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

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THE CAMPUS IS THE STATE Hill are the Home Economics School, the Uni- The central campus of the university. located in the heart of the city of Knoxville, overlooks the Tennessee River. the city business section. and the residential section of XVest Knoxville. From a few scattered buildings on the Hill the university since I794 has grown to enclose a central campus area of over forty acres. The University Farm, and the principal Agricultural School buildings, are one mile west of the main campus. Dotted around the versity Hospital, the Library, the girls, dormitories. the fraternity houses. the Law College, and Tyson Center. The campus of the College of Medicine and Dentistry and Schools of Pharmacy and Nurs- ing is located in Memphis. The junior College of Agriculture, Home Economics, and Industrial Arts is at Martin. The extent of the university gives truth to the statement: The campus is the state.

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AND The University of Tennessee, as the head of the state educational system. has a three- fold mission, to-wit: resident teachinge hy which we mean the teaching of students who come to the various campuses of the institu- tion for instruction; extension, hy which is meant the channeling of university instruction and of the services of university specialists into the homes and activities of the people who cannot come to the institution; and research. he which is meant the investigation of prohlems in the various phases of activity of the state as well as pioneer study for increasing the hody of information concerning truths in all fields of life. To he sure, this is a large order and cannot he completely accommodated hy the present facilities of the institution. The conception of a university down through the years is that of a hody composed of institutional facilities. faculty. students, and alumni. This whole hotly. united and dedicated to The president's office a source oi advice and aid 90 every student lHS ANNUAL MESSAGE the ideals of the Uni- versity, can accomplish much. It will reach many ohjectives. But it will not stop its prog- ress upon attainment of any one objective. hecause new vistas will thereupon open unto it. The present Senior Class will, this year, join the alumni in support of University ideals. Their ohli- gation will he the discovery of new University op- portunities and fundamental work in providing means for accomplishing them. An institution like a state university cannot stand still. It will either he affected ht' dry rot or. as in a living organism, continue to grow and develop into wider services. Here is your Alma Materis henedictiont that you he favored with a real chance at work in her hehalf and in hehalf of her ideals. . W. I'rm'iilt'nl

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Academic Dean of rhv Unn'crsitv Fred C. Smith. W110 came I0 TCHHPSSCC 18H VCR! from H'lrmrd. will direct the vxpansion and imprmmncnt of thc University Graduate School. Excellrnt counsel and judgment in student affairs and cHicicnt man agcmcm of graduate work have markcd the Dmn .13 an imvgrnl pm 0!. IN .wrvicc and futurc of. .1 grmu-r uniwrsinx