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

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BOHRD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS GOVERNOR I. M. FUTRELL ---- Chairman T. C. CARLSON ---- Secretary and Auditor MEMBERS FRED I. BROWN ---- - Little Rock T. D. WYNNE - - - Fordyce IOI-IN M. ANDREWS - - Fort Smith HARRY L. PONDER - - Walnut Ridge lOI'IN G. RAGSDALE - - El Dorado I-I. M. IACKSON - - Marianna MARION WASSON - - Fayetteville MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO I. M. FUTRELL ----- The Governor of Arkansas W. E. PI-IIPPS - - The State Commissioner ot Education W. E. Phipps Marion Wasson Fred I. Brown T. C. Carlson Iohn M. Andrews Harry L P d ..4...

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THE GOVERNCJR OF THE STHTE I. M. Futrell. The University of this State is becoming more and more useful beyond training the young Women and men of this state and elsewhere. lt is enteringmore into the economic and business life of the state. More and more, it is attempting to solve difficult questions which concern us. The field of its efforts in this direction should gradually expand. The present depression, the greatest in all history, has caused a general dis- cussion more earnestly than ever before of economic questions. The rapid increase in development by invention, machinery and processes have so displaced men and women in useful employment that serious dislocations and maladjustments have resulted. To take up this slack, it is said that the hours of labor must be reduced. The plan is to reduce labor to four hours per day. Will that be best for man? To those who make use of spare hours in useful study, improvement will come. What about those who Will not so employ their spare time? ls it, or is it not, best for mankind generally to be employed as much as eight hours per day with proper vacations? Our Universities are best prepared to make careful research and study of these questions, and to assist in the solution of many vexing problems which the develop- ments of this age have brought. May the usefulness of the University of Arkansas gradually expand as the days go by, and be equal to fully perform its duties towards the Welfare of the country! T ' -3-

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GRHDUHTE SCHOOL In these days of depression, I am often asked for my opinion as to the advisability of a student's entering upon graduate work after the completion of his college course. Particular cases are best left to the judgment of the student him- self, but in general I have certain convictions. I believe that the maximum in undergraduate enrollment has been reached, at least for some years. Few additional teachers will therefore be needed. This fact has considerable bearing on the matter of graduate study, inasmuch as many persons take up graduate study primarily as a means to advancement in the teach- ing profession. I believe that many people should be discouraged from beginning graduate Work, but I believe just as firmly that able students should be encouraged even more than they have been in the past. The depression will have been of much benefit if it forces us to improve the quality of our graduate students, a result of great value if it raises the standard of our teachers,'and if it develops scholars who are capable of adding to the world's knowledge. I ' Dean john Clark jordan. -5-