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

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fl PRESEIlTATIOn B 1 Y T H E largest vote ever recorded at Kansas State College, the student body declared themselves in favor of including the ROYAL PURPLE on the student activity ticket. With every student enrolled receiving a copy of the book, it became the responsibility of the editor to do the utmost within his power to see that every individual student and every organization on the campus had a representation in the book. It was with this thought in mind that the 1936 ROYAL PURPLE was compiled. The 1936 ROYAL PURPLE is the first Kansas State College yearbook that may truthfully be said to be published by the entire student body. Every student has had an equal oppor- tunity to be represented without limitation. For the months since the last volume of the ROYAL PURPLE was published, the book has been in our hands. We now present it to you. t

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ALL ' S TOELC FOREWORD V o L LEGE annuals are traditionally albums of stereotyped material in which one may change the faces from year to year and have nearly the same product as that of the year before. The renaissance in college annual production has come, with this year ' s ROYAL PUR- PLE striving to be among those annuals carrying the banner advocat- ing the change. Rather than catalogued material in the writeups, a strenuous effort has been made to freshen the copy to make it actually readable. Timeliness has been stressed. Workshop photography has been used in abundance to breathe life into the pages. Change has been made, not merely for the sake of being different, but whenever possible, to make a more complete and easier knit annual. In a way, a yearbook should perform some of the duties of a newspaper. Yet a newspaper is like a breakfast dish, or an aperitif before dinner, taken from force of habit and quickly forgotten. The yearbook is like a bottle of rare wine, the older it becomes, the more value it has, until it becomes cherished beyond monetary valuation. Other forms of journalistic endeavor have their short day, but a book is a preservative for the years ahead, of the records it gathers between its covers. This, in brief, has been our aspiration in producing the 1936 ROYAL PURPLE. Many ideas that were started the first of the year have died or been supplanted, or have been metamorphosed. The result is within these covers. As for the accomplishments of the book, you, reader, must judge. The Editor.