Forty Years of the University of Minnesota (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...found that the engineering alumni had interests that were not common to all other alumni and so an engineering alumni association was organized. This organization has usually held an annual meeting for the purpose of getting together for social purposes and for the discussion of live questions of interest to the college. This association has made its influence felt upon the college in many ways. The associa certain water rights on the Mississippi at the government dam near Fort Snelling. The members of this association have always taken an active interest in the work of the general alumni association and they are represented on the board of directors of that association by Messrs. W. L Gray and W. R. Hoag. THE SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. The school of chemistry alumni association has been organized but a very short time and its field of activity has not yet been determined. This association is represented in the general alumni association by Frank W. Emmons and Edward J. Gutsche. dudes the taking of a larger interest in all matters relating to the department of agriculture and the making of the influence of the alumni of that department felt over the whole northwest. With a view to carrying out this idea a special committee of alumni, none of them connected with the department, has been appointed to keep in touch with the department and to do whatever may be done to further the interests of the department. The officers of the association are John A. Hummel, president; Andrew Patterson, vice president; William Hagerman, secretary-treasurer. The executive committee includes the additional names of Professor Coates P. Bull and Miss Anna Wilkinson. time. At these meetings the attendance runs all the way from one hundred to one hundred and fifty and ...