Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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WITH RIDE lighting system used in the large auditorium surpasses any owned by the pro- fessional theatres in this state and ranlcs as one of the finest in the country. The Field House serves in a multiple of capacities. It is the recreation cen- ter for the students in which all the dances are held. It houses the lounge, the post oflice boxes, the student store, the soda fountain, and dormitory rooms on the second Hoor. Directly behind the main lobby or L room, as it is called, is the indoor swimming pool, conceded to be the largest in the United States, and Sllrrounding it are the gymnasium, the dressing rooms, and the handball Courts. In other words, this building answers any number of the campus needs. ENROLLMENT INCREASE. In spite of this obvious physical expansion, there is still a need for additional buildings and plans for the construction of such are now in process. This insatiable need for more equipment is more easlli' understood in the face of the tremendous increase in enrollment. In SDC year's time, the University student body has Increased twenty-five per cent, and the statistics for the Current session show an enrollment of 3,945 Students entered on the Baton Rouge campus and alifending the Medical School in New Orleans. Of t IS number, 3,710 students are on the main cam- pus' This phenomenal growth has precipitated llnme tions C3336 problems such as housing accommoda- dormitori C Essroom space. .The COnStrLlCt1On of temporal. CS Tcl? of the stadium was offered as a Present if so ution to the former problem and at . P ans for a new Arts and Science building e1ng considered with a view to solving the are b Classrg J. A. MCMILLEN om sh0l't3.gC. Librarian ' PAGE TWENTY-N1NE The Huey P. Long Field House which includes the swimming pool. MRS. MARY C. HERGET Dean of Women C. A. IVES Teacher's Collage L J. LASSALLE Collaqe'of Engineering

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The recently completed Mu- sic and Drarnatic Arts Build- mg. JAMES F. BROUSSARD Dean of Adminislralion FRED C. FREY College of Arls and Sciences C. E. COATES College of Pure and Applied Sciences WE OI We can only marvel at the expansion of the University in the space of one year. The growth has come about physically,-that is to say in actual equipment and enrollment-and academically. With the beginning of the school year, there were four recently constructed buildings on the campus. These included the dormitory for women known as Smith Hall in recogni- tion of the president of the University, the Music and Dramatic Arts Build- ing, the Huey P. Long Field House and swimming pool, and the new dormi- tories for men constructed on to the stadium. Smith Hall is one of the most beautiful dormitories in the South. It is built to harmonize with the Italian Renaissance architecture of the rest of the campus and the external appearance of the building is particularly attractive. Inside, there are beautifully appointed rooms including a large reception hall, a spacious lobby, adjoining reception rooms in which the women entertain their guests, a library finished entirely in mahog- any, a modern and well-equipped infirmary, kitch- enettes, wash-rooms, and comfortable rooms accom- modating approximately four hundred and fifty students and ranging in description from the two- room suites to the so-called three-girl rooms. The Music and Dramatic Arts building is one of the most expensive and complete buildings of its kind in this country. It houses the department of Music and Speech. There is a large auditorium equipped with a cooling and heating system, indi- rect lighting, and sound-proof apparatus. There is also a smaller workshop theatre used incessantly by both the Music and Speech departments. The MRS. W. H. GATES Reglslrar PAGE TWENTY-El GHT

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The rear of the field house looking over the largest in- door swimming pool in America. MAJOR TROY H. MIDDLETON Commandanf of Cadets CHARLES W. PIPKIN Dean of Graduate School V. L. ROY Bursar The policy of the administration this year has been to encourage this in- crease. Hundreds of students were no doubt attracted here by the reason- able living arrangements. It was estimated last summer that a student could room and board here for as little as twenty-four dollars a month. In addi- tion, arrangements were made by which a great number of students could work their way through college by holding small jobs on the campus, commonly called working scholarships. This was distinctly in line with the policy of expansion and in every way the administration has made an effort to coop- erate with the students in reducing the cost of education and thereby mal:- ing the enrollment of additional students possible. GROWTH OF GRADUATE SCHOOL. Perhaps the best indication of the academic development of the University is the growth of the graduate school. In 1929, the graduate school had scarcely a hundred students en- rolled-ninety-five, to be exact-and approximately the same number the fol- lowing year. However, in 1932 there was evidence of a considerable growth and this growth has continued until this year there are four hundred and twenty-eight graduate students, almost a hundred per cent increase over the two hundred and ninety-seven of the previous year. Much of this expansion must be attributed to the energetic and scholarly T administration of the dean of the graduate school, Dr. Charles W. Pipkin. The development can not only be seen in numbers but also in the stand- ing of the school. In the summer of 1932, it was announced that the University was prepared to offer a doctorls degree. This in itself attests to its academic excellence. ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENTS. The force of a powerful graduate school is undoubtedly a stimulus to academic thought in the University as a whole. This we find to be true here. This year marked emphasis was placed on the cultural J. B. TRANT College of Commerce PAGE THIRTY