NOTES, 



Connecticut College. — According to a note in AVfr England Homestead, n 

 requirement of at least three months of actual farm work of approved grade 

 before graduation has been adopted. Paul W. Graff, a graduate of tne college, 

 has been appointed assistant in botany. 



Kansas College. — A scholarship of $300 per year has been offered by L. M. 

 Crawford, of Topeka. The scholarship is to be in the division of general science, 

 the donor's preference being that its holder elect courses chiefly in agriculture, if 

 a man, and in home economics if a woman. 



Massachusetts College. — A major in rural journalism has been authoi'ized, 

 beginning with the fall semester. 



The enrollment at the winter school reached ISO. Of these 25 per cent had 

 attended or graduated from other colleges. 



Minnesota University and Station. — The appropriations requested for the uni- 

 versity for the ensuing bieuuium aggregate $3,212,450, of which 35 per cent is 

 for the agricultural work. Among the items is one of $45,300 to enlarge and 

 equip the new home economics building, which is already proving inadequate to 

 accommodate the 515 students registered. 



Howard R. Smith, professor of animal husbandry and animal husbandman, 

 has resigned to become live-stock lecturer and .specialist for a national bank in 

 St. Paul. 



Nebraska "University and Station. — Under an act passed by the last legislature 

 about $700,000 will be available for the erection of agricultural buildings and 

 equipment during the next four years. Plans for a dairy building have been 

 completed, and an agricultural engineering building approximately 200 feet 

 square is under consideration. 



The agricultural science group in the college curriculum has been super.seded 

 by a general agricultural group, the first two years of which are prescribed and 

 the remainder largely elective. Beginning next September students may take the 

 entire college course at the university farm, or, if preferred, the academic and 

 general science studies may be taken at the university. The agricultural prac- 

 tice group has also been rearranged and shortened to two years by the elimina- 

 tion of practically all nonagricultural subjects. A certificate of proficiency in 

 farm practice is to be awarded at the completion of this course to students suffi- 

 ciently experienced in practical farm work and to others on complying with 

 practice requirements on farms. It is expected that this change will make it 

 unnecessary for high-school graduates to enter the .school of agriculture, and 

 by providing pr;ictical farm training at once will greatly increase the registra- 

 tion in the college of agriculture. 



Dr. Charles Edwin Bessey, head of the department of botany and head dean 

 and distinguished as a leader in botanical education and research for many 

 years, died February 25 at the age of 70 years. Dr. Bessey was born on a farm 

 at Milton, Ohio, and graduated from the Michigan College in 1869. He received 

 the M. S. degree in 1872 from the same in.stitution, that of Ph. D. from the State 

 T'niversity of Iowa in 1879, and that of LL. D. from Iowa College in 1898. He 

 also studied two years with Dr. Asa Gray, of Harvard University. 



Dr. Bessey's long career as a teacher began in 1870, when he was appointed 

 professor of botany at the Iowa State College. He remained in this position 



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