University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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he was connected with the Agricultural Experiment Station and was director of the Gulf Biological Station from 1900 to 1905. He was made Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Professor of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Tennessee in 1905. He was also made State Entomologist in 1905. He was also Associate Commissioner for Louisiana at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895. He was Entomologist and Secretary for the Louisiana Crop Pest Commission 1901-05. He was made President of the Associate of Economic Entomology in 1907 and President of the Louisiana Natural- ists’ Society. He is also a member of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science. His three best known pamphlets are Louisiana and Tennessee Insects, Mosquitoes of Louisiana,” and American Ioxides.” Prof. Caroline Carpenter, A.B., A.M., came to the University of Tennessee from Peabody College in Nashville, where she filled the chair of Modern Languages. On coming to the University of Tennessee she became Associate Professor of Modern Languages and in 1914 she was made Dean of Women. Professor Carpenter is an accomplished linguist, having studied at the Universities of Wisconsin, Columbia and Chicago; the University of Paris, France, and the Uni- versity of Marburg, in Germany.

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The President and Deans Or. Brown Ayres, president of the University of Tennessee, was born in Memphis, May 25, 1856. He received his early education in private schools at Memphis and New Orleans, and while still very young he entered Washington and Lee, where he was successful from the start. From here he went to Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, where in 1878 he received his B.S. and in 1888 his Ph.D. degree. He was a fellow in the Physical Department of Johns Hopkins in 1879-80 and at the close of his course at this institution was elected Professor of Physics at Tulane, where he remained until 1904, when he was elected President of University of Tennessee. As a native Tennessean he has always felt a great interest in the State and its Uni- versity. Prof Charles E. Ferris was born September 23, 1864. He is a native of Ohio. In 1886, he entered the Michigan State College and received his degree in 1890. The following two years he spent as a civil engineer in Kentucky and Michigan, and in 1892 he came to the University of Tennessee as instructor in Drawing and Machine Design. In 1904 he was made Professor of Mechanical Engineering and in 1913 Dean of the Engineering Department. The growth of the Engineering Department and the estab- lishment of the Engineering Short Courses are largely due to his untiring efforts, and to use Professor Ferris’ own words, he is “going yet.” James D. Hoskins, A.M., LL.B., is our Dean, also being Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He was born at New Market and for twelve years attended Maury Academy. He entered the University of Tennessee in 1887, obtained his B.S. in 1891 and his M.S. in 1893. He taught in many preparatory schools of the State. Later obtained his LL.B., 1897. He was made Assistant Professor of History at this Univer- sity in 1900. Charles Willard Turner, or “Judge” Turner, as he is better known, was born in Boston. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts at Amherst College in 1875, and his Master of Arts in 1892. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity, and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon. Since at U. of T. he has been elected to Phi Kappa Phi. He moved to Knoxville in 1891, and took up his profession. His friendship with President Charles W. Dabney led to his entering the Law Department of the University of Ten- nessee as Associate Professor of Law, in 1892. Beside his law he has always possessed a love for history and current events. He was Lecturer on History at the University, from 1893 to 1895, and Professor of History from 1895 to 1897. Then he became Pro- fessor of Constitutional History. On the death of the beloved Dean Ingersoll, Judge Turner was made Dean of the University of Tennessee Law Department. The students on the “Hill” who love and respect Judge Turner are not restricted to the members of his classes, but in fact, the entire student body may be counted as devoted friends of our “Genial Judge.” Harcourt Alexander Morgan, B.S.A., is our Dean of Agriculture, and not only one of the most beloved men on the “Hill,” but one of the most popular men of the South as well. This position has been gained in the hearts of the farmers of the South by his keen interest and wonderful handling of the foremost agricultural questions of the day. Professor Morgan obtained his B.S.A. at Strathony, Ontario. He attended On- tario Agricultural College in ’89, Cornell in ’92 and '98, and Wood Hole in ’95. He was Professor of Entomology and Zoology for a while at the University of Louisiana. Later 13

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