Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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I U1 .,,ji,, 11 In September of 191o, four aspiring journalists met with the Rev. Iohn E. Copus, SJ., in the cozy atmosphere of his office for a course in the Theory and Practice of Iournalism. This session marked the beginning of the country's third journalism school and first Catholic one. Initially the Journalism curriculum was included within the College of Economics. Father Copus, how- ever, had noble ambitions and wished to stress the ideals of the profession rather than purely the busi- ness aspects. I-Ie set out with great vigor to separate the two schools and two years after his death, in 1917, his dream was fulfilled. In 1924, a member of Father Copus' first gradu- ating class returned to his alma mater as a Journal- ism professor. Four years later, Jeremiah L. O'Sulli- van was appointed dean and still heads the school which now ranks among the finest in the country. The Iournalism offices were moved to Copus Hall, on the southeast corner of Michigan and 13th Streets, in 1950. The Marquette building plan, an- nounced in 1960, includes plans for a new communi- cations center. I E L ,,,

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COPUS HALL, COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM College 0 journalism J. L. O'SULLIVAN Dean vm 'L . x P

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Marquette purchased the Milwaukee Law School, an infant and financial failure, in 1908 for S6,ooo. During that first year law students attended classes in what they termed University Hall. It was a small space between the bookshelves in the stackroom of the Liberal Arts library in Johnston Hall. The following year, classes were moved to what is now the Dean of Liberal Arts' office. Law training at Marquette in those days consisted of a four-year curriculum of evening classes. Facilities were limited and classes were understandably small. When the school moved into a vacated residence on 11th and Wisconsin in 1912, a three-year day course was introduced and admission was restricted to high school graduates. In this same year the Jesuits invested about 51,000 in law books, the beginning of a library which has become outstanding over the years. Plans for a new Law School library are included in the first phase of the Marquette building plan. The present Law School building, Sen- senbrenner Hall, was completed in 1924 and accommodates close to zoo students.