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

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ff-:mu 5nWM.f .-.ami DEAN W. N. GLADSON College of Engineering HE functions of the College of Engineering are three-fold: Teach- ing, experimentation, and dissemination of information obtained by research. '- Teaching may be done in residence, by extension classes, or by correspondence. The ultimate object in each case is the same-that the student may thoroughly master the fundamental principles under- lying the various branches of the engineering profession. No man in receiving his baccalaureate degree from an engineering college is a full-fledged engineer. In college he has learned foundation principles and, better still, how to study. He is now in possession of a knowledge of the physical sciences, mathematics and the fundamentals of engineering and, with a few year's practice, will take rank with others of his profession in accordance with his ability and diligence. In lines of research, the Engineering Experiment Station seeks new knowledge, to develop fundamental laws of science as applied to engineer- ing, to make investigations and gather information which will aid the industries and assist in discovering and developing natural re- sources. These investigations may lead to the development or inven- tion of new machines or processes. There is opportunity in the Engineering Experiment Station for students to begin real engineering work under the guidance of skilled engineers, each an expert in his line. -W. N. GLADSON Page 25

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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

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Ui ,A-fr Alf ilk DEAN DAN GRAY ' College of Agriculture HE College of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas under- takes to do three things. In the first place, this College teaches the boys and girls of Arkansas and neighboring states the subjects of Agriculture and Home Economics, this is called college work proper and is the phase of the College with which the students are most familiar. ln the second place, the College does research work on problems of the farm and homey this is called agricultural ex- periment station work, and consists of the Work which the students see the members of the experiment station staff doing in their lab- oratories and upon the experiment station farm. In the third place, the College has a corps of men and women whose business it is to carry information about the farm and the home to the rural people of the stateg this is called agricultural extension work, and is done by county agents, home demonstration agents, special- ists and supervisors, located in the counties of the state, upon the campus of the University, and in the extension office maintained by the College of Agriculture at Little Rock. With the completion of the new agriculture building this spring better equipment and teaching facilities will be available to the students. -DAN T. GRAY