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

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S10U. GOVERNOR ALFRED M. LANDON Governor of Kansas A. DMINISTRATION of the five state schools of which Kansas State College is one, is under the supervision of the State Board of Regents, appointed by the governor for a four-year term. Serving without pay in the execution ' of an often thankless task, the Board of Regents, subject to the will of the legislature, control the policies of the state schools and on the recommendation of the presidents of the schools, appoint the faculty personnel. To learn of the merits of Governor Alfred M. Landon as administrator of affairs for the commonwealth of Kansas, one need only read his daily newspaper. Governor Landon ' s efficient, economical leadership has been an important factor in effectively bringing the state through the lean years of the depression. His record has been such, that he has been offered by Kansas as the next President of the United States. Governor Landon ' s slogan of Don ' t spend what you haven ' t got, has appealed to the entire nation. LaiMon is making it respectable to be from Kansas. N Page 10 1 11

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Chapter One KANSAS STATE YEAR Progress Has Been Shown By Students, Administration, and Regents, As Another School Year Leaves Its Mark L H i s is the story of the 1935-36 school year at Kansas State College, pictorially descriptive in all its details a drama in the lives of some 3,626 students. This has been the year showing the greatest fall enrollment in the history of th e college, the year when students and faculty members alike were given their first glimpse of future horizons for the school, with the launching of the 20-year program of development. This has been the year of the carrying out of one of the phases of the 20-year program in the appointment of Dr. S. A. Nock as vice- president, to be administrator of both the vice-president ' s and the registrar ' s offices. This has been a year of mediocrity in athletics; the first year in which the ROYAL PURPLE, Kansas State Collegian, Manhattan Theater, and several other worthwhile college activities have been included in the activity fee; of the Golden Jubilee of the Y. W. C. A.; of the establishment of a competent head of the student health department in Dr. M. W. Husband ; of the winning of the national dairy cattle judging contest; of the completion of 52 years of service with the college by Dr. J. T. Willard; of the death of the beloved head of the department of economics and sociology, Dr. J. E. Kammeyer; of the failure to secure a vitally needed physical science building to replace Denison Hall, destroyed by fire in 1934. Time marches on. Development, progress, and activity has been shown. The seventy- third anniversary of the founding of the in- stitution was passed February 16, 1936. As to the mark that the closing school year has left on the mass of the individual students, one can only speculate and not actually describe. If the mechanism of education has increased in the students a deeper sense of social responsibility, taught them to think, aided them in their quest for happiness, if society will be benefited by the students as they go out to make their way in the world then the year will not have been in vain. STATE BOARD OF REGENTS W. D. Ferguson, C. M. Harger, chairman; Miss Grace McAlister, secretary; B. P. Waggener, Ralph T. O ' Neil, Dudley Doolittle, Oscar Stauffer, Lester McCoy, Drew McLaughlin, Fred M. Harris Page 9

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President .[RESIDENT of Kansas State College since 1925, Dr. F. D. Farrell lends a combina- tion of dignity, conservatism, and thorough efficiency to the executive office which he holds. This year at the meeting of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, in Washington, he was made chairman of the important committee on land problems. As a land-grant college, Kansas State is both a na- tional and a state institution, having relationships with the federal departments of Agri- culture, Interior, and War. Relationships with the federal government increase the col- lege ' s ability to render valu- able service in research, resi- dent instruction, and exten- sion. The practical activities in which the college engages in the conduct of its educational work have been cited by Presi- dent Farrell. He has pointed out that by federal and state law, the college is required to provide liberal and practical education. In order to pro- vide liberal education it must have good library facilities and offer courses in great variety in the arts and humanities such as language and literature, music, history, art, and similar fields. The college ' s practical educa- tional work is centered chiefly in agriculture, engineering, home econom- ics, and veteri- nary medicine. Research is con- ducted and in- Page 11 C. O. PRICE Assistant to the President PRESIDENT F. D. FARRELL struction provided in these and closely related fields. President Farrell explained, The col- lege cannot effectively teach the principles and practices of dairy farming, for example, if it has no cows. It cannot do a good job of instruction in dairy manufacturing unless it makes and sells butter, cheese, ice cream. If its work in veterinary medicine is to be effective the col- lege must operate a veterinary hospital and clinic. These illustrations indicate why the college must engage in numerous practical activities. Its ten thousand graduates and its many thousands of other former students, distrib- uted throughout the world, demonstrate every day in their work and in their lives, that the college achieves marked success in its educa- tional endeavors.