University of North Carolina Charlotte - Rogues n Rascals or SiSi Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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SOUTH BUILDING COJLJLJEGIE UF ARTS AND SCTIENCCJES The College of Arts and Sciences is the administrative unit of the University which confers the degrees, A.B.5 A.B. in journalismg A.B. in Lawg B.S. in Chemistryg B.S. in Geology 5 B.S. in Physicsg B.S. in Medicine. This may make it appear that the college is a degree mill, but such is not the case. While the oificers of the College may be occupied more in connection with the students who are seeking degrees with others, we do not consider the pres- ence of a fairly large number of students who are not working for degrees at all as undesirable in any senseg we welcome them and try to place the facilities of the Uni- versity at their disposal. So long as life in the United States is what it is, we encourage young people to take degrees when possible and try to arrange the requirements with a view to a good education of the formal kind. It might be of interest to record here the number of those who are applicants for the various degrees in June 1958 or June 1939. There are about 730 students in the College at the present time, divided as follows: Candidates for B.S. in Chemistry, 385 for B.S. in Geology, 85 for B.S. in Physics, 55 for B.S. in Medicine, 165 for A.B. LLB., 265 for A.B. with major in Chemistry, 685 Economics, 325 Sociology, 605 Physical Education, 195 Zoology, 425 His- tory, 475 Political Science, 585 A.B. in Journalism, 655 PAGE 22 DEAN A. W. HoBBs

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lDlEAN'S MESSAGE To the Members of the Graduating Class: This message, which will reach you when Chapel Hill is beauteous with spring blossoms, is written in October, when all about us is the glory of autumn. What a beau- tiful setting for beautiful companionship! The University has just opened with a record enrollment and with a de'- lightful spirit of progressive understanding and mutual enjoyment. The new dormitory for women, the magnifi- cent gymnasium, work beginning on the new medical school, are features of the campus which you will re- member as marking your graduating year. Fine athletic relations, stimulated by a wholesome program of physical education, the enriching and deepening of the General Col- lege's program, and the special programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, the strengthening of departments, and the expanding influence of the Graduate School and the professional schools, are landmarks in the intellectual life of the University which you will remember well. And, above all, student self-development, self-government, and self-expression in terms of spiritual and rational control are in a healthy state in keeping with the traditions of the University and by reason of your vital participation in them. I hope that, in addition to your memories of your personal experience here, you will keep before you the idea of an institution constantly striving to he an honest place of learning, a stimulating place of thought, and an inspiring place of complete personal and spiritual develop- ment. I feel quite sure that you have profited by your stay in the University in terms of intellectual, professional, and practical growth, and I am sure that the University has profited by your residence here, but I think, above all things, the University is something to be enjoyed with cleanness, fineness, and zest while we are in that privileged class of her undergraduates, and to be remembered with affection, loyalty, and high spiritual commitment after graduation. The fellowship of Carolina is fellowship in a beautiful place, in beautiful human associations, and in an ideal which transcends its past of glorious history and its present of joyous achievement. I hope that you have found what all of us find here-a reasonable inspiration and satisfac- tion each day-but I hope you leave not completely satis- fied but hungry for a more complete realization of the spirit that is in the University, and I hope you have com- mitted yourself with the University to the unending search for the realization of its highest ideal. Affectionately yours, Dean of Administration.

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Mathematics, 16g English, 64g Physics, 33 French, 14, Psy- chology, 6, Dramatic Art, 22, Geology, 43 Fine Arts, 43 Music, 8, Philosophy, jg Comparative Literature, 13 Rural Economics, 2g Botany, 35 Latin, 2g unclassified, about 200. Among the unclassihed are several special students, candi- dates for no degree, Pre-Medical, Pre-Law, and Pre-Dental, not expecting to take any degree, students who have not yet decided upon a major. The numbers in the different majors and in the differ- ent degree curriculums change from year to year, and all Departments have a great many students who take courses as electives. It appears that more and more students, ex- pecting to enter Professional Schools, take a regular four year program and receive the A.B. degree with an appro- priate major, Zoology or Chemistry for Medicine, His- tory, Political Science, or English for Law, and so on. This is no doubt due to the tightening up of standards with the Professional Schools. Properly, the College of Arts and Sciences is the under- graduate non-professional part of the University. It is a collection of men who are seeking to expand knowledge in the several subjects and to introduce students to the search for truth. The result is far from satisfactory for a number of reasons. American students spend more time trying to avoid learning than they do in trying to get it, which introduces the peculiarities common to all colleges and universities in the country, namely the excessive extra- curricular activity. Most students get the notion that these activities are actually of permanent value, beyond anything else they get from college, due to the fact that they do not get that which the colleges are operated for. Not knowing what it is all about, they seize upon other things from which they do get something definite, though it is not at all what the faculty is collected for, nor for which the expensive equipment is bought. On the other hand, there are enough students who do get some real education, and enough Professors who turn out valuable research, to justify a large number of educational institutions. In a Democracy we have to be content with a constant state of mediocrity, but we hope, an improving one. We prefer this to the more clipped and furbished civilizations based upon autocracy. Our goal is to bring about a condition under which all young people will have the proper train- ing and environment to induce them to live intelligently and happily on a high plane. I l W. M. DEY, Hzmzanilies R. E. COKER, Natural Sciences A. R. NEWSOM, Social Sciencei PAGE 23