University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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C ajrrtp us S ' cs. ' xe M.A-C- Math Building and French Hall before the hurricane A recent trend in the field of education is the idea of establishing two-year community colleges to supplement the present higher educational facilities and to help meet the recognized population problem. President Mather is a member of a Legislative Commission organized to study the junior college problem. He intends to work towards securing a larger legislative appropriation to establish a two-year commission including private and public educators and legislative members, and to make a complete evaluation of the entire ' public higher educational program for the future. His goal is to bring together the best possible minds and opinions from all sources for developing a public policy broader than the accepted policy of expanding and developing the University. Additional fiscal resources are needed for the continuation of the accepted expansion policy here as well as any extension of higher educational facilities or increase in the amount of state aid to elementary and secondary education. In this period of progress and expansion, there will be many problems, yet the President realizes this and feels that the solution of any problem lies in the creation of new problems. Though some steps may falter or fail completely, the direction must be forward; we must work together as a unified body. We aren ' t attempting to destroy the past but to build for the future— old opinions do not necessarily have to be changed, but should be re-examined. Along with these theses, the Presidentguides his policies by six ideals: 1. The inestimable value of the individual. 2. The mystery of the human mind. 3. The significance of the communicative arts. 4. The contribution of science. 5. The transcendent power of man ' s ethical mind. 6. A treasury of faith. I have no ultimate faith in speed or gadgets but I have an everlasting faith in faith itself, particularly as it is exemplified in the works of a place as alive, and progressive, and intelligent as this campus and its people. — Jean Paul Mather

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NOW: STUDENT HORIZONS WIDEN WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE STUDENT UNION HAILED AS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ADDITION TO STUDENT LIFE IN YEARS !

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r CAMPUS SCENES OLD CHEM BUILDING, LOCATED ON SITE OF MACHMER HALL, BURNS TO THE GROUND IN 1912 MOUNTED MILITARY DRILL IN 1934 ON WHAT IS NOW THE LIBRARY LAWN