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

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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

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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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THE SCHOOL OF RELIGION M. WILLAKD LAMPE Director NO UNIVERSITY could have a complete curriculum which did not provide for the study of religion, and no state university has gone farther in this direction than the Uni versify of Iowa. The School of Religion, estab- lished in 1927, is a part of the College of Liberal Arts. Jews, Catholics, and Protestants have been members of its faculty. M. Willard Lampe, Ph.D., is administrative director, and George F. Kay of the College of Liberal Arts is dean. The courses are designed to promote an under- standing both of religion ' s rule in history and of its trends, activities, and values in modern life. The school maintains close relationships willi departments such as character education and philosophy, and with the voluntary religious groups of the campus. Classrooms, library, and offices for staff mem- bers are located in Natural Science building. An additional office is maintained at Iowa Union, where Prof. William II. Morgan serves as adviser to campus religious organizations. The labora- tories of the School of Religion are furnished by the churches of the community, the student groups, and the Christian association. The school provides conferences, lectures, and round table discussions of a religious nature. The School of Religion ' s constitution provide; for a governing board which insures cooperation between the university and the religion-; bodies of the state. This board consists of 15 men residing in cities of the state. Accepting as one of its maxims that religion is caught as well as taught, the School of Reli- gion seeks to encourage every form of adveu turous idealism and religious loyalty on the campus. TWENTY FIVE