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

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S ITUATED 1,500 feet above the sea, sur¬ rounded by Ozark hills, is the University of Arkansas. For thousands of knowledge-seekers every year, this is the place—the place where they live, learn, work, play. It has been the temporary home and office for tens of thousands of students. Six sororities, fourteen fraternities, six dormi¬ tories, and hundreds of privately operated houses furnish homes for nearly 5,000 students. Sprawled over 160 acres in Fayetteville are about 28 build¬ ings, which, directly and indirectly, provide the place for study. Seventy-seven years ago the people of Fayette¬ ville gave $30,000 toward establishment of the Arkansas Industrial School. Today that school, with a different name, has nearly $8,000,000 in¬ vested in this northwest Arkansas city. Students are not the only persons for whom the University is the place. For sports fans throughout the country it is the place where mighty Southwest Conference teams are born. To industry it is a source of trained personnel. For farmers it is the place of experimenting for better crops. For all Arkansas, it is the place where state growth begins. Dormitories, classroom buildings, libraries, stu¬ dent union, Greek houses, stadium, farm, field house, cafeterias—all are part of one big place, a place where learning lives.