University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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OR CAROLINA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The function of the College of Arts and Sci- ences is the preparation of programs of study leading to the various degrees under its control, the guid- ance of students following such programs, and the awarding of degrees. Its responsibilities are confined largely to the upper two years of the undergraduate life. The work of the students, under the plan known as The Major Scheme , or the Field of Concentra- tion Scheme , falls generally into the three main divisions: the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences. The purpose of this plan is to relate Departments with a somewhat similar aim and content, to the end that the education of the student may be built upon as wide a foundation as is reasona- ble without a too great scattering of his efforts. Very little is actually known about the essentials of education. It is almost as variable as are people and attempts to canalize it are rather generally fatal to the thing we are trying to foster. However, in our present state of ignorance, we are fairly well agreed upon some subjects as being of sufficient importance to be required for the degrees; such subjects as Englj sri) some Science, and some History. As a matter of fact, a college course cannot chart the life of a man a n d furnish him a blueprint by which to meet the exi- gencies of life in this world ; all it can do is to furnish certain principles and the will to study. The purpose of the College is to give the opportunity to students to develop their talents in the in- tellectual world, to help them see a larger world, to fit them for the public service. Integrity and knowl- edge are our only hopes if we are to have an enduring civilization. We cannot go on very long unless we are willing to introduce more order into the economy of our country. At present those who try for this kind of order are labeled with all sorts of bad names in the hope that the people may still a little longer be kept in confusion. The only kind of prosperity worth fighting for is a long continued general prosperity, and this is the place for integrity and knowledge. For these purposes we believe in lan- guage, in science, in history, in philosophy, in art, in economics, in government, and we believe that the direction of progress is in learning before action, in experience before revolution; we place study before propaganda, so that in the end we may all be propagandists for the right based upon knowledge plus experience. sl A. W. Hobbs, Dean W. M. Dey, Humanities: A. R. Newsom, Social Sciences; R. E. Coker, Natural Scienc

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GENERAL COLLEGE Spruill, Dean 1936-37 is the first year of full responsibility of the General College for all freshmen and sophomores in the University at Chapel Hill, excepting only those in the School of Pharmacy. For these underclassmen, 1264 in number, the faculty and administrative staff of the General College attempt to provide appropriate studies and helpful guidance. The courses of study are intended: (1) to present those basic subjects which are considered to be essential to a liberal education, (2) to provide opportu- nities for the discovery and development of interests and aptitudes, and (3) to contribute to preparation for later specialized training. The administrative staff is concerned with the more effective adaptation of our educational resources to the needs of the individual. A faculty committee of nine advisors works with a group of forty dis- tinguished upperclassmen in welcoming first-year students to Chapel Hill and in introducing them to the activities of the community. From the time of admission until the beginning of the junior year each stu- dent is associated with one of the advisors who tries to help him make here the best use of the several means of physical, intellectual, and spiritual growth. Thus through the advisors the University attempts to maintain with every student a human relationship devoted to the fullest development of his qualities and greatest powers. Ui The Freshman Advisors

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D. D. Carroll, Dean Bingham Hall THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE The School of Commerce at the University of N courses in economics and in certain business subject School, the regular business curriculum was not es has been rapid since that time, and there has been a of commercial activity. The University of North C for business leaders, and has set up a curriculum th scientific training as it is possible to give in this fiel the cultural and social side of life, but the teaching the organization and administration of typical bus orth Carolina was established in 1919. Although s had been offered before the establishment of the tablished until that year, 1919. Industrial growth wide demand for trained leaders in the various fields arolina has realized the importance of this demand at will provide its students with as thorough and as d. Courses are given in the subjects dealing with policy is directed mainly along lines dealing with iness enterprises. Faculty of Commerce School Front row: Sherrill, Woosley. Peacock. Carroll. Zimmermann, Wolf, Buchanan. Second row: Anson, Donovan. Cowden, Hobbs. Bernstein. Third row: Kuhlman, Anderson, Winslow, Schwenning, Douty, Bunting, Taylor.