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Appreciation o Dean ones By pres1'Jent Northrop 030 My memory at once goes back to the fall of l880, when Fred S. Jones came to Yale College from Shattuck School in Minnesota, where he had fitted for college, and brought a letter of introduction to me from one of the teachers in Shattuck, a graduate of Yale. From that time till the close of his college course he was often a visitor at my house, and I came to know him intimately. I was impressed by his mental ability, his independence, his frankness and his manliness. In the spring of l884 I accepted the presidency of the University of Min- nesota, and a few weeks later I selected Mr. Jones as a desirable professor of physics, and I notified him of my wish that he should specially prepare himself for the position. This he did by special study two years in Europe, after which he came to the University of Minnesota as professor of physics, and he has held the position for twenty years, during which time he has practically created the department and has made it one of the strongest departments in the University. l-lis assistants are all men whom he himself has trained, though some of them have studied in Europe, and he has been peculiarly wise and fortunate in selecting them. As a consequence his department is perfectly harmonious, and every man in it is devoted to the head of the department. Some years ago Professor Jones was made Dean of the College of Engineering. l-le brought order out of seeming chaos in this college, put new vigor into every department, raised the standard of scholarship, has now provided for a five-year course, of which a reasonable portion shall be devoted to culture, and has made the college an example for other tech- nical schools in the country to follow. The Regents of the University have learned AI9
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