George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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CHERRY TREE The Secretary ' s Office is primarily a contact point between the University and the Public. Here are sent the hundred and one inquiries on this and that and the other thing, from those who seek information about the University, or through the L niversity. Details of Commence- ments, and other public functions are handled here. As Secretary of the Faculties, the Secre- tary must attend all faculty meetings, and in his office are kept the minutes of the faculties stretching back over more than a century. Under Dean W ilbur’s guidance and the loyal co-operation of his faculty, Columbian College has become one of the best colleges in the country. In a peculiarly fitting sense, it is his college. Although he has been made Provost of the Uni- versity, Columbian College may continue to expect the best in heart and mind that he has to give. Columbian College faces the future with con- fidence. It furnishes the preliminary training for law, for medicine and fcr the graduate school. It trains men and women for business, for news- paper work, for public service and for the foreign service. Best of all, Columbian College provides a liberal education, thus enabling its students to adapt themselves to a changing civilization and to arouse and develop the opportunities that lie dormant before them.

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m CHERRY TREE TRADITIONS (1X21-1929) “May the future keep the traditions of liberal and independent thinking in religion, politics and society, and the constant desire to contribute to the public welfare. ” Pagr jo 1929

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■up l 1 L RRY The Law School has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools since the founding of that organization. It has also been approved by the American Bar Association, which, through the Council of Legal Education undertook five years ago the inspection and rating of law schools and the making of an approved list. The school is thus fully ' accredited by all bodies which accredit law schools and by boards of bar examiners in all of the states. The standing of the school is of the greatest import- ance to students. It enables them to obtain a maximum of credit in case they desire to com- plete their courses in other schools. It is also important in some of the states when the time comes for the student to apply for admission to the Bar. The School of Engineering was founded as the Corcoran Scientific School in 18X4. Bureau of Education statistics for the last school year show this school forty-fourth in enrollment among one hundred and forty-eight engineering schools and second among the eight engineering schools of the District of Columbia and adjacent states. About three-fourths of the students are em- ployed during the day, most of them in scientific or engineering work. This is one of six schools in the United States where such students can obtain the complete work for a degree in engi- neering. a Pazc 11