Nebraska Wesleyan University - Plainsman Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Emma Crooks Gilbert Dean of Women “ The American College is not and never has been an institution primarily for the acquisition of knowledge or the attainment of a degree—It is a social organ with a very highly organized social structure.” Social guidance involves problems in the development of the moral and spiritual life. The Dean of Women is on the campus as an adviser for problems of individuals and of groups.

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Bertram Everett McProud, A. B., A. M. Dean of Teachers College The Teachers College is now finishing its twentieth year. Twenty years ago the Teachers College was organized out of the Normal Department of the Col lege of Liberal Arts. In the beginning the Teachers College employed but one professor and three critic teachers. The Dean of the College was the Professor of Education. The earliest Training School consisted of a Kindergarten De¬ partment and the first eight grades. In 1917 the Van Fleet Teachers College was erected and a large expansion very soon took place. The Teachers College High School was added a little later to furnish a complete laboratory school for teacher training. In 192(i the Teachers College, for the first time, began to issue the baccalaureate degree in Education. The number of candidates for the degree, Bachelor of Science in Education, has rapidly increased. At the present time the Teachers College enjoys its widest popularity. Its work in teacher training is attracting attention throughout the state and the nation. Further expansion in building and equipment must be supplied before the College can develop its fullest opportunities. Page Twenty-one

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Harry Clinton Gossard, B. S., Ph. D. Dean of Men This is the first year that Nebraska Wesleyan University has had a Dean of Men. This position has been created in order to give each man every possible help in making his college life most effective and productive. In harmony with the more recent development in American educational institutions, the function of the Dean of Men includes three phases of work: the handling of academic difficulties, general personal problems, and Vocational Guidance. In our in¬ stitution an effort is being made to seek out and remedy the causes of scholastic difficulties, to meet the intimate personal problems of the student’s life, and to give aid and direction in reaching a decision concerning the choice of one’s life work. 1 V i Page Twenty-three