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

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lllifilXllFif3 lllll Dr. Paul YV. Nlilam, Dean of the College of Business Ad- ministration, came to the University of Arkansas in 1930, as an instructor. He was made Dean of the College of Business Administration in Nlarch, 1944, after serving for six months as acting dean. The College of Business Administration is one of the newest on the campus. It was organized as a two year School of Business by the late President Futrall and Dr. C. C. Fitchner in 1926, and it was only in 1936 that it became a four year college. VVhen the ASTP took over part of the Commerce Building for its administrative offices, the members of the Business School did not mind, because they had moved most of their classes to the new Classroom Building. The College offers courses in the fundamentals of account- ing, commercial law, economics, finance, typewriting, short- hand, and bookkeeping. Outside work for these subjects is done in the College,s own library. Commerce students celebrate their own Commerce Day, noted for its dollar marks smeared all over the campus. On this day they elect a queen, ignore classes, hold a dance, and put out a special edition of the Guild Ticker, official publication of the College. i : V f , 1 l , - Dean H. G. Hotz heads the College of Education. Noted for belonging to practically every committee on the campus, Dean Hotz is chairman of the University committee on Post- war Education and chairman of the State Organization Com- mittee for Conference on Postwar Plans for Higher Education in Arkansas. The College of Education had its beginning in 1398, when it was entitled the Department of Pedagogy. Not until 1918 did it lose this title and become the Department of Education. Then three years later the name was changed again to the College of Education. Headquarters for the College are found in Peabody Hall, where the prospective educators act as teachers as well as pupils. In the primary and high school department of the Uni- versity Training School, headed by C. H. Cross, the student teachers forget their theory and struggle with practice. Also under the wing of the College of Education comes Agricultural Education, which has its own offices in the in- firmary building. An outstanding service of the College of Education is the Teachers' Placement Bureau, which annually helps find schools for the graduates. Page 23

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llllfi :mil filllilfxlfllfi I r Dr. H. M. llosford, in addition to his duties as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and as Vice-President of the University, again this year directed the service program at the University when the ASTRP arrived on the campus in the summer of 1944. Dean Hosford came to the University as head of the mathematics department and was made Dean of the College in 1938. ln 1943 he succeeded Dean Julian S. VVaterman as Vice-President of the University. From his office on the sec- ond floor of Old Main, Dean Hosford directs the College of Arts and Sciences, which has boasted the largest enrollment on the campus since the University was founded in 1871. Besides offering courses that lead to a liberal education, the college also supervises many of the courses for pre-professional curricula. Old Nlain houses the departments of language, physics, speech, journalism, art, English, and history. ln other build- ings on the campus are the departments of philosophy, psy- chology, chemistry, Zoology, botany, and music. Because of his service in the last war, Dean lslosford has been unusually qualified to act as a capable adviser for the boys in his college who have tried to make their college work fit in with the military program. li ll li ll li lf, 'lf ll lyl Dean XV. R. Horlacher, head of the College of Agriculture, is also director of the Agricultural Extension Service and thus is kept in constant touch With the agricultural interests of the state. The College of Agriculture has headquarters in two build- ings on the campus-one for Agriculture and one for Home Economics. The University Experiment Farm is located about two miles north of the campus, and there the agri boys get a chance to try out the new farming methods they learn in the class room. They raise cattle, pigs, oats, wheat, and barley. Dairy products are marketed at the University dairy, thus giv- ing the students the chance to follow their products from the farm to the market. The Home Economics building is one of the newest and best-equipped buildings on the campus. Nursery school and the bacteriology lab are located in the basement, a living room and a dining room in connection with the foods lab are found on the first floor, and clothing labs and the department for practice teaching are found on the third. The College of Agriculture has made a special effort to develop courses in the University curriculum for the veterans of Vllorld War ll. Since the war started, the College has directed campaigns to help the war effort in getting enough food raised for the war emergency. Page 22

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i M 5 1 A 'J 1 U ,Q 1 1 ' ?'ifltl1lH HN i ...-.a .i. 1 -,al .. 1 .'-.1 ...4 Dr. George Patrick Stoker, Dean of the College of Engi- neering, has done his part to keep the College of Engineering in step with the war effort and to make it one of the leading engineering colleges in the Southwest. This is his seventeenth year as Dean of the college. Engineering has been one of the most outstanding courses offered by the University since its establishment on the campus in 1871. The first engineering training given by the Univer- sity was in civil and mining engineering, but in a short while mechanical replaced the mining, and in 1885 electrical engi- neering was added. The last addition was chemical engineer- ing. ln 1912 all the courses in CE, lVIlfi, Iflj, and Chli were combined into the College of Engineering. Forgetting classes for one day each year, the Engineers paint the campus with shamrocks on St. Pat's Day, and Erin Go Braugh becomes the password. The boys elect a Stl Pat and St. Patricia and the order of the Knighthood reigns for that day over all festivities, which include a bonfire, convocation, and dance. For weeks before this great day the boys vie with each other to see who can grow the longest beard, and on St. Pat's day the winner receives a kiss from St. Patricia. Dr. John Clark jordan, Dean of the Graduate School, heads the youngest school on the campus, established on the Univer- sity campus in 1927, under the direction of the late President J. C. Futrall and Dean Jordan, who at that time was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Before the graduate students were gathered together into their own college, they Were handled by a committee. Now they have a dean and a council to direct the curricula of the students working for their higher degrees. The original enrollment of the graduate school was only 34, but just before the War it had reached its peak when in 1941 the graduate student body had jumped to over three hundred. Requirements of a Masterls degree from the University of Arkansas are thirty weeks' residence, an oral examination, and in most cases a thesis. The University offers advanced degrees of Nlaster of Arts or Sciences, and professional degrees in four branches of engineering. Besides being Dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Jordan is head of the English Department and teaches a full time sched- ule of classes. This year he has acted as host in the Music Room in the Student Union, where classical music was played on request each afternoon. Page 24