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

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SCHOOL or MEDICINE T HE School of Medicine is located at Little Rock. Like Cornell and other great educational institu¬ tions, the clinical advantages of a city are regarded as requisite for efficient medical teaching. The school was organized in 1879, and it has progressed with the development in medicine that has exempli¬ fied the most wonderful development in its history. Its voluntary teachers, numbering about sixty- five, embrace the best men in the practice of medicine in Little Rock. It is rated as an “A” grade institu¬ tion, and its students are accepted in any other “A” grade medical school in the United States. The Freshman class numbers forty-nine, with a total enrollment of one hundred and sixty-three. Dr. Framk Vinsonhaler The first two years of training are given in the building which was formerly the State Capitol Building, but is now known as the War Memorial Building, and the last two years at Second and Sherman Streets. There is a free clinic maintained, known as the Isaac Folsom Clinic, where an average of one hundred and twenty-five patients are treated daily. The personnel of the clinic staff includes five internists, two surgeons, a member representing the special branches, a roentgenologist, two bacteriologists and a laboratory tech¬ nician. In addition to the regular dispensary service, the staff yearly examines approximately fifteen waiters, butchers, candy makers, fishmongers, and other food handlers of all classes for the protection of the public against disease. Co¬ operation with the city and county health officers require a special tuberculosis and dental service. It is expected that this year extension work will be done in various towns of the state on a more extended .scale than was done last year. In going out over the state and country in the practice of medicine, the gradu¬ ates of the Medical School become its missionaries. This is one factor given as a reason for the continued growth of the Little Rock branch of the L T niversity. With the steady increase in the graduate output has come a steady increase in prestige. Ranking has been granted the Medical School equal to the best in the country. However, the school will continue to grow in equipment, in buildings, and enrollment, if the future can be prog¬ nosticated by records of the past. The distance of the Medical School from the University causes the two to be regarded as separate and distinct institutions, but the reciprocal interest in each other will prevent their ever becoming entirely independent of one another. Page 34

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CCELEGE CE A6CICLLTIJCE Dean Dan T. Gray COME faculty members of the College of Agricul- ture of the University deal primarily with teach¬ ing. while others deal with teaching and research. The College of Agriculture of the University does three things. Its work is divided into three main divisions. One of these is the Agricultural Experiment Station. The group of scientists making up the staff of the Agricultural Experiment Station devotes its time to solving the problems which are too involved and too expensive for individual farmers and farmers wives to sol ve for themselves. These problems have to do with plant diseases, animal diseases, nutrition, fertilizers, varieties of field crops, fruits, and vege¬ tables, marketing, destructive insects, and economic and social problems of the farm and of the home. The College has approximately thirty-five workers associated with the Agricultural Experiment Station, each devoting his time, or a part of it, to definite research problems. Discovery of new facts for the farmers of the state is, therefore, the central object of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Teaching resident students is another division of the College of Agriculture. This phase of the College’s work is most familiar to the students, since teaching affairs are activities which can be seen by all students. The College proper, there¬ fore, deals with resident students, and undertakes to discover and develop new leadership for the rural people of the state. The third division of the College of Agriculture is extension work in agri¬ culture and home economics, which is known well throughout the state. While the average student of the campus sees little of this part of the work of the College, still it consists of nothing except simple pedagogy. However, the students taught are not on our campus nor in our classrooms; these students are out on the farms and in the farm homes—men and women who are too old to come on the campus, and boys and girls who are too young. This part of the faculty of the College of Agriculture is scattered over the entire state. There are approximately 135 men and women employed in this service, all of whom are busy teach¬ ing the farm men and women of the state improved practices in farming and home-making. This extension department of the College of Agriculture is one of the most important. By this means the College is enabled to give those people who are the taxpayers of the State, and who are supporting the state university and the College of Agriculture, the benefits of this College. Page 33

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Dean C. C. Fichtner SC H €)© ■ C F BUSIN ESS ADM INI STRATI € N TJUSINESS is as old as civilization, but the dis- cernment of underlying forces and the formula¬ tion of business principles are intellectual products of the increasing complexity of the economic system characteristic of modern times. This growing com¬ plexity of society’s productive organization is at once the basis of the necessity for every educated citizen to be thoroughly grounded in economic science, and the raison d ' etre for collegiate training in business administration. Fhe factual material about business is changing rapidly from year to year: New conditions, new practices, new methods follow one another with baffling rapidity. In training men for business ad¬ ministration — the principal objective of this school — it is not desirable, therefore, to emphasize technique, but rather fundamental business principles and habits of thought. These then are the aims of courses in business: to assist the student to see clearly where seeing at all is difficult, and to train him to think logically and accurately about business problems. Clear insight and straight¬ thinking about life and economics require genuine ability of a high order. Business success further demands, it may be added, the attributes of strong character and a faculty for leadership. The School of Business Administration has now completed one college genera¬ tion. During this time it has graduated some forty men, all actively engaged in accounting, banking, merchandising and other business pursuits. The School is proud of the records that many of its graduates have made within a few brief years; it recognizes that the measure of its methods and service lies in the achieve¬ ments of the men upon whom it has conferred degrees. I he School is organized as a senior professional college. Students are received as juniors from other divisions of the University, from other colleges in the state and Irom out-of-state universities. Complete curricula are offered in accounting, banking and finance, industrial management, marketing and general business. In addition, there are specialized courses in public utilities, real estate and in¬ surance. The School offers a complete program in economics and sociology both for commerce majors and for students in other departments. Students may elect to combine busi¬ ness administration with law, chemistry, and other subjects having occupational value. In addition the School has a placement bureau which has for its function the establishment of contacts between graduates and concerns interested in employing commerce men. Bureau files now include more than a hundred outstanding corporations, many of whom send their employment representatives directly to the School. Plans for the future of the School comprehend an expansion of the teaching and research staff, enlarged housing and more adequate operating facili¬ ties, the establishment of a bureau of business re¬ search, and the publication of a business journal. Page 35