University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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EXTENSION DIVISION Through the Extension Division, many of the opportunities offered on the campus are made available to those who cannot attend the regular classes. The Bureau of Correspondence Instruction offers for credit courses in engineering, art, and the liberal arts and science.s. In many towns through- out the state both credit and non-credit classes arc taught either by the resident faculty or by special instructors. The average number of students en- rolled for the five year period ending June 30, 1934, was •4,736 per annum. Members of the Extension staff represent not only the University, but also help formulate and carry out policies of the Colorado Press Associa- tion; The National Code for Publishers in Colo- rado, Wyoming and New Mexico: the North Cen- tral Association; the Colorado Federated Cham- bers of Commerce: and the Colorado Municipal League. The Writers Conference, which attracts writers and those who aspire to attain the writing profes- sion from all parts of the nation, is held each sum- mer under the auspices of the Bureau of Class In- struction. • • A. C. Cross. A. C. Cross THE SUMMER SESSION MiLO G. Derham 9 The Summer Session as an institution was founded upon the conviction that ambitious stu- dents would welcome the opportunity to shorten the time required to obtain a baccalaureate degree and that enterprising teachers and others, who, by their employment during the year were denied academic advantages, would avail themselves of this means of gaining renewed inspiration and courage as well as added capacity to meet the chal- lenge of the future. Results have amply justified this conviction. Academic halls, once deserted in the summer months, are now thronged with hun- dreds of thousands of eager students. At the University of Colorado the summer session, established in 1904 as a six-weeks term with courses confined mainly to Liberal Arts, was in 1919 organized as a summer quarter, with prac- tically every school and college represented. While the summer quarter has a distinctive character, with a much larger proportion of teachers and graduate students, it conforms to the standards of the other quarters and should be regarded as an integral part of the University. The numbers en- rolled approximate, at times exceed, those of the academic year. During the year the student body is mainly from Colorado; and in the summer visit- ing instructors and students from every state give the University a national character. 9 MiLO G. Derham, Dean. ■ ' 4 2 -

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Harry M. Barrett EDUCATION 9 Education has always been well thought of in America. Washington. Adams, Jefferson, Madi- son, spoke in no uncertain terms of its importance in a self-governing nation, and statesmen and pa- triots without number have stood staunchly by the American program of education for all the children of all the people down to the present day. This un- wavering faith in education dignifies the teacher ' s calling and challenges the teacher himself to make adequate preparation for his work. Nor is it con- fession of failure to say that education, judged by the performance of many who have been through the schools, has not accomplished its purpose, A hundred years ago when Horace Mann, successful lawyer and legislator, closed his office and sold his law books to become secretary of the Massachu- setts Board of Education and the arch apostle of public education, he dedicated himself, in his own words, to the supremest welfare of mankind upon earth. Here is no casual objective easily achieved, and it remains and will remain the single and final goal of American education. % 9 Harry M, Barrett, Head of the Department. JOURNALISM If ever the newspaper business called for the best brains, the best professional skill, it calls for them now. — Stanley Walker, City Editor of The New York Herald-Tribune, in his book, TTie City Editor. The newspaper of tomorrow will be forced by public desires to pitch itself on a higher intellectual plane. — L. Charles Poe, Managing Editor of TTie Chatanooga (Tenn.) News. 9 These recent utterances by practical news- paper men suggest the aims of the Department of Journalism. To help supply the best brains, the best professional skill ; to train men and women who will desire to help the American news- paper to pitch itself upon a higher intellectual plane have always been the primary objectives of the department. First emphasis is on the educa- tional background; high ideals of ethical conduct are emphasized throughout the four-year course; practicality is the rule in the professional courses. A well equipped laboratory, and the cooperation of the Associated Press and the United Press provide the actual working conditions of a newspaper office. •• Ralph L. Crosman. Head of the Department. Ralph L. Crosman -4 20 }:♦•■

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Harry G. Carlson DEAN OF MEN 9 The function of the Office of the Dean of Men seems to be to find as many ways as possible to be of assistance to the men of the University. There are certain routine mediums through which some help can be extended. General information concerning extracurricular activities, and in get- ting loans, employment, and housing accommoda- tions all are facilitated through this office. These matters are important and comparatively easy to manage. The difficult problem for any school is to set into motion factors that will minimize the many character difficulties that its students are liable to encounter while in college. Student intoxication, different types of dishonesty, immoral practices, and thoughtless pranks mar some men ' s records. I believe that taken as a whole student behavior at the University of Colorado is on a high plane. This is due to the homes from which our men come, to the high scholastic demands which keep them busy, and to our diversified extracurricular program. It seems that anyone who is familiar with the problems of a Dean of Men ' s office will inevitably develop great respect for the wholesome signifi- cance of a broad extracurricular program. % 9 Harry G. Carlson, Dean. DEAN OF WOMEN 9 The most significant achievement in wo- men ' s life at the University of Colorado this year, has been the completion and opening of the new women ' s dormitory. Long a dream of individuals and organizations in the University and throughout the State, it became a possibility when linked with our effort to cooperate with the program of public works advocated by President Hoover and continued by President Roosevelt. Being among the first of such university projects to be proposed to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, it re- ceived early approval, and rendered the service of unemployment relief when it was most needed in this area, during the years of 1932-1934. The prophesied increased enrollment, due in part to the better housing conditions, was fulfilled when the number of women entering fall quarter in- creased ten percent over last year. Equal oppor- tunity for all women students for their first year, in as far as the University is able to give it. is the goal of this experiment. % % Lydia Lawrence Brown. Dean. Lydia Lawrence Brown ■■■4 22 ] -