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

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College KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE is the oldest state educational institution in Kansas. It is one of the oldest colleges of its kind in the world. As a state and national institution it was opened to students on September 2, 1863. In its sixty-three years the College has made a world-wide repu- tation as a superior institution for research and instruction in agri- culture, engineering, home economics, veterinary medicine, the industrial sciences, and in various closely-related fields. Each year students come to the College from all parts of Kansas and from about thirty other states and fifteen foreign countries. The presence on the campus of students from many parts of both hemispheres students representing a diversity of experience, opinion, history, and educational interest provides an interesting and stimulating intellectual and social atmosphere. The fact that in their training the faculty members represent one hundred and twelve colleges and universities in the United States and foreign countries, is an important factor in providing the liberality of attitude which an institution must have if it is to be truly educational. A further important factor is that the College provides, and the law by which it was founded requires, opportuni- ties for liberal training as well as for technical training; opportuni- ties for training in music, dramatics, literature, history, and many other liberalizing subjects. The more than five thousand graduates of K. S. A. C. are dis- tributed throughout the United States and in many foreign coun- tries, where they are exemplifying the ideals that the College repre- sents; ideals of sound scholarship, vocational efficiency, good citizen- ship, and wholesome living. The College emphasizes the importance of well-balanced development of the student. It encourages the student to com- bine technical training with liberalizing study and activity; to work hard and to play well; to be an individual and at the same time to be a useful member of a community by subordinating some of his individualism to the common welfare; to prepare himself to make a good living and to live a satisfactory life.

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FRANCIS DAVID FARRELL, B. S., D. Agr. President Kansas State Agricultural College

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fc i? Btbteton DEAN J. T. WILLARD THE Division of General Science includes the departments which impart instruction in general and scientific subjects for all of the stu- dents. The technical curricula with rather clearly directed vocational objectives include many subjects from this Division which are of fundamental service in the acquisition of the technical knowledge, and others designed to give the student preparation for intelligent participa- tion in public affairs and appreciation of arts that appeal to cultivated taste and emotion. The Division also administers curricula in which most of the characterizing subjects are from its own departments. The curriculum in General Science is the lineal descendant of the original single cur- riculum which the institution offered for many years, although it has been modified so as to be almost beyond recognition.