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

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GRADUATE STUDY GREAT AID TO TEACHING Dean Jordan Believes That Maximum in Undergraduate Enrollment Has Been Reached • 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 himself; 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 gradu¬ ate study, inasmuch as many persons take up graduate study primarily as a means to advancement in the teaching 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. DEAN J. C. JORDAN Graduate School • 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 stand¬ ard of our teachers, and if it develops scholars who are capable of adding to the world ' s knowl¬ edge. J. C. JORDAN • Page 29

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NEXT HUNDRED THE HARDEST SAYS DEAN RIPLEY Solving of Next Hundred Year ' s Problems Should Pave the Way Truth forever on the scaffold Wrong forever on the throne, But the scaffold sways the future And behind the dim unknown Standeth faith within the shadows Keeping watch above her own. • You and I are living past centuries in present throbbing minutes, crowding da ys of what to do into seconds of how to do, as we raise our standards, broaden our new horizons and make right today wrong tomorrow by replacing superstition with education. • S. E. RIPLEY Dean of Men The next hundred years may be the hardest, but you and I will not be present when Arkansas cele¬ brates her second Centennial. When the Editor of the 2036 RAZOR- BACK asks the Dean of Men for the second centennial story the Dean may write The next hundred years will be the best . Here ' s hoping this will be his story but I am not certain. However, I have confidence in the thought so clearly portrayed in the fol¬ lowing lines somewhat paraphrased. • To you students, who are young and full of hope and vision, we give the problems—and they are many, of the future. May you do better than we have done, and when you must pass on your work as we are now doing, may it be said to the youth of 2036 THE NEXT HUN¬ DRED YEARS WILL BE THE EASIEST. G. E. RIPLEY Page 28

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TWO QUESTIONS FROM THE DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Jones Compares Arkansas Education to That of Sister State What has Arkansas done for higher educa¬ tion in its hundred years of statehood? And what have the humanities, as taught in the College of Arts and Sciences of the University, done for Arkansas? The first question may be answered by the records. Unlike its sister state of Michigan, only a few months younger, Arkansas did not begin statehood with a university that was almost immediately to extend its influence to every part of the nation and to assist in the creation of material values undreamed of by the pioneer. Arkansas, as a state, was almost forty years old before it had a state university at all, and the pioneers were all dead before it had a standard modern state university. It now has the staff, the equipment, and, above all, the students with which it should become a vital force in the life of the state. To say that is not to discredit the fine work of a former day nor to disparage the influence that a good many thousand men and women who attended the university before 1920 have had in the life in the state. It is merely to call attention to the fact that only now, for almost the first time, is the university touching all sections and all interests of the state. For the answer to the second question, we shall have to wait until those who are now students in the uni¬ versity become the new pioneers in the realities of Arkansas in its second century. V. L. JONES Page 30