Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-08-13
CLEMSON FACULTY CHANGES.
Several New Professors to Begin
Duties Next Session.

contain a number Of new men. Ow-
tees recently passed bylaw against
designations during the college ses-
sion, all designations will now be
during the summer months; hence
there will always be a number at
once instead Of one or two at a time.
Following are the new men, some Of
whom are already beginning to come
in for duty.
Prof. Jas. G. Conan, Of Mississippi,
will be assistant professor Of carding
and spinning in the textile school. He
is a graduate Of the Mississippi Tex
tile School and the Bowel Textile
School, and has had much experience
in mill work and erection OF mill
machinery, as well as in teaching at
the Mississippi Textile School and
the Arkansas Textile School. He sue
ceeds Prof. w. p. Meadows, who re-
signed to become cotton technologist
in the national department Of agri-
culture.
there are to be three new men. f.. l..
Shepard, Of Missouri, has been ap-
pointed instructor in civil engineer
ing to succeed Prof. II. f. Sweeney,
who has two years leave of absence
to do special work at the Rensselaer,
Polytechnic Institute. Mr.. Shepard
was educated at the University Of
Missouri, has had practical expert
ence in this country and South Amer
lea and has taught civil engineering
in the Michigan Agricultural College.
William Routten, of Virginia, has
been made assistant professor Of
wood work to succeed Prof. A. B.
Gardner, who has left teaching work
to enter business in Greenville. Mr.
Routten is a graduate OF Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, has studied one
year at Vanderbilt and has taught at
Mississippi A. and NJ. College and
Alabama State Normal College. Prof
Routten's assistant in wood work
will be Howard L. Pate, Of Pennsyl-
vania, who was educated at Phila-
delphia Manual Training School and
University of Pennsylvania. He sue
ceeds A. o. Horning, who goes to
Perdue University to complete his
engineering course.
In the academic department there
are two new instructors in English,
due 70 tho retirement OF Prot. Chas.
NJ. Furman, who becomes professor
emeritus and Prof. Thos W Kcitt,
who has given up teaching to devote
himself to his farming interests III
Newberry county.
Prof. d. w. Daniel has been made
professor Of EnA ash, and Prof. A. B.
Bryan associate professor Of English.
The two new men are f. f.. Gov
ington, of Marion, and F. M. Crum,
Of Orangeburg, both Of whom will be
instructors in English. Mr.. Coving-
ton is a graduate of the University Of
South Carolina and Harvard, and has
had teaching experience in the Ho-
que Military Academy, Of Virginia,
and the Moore Institute, of Tennes-
see. Mr.. Crum is a graduate of Wof-
ford College and has had one year
each at Vanderbilt and Harvard and
teaching experience at Fort Mill and
elsewhere.
In the agricultural department and
the experiment station there are a
number Of changes, particularly in
subordinate positions, as follows:
Prof. F. M. Rolls, Of Iowa, be-
comes associate professor Of botany
and bacteriology and associate bota-
mist and plant pathologist of the sta
tion, vice Prof. j. G. Hall, who re-
signed In March to take a position in
the West. Prof. Rolls graduated
first at the Iowa State College, then
took his masters degree at Colorado
Agricultural College, and his doctors
degree at Cornell. He has had fif-
teen years experience as a teacher
in several Institutions
f. A. Rouse, Of Kentucky, has been
appointed assistant in animal hus-
bandry to the experiment station.
vice r. II. Haden, who has returned
to Missouri to engage in farming.
| Mr.. Rouse has had lifelong expert
ence on a dairy and stock breeding
: farm and is a graduate OF the Ohio
State University.
In the chemistry departmen, there
is only one change, and that only for
one year. Prof. f. H. Edmister, of
New York, who is a graduate Of Syr-
acuse University, with four years'