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

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PRE.SIDE.MGT OF THE HUNTVERSITT VSI . — - —■ — u—t ey THE birth of the state university idea, and the rise and growth of state universities in America, constitute one of the most remark¬ able developments in the history of education. In the first half of the nineteenth century there existed a few institutions which were known as state universities and which re¬ ceived some help from the state government. It was not, however, until after the passage of the Land Grant Act by the Federal Con¬ gress in 1862 that the real development of the American state University began to be accel¬ erated. While some of the great state uni¬ versities of the United States are not land grant colleges, — that is to say they do not comprise as a part of their organization the state agricultural and mechanical college— without question the impetus that was given to the higher education of the masses of t he people by the federal land grant act has done more than any other one thing to increase the development of all state universities. The state university campus is a place where people of all places, of all political parties, and of all religious faiths meet upon a common ground. The state universities as a class have done more to bring higher education within the reach of the masses of the people than any other influence. In most of the states the state university is the dominating institution of higher education. The University of Arkansas, while founded later than many state universities, and while for the first thirty years or more of its existence being a small and struggling institution, is a typical example of the manner in which American state universities have served their constituencies. In these trying times that the nation is now facing, the state universities will help to carry on the torch of learning. They will suffer from reduced incomes and they will be unable to make improvements and to carry out expansions which they have been contemplating, and which would be for the benefit of their people. But with the aid of their loyal faculties and their devoted ,alumni and students they will maintain their services to the public on the highest possible plane, and when the clouds that temporarily obscure the sky have rolled by, they will be found to be in the future, as in the past, among the guiding stars that are leading America on to a greater destiny. President John Clinton Futrall UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

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BOARD OF TRUSTER Harvey Parnell, The Governor of Arkansas, Little Rock . Ex-Officio Claude M. Hirst, The State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Little Rock . Ex-Officio Expiration of Term John M. Andrews, Fort Smith . 1937 John G. Ragsdale, El Dorado . 1937 ArtT. Lewis, Fayetteville ............. 1933 H. M. Jackson, Marianna . 1933 A- B. Banks, Fordyce . . 1935 Fred I. Brown, Little Rock . 1935 Harry L. Ponder, Walnut Ridge . 1937 OFFICERS Governor Harvey Parnell, Little Rock T. C. Carlson, Fayetteville ..... Chairman Secretary and Auditor COMMITTEES Messrs. Banks, Brown, and Ponder, Agricultural Extension The Committee on the College of Agriculture, The President of THE University, and the Director of the Experiment Station, Board of Control of the Agricultural Experiment Station Messrs. Lewis, Ponder, and Jackson, Buildings and Grounds Messrs. Jackson, Andrews, and Brown, College of Agriculture Governor Parnell, Messrs. Lewis, Ragsdale, and Ponder, Executive Messrs. Banks, Andrews, and Ragsdale, Finance Messrs. Brown, Hirst, and Andrews, Medical College Messrs. Banks, Lewis, and Hirst, Teachers and Personnel ote Name of tffe chairman stands first. • Governor Harvey Parnell