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

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All sorts of research go on in Gray Hall. Engineers, the lost race, tackle a technical teaser. Such concentration implies impending finals. CURRICULAR ACTIVITY, IN A CLASS BY ITSELF In a lecture hall, a student takes pages of notes, doodling idly on the margin. In lab he looks for an “unknown”, known only to the instructor. In the library, he crams for an exam, and “takes a break” by skimming over a book in the recreational reading room or drifting downstairs for a quick smoke. Classroom and study facilities are as varied as the courses of study themselves. In as many cases as possible, the student learns by practice participation in his particular field — practice teaching, working in the green house, or producing an actual radio broadcast. Whatever his field of study, his required and elective courses, he is sure never to be far-re¬ moved from that all-important element of college life — the classroom. Critical agris inspect home-grown flora. Hable espanol to you, too.

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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

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Commerce students practice tor perfection. Such an intriguing device ... to engineers. Now put something into it—suffer! Lights burn long in the law library. Students turn teachers in Peabody Hall.