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

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PRESIDENT F. D. FARRELL since it was founded in 1863 the Kansas State Agricultural College has been helping to establish an educational ideal. The ideal still is comparatively new. It is based upon the conviction that the common things are the great things and that labor and culture are not incompatible. It is an ideal that can be reached through good scholarship and intelligent labor. Those who believe in it esteem people for what they are and not for what they possess or for their method of gaining a livelihood, so long as it is an honest method. The College exists for the benefit of the people who help to do the world ' s work. Its aim is to help them to learn to work effectively and to live happily. The graduates of the College number nearly seven thousand. Those who have attended the College but have not been graduated, number several thousand more. These people are demon- strating both the soundness of the ideal to which the College is committed and the effective- ness of the work the College is doing in promoting that ideal. In virtually every state in the Union and in many foreign countries these graduates and other former students are applying their college training as engineers, home-makers, veterinarians, bankers, architects, merchants, and in many other capacities. The College is proud of their records as men and women, as citizens, and as useful and productive workers. Page 15