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

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SEVENTY- FIVE Seventy-five years — from 1863, when the classics were most important in tiie little academy on Biue- mont Hill — to 1 ' ). ' 58, the diamond anniversary of Kan- sas State College, a great vocational institution. Dur- ing those years of educational and social expansion, Kansas State College has pioneered in promoting the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes — the basic ideals set forth in the land-grani college act of 1862. Revolutionary though it was, one of I he founders of the college believed iji specialized educaliim for women. Tlius, in 1873, lidine econoniics began willi a course in sewing, dressniaking, and inilliiierN. mirror, some pallerns. and a new-fangled sewing machine was Ihe lolal eipiiprnenl. In I ' ). ' i8. Kansas State ' s Division of Home Kcononiics sends onl gradu- ates whose work is know n t hroiighoul I he world. Seventy-five years ago wheal, now Ihe niosl important Kansas crop, would not grow on Ihe (ireal Plains. A graduate of Ihe college, aflcr eais of researcii, found wheat strains suited to llie liot, dry climate. Further work has been done by Kansas Stale men during recent years, with the development of Kanred and Tenmarq wheat varieties as a result. Among the technical investigations conducted l)y the Jingineering Division was experimentation in concrete — leading to tiie increased safety of the nation ' s bridges, roads, and buildings. Vnother of Ihe outstanding accomplishments during the se entN- li e years was the development of blackleg serum b the Disision of elerinar Medicine, a service inxahiable to the agricnltural element. Now blackleg kills less than live cah es in a thousand as c.,mpared with one in ten before the vaccines were develooed. nd so, lor tlnee-,piarlers of a eentin- Stall- College has bi-en engaged in scientific lion. 111. ' disc, very and control of nature and the promotion of Ihe inalerial and cull ress of stale and nation. Ka

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ANDERSON Administrative direction of the college centers in Anderson Hall. De- signed by John A. Anderson, second presi- dent and initiator of practical education at Kansas State, it was built in three sections, 1879 to 1885. The west wing now Recreation Center, originally a chapel, was added in 1887. The executive offices have been lo- cated permanently in Anderson since its erection. This ivy-clad spire has become the tangible symbol of upward and out- ward growth of the institution from its humble beginnings in the old Bluemont College building. Bluemont College as it appeared in 1K6.1. A granite monument now marks l}ie site west of Manhattan.