Dickens Hall
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Kansas State University
Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...
in Manhattan
Manhattan, Kansas
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, Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
. It currently houses the departments of Statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
http://www.k-state.edu/stats/ and Philosophy
Philosophy
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http://www.k-state.edu/philos/ and the Statistical Laboratory.
Dickens Hall was built before 1907 and was originally used by the Departments of Horticulture
Horticulture
Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic...
, Botany
Botany
Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
and Plant Pathology. Located north of the building were greenhouses that have since been demolished. These departments were relocated when Throckmorton Hall was completed. This building was named for Albert Dickens, who served the Department of Horticulture from 1899 to 1930.
