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

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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

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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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jlf, ip-4 rw . ' J, vrviqlv f ' r 5 r- All f c'-:rr ' ' . ,f iff' ,filiLfiii'1J!fiin i -,L 'TJ af til we 'fziisif SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMTNTSTRATTUN 'N ' N , ' 4 ' 'lfieifiiifaiiiilacvw ' ' I-Ili phenomenal industrial growth of the South in recent years has led to the 1 establishment of schools of commerce in most of the Southern state universities. The School of Business Administration established in 1926 at the University of Arkansas is designed to serve the state in this inevitable economic expansion. The School of Business Administration aims to train business leaders. In training for business, however, problems of citizenship ' and larger relations covering our economic organization as a whole are' emphasized along with the professional aspects of business practice. Training is cultural as well as practical. In training men for business, our pro- cedure is: First, to set forth the human and material forces with which business deals, Doc'ro1zFICl-ITNER second, to teach the established principles of economics and managementg third, to train students in the use of equipment and methods of business, and finally, since all other training is ineffective unless it leads to action, we aim to develop in the students a capacity for making judgments and decisions based on analyses of facts. The school can not hope to train a man in the details of any par- ticular organization. It trains men in the fundamentals of business and defers to later experience adequate preparation for work within the organization itself. Opportunities for men trained in business are numerous at present and the field will doubtlessly continue to expand rapidly. The larger corporations especially are looking to collegiate schools of business for their executive material. -C. C. FICHTNER. . , ,..,..v..-4 slr H . , 4. fi at 1 Page 30 X f. 'N i