University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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college of engineering and architecture Development of civilization has been greater the last one hundred years than in the entire period of time previous to it. and things we accept as common today were unknown a generation ago. This advancement is due largely to the efforts of the engineer. The world is indebted to engineering for mining and metallurgy, communication, modern agriculture, sanitation, transportation, hydro-electric power, machinery, steamships. and irrigation. Engineering was established on the university campus in 1868, as a part of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Later it was combined with Mines and Metallurgy. In 1916 Architecture was added to the College of Engineering. The graduating class which consisted of three members in 1875. had grown to one hundred and seventy-five in the 1929-1950 period. In the fall quarter of 1950 the enrollment totaled 1.476. The public utilities industry which has expanded rapidly in the last few years has drawn many engineering graduates into its field. Special developments along the lines of increased efficiency and convenience of living accompanied by an appreciation of esthetic beauty arc the aims of the School of Architecture. Particular attention is given to research in the heat insulation of buildings. While instruction of students is the primary purpose of the college, it also strives to in crease the bounds of knowledge through research and to render useful service to the com munity and the state. Research work has been conducted this year by members of the faculty, which is of especial importance in the fields of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. Dean Ora M. I eland was appointed head of the College of Engineering and Architecture and the School of Chemistry in 1920 to succeed Lauder W. Jones. Previously Dean Leland had been a member of the civil engineering faculty at Cornell University. He commanded a regiment of engineers in the World War and later was associated with the J. G. White Engineering Corporation in New York City. O- A . I.tland F.xptrimcntdl Etuitnctring Building 25

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college of science, literature, and the arts The oldest college in the University, the College of Science, Literature, and the Arts, maintains a progressive interest in new educational methods. This interest is shown in the development of an efficient system of individual advisory service, and also in the proposed introduction of comprehensive examinations in the college. In addition, the honors course for advanced students with special interests and ability is being developed in the Senior College. A constant effort is being made to achieve the ideal of this college, which is not to mould a standard type, but to perfect the best talents in the individual student. The success of these measures depends, to a large degree, upon a wide and flexible curriculum. The growth of the College of Science. Literature, and the Arts from a heterogeneous handful of academic, science and professional students to a selected enrollment, is consistent with that ideal The emergence of the Junior-Senior College system during the administration of Dean John B. Johnston is significant. The Junior College, providing the completion of certain group requirements, is the advanced preparatory school for the Senior College and the professional schools. The Junior College, under Dean William H. Bussey, prepares about three-fourths of the professional students for their respective colleges. Edward H. Sirich is the acting Dean of the Senior College in the absence of Dean Joseph M Thomas, who is on a sabbatical leave. The Senior College requires concentration in a major and a minor subject. Looking forward, the college will need new buildings, such as that proposed for the social science departments, an enlarged astronomy department with a new observatory, and a scholarship fund for unusually capable students who cannot afford to attend college. Without such a fund the state university cannot provide a liberal education for those most capable of profiting by college training. Consistent with that ideal, too. is the present progressive change in the student body from a crowd to a selected enrollment of individuals, each conscious of his abilities and interests. J. li Johnston

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school of chemistry Since chemistry is a fundamental science for all industries, it is a contributary force in the progress and in the development of industrial methods, in the invention of new processes, and in the perfection of materials used in commercial production. Artificial materials produced in chemical laboratories have so H completely revolutionized production in some fields to New ■ . and coal products examples 'ft rfl results ol chemnal research A fertile field ol chemical CRT i B present, is that t petroleum and its ' j I problems. I V I he main purpose ol the School ol henmtrv is to give to a selected body of students an intensive training in the ideas and methods of the chemist and the chemical engineer. Many of the graduates enter the chemical industrial field and eventually attain important roles in the development and utilization of the nation's resources. A smaller group devote their attention to the problems of pure science and to investigations in which there may be no immediate utilitarian objective, but are. nevertheless, fundamental to progressive achievement in society. Although the primary aim of the School of Chemistry is the instruction of students to enter their professions, constant effort is exerted to increase the bounds of knowledge through research, and to render useful service to the community and state. The research and experimental work carried on by both students and faculty members of the department is so prolific as to warrant the use of the laboratories both day and night. Science is organized knowledge, and the School of Chemistry aims to give its students organized and systematized knowledge blended with those ideas and highest principles of life which the true scientist must have. Ora M. Le’and has been dean of the school since 1920 after the administration of the School of Chemistry was combined with that of the College of Engineering and Architecture. Samuel C. I.ind is director of the school. SC. I.nul