Formation of OAC Cadets with rifles on lower campus with Benton Hall in background, circa 1895. Paleontology Building (built in 1892, now Women's center) to the right of Benton Hall. Men are wearing the standard blue tunics with brimmed caps. Rifles show the older type of bayonets, probably on rifles of pre-Spanish American War vintage.
William Jasper Kerr was chosen as the sixth president of Oregon Agricultural College in 1907 and led the college through a twenty-five-year period of tremendous growth in numbers of students and faculty, academic and research programs, and physical facilities.