Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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WILLI.Ahi A. Drums Business Mmzuyrfr of the University My first visit to Evanston was on the Fourth of July, 1867 when Heck Hall was dedicated. My parents brought me out from Chicago on a Goodrich steamer which landed at the old pier at the foot of Davis Street. We tramped up to the campus through the sand and brush and briars of the lake front. The campus itself was mostly sand, though there were many beautiful trees. Old College, then called the Preparatory, faced on University Place near the lake and was the only University building on the campus. A few years before this it had been moved from its original location at the northwest corner of Hinman Avenue and Davis Street. Thus it has had three sites. lVIany of the early churches of Evanston held their services in the recitation rooms of this old building. The University had leased to Garrett Biblical Institute a strip of land 666 feet wide right through the center of what we call the lower campus. Here they had erected Heck Hall which stood about opposite Foster Street on the ridge. For many years it was used by the Institute for both classrooms and dormitories. It burned in thewinter of IQI4. A little later the University and Garrett entered into an agreement canceling the lease on this ground and assigning to the Institute the land where its building now stands. Years ago Evanston's drainage canal was a big ditch which started way out on the prairie, south and west of the village, wound its way through Evanston and finally emptied into the lake a little south of the present Gymnasium. It was deep, filled with grass most of the year, and with water in the spring. We called it the Rubicon. It was not closed until about IQIO. Prior to 1874 on the north bank of the Rubicon stood Dempster Hall. It was a great rambling old building used as a dormitory, and burned in 1874. In the early days the men used to live in the best homes of Evanston, but as the people grew more wealthy and the number of students increased, desirable rooming facilities for men became very scarce. Prior to 1914 there was no University housing for men, but there was fair provision for women in Willard Hall and in the dormitories of the WOmCI1,S Educational Aid Association, an organization of great value. University Hall was built in 1869 and a few years later a gymnasium was erected-now used for Mineralogy and Metallurgy. These with Old College were the only buildings on the Evanston Campus when I entered the Preparatory in 1874. Willard Hall was just being completed and there was College Cottage, now the east end of Pearson Hall. Since then more than forty buildings have been erected-not to mention the great development on Alexander McKinlock Memorial Campus in Chicago. Though our educational buildings are sadly inadequate, in the matter of hous- ing facilities for both men and women Northwestern excels. Our open dormitory and fraternity and sorority house systems are the best and most practical to be found in any educational institution. Our growth since those early days has been great, but the need for new educational buildings and more dormitories is most pressing. It does not seem possible to get on without them, but let us be hopeful. Deering Library is assured, and my belief is that many new buildings will come in the next few yearsf' ADMINISTRATION Twenty-three

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VERNON R. Loucxzs President nf the Alumni Assocralunz Upon the completion of their college course Northwestern students graduate into real privilege. Every alumnus of the University is presumed to have, with every other alumnus, an equal share of responsibility for Northwestern and an equal privilege of service in her interest. If a student has entered into the spirit of the institution and has really become a Northwestern man or a Northwestern woman there can be for him no thought that graduation severs his relations with his alma mater. Furthermore, Northwestern alumni prize their relation to each other. Every year a larger proportion of the great alumni body becomes actively and loyally related to the organized interests of Northwestern. In this respect the Northwestern University General Alumni Association is a conspicuous leader among the alumni organizations of colleges and universities in mid-America. The constituency of the University has come to be one of the finest and most potent fraternities. No other alumni body is better organized for effective service. The alumni interests of every department of the University are fully represented in the General Alumni Association. The assoc- iation is represented on the board of trustees of the University and the Trustees are represented on the board of directors of the Alumni Association. Not only is there adequate organization for ellective service, there is a fine harmony of purpose and a cordial spirit of cooperation. The Association also has most commoclious and adequate quarters with the most complete office equipment and a full staii of workers trained and experienced in organization work. There is nothing lacking to give full force to the interests and loyalties of Northwestern alumni. Students in all departments should look forward to coming into a very vital relation with their university upon their graduation and to earning the right to count themselves Northwestern men and women, a right that may 11013 be merely assumed but must be earned. ADMINISTRATION Twenty-two

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- - -- --w-.e 4, - -. THE SCHOOL OF LAW fe 'CA law school is a laboratory in which students study the more important processes employed by society in controlling the con- duct of its members. The study necessarily involves: CID The structure and relations of government in all of its complexities. Qzj The structure of business organizations and the numerous devices which they employ. ' Cgj The intellectual machinery Ctheories, doctrines, formulas, rules, and procedural processesj through which courts and other governmental agencies articulate their problems and the methods of dealing with them. Intellectual machinery for legal science offers many difficulties not found in any other realm of science, due to the fact that society at large is the subject matter with which law deals. Terminology for so Wide a field cannot be stabilized. The larger emphasis has always been placed upon this point. So much so in fact, that law has tended to become a matter of dialectic. Our own School has tended, probably more than has been ANNEN LEON GREEN done elsewhere, to place the emphasis on points QU and CZD. Under the expansive program now being undertaken, even more emphasis will be placed on these points, the emphasis on the third being merely incidental to the development of the first two. This is desirable, for while intellectual machinery is important, it is only so as it makes articulate the study of government in its own rela- tions and in its relations to the institutions of society at large. In brief, the functions of a lawyer are those of a social scientist. He needs language as a means of making his science understandable and usable, but not as-an end in itself. Thus it is that our School, as a laboratory for training lawyers, calls for increased and scientific- ally trained man-power, new alignments of materials for study, and a coordination of the methods of study far beyond those required for the classical law schoolf' Dean. of the Selma! uf Law THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS The faculty and students of the College have been greatly f stimulated this year by two important events. Plans for our new library are well advanced and the Trustees are confident that we shall have the use of the income of the Wilson bequest next year. The first of these events means one important set of tools for College work will be more abundant and there will be a commod- ious and an architecturally beautiful place in which to use them. Those of you who have worked in crowded reading rooms and stood in line for books these last few years will appreciate what this means. The magnificent Wilson bequest for the use of the College is probably the largest single gift ever given to a college for strictly educational purposes. We hope through it that next year and in succeeding years you will have more, and more experienced teachers to advise and plan with you and to aid you to discover the important and permanent values in art, literature, and science. YVith these things to encourage us, all of us should be more strongly resolved that the Evanston campus will contain the most serious and hard working body of students in the University. CLARENCE SYOANUN There is a tendency among students to be impressed by the things that alumni seem to remember as the big things of their college years. A short conversation with an alumnus will readily indicate that he also remembers the hours of work that he put in his studies, and these memories are just as precious as those about which he is more likely to talk. The college record of the alumnus who never enjoys discussing the good times he had in class and the good times he had in studying, very likely is a record which will easily explain this lack of enjoyment. . To those of us who will be here when the new library is built and when the VVilson bequest becomes a reality, these symbols, these new facilities are going to be a lasting impression which we shall want to emulate with high educational ideals. These times are great milestones in the progress of the College. Dean of the College ADMINISTRATION 7 ll7l:77.Hf-flH17' 1 - I Lf.....- - ,