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

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The Division of AgriciiltiuLre L. E. Call Dean ¥N MODERN lifs, there are two para- JL mount qualities indispensable for suc- cess. Thev are hii h personal qualities and adequate fundamental and technical train- ing. Without high personal qualities, training in itself has little value. With high personal qualities training becomes an exceedingly valuable asset and places in the hands of those who possess it the tools on which success in modern life is built. Under modern conditions adequate train- ing can be secured the most easily in college. The four-vear curricula in agriculture embracing as they do training in so many of the basic subjects that constitute the fundamentals of a general education are admirably prepared to provide the type of training that leads to success in modern life. Well balanced as they are in the theoretical, cultural, scientific, practical, and economic subjects, they afford an opportunity for training that is unexcelled. The Division of Agriculture provides training for those who wish to devote their lives to agriculture, the most ancient, the most necessary, the most honorable, and the largest industry in America. The division is admirably prepared to provide such training. It is manned bv a large staff of high-class, well-trained teachers who are specialists in their respective fields of work. It is equipped with numerous experi- mental fields and plots, large numbers of high-class animals, and adequate laboratory facilities that make it one of the best equipped agricultural organizations in the world.

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Tlie Division of Science THE remarkable increase in attendance at the colleges in this country since the close of the world war has frequently been commented on. The growth of enroll- ment in the General Science Division of Kansas State Agricultural College illus- trates this general tendency of the period. In the college year of 1917-18 the enroll- ment in this division was 307, while for the year 1927-28 it was 1221. , T- ,,. The nineteen departments in this divi- J . 1 . W ILL. RD r Draii aiidv,ce-Pr,ud,ntoi rheCoiiei,t sion are manned by a teaching force of nearly two hundred, but the efforts of these teachers are not all expended upon the students enrolled in the division, for the students in all the other divisions of the college are registered in the classes of the General Science Division for their basic work in English, Mathematics, Biological, Physical, and Social Sciences, Modern Languages, etc. This explains why the faculty of this division is larger than are the faculties of all the other divisions of the college combined. The varied nature of the work done in this division is indicated by listing the curricula offered which are as follows: General Science, Industrial Journalism, Industrial Chemistry, Public School Music, Piano, Violin, Public School Band and Orchestra, Voice, Physical Education for Men, Physical Education for Women, and Rural Commerce. These are all four-year curricula each leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Music. There is also offered a six-year curriculum in General Science and Veterinary Medicine leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. ,U, ' A W ' -1 WJ Page ' .

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Margaret Justin Dean Tlie Division of Home Economics TLJOME Economics as administered at the Kan- sas State Agricultural College is part of a great national moxcment. This sharing of a com- mon purpose is felt peculiarly this year since Dean Margaret Justm is president of the American Home Economics Association including some nire thousand memhers throughout the United States. Home Economics is vital to men and women alike and matters of the home should concern both in the midst of the changing conditions of the present dav. The ideal of education as it is felt by the teach- ing staff at this college is not limited to knowledge of the subjects taught in the Home Economics curriculum or related curricula but that upon this rock each girl may better meet every relationship, every problem, every situation in life. The specific training received is valuable but it is multiplied many fold if the girl who acquires it is thoroughly poised and balanced, fitted indeed for the business of living. Year by year brings progress within the Division of Home Economics, changes in the working plant, in arrangement of courses, in teaching staff, whatever w ' ill best serve the interests of the students who seek this training and who in turn will serve the state or a wider field. Calvin Hall, Thompson Hall, Van Zile Hall, Ellen Richards Lodge already established were augmented this year by the Ula Dow Cottage, a new practice house. The nursery school occupies enlarged quarters and most of the students of the Division have contact with this vital training. A list of the departments within the Division will indicate the breadth of training received by the students : Food Economics and Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles, Applied Art, Household Economics, Institutional Economics and Child Welfare Euthenics.