University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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COLLEGE BUILDINGS.

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State Horticultural Department. Department for Inspection of Dairy Food Stuffs. In addition to this, he was a pioneer in champion- ing the introduction of Nature studies in our public schools, and detailed members of his faculty to lecture at Teachers ' Institutes for the encouragement of this work, now becoming so important a factor in modern education. Captain Silvester was active, too, in promoting the creation of our State Geological Survey, and has been its Secretary since its organization in ' 96. Indeed, in whatever reforms that tend to benefit our agricul- tural interests, he has alwaj ' S been found at the front. Thanks to his indefatigable energj ' , five handsome structures for educational purposes have been erected at the College, and the old building itself refitted and enlarged; while four new branches of instruction have been established. President Silvester commands the esteem and con- fidence of the State to a marked degree, and his talent for conceiving eloquence in advocating, and tact and ability in executing, make him well merit the encom- ium : Suavier in inodo, fortiter in re . For eight years he has presided with efficiency and dignity over his Faculty, by all of whom he is re- spected and beloved ; the same may justly be said of his students and their parents. Mrs. Silvester, his accomplished wife, presides with charm and grace over his home, which is a center of social pleasure, and the cordial reception here accorded the student reassures him that his president desires to be, and is his best friend. — By a member ot tlie Faculty.

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Taculty. R. V. Silvester, President. , Vice-President. Chair of Mathematics. J. H. Mitchell, M. E., Acting; Comd ' t of Cadets. Assistant in Mechanical Engineering. F. B. BOMBEKGER, B. S., MARTIN P. ScOTT, B. S., M. D., Chair of English and Civics. Chair of Natural Science. H. B. McDonnell, B. S., M. D., Chair of Cheniistrv. THOMA.S H. Spence, a. M., V. T. L. Taliaferro, Chair of Language. Chair of Agriculture. C. O. TowNSEND, Ph. D., Chair of Botany and Pathology. W . G. Johnson, B. S., M. S., Harry Gwinner, M. E., Chair of Entomology. Chair of Mechanical Engineering. Samuel S. Buckley, B. S., D. V. S., Chair of Veterinary Science. Henry Lanahan. A. B., James S. Robinson, A. B. Chair of Physics and Civil Engineering. Professor of Horticulture. Grv V. Stewart, B. S., .Assistant in Botanv. H. P. Gould, B. S., J. R. Laughlin, B. S. .Assistant in Entomology. Assistant in Chemistry. J. Bernard Robb, B. S., . ssistant in Chemistry. Thomas R. Gough, B. S., Norris M. Straughn, B. S., Assistant in Chemistry. Assistant in Chemistry. George S. Edelen, B. S., To he appointed. . ssistant in Chemistry. 12