University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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THE SCH© (0) Id., 0 F M i ROBERT J. FARLEY Dean of the School of Law The School of Law, first the Department of Law, was established by a legislative enactment in 1854. The first incumbent of the newly formed Chair of Law and Gov- ernmental Science was William F. Sterns. The department of Law was, of course, closed in 1861. When it was reopened in 1867, it was headed by that famous Mis- sissippian, L. Q. C. Lamar. At present, Robert J. Farley is Dean of the School of Law. When the school was first opened, the defined course o f study for the Bachelor of Law degree was composed of two sessions ten months in length, and the Socratic method of instruction was employed. In 1909 the length of the courses was changed, thus taking two sessions of nine months to graduate. At present a program of study in the School of Law is designed to take the student six full semesters. In 1857 by enactment of the legislature the conferring of the Degree of the Bachelor of Law was made sufficient proof of knowledge of the law to obtain for the holder a license to practice law in the courts of Mississippi.

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THE CULLEGE AL ARTS VICTOR A. COULTER Dear of the College of Liberal erts The College of Liberal Arts is the oldest school on the University of Mississippi ' s campus, being the only one contained in the original make-up of the University at the time of its opening in 1848. At its foundation the College of Liberal Arts offered: mental and moral philosophy, logic, belles-lettres, political economy and international law, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, botany, geology, mineralogy, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and French. Since its establishment, the College of Liberal Arts has widened its scope to meet the changing needs of its students. Many of the departments have divided to become more efficient—the department of belles-lettres has become de- partments of English and History. This academic department of the University, founded with the school under Presi- dent George Frederick Holmes, is now the College of Liberal Arts under the direction of Dean Victor Aldine Coulter.

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SCHOOL OF ENGHINIEERIVI FREDERIC H. KELLOGG Dean of the School of Engineering Though the Scho ol of Engineering was not organized as such until 1900, courses in Engineering were offered by the University at the time of the reopening of the school immediately after the close of the War Between the States. A department of physics, astronomy, and civil engineering was organized in 1865. In 1867 the first two were combined leaving the civil engineering as a separate department, or school, in the Academic Department. After the School of Engineering was begun in 1900, there followed various depart. mental changes which were necessary to consolidate the departments. Since 1903 when the legislature made its first appropriation, many more large sums of money have been given for new equipment, and recently Mr. Bob Carrier gave the University its new Engineering Building. With Dr. Frederick H. Kellogg as its Dean, the School of Engineering today offers an integrated program of four, five, and six year curricula, parts of which are tied in with the department of chemistry, the School of Commerce and Business Administra tion, and with the department of geology.