Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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ln The Beginning. . . 1863 An act to establish, locate and endow a state normal school was passed by the state legislature on March 3 1863 2 That there be and is hereby established and permanently located at the town of Emporia in Lyon County, a State Normal School, the exclusive purposes of which shall be the instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common school education, and in the mechanic arts, and in the arts of husbandry and agricultural chemistry, and in the fundamental laws of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens . . . That lands adjoining or contiguous to certain state-owned salt springs in Saline, Republic, Cloud, and Mitchell counties are hereby set apart and reserved as a perpetaul endowment for the support and maintenace of the Normal School . . . fGeneral Laws of the State of Kansas, Third Session of the Legislature, 18635

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Our lives are controlled by this cycle of changes . . . changes that consist of new friends, new places, new ideas . . . changes that alter our lifestyle, our physical being and our intellectual outlook . . . Most changes within our lives will seem good and be welcomed, while others will be viewed as ill- fortune. . .but no matter how we see them, and whether we accept or reject them, they will continue coming . . .forthe changes oftinze within each ofus are as natural and necessary as the evolution of' the seasons . .

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