University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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LIBERAL 4RIS THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS, UNDER THE direction of I)r. Henry S. West, Dean of the College, has adopted a policy emphasizing high scholastic standards. These stringent requirements have been instrumental in obtaining the recognition of the department by older and larger institutions throughout the United States and South America. Students from the university are now able to continue their work at graduate institutions on the same basis as graduates from other schools. The College of Liberal Arts includes departments of Architecture, Aviation, and Engineering. A special department has been included, composed of Late Afternoon and Saturday Classes. These courses are intended expressly for instructors in secondary schools of South Florida, who wish to continue work toward collegiate degrees or extension of certificates. Due to the size of many of the classes, it was found advisable to hold them at night in downtown auditoriums. In conjunction with these classes a series of radio talks from the University Studio augmented class work with interesting lectures. The Department of Architecture will soon be established as a separate school. It is rated as one of the best in the country by the Beaux Arts Institute of Design. Tn competition with formost technical schools in the country, the Department of Architecture has ranked among the highest in quality and number of awards. Students of architecture are accepted as transfers by all southern colleges, and are recognized by outstanding work. The Aviation Department gained national recognition during the last Pan-American Air Meet when ground school students were given official positions of responsibility. Two of the students have been admitted as members of the National Aeronautic Association. This school furnishes a thorough ground school with courses in construction, repair, navigation and mechanics. At present the students are assisting in experimental work on planes and motors of revolutionary design and theory. Because of the completeness of the equipment of the shop, students are privileged to conduct tests on many recent developments and inventions. The Engineering department at present offers a two year preparatory course, but this is being increased as need arises. The present curriculum is as complete as possible without shops, and offers a variety of subjects with unusual thoroughness. Students prepared in this department are well founded in theory of engineering and science. A course in Marine oology is offered in which the majority of the laboratory work is conducted on the ocean’s floor, students using diving helmets. The School of Education prepares students who are desirous of teaching, whether on the elementary school level, junior high or senior high school. This school offers a four year course or a two year curricula leading to graduation with

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normal certificate. Very definite professional training is given, and through certain required and elective courses from the Liberal Arts program, the students obtain advanced command of subjects to be taught in their schools. In this field, particularly, the Late Afternoon and Saturday Extension Classes provide an opportunity for revising and extending professional equipment. The work of the School of Education has been given official recognition by the Florida State Department of Education so that graduates with the University of Miami degree or certificate, receive without further examination the Florida Graduate State Teachers Certificate, and are thereby legally entitled to teach in any of the state public schools. Dr. Henry S. West, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Education, received his Bachelors degree at Johns Hopkins University. He completed graduate study there, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. For a time he was instructor at Johns Hopkins, later going to Baltimore City College as Professor, and was Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Baltimore. He was called to the University of Cincinnati as Professor of Education, returning to Maryland to be Principal of the State Normal School and Superintendent of Public Instruction in Baltimore. In 1926 he came to the University of Miami as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Dean West is to be complimented upon his success in that department. T A C V L T T Harry H. Provin, Temple University (darn 'em!), and graduate of the Pennsylvania Normal School of Physical Education. Dean of Men and Chairman of the Scholarship Committee. Official interviewer of all who prefer to concentrate their fast thinking at the end of a six weeks’ period. And almost makes them like it! Robert B. English, a. b., m.a., University of Rochester; Ph.D.,University of Michigan. Professor of Philosophy. Incidentally one of America's best Latinists—can give you off-hand chapter and verse for that one spondaic line of Quintus Horatius I'laccus. For further information see Who’s Who in A merica. Ernest E. Brett, b.p.e., Springfield College. Professor of Physical Education and Coach of Football. Honorary member of The Iron Arrow. A great little fighter for and with his boys. (That last doesn't sound just right, but you know how we mean it.) Also the builder of our championship wrestling team. Don G. Henshaw, Yale Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary. Pastor of Coral Gables Congregational Church. Honorary member of Delta Sigma Kappa. Instructor in Biblical Literature and Public Speaking. Probably holds the world’s record for unsanctimonious parson-ing. Official broadcaster for all football games and other ath-a-letic squabbles. Sydney Hoehi., a.b., li..b., University of Pittsburgh. Registrar and Assistant Professor of Economics. Honorary member of Delta Sigma Kappa. Pretends to be very hard-boiled, but we all get wise to him after the first year or so. Alice Barton Harris, University of Berlin; University of Geneva. Instructor in French. Femme of Franklin, and member of the globe-trotting contingent of our faculty. Alfred H. Gilbert, b. s., University of Vermont; M.S., University of Wisconsin. Professor of Botany. One of these yere researching profs. Extension Pathologist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture — is almost ready to tell us just what is wrong —if anything—with our hibisci, poinsettia?, and pithecloviana. (We're not so sure about the spelling of that last one.)