Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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the spectacular growth of urban life in America when Marquette and Milwaukee were building together, other universities mushroomed up in other cities throughout the nation and similar partnerships grew so that now urban universities enroll half of the country’s college popu-. lat ion. Today tlx urban university is an inspiring svml ol of the ever-lengthening strides of democracy in America. It is living proof of the nation's equality of opportunity, for through urban institutions a university education is within the grasp of almost everyone. High educational standards have awakened a desire for learning; a growing prosperity has made this learning financially possible, and urban universities have provided tin major means. Little by little urban universities and their parallel cities have seen mutual aims strengthened by mutual cooperation. So it has been with Marquette ami Milwaukee; because each serves the other as well as itself, both share in the common profits. As if to show that their union extends to the very depths of intimacy. Marquette and Milwaukee begin their program of cooperation bv exchanging the persons required for their mutual progress. From Milwaukee comes a large percentage of the University's students. Marquette accepts and guides them for a few short years, then returns them to the city, educated to lx potential leaders of an improved community ami as citizens well rounded lx th intellectually and spiritually. And Marquette, on the whole, draws upon Milwaukee's Catholic populace for its students and Iniiefits from her Catholic institutions. While at Marquette, students are infused with the seeds of leadership for community affairs. and these seeds, when nurtured, will sprout into years of faithful service to Milwaukee or any other community to which the student may return. Even though direct civic lx’ttcrmcnt is not Marquette's primary objective, the community cannot fail to benefit from the principles of leadership absorbed by its citizens during their years at the University. Residing in a city which is one of the nation's industrial centers. Marquette cannot Ik insensitive to the specific demands of industry and of its responsibility to develop professional leadership. In its schools and colleges, men and women are trained to respect the basic laws and liberties of individuals and corporations and to safeguard the health of the cits’. They are prepared to lead in technical and commercial advancement, to develop the city's intellectual life and to solve the problems of the community which multiply us it grows. As an annual contribution to a thriving Milwaukee, Marquette graduates over 1,000 young | eople from its professional schools each spring. Some leave the city after graduation, but a greater number stay and make Milwaukee their permanent home.

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M ] T JL ANY years ago, when Milwaukee was young, a crude street was ■ fashioned in the midst of the rugged settlement. Since that time millions of striving footsteps have pounded the street into a path of progress, the major artery of a metropolis, carrying the life blood of commerce to and from its heart. Today that street, Wisconsin Avenue, cuts through the throbbing city, lined on both sides by mountains of steel and glass, and the buildings clustered in the shadow of a majestic tower on Twelfth Street are barely set olf from the rest. But here is Marquette, an integral part of the city of Milwaukee. Its heterogeneous architecture reveals that it has grown periodically with the community and reshaped itself continuously into the city's expanding pattern. This architectural incorporation is one of the apparent evidences of a partnership between Marquette and Milwaukee which extends much further than the superstructures of each, a cooperation which is a continuous, mutual striving for the enlightened welfare and progress of their citizens. A partnership such as this, between a university and its mother city, is not one shared by Marquette and Milwaukee alone. During

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UT Milwaukee does not have to wait until the student is graduated to benefit from his education. With the varied facilities of a great industrial center open to it. Marquette is equipped to study and to help solve professional problems which may arise in the community. The services of business research groups are sought eagerly by local business leaders, and the results of detailed research on such problems as traffic congestion and pension plans are used to improve professional organization. Once the individual is established in his field, he is usually too involved with daily pressures to concentrate on some important matters. Tims the University is doubly effective as a corrective agency, a third part)- whose advice professional leaders both value and follow. The Milwaukee citizen can obtain service from almost every sch x l and college at Marquette. He can receive attention at the Medical School where specialized clinics treat over eight thousand people a year. Similar service is presented to him by the Scliool of Dentistry which has recently focused special attention on children’s dentistry and where one of the largest dental clinics in the world is visited annually bv more than twelve thousand patients. Speech correction and vocational guidance are other services furnished by Marquette through the School of Speech and the Guidance Center. In the laboratories of tire science department and the Medical. Dental and Engineering Schools, continuous research is conducted to advance the fields of health and technology. Professional people from outside the University are encouraged to use these advanced facilities to expedite their work, and the subsequent studies which are carried on there have made Milwaukee a recognized leader in the area of research. Marquette, in turn, is enabled to improve the courses it offers and to further enlarge the services it renders to Milwaukee.