Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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E losophy must have completed the requirements for the two p recced in g degrees and must devote at least two additional years to a more intensified study of the major subject. This degree is granted upon successful completion of a written examination and presentation of an acceptable piece of scientific research on a topic which has never been similarly treated before, together with an oral defense of it. In addition, the general prescribed courses, aimed at cultivation of broad educational background, must be completed. The doctor of philosophy degree is the highest academic attainment and expresses a comprehensive mastery of the selected field of study, combined with an appreciation and understanding of culture in all its various ramifications. • Graduate work, as a whole, entails more individual application than the usual undergraduate curriculum. Different methods of study, including as their principal feature detailed, original research work and the corresponding types of instruction in which the professor acts in the capacity of an adviser, are both accountable for the added responsibility placed upon the student. attempt at this type of instruction to be made in the United States. The organization of the Institute of Catechetical Research, another successful step in this direction, was the outgrowth of the request made by the Chicago archdiocese for help in its curricular problems in the teaching of elementary school religion. In addition to his work as dean of the Graduate school, Doctor Fitzpatrick is president of Mount Mary College for women and has served as Wisconsin administrator for the National Recovery Administration. His literary efforts have extended into every field, but he is probably best known for his Catechetical works, including the Highway to Heaven scries, The Life of the Soul. The Highway to God. and St. Ignatius and the Ratio Studiorum. A competent faculty, of which the Rev. George H. Mahowald, S.J., is regent and Dr. George E. Vander Beke is secretary, assists the dean in graduate instruction. Father Mahowald, formerly head of the philosophy department at Loyola University, Chicago, has constantly endeavored to make the study of philosophy interesting through the medium of the graduate and student Aristotelian societies. Admission to the School may be secured only through approval of the dean. When the student has successfully entered the school he must satisfactorily prove to the faculty his ability to carry work of a graduate character before he may make application for an advance degree. As Marquette is one of the few large universities operating under Catholic auspices, it has taken this opportunity to advance through its Graduate School, the purely Catholic elements of higher education. The course in Misstonol-ogy, instituted several years ago, was the first • Dr. Eduard A. Eitspatnck, Ph. D.. LLD.. finished hts first decade as dean of lb Graduate School. Also presi-deal of Mono! Mars College, he led S. R. A. acliritiet for the stale of Vis -cots tin, ju important tog in President Roosetelt's Recot rr) program. • The Rer. George . Mahon old, S.J.. Ph.D.. regent of the Graduate School as uell as head of the department of philosophy, continued hit outstanding efforts to make the study of philosophy a pleasant one through the medium of the graduate and student Aristotelian tocieliet. • A corner of the Marquette library tt here students gain attest to asailable reference material needed in the at i nisition of background essential to then scholastic theses and degrees. Here graduate research is carried on constantly throughout the year. • 23 TEEN THIRTY FOU R