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leave of absence to engage in Y. M. C. A. work in P^rauce. Lawrence Erickson 

 has resigned as instructor in botany and has enlisted in the Coast Artillery. 



Ohio State University. — The appointment is noted of L. O. Lantis, of the 

 extension department, as instructor in rural economics. 



Porto Rico Federal Station. — F. E. Kerapton, Fh. D., University of Illinois, 

 1918, has been appointed pathologist. 



Tennessee University. — Four tractor short courses of three days each were 

 held during IMarch and April at Kuoxville, Jackson, Memphis, and Columbia. 

 The courses were under the supervision of the division of extension and the 

 college of engineering of the university, the Food Administration, and the 

 State department of agriculture, and in the Memphis short cour.se the ex- 

 tension divisions of Mississippi and Arkansas and the college of engineering 

 of the University of Arkansas cooperated. 



Virginia College and Station. — The legislature made substantial increases in 

 its appropriations for the biennial period ending February 29, 1920. The col- 

 lege will receive $153,000 the first year and $128,000 the second year, and pro- 

 vision is made for the establishment of a department of education. The sta- 

 tion will receive $30,000 each year, this being an annual increase of $14,000. 

 The extension division will receive $76,191.57 the first year and $92,191 the 

 second year. The Crop Pest Commission and the Live Stock Sanitary Board 

 will receive $15,000 and $12,500, respectively, each year. 



A. B. Massey, assistant professor of botany and assistant botanist of the 

 Alabama College and Station, has been appointed associate plant pathologist and 

 bacteriologist, effective June 1. 



Canadian Instruction in Agriculture behind the Lines. — A system of instruc- 

 tion has been organized in one of the divisions of Canadian troops in France, 

 and known as the University of Vimy Ridge. Lectures are given to large 

 groups on subjects selected to equip men in active service for " greater efficiency 

 in business, the professions, agriculture, and other great industries of the 

 Dominion." Classes are organized for smaller groups, and individual instruc- 

 tion for more advanced students with recognition and credit on their return to 

 Canada for work accomplished. It is ahso planned to obtain in this way an 

 organization and staff which will be prepared to devote its attention to edu- 

 cating the soldiers during the interval which may elapse between the conclu- 

 sion of peace and their return to Canada. Agriculture, applied science, and 

 vocational branches are among the subjects to be taught in this way. 



What is known as Khaki College has subsequently been organized. This 

 work is carried on farther back of the lines than the foregoing and is constituted 

 on a somewhat more elaborate and permanent basis. A chancellor and senate 

 have been appointed to serve as the governing body, together with what is 

 termed an executive faculty, consisting mainly of heads of departments. 

 Certificates of proficiency are issued by the college on the recommendation of 

 heads of departments. 



Eight departments have been arranged, among which is agriculture. 

 Lieutenant P. Stewart, formerly district supervisor of agriculture in New On- 

 tario, has been given charge of the work in agriculture, which also has two 

 lecturers on animal husbandry, and one each on field husbandry, horticulture, 

 farm bookkeeping, agricultural English, and poultry. 



Khaki College has been under way about six months. Over 900 students 

 have been enrolled and about 370 took the first examination. 



