Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Liberal Arts The College of Liberal Arts is the oldest college of the University. Its faculty has increased from five members who attended the first faculty meeting in 1871, to one hundred and eighty at present, while the student body has grown from four to one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. The aim of the College of Liberal Arts is to offer in- struction in each of the great fundamental divisions of learning — in History, Mathematics, Science, Philosophy, Philology. The method of approach differs from that of the professional college or the trade school. It at- tempts to stimulate intellectual curiosity and to satisfy this curiosity, to train the student in close and logical thinking, to teach him how to find information which he may need, and to make him feel at home in educated society. To derive the greatest benefit from the training of the college, the student must play the game fairly. He must be honest and painstaking. He must grow tolerant, even of his instructors, and must not magnify small inefficiencies or injustices until he becomes blind to the unselfish devotion with which most members of the faculty. perform their task. All young persons who have not made definite choice of a profes- sional career, who have at least moderate intellectual ability, and who are willing to take the time necessary for full development, will profit by a course in the College of Liberal Arts. ?K f? yA i u p t William P. Graham Acting Dean Business Administration Business was not so long ago thought of as merely the act of mak- ing profits out of buying and selling goods and services. Not infre- quently was business regarded as a game of mere luck. We no longer have such a notion of business. We now know that business has become a definite occupation, that luck plays no greater part in it than it plays in any other occupation, and that its success depends not upon a game of chance but fundamentally and in the main upon brains. Business has not only become a matter of the brain for the man who is engaged in it, but it has also become a vitalizing force to many other people. Our resources, our means of communication, our trans- portation between peoples, and our political and social organizations are all intimately and profoundly affected by the business occupation. The business man today must understand not only the physical conditions which surround his business, but also the social and political conditions. The conduct of such a business calls for men and women who can think broadly and who can hold a sure grasp of all the facts involved. Business has be- come a matter of brains; its practice has become a science; its administration has become a profes- sion. Charles L. Raper Dean Twenty-two

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Medicine During the past decade no field of education has received the attention and study that has been given medical education. Out of this study has come a more general recognition that the function of medical schools is to give to their students a thorough training in the fundamentals of medicine and at the same time a proper ap- preciation of the personal and sociological aspects of medical prac- tice. This latter can only be gained through close personal con- tact with patients together with an understanding of their personal - - - problems. The ability to furnish this type of training has been one of the important features in connection with the development of what have come to be known as medical centers. In these there have been grouped about a medical school several hos- pitals, each of which is adapted to the care of certain types of cases. Such an arrangement has also been demonstrated to permit the involved hospitals to render a much higher type of service than could otherwise be possible. At Syracuse such a center is now under construction on the Yates Castle grounds adjoining the University campus. The plans now call for the construction of a City Communicable Disease Psychopathic Hospital grouped about a new medical college building. Two of these hospitals are now under construction, and the third will undoubtedly be built dur- ing the coming year. p - Q£k 25T Herman G. Weiskotten Dean Almost every modern University has a graduate school and many colleges have a graduate department or division leading at least to the Master ' s degree. It is not merely because it is the fashion to have a Graduate School — though this may have been the leading motive for their establishment in some cases — but because there has all along been some demand for the opportunity to continue academic studies after winning the Bachelor degree. More recently this demand has become more ur- gent just as in undergraduate schools more students than ever before are seeking a college education up to the level of the baccalaureate degree. The question has been raised by graduate schools as to what sort of students ought to be encouraged to study for an advanced degree. The enterprise has taken the form of The search for the gifted student. In a university, the function of research or the contribution to knowledge is regarded as the co-ordinate with the function of teaching, i. e., of master- ing knowledge already gained. It is believed that participation in the search for new knowledge lends inspiration and effectiveness to the teaching function. Now in a large body of undergraduates there are bound to be a specially gifted few who have the capacity to become creative scholars. These are the ones who ought to be encouraged to continue in the post- graduate work. They will be the ones to recruit the college teaching profession, or they may prove to be gifted in research either in universities or in special research institutions or they may develop into outstanding leaders in great movements. William L. Bray Dean Twenty-three