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\ TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR N E W E L L TALBOT

in and qualified for research. Supervisory control of the work is exercised by the members of the Executive Staff. Some of the Station's work is carried out on the initiative of the members of its staff and by means of Station funds; much of it, on the other hand, is done in cooperation with professional and industrial agencies, which share the expense with the Station. The latter, however, under the terms of the standard agreement, retains full control of the investigations and the right to publish the results. These results are published in bulletins, circulars, and reprints, of which the numbers thus far issued are, respectively, 300, 31, and 11. These publications are distributed to nearly all countries, and some of them have been translated into a half dozen or more foreign languages. They are as much esteemed abroad as at home, and they have widely extended the reputation of the College. Of the first twenty Station Bulletins, Professor Talbot is the author of six; and his skill as an investigator and precision as a writer did much to set the pace for the Station's publications. Since its inception the office of Dean of the College of Engineering has been held by eight persons. The faculties of the four original colleges of the University were first organized in 1878. At the first meeting of the faculty of the College of Engineering, held in February, 1878, Professor Stillman W. Robinson was the Dean. Dr. Nathan C. Ricker was elected Dean in the fall of that same year, and he held that office for twenty-seven years—until June, 1905. He was immediately succeeded by James M. White, Professor of Architectural Engineering, who served as Acting Dean until June, 1907, when he resigned that office to become Supervising Architect of the University. His successor was William F. M. Goss, who resigned as head of the engineering schools at Purdue University to become Dean of the College of Engineering at Illinois. Arriving in the fall of 1907, he continued in this office until March, 1917, being, however, on leave of absence from July 1, 1913, until August 31, 1915. During Dean Goss's absence Pro.

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