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

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npHF. pnsirioii iif ilic dean of ukihcii is h.ised on tlie k1c.iI for students ot the highest physical, intellectual, social, moral, and spiritual development. The objective of the dean of women is through co-operation with the various campus and communitv agencies to contribute to the realizaton of this ideal. The problems of living conditions, of health, of student cmp ' oymcnt, of vocational guidance, of social and religious life, of student discipline, and of the e.xtra-curricular activities are but different aspects of this objective and are her special concern. The dean of women serves on committees, recommends students for loans, sponsors the Big Sister program, housemother meetings, personal and group interviews and social events. She co-operates with the Student Governing association, with Mortar Board, with the Y. W. C. A., with the panhellenic councils, with the A. . . U. W., with the college appointment bureau and with the churches of Manhattan, giving to each the support that is needed to make their work with students effective. She fosters in the students the president ' s ideals for the college and presents to the president the student view point. The routine duties of the dean of women ' s ofHce do not express the deeper significance of the dean ' s work. Her office is a place of friendliness and helpfulness. The ser ice rendered bv her staff is recognized as an essential factor in the life and ideals of the college. Achnnustratwji The Dean of Women M.ARY P. AN ZlLE, Diilll

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Administration F. D. Farriill, President npHERE are three general types of colleges. One type, the old fashioned arts college, offers only courses that people study chiefly for the purpose of learning how to live. A second type, a sort of collegiate trade school, offers only vocational courses that people study chiefly for the purpose of learning to earn a livelihood. A third type occupies an educational field between the hrst two. It offers a varietv of courses, including many that are strictlv vocational and many others that are non-vocational to most students. Kansas State Agricultural college is of the third type. It is a technological institution where students are trained for more than four hundred occupations in the fields of agriculture, engin- eering, home economics, general science and veterinary medicine. Besides technical subjects, these students are required or en- couraged to stud ' numerous ct)urses that are essentiallv non- oc.itional. The college provides for well balanced education that helps to ht voung men and young women for both usefulness and happi- ness. It is a college of the people, helpfully interested in every- day problems and proud of its place in American education. Its The President four thousand students represent every section of Kansas, more than half the states of the Union and several foreign countries. Its atmosphere is youthful, vigorous, democratic and stimulating. W M l ff B

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Administration npHE office of the Registrar is primarily concerned with keeping an accurate record of the results of college teaching and making those results available to the students, to other institu- tions, to honor societies, and to social or literary organizations. In the last few years this office has taken on a new signifi- cance, and the discovery has been made that much of statistical value is found in the study of the grades earned by students. It is therefore fast becoming a laboratory for research in education, the grades being used as a basis for thesis material for graduate students. Numerous studies mav be carried on in this laboratory in the attempt to arrive at improved methods of teaching, more equitable methods of grading, causes of success or failure in college, student mortality, the effect of athletics on scholarship, and the effect of environment on scholarship. The possibilities of using the registrar ' s office as a scientific laboratory are being rapidly developed and thus the students of the college are, in a very real sense, contributing to the future welfare of their fellows for the information thus obtained will undoubtedly influence methods of college procedure in the future. Jessie McDowell Machir, Rti istiuir The Registrar This vear, 1929-1930, three thousand nine hundred ninety-one (3991) students have furnished the laboratory material for various forms of research — a larger number by one hundred twelve than last vear. w mm B i m ' Mmm