University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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College of Arts and Sciences Acting Dean J. Freeman Pyle The College of Arts and Sciences provides a bread education in the liberal arts and sciences. In the junior and senior years, the student completes a close- ly unified group of courses leading toward vocational, professional, or cultural goals. The v ork of the last two years is divided into four Upper Divisions, grouped under the following departments: Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences. Looking in on one oj the many classes. Despite the fact that many of its staff has left the University to engage in active war work, the College of Arts and Sciences has continued to maintain high standards and to offer the best courses possible for pre-medical, pre-dental, and pre-law students. Although many of the Army Specialized Training students left the University early in the year, those who remained were trained by the College in those subjects required. m If

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Responsible for the beginnings of the College Park branch of the University of Maryland is the College of Agriculture. In its Technical, Scientific, and Spe- cial fields, the College of Agriculture has trained stu- dents for agricultural and related occupations, and conducted systematic investigations on projects of im- College of Agriculture portance to agricultural interests concerning the home and the farm. Its four principal functions are Resident Instruction, Research, Extension and Regulatory. Not only does the College fit its young men and women for one or more of the fields requiring specialized training, hut it provides sufficient cultural subjects to give a rounded education. Today the American farmer is more important to the world than he has ever been. He is feeding an America and a world at war. The College of Agricul- ture is fitting young people for a today of war and a tomorrow of peace. Dean T. B. Sy. o.ms WR f AssiSTA.ST DiA.s ' IIakoi.1) F. Cotti;r. ia.v ' • ' • 18

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Taking full advantage of the proximity of two large metropolitan centers to study the problems of economics and commerce, the College of Business and Public Administration, formerly the College of Com- merce, offered both technical and vocational curricula. Instruction is offered in Business Administration, Sec- retarial Training, Public Administration, and in dc- College of Business and Public Administration partments of Foreign Trade and Human and Natural Resources. Students, with the training they receive, may enter fields of business organization, personnel management, state administration, and international exchange. The College of Business and Public Administration continued to aid in the war effort by training students of the Army Specialized Training and the Language and Area Programs. The College now bases all its training in various fields of specialization in the study of economics, which is the background for all administrative prob- lems and structures. Learning to type ACTI.MG DiA.N J. FrI li.MA.S I ' vLL 20