LIFE AND WORK OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE


 "It is the best illustration of his foresightedness that I
know of. Dr. Murphree was a cautious man, but in mat-
ters affecting the growth of the institution he had chosen to
head, he was fearless and aggressive.
 "After placing the matter squarely before his associates
of the University, Dr. Murphree took a vote on the organi-
zation of four colleges. The vote carried. The University
of Florida became a university in fact. The organization
provided for these four colleges: Arts and Sciences, with
Jas. N. Anderson as dean; Agriculture, with J. J. Vernon
as dean; Engineering, with J. R. Benton as dean; and Law,


with A. J.
 In add


Farrah as dean."
ition to these colleges, there was a


position as di-


rector of the Experiment Station and Superintendent of
Farmers' Institutes and Extension Division filled by Prof. P.
H. Rolfs. Dr. C. L. Crow was secretary of the general faculty,
and Dr. E. R. Flint of the department of chemistry was resi-
dent physician to the University.
 Including the deans and excluding the Experiment Sta-
 tion, there were nineteen members on the faculty of the Uni-
 versity during the term 1909-10. In the Experiment Station
 there were thirteen including the assistants. Of these instruc-
 tors in the University proper, fifteen were heads of depart-
 ments and of the remaining four, one was an instructor in
 mathematics, one an instructor in agronomy and two were
 student assistants.
 "We who were selected deans found ourselves thrust into
positions which seemed to be more or less honorary with no
additional salary for the time being, but we quickly dis-
covered that with the growth of the University our jobs would
take on administrative proportions," said Dean Anderson.
The enrollment climbed steadily from that year.
 The College of Arts and Sciences included the educational
courses, with, of course, the languages, and science subjects.
The next college to be formed in the University group was the
Teachers' College, with a grouping of all the subjects in educa-
tion. This was in 1913. The College of Pharmacy was also
an outgrowth from the Arts and Sciences group and was organ-
ized in 1923. The youngest college of the University group


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