Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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THE GRADUATE SCHOOL It will be a surprise to many of the readers of the Syllabus to . . learn that the Graduate School is one of the oldest schools of the university. In fact definite provision for graduate work was made at the very opening of the university itself. We find in the first catalogue, that of the year 1856, the following paragraph, which is added after the discussion of undergraduate courses. In continuation of the above there will also be a course of university lectures to meet the needs of those students who may desire to extend their studies beyond the regular graduating coursef' In a catalogue of some twenty-years later we find another para- graph relating to graduate work which reads as follows- Graduates who have pursued a course of advanced study under the direction of the faculty, on examination and presentation of a satisfactory thesis will receive the degree Doctor of Philosophyf' Graduate work in America was then in its beginnings. There were fewer than 400 graduate students in all of the American in- stitutions of higher learning. During the year 1891-92, through the CT leadership of President Henry Wade Rogers, assisted by a forward JAMES A,,T.,,NJ,,ME,, looking body of young men who had entered the faculties of North- Dm0-fffwGfaffilafv-M1001 western after receiving their Doctor's degrees from universities in America and Europe, the conditions for securing the lXIaster's and Doctor's degrees were adopted which are essentially in force at the present time. The Graduate School was really organized in 191 1. The direction of the work is under a Board of Graduate Studies which includes representatives of all schools of the university giving graduate work leading to the degree Master of Arts, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. From the beginning this Board has demanded a grade of work of candidates for advanced degrees which has been in keeping with the standards of the best universities. In recognition of this spirit North- western University in 1917 was admitted to membership in the Association of American Univer- sities. This honor was one of great significance, for that Association was then composed of the twenty-four leading universities of the country. Since that time only five additional members have been admitted to the Association. The real test applied for admission had to do with pro- ductivity in the fields of research by members of the various faculties, necessary equipment for carrying on research and the success of alumni who have gone on with academic work. The number of graduate students and those applying for advanced degrees has increased steadily since the founding of the Graduate School. There were in attendance in this school during the year 1912, eighty-three students. There are registered during the present year 580 students. Of this number about one-fifth have received their Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. Two-thirds of the total number are men. This figure does not include the graduate students in attendance during the past summer, numbering 370. The list of graduates for the current year shows students from 38 states and I3 foreign countries. THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE The purpose of the School of Commerce is to offer definite, systematic, and scientific instruction in business, with emphasis upon the training of prospective business executives. To accomplish this purpose, it functions both on the Evanston Campus and the McKinlock Campus in Chicago. On the Evanston Campus is located the Collegiate School, which offers a program of work covering the Junior and Senior years of a four-year college program, leading to the Bachelor's degree. This work is effectively co-ordinated and integrated with the Pre-Commerce program offered in the Freshman and Sophomore years by the College of Liberal Arts. Students are admitted to the School of Commerce in Evanston, who have completed their first two years of work in other colleges, but because of this co-ordination with the Pre-Commerce program at Northwestern University, students expecting to enter the School of Commerce are advised, if possible, to do their first two years of college work at Northwestern. --iill On the McKinlock Campus the School operates its part-time evening and Saturday classes. These are not extension courses, but D,,,,,, ,,f,,,,. ,g,1,,,,,,1,,fC,,,,,,,m,,e constitute an integral part of the University. In the Chicago classes the School maintains the same standards which obtain on its Evan- ston Campus. The School of Commerce takes just pride in its faculty, its alumni, and its student body. L. ,1l TTALPH E. I'IEILM.-KN ADMINISTRATION Twenty-fine

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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.....- - ,

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THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING W!LLrAM C. BAUER Dmn of the Scluwl uf Evigiucerialifl Engineering is the foundation of modern industry. Sometimes it is termed applied physical science, but it is more than that, it also includes the natural sciences and applied economics. The engi- neer is called upon not only to make operations perform properly but he must make them pay. If industry is to be successful, dividends must be earned. To be a leader among engineers today, one must be a funda- mentally sound and versatile scientist. Engineering practice of the present involves refinements in the applications of the sciences un- dreamed of a generation ago. Too great a scientific precision in many instances would however involve a prohibitive expense and the engineers' creations would be too costly to provide dividends. He must therefore be a man of Hne judgment, he must have the powers of discrimination, and he must possess the ability to decide when a sufficient degree of refinement has been reached for com- mercial and practical purposes. This does not mean superficiality. The curricula in this School of Engineering have always been based on a sound fundamental knowledge of the sciences. Stress is now also being laid on studies in economic and in business relations. The economics of engineering is assuming a position of extreme importance. The five year training offered by this School comprises an un- usually fine combination of studies in the sciences, in the humanities, in technical matters and in business relations. This is possible because of the close affiliation and cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts and with the School of Commerce. The approval of our traditional policy is indicated by the fact that the general tendency in other engineering schools during the past five years has been in the direction of our educational plan.', THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The publication of the Syllabus by the class of 1931 records another milestone in the progress of Northwestern University. The Faculty of the University, conscious of its opportunities and with a definite sense of responsibility, is endeavoring in every possible way to give instruction in medicine of optimum value. The individual student constitutes the unit on which there is focused the endeavors of a group of earnest teachers. Not only is the student and his special goal of vital concern, but care is taken to orient him in his relation to society. The student is a member of a group of earnest individuals building for human welfare, keenly conscious that the progress of society depends in large measure upon the preservation of health. Strong in productivity through adding to the sum total of human knowledge, the medical faculty is alert to its primary obligation, namely, the training of thoroughly competent physicians. The group constituting the undergraduate student body, repre- senting sixty or more colleges of liberal arts, is a group of which the Faculty is justifiably proud and their avidity for truth serves as the greatest possible stimulus. With an attitude of earnest cooperation between faculty and students, the development of intellectual power seems reasonably sure. Twenty-six Invmr: S. Cnfrrnn Dean ofthe Sch oul of i'lIeclicz'ne ADMINISTRATION