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

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The Sunimer School E. L. HoLTON Deati THE Summer School was organized in order that the magnihcent plant of K. S. A. C. might he available for the teachers of Kansas at a time when they can attend. There are two sessions of the Summer School, one beginning immedi- ately after the close of the regular college year and continuing for nine weeks. The other one is a four weeks session and is held during the month of July. This short session was organized primarily for the teachers of vocational agriculture. In addition to the wide range of under- graduate courses, practically all depart- ments offer all of their graduate work during the Summer School. Since all the libra- ries, laboratories, and facilities of the Experiment Station are made available, the Summer School offers excellent opportunities for graduate work. The controlling purpose of the administration is to furnish a pleasant work environment for the students. Outside attractions are reduced to a minimum. The faculty believes that a vacation environment is not conductive to creative work. A series of twenty-hve popular lectures are offered by members of the faculty; the Manhattan Theatre puts on one or more plays; an elaborate patriotic pageant is given on the campus. All these activities are strictly educational. No attempt is made to compete with the movies . At the close of Summer School a formal commencement is held for all students completing the required work for the B. S. and M. S. degrees.

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H. Umberger Dean L ' The Division of Extension AST year, more than eight hundred communities were recognized as de- hnite units co-operating with the Exten- sion Service of the Kansas State Agricul- tural College. The total number of indi- viduals, including those in these commu- nities and those who are not so organized but who were dehnitely associated in some project in co-operation with this institu- tion, numbered not less than thirty thous- and Kansas People. The purpose of these individuals and of their community organizations is to provide intelligent procedure whereby s ome desirable objective may be obtained through the acquisition and transmission of information. Such objectives may be economic or social. They may not only desire to know more profitable business methods but how to attain higher standards of living and thought for themselves and for others. The responsibility of the agricultural college in directing this expression of the people living beyond the campus is particularly delegated to the Extension Service, but it is the same responsibility which the agricultural college assumes to the resident student who pursues a course of study on the campus. It is proper that the influence of the institution through the Extension Service may be reasonably expected to be supplemental through the active effort of those of its graduates who go back to the farms and the homes with the higher ideals which have been created in them as a result of their residence at the Kansas State Agricu ltural College. Page 26

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ll!0 Jessie McDowell Machir Keg strar The Registrar ' IpHERE is an obscure little place on the ' campus of the Kansas State Agricul- tural College about which few people know or think — a dingy place not more than six by seven feet with a vaulted roof and a heavy iron door which has been carefully closed each night for more than a half century for the protection of its prec- ious contents. It is a veritable mine of human interest, hope, fear, heartache, jubilation, achievement, disappointment, romance — all the long list of human emo- tions are represented in it. This little place is the old vault in Anderson Hall, that building with the tall spire, which is so rich in tradition and so dear to the hearts of many graduates and former students of the college. The scholarship records of all the students who have passed through the college from its beginning to now are stored in this old vault in books of various sizes from the first little thin volume to the ponderous ones of later years. Thousands of students have made their contribution of grades to this storehouse even to the third genera- tion and the world ' s store of knowledge has been materially increased because men and women through the vears gained their first knowledge of the sciences and the industrial arts in this college. Nearly eight thousand graduates are abroad in the world and many of their names are honored in high places. May the Class of 1929 add its quota of those who shall be so known and loved! Page 2.V