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

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.i ASSOCIATE DEAN W. W. BURR College of Agriculture HREE-QUARTERS of a century ago our pioneers braved the prairies because they saw there the opportunity to build for the future. They accepted the challenge of the prairie fires, the drouth, and the grass- hoppers. Those that endured to the end found rewards far beyond their expectations. Today the descendants of those same pioneers are seeking their opportunities. The old frontier has, however, passed. But there is a new frontier as challenging to the young mind of today as any that lured our fathers ever onward. The frontiers today are in chemistry, agronomy, biology, engineering, animal husbandry, rural economics, education, and other lines. We have conquered our old frontiers. We have won our empire. Our problem is now one of development. Intensive competition, such as our fathers never dreamed of, characterizes the development of our prairie empire. The young man or woman of today has just as great an opportunity to prove his or her mettle as ever lured the thousands westward in the early days. The frontier is just a little different, that is all. The opportunity today is one of the mind, rather than of the strong arm. This opportunity for education is for women as well as for men. Two types of instruction are offered by the College of Agriculture — agriculture for men and home economics for women. The opportunities offered by this college are not entirely pro- fessional in nature but have as their basis the elements of a liberal education as well. Six

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DEAN AMANDA H. HEPPNER Dean of Women PPROXIMATELY twenty-four hundred undergraduates and one hundred graduate women are registered in the University this year. The office ot the Dean ot Women attends to their needs and assists them in their adjustment to the eoUege environment and college demands. A housing bureau and an employment bureau assist the young women in finding suitable lodgings and gainful employment. The office stands ready at all times to render such service as the needs of the college women may require. Counsel and information dealing with the varied problems and perplexities of women students will be gladly given. The training received in the intra- and e. tra-activities should prepare the student for proper college citizenship and for the larger and more effective citizenship in after-college life. The attitude toward opinions, traditions, and principles of the college world may determine one ' s attitude toward life in the larger world. The scholastic, ethical, moral, and spiritual standards will, in a measure, be responsible for the nature of the precepts and of the character of the maturer individual. The majority of the college women maintain fine standards and ideals, and are amenable to any suggestions which will guide them toward a higher goal. There has been a steady and notable improvement in the desire to promote superior scholarship. In spite of the fact that the requirements have been made more severe, the number of recipients of scholastic honors has been increased. With the enlarged enrollment, the high-minded and right-thinking leaders will need to stress constantly the importance of excellent grades honestly obtained, and help to direct their more confused or misguided classmates toward the worthwhile achievements which repre- sent the real meaning and purpose of University life. J Five I

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DEAN H. G. JAMES College of Arts and Sciences f HE College of Liberal Arts aspires to provide a training for students , whieh will create a definite conception of leadership within them. Its «4|| purpose is two-fold. In general it prepares a student to live, and to be more specific it offers courses which are of technical value in the prepara- tion for many of the numerous professions represented by other colleges in the University. The question may be raised as to the kind of leadership implied when the hope is expressed that a liberal education makes for leadership. The qualities which make the leading politician, clubman, or business man are often those which blossom out of a liberal education, no matter how highly trained the particular person may be technically. He may be a product of higher learning in so far as he has been techni- cally or professionally educated, but this does not necessarily imply that he has had a liberal education. To justify itself in society a liberal education must make leading citizens who if true to their responsibilities lead in sympathy with and understand- ing of their fellowmen, in readiness to serve unselfishly their best interests. In contrast to the other colleges of the University which aim primarily to pre- pare students to earn a living, the College of Arts and Sciences prepares students to live, and to be worthy, creditable members of human society irrespective of what their specific calling or occupation may be. To accomplish this a wide variety of courses in all of the fundamental fields of knowledge is offered. It avoids narrow restrictions which would forbid development of each student ' s particular bent. The more specific purpose of the liberal arts education is of course important and should not be overlooked. However, the time spent in an effort to learn how to live prior to an effort to learn how to make a living is particularly valuable.