University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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-- i m, • • ' . . : • ' -:! ' , ■ viaBtA ■ y . . ■ ' ■ ■ t ■ If 1- •« V 1 III N fjr ' ■■m,. iiA . Graduate School students pore over their books during a round table discussion, ahove.. Below — the main entrance to the library, where each grad student has his own study cubicle, with direct access to the stacks . . . and a class with a graduate instruc- tor conducting a student experiment.

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mivfiv: !. ENGINEERING The School of Engineering, headed by Dean Harry A. Curtiss, doubled its pre-war enroll- ment to 1500 students this year. In 1856 the school began classes in conjunction with the School of Agriculture, and offered only Civil Engineering. Then, in 1877, the department having grown steadily in prestige, outgrew the School of Agriculture and formed the present School of Engineering. HARRY A. CURTISS Dean of Faculty of Engineering ROBERT B. MOORMAN Professor of Civil Engineering CLIFFORD M. WALLIS Professor of Electrical Engineering FRANK D. OLDHAM Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

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GRADUATE The chief function of the Graduate School is to promote scholarly contributions to knowledge. Special arrangements for fellowship and for study facilities are made to those students who con- tinue on in graduate work. Each grad has his own study cubicle in the main library, with direct access to the stacks. In 1892 a woman student received the first degree from the Graduate School of the Uni- versity. Henry E. Bent has been Dean of the school since 1938. HENRY E. BENT Dean of ihe Graduate Faculty WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT Professor of Soils MARY JANE GUTHRIE Professor of Zoology WILLIAM F. ENGLISH Associate Professor of History I