University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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fw,vm:Jq57mzQ'5vmQ7ln sm-pl E I mevvldmp WFQTI mQynm College of Law X ,fi ' , Dean Warren Abner Seavev Law and State PVzzr1'e1z A. Seawfy The sole purpose of the College of Law in its relation with its students is the training of men Who, as lawyers, will be an asset to the State. Three qualities are essential in a lawyer: ability to think clearly, capacity for work, and professional spirit. It is the function of the school to aid the student to acquire these. Incidentally it assists the student to learn something of the elements of law which govern the action of courts and to gain an insight into the principles of human justice upaon which all enduring law is based. 'l

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fwhgixovmhsmvms mr 4 College of Business Administration 4 l' Dean james lidwarcl Lellossfgnol Business Administration and State J. E. LeRo.v.vig1zol If all goes well during the remainder of the yea1', the graduating class of the College of Business Administration will number seventy-nine personsg seventy-seven men and two vvomeng making a totalqof two hundred twenty-Five graduates since the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, including forty-one graduates of the former School of Commerce. It is gratifying to note that fully three-fourths of our graduates are residents of Nebraska, and that many of them have returned to their home towns where, no doubt, they will help to sustain and improve the standards of business life and citizenship. In this way, we think, We are return- ing the taxpayers' investment with compound interest. , Second only to the training of men and women for service in their chosen profession, jis',the.vvork of business research lately begun by the University of Nebraska, which is one ofgthe hrst of the state universities to enter this field, following the lead of the Harvard Bureau of Business Research. Already the Committee on Business Research has published six bulletins and others are in course of preparation. In the Hrst series are three valuable bibliographies on Retailing, Banking, and Insurance, designed to help business men in their reading. In the second series there are three other bulletins: Stock Turnover in Nebraska Retail Stores, Operating Expenses in Retail Grocery Stores, and Analysis of Financial State- ments in General Merchandise Stores. Already these bulletins have attracted wide attention as important studies of Nebraska conditions, which apply, with slight modification, to the whole of the Middle VVest. As the 'work develops, the College of Business Administration will do for the business men of the State what has been done for the farmers by the College of Agriculture, thus adding greatly to the prosperity of the State and at the same time showing that, in the changing and com- plicated conditions of our day, practise and theory, business and scholarship, must go hand in hand.

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rm?mhm 1my4i,,wqi,, wm,f1ghmy4.m,gvyea.mF -gvg, ' . l College of Engineering i W l Dean Olin Ierome Ferguson Engineering and State O. J. Fz'rgzz.v0rz Probably as good a definition as we have today for engineering is that it is the science of controlling the forces, and of utilizing the materials of nature for the benefit of man, and the art of organizing and directing human activities connected therewith. As applied to the state of Nebraska, certain serious limitations are set for us. We have no vast coal beds, oil fields, water powersg no rich deposits of metals, no great stone quar- riesg no forests. But this paucity of materials and of sources of power does not mean that engineering has no place in Nebraska. Our natural products are those of the soil. These introduce en- gineering problems of machinery, production, transportation, manufacture, and use. Our water powers are small. They present question of economical development, transmission of energy, power distribution and utilization. Our roads, our telephone systems, our power and lighting plants, our factories, our railroads and railways, our water supply systems, our irri- gation works, our building construction,-these and other fields of profession need good engin- eering planning, direction, supervision and management. The College of Engineering conceives its responsibilities to be to strive in every way to promote good engineering practice in generl, but especially in Nebraska. This is to be ac- complished by making studies of our engineering needsg by directing attention to latent engineering possibilities, by assisting in the solution of local engineering problems, by teaching sound engineering principles to our young men and training them in good engin- eering practices, by inculcating in our students high ideals of citizenship and guiding them into fields of productive service. A A B, A L A l 1 fgns 'o l i 0 1 A A 5 N A Al A A