Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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• Tb Rtr. Wilium f. CfMf, $. •• M.A.. bai ltd tb College of Uberal Am along the pathway of progren jkJ Jetelopmtnl fot lb pjtt lix jean—a pathway in u-bieb flexibility it an tm-porianl {bar adenine in lb Mr I hod of nothing. elective course in religion, for non-Catholics interested in the Catholic faith, was introduced last fall. The study explains the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic faith. Special students desiring to complete a more comprehensive course in Liberal Arts before entering their professional schools may take advantage of a combined curricula, and after spending three years in the Arts College and upon the completion of one year's specialized study may receive their bachelor's degree. Saturday morning and late afternoon classes, taught for the benefit of teachers and students who must work during the day, cover practically every field of regular instruction. Over twenty per cent of the total registration in Liberal Arts is made up of part-time students. • Clubs and academic organizations arc more numerous in Liberal Arts than in any other department of the University, principally because of the diversification of instruction. A unifying clement for the entire College is achieved in the Liberal Arts Association, an organization to which every student belongs. Part of all tuition fees is turned over to the society, which is thereby enabled to supervise the extra-curricular activity of the students. The Association annually awards a merit key to one member of each class who had the highest average in his work during the preceding semester, and to the senior whose average in the four-year curriculum was the highest. Students interested in philosophy may join the Aristotelian Society. For the scientifically minded are the Physics Club, the Zoological Society. the Botanical Society and the Chemical Society, while languages arc given extra-curricular importance through the Goethe-Verein, L'Academic Francaisc, and the Classical Club. Other Arts school organizations include the Literary Society, the John D. Logan Poetry Society, the Mathematics Club, the Historical Society and the International Relations Club. Liberal Arts students arc eligible to compete in the Intercollegiate Latin contest of the Missouri province of the Society of Jesus. A gold medal is offered for the best translation of classical Latin and classical English, and a cash prize is annually given by the president of the University for the best paper submitted by a Marquette student. The William E. Cramer prize of fifty dollars for excellence in English essay writing is also open to students of the college. Several changes in the faculty were made last fall. The departments of botany and zoology were united to form one department of Biology, with Dr. William N. Stcil as head. The Rev. Raphael N. Hamilton, S.J., was named to succeed the Rev. Francis S. Betten, S.J., as head of the department of history, and the Rev. Thomas Reilly, S.J., became head of the department of social sciences. Class presidents for the year were: senior, Francis McCarthy; junior, Robert McCormack; sophomore, John Petcrsik, and freshman, William Coffey, jr. • 25 E T E E N THIRTY FOUR

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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

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• Where trigonometry and calculus bou in defeat before the omlaughli of the embryo engineer. • Cooperation with industry in giving the student actual experience as well as classroom theory is the principle of education put into practice by the Marquette University College of Engineering. According to the modified cooperative system on which the College is organized, the first two years are purely academic, while during his last three years the embryo engineer gives one half of his time to classroom work and the other half to practical employment in the industrial shops of Milwaukee and vicinity. Here he is paid for his work, which is closely supervised and of which a complete record is kept. By thus placing the student engineer in actual contact with industrial conditions the graduate is better prepared to cope with industrial problems. During the time of the depression, while cooperative work was somewhat more difficult to obtain than in normal times, engineering students were allowed a slight modification of this system. They were given the privilege of studying subjects offered by other schools and colleges in the University for which they were eligible. These courses were taken up during that time in which the cooperative student would ordinarily be engaged in acquiring practical shop experience. Twenty-two students made up its enrollment when the College of Engineering was founded in 1908. Now. in its silver anniversary year, the enrollment of this department shows an increase of some eighteen hundred per cent while the • 26 ENGINEERING • Coordination of education courses utth actual industrial experience hat been successfully del eloped at the Man uelle College of Engineering to a degree of perfection attained by few American unit ersitiet. Here the student builds a solid academic foundation during the first years of his college career, and then, as his education progresses, enters the uorld of the graduate engineer. Careful blending of study and experience develop the student completely, eliminating the sudden and entire change of activity that usually bewilders the graduate as be leases behind the theoretical and takes up the practical. Mari uelte holds as a cardinal principle of all technical training, the practical illustration by industrial and engineering example of the various theories suggested and ad tanced in the classroom. College itself has come to be recognized as one of the outstanding engineering schools in the United States. • Last fall the College acted as host to the Engineering College Magazines Associated, a national organization which includes twenty-three publications in its membership. The Marquette Engineer, quarterly publication affiliated with the organization, complied strictly with the rules and again upheld its high standard of workmanship both editorially and mechanically, to be given an A rating in every department. Only two other magazines of the association were awarded this distinction. Since becoming a member, the Marquette Engineer has consistently maintained a class A rating, has been given awards for its articles and has been displayed at the annual convention as a model of typography. Richard J. Panlcner, editor of the Engineer, was THE HILLTOP O F N I