University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES B. A. Dean Jacob Van Ek THE need for a broad education increases with the growing complexity of modern civilization. As the training for professions becomes more com- prehensive and as the time requi red for the mastery of their subject matter increases, there is a great temptation to neglect general education and to con- centrate on training in some special field. From the standpoint of society, however, the factors which may cause a neglect of the general education are the very considerations which make the broad training most necessary. If society is to develop, and if people are to live in harmony with each other, the engineer, the lawyer, the physician, the pharmacist, the teacher, the business man, the laborer, and the musician should all have a realization of each other ' s problems and of the problems confronting the world at large. Above all, they should appreciate the social consequences of their individual activities. The College of Arts and Sciences attempts to give through its laboratories, classes, libraries, lectures, and discussions training of head and heart and hand to those who avail themselves of its facilities to t he end that they will appreciate the problems of humanity and be able to play their part in solving them. The contact of the students in the College of Arts and Sciences with the various fields of human knowledge and activity should discover for them their true interests and abilities to the end that with further professional or vocational training they will be happy and successful in their chosen work. It also attempts to give an equipment for living life in its broadest sense — to appreciate the gains of science, the gifts of art and literature, and the lessons of history and economics. With this training the College of Arts and Sciences hopes to send forth young men and women who will be capable of distinguishing the worth- while from that which has no value, who will have tolerance for the opinions of others, who will be able to sympathize with their fellow creatures, and who will realize the necessity of examining closely the medal truth on the reverse as well as on the obverse side. It expects its graduates to persevere in the crusade for truth and for the attainment of the good life by all the members of the iuiman race. Jacob Van Ek. i lii Page lb

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DEAN OF WOMEN Dkan I.. I.. Hrdwn WICRE I to strike a cuin lor lliis troublous e ii , I would inscribe a double motto. One side I would engrave as upon our hearts: Let us be trustworthy, and on the other 1 would enibos so that it might seem to stantl out as ui per most in our minds: I.et us help one another. Trustworthy in our work, in our responsiliilities. in our respect to the propert ' of others; generous ol our time, of our friendship, of our mone ' . May not this class carr - forward a crusading banner em- blazoned with these ideas — Honesl - and (ienerosit . Dk.w Lvni.A L. Brown. The duties of the Dean of Wonuii are to sujjcr- intend, advise, and guide the activities of the women students on the campus, to .see that all rooming houses are properl - maintained, and to arrange and super ise all social affairs among the women students. .She has met with student committees, especially those of Associated Women Students, and has consulted with them on what- ever questions of policy and procedure they have raised. Dean Brown received her .A. B. degree at X ' assar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1913. In 1923 she obtained her M. A. degree at the University of Wisconsin. In addition to this work, she has done work at the University of Chicago and at the Sorbonne in Paris. The variety of Dean Brown ' s work is shown in the dilTerent t pes of work that she has done during the past few years. Three years were s|ient doing volunteer work in the Junior Auxiliary of the Diocese of the Episcopal Church. Following her work in that line she served as head of the History Department and assistant principal at St. Mary ' s College in Dallas, Texas, where she later became lady principal. Returning to Chicago, Dean Brown taught in the University School for Ciirls, later doing work in interior decoration at the Art Institute. In 1928, Dean Brown came to Colorado University. Since then she has cap.ibK filled the difficult position of Dean -a position through which she has aimed to give each girl a broader outlook on life by pointing out the worthwhile paths to follow throughout her four short years of college. Dean Brown ' s rare understanding, her warm friendliness, her kind advice, her natural charm have endeared her to every girl at the Uni ersil . Page If

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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE M. 1). 1 HK I ' niversity of Colorado Srhool of Medicine will soon be a half century old. The Dei)ari- ment of Medicine was first announced in 1883. Dr. Joseph Addison Sewall, President of the I ' ni- versit -, was also the Uean of the newK- organixed School of Medicine. The l)cn er Inixersitx- .Schodi of Medicine opened in ISSl with a course extendint; over two years, of six months training each ear. The l ' niversit - of Colorado School of Medicine started on the basis of a four- ear course. Only two students applied for admission, and it was found advisable to reduce the course to three ears. In 1902 the curriculum was reorganized to a four-year graded course of nine months training each year. At one time the University of Colorado .School had three competitors in Denver. One of these schools soon went out of existence. The other two com- bined and in 1911 affiliated with tlie I ' niversity of Colorado. i Dean M. II. Rees of Medicine dates from 1924 when the Since that date the growth has been The real deNeloimient of the -Sclion new institution was opened in IkMuer. remarkable. The enrollment for 1930-31 is 215 medical students and 2. ) graduate stu- dents. All classes are filled to capacity. The School of Nursing has an enroll- ment of 68 students. The two hospitals are tilled to capacitv during the major portion of the ear. Wry detinite developnieiit has been shown in the held ot research. Prac- tically all departments are engaged in original investigation, and are each ear represented on the programs of national societies. The School of Medicine with its hospitals has now developed into one of the most serviceable divisions of the I ' niversity, and the entire I ' niversity should have a very definite pride in this institution and should at all times encourage it in the further extension of its usefulness and its service to htmianity. M. i Kiel. H. Rki=:s. I ' l ' i| Page 17