University of Utah - Utonian Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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The continually increasing enrollment in the school of Arts and Science is indi- cative of a desire on the part of students for the higher and better things in life. The curriculum of the school is designed to give training in public service, the fine arts, history, philosophy, and the modern sciences. It provides opportunities for a broad, liberal education, and permits spe- DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCE James L. Gibson cialization in any of these subjects. To produce men and women who are loyal, cultured, and broadminded citizens is the chief aim of the courses offered. James L. Gibson has been Dean of Arts and Science since 1915. Under his super- vision this branch of the University has maintained a creditable rating with others throughout the United States. George M. Marshall Professor in English 1892 Maud May Babcock Professor in Speech 1892

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Herbert B. Maw Two years ago the office of Dean of Men was reestablished, at Which time Herbert B. Maw was appointed to that position. His unusual ability to solve student problems and willingness to give cooperative sub- port has been recognized, and the many offices he has held as faculty representa- tive on student boards is connotative of his popularity with the students. The office of preserving the best of relations between two markedly different outlookse-that 0f the students and 0f the facultyhcould have fallen to no better man. Dean Maw has proved a real friend to the students to whom he gives this mes- sage: ttThe more I work with people, the more I see that people are in life about what they are in school. While in college they form habits and they carry these hab- its with them through life?

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33 DEAN OF EDUCATION MiH'on Bennion Knowledge is the greatest tool man uses in the accomplishment of his lifets ambi- tions. Learning cannot be acquired in a few months or a few years. It is the ac- cumulation of many years of intensive thought and study, accompanied by intel- ligent and helpful instruction. Realizing the need for excellence in teachers, the School of Education is attempting to en- courage students of greater ability to E. H. Beckstrand Professor in Mechanical Engineering 1902 Joseph E. McKnight Professor Elementary Education 1895 enter the teaching profession. It is of ben- efit to the state and the community to have instructors who thoroughly understand their work and Who are zealous in the fulw fillment of it. Comprehensive courses are offered in the departments of elementary education, sec- ondary education, and educational admin- istration. Dean NIilton Bennion has been the head of this School since 1913.