University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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School of Military Science The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps brings six specific benefits to students in the University: a military education which at the end of the four-year course qualifies students to serve as trained officers in time of war; a knowledge of the objective and necessity of a sane policy of national defense, and of strength and weakness in our present defense; a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps; a thorough course in equitation, taught by experts; instruction in the firing of the rifle and pistol; and a maximum of sixteen credits towards a degree in any College. Money allowances in the advanced courses and possible membership in the national military fraternity are added advantages. The two-year basic course is required of all male students, whrte the advanced course is optional, along with the major benefits of the R. O. T. C. The School, working under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur W. Holdemess. continued for the year its efficient work of education. Colonel Holdemess supervised all classes and projects of the school; Major W. E. Buckley was instructor in Sophomore classes; Major Mack Garr in Junior and Senior classes; Sergeant A. C. Falconer in Freshman classes; Sergeant N. I. Beck coached the Rifle Team; Sergeant F. B. Murphy was in charge of the stables; and Mr. W. I. McDonald was military property custodian. Awards to be made at the end of the year were these: United States Reserve Army Corps Commissions; Citation and Scabbard and Blade Trophy to the Honor Troop; the Powell Saber, to the most outstanding Senior; Honor Freshman and Honor Sophomore Citations; Medals to members of the Rifle Team; and Honor Squad Citation. The unusual popularity of the Arizona unit of R. O. T. C. lies partly in the excellent administration and instruction to be found in the school, and partly lies in the fact that this unit is one of the few all-cavalry units in the nation. P»g« 28

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 College of Letters, Arts and Sciences To the student who wishes to acquire knowledge in a broad field and to add intensive work along one or more specialized lines, the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences offers a great variety of courses. The first two years of work are designed to open to the student a broad and varied scope of subjects. Choosing freely his work, he is afforded a convenient measure of what is for him most attractive, the thing he is best suited to enter, as a profession or business. Equipped with background and wide interests, hq proceeds into upper division work for highly specialized training in his chosen major subject. The College prepares students for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and for certain advanced degrees. Students who intend to go into medical or dental schools are offered courses which allow them to complete the pre-medical or pre-dental requirements of any such school. Letters, Arts, and Sciences College is the best college in which to gain that particular assembly of learning referred to as culture. Other colleges may spend years instructing young Americans in the ways and means, the methods and tricks, of earning a living, amassing money. But no college devotes so much time to instructing young Americans in the reputedly lost art of enjoying a living. Dean Emil R. Reisen, has built up a deservedly fine reputation for reasonableness, ability, and efficiency. He heads an excellent and numerous faculty. He directs the work of the many departments in his college, departments which serve Arizona eds ands co-eds of every type, of every interest. To coordinate many groups into a smoothly running organization, to bring divergent factional desires into progressive action of good harmony, is a problem that has downed many a good administrator and his system, in many fields. The success of Dean Reisen and his faculty is highly laudable. DEAN RIESEN Page 91

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College of Mines and Engineering, The College of Mines and Engineering offers four-year courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Mining Engineering. The freshman year is a curriculum common to all courses in engineering, but with the sophomore year curriculae become increasingly specialized, and intensive. Dean G. M. Butler, Director of the Arizona Bureau of Mines and head of the college, determines and administrates the work at Arizona. Four departments, each having from two to five instructors and offering from fourteen to twenty-four courses each, are manned by professors many of whom are nationally known men of science, recognized authorities. The absolute admiration and personal closeness which students in this college feel toward their faculty is a characteristic noticed by outsiders in short acquaintance with Arizona. The College of Mines and Engineering holds enviable position in comparison with others of the better institutions of its sort throughout the country. A very practical acid test of the goods turned out from its excellently equipped laboratories is made upon each graduate when he secures and retains a job. Definite evidence of the success of the college lies in the great number of letters which pour into Dean Butler’s office, letters from men who have heard of Arizona graduates and need their services, and from men who have tried Arizona graduates and want more of them in their service. Being definitely a school preparing men for professional and business life, the college has no room for those who come to school for a good time. Students must work to “get through”, and work they do. A certain professional attitude, a seriousness of intent, a sense of being quite certainly tied up with life, is found even among the lower-division students. It makes for unity of the student body and for serious effort by the individual. DEAN BUTLER