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

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cience IN THE class of colleges to which this institution belongs the classical studies of the older type of college are replaced by work in the sciences and in vocational subjects. A sound basis for technical training includes thorough training in mathematics, physical science, and biological science. It is believed also that education should include some preparation for the discharge of one ' s duties to the state and to the community in which he lives. It should afiford him that dis- cipline and culture which alone can give him a grasp of the relations among persons and activities, peoples and events, with breadth of view and tolerance of attitude, and hence an influence over his associates and fellow-citizens of every station of life. It is the province of the departments grouped in the division of General Science to give this basic, scientific, cultural and disciplinary training. Their work is not only foundational, but it penetrates through all of the characteristic vocational curricula of the institution, as the struc- cural steel of the modern skyscraper penetrates the entire building and forms a secure framework and support for the more readily visible, and evidently important parts. These departments thus give unity to all of the four-year curricula. In addition they give most of the required subjects in the curricula in General Science, In- dustrial Journalism, Industrial Chemistry, Rural Commerce and Music. These curricula carry opportunities for election of many courses which give great flexibilit} ' to them, and make it pos- sible for students to obtain many modifications that may meet individual needs. The departments organized in this division are Bacteriology, Botany and Plant Pathology-, Chemistry, Economics and Sociology, Education, English, Entomology, History and Ci ics, Library, Mathematics, Military Science, Modern Languages, Music, Physical Education. Physics, Public Speaking, and Zoology. Two-thirds of the instructional work of the college is done by these departmen(s, and a large fraction of the research.

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Division of Agriculture IN MODERN life, success usuallv comes to those who combine high personal ciualities with ade- quate training in fundamental and technical subjects. High personal qualities are indispensa- ble. Training is an exceeding valuable asset which gives to those who have it a distmct ad- vantage over those who do not. College education enables the young man having the necessary personal qualities to take advantage of the fact that the well-trained man can do many thmgs which are impossible to the untrained; to secure the rewards which go to him who is best fitted to earn them. These simple facts apply in the great field of agriculture as they do in all other branches of human activity. Agriculture utilizes the services of thousands of technically-trained men in at least 150 interesting and profitable occupations, on the farm, in scientific laboratories, in class rooms, flour mills, creameries, grain elevators, packing plants, greenhouses, and many other places. No field offers a greater variety of interesting and dignified occupations. The Division of Agriculture provides training for those who wish to devote their lives to agriculture, the largest industry in America. The Division is admirably prepared to do its work well. It has a large staff of high-class, well-trained teachers, and it is one of the best equipped agricultural teaching organizations in the world. The a.gricultural curriculum is well balanced. It enables the student to combine science and practice, the technical and the liberal, work and play. It helps the student to make of himself a good technical and business man, a good citizen and a good fellow, and to pre|)are himself for attractive opportunities which are more numerous ihan the men who are (|ualificd lo accciX them