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

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Q I U Z o a ■ Xi o o a. OIL PRODUCTION AND REFINING IS A MAJOR KANSAS INDUSTRY

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- N FOREWORD Communications in the last 100 years have made many changes. Family accomplishments, 100 years ago, were often recorded in the Bible. This now has been supplemented by the family album and school yearbook. Mass communica- tions have also changed. Airplanes have replaced the pony express, the metropolitan press installations have replaced the Washington hand-press, radio and television broadcasts have supplemented soap box orations, and photography developments have outdated the stereopticon. ; ' T ' ' w gw Q a: X Z O Q Kansas has progressed: to celebrating its first anniver- sary as a centennial state, to topping the nation in wheat production, to developing petroleum as the most valuable mineral in the state, and to gradually converting from an agricultural economy to one based on manufacturing, farm- ing, and other diversified industries. This University has progressed: from Bluemont Central college first chartered in 1858, to Kansas State Agricultural college in 1863, to Kansas State college of Agriculture and Applied Science in 1931, to Kansas State university in 1959. In the following pages we have endeavored to record accurately the progress and activities of this University dur- ing the past year, as well as to trace record-keeping and advances in communications during the last century.

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CONTENTS The College Symposium, first Kansas State yearbook, was published in 1891. adm:inistration page nine page f iffy-three page two-forty-nine page three-sixty-fixe The cover of the 1961 Royal Purple portrays the devel- opment of written communications: an example of hand- written manuscript, a sample of type used 100 years ago, and the modern design used in this year ' s Royal Purple.