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

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DEAN A. H. HEPPNER The Dean of Women .». T HE Dean of Women and her staff lend an import- ant influence to the lives of over 2,000 women students of this university. As secretary of Faculty Committee of Student Affairs, Miss hHeppner repre- sents the women ' s interests in school activities. She is general supervisor of many of the most important women ' s associations and serves as advisor to Mortar Board and Association of Women Students. Miss hHeppner ' s program is chiefly that of guidance. She promotes the highest moral and scholastic stand- ards among university women. The problems of house regulations have been delegated to the women ' s self- government body, but the Dean of Women remains a helpful counsellor. To aid the young woman to develop a ' sound philosophy of life within herself is the purpose of her office. It is here that many women students are prepared for better citizenship. Numer- ous scholarships, encouraging the desire for higher learning, are awarded through this office. Among the many functions of the Dean of Women are the housing and employment bureaus. Miss Piper, assistant to the Dean of Women, has general super- vipion over housing for university women. A ' l places of lodging, before being recommended, are carefully investigated, and the supervisors interviewed, so that the best possible conditions are afforded the girl; seeking such housing. This is the second year that the system of Coopera- tive Houses has been carried out. These dormitories provide the women students the opportunity to earn part of their room and board and still enjoy living with a group of their colleagues. Girls who are allowed the privilege of living in Wilson or Howard Hall are selected on a three-fold basis: Scholarship, moral standards, and financial need. In this way only those students who are most deserving of this oppor- tunity are chosen. The employment bureau has this year for the first time been under the supervision of Mrs. Ada West- over. Nearly one-fourth of the women students of the University of Nebraska are employed either whole or part-time. Many of these find positions with the aid of the office of the Dean of Women. Each girl is personally Interviewed, and each house is visited, so that both parties may be satisfied. Many loan funds and awards are annually furnished by Panhellenic, A. A. U. W., and Faculty Women ' s Club, so that a great numbe- of girls, who without financial aid would be unable to attend the University, are now af- forded this opportun- ity. The offices of the Dean of Women are now housed in Ellen Smith Hall, where they have been located since the conversion of that home into offices for the University. MISS ELSIE FORD PIPER Assistant to the Dean

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t::: • •• DEAN T. J. THOMH:.uN Dean of Student Affairs Dear Son: By this time you have learned that a university does not consist of brick and mortar alone, but of teachers and fellow human beings very much like your- self. Get acquainted with your fellow students. Youth is the heyday of friendships. But more especially, I would urge that you strive to become acquainted with your teachers. If you will let it, acquaintance- ship with them may mean more to you than anything else in your college life. True, you cannot in four short years expect to gain their mastery of subject matter, but you can catch something of their zeal and their spirit. If, when school days are over, you ap- proach life with the same zest and enthusiasm tha + :haracterlze5 their attitude toward their work, your schooling will indeed not have been in vain.. Al- though I have long ago 1 forgotten the aorist tense, 1 shall never for- get the friendship and the contagious enthu- siasm of my professor of Greek. I hope you may form a similar acquaintanceship with some of your teachers. You say you are wor- ried about the choice of a vocation. 1 am not as concerned about this phase of your edu- cation as some perhaps W. C. HARPER Assistant to the Dean would have me be. Learn something about many things, and a great deal about those that interest you most. Become acquainted with the masterpieces of literature, art, and music, and the principal hypotheses and theories of science. An interest in and an appre- ciation of these will prove a source of life-long pleas- ure and satisfaction to you. You ought also to take courses that will call for abstract thinking and the exercise of your imagination. You should learn to analyze and to reason. Learn early to conduct a rational examination of the prejudices and traditions that naturally become a part of life and living. Tradi- tions and prejudices may be valuable; but the wise man subjects them to continuous examination. The result is progress. If your interests lead you into fields requiring special skills, acquire those skills; but lay the superstructure of your technical knowledge upon the foundations of broad general knowledge. You have average intelligence. With such a prepara- tion as I have outlined, 1 have a sincere belief that you can make a reasonable success of any vocation you may choose. 1 only urge you to choose a line of activity that will furnish you enjoyment in its pursuit. A man ' s work should be more than his living; it should be meat and drink to his soul. Four years in college. There will never be another four years like them. Four years of intellectual exploration and free play of your mind. Four years to make friendships and to dream dreams. Four glorious years! Son, make the most of them. As ever yours, T. J. THOMPSON.

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.rfrt ' .vrtryr ' sy BTr. THE COLLEGE DEAN W. W. BURR To the Patrons of the University: Occasionally those who are responsible for an insti- tution like the College of Agriculture should reflect on the subject of its purposes and should take account of changing purposes as well as of progress. Basically the purpose of the College of Agriculture is and has been that of education in those subjects that effect improvement in agriculture and rural life. For women students the primary aim is to provide them with the knowledge and technique essential to satisfactory homes and home life. For men the purpose is a better understanding of the principles underly ng suc- cessful farm practices and the relation of agriculture to other industries. As agricultural problems become more difficult and complex, the range of activities of the College widens, and its purposes and aims become of increasing importance to the state and the nation. Just now the national government and also the farmers are looking to the colleges of agriculture for information and leadership in connection with the nation-wide effort to make agriculture more stable and profitable. Regardless of how well the present efforts at control of production succeed, we may look in the future toward an increasing need for more information and more leaders to be used in furthering the work of co-ordinating production and consumption demands and in solving many other problems. Increasing com- plexity of problems will require better education. For these reasons the College of Agriculture strives continually to improve its facilities for education. At the present time the curriculum is undergoing a thorough scrutiny, the purpose of which is to find means of broadening and deepening it. The faculty is being encouraged to redefine its aims and to reorganize its courses, with the ultimate object of making the purpose of the College clearer and the educational service of the College more important to the state and society. The student needs equip- ment that will aid him in his encounter with the reali- ties of life, but, more important than that, society needs people who are acquainted with the directions and trends of civilization in those areas and regions of our civilized life that are agricultural. In other words, we need more fully informed and highly intelli- gent agricultural leaders. Young men and women with genuine ability will continue to find that agricul- ture and home economics are large fields with excel- lent opportunities. Respectfully, u , u . Studon+s oi the College of Agriculture learning to identify cuts of meat and to judge their excellence. Cooking tests are employed as a means for determining the effect of different rations for animals upon the palatablllty of their mea+s. Scene In a barn at the College of Agriculture where a class of students is judging dairy cattle. The most proficient of those skilled in weighing the merits of these cattle are chosen to compete in national stock judging contests.