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

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p-un-n-n-u-n... nu-unuuuo-u-uunnunu DEAN FERRIS The College of Engineering The young man graduating today from the Coll'ge of Engineering need not leave Ten- nessee to seek opportunity for service. Tennessee is the Land of Promise. It is rich in opportunity for the young technical graduate who would put his effort where it is needed, who wants to do a man's task in the world and who feels the call to give service to his native state. Would he become a manufacturer? In no state of the Union are conditions more favorable; a climate that will allow the maximum of human effort, without the shock of winter cold, or the drain of summer heat; power from our own coal fields, or better, from our many water falls, may be had at a price below the cost to our neighbors to the north or to the south. We boast of our natural resources and well we may, for they furnish the raw materials for many industries in many states. And in no section of the country can the manufacturer find more intelligent labor, more capable of acquiring any degree of skill needed to produze a highly developed, finished product. Does some one ask who will supply the needed capital? A great man in a neighboring state said that whenever he found a man he built a mill. The successful leader in industry is rare, so rare that capital seeks him. He need not wait for capital. Would the young graduate elect to help solve our modern transportation problem? Ten- nessee has nct yet seriously begun to build highways. We will not long remain in the back- ground, and sooner or later, we hope soon, Tennessee will be expending $10,000,000 annually on a system of highways, calling for a minimum of 500 trained and experienced highway engineers to design and supervise; calling for many men of dash and courage and great re- source to marshall the men and materials to build the roads; calling for men to organize and put into effect a system of maintenance that will rival in magnitude the task of building. And when this net work of highways is completed, there will come a new transportation problem, that of establishing and operating great motor bus and truck lines from the homes of the people to their markets, their schools and their churches. Could a young man get a finer Vision of service than to loyally remain in the state that has dealt with him generously, to use his talents and training to make his community a better place to live, to make life richer and fuller by using the forces and materials of Nature for the benefit of this and future generations? -C. E. Ferris Page Eighteen

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DEAN WILLSON College of Agriculture This statement from lVIiltonls famous Tractate on Education was the inspira- tion which led Senator Justin S. lVIorrill of Vermont to conceive and carry to a successful conclusion the Land Grant Act of 1862, which created the Land Grant Colleges and placed them lupon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil, where all the needful sciences for the practical vocations of life shall be taught; where neither the higher graces of classical studies, nor the military drill our country so greatly appreciates, will be entirely ignored and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends, studying its familiar and recondite economics, and at last elevating it to a higher level, where it may fearlessly invoke comparison with the most advanced standard of the worldl. eC. 14. Willson Page Seventeen

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DEAN MCDERMOTT The College of Law The College of Law of the University of Tennessee has for its ambition the establishment here of a law school equipped to give its students a training second to none in America. For years it has been customary for those interested in the highest professional education to turn their eyes to the East and t0 the North. It is inconceivable that these or any other sections of the country can have a monopoly on any branch of education. There is no reason why southern schools and universities cannot match the very best the North and East have to offer. It is purely a question of what type of education we care to deal in. The South has fully recovered from those years of depression following the Civil War, and now stands on an equal footing with the rest of America, quite able to do its part in supporting the best brand of popular education. Southern schools and universities have realized that the best element of American youth wants and demands the best in education as in other fields of life. Therefore the raising of standards and the increase of entrance requirements has not cut down attendance. On the contrary, more and finer young men and young women are clamoring to be admitted. Because of a realization of these facts, the College of Law at Tennessee does not concern itself about numbers, altho the striking fact is that with the present high standards there are more entering students than ever before. What really concerns us is the thoroughness of the training and the development of character that we can give to each individual student who goes out from here to promote the administration of justice. When these things have been properly cared for, numbers will take care of themselves. It is therefore the declared policy of this College to raise its entrance requirements and its standards in every branch until they are in complete accord with the very best recognized in modern legal education. Already the case system, now generally regarded as the most approved method of instruction in law, has been introduced in all courses; in addition to a complete high school education, the entering student must have to his credit one year of standard college work; beginning with 1925, two years of college work will be required of all entering students. New courses have been added to the curriculum; additional instructors have been added to the faculty; and the number of volumes in the law library has been more than doubled in the last two years. This is but the beginning of a sustained and determined effort to place this department of the University in the front ranks of law schools in America. The result cannot be accomplished in a day, nor in a year, but the fact is that the plans have been carefully laid and step by step they are being worked out as rapidly as it is possible to do. -Malcolm McDermott Page Nineteen