Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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GREETINGS Students of our Kansas State Teachers College, permit me to congratulate you upon the successful termination of a delightful school year. Previous years have not witnessed on this campus a more loyal, better spirited group of students than you who have composed this 1926- 27 student body. College life means associations—associations in turn become friendships. Those ties we form in College mean more to us, in later years, than the choicest the world may offer. Though a curriculum is indispensible, a college education is decidedly incomplete without certain bonds of fellowship; and he who graduates without their creation graduates with an incomplete education. College offers you more than lesson assignments—more than library references. It affords proper opportunities for fellowship—that indispensible element in all true success. Yet, the scholastic side of college life cannot be neglected. Indeed, good grades and one's social life are interdependent. No one can be a successful student until he learns to correlate the two. The 1928-’27 chapter in our college career is now almost written. It is for all time a part of the book of our life. From this chapter may we always be able to draw inspiration. The inspiration it will afford us will correspond pretty closely to the degree in which we have merited, through our own efforts, the good things it has brought us. Cordially,

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GREETINGS In compliance with the request of the Kanza staff, and with gratitude to them for the opportunity which they afford me, I wish to bring to you another annual greeting. We are mindful of the passing years, and they seem to be passing more rapidly as the institution grows in enrollment and curriculum, since it requires constant endeavor on the part of every member of the faculty to do his work, and 'keep up with the profession. The past year has been another one of record breaking. Our enrollment at the present is the largest of any previous enrollment, our faculty is the largest, and best qualified it has ever been, and the number of courses that are being offered is greater than ever before. According to the Bureau of Education, K. S. T. C, the past two years graduated the largest degree class of any teachers college in the United States, and before this book shall have reached all of its readers, we will have graduated a degree class far larger in number than any previous year. These things indi- cate the rapidity with which our institution is growing. However, whatever may have been the speed of growth and development, we are always pleased to stop and greet our friends. Trusting that the past year has been the best in your experience, and with best wishes for a continuation of success and happiness, I am Sincerely yours, G. W. TROUT, Dean of the College.