The addition was placed beside the
'old building, the same kind of ma
terial was selected and a similar
-stye. of architecture chosen. The
result is a harmoidous who!e. The
-entire building is about 140 'feet in
leni.,.h; it ccritaks foul tccu suits of
rooms and nine single rooms in the
dormitories; and it provides labora
tories and demonstrating rooms for
- the courses in Domestic Science.
This building owing its existence so
largely to the women of Pennsyl
vania, it is proposed to dedicate,
October 16, 1908. The program of
the day includes various demonstra
tions in the new laboratory by the
Department of Domestic Science;
-an inspection of the Dairy of the
-School of Agriculture; and an inter
esting program in the Auditorium.
Each women's club in the State is
invited to send a delegate who will
be entertained by members of the
Women's Literary Club of State
College.
The Graduate Summer School of
Agriculture.
State was well represented at the
Graduate Summer School of Agri
culture held at Cornell University
during the month of July Dr.
Armsby gave a course of five lec
tures on "Selected Chapters in
Stock Feeding." Dean Hunt de
livered a lecture at one of the ses
sions. Others present were Prof.
Van Norman, Prof. Stewart, Mes
.srs. Larsen, Mclntyre, Lichten
Thaler, Fries, Braman, Shaw and
Jones, all connected with the agri
cultural faculty
Prof. Gardner. the newly elected
head of the department of Ag
ronomy was also present.
R. V. Little, 'O3, and Miss Helen
B. Druar, of Buffalo, N. Y., were
- married on June 9. After a trip
which included Eagles Mere and
other points of interest they re
turned to their new home at 554
Centennial avenue, Sewickley, Pa.
IHE STATE COLLEGIAN
An Assistant for the Department of
Forestry.
Mr. John A. Ferguson, wno took
up his work on September first as
an assistant in the Department of
Forestry, comes origin.lly from
Canandaigua, New York. He re
ceived his preparatory training at
the Canandaigua Academy and was
graduated from Hamilton College
with the class of 1896, receiving a
degree of A. B. In 1903 the same
institution conferred upon him the
degree of A. M.
Upon graduation from college,
Mr. Ferguson .began teaching in the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute at
Brooklyn, and continued this work
at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. For
several years he was instructor in
Science at Rutgers College Prepara
tory School, New Brunswick, N. J.
In July 1906, Mr. Ferguson entered
the Yale Forest School and was
graduated in 1908 with the degree
of M F. While in Yale, Mr. Fer
guson assisted Professor Tracy of
the Sheffield Scientific School in
Surveying and later assisted Profes
sor Chapman of the Yale Forest
School in field work carried on by
the t.enior class of the Forest School
in Alabama. Duri ig . the summer
of 1907, Mr. Ferguson was a log
scaler with the Piiecn River Lumber
company of North Carolina. Upon
completion of the course in Yale
Forest School, he entered the United
Stales Forest Service and spent the
summer season of 1908 upon the
Boise National Forest with head
quarters at Boise, Idaho.
Mr. Ferguson comes to the col
lege with unusual training and his
connection with the Dzpartment of
Forestry will mean a great deal in
the development of that work in this
college.
Prof. J. M. Willard and family
enjoyed a month's rest on the Maine
coast.