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

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HOME ECONOMICS? The year 1936-37 is a red letter year in the history of the School of Home Economics because it marks the building of the east wing to the Home Eco- nomics building and the building of a nursery school. In the last decade the School of Home Economics has increased slightly more than 350 per cent. The School of Home Economics might be called the School of Family Life, since the major objective is training for home-making. However, the girls who graduate from the School or Home Economics are in a particu- larly fortunate position because they are not only trained for home-making but for entering some remunerative employment. So great has been the de- mand for graduates in home economics that up to the present time all grad- uates of the School of Home Economics who are interested in employment have had the opportunity for positions. The School of Home Economics is a major division of the College of Agriculture and consists of eight departments. The newest feature of the School of Home Economics was the Department of Craft Design, which was added in 1936-37. The total enrollment for the fall quarter of 1936-37 MISS J- W- HARRIS is 336 major students, which represents a 32 per cent increase over the fall of 1935.

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DR. T. W. GLOCKER f SCHOOL OF COMMERCE The purposes of the School of Commerce are the teaching of students, voca- tional guidance of students and research. The teaching functions of the School of Commerce are: tn To give vocational training for business to resident students; Qi to provide information concerning business conditions and problems for stu- dents who are enrolled in the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, and Home Economics, or are preparing themselves for the College of Law; Bi to give in- formation concerning business activities to Liberal Arts students who are interested from the cultural point of View; 0! W wuyerate with the College of Education in training teachers of commercial subjects in high schools; Di to cooperate with the Division of University Extension in giving training to those already working at their jobs. A second broad purpose of the School of Commerce is vocational guidance. Students must he helped to select careers in which their abilities can be used most eHectively. The Bureau of Appointments and the School of Commerce are striving to carry out this function to the extent of their facilities, but these facilities are at present very limited. There is needed a survey to determine the types of occupa- tions in which there is a demand for college trained men, an adjustment of curricula to give better training for such groups of occupations and conferences with students to aid them in selecting the careers for which they are best fitted. A third broad purpose of the School of Commerce is research. Studies of eco- nomic conditions and problems furnish information useful to business men and give the teacher a background of detailed practical knowledge.

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ACTING DEAN M. JACOB COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE About the year 1856 an effort was made to establish agriculture in the Uni- versity of Tennessee. It was not estainshed, however, until after the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862. In reality, the College was established in 1869. Further federal aid was secured as a result of the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act in 1919. Aside from the appropriations received from Congress, the College of Agri- culture shares with the other colleges of the University in state support. The College of Agriculture is really the head of the 273,783 farms in Ten- nessee. Experiment stations are located in each of the three grand divisions of the state, and agricultural extension service is rendered in each of the ninety- hve counties of the state. Some of the improvements made in the College during the past two years are: A new and ultra-modern dairy barn, a new horse and catt1e barn, a green- house, and an Ag. Engineering buildingebeing made by reconstruction of the old dairy building. An indication of the progress made by the College is the fact that 41 stu- dents were enrolled in QtAgriculture and Science,, in 1891. In 1936 there are 125 Freshmen alone in Agriculture.