University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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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

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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 Music The College of Music, youngest college in the University, has grown with true twentieth century swiftness and progress since 1924-25, when in the Fall it was set up with its two instructors and thirty-two students. It has just completed its tenth year of existence, with a large student enrollment and an excellent faculty. Dean Charles F. Rogers continued his leadership in the activities of the college with the enthusiastic interest which has become a characteristic popularly associated with Dean Rogers. Miss Julia Rebeil was head of the department of piano, Mr. Rollin Pease head of that of voice, Mr. E. J. Schultz of school music, and Mr. O. Luening of theory and composition. Madame Elenore Altman gave instruction in piano, and Professor Joseph DeLuca in band and orchestral instruments. To students entering music as a profession and career, courses are offered which lead to the degrees of Bachelor of Music in Piano, Voice, Band, and Orchestral Instruments. Theory, and School Music. Previous preparation of good extent is required for entrance to the applied field. Post-graduate courses are offered that lead to the degree of Master of Music in Piano, Voice, Band and Orchestra, and School Music. To students who wish only a fine cultural knowledge of the art, certain courses are open. Thus students in other colleges who have studied some music before coming to the university are given an opportunity to continue those studies and maintain skills, upon the basis of a hobby or side-interest. The organizations and functions of the College of Music play an increasingly prominent role in University life. The University Concert and Military Bands, the University Orchestra, the University Oratory Society, and the University Glee Clubs are well known to the music-minded of Tucson and other cities of the state, as are the Student Recitals and public concerts by faculty, advanced students, and visiting artists. Pi(e 30