Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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Buz M. Walker, B.Sc. President M.Sc, Ph.D. Dr. Walker has been associated with the College for 49 years. It has been largely through his earnest and untiring work that the Mississippi A. and M. College has become one of the outstanding colleges of the South. He received his degree from the Mississippi A. and M. College in 1883, and became an instructor of Mathematics upon- graduating. He received the degree of Master of Science upon completion of a three-year Summer course at the University of Virginia. In 1888, when he became head of the Department of Mathematics, he spent a year at the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin He then studied fifteen months at the University of Chicago. His solution of a celebrated problem dealing with the mathematics of curves, which had proved a stumbling-block to the world ' s greatest mathematicians since the time of Newton, gave him world wide recognition and placed his name in the Mathematical Hall of Fame. He presented this solution as a thesis for his Doctorate. He organized the Engineering School in 1902 and became its first dean. Eleven years later he was appointed vice-president and two years ago he was elected president. He entered as a Sophomore, and set his eyes on the president ' s chair. Forty-seven years of hard work placed him there. That shows what you can do if you want to bad enough.