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

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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

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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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Btbtgton of DEAN R. A. SEATON MATERIAL basis of our modern civilization is the result of science and engineering. More and more is the present era be- coming the industrial age. Every labor-saving appliance manufactured is an added tribute to engineering attainment. A constantly increas- ing number of engineers will be required to maintain and advance our present position. A college education has now become practically essential for engineering work. The general trend in engineering has been reflected in the collegiate enrollment in the division which has increased from slightly more than five hundred in 1920 to almost one thousand for the present year. This division has now become the largest engineering school in Kansas and one of the largest three between the Mississippi river and the Pacific Coast states. Page 24