University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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College of Engineering FACULTY J. R. BENTON, B.A., Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering R. E. CHANDLER, M.E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Drawing C. L. Crow, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Modern Languages H. S. Davis, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology and Bacteriology J. M. Karr, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of English language and Literature H. G. Keppel, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy J. L. McGhee, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry w. S. Perry, A.B., Instructor in Physics and Electrical Engineering Howard B. Foster, B.S.M.E., Instructor in Drawing and Woodwork A. STRONG, Instructor in Mechanic Arts and Foreman of Shops R. W. TllOROUGHGOOD, C.E., Professor of Civil FJngineering E. S. WALKER, Major U. S. A. (Retired), Commandant of Cadets and Professor of Military Science and Tactics twelve

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PROBABLY never in the history of the University has the College of Agriculture been so prominent, as it is today. The demand for scientifically trained men to engage in agricultural pursuits is greater now than ever before. To meet this demand the College is making every effort to give the students enrolled the very best practical and scientific education and training possible. . The courses offered in this College are, first the four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. This course involves separate courses for students specializing in Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Chemistry, Horticulture and general Agriculture. A special course has been arranged for students wishing to teach agriculture in State High Schools. A middle course is given for students who have not the time to finish the four-year course, which leads to the title of Graduate in Farming. This course emphasizes the practical, technical and scientific problems that confront the farmers of the state. The one-year and four-month courses require for entrance only a working knowledge of common school branches, the work of the course being mostly practical. Besides the other courses offered by the College is a ten-day short course. This course has been very popular in recent years, the largest enrollment occurring during this year. A correspondence course is conducted, in which some three hundred applicants have been enrolled. The College of Agriculture is very fortunate in having in the faculty men who are well prepared to teach the subjets belonging to their departments and who are entirely in sympathy with the work of the College and the welfare of the students and residents of the state. We have as Dean, P. H. Rolfs, a graduate of the Iowa Agricultural College, a recognized authority in southern horticulture, and author of “Sub-Tropical Vegetable Gardening.” The other members of the faculty are: Major W. L. Floyd, Assistant Dean and Professor of Horticulture; C. L. Willoughby, Professor of Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Dr. J. E. Turlington. Professor of Agronomy; F. M. Rast, Professor of Soils and Fertilizers; and O. W. Weaver, Professor of Agricultural Journalism. eleven

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SITUATED in the southeast corner of the University campus stands the building which should hold a supreme charm for a large percentage of the young men of Florida (students and prospective students), because it is there that the future engineers of Florida and the nation are given the theory necessary to produce the most efficient and valuable “builders of a nation ' With such men as Dean Benton, Dr. McGhee, Dr. Chandler, and Prof. Thoroughgood as heads of their respective departments, the Engineering College can feel justly proud of its faculty. These men, ably assisted by the best professors of the Arts and Sciences College, together with their own assistants, are getting results superior to those of any other college on the campus. The courses offered lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in the following branches; civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering. In all the departments are laboratories and instruments amply sufficient to give the student an insight into the practical as well as the theoretical side of engineering. In the present great war of nations the most important branch of the service is that of the engineers, and the war department is almost daily sending admonitions to the student engineers to complete their courses so as to be of the most benefit to the government. After the war it will depend largely on the quality of the practicing engineers as to how soon the stricken parts of Europe are rebuilt and the world set on its feet again. thirteen