1883. He has main- tained his connection with the College through all intermediate ranks from that time until the present day. While on various leaves of absence he has pursued the abstruse machinations of the elusive variable quantities in mathematics at the Universities of Virginia, Goettingen (Germany) and Chicago. It was as part of his work at the University of Chicago that he solved a problem in mathematics that had for years been the puzzle of the foremost mathematicians of the world. For his work on this problem and for his eminence in other branches of mathematics he has gained mention in the famous Who ' s Who in America. Dr. Walker, as Dean of the School of Engineering, has been a militant advo- cate for engineering education in Mississippi, and it is due almost entirely to his zeal that the present school enjoys its excellent rating. Page iq

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