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

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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.

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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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S C H OOP, C AT I 0 RI FORREST W. MURPHY Dean of Education This school was organized in 1903. However prior to this time there had been a chair of Pedagogy which was established in 1893. The annual catalogue shows progress and growth in this department which led to the creation of the school itself. The first Dean of the School of Education was J. G. Deupree. In 1908 the Dean started the extensive task of developing the high school system of the state in connection with and with the cooperation of the General Education Board. This work added to the Dean ' s title of Professor of Psychology, the title of Professor of Secondary Education. Since this time the School of Education has developed along two lines: it has graduated students with the high standards necessary in the teaching field and it has developed with the Public School System of Mississippi and expanded so as to best serve and improve it. The School of Education is now headed by Dean Forrest W. Murphy.