Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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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

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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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2 fe UAH tyri A . THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE . BY DEAN RALPH E. HEILMAN There have been several important stages in the development and evolution of the North- I western University School of Commerce. The School was established in 1903 and during the first few years of its existence it confined itself entirely to evening classes. In 1912 the day school was established for regular full time University students on the Evanston campus. In 1921 the Graduate Division was established, operating both on the Evanston Campus and in Chicago, to provide in- struction for graduate students. Each of these Divisions of the School began in a small way. Each has grown, both in numbers and in strength, and today these three divisions constitute integral and co-ordinate parts of the School. In September, 1926, the Chicago Division of the School realized its dream of a new home and moved into its splendid new quarters in Wvieboldt Hall on the IVIcKinlock Campus in Chicago. The building is especially designed to secure the needs of the School and is well equipped with class rooms,lecture rooms, laboratories, faculty offices, student club rooms, seminar rooms, and so forth. The plans for the immediate present contemplate that the undergraduate or collegiate school will remain on the Evanston Campus, where it now occupies Commerce Hall. Under the new arrangement the Commerce Building in Evans- ton will remain as the Evanston headquarters of the School until a new and modern building is provided on the Evanston Campus. Such a building will constitute the realization of our next goal. In Wvieboldt Hall there will be ample opportunity for expansion of the evening, part-time, and Saturday classes. These are in no sense 'fextension courses but are integral courses within the University. The building is planned to accommo- date approximately seventy-hve hundred students in these classes, and it seems not improbable that the registration will reach that number in the not distant future. Here also will be developed the half-time educational program in co- operation with leading Chicago industries. Already some such courses are being given in cooperation with several of the large insurance companies. Furthermore, an important and significant program for the expansion of the post-graduate work in Wieboldt Hall has been launched. Many college graduates come to Chicago to enter business or employment who have had no training or formal instruction in business subjects. Many other graduates come to the city who have graduated from a collegiate School of Commerce, but who desire to pursue further training in these fields. In order to meet this demand of college graduates the Graduate Division will offer both full time and part time courses in Wieboldt Hall. Thus Wieboldt Hall promises to become a veritable beehive of educational activity, both during the day and evening hours. The three Divisions of the School have to a reasonable degree realized the ideals which led to their establishment. And each of these departments expects to make rapid progress in the future. ,L l Ii.-KLPH E, HEILMAN ADMINISTRATION Twenty-sr1'c'n Q I