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

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JDJBAN of women 316V When women first began to go to the college seventy years ago, the question which troubled their friends and neighbors was whether they could succeed in college study, and it was usually the girls with a thirst for knowledge who broke down the barriers of custom and prejudice and forced their way into what was hitherto a man’s world. Today the situation is entirely different. It has become fashionable for the high school girl to go on to college and the butterfly and the grind, the rich and the poor, the strong and the weak, the brilliant and the dull come trooping into our universities and colleges each fall with very hazy Dean Martha Reid notions of what it is all about. And so it becomes the duty of the dean of women to assist the members of this heterogeneous group to adjust themselves in such a way to the world of college life that they may emerge from four years of university training with a balanced development of character, intelligence and power. The office of dean of women owes its existence largely to the complexity of modern college life. To contribute as she is able to this transformation is the task of the dean of women.

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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

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BEAM OF MEM WHEN a certain event seems to be followed inevitably by a certain resultant event, we associate the theory of cause and effect” with these two events. If, for example, a book is released from the hand, it falls to the earth. Here the force of gravity is the cause, and the acceleration of the falling book is the effect. In some cases both the cause and the effect may be understood; in other cases the cause may be understood while the effect may not; in still other cases only the effect may be understood; and ln s °me, neither is understood. Consequently, in speaking of this cause and effect relation, we can not absolutely state that one will always definitely follow the other, but from our many observations of nature we can imply that nature will always act in the same manner when the circumstances are the same. Two circumstances, time and place, do not enter into this relation. Here at the University during the past two years, the workings of cause and effect have be¬ come very evident, though in this particular rela¬ tionship we have entering into it the varying equa¬ tion of the individual student, and nature has ftever made this variable into a constant. For this reason, while we know there must be a cause for the very evident effect on the campus, we can only guess as to what it is. Although I can not be certain as to the reason for the development of this so marked and so worthy effect upon our student body, I do know that it has made our students more serious, more studious, and more sincere, and that this change has been a very decided one for the better. I wrote in the 1926 Razorback, Youth is an unknown book and the chapter you read today tells you nothing of the chapter you may read to¬ morrow . . ” Today we are reading the final chapter in the college life of some of our students, and we are pleased to say it is as we would have it; as we have striven to make it during the past four years. Dean G. E. Ripley