Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-23
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Students returning to the college
next fall will find many changes in
the chemical department. Professor
H. L. White, a graduate Of the Uni
versity of Vermont, has been appoint
ed professor of physical chemistry
and toxicology. Professor White is
also a graduate of the University Of
Maine and took post graduate work
at the Universities of Harvard and
Columbia. He will assume his dut-
les July 1. Professor J.. w. Ince, a
graduate of Brown university, will
be the new instructor in agricultural
chemistry in place of DR.. Bassett,
who has resigned. At the present
time he is instructor in analytic
chemistry in Magill university, Mon
treal. He will arrive at the college
August 1. Aside from these addi-
tions to the teaching staff, the de-
partment of pharmacy and chemistry
is being overhauled and reorgan-
lied. It will be greatly strength
ened and made much stronger in
college lines. The teaching staff in
chemistry as it will be next year is
as follows: Dean e. F. Laid, chief
chemist, instructor in pharmacy and
director of laboratories; Professor
L. A. Brown, instructor in pharmacy;
H. A. Wood, assistant professor of
organic chemistry; R. E. Remington,
assistant in food chemistry; DR.. c. S.
Putnam, instructor in therapeutics
and materia medica, and w. F. SUI
dro, assistant professor of pharmacog-
gnosy and pharmaceutical problems.
This department has grown in less
than dozen years from staff Of
two instructors, and fifteen or TWEEN
ty students and building worth
two thousand dollars to fourteen
professors and assistants, and several
hundred students, and a building
worth $4,000.
Mr.. Morton is travelling at present
in the western and northern part of
the state collecting samples of food
for analyses. In connection with the
work already done in this line the
department has learned that there
is large amount of dried fruit for
sale in the state that is illegal.
Prosecutions will follow in the near
future if the goods are not remov-
ed. This work will be pushed with
great vigor all summer.
Mr.. Stockham, one of the post
graduates, is engaged in research
work on soils. In connection with
this work he is preparing a thesis
for higher degree in June.
Superintendent Randlett, who has
charge Of the corn and strawberry
growing contests, reports that he
| has so far sent out ten thousand
strawberry plants to 400 boys and
girls in the state. Twenty-eight bush
els Of corn have been sent to as
many counties. Many of the county
superintendent have charge of some
of the work in their counties. A
large amount of the work is in the
hands OF city superintendent and
the balance is in charge of country
schools and private families.
The college catalogue will appear
as the June number of the Extension.
This publication will be a complete
departure from the catalogue as it
has been issued in the past. The
form will be somewhat different, the
cuts will be of much better quality,
and there will be larger number
OF them. It will have almost the
appearance of a magazine. Parents
and residents Of the state should
not fail to get one of these catalogues
as they may be had for the writing
More requests are coming for col.
lege graduates to act as teachers In
high schools than the agriculture
college is able to supply. The de
mand from the high schools of The
| state for teachers is rapidly becom
i ing greater than the supply from the
higher institutions. Calls have re
Gently been received from Drayton
Williston, Caledonia. and Hallock
MINI. Miss Elizabeth Rice, 'Os. viii
teach domestic science in the Lari
more high schools next wear