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

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PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY 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 the 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 service 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 TRUSTEES First row: Ragsdale, Lewis, Jackson. Second row : Hirst, Ponder. OFFICERS Governor J. M. Futrell ........ Chairman T. C. Carlson . Secretary and Auditor MEMBERS Expiration of Term Art T. Lewis, Fayetteville .. . 1933 H. M. Jackson, Marianna . 1933 T. D. Wynne, Fordyce .1935 Fred I. Brown, Little Rock . 1935 John M. Andrews, Fort Smith ........ 1937 Harry L. Ponder, Walnut Ridge ........ 1937 John G. Ragsdale, El Dorado .1937 MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO J. M. Futrell, The Governor of Arkansas, Little Rock Claude M. Hirst, The State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Little Rock

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GOVERNOR OF THE STATE Probably no intelligent citizen in the State of Arkansas, who is interested in the welfare of his state, the nuture and propaga¬ tion of culture and progressive thinking, and the education of his children and the children of his friends and neighbors, can fail to take an active interest in the progress of the Uni¬ versity of Arkansas. The people of the State can well afford at this time to regard their state university with approving eyes, and welcome comparison of its standard of excellence with that of almost any other state university in the United States. It is only to be hoped that the present unfortunate condition of the state’s governmental finances will not be reflected over-much in a depreciation of the university’s admirable administration, faculty and equipment. The state appropriations for the university have been measureably reduced; but this can only be regretted: it has been a move dictated by necessity. Governor J. M. Futrell STATE OF ARKANSAS But the University has more than ever the united and intelligent support of every kind but financial—of the entirety of Arkansas’ intelligent citizenry: it hoped sincerely that soon a sub¬ stantial increase in financial support may be possible, that Arkansas’ admirable state institution of higher learning may progress, expand, and continue to exercise its salutary effect upon the present and future conditions of the state’s culture and social order.