Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Dean of Women y LTHOUGH Drake is unfortunate in losing Dean Craig, it is certainly fortunate to gain in her place, Dean Carrie Taylor Cubbage. Dean Cubbage has had many connections with this Univerf sity. Her father, Tarpley Earley Taylor, was a pioneer DEAN CARRIE TAYLOR CUBBAGE in Drake's beginning, and there has been some memf ber of the Taylor family in Drake since 1884. When the news of Mrs. Craig's resignation was known it seemed as if all who knew her suggested Mrs. Cubbage as the one best suited by ability, training and loyalty to fill the position. We are glad to welcome Dean Cubbage. We know that the difficult office which she holds will be thoughtfully and graciously handled. Dean of Men PON receiving a card marked 'lplease call at my oflicef' freshmen timidly make their first visit to the Dean of Men. What a surprise it is to see behind the desk a perfectly normal, and rather jovial looking man instead of the expected ogre. If he is not yet convinced, the friendly manner of this Dean soon puts him at ease, and he nnds his problems almost instantly settled. Raymond O. Davies has successfully filled this off iice in Drake for the past three years, and has become in this short time highly admired and respected by the student body as a whole. D1'fAN Rmmoxn Omvliu DAVIES U31

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MARY CARPENTER CRAIG EFORE she left Drake, Dean Craig had eondueted for a quarter of a eenf tury one of the most tiring and Llillieult departments nf the University. No other person has approached Drake from so many anglegfthe neiee of General Drake for whom the school was named, the daughter of the lirst Chancellor, the wife of the second, an undergraduate, an alumna, Lihrarian lim' a time, and then Dean of Vw70men. 'lDrake without Dean Craig is not real. There is something wrong with the pieture. ' -Bonnie Jewett Welptmwii. fill

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The Library OR the past six years Marry Bell Nethercut has served as Librarian and Professor of Library Science. During this time she has made many important changes and improvements in the library organization. - The University Library occupies the second floor of MARY Bbw' N'fT l5RU f the Carnegie Library Building. It contains approximately L1f 'ff 11 1 40,000 volumes, selected with special reference to the needs of the students. It receives currently 325 periodicals of gen' eral and departmental interest, Over HU titles are bound regularly and form a part of the wellfrounded collection of refercncc books. The Law Library is on the second lloor of Cole Hall, and contains 8,500 volumes for the use of the Law School. Miss Ncthercut is looking forward to the time when the entire Carnegie Building will be conf vcrted into a library. At that time the present library will become a reference room, There will be two reading rooms on the second floor and the basement will be made over into seminar rooms. At the present time there are eighteen members on the library stall. Six are employed in the Law Library and twelve in the main library. One of the most essential, and at the same time one of the least obtrusive departments of the present day university, is the library. It has become more and more a necessity of education, until now a university without a library is most difficult of conception, It ranks with thc laboratory as an imporf tant phase of modern education and like the laboratory it serves as an instrument by which the branches of learning are reached. If the statement, True learning consists not in knowing a thing but in knowing where to find it, is true, then the student at this University has all the ingredients of true learning at his linger tips, for no pains have been spared to make the search for knowledge easy for him. A well trained staff of librarians is busy at all times cataloguing books and helping the student in his search for literature of all kinds. It is one of the tragic phases of college life when a student feels obliged to read matter pertaining only to his particular subject. So many people never become cognizant of the wealth that is in store for them between the covers of a book. The library always urges touching upon other subjects than are strictly assigned, a delving into the secrets held in the many volumes and a broadening of general knowledge through liberal use of the libraries. And as soon as the student learns that in books may be found his friends, friends that will remain with him throughout life, the use of the libraries will increase even faster than at present. LIBRARY STAFF I 141