North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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•Ifhe 6romecK COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION EDWIN BENTLEY OWEN, B. S., Registrar ARTHUR FINN BOWEN, Bursar HUBERT BENBURV HAYWOOD. M. D., Phvsiciax ARTHUR BUXTON HURLEY, Steward JA: IES JOSHUA KING. Gexerai. Secretary oe Y. M. C. A. MRS. CHARLOTTE M. WILLIAMSON, LumARiAX MRS. ELLA I. HARRIS, H.ispitai. Matrox MRS. H. A. HAYES. Saxitarv Ixspector oe Domitdries MISS SARA OTHELLA rcINTOSH, Dietitiax WILLIAM ADOLPHUS SMITH. Siperixtexi.ext oe Grouxds axp Buildixcs £7rr ja7- i oo Oyeo- ?ep sfrar W f ?€K5 ' fhT3 fy neleen

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-fhe JlorornecK. COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION THE COLLEGE MANAGEMENT WALLACE CARL KIDDICK, A. I ' ,., C. E., LL. D. riiKSIIU-NT VILLL . I ALI ' IUJXSO WITI ll ' .RS, A. . [.. D. Sc. ' k ' i:-Prksiiii;nt THO. L S I ' ERKLV IIARKISOX, 1!. S., Pii. 1). 1)i:an nineteen C iohieen

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Zthe - JioromecK. COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION HIE COLLEGE YEAR— 1917-18 Hv Pki;siiii:nt Riihuck OLLOWlXCi a si ' inmcr d ' uiiprece l .-nte l activity at tin- Ci- llcge. during uiiicli the entire plant hail been kcpi bu y every day. with short courses of instruction for our State home and farm denumstration agents, the smnmer school for teachers, the short course for club Imy and girls, the farmers ' convention, and as a mobilization camp lor soldiers, the session ' 17 ' iS o])ened as usual on the first Thnrsd.iy in September. Compared with the preceding session, the registration sliowed a slight decrease, due to the large number of students who had received conunissions in the Officers ' Training Camps, or had otherwise enlisted tor military service. Of course, we miss these boys, hut we are proud of them, and tlieir names have 1)eeii transferred from our active to our honor roll. Our . ' senior and Inninr classes were cut in half, and practically every absent one is Ininiirably accounted for. The decrease in total enniUment, however, is only si.xteen or seventeen per cent., this small percentage being due to unusually large Sophnmore and Freshman Classes. The first session of i ur Snnnner . cbnnl Uir Teachers was held from June IJ to July 27. and was an uni|ualified success, tlie tcit.il enrollment being more llian live bimdred. The school will, of course, lie conducted again during the coming sununer. and we believe has become a fi.xture. While a unit of the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps was technically estal)lislied at the College in January of last session, its operation was not begun in real earnest until the opening of this session, wlun praclicall) e er student not physicdly discpialified enlisted in it. We have now a regiment ol enlbusiaslic soldiers in the making, wearing the regulation olive drab and khaUi uniforms, and receiving great benefit from tlie training, as well as preparing tliemselves for useful and important positions in their country ' s service should they be called ujion. The beginning of this session marked the eslablishment of a Deiiartment of Education, which enables the College to offer courses in Teacher Training lor vocatiou.al education, the special aim just now being the pre|)aration of teachers to leach agriculture and .illied sciences in the l ' arm I.ife and . ' gricullur;il lligh .Schools of our State, By reipiest of the W ' .ir I leii.ntnienl. the College is imroducing speci.il courses for the training of men lo do special work in winning the war, and the value of our instruction — not only in these special courses, but al-o in our regular courses — has been recognized by granting temporary exemption to many of our students in order that tliey may complete their work here. ' eun