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

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i Fitwcis David Farrell, Agr. D. President THE mission of the Kansas State Agricultural College is difficult and important. The College is maintained primarily to help increase the fitness of people who work for a livelihood to cope with the problems with which they are confronted. It seeks, through research and education, to help people who are engaged in great fields of agriculture, the industries and industrial sciences, in homemaking, or in the professions that are related directly to these spheres of activity, to improve their efficiency as workers, their value as citizens, and their happiness as human beings. Last year more than 4,000 resident students were enrolled at the college. About 95 per cent of these students came from 101 counties of Kansas. The others came from 26 other states and 11 foreign countries. In its training the faculty represents more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States and Europe. The diversity of nationality, experience, point of view and educational interest represented by students and faculty provide a cos- mopolitan atmosphere that is tolerant, interesting and stimulating. As required by law, the college offers training in both technical and liberal subjects — in agriculture, home eco- nomics, engineering, veterinary- medicine, architecture and the physical and biological sciences, and also in music, literature, dramatics, history, languages and other liberal subjects. Kansas State Agricultural College is conducted on the principle that labor and culture are noti ncompatible; the principle that It is only by labor that thought can be made productive, and only by thought that labor can be made happy. The large group of democratic, well-behaved students, and the more than 6,000 usefully employed graduates demonstrate that the principle is a sound one. F. D. F. KKELL. Page IS