Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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school of arts and sciences When the doors of the college opened in 1880, there was a chemistry department, and the School of Science was organized in 1911. Chemical Engineering became a part of the chemistry department in the thirties and was the only department in four states recognized by the American Chemical Society in 1941. The Department of Geology, with its petroleum geology majors has a large number of students, as does the Phys- ics Department. The biological sciences are represented by the departments of bacteriology, Botany and zoology, and entomology. The discoverer of aureomycin was a graduate of this school. In the Liberal Arts Division of this school are found the departments of English and mathematics as the two largest, though the history department has the most active graduate program in the state. Other social science fields are political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion. ■

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school of agriculture The Agriculture School was one of the prime objectives of the original founding, when Mississippi State was known as Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. It has always played a large part in the development of the school, and through its efforts many improvements have been made in Mississippi agriculture. Nine major departments in the agriculture school offer work leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science. These are general agriculture, agricultural economics and admin- istration, agricultural education, agricultural engineering, agronomy, animal husbandry, dairying, horticulture, and poultry husbandry. A two year program in Pre-Veterinary Science is available to students who wish to qualify for admission to a professional college of Veterinary Medicine. i i i : III 1 s

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HHHHPWHS — §■»—%►- %» 1» »—■• ■ -= ►•- % % X , X Sk DEAN JAMES M. PARRISH school of business and industry The School of Business and Industry is the oldest school of business in the state and one of the oldest in the South. Since its beginning in 1915 one of its major activities has been that of a service division to the other schools on the campus. Through the School of Business and Industry, necessary business and social science training is pro- vided for the schbols of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Education, Engineering and Forestry. The School of Business and Industry is a professional school which combines general education with a broad business administra- tion program. Students are permitted to concentrate in one of the following fields Accounting; Banking; Economics; Finance Insurance; Management; Merchandising Salesmanship-Advertising; Secretarial Sci- ence; and Transportation. The major objectives in the School of Busi- ness and Industry are to educate men and women for positions of responsibility in pri- vate and public business and professions, and to enable them to advance rapidly both in their positions and in their appreciation of the values and obligations of good citizen- ship. 26