The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-09-12
COLLEGE OPENS

The college year will begin next
"Wednesday al noon The two days
previous will be given over to registra~
alton. and the young of the city who
are TO enter college are especially
urged 10 classify during these two
days. The outlook for the coa,inG
school year is most bright, and it j.
hoped that the attendance Will he
large. A number Of important c1ans
es have been made in the college
course and new faculty members ad.
ded. which will aid greatly in the et
ficiency OF the school.
A new school of agriculture has
been added to the college, and the
course will begin November lst Of
next year. Or. Arthur A. Brigham
will be principal of the new school.
and Miss Jessie Nj. Hoover precep-
tress.
DR.. Brigham graduated from the
Massachusetts Agricultural college
with the degree of b S. in 1878. and
in 1896 received the degree of Phi. d.
from Gottingen University. Germany.
From 1882 TO 1898 he was professor
of agriculture in the Imperial College
of Agriculture AT Sapporo. Japan. and
was professor of agriculture of the
Rhode Island College of Agriculture
from 1896 to 1901. During 10000 he
was director OF the Columbia School
of Poultry Culture.
Miss Hoover is graduate of the
Kansas State Normal school and of
the Kansas Agricultural cvollege and
she carried on post graduate work at
Lewis Institute, Chicago, and at the
University OF Chicago.
Both DR.. Brigham and Miss Hoover
will do institute work in this state the
coming winter. and assist in advertis-
ing the new school. The work of
the new school will begin on Novem-
Der lst of each year, and continue
until April and IS designed to give
practical instruction in farm subjects
To the young men and women of the
state who are unable to leave the
farm except during the winter months.
One or two changes of Importance
have been made in the college course
A year has been added to the prepar-
atory course and now three years of
preparatory will be required to enter
the freshman year. The title of sub
freshman will be dropped and the
classes Will be known as First, Second
aud Third year preparatory. A fifth
year has been added to the engineer
ing course. 50 that after student has
received his b ). degree one year of
additional work will entitle him to
degree in either mechanical. electrical
or civil engineering
4 number Of now faces will be seen
in the faculty the coming year. and
these will add greatly to the teach
ing efficiency Oi the force. Dr. Slagle
and the board OF regents are said to
have been very careful in their selec
tions and choice was made only after
the recO"f. Ot each applicant was thor
Oughlr ,,Nulincf
Prot Madison c. Bates, the new
En- ngli,h teacher. received an A. r. de
gree from Williams college, and an
A ". degree from Harvard. For sew
erdi veara past he has been on the
faculty Of the University of Illinois.
Prof Edgar " Olive, head of the
department Of botany. graduated with
r : degree from Wabash college in
1872. and il 1895 received degree
Of " :. from the same institution
In i>91 he received an A. NJ. degree
from Harvard and two years later
-. >. leSth+'. II was assistant III
botany at Harvard University and
Radcliffe college during 1928, and
from 1913 until 1903 he held the posi-
ton Of instructor He was a research
student Of the Carnegie Institute at
the University of Conn, l90l-05, and
at University Of Wisconsin. 1905.01
During the time he was at the Univer-
Sity Of Wisconsin he was a lecturer
on botany.
Robert Matheson, the new instruc-
tor in entomology received B. S A,
iegrae from Cornell University in
1906 and last June received the NJ.
: degree in agriculture from the same
institution
Mis- Nola Katherine FrOmme, as
sistant in home economics, is gradu-
ate Of the Ohio State University, re-
ceiyiug her r. 5. in home economics
in lSas.
Cha, II. Viol, who will assist Prof.
Shepard in instruction in chemistry,
il from La Fayette. Indiana, and is
n graduate of Purdue university