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

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BOARD OF REGENTS BOARD OF REGENTS Term expires: FRED A. MARSH. President, Archer January, 1935 ARTHUR C, STOKES, Vice-Pres., Omaha. .January, 1937 MARION A, SHAW, David City January, I93S EARL CLINE, Lincoln January, 1937 STANLEY D. LONG, Grand Island January, 1939 FRANK J. TAYLOR, St. Paul January, 1939 COMMITTEES Members EXECUTIVE Marsh, Cline, Taylor FINANCE Cline, Shaw, Long INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION Taylor, Stokes, Marsh MEDICAL EDUCATION Stokes. Long, Shaw PROPERTY Long, Cline, Taylor STUDENT RELATIONS . Shaw, Stokes, Marsh Tc O the Board of Regents Is accorded the complete University of control of the Nebraska. It has complete charge of all University ad- ministration, including build- ings and upkeep, disburse- ment of funds, and govern- ment over the student body, faculty and curriculum. The Chancellor and the Deans of the colleges are selected by the Board and are subject to the rulings of this authoritative body. Two regular meetings are held each year, one in January and the other at Commencement time in June. Other meetings may be called by the President of the Board upon notification of the Chancellor when matters of importance necessitate a meeting of the executive body. The Board of Regents is composed of six members elected from what were formerly the six United States Congressional Districts in the state, each member serving a term of six years. In 1875, at the time of the adoption of the state constitution, the University was first made a part of the fundamental law of the state, and the election of the Board of Regents members was accom- plished by the state at large. But in 1921, the state legisla- ture provided for election from congressional districts, thus inaugurating the present method. Members of the M. A. SHAW Board receive no salary for President 1933 - services, their expenses only being paid. Fred A. Marsh was elected President of the Board in January for a one-year term. L. E. Gunderson, finance secretary of the University since 1921, took the position of corporation secretary of the Board of Regents on September I, 1933. hie replaced James Stuart Dales, the only surviving member of the first class gradu- ated from Nebraska, the class of 1873, who had served as corporation secretary since 1875. Public recognition of his invaluable work was made at the charter day program, February 15, 1934, celebrating the sixty-fifth anniversary of the granting of the charter to the University, when the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him. MARSH TAYLOR LONG CLINE STOKES

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I ACiNS the year with a drastic reduc- tion in the allotment to the University by the legislature, the Board of Regents were confronted with a severe problem. In spite of this difficulty they were expected to bring the institution out at the high level it had reached among middle west- ern colleges. This the Board achieved with the cooperation of the faculty, in accepting deep cuts in their salaries without leaving the school. Although not feeling the times in a financial way, student government felt the effect of the new deal. The knife of criticism fell at many points, but its two major blows resulted in changes In the Innocents Society and Student Coun- cil. Both were reorganized in an effort to take them away from the tenacles of campus politics, and thus to place them upon a merit basis.

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■. . ■•■ .A. ■••■ . GOVERNOR CHARLES W. BRYAN overnor To the Students of the University of Nebraska: I appreciate this opportunity of greeting you through your annual, the Cornhusker . I feel that we are still fellow-students of life and of government. You are still enjoying the privileges of study under the guidance of the very able faculty of our great state University, and I am continuing my study in the great laboratory where the rewards of success and the penalties for failure are just as certain. Whether inside or out- side the classroom, certainly we should never end our study. In fact, we cannot, for life ever presents new problems. The theory that education was almost solely to train the mind and the hand to earn more money has nearly everywhere given way to the theory that the chief purpose of education is to prepare us to live happier and more useful lives. The study of government should, therefore, and I bel ieve it does, take a larger part in the program of education than ever before. Democracy, more than any other form of government, needs an informed citizenry. Under our form of government, it is absolutely necessary that citizens use their power of franchise intelligently if our institutions are to survive. They must be acquainted with the structure of government, must know how it operates, must have ideals based upon a thorough understanding of what government is doing and what it can do to make citizens secure in the enjoyment of their rights. Let us continue to study to Improve that watchfulness of the citizen , which Is truly the salvation of the state . Sincerely, ' ' — ' ' — •• ' —