Great improvements are in progress in remodeling the farm barn. The whole south basement is being turned into a large hall for storing farm machinery, while the north basement is soon to become a modern horse stable.

During the summer vacation the Board of Regents have filled the different vacant chairs of the Faculty, and we believe that the new professors and assistants are specialists of exceptionally high rank. The chair of domestic science was offered to and accepted by Mrs. Henrietta W. Calvin, the former librarian. Mrs. Calvin is a thorough student and a strong womanly woman and her advancement will meet with general favor among the students. Prof. J. E. Kammeyer, a well-known Kansas educator, formerly of the faculty of the Kansas City, Kan., high school, was elected to the chair of oratory. Prof. Oscar Erf, formerly of the Illinois Agricultural College, was elected to the chair of dairy and animal husbandry. The professor is a recognized authority in his particular line of work. Prof. Frank M. McClenahan was elected assistant in chemistry to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Prof. Geo. F. Weida. Professor McClenahan has two degrees from Yale and one from Tarkio College, in Missouri. He has taught physics and chemistry in the Pittsburg, Penn., high school, and for the past two years was assistant in chemistry at Yale. R. J. Kinzer, of Ames, Ia., will be the assistant in the Animal Husbandry Department. Mr. Kinzer graduated from the Iowa State Agricultural College two years ago, and since that time has been superintendent of the farm at that institution. He is an expert stock judge, carrying off nearly all first prizes at the International Stock Show in Chicago two years ago. The chair of physical training for women will be filled by a graduate of the Agricultural College, Miss Estella Fearon. Miss Ella Weeks, last year employed as special artist in the Experiment Station, was elected second assistant in the Industrial Art Department. The Preparatory Department has so enlarged that a third assistant was necessary, and we think that the Board made an excellent choice in electing Miss Helen B. Thompson to fill the position. Miss Clara Pancake was elected to the position of second assistant in the Domestic Science Department. Mr. E. N. Rodell was chosen assistant in printing. Hugo Halstead, a graduate of this College and formerly teacher of mathematical branches in the Commercial College of St. Joseph, Mo., was elected assistant professor of mathematics. Miss Caroline L. Hopps, a graduate (Ph. D.) of the University of Chicago, was made assistant in English. Miss Margaret J. Minis, formerly assistant in the library, was elected head of this important department. Miss Mildred Shaw was made assistant in mathematics. Geo. C. Wheeler was made assistant in feeding experiments. R. F. Booth was elected assistant in physics, and Miss Flora Rose assistant in domestic science. The President and the Board are certain that the newly elected members of the Faculty will prove uniformly efficient and will enter into the work and spirit of the College without delay or friction.

ALUMNI AND FORMER STUDENTS.

John H. Oesterhaus, '01, has entered the Kansas City Veterinary College.

Lucie Wyatt, '01, was married August 21, 1903, to Dr. W. P. Wilson, of Westmoreland.

Bessie A. Mudge, '03, will teach domestic science in the Pittsburg high school this year.

A number of the alumni items appearing in this issue were crowded out of the last number of the preceding volume.

Laura G. Day, '93, returns to Menomonie, Wis., this fall as instructor in domestic economy in the Stout Manual Training School.

Homer Derr, '00, spent a few hours at the College while on his way to the University of Chicago, where he will take up graduate study.

Mary Waugh-Smith, '99, and little daughter arrived recently from Seattle, Wash., and will visit with relatives for several months.

Alfred Houghton Buck arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Buck, '96 and '97, August 23, 1903. The young man tips the scales at eight pounds.

Chas. Eastman, '02, spent the summer working in the Veterinary Department, and has returned to his studies at the Veterinary College of Kansas City.

Ruth Mudge, '01, has resigned her position as clerk in the Botanical Department to take an assistantship in biology in the Louisville, Ky., high school.

A. H. Leidigh, '02, is located at Amarillo, Texas, where he is in the employ of the United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Cereals.- Herald.

Olivia Staatz, special student in domestic science, 1898 '00, and assistant last year, will inaugurate the work in domestic science in the Wichita high school this year.

Prof. and Mrs. W. M. Sawdon [Adelaide Wilder, '98], of Chicago, are inexpressibly happy over a little daughter who came to their home on June 13.- Nationalist.

H. D. Orr, '99, visited College on his way home to spend the summer vacation. He has a year's work still to finish the medical course in Northwestern University, Chicago.

E. C. Abbott, '93, Santa Fe, N. M., made a short visit at the College last August. Mr. Abbott is a successful lawyer and is now a district attorney. He has always kept up his interest in mineralogy and does some work in assaying for his own satisfaction.

Miss Elizabeth Agnew, '00, assistant in domestic science last year, will attend Teachers' College, in New York, N. Y., where she will take advanced work.-Herald.

R. S. Kellogg, '96, of the Bureau of Forestry, made a short visit at the College during the summer on his return from the inspection of some experimental plantations in Nebraska.

Helena M. Pincomb, '01, declined reëlection as instructor in domestic science in the Pittsburg high school, and will spend the year studying in Teachers' College, New York.

N. A. Richardson, '80, superintendent of schools, San Bernardino, Cal., is the author of a well-written "Introduction to Socialism," which is printed as No. 37 of Wayland's Monthly.

W. E. Miller, junior in 1899, has purchased the St. Marys Star. Mr. Miller has been prospering as a printer since leaving the College, his greatest mistake being that he didn't graduate before he left.

Miss Clara Spilman, '00, has resigned her position in the Girls' Industrial School, at Beloit, as teacher of domestic science, and has accepted a similar one in the Christian Female Orphans' School, at Camden Point, Mo.-Herald.

Miss Josephine Finley expects to leave next week for New Haven, Conn., where she has a position as dietitian in Grace Hospital. Miss Finley graduated at the College with the class of 1900. Her friends wish her success.- Nationalist.

E. N. Rodell, '03, who has acted as a student assistant for the last two years in the Printing Department, was chosen as assistant in printing at the June meeting of the Board. That Mr. Rodell is satisfactory to Superintendent Rickman is ample evidence that he is a good printer.

Helen B. Thompson, '03, has been chosen as an assistant in the Preparatory Department. Miss Thompson has had several years of experience as a teacher in the public schools, and during the last two years has satisfactorily taught preparatory classes while completing her College course.

E. C. Cook, '01. died recently in a hospital at Kansas City, where he had been taken for treatment. The immediate cause of death was typhoid fever, but he had been in bad health for about a year as the result of a kick received from a horse. The sympathy of many friends will be with his young wife, Emma Miller-Cook, '01.

R. W. Clothier, '97, professor of chemistry and agriculture in the Third District Normal School of Missouri, with his wife, Elizabeth Blachly-Clothier, made a short visit at the College and with relatives in town this summer. The institution keeps Professor Clothier very busy, he having but two or three weeks' vacation altogether during the year.

Harry N. Whitford, '90, received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Chicago, June 16, 1903, his subjects being, ecology, physiology and morphology of plants. The title of his thesis was, "The Ecological Relations of the Coniferous Forests of the Flathead Valley, Montana."

Howard F. Butterfield, '01, did not accept his reëlection to the position of instructor in manual training in the Pittsburg high school, and is now in Nevada with a surveying party working on the Western Pacific railroad. His classmates, D. M. Ladd, F. W. Haselwood, and E. W. Doane, are working on the same road.

Dean B. Swingle, '00, assistant in pathology in the laboratory of plant pathology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is author of Bulletin No. 37 of the Bureau of Plant Industry. The title is more impressive than expressive to the ordinary reader, viz.; "Formation of the Spores in the Sporangia of Rhizopus Nigricans and of Phycomyces Nitens."

C. A. Scott, '01, of the Bureau of Forestry, called at the College recently. Mr. Scott was on his way to Colorado and New Mexico to collect cedar and pine seeds for use on the government forest reserves. He reports that the plantations on the sandhills of central Nebraska, which are in his charge, are in a very flourishing condition.

E. M. Cook, of Oakley, a graduate with the class of '00 at the College, visited friends in town Sunday and Monday. He was enroute to Guayanilla, Porto Rico, where he is sent by the United States government to teach English in the Spanish schools. Mr. Cook is an energetic young man, and his friends wish him success in his new work.-Nationalist.

Hugo Halstead, '95, was selected by the Regents to fill the position of assistant professor of mathematics here for the next year, Miss Harper having been given leave of absence for that length of time. Mr. Halstead is a young man of unusual mathematical ability. For several years he has been in charge of the mathematical department of Platt's Commercial College, St. Joseph, Mo.

R. J. Peck, '97, writes from Harrison, Okla., that he was one of the lucky ones in the El Reno drawing and has been living on a homestead near Harrison for two years. He has settled down to the life of an agriculturist, with encouraging prospects. His good luck seems to be following him, as he was married June 3, 1903, to Miss Helen Gittings, a former student of the Missouri State Normal School.

Warren Knaus, '82, editor of the McPherson Democrat, gave the Experiment Station valuable assistance in securing land near McPherson for the coöperative experiments in connection with the United States Department of Agriculture in the breeding and testing of wheat and other cereals. Mr. Knaus still retains his fondness for entomology, but does not allow it to prevent his conducting a thriving newspaper business.