University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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T T T g T T T r T T T T T T I T T T T of low a No discussion of the office of the dean of men, however brief, would be complete without just a word about its origin and development. This work has grown up practically within the last twelve years. Just previous to this time Thomas Arkle Clark of the University of Illinois, and a member of its faculty, became deeply interested in the personal side of student life. He had a happy faculty of getting acquainted with boys. He was kindly sympathetic toward the human problems that confront them as they faced their college duties. Through his conferences and excellent advice and fine influence, he soon became invaluable to both students and faculty in helping solve many of the perplexing student problems. It was largely because of the splendid results of this work that he was finally relieved entirely of his instructional duties and made Dean of Men. I believe he is the first person to bear this title. It is the duty of the dean of men to analyze carefully all of the personal influences which affect the lives of students, either as individuals or as groups, and in a large way guide and direct the activities and energies of the student body along channels which will bring the student the largest degree of success and happiness in his college life, and make him in the finest sense of the word a desirable citizen. Through the office of the dean of men, as well as through the efforts of the members of the faculty, the universit or college says to its students, We are interested in you as men, not as machines. We want you to feel that you have an individuality and a place of your own in this great system of modern education. We want you to know that the entire resources of this institution are at your disposal for your success and happiness. We ask for your close and earnest co-operation to the end that your college days may be fruitful, and that you shall go out into the world and into the service of humanity with a splendid ideal of responsibility and obligation to be discharged. x-c. DEAN KL. Page 20

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::l:x lr:r:x-rx A A A 77z6 University of the Future C VKRY person who has studied the history of this Commonwealth will agree that the people of Iowa believe in education. From the first session of Iowa ' s legislature to the last meeting of the Fortieth General Assembly, no public interest has been held more firmly in mind than that of adequate training for our boys and girls. Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent and are being spent annually on the elemen- tary schools, the high schools, and institutions of higher learning. Yes, Iowa believes in education as the fundamental basis of democracy. In this tremendous sweep of educational interest, the University of Iowa has been constantly recognized. By and large, the citizens of the State have always been eager for the University to stand high in the ranks of universities. Herein they see the means of preparation for the highest type of citizenship. In these latter years the University has been enabled to advance in a wonderful manner. Its attendance has increased incredibly, more than trebling in a decade and doubling in five or six years. Along with this growth have come greatly increased resources and opportunities. Most important of all, the individual student has become the subject of deeper solicitude than in the days of smaller things. Boys and girls, not buildings and equipment, are what really matters. Only from the past can one forecast the future, and the future looks bright. In a material way the University seems to be on the verge of realization of the dreams of the men of old. The present year is to see the completion of the last building on the five spot on Old Capitol Campus. This done, the University will definitely turn its face to the west. With its mall running down to the river, the new front will be very beautiful ; no University of the country will be more dignified and inspiring, and all without ostentation. At the same time construction of the new medical buildings on the other side of the river will go rapidly forward. In the near future, one may hope, a line of new dormitories for men will crown the slopes of the adjacent hills. When these are com- pleted, a new vista will be seen from Old Capitol, an attractive counterpart of the five buildings on the east side. The river now flows through the midst of the campus instead of at its foot. Nor may one forget the new buildings fast extending north- ward or the great playground stretching off to the west. When one glances back at the ancient universities of the old world, at Padua, Oxford, Paris, he comes to realize how true it is that a great university is not the work of a generation but of a race. How one would like to look ahead even for a hundred years! What will the University of Iowa be in 2024? Far larger than now, surely; doubtless more beautiful, too. Will that be all? I hope not. Size may or may not be a blessing. Iowa admires beauty. But these are not the things most essential. In the long look ahead one may see more clearly developed an institution which will be the creation and the creator of intelligence and character. In the spirit of the pioneer founders, of the citizenry of Iowa, these ideals are grounded forever.

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o 7 While there seems as yet to be no fully standardized definition of the work of the Dean of Women, it is generally understood to be advisory leadership of the young women in our Univer- sities. This phase of the administration concerns itself with the whole life of the student and thus in matters academic and in the details of every day living the Dean of Women should be the wise and patient friend of every girl, regardless of color or creed or ancestry, personality, or mental power. If the real object of an education is conceded to be the development of an attitude toward life the office of the Dean of Women is assisting in the process by emphasizing ideals of character, by maintaining standards of behavior, and by affording disciplinary training in citizenship and service while striving to stress constantly the power and honor and glory of true womanhood. i-i