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

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in Hie Hospital building at old Fort Hays a long and cold one Two enterprising young men students were hired by the citx of Hays to provide means of transportation to the sehooi. They managed to get hold of a light wagon that was covered, and after that, on every snowy morning, the pupils of the Fort Hays Normal .School would collect at the Post office to await their “Inis and would cheerfully ride to school. All of that was years ago, hut that same spirit of cheerfully bcliltle- ing hardships still exists on the campus; it is this heritage from our school that enables us, her sons and daughters, to carry on in a way always complimentary to her name. AND ON THIS FOUNDATION OUR STORY THIS YEAR BEGINS

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IIIIITY.THKF.E m;m a person in Hays or nearahouts was asking liis neighbor, “How Ion «r do you think it ' ll last? The other would then sagely agree that before long the land so recently allotted to the new school just south of town would he open again for homesteading, it was with this spirit that Fort Hays Normal School, Branch of the State Normal School of Kmporia, opened. Times were hard and the problems were many and difficult, hut somehow or other they were solved. Students had to make their own way and they managed it in main ingenious ways. The heavy snows that winter made the walk to tin

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Lvma.v 1). Wooster Professor of Zoology 0 1 ' of I lie first instructors ! join the college after its establishment in a new locution immediately west of Hays, was Lyman 1). Wooster. Professor Wooster came to this school in 1 5)051 and has remained here as an instructor until the present time. In recognition of this long and honored service, we respectfully dedicate this hook to him. hoping that his faithful record may he an inspiration to all.