Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The Groduote School Da. PAUL Kmiiznv Assistant Dean of the Graduate School The Graduate School began to function as a distinct unit of Loyola University in 1926. Prior to this time graduate work of an academic character had been offered by several departments, but the ever increasing demand for advanced instruction prompted the President to found the Graduate School which was to have jurisdiction over the graduate degrees to be conferred by the University. Before the foundation of the Graduate School, however, a limited number of Master's degrees had been conferred. The aims and purposes of the Graduate School are those of the University, that is, to integrate scientific, literary and cultural training with a sound philosophy of life based on Catholic principles of right thinking and living. From the beginning graduate courses leading to the Master's degree in Education, Law, Medicine, Psychology and Sociology were offered. In subsequent years there were added the departments of History, 1929, English and Social Work, 1950, Mathematics, 1951, Economics and Philosophy, 1932, French, 1955, and Chemistry, 1954. In 1952 graduate work in law and the Master's degree in Law were dropped. In 1955 the Master of Arts degree in Social Work was substituted for the Master of Arts in Sociology. From the first year of its existence the Graduate School has offered the doctorate in education, although there have been times when the University has considered its abandonment. At other times there was so little interest shown by graduate students in psychology, that the department nearly had to cease operating on a graduate level. It was able to re-establish itself on a firm basis and today is an integral department of the Graduate School. In 1952, History began to lead to the doctoral degree. The addition of West Baden College to the University in 1954 increased the number of students capable of taking graduate instruction. It was then that graduate work in Latin was added to the school's regular curricula, and shortly after that time the division began to offer degrees for work in English, Latin, and Philosophy. THE REVEREND FRANCIS J. GERST, SJ. Dean of the Graduate School