· The Courier.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER, 1891.
Vol. X.
No.15.
THE FACULTY.
IN our Christmas number there should be something about our Faculty. While we have not the space we would like to give this subject yet we will give a brief mention of the most prominent professors. The Christmas Courier would be incomplete without a mention of our most honored Faculty.
ME.
FRANCIS HUNTINGTON SNOW, our genial Chancellor, whose kindly countenance greets you on this page, came to Kansas in 1866, called here to accept a professor's chair in the then small K. S. U. The chancellor's speciality has been, and still is, the book of nature and few there are who can read more closely the story as told in Entmology, Zoology,
Ornithology, Botany and Meteorology. Since his election to the office of chancellor, he has continued his labors in his chosen field and as a result, the farmer's pest, the chinch bug, has succumbed to the ravages of the parasitical Sporotrichum. Snow Hall is a fitting monument to his worth and integrity of purpose.
Next in the love of students is Prof. Robinson, "the noblest Roman of them all," whose wit, like fine old wine, has a flavor and a spice. His "Reminiscences" in the "History of K. S. U." gives the book a value, far beyond the cost in the eyes of olden students. Never will you meet an old student but he will have a voice of praise for that ardent Nimrod, Prof. Robinson.
which will be issued next month, we are sure will be a model. The renaissance of athletics in the university is due largely to the four professors, Carruth, Canfield, Hopkins and Sterling. The interest they take in athletic pursuits does not abate in the least, the rigor of their class work as many a student can attest. Prof. Hopkins this year took up an untrained eleven, or rather two elevens, and by his persistent efforts, has, through its victories, given the university more good effectual advertising than all the paid for printer's ink.
Prof. Williston, whose accession to the faculty is of but recent date, is holding K. S. U. well to the front by his discoveries in Geology and Paleontology and is a man whom the state may well be proud to have gained. Prof. Williston is an authority on Entomology whose opinion is the ultimatum. With two such indefatigable workers as Professor Williston and Professor Dyche at the head of the museums
Prof. Miller, he of sines and angles, is another who divides the affections of the students. His work on Trigonometry
in Snow Hall, there need be no fear that K. S. U. will not get her share of the curios yet to be discovered.
Professor Wileox, the Chesterfield of the faculty, as courteous to the meekest Freshie as to the most dignified Senior, with the assistance of Professor Sterling, maintains a healthy interest in Greek. The art museum under his direction is fast becoming one of the features of the university.
Prof. Dunlap with his constant iteration of "Gentlemen let me impress upon you the need of a good English style," and his copious use of crimson ink, makes many a student think that correct English is not so easily learned after all. Prof. Dunlap has taken quite an active part in University Extension, and those who heard his lectures at Kansas City, speak of them in terms of unalloyed praise.
Of the Music and Art department there will be found a more extended notice on another page. Suffice it to say that this department is keeping pace with the other departments in the University.
We have given a very brief mention of many of our professors and, while we regret that our space would not allow of a more extended notice, especially of some of the younger professors, who by their zeal and love for K. S. U. are doing much to forward the school; yet we believe from the above outline, even though it may be lacking, that an idea may be gained of the numbers of bright intellects that go to make up the constellation of our Kansas State University faculty.
Prof. Sayre, the Dean of the Pharmacy department, and Prof. Bailey, he whose name got away from him when he crossed the Mississippi and with it the fact that he is the best Chemist in the West, together with an efficient corps of assistants, have succeeded in making this department famous throughout the West and South. To be a graduate from the Kansas school of Pharmacy is one of the best recommendations for a position, and as for Chemists, the school is unable to supply the demand. Requests for men come in every day from the mining districts of the western states and from the sugar plantations of the South.
The Law department is under the supervision of Professor James Green as Dean. The Department now has seventy-two students and a great deal of enthusiasm is manifested by them in their work. The school in the wide
spread reputation it enjoys for thoroughness, shows that the confidence of the people of the state in the Kansas Law school is not misplaced.