University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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1 1 1 , 4 Jai.- r is d1atFrEii,infiiJiziE'tsii1TgWlisf:L. 2' fx ,I New Buildings of Today l l 5 if A 0 1 1 t -...l lj 1, , b +1 is A . V 'H 1-5 -4 ,,.ef V 'B . . .fs-4.-,.,Lf, ,f 1 l 2' f- if 7 - -. 'f it 'ti lil i1 Ei li it i'l' f '1 i f ,15 ,. , , ix .t 4- 1'1 I- .!1 5fe5ll 3l,f i ,if M jf Q ., .,.'bx- , T iw grgfz- .,.v wifi . , ,. - ...,A., . il ,fi -.-1 t , 0 is., il A gricullurc Building I INANCED with the 5ilG650,000 appropriation of the last legislature for -the V construction of an engineering building and an agriculture building, actual l, work on the first two units of Arkansas' greater university has begun. ,li The Engineering building, located on the southeastern part of the front i Campus, will be three stories high, 216 feet long and 88 feet wide. In the base- ment will be placed the laboratories of the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and civil engineering departments. The first floor will contain L class rooms, offices-including one large office for the registration of students and for faculty meetings-a small auditorium, and a library. The second fi floor provides for blueprint and photographic dark rooms, an art studio, five drafting rooms, three class rooms and live offices. , The Agriculture building, which is one unit of a larger structure planned gi for the future, is being erected northwest of the Main building and south of the ,Q Present Agriculture building. The new structure will also be three stories 1, high: it will be 58 feet wide and 256 feet in length. gl On the first floor will be stationed the department g of agronomy together with part of the horticulture lab- :3 oratories. The second floor will house the office of the 1,1 dean, the mailing rooms, the office of the agricultural 'll editor, the filing rooms, the quarters of the new depart- lrl ment of rural economics and sociology, and the depart- Ei ment of plant pathology with its laboratories. Offices of !l1 the departments of horticulture and entomology, and a Us number of research laboratories and class rooms will be placed on the third floor. Both buildings will be fireproof and modern in every respect. Bids for their construction were opened at the University, May 12. Olzl lfrzlranca Page 29 if1-f.!iTZsi'?1r:5-re---A -1- -V --- ----ss - at gvgmg Q

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A 'v':U'ii,.l'I'llIf lLAZHll.ll.Mfli 1fIfif'fr f College of Arts and Sciences ILL you sign this drop card, please? I looked up from my work to the youngster who had entered the office, and was standing beside my desk, a 'typical freshman, good-looking, well- dressed, immature. What's the matter? I asked. Too much work on your schedule? ' No, he replied, rather snugly, it occurred to me. I just decided this course wouldn't do me any good. Young man, said I, too sharply, no doubt, have you any idea as to what will do you any good? Have you any idea as to why you are in this col- pl! . lege at all. The lad was somewhat taken back by my sudden questioning. His air of confidence vanished. DEAN J. C. JORDAN No, he replied, as timidly as ever Alice responded to the onslaughts of the Red Queen. 4 Sit down, I said, relaxing from my previous severity. I want to talk to you a minute. Now, the first thing you have to learn, if you are to get any satisfaction out of your life in this college, is that the College of Arts and Sciences isn't intended to give you what you seem to have in mind. This college, let me say, has no regard for ends. It looks to no specific purpose. It is a place for the development of your in- tellect. Its one object is to give you expansion of 1nind, to develop in you a knowledge of the joy which comes from strenuous intellectual endeavor. You must change your point of view, I continued. You have been searching for things of the hand, you should search for things of the mind. A liberal college is nothing if not a place of the mind. Now, run along and don't talk to me about dropping your 'useless courses' The young fellow went out. He was puzzled, I could see, by my strange remarks. -JOHN C. JORDAN. The Dean Page 30 I