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

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Bacteriology, Botany Dr. L. D. Bushnell heads the Department of Bacter- iology, which occupies a part of the college veterinary hall where the future animal doctors hold sway. Five pro- fessors administer the offices, laboratories, and experiment station and help students who wander over to the depart- ment, through curiosity or through necessity, to under- stand the intricacies of the simplest forms of life the one-cell organisms. Over in the horticulture building, one finds a group of nine or ten faculty members teaching and experimenting in laboratories. These instructors comprise the faculty of the Botany and Plant Pathology department of which Prof. L. E. Melchers is the head. All students are familiar with the Chem- istry department. If they haven ' t had to take chemistry in their curriculum, they have had the department brought to their atten- tion by the powerful aromas emerging from one or the other of the two chemistry annexes. Annexes are almost all the department has left since the fire destroying Denison hall in August, 1934. Handicapped by lack of room and equipment since the fire, the staff of experts in this department has functioned In the Chemistry Laboratory nobly in explaining the arts of chemistry to students. Hopes are still strong that the state legislature will see fit to right the present handicaps by an appropriation. Dr. H. H. King is the head of the department. Economics and Sociology The Economics and Sociology depart- ment headquarters is in Anderson Hall with Dr. Randall C. Hill as acting-head. The affairs of the department were administered by Dr. J. E. Kammeyer, one of the most able instructors and best-loved men the college has ever had in the faculty, until his death in January. Dr. Kammeyer died following a Advanced Studies of Rocks in Geology Lab Page 21

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Knowledge of Plant Life is Gained in the Botany Laboratory He speaks at various functions, plays golf, and tries to raise a garden in his spare time. Curricula and Departments Guards to the offices of the deans are Miss Alice Melton and Mrs. W. J. Burtis. Nine curricula in the general science divi- sion are open to students. They are Gen- eral Science, Commerce, Commerce with special training in Accounting, Industrial Journalism, Industrial Chemistry, Music Edu- cation, Applied Music, Physical Education for men, and Physical Education for women. The General Science division is divided into 18 departments, Bacteriology, Botany and Plant Pathology, Chemistry, Economics and Sociology, Education, English, Entomology, Indus- trial Journalism and Printing, Library Economics, Mathe- matics, Military Science and Tactics, Modern Languages, Music, Physical Education, Physics, Public Speaking, and Zoology and Geology. The Chemistry Department leads in number of staff members and the English Department ranks next. Three primary interests are set up by the division: Teaching, by nature of the work of the departments, is the most important. Two- thirds of the class hours of the student body are spent in this division, and its staff num- bers 54 per cent of the resident college faculty. Along with teaching, a second necessary activity is investigation, to be informed of the recent advances in a continually advanc- ing and changing technical world. The third interest is public service to the campus, to the local community, and to the entire state. The Fundamental Division The General Science division might be called the fundamental division of the col- lege, for it is the only division in which all students in college are enrolled in classes in one or more of its departments. Practical Education in Printing Page 20

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number of months of ill health, causing sorrow among the thousands of his friends and admirers. Many embryo-teachers of Kansas schools get their start in the Kansas State College Department of Education under the expert guidance of the staff directed by Dr. E. L. Holton, who serves during the summer months as dean of summer school. College rhetoric and allied English courses are taught in several different buildings on the campus by many different teachers in the Department of English, but the teachers congregate in the upstairs of Kedzie Hall for department meetings. Prof. H. W. Davis, who heads the department, is known through- out the state for his Sunflowers column. Entomology, Journalism Prof. George Dean, as head of the depart- ment including five other instructors, teaches students enrolled in the department that in- sects are among the dominant forms of life. They teach and experiment in the field of entomology, mainly in Fairchild Hall. Also occupying Fairchild Hall are mem- bers of the Department of Zoology and Geol- ogy, headed by Dr. R. K. Nabours. Here students are instructed in the structures, functions, and relations of animals, and are given a basis for understanding our physical environment. Would-be journalists learn the essentials of the profession in the four years spent under A typical class in physical education, studies in zoology, instruction, in the physics laboratory, and at the loan desk of i college library.