Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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THE MEDILL scHooL or JOURNALISM E . ' ji Y T Q23-' ggi, . ,Tal-Y , ii. 'F' ls. . I'I.fx1uu' F. HikRR1NGTON D'z'rz'clrJr nf the .Schoul of Jvizrrmlism 'L'Send us your very best graduate', writes an executive in a letter setting forth the specifications of a position helis eager to fill. His request for trained intelligence, and au university trade-mark indicating superior capabilities, is rather typical of the .new attitude of the journalistic world toward professional leducation, suchias afforded by the Nledill School of Journalism, dedicated to the making of better newspapers and better reporters and editors. The other day the Medill School of Journalism issued the second edition of a little booklet describing its plan of operation, its program of study, with some personal data about the men in charge of the courses. At the close of the booklet, a graduate of the School sums up what he considers to be the outstanding aim of professional study. Here is a paragraph from it: 'The Medill School is a professional school, and it emphasizes the professional aspect of journalism. It emphasizes, too, laboratory, project, and active methods of learning, as against static lecture methods. Its courses enable students to understand and appreciate the trade and business aspects of the profession. But in the main, Nfedill is one of the leaders in the swing away from a narrowly vocational training, away from merely technical courses to cultural, appreciative, and background studies. These should flt the student, after his practical apprenticeship is served, to be something more than an efhcient hack'.,' THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 'fThe increasing demands upon Northwestern for professionally if trained administrators, supervisors and teachers resulted in the organization of the School of Education in 1926. The range of work extends over a period of five years, two undergraduate-senior and junior-and three of graduate work. Last year forty-four students received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education, and this year the senior class numbers approximately seventy-five. Regis- tration in the present junior class indicates about the same proport- ional increase in the senior class next year. This rapid growth of the undergraduate division of the School indicates increasing interest in professional preparation for teaching on the part of undergraduate students. In order to meet the needs of our students, additional courses have been added in various lines, other courses provided in new lines of work, and facilities for practice teaching have been ex- tended. Further extension is contemplated next year which will provide opportunity for preparation for all of the important teaching positions in elementary and secondary schools. I uln the graduate division, emphasis is placed upon the prepara- tion for administrative and supervisory positions. These positions demand highly specialized training secured only in schools similar to ourswhich provide facilities for advanced professional work, in- cluding research. A Division of Research is maintained, our faculty has been enlarged, and library and laboratory facilities extended to meet the growing demand made upon us. Our graduate students come from a wide geographical area and are preparing for various kinds of administrative and supervisory positions? Twenty-eight JOHN E. STOUT Dean of the School of Educalzlm ADMINISTRATION

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THE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY The Dental School is doing a considerable amount of work in j the extension field, members of the faculty having given lectures during the past year in a majority of the states and several Provinces of Canada. In addition, a ten weeks, course was conducted last summer for the Extension Division of the University of North Carolina, Hfty lectures having been given in five centers in that State. A similar course is being given in North Carolina this year. In research, distinct progress has been made in the Dental School during the past year, not only in the perfection of its plans of conducting graduate courses and research, but also in many contacts which have been made with research workers in related fields. The research activities of the School are gradually assuming greater importance not only to the profession at large, but also in relation to undergraduate teaching. In dentistry as in medicine, the trend is toward prevention of ARTHUR D. BLACK Dean of the School of Denlislry disease. The fact that many primitive peoples were not subject to decay of their teeth is very suggestive as to the possibilities of pre- vention. The prevention of decay is a basic problem in relation to many other mouth diseases, including chronic infections which appear to cause many serious secondary infections elsewhere in the body. I JOHN H. 'WIGMORE Dean of the School Of Law ADMINISTRATION 1 A 'gf Lg' THE SCHOOL OF LAW When a benefactor recently donated one million and a half dollars to Cornell University for a law school library, his letter of gift stated that in his opinion the lawyer was one of the most necessary and useful persons in the community. His large experience in com- mercial life had given him good reason to hold this conviction. But the lawyer is not included in the list of occupations eligible to join the American Federation of Labor. Why? The reason given is that he is a non-producer. Yet musicians are deemed eligible. Can there be drawn any valid line of production between musicians and lawyers? Can there be a valid line of productiveness drawn between bricklayers and lawyers? The contract by which the brick- layer is entitled to his pay,-the mechanic's lien by which he is assured of payment,-the insurance corporation which underwrites his employer's responsibility to compensate for corporal injury received while working,-the penal law which protects his home from burglars,-all these safeguards are devised and administered by lawyers. It is law that makes it safe to lay bricks, and sure to get paid for laying bricks. We might as well say that the propeller is the only producer of a, steamship's motion, and that the steam in the boiler is a non- producer. The lawyer's and the judgels function is to produce justice. That is a high enough product to be worthy of any man's ambition. , Twen ty-seven

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THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC HI imagine that there are not many students in the College of Liberal Arts who are aware of the fact that a first semester course in the Appreciation of hflusic is given every year for their particular beneht. ln this enlightened day when Nlusic occupies such a large place in the lives of cultured people, it would seem that a larger number of students would attend this class if they were aware of its existence. The object of the course is to lay before the students the develop- ment of the art of Music for the past three centuries, which is done largely through the personalities of the great composers. They are taken in chronological order,--a brief sketch of their lives, including their personalities and artistic output is presented to the students, together with typical musical examples of each composer. The object being to impress upon the student the outstanding character- istics of the composer considered. The final result of the course seems to be a rather intelligent outlook upon Nlusic,-what it is made of, what it strives to say and what is its artistic status. The terminology of hflusic is also entered into as well as the various forms in which musical compositions are cast. Wllile of course it is impos- sible to give any technical instruction in so short a time, I am inclined to think it is of real value for the ordinary music lover who desires to be better informed as to the nature and purpose of the artfl PETER CHRISTIAN LUTKIN Dean ofthe School of Illusic THE SCHOOL OF SPEECH The latest addition to the work of the School of Speech, and RALPH B. DENNIS Dorm of Lhe School of Speech one long wanted, is our Speech Clinic where students and towns- people with any sort of speech defect may secure free treatment. Although the Clinic has been in operation only since last October, it has already made a contribution to the service program of the University. At the close of the first semester, approximately fifty cases with varied types of defects were receiving treatment, with as many more on the waiting list. Under the sponsorship of the School of Speech, the Clinic is conducting a three-fold program of diagnosis, treatment, and re- search. Its facilities are planned to care for stammcring, lisping, faulty articulation, harsh and strident voices, and similar defects and difficulties. This Clinic is one of the comparatively few in this country for the study and treatment of speech defects. And this in spite of the fact that there are ten times as many stammerers as blind and deaf combined, while the frequency of other defects has not even been estimated. There are state schools for the blind, the deaf, the lame, the feeble-minded, but very few for the sufferers from this type of defect. Yet with faulty speech, particularly stammering, the indi- vidual's problem of adjustment to society is made more difficult, and he has made a big step to unsocial tendencies, inferiority, and failure. The Clinic, therefore, represents a contribution in a field where the need is great. Under the direction of Dr. C. T. Simon, assisted by Miss Belle Kennedy, we look with pride upon what has been done, upon what will be accomplished. ADMINISTRATION Twenty-nine