University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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MORTAR ROARH NORMA L, BROWNING President HELEN GUFFEY Vice-President CAROLYN COLLIER Secretary DOROTHY SUE DIXON Treasurer JUNE GRAY Historian O ' Neal, Whittington, Gray, Hollman, Lawrence Dixon, Guffey, Browning, Collier m u m • . L. S. V. CAROLYN COLLIER President HELEN MARIE SPROUL Vice-President DOROTHY DICKSON Secretary Sproul, Dixon, Collier, Gray [ 26 ]

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GRRDURTE W. J. ROBBINS, Dean of the Graduate School, was born in North Platte, Nebr., in 1890. He received an A. B. degree from Lehigh University in 1910 and a Ph. D. from Cornell University in 1915. Dean Robbins has been with the University of Missouri since 1919, where he is a professor of Botany. He was ap- pointed Dean of the Graduate School in 1930. Before coming to the University he held the following offices: Instructor in Biology, Lehigh University; instructor in plant physiology at Cornell University; plant physiologist for the Agricultural Ex- tension Station, and Professor of Botany at Alabama Poly- technical Institution. During the World War he served as Second Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps. Dean Robbins is the author of a textbook of Botany and one of Physiology of Plants. Dean William J. Robbins THE Foundation for the Graduate School was laid 45 years ago in 1892. when requirements for the master ' s and doctor ' s degrees were formu- lated and their administration placed under the super- vision 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 Dr. Walter Miller as Dean. Since its foundation the high academic standards of the Graduate School of the University of Missouri and the record of accomplishment in research by its students and members of its faculty has won it an enviable posi- tion amongst the graduate schools of the leading uni- versities in the United States and Canada. A 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 Graduate School seventeenth in the list. The University has granted 3,049 earned masters ' degrees and aproximately 212 Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The student body of the Graduate School in- cludes graduates of the University of Misouri and of other leading colleges and universities of the United States and foreign countries. These students are can- didates for advanced degrees of Master of Education, Master of Arts, Master of Science with designation in Engineering, Doctor of Education, or Doctor of Philosophy, and also some who are not candidates for a degree but desire to perfect themselves in the particu- lar fields in which they have the necessary foundation. The Graduate Faculty is composed of men and women who represent every scholarship activity in the University and who have been trained both in this country and abroad. The major objective of the Graduate School is the encouragement of creative scholarship and productive research by the members of the Graduate Faculty and the students associated with them. This purpose is accomplished by the training of students who have completed the work for an undergraduate degree and who wish to develop the power to carry on independent scholarly or scientific investigations, and also by the accomplishment of research by members of the Graduate Faculty. [ 28 ]