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

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DEAN OF WOMEN The office of the Dean of Women owes its existence largely to the complexity of modern college life. When women first began to go to col¬ lege 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 customs 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 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 notions of what it is all about. Dean Martha Reid And so it becomes the duty of the Dean of Women to assist the members of this hertero- geneous 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, intelli¬ gence, and power. To contribute as she is able to this transformation is the task of the Dean of Women.

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DEAN OF MEN When a certain event seems to be fol¬ lowed 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 in some, neither is under¬ stood. Consequently, in speaking of this cause and effect relation, we can not ab¬ solutely state that one will always definitely follow the other, but from our many observa¬ tions of nature we can imply that nature will always act in the same manner when the cir¬ cumstances are the same. Two circumstances, time and place, do not enter into this relation. Here at the University during the past few years, the workings of cause and effect have become very evident, though in this particular relationship we have entering into it the varying equation of the individual student, and nature has never 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. Dean G. E. Ripley Although I can not be certain as to the reason for the development of this so marked and so worthy effect upon our student bdy, 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.

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ARTS AND SCIENCES Dean V. L. Jones for the student who has not yet made a definite decision in regard to his life’s work, and who wishes preparation for advanced study or intelligent citizenship. Students in the upper years in technical courses are finding many of the subjects offered by the College of Arts and Sciences valuable in rounding out their education. No students should go through a four-year course in any college of the school without including a reasonable amount of work in The College of Arts and Sciences serves two distinct types of students: those who are preparing for entrance into a professional school and those who desire some insight into the fundamental principles of the major divisions of man’s knowledge, such as natural science, social science, and literature. The emphasis in both cases is upon principles rather than practical application, though there is some combination of both. The end in view is a certain degree of understanding of the physical, social, and emotional world in and about us, with such mastery of our environment as this knowledge may give. The course in Liberal Arts is intended literature, history, and similar subjects.