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

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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

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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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OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT DR. J. T. WILLARD Vice-President ' T HE most important work central- - - ized in the vice-president ' s office is the correspondence with prospective students. Lists of the seniors in Kansas high schools are obtained, and general letters are sent to these high school seniors. To those showing interest, catalogues, bulletins, and other in- formative materials are sent. An active personal correspondence is carried on with these seniors and with students in other colleges who wish to transfer to this. This office is in charge of approving the time and place for meetings of col- lege organizations, and acts upon re- quests for the issuance of keys to col- lege rooms and buildings. Information concerning college business procedure is frequently furnished. College history is Doctor Willard ' s hobby, and many questions in this field are brought to him. JESSIE McIX WELL MACHIR Registrar OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR COLLEGE records are significant in the lives of students for on them are recorded high or low achievement, industry or negligence, honor or dis- honor, high ideals or low, happiness or heartbreak. For one student the record represents a battlefield upon which he has won a glorious victory and for another a battlefield whereon he has gone down to defeat. For some it represents the practice of too great self-denial in order to secure an education and for others too great self-indulgence. The record in the office of the registrar is tangible evidence which, after graduation, testifies to the life and work of the student. Page 20