University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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Graduate Study GRADUATE STUDY at the University may be carried on during the school year, or during the Summer Session. The primary aim of the University in this field is not quantity, but quality. In the fall of 1939. there were (38 gradu- ate students enrolled. This enrollment will prob- ably not increase appreciably within the next few years, for the University has no desire to overload its facilities for graduate study. For the same reason. onl a Master's degree is con- ferred at the University of Maine. Health Service T1HE Health Department offers clinic diagno- ■ - sis and treatment to ailing students. Last year a staff of one doctor anil two nurses gave 12.315 treatments. Upon payment of one dollar ROY M. I'KTERSON Dean of Graduate Study DR. HALT. per semester, a student becomes entitled to receive whatever treatments he needs without additional expense. I'he equipment of the department comprises a modern clinic in Female! Hall, an isolation building, a women’s infirman in Balcniinc Hall, and a men’s infirman south of S.A.E. house.