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

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() November .‘ 50 , lit. ' tt. Dr. K. Kariek was appointed president of lilt- Fort Hays Kansas State College, taking tlie place of the late President Y. A. Lewis. Dr. lisiricrk had been serving as acting president, and since his appointment to the presidency has adequately shown his ability as an executive and leader. Port. Hays State may reasonably be proud of her new president.

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I Fieken Hall , the first building one sees on stepping onto tin ' earn pits. It once housed the entire institution of Fort I lags X or mat School.

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THE GENIUS OF THE PRAIRIE 5 • No beaut) ever bloomed bill I hat il rose Hesponsive to our thoughts that lie asleep Like shadows in unfathomable deep: hat 1 1 1 11 ' siirli dreams are made of no man knows. nd to create is only to disclose What lies within. The prairie poet sings Tones of low winds, far lonely erhoings; His hues are limpid w ine-and-amber glows Of summer dawn, or sunset’s vivid red. Or distant pale-blue shimmerings of prairie heal ; I Ms rhy t Inns, slow I n pulsing, ocean-sped. Like the long sweep and dip of blowing w heat. Would each could li e his poem in the might Of (iod’s creation, ere death brings the night ! Olive w Metre