Arkansas State University - Indian Yearbook (Jonesboro, AR)

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This is a friendly school, and it is a genuine friendliness — not merely a show put on for someone ' s benefit. Visitors to the campus are often surprised to find students speaking to them as they walk across the well-kept lawns. Students are principally from Arkansas and southeast Missouri, but a cosmopolitan air is added by a sprinkling of students from all over the United States and several foreign countries. Crowded conditions are the rule now, but the . . .

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State ' s phenomenal growth continues. Today over ten times as many students are enrolled as were enrolled during the College ' s first year. The College has outgrown itself several times over. In 1930 two more years of work was added; in 1933 this work was recognized by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the institution became a standard arts college. Among the highlights of the year were . . . the establish- ment of the Ford Foundation ' s General Education Program . . . the increase of coffee prices, to 15 cents a cup in some places . . . the selection of Mary Ann Donaldson as Homecoming Queen . . . juke boxes also hit by inflation: a dime to hear Eh Cumpari . . . with the signing of the Korean armistice, a new influx of veterans helped to establish a record enroll- ment . . . women ' s fashions decreed that hemlines come up . . . Ramey , Jack Farris ' first novel, was published . . . Easter egg colors dominated hair fashions . . . David Taylor was elected city alderman . . . women ' s hair styles went back to the flaming twenties, and men ' s went to the flat-top . . . new equipment was added in many departments of the College . . . shades of the flapper era as waistlines drop . . . seating capacity of the gym is increased, and the Arkansas Class A High School Basketball Tourney draws a full house . . . 10

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. . new dormitories, now under construction, will enable the students to live with more comfort. Arkansas State College is at present the second largest — and fastest growing — college in the state, surpassed in en- rollment only by Arkansas AM N and the University. Enrollment has increased by leaps and bounds during the past few years; and, if the present rate of growth continues, it may become the largest school in the state within the next decade. The administration is wide awake to educational changes, and obsolete courses are dropped and new ones added when- ever they are needed. These curricula changes keep State in the forefront of educational developments, with an eye always on the future. The College doesn ' t follow new trends in education; it initiates them. This progressive attitude is present not only in the administration, but in the student body as well. Here at State, we are taught to think and act as free individuals, not as if we were the mass-produced products of a single intellectual mold. We are taught to work toward a better future for ourselves, our alma mater, our country, and mankind. 12