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

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campus but all the citizens of its state. This has made the University of Arkansas, along with other state universities, an integral and invaluable institution in its state. I he curriculum at Arkansas is constantly being augmented and improved. Its research facilities keep pace with the latest scientific and technological developments. And the U niversity is justifiably proud of its physical expansion. Social and recreational facilities are de¬ signed so that every student may find activi¬ ties of particular interest to him, whether they he dancing, tennis, photography, or any of a hundred others. Professional and honorary organizations thrive, too, where a student may find guidance an d training in the various fields in which he is interested. Through extra-curricular activi¬ ties, he makes practical use of his training and interests, participating in plays, working on a earn pus publication, competing in a debate tournament. When Arkansas students get together, at an out-of-town football game, an alum ban- Tiet, or merely by accident, the sight of a red a nd white cap, or the band’s playing of the Alma Mater, or the mention of a familiar name, seems to make them old acquaintances, nch i s the attitude, unconscious perhaps, of its students. It is more than a pride in the bine Arts Center, or the campus. It is simply the pride in being, or having been, a student a t Arkansas. The Arkansas Story is being continuously written. It is a story that will manifest itself ln an office building, on a farm, in an artist’s studio, in a school room, in a law court, in an cn gineer’s shack. It has no ending as yet, for it will con¬ tinue to be written as long as there is a Uni¬ versity of Arkansas. They go to class—sometimes. And play football, or watch football being played. And party, party, party.

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Cheering at a football game, working in a class¬ room, relaxing at a campus dance, participating in extra-curricular activities, the Arkansas student prac¬ tices citizenship, friendship, and leadership. Gone is the idea of a happy-go-lucky, pennant- waving, goldfish-swallowing Joe College. Today’s college student may be fun-loving, but he is no longer blithely carefree. Gone, too, is the idea that college is a four-year period of suspended animation. The modern college student, alert, aware, with a sense of his own re¬ sponsibility, has dispelled that. Originally, a state university was supposed to teach the students who came to study on its campus. This is still a very important part of its work, but no long¬ er the only part. By research, it is expected to add to the general human knowledge. And now, it must serve as fully as possible not only the citizens on its

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4 V| iSJ “There was nothing to start from but a farm house and one hundred and sixty acres of land, a hill side surpassingly beautiful indeed, a location the finest in the State, but the soil alone to build upon.” So said A. W. Bishop, second president of the “Arkansas Industrial University with a Normal Department Therein”, in his inaugural address in 1874, three years after the school was founded in Fayetteville. Today, seventy-seven years later, that same “hill side surpassingly beautiful” is covered with classroom buildings and residence halls, and Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, twelfth president of the University of Arkansas, formerly Arkansas Indus¬ trial University, recently stated that its main problem would soon be the lack of room for physical expansion. Arkansas Industrial University was the result of the firm belief ol the people ol the state in education. Four General Assemblies were to pass acts to establish a state university under provisions of the Morill Act before the ideal was achieved. In 1871 the first University Board of Trustees, elected by the General Assembly, met to decide whether the University was to be located in Fayetteville or Batesville, the only two towns with interest enough in a state university to make an offer. I he trustees chose Fayetteville, purchased a 160 acre homestead for $12,000, and chose Noah P. Gates as president of the new school. On opening day, January 22, 1872, the University welcomed eight students, all from Fayetteville. The sole coed in the group complained because she was the only girl, but her mother sent her back, telling her there would soon be more girls. And there were, for enrollment increased rapidly. During Bishop’s term construction was begun on the building which has come to symbolize the University — University Hall, familiarly known as “Old Main . The Executive Committee saw to it that the building met exact specifications of comfort and efficiency. “Resolved,” it stated, “that the Secretary be authorized to purchase such numbers of stoves and as many joints of pipe as may be absolutely necessary to heat the rooms of the new building,” . . . “not exceeding ten rooms,” it carefully added. During the administration of General D. H. Hill, personification of the Old South, the school kept up its struggle for survival. Increased attendance, the build¬ ing of a new dormitory for men and of a new laboratory for physics and chemistry, the establishment of an agricultural experiment station, the recognition of the Law School in Little Rock soon followed. The growth of student loyalty and activity is indicated by the first issue of a University magazine and the publication of the con¬ stitution and by-laws of the athletic association. In 1889 the General Assembly agreed that the name of Arkansas Industrial Uni¬ versity should be changed to the University of Arkansas. The choice of a color, cardinal, representing the University, is reported in the Cardinal } predecessor to the Razorback. Under the administration of President John C. Futrall (1913-39), the University entered upon a period of broadening viewpoint, using the work of many who had gone before as a sure foundation. In 1922, a semi-centennial celebration of the University was held. Highlight of the celebration was the