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

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DEAN MCDERMOTT The College of Law The College of Law of the University of Tennessee was organized for the purpose of giving to its students a training second to none in the country. The law school is fully equipped to fit students for the bar of any state, so thorough is the acquaint- ance With the general principles and rules of American law that it gives them. The College of Law is a member of the Association of American Law schools and is also fully registered by the New York State Education Department. The old idea that southern schools and universities are not up to the standard of what the North and East offer has been entirely displaced. They have realized what the best element of American youth demands and to meet these demands they have rais- ed the standards as well as the entrance requirements of the colleges. These more stringent requirements have not in the least cut down attendance anywhere. On the contrary, a higher type of student is seeking admission into our colleges. The Tennessee School of Law has been no exception to this general condition. While it has never concerned itself with numbers, more students than ever are entering with the present high standards. The case system of instruction, generally regarded as the most approved method of instruction in law, has been adopted 'in all courses. In addition to the regular courses. there are given at regular intervals lectures by judges and leading lawyers on special branches of law, with particular reference to Tennessee decisions. Page Twenty-ane

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DEAN PORTER The College of Liberal Arts The College of Liberal Arts furnishes the connecting link between the University of Tennessee, with its diversi- fied educational interests, and the older Universities whose instruction was entirely along classical lines. While everyone recognizes the cultural value of clas- sical training, the University attempts an adjustment of educational values line enough to preserve a proper bal- ance between all colleges. This means that the College of Liberal Arts, which after all forms a basis for subse- quent study along professional lines, receives its just share of attention. This College comprehends undergraduate study in all phases of human thought that are not distinctly profes- sional or technical in character. Page Twenty

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DEAN WILLSON College of Agriculture The far reaching influence of Rliltonhs Tractate on Education was the inspiration which led Senator Justin S. Morrill 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 upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to 2111, and 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 ignored, and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future pros- perity, may look for troops of earnest friends, studying its familiar and recondite economies, and at last elevating it to a higher level, where it may fearlessly invoke com- parison with the most advanced standard of the world! Page Twenty-two