Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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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

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is . V l in the town of Stillwater and its vi- cinity at the time fixed for the open- ing of the session, incident to the great land rush into the Cherokee Outlet, the southern border of which was three miles north of college grounds. 'lihere were diiiiculties of transportation and subsistence, since tens of thousands of settlers provi- sioncd in Stillwater, and crowded the known trails. Half the town left to make the run, and students old enough joined the mad rush. These and other distractions had a serious effect on the commence- ment of work, which was not fully overcome during the year, the pres- ident complaincd. 'lihe link of col- eigaifuz.. . , , ,- eggs sm-.ze ' , , age l8 is ,, wgjfzfgj K - -. ww STl'l7lfNT VNION l5l'lI,l7lNU . . social and l7I'2fll1lZ1lIlUllIll center of the l'ZlITlpllS.