Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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established as the School of Oratory, and as the range of study was expanded, it was given its present name. For sixty-eight years it has oc- cupied a place of leadership in speech and theater arts. The school is divided into six departments, enabling students to recieve ex- tensive study in their chosen Helds. The department of public speaking offers courses in composition and speech delivery. The forensic program enables students to obtain proficiency in debate and oratory. In the department of interpretation the courses offered are designed to aid in the under- standing and interpretation of verse, prose, and drama. This department also furnishes the Student with advanced studies in the history and methods of interpretation. 7 f' f - v b S x.-9, The theater department is divided into two fields: history and literature of the theater, which is planned to help students acquire the cultural values of dramatics and its literatureg and the practical aspects of the theater, which Provides for a professional knowledge of drama- The courses in the radio department PYCPQYC students for professional work in commercial and educational radio. Advanced courses con- centrate on production procedures, Pfogfafm Planning and building, and educational rad10- The department of speech correction and audiology assists persons who have .normal Speech but wish to improve their voice and diction, those who need speech correction .to eliminate impediments, and those who reqlflfe auditory assistance for deafness or defective hearing. The speech education department concen- trates on the teaching of speech in high schools and colleges. It is closely co-ordinated with the School of Education. Arrangements are made by this department for practice teaching. In addition to the departmental courses there are numerous activities in which students may engage to gain practical experience. In the field of drama the University Theater is promi- nent. It produces six majorproductiona s year and experiments in theater methods. This year U.T. produced Soldier's Wife, Julius Caesar Murder in the Cathedral, The Great Big Doorstep , The Circle , and Arms and the Man . The Theater Workshop offers opportuni- ties in acting and directing for any student. It presents six programs a year, consisting of two or three one-act plays in each. The Children's Theater, sponsored by the School of Speech and the Evanston Public Schools, affords experi- ence in children's drama. In the field of radio, broadcasts were pre- pared by the students. The Radio Playshop pro- duced a weekly dramatic program over station WIND in Chicago. The Radio Guild presented radio adaptations of great literature in dramatic form over FM station WBBM. Early in Febru- ary the radio department prepared some pro- grams in conjunction with Evanston's FM station WEAW. Heading all these activities and courses in Speech School is James H. McBurney, who has been dean since the retirement of Ralph Dennis in 1942. Before his arrival at Northwestern in 1936, Dean McBurney headed speech depart- ments at the Universities of Michigan and Columbia. Dr. McBurney's activities concentrate around his interest in public speaking. He is chairman of the University committee on radio. As the supervisor of the Northwestern Reviewing Stand, he acts as moderator for the National Radio Forum. Speech School has both cultural . . . and pro- fessional aims . . . training students for the rostrum . . . the boards . . . the mike . . . or the clinic . . . always advancing and im- proving its aims . . . to fit the needs . . . of the social and professional world. 23

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Lutkin Hall which was completed in 1941. This auditorium, which seats four hundred, was named after Peter Christian Lutkin. John Beattie, dean since 1933, came to Northwestern in 1925 as a professor in music education. Previous to this he worked in public IX- school music supervision and was state super- visor of music in Michigan. He also worked with the YMCA service in France during World War I as a choral director and entertainment promoter. He has co-authored many books on music and in 1941 he surveyed music education in seven South American countries. Faculty and student recitals were presented throughout the year in order to give music lovers, students or otherwise, an opportunity to hear the world's best music right on campus. A recital is required of every music student who graduates in applied music. These recitals are presented in Lutkin Hall and are open to the public without charge as are all university musical organization concerts. The professional training in the School is directed toward development of skill in one of the following branches of music: performance, choir direction, church organ playing, radio work, symphony orchestra work, teaching in schools and colleges, composing, and criticism. The School grants degrees of Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music Education, and Master of Music. The musical organizations of the school have had a busy and successful year. The N. U. Symphony Orchestra, whose one hundred mem- 22 bers make an organization similar to a pro- fessional symphony orchestra, gave six concerts. The A Cappella choir was the first group of its kind to be established in an American university. The choir participated in two concerts and made many appearances in the Northwestern-Chicago area. A winter and spring concert were given by the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs in conjunc- tion with the A Cappella choir. A new organiza- tion, the Northwestern Radio Choir, was organ- ized this year, and presented musical programs weekly over station WEAW-F M. The main aim of the choir was to gain radio experience for its members. Glenn Cliff Bainum, who has headed the university concert band for twenty years, conducted band concerts during the year. Music Schlool's enrollment was one of the largest in its history and all its facilities and effort were devoted to meeting this new demand. Faculty as well as students worked hard to maintain the high standards of the school in spite of all the difiiculties created by an un- precedented demand upon the facilities of the school. That the year was successful is an indica- tion of the fine faculty and earnest students to be found in the school. Music School students receive well-rounded education by taking re- quired courses in Liberal Arts, Speech, and Education. Music School has its goals . . . polishing, developing, creating musicians . . . providing a cultural background . . . and an appreciation of music . . . for music is a vital part of our lives. SCHO0L 0F SPEECH Crew calls . . . testing 1-2-3 . . . heated debates . . . crew calls . . . re-ed . . . radio commercials. . .crew calls. . .script- writing . . . embryonic producers . . . pro-- spective directors . . . and Speech School is busily on its way. Speech School was founded at Northwestern in 1878 by Robert L. Cumnock. It was first 4

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TECHNOLOGlCAL INSTITUTE Air conditioning equipment . . . methods of industry . . . electrical voltage . . . X-ray machines . . . atomic energy . . . construc- tion projects . . . and the Technological Institute produces vitally needed, industrially trained students. Since its cornerstone was laid in 1940, the Technological Institute hasimade many im- portant and progressive strides. Housed in its six and one-half million dollar building fur- nished by the Walter P. Murphy Foundation, Tech Institute has taken its place of importance in the realm of education. This year Tech opened its wide doors to 1,182 undergraduates and more than one hundred graduate students. Sixteen undergraduate de- grees were conferred in December, thirty-two in March, and approximately seventy others in june. This year Tech launched its first graduate program with eighty-nine students studying during the day and thirty in night courses. Most are pursuing work leading to a master's degree, but six hope to obtain their doctorates. The entire student body in Tech includes students from over thirty states and four foreign coun- tries. Anticipating the increased enrollment, Tech added eighteen staff members and about forty graduate assistants. It also expended 575,000 on the acquisition of new equipment, including an electron microscope. In previous years more than 31,000,000 had been invested in equipment for the building. Biographies of the men that staff Tech and supervise the use of its great equipment read like a list of scientific honors. Newcomers to the Institute in 1946 have beenadded to the sani- tary engineering department, the chemical engineering field, to electrical engineering, in- dustrial engineering, and theoretical and applied mechanics in the mechanical engineering di- vision. 24 Based on a cooperative system, Tech students work three to five months of the year and attend classes for the remaining months. The cooperative system brings the young man into contact with the realities of our industrial system, it shows him the significance of the facts and principles which he has acquired through books and in his classes. Organizations active in Tech are Tau Beta Phi, honorary for upper classmen, and Pi Tau Epsilon, mechanical engineering fraternity. There are also several branches of national professional groups. Tech was no quiet place during the war years. In fact, it was completed and dedicated just in time for war service. Tech's main war activities centered in research and in educating members of the armed forces and people employed in war industries. The large scale Navy program at Northwestern centered in great part around the Institute. The arrangement of linking education with practical application on a job is one of Tech's most carefully directed achievements. The un- dergraduate course is five years long. Dean Ovid W. Eshbach is the swift, efiicient man who since 1939 has directed Tech's manifold activities from behind his big work-table desk. The Dean outlines Tech's purpose as one of seeking ex- pression through training in the fundamental principle of science and engineering, the de- velopment of new powers to deal effectively with the methods and techniques in engineering education, and the maintenance of close contacts with industry and engineering. A student magazine, the Northwestern Engi- neer, records the efforts toward these ends. The Engineer is only one of the many ways through which Tech School makes itself known to the world. Visitors from all over the world reviewed the building in the first six months of the 1946- 47 school year. Tech School lives up to its purpose . . . and promotes close contacts . . . between industry and engineering . . . furthering the cause of scientific investigation . . . with the latest of methods . . . and equipment . . . to do its part . . . in keeping the wheels of industry revolving . . . swiftly . . . and efficiently.