Students in the Botany Summer School are posing for a group photograph by a sign marking a ""Nature Trail"". Some students are standing and others are sitting in the grass.
One man is driving a tractor while others look on in the distance. The Agricultural Engineering students are learning how to layout, build and check terraces on farm land for erosion control.
Beardshear Hall as the site for an event.A large number of peopleare on the steps, surrounding sidewalk, and on the walk leading across campus. Men in naval uniform (ROTC) are leading a procession away from Beardshear.
Male students formally sitting on the front steps of Beardshear Hall with a man in military uniform. In the back row two men hold a banner with the text ""Iowa State College, Ames, USA"" surrounding a cross.
Students dressed as football players with cardboard wings and can-like hats (like flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz?) perform a skit on the night before Homecoming, 1969. The opposing team is Kansas.