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

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)tate Board of Resents b Harger, Spencer, Evans, Tod, Culp Merriam. Patrick. Morgan MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Term Endino June SO, 1927 C. W. Spencer Sedan C. B. Merriam . Topeka Tern: Eudiirj, June SO, 1928 Bert C. Culp Beloil W.J. Tod Maple Hill Term Endiw June SO, 1929 Earle W. Evans Wichita Mrs. J. S. Patrick Santanta Term Endin:- June SO, 19S0 W. Y. Morgan Hutchinson Charles M. Harger Abilene George H. Hoixies Olathe Page 26

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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

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;gistrar Miss Jessie McD. Machir Registrar IF TREES and stones could break their silence what fascinating stories they could tell us of the past 60 years on the campus of the Kansas State Agricultural College! Stories of romance, of lo alty to purpose, stories of intrigue and plotting to destroy, stories of conquest and victory- over adverse circumstances, stories of glorious increase in power and influence, stories of the generations of students who ha ' e come and gone during more than the half century! They would tell us that in 1867 friendships were true among the 178 students who composed the student body: that the seeking after knowledge was keen in 1877 among the 234 gathered here; that interest in education was on the increase in 1887 as e ' idenced b ' the 481 students; that the College had grown to be an important institution in 1897 when there were 734 students crowding its halls, but it would be in 1907 when the enrollment sprang to 1937 that the trees and stones would ha ' e the most thrilling story to tell — a decade of unusual accomplishment when the attention of the people of Kansas was attracted in a spectacular way to the College by the political forces then at work. Appropriations were increased, an enlarged building program was carried out, college work was changed from one general curriculum to several specialized curricula, the short courses were established, and an era of unusual growth resulted. In 1917 the story would be of continued quiet growth up to an enrollment of 3,340 and from 1917 to 1927 a decade of acti -ity on the campus resulting in higher academic standards, broadened curricula, enlarged facilities for instruction, and more ' aried student interests. The story would recite the events of the early part of the decade when the shadow of the World War hung over the campus and the pulse of the college community quickened to the tramp of young soldier feet. What, we wonder, would be the [)ro]ihec - of the next decade — ■ 1927 to 1937— if the trees and stones could break their silence? Another decade of quiet growth and gradual raising of standards? .Another turbulent decade such as 1897 to 1907, when the increase in enrollment was so rapid that the increase in facilities could not keep up with it? Another — -but the future alone will determine the story that will be told of that decade to come. C O. Price Secrelarv lo the President Page 27