William Jasper Kerr was the sixth president of Oregon Agricultural College from 1907-1932. Kerr increased the size of the campus with 25 new buildings, including Memorial Union, Milam Hall, and the Women's Building. Kerr also established numerous colleges, including engineering, agriculture, and home economics. After 25 years as president, Kerr became Oregon's first chancellor of higher education.
View shows the south wing of Agriculture Hall under construction about 1913. The north wing was first built in 1909. The building was designed by John Bennes.
Oregon Agricultural College students taking a House Sanitation course repair faucets in the Laundry Laboratory of the Home Economics Building (now Milam Hall).
Photo shows the short course students and some of the tractors which were used in the one month and three month tractor courses offered by the Extension Service. Photo shows the interior of the Farm Mechanics Building.
The Veterinary Clinic included an amphitheater for instruction, dissection lab, animal stalls, and "ample capacity for storing feed, and for housing guinea pigs and rabbits."
The photo shows the Monroe Street (north) entrance to the Engineering Laboratory which was completed in 1920. It originally included a materials lab, a hydraulics lab, and a steam and gas engine lab, all served by a 5-ton electric crane. Building was designed by John Bennes and named for alumnus and long-time faculty member Samuel Graf, who chaired the department of mechanical engineering from 1934 to 1954.
