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

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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

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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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and educational aspects of the university life. At the beginning of the year, the University pur- chased five hundred Community Concert tickets and offered the season's four concerts to the stu- dents free. In January, Dr. Howard Odum, distinguished scholar and leader in research and social science in the South, delivered a series of lectures under the auspices of the newly-established Edward Douglas White foundation. This foundation is the first of its kind to be established at this university. It honors in its name the late Judge White of Louis- iana, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1910 to 1920. Under the provisions of the foundation, a dis- tinguished scholar will be invited each year to give a series of lectures here dealing with problems of citizenship and government. In November, University Nightv was inaugurated and the principal speaker for the occasion was Dr. John Tigert, president of the University of Florida. University Night, according to the explanation given out by President Smith, is the name given to a special form of general faculty and .staff meeting in the nature of a social and professional gathering. The ob- ject of the meetings, one to be held in each of the two semesters of the ses- sion, is to strengthen academic spirit on the campus and to develop a recipro- Cal professional interest between the various professional groups of the staff and faculty. On each occasion a speaker of particular attainments will be secured. Q Such organizations as the Graduate Club, Pi Sigma Alpha, Young Men's Christian Association, and the Cosmopolitan Club have been instrumental in bringing prominent men and women to this campus as lecturers, and this is a fair indication of the interest manifested by both students and the faculty in the academic development of the University. J. G. LEE, JR. College of Agriculture PAGE THIRTY-QNE 1 R. L. TU LLIS Law School ARTHUR VIDRINE Dean of Medical Center MAJOR JAMES PERRY COLE Dean of Student Affairs Smith Hall, the girls' dor- mitory, looking out to the center of the parade grounds.