Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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■ MribodI w flow for (oodoOing ihr JtJr'l tltUUt art dlicmitd at j metttng of lb Ijbtrjl Aril fjcnhi tori) in Srflrmbtr. • Tb Rr». DonJJ I. Kttgjn, S.J.. M.A.. uho uji affoinud lo lb rt-(mil) tiloblnbeJ ofjia of (UiilUmt dr jo of ibt Libtrol Aili (oil ft lo jtd hulbrr (ii.ur. and achievement to unite, as far as possible, the liberal training of the College of Liberal Arts with the technical training of the professional schools in the University. A student who has completed the Junior year in the College of Liberal Arts, including the requirements for major and minor subjects and the requirements in specific departments of study may register in a professional school of the University and there complete work which will, under certain condi- tions. be counted in lieu of his senior year in the College of Liberal Arts. ■ l-ate afternoon and Saturday morning classes, principly for teachers, arc also held in the College of Liberal Arts. These courses make study possible for teachers in Milwaukee's schools. Registrants for these classes during the past year numbered more than two hundred and fifty. The College has for its aim the broadening of intellectual interests and the cultural education which may be obtained from a wide selection of subjects. Among the courses offered are those dealing with classical and modern languages, history, philosophy, the natural 3nd social sciences and mathematics. The administrative officers of the College include the Rev. William J. Grace, S.J., M.A., dean, and the Rev. Donald J. Keegan, S.J., M.A., assistant dean. The office of assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts was established last fall in order that the directing of the students of the College be made more personal, and that more frequent contacts with the heads of the various departments could be made. Class presidents were: Noel Fox, senior; Edward McGinn, junior; Lawrence Stolz. sophomore, and Clem Stcmpcr, freshman. i 11 Pag