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

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' --. .. Athletic life has grown to vast propor- tions. Being prominent in athletics is one sure way of getting one ' s name before the public. Three other reasons for going out besides using it as a step toward a career in the sports world after college are: the fun of it, the exercise, and . . . because fraternity brothers croon, You look like AN ATHLETE, Joe. Go out for something. There is the familiar, idolized CAMPUS HERO. He is the big shot on the hill. He stands with everybody. He speaks to every- one, whether of the same social group or not. He recognizes his friends and is not too busy or preoccupied to let them know it. Everyone knows him and he is proud of it, but he does not let it hinder his carriage or his school work. The College RACKETEER is always on the job with a proposition. Smooth-talk- ing, poised, quick thinker that he is, it behooves the average college student to consider well before acting with the Rac- keteer. With all the drives, freshman caps, and rush week, no new student is safe until his bank account is gone. One blanket, one sack of (hot) dogs, one boy, and one girl . . . and off to Cedar Bend for the night, or a big part of it. No college career is complete until the student has spent at least one such night under the caressing starlight of sub-campus retreats. C-AMPU5 TltK-O ' t ti t n i c

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THE -AGUCUUUM T i TUftlOM-e tC TTtf MUSICIAN ENGINEERS, planners, builders! Their faces are set. They ' re going to span some- thing before they die ... or fall in the creek. Look at that T-square! Look at that slide-rule ! Look at that stride ! Loga- rhythmic, isn ' t it? Learning the secrets of the soil, learning to multiply her treasures, learning to carry on in the old, old industry of supply- ing food. That ' s THE AG. Others scoff at his hard, cupped hands and mock his cow and hog-calling voice, but they eat the grub he digs up . . . the old national pantry. Household management, foods, frosted cakes, white aprons. The HOME EC learns something about taking care of a family, a thing more women ought to know especially before they have one. Students of today, both men and women, could learn more about what makes life tick. Home Economics could include a course in ' ' learning how to live together profitably and enjoyably , and the course might appropriately be open to men as well as women. Then there ' s the ever-popular MUSI- CIAN, always on the call. If he isn ' t play- ing for a crazy public, he is mobbed by his fellows. That is the real Musician. There are others, alas! If we followed our impulses . . . oh, well.

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ItlE SCHOOL Contents VIEWS AND FEATURES BK. i SCHOLASTIC BK. 2. EXECUTIVE BK.3. EXTRA-CURRICULAR BK.4. FRATERNAL BK.S. A T H L E T i c BK. 6. T A L L y w H o No college is complete without faculty types. Women are more often TEACHERS than professors. There is variety. Some of them are so hard the man student who takes the course must either be a genius, an athlete, or burn early morning elec- tricity if he makes a grade. Again, there are others who cannot be excelled. Sensi- ble, considerate of others, understanding, but firm and competent; real coaches to learning that is worthwhile and conducive to development. And there are others. There are as many types of PROFES- SORS as students. Old-fashioned minds working in the manner taught in the ' eighties and ' nineties; unprogressive, in- capable of grasping more than the 1-2-3-4 points brought out in text-book treatment and interested no further ; up-to-the-min- ute, broadminded thinkers and doers, men who grow with the world. What a contrast I And between these, all grades. And the EDITOR looks on, trying to mold his campus folk into morally strong, right thinking citizens in spite of instruc- tors who create tendencies in other direc- tions, throwing the old searchlight on un- principled and unscrupulous immaturi- ties and unwonted sophistication alike; binding together into one unified student body the domlNEERS, the AGonized, the GENERAL Sufferers, the Healthy Esthers, the VEsted Malefactors, and the GRAD- UATEd STUmblers. OD