University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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■ Administration SCHOOL OF JOURNALISiM Qhall the press he the useful, yet uidivitlual, servant of an enlightened Democracy; or shall it become the s!a e ol usurpers occupying positions ot power? To this most pressing world-wide journalistic problem of today the Missouri School of Journalism has devoted earnest study. From a pul)lic address of Associate Dean Frank L. Martin comes clear statement of the challenge: Four- fifths of the world ' s population today is under a censored or controlled press. This censorship is real, not fancierl. It is a censorship of detailed instruction of what to print and how it shall he displayed in the paper. It is absolute and complete regimentation of public news-opinion .... Let us he watchful of our own course and helpful to others less fortunate than ourselves. Censorship means the end of Democracy. An excerpt from an address by Dean Walter Williams supplies the answerof good journalism : The good journalist is chronicler, commentator, and crusader. He tells the truth. Facts to him are sacred things. Only the scale of justice, free from weight of prejudice, sways his decisions. He makes righteousness readable and seeks to make righteousness, right living, the more abundant life, obtainable by all people everywhere. It is a noble succession upon which today ' s Missouri journalists enter, a succession which includes names revered by all. To carry on requires courage and conscience, righteous education and unselfish ambition, the gift of the spirit, to become beacons of light and hope to the under- privileged everywhere. The newspaper is the uni ' ersity of the people. That it may l)e directed to the highest and noisiest uses is your privilege and mine. Frank L. M. rtin Dean Jay H. Neff Hall DON.ALD ThURM. N OFFICERS Donald Thurman President Lettie Miller Vice-President Marl nna Bluchek Secretary- Treasurer Frank L. Martin Dean Page U

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Administration ' t ' - VV. J. ROBBINS Dean T ' GRADUATE SCHOOL HE main jjurpose of the Graduate School is the en- couragement of creative scholarship and productive research by the members of its faculty and the students associated with them. This purpose is accomplished by training students who have completed the work for an undergraduate degree and who wish to develop the power to carry on scholarly or scientific investigations and also by the accomplishment of research by members of the faculty and suitably trained students. The Graduate Faculty is composed of men and women trained both in this country and abroad, who represent every scholarly activity in the University. The student body of the Graduate School includes graduates of undergraduate curricula who are candidates for the advanced degrees of Master of zA.rts, Master of Science with designation in Engineering, or Doctor of Philosophy, and also some graduates who are not can- didates for a degree but desire to perfect themselves in the particular fields in which they have the requisite foundation. Requirements for the Master ' s and Doctor ' s degrees were formulated at the University of Missouri in 1892 and their administration placed under the supervision of a Committee of the Faculty. The first earned degrees were granted in that year. In 1896 a Graduate Department was organized and in 1910 the Graduate School was formally established with Professor Walter Miller as Dean. A recent survey of a committee of the American Council on Education, which ranked the graduate schools in all the universities of the United States placed the University of Missouri seventeenth in the list. Canon Arthur Edson Arthur Edson President W. J. kOBBINS Dean Page 30

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dmifiistration SCHOOL OF LAW T HE primary purpose of the Law School is to equip men and women for the practice of the law. The demand for finely trained, competent, and ethical lawyers is great and it is this type that interests the School. For this reason, the School does not seek merely a large number of students, and its entrance requirements and scholastic standards are such as to attract to the student body only those whose maturity, education, ability, and character fit them for serious study. However, graduates of the School are to be found in all parts of the state and there are included in their ranks leaders in the profession and in public life. Vv ' hile the School ' s first duty is to train lawyers, many University students who do not intend to practice law, take the law course because they consider it good training either for a business or public career. The School is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools, an organization composed of the leading law schools of the United States and Canada, whose purpose is to further the cause of legal education and promote better legal scholarship. The School has always been given the highest classification by the Council on Legal Education of the American Bar Association. It is the only school in the state outside of the city of St. Louis that is endorsed by the Association. In addition to the everyday work of preparing students for the legal profession, the Faculty of Law is engaged in various research projects. The results of these investigations are made available in published form in the Law Series of the Lhiiversity of Missouri Rulletin, a quarterly. William E. Masterson Dean Lee H. Tate Hall VVILLLA.M R. COLLINSON OFFICERS ILLL M R. COLLINSO.N ' President iLLL M E. Masterson Den n Page 32