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

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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Future accountants gam practical experience in laboratory. Prolessor Virtue, venerable member of the Economics Department. DEAN J. E. LeRossignol is a native of Quebec. He graduated from high school in Montreal, and in 1892 he v as graduated from McGill Uni- versity, also in Montreal, with a B.fl. degree. Study abroad followed, and in 1892 he received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Leipzig. In the same year he became a fellow of psychol- ogy at Clark University. After returning to the United States, Dean LeRossignol became a professor of psychology and ethics at Ohio University. Then, for the succeeding 13 years, he was a professor of economics at the University of Denver, fit the end of this time, in 1911, he received an LL.D. degree from the Denver school. In 1921 he received a similar degree from McGill Uni- versity. Meanwhile, Mr. LeRossignol had, in 1900, been chosen as a special lecturer in economics at McGill University, and had lectured in Polit- ical Science at the University of Wisconsin dur- ing the summer session of 1903. From August to December, 1906, he investigated economic conditions in New Zealand. He came to this campus in 1908 as a pro- fessor of Political Economy; in 1913 he became head of the school of commerce. This later developed into the college of business adminis- tration of which Mr. LeRossignol has been dean since 1919. He was acting professor of econom- ics at Stanford University during the summer of 1922, and at the University of California at Los flngeles during the summer of 1926. Despite all this, Dean LeRossignol has found time to enjoy his hobbies, chess and trout fish- ing. His eyes twinkle as he speaks of them. From 1917-1919 he was chairman of the Lan- caster County Fuel Committee. He is a member of Rotary, American Economics Association, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business {president 1925-1926), Canadian Authors ' Association, Nebraska Writers ' Guild (president 1930-1931) and Auth- ors ' (London). Greek letter organizations to which he belongs include Chi Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Alpha Psi, and Phi Beta Kappa. Among the books written by Dean LeRos- signol are Monopolies, Past and Present . 1901, Orthodox Socialism , 1907; Little Stories of Quebec , 1910; State Socialism in New Zea- land , 1910; Jean Baptist , 1915; What is Socialism , 1926; Economics for Everyman , 1923; First Economics , 1926; ' The Beauporl Road , 1928; The Flying Canoe , 1929; The Ethical Philosophy of Samuel Clarke , 1892; Taxation in Colorado , 1902; and History of Higher Education in Colorado , 1903. In addition to these. Dean LeRossignol is the author of various articles on economic subjects, monographs, and sh ort stories. The latter deal chiefly with French Canada. U of N

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COLLEGE OF DEAN I. E. LeROSSIGNOL To the students of the College of Business fldministration. Dear Friends: I have been asked to write you a general letter, and I am tempted to give you advice. Yet I hesitate to do so, lest you think, that free advice is worthless rather than priceless. Besides, I have been told that there are everywhere two types of people, both in the student body and the rest of the world: those who can and will take advice, and those who cannot or will not take it. It is unnecessary to give advice to the former sort, and useless to offer it to the latter. This sounds like logical reasoning, does it not? Nevertheless, I will offer a word to the wise which 1 believe will be helpful if you will remember to take it as a guide throughout your college course and after life. Find out what your talents are, what is your proper work i n the world and arrange your life accordingly. Cease to drift. Make a plan for five years or one year or a single semester and follow it consistently until you can devise something better. You will, no doubt, be following a receding goal as when, in climbing the foothills of the mountains, you reach the summit only to find higher elevations beyond. But in the ascent you will have the satis- faction of conquering obstacles, achieving succes- sive victories, gaining strength as you go, and push- ing on toward higher and better things. This is old stuff, I know — as old as Plato and Solo- mon — but it is seasoned wisdom with which you can safely build the edifice of your life and work. With all good wishes, I am Yours faithfully, iA

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COLLEGE OF • • •Ui ' Uniiiniuuui m u i i n u i ui JnaSli mi DEAN G. fl. GRUBB Dear Seniors; To become an ideal dentist you must possess or acquire the following composite characteristics: You should have business ability sufficient to enable you to induce patients to accept your services as well as to secure commensurate fees therefore. Dental prac- tice does not offer opportunity to become rich, but to perpetuate itself it must afford a plane of living demanded by the standards of the time and in addi- tion thereto an excess which if properly invested and preserved will afford an adequate competence for old age. You should be a cultured gentleman possessing sufficient ability to meet and satisfy a wide strata of society. You must possess some of the elements of a chem- ist. You not only must possess a knowledge of the chemistry of the materials (metallurgy) with which you must deal but you must know the pharmacology and the physiological properties of the medicaments which are used. You must possess the traits of an artisan. The necessity of dealing with color shades makes an artist of you. You are a sculptor restoring — yea, in some instances improving facial contour. You are an engineer — you build bridges in which you must evaluate the stress upon the abutments and SDCtn in which in many instances the span is not the shortest distance between the abutments. find finally you must have some of the qualities of a physician. Your labors must be a health service in which not only the curative phases but also the preventive phases must be considered. Sincerely,