Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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6 'T' - EZ H f lg' is I dk 2 S M435 --' J C OPDON C, V' Q3 Ptrgpm' a ,, Q T- v ll .uA ' T-' s l 1 ! f fi3 HE Kansas State Agricultural College is situated at the northwestern limits of the city of Manhattan, the grounds occupying an elevation which overlooks the Kaw valley for several miles to the east and west. The buildings are grouped in a semicircle facing the rising sun and about them stretches a beautiful campus laid out according to the principles of modern landscape gardening. liach year sees some striking improvement made either in the grounds or buildings. At present a new Horticultural Hall is taking up its position at the northern extremity of the semicircle while other smaller buildings which will make the work of the institution much more eflicient are in the process of construction. Looking into the future we hope to see added a Veterinary Science Hall, a large and commodious Gymnasium for the boys, an Administration building and a new Domestic Science Hall. Of course these will only come with time and the gradual turning of young Kansas minds toward the goal of their high calling as active workers and as citizens of the State and Nation. There are at present about fifteen hundred students in attendance at the College while as many more could and should be accomodated here. There is probably twice as many young men and women out over the State who for the lack of the proper incentive are letting golden opportunities for improving their usefulness in this world slip by unheeded. Many are content to follow the path of least resistance, valuing little the instruction of school and college. The value of a thorough education fitting a young man for his life-work is no longer a debatable question. The recent report of the United States Bureau of Education shows that a boy with a common-school education has practically one chance in nine thousand of general recognition as a successful man in some department of human endeavor and usefulness. A high-school education increases his chances of such success by about twenty-two times, while a college education gives a young man about ten times the probability of success and advancement possessed by the high-school graduate, or about two hundred times the opportunity open to a boy with only a common-school education. And so the editors of this book dedicate it to their College with the prime purpose in view of winning Kansas boys and girls to the charm of its life and work. May a desire for something higher and better come to the mind of every such stranger of our College as he or she turns these pages. Seeing the work of others may they be encouraged to strive with adversity, to overcome difficulty, and to reach a high mark of efficiency which shall declare the onward march of progress and civilization. A'

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The College . The Regents . The Board of Instruction The Student . Alumni Associations . Music . The '06 Banner . Athletics 7

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