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years. During tbis long period of service he had been at various periods pro- 

 fessor of English and Latin, head of the division of the humanities, treasurer 

 of the college and station, acting president, and since 1907, dean. These activ- 

 ities brought him into close relations with trustees, faculty, and the student 

 body; and for years his scholarly attainmeuts, breadth of vision, and high 

 character had been a powerful influence in tlie upbuilding of the institution. 



New Mexico College and Station. — E. H. Divelbiss has been appointed assistant 

 professor of horticulture and assistant horticulturist, vice J. W. Rigney, who 

 has been made county agent in Pecos County under the extension division. 

 P. D. Southworth and V. L. Martineau have been appointed county agents in 

 Luna and Colfax counties respectively, and M. R. Gonzales for San Miguel and 

 Mora counties. 



North Carolina College. — Exercises in celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary of the establishment of the college were held October 3. Governor Locke 

 Craig presided, and the program included addresses by ex-Governor Thomas J. 

 Jarvis, Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, and Hon. Carl S. Vroo- 

 man, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and greetings from the State Depart- 

 ment of Education by J. Y. Joyner, state superintendent of public instruction; 

 other colleges of the State by Presidents Edward K. Graham of the University 

 of North Carolina and William L. Poteat of Wake Forest College; the State 

 Department of Agriculture by Commissioner W. A. Graham : and this Depart- 

 ment by Director A. C. True of this Office. 



President D. H. Hill closed the exercises with a historical account of the es- 

 tablishment and progress of the institution. At its opening the equipment con- 

 sisted of a single building, 62 acres of land valued at $2,500, and equipment 

 estimated at $500. At present the college has 486 acres of land valued at over 

 $125,000, over 20 buildings, and equipment inventoried at $240,000. The faculty 

 Las increased from five members to sixty-three, the experiment station workers 

 from ten to sixty-five, and the student enrollment from seventy-two to seven 

 hundred and thirty-eight. Even more striking has been the change in attitude 

 of the people of the State, and President Hill declared that "the college counts 

 its greatest gain in its quarter century of life to be the winning of the confidence 

 and hearty good will of every class of people." 



Oklahoma College and Station. — W. L. Fowler, of the Arkansas University 

 and Station, has been appointed animal husbandman to take up his duties at 

 once. A. H. Wright has resigned as assistant professor of agronomy and as- 

 sistant agronomist to take up post-graduate work at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, and has been succeeded by R. E. Karper, assistant in cereal investigations 

 at the Kansas Station. E. E. Hall has resigned to engage in county demonstra- 

 tion work in South Carolina and has been succeeded as assistant agronomist by 

 Adrian Daane. 



Oregon College and Station.— C. V. Ruzek, assistant agronomist at the Arkan- 

 sas University and Station, has been appointed assistant professor of soils in 

 the college and assistant agronomist in the station. Charles S. Brewster has 

 been appointed research assistant in poultry, vice C. C. Lamb, who has been 

 assigned to extension work in poultry husbandry. D. C. Howard, a 1914 grad- 

 uate, has been appointed instructor in dairy husbandry. 



Pennsylvania College.— Farmers' Week will be held from December 28, 1914, 

 to January 2, 1915, and 180 lectures are scheduled for this occasion. The 

 attendance last year was 980. A special section will be conducted this year 

 for the benefit of boys, who are expected to be present in large numbers on 

 account of the corn club service which has been inaugurated in a number of 

 counties. 



