University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION . President Vice-President . Secretary Treasurer while to submit themselves to such a rigorous disci- pline preparatory to their life work. Two principal facts in my judgment have wrought this change. The first is the reaction from the frontier spirit which was a spirit of inde- pendence and self-sufificiency. The material conditions under which the frontiersman labored further developed this spirit in him. He had to be a jack-of-all-trades. He was proud of the ability he displayed, and justly so. The second factor is the tremendously complicated development in modern times of our whole social system in which the jack-of-all-trades has little if any place. It is no longer a question of doing a passably workmanlike job. Society of the twentieth century demands specialized training and scientific perfection, as well as techni- cal skill, and this not only in the fields of medicine and engineering, but in law, education, journalism, agriculture, business, and government. Therefore, more thorough preparation is required and the University has established these provisions to provide the types of training found necessary. Page IS

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE OFFICERS Jack Powell . Gene Baim . Margaret Morgan Robert Ellis F. M.TlSDEL . President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Dean THE hub of the various professional schools in the University is the College of Arts and Science which draws most of the students who enter Missouri as freshmen. Preliminary training in this school is necessary for the entrance to the schools of Law, Medicine, Education, Journalism, and Business and Public Administration. This prepara- tory work is one of the main purposes of the college. To students with the requisite ability and energy it offers a liberal education in the arts and sciences as well as giving them an intelligent familiarity with modern civilization. The object of the school is to prepare its students for service in the world and to give them resources that make for success and happiness. The various departments give training for careers in Chemistry, Sociology, Literature, or any of the allied subjects. They train for leadership in any of the lines that may be followed after a student leaves school. The resources of the college are very broad and if a person takes advantage of them, he has an outlook on life that will help him no matter where he takes up his life work. Our civilization is rapidly becoming more and more complex and the person who has a diversified knowledge and is able to put it to practical use is quickly coming into his own. Many business men prefer to hire an unspecialized college graduate, who is capable of thinking and who can be trained after he leaves school. The College of Arts and Sciences turns out many such students each year, who find their posi- tion in the world of afTairs. Page 17

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THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION OFFICERS Bessie Ruth Knight Ida Spaht . Hertha Steiner . President Secretary Treasurer THE subject of this year ' s Savitar might well be a heading for de- scribing all the activities of the School of Education. It exists to serve dynamic youth. This service is rendered through the training given to teachers, supervisors, principals, and superintendents. More than two hundred students receive the degree, Bachelor of Science in Education, from the School of Education each year and go into the elementary, junior and senior high schools of the state to help give training to the boys and girls of Missouri which will prepare them for life in a changing world. It is also rendered through the - training given to the one hundred students who each year receive Master ' s or Doctor ' s degrees under the faculty of the School of Education. These men and women take positions of leader- ship in administrative, supervisory, and teaching positions and consti- tute the means through which the University comes into intimate contact with the majority of the school children of Missouri. To serve dynamic youth, the School of Education believes in thorough scholarship, research, and in activities which will keep its faculty members and student body in close touch with the economic, social, and political problems of the state. During the quarter of a century of its existence as a degree-granting division of the University, approximately three thousand five hundred students have received undergraduate degrees from the School of Education and approximately four hundred students have received Master ' s and Doctor ' s degrees with majors in professional education courses. These graduates are now at work in practically every state of the Union and in many foreign countries, where they are living up to the best traditions of the Uni- versity of Missouri. Page 19