Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Gilbert T. Rovve Acting Director SCHOOL OF RELIGION DR. GILBERT T. ROWE, chairman of the Facuhy of the Divinity School, has been directing the activities of the School since Dr. Harvie Branscomb left last year. On February 26, 1947, the announcement was made of the appointment of Dr. Paul A. Root as new Dean. Dr. Root had previously been a member of the faculty of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. This year the School has created a new field of study in Christian ethics with Dr. Waldo Beach, former professor and pastor of religion at Antioch College in Ohio. Lectures during the college year were given for divinity students. Such men as Professor Robert PfiefTer of Harvard Lhii ersity and Dr. Paul Lehmannof, editor of W ' cslminsla Press, were among the speakers. The Divinity School government has be- come active in cooperating towards school progress. The officers were: William Coffin, president; Alfred Wallace, vice president; John Carter, secretary; Jarvis Brown, treasurer. The Council of Affairs works closely with the faculty in preparing many of the programs sponsored by the Divinity School. The Divinity School building is equipped with a comfortable recreation room where chess games, such as this, occupy free periods. Card tables, magazines, newspapers and comfortable reading chairs are also provided. Special theological books are obtainable from the Divinity School Library. s8

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11. C I.Al DE lluRACK SCHOOL OF LAW H. CLAUDE HORACK, Dean of the School of Law, has been on the faculty of Duke Uni- versity since 1930. He received his Ph.D. and LL.D. from Tulane Uni ersity, and served as President of the Iowa State Bar Association. Later he held the posts of secretary and presi- dent of the Association of American Law Schools. He also aiLended ilic International Congress of Comparative Law at the Hague. Since assuming the duties of the head of the Law School. Dean Horack has placi d special emphasis on close personal relation- ships with his students, stressing the impor- tance of knowing the students well. He be- lie es that a complete and sound legal edu- cation must include ability to reason inde- pendently and also a sen.se of responsibility to the pui)lic as well as the clientele. For any education there must be books, and the Law Library was founded for this need. It pro ides the innumerable books to which a law student must have access if he is going to accjuire an adequate legal education. The Law Library, consisting of approximately 75,000 volumes, is outgrowing its house; there arc more books than the shehes can hold. The Law Library has earnestly tried to find the best material for the needs of the law students, and in so doing it has acquired some valuable publications. Paralleling the increase in enrollment in the University as a whole, with the return of many old students and the admission of new ones, the enrollment in the Law School has swelled to enormous proportions. This first postwar class is well on its way toward being the largest class in the history of the school. Law students gather on the Law .School steps between classes to discuss the latest legal deci- sions. Ten minutes between classes gives them an opportunity for a short relaNation period. 27

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DEAN KURSriAX, who came to Duke in 1930, has served as Dean of the School of Forestry since its estabhshmcnt in 1938. He received his B.S.F. and his M.F. at the Uni- versity of Nebraska, and his M.A. at South- eastern Christian College. He received his Ph.D. at Yale. Besides scr ing in the Forestry Service of the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, Dean Korstian has written a series called Authoritative Works in the Field oj Silviculture. The emphasis that the war placed upon the importance of the preservation of our natural forests led to the formation of several special commissions, on one of which the government recjuested Dr. Korstian to serve. Dr. Kors- tian has also been the director of the program for using the facilities of the famous 5,000 acre Duke forest for research as well as recreation. The School of Forestry is spending its time in teaching on a graduate level, and is doing remarkai)ly well, considering that it is .so crowded. Since the end of the war, the enroll- ment has increased greatly, and the student Ixjdy consists of representatives from twenty dillercnt states. C. F. KoRSTI. N SCHOOL OF FORESTRY . joint outing by the students ofDulic and State College Forestry Scliools is held on an Autumn afternoon. They display skills, such as tree felling, rifle shooting, hand- axe throwing, and log bucking. 29