The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-07
Kansas No Longer Has an Agri-
cultural College.
Name Is Changed to kansas
State College,"
QUEER REASON GIVEN.
Students Herald Says Name
Has Been Handicap.
Has Kept Away Many Pros
pective Students.

No longer call 1t 1.-The Kansas State
Agricultural College," but let it be
known as Kansas State College,!
Down with the word Agricultural"
Get rid Of the misleading idea that
this is a school to teach farmers! This
is a great university and demands
credit for it!
This is the substance Of a new dec
laration of independence which was is
sued Wednesday at Manhattan in the
issue of the Students Herald, publish
ed by the students of the kansas
State College"
An editorial in this paper announces
that the time has come for the lnstltu-
tion to drop the word agricultural
from its title; that it handfcaps grad
IS of the school to have 1t stated
that they studied at an "agriculturap'
college; and that henceforth the policy
of the paper will be to refrain entirely
speaking Of the school kansas State
College, will be the official title. In the
center of the first page there is printed
a large display advertisement, Whlcn
reads as follows:
Agriculture. engineering, architecture.
domestic science, general science, vet
erinary science, printing. AS it Is this
great institution has grown from sin
gle college to collection Of colleges,
every department of which rightfully
belongs here"
This rather startling declaration that
agriculture" is passe as applied TO
the big Manhattan school will be nuts
and raisins to the Kansas university
along that President Nichols and the
nichols crowd" at Manhattan aspire
to develop at Manhattan another state
university, similar in all respects to the
university at Lawrence The students
Herald at Manhattan, in its attacks on
F. d. Coburn, has seemed to voice the
sentiments of President Nichols. and
in its fight to change the name of the
Agricultural college it will probably be
accused of advocating President Mich
OILS views.
President Nichols, it is said, at one
time wanted to abolish entirely the
chair of agriculture at the college, and
substitute therefor a chair OF "agro-
| nomy" which means the same thing
but eliminates the noxious word 'agri-
| culture" Just why the college should
| be trying so hard to prove that It ism,
an agricultural school is rather difficult
| to understand.
The effort to change the name of the
State Agricultural college follows as a
natural result the tendency which has
! been manifested to change the original
| character of the school to include
other branches. It has been suggested
given the name of the kansas Tech
| nology Institute but evidently the
Students Herald thinks that is too fal
to Jump at once, and it favors merely
dropping the word 'Agr1culturaI from
| the title.
| The following are some extracts
| from the editorial which announces
the change in name for the school:
''The agitation recently renewed t.
have our college known by it.
as have other previous efforts look
| ing toward this desired change. The
| old saying that there is nothing in 6
name receives a knock out blow here
suffice it to say that there is enough
/ in our present name to have handf
capped graduates and students out il
| life, and to have kept away man!
prospective students and In genera
| to have given the people of the stat
who are its supporters, as well as the
I people throughout the country, an en-
| tirely erroneous impression of thu
scope of the school. There are still {
| few who insist that the alteration il
| advocated merely from a motive t.
| get rid Of that cause of all would b.
| humorous and stale jokes perpetratet
by other schools-the word Agricul
tural' To be sure we are going tt
be rid of this misleading term, but i
| is not because we are ashamed of 1t
1t is now definitely known that tt
make this change it is but necessar,
| for the proper authorities, whethe
they be the board of regents, or tn,
governor, or the legislature, to TAX,
the action, there being nothing in tn,
!, conditions of the establishment O
the college, to hinder it as was for
time supposed, and which heretofor,
has been the only logical reason ad
vanced against the change"