University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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The College of Arts and Science is the oldest division of the University, being the only college set up in the beginning of the University in 1839. The college as a whole has the largest enroll- ment of any school or college on the campus. There are about 1200 students enrolled in the College of Arts and Science this year. The College of Arts and Science lays a basis on which the student is able to determine and build that particular profession or vocation for which he ARTS AND SCIENCE Frank F. Stephens, Dean is most suited. It prepares for graduate work in various .fields of research. It teaches the basic courses required for admission to the professional schools of Medicine, journalism, Law, Education, and Business and Public Administration. The Dean of underclassmen in the school of Arts and Science is Frank F. Stephens, who for 18 years has guided the education of thousands of students, who have regarded him as a friend. Page 20

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Tl-HQLMA MILLS Director of Student Affairs for Women The Director of Student Aifairs for Women is rapidly becoming one of Missouri's best known women. She is Miss Thelma Mills, and from the vantage Page 19 ' point of her large desk on the second Hoor of Read Hall, she dispenses help, advice, information, and justice to the women students at the University. Under her sponsorship and guidance the Asso- ciated Women Students held the Sixth Annual Career's Conference. These conferences are held to give the girls firsthand information about the voca- tional opportunities awaiting them after graduation from the University. A charming and gracious friend, Miss Mills will long be remembered and respected by the students of the University of Missouri.

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ARTS AND SCIENCE . 1551297 Qian.: ' 1 1 Z ' 1 il E: Wintcrton C. Curtis, Deen Just as the underclassman college of Arts and Science lays a basis for future education, the upper- classman college prepares students for professional practice in advanced study and research in such fields as music, chemistry, art, public welfare, creative writing, and geology. The resources of the college are very broad, thus training for leadership in any of the lines that may be followed after a student leaves school. For those students who complete four years in Arts and Science, an A. B. degree is given. Students Page 21 who wish ultimately to become trained investigators or to teach their specialties in colleges and univer- sities should secure the A. B. degree as a preparation for graduate work. The Dean of the upperclassman college of Arts and Science is Winterton Conway Curtis, who holds an A. B. and an M. A. degree from Williams College, a Ph. D. from John Hopkins, and a Sc. D. degree from Williams College. Dean Curtis has held his present position since 1934.