Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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- all VNL. TI . Tlll T DEAN MELBY has been a high-school teacher and principalg superin- tendent of schools in Brewster, Black Duck, and Long Prairie, Minnesotag an instructor of education at the University of Minnesotag and assistant director of the Bureau of Educational Research. ,He says that the School of Education has three functions: to educate prospective teachers, to educate teachers already in service, and to advance frontiers of knowledge by re- search and field service. There are about one million, two hundred thou- Sand teachers in the United States, and practically all of them are inade- quately prepared for their jobs partly because of deficiencies in early training. The big job is to help them understand thoroughly these four things: the public school set-up, public school education as it exists today, the psychology of elementary pupils, and our society as a whole. Mr. Melby does not believe that peo- ple can learn to teach by theory. Prospective teachers must have experience. It is important to study, but it is even more impor- tant that the college professors treat the prospective teachers in the same manner as that in which the prospective teachers should teach the elementarypupils when they are out in the held. The School's financial status is the only thing that limits its ex- pansion. Eventually it will have demonstration schools or public schools at its disposal. Even- tually its training program will be completely built around actual experience. ,yrs qmrgp, -.7 lziuvi-'s'1' tl. Mifrrn' l3r'.:11 of Ifrf.'fr'.1Hfu1 STUDENTS ATTIZNDING the regular session tend to overlook the op- portunities of the University that are available after the second semester ex- X Q-gif' 1 .lEaNras'r I-I. llAllNli 1941.111 of .YIIIIHIIUV .Skiiriwr 05 l'j 4.4 -....,,.. ...,,.x,.. . l- ' li l aminations. Northwestern University provides an unusual opportunity for summer study because of its lake shore location. Although the students of the regular session cannot fully enjoy the lake-shore facilities, the students of the Summer Session may take full advantage of this natural resource of the University. Moreover, many of the regular session students are not aware that a year's requirement in a modern language or a laboratory science may be fulfilled during the eight-week Summer Session. Then, too, many regular session students hardly realize that three Summer Sessions with nine semester-hours of credit each summer are equivalent to an additional academic year. An increasing number of regular session students now plan to enter professional and business life one year earlierg others plan to shorten their pre-professional training periodg and still others hope thereby to decrease the family outlays for their education. The Summer Session also provides opportunities to study with preeminent visiting profes- sorsg to take courses that are not given in the regular yearg to take advantage of Chicago's summer recreational facilities: and to come in contact with students from many other colleges and universities who also attend Northwestern for the summer. During the summer of 1938 about 4500 students moved in on the campus two weeks after sec- ond semester examinations were over, to carry one, two, or three courses. To the students of the regular session some degree of satisfaction should come from the knowledge that Northwest- ern's Summer Session is one of the largest in the country.

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I-1ri,iuuf.iv. lliiriiruipmix .'ii1f11.:f1,I lltrfu ffl' fluff fffflftff-'ff BECAUSE TRAINING IN business gained by experience alone often I f I ' sit course of instruction helps the indi- THIE OFFICERS OF the College of Liberal Arts wish to assist students in the college in every possible manner. We geek to inform the Sfudcms through bulletins and announcements of the educational opportunities wg- Offer. We Hfmmpf to make it possible for our students to avail themselves most effectively of the rich offerings of our curriculum and to avoid difh- culties, meet requirements, and pursue their academic work with the greatest degree of efhciency. To these ends we have created a system of College Adviserg which in- sures our students adequate counsel until they are ready to specialize and which brings them into friendly associations with members of the faculty. , A departmental advisory system supplements and continues the .N work of the College Advisers. . We encourage friendly fisgocjn- ' --f tion of the students with faculty members and with university ofbcers. We want students in the col- lege to regard the College Office as a place to which they are wel- come to come for assistance and advice whenever they desire. proves costly ant waste u , a univer: y vidual to profit by the combined experience of others and thus to advance more rapidly. The School of Commerce trains its students to understand better the fundamental economic principles, and to appreciate the social re- sponsibilities of business, as well as to develop sound thinking and critical judgment about business problems. The faculty includes men who are ex- perienced in business as well as in teaching, and who are therefore in close touch with the problems of businessmen. And the location of the School, near the city of Chicago, provides an opportunity for close touch with cor- porations whose problems may be used as laboratory studies, whose opera- tions may be observed as concrete illustrations, and whose personnel man- agers are looking for competent young men and women. The School of Commerce is now completing its thirtieth year' as a separate school within the Universityg the men and women it has trained have earned places as business leaders in many sec- tions of the country. Its loyal alumni are making the infiuence of its teachings felt in many phases of industry and business. Their success has been the success of the School of Commerce. james R. ilaxvigimwg .fi.uif.i'!fI1ll Umm of f,'fW,,,,,.,A,,. 24

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lirxxi- iii Orsox l?t.1u of ff,ff1'zJ.:f'x.if1f AS A GUIDING force of the School of Speech, Dean Ralph Dennis has constantly tried to attain high goals in education and has striven to huild up the school ever since he became Dean in 1913. An energetic personality himself, Dean Dennis considers the development of a direct and forceful manner an essential aim of all education. There is, he feels, an ever-present necessity for human contacts, and education should be that preparation for living which helps to develop the clear thinking that is necessary to meet workaday problems. By learning the use of evidence and by studying the emotions and imagination of others, the student may gradually cultivate the ability to solve personal and general problems. The plans for the expansion of the School are typical of the progressive spirit that Dean Dennis terms education. Blue-print plans have already been developed for a new and adequate building to house the theatre, for a speech clinic, ancl for new class- rooms. Dean Dennis now con- siders it his job to translate these plans into stone and mortar. To conform with his ideas of a moving and growing education, he would require a student body of what he terms wild pigeons, or students with brains and burning ambition to achieve high goals in Life. INS -V EIISI 3 'l'l-lll MIEDILL SCHOOL of journalism, after existing for seventeen years as a division of the Commerce School, was reorganized in 1938 as an independent school on a basis similar to that underlying law and medical schools. Its live-year program gives students three years in 'Liberal Arts in which they receive a broad background necessary for success in news- paper work today. In the fourth year they continue their background courses and at the same time begin their professional studies. At the end of this year -they are eligible for a degree granted either by the Commerce School or of the College of Liberal Arts. In their fifth year, students con- centrate entirely on professional training, which gives them the preliminary training necessary to enable them to advance to positions of greater useful- ness without starting at the bottom of the ladder. 'l'he School of journalism not only provides the thorough edu- cational background necessary for success in newspaper work, but X. also offers instruction in stand- ard newspaper practice both on the news and business sides and gives students some perspective of their profession, some under- standing of its history and cur- rent problems, and some appre- ciation of the social functions and responsibilities of the press. Dean Olson believes that North- western now has a sound pro- gram for journalistic education which is approved by newspaper- men, and that the school will soon be recognized as the strong- est in the country. Raufu Dmwis IJCQIJI of Sfzrfgfb