Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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particularly in the last few years, made efforts to developc the purely Catholic elements of our civilization. Courses in Missionology were announced over a year ago, marking the first attempt at offering such a course in a Catholic university. Closely related to that action was the establishment, during the present year, of an Institute of Catechetical Research. This merely makes formal, work which has been going on for more than three years, in bringing to bear the best practices of modern pedagogy upon the problems of elementary school religion. The ground work is already laid for the expansion of this development into a more comprehensive institute of learning. In order to facilitate the cooperation of individuals doing advanced work in related fields, the administration of all courses leading to the master's and doctor's degrees is placed under the direction of the Graduate School. This unity in all work beyond the baccalaureate degrees enables the Graduate School to avoid the development of the rigid departmental organization often found in a graduate curriculum. In most institutions each undergraduate department exercises a measure of control over advanced study within its particular field, resulting in a loose union of a number of graduate schools rather than one well organized department. The Marquette Graduate School, by virtue of this com-letc control of all graduate study, makes possi-le a cooperative development of research in the entire University. To the Graduate School arc attracted students of every scholastic subject from the entire Middle West and each year the number of those matriculating for study increases, yet the school has not in any way compromised its qualifications by a desire to increase its enrollment. ■ In the quirt of the Marquette library ■ earned on much of lb ilmdy and reiearcb territory for lb aequiiition of a mailer'i or a Jot tor't Jr art . ■ Tbt Hei. Georg It. Mahouald, S.I-. Ph.D., regent of ih Ui.uiu.it School and proftttor anJ bead of tbr Je fun men I of philosophy, camr to Mar quelle at lb beginning of the 19)2 fall term. He uai formerly bead of lb Philoiopby department at Loyola tinner lily, Chicago. ■ Dean Fitzpatrick not only approvei all applicationi for graduate iludy but be keepi hit (ingen on the puLe of all Graduate School actompliib-mentl and endeaion. Under hit Jitetliou ibe Graduate School it iteadily progrenmg. Pace 9

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GRADUATE SCHOOL Where attainments tempt the intellectual brilliance of the research student toward further endeavor in specialized subjects. ■ Lecture fLinti make up that ponton of tht graduate tin-Jtnl'i curriculum which tmphasiztt ntJnidual rtiearch. ■ Graduate endeavor at Marquette University has as its purpose the acquisition of particular knowledge from a wide field of general learning, and it has as its method, lecture, study and individual research for the composition of theses. The degrees of master of arts, master of science, and doctor of philosophy are awarded only when the applicant has revealed his ability in research, his wisdom in the specific branch of study and his recognition of the fundamentals of the entire field. Directed by Dr. Edward A. Fitzpatrick, dean since its inclusion as a department of the University in 192-1, the Graduate School demands more undergraduate ground work in general knowledge and a wider cognizance than most American universities. Although specialization in study is the essential characteristic of graduate work, the principle that such study must be founded upon a general apprehension is strictly adhered to, lest through over emphasis particularization of study should result in narrowness of vision and a lack of proportion. Required courses have been established to offset any such tendency. At least one year of study beyond the bachelor's degree, together with advanced work in the student's major field is represented by the master's degree. Scientific research in the arts, in science and philosophy must be satisfactorily completed showing a comprehension of the specific subject studied, a mastery of the scientific technique in this field and an accurate knowledge of the conventions of scholarship in the humanities and the sciences. A general examination, irrespective of courses, is the final barrier in the road to this degree. A degree of doctor of philosophy carries this specialized work for at least two years beyond the master s and requires a thoroughly scientific piece of research showing complete mastery of the field, the successful completion of a comprehensive written examination and an oral defense of this work. ■ Admission to the Graduate School is only through approval of Dean Fitzpatrick, who passes on all applications. Although the graduates of any institution of recognized standing are eligible for admission, their applications must be accompanied by a transcript of their undergraduate record signed by the dean of the particular institution. Application for an advanced degree is not simultaneous with entrance into the Graduate School, for a student must first satisfy the faculty as to his ability to do work of graduate character. Special sanction by the faculty is necessary before a student may become a candidate for a degree. As the department of advanced study in a Catholic university, the Graduate School has, ■ Dr. Edward a. Fitzpatrick, Ph.DH l±.D.. who. rU dean, hai dhtntJ tht Or ad mtt School during tht lent nine Jtatt, it alto head of tht department of Mutation at Marquette and it at preienl editing a i el of monograph on Catholic education, literal of uhit o hart already keen puhlitbed in the U niter tilj. pAOf 8

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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS In which j wide selection of subjects satisfies the inherent desire of man for knowledge and also perfects his culture. ■ The oldest and largest department in the University, the College of Liberal Arts was founded in 1857 under the name of St. Aloysius Academy and in 1864 a charter for Marquette College was obtained from the state legislature. It was not until the fall of 1881, however, that Marquette College was formally opened. The term ’’college” as used at Marquette in 1881 meant more than it means today, and Marquette College offered a course of studies of seven years' duration, including both secondary school and college courses. In 1906 the late Robert A. Johnston presented the building on W. Wisconsin avenue now called Johnston Hall, to which the College was transferred, leaving the old building for use as an academy and thus a separate unit. After 1907, when a new charter was obtained under the legal title of Marquette University, the expansion which affiliated different departments began. The educational system in use at Marquette University and particularly applied in the College of Liberal Arts, is guided by the principles set forth in the Ratio Studiorum, a body of pliable rules outlined by the Jesuit educators in 1599, revised in 1832 and now used to fit the present mode of education. Psychological in its methods and based on the very nature of man’s mental processes, on the one hand it secures a stability essential to educational thoroughness, and on the other hand it is clastic and makes liberal allowance for the widely varying circum- ■ The Rtf. Vilium . Grace. S.J.. M.A., dean of tbt largeit and oldeil department of the Unit er-nl). tbt College of Liberal Arts. Tbn Jut non of tbt Uni-ter till ad beet t i trial) to the ft mil ideal‘ in education. stances of time and place. While retaining, as far as possible, all that is valuable in the older methods of learning, it adopts and incorporates the best results of modern progress. Instruction in the College of Liberal Arts is begun in the third week of September and completed in the second week of June. It covers a period of instruction, then, of thirty-six weeks divided into semesters of eighteen weeks each. The unit of credit is one hour a week for one semester, with two hours of laboratory considered equivalent to one hour of recitation. The College offers the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science and bachelor of philosophy. Combined curricula permit students who prove themselves above the average in ability