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Page 32 text:
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PRESIDENT LEWIS WEBSTER JONES Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, twelfth president of the Uni¬ versity of Arkansas, is widely known as an educator and economist. Dr. Jones, who came here from Bennington College in Vermont, is a native of Nebraska; but was reared near Portland, Oregon. He received his B. A. degree from Reed College in Portland. He did graduate work at Columbia University and Robert Brookings Graduate School, from which he received his Ph. D. His post-doc¬ toral work was done in England and Switzerland. He has directed the University’s three-fold development in resi¬ dence instruction, research, and extension. Dr. Jones’ aims for next year are four: further develop¬ ment of undergraduate work and of a State Medical Cen¬ ter; and expansion of the Graduate School and of Research Activities. Page 30
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The PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Scattered over the world are many relatively small bits of the earth’s surface which have become virtually hal¬ lowed ground—shrines which stand as monuments to man¬ kind’s struggle for personal freedom and intellectual and spiritual development. They have become shrines, not because they were espe¬ cially endowed with the material gifts of nature, but rather by their association with the lives and deeds of men and women, or generations of men and women, who left their imprint on the course of history. On November 11 th, 1871, three men—members of a Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees of the envisioned Arkansas Industrial University—arrived in Fayetteville to select a site for the infant institution of higher learning. After viewing ten proposed sites in Wash¬ ington County, they selected the William Mcllroy farm, the acres of which now constitute the main portion of the Fay¬ etteville campus. Nature had favored the location with great beauty, but the site itself had no prestige, no claim to fame. Beautiful though it was, it was merely one among thousands of fine Arkansas farms. As President Bishop remarked a few years later, it supplies “the soil alone to build upon”. It remained for generations of scholarly men and women, and genera¬ tions of earnest students, to make of it hallowed ground, a cultural and intellectual shrine of the state. It would be foolish indeed to attempt to evaluate in dol¬ lars and cents the contributions of the University of Arkan¬ sas to the state which gave it birth and which has nourished Joe E. Covington Executive Assistant it through three-quarters of a century. True, the academic and professional training which thousands of young men and women have received on our campus has brought to them increased earning powers, and the research and exten¬ sion activities have had far-reaching material benefits to the people of our state; but the intagible returns—breadth of vision, sense of civic responsibility, and profound apprecia¬ tion of our cultural, intellectual, spiritual, and political heri¬ tage—are beyond evaluation by any material standards. These are the things which have made a shrine of these broad acres. Only human achievement and human aspira¬ tions can keep this hilltop a hallowed place in the affections of future generations. Lewis Webster Jones, President
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