Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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■ • Cool ibaJoui of fltaual ihade Irttl fromist rest and fomforl to Ml u bo ruler Lila mitre Hull. • Achievement of a successful combination of specialization with a broad understanding of education in general has been the motivating force in the Graduate School's ten years of service on the Hilltop. Under the direction of Dr. Edward A. Fitzpatrick, dean of the School since its organization in 1924, a program and method of study eliminating the narrowness of vision that characterizes most graduate work has been successfully introduced and carried out. Certain fundamental courses have been required of all students in addition to the necessary specialization that is the essential characteristic of all graduate endeavor. To better facilitate this generalization and to increase the possibilities for cooperation between the various departments, all graduate work has been placed under the guidance and control of the School, which functions as a separate unit of the University. Instead of continuing his studies under the direction of his particular department, the advanced student must enroll in the Graduate School and coordinate his work with that of students from other colleges. This complete centralization enables the graduate student to acquire a broad cultural background on which to superimpose his spe-® cialization. The scope of this school includes the fields of economics, education, English, history, journalism. mathematics, classical and modern language, philosophy, speech, natural and social sciences, and mission sciences. In the past year • 22 T H E H I L L r GRADUATE SCHOOL • The Graduate School is the distinctive organization u ithin the Unit truly. It is the part of the institution superimposed upon the undergraduate colleges and the professional schools. Its field is the whole range of University activities. Students art admitted to it after they hate secured a first degree, particularly the Bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts, and within limitations, the degrees from the professional schools. The Grail Hate School is charged with the administration of this advanced study and research throughout the University. The really rapid development of graduate study in the University since the formal organization of the Graduate School in 1924 u tlh a Dean in active direction of the School and a faculty selected specifically because of then special competence to carry on advanced instruction and research, has been encouraging. courses in the departments of languages, education, history, philosophy, and science have been augmented. • The degrees of master of arts and master of science may be obtained after at least one year's study beyond the bachelor's degree. Working for this degree entails a further and more comprehensive study in the student's major field and an introduction into the scientific methods of research. His worth is attested by an examination independent of the courses covered and the completion of a thesis on a phase of his major subject, reflecting intensive individual research and a mastery of the subject. Candidates for the degree of doctor of phi • A lift Ilream of J fall lax tily ibol gout roailaml-ly fail the U Hirer illy forlaji. OP OF N I