100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



of the mechanical and engineering department." This provision was held uncon- 

 stitutional on the ground that the state constitution " has given to the relator 

 the general supervision of the college and the direction and control of all 

 agricultural college funds. So long as the relator employs them for the pur- 

 poses intended by the grant, it is beyond the povs^er of the legislature to control 

 the relator's use of the funds received from the Federal Government and long 

 ago appropriated to the agricultural college. Undoubtedly the grant of funds 

 was to the State and the disposition of them wholly within the ix)wer of the 

 State, acting through its legislature, in accordance with the conditions of 

 the trust imposed. ... I am called upon to neither affirm nor deny the propo- 

 sition that the legislature may now appropriate the federal fund, in whole or 

 in part, to some other in.stitution, withdrawing it, or some of it, from the agri- 

 cultural college, so long as it keeps faith with the Congress. The legislatui-e 

 has not withdrawn it from the college nor appropriated it, or any part of it, 

 to another institution. It remains an agricultural college fund, within the 

 meaning of the constitution, devoted, under the supervision and direction of 

 the relator, to the college and to the purixtses expressed in the grant, in state 

 legislation, and, finally, in the constitution of the State. It is required to be 

 annually applied to the specific objects of the original gift, grant or appropria- 

 tion. Necessarily, it must be so applied, under existing conditions, by the 

 constitutional supervisors of the fund, and of the college, and not by the 

 legislature. It follows that the legislature exceeded its powers in attempting 

 to deprive the relator of its constitutional control of agricultural college funds 

 derived from the Federal Government." 



The effect of this decision is to restrict the appropriations for the current 

 year to the same basis as for the previous appropriation act, thus making a re- 

 duction in the college tax levy from % tuill to ^ mill, and considerably handi- 

 capping development for the present. 



Nebraska University and Station. — Dr. R. A. Emerson has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of horticulture and horticulturist, beginning September 1, to accept a 

 position as professor and head of the department of plant breeding in Cornell 

 University. 



Nevada "University. — President J. E. Stubbs died very suddenly May 7. Dr. 

 Stubbs was born in Ashland, Ohio, March 39, 1850, and educated in the Ohio 

 Wesleyan University, Drew Theological Seminary, and the University of Berlin. 

 He had been successively superintendent of schools in Ashland, president of 

 Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio, and since 1S94 president of the university, 

 and until 1912 director of the station. During this long period of development 

 he had contributed greatly to the upbuilding of the institution. He was also a 

 well-known figure in the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations, serving as its president in 1899-1900, and on various 

 committees. 



Rhode Island Station. — L. P. Howard, a 1914 graduate of the Massachusetts 

 College, has been appointed assistant in chemistry and has entered upon his 

 duties. 



