University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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DEAN OF WOMEN OFFICERS Fredlyn Ramsey Virginia Bidwell Mayme Hanlon Lucy Wilson . . President Vice-President . Secretary Treasurer Tl rE MORTALS set up for ourselves consciously or subconsciously, ideals by which we guide our lives. Some of these ideals we get from tradition and instruction. Others come to us through the lessons of life ' s hard experience. I presume we might say they are the residue of our social life, the precipitate of our soul ' s strivings. Other ideals seem the result of fancy and speculation, the curling vapors of our day- mh% dreams. Methinks the safest ideals of all by which a man may guide his life are those derived from the study of great men who have preceded us. It is a fine thing in these days to be thought dynamic. He is ad- mired who is ever in motion. But when you start going somewhere, I pray you, get sure whither you are going. There is but one sure way to do this and that is to study what the forces of the past produced. Knowing that, you may estimate what forces operating today are liable to produce and thus wisely choose the one to which you should attach your effort. Whether the force you transmit is large or small, it should be the greatest of which you are capable and it should move in such a direction that it betters mankind. In this way great men of old were dynamic and they still give us ideals that head us right. Again, study hard enough to know which way you are going. I Page r

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DEAN OF MEN OFFICERS Glenn J. Degner President J. L. Reading Vice-President Sue Wass Secretary-Treasurer ' T HE Dean of Men is the official adviser of students. Through personal contacts with them and by sympathetic interest in their activities he works to build up higher standards of student life. His office provides to men of the University opportunities for personal conference and consultation on their many problems. The Dean has general supervision of student activities. He also has a supervision of student conduct, which makes for construc- tive as well as punitive discipline. It is his function to assist in co-ordinating the various parts of the University for the good of the whole, inter- preting the University to the students and the stu- dents to the faculty. It is because of the great human waste in the process of education and of the fact that the Missouri University wishes for no man to go out in the business world a failure upon graduation that she has created the Dean of Men ' s office. The office of the Dean of Men originated in a western university about twenty-five years ago; at Missouri it was created in 1924. During the functioning of these six years there have been many favorable and beneficial acts rendered to the student body. One of the chief functions of this office is the settlement of problems that arise between the owners of rooming houses and students. The sense of fairness that has permeated all of the decisions is sufficient indication of the importance of this office. Page 26

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THE TIGER CUB DICTIONARY Definition No. i. Administration — A group of Deans whose life is fraught with petty difficulties, pretty secretaries, and questions from the Board of Curators. • Mm 3lIJ