Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Reaching toward the iky from the prosaic firmness of the earth, the inspiring hues of the tower on the Science and Administration building instill in etery student an ambition toward greater things; yet the basic firmness of its foundation furnishes a further lesson to the undergraduate, for there is much that he will learn in the laboratories and lecture halls of this very building that will hate about it little of romance and much of the concrete principles of science.

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Former frendem of Creighton Unnet-tily. the Ret. B ilium . Genre. S.J., hat been dun of the College of L heral Am end the Summer Set lion ante 1928. Liberal Arts Oldest and largest of the divisions in the University, the College of Liberal Arts is the one unit of higher education which aims primarily at the liberation of man s spiritual fatuities by studies which arc humanizing rather than technical or vocational. Its object is to inform the mind, to sharpen the reasoning powers, to broaden one's interest in human affairs and human being, to cultivate the more refining tastes, and to strengthen character by 'liberal” education. Parallel to this view of the purpose of education is the wide selection of subjects and courses offered to the students. The course of studies is standardized in the form now generally followed in colleges of liberal arts throughout America. Only a limited election of subjects is allowed during the first two years, the object being to give every student a sound training in those basic subjects which are considered essential for the educated person. English, a foreign language, history, science and speech are required of all candidates. In the last two years of the curriculum the student specializes in one department of study, known as his major, and to a lesser degree in two other departments, which arc designated as nvnors. Those who wish to qualify for tlx. teacher's vocation arc offered courses in education, and take their major and minor work in those departments in which they expect to teach after graduation from the University. Students whose ambition it is to enter the Schools of Dentistry, Law. Medicine, or Speech are required to spend two years in the College of Liberal Arts. While they may in time meet the minimum requirements for entrance rage Tit rnlj