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

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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

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Division of Engineering THE Engineering Division ol K. S. A. C. is the largest Engineering school in Kansas, and one of the largest in the middle west. Its enrollment is exceeded by only two engineering schools between the Mississipjii River and the Pacific Coast states. It is the second largest division of the college, being exceeded only by the General Science Division. It includes more than one- fourth of all the students in the college during the regular session and more than forty per i ent of all the young men. For a number of years before the war, the collegiate engineering enrollment at K. S. A. C. remained practically stationary at about 300 to 340 students. Following the war it rose rapidl - and steadily, until this year it was more than 850, two and a half times as great as before the war. With the large increase in the number of engineering students, there has been no ditliculiy in placing in attractive positions all of the graduates, and many more could easily have been placed. The fact that the graduates are making good is evidenced not only by the promotions and re- siwnsibilities given them, but also by the fact that the employers keep coming back for more of them. The four-year curricula now offered in the Division of ICngineering are; (Ij .Xgruultiual Engineering, (2) Architectural Engineering, (. ) Anliiiectiire, (4) Chemical Engineering, (5) Civil Engineering, (6) Electrical Engineering, (7) l lour Mill Iju ineering. (8) Landsca|)e . rcliilecture, and (9) Mechanical Engineering. ' -N