Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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Faculty—Continued MRS. E. L. BAKKE, Preceptress of Ferry Hall. MARY ANDERSON, B. A., Secretary Y. W. C. A. J. R. McCURDY, A. B., Secretary of Y. M. C. A. FRED J. OSTERMAN, First Lieut. U. S. Infantry, Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Head of the Department. JOHN FREDERICK BOHLER, Head of the Department of Physical Edu¬ cation. JOHN RHEINHOLD BENDER, A. B., M. A.. LL. B., Director of Ath¬ letics and Graduate Manager. MARIEN FRANCES SWEZEY, B. A., Physical Director of Women. FRANK W. ZINK, Instructor in Physical Culture. RHODA M. WHITE, A. B., Dean of Women and Preceptress Stevens Hall. FRANK T. BARNARD, B. S., Registrar of the College. VERN V. GADDIS, B. S.. Assistant Registrar. W. C. KRUEGEL, A. B., Auditor and Accountant. JOS. L. ASH LOCK, A. B., A. B., Secretary to the President. JAMES ALBERT TORMEY, B. S., Director of the Department of Exten¬ sion. RICHARD N. MILLER, B. S., Farm Efficient Agent. T. J. NEWBILL, B. S. D., State Secretary Boys’ and Girls’ Agriculture Club. J. N. PRICE, B. S., Farmers ' Institute Instructor in Animal Husbandry. ALBERT SHERWOOD WILSON, A. B., Librarian. MAUDE X. PUTNAM, A. B., Assistant Librarian. LORA MAE GREEN, A. B., Assistant Librarian. FLORENCE WALLER, A. B., Cataloguer. RENA PURVIS DUTHEE, B. S„ Assistant Librarian. LAILA EGGE, P . A., Assistant Librarian. GEORGE CONK LING GRIMES, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. NELL D. HAVERLO, Assistant to Registrar. VET A HOUSTON, Assistant Accountant. BYRON HUNTER, M. S., Superintendent County Agriculturists. IDA MAY KEANE, Graduate Nurse, Nurse, College Sanatorium. A. McCALL, Vice-Director Drv Farming. WILLIAM NAPOLEON PUCKETT, Armorer and Manager Cadet Store. LANCELOT REYNOLDS, Bookbinder. D. F. ROUSE, Superintendent Heating Plant. F. J. WILD, College Carpenter. H. M. WOOLMAN, Assistant Pathologist. Experiment Station. HELENE T. BRUCKMAN, Extension Department. VIRGINIA K. HAYWARD, Clerk Extension Department. GEORGIA E. JACOBS, Stenographer to Accountant. IVY LLEWELLYN, Station Stenographer. ANNA NELSON, Station Stenographer. 22

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Agriculture GEORGR SEVERANCB The courses of study offered in this Department arc intended to give a thorough training in the field of Agriculture as a science. The practice of Agri¬ culture as a vocation is not lost sight of, but the fundamental purpose of the work is a mastery of the science itself. The work of Agriculture proper is preceded by as thorough a training as possible in the sciences which underlie the principles of Agriculture, such as Botany, Chemistry, Veterinary Science, and Zoology. Political Science, History, Modern Languages and Literature are given a prominent place, so that the complete course equips the student with a well-balanced cduaction. The completion of the course in Agriculture pre¬ pares the student for intelligent, practical farming; for farm management and supervision; for investigating agricultural prob¬ lems in connection with Experiment Station work; for teaching Agriculture and the allied Sciences; or for work in the United States Department of Agriculture. The demand for men trained to fill such positions far exceeds the supply. The courses are so planned that tlie work naturally falls into the three following groups: Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying. The stu¬ dent is allowed to select the group which he prefers, and then opportunity is given to choose between a wide range of studies. The Department acts on the theory that their first duty is to prepare the student to earn a living; that food must precede culture. They are not seeking the cheap rewards of immediate success at the expense of future stagnation, but are combining the fundamental lessons of science with the demonstrations of skilled methods of business. The substantial aim of the Department is permanent prosperity, spring¬ ing from conservation of natural wealth, from a restored soil fertility, from an intelligent policy of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, from approved practices in Agronomy, and from the employment of scientific systems of farm accounting. That such an aim has abundantly succeeded at Washington State College has been evidenced by the careers of its hundreds of graduates, who have taken their training back into the environment from which they came, and have made it count decisively in larger yields, in more constant income values, and in the accumulative successes that a more varied, more skillful, and more ennobling type of farm life. 24