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

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pKGX: 22:62:07.2:- -' OK- ! I 'I h'il a-s I.K 9 a 08. 02' 3r 5 3. V ! IA. .7 'I 'I l.o Q UNIVERSITY A, A .- . 0F . ' , Illllllllllll I II I I I llllllllllllllll I W321 :3GZ: :3; Z: 32: l- . y . TENNESSEE J o O s1 t.. - - O . The University of Tennessee s-- '.h 0 .h 92le . s.- D This slogan, offered a few years ago by the President of the State's highest institution of learning, the capstone of the educational system of Tennessee, Dr. Harcourt A. Morgan, carries more of realism than poetry When cold figures re- veal the fact that from 93 to 96 per cent of the student enrollment in the colleges at Knoxville comes from cities, towns, hamlets, and remote rural sections of the State. As an institution, State supported, the University has a history that is marked by a steady expansion of facilities for serving the people of the Commonwealth, and to-day it is one of the biggest single assets to which Knoxville proudly lays claim. But few fields of educational research are left out of the curricula of the component colleges, and an extension of its services in the professional fields is found in the colleges estab- lished at Memphis, where medical, pharmaceutical, and dental courses are offered. Its greatest period of expansion has followed the World War. Antiquated buildings are being replaced by new and modern structures, others are being erected to more ade- quately train the youth of the State in the sciences, and still others are projected with the end in view of creating here the greatest university plant in the South. Proof of this is shown in statistics dealing With only one of the colleges-that of Liberal Artse of the University, enrollment therein having increased from 568 students for the ses- sions of 1920-21 to 926 for the sessions of 1923-24. In the same block and probably on the site of the new Knoxville Journal Building was built in 1794 a little wooden building, Blount College, the ancestor of the present University of Tennessee and the first strictly nondenominational college established under the jurisdiction of the United States. By the preamble of its charter the college was dedicated to the promotion of the tihappiness of the people at large, and especially the rising generation, as a seminary where youth might be uhabituated to an amiable. moral, and virtuous conduct and accurately instructed in various branches of useful science and in principles of ancient and modern languages. Established when Knoxville was a little more than a cluster of houses, surrounding the loop-holed block house, menaced with Indians, the college has grown through suc- cessive generations under the names of ttEast Tennessee College in 1807, 2East Ten- nessee University, in 1840, and 2University of Tennessee in 1879, to its present size, now consisting of several colleges. situated in Knoxville, with the exceptions of the col- leges of Medicine, Dentistry. and Pharmacy, located in Memphis. Young women were admitted to Blount College, among them being Barbara Blount, the daughter of Tennesseds first Governor, for whom one of the present girlsi dormito- ries is named. nFemales were excluded in 1807, however, when the name of the col- lege was changed to ttEast Tennessee College, and were not again admitted until 1893. When the State Legislature changed the name of the University to University of Tennessee', in 1879, the University became the University of the entire State, and was no longer a mere academy of one of its geographical divisions. In this same year the Legislature provided for public examination of the candidates for scholarships under the supervision of the superintendents of public schools of various cities and counties; so that this selection brought the University in harmony with public-school systems of the State, making the Unviersity the ticapstone of the public-school system of the State, forming the natural complement to education in these schools. The old college, built in 1826 on Barbara Hill, has now given place to Ayres Hall, built in 1921, but still retaining some of the old college material of the inside walls of the structure. The agricultural building, Morgan Hall, was also built in 1921, and the Shields- Watkins Athletic Field was a1so made ready for use in that year; Expansion has not been in keeping with enrollment, but is as far as finances allow. EHE University of Tennessee, the campus of the State. Q1 U4 I .h h I htl 3 '3h .x5. .1- l KQ h D'- '2'::jo:'.e IllllmllllllllllllllllllllllmnlllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllll llllIllllllllllllIlllmmllllllllllllllllllmllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll n a '91 8', 4-3 I 5:31. '1 .$ . .5 h h'a r.x I 8.3 I, g. I 9. 'l .e .ZAOBKQ ,8 9; 10$ Page Fourteen W'l he, ,8 i I 8 3.2!. '33:.3033'1 Ill 1 IHIIIIIIlllllllllilllllllllllllllllllll mum llll PE: :3: :7: :3: :3: :2 '7

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i 57 .'I w' ' ' 4-0 lo! 1.; .1.- f v.- M. .9, 'b V? 1.x 9 ,.T .03 l-T. -'4 O I .Q. C, s'r 1 1.h O c I i. . .. .. . V Uh u-v m 5 IT y ' '1: :3 :3 3: 3' i. J j 0 c, ,2 i t TENHE55E'E $- A1 O . .T I II e'- I l . -l t0 6 ll mT Five years ago there were only 756 full-time students, while in 1924 there were 2,140 enrolled-an increase of 183 per cent and nearly three times as many students. In the past two years a temporary wooden building on Wait Field has been erected for the lectures of the summer session and for an assembly room for regular students. It was also used as a gymnasium until its inadequacy warranted the erection of another temporary building for that purpose. A permanent power plant has been completed, costing approximately $150,000, which will supply heat and light power to all buildings on the campus. A new girls dormi- tory is being built on Strong Hall campus for the accommodation of a part of the in- creasing number of young women who come to the University from all over the State. Other plans for expansion in the future are: Large and more convenient buildings for the Home Economics Department, equipment and buildings for the study of sciences, and a larger library. Landscape and architectural plans have been submitted for use in future development, but until more capital is available the University must continue to be overcrowded, needing equipment and instructors. In order to render the greatest service to the State, support is needed. In the biennial report to the Governor of the State and the General Assembly for 1923-24 it is said: iiThe University is the creative institution of the public educational system. Its abil- ity to discover facts associated with the educational, social, and administrative life of the 1Shite will in a large measure determine the prosperity and achievement of the peop e. In order to realize the extent of the University plant it must be realized that it con- sists of several colleges and schools, research and experiment stations, 3 school for war veterans, a correspondence school, and a summer school. The College of Liberal Arts is the foundation of the entire institution. It is the oldest college and has the largest enrollment of students. More than half of all the students in the University register in this college. The curricula, extending over four years, leads to the degrees of B.A., B.S., B.S. in Chemistry, B.S. in Commerce, and BS. in Education. The curricula, open to both men and women, embraces all phases of human thought, not merely technical. English, foreign languages and literature, pure mathematics and pure sciences, and the social sciences are the basic studies. Preliminary medical dentistry, pharmacy, and law training are included in this cur- ricular, and are required before further training in these several branches is given. Increasing demand in the State for well-trained teachers for high schools and for superintendents, principals, supervisors, and special teachers has led to the establish- ment of the School of Education. Practical courses of interest to teachers in service are offered in the summer session, of which a large number take advantage. Another branch of the College of Liberal Arts is the School of Commerce, which pro- vides training for those students who will choose business careers. Courses in sales- manship, accounting, banking, insurance, advertising, manufacturing, and other lines give these students a broad vision of economic affairs and an understanding of the fun- damental economic courses essential for industrial leadership. The improvement in liberal arts training in public schools over the State has prepared the students for the fundamental subjects relating to the study of engineering. For the last two years the call for engineers in Tennessee has been greater than the sup- ply, yet seventy-five per cent of the recent graduates are occupying positions of respon- sibility in the State. The State Highway Department and engineering colleges are in close cooperation, and every summer the staff of teachers in civil engineering spend part of the vacation with the Highway Department; in fact, this department occupies about 3,000 square feet of floor space and uses the equipment of the Engineering Department for conduct- ing research work and routine tests of material used in constructing roads. This ar- Page Fifteen T 1 TV 's I.S .91 V w 4.9,.e '9 g 'l I'.h l 'llllllllllllllllllllllll' unilllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Q's 5.393.252? 93.391!!! llllllllilllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIlllllIlllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllmlll 'l 4:56I-T l i' iii $ Ans ? var .IK 3.1T ' 922? 1. T! h I o w$ 'ill I . WWI mmmmmmmmmimlm Imamm