State
Vol. V, No 1
The New Mining Dean.
Dr. Walter R. Crane, the Dean
of the School of Mines and Met
allurgy, was educated at the Uni
versity of Kansas, where he re
ceived the degrees of A. B. and A.
M. The degree of Ph. D. was con
ferred on him by Columbia Uni
versity. After a few years' teach
ing in lowa and Minnesota, he re
turned to the University of Kansas
to organize a School of Mines and to
establish an ore dressing labora
tory and a mining museum. In 1906
he was called to the Faculty of the
School of Mines of Columbia Uni
versity, New York, which position
he has since occupied. Here he
has had change of the work in ore
dressing and has assisted in mining
machinery design. He has also had
charge of the Summer School work
in various parts of the United States.
Dr. Crane is the author of many
contributions to geological and min
ing literature, and has now in press
a volume of six hundred pages on
"Gold and Silver."
No change in the administratiol of
the school is contemplated, out a
rise in standard will be inaugurated
as conditions and circumstances will
permit. This will be accompanied
by an improvement in instruction
and equipment and in specializing
the instruction as far as possible.
This latter will tend to throw the
work of an instructor into fewer de
partments, thus differentiating be
tween the departments and the in
struction given therein.
The equipment, while fairly com
plete in many respects, is still lack
ing in certain departments. This
condition will be remedied a soon
as possible so that efficient work
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can be done in all departments of
the school.
Special attention will be given to
the ore-dressing laboratory in order
that work along that line
may be supplemented by act
ual field tests on minerals. The
mining museum is to be given con
siderable prominence, and owing to
the large amount of valuable ma
terial available though now widely
scattered, a most excellent and
valuable museum should be possi
ble.
Commencement Presentations.
At the June commencement ex
ercises Mrs. Athei ton and family
presentea to the college a life size
photograph of the the late President
Atherton. the work being executed
by Gutekunst, of Philadelphia.
Dr. Gill made the pi esentat ion
speech, and Judge Orvis, of Belle
fonte, replied on behalf of the trus
tees
At the same exec cises H. W.
Mitchell, of the class of 1890, and a
member of the board of trustees, on
behalf of the students, alumni, and
trustees, presented to Gen. Beaver a
bronze piece of statuary represent
ing a Puritan. The piece is a copy
of the statue by St. Gaudens in
Springfield, Mass.
Graduates Back.
Many graduates of the college
have been back this year. Some of
those who were here at the opening
of college were P. V. Stevenson and
G. V. Sborigi, 'O3; J. G. Culbertson,
A. A. Barr, W. J. P. Dumm, 'O6; A.
K. Little and M. A. Mitchell, 'O7;
B. Weber, W. G. Thomas, R. E.
Hunter, W. B. Geise, H. H. Haver
stick, B. S. Gramley, 'OB.
egian.
State Football Prospects.
"We have an excellent backfield
but a lamentably weak line," is the
way captain "Bull" McCleary
speaks of State's chances for a win-
ning football eleven this fall. Of
last year's team Kunkle at guard,
and Ritchey and Martin at tackle
are lost. When college opened the
appearance of a goodly quota of
heavy line men seemed to make
easy the solution of the problem of
Captain McCleaiy
cementing together a strong line, but
the Bellefonte game and the practice
previous to and since that defeat
have shown that heroic measures
will have to be taken at once to
strengthen the line. It is a reassur
ing fact that coach "Tommy" Fen
nell has done wonders with green
material in years past, and as his
strong point is the instruction of line
men, everyone is looking to him O'
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