Maine Alumnus, Volume 15, Number 8, May 1934

The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 5-1934 Maine Alumnus, Volume 15, Number 8, May 1934 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 15, Number 8, May 1934" (1934). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 479. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/479 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE H / / Summer Session-) JULY 2 - AUGUST 10 High Grade Instruction is SMaine’s Educational ^Policy ALUMNI —STOP LOOK READ Graduate Courses Leading to the Master’s Degree Undergraduate Courses in Sixteen Departments A Wide Range of Courses Conducted by Specialists Secondary and Elementaly Teachers—Principals—Supervisors—Superintendents —Athletic Coaches. Education and leaching Subjects—Methods Courses. Course Combinations qualifying for Professional, Secondary, Junior High School, < Elementary. Home Economics, Music, and Physical Education Certificates. In struction in coaching Football, Basketball, and Baseball. An increasingly large number of our summer students are candidates for a mas ter’s degree. In recent years as many as a third of the whole number ha\e been so enrolled, and of this group more than one-third are University of Maine graduates. 1 he cost of attendance is moderate For one who lives on the campus and takes a full program of work total expenses for board, room, tuition, and books need not exceed $100. \\ hen we say that we desire to build the best Summer Session for its size in the country, we are sincere We appreciate the aid given us by the alumni and we ask for your continued support. STUDY AT YOUR ALMA MATER ror information or Bulletin write: 1)r Roy M. Plilrson, Orono Thr iHainr Alumnus P7^/. iff, No. 8 May, 1934 Dr. Arthur A. Hauck—President-elect Bv Theodore B. Hunt RESIDENT-ELECT ARTHUR \. ■ --------------------- information, but appeals directly to the HAUCK takes oxer his duties at the Fhe election of Dr. A. A. Hauck as finer natures ot the students. He is not PUniversity of Maine with certain Piesidcnt of the University, effective July only fair, but sympathetic as well It is 1 was announced April 11.----- The author well developed qualifications which should rumored that he has often dipped into his of this intei esting article is Associate Pro- enableI hint to make his administration a own pocket during these trying times in notable one in the history of the Univer fessoi of English at Lafayette College. .... ■ - - '' order to help some handicapped boy along sit} . a particularly rough section of the road. He is first of all a professional educa will not soon be forgotten, for he wholly These traits of sympathy^ and generos tor. This may seem to be an obv ious gamed the confidence and friendship of ity in his nature do not mean that he can characteristic, but only too frequently it the student body. His popularity was be easily imposed upon. His judgment i s overlooked. American of character is too accurate colleges have often suffered to permit that A student from the application of the who comes to him with a theory that a good business clever or glamorous tale man or journalist or clergy does not leave the office sat man makes a good president isfied with himself. Dr. V college president needs to Hauck never loses his tem be familiar with education in per, never is caustic or cyni a practical way This famil cal, rarely employs punish iarity President Hauck has ment or incites to fear, but He has had a varied career he builds character and con which has led him in turn trols youth by example, by through the Grade School, appealing to the finer in the High School, College, stincts. by pointing out the the Graduate School. He course the true gentleman has integrated this experi would take. He talks as a ence by graduate studies in generous friend, not as the Education. His doctorate is stern taskmaster, and so it a degree in course, an earned results that his good opinion degree, not an honorary one. is worth more to the stu This training permits him dents than many a coveted to see the problems of the honor in the college They University with scientific trust him sincerely, like to insight It inevitably will talk to him and try to live up lead to a real harmony be to his ideals for them He is tween the Faculty and the the type of Dean who never Administration. This is per walks across the campus haps as happy an augury as alone. one could desire for the de It is apparent that his velopment of the University. philosophy’ of education leads President Hauck’s sympathy ultimately to the develop for the academic point of ment of character. This is view will solve many prob evident in his innovations in lems before they arise. the management of his office Furthermore, this means at Lafayette. One of his first that the President can and services was to liberalize will encourage the members the administration of a class of lus Faculty individually to and chapel cut system which finer efforts. He recognizes was accurate but artificial. service and scholarship in his He sponsored a system vv hich co-workers and never fails placed more responsibility in the hands of the indiv idual to reward it, usually with a Dr. Arthur Andrew H vuck generous word of praise students and resulted imme which is both gratifying and diately in a finer co-opera stimulating. based on personal traits which are funda tion between students and Faculty. At Lafayette College President Hauck mental to his character and involve his As an administrator Dr Hauck has al was placed, by virtue of his positio 1 as philosophy of education. He is always ready had marked success. His experi Dean, in intimate contact with the stu utterly candid and above board He nev ence in Honolulu taught him how to man- dents. His services in this connection er resorts to indirect methods for gaming (Continued on Page 128) The Maine Alumnus 124 t Planning an<l Landscaping The Campus By Arthur L. Deering “12 //7 Many of our younger alumni and mo't value and have to be removed in the convenient points There will be a direct of the visitors believe that the beauty of course of a few years Therefore the first entrance from the main highway to the our campus is natural This is a logical step necessary in the development of this parking grounds adjoining the athletic conclusion because of the naturalness of whole scheme was the adoption of a Cam field It is estimated this area alone will the old campus One needs, however, on pus Plan prov ide for approximately 1000 cars ly to examine a few pictures of the Uni Landscaping versity grounds as they were in the The Campus Plan eighties, to realize that our campus of Accompanying this article is a cut \fter approving in principal the cam today is the result of planning and plant which shows the plan which has been sub pus plan, the landscape architects were ing done forty or more vears ago In stantially approved by the Board of Trus then instructed to prepare a plan for fact history indicates and photographs tees In this cut are shown the new roads beautifying especially the new sections substantiate that there were but very few and the location ot proposed buildings of the campus This plan has been pre some say only two native trees when the Present buildings are in heavy lines with pared on a basis ot units so that land Maine State College opened its doors proposed buildings in light lines scaping can proceed gradually over a September 21, 1868 In the development of any campus plan period of years as funds may become Credit for much of the beauty of the as well as landscaping plan, there usually available for this purpose The plans older section of the campus must be given is a central unit or motif around which provide for grading drains sidewalks, to Dr Welton M Munson professor of the plan is constructed The new plan and for shrubbery and trees, accompanied horticulture and landscape gardening at proposes to make three buildings the axis by an estimated cost for carrying out the the Universitv for a number of years around which the rest of the University work in each unit The units are as fol beginning in 1891 He had a very lively shall be built These buildings are a lows- 1—new north campus area between interest in the planting ot trees on the Union, an Auditorium-Chapel and a new gy mnasium and proposed auditorium , 2— campus The classes during the early Library with a mall extending north and The Oval Road. 3—parking area north years of the life of the University also south on either side of the auditorium of Alumni Hall 4—parking area east of made it a regular event to plant their class There have been but few lmpoitant Hamlin Hall 5—the Gymnasium, 6— tice changes proposed in the new plan The south campus between proposed auditori The Trustees even in the first days af- main entrance to the University has been um and greenhouses, 7—Stevens Hall and tci the founding of the college were for changed and the present road passing in Crosby Laboratory , 8—Nursery ward looking for according

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