Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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11 • Registration -for the freshman, introduction to the long anticipated university life, a hit bewildering at first, perhaps, but fascinating nevertheless; for the upper classman, a reunion with old friends and a delightful reliving of his earlier college days. Long lists ol names, advisers, checkers, deans, attractive coeds, old friends, confusion, red tape- all blend together to form the three fast moving days before classes begin. DEPART THE HILLTOP O F N I

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Mn. Margaret E. Harrington George R. Griffin • Adminniuitte offitrn of the Unirettily, headed by the Rtf. XT ilium Al. Magee. S.J.. work together in lost coordination. Doctor Fitzpatrick as a recognition of his long study of the problems of capital and labor and of his years of experience as a social administrator and educator. Despite the responsibilities imposed upon him by his relief activities. Doctor Fitzpatrick has continued in the capacity of dean of the Graduate School and of president of Mount Mary College. William L. Coffey, chairman of the athletic board since its organization over twenty years ago, was also called into the service of the government to assist in the administration of emergency relief measures. Mr. Coffey was appointed by President Roosevelt to superintend the Civil Works Act in this state. Several changes were necessitated during 1933 in the University teaching staff. With the resignation because of ill health of Dr. Bernard F. McGrath, dean of the Medical School, Dr. Eben J. Carey, noted surgeon and Marquette instructor, was appointed to the dean s chair. Dr. McGrath died in New York City in October, only a few months after he relinquished the direction of the Medical School. Dr. Carey, who has been professor of anatomy at the Medical School for thirteen years, was superintendent of all medical exhibits at A Century of Progress exposition in Chicago last summer. Francis X. Swictlik, prominent Milwaukee lawyer and Marquette graduate, became dean of the Law School at the beginning of the second On October 15, Dr. Henry Jesscl, for many years assistant professor of chemistry, died at St. Anthony's hospital after an illness of only a few weeks. Regarded as one of the best vocational advisers at the University, Dr. Jesscl had long been known as a friend of the student and one Mn. Mary L. Metier Rtr. Mathiai Prim, S.f. May Dooley • Prominent among the jJmia-iHr mi ft often of me Vnirmity jre Mn. Margaret E. Harrington, who fut looktJ after the intertill of Marquette coedi ante 1927. George R. Griffin n annum Jean of men. Mn. Mary L. Melzer fJei and inpennitndi the Irani-ferral of iIndent trtdili. The Ret. Mathui Peteri, $.J„ chaplain of Marquette Unirertily, taeei for the iptrilual welfare of the Undent body. Financial again are rery aUy handled by Mm May Dooley, honor. Material and ipiriluai iIndent mpmiiion ti duet ted by theie offiteri. semester to succeed Clifton Williams, dean since 1927, who was unable to continue in that capacity because of poor health. Mr. Williams secured a temporary leave of absence in 1932 and convalesced in California, but was unable to return at the start of the current term. Mr. Swiet- of the most prominent members of the faculty in the department of chemistry. Doctor Jessel continued his actual teaching until two weeks before his removal to the hospital. The entire .•acuity of the science department and hundreds of his students attended the funeral at St. Bcr- lik, who completed his work at Marquette in nard's church, Wauwatosa, a final tribute to a 1914, is a World War veteran. beloved instructor. M9 ETEEN THIRTY FOUR

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• A friendly decree of personal understanding and individual supervision is realized between instructor and student at Marquette. The faculty is large and adequate enough to establish a ratio of one instructor to every ten students, a proportion equaled by few American universities. Thus, the student is enabled to secure a much closer contact with his teacher and thereby attain a better interchange of ideas and a greater opportunity for classroom discussion. Educational statistics for 1933-34 reveal that the Marquette ratio ranks among the highest in the country. Advantages which accrue from such a relation arc apparent. Student and instructor meet as friends. The student considers his professor as a sympathetic adviser, easily approachable on any scholastic problem which may arise; the professor, attaining a more intimate contact with his students by virtue of the smaller classes, adapts his lectures and subject program to conform with the student's actual needs. The student comes to be regarded more in the light of an individual rather than an impersonal unit of the class group as a whole. Here at Marquette a small group of students arc assigned to the charge of each instructor. In this manner, the student consults his adviser regularly about his scholastic progress and course of study. • The large proportion of instructors insures a properly supervised schedule of extra-curricular activities as well as an appropriate survey of studies. The faculty members are necessarily relieved of the difficulty of teaching large classes. Better work and a greater opportunity for research are the result. For fifty-three years the members of the Jesuit order, assisted by their lay associates, have devoted their time and energies to the task of building Marquette into a successful institution of higher learning, dedicated to the dissemination of Christian culture and education. During this time, Marquette has grown from an academy into a college, and then into a university. As this evolution progressed, a need for more faculty members and larger buildings was felt and remedied; thus the small Marquette academy of other years developed into the metropolitan university of the present. Ten new Jesuits joined the faculty this fall. Four were appointed to the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, and six augmented the teaching staff at the University High school. Those who were added to the University faculty were: the Rev. Joseph Wilczewski, S.J., professor of mathematics; the Rev. Francis A. Bautsch, S.J., professor of zoology; the Rev. Mark S. Gross, S.J., professor in English, and the Rev. Thomas F. Devine, S.J., instructor in social science. • Father Wilczewski came to Marquette from Gonzaga university, Spokane, Wash. He was graduated from Marquette with the class of 1897. Father Bautsch, a native of Denver, Colo., taught at Regis College in that city before coming to Marquette. Father Gross, formerly of Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Mo., is the author of several Catholic boy's books. A contributor to America magazine and the author of a report on tariffs and world peace published last June, Father Divine is a member of the European and Economic committees of the Catholic Association for International Peace. Col. Vcscy Walker, director of the national champion American Legion and Elk bands, was selected at the start of the collegiate year to direct the new Marquette band and orchestra. The Band held a concert and dance twice during the year, on February 12 and May 11. Besides winning fame as a director. Colonel Walker has earned an enviable record as a composer and was an associate of the late John Philip Sousa. An innovation that was introduced into the Band was the addition of two drum majors and a color guard, comprised of infantrymen from the drum and bugle corps of the College of Engineering. • Newcomers to the teaching staff at the University High school which began classes on September 7, are: the Rev. Charles T. Corcoran, S. J.. who lectured in English during the University summer session; Mr. Robert M. Frommelt, S.J., formerly of Campion preparatory school. Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Messrs. Joseph E. Douglas, S.J., Michael T. Manley. S.J., Joseph S. McHat-tie, S.J., and Mathias B. Martin, S.J., all of St. Louis University. M E N T S E T E E N THIRTY FOUR