University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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THE SCHOOL OF LETTERS NOKMAN FOKKSTER Director ONE OP the most interesting schools on the campus is the School of Letters, under the administrative direction of Norman Foerster, M.A., which was established in the spring of 1930. The School of Letters comprises the depart- ments of Classical languages, Romance lan- guages, English, and German. All of the foreign language departments and their libraries are housed in Liberal Arts building. The English department is located in Liberal Arts building and University hall. Students majoring in this school receive Bache- lor of Arts degrees, many finding it advantage- ous to elect one of the special courses offered in each department. The aims of the School of Letters are: To encourage a common intellectual life among those engaged in the study of literature. To relate literary study with study of th? other arts. ' ' To consider those elements in literature which tend to be universal. To emphasize the fact that literature and literary scholarship are a realm concerned less with demonstrable truth than with human values and objectives. To offer the services of the university toward reconciling in American culture the forces of scholarship, of literary criticism, and of creative literature. To provide a rigorous but liberalizing disci- pline in all the leading types of literary activity. Specialization, but not premature specialization, will be encouraged. To train teachers capable of conserving the traditions of literature and scholars capable of one or another of the various creative activities of literary scholarship. To send from the university men and women vitally interested in the ideal values expressed in literature. TWENTY THREE

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LOW PLACES have been worn on the stone steps and heavy old floors of Close hall by the feet of hundreds of embryo reporters and editors since the School of Journalism moved into it in September, 1924. Until that time the school had occupied one room in Liberal Arts building. Journalism building, as Close hall is now identified, was previously used by the Y.M.C.A. Noisy presses now occupy the room once used for basketball. Laboratory work in journalism is afforded students on The Daily lowan. Reporting, copy reading, and editorial writing were offered from the first. News photography and newspaper libraries are the latest additions to the curricu- lum. In addition, practical work is obtained by students on the other publications which include : The Hawkeye, annual junior yearbook; Iowa Transit, engineers ' publication; Journal of Business, commerce magazine; and Frivol, hu morons magazine. Once a year the students in the School of Jour- nalism are hosts to the university at the Pica Ball, all-university informal party. Other traditional journalistic activities include the Wayzgoose banquet, wit ' .i the attendant Wayzgoose Gazette, razz sheet, and the spring Pica-nic. Prof. Frank Luther Mott, director of the School of Journalism is assisted by a staff con- sisting of an associate professor, two assistant professors, and an associate. Theta Sigma Phi, for women, and Sigma Delta Chi, for men, are the professional fraternities of the journalists. In 1931 the school achieved added prestige by being granted membership in the Association of Senior Class Presidents, made up of the heads of nine schools and colleges on the campus. TWENTY Two THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM FRANK L. MOTT Director FRANK JAITE HENRY B. HOOK ELOISE ANDERSON

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WITH the unlimited opportunities accord- ed by the variety of service rendered by the University hospitals, adequate pre- paration is iven for the careers open to the well- trained nurse. Departments and services of unusually variant character make the university School of Nursing, which is conducted in connection with the College of Medicine, an outstanding institution in the middle west. Seven student nurses comprised the pioneer class in 1898, while at the present time the enrollment has increased to 300 hundred student nurses. The University hospitals, including the Gen- eral hospital, Children ' s hospital, and Psycho- pathic hospital, serve as a practice field for the nurses, and here, during three years of con- tinuous instruction, they learn the scientific and practical elements of the care of patient s. With the opening of the new hospital and the subse- quent necessity for added student work new fa- cilities of the most modern sort were offered to the student nurses, and the enrollment has ac- cordingly increased during the last few years. Because she learns to do by doing, the nurse, on her entrance into the training school, imme- diately takes ii]) the duties of her profession. After three years of duty she receives the hospital pin and is granted the certificate of Graduate Xur.se. If she desires to combine her work with that of Liberal Arts she may take a preliminary three year course and a two year nursing course, acquiring on graduation the degree of Bachelor of Science and certificate of Graduate Nurse. All nurses, on matriculation, undergo four months preliminary instructions. TWENTY FOUR TH E SCHOOL OF NURSING