Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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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

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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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COMMERCE RAI,IfII E. IAIEILMAN, Dean JOURNALISM XVILLIAM R. SLAUGIITER, I focational Advisor THE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE was established at Northwestern University twenty- eight years ago to supply scientific training of university grade for young men and women who plan to enter business. The Northwestern University School ol' Commerce was a pioneer in the movement for business education and was a charter member of the American Association of Col- legiate Schools of Business. Since that time, university training for business executives has demonstrated its valI1e. This training is not intended to displace practical work in the business field, but to supplement and strengthen it. Training gained exclusively in the hard school of experience has proven a wasteful process, but business for years believed that men could learn in no other way. It is now clear, however, that by bringing together in systematic form the experiences of many firms, a university course of instruction enables the individual to profit by the combined experience of others. RALPH E. HEILMAN MEDILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM carries on, but without its director. Due to the unexpected death of Prof. Harry F. Harrington while registration was proceeding at the beginning of the school year last fall, a temporary arrangement had to be made quickly if the school was to operate effectively in the interest of its students. Under this plan, each member of the Medill faculty, as well as the administration and staff of the School of Commerce, has cooperated loyally. The captainless ship has been steered, and all signs point to a safe arrival in port at the end ofthe school year. The actual leadership may be gone, but its inspiration remains. WILLIANI R. SLAUGHTER.