University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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THE DEANS 1L1KE to think of our Normal School as more than a pile of brick and mortar, more than a collection of class-rooms presided over by instructors, more than a body of men and women seeking to learn the fundamentals of the profession of teaching. To me, it is rather a great pulsating institution rich in spirit and tradition, reaching out its arms throughout the state, extending its sphere of influence year by year seeking to fulfill its mission and binding us to it in bonds of loyalty and love. It is my hope that you, who go out this year into various fields of activity, will carry with you this conception of your Alma Mater, that you will look back with pleasure to the days that you have spent within her walls and that you will achieve the success that she would wish you to attain. May you, who will return again next year, catch the full spirit of the Red and White and carry on the duties that the outgoing class have laid down. In this, I offer you my heartiest co-operation confident that you will enter into the life of the school with an appreciation of the added responsibilities that you will be called upon to assume. H. E. HAYWARD. B. S. U. of M. Dean of Men. Biology ALTHOUGH the duties of a dean of women differ somewhat according to conditions in various institutions, in general, these duties have to do with the living arrangements, the social, and the academic life of the young women students of the institution. Where dormitories are provided for women students, this branch of her work is comparatively simple and much easier to administer than where no such provision is made. The personal contact, which the dean of women establishes with students, makes it necessary to provide ample time and opportunity for personal interviews. Matters of health, social activities, and scholarship are continually being brought to her attention. The young woman student is energetic and ambitious. She has a deep .st in life and is preparing to take an active part in the world's construc-Notwithstanding her apparent light-heartedness, and her devotion IRMA HATHORN. M. A. Columbia University Dean of Women. Mathematics interest to fashion, she will contribute her full share to the future good of society. ■ yyu 1922 Pag y

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ELETEAN Loyalty The greatest achievement of an educational institution is to raise the moral and spiritual level of its student body. Education is consecrated to the betterment of mankind, not to the training of a few selected leaders. In a democracy it is highly important that this fundamental conception be kept clear. No more serious mistake could be made than that our institutions of higher learning be organized and administered in the interest of the select. Education in our country must have as its objective the improvement of the intellectual and ethical perspective of the great mass of our citizens. We do not need holders of world’s records; we do need the intellectual and ethical elevation of all. American schools and colleges are the best training grounds for citizenship. The American student entertains a high type of loyalty for his institution. This is one of the splendid things connected with student life. It is a splendid thing for these institutions to have the enthusiastic loyalty of these young men and women, but the chief significance of the kindling of these sentiments lies in the profound influence upon the lives of the students themselves. The most sinister feature in the life of the American people today is their cynical contempt for law and government and the evident purpose on the part of great classes of our citizens to use government, not as an instrument of justice to all, but as a means whereby some class benefit may be seized. Idealism is a priceless virtue. It is an attribute of youth. We must look to the young people of today—the students in our institutions of learning— to keep alive our idealism and to foster those sentiments of honor and loyalty without which our free institutions cannot endure. Let the River Falls Normal School, its student body and faculty, always endeavor to create an institutional atmosphere in which all the higher qualities of citizenship may develop and flourish, and let there be placed first among these virtues, loyalty. And let this civic and personal virtue mean: loyalty to friends, loyalty to our school and loyalty to our country. President.

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THE FACULTY JAMES P. JACOBSON M. S. University of Wisconsin Physics RUDOLPH A. KARCES Ph. M. University of Wisconsin Prin. H. S. and Jr. H. S. Dept. Physical Science CHARLES C. STRATTON A. B. Ypsilanti College Ccography HENRY A. DAVEE Ph. B. University of Wisconsin Supt. Training Dept. Education WALTER H. HUNT Valparaiso University Director Prin. Course Education JAMES 1. MALOTT M. A. University of Missouri Prin. Rural Dept. Education