Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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.Q...1i..f BENNISTT HALL . . . uorld's largest dormitory for men. also gives an athletic exercise much needed to antagonize the indolence and indisposition always found to exist in a warm climate. lndolence in the student body con- cerned the early leaders. The cata- log for H393-9+ had this comment: The college will afford its stu- dents the benefit of daily manual labor '... for the preservation of health and a taste for agricultural pursuits. Four years of study With- out labor, wholly removed from the sympathy with the laboring World . . . will almost invariably produce disinclination, if not inability, to perform the work and duties of the farm . . . Students will be paid at a rate depending on ability and fidel- C'OI.l.liGlC LIBRARY lil'lLDlNG . . . depository of more than 470,211+ luounc and unbound hooks and periodicals. s.- UROUND BREAKING in 19-P9 for AXlVl's Student l'nion with AZQM regents flefit to rightj Fred Drum- mond, R. T. Stuart, P. li. Harrill and the late President Bennett turning the first spadeful of dirt.

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w3:i.... '!f Mn 112 aff, 5 K AGGIICS JIM SUOTT, left, and Holi Graham study a model helicopter of the Da Vinci display. This display is one of many educational ones brought to the campus hy student groups. --1--........ H M A g, I i as 'L 'ns 'tif ENGINEERING CLASS of 1905 with A8zIXfI's first traction engine appears antiquated by todav's 2,500 engineering studcnts study- ing mysterious actions of unseen atoms and jet propulsion. ity, the maximum being I5 cents an hour. Salary and labor notwithstanding, the demand for such employment exceeded the supply of jobs on the college farm. 'lihc college farm and its laborers exerted a profound influence on the new territory, peopled by former residents of every state, who came here with no knowledge of the capa- bilities of the soil and climate. Boomer literature had convinced them that this Land of the Fair God could produce any crop. Disillu- sioned farmers came to the college bythe hund reds, some walking miles across the trackless prairie to get here, to seek advice in choosing suit- able crops and processes. The H393-9-l term brought a mixture of progress and setbacks. 'lihe year opened on a discour- aging note. Great confusion existed Past