University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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zAdministration COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS A LTHOUGH the College of Fine Arts is the youngest division of the University, it already has produced artists and musicians who have won positions of distinction in America as teachers, painters, designers, pianists, violin- ists, and composers. The school offers complete curricula in all the depart- ments of music and art education. It affords a training both for amateurs and for professionals. There are few resources to compare with the fine arts for stimulating those deep-seated satisfactions essential to successful living. In the mad rush and whirl of modern, complex civilization, some such recourse is essential to keep the organism from the breaking point. Moral and spiritual satisfactions which may be derived effectively from the ministration of music and the other fine arts tend to keep life well proportioned and, therefore, happy. In pursuit of these ideal purposes the College of Fine Arts maintains, in addition to its regular curricular activ- ities, the men ' s and women ' s glee clubs, the University Chorus and Orchestra, chamber music ensembles, faculty and student recitals, as well as the University Concert Series. The attend- ance at this series for the past several years has been upwards of four thousand and the very greatest artists in America have been presented. The series for the current year includes: Fritz Kreisler, violinist; Maier-Pattison, Duo-piano recitalists; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; and Rosa Ponselle, soprano. James T. Quarles Dean Lathrop Ilnll Glenn L. Flanders OFFICERS Glenn Flanders President Jack Atkinson Vice-President Harold Glenn Secretary James Hatfield Treasurer James T. Quarles Dean Page 29

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Administration Elmer J McCaustland Dean COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING QoMEWHERE Thomas Carlyle has said: Blessed is he that hath found his life work; let him ask no further blessing! Kvery being that lives can do something. This, let him do. These words place a definite goal before the young engineer. The world needs him and he prepares himself to meet the need. Science becomes his handmaiden and Prag- matism his philosophy. His conceptions are futile if not workable; and if workable they need careful direction and supervision. EfTort, misdirected, is of no value; ability without proper guidance is barren; but properly correlated efYort and ability will produce, and production, however achieved, is what the world is ready to pay for, if only it meets and satisfies a human need. There is some danger that the Engineering Mind may become a handicap. This is a world of material things and of natural laws; these laws are fixed and immutable. They cannot be ignored nor cajoled. If a tangible fact exists it just is and no amount of argument or wheedling can change it. It may Ije ignored, but it cannot be compromised. Woodrow Wilson has pointed out that since engineering deals with realities, it must have a reactive influence: A man may deceive himself and others if he is handling artificialities, motives and prejudices. However, if at every turn he bumps up against natural law and physical fact he is apt to keep pretty straight. The successful engineer, therefore, must be more than a skilled technician. His education must be broader than that resulting in mere literacy. Indeed he should show more of that wisdom and sure perception of the relation of fundamentals, that keen discrimination between truth and error, which is frequently reserved to those without formal education. Engineers ' Fountain OFFICERS William Robards President C. W. Hall Vice-President Silas Sides Secretary Richard Heinlen Treasurer E. J. McCaustland Dea » William Robards Page 28

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Administration ' t ' - VV. J. ROBBINS Dean T ' GRADUATE SCHOOL HE main jjurpose of the Graduate School is the en- couragement of creative scholarship and productive research by the members of its faculty and the students associated with them. This purpose is accomplished by training students who have completed the work for an undergraduate degree and who wish to develop the power to carry on scholarly or scientific investigations and also by the accomplishment of research by members of the faculty and suitably trained students. The Graduate Faculty is composed of men and women trained both in this country and abroad, who represent every scholarly activity in the University. The student body of the Graduate School includes graduates of undergraduate curricula who are candidates for the advanced degrees of Master of zA.rts, Master of Science with designation in Engineering, or Doctor of Philosophy, and also some graduates who are not can- didates for a degree but desire to perfect themselves in the particular fields in which they have the requisite foundation. Requirements for the Master ' s and Doctor ' s degrees were formulated at the University of Missouri in 1892 and their administration placed under the supervision of a Committee of the Faculty. The first earned degrees were granted in that year. In 1896 a Graduate Department was organized and in 1910 the Graduate School was formally established with Professor Walter Miller as Dean. A recent survey of a committee of the American Council on Education, which ranked the graduate schools in all the universities of the United States placed the University of Missouri seventeenth in the list. Canon Arthur Edson Arthur Edson President W. J. kOBBINS Dean Page 30