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

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PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE F. D, FARRELL Prestaent -TT- ANSAS STATE COLLEGE was founded on February 16, 1863, when the Kansas Legislature accepted the terms of an act of Congress signed by Pres. Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862. The act provides for a grant of land to each state for the support of a college whose leading object, as stated in the act, is, With- out excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. Pao« IS

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A M. LANDON Governor oj Kansas C. M. HARGER Chairman, State Board of Regents STATE BOARD OF REGENTS SINCE July 1, 1925, Kansas State College and the four other state schools have been governed by a State Board of Regents of nine members. The regents are appointed by the governor for 4-year terms. They con- trol the policies of the five schools and, on recommendation of the presidents, appoint the faculty personnel. Subject to the will of the state legislature the regents determine the destinies of the five state schools. Top row: Leslie Wallace, Ralph T. O ' N ' eil, Dudley Doolittle. Fred M. Harris. Bottom row: B. P. Wacgener, W. D. Ferguson, Oscar Stauffer, Drew McLaughlin. Page 17

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ASSISTANTS TO THE PRESIDENT This act and subsequent legislation, both federal and state, have made of the college a great technological school. The names of its divisions indicate the major fields in which the college operates in instruction and in scientific research; the divisions of agri- culture, engineering, home economics, gen- eral science, veterinary medicine, graduate study, extension. The college provides two types of edu- cation: technological education to promote scientific and vocational proficiency, and liberal education to promote good citizen- ship and good living. The student is en- couraged to pursue both types so as to ob- tain well balanced training. ' The college endeavors to promote edu- cation of the whole man — his mind, his body, and his spirit. For this reason, in addi- tion to technological training, it provides liberal opportunities for training in lan- guages and literature, art, music, history, ETHEL EBERHART Secretary, President ' s Office C. O. PRICE Assistant to the President the drama, physical education, and, through cooperation with the churches, religion. The college believes in play as well as in work. It believes in developing well rounded ability in its students. It encourages its students to participate in extra-curricular activities; athletics, debate, oratory, music, social affairs, church activities, student self- government, and many others. Its ten thousand graduates and its many thousands of other former students, dis- tributed not only throughoiit. Ka£iaa i. ba aB throughout the world, demonstrate every day, in their work and in their lives, that the college achieves marked success in its educational endeavors. Page 19