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

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Dean G. W. Droke College F IVE hundred and sixty-eight have enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences the present session, and I must use the threadbare and stereotyped expression that this is the largest enrollment in the history of the University. There are seventeen departments, seventeen professors, five associate professors, ten assistant professors, eighteen instructors, and five assistants. It is the aim of this college to give its students as broad and symmetrical training as the equipment in things and faculty members which the state of Arkansas is willing to furnish will permit. All honor to the industrious and intelligent farmer, and to the honest and conscientious man and woman in every vocation, but as a rule the highest in¬ tellectual, moral, and spiritual leadership has been attained by men and women trained in the literatures, philosophies, and sciences of the present and former ages of the world. After the completion of a literary and classical education there will be quite time enough to envelop one’s intellectual body with a professional or vocational corset. Rome was not built in a day. It is highly necessary to take time for ample preparation. It is the prepared man who goes careering to the highest positions of leadership. In this fun-loving, pleasure-seeking, restless age, it is absolutely discouraging to see young people so careless in making preparation for their life ' s work. They seem to expect to accomplish in a few years a feat in character building a thousand times more important to the individual than the building of any city, however magnificent and imposing. The educational value of the colleges of liberal arts in universities and of the small endowed colleges cannot be reckoned in dollars and cents. Pa 28

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College of Engineering T HE functions of the Engineering College are threefold, teaching, experimentation, and dissemination of knowledge gained by experiment. Teaching classes in residence and by correspondence has claimed the major portion of time and money allotted to this division of the University in the past. Our aim is to supply the industries and professional engineering with technically trained men who are thoroughly grounded in the principles of Engineering and broadened by a study of the languages, economics, business law, and commercial subjects. Commerce and the industries are said to need annually 30,000 men trained in engineering. The engineering schools of the United States are graduating only about one-third this number. The fields of usefulness in which men trained in engineering may develop are: Specialists in Design (Designing Engineers), Consulting Engineers in one or more special lines, Construction Engineers, Erecting Engineers, Commercial Engineers, Research Engineers, Teachers in the field of Engineering, Managers and Superintendents of manufacturing plants, and Managers and Superintendents of Public Utilities. There are a multiplicity of occupations under these general headings where men trained in engineering may find employment. Experimental Engineering seeks to discover fundamental laws governing industrial phenomena, to devise or invent new processes and machines of better efficiency than those in use at present, to substitute machinery for hand power or processes, to discover the quality and extent of the state’s natural resources, and to assist in their economic de¬ velopment and conservation. All data and information gathered from experimentation is distributed to the people of the state in the form of bulletins and pamphlets. Page 20