Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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JAMES CHRISTIAN HOGENSON, M. S. A., Professor of Agronomy. One should not censure Professor Hogenson for once living at Cache Junction. It’s such a strange odd place, possessing a charm distinctly its own. Yet we are glad that he left there and came to the U. A. C. He did not only himself a service, but also made, room for another person to dwell in that picturesque Switzerland. Like the sturdy Swiss mountaineers. Professor Hogenson, by hard toil and stern battle with unyielding nature, developed that determination and integrity which makes the man, the one who fights his own battles. He is one of those men who has learned the courtesy of permitting others to express their opinions, and, in his class room, the recitations are skillfully conducted by stimulating the different students to express their views. I-Iis classes are places where one derives profit and pleasure. CHRISTIAN MARTIN LARSEN, B. S., A. M., Professor of English. Christian Martin Larsen. 13. S., A. M., a Scandinavian pure and simple, transplanted to Utah’s sunny clime, is, in the writer's humble opinion, much improved by the change. When he first saw the light of the day, we are informed there was much cooing among the ladies and girls, for miles around. Professor Larsen entered the U. A. C. in 1890, during President Sanborn's administration He graduated under President Tanner in 1896, remaining one year longer for English and Modern Languages. In the summer of 1901, he attended the Academic de Neu-chatel, Switzerland. From 1902 to 1907, he was an instructor in English and Modern Languages at the L I). S. U., Salt Lake City. He received his A. M. from Harvard in 1906. To converse with Professor Larsen, one would think him American born, for he uses the latest “Ilavad” slang and never wears red neckties. His thorough belief in ample consideration’’ causes him to deliberate on English VII short stories, for sixty-seven days. 20

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LEWIS ALFORD MERRILL, B. S„ Superintendent of Agricultural Extension Work. Lewis A. Merrill is a man of determination, industry, a n d strong character '% For these reasons. he has been very successful in his school work here, as he has since been in other lines. It is confidently expected that his labors as Superintendent of Agricultural Extension Work will lx equally fruitful. He has a wide acquaintance, and there is scarcely a man in this State so conversant with our agricultural conditions and the problems they present as he. CAPTAIN HOWARD R. PERRY, Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Captain Perry, our peacemaker, was a cadet at West Point for four years. This means that for a while he had to kneel on crossed sticks, eat soap, and do other funny ‘‘stunts,” for the edification and amusement of his betters. Graduating June 10, 1893, he was promoted to a Second Lieutenancy and was assigned to the Seventh Infantry then stationed at Fort D. A. Russell. Wyoming. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, he was made First Lieutenant and sent to Cuba, where he participated in the battle of El Caney and San Juan and in the succeeding siege operations before Santiago. After his promotion in 1901 to rank of Captain, he was sent to the Philippines where, for pasttime, he chased natives through the swamps and forests of Min-dinao. In 1906, he was appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the U. A. C., whither he journeyed in great glee. 19

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FRANK RUSSEL ARNOLD, A. B., A. M., Professor of Modern Languages. )HN vi Frank Russel Arnold, a blacksmith by stature, entered Row-doin College and, after a course in football and letters, received his A. R. Desiring to see the outcome of a series of diabolical” plots against his secure celibacy, he remained in college until completely disgusted with feminine frivolity and artfulness. Thereupon, the married members of the faculty voted him an A. M. The longing for a help-meet, however, was too great., and in 1895 he betook himself to Europe. At Goettingen, he studied, and searched through all the land. He found the maid he wanted then begged he for her hand. Smilingly she heard him, and his heart swelled high with pride. Rut she, a Rlue Old Teuton”, refused to be his—a Yankee’s bride. Cincinnati became his home but the love wound healed so slowly that after four years he decided that a change of climate was imperative. lie came west, t hereforc, to teach languages in the University of Utah. At the end of two years, he game to Logan and to-day is the alert capable Professor of Modern Languages at the U. A. C JOHFT THOMAS CAINE, JR., B. S., Registrar, Secretary of the Faculty and Board of Trustees. Either because Professor Caine has fathered the Institution and its students ever since the foundation of t he School was laid, or because we like him pretty well, the sobriquet “Pa Caine” has been foisted upon this most genial, lovable man, who has lost some of his teeth and pretty much all of his hair in the service of the U. A. C. The supposition is that “Pa Caine” was. once upon a time, young and quite like other youths who slulT” a class now and then, but make good in the “finals.” We don’t know whether his name was on the daily “exclusion list” or not, or whether he was classed A or R on the College Roll. We know that he spent a year at Cornell University, and then returned to Utah and—got married. A few years were spent in teaching school—a few more in holding county offices—and then he came to the U. A. C . 21