Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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.M - H , W... . . V 1 7 17 'x ' LESLIE M. GOODER The General Alumni Association Northwestern isn't just another University. She has an opportunity to make a distinct place for herself-and she is doing just that. It is coming to be a rather proud place too. Northwestern may attain to anything that we may have the courage to con- ceive for her. Northwestern has a wealth of tradition and a high standard of culture and scholarshipg Northwestern seeks out those having potentialities above the average, and gives them exceptional training calculated to qualify them for sane and courageous leadership in all the walks of life. Northwestern men and women aspire to be leaders but not snobs. We seek no aristocracy, no class distinctions, but only the opportunity to serve and the ability to serve well. Our University isn't noted mainly for fine buildings. Some others even exceed us in that respect. But universities, like people, come to be known for character and real worth no matter how modest or how pretentious may be the houses in which they live. Northwestern is proud of her name. lt stands for the very best in the world of education. Every student and every alumnus should be very jealous of that name. To them it stands for leadership in this great center of higher education. H amfaa Twenly-four -,u 5 .1 i1

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T j '-'i MW i- 'f Y L r gy sji The Graduate School - The Graduate School came into being in IQII and,considering the developments which have taken place since that time, a fair estimate of the future may in some respects be made. The formal organiza- tion of graduate work at Northwestern was merely the carrying out of the spirit of the University faculty which had been expressed many times during the previous twenty years. In the first catalogue of the university Cthat of 18562 there is the proposal f'to meet the wants of those students who may desire to extend their studies beyond the regular graduating coursesf, One of the best definitions of the purpose of a university was that given by Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, former President of Northwestern, who wrote: The University is a place where instruction is imparted, but it is also a place where the bound- JAMES ALTON JAMES aries of knowledge are enlarged, where original investigation and research are to be carried on and the sum of human knowledge increased. Northwestern supporters have just pride in the long list of eminent teachers who we-re to be found in the faculties of the several schools. This factor will, I am certain, be even more emphasized in the future. X The foundation for a graduate school must always be the encouragement given to students and to members of the faculties for carrying on research. Only to the degree in which the spirit of research is promoted can the vitality of the University be preserved. Space would not permit even the mention of the names of special research projects now being carried on by a large number of the faculty and by alumni who have begun their researches at Northwestern. Increases in endowment will still further promote this ideal. Will there be surprise when l state that we have now reached the place where I am ready to say we do not seek a larger group of graduate students? The numbers we shall have this year, some over five hundred, are very well distributed among the several schools and departments and this is as it should be. One of the superior features of our graduate work is the opportunity for personal direction which is given by the several professors to individual students. This is always to be sought as a desirable goal. Counting the number in the Summer Session of the University, there will have been registered in the Graduate School for the entire year about eight hundred students. Some one-fourth of these received their bachelor's degrees from North- western. One hundred and fifty have applied for initiation into the society of Masters at the coming Commencement and sixty are now definitely proposing to go forward to the degree Doctor of Philosophy. These two groups will increase in number each year as they have done in the past. Thus we shall come more nearly to the realization of the ideals of the founders and developers of Northwestern. After all, if we are lacking in the spirit of scholar- ship we cannot be said to have a real University. H I Twenty-six - -r4..,.,-any , t :nuns-,1. 1.12-..as,,v aaa: .na gm a -f ,-ea-k,ur.:..:s:.s..Lai..A-avg. 5 . .tus-. ,.,f,....ff-g1:Y,e-pe, 3.1 - ..e.i.-.-.2 -.,. f -.. . . - 3 l t - .... . .. eta? .., ,.