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Show o MADE GOOD. President Widtsoc of the Agricultural Agricul-tural College has just closed 'his second se-cond year's work as President: it is the universal opinion that he has made good. Even in circles where the greatest doubts as to the wisdom of his selection were expressed there is a feeling that he has succeeded in .making of the institution what 't should be a real Agricultural College. Col-lege. The attendance of students has increased from 663 to 832. However a table of attendance docs not signify the entire success of a school: More important is the spirit of harmony and loyalty prcvading the ranks of faculty and students and in this re-sp'ect re-sp'ect the College has never occupiod so high a place. The Catalogue for 1909 and i9iohas just been issued, and we are phased to note the evidences of substantial growth. The faculty for net year has been materially increased and strengthened. Prof. Robert Stewart returns to the School after having secured se-cured his Ph. D as head of the Chemical Chem-ical ideptrrtrhent.- Uof.. , Porter1" returns re-turns from Harvard with his M. S. "Hcgfcec and will do the College I teaching in Chemistry. Probably tlu 1 most notable acquisition to the facul- I ty is that of Miss Ellen Aldcn Hunt- I ington A. M. who is secured as Prof- I cssor of Domestic Science and I' I rector of the School of Domestic Sci- H ence. This department of the College Col-lege work next year will certainly be in splendid condition. With the new Domestic Science hall and with Miss Huntington in charge of the work the increase in the number of stu- 1 dents in Domestic Science should be on a par with the incrc'asc in Agriculture Ag-riculture President Widioc has every reason reas-on for encouragement in the splendid progress the school has made during the past two years. |