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

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f - .1 1lyi1'.i1.'- . , THE SCI-IIOOII.. OF LAW 1 INli'I'liliN 'l'XVliN'I'Y-SEVEN had pe- culiar significance for the School of Law. In the spring of 1927, the first class of eight nien graduated, and in the fall two more received degrees. Nine of these ten graduates entered the practice in the State, In the fall, the School of Law began work under more favorable conditions, as two especially equipped classrooms and additional library space were provided. The law library was increased to 8,500 volumes. As a result of a systematic program for the purchase of law boolcs, the present law library represents a careful selection now easily available at all times for the students. In the fall of 1927, the law students for xi the first time organized a separate student - body. A law school council was elected, and a definite student association effected. DEAN WA'i'1cmmN In December of 1927, the School of Law was admitted to membership in the Associa- tion of American Law Schools, an organization in which only eleven other Southern law schools are members, and which consists of the fifty leading law schools of America. While marked gains were made by the School of l.aw, the passing of judge Wlilliam Armistead Falconer, Professor of Law, in November, 1927, was a great loss. I-Ie was an able teacher, a profound student of the law, a recognized scholar in the classics, a noble example of the best traditions of the Old South, and a lovable companion. --I. S. VVA'1'1f:RMrxN. V ' . ' I . A . ff- L.-. ' ' ' . Page .YH f

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'- .. I'l fTL'.: Z' Wi 'J 'Trier ,fIm'l?5'i'.'ffCfJ- J 192 fi' i V v ' COLLEGE OF EDUCATTON ......... .... .... ............... ....... ....... ,,.. ..,., 6. 1f?'ifgy..7 ...-.. . .. ,.. . ...,. . ....... .... . . .. .. ...-.....-. A A4 WCG .......... ...... - ,,..,,.,.., ..,A ---,..,..,s.,..,..,-...-,,.-.-..,. aw XX: HY call teacher-training schools Col- . leges of Education? The name is not an accident, but a well-conceived philosophy is back of the christening. Courses for the preparation of teachers were first offered in a T State University by Professor Payne in l879. Much has happened since then, and his noblest of professions is emerging in the minds of the world. And the keynote of its nobility is in the fact that we are more and more realizing that the function of this type of university work is to educate rather than merely train teachers. University education has steadily main- tained that real education is to free men from the hampering influence of tradition. A college of education undertakes this. lt is far more than a mere training or finishing school. It emphasizes a broad education as a basis for professional preparation, which is DEAN CREAGER to be conceived in the most liberal terms. No real College of Education offers a set of recipes for the guaranty of success in teaching school. The work in practice teaching does give the novice a chance to catch the pace of a trained apprentice. But by the time that he is ready to teach, it is to be hoped that the future teacher may work out his craftmanship successfully, free from servile imitation of traditional practice. The College of Education of the University of Arkansas sets itself to the task of furnishing theState with well-educated teachers, and tries to prepare educational leaders for the State in various lines of work other than classroom teacher. -J. O. CREAGER. J tt , .1 Page 27

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.,..., i VNU F 1 'W 'K K r - 1 ' , r' 31 al M iflfflifi 'fff' If N DEAN OE THE GRADUATE SCHOUL we 1211117 .,..., ..,,. ' 3.111 ss- UR many years the University of Arkan- sas has, under the supervision of a committee, been offering work for graduate students leading to the presentation of the lVlaster's Degree. lt was thought wise to reorganize these graduate studies into a formal graduate school. During the last year this new organization has been com- pleted. A dean has been appointed, who has T associated with him a permanent graduate council composed of two other members. The direction of graduate students is under the supervision of the dean and ol the council. The final responsibility is to the graduate faculty, which consists of members of the general faculty who are giving instruction to graduate students, and which makes the Uni- versity Senate recommendations for advanced - degrees, The University confers the degrees of Mas- ter of Arts and Master of Science, and grants also the professional degrees in engineering. DEAN joiumx lt is the purpose of the graduate school to accomplish for its students two results. We desire to give them further opportunity and training such as is to be derived from their graduate courses. But we hope to make the year devoted to graduate study here more than just a Hfth year of college work. VVe hope to make it also an introduction to advanced methods of work by the assignment of research problems. ln this way we endeavor to make the work for the master's degree a transition from the college proper to the strictly research aims of the cloctor's degree. ' eqlonx Finxiuc joiuux. Page 29