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

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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

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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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Sterling Hall School of Commerce ISCONSIN ' S School of Commerce is this year making the transition from a strictly undergraduate Course in Commerce to a School of Commerce, that is at least in part upon a graduate basis. The Course in Commerce was estab- lished in 1900. one of the first of its kind m the United States. Professor W. A. Scott has served as its director from the begmning until, with the establish- ment of the new school, he asked to be relieved of his administrative duties in order to devote all of his time to teaching and research. The curriculum in commerce has always emphasijed, and will continue to emphasize, both the fundamentals of a liberal education and special training in the basic principles of business. Beginning with the current academic year, two years of work in Letters and Science are required for admission to the new- School of Commerce, followed by a three-year course. At the close of the fourth year of study in the University, students are granted the B.A. degree with a major m economics. The distinctive degree in commerce is not granted until the close of the fifth years ' work and is a master ' s degree. This new requirement is in harmony with similar steps taken by the strongest schools of commerce throughout the country, and will help develop professional training for busi- ness. Three of the special developments in the work of the School of Commerce during the year have been these: the development of the fifth years work and the promotion of such graduate work among the students; the development of a number of research studies, which it is expected will be of great interest and help to the business interests of the state; and the holding of a one day conference with business men, in which the interdependence of Wisconsin business interests and the promotion of Wisconsin prosperity were discussed. The School of Commerce will be better than ever prepared to carry its share of the responsibility for training men who are experts in various special business fields and who, by virtue of the training they have received and the experience they will get, will rise to positions as business executives. WlLLl. M H. K.1EKH0?ER Tfmporarv Chduman, School 0 Commtrct Faculty Commitlw I7l