Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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IQOI The Hrst out-ojftown basketball game was played on November 8, 1901, in the Florence, Kansas, Opera House. The Normal team lost to Florence 13 to 12,- however, when a return game was played in the home gymnasium, Normal won by a score of-'13 to 10. In the fall of 1901, too, baths on campus were made available . . .1?j P g ..A, ,e,,lh V 1, ig, IQI5 1 , June 1, 1915, was designated Anniversary Day in celebration ofthejftieth year for the Kansas Slate Normal School . . . games, programs and concerts were held throughout the day, . . and KSN looked back on its past accomplishments and looked onward toward a new haU'century ofprogress '...

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1890 Things went well for the Normal, with a few exceptions, to the end ofthe century. The enrollment at the close of the 1889-90 year was 1120, compared to K U's 508 and Manhattan's 514. KSN had the largest enrollment of any normal school in the United States! 1893 On December 21, 1893, the Board of Regents ofthe Normal issued an order forever prohibiting the students from playing football. As one board member said, The game is the height of brutality . . . is injurious to the health and retards the progress of general class work.

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1923 In 1923, the legislature passed the bill which changed the name of the Kansas State Normal School to Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia. The school had become in name what it had become infact . . . The depression begins . . . Board of Regents cuts the budget for the five state schools by nearly 31,000,000 . . . teaching stajf is re-duced . . . fees are reduced by 2596 . . . student employment in- creases . . . campus cafeteria is closed . . . etc. . . . IQ3I to t ,N qu ,E-is gig Y, Q.. f' ff f f i 'f' Q .M N U W. c ' Y-3' 'J to lf .Qtr Xl' ,Q Fil