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

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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.

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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 Ol ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE ONE of ihc fir t colleges to l c estab-lislied on the campus of the Univer-sity of Florida was the College ok Engineering. During the {M-riod of its existence it has been under the direction of Dr. J. K. Benton. Under his administration it has attained to a high rank in colleges of its kind. Students of this College are alTordcd the l cst technological training of four-year courses in chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, leading to corresponding Bachelor’s degrees in engineering. These courses arc similar to those of other American engineering schools of college grade. The graduates are prepared to fill such positions as are usually allotted to young engineers. At present the College of Engineering occupies Engineering Hall, including the wing, and the newly constructed Engineering laboratory building. Facilities have been largely improved to accommodate the great demand for the courses offered. Scholastic training alone cannot make a competent engineer, any more than it can make a competent physician or lawyer. It can, however, fit a man to enter the profession of engineering; and it is an important clement in ultimate success in that profession. SCHOOL OK ARCHITECTURE Courses offered in the SCHOOL OK Architecture are of four years duration leading to a Bachelor's degree. Budolph Weaver, B.S.I.A., is in charge as Director. Training given in this School is designed to prepare graduates for those fields of endeavor in which utility is combined with beauty. Unprecedented activity in this state and others in building and beautifying cities affords unusual opportunities in the useful arts.