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Show CLARK EDWIN DAVIS CUES TO TiEU AC. Faculty Is Strengthened by Addition of Noted Instructor In-structor in Chemistry. Snerml to The Trlhtme. hOQAN, Sept. ii. The teaching !'or' of tho Qnomlftiy donuriment of the I'. A. 0, hus been mutoiiullv I t-outft honed by the addition of I i . Clark Ed wis Davis. Dr. Da via conies especial I y woll rtv ouitnonded. He whs uniduuted frmi i liih taboo :it Burnip, Mich., in w04j He entered the MiehtcHti state norum! college in the fall of IW5, from which he received :i life certificate, in 1DU8, tin- degree of bachelor of p6dagogfcH iti I 19. and the de're of bachelor of rU I in 1918. During the years 1907 to HMJ he was instructor in ehemietry at thut Si-lu'el. 8ineo the summer of 19 18 he has been doinjj graduate work at Columbia uni ersity. There he took bin decree 0l mnMer of arts in 1913, held tho Gold-sehmidt Gold-sehmidt fellowship in chemistry during the years lit 13-191 -4, and was granted tho degree of doctor of philosophy i D 1915. As a partial fulfillment of the requirements for bin doctor's degree, h" submitted a dissertation on "'The Surface Sur-face Tension of Sulphuric Acid-water Mixtures,' ' which received widespread recognition and has sinco been published in circular form. Dr. C. W. Porter, Dr. C. E. Davis and Assistant Professor Hirst, aided by several sev-eral assistants and the added facilities of the new chemistry building, which fast being completed and equipped with the most modern apparatus and con venionees, give to the department n ceptional power and opportunity for in creased service to the many students who come to the agricultural college for instruct ion. |