Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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✓ It is difficult to present clearly in these few pages the forward strides taken by the Uni- versity during 1935-1936. To name those honored by other seats of learning, to describe the advances in the building program, to list the notables who have visited the campus must still leave an incomplete picture of the great work being done. The stall of the 1936 Commodore knows that the list of achievements that follows will sketch only faintly the lines of the magnificent portrait that is our Alma Mater. I he Academic year opened with the largest enrollment in University history. New- comers to Vanderbilt this year included Ray Morrison, new football coach; I)r. Oliver C. Carmichael, as Dean of the newly-organized Graduate School and Senior College of Arts and Sciences; Professor William A. 1 lunter, who succeeded the late Dr. H. B. Schcr- merhorn :n the Law School, and Dr. Thomas Marc Parrott, who filled the position left vacant by the leave of absence granted to Dr. Edwin Mims, who was visiting Carnegie professor during the year at universities in the British Isles. A new step in education was inaugurate ! with the division of the College of Arts and Science into a Junior College and a Senior College. In the Junior College are grouped the fundamental and survey courses and in the Senior College are grouped the advanced and specialized courses.

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 A gift of £2,500,000 was made in the General Education Hoard of the Rockefeller l:oundation to the t Iniversitv for the benefit of the School of Medicine and Teaching Hos- pital. This money ill he used for the extension of the hospital plant and for endowment. All departments have ! een active in bringing speakers ot note to the campus. Dr. I lenrv E. Sigerist, Director of the Institute of the i hstorv of Medicine at John I lopkins University, lectured on Medicine in the Renaissance.” Dr. Hugh (Jabot of the Mayo Clinic, conducted a clinic at the Medical School during December. Dr. Richard I:. Scam- mon. Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, gave the sixth annual Phi Beta Pi lecture. 1 Its subject was Medicine and the Social Pattern. The first science institute to be held in an American college or university as held on the campus earlv in April under the auspices of the Vanderbilt Institue of Public Af- fairs and the Vanderbilt Student t nion. The speakers err Dr. brederick Slocum, pro- fessor of Astronomy at Wesleyan University; Dr. J. C. Merriam, president ot the Car- negie Institute of Washington, D. C.; Dr. C. 1 I. I lertv. director of the Savannah Pulp and Paper I aboratorv; and Dr. W. F G. Swann, director of the Bartol Research boun- dation of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Dr. Rufus M. (ones, professor of philosopy at I laverford ollege, gave the annual series of Cole I ecturcs during the Rural Church School, held for visiting preachers of the various denominations representing almost every Southern and Middle estern State. A great many contributions to magazines and periodicals were made by faculty mem- bers. Professor John C. Ransom, who delivered the annual address ot the Phi Beta Kappa