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

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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

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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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Dean G. E. Ripley DEAN Cf MEN TN PLANNING for the future, with conditions - • of the present, it is a good idea to look back over the past which was then the present and see how well the plans then drawn for the future have been realized with that future now the present. The old order does change, and if it can be shown that the “New” is better than the “Old” then progress has been made. Many upperclassmen have told me that student conduct “on the campus” is much better than it was when they were freshmen. They say it does not seem like the same campus. Many things have helped to bring about these better conditions. 1 shall mention some things which I feel have played no small part in this better campus life. We now have a working student government, especially when it comes to questions of student social activities. The “indefinite” Cadet Club of the past has given way to the “definite” Social Committee. This social committee of the “present” is helping make student government a success and its good work promises much for the plans of the future. Upperclassmen talk to me about improved study life of the campus as well as about the improved student conduct of the campus, and this improvement in study life has been noticed by those in charge of the University library. The Men’s Dormitory Council, “The Gumboots” as they are called, is doing its part in making student government a fact and not a theory, and the condi¬ tions in the men’s dormitories have become so satisfactory that there is now a waiting list. The Arkansas Boosters’ Club has been of great value and influence in moulding student sentiment of the lower classes as the Club has stood for wholesome clean fun and high sports¬ manship. The work of the Vigilance Committee this year was very successful, and was marked with college rank instead of high school rank. The Vigilance Committee of the future would do well to study the work of this committee in the handling of fresh¬ men problems. The students have made pro gress in student government and if they will read carefully the opening paragraph, present plans for the future will result in success of student government at the University of Arkansas Page 36