University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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cO University Council Frank LeRond McVey President of the University Frederick Paul Anderson Dean of the College of Engineering Paul Prentice Boyd Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Thomas Poe Cooper Dean of the College of Agriculture William Thornton Lafferty Dean of the College of Laxv Edwin S. Good Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry Glanville Terrell Head of the Department of Philosophy Franklin E. Tuttle Head of the Department of Chemistry Josephine Simrall Dean of Women C. R. Melcher Dean of Men Ezra Gillis Registrar 12 J P,

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College of Arts and Sciences ?liHE College of Arts and Sciences as now organized comprises twenty-three . departments and eighty-six teachers. Its enrollment for the first semester jjj of the present year was five hundred forty-eight. Its Freshman Class num- |fj bers two hundred four, and its graduating class, sixty. Its activities are manifold, and its contributions to the University work and play are made along many lines. It is the central college of the University, supplying much of the instruction, such as English, mathematics, physical and biological sciences, economics, art, hygiene, foreign languages, military science, and physical education to the students of the other colleges. It conducts a number of professional courses of its own. Leading to special degrees are the well and favorably known four years’ courses in industrial chemistry and journalism. The pre-medical courses have enabled Kentucky students to make first-class records in the best medical schools of the country. The Department of Art conducts a four years’ course that is receiving enthusiastic response from an ever increasing number of students. The courses fitting men and women for commerce, business administration and social work are growing rapidly in favor. The Department of Education with its model train- ing high school, is preparing teachers of the best kind. Graduates of the four years’ course in geology are finding immediate lucrative employment and rapid advancement in the oil and coal fields. The R. O. T. C. course is attracting many men who wish to prepare for reserve officers of the army; its work is expanding so that students obtain much more than the old two years of drill. 1 he Hygiene and Physical Education Depart- ments are fitting men and women for the new program of health instruction in the public schools. The courses in music are supplying teachers and supervisors in music; while opportunity is now given for practice in piano, violin and voice. The college fosters many so-called student activities. Students find helpful guidance and encouragement in their journalistic activities. The glee clubs, the orchestra, the band, and I he chorus are promoted. Oratory, debate, and dramatics are fostered with an idea of the educational contributions possible in them. The Campus Playhouse activities are bringing an element of information, recreation and culture that is usually absent in the grind of college life. Intramural sports for both men and women are bringing healthful recreation to a large proportion of the students. The departmental societies supply en- joyable elements. Altogether, student life is made rich and varied and broadening, while at the same time worth while because of sincere hard work. The college still maintains its ideal of an education that may not be in the popular sense “practical.” Pure science and the humanities wall never lose their devotees who study for the pure love of it, nor will they ever lose their culture-giving powers, nor will they ever cease to contribute to the enlarging of the boundaries of knowledge upon which depends industrial progress. 14