Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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The School of Law Faculty Sch ool o f L dW X HE student barristers of the school of law spent a year of combining the theoretical study of legal procedure with many practical sessions in Moot Court to round out their lessons in law. Changes in curriculum and faculty made little difference in the school year for the student lawyers. Most far-reaching course change was the combining of four courses, Legal Ethics, Code Pleading, Trial Practice and Common Law Actions, into one study under the title Judicial Administration. The newly named subject has been scheduled as a ten-hour course to cover a two-year period. Only faculty change is the addition of William J. Baird as instructor in Public Utilities. New donations swelled the Law library ' s total of more than forty thousand vol- umes. The library has maintained its collection of volumes dealing with session laws and stat- utes of the United States, England and Canada. Students daily found time in the library to gain necessary reading supplementary to that con- tained in regular textbooks. The maintenance of high standards of study in the teaching of legal subjects, resulted in the retention by the Law school of membership in the American Association of Law Schools and the American Bar Association. The policy of limiting enrol lment to 123 students was con- tinued with a view to maintaining small classes and resultant close student-faculty relations. Of particular interest are Moot Court ses- sions wherein the lawyers are enabled to de- velop courtroom technique. Louis J. TePoel Dean 20

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The School of Medicine Faculty School of Medicine VjpERATiNG under the direction of a new dean, Dr. Charles M. Wilhelmj, the school of medicine continued its work of training stu- dents for degrees in medicine. Many new faculty members joined the school ' s staff during the year and the build- ing of a new two-story wing onto the dispensary greatly increased the capacity of the medical clinic. The wing contains a modern new anatomy laboratory. Research rooms and offices now occupy the space once used for the old anatomy room. Oldest professional department in the university, the medical school again main- tained its clinical work as over thirty-five thousand patients were treated by advanced students under faculty supervision. Home calls were also made by senior students on patients who were unable to come to the dis- pensary in the medical school building. Clinical and teaching facilities of the school are supplemented by the affiliation with four hospitals, St. Joseph ' s hospital, St. Catherine ' s hospital and Mercy hospital in Omaha; and St. Bernard ' s hospital in Council Bluffs. The large medical faculty numbers many prominent Omaha physicians. Maintenance of very high standards has earned the school membership in the American Association of Medical colleges, with a Class A rating. An excellent medical library num- bering over seven thousand books is available to the students. Three years of pre-medical study are now Ch.akles m. Wilhelmj required for entrance into the school. Dean 19

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Dr. Frank J. Viner Dean School of Dentistry With facilities available for the finest clinical work, the school of dentistry continued to feature practical training for the dental students in the course of their four years of study. Students were afforded a variety of practice in all phases of oral dentistry as a result of the clinic maintained in the dental building. Pa- tients are drawn not only from Omaha but from surrounding Nebraska and Iowa territory. Each student was equipped with the latest type of electrical operating units and cabinets. Com- plete records of the work of each student in clinical practice enable instructors to de- termine how capable the individual student is in the varying types of dental work involved. The course of study is administered on the principle that leadership in modern den- tistry requires an ability to keep pace with constantly changing conditions and so the student is carefully prepared in all lines of dental practice. Requisite for entrance into the school is two years of pre-dental study in the college of arts and sciences. The dental graduate receives the degree of doctor of dental surgery. Theory courses in the school are added to in laboratory sessions in which the stu- dent has access to the latest in modern technical, metallurgical and microscopic labo- ratories as well a3 a large infirmary, surgical operating rooms and X-Ray laboratories. Students and faculty members of the school this year joined dentists of the world in celebrating dentistry ' s 100th anniversary. f M f f t f » I % V % $ ■•% ' The School of Dentistry Faculty 21