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

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unfl- Af Mi . MA fi If we va? 1 DEAN J. R. JEXYELL The College of Education HE mark of organic life, as distinguished from inorganic, is that all living things possess some capacity for adjusting themselves to the changing conditions of existence. This product of adaptation is education in its widest sense. So far-reaching is the demand on man's adaptability that the special agency of the school has been brought into existence. The free public school, for all the children of all the people, is perhaps the most characteristic hall-mark of the philosophy of the typical American. The College of Education was made a separate unit of the llni- versity to provide the more easily for helping the people of the common- wealth to maintain for themselves a body of experts in just this matter of adjustment to environment. Since its organization, the proportion of teachers to total population in this country has changed from one in every one-hundred and sixty to one in each one hundred and thirty- live. The College of Education is concerned with training teachers of Agriculture, Art, English, the Fine Arts, Home Economics, Journalism, Latin, the Manual Arts, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Physical Education, Public Speaking, the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences. And all this with the hope and belief that each teacher trained in this college will become a center of power for increasing the facilities among the citizens of Arkansas for adjusting themselves to the changes in their life. -J. R. JEWELL Page 27 i l j. S, lj: M' fill , . '1 I .ja 'ii li 1 +13 lil 1 ,V I ,l ill

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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

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DEAN J. S. YVATERMAN ' The School of Law HE primary object of the School of Law is to afford a thorough preparation for the practice of the profession. This preparation is based on an analytical study of the fundamental principles of Anglo- American jurisprudence, with reference to their origin and develop- ment and also their practical application today. Since most of the students in the School of Law are preparing for the practice of their profession in the state, Arkansas decisions and statutes are given due recognition in the class work. The method of instruction employed is almost exclusively the study and discussion of cases, which is designed to impart an effective work- ing knowledge of fundamental legal principles and to develop the power of practical legal reasoning. It is the system of instruction which has been used for many years by the standard American law schools. Practical exercises in brief making, in the use of law books, and in oral argument are given through the medium of law clubs. These clubs are organized by the law faculty and the meetings conducted under the supervision of one of its members. The School grants the LL. B. degree after three years of satis- factory residence study in law. The class of 1927 will be the first class to graduate in the School of Law, since it was established in the fall of 1924. While the School is barely three years old it has already been placed in Class A by the American Bar Association. From the beginning it has met the high standards laid down by various standardizing agencies in the Held of legal education. -J. S. WATERMAN P age