Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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THE 1935 HILLTOP Administration Another year has been added to the I fetime of Marquette University. Another year that has been filled with the achievements of intelligent leadership in the field of higher education. There can be no doubt that the progress made by the University this year was but a repetition of the successful period that preceded it. Credit for this industrious advancement in culture and learning, especially in recent years, is directly traceable to the Rev. William M. Magee. S. J.. president of the University, and the able bodied group of men comprising the Board of Governors, which directs the business management of the institution. Assisting in the administration arc also two other groups: The Board of Trustees, and the Board of Advisers consisting of twenty representative citizens, who act in an advisory capacity both to the Governors and the Trustees, and assist in university projects. Scholastically, the University has been rated by the American Association of Universities an institution of complex organization—an honor that includes international recognition of the degrees conferred, and one enjoyed by only two other Catholic institutions in the United States. Entering upon his eighth year in the presidency, Father Magee has continued to demonstrate his ability as a leader of men and women, and a true proponent of Christian ideals and education. This signal recognition of Father Magee's service to the University, has been substantiated by the duration of his term as president. Throughout his tenure of office, the longest of any of Marquette's presidents, he has urged the students constantly to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the school for the development of their faculties, and has warned them against acquiring a false conception of liberty. In his welcoming address, given at the annual student convocation, the President stated that the finest and most necessary contribution the University can make to society, is to provide it with an objectively sound and intelligible philosophy of life—a philosophy of life which tells man why he is here on earth, what are his loyalties, his responsibilities, what he is expected to do and what he must not do with his gifts of mind and heart and body. Combined with this perception of life and education is a lively interest in student activities, stressing especially the athletic development of the individual. Under his competent direction Marquette has grown and prospered. His interest in students is unchallenged. His name has literally been grafted into the spirit of the University. Moreover, aided by the cooperation of the deans of the University's schools and colleges. Father Magee has encouraged the recent development in the American and Jesuit systems of collegiate education. Realizing the difficulty students encounter in continuing their college careers in times when financial conditions arc trying, the University, through the efforts of the president, again secured at the beginning of the second semester the aid of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin in financing student loans to help defray tuition fees and maintenance. Federal Emergency Relief employment was in effect the entire A fatuity group gtret Father Max , add rt fits the 'Indent i. assembled in the The Unmet lily auardi an honorary dottorait a study in attention. Gymnasium for ont of tht annual convocation!. to a pnbltc faire for dntingniihed terrier. Page EJetea

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THE 1935 HILLTOP year, giving work to many performing projects that were of benefit to the University as well as to themselves. Under the FERA plan, the books in the University's library were reindexed to correspond to a similar arrangement employed by the Milwaukee Public Library system. Linder this new system undergraduate and graduate research has been greatly facilitated. Besides the two government agencies there had been established within the University the Father Noonan Student Aid society. This organization was founded in 1922 by the Rev. Herbert C. Noonan, S. J., at that time president of the University, for the purpose of aiding students through their Junior and Senior years of college. The officers of this society are: George A. Coffey, president; William J. Kingston, vice-president; Mrs. Joseph J. Nolan, secretary, and Rev. John A. Berens, S. J., treasurer. The Board of Governors, which has charge of the finances and business management of the University, includes the following members: Gen. Otto H. Falk, president of the Allis-Chalmcrs Manufacturing Company and vice-president of the Falk Corporation, chairman of the Board; L)r. Charles I . Albright, special representative of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company; Harry S. Johnston, president of the Robert A. Johnston Company; F. J. Sensenbrenner, Neenah, president of the Kimberly-Clark Company; Albert C. Elscr, director of the First Wisconsin National Bank, and the Rev. William M. Magee, S. J., president of the University, who is a member of the Board by reason of his office as president. The preparation of the annual budget and the supervision of the expenditure allotted to the departments within the University constitute the principal duties of Dr. Henry L. Banzhaf, dean of the School of Dentistry, and business manager of the University. In this work he is ably assisted by Miss Frances Steinbrechcr who supervises the clerical help in University offices. Collecting the tuition payments and other incidental fees is the task of Miss May Dooley whose office is located in the Science building. Since the introduction of the part-time payment plan for students unable to meet the total tuition fees at the beginning of each semester, the work attached to this office has more than doubled. Student loans were also handled through the bursar's office. The Central Bureau of Information and Statistics, directed by Albert C. Penny, is the recording place for all data, teaching references, reports, ratings, honors and other information pertaining to the University. In his office are kept the reviews of the annual catalogues and bulletins issued in behalf of the colleges and schools at Marquette. This bureau files all applications and records of the faculty members and, generally speaking, is a ready source for any information about the University. In the registrar’s office are filed all the credits and scholastic standings of Marquette students. Stu- Hjrt) S. John ilon All rii C. Elirr F. J. Stmrnhttnntf Or. Chat In E. Alhri ht Pjgt Turtle