Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-15

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The fifty-thlrd annual commencement Of
ST. Mays college. Notre Dame. Ind. will
AXE place Thursday, June Is, at 10 o'clock
a. m. in St. Angeia's hall. Eight college
graduates will receive degrees. four viii
be awarded medals in the conservatory OF
music and thirteen will finish the academic
course. Owing TO the alumni meeting at
Notre Dame university there will be present
at the exercises many Of 81. Mary's old
friends and well wishers. Miss Amelie
Lyons Of Mobile will read the valedictory
and DR. Charles p. Neil, commissioner OF
labor for the United States will address
the graduates.
Iowa state College, Ames.
The reputation and influence OF the Iowa
State college at Ames seems to be reaching
to the ends Of the earth. Within a week
letters have been received from those
! contemplating entering the college Cor ad-
vanced work from a graduate of Berlin
university. who has the degree of Doctor
Of Philosophy. and who has inherited a
considerable estate in Germany; also from
a native scholar in Turkey. who Is ambi-
tious to advance the agricultural interests
Of his own country and seeks training
to that end in America, and also from a
native of the Kroo tribe on the west coast
of Africa. The Kroos are one of the most
independent and interesting OF the African
races. This particular individual is Mr..
Dihdwo Two. 1t is the boast of this tribe
that none of them ever entered slavery.
Five hundred Of them were at one time
captured by Mohammedans, but within
four days the 500 prisoners had killed them
selves rather than enter slavery. Mr.. Two
left Liberia in 1893 for America. He has
passed through the public schools of st.
Johnsbury, VT, and is now attending a
business college in Boston.
Mr.. Two has recently contributed to the
American Journal OF Religious Sociology
and Education an exceedingly interesting
article concerning his native race. II Ia
his contention that it lie a mistake to try
and make an Anglo-Saxon Of the negro and
to begin by destroying all his respect for his
African nationality, his native system of
morals and his regard for his native re-
ligious mysteries, 'the best guide of our
moral and spiritual vagrancy, our tradi-
lions, the sweet and lofty tales Of ti.s past,
our proverbs. the transmitted wisdom OF
our forefathers-in a word. all that is
most sacred and vital to us, and without
which we cannot stand"
~Untversity of Nebraska Farm Notes.
DR.. A. T. Peters attended the stockgrow-
ers' association at Alliance Friday, June IL.
A letter from George N. Shorey conveys
the information that since being called
away from school by the death of his
mother, he has spent most Of the time at
Lynn. Mass, but being somewhat worked
down a few weeks after being bereft Of his
mother, he went to the south, specially
noting agricultural conditions in Alabama
= Georgia and Florida. and then went &c
. Cuba, where he spent some time in obser.
, walton in the island. with a special view
!, Of investigating agricultural conditions. Nj
Shorey has not yet decided fully as to his
, future plans.
The Home Economics building Is nearinl
completion. Some of those attending tn,
summer school are being taken care OF a
the building.
The department OF field crops has pre-
pared a full set of the laboratory materia
n such as that used in the grain judginl
( course TO be sent TO Cornell university thi
d summer for use in the graduate school o
v agriculture. which will be held during July
e In addition a number of other collections
specially prepared for use In high school
OF country schools. will also be on exhl
bition. These collections have proven quit
useful to schools giving a course inragri
. culture and quite a number of publ
schools In the state have ordered sets dur
|, ing the last year.
- Two Red Polled cows OF the milking typ
have recently been purchased by the de
p partment OF animal husbandry for use &
q stock judging CLASSES as representative O
N that breed. These cows are each raisin
two calves, as are also two milking short
horns recently purchased. II Is the purpos
OF the department to discard entirely IN
use Of grade cows as nurse cows. What
ever extra milk Is needed will be supple
Is by these heavy-milklns Polls and Short
4. horns.
T. Robert Ashby. woh has just received hi
diploma from the University Of Nebraska
has been appointed by the Board OF Re
gents as instructor in animal husbandr
> for the school of agriculture.
Ellis Rail, who assisted in stock judgin
during the winter term. has Just receive
his diploma from the Iowa Agriculture
college. Mr.. RsN gave excellent ~sstisfac
ton in the short course And has been ar
pointed by the Board OF Regents as ir
structor in animal husbandry during III
coming year. Mr.. Rail will report for dut
d next November and will assist In the wor
10 in broods and judging.
. The thirty-six steers in the experimer
to test the value OF several different rs
tons and to determine. II possible, the r,
f. lation of animal conformation to gainin
ne capacity were recently sold to the sout
re- Omaha market. The results of the te.
IN show some very interesting things, all
~ which will be published in bulletin forI
NJ during the summer Prof. Smith, with II
ne assistance OF Mr.. Bigelow, a former grad,
as ate of the school OF agriculture. who d
Ne the feeding, are now compiling tables an
sd arranging the matter for publication. Thos
whose names are on the mailing list wi
ia receive the bulletin some time in septen
Der.
H. During the alumni meeting of the un
is versity graduates held at the farm Wednel
he day. June 10, the dairy department gay
a milking machine demonstration whic
was followed by an exhibit OF information
or prize winning steers by the department
On animal husbandry. The judging pavilic
M was well filled with former students
ma the university. All seemed very much Il
an terested in both demonstrations. The pri,
In the weight-Judging contest was won |
=, Miss Emma Hanlon. a recent gradual
,t whose estimate was correct on two ANNA
IA and only fifty pounds off on the thir
NJ Miss Hanlon lived on a farm before con
~ ing to the university and she has ali
p taken some agriculture at the farm.
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