Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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.

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olfl Qzmrh riff, and lost. gradually, lts charac- ter of a school chronicle. becoming a me- dium for the expression of the serious thought and creative writing of the student. In those hectic post-war years. athletics became big- time and Loyola 's teams fought for a proper rank in competition. New activities, too, sprang up-a group of tive t'reshmen put out a minu-ographed sheet on December 15, 1924. which they called Thr Loyola X1 ics: in 1924. too. the Lovoiuxx came into existence. These two, one a weekly record ot' school events and a laboratory in journal- ism. the other a lite1'ary and pictorial chron- icle of the academic year. have always been all-university in scope, but like so many other all-university activities they derive the bulk ot' their participants and supporters from the student body of the arts college. This process with which we have been deal- ingfthe changes in attitude and in practice as the college found itself in a new situation both physically and in relation to the rest of the university-is one hard to limit in time. NVe can pitch on the day and the year in which a certain event took place. a certain organization was founded. truc, but it is al- most impossible to set an end to the period of establishment and a beginning to the period when things are rather constant: this fact is true because there are continuous advances. retreats. and changes which it is difficult to put in either class, in all college activities, and ill thc life ofthe college. But certainly we can include as part ot' the period of re-establishment the years in which the most debated ot' all college groups-the fratcrnities-were founded. Phi Blu t'l1i. the tirst ot' thc fraternities. was established at Loyola in 1922. .Xlpha llelta Hamma was founded in 15324. Pi Alpha Lambda in H1251 the others, Ilelta Alpha Sigma and Sigma Pi Alpha. followed after a lapse of years. in lflilll and 151232 respectively. That there have been struggles. rivalries. rises. and falls in the histories ot' the frater- nities no one would deny: but it is only fair to point out that the vigilance and wisdom of the authorities. and the presence of a large and powerful independent majority in the student body have created a situation where- in the ll'ilit'l'llllll'S are and probably will con- tinue to be a really active influence for good. It was in 1930, to return to a quasi- chronological account, that the Elizabeth M. Cudahy Memorial Library and the Loyola Vniversity stadium were erected. The cynic might find material in the fact that, while these editices for the intellectual and physical welfare of the student were being constructed. the project to give Loyola students a II101'Q nearly adequate surrounding for their spir- itual life remained-as it still remains-only a project. Nonetheless, the continual striving to make the dream of the chapel of Our Lady of the XVayside, Madonna Della Strada, a reality has been one of the most inspiring and most important chapters in the history of Loyola. In 1930 was taken the step which. in all probability. gained more notice for Loyola than any of her more ordinary-and. to the reasonable man. more important-activities: the administration removed Loyola from competition in intercollegiate football. An observer interested in the smallest examples of world-wide movements might find in this action the beginning of the end at Loyola. of the hectic and distnroportionate view which characterized life. and student life in particu- lar. in the post-war era. It is only fair to re- mark that the return of intercollegiate foot- ball remains a drlmtrfl question in student circles, though neither side seems prepared to admit it is dflmfuhle. tif all history. no part is so hard to under- stand or to present objectively or intelligently as modern history. This is true of the college as well as of larger issues and institutions. Xve can note. however, the part played by Loyola. and especially tfor a time, almost ex- clusivelyt by the arts students. in the foun- dation and the work and deliberations ot' t iscora tnow tfiscalg we might note the formation in lil!!-l of the Green Fircle. an association specifically intended to promote school spirit and to lend organized support to thc activities ot' thc college: we might put on record the organization of the mothers and the fathers of the students in order to stimu- late and make effective their interest in the collegc. and thus benefit student. parents, and the college itself. We have in this record so far dealt pri-