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

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GRADUATE SCHOOL ■ One’s education during school days is largely empirical thinking based upon un¬ critical observation. In college, one’s growth is marked largely by the progress one makes in passing from observational to logical thinking. A successful college student learns to ground his conclusions on facts and sound thought processes. But a college student uses, for the most part, materials of other people’s gleaning. In a recent novel a young doctor is represented as being questioned by an examining board for a certain certificate. He is asked by one of his questioners, What do you consider to be the most important thing you have learned from your experience as a doctor?” To which the young man replied, To take nothing for granted.” It is my conviction that the young doctor had the graduate type of mind.” He had graduated from his undergraduate habit of learning the discoveries of others to trying to make discoveries of his own. John Clark Jordan. 26

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4 DEAN OF WOMEN Men have always dreamed of a world free from war. When Rome’s soldiers were ex¬ tending her power to the ends of the earth, her poets were singing of an age of peace. Blit this desire for peace has never developed into the will to peace. Nations are still willing to pay the cost of war; they r efuse to pay the uncertain price of peace. Elihu Root has said: ' Tor a new national relationship we must turn to education—culti¬ vate the sub-soil of men’s minds.” To considerable extent this is being done. In elementary schools the life and customs of other nations are being taught by books, foreign-made toys, dramatics, and moving pictures. Colleges and universities by way of ex¬ change professorships with foreign universities, scholarships, courses in international law, and study clubs, are developing an interest in international problems and an understanding of other nations. We can hope for prevention of war and advancement of peace only by education on the costs of war in men and money, and the encouragement of a national will to peace”. Martha M. Reid. 25

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Since the day when Arnold and Huxley debated the merits of the study of Greek life and of natural science as elements of culture, there have been many movements affecting education. Strong recent influences have been to make all education functional,” a term that apparently means vocational.” Among the vocationalists, there are those who would make all education above the high school vocational. Fortunately, this extreme view has aroused those who believe life is more than a means of earning a livelihood; that understanding, in some degree, the physical universe, the nature of man, the fine arts, social organiza¬ tion, is of fundamental importance in an education to make us anything but crafts¬ men or automata. So long as America has voices like those of the brilliant youthful president of the University of Chicago, youth and civilization will not be sold down the river.” Virgil Laurens Jones.