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

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New head of the School of Journalism and Director of University Publicity is newspaperman Harold Hamil, below. Knute O. Broady, below right, takes care of many tedious but important duties as director of the Extension Division. AND MORE DEANS Arthur A. Westbrook, left, is the accomplished director of the School of Fine Arts. Dean Bert L. Hooper, below; distinguished and capable head of the Dental College. 29

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DEANS As director of Women ' s Physical Education, Mabel Lee, above left, worked efficiently as one of the Ne- braska coordinators for the national Physical Fitness program. Dean O. J. Ferguson, above, is well liked by the fellows in Engineering College. R. G. Clapp, above, is the gray-haired, kindly, supervisor of Men ' s Physical Educa- tion. Caustic-witted C. II. Oldfather, right, handles the large College of Arts and Sciences and leaches some beauts of classes in Ancient History. 28

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Aulll V t LI t UIj In keeping with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard ' s motto, Food will win the war , students and professors in the College of Agriculture are working on an all-out basis. Cooperating with an extensive national program of increased food production, Experiment Station staff members have sent out pertinent information to the growers of Nebraska. Plans include an up-turn in dairy products, calf and cattle slaughter, pork production, sheep and lamb production, eggs, potatoes, and canning vegetables. ARTS SCIENCES ..,..„. oldest of the more than 20 colleges in the University of Nebraska, Arts and Sciences is adapting itself to the needs of a changing world. Requirements of a nation at war have shown that most students do not take enough mathematics, physics, foreign languages. Realizing these deficiencies, the College of Arts and Sciences is offering courses in elementary geometry and physics, more beginning classes in Russian and Portuguese. Popular second term venture was a current events class. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Despite unsettled business conditions and the rising power of government over industry, the College of Business Administration is continuing its courses as before. Maintaining that education for business, the function of this college, remains the same regardless of external business fluctuations, the faculty is devoting its time and energies to the training of men and women in the forms and practices of business control and manage- ment through courses in practice and theory. ljiiJ.lljJ.llJ. One of the fastest grow- ing colleges in the University, Dentistry began the fall term with an enrolment increase of fifty percent over the previous year. In order to keep abreast with this rapid growth several pieces of the most modern equipment have been added to the dental laboratories, among them an operating table and an instrument table, gifts of Dr. Byron II. Weeth. Courses in war-time dentistry and dental surgery indicate the progressive outlook of the Dental faculty. 30