Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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Department of Instruction Engineering Agriculture Science Academic

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Professor Barnes, better known among the fellows as Theta because he used to be particularly partial to that letter in denoting angles, keeps the engineering Sophomores on the jump writing up physics experiments on sunshiny afternoons and ' way up into the small hours of the morning. He likes radio and photography a whole lot, and whenever he discovers a photograph that is artistic, he feels good all day. He is particularly noted for illustrating the right hand motor rule in electricity, and a lot of acrobats you see on the stage aren ' t in his class until he gets it like he wants it. Major Dusenbury is in charge of the Coast Artillery Cadet Corps. He believes in giving a fellow a job to do, and then letting him go to it on his own hook. He thinks the world of his outfit, and declares with considerable pride that they look better every day. That sort of attitude keeps every- body working hard. He has an open mind, and an ever present willingness to co-operate on every- thing that ' s worth while, and as an all ' round good sport he ' s hard to beat. Professor Stafford, affectionately known as Bo, teaches bugs so effectively that anybody with that subject on his schedule is ready to go to any extreme almost to get him. He can draw a bug on the board that looks so real that you expect it to say, Well, I ' ll be seeing you down at Cousin Will ' s, and then sell out through the window or door, as the case may be. He knows them all by their first names, and by all in this connection, we are speaking of everything that even resembles a bug that anybody ever heard of. Sergeant Nowlin takes care of the clerical end of the Military Department. When he decides to do anything, its already done, brother — that ' s just one of his little eccentricities. He has personal charge of Battery I, and the way he makes the boys put out is something worth seeing. He tells the first platoon that the second platoon says they are a bunch of swabs, and then goes over and tells the second platoon that that ' s what the first platoon thinks about them. Then the boys get red-headed, and decide to show the other platoon a few things about close order drill that they never heard of, and that accounts for a lot of those blue ribbons you see on the standard of his battery. Professor Vestal teaches Geology in a way that makes you like it whether you are interested in it or not, and that ' s going some. He believes in work while you are in his room, but he is one of the fellows on a field trip. There may be some rocks that he can ' t identify, but they haven ' t been gotten up out the earth, yet. We heard that one fellow handed him a piece of a brick to identify once, and the Professor remarked that that was the sort of rock that certain folks ' heads were made out of. The student laughed that one off by bumming a cigarette and smoking it nonchalantly, and in a minute it exploded on him. Well, life is that way around here. You get it going and coming. Professor Garner teaches Economics. He doesn ' t think the free and unlimited coinage of silver is such a swell idea, and if you think differently, don ' t brag about it, because; he is thinking then that your upper story is unfurnished, or worse, although he wouldn ' t tell you that, of course. In Economics a good may not be good at all, it may be distinctly ungood, but all those little things don ' t worry him any. Where the money comes from, and how, and where it goes to; that ' s what he is concerned with. He knows it, and expects you to. You find the latter out on quizzes. He likes people, and is interested in them. That ' s the way everybody ought to be. 26

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ELECTRICAL LABORATORY Electrical Engineering The courses offered by the Electrical Engineering department thoroughly equip the students for development into engineers in any phase of the profession. The junior year is devoted principally to the study of direct currents and direct current ma- chinery. The scope of the courses are broad, including concentrated classroom work, accom- panied by practice in the laboratory. The latter develops the student ' s self-confidence and en- ables him to observe the results of the principles which he studied in the classroom. The theory and characteristics of alternating current are covered in the latter part of the year. The senior year is devoted to the study of the alternator, followed by motors, transformers, converters, synchronous motors, condensers, metering devices, and control equipment. This oc- cupies the fall semester. The spring semester is devoted to the study of some of the different phases of the industry, such as power transmission, illumination, and electric railways. The laboratory, shown above, is one of the most completely equipped, from the standpoint of variety of apparatus, in the South. It is constantly being added to as new apparatus is developed, and the student is given every opportunity to become thoroughly conversant with its equipment.