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

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JOHN CLINTON FUTRALL President of the University of Arkansas

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few hard-earned shekels. But see the line below! When the picture was taken, Jenola Ferguson was so far back that the camera almost missed her, but when we returned five minutes later she had politicked her way to the head of the line. Bob McCann, lurking- in the background with that Philo Vance- Sherlock Holmes headgear, must have been looking even then for a good political layout. But where is Hilda Stroud? With the good old fee system at the Uni¬ versity all of the current expenses, debts, salaries, etc., must be met, and one of the new things that the students will get to pay for in 1936-’95 are the new buildings that we were so fortunate to get this year, with the help of Old Uncle Sam and the State of Arkansas. By some chance the building of all these new buildings did not require as much as the contractors expected them to and the result was that approximately one hundred thousand dollars was left over for the boys to then fight for, that is, to get it re-invested on the campus. This was to be done for a new field house, to take the place of the temporary one that we have had for the last twenty years or more. This also be¬ came known about the time that the student elections came along and the result was that both of the parties, student, had a lot of ma¬ terial for their platforms (so, what?) and they promised to either get that little nest egg- put toward the new field house or pay off the little war debt that the University now owes for the afore-mentioned new buildings. Well, the result was, or rather will be, decided by the new Board of Trustees which the Governor will ap¬ point and the students, as usual, will have their great amount to say in the final out¬ come of the matter. But it will all come out for the good in the end, and that end is for the ever Greater University of Arkansas, and it is you, and you, and you to help by doing your part. (Was something said about fees?) Another picture that we failed to get was the ever-active brothers of the White Cross Lodge getting in all of the good work during “Line Time,” making those rush dates— some one said that in one of those long, long- lines that a man (at the beginning) was pledged to the lodge and that by the time he reached the head of the line, he was proudly displaying- the well-known cross. (Fast work, boys, sounds bad for the group on the other hill.) But it sure was too bad we didn’t get a picture of the inimitable Gertie Pearson putting it over, by falling into step with Dean Jones and passing up the poor benighted souls who had been standing in line for hours waiting to see the dean. Only a few times a year do we see the students so zealous to do a thing, that they forsake all else to accomplish it. Registration, election day, and securing a copy of the RAZORBACK are among those things which call forth such Herculean effort on the part of Mr. Joseph College. However, there are a few exceptions to the rule, at which time Mr. Joseph C. gets a bit over-zealous, just before the well-known exam time and the day before that term paper is due to be in to that oh-so-unreasonable instructor, who insists that they must be in on time. But now for the rest of the song. The year begins and it’s “reactin ' , ’ritin’, and ’rithmetic.” Page 11

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE OR a period of twenty years—from 1905 to 1925—the State X7 of Arkansas did not make it possible for a single new building to be erected on the campus of the University of Arkansas. In the latter year provision was made for the new Agriculture and Engineering Buildings, both of which are as well designed and constructed, as completely equipped and as beautiful as any similar buildings to be found in the nation. The erection of these two buildings, however, by no means solved the housing - problem of the University. Taking advantage of an act passed by the Legislature of 1933, the University has borrowed from the Federal Public Works Administration more than a million dollars to construct a new Library Building and a new Chemistry Building, with the necessary utilities and addi¬ tions to the heating plant. These buildings will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1935. The new library, which was designed after a study of the newest and best library buildings in the country, will for the first time make it possible for the students and faculty of the Univer¬ sity to utilize to the best advantage the large and valuable collec¬ tion of books the University possesses. The best education is no longer a matter of text books and of questions and answers by teachers and students. For languages and for the humanities in general, the library serves the same purpose that the labora¬ tory serves in the scientific divisions. The new chemistry building is a very large structure and will for the time being house also the departments of geology, zoology and of philosophy and psychology. Later on, no doubt, the entire building will be needed for chemistry alone. While it can not be claimed that these four new buildings have entirely solved the housing problems of the University, any one who was familiar with the campus ten years ago can not fail to be impressed with the great contrast in the physical condi¬ tion of the institution then and now. John C. Futrall.