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Dean Davenport, the Man

University of Nebraska

Abstract

My acquaintance with Dean Davenport, our honored guest, dates back to the beginning of his work as Professor of Agriculture in the Michigan Agricultural College in 1889. Then, as in his later years, he visualized more clearly than most men the methods by which science might be applied to agriculture to multiply the fruits of labor. From that day to this he has been a leader in outlining agricultural problems, forecasting the trend of investigations, and discarding untenable theories with rare precision. He knew how to separate essential principles from nonessential detail and to concentrate the interest not only of the investigator but also of the student on essentials.

During his long and honorable career it was his personality and his power to visualize a college—not yet built in brick and mortar and a clientele not yet created—which brought forth the Illinois Agricultural College and made it a going concern of tremendous power.