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

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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.

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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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SCHOOL OF LAW The School of Law entered on its ninth year with a marked increase in enrollment. For two years the Law School has passed from the category of small law schools and grown into the group of state university law schools of normal size. This year there are eightv-five students in the Law School. With increased enrollment and the con¬ stant growth of the law library, the addi¬ tional quarters made available in the fall of 1927 became crowded. Facilities which appeared to be adequate for a number of years have become, to some extent, insuf¬ ficient. In 1931 the Law School offered its first summer courses. It is hoped to offer in the future a greater variety of law courses, many of which will be of interest to other than law students. Dean J. S. Waterman The Law School, in addition to its work on the campus, has continued to keep in touch with the profession over the state by its law bulletins which contain discussions of legal prob¬ lems of statewide interest. Though the law school is only a few years old, many law grad¬ uates are located successfully in the state, much to the pleasure of those interested in the school.