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

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Dean Lippert S. Ellis, Agriculture Dean S. D. Nichols, Arts and Sciences Dean George F. Branigan, Engineering Dean V. W. Adkisson, Graduate Page 16 rm

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Miss Babbitt and Flo Martin confer about the state of affairs in Holcombe. Page 15

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Camera ' s eye view of the campus and its colleges. THE COLLEGES ARE THE UNIVERSITY When it was still Arkansas Industrial Univer¬ sity, the University was expected to be an institu¬ tion of broad outlook and varied service. In 1874, resident Bishop quoted a contemplated plan for a University of four colleges with thirteen subor¬ dinate schools. The colleges were: agriculture, en¬ gineering, natural science, and general science and literature. Schools of military science and com¬ merce were also planned. There was also a normal department. None of the students entering for the first par¬ tial school year, January-July, 1872, were con¬ sidered qualified to enroll as freshmen. Ten of the more advanced students were listed in the normal department, while the remainder, ninety-one, were enrolled in the preparatory department. I he title of “dean” first appeared in the catalog of 1905-06 and was applied to W. G. Vincenheller °1 the College of Agriculture. There was then no dean for the College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, often called the College. Under the present system, the University is composed of five colleges: arts and sciences, edu¬ cation, engineering, agriculture, and business ad¬ ministration, and two schools: graduate and law. The student interested in anything from Aerodv- namics to Zoology can find instruction here, which is a far cry from the limited curriculum in the days when the University was “but thirty hours from Little Rock by stage and rail, and students were passed at half fare to the Capital.” Dean Robert A. Lefiar, Law Page 17