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

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President John Clinton Futrall -1----v-------------------------------------------------M--------------------I-----------------------.-...-.q. IT is with no inconsiderable degree of satisfac- tion that I look back over the eighteen years that have elapsed since I became the chief execu- tive of the University of Arkansas. I make this statement without apology, for the progress that has been made represents the achievements of many able and loyal men, not only in this period but of an earlier generation. During these years, in the face of the es- tablishment of almost a dozen other colleges in the State, and in spite of an elevation of standards for entrance and for graduation, the number of students on the campus has trcbled. The library has grown from a miscellaneous collection of 15,000 or 20,000 books to a well organized library I . of approximately 100,000 volumes, and is now pRES,DEN-1-JOHN CLINTON FU-TRALL rated as one of the best university libraries in the UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS South. Technical and scientific apparatus and equipment have increased in the same ratio. Two of the best and most beautiful educational buildings in the nation have been erected. In the general estimation of the public and of educators, and in accordance with a published report of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the quality of the faculty of the University of Arkansas is of an unusually high order. lum has been extended to include law, business administration, journalism, home economics, The curricu and other subjects. There has been a notable increase in the amount of research work done by faculty scholars. A graduate school has been established. The institutionhas begun to take on the atmosphere of a real university. The influence of the University has been widely extended through direct contacts made with thousands of citizens in all parts of the State. , The University has, however, still great problems to overcome before it can be the i-mportant factor in life and development of the State that a great university may be. For this purpose it needs money for build- ings,-for equipment, for better faculty salaries, for scholarships and student loans. The solving of these prob- lems is one that calls for the best efforts of the University governing board, the administration, the students, the alumni, and all friends of education in the State.

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Governor Harvey Parnell +i- -'-- - -f'-n------'---if--A-- -1-- -M-M- -1f- -m-- - 111- - ---- -------- ---1 --'--w--n--r--i--n-- .,-- -w------.---------.- -I.----+ HE present building and equipment of the University of Arkansas is of very inferior quality -one of the poorest of any state university in the country. Contrariwise, the faculty stands preeminent in the nation-it has no superior in quality. The faculty is not equaled in standard by any other Southern state university, but prac- tically all of them outrank it as to physical condi- tions. True, we are progressing, slowly and tor- tuously, as is evinced by the new Engineering and Agricultural buildings, which are inferior to none in the country, but there are multitudinous other features of the University that need building up badly. To accomplish this the expenditure of con- siderable money will be necessary. So fat the GOVERNOR HARVEY PARNEU- state legislature has not been over-benevolent in its appropriation of funds for the University. It is hoped that the next session will provide the requisite finances to enable the University to progress as it should. The main hope of the University lies in Governor Harvey Parnell, who is one of its strongest advo- cates. He has lived up to his promises and worked for a greater University of Arkansas in particular, and for the whole field of education in general. In the person of Governor Harvey Parnell, the University has not only a friend but an ardent supporter, and one that will mean much to the building up of the University of Arkansas educationally. The present building program entails the construction of a new library building, a building to house the law students, a new building for chemistry and physics, a student union building, a new dormitory, a new commerce building, a new gymnasium, and eventually a building to replace University Hall. When com- pleted, this will give the University of Arkansas one of the most complete plants of any university in the South.

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The Graduate School +..-H- -. -V - --- -.-- - .1.. - -L1, -.,-- ..-. - .-.- - -.-- -M-----n-i-m--------.-n----.- -,-- -----n---.-----u----n--m- - - ---H----P HE student in his first year of graduate work has two aims: He l endeavors, by learning from others, to increase his knowledge of his chosen subject, and he tries to learn something of methods in re- search which will enable him to carry on his studies independently, to increase not only his private stores of knowledge but also the general knowledge of mankind. In accordance with these two desired ends, he undertakes two kinds of work, namely, courses of lectures or reading or laboratory experiments from which he expects to gain more information than he has already come into possession of from his undergraduate studies, and the solution of the problem by which he hopes to discover what DEAN J- C- JCRDAN has not before been known. Small as his discovery may be, it yet has been independent, and it is his own. The graduate school of the University of Arkansas, like all other graduate schools, keeps these two principles in mind. It requires of its students the pursuit of advanced courses under instructors competent to give them, and the completion of a thesis designed to test ability to do original work. The degree of concentration is naturally much more intense than in the undergraduate college, for the graduate student confines himself to two closely related fields of knowledge. His choice of courses and his thesis problem are limited by this consideration. His studies are in many respects free from the ordinary restraints of undergraduate work, but the pur- pose of graduate work he must constantly keep in mind. He must remember that interest and independence are more essential than formal requirements. A graduate school cannot be created out of hand. It must be constructed upon a significant under- graduate life, and not something imposed from above. You cannot, therefore, give sound graduate training without giving sound graduate work. It is impossible for the University of Arkansas to offer the Ph. D. degree at present for these very reasons, but with the present library and research facilities, the splendid faculty, and the program of work outlined for graduate work, we are able to give a master's degree with a pedigree behind it. To do this, however, absolute cooperation between students and faculty members is necessary.