University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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31112 011111ng nf illihrml Aria The College of Liberal Arts, as its name signiiies, is that part of the University which presents, or should present, to its students an oppor- tunity to become acquainted with all the various forms of intellectual activity. This it does through its departments of Languages, ancient and modern, Literature, History, Mathematics, Philosophy and N atur- al Science. It makes no effort to en- compass all knowledge; but it takes the student, as it were to the moun- tain top and points out all the brilliant accomplishments of the generations that have gone before, and indicates the paths of progress that lead to intellectual achievement. It does more than this. It provides the mental equipment which is absolutely necessary to progress ; a knowledge of fundamental facts, the power to think a problem through to a conclusion and the facility of expression. Training in language, the medium by which the activity of one mind is communicated to another, and in Mathematics, the language of science, always will constitute the haek-bone of any Liberal Arts curriculum. These are facts not of our making. Therefore they will endure whatever may be the vicissi- tudes of fortune. One needs only to read the elegant and exact English written by men trained in the English classical schools to appreciate the power which facility in the use of language gives and the satisfaction which comes in following mental process expressed with precision. Mathematics is not excelled, if equalled, by any other subject in its power to compel exact and orderly thinking. That is why it is hard. That is why the young, disorderly mind seeks to avoid it. ONith humble apologies to all fresh- men who do not like the suhjecti. Many a man has mastered a distasteful subject with great profit. This year the College of Liberal Arts went into its new home, Ayres Hall, which has been pronounced by those who know one of the most handsome college buildings in the United States. It was the idea of Thomas Jefferson that the buildings consecrated to the training of youth should be com- mensurate with the great end to be attained. Ayres Hall meets this re- quirement. It is, therefore, with a feeling of great pride and profound responsibility that we take possession of it, hoping that faculty and stu- dents working together may lay deeply and solidly the foundation for future great intellectual achieve- ment. THE RETREAT OF L. A. STUDENTS -JAMES T. PORTER. THE LIBRARY Page Twenty-two

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JAMES TEMPLE PORTER. DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Page Twenty-one

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CHARLES ALBERT WILLSON VICE-DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Page Twenly-three