The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-30
TO MAKE 1T K. S. C.
Faculty Would Drop Word
agricultural"
Manhattan College Takes Steps
to Shed Part of Name.
IS NOT WHOLE SCHOOL
But One of Several Lines
Carried On.
Student Body Urges Board to
Make Change.
IS NOT WHOLE SCHOOL

Manhattan, Kan, Oct. 30.-Students
and faculty members of several di-
visions and departments of the Kansas
State Agricultural college would shed
a part of the name of the institution.
The word Agricultural in the title
offends them. Not that they discount
in the least the accomplishments and
the worthiness and the Importance
of the agricultural division. But to
call student of the engineering di-
vision, the veterinary division, the
home economies division, the music
department, the chemistry depart
ment, or the journalism department,
to say nothing of the department of
education, an "Aggie," they insist is
a misnOmer, and not only wrong, but
harmful TO their professional chances.
Degrees are granted in all of the
above subjects at X. S. A. c., as well
as they are granted in agriculture.
The non-ag students insist that the
agricultural division, tho it is the old
est and the largest, isn't the whole
school. and the enrolment records of
the various divisiona bear out their
contention.
Reacts Against Success.
To call the graduates of other di-
visions and courses. "Aggies." these
graduates insist, creates a misappre-
hension in the minds of the public
which reacts against their success.
Who wants to hire a journalist
from an Agricultural college?" in
quires the journalism student, whose
department was the first in the United
States to teach industrial journalism
and printing as a part of the college
curriculum.
What good does a musical degree
get from having agricultural tackled
onto it?" the music student wants to
know. And the engineers are even
more opposed. In recent interview,
r. A. Seaton, the dean of the en-
gineering division, expressed himself
as believing that the name of the col
lese works an injustice and a hard
ship on the students of his division.
Indicates Kind of Subjects.
I'VE would not consider calling the
institution the Kansas State Engineer
ing School or the College of Home
EcL Monies. or the State School of Mu-
sic, because it would be unfair to the.
other divisions on the hill. Persons
who are not thoroly acquainted with
the school naturally assume that the
name indicates the kind of subjects
that are taught here.
While the work in agriculture here
ranks high, it is but one of the several
ines of activity carried on by the col
lege." said Dean Seaton.
The question of changing the name
of the college comes up periodically
at the college. The most vigorous out
break of recent years was in 1916,
when the name of the student paper
was changed by popular vote from
1.-The Kansas Aggie" to the kansas
state Collegian." and a substitute for
'Aggies" was sought in the application
of the title Wildcats to athletic
teams of the college.
Nothing Came of IT..
The student body believed at that
time that they had almost succeeded
in getting the faculty and the board of
tration to make the desired
change. but nothing came of it.
Tradition. the fact that for more
than a half century the college has
been known as the kansas State
A gricultural college" over the United
states and over the world, is the
strongest factor operating to keep the
name what it is.
The agricultural feature of the col
Iege curriculum, while not exclusive,
IS yet the oldest and it was thru agri-
cultured education ana research that
the college won world. wide fame in
It's earlier years. the defendants of the
name assert.