University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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hensive and effectual change that removedthis short-coming. This new system also classified the courses in the University according to a more natural, understandable and satisfying scheme. This new arrangement provided for four Colleges, each distinctive in its nature, and, together, providing for all instruction given in a State University. These four Colleges are:---The College of Arts and Science, the College of Agriculture, the College of Engineering, and the College of Medicine. The College of Arts and Science contains essentially the original and typical college course. The curricula contained in it are seven, viz: Classical, Literary-Scientific, General Science, Chem- istry, Commerce and Economics, Education, and Home Economics. The first two lead to the degrees A..l3. and Ph.B. respectively, the others to the degree of BS. The General Science Course is the only new one established by Doctor Benton, the others formerly comprising the Arts Department, Department of Education, Department of Home Econ- omics, and one from the Science Department. The Science Department, established in 1865, was disintegrated, and the two different lines of study now form the two Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering. The College of Medicine has developed into one of distinction and note. Vfith the opening of the year 1912-13, the entrance requirements were raised to one year -of collegiate work and the college year was made equal in length to that of the Academic colleges. The Medical College of the University of Vermont is now rated as a Class A institution by the American Medical Association. A perusal of the original memoir of Gen. Ira Allen will show that the University of Vermont was founded in answer to a real and tangible need of the State of Vermont, and from the facts given above it is seen that the University has enjoyed a constant growth and de- velopment to keep pace with this same need, growing with the enlarge- ment and development of the State. 23

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Glibe Brufessurs George Henry Perkins, Ph.D., l..itt.D., l.,L.D. Harvard Professor of Natural History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Was born in 1844 at Cambridge, Mass. Studied at Knox College for two years and two years at Yale. Took post-graduate work at Yale. Received his A.B. at Yale, 1867, Ph.D. at Yale, l869. Has traveled many times to the Pacilic coast by various routes and in the mining districts of the West and Southwestg to the Hawaiian Islands for study of volcanoes in 19059 to Europe in 19075 to Japan, China, India, Java, Ceylon, Egypt, Greece, Italy, in 1910, to Alaska in l899, and Yellow- stone Park in' l886, IS97, and l900. Specialized in Geology. Has published ten reports as State Geologist, and about one hundred articles in various periodicals. Has been State Geologist since 1898. Elected Professor of .Animal and Vegetable Physiology at University of Vermont, l869. Howard Professor of Natural History since l88l. Curator of Museum since l872. Dean of De- partment of Natural Science, l898-l9l2. Dean College Arts and Sciences since l9l2. ls a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and of the American Association for the Adyancement of Science. He is a member of the American Anthropological Society, American Ethnological Society, etc., etc. Member of AXP, BGH, and CPBK. Samuel Franklin Emerson, Ph.D. g Professor of History Was born in lS50 at Norwich, Vermont. Pursued baccalaureate course at Yale College. .Post- graduate worlc done at Union Theological Seminary, Tiibingen, and Berling at Rome, Italy, in 1911. Was connected with School for Boys at Stratford, Connecticut, lS72-75. Had a pastorate supply in Roxbury, New Hampshire, 1876, and at Sutton, Nebraska, 1877. Was professor of Greek and Ger- man at U. V. M., 1881-893 of History and Sociology since l889. Specialized in the History of Occidental Civilization, l8S9. Has published Meaning of History, Western Society, European Social Development and the Constitutional State. Is a member of American Historical Society: Vermont Historical Societyg Chairman Vermont Free Public Library Commission. Member of AXP. ' 25. A