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

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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-

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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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COLLEGE HRTS HND SCIENCES As we approach the end of the year, one of the most profound economic and social revolution that the United States has ever known, we may well ask, ls there a future for the College of Liberal Arts? The answer to the question is closely bound up with the future of democracy, which itself is based upon the Ief- fersonian belief in the possibilities of the man who starts his career without wealth, family connections, or any stepping stone' to position, except ability and character. In that belief, lefferson did his last and greatest work - he founded the University of Virginia. If the opportunity for free and humane and individual development is to be denied the born leaders of democracy, the colleges of liberal arts and democracy will alike perish from America. No believer in democracy can look with equanimity upon the possible regimentation of its youth into any system that limits the spirit of intellectual adventure and soul-discovery that has marked the best of the colleges. The college must keep abreast of the powerful flow of human thought and aspirations, but it must not be swallowed by a system, for slavery to a system would 'mark the end of organized education as a vital element in human progress, and, as yet, we have nothing to take its place. Dean Virgil L. jones. -5-