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Dean Kastle
The Agricultural College
The Agricultural College of Kentucky State University has grown very rapidly in the past few years. From sixty-five students and five instructors in nineteen nine, she has swelled the numbers till now she can justly boast of three hundred students and fifteen instructors. Great advancement has been made in several lines since the members of the present Senior Class were Freshmen. The College and Experiment Station have been consolidated; the Extension work has been developed until it has now reached nearly every county in the Commonwealth; the Animal Husbandry Department has become one of the foremost in the country; a great work is also now being done in the Agronomy and Horticultural Departments; and more scientific and research work has been added to the courses.
Last year this department was very unfortunate in losing its beloved Dean, Dr. M. A. Scovell, and it was at first considered impossible to find a man who could fill his place. However, after a wide and prolonged search, it was found that there was none better qualified for this position than one of our own alumni, Dr. J. H. Kastle, who is very widely known as a Chemist and general Scientist. Dr. Kastle was for seventeen years, Professor of Chemistry at Kentucky State University. He then spent three years at Washington, D. C, as head of the Chemical Department of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Marine Hospital Service. He was then made head of the department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia, from which place he was called two years ago, by Dr. Scovell to take charge of the Chemical research department of the Experiment Station. We have great confidence in his resourcefulness and in his administration.
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