University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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Char es A. Smith Registrar James D. Phillips Business Manager tU The Bureau of Guidance and Records NEW organization has been created at the recommendation of President Frank to assist in the study and promotion of certain definite phases of Uni- versity situations and procedures. In a large modern university there is a pressing need for the centraUzation of an increasingly complex records situation. The records of the Registrar ' s OiEce and of other offices in the University are of very great value when full use is made ot them for purposes of study and research. The Bureau of Guid- ance and Records seeks to develop such a circumstance as will economically organize and centralize records, rendering them available to the various depart- ments of the University as they are desired for study, research or service purposes. The relation of an institution of higher learning to the secondary schools is of fundamental significance. Problems common to both institutions are many and significant. The Bureau is created to assist in establishing that relation- ship between these institutions which will result in a co-operative program of guidance. Such a program aims to give impetus in the high school to a study of individual aptitudes and interests ot pupils, to bring to high school students and parents in the early years of the student ' s career some very definite reali- zation of the predictive effect of secondary school work as it touches upon failure or success in college life. The co-operation of the secondary school principals will make it possible for the University to establish a more effective counseling and guidance program. The Bureau of Guidance plans on securing from high schools such information concerning the interests, special abilities and aptitudes of matriculating stu- dents that there may be a more careful planning ot University work and a more effective adjustment ot the student to university life and situations. The student within the University, as he elects and pursues his course, will be served by the Bureau. Such service will consist in an attempt to supply students information that will enable them to know what definite careers and activities university courses prepare for; this service will provide for students such an analysis of occupations and information with reference to occupations that it will be possible for the interested student to make more intelligent decisions during his student career, guiding himself with a more specific aim during his university course. The staff of the Bureau consists of: F. O. Holt E.vecutiie Director V. A. C. Henmon . . . Educational Guidance Director A. H. Edgerton .... Vocational Giudarice Director F. O. Holt ExecuUve Director bsl

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I ' .r Scott H. Goodnight Dean of Mtrn F. Louise Nardis Dean of U ' om n Deans of Men and Women )lTH the appearance ot the Badger of 1929. we are n.iking ready to take possession ot our new Home tor Wisconsin Spirit, the Memorial Union Building. What is it going to mean for us ' The hopes, the good will, and the hard dollars of thousands ot alumni and of present and former students are cemented into its walls. The most careful plan- ning of program committees and the utmost cunning of archi- tects and decorators have been combined to create a building of the greatest possible utility, as well as of great beauty. It is to house commodiously and adequately that grotesque hurdy-gurdy known as the acti% ' ities, but its chief function, as most of us view it, is to serve as the great student center, the melting pot, the distributing plant for the major currents of thought and influence which now so often expend themselves in futile attempts at effective propaganda and fail in their purpose. Radiated from the Union as a center, they can become dynamic and transmuted into action, provided the students will rally to the support of their own interests. Will they? Will all students, regardless ot class, affiliation, or financial status, flock into the Union, make their presence felt and their votes count, and give on all questions of public interest a clear and unequivocal e xpression of student opinion ' Will they make of the new building a common meeting ground for all elements of the student body, as well as a place in which students, alumni, and faculty members may rub elbows and discuss matters of mutual concern, free from the artificial barriers imposed by the class room relationship and the alum status of the fraternity house. ' ' Will the management of the Union bend every effort toward placing all facilities of the Union within reach of every student and guard scrupulously against measures which will tend to make it a rich man ' s club ' Every student pays fees for the support of the Union. Every student has a right there. Will every student go there and play his part ' Upon the answer of these questions depends the success or failure of our Home for Wisconsin Spirit. Wisconsin students will henceforth have an opportunity to show that they have a spirit worthy of the magnificent home that has been created for it. TjD ECENTLY an American of fifty said, Not a boy in the - - middle-western town where I was a boy expected to live in that town when he grew up. That expectation of change and far journeys and dwelling under strange skies still characterizes young Americans. Yet we keep, too, the pleasure of finding a familiar face or even a stranger who shares some of our memories. To be a graduate ot Wisconsin is to have in every land, in every port, such a familiar face or a person who has known, with fondness, people and places that you of 1928 have known with pleasure. Every once in a while some alumna WTites back and says, I didn ' t buy a senior ring w ' hen 1 was in college. How can I get one now? Probably she is buying because she has found the pleasure of recognizing a Wisconsin woman by this familiar sign. May Wisconsin give you many such happy encounters, where, remembering together, you shall drink again the wine of youth. SOL ck , c f0.. 9 A. 1141

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Agricultural Hall College of Agriculture H. L. Russell Dean S never before, the world is today giving recognition to the contributions that science has, and is, making to our civihza- tion. The man thoroughly trained in science nowadays is accepted and even eagerly sought for, while not so long ago the practical man was likely to regard him with suspended |udjment. In no phase of our American economic life has this ready appreciation of the value and service of science shown a more rapid growth than in agriculture. Less and less we hear refer- ences to book-farming and theoretical farming. Farmers have experienced the larger yields that come from pedigree varieties of farm crops, and in innumerable other ways have profited from the studies carried on in laboratories by agri- cultural scientists. So today the agricultural college graduate is received and welcomed by the working world. Not only is he proving a rural leader when he chooses to return to the farm, hut in a score of other professions he is finding bigger opportunities than the graduates who preceded him by only a tew years. Nor IS he confined in his choice to the strictly farm enter- prises, for industrial corporations need men with the specialized training that only an agricultural college gives. Scientific training is training in research, and our agricultural colleges are carrying research programs that compare with any in their scope and results. This close contact with research workers is proving of tremendous advantage to our agricultural students. Agricultural science is demonstrating its ability to serve all of society . Discoveries m our agricultural chemistry laboratories, in the field of animal nutrition, have made possible much new knowledge of the vitamins, and of the role of minerals in the growth of animals. As a direct result of these discoveries the food habits ot the nation have been profoundly influenced, and fundamental changes have had to take place in many phases of manufacturing and distribution. . .. ....Ulj !i6l