Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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COLLEGE DEAN GINO A. RATTI serves as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, hie is also the head of the Romance Languages department. He holds his A.B. and A.M. degrees from the Middlesbury College and his Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble. He has been a member of the Butler faculty since 1920. The purpose of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is to furnish a broad education in all the arts and sciences, to furnish a fundamental basis for the business of living. No where can one learn the scientific method of procedure in all thought as well as in the laboratory, following experiment after experiment, step by step. 20

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NIGHT SCHOOL An integral part of the academic program, the evening courses at Butler University are assuming an even more important role by offering instruction to those interested in speeding up wartime production and to others seeking ' o complete requirements for their degrees. The Division of Evening Courses is the outgrowth of a modest program which hod its beginning at the close of the last century. The courses were estab- lished in the autumn of 1899 through on arrange- ment entered into between the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners and the Butler Administra- tion. In the effort to do its port in meeting the teacher shortage Butler is offering refresher courses for teachers who wish to re-enter the teaching field. Courses with special wartime emphasis include guidance in wartime problems, wartime citizenship training, background of the second World war, and many other timely subjects. Since 1931 the evening division has been under the direction of Prof. George F. Leonard. The teaching staff of the divison is composed of regular, members of the Butler faculty and business men, outstanding in their specific fields. PROF. GEORGE F. LEONARD

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OF LIBERAL ARTS Butler s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which was established at the birth of the university in 1855, is now training men and women to fit the needs of their country during World War II and to lead the future generations of this nation. With each college of Butler University having a general objective in view, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences aims to provide a training of the mind that is of fundamental value in every walk of life and essential to the highest aspirations of mankind. Fundamental elements which ore considered in the training of Butler students enrolled in this college are an interpretation of human experience as found in language, literature, and the fine arts, a use of the scientific method of procedure in the acquisition of knowledge, exact and systematic thinking, moral and ethical evaluation of human activity, broad factual knowledge of the world, and an opportunity for creative effort. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was a part of Butler from its very beginning. Its depart- ments were expanded in 1 924 when three additional colleges were added. It is the combination of these four divisions that now make up Butler University. This college now boasts the largest enrollment among the four groups of students, although the College of Business Administration is not far behind and the College of Education, third. Under the guidance of Dean Gino A. Rotti, who has been a Butle ' faculty member smce 1920, the college has operated successfully. Although some of the college s faculty members hove entered the United States Armed forces as instructors or as fighting men, the remaining pro- fessors and those appointed by the university this year constitute a superior faculty. In addition to studies leading to the various degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, many pre-professionol courses have been worked out in collaboration with professional schools of the state. Special curricula is offered leading to such professional courses as law, medicine, dentistry, nursing, dietetcis, forestry, medical technology, and engineering. This year such new courses as military psychology, the background of the second World War, naviga- tion, cultural anthropology, international radio code, and many others further increase the span of education that students are offered at Butler. Men students who are members of the Navy, Army, or Air Corps reserve units here receive the back- ground needed for future training. Degrees conferred by this college include the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Music after the completion by students of a four-year curriculum. The Master of Arts graduate degree and courses leading to the titles of Assoc- iate in Arts or in Science are also given. Row 1: Peeling, Journey, Silver, Fowler, Boumgartner, Rotti, Word, Renfrew, Wesenberg, Beeler. Row 2: Robbins, Friesner, Morrison, Miles, Burdin, Welling, Wesenberg, Maynard, Potzger, Burdette. Row 3: Aldrich, Elliot, Iske, Gelston, Moore, Josey, Dewey, Pearson. r r y «