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

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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

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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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J The Division of General Science UST a few years ago in the history of Kansas State Agricultural College, all students took the same course of study, with such modifications as were necessary due to difference of sex. About the dawn of the present century the movement for specialization reached the institution, and the various technical curricula began to be set off, and the basic course, from which the new curricula had branched off, came to be distinguished as the General Science course. The process of specializa- tion continued and eventually the General Science course became differentiated into several more or less closely related courses which are administered by the Division of General Science. Within this Division there are now twelve distinct curricula, one of which retains the old name of General Science. This curriculum, of all those offered at the college, most nearly resembles the Liberal Arts and Science curricula of other col- leges and universities and, with little or no modification, could be made to lead to the A. B. degree. The General Science Division is the only one of the five divisions of the college with which every student comes in touch because all the technical curricula rest upon the foundation work in English, Mathematics, History, Science, Economics, Modern Languages, etc., all of which departments are in this Division. So, in addition to the fact that the enrollment in this division is larger by several hundred than that of any other division, the teachers of the General Science Division, numbering more than one hundred and seventy, have enrolled in their classes at some time all the students of the other divisions also. This explains why the number of teachers grouped in this division is greater than that in all the other divisions combined. DEAN J. T. WILLARD Page 28