Michigan Agricultural College Campus Life 1900 1925 PDF Download

Excerpt from History of the Michigan Agricultural College and Biographical Sketches of Trustees and Professors The author has preferred to make exact quotations when appropriate instead of giving the substance of the thoughts in his own words. Thanks are due Macmillan and Company for the privilege of copying a cut of Senator Morrill; to Dr. Demmon for permission to copy cuts of Governor Blair and regent Millard. Thanks, many thanks are given to Ray Stannard Baker, '89, for valuable aid in preparation of parts of the manuscript; also to Professor R. H. Petitt and Dr. G. D. Shafer for furnishing photographs; to Professor W. W. John ston for reading manuscript, to Dean R. P. Lyman and Secretary A. M. Brown for reading proof. The writer has had unusual opportunities to enable him to prepare the volume. Of the trustees and teachers of the college he has known all except twelve; two members of the board of education, H. L. Miller and J. R. Kellogg; two governors, Blair and Crapo four members of the board of Agriculture, David Carpenter, Justus Gage, S. A. Yerkes, Charles Rich; President Will iams, Professors Goadby and Weeks, and acting secretary C. A. Kenaston. He has worked in the faculty with all the professors of agriculture and nearly all the professors of horticulture. Dr. Kedzie, Professor Cook and the writer were together members of the faculty for twenty-two years, three-sevenths of the existence of the col lege, - the writer was in continuous service for forty years. He has been a part of many troublous times, great revolutions and amazing improvements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.