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

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Graduates Yvith genial smile, Uean .lohn Clark Jordan tells of the trouhle he got into with a satirical pamphlet he puhlished when a student at Knox. The Dean received his A. B. at Knox, Ph. D. at Columhia. Chief likes besides literature, which he teaches, are music and his cahin, ten miles from Fayette- ville. Preliers classical music, hut enjoys a good dance orchestra . Favorite writer is linglish poet, Yvordsworth. Carlyle and Newman are also spe- cialties. llas puhlished a literary study, Robert C1l'l't'lIl'. lrlimselli a dramatist at heart, Dean ,lordan keeps a warm place in his heart for the theatre. Favorite modern dramatist is Lillian Hellman. Takes Xvilla Cather for modern novelist. Poeti- cally speaking, he supposes he's partial to Carl Sandburg, largely hecause Sandburg and the Dean hail from the same home town hack in lllinois. DEAN JOHN CLARK JORDAN ln 1927 when everything from husiness to hootlegging was hooming, there was also a hoom in higher learning. At least there was at the Cniversity of Arkansas, for that was the year the Graduate school was hegun under the direction of the late President ll. C. lfutrall and Dean Jordan, then Dean ot Arts and Sciences. Prior to that time any graduate students that appeared were handled hy the under-graduate schools and a committee. Now there is a dean and a council to aid students struggling tor their higher degree sheepskins. The University offers advanced degrees of master of arts or science, and professional degrees in chemical, civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering. From an enrollment of forty in '34, the graduate student hody jumped to over three hundred last year, including the summer session: indications are, however, that the enrollment will drop appreciably this summer. The decrease is only natural considering the fact that most ot those working on their advanced degrees, males at least, will he serving their country first and higher education second. Requirements for advanced degrees are that the candidates he in residence at the University for at least thirty weeks, complete twenty-four semester hoursg take an oral examination, and write a thesis, which, under certain conditions, can he waived. Under the direction of Dean .lordan the Graduate school has furthered its principal aim: to give each student such an integrated program of study as may serve him best in the particular task he has chosen.

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Page 25 Dean nf en and Dean nf Women Behind the doors marked Personnel Office , on the first floor of the Student Union, are the strongholds of the dean of women and the dean of men. Here Deans Jeannette Scudder and Allan S. Humphreys hold forth, dispensing with equal ability advice, admoni- tion, and assuagement. lVliss Scudder is but a sophomorel' at the University, having been here only two years. But already the dynamic young dean has endeared herself to the feminine portion of the population. Since the advent of the war the problems confronting lVIiss Scudder have become more preponderant. ln her words: The University now has the twofold function of preparing people for leadership in the war in which we are now engaged, and convincing them of the importance of being prepared for leadership in a post-war world as well. She has enlarged her field of activities by promoting defense work for girls, and was instrumental in bringing the first vocational conference for women to the campus. This year she attended numerous conventions over the country, including the meeting of the National Association of Deans of Xvomen in San Francisco and a forum at Stephens College. Nfr. Humphreys has been dean of men for the past five years. He plays the dual role of teacher and dean, appearing at assorted hours of the day over in the Chemistry building in the capacity of associate professor of chemistry, and the remaining hours behind his desk in the deanls office. ln fact. he manages to keep fairly busy. Always interested in the welfare of the boys, the Dean frequently visits the infirmary to offer cheer and en- couragement to campus invalids. Tennis, swimming, the theater, and reading occupy the leisure time of Nliss Scudder. Squire Humphreys pursues the hobby of pursuing his ancestors, and is quite proud of his books in the field of genealogy. XYhen not pursuing ancestors, he likes to cultivate flowers. JEANXETTE SCUDDER ALLAN S. HUMPHREYS

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Arts and Sciences Although utilitarians scoff at the arts, and although the war has taken its toll to some extent, there still escapes from one end of the basement of Old Nlain, center of Arts and Sciences activities, the noise of clicking typewriter keys as would-be journalists and authors pound out their masterpieces. From the other end of the basement comes the grind of machinery as the physicist takes over. Up on the second floor the future statesmen still wrangle, and emulators of Herodotus ponder the weighty problems of politics and war. On the third floor the languages and art still reign supreme, from the Teutonic grunts of the German classes, the nasal phonetics of the French classes, the satirical comments on lfnglish themes, to the sculpture of a twenty-year-hence Nlichelangelo and the latest portrait of a modern Raphael. Considering the fact that between twenty-live and thirty percent of University students are enrolled in Arts and Sciences, and that some eighty professors instruct them, it would seem that the arts and sciences are not dead, nor even dying. The College tends to give the student a well-rounded personal development by enrolling him in pre-professional curricula, and providing him with the resources of a liberal education. Factors that contribute to a general knowledge and interpretation of forces, tendencies, conflicts, and problems of life are emphasized. From her desk in the Dean's office, Nlrs. Fred F. Borden, vivacious trouble-shooter for Dean Hosford, struggles with schedules and students who f'aren't doing so well . She likes music, classical and religious, but has to admit those South American pieces have something . Three years head of the College of Arts and Sciences and still Dean H. NI. Hosford does not consider himself a veteran demagogue. Very modest and retiring, the Dean, although any- thing but loquacious when talking of himself, waxes lyrical about his college. The dean hails from Vvaxahachie, Texas, 'a little bit south of Dallas . Qbtained the rudi- ments of higher learning' at SNIU when that school was in its infancy. Took Nl. A. and Ph. D. at lllinois. Then returned to SNIU to teach six years before coming to Arkansas as a mathe- matics instructor. lnsists he has no hobbies unless you call read- ing a hobby . A sports fan, he is particularly fond of baseball, but claims he has no favorite team or player. lixcept, of course, in football and basketball. Then it's: Let's go, Razorbacks! DIZ.-XX Il. NI. IIOSFURIJ Page 27