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

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■ Under supervision of Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, dean of the faculty, tin College of Liberal Arts has continued to maintain its standard liberal arts program offering a wide variety of majors and minors to its students. Courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science are offered. Graduates who obtain either of these degrees may he qualified to teach provided they have included in their curriculum those studies required for the various grades of teaching. By setting up additional required subjects and a considerable number of free elective hours, the College of Liberal Arts has combined concentration and distribution in the basic type of liberal arts education for young men and women today. The requirements of 120 semester hours for graduation and 120 quality points are perhaps more widely accepted than any other method of counting credits toward a liberal arts degree. Eleven new faculty members have been added to the College of Liberal Arts this year and one former member has returned. I)r. William Halstead, member of the Miami faculty luring 1938-39. has returned as professor of English. Mrs. Mary C. Clarke. J. Ralph Murray, and Gordon Lawrie Thomas have joined the English department faculty as instructors in English. Completing her first year at the University also is Miss Clara McKenna. graduate in English. Added to the botany teaching staff are Dr. Walter T. Swingle, experimental agriculturalist. and Dr. Robert Haworth Williams. Dr. Hildas Metour. a student here during 1926-28. has returned as new assistant professor of sociology. Additions to the Hispanic department are Dr. Enrique Noble, assistant pro-fessor of Latin American history and institutions. and Dr. Salvador Massip. visiting professor of Latin American geography. Dr. Donald F. Fogelquist is new assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese. G. Raymond 14

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I)K. JOHN THOM HOLDSWORTH ■ Proving that educators may be recruited from outride fields is Dr. John Thom Holds-worth, for many years a successful hanker and economist, recently appointed Dean Emeritus of the School of business Administration. Dean Hoidsworth. author of many articles and several text hooks, the most famous of which is his Money and Hanking, continues to teach classes in economics and finance. A Canadian by birth. Dr. Hoidsworth migrated to this country as a hoy. He came co Miami many years later, for his health, and was appointed active Dean of the Sehooi of Business Administration, serving for fifteen years. Equally eminent in the educational and business worlds. Dr. Hoidsworth was dean at Drexel institute, and taught at the Wharton school and at the universities of Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh. Southern California, and Princeton. He was vice-president of the Bank of Pittsburgh, and later became president of the Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land hank. Talented and capable. Dr. Hoidsworth is worthy of being termed a truly great educator. DR. HENRY S. WEST ■ •’Success. says Dr. Henry S. West, dryly, •’is earning a fair living while rendering a social service in a congenial job. A living example of his own definition. Dr. West, former active dean of the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Education, was made Dean Emeritus last November. He has taught at the 1 diversity since its founding. Before coming to Florida, Dean West was already prominent as an educator. He was superintendent of public schools in Baltimore, head of State Normal school in Maryland, and professor of education at the University of Cincinnati. Perhaps the most versatile member of the faculty, the Dean's fir.-t teaching assignment was in a Lutheran parochial school where he taught English, history, geography, and mathematics. After winning his B.A. at Johns Hopkins university and starting work towards his PJi.D.. he joined the faculty of his alma mater. Baltimore City college, where he was first an instructor in drawing. Later, he taught more academic subjects. Latin and English. His epigrammatic wit, and humorously sarcastic friendliness have become a tradition. 13

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Stone has joined the psychology department. Student time in the College f Liberal Arts has been speeded up by adding more weeks of work during the year rather than by reducing requirements or lowering standards. The faculty of the College, according to Dean Pearson, has an even greater responsibility in time of war than in time of peace. Its members are anxious to see that young men and women receive better training than ever before in order to he more useful during war as well as in peace. The purposes and methods of teaching in the College of Liberal Arts for the duration are described by Dean Pearson: “The liberal arts student of today is the intelligent American citizen of tomorrow. Now more than ever before the student who attends the College of Liberal Arts is training for leadership in a democracy and will owe a debt to society for the privilege of obtaining this training during a grave national crisis. Perhaps more emphasis will be laid on technical courses that fall within the province of the College and perhaps many of the college faculty members will teach special defense courses required during the emergency. Many persons not normally thought of as college students will enroll in the College. Hut liberal arts education is still the major aim of the Liberal Arts College at the University and our major effort will continue to be devoted to this purpose.” In iho English and Journalism faculties aro: standing, Gordon L. Thomas. J. Ralph Murray, Walter Scott Mason. Dr. Charles Doron Tharp. Simon Hochberger; seated. K. Malcolm Beal. Natalio Grimes Lawrenco. Mary B. Merritt. Clara B. McKenna. and Dr. William L. Halstead. Members o( tho Art and Drama faculties aro: loll to right, Charles W. Philhour. Richard Morrick, Opal Euard Mottor. Frederick H. Koch. Jr., and Denman Fink. Tho Social Science faculty includes: standing. Dr. Charlton W. Tcbeau. Dr. H. Franklin Williams. Dr. Paul E. Eckel. Dr. Gildas Metour: soatod. Dr. William Henry McMaster. Dr. Rafael Bolaundo. Dr. Enrique Noble. Dr. Harold E. Briggs. Science faculty members aro: standing. Dr. Samuol S. Saslaw. Loo Clarko. W. Conley Smith. G. Raymond Stono. Dr. Robert H. Williams; aoalcd. Dr. John Henry Clouso. Evan T. Lindstrom, Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson. Goorgta May Barrotl. Dr. F. G. Walton Smith. Dr. Elmor V. Hjort. Dr. Taylor R. Alexander. Dr. E. Morton Miller. In tho Language faculty aro: Dr. William P. Dismukos. Sidney B. Maynard, Melanie Rosborough. Leonard R. Muller. Dr. J. Riis Owro.