Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Marquette buys all the property on Wiscon -sin Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets, and south to Clybourn Street. Within a decade, Marquette erects a dentistry building, a gymnasium and a medical building on this property. The dentistry building is at the rime the second largest building for dental educa -tion in the world. 1922 — The Graduate School opens. Masters degrees have been offered at Marquette since 1889, but this is the first organized post-graduate program. — The speech curriculum, which concentrates on the treatment of speech defects, is organized as a separate course of study in the College of Liberal Arts. The School of Speech is established in 1926, and after further upgrading of the program, the College of Speech is established in 1973. 1924 — A football stadium is built at 37th and St. Paul Streets, Sponsored by the Alumni Association, the stadium originally is to seat 50,000 spectators. Support dwindles, however, and the stadium plan has to be revised. The finished structure holds 20,000 people. 15

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Right The Marquette Gymnast was one of several buildings that went up on campus in the early 1920s. Opposite Page Above Marquette radio station WHAD's first broadcast was in 1924. The station had to be sold in 1935 because of the De-ptession. and is currently opcnti in Delafield. Wisconsin Opposite Page Bottom: A view of Gesu, Johnston Hall and the year-old Law School. 1927 . Vhe Gym rasiurn ng JVar jue14e l rrivarsity What Price Fame? In 1929 there was an all-campus popularity contest. A group of law students, alumnus Evan C. Schwcmcr recalls, thought they could turn the contest into a real fun thing. Here is Schwemer’s account of that contest: We decided to put up a Law School candidate, and we selected Gardiner Roeber as our boy. He was a reticent, shy and awkward sort of person, and one of the most unlikely persons ever to be the winner of such a contest. We were able to talk him into thinking he would surely be selected as the most popular man on the campus. We then proceeded with a full-scale campaign to elect our boy. His candidacy was announced in the Marquette Tribune and Milwaukee Journal with all the plaudits we could think of as to his more than superior qualifications. Posters were plastered all over the campus, Roeber was scheduled to speak at university functions, there was a parade of 40 Checker cabs down Wisconsin Avenue, and the Milwaukee Journal ran several stories on the campaign, Mr. Schwemer recalls. To clinch the election, Schwemer and his friends stuffed the ballot box. Gardiner Roeber was easily elected Marquette’s most popular man. The whole affair, however, had a tragic end.” Schwemer recalls in the letter he sent to the Hilltop. A few months after the victory. Gardiner drowned while swimming. It ended without Gardiner ever knowing why it began in the first place. 14

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A Different Kind Of Victory Marquette track star Ralph Metcalfe did not win his 200-meter race in the 1932 London Olympics. But in the way he took his controversial defeat, he earned the respect of people all over the world. The 200-meter race was run on a curved track that year. The starting line in Metcalfe's lane had been erroneously marked, so that he had to run farther than the other contestants. Nevertheless, he finished so close to the man who was declared the winner, that many judges disputed the outcome. Films later showed tht Metcalf indeed had finished first, but the judges' original decision stood, without protest. 16