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

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The Board of Regents W. Y. MORGAN Hutchinson C. B. MERRIAM Topeka EARLE W. EVANS Wichita MRS. JAMES PATRICK Satanta B. C. GULP Beloit W. E. IRELAND Vales Center M. G. VINCENT Kansas City C. W. SPENCER Sedan Page 26 5JLLJC

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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

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Registrar WELL-WORN stone steps, flanked on either side by masses of evergreens and overshad- owed by a drapery of bitter-sweet and ivy, which have left their delicate tracery on the tower above this is the approach to the portal of Kansas State Agricultural College. Since Commencement in June, 1927, thirty- eight hundred and seventy-seven students have passed through this portal on their way to a larger life and opportunity. First, there came the summer-session students, numbering nine hundred fifty-four graduate stu- dents, teachers from Kansas schoolrooms and students from her own classrooms ready to plunge again into college work that would bring them the rewards they seek. Then, when the bitter-sweet berries were scarlet and the grapes of the ivy hung purple, the regular student body came. Thirty-two hundred eighty bright-faced young freshmen, care-free sophomores, serious-minded juniors, seniorsweighted down with the responsibility of meeting the last JESSIE MACDOWELL MACHIR Registrar requirements for that coveted degree, and graduated students eager for re- search all have trooped through the wide doorways of the college this year. Four hundred eighty-nine students of agriculture, twelve hundred seven pursuing various curricula in general science, nine hundred sixty-seven students of engineering, five hundred forty students of home economics, and seventy- seven students in veterinary medicine made up the thirty-two hundred eighty enrolled for the regular session. The combined enrollment of summer session and regular session was forty-two hundred thirty-four, but three hundred fifty-seven were more ambitious than the rest and attended both sessions, and even though some of them may have had dual personalities, they could only count as one, which gives a net enrollment of thirty-eight hundred seventy-seven for the year 1927-1928. This familiar doorway, hung with scarlet and purple, will swing open hospitably for the return of many of these hundreds of students next autumn, and only the Class of 1928 will miss its welcome may other portals hung with the scarlet and purple of happiness, success, and prosperity open before these young men and women who bear the banner of 1928. Page 27