Due to an unexpected vacancy, Kyle became acting commandant for one month, becoming the only student to hold that position.

[2] Kyle graduated with honors in 1899 as class valedictorian before attending Cornell University, where he received a B.S.

Within 30 years this textbook had sold over half a million copies, "an enormous publication run for the era.

Texas A&M was unwilling to provide funds, so Kyle fenced off a section of the southeast corner of campus that had been assigned to him for agricultural use.

[3] Using $650 of his own money, he purchased the covered grandstand from the Bryan fairgrounds and built wooden bleachers to raise the seating capacity to 500 people.

[1] In 1941, Kyle toured Central and South America on behalf of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to study the agriculture economy.

Following his resignation in 1947, Guatemala awarded him the Order of the Quetzal, making him at the time the only American so honored.