Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

iFranklin ICttrrary ^nnpti| JHE Franklin Literary Society was organized nine years ago. It has Tm developed in that time from one meeting in a class room, and scarcely ^ able to hold its own, to a society second to none in strength or in quality of work. This advancement has been made over many obstacles. The Franklin Literary Society approves the principle laid down by the founders of the Agi-icultural College: That coeducation is desirable for the broadest development of the individual ; for that reason boys and girls are admitted to mem- bership. Once upon the rolls, every opportunity is given for improvement in debate, literature, parliamentary practice; and also along social lines. The object in the past has not been so much to produce elaborate progi-ams as to give to every member training along those lines which he most needed. The experience of gi-aduate mem- bers has shown the value of such training in the business world, the school, and the home.