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~chool of EducationDean MessengerThe School of Education, through its instructionalwork and its placement bureau, makes it possible forschools throughout the state to secure adequatelytrained teachers. It also conducts the University SummerSchool, which is growing in importance every year.An inc;reasing number of superintendents and principalsof Idaho schools, as well as teachers from outside thestate, attend the summer session.J ames Franklin Messenger, dean of the school, is alsoDirector of the Summer School and Professor of Education.He received his A.B. degree from the Universityof Kansas, his A.M. from Harvard, and his Ph.D. fromColumbia. His teaching career began in Kansas andtook him to the University of New Mexico, to Harvardas an assistant in psychology, and to Columbia as afellow in psychology. He came to Idaho in 1920. He isthe author of the recently published AN INTERPRETA­TIVE H ISTORY OF EDUCATION. Dean Messenger is onleave of absence the second semester of this year tovisit other institutions. Among the honors conferred onhim is that of Fellow of the American Association forthe Advancement of Science.~ choo l of Business AdministrationThe economic situation of the country in general andparticularly that of Idaho is emphasized in the curriculumof the School of Business Administration.Special attention is paid to the problems which willconfront the student upon his graduation. Many specialinvestigations of economic conditions and problemsof the state, conducted by members of the faculty, arebuilding up an extensive and reliable fund of informationon Idaho's business.R alph Hunter Farmer, who is dean of the school, isalso professor of Business Administration and Economics.His A.B. was received from Oberlin College.An interesting feature of his youth is that during thesummer time while he was in college and for severalyears afterward he worked as a sailor on the Great Lakes.He started teaching near Cleveland, Ohio, going fromthere to the University of Minnesota. When he came tothe University of Idaho in 1927 he brought with himexperience in general banking and banking statisticswork gained in Minneapolis. Included in his honors ismembership in Phi Beta Kappa.Dean FarmerltVCrtly-~CrJ('U