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

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CLARENCE A. DYKSTRA THE Universify of Wisconsin has been sending students and graduates into the world since the time of our great grandfathers. This is a long and honorable record. It is more — it is a distinguished record. During many of these years a Badger has been published to conserve for suc- ceeding generations and for our memories the pictures and the happen- ings of the years as they pass. • The 1937 Badger will recall to many of you during the years to come some of the incidents of the year now closing. It will bring back to you recollections of old friends, teachers, and students. Because these things are so and because associations and contacts outside the classroom are of real importance in university life, I commend this enterprise as a worth- while expression of student interest and activity. • I am glad for this opportunity to greet the students of the University of Wisconsin in this volume dedicated to a portrayal of their activities. C. A. DYKSTRA .25 .

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PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE WISCONSIN has a world-wide reputation for constructive social and economic leadership. This has come because our people have un- derstood the times in which they lived and have had the enlightened cour- age to deal with the problems which faced them. In all that Wisconsin has, or will achieve, education has been a determining factor. • Our system of free education brought the gift of knowledge and train- ing to our people. But in Wisconsin it has likewise taught continuously the obligation of all to make return for these opportunities in enlightened and responsible citizenship. Our ability to master the complicated prob- lems of this age, giving us order and progress without surrender of liberty, will depend in large measure upon the accurate knowledge and sense of social responsibility coming forth from our system of education. • No institution of higher learning has played a greater part in or ren- dered greater service to the State that created it than the University of Wisconsin. Through its faculty and students it has repaid the State con- stantly in the highest forms of public service. Wisconsin is confident that the great record of the university will be maintained and advanced in the years ahead. PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE 24

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PERHAPS no faculty member represents so com- pletely the University of Wisconsin to parents and citizens of the state and country as the Dean of Men. The nature of his office brings him in daily contact through interview and correspond- ence with men and men students whose problems are of every kind and type. As Dean, Scott hi. Goodnight presides as chairman of the Committee on Student Life and Interests, directs student loans and scholarships, supervises and approves housing for men, acts as advisor to the freshman men ' s honor fraternity. Phi Eta Sigma, of which he is national president. Such work makes him the over- seer of all out-of-the-classroom activity, fraternity and extracurricular, in which men students partici- pate. The only man in the country to hold such an office in addition to a Deanship, Dean Goodnight is known also as Director of the Summer Session. Long hours of preparation, during the winter, of reports and budget, as well as careful choosing of faculty, are a regular portion of his organization and directing of the six weeks summer school. Scott Goodnight, a native of Jackson County, Kansas, came to Wisconsin as an instructor in German from Eureka College in Illinois, and earned his Ph.D. here. The years 1898-99 saw him study in Europe, and in 1906-7 he attended the great Uni- DEAN OF MEN Scott Holland Goodnight versity at Leipzig, Germany. The duties of German School Director were taken over by him in 1911, those of Associate Professor of German in 1912, those of Dean of Men in 1916, which duties forced his resignation from active teaching several years ago. Beyond the official life of the University, Dean Goodnight delights in shouldering a gun and chas- ing cottontails through Wisconsin woods; enjoys smoking a corncob pipe while fishing near his lodge on Black Oak Lake in Michigan; scratches his head many times to remember the many people who greet him and honor him In every part of the coun- try; chuckles at the suggestion that he is known In Deans ' meetings as a dangerous adversary; is very proud of his dog, Mickey, his title, Faculty Bil- liard Champion, his activity in undergraduate days in football, basketball, and baseball. As a speaker before student groups in hig h schools and colleges, before Alumni groups, and before other gatherings of every nature. Dean Goodnight has made clear the aims and activities of this University to citizens of this and other states. 26