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

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Btbteton DEAN L. E. CALL TOARMING must ever be the important vocation of Kansas people. A The vast expanse of fertile, rolling prairie of necessity must become more and more productive to supply food and raiment to the increasing population of the world. To accomplish this, the farmer of the future must be skilled in the art and trained in the principles of his profession and he must be served by town and city business and professional men who have a sympathetic understanding of the needs of agriculture. Success in farming will come to those who combine high qualities of character with good judgment and adequate training in the funda- mental principles underlying their profession. Success to the business man serving the farmer will result in a large measure at least from a clear understanding of the needs of his patrons and of the knowledge of how to meet these needs efficiently and economically.

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of General Science CURRICULUM in Industrial Journalism was added in 1910 and that in Industrial Chemistry in 1919. Through several years of gradual approach beginning in 1916 the four-year curricula in music were developed and were first offered in full form in 1922. The curriculum in Rural Commerce which is now followed by nearly three hundred students was established in 1921. The latest candidates for student favor are the two curricula in Physical Education one for men, and one for women, the freshman years of which are being given this year. . All of the cirrucula administered by this Division include liberal provisions for electives by means of which professional subjects in education and extensive groups in science, language or general cultural subjects may be chosen.

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of Agriculture FOUR-YEAR curriculum in Agriculture, embracing as it does, training in so many of the basic subjects that constitute the foundation of a general education, is admirably prepared to fit young men for both modern farm life and service to agriculture. Well balanced ap it is in the theoretical, cultural, scientific, practical, and economic subjects, it affords an opportunity for training that rarely comes amiss in this work-a-day world. The Division of Agriculture provides adequate training in more than one hundred useful and interesting occupations, on the farm, in the classroom, in scientific laboratories, in packing plants, in green- hpuses, in flour mills, in creameries, in grain elevators, in editorial work, in farm managerial and advisory capacities, and in a score of public positions serving agriculture. The demand for well-trained men in agriculture has always exceeded the supply. p t