Scaua 25p05s07 1909

Not feeling the call of a business career, he registered fol' the general Science course the same fall, anclreceiyed the degree of Bachelor of Science on the completion of the course in '99 .

During the summer yacations he was yariously employed, working one summer on the Station farm, and two summers as Assistant in the chemical laboratory of the Station. During the school season of 1895-96, and the following summer months, he \\'as assistant to Dr. Brewer in the bioloo'ical lahoratory, and was employed chiefly in bacteriological work.

He was a member of the Literary Debating Society, and occasionally took part in debate. One of these \yas at a Commencement when he \~' as on the single gold standard slele of the at that tllne absorbmg questIOn of bimetalism. :\h. Jensen took no leading part in athletics hut contented himself with an occasional bacll), colored eye, presented by some more expert boxer. He took the regular \york in :\Iilitary science and obtained shou lder straps during the third year. During the school seasons of 1898-99, 1890-1900 he ,yas appointed :\Jilitary Instructor, the regular officer detailed for this having heen sent to the front in the war with Spian. This ,york is recalled hy the yictim as the most pleasant(?) experience at the institution.

In the spl"in'1; of H)OO he \\',lS aSi:iigned by the Station to work \yith a field party of the Bureau of :-1oilR, in Sevier "alley, and the same fall he took the preliminary examination in the Civil Service and received temporaryappointment in the Bureau of Soils, which was later made permanent through another examination.

From then until the fall of 1904 he was engaged in alkali, underground \Yater, and soil SUl'\"eys in \Vasbington, Idaho, :\Iontana, North Dakota, Oregon, L;tah, Arizona, and the Salton ~ink countl'y along the :\Iexican line in Ca lifornia ancl other CaliAGRICliLTliRE AND i:imTHSuNIAN fornia areas.

He completed INSTITuTE, WASHINGTON, D. C. reports ancl maps of the \york in these places.

In the fall of 1004 he obtained a year's furlough and took post-graduate \york in the L;niYersity of Kehrasku, in plant physiology nnd pathology and general hotany. He published a small paper on rusts and smuts in the :::itate Horticultural report. The time spent there was ton yaluable to use in getting up a thesis, so no degree was received.

"Cpon returning to the Bureau of Soils, he \\"as employed in physiological and soil \\"ork in the laboratory of soil fertility, at the time when the Bureau was first formulating its "toxic" theory. Several small papers on transpiration and toxicity "'ere written \\"hile employed there.

Continuous confining \\"ork in the laboratory, however, a fonclness for direct plant work ,\"hich could not be gratifiecl in that Bureau, and a tendency to\\"nrd a narrowing perspectiYe of vie\\" in general, likely to occur when one's time is spent on a specialty, determined him upon a change, and nt his O\\"n request he was transferred to the Bureau of Plant Indus[119]