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

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College oi Agriculture -lu-uni in----pin'--1.1n--n-1vn1uu1:n--uu1- 11:1-11--1n--a-----1.n-n--nu--uni-nu--un--n--n-n-1--1u1- 1 -- 1nu1n!u ' A - .5 1 SOME faculty members of the College of Agriculture of the Uni- versity deal primarily with teaching, while others deal with teaching and research. The College of Agriculture of the University does . three things. Its work is divided into three main divisions. One of these is the Agricultural Experiment Station. The group of scientists making up the staff of the Agricultural Experiment i Station devotes its time to solving the problems which are too in- volved and too expensive for individual farmers and farmers' wives to solve for themselves. These problems have to do with plant diseases, animal diseases, nutrition, fertilizers, varieties of field crops, fruits and vegetables, marketing, destructive insects, and economic DEAN DAN T' GRAY and social problems of the farm and of the home. The College has approximately thirty-five workers associated with the Agricultural Experiment Station, each devoting his time or a part of it, to definite research problems. Discovery of new facts for the farmers of the State is, therefore, the central object of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Teaching resident students is another division of the College of Agriculture. This phase of the College's work is most familiar to the students, since teaching affairs are activities which can be seen by all students. The College proper, therefore, deals with resident students, and undertakes to discover and develop new leader- ship for the rural people of the State. The third division of the College of Agriculture is extension work in agriculture and home economics, which is known well throughout the State. While the average student of the campus sees little of this part of the work of the College, still it consists of nothing except simple pedagogy. However, the students taught are not on our campus nor in our classrooms, these students are out on the farms and in the farm houses-men and women who are too old to come on the campus, and boys and girls who are too young. This part of the faculty of the College of Agriculture is scattered over the entire State. There are approximately 135 men and women employed in this service, all of whom are busy teaching the farm men and women of the State im- proved practices in farming and home-making. This extension department of the College of Agriculture is one of the most important. By this means the College is enabled to give those people who- are the taxpayers of the State, and who are supporting the State university and the College of Agriculture, the benefits of this College.

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College oi Engineering +,,-,,, --.. ,,,,..,,,,..,,,--,,,,...,,,.....,-n,.-..,...,..-..,....-,..-M...........,......i.....-.....,.....,.............,i-..-...-..-..... -. -M-H+ ENGINEERING is an applied science which can be traced back to the most primitive civilization. One may acquire proficiency in any branch of Engineering in one of two waysg first, by long practice, . beginning as an apprentice with a professional engineer and serving I in various capacities from the simplest to the most responsible posi- Y tion in the field, followed by personal experience in responsible charge of engineering works, or second, by completing four or more years of study in an Engineering College, during which one will acquire a knowledge of the physical sciences, mathematics and the rudiments . i of engineering practice, followed by a short apprenticeship with pro- DEAN W. N. GLADSON fessional engineers and a period of independent practice. The advantages claimed for the second method are a shorter period between the first apprenticeship and the final goal of professional engineering and the ability of the col- lege to impart more complete knowledge of the fundamentals of engineering and at the same time give the student a broader foundation on which to build his final technical knowledge. The college graduate is not limited in his choice of a profession to any particular field, but after finishing his college career is prepared to enter any one of a nu mber of allied branches of engineering and may develop as an executive, as a designing, commercial, construction or operating engineer, or his knowledge will be of value in any field of human endeavor should he decide to quit the field of engineering entirely. Engineering has been a part of the University of Arkansas' curriculum since the founding of the institu- tion. The Engineering College seeks to serve the people of the state: first, in residence teaching, second, by extension teachingg and third, by research in the Engineering Experiment Station, it seeks to improve pro- cesses of manufacture, to aid in developing the statefs natural resources, to solve engineering problems for the rural and urban population of the state, and to discover new knowledge and fundamental laws. The corps of teachers and research workers in the College of Engineering is small, but carefully selected for their training and experience, each in his particular line. The physical equipment is limited but in each laboratory an effort has been made to secure the best. Duplications have been avoided and each machine and instrument represents a class of modern, useful equipment which will be found in the every-day practice of Engineering.

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College oi Dledicine ,!.......- - - - - .....-....-,..-.....u.-....-n...................-...... ............-....-,.....,.,.-...-,.,...,,,......-...... - .... .. - -,.,.......!. THE School of Medicine is located at Little Rock. Like Cornell and other great educational institutions, the clinical advantages of a city are regarded as requisite for efficient medical teaching. The school was organized in 1879, and it has progressed with the develop- ment in medicine that has exemplified the most wonderful develop- ment in its history. - Its voluntary teachers, numbering about sixty-five, embrace the best men in the practice of medicine in Little Rock. It is rated as an A grade institution, and its students are accepted in any other A grade medical school in the United States. The fresh- DR' FRANK VINSONHALER man class numbers forty-nine, with a total enrollment of one hundred and sixty-three. u The first two years of training arc given in the building which was formerly the State Capitol building, but is now known as the War Memorial building, and the last three years at Second and Sherman Streets. There is a free clinic maintained, known as the Isaac Folsom Clinic, where an average of one hundred and twenty-five patients are treated daily. The personnel of the clinic staff includes five internists, two surgeons, a member representing the special branches, a roentgenologist, two bacteriologists and a laboratory technician. In addition to the regular dispensary service, the staff yearly examines approximately fifteen waiters, butchers, candy makers, fishmongers, and other food handlers of all classes for the protection of the public against disease. Cooperation with the city and county health officers requires a special tuberculosis and dental service. It is expected that this year extension work will be done in various towns of the state on a more extended scale than was done last year. In going out over the State and country in the practice of medicine, the graduates of the Medical School become its missionaries. This is one factor given as a reason for the continued growth of the Little Rock branch of the University'. Witli the steady increase in the graduate output has come a steady increase in prestige. Ranking has been granted the Medical School equal to the best in the country. However, the school will continue to grow in equipment, in buildings, and enrollment, if the future can be prognosticated by records of the past. The distance of the Medical School from the University causes the two to be regarded as separate and distinct institutions, but the reciprocal interest in each other will prevent their ever becoming entirely independent of one another.