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The Colleges and Schools

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THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

It is probable that no division of the University has exhibited a more striking growth during the last sixteen years than the College of Agriculture. In 1903-04 the total number of students registered in this College was 308. For 1919-20, the enrolment was 1,215, a gain of 907, or 294 per cent for the sixteen years. In 1904, only 16 graduates received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. This number grew to 235 in 1917, but dropped to 139 in 1918 and to 65 in 1919 on account of the war. In April, 1920, there were 150 members of the senior class in Agriculture in good standing. It will be noted that while the total registration in the College multiplied nearly four times during the sixteen years, the senior class was fourteen times as large in 1916, and nearly ten times as large in 1920 as in 1904, an indication that the increase in quality of the students was even more marked than in numbers. This is further evidenced by the fact that whereas in 1904 there had not been a graduate student in agriculture for ten years, during the year 1919-20 there were 56 (66)* graduate students doing work in agriculture. Sixteen years ago there were 37 members on the agricultural faculty, including both College and Station. In 1919-20 there were 119 members on full-time and 12 more devoting onehalf or a larger part of their time to the work of instruction, a total of 131. The relative growth of the various departments is indicated in the following table:

FACULTY OF COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 1904 AND 1920 Department 1903*04 1919-20 Administration ,. 2 2 Agronomy 12 38 Animal Husbandry , 5 29 Botany 8 (Discontinued) Dairy Husbandry 6 11 Farm Organization and Management 4 Extension 1 5 # Horticulture 5 17 •Figures in parenthesis are for the year 1916-17