scholarly journals College symposium of the Kansas state agricultural college.

1891 ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Agricultural College ◽  
State Agricultural College

Benjamin F. Mudge, the State Geological Surveys, and Fossil Collecting in Kansas, 1864-1870

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leroy Page
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
State Agricultural College ◽  
Fossil Vertebrate ◽  
One Year

B. F. Mudge (1817-79), appointed the first Kansas State Geologist in 1864, served for only one year. Inexperienced, and with no chance of fulfilling the requirements of an expansive law, he was succeeded in 1865 by G. C. Swallow (1817-99). Aided by F. Hawn and the other former members of Mudge's survey, Swallow, who received a larger budget and an open-ended appointment with no specified duties, produced a more impressive report, although he was not funded in 1866. Mudge went to Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, where he became the preeminent Kansas geologist during the years 1866-70. Although better known for his fossil vertebrate collections in the Cretaceous of Western Kansas in the 1870's, Mudge made significant invertebrate collections from the Cretaceous. Building on the foundation laid by F. V. Hayden and F. B. Meek, he was able, with considerable input from Meek, to make a major contribution toward elucidating the stratigraphy of the Kansas Cretaceous.

“City Blood Is No Better than Country Blood”: The Populist Movement and Admissions Policies at Public Universities

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-295
Author(s):  
Scott Gelber
Keyword(s):  
Republican Party ◽  
Governing Board ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Agricultural College ◽  
State Agricultural College ◽  
Politics And Education ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Practical Progress ◽  
Gubernatorial Election ◽  
First Time

The gubernatorial election of 1892 unnerved faculty members at Kansas State Agricultural College (KSAC). Voted into office by a “fusion” of Populists and Democrats, Governor Lorenzo Lewelling filled four vacant seats on the college's seven-member governing board, overturning a Republican Party majority for the first time in the college's history. These new regents included radicals such as Edward Secrest, a farmer who pledged to “change the order of things” at KSAC, and Christian Balzac Hoffman, a miller, banker, and politician who had founded an ill-fated socialist colony in Topolobampo, Mexico. Populist interest in KSAC intensified in 1897, when a different fusionist governing board promoted Professor Thomas E. Will to the college presidency. Born on an Illinois farm, Will attended a normal school before proceeding to Harvard University, where he chaffed within “the citadel of a murderous economic system.” When offered the chair of political economy at KSAC, Will had been lecturing, writing for reform periodicals, and serving as secretary of a Christian socialist organization called The Boston Union for Practical Progress. Although he never formally joined a Populist organization, Will shared the movement's commitment to erasing class distinctions in politics and education. Following Will's inauguration, a Populist regent exulted that the masses had finally “scaled the gilded halls of the universities.”

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