University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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16 1935 KYNEWISBOK DEAN WALTERS SPEAKING cially endowed with eight external duties which included: following up inquiries from prospective students 5 directing field work, stu- dent placementg mailing of bulletins and other information, the speakers' bureau, radio broad- casting, scholarships, and investigating student mortality, which means finding out why students leave school. In addition he has the job of advising the Interschool Council, and his knowledge of facts about which the councillors know little makes his sal- ient influence in their discussions and deliberations valuable. Almost every student activity at some time or other finds itself in need of his advice, in- fiuence or guidance. He is a conven- ient connecting link between the Chancellor's office and that mythical - realm in which students are sup- posed to rule supreme. ECOND oNLY to the Chancellor in rank is the 22-year veteran ad- E ii MANNERISMS R. H. McWilliams always bites his lip and rufiles his hair so that his classes will know he has just told a jokeg the dramatic Professor Sco- field has a hard time with his wisecracks. Among the psychologists Dr. T. R. Garth is noted for strange experiments that involve crys- tal gazing, clay masks, and picture puzzles. Pro- fessor Miller is outstanding for his booming voice and elaborate vocabulary. Dr. Clive Iohn Card is possessed of a precise, icicle-like mode of diction. Curing stuttering is the specialty of speech professor Elwood Murray, whose students live under the fear that his trouser belt may stray even farther from the bottom of his vest. Mrs. Marion Robinson achieved fame by denying that favoritism governed her choice of casts. Dr. Levette Davidson drives his classes to distraction with his unique rendition of poetic classics. Dr. Wm. Luebke's lectures may be on any subject but they usually end in a discussion of the derivation of some word or other. ministrator, W. D. Engle, Vice-Chancellor. Into Dr. Engle's office a large percentage of the students find their way. They come, hatpin hand, or nervously twisting a handkerchief, to arrange for a deferment of tuition payment or to apply for a much-needed loan. To Dr. CONCENTRATED ENERGY

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CURRICULAR ADMINISTRATION 15 be noticed. In the past tl1e three dollar fee for THE Kvmswrsnox has been paid in the spring quar- ter. Since the enrollment recedes each uquarter, it was decided to move it up to the winter quarter this year. In view of the unex- pected increase, this was indeed a fortuitous stroke. Another interesting sidelight gleams on the fact that previously there was a maximum limit of four hundred set upon freshman registration. At the time this limit was set, there was no indication that more than this number of yearlings would apply for enroll- ment, and when this year, to the surprise of one and all, some four hundred and fifty desired to ma- triculate, the limitation was unob- trusively obliterated. The increase in quantity apparently did not bring down the quality standard, since intelligence tests proved that the new frosh were far above the average in brain power. If THB KYNEWISBOK were inclined to back patting it might be said that THE GRAND OLD PHILOSOPHER, DR. LOUGH VENERABLE VETERAN DR. W. D. ENGLE the first year collegians showed their intelli- gence by matriculating here. NOTHER or the activities designed to add to the attractiveness of a college education is the ,newly reorganized Placement Bu- reau. Under the direction of Wayne Shroyer and Iarnes Binns, the Bureau finds jobs for students, thus enabling them to gather enough coin of the realm to pay their next quarter's tui- tion. A more significant function ofthe Bureau is to secure positions- for grad- uates. It has made a fine gesture in un- dertaking to look after the interests of students, even though they may have finished their period of study. With other colleges adopting mod- ern methods of advertising and sales- manship, it became mandatory in order to keep above financial quicksands that the University of Denver accept this theory. Dean Lawson was then pre- sented with another job and was ofzli-

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HAVE YOU TAKEN GYM? asks Registrar Pete Nelson as he ' marks sophomore next to your name. CURRICULAR ADMINISTRATION 17 ,, ,119-Pl! iw '--:av ,. .rn A Engle s glory let it be said that these suppliants are usually successful. N 'mls oflice of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, one of the most conscientious ECONOMIC HEADSCRATCHING accompanied the attempt of the economic seminar to understand the situation in Germany ,lf men in the entire organization holds sway. He is Rolland I. Walters, whose main desire is to make Denver a pioneer in the field of educa- tion. Here it must be said that the Dean does not spend all his time signing slips which ask you to call at your earliest con- VCITL1CI1CC.,, Every two weeks, Dean Walters gathers a group of leaders and attempts to scrape together their hastily formed opinions on the doings of those in charge of the curriculum. The Leader's Council, awed by the superiority of the Dean's knowledge to their own mea- ger information, generally sits quietly while he makes known his aims and ideals. The sum total of constructive ideas that this group has offered and that the Dean has not already sug- gested to them could be written in the margin of this page and there would still be ample room