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

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19 3 2 THE BADGER Scott H. Goodnight Dean of Men F. Louise Nardin Dean of Women Deans of Men and Women Tl IF current academic year, the events of which arc chronicled in this volume of the Badger, has brought with it a revision of the college curriculum. The Faculty has loosened up some old requirements, c. it, with regard to foreign language study, and has tightened up others, such as requiring aptitude tests, comprehensive examinations and a higher scholastic rating for passing from the sophomore to tlx- junior year. On the whole, tlx- effect is to liberalize further and to place a higher premium upon independent study and g xxl work, and to penalize more heavily laziness and frivolity. We hope these changes may make for improved educational facilities for future students at Wisconsin. Increased facilities are usually accompanied by increased distractions, and those who have not the ambition and tlx- will power to succeed under present conditions will find themselves equally handicapped under the new You arc completing your Junior year in this University. You have proven your ability to carry college work successfully. You now have a little more than a year ahead of you in which to demonstrate completely your fitness to receive the degree whicn the Faculty is socking to protect for you by raising standards. May you finish the job in a manner that will be a life-long satisfaction to you and that will prepare you for a real place in the work of the world, regardless of the set of scholastic requirements which happens to prevail while you are here. IT is ft happy day when the experience one has been accumulating can become the hasis of a program. Year after year, from interviews on low scholarship or other difficult student adjustments, testimony has been piling up in the office of the dean of women showing that in ideal college housing, each girl would have a nook to which she had undivided right and where she could be complete master of time for study and for sleep. When the builders of Langdon and Ann Hmcry Halls began thinking of these dormitories for women, they invited us to use our experience and make suggestions. We pointed out this fundamental requirement of college housing. The builders gladly took the suggestion. often forgotten by architects who make beautiful exteriors and charming social rooms, and in these new' I lalls three hundred women now have the room of her own which Virginia Woolf has wittily made a sine qua non for woman's achievements and a symbol of fair provision for her needs. So we move on slowly toward our ideal. When the daughters of the class of 1931 arrive at Wisconsin, we hope each will find here all things necessary for the fullest development of her powers, including the room of her own. P lgC 2$-

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T H E BADGER 19 3 2 M ► « M M ► 4 M M ► 4 ► 4 ► 4 4 ► 4 I The Capitol from the Hill The Board of Visitors Term Expires Appointed by the Regents George P. Hambrf.cht. Madison........................1931 Loyal Durand. Milwaukee................................1932 Harry W. Kirchkr. Sheboygan............................1933 Mrs. Charles R. Carpenter. Madison.....................1934 Appointed by the Alumni Charles L. Byron, Chicago..............................1931 B. E. McCormick. Madison...............................1932 Mrs. Lucy M. Johnson, Madison..........................1933 B. A. Kiekhofer. Milwaukee.............................1934 Appointed by the Governor Dr. W. C. Sullivan, Kaukaunu...........................1930 Mrs. Hattie C. Tectmf.yer. Milwaukee...................|«31 Mrs. Allan Classon, Oconto.............................1932 Carl J. Hescard. Orfordvillc...........................1933 Edward V Birck. President Emeritus Page 27

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BADGER 19 3 2 T H The Bureau of Guidance and Records IN a large modern university there is a pressing need for the centralization of an increasingly complex records situation. The records of the Registrar's Office and of other offices in the University arc of very great value when full use is made of them for purposes of study and research. The Bureau of Guidance and Records seeks to develop such a circumstance as will economically organize and centralize records, rendering them available to the various departments of the University as they are desired for study, research, or service purposes. I’he 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 relationship between these institutions which will result in a co-operative program of guidance. Such a program aims to give impetus in tin: high sch x !s to a study of individual aptitudes and interests of pupils, to bring to high school students and parents in the early years of the student's career some very definite realization 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 principal 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 sch x ls such information concerning the interests, special abilities, and aptitudes of matriculating students that there may be a more careful planning of University work and a more effective adjustment of 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. I'Ioi.t..................................Executive Director V. A. C HENMON......................Educational Guidance Director A. H. EdCF-RTON..................... Vocational Guidance Director Charles A s ITH Secretary oj the Faculty F. O Holt R r islrar and Director cj the Hurt an of Guidance and Records James D. Phillips Business Manager of the I niversity Page 29■