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

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South Building COLLEGE OF AKTS AND SCIENCES The College of Arts and Sciences is the administrative unit of the University which confers the degrees, A.B. ; A.B. in Journalism; A.B. in Law; B.S. in Chemistry; B.S. in Geology; B.S. in Physics; B.S. in Medicine. This may make it appear that the college is a degree mill, but such is not the case. While the officers 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 sense; 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 1938 or June 1939. There are about 730 students in the College at the present time, divided as follows : Candidates for B.S. in Chemistry, 38; for B.S. in Geology, 8; for B.S. in Physics, 3; for B.S. in Medicine, 16; for A.B. LL.B., 26; for A.B. with major in Chemistry, 68; Economics, 32; Sociology, 60; Physical Education, 19; Zoology, 42; His- tory, 47; Political Science, 58; A.B. in Journalism, 65; De. ' VN A. W. HoBBS PAGE 22

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Mathematics, 16; English, 64; Physics, 3; French, 14; Psy- chology, 6; Dramatic Art, 22; Geology, 4; Fine Arts, 4; Music, 8 ; Philosophy, 5 ; Comparative Literature, 1 ; Rural Economics, 2; Botany, 3; Latin, 2; unclassified, about 200. Among the unclassified 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. W. M. Dey, Humanities R. E. CoKER, Natural Sciences A. R. Newsom, Social Sciences PAGE 23

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Mathematics, 16; English, 64; Physics, 3; French, 14; Psy- chology, 6; Dramatic Art, 22; Geology, 4; Fine Arts, 4; Music, 8; Philosophy, 5; Comparative Literature, 1; Rural Economics, 2; Botany, 3; Latin, 2; unclassified, about 200. Among the unclassified 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. W. M. Dev, Humanities R. E. CoKER, Natural Sciences A. R. Newsom, Social Sciences PAGE 23 m %