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

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I felt the weary tramp of faculty feet after hard hours before a blackboard or over lab tables. Urgent research projects were carried forward undsr their direction. I sat and contentedly watched them, well-pleased. They were pretty well-behaved. Of course, the government of the thousands who daily swarm over me is not left entirely in the hands of the faculty. The students have an effective, self-government of their own. A Student Coun- cil largely regulates the off -campus lives of my men and women. (I use the words men and women advisedly. ) Maybe you ' d like to know something about the system used by my faculty for school administra- tion. At the top are the governor, a legislature and a Board of Regents, many of whom I knew once as students walking along my paths. The chief man in residence responsible to these state officials is the President. Holding this position now is Milton S. Eisenhower. I have watched him grow and climb from the time he was a rambunctious fraternity pledge guarding the statue of William Alexander Harris till he became a national and international figure and the attractive though slightly balding man who guards the fates and destinies of the College. Advising the President Eisenhower are a whole host of administrative officials and a Council of Deans. The Deans are nearly all old friends of mine. I ' ve seen most of them rise through the faculty ranks, make names for themselves in their respective fields, and become prominent authorities. Heads of departments hold authority over the sub-heads, associate professors, assistant professors, and lowest of all faculty members, the benighted instructors. These are the people who guide my fortunes. But, of course, I provide the firm foundation for their footsteps. I am the Hill on which they depend for support. 26

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I M PROUD of myself — I ' m an influence in the community, state, and even the nation. Maybe not all the credit belongs to me — I ' ll admit that others have helped me out here and there through the years. Eighty-five years ago, I was just a hill. I have not increased much in physical stature, but then, to coin a phrase, you can make a mountain out of a molehill. I, and the people who govern me, represent tolerance, progress and knowledge. You can ' t say that for just a molehill. The men, who for the major part, have made me into a mountain, are those fondly called the faculty. Among them, I have a few old friends who have been with me during my adolescence and throughout their lifetime. Those are faces I know best. Other men, young, brisk, capable, are begin- ning to take their turn at the helm and are spreading me out over acres of land and new fields of learning. They are pouring cement on my face and drilling holes in my bluegrass. I don ' t mind — such is the march of progress. This past year, things have happened almost too fast for me, who am used to the deliberate pace of a commencement processional. The administration saw to the construction of a Student Health center, complete with staff and hospital, a temporary Student Union for cokes and smokes, classroom and office barracks to catch the overflow from buildings whose roots go deep into my soil. New courses were added, curriculums changed, experts brought to impart learning from their fields. Lights burned through long winter evenings in my halls and offices while faculty and administra- tors untangled the snarls incident to caring for more than seven thousand collegians. ss

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Profs Work Long Hours Many professors conduct some type of research in their hours free from teaching. A zoology prof shows just how the animal should be cut up (top). Two home economics instructors (center left), perform experiments on white rats that may mean better and cheaper eating for the American public. Now you tell me what x is, says the mathematics teacher (center right), as he explains his equation. Clas- sifying rocks and minerals is a spare-time job of the geology professor at the left. 27