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

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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.

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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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the direction of the Department of Industrial Journalism and Printing, located in Kedzie Hall. Prof. C. E. Rogers returned to head the department this year after a year of AAA public relations work at the nation ' s capitol. How to best take advantage of facilities of knowledge available in the library, is taught in Library Economics. Headquarters of the faculty is naturally located in the College Library, considered by many the most beau- tiful building on the campus. Mathematics, History, Military Ten capable persons are responsible for the worry of a number of college students over figures (those on paper). These are the members of the Department of Mathe- matics headed by Prof. B. L. Remick. History and Government is another valu- able department of the General Science divi- sion. Who was who and what he did ages ago to the modern day is explained to the stu- dents by Prof. R. R. Price and the faculty. Under the General Science Division comes the Department of Military Science and Tactics, a part of the curriculum of all fresh- man and sophomore students through the request of Uncle Sam, being given through the organization of the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel John S. Sullivan heads the corps of regular army officers comprising the staff. Juniors and seniors electing the advanced course make up the corps of cadet officers. practice, gaining microscope technique in botany lab., wrestlers posing, hard at work, elementary chemistry.