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mathematics of a very elementary kind, and with natural science 

 in its infancy in the University, he moved forward, introducing 

 into the curriculum, one after another, entomology, meteorology, 

 zoology, botany, biology and other kindred subjects; cordially sup- 

 porting the idea of building into a great school the various depart- 

 ments of civil, mechanical, hydraulic, mining and electrical 

 engineering; assisting in the evolution of a department of chemis- 

 try that now ranks among the best of its kind. Soon it was noised 

 abroad that right here on Kansas soil, where only forty-three years 

 before some of the best Mood of the land was shed for the sake of 

 liberty, here a great scientific and technical school had sprung into 

 existence. During all this time, the man who was so quietly doing 

 things was at work training a half dozen or more young men who 

 were soon to be heard and talked about all over the scientific world. 

 They are in the University to-day. Two more are in Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University, and others still are scattered over the coun- 

 try at work in difiPerent departments of science. Governors of 

 states, judges, congressmen, professors of colleges and universities, 

 lawyers, bankers, engineers and farmers have sat at the feet of this 

 wonderful man, learning of him. 



In the' year 1890 Professor Snow, then a doctor of philosophy 

 and a doctor of laws, was elected chancellor of the University. 

 This act of the board of regents met the hearty approval of the 

 people of the state, and also that of the faculty and the student 

 body. The wisdom of the choice was seen at once in the forward 

 steps taken by the University in all of its relations. It was at this 

 time that an insect known as the chinch-bug was doing immense 

 damage to the fields of wheat and corn of Kansas and of neighbor- 

 ing states. How to prevent the impending ruin was the question 

 uppermost in the minds of men all over the infected districts. Re- 

 lief came just as despair was settling down upon the farmer. Help 

 was extended from a quarter from which such help is seldom ex- 

 pected. Chancellor Snow obtained a fungus growth which by a 

 process of inoculation was communicated to the living bug. It 

 was found that the fungus growth would spread from bug to bug 

 very rapidly, quickly destroying the pest in the grain-fields in a 

 most thorough manner. The state legislature granted a liberal sum 

 for the purpose of carrying on the process of inoculating bugs 

 under the direction of Doctor Snow, thus placing their seal of ap- 

 proval upon what he was doing. His honest efforts in this direc- 

 tion gained for him the confidence and love of every farmer and 

 almost every citizen of the state. In the museum of natural his- 



