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

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The College of Liberal Arts GEORGE F. KAY Dean HAT are you taking? Oh, L.A.? Well, you won ' t have to study a great deal to pull down some good grades. ' ' How often is such a remark made. Yet, what is the vital truth concerning the College of Liberal Arts on this ca nipus ? It may be this peculiar idea developed because the subjects taught in this branch of the. university are known to be easy Fo grasp. It may be that the ' most intelligent students are registered in this college. Nevertheless, there stands in the way of all ' these arguments the fact that a degree given in this department is rec- ognized as being attained only after work of high scholastic standard. Various members of the professional colleges have been heard to remark that the cry of the present day is Specialization! And yet, all things considered, and the total result realized, the process of specialization is not nearly so important as the achievement of creating a broad background before the limitation of the world of study to restricted areas. A fact which the student of today is realizing more than ever before. Several years ago, scientists could see no possible relation between the study of animal biology and the pulling of a few teeth. Yet all pre-dentals are now required to be exposed to hours of animal bi before entering the professional college. George F. Kay, a member of the faculty of the Department of Geology and State Geologist of Iowa, is the fourth man to hold the position of Dean of the College since its foundation in 1855. His predecessors include Amos N. Currier, L.G.G., Weld, and William C. Wilcox. These men have seen the college grow from about 500 to nearly 6,000. Liberal Arts has become the starting place of the entire university. All professional schools are dependent on it for their enrollments. Countless numbers of men and women have taken work .in its halls and later become practicing profession- als. It may be frilly said that this unit of the university has become a sort of preparatory school for training in general and cultural fields before admission into specialized work. MERRILL S. GAFFXEY EARLE E. BEMAN DONALD PAREL PAUL H. PRESTON Twenty-four

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The Dean of Women ADELAIDE L. BURGE Dean of Women ONE of tlic busiest coi-nern of Ilio (;ini])ii3 is the wing of Old Capitol where Dean Adelaide L. Burge and her aides de c-,-iin|i i-iirry on thoir tasks as foster mother to the hosts of S.U.T. co-eds who each year arc under the supervision of the Dean of Women. Not the least difficult of the many problems confronting Dean Burge arc those which deal with the Iowa maidens who daily seek the royal audience chamber for advice on everything from how to earn extra pin money to whether or not it would be wise to elope without father ' s consent. One and .-ill receive the same sympathetic attention from Dean Burge. In addition to playing the dual role of mother confessor and guardian angel to dozens of Iowa University co-eds, Mrs. Burge is faced with the serious problem of satisfactorily housing all the young women who attend the university. In 1913, Currier Hall was built as the main dormitory for women and was then considered as sufficient housing space for all the women on the campus. In a few years it was necessary to establish several houses as annexes to Currier to take proper care of the increasing housing problem. This year, a new addition to Currier Hall will be built in order to provide dormitory space for Freshman girls only. This addition will provide housing accommodations for one hundred twenty girls. The office of Dean of Women offers advice to co-eds in selecting their courses of study until after their major subject is chosen. Standards of scholarship are set, opportunities for self-help in solving financial problems are provided, and life in sorority houses and private homes is supervised by the Dean of Women and her helpers. In addition to these activities, which would be more than enough to keep most people busy, Dean Burge is in close association with all women ' s organiza- k tions on the campus which tend to benefit co-ed life. Dean Burge has held the position of Dean of Women since 1921. Her matter-of-fact friendliness with each and every girl of the university, her magnetic personality and her splendid efficiency at her post have long established her as one of the powerful factors in the life of this great university. The office of Dean of Women was established in 1900, and each year brings added duties and complications to solve. Twenty-three

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BAW N ' S g The College of Medicine LEE W. DEAN Dean Awo regard tlio new hospital that the school of medicine will be using in the coming centuries, we do not stop to think that it was built of gasoline, or to be more exacting, that half of it was built of gasoline. Back in 1923 John D. Rockefeller g-ive the State University a donation of two and a quarter millions with which to build a university hospital, the condition of the gift being that the state legislature furnish a like sum. John D. Rockefeller could not have used his money to better advantage than to erect a hospital where embryo surgeons might practice. The school of medicine here is second to none, due mainly to the splendid cooperation of the state legislature with the medical men here in school. It could never be what it is if it were not for that ever-necessary support. With this important item Iowa has secured the service sof some of the best doctors and instructors of medicine in the country. The main cog in the successful school is Dr. Lee Wallace Dean, dean of the college of medi- cine, though perhaps the best known man in the college of medicine, is old Doc Prent, teller of stories and satirist supreme. The responsibility of the school, however, rests upon the shoulders of Dean Dean. He has been around here since 1914, having come back to his Alma Mater after an absence of eighteen years, during which time he spent one year, 1896- 1897, at the University of Vienna, continuing his studies in medicine. But who wouldn ' t want to come back after spending a year in the territory where Caesar crossed his Rubicon? So Dean Dean crossed his by comin g back to Iowa. Babson, himself, would never be able to figure out how many lives have been saved, due to the efforts of the school of medi- cine to prevent well people from getting sick, and in helping sick people to get better. One thing that the school is dealing with is the health conditions of Iowa. The future of the school is assured and the amount, of good that the world will receive from Iowa will make every student puff out his chest and say, I am from Iowa, the place where they grow corn and doctors. ROGER R. FLICKINGER IVAN II. SIIEELER CARL A. NOE A. M. STEGEMAN Twenty-five