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

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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

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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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FINDING JOB EMBRYO ENGINEER ' S FIRST THOUGHT Opportunities for the Young Engineer Have Increased as Result of Accrued Depreciation in Industrial Machinery • Engineering is a profession involving the characteristics of science, art and business, and re¬ quires a knowledge of the physical laws of Nature, the mechanical properties of materials, the physical sciences—mathematics, physics, chemistry and me¬ chanics—, and the social sciences. • An engineer may practice his profession as an employee of a municipality, a corporation, a public utility, the Government or other public body; or, he may practice as a consulting engineer, or as an em¬ ployee of a consulting engineer. As an employee he receives a fixed salary. As an independent consulting engineer, his charges being a per diem fee or a per¬ centage of the cost of the work, his income depends upon his ability to sell his services and to render such satisfactory service that he will be sought by other clients and be recalled by satisfied ones. • On graduation from college the embryo engineer ' s first thought is to find a job so that he may help to start the wheels of industry which seem, recently, to have bogged down. For the past four years most beginning engineers have landed their first job in one of the Government ' s alphabetical adminis¬ trations. As industry has been restored to normalcy, opportunities for the young engineer have increased because of the accrued depreciation in industrial machinery. • The College of Engineering, through its per¬ sonnel department, is keeping in touch with its gradu¬ ates and is finding increasing opportunities to aid them in securing positions in their chosen fields. The prospect for a successful career in Engineering was never brighter than that opening before this year ' s gradu¬ ates. W. N. GLADSON DEAN W. N. GLADSON Engineering Page 31