Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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lioyola Vniversity, a number of delegates from the tfatholic colleges and high schools of the vicinity came to the meeting which was the starting-point in the history of Ciscora tnow tfiscal the official organization for Student Catholic at-tion in the archdioeose of Chicago. More sensational, if of less lasting impor- tance. was the action taken by the university in 1930-the abolition of intercollegiate foot- ball at Loyola. Though the stop gained some notoriety for the university. its most lasting effect has p1'obably been the increased empha- sis upon the values of intramural athletics. These remarks about activities lead one in- evitably to recall that during all these years. the stops we have recorded and the material growth of the institution!-the building of the stadium. and ot' the lovely Elizabeth M. Cud- ahy memorial library-are by no moans the things most important in the everyday life ot' the student. It is around other things that the most important traditions cluster. around the activities we have seen in their infancy at the old eollege on the west side. and the new ones which had grown up at the new settings. Tin Loyola Nt uw, T114 Loyola Quart: l'I.lf, THE l,ovoI,.xN itself. tool-I their place in the inter- est and attention of the Student body: lllllsie, dramaties. debating. all the literary and sei- entitic pursuits, were encouraged by extra- curricular activities and clubs. Rather con- stantly. faculty and students. conscious of the t'aet that Loyola was dedicated to the develop- mont of the whole man. were putting forth their efforts to center their program about the purpose of life, and to pay due attention to the spiritual and moral needs and desires of those who made up the university. ln all these endeavors, sometimes in constant sweat and strain. sometimes in incoherent spurts ot' ac- tivity. some measure ot' success was constantly being attained. some sort of custom and standard was being set for thoso that followed to enllllate and surpass. This sketch we feel sure is applicable to any portion ot' the sixty-six years chronicled in this spaeo. but will have particular bearing as we reach the point ot' departurefthe pres- ent years, XYith Father lit-lley's retirement from the presidency. the Reverend Samuel Knox NVilson. who had boon familiar with the universityadministration asdeanoftho tlrad- uate School, assumed the presidential office. Since our discussion includes activities, it might be well to note here that Father iVil- son's term has seen an increased emphasis on the university in these activities, as opposed to the individual division. The newspaper, the lite1'ary magazine, the yearbook, are all all- university and especially in the case of the magazine the announced principle has been qui eolunz' studio 1mi1'ers1'tas. Thus, the years have seen the creation at Loyola of a tradition of taking full part in the life of the city-especially in the Catholic life of the city. They have seen full recogni- tion of the application of the axiom that the whole is greater than the part in the life of the university. Slowly the university and its components have built up habits of leadership in their various tields, habits of stability in a changing world. There, perhaps, we come upon the final reason for the value of tradition in the life of the Loyolan, and its real worth as a factor in meeting life. Few periods in the history of the world have seen so much change, so much instability as these very years which saw the foundation and growth of Loyola. In a wo1'ld which the profound thinkers assure us is destined for a fundamental clash and crisis. there is surely need for firmly fixed principles. for traditions to cling to. to bear us up through the time of stress. Loyola, by hor background and history, is fitted to give those traditions to the student who wills to find them and hold them. By the nature of hor purpose and her work she is bound to tho strongest and greatest tradition of the ages. the one rock from which the waves of chaos and destruction can not wash us. To a tf'atholie, the t'atholic university has too many invaluable qualities to allow him to digress on any one. But to any man, in this post-war and post-depression age, there must seem a lasting strength in any tradition sure ot' weathering this crisis. Because of her guardianship of those last- ing values and because of her more immedi- ate record of achievement Loyola may be proud of her traditions. In those traditions her students may find the bases for confidence without which courage is more foolhardiness. with which it reaches the heights of he1'oism.

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in back of it. The Master of Science degree is neither as old nor as traditionally recognized as the degree in arts, but its prestige now is. of course. just as great. The degree of Doctor ot' Philosophy is the degree intended to indi- cate advanced and detailed research. includ- ing three times as long a period of sustained work as that signified by the master's degree. The newest degree offered in the Graduate School is that ot' Master ot' Education. This degree is of value mainly to teachers who must have a graduate degree in order to secure advancement. Although very new, the degree has already established itself in 1601311- larity. and teachers are tlocking to it, away from the more stringent requirenn-nts of the Master of Arts degree. The school was originally organized under a dean and a graduate council. The council. appointed by the president ot' the univer- sity. was given exclusive and absolute power over all graduate work in all divisions of Loy- ola. and was responsible only to the presi- dent and thc board ot' trustees. The tirst meeting ot' the council was held on May 22. 19215: attended by dean Schmidt. dean Reiner. dean Sit-denburg. dean Moorhead. dean liogan. regent Mahan. and professor Zoethout. 'l'hat tirst meeting ol' the council had much to do with shaping the destiny ot the Hraduate School, for it was then that detinite stands were taken on the require- ments for admissions and degrees, on what grades should be required. and on how the language requirement should be met. Between that time and the next meeting ot' the council, dean Schmidt had conferred with such edu- cational leaders as president lilliott ot' Purdue lvniversity. president -l. ll. I-Illitt' of the Xorth Ventral Association. ltr. t'harles ll. Judd. and ltr. Raymond M. Hughes. Suggestions from such men as these helped to determine tlle early policies ol' the t'tlllllt'll. XYe read in the records that the meeting ot' the council on May Ill, 1927 was the first occasion on which the names ot' candidates were presented for degrees. .Xt that time dean Mt-t'ormick ot' the law department presented eleven candidates for the degree ot' Master ot' liaws and dean Schmidt eight candidates for tln- mleg'1'ee ol' Master oi' Arts. About Tlll'CQ years later the council made the first change in the names of degrees. The degree conferred on students recommended from and by the School of Medicine was changed from Master of Science in Medicine to Master of Science. In the spring of 1932 the council began a series of progressive steps. The addition of economics to the departments with graduate courses was going to mean a shortage of space in the downtown building. The council de- cided to solve the p1'oblem by offering late afternoon courses on the lake shore campus. Not only the department of economics, but those of history and English as well were to take advantage of the 1l0I'lll side facilities in the late afternoon. Later, in 1932, the Reverend Samuel Knox Vllilson, SJ., now president of the univer- sity. succeeded Father Schmidt as dean of the tiraduate School. Father XVilson set as his aim the unification of graduate work through- out the university. He tried to unify the en- trance rcquirements for the different depart- ments. and his efforts to bring the committee on graduate studies at the medical school closer to the otiicial graduate council centered about a measure which made a member of the medical committee also a member of the graduate council. NVhen the Academic Council met in May. 1923-L it decided to do all in its power to unify graduate work still further. It decided to re- place the old graduate council with a new graduate senate which would give really pro- portionate representation to all departments. The senate was not to be legislative in nature, but advisory, and its recommendations were to have considerable weight with the dean. who then was, and is 11ow. the Reverend Francis .l. tlerst. S.-l. The iii-st meeting ot' the newly organized senate was held on Oc- tober 31, 193-L. lt was only a month later that the new body decided to offer the Master of Education degree. Nearly one-third of the classified students at that time were in the department ot' education, and most of them were teachers who desired professional ad- vancement. tbther universities, such as Colum- bia and Northwestern, had solved the prob- lem by offering the graduate degree in edu- cation. and l.oyola's graduate. school kept pace with educational theory and practice by following suit.