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vided. This condition enlisted the sympathy and co-operation
of B. F. Williamson, a business man of Gainesville, and
through him the interest of the State Bankers' Association,
which through its members contributed some $300 to assist
in the work.
 This manifest demand for business training, together with
the enthusiastic support of President Murphree, made it pos-
sible to secure sufficient appropriation from the legislature of
1923 to add a professor of accounting and finance, an in-
structor in economics and funds for additional equipment.
 In the summer of 1924, again through the cooperation of
the General Extension Division, Miss. Lucy Chamberlain of
the New York School of Social Work, was secured to give
courses in family care work, thus inaugurating the training
for social work which is now being featured in the department
of sociology and social administration of the College of Com-
merce and Journalism. This development also had the most
cordial endorsement of Dr. Murphree who encouraged Dr.
Bristol to get out into the state and endeavor to make the
University a vital force in various lines of welfare activity.
Dr. Bristol has remarked that on more than one occasion Dr.
Murphree said, "I wish you did not have to do any teaching
and could spend all your time in the various communities of
the state helping them to study their needs and organize their
welfare work."
 The ever-increasing demand for business trying made
it possible to get into the budget of the department of eco-
nomics and sociology for the biennium of 1925-26 provision
for the addition of two men, but after the budget had been
accepted Dr. Murphree expressed the desire to add journalism
to the curriculum, and establish a regular school of Business
Administration and Journalism, and this was done with the
approval of the Board of Control
 There is no doubt that the impression on the part of the
University president that it was time to add journalism to the
studies was strengthened by the visit of Dean Walter Williams
of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri to
the Florida campus. The occasion of this visit of the veteran
teacher of journalism and president of the World Press Con-