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

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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.

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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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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Man has three fundamental physical needs—food, clothing, and shelter. Our College of Agriculture deals with all three fundamentals and attempts to teach how to obtain a satisfactory supply of each. When an individual—or a nation—finds difficulty in satisfying needs, restless¬ ness and ferment arise. Sometimes individuals adopt unsocial methods to satisfy them. Nations go to war to appease their wants. Our College of Agriculture, therefore, deals with those goods, which, when secured in abundance, encourage peace among individuals and nations. Man is a social animal. Our College of Agriculture does not, therefore, stop with instruction in methods of obtaining the three fundamentals. It completes its program by adding economics and sociology as they bear upon rural life. Dan T. Gray. 28