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

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General Policies of State Schools The supreme governing body for all the Kansas state schools is the Board of Regents. The group is composed of nine prominent state citizens who are appointed by the governor for a term of four years. Lester McCoy acted as chairman of the Board this year. Other members were F. M. Harris, Mrs Elizabeth Haughey, Jerry C. Driscoll, Hubert Brighton, Willis N. Kelly, Drew McLaughlin, Grovcr Poole, Dr. L. B. Spake, Oscar S. Stauffer. The Board of Regents is given the power to recom- mend faculty changes, to give advice in regard to proposed new buildings and to direct general policies of the schools which it governs. Regents Meet Monthly The Regents meet each month either in Topeka or at one of the colleges whose policy they control. Any changes to be made in policy for Kansas State or its students, or any new buildings which are needed are brought to their attention by President Eisenhower. The Board, in turn, reports its findings to the Kansas legislature. School 8! Years Old Kansas State has been governed by the Board ever since February 16, 1863, when it was officially named the Kansas State Agricultural College. At first the curriculum was classical with emphasis on literature, morals and ethics instead of much- needed practical and technical training. In 1S73 John A. Anderson swung the College out of the backwater of classical education into the current of usefulness to the information-hungry people of the expanding state. BOARD OF REGENTS— sating, left stenographer. Slaiuliiig: Hube J

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Regents Direct T HE STATE House of Kansas, is the seat of law- ' making and administrative activities. It is here that Andrew F. Schoeppel of Ness City carries on his executive duties as the twenty-ninth governor of the state. Governor Schoeppel, in his second year as chief executive of the state, has shown a deep interest and incite into the war-time needs of Kansas. In his capacity as governor of Kansas, he was one of the honored guests at the inaugural of President Milton S. Eisenhower this fall. Governor Schoeppel claims the University of Ne- braska as his alma mater.

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COORDINATING the widely diversified curricula of the School of Arts and Sciences, is the job of Dean Rodney W. Babcock. He is assisted in his guid- ance of students by L. E. Hudiburg, associate pro- fessor of physics. Until this fall the School of Arts and Sciences has led all other schools on the campus in enrolment. War service, war work and marriage caused a de- crease in the number of students from the usual total of more than 1000 to 400 for the first semester. This enrolment made Arts and Sciences take second place when the School of Home Economics en- rolled 542 students. The spring semester brought a further reduction leaving a total of 406 students in January after several withdrawals. The drop in men students leaves the School virtually a women ' s school. RODNEY W. BABCOCK (left) supervises more than Kill sliiili-nl in his role as dean of the Sthool of Arts urnl S,i.n,es. Prof. L. E. Hudiburg (below) is his assislaiit. Education Hall, where hundreds of mili- tary and fivilian students study speech, psychology and other education subjects, is shown on the op- School of