Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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• Tall sfiirtt—silent in thru dignity—aunrr peace and fir ot ft lion to thr I'mt trill) buildings. • The development of a comprehensive understanding in the various fields of liberal education is the primary objective of the College of Liberal Arts. Considerable importance is given to this aim because of the preparatory courses required by the professional schools—a requirement that makes this College the determining factor in the outlook and attitude toward life of all University graduates. Particularly valuable to the highly specialized student are the two or three years spent in the College—years that give him the general apprehension of knowledge which eliminates the narrowness of vision so often developed by over-specialization. Medicine, law, dentistry, engineering, journalism, business administration—all develop the student upon the foundation laid by the College of Liberal Arts. The Rev. William J. Grace, S.J., former president of Creighton University, has directed the development of the College of Liberal Arts for six years. The recently created post of assistant dean, necessitated by increased enrollment and the desirability of giving the individual student access to the heads of his college, was filled in 1932 by the appointment of the Rev. Donald J Keegan. S.J. Principles of education as used by this College are based upon the Ratio Studiorum, a system of instruction developed by the Jesuits in 1599. Flexibility is the important characteristic of this method of teaching—a looseness of organization that may be made to conform with • 24 LIBERAL ARTS • Foundation of the Unit erst I) —framework around which the complicated structure of a great institution of learning has been assembled—that is the position occupied today by the College of Liberal Arts, the oldest and largest department of the Uniter sity. Seventy-seven years of service as St. Aloysius Academy. Marquette College, and finally as a part of the University, have gtien the Arts College that mellowness of maturity and experience, that background of culture which qualifies it to assume its position of academic leadership. The progress and deielopmenl of the College of Liberal Arts hate been essentially the history of the University—a progress u herein the most taluable elements of older methods of learning are closely coordinated with the best modern results. We of the faculty have consistently striven to carry on this inheritance. any economic and political condition, but which at the same time holds the institution to certain fundamental tenets that are the foundation of all higher education. The Arts school, formerly Marquette college, represents the nucleus from which developed the University as it exists today. Organized in 1857 as St. Aloysius Academy, the College exemplifies the progress and rapid expansion made by Marquette in its fifty years of development. Courses in the College include those dealing with the classical and modern languages, history and philosophy, mathematics, education, and the natural, social and political sciences. A new • The Ra. Do„aid . Keegan, S.J., M.A, as as ti Haul draw of the College of Liberal Arts, creates a closer and more frequent conucl belueen Undents and the heads of ibe tar ions departments. Father Keegan it also director of the Men's Sodality. THE HILLTOP O F N I