Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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GRADUATE SCHOOL FRANKLIN Buss SNYDER, Dean, ,Q LIBERAL ARTS ADDISON HZIBBARD, Dean THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS as the division of the University oldest in point of years and largest in number of students enrolled, should presumably have most to contribute to a Syllabus built around the theme of traditions and customs. It is safe, I believe, for me here to ignore such items as freshmen caps, hobo day, the circus, athletic victories, and the various student social functions,since I feel certain that a board of student editors will do full justice by such traditions as these. I should like to emphasize, however, at least two other traditions which, if sustained throughout the years to come, will prove more important than whether or not Hrst- year students wear green caps: that the intellectual life is really important and that this intellectual life may best be offered to a group of selected students. Those features must be preserved and fostered. Only their continued existence will keep Northwestern an institution of which alumni may be really proud. ADDISON HLIBBARD THE GRAD UA TE SCHOOL has perhaps the highest privilege of any branch of an institution of learning-that of encouraging gifted men and women to contribute their knowledge and dis- coveries to the worthy end of increasing human comfort and satisfaction. Through the training of effective teachers, the Graduate School is indirectly responsible for the intellectual background and inspiration of the countryis youth, through the efforts of the research workers whom it fosters, the Graduate School has a share in producing new knowledge which will add to the general happiness and intellectual growth of the nation. Such have been the chief aims of graduate study in the pastg such they must continue to be in the future, if the Graduate School is not to fail in the task entrusted to it. FRANKLYN B. SNYDER

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SUMMER SESSION ERNEST H. HAHNE, Dean BUSINESS MANAGER HARRY L. WlELLS THE SUMMER SESSION of 1936 anticipates an enrollment of over three thousand stu- dents, with the heaviest registrations in the graduate and professional schools. For the under- graduate, however, the summer offers the opportunity to meet graduation requirements in three years and three summer sessions, in order to enter business or professional schools with the greatest economy to the family budget. Moreover, concentration and course requirements can be met during the summer, which makes it possible to engage in the extra-curricular activities offered during the regular session. Last summer many students took advantage of the opportunity to study on the beaches, combining study and pleasure in a most satisfactory manner. Only during the summer are Northwestern undergraduates able to take full advantage of the lake, which is the Universityfs greatest natural asset. ' ERNEST H. HAHNE. THE BUSINESS MANAGEMEN'T of Northwestern has attempted to keep before it at all times the real purpose of the institution, the training of a fine group of young men and women. Those who are part of our program feel keenly that their greatest contribution will be made if they keep the assets of this University in sound and liquid condition. No institution can be great without sound endowments. It is the pledge that your business officers make to the student body. We trust that whenever a question arises as to an action which has been taken that the students will always review it in the light of an attempt to keep this University on a sound financial basis. Our greatest joy is realized when we can add to the funds which go into our educational program. IJARRY L. WELLS.

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ENGINEERING NIVILLIAM C. BAUER, Dean SPEECH RALPH B. DENNIS, Dean THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING aims to contribute its bit to human progress and to prepare its students for the greatest possible usefulness in the world in this united struggle of man for progress. This year the School has contributed its share to progress. Men must cross rivers, and bridges are necessary. A recent research which has been conducted here in cooperation with the cement industries will contribute to the progress of building concrete bridges. A paper will soon be pub- lished by the American Concrete Institute entitled, Analysis of Multiple Span Rigid Frame Bridges by the Slope-Deflection Method . Ten thousand reprints of this paper will be distributed by the Portland Cement Association to the construction industry. It is well to call attention to the fact that the Slope-Deflection Method was first proposed by Professor George A. Maney, our Professor of Structural Engineering. WM. CHARLES BAUER INTO THE SCHOOL OF SPEECH each year some student, generally a sweet young co-ed dashes and says, I want right away I50 words for the Syllabus . On what subject, what theme? , says I. Oh, anything , says she. She smiles sweetly and is gone, leaving one more Dean to wonder what will look well in print. This little dialogue is apparently as inevitable as Spring-and much less welcome-but here it is once again and so ......,, I Another year has rolled around, a year filled with the Alarms of War, filled with Fascism, Politics, campus and national, Supreme Court decisions, Public Enemies, and, in this part of the world and for this writer, Too Much Winter. QIt is February now.j Despite these and many other irritants Northwestern still survives. RALPH DENNIS