The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-09-29
COLLEGE NEWS
OF INTEREST
BIG INSTITUTION OPENS FOR NEW
YEAR.
SOME CHANGES In FACULTY
MANY NEW MEMBERS ON TEACH
ING FORCE THIS YEAR.

rollment is about the same as that
of last year at this time. More en-
iollments are being made daily, how
ever, as new students continue to
come, and some of the old students.
on account of their work at home. are
tardy in returning.
The new year begins with many
changes in our faculty. PROF. Nj. c.
Bates, who has been away on a years
leave of absence, spent in study for
a doctors degree at Columbia Uni
Versity, New York, has returned and
will be the head of the English de-
partment. Shirley =. Miller '03, who
has e e studying at the University
of Berlin, returns to the State Col.
lege this fall as head of the Zoology
department. Mr.. Miller received his
doctors degree while abroad. Prof.
Edmund s. Ender, Of New Haven,
Conn, succeeds Prof. II. II. Louden-
back as head of the department of
music, the latter having gone to Chi
cago for further study. Prof. Ender
spent last year in Europe, in the
study of voice, organ and piano. He
comes highly recommended, both as
an artist and instructor in these three
branches of music. Geo. A. Starring,
brother OF Cecil Starring II, is the
nnW hna1 pf tho noy, ,aon;o Iono,<
ment. Mr.. Starring comes from the
University of Chicago and is well fit
ted for this position. Prof. A. B..
Crosier, who has been at the head OF
this department for several years, re-
signed to join a land syndicate in
western Montana. Miss Mary Tough
, succeeds Miss Wilcox as the head of
the domestic science department. She
=, comes from the Pratt Institute, hav-
ing been an instructor there for some
time.
Among the assistants and instruc-
tors are found the following new
names: Mr.. LOOMS, of Albion Col
lege, taking Mr.. Besley's place as soil
. chemist; Mr.. Biggar, of the 10 class,
takes charge Of the soils laboratory;
Mr.. Burlison, of the University of IL
linois, and Mr.. Woodwork, of the
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical
College, are assistant in the Agron-
omy department; Mr.. Bonell assists
in the mechanical engineering depart
ment; Mr.. Youngberg, of the class of
'06, takes Mr.. Koch's place as as
%sistant in chemistry; Miss Halle w.
Hyde '0S, later of the University OF
Illinois, is assistant in the preparatory
department; and Mr.. d.. E. Baily, of
the Massachusetts, Agricultural Col
lege, and Mr.. w. II. Irvine, of the
Ontario Agricultural College come as
assistants in the dairy department.
President Slagle went to Mitchell,
s.. d., Monday morning, to attend a
meeting of the State Board Of Reg
ents. He goes from there to Grand
Forks, n. d., to attend the installa-
ton ceremonies of DIR. Mac Vey as
new president of the University of
North Dakota. DR.. Slagle conveys the
greetings of the South Dakota State
College and, through the request of
DR.. Remsen, president of John Hop
kins University, he will also represent
that institution. DR.. Bracket will
also be present at the installation,
conveying greetings from the Society
for Promotion of Engineering Educa-
ton.
The first Y. NJ. c. A. meeting OF
this college year was held Sunday at
ternoon at three o'clock in the asso-
citation room. The speaker. Secretary
George Phillips, gave an impressive
talk upon the value Of the associa-
ton to the college man. Mr.. Phil
lips will not be the Y. NJ. secretary
this year as he is to attend the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. He left Mon
day morning for Madison, Wis, in
company with A. A. Ort 10, and Har-
old Crothers 10, who also expect to
take up advanced work in their re-
spective lines at the university.
Prof. Ender, the new head of the
|, music department, is organizing both
a ladies' chorus and a male glee club
this week, each comprising about
twenty-five voices. Prof. Ender has
, Won much repute as a choral director
and with the support OF the students
these giees will be a pronounced and
creditable success.