KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE il 



During the Anderson administration instruction in farm and 

 nursery work and music was continued and extended, and indus- 

 trials were established in sewing, cooking, printing, telegraphy, 

 stenography, and photography. The shop work was much amplified, 

 the previous facilities having been very meager. Science teaching 

 was improved by specializing slightly. Chemistry was notably 

 strengthened by the energy and ability of Professor Kedzie, througn 

 whose efforts a building for instruction in that science was erected 

 Three other buildings were erected, for horticulture, agriculture., 

 and mechanic arts, respectively. The building for agriculture is 

 now the north wing of Anderson Hall. 



Agricultural facilities, equipment, and experimentation were 

 advanced greatly, being under the administration of one of the 

 ablest and most forceful men ever connected with the College, 

 Prof. Edward M. Shelton, a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College. 



President Anderson also founded the college paper, "The 

 Industrialist," which persists to this day, though it has passed 

 through several forms. He used it as laboratory material for the 

 students in printing, and as a means of giving publicity to the 

 College with its new ideas in education. It has been a valuable 

 adjunct in the development of the College, but has entailed much 

 work upon its editor. 



The catalogue for 1874 was called a "Handbook of the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College," and 61 of its 124 pages were accupied 

 by President Anderson in setting forth his ideas upon liberal and 

 practical education. There can be little doubt, looking at matters 

 in the perspective of forty years, that he was extreme; that he was 

 ultra-practical, and failed to see the real value of much of what 

 is too lightly stigmatized as theoretical. Nevertheless, the time.- 

 required his iconoclastic work to tear the College completely loose 

 from the bonds of traditional education, and to place it squarely 

 in a new setting where it has since remained. 



President Anderson and his Faculty were by no means a unit 

 in view, and his abandonment of the College, arid entry into the 

 field of politics in which he was distinguished by the same bold 

 practicality, was probably to a certain extent due to his inability 

 to carry the Faculty completely with him. The work that he did 

 roused great opposition from friends of the old educational 

 methods, and the friends of the Faculty of the previous administra- 

 tion, but it is generally recognized to-day that it was work that 

 needed doing, and that if he went too far, his excess was easily cor- 

 rected. 



The Fairchild Administration 



President Fairchild, before coming to the College, had been 

 professor of English literature in the Michigan Agricultural 



