Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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G' If 4'x f-D - .aiifi w - agifzj-fqllalitgviijgs.. -- Qi SQFXQQD R.u'MoND A. KENT THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS BY DEAN RAYMOND A. KENT The College is realizing one of the greatest opportunities in its history. This is the chance to admit students picked for academic success. Not everyone who meets formal requirements may enter, but only he who gives evidence of efforts, achievement, and interest in the intellectual venture for which a college stands. In many respects this individual differs greatly from the collegiate of a decade or two ago. He must have better teaching. He must have richer courses. He must receive an stronger challenge from the class room, the laboratory,and the library. The intellectual stimuli from these sources must engage a mind far from docile, and anything but ignorant of other attractive opportunities for mental activity. Will the college succeed? More than ever before the two-sided nature of this question is being recog- nized-the side of the student as Well as of the institution. Instruction is being criticized and improved. Courses are being carefully analyzed. In this receptive attitude lies the beginning of the greater realization. ADMINISTRATION 'I'zren!y-fi1'e 3 li ji.

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CQ 4 'D G' , G in , P 4ef.sq11aHwt.,e. so N 3, may-QQ5 CHARLES VVAHD Alumni Nwrrvlfzry THE ALUMNI BY CHARLES XYA RD Certainly there are more students in institutions of higher learning today than at any other period in the world's history. According to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, there are more students in institutions of higher learning among the 120,000,000 people in America today than among the I,500,000,000 people elsewhere in the world. New England used to be the educational center of America: today there are more students in institutions of higher learning in Illinois than in all the New England states and more than half of them are in the metropolitan district of Chicago. Here then, is a great world center of education in a great era of education. And here we, the great, body of Northwestern men and women-trustees, faculty. students and alumni-own and control one of the World's great universities. This University is completely in the control of its own constituency. lts Board of Trustees is a self-controlled, self-perpetuating body answerable to neither state nor church. A Northwestern University alumnus is not merely one who has sojourned for a time on the campus. Rather he is one who has graduated into a body of men and women to whom is presented a thrilling opportunity and a solemn re- sponsibility. At a strategic point in the world's geography and at a critical point in the world's history, it is theirs to control and direct into inestimable service an institution dedicated and devoted to the training of men and women for lead- ership in the world's affairs. Tu-rnly-fnur Z-1 ,, , 'Q , 2 O Vw- D

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of f sg. tg -gg E Si1lll5Ell'5Ei4Q.gj' cWgi.1f.1 Cl K gxyf-TLETTVQQB if l THE GRADUATE SFHDOL By DEAN ,Lures ALTON JAMES - ll-- The first faculty of Northwestern University, consisting of four men. were vitally interested in the carrying on of graduate work. One of them had spent two years as a graduate student in European universities, an unusual preparation for a teacher of that period, seventy years ago. The influence of this man, Dr. Daniel Bonbright, Pro- fessor of Latin, for a half century, was strikingly manifest in the development of the University dur- ing that period, and lives today. His ideals for the establishment of graduate work were not to be realized until the coming of Dr. Henry Wade Rogers as President of the Eni- versity in IHQO. lt was for Dr. Rogers to define very clearly. in his inaugural address, the importance of graduate work as an essential of any institution claiming to be a real university, The university , he said, is a place where instruction is imparted, but it is also a place where the boundaries of knowledge are enlarged, where original investigation and research are to be carried on and the sum of human knowledge increased. As a partial realization of this ideal for the decade in which he was President, he brought into the faculty a large group of young men who had received advanced degrees in foreign and American universities. This goal was continuously in the thought of Daniel Bonbright, Edmund bl. james. Abram XY. Harris, and Thomas F. Holgate during the years in which each served as President of Northwestern. But no one of them would have confessed that the ideal had in any sense been realized during his term of office. President Scott is saying today, Wie must still further encourage and develop research, for the standing of a university, in last analysis, is based on the spirit of research to be found within the several schools and faculties of the institution. This spirit has. in part, been realized by over fourteen hundred alumni of the Graduate School. Some of them are now filling important positions in the universities and colleges of the country: others are in the several professions, while a large group are engaged in social service work of various kinds. Five hundred graduates from two hundred and five universities and colleges, one hundred and five of them holding their first degrees from Northwestern, are this year pursuing their period of advanced study of from one to three years. One hundred and thirty of them have applied for initiation into the circle of Masters. and twenty-seven into that of Doctors of Philosophy at the coming Commencement. In these numbers, with what they signify, we see a partial realization of the founders and developers of Northwestern for the creation of the spirit of a real J KNIES .XLTUN JAMES university. ADMINISTRATION K7'irrfzly-sir 1 ,WAY gn W f fl 'Y 'f' ' I V :'wf- A' 1 555uCC5 c9,.Yt7, 1 if 'LY W ' lg