Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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NHAUWI UPJHJEFISJT Y OXFORD, OHIO OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT February 9, 1935 Dear mr. Denton: Ybu and your staff are to be comp mended for the skill and enthusiaSm With WhiCh yen are proceeding with the Recensio in a particularly difficult year. There is no other record of college life to come pare with a well-planned and well-eXecuted annual, as we find by the almost daily reference we make in the offices to our-K file of earlier Recensios. ,Ybu have the gratitude and good wishes of the entire administrative staff in your labors this year. Very truly yours5 7 . ' President Mr. Elwood Denton'r , e Editor Miami Recensio

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DR. ALFRED HORATIO UPHAM, president of Miami Universiiy, was born at Eaton, Ohio. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University in 1897; he received a MasteVS degree from Miami in 1898, and a second Maste'rhs degree from Harvard in 1901. He took his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Columbia in 1908. Dr. Upham has been an instructor at Miami University, at the Agricultural College in Utah, at Bryn Mawr, and he was president of the University of Idaho from .1920 to 1928. He has been president of M icmzi University Since 1928. He hm been, a member 0f the Summer Faculty of Colmnbia University and 0f the University of Illinois, He ix a. member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, of Phi Bew Kappa, and of Sigma Delta Chi fmtemil-iex. Dr. Upimm is listed in Whoix' Who, and is the anther of several books and a eontrz'butor to various periodicals. Page 22.

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College of Liberal Arts FOR most of the history of Miami University it was just a College of Liberal Arts. The active life of the College extends over a century as collegiate instruction was begun in 1824. The other schools of the University have been added since the Opening of the present century. In its early days the College curriculum was uniform and rigid. But With the changes of emphasis that have occurred during the past century have come many modiii- cations in the curriculum of the College, in order to give the young people of the Middle West the opportunity for a well-balanced liberal education. The Hexible curriculum With reasonable arrangements for the election of courses, the choice by the end of the sophomore year of a major in which a student may do one-third of his college work, the increasing stress on pre-professional training, and the provision for taking the degree With honors in a chosen field are some of the advantages that the College offers, as it endeavors to serve as the unit around Which the Uni- versity has grown. The Liberal Arts College has shown surprising strength under the economic stresses that education has been facing during the past few years. The general tendency of valuing a Liberal Arts education more highly during times of depression has found its expression at Miami as at other universities. Of its enrollment of over eight hundred, there are more than twice as many men as women. There seems to be no lack of interest at Miami in a liberal education as a preparation for pursuing effectively onets life interest. The College of Liberal Arts has won an enviable reputation among graduate schools to Which it sends each year larger numbers of well-trained people. Nearly one-half of the students in last year,s senior class are doing work in the graduate schools of this country and two are studying in foreign countries. The administrative officers are Dean Robinson and Assistant Dean Kreger. Miss Hamilton and Miss Emerson, dean and assistant dean of women respectively, are the advisers for upperclass women of the Liberal Arts College. In addition to Deans Robinson and Kreger, Professors St. John and Van Tassel serve as advisers for upperclassmen in the College of Liberal Arts. $e$ DEAN HOWARD ROBINSON Born in Alinnesota, attended Hemline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he graduated in 1908. Carried 071 graduate work in history at Columbia University and the Union Theological Seminary from 1908-11. Won the Hitchcock Prize in Church History at Union in his senior year, by which he obtained a much needed $125.00. Obtained degrees from both institutions in 1911, then taught for four years in Montreal, Canada, in an institution affiliated to McGill University. Re- turned to Columbia in 1915 and obtained a Ph.D. degree after a year of study. Then became head of Department of History at Carleton College, where he taught for eight years previous to coming to Miami in 1924. Has published several books in the held of rationalism and English historyehThe Development of the British Empire in 1922, ttA History of Great Britaintt in 1927, ttBayle the Sceptz'c in 1931, etc. Has been on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Modern History Since its foundation, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London, and a member 0f the Autherf Club, alxo located in London. Page 24