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

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Page 23 University of Arkansas N ITS teaching function a university has two principal objects: First. the training of a large body of young men and women to take their places in the professions and in the other walks of life, and to be, withal, citizens of a high typeg and, second, to train a much smaller number of persons who have the will and the ability to become true scientists and discoverers of new knowledge in all the different fields of learning. Like all of the smaller universities, the University of Arkansas, while not neglecting the latter of those two purposes, has devoted the larger portion of its efforts to the former. How well the University has succeeded in its aims may be dis- covered by a glance at the long list of distinguished alumni who have served and are still serving this state in the most important public positions, in teaching and the other professions, in business, and in industry. With theiadoption of a building plan and the completion of the first two units of this plan in the spring of 1927, the University enters upon a new period in its history. An over-ambitious pro- gram, however, should not lead us into distributing our efforts over so wide a field as to injure the quality of the educational work in those portions of the field in which the state finds the greatest need for service from the University. For a state university, which is the outgrowth of the hopes and desires of the people of the state, owes it to its constituency to look first to the needs of its own people. It should, therefore, be our aim to improve the institution that we have, strengthening here, modifying there, until we have an institution which, while not one of the largest, will be conceded to be equal to the best in the quality of its output. -JOHN C. FUTRALL

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DEAN JOHN CLARK JORDAN College of Arts and Sciences NE person only will read this, an old friend and former student of mine. I shall say to him, under disguise of writing an article, what I did not say to him while he was here. Thus: You were a very bright lad. I gave you an intelligence test one day, you remember. You ranked unusually high. You had a responsi- bility for a great achievement with your intellect. But you failed, and you have continued to fail since you went away. You did not take advantage of what was placed here for you. Many a boy with less ability will go a longer way than you. I can tell you where your troubles lay. You lacked mental ambi- tion. I do not mean that you had not a desire for a remote time when you would be in a position of wealth and inliuence. I do mean that you were never willing to rise above the mediocrity which your innate powers gave you without the least exertion. You were unwilling to discipline yourself, to put yourself to task, to endure the pain of en- larging your mind. This all amounts to saying that you are not really a college man. Some of the graces which come from a social contact you have, to be sure. You would have acquired those anyway. But the real purpose of the college left you untouched. You never perceived, to use the words of Dr. Meiklejohn, that apart from some of the experiences of friend- ship and sympathy there are no human interests so permanently satis- fying, so fine and splendid in themselves, as are those of intellectual activity. You cameg you sawg but, unlike Caesar, you conquered nothing. . -JOHN C. JORDAN Page 2 4