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

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Q Ihe Hilb, you say, as if our state were fritter-Hat and boasted only one peak, we Tennesseans are always for making a mountain out of an ole hill. With the assurance that this particular hill is different from any other, we glibly refer to the Hill as if everyone know about a knoll amid the loftier and more impressive Smokies. And well we might, for this simple phrase succinctly means the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; if everyone hasn,t heard of it by now, they undoubtedly will in the next few years. A familiar sight to East Tennesseans of a century and a half ago was lush and weII-round-ed Barbara Hill. Barbara Hill was not some backwoods beauty as might be implied by the name, but the hill west of Knoxville which became the main campus of the present day university. Then sun- drenched, grassy, and ringed by cow-paths, itts now tree-shaded, still grassy, and ringed by three roads. Engineers and football crowds take the low road, while administrators, biologists, PocG-men, chemists and the Ayres corps take the high roads. This leaves the middle aisle for the PT and auditorium throngs, the BIount girls, more engineers, and the cliff-dwelling veteran families. Plans are on the drawing boards for a new building program de- signed to replace the makshift housing serving a temporary purpose in handling present-day overHow crowds. Permanent expansion to provide for a maximum of an estimated 10,000 expected in 1950 is on the way. Indeed, the hill razers whose snorting bulldozers are clawing out founda- tions in the hillside are making way for the buildings that will soon rise above the elms. A greater Hill will soon be built above the splinters of the stop-gap shantytown. Over on Rose Avenue, workmen are putting the finishing touches on the men,s dormitory. Welcome relief from barracks life, it should be ready come June. The building is planned along new lines in that several rooms are grouped around a central lounge, affording more room and comfort than conventional dorms provide. 10 construction . . . It9s fascinating to watch all the new

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CAMPUS P01! THAI T: University of Tennessee A happy medium of laughing and learning gives the shady Hill a sunny side Back in 1794, Reverend Samuel Carrick donned his homespun cap and gown as the first president of Blount College. He and his successors nursed the institution through lean years and many name changes, until a century after its founding, it came of age in collegiate circles and took its present name; The University of Tennessee. In Reverend Carrickis day, colonial Joe College, a rare creature indeed at Knox- ville, was typified by buckskins, moccasins, coonskin caps, and long rifles. Today the campus is teeming with Joes tand Josephines, toot and the style is toward sharkskins, loafers, tootersi caps, and long convertibles. The years that brought these changes brought a bigger campus and curriculum to augment the one building and the three R rudiments and classics of old Blount. The RECORD bulges these days with courses ranging from Agricultural Business to Zoology and the campus has long since overflowed to include Memphis, Martin, and intermediate points like Oak Ridge. A familiar saw around the university-iithe campus is the stateheis further borne out by its thousands of supporters from Bristol to Memphis who are as loyal as old grads but never got closer to the Hill than Shields-Watkins. At any rate, all real or imagined alumn-eyes turn toward the Volunteers come fall and football time. Traditional is the annual Tennessee-Kentucky winner-take-all brawl-winner taking the beer barrel which bears the scars and scores added down through the years. The keg is empty, but the victory is never hollow for the winner always knows he,s been in a fight. Besides this, there,s the state-splitting VoI-Vandy rivalry, the homecoming color, the rifHe of the studentsi sleight of stand card tricks, and General Neyland,s baggy grey suit. Strong in agriculture, the university for years has been turning out the man who knows fine tobacco, cattle, corn, dairying, hogs, cottom White barns . . . neat orchards . . . lush green fields . . . farmer students take pride in these model features of the U-T farm. Perhaps even more students enjoy the farm by moonlight and are better acquainted with the beauties along the secluded lanes. Dear to the fun-Ioving agri-cult is the annual spring Round-up-a bucolic cele- bration complete with hog calling and cow milking. Harvest time sees the Ag Club take the barnlike gym, fill it with dancers, blend in kick and hick music, and add cider to taste. Garnished with harvest decorations, it,s Barnwarmini. A familiar, even traditional, sight are the surveying parties which perennially map their way around the Hill. Newly acquired wartime electronic equipment augments the more conventional tools of the engineers, who want to discount a widespread belief that they are a bunch of T-squares having little time for anything more womanly than the ouija boards which dangle in leather cases from their belts. Slide rules, the chain jockeys report, are like women, having a variety of figures, being highly unpredictable, and giving numerous wrong answers. However, this doesnit frighten the intrepid engineering set which annually picks four queens, the Iovelies who grace their ACE Dance. Tennessee boasts the best when it comes to coedification in home economics. Theory and actual practice share importance on the credit sheetSetextbooks and homework is balanced with sewing, cooking, craftwork, patt-time work uptown, and practice home management. Up Main Street hill, one can see frock-coated and derbied law fraternity initiates expounding on torts and briefs. There too, budding barristers brush up on court procedure. Economists, marketeers, and hucksters wearing sincere cravats stream into Ayres business administration classrooms intent on developing from 97 cent weaklings into financial Atlasesx At a back table in ESCE, one can see preoccupied pre-medics Boning up and dividing their attention between thick sandwiches and thicker text- 00 s. Necessary to any campus canvas of Tennessee ate splashes of: orange and white . . . bronze for the Volunteer, symbolically holding aloft the traditional torch . . . the candle light and shadows of Aloha Oe . . . crepe paper colors of the fraternity and sorority formals . . k black for the coffee at Byerley,s . . . gray stone, red brick, and sooty slate. Especially nice to remember are the Miss Tennessees, the jeep jaunts to the favorite haunts of Big Ridge and the Smokies, the Nahheeyayli weekends, the laughs of Carnicus, the pre-dawn breakfasts in the chrome diner, the girls as seen from a vantage point on the waII-or from any other angle as far as that goes; Thatis the way it is around Tennesseeis pleasurehouse of learning nowadays, and one might safely predict also that future Volunteer students wonit stand short when it comes to getting a laugh along with some mighty serious book Iarnini.

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The fashion of the day demands the new look, a new profile. Right in step with the times is the university, for the Hill will have a new profile too, just as soon as the new buildings add their silhouettes. First there,s the addition to the engineersi castle that should give them more room to set up their Erector sets, or whatever it is they do in those long afternoon labs at Ferris and Esterbrook. Now a college, Business Administration has come of age and rates a new building of its own. Then there,s the dream palace of the student body, the student center which should prove mighty handy for whiling away those free periods. Rumor has it that the law students will soon join the fold and leave their seclusion of Main Street hill. All the better to cultivate clients, their future home will be nearer the center of things than now. Don,t be fooled by the above paragraph and think that the Hill proper is the only thing getting new buildings. One glance at the above drawing will show that the Ag School is in for quite a bit of expansion. Work is in progress on a group of dairy buildings that should make the Uni- versity of Tennessee one of the south,s outstanding dairy schoolS, and make the state a Southern version of Wisconsin. Never one to get left out, Memphis has its share of construction under 9 la, n , tr I , 'k n. ,V - NJ! I- , w; W M f' . ex, gen 4 Wyn. way. A dentistry building is going up under the watchful and eager eyesi a of the budding D.D.S.,s. Besides this, there,s just no telling what else isf'lL being planned for the Memphis Division of the university. ll