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Show ALUMNUS GETS MERITED PROMOTION Graduate of U. A. C. Called to Occupy Occu-py Important Position With Kansas Agricultural College Win. M.- Jardlne of tho -class of '04 Is tho newly appointed director of tho Kansas Experiment Station' nnd Dean of Agrlculturo at tho Agricultural Ag-ricultural College. Such la the now which Dr. Harris brings homo with him upon his return, from a two weeks trip through tho Mississippi Valley. Tho appointment of Mr. Jardlne as acting Director of tho station sta-tion at' th0 hands of tho board of Regents Re-gents camo unexpectedly as it was eenerallv believed that, no successor to Dean Webster would bo chnson until next summer after tho closo of tho school year Noxt to the position of president, tho directorship Is the most important 'olllce in tho agricultural agricul-tural college Prof. Jardlno has been in Kansas a llttlo more than two years but In that tlmo he has abundantly made I good. Speaking of tho appointment ono of tho Kansas papers says: "When Prof. Jardlno becamo tho head of tho farm crops department at tho collego two years ago ho was tho choice nmong 25 candidates for the placo. Tho now director Is a young man In his middle thirties nnd a westerner by birth and raising. He was born on a farm In southern Idaho whero ho lived until IT years old. At this state ho entered tho Utah Agricultural Collego and graduated gradu-ated from that Institution In' 1904 Ills farm training nnd natlvo ability marked him beforo ho was through collego and ho was appointed nn assistant as-sistant In tho school beforo graduating. graduat-ing. In 190C no wns mado head of tho agronomy department of tho Utah college Ho had held this placo but a Bhort time, whon ho was called to Washington to become agronomist , In chargo of dry land Investigation In tho department of agriculture where ho remained until coming to Kansas to succeed Prof. Ten Ey'ck na agronomist at Manhattan. While In tho government service ho visited nenrly ovory section of tho. United Stntes and portions of Canada, but his work was confined largely to tho west. Ho has had a great deal of ex-cxtenBlon ex-cxtenBlon work. In this way" many Kansns farm people have como to know him personally. Prof Jardlno will now bo In direct charge of the Kansas station at Manhattan, and will supbrviso ill work, at tho branch stations nt Hays, Dodge City, Garden Gard-en City, and Ogallah. As Dean of agrlculturo ho will bo tho hend rt the agricultural division of the co'-lege co'-lege nt Manhattan. Ho will take up his now work January 1. His successor suc-cessor :s head of tho ngronomy department de-partment of tho collego has not yet been chosen." All of this will bo received with delight by tho many friends of Prof. Jnrdlno both hero In the city and throughout the stato and Incidentally Incidental-ly It Is another evidence of tho 03 teem In which tho graduates of the U. A C. are held by the people of other states. |
