Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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The legislature of 1!)15 granted the institution an appropriation of $100,000 to be used for the erection of Sheridan Coliseum, now under con- struction, which stands just south of Picken Hall. It will be the largest building on the campus and will contain the auditorium, gymnasium for men and women, showers and swimming pool, departments of music, blacksmith- ing, manual training and farm carpentry, gas and steam engines and public school art. Under the careful guidance of our inspiring leader, Dr. William A. Lewis, the school has witnessed its greatest growth in material equipment, in num- ber of students an d teachers, in service rendered the people of Western Kan- sas and in the confidence and support with which the people and their repre- sentatives have rewarded these services. At this time the Fort Flays Kansas Normal School has before it, an ex- ceedingly bright future: while there has been nothing as tangible as new buildings, there has been great internal growth and strengthening. There has been developed, a Fort Hays Normal spirit which counts for much more than mere buildings : and this spirit is growing and deepening each year ; it is permeating the atmosphere of Western Kansas. The pride taken in the Fort Hays Normal by the people of Western Kansas and the appreciation that they have shown for the work being carried on at this institution is sufficient to assure a great future. 19

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Board of Administration HE State Educational Institutions of Kansas are controlled bv the State Hoard of Administration composed of Hon. Ed. T. Hackney, President ; Ex. -Gov. Hoch and Mrs. Cora G. Lewis. “I believe that the Eort Hays Normal School will grow to be one of the large teachers’ training agencies in Kan- sas. No other thing in Kansas perhaps needs so much care and nourish- ment as the rural schools of the State and the Normal which is training teachers for grade and rural service certainly deserves a place of wide recog- nition among those interested in the state’s future. Christ said at one time, ‘I have come that ve might have life and have it more abundantly In es- sence I believe the Fort Hays Normal School is saying that same thing to the rural schools of the state, and that it is living up to. its declaration by training along the widest and most useful lines those who are to be in a place of responsibility in this great work, in which my whole heart is completely wrapped up.” Cora G. Lewis. 21