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

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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

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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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Education Born in Scandinavia, Hlisconsin, Dean ld. G. Hotz first absorbed higher learning at Ushkosh State Normal. Took Nl. A., Ph. B at University of VVisconsin, Ph. D. at Columbia. First tute- lage was in form of enlightening' students in a one-room country schoolhouse. After several years with schools in Vllisconsin, he taught at Vililliam and Nlary and from there arrived at Arkansas in 1919. Been with College of Edu- cation ever since except for two years spent as high school supervisor for Arkansas, 1923-1925. Made dean in 1934. A chess fiend, Dean llotz keeps a constant battle array in the mails with his brother who lives in Vvisconsin. Takes about a year to play a game, and the Dean is usually the winner. Also likes to putter around in his garden. ls now work- ing on a book, Tzfarlwm' iwmzzzal for Conser- wzlion for KIIJCLIIISLJS f':l87llt?1'Il6ll'j' and Secondary Sclzfmlx. DEAN H. G. HOTZ It was 1898 A.D. when the College of lfducation first saw the dawn under the erudite appellation, Department of Pedgagogy. ln 1918 it assumed the less pretentious name of Department of lfducation. and three years later became the present College of liducation. In the traditional red brick schoolhouse, Peabody llall, the future despots of desk and rod garner 'lbook larnin and theory from ljducation intelligentsia, Drs. Bent, Cross, Kronenberg, and Reinoehl. ln the University training school, student practice teachers discover why teachers turn gray, as they forget their theory and struggle with practice. Over a hundred students enroll each year for practice teaching, and several enroll for directed coaching. Annually the Teachers' Placement Bureau helps hnd schools for the graduates. ln spite of the war situation, the enrollment has not dropped appreciably, for there is still about the usual number of potential abecedarians to carry on in noble form the triple R curriculum. The aims and ideals of the education profession continue along their way: giving students a broad general education: teaching them to master the special subject or subjects they wish to teach, supple- menting this training with courses to give them skill in teaching techniques, and actual practice under supervised direction. Biggest headache of Dean Hotz is planning the annual summer school session. This year offers new problems since more courses are being offered. so that those who wish may get their degrees before the draft gets them.