Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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Newspaper and advertising typography, under the direction of Professor Albert including Sutton, is a one-quarter course the fundamentals of editing copy, make-up, and ads, and printing actual headlines plus seemingly endless days and nights of illustrate clipping newspaper articles to class discussions-all so familiar to J- School students! Reporting, under the guidance of Pro- fessor R. E. Wolseley, consists of organizing the class, actual city-room style, to cover the city of Evanston and the university for practical experience in interviewing, re- porting, and writing news stories. Photography courses, also under the direction of Mr. Albert Sutton, are designed to teach fundamentals of developing films, enlarging, compounding of chemicals, and the correct use of standard photographic equipment. Advanced classes acquaint students with techniques of photography for newspapers, the nature of reader interest, photo-editing, and reproduction require- ments for pictures. Advertising courses, under Professors Charles Allen and Walter Kurz, give instruc- tion in selling and advertising and mer- chandising problems of retail stores. Actual practice is given to students who sell and service local stores for Evanston and campus papers. Replacing several persons on the regular Medill faculty who have gone into various forms of government service recently, ex- perts in different fields of journalistic activity from the Chicago area have joined the staff. Mitchell Dawson, Chicago at- torney, particularly versed in press law, has replaced Edgar Vernard. Walter Kurz and Lawrence Coughlin, of the T ribime adver- tising staff, Charles Kinger and Howard Taylor, also Tribune men, and Van Allen Bradley, from the copy-desk of the San, are now doing part-time work at Medill in advertising, copyreading and news editing courses. Charles L. Allen, following a year's leave of absence with the O.W.I. in Washington, rejoined the faculty at the beginning of the winter quarter this year. Supplementing the staff, a Newspaper Council, composed of managers and editors of Chicago newspapers, agencies and press associations, gives its assistance to the school. During each school year, several well known men and women, whose work and experience is of special interest to jour- nalism students, are brought to the campus for school convocations. This year the speakers included Irving Pflaum, foreign editor of the Chi- cago Daily Times, who x 1 1 ,n,,w.-in , 1: J 'fi mm lflllll sriwi1sllli'lI - 'll We fqfvgflfiwfmiaryfse Mffr- ' T fi I7 qrilillillliilliiigvtlilll - -,-...W , ' wi-1 e'1.sw-- ,n, X , Uv F 'M' . f2gsjgffn',U 'Tw-v- l ' dr -YTNF te l l' lt ' n .- 'L ff-AE-L ' ,--- f- X? has been foreign correspondent for U.P., Time magazine and the London Daily Express. William M.Newton of the British Broadcasting Company, who was on tem- porary assignment as midwest representa- tive of BBC, also spoke to the students. Mr. Newton was the organizer of British broad- casts to conquered European peoples, and was creator of the British monitoring service. William D. Clark, who taught at the University of Chicago in 1938 and left at the outbreak of the war to join the British Information service, spoke on England After Four Years of War , following his return from a trip abroad. After his arrival on campus at the conclusion of a year with the Office of War Information in Washington, Professor Allen was the main speaker at one of the convoca- tions. Because of the cooperation and close coordination between the newspapers and the Journalism school, the speed-up pro- gram, and the expert faculty and speakers, Medill graduates are just what the doctor ordered for shorthanded newspapers. Today, these students are learning to write to- morrow's history. 27

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SCHOOL OF JOUR ALI M cmted-THIS YEAYR . . . 4700 Journalism grads to ease newspaper personnel shortages! And most of these must be drawn from the ranks of WOMEN. F orty-seven hun- dred petticoated figures are needed in news- paper city rooms throughout the nation. Such was not the case in former years- Up to 1939, newspapers relied upon journ al- ism schools for 1400 replacements a year, and most of the jobs were for men. The above hue and cry set up by news- paper publishers and editors over the United States has arisen because of the drain of man-power from their staffs during the past three years. At a critical time when bigger and better stories are making the wires hum, only a scanty news corps is available. Since the establishment of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern in 1921, until recently, a program of graduate and professional courses 01101 was offered to students, following preparation of three years in Liberal Arts or Commerce. In 1938, following its operation as a division of the School of Commerce for 17 years, Medill reorganized as an inde- pendent professional school. The program set up at that time provides the student with three years pre-professional training for background courses and beginning jour- nalism, and two years professional work, ending with a degree of Master of Science in Journalism. A year ago last fall, a survey was taken by the National Council of Professional Education for Journalism, liaison group between newspapers and schools. This was done through Kenneth E. Olson, dean of Medill and secretary-treasurer of the Coun- cil, through which the tremendous problems already described were found. Representa- tives of leading newspapers met with the 26 dean to set up accelerated programs for many journalism schools in the country. To do its part in wartime Northwest- ern's journalism school introduced the four- quarter-a-year War Emergency Program, primarily for three-year college students, offering them a solid year of training for a degree. With this twelve-month course on the quarterly system, the school turns out a crop of graduates every three months, thereby easing the acute shortage. Two years ago, newspapers realized that the need for women would arise because of the drafting of men for armed service. In the past, Medill boasted 80'Z, men and 20'Z, women in its classes: now the ratio is practically reversed, partly due to recruit- ing campaigns of newspapers for women to fill the emergency programs. This year, our I-School opened with as large an enrollment as in peacetime, but with 882 women! We may be running a female seminary this year, said the dean, but we have selected top-notch women and we are con- fident they will measure up to the respon- sibilities of the men's jobs for which we are training them. All courses at Medill are interesting, varied in scope, and, above all, practical. f l c 9223? V.-4314i ,ff '42, ,V ,' ff' f 51,5 mn . . K A . Wa f QQ, A 'QPU X ,l f l,i j Xf f ff- f ffm ,4 . QQVY' I If , N! . ffl X..--ff Harifrirai- 4 2 l .er 1-'-W -,L-wK,,,-:fi-if w X-, 1 M9 3' 1' wg ,fr 'L X Y? 12. l. ' ya- 2-if WZQQH' 1 ,F-,N illlugh- V' I H ,.15:7'A' f ...wh ' Iii' ' X ' 'Y ' 'N c X .gf-f .1-J., fvzygf' -'jf Nc! XXX, 1' Laboratory work constitutes a large part of class-time in many of them, and practical application is made of the theories learned.

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scHooLoP CCMMERCE longside other Northwestern schools, Commerce is entering its fourth wartime year. Thus, the sight of men in uniform is not foreign to the little red schoolhouse . The war has both curtailed and ex- panded the functions of the Commerce building, formerly rich in memories of torturous exams in Marketing BI, Account- ing C12, Management B9, etc., Commerce now serves primarily as Navy administra- tion headquarters, with few civilian classes. The student in the School of Commerce is resigned to traveling from Fisk to Music and then back to Locy for his classes in marketing, accounting, and finance. The war has introduced an expansion of activity in regard to the college training programs of the Navy on the one hand, and curtailed, slightly, civilian facilities on the otherg however, the traditionally excellent training afforded Commerce students has not suf- fered any qualitative reduction. 1908 saw the birth of the Northwestern School of Commerce, when a group of farsighted business executives realized the need for formal business training and established the school in Chicago. It was not until 1919 that a full-time school was set up in Evanston, offering the degree of Bachelor of Science in Commerce to its graduates. One of the first professors to help in this new venture was Professor F. E. Clark. In 1919 he came here as an associate professor and is now Chairman of the department of marketing and director of the graduate division of the Evanston and Chicago campuses. For 34 years alumni of the School of Commerce have demonstrated that the undertaking of the business executives was a sound one. The success of these grad- uates in securing and holding executive and administrative positions has brought fame 28 to the school and pride to the faculty. In fact, the present dean, I-I. B. Vanderblue, was a product of our own School of Com- merce. Assistant to the dean is I-Ierbert E. Dougall, head of the undergraduate division and professor of finance. Wartime has not dimmed the progressive element in business training: this year the typical commerce student may be a fresh- man-and a woman at that! For, with the advent of the speed-up curricula, Com- merce has become a four year school. This spring will also witness the graduation of the first class of women to enter the newly instituted secretarial program, designed to incorporate within general business train- ing the secretarial techniques especially advantageous to women. With the general contraction of teaching facilities on the Evanston campus, the downtown campus has taken on added significance for the commerce student. But the students aren't the only ones who have to go to the Chicago campus. Professor A. R. Tebbutt brings his knowledge of business aff: '-1222 W ,.., K ' evifi? if iff' N, U I l s f we X f ' f' '1 f x , , lv. if ff fl . if M N if I i Silt l',x li I , ll ll i is .fmt ii ii X 'N,JSff:S7ft?i'vzl L-fe :Dj l 1 ,- N v . :+'-.W VA- fi- i Q ,I N if tidtsgg lt if ,N 5 1 . -J. Q-.--1 i M. li 5' r .,. f iNeEfr:3esi .f 2 l.?g1:1..iex15-f l f 1 :IPR in g 1, ik, X iv gg I l Qgxffl'-1:4 f . W. 131, fqtf el N Y QR fr-' i 11 1 -X, X . in ,ff xx ' I iff ,i-,. .. Vhlx i H Xlff-'Xxx M7 N . if f j.. yn l,i'7f ,:Z -..J--41- 'P-X f, T -' ,-..---f-- :ff-'-f '- 1 f '-.X llh w. gg 1, .-fix iwfl i f A' ' . ' i I i . , 1 ., . . .. , , - . , i 1 X- ----f I X. ' . N, . .XX I---s ii U ll ,i .. l 1 . .. . , ,f ' qw,-ff i ' Q' --' ' I A, Four statistics to our Chicago brethren. years ago he came to Northwestern where he has become famed for his collegiate manner of teaching and his evident surprise when a student answers one of his un- answerable questions, or so he claims. The commerce faculty has had to face