University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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JUSTUS F. SOULE, Dean of the C oilege of Liberal Arts College of Liberal Arts The College of Liberal Arts was the hrst college on the campus, opening in the fall of 1887. At that time there was just one class, the freshman. A new class entered each succeeding year, and in June 1891 the first class was gradu- ated. Each following commencement has seen a goodly number of students from the College of Liberal Arts. At first there were few departments and presented curricula, but with in- creasing financial resources new departments were added and the curricula en- riched and made largely elective. At the present time there are sixteen depart- ments that ofifer courses sufficiently diversified to meet the needs of a thousand students, and that have an adequate instructional force to teach these courses. In addition to the sixteen departments m entioned there has been added to the College of Liberal Arts a Division of Commerce, and a Division of Music. Both these Divisions lead to degrees and are prepared to give the adequate opportunities to students who seek preparation for careers in business or music. The College of Liberal Arts is the center about which the University has been built. It is, and will continue to be, the college that offers the broad education sought by students who can defer, for a time, professional training. Its function is so to reveal the various aspects of all phases of civilization that the student may have an intelligent basis for the understanding of the problems of life and such balance of mind as to enable him rightly to interpret them, and at the same time to give the student that cultivation that shall enable him to devote his leisure to the pursuit of happiness. 25 j— ■ — - d

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Administrative Officers RALPH E. McWHINNlE, B. A. RECaSTRAR REBA DAVIS, B. L. S. LIBRARIAN IM ' I ' l VI BERNICE SANFORI), M. A. DEAN OF WOMEN 24

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Department of Botany AvEN Nelson, A. M., Ph. D., President Emeritus, head of the department of Botany. Edwin B. Payson, M. A., Ph. D., associate professor of Botany. AVEN NELSON, President Emeritus x [ fl Department of Chemistry p. T. Miller, M. A., head of the department of Chemistry. L. E. Walter, M. S., State Chemist. Frank E. Hefner, M. S., associate professor of Chemistry, Orville a. Beath, M. a., research Chemist. Arthur T. Cundy, A. R. C. Sc, assistant research Chemist. Ernest R. Sciiierz, i ' h. D., assistant research Chemist. p. T. MILLER 23