Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Eleventh man to serve as dean of the Drake law school is smiling, even-tempered Martin Tollefson Who has been acting dean since 1936. He is substituting for Dean A. A. Morrow, now on leave of absence as chief justice of the high court of Samoa. Proud of the record his law students have for passing the bar examinations, Dean Tollefson gives them no chance to slip zero-ward. Tough courses are eased through, though, with the help of the dean's twinkling eyes and sparkling humor. Nor- wegian in name, appearance and speech, he presents an unruflled, even placid, front, belied only by the Witticisms he drawls out. Martin Tollefson LELAND S. FORREST SCOTT ROWLEY VERNON A. VROOMAN Professor of Law, 1937 Professor of Law, 1924 Professor of Law 1926 B.A., University of Arkansas, Litt.B., Hiram college, 1900, B.A., University of Nevada 1915, LD., University of LI.B., Baldwin university, 19215 L1.B., Union umver Michigan, 1918 1902, Ll.D., Toledo univer- sity, 19117 LIM 1912 D sity, 1918, L1.M., Columbia Stanford university 1923 university, 1924 L9

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S gore W ues? Xavrtfelm be Ylgabflizmcoxd W Chapel' 01119 THE LAW SCHOOL NE ra es colleges is the law school for when not feuding with the commerce students over the possession of Cole hall, the men of the law school can be counted upon to stir up some excitement among themselves, Although the faculty outlawed the traditional lawyer-preacher battle, the law school held a conspicuous spot for homecoming week activities. With bow ties, derby hats and canes, they invaded an already riotous chapel to create bedlam by releasing a couple of white mice in the midst of some lusty-lunged young women. Green Bag day, March 15, saw the law students on the loose again as they, sporting their traditional garb, fortified themselves for their holiday. Between festive occasions they satis- fied themselves with jostling around on the steps of Cole hall, puffing interminable smoke clouds, putting up a perpetual snowball barrage and ogling the women students hurrying by. More than one young woman has taken a back path rather than face the knowing looks and muttered snorts of the irrepressible lawyers-to-be. Originating with the organization of the Iowa College of Law in 1875 the law school became a part of Drake upon the founding of the university in 1881. 1t was known then as the college of law, having previously functioned both as an independent institution and as an affiliate of Simpson college. The official name of the college was changed in 1924 to the law school. of the most colorful of D k ' ts xuden - A nce. law S home ' e XQYXQ -n evl Ver a uch 1 Y 0 Oute- .H veYY may waste grade I Su Yxedl Qneconfmg 9 chi . DYGMG 2 st' hed '19 hate, tden tcongrefla . O nd derby as mei hogtecomx 18

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t the me 9 al rxftetaok over '50 tc llbtat Lani the teilboo 015 in CCJLLEGE OF EDUCATI FTER years spent in attending classes, students in the college of education now are learning how it feels to be teacher, not pupil. Besides their classroom instruction ' methods of teaching, they all get experience by practice teaching in the Des Moines ci y schools. There they discover first-hand the problems of personality adjustments and in- dividual differences which they must face later as teachers. Teacher's pet, problem child and bully, Drake students learn to handle them all. There's a lighter side to this business ol being a teacher, though. Twenty-year-olds crawl around on the floor constructing miniature grocery stores, post offices and banks. They make dolls and dress them, build doll houses and furniture. They even revive the games of their childhood- drop the handkerchief and here We go 'round the mulloerry bush. Their reading habits suffer, too, for they pore over The Little Red Hen by the hour. Drake's college of education emphasizes many of the recent educational movements which are typified by preparation for vocational guidance, for elementary and general science teaching, for larger influence in the musical and art life of the community and for prepara- tion for civic responsibility. It no longer limits its work to class instruction nor confines the subject matter taught to methods of teaching and school management and administration. The college of education had its origin in Callanan College for Women which the university purchased in 1888. It has been known successively as the normal college, the school of education and the college of education. in t . cltissez X DI. -Natkjgicentrate e O96 O, O tn . l 'X ets ln Sstildifmg gill alms A Lemme aft Lagoa 20