University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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college of agriculture C) on DRAINING scientific farmers ami couraging thorn lo take up their work in this state is the prime objective of the College of Agriculture. The aim of the College is to afford the best possible opportunity for gaining technical knowledge and training in the art and science of agriculture. About one-third of the students' time is taken with technical studies and the other two-thirds devoted to the cultural studies and basic sciences. In this College there are courses designed to treat of those plants of tropical origin and development with special stress being placed on the fruits and produce of Florida, showing how they may be raised more abundantly and scientifically. This College also sponsors Roys Clubs t. L. Floy , .-tetmg Dean and gives short courses of a few weeks dura- tion to meet the needs of these boys throughout the State. Kach year there gathers here, many boys and young farmers from all parts of the State to take part in these helpful instructions. In connection with the College of Agriculture is the Florida State Kx peri incut Station and an exceedingly large farm in which there is shown practical demonstration of the advantages of scientific farming. The college was established under the Acts of Congress creating and endowing institutions for the liberal ami practical education of the industrial classes. Recognition of agriculture as a branch of collegiate instruction is a distinctive of schools thus founded. In nearly every section of the state the results of the training of scientific farmers may Ik seen in the advanced methods for operating farms and the improvement in the (piality and quanti-tity of the produce.

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 COLLEGE or ARTS AND SCIENCES I)»:an J. N. Am»:km n FRYING many purposes, The College | or Arts and Scikm us has for its main purpose ami aim, the imparting of culture ami refinement to its students. The aim of this College is to prepare for life, hut not so directly and immediately as the professional schools. It is a longer, yet. a letter road, for those who are aide to follow it, to distinction and ultimate success in almost any calling. Es|K ciallv in the case of learned professions. it is ! ecoming clearer that a man must first get a liberal education, if possible, lieforc entering upon his professional studies. Should the student wish to examine the practical side exclusively, as it is the tendency at present to do. he will find that there is also something practical in all the courses. For instance. the student may prepare for the study of medicine; standard law schools arc requiring a minimum of two years college work in pre-lcgal studio, and similarly, the schools of theology expect their student to have followed courses in lilreral arts. The use of electives gives the student opportunity to specialize in some branch according to his inclination and in the furtherance of his plans. In more general terms it may l e stated that the purpose and aim of the Col lege of Arts ami Sciences is to train the mind and strengthen the intellect, to build up ideals and establish the character, to enlarge the vision, to ennoble the thoughts, to increase the appreciation of the beautiful and true, and add charm to life and piquancy to companionship, to make a man a decent fellow, a useful citizen, an influential member of society in whatever community he may live and in whatever pursuit he may take his way. To accomplish this purpose the College has gathered together a faculty of men ranking with the foremost educators of today. Through their efforts the College has prospered. IS rfAswniaom

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COLLEGE Ol COMMERCE AND JOURNALISM HE College of Commerce and Journalism was established as the SCHOOL of Business Administration and Jot r-ALISM in 1925. For the first year it operated under the College of Arts and Sciences with the Dean of that College in charge. Interest manifested in tin courses offered by this school made it necessary to provide special facilities for the students ami amplify the curriculum to cover the field of work in greater detail. Increased appropriations made it possible to further the work of the School and increase its efficiency. Beginning with the first semester of 1920 a special director was appointed and the school began to operate as a unit separate from the College of Arts and Sciences. In the Spring Dkan Waltkk J. Mathkjily 4,f 1927 the Board of Control created the College of Commerce and Journalism out of this unit with a dean and faculty of its own and made co-cqual in every respect with the other colleges of the I diversity. The College of Commerce and Journalism offers instruction in three distinct fields of professional or semi-professional endeavor: I. Business Administration II. Journalism III. Social Administration The degree of Bachelor of Science is awarded in each of these fields. The purpose of the College is to prepare students to become business executives, journalists and social service administrators. The general purpose of this College is to train men to become business executives. The first two years are devoted to a cultural education. while a chance for specialization is given in the last two.