University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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{Professor ?P. Jf. Jordan. ROFESSOR V. II. JORDAN, whose portrait accompanies this article, will sever his connection with Maine State College July 1, oi the present year, to accept the position of Director of the Experiment Station at Geneva, New York. Professor Jordan’s withdrawal is a severe loss to the College; but it is a distinct gain to the agricultural interests of the country, because he will thus be placed in a position to do more and better work than ever before. Though we deeply regret that another state has held out inducements sufficient to draw him from Maine, we cannot but have a feeling of pride in the fact that it was to a Maine man that New York turned when she wanted to fill one of her most responsible positions; and we must regard it a high compliment that her choice fell on an alumnus of Maine State College. Professor Jordan is easily one of the foremost agricultural scientists in the United States. As an authority on animal nutrition he has prob- ably few equals and no superiors. As an investigator lie is patient, persistent, accurate. As a thinker, cautious, keen, and logical. His views are broad, his mind judicial. His generous way of looking at things is in part due to native characteristics, in part to his thorough training. A graduate of Maine State College, a post-graduate student at Cornell University, an assistant in chemistry at Wesleyan University, an instructor in agriculture at his alma mater, five years a professor in Pennsylvania State College, he brought to his work as Director of the 17