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

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Eight separate curricula are now offered as follows: agricultural engineering, archi- tectural engineering, architecture, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical en- gineering, landscape architecture, and me- chanical engineering. Sound fundamental training in the basic sciences and arts and in their appropriate technical applications are provided in each of these curricula. Options and electives are included to permit some specialization in particular subdivisions of these general branches of the engineering and architectural fields. More than eight hundred students are now enrolled in these curricula. F or several years before the recent slump in college enrollments, due to the depression, more than a thousand students were enrolled each year. Graduate instruction has received increas- ing attention in recent years, and is grow- ing rapidly. Seventy-three of the eighty- three degrees of master of science in engineer- ing and architecture granted by this college have been conferred since 1920. Research work has been developed by the division along with undergraduate and graduate study. The Engineering Experiment Station has published thirty-two research bulletins and has prepared all or part of a number of bulletins and circulars published by other divisions of the college. Several additional manuscripts are now being pre- pared for publication by the station and work is being actively prosecuted upon thirty-two research projects. The general objectives of the division are: (a) To provide educational opportunities in the principal branches of engineering and architecture of such quality as will meet all reasonable and proper standards, both at the undergraduate level and also at the graduate level at least up to the Master ' s degree; (b) To conduct investigations and re- searches in the fields of engineering, archi- tecture, and the industries, for the purposes of securing new data and information of value to the industries and citizens of Kan- sas, and of stimulating instructors and stu- dents and developing in them the research spirit; and (c) To compile and present in readily available form information of value to the citizens of Kansas, and to assist in its dis- semination. Top row: Lynch, McCollum, Roberts, Sellers, Sitz. Pickett. Schumann. Third row: Fenton, White, Branigan. Zink. Mack, Robert, Jones. Second row: Hunt, Brenneman, Scholer. Hulburt, Barger, Crawford, Furr, Drayer. Bottom row: Smutz. Flinner, Gingrich. Kerchner. Brainard, Geauque. PagetS

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DIVISION OF ENGINEERING DEAN R. A. SEATON ' npHE Division of Engineering at Kansas • State is one of the larger engineering schools of this country. Of about one hun- dred and fifty engineering colleges in the United States only seventeen or eighteen have greater enrollments, and only three or four of these lie west of the Mississippi River. Its graduates hold responsible posi- tions not only in Kansas and the neighbor- ing states, but throughout the United States and in many foreign countries, as well. Instruction in engineering has always been considered one of the principal functions of this college. The basic law under which the institution was established provides for the teaching of ' ' such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and engineering and architecture constitute the highest phases of mechanic arts. In 1866, just three years after the in- stitution was organized as a land-grant college, a professor of mechanics and civil engineering was appointed. Growth of this work was slow, however, until a separate engineering curriculum was introduced in 1897-98. Since that time expansion has oc- curred at an accelerated rate, and it has been particularly rapid since about 1920. More than two-thirds of the two thousand en- gineering and architectural graduates of this college h ave received their degrees since that date. In recent years from 120 to 140 young men have been graduated each year. Top row: Morgan, Stutzman, Grant, Weigel, Seaton, Conrad Third row: Schwensen, Helm, Carlson, Pearce, Taylor, Durland, .vIellies. Second row: Kloeffi.er, Paslay, Morse, Cheek, Dawley, Pauling. Bottom row: Frazier, Jorcenson, Olsen, Graham, Koenitzer, Wichers, Ware Page St

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DIVISION OF GENERAL SCIENCE DEAN R. W. BABCOCK ' T HE Division of General Science is the - ' - oldest division of Kansas State College. Its courses supply the fundamental scientific and cultural work of the institution. The Departments of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry offer ample opportunities in physical science both for the undergraduate and the graduate student. Severe losses, from which recovery has not yet been accom- plished, were sustained by the destruction of Denison Hall on August 3, 1934. The De- partments of Physics and Chemistry are now conducting their work in severely cramped quarters and with greatly depleted equip- ment. Biological sciences are represented by the Departments of Bacteriology, Botany and Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Zoology. Ample opportunities are available for thorough training in each specialized field. A special interest of the Departments of Entomology and Zoology and the related work in Geology is the care of the College Museum, which is being improved each year and is rapidly growing in the interest of the student body and visitors to the campus. The social sciences are represented by the Departments of Economics and Sociology, and History and Government. The tre- mendous changes now being made in business and governmental administration must be of vital concern to students who must take their places in the world of today or tomorrow. The land grant school must fulfill its obligation to promote the liberar ' as well as the practical education of those who come to its campus. For this reason there is Top row: Bfals, VanWinkle, Lash, Harbaugh, Benne, Haymaker, Murphy, Byrne, R. L. Parker, James, Iles. Brackett, Lyon, R. C Hill. Fifth row: Fay. White, LeFebure, Gates, Brandley, McDowei i., Foltz, Wilbur, Bryson, Dorf, Cald- well, HoLTz, R. C. Smith, Floyd. Fourth row: W. E. Davis, Ackert, Dobrovolny, Goodrich, Martinez, Sperry, Hudiburg, Marlow, Gainey, E C. Miller, Parrish, D. Williams. Smits, Nabours Third row: Reed. Barham, McGehee, Hughes, BusHNEi.L, Stewart, Kelly, Andrews, Painter, Hostetter, Shannon, Price, Hamilton. Second row: Warner, L. E. Miller, Newcomb, Alsop, Stebbins, Harriss, Avery, Harmon, Wimmer, Correll, Thompson. EJottom row: J. L. Hall, Loy, Faith, Colver, Kammeyer, King, Brubaker, Dean, Perkins. H If 1 ' i s ' ' ' • ' i 9r w w 1 ■ii ' MHIJ m Page H