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

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Assistant in English Assistant in English Louis H. Beall, A. B.. Denison Miss Flora C. Knight, A. B., University of Wyoming Miss Grace H. Woodward, Assistant in Domestic Science Boston School of Domestic Science Miss Nellie Cave, B. M., Assistant in Music University of Nebraska. Chicago Music College Miss Anna I. McKirahan, Assistant in Music Miss Margaret Mack, Assistant in Preparatory Department Kansas State Normal Edwin G. Schafer, B. S., Assistant in Agronomy Kansas State Agricultural College Orin A. Stevens, B. S., Assistant in Botany Kansas State Agricultural College F. M. Hayes, D. V. M., Assista)it in Veterinary Science Kansas State Agricultural College Miss Mary W. Hancock, Assistant in Domestic Art Mechanics ' Institute S. W. McGarrah, A. M., Assistant in Mathematics Grove City College J. C. Cunningham. B. S., Assistant in Horticulture Kansas State Agricultural College Kirk H. Logan, B. S., Assistant in Physics University of Kansas C. A. Arthur Utt, B. S., Assistant in Chemistry Cornell College Miss Florence Warner, B. S., Assistant Librarian Illinois University Miss Anna Gordon, A. B., Assistant in Preparatory Department Iowa College Loren Clark, Assistant in Printing Miss Bertha M. Johnston, Assistant in Domestic Science Simmons College Harrison E. Porter, B. S., Assistant in Mathematics Kansas State Agricultural College E. L. Seiber, ' A. B., Assistant in Chemistry Indiana University C. S. Knight, ' B. S. Agr., Assistant in Agronomy University of Wisconsin Assistant in Dairy Husbandry Iowa State College Earle Brintnall, B. S., J. B. Parker, M. A., William Neili. G. A. Porteous, Wm. A. Lamb, Floyd Howard, Alexander Edgar, ' Williain R. Lewis, Y. Since Decemtier 1. 1907. 4. Since May 1. 190.S. 7. Since Tanuarv 1, 1908. Ohio State Univcrsitv Assistant in Ento))iology Dairy Herdsman Herdsman Poultrynian Farm Foreman Herdsman Custodian 22

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A Historical Sketch of K. S. A. C. THE Kansas State A;4ricultural College owes its loeation to the pioneers of Manhattan. As early as 1857 when the buffaloes were still numerous in the northern part of Riley County, an association was formed to build a college in or near Manhattan to be under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Kansas and to be called Bluemont Central College. The charter was granted February 9. 1858. A site of 100 acres was selected for the institution, about ime mile west from town. The cornerstone was laid with elaborate ceremony May 10. 185 ' ' . and the institution was opened for the reception of students one year after- ward. Upon the admission of Kansas as a state. January 29, 1861, the founding of a State University became a probability, and the trustees of Bluemont College were almost successful in locating that institution at Man- liattan by offering their building for this purpose. A little over a year later another chance presented itself for the college to become a state institution. When on July 2, 1862, the Agricultural College Act was passed by Congress, the trustees offered it once more to the Legislature, and this time the offer, consisting of 100 acres of land, A plain three-story stone building measuring -14x60 feet and containing a chapel, a library with several hundred volumes, and some illustrative ap- I ' aratus. valued altogether at about $25,000, was accepted. The charter provided for four departments — science and literature, mechanic arts, agriculture, and military tactics. Of these that of science and literature was put into operation. The course was laid out to cover four years, with an indefinite preparatory department, and conformed closely with that of Bluemont Central College. The first catalogue gives the names of ninety-four students in the jireparatory department and fourteen in the college ])ro])er. During the first ten years ; that is, during the Presidency of Dr. Joseph Denison, the college grew, slowdy. Up to 1873 onl)- fifteen students had graduated, while the number of students in any one term never reached 125. anrl these vere mostly from Riley and the adjoining counties. The reason for this slow growth must be looked for in many direc- tions: The newness of- the state, the western location of ] Ianhattan, the inadequacy of means, the founding of rival literary institutions at Law- rence, Baldwin and Topelca. and the fact that industrial education was in its experimental stage. President Denison and a numlxr of the professors were classic students, and had no faith in the educational results of tech- nical iu ' -truction not connected with classics. They planned to add elective ■Aiirk in practical science and a])i)lied mathematics to the old education, 24