University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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University of Arkansas 7 T IS NOT my province to deal with statistics and comparisons, to show that the University, though young, is the leading college of the Southwest, and that in progress she yields to none. Her history would be too long, and she needs no encomium. Enough, then, if the true impressions of a student, one brought up within her hallowed halls and imbued with the sacredness of her mission, be given. No comparison is to be made with the small denominational colleges scattered through the State. We do not oppose them. Eet them flourish. But why their opposition to everything that does not bear their stamp? The training here is equal to the best colleges of the Union, and with them only will we compare. Establishment and Purpose of the University The University was established by virtue of an act of Congress donating public lands for educational purposes, and in accordance with an act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas. Her purpose is to promote the higher educational interests of the State ; to enable students to interpret broad and liberally, questions of state and religion; to give careful, accurate knowledge of the various sciences; to make skilled, practical engineers. The college is an extension of the home. The purpose of both is to make the character beautiful, strong, noble, pure. The U. of A. realizes the significance of her purpose, the responsibility of her trust, and while she gives due prominence to the intellectual world, she never fails to magnify the virtues, to teach the excellence of justice, the beaut} 7 of truth, the grandeur of honor. Faculty and Officers There is a faculty of thirty-six instructors, not including those of the schools of law and medicine and the branch normal. No university of equal size has more efficient professors. Many of our instructors have a Ph. D. degree from the best universities of Europe and America. All have more than a local reputation. Then there is a Board of Trustees, and, Tod und Teufel , a Classification Committee, a—n—d a D—o—u—b—t— f—u—1 Case Committee, and merhercule a Discipline Committee. Situation Fayetteville sits on eleven hills, (Rome sat on only seven), and on the highest, most picturesque one of them sits the University. The location is high and healthful ; the atmosphere is pure and invigorating. While we are free from the lethargy common to a Southern clime, we are not usually chilled by blizzards. Yet we have at times great climatic changes, ranging from gentle zephyrs to 26° below zero. It was even so cold once that school was suspended for a week—the greatest event in our history, save the visit of the General Assembly. The picturesqueness of the scenery is unsurpassable in our own land, and we doubt that the Alps can excel it. It is in 10

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“Cardinal” Staff Richard B. Barton, K 2 - - - - - Editor-in-Chief Wroten E. Babb ------- Business-Manager Miriam E. Austin, X 12 - - - - Assistant Business-Manager Carl Smith, K A - - - - - Assistant Business-Manager 0. D. Briggs Associates T. E. Sanders Norman Wilkinson Rowena Galloway B. F. Davis Rupert Taylor Baxter Ware Ethel Hill Olive Webster Marie Smith Frp:d Holt Mabel Sutton C. C. Ramsey Horton Lake Geo. Towler Miss Breden Artists Editor Assisted by Mrs. Brown, Misses Foreman, Hill, Alexander, Smith, Phillips Messrs. Mitchell, Austin, Cochrane, Stifft, Stone 9

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University of Arkansas—Main Building