FOUNDED 1791 • BURLINGTON, VERMONT Bulletin of THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT THE CATALOGUE • 1957-19 5 8 ANNOUNCEMENTS • 1958- 1 9 5 9 CORRESPONDENCE Admissions For all matters pertaining to the admission of undergraduate students, including requisitions for the catalogue, and information concerning rooms, tuition, and scholarships Director of Admissions Adult Education Director of Adult Education College of Medicine Dean of the College of Medicine Graduate College Dean of the Graduate College Summer Session Director of the Summer Session Transcripts of Records Office of Admissions and Records Employment of Seniors and Alumni Director of Placement Matters of Alumni Interest Alumni Secretary Matters of General University Interest The President Bulletin of The University of Vermont VOLUME 55 APRIL 15, 1958 NUMBER 5 Published by The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, thirteen times a year—once each in January, February, May, July, September, October, and November; and twice each in March, April, and December; and re-entered as second-class matter November 18, 1955, at the Post Office at Burlington, Vermont, under the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. College Row. The Old Mill, in the foreground, was built in 1824, 33 years after the founding of the University by Ira Allen. Beyond it are Williams Science Hall, Billings Library and Ira Allen Memorial. X i * \- N •iJT, \V *59 \ ^ «r V i .!-•• * '."i•. « * K •fe- J i- ** / Si-s : -•« i / /* m A,# The Waterman Building, completed in 1947, is administration headquarters and center of University activities. Allen Memorial is one of most beautiful buildings the campus. Situated on the highest hill in Burlington, Vermont's largest city, the University campus commands spectacular panoramas of the Green Mountains to the east and Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks to the west. Redstone campus for women is one-half mile to the south. •••Mil &. •-I- 4 - rrru •% ""Vr v f ( r= : «• » ssss .,=* «*«• r ***- *§& lis & 4 *•,„/ « k v VJ «A h=: • • • $ «*•* % *fc W •1 • s. • • ;'-'• A *v £afci The University is in the midst of an extensive building program. Picture at top shows Mason Hall, Simpson Hall and Hamilton Hall, new women's residences on the Redstone campus. Below is architect's drawing of the Old Mill addition, now under construction. First section of the new Medical College building is' about to be started. m m m Traditional Senior Pipe- Lighting Ceremony; UVM Catamount and friends; prize-winning snow * ••"•V sculpture of the Kake If'A. X Walk Carnival. mm m I m j mm * "11 v. iM m X m f * mm mmV m m •MR m mm mm » m Boris Christoff — attraction of the George Bishop Lane Artists Series, which presents an outstanding group of programs each year. The Boulder, symbol of the tradi­ tion of the University of Vermont. THE CONTENTS EDUCATION AT VERMONT STUDENT LIFE THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS STUDENT EXPENSES GENERAL INFORMATION THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THE SCHOOL OF DENTAL HYGIENE THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND NURSING THE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY THE GRADUATE COLLEGE THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION COURSES OF INSTRUCTION PERSONNEL THE ALUMNI COUNCIL ENROLLMENT STATISTICS DEGREES AND PRIZES LOAN FUNDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND PRIZES GENERAL INDEX ACADEMIC CALENDAR UVM4 § The University is located at Burlington, Vermont, overlooking an attractive tree-shaded city situated on the shores of Lake Champlain. § Burlington, the largest city in the State, with a population of 35,000, is 95 miles from Montreal, 230 miles from Boston, and 300 miles from New York City. The city enjoys daily plane service to these urban points in addition to regular railroad and bus service. § Chartered in 1791, the University is the twentieth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States authorized to grant degrees and the second institution founded by state legislative action to offer instruc­ tion at the university level. § Within the nine divisions of the University, instruction is offered in more than fifty pro'grams leading to twenty-five different degrees. § The University is accredited by the following associations: The New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education The American Medical Association The American Dental Association National League for Nursing The Engineers Council for Professional Development The American Chemical Society § Currently enrolled are 3,164 students, of whom 1,657 are residents of Vermont; the remainder represent 26 states and 5 foreign countries. * Although its legal title is the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, the University is known to its students, alumni, and most of its friends as UVM. This popular abbreviation is derived from the Latin Universitas Vlrtdis Montis—the University of the Green Mountain. Education at Vermont The motto of the University of Vermont, "For studies and other worthwhile pursuits (Studiis et rebus honestis)," selected before the University's first graduation in 1804, reflects the spirit of the University throughout its century and a half of educational service to Vermont and the nation. The university would have been out of step with the state whose name it bears had it not served as a training ground for men and women who were to become leaders in many parts of a constantly expanding America. From the granting of a charter by the Vermont General Assembly in 1791, the university's development has been closely identified with that of the state. Immediately the Assembly set aside about 29,000 acres throughout the state for the support of the university; it provided that the governor and speaker of the house should be ex-officio members of the university's corporation; and it required that the by-laws of the university should give no preference to any religious sect or denomina­ tion. Thus the University of Vermont took its place among the handful of colleges founded in this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen­ turies for the higher education of young colonials and Americans of the first post-revolutionary generation. The University was the fifth col­ lege to be chartered in New England, the third to be chartered by a state after the formation of the United States for the higher education of all its youth, and the second institution of this type to confer the bachelor's degree. After a half century of life guided by a self-perpetuating corporation, made possible by much private as well as public support, UVM took another step in the direction of public education when the State of Ver­ mont chartered the Vermont Agricultural College in 1864. This col­ lege was established under the provisions of the Land-Grant Act of 1862, which has been sponsored by Hon. Justin S. Morrill, member of Con­ gress from Vermont, to make possible higher education for "sons of farmers and those in the mechanic arts," and to provide education in agriculture and the mechanic arts as well as the so-called liberal and scientific courses. In 1865 the new agricultural college was merged with the university, to form the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. Under later federal laws the services of the university were expanded by the addition of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the 1 2 COLLEGES & CURRICULA Agricultural Extension Service. In 19 55 the Vermont legislature for­ mally recognized the entire University as an instrumentality of the State and thus reestablished it as The University of Vermont. Colleges and Curricula The University now consists of six colleges, a school of dental hygiene, a summer session, and a division of adult education. In common with the practice at most of the early universities, the original curriculum was based on languages, rhetoric, mathematics, theology, and moral philosophy. Today, the College of Arts and Sci­ ences, often considered the direct descendant of the original University, provides a general four-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bache­ lor of Arts, with opportunity for concentration in one or more of the following studies: botany, chemistry, economics, English, French, geol­ ogy, German, Greek, history, Latin, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, Spanish, speech, and zoology. Students interested in continuing their studies beyond the Bachelor's degree may, by making a proper selection of courses, meet all require­ ments for admission to graduate schools, and to such professional schools and colleges as those of medicine, dentistry, law, theology, and social work. Those who have completed three years of premedical study at the University may qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Science after successfully completing one year of study in an approved college of medicine. With the passage of the Morrill Act of 1862, the way was prepared for the establishment of studies in agriculture. Today the College of Agriculture and Home Economics offers four-year curricula in agri­ culture, agricultural engineering, and home economics. It also offers two-year programs in preforestry and preveterinary sciences which pre­ pare students for admission to other institutions for professional training in these fields. The curriculum in agriculture leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture provides options in general agriculture, agricul­ tural economics, agricultural education, agronomy, animal and dairy production, botany, dairy manufacturing, horticulture, and poultry husbandry. The curriculum in agricultural engineering leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering. The curriculum in home economics, leading to the degree of Bache­ lor of Science in Home Economics, provides options in the fields of food and nutrition, related arts, clothing and textiles, and home economics COLLEGES & CURRICULA 3 education. The department also offers an option in general home eco­ nomics for students who wish a liberal education in addition to instruc­ tion in those areas related to the home and family.