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

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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

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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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SCHOOL OF LAW In law school, students are taught to observe the canons of ethics of the Amer¬ ican Bar Association and to heed the oath taken on admission to the bar. Both the canons and the oath set standards of conduct which, if followed by leaders within a nation, might prevent international strife and make world peace more than a wish. This oath reads in part: I will not counsel or maintain any cause which is unjust; I will employ for the purpose of maintaining the cause confided to me such means only as are consistent with accepted standards of truth and honor and will never seek to mislead by any false statement; and I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed”. Julian Seesel Waterman. 29