Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

Page 31 text:

THE GRADUATE ScHooL HE Graduate School of Purdue University was organized in its present form during the past year, and, under the new management, has been in charge of graduate study at the University during the present school year. R. G. Dukes, head of the department of Applied Mechanics, was made Dean of the Graduate School. Dean Dukes has been actively engaged in supervision of graduate work for several years, although it was not before organized as a separate school of the University. 01 'WJ The purpose of organizing this very essential department as a seperate and self-con- trolled school was to bring under closer supervision the work of graduate students in the various schools of the campus. Considerable diiheulty in arranging schedules of work in different departments under the old system was very prevalent, and this fact brought in- convenience not only to students but to departments as well. Graduate study in any department enables the student to make a much more thorough and careful study of the particular branch in which he is interested. He is able to become a master of his subject, and with the close supervision of expert professors, is enabled to pursue the study in a more scientific and businesslike manner. The personal contact with admitted masters of the Held adds no small amount of interest and desire for mastery of whatever subject the student may desire to follow. This condition of close contact between instructor and student is one of the greatest advantages given the graduate student over the undergraduate. Graduate work at Purdue is being carried on by some three hundred men and women. Much of the work is done in research, in developing new principles of operation and con- struction. It is largely through graduate study that many of the great developments in engineering, agriculture and scientific endeavors have been brought about at Purdue under the new and better supervision resulting from the adoption of the new Graduate School, many more and similar developments may be expected to be forthcoming.

Page 30 text:

Y Lwaev . 4' 'P' r'.: 'ffa fa E 11. SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS or W i-IE School of Home Economics was organ- ized as a separate school from the School Science at Purdue a few years ago. It has been established on the campus since 1905. In ct, the Home Economics School at Purdue University is one of the oldest of its kind in 2 United States. It has only been in relatively recent years that people came to realize xt the profession of housekeeping required training of any sort. The business is one of a ny sided aspect, because a successful wife and mother must be a financier, a poet, a gen- il, a diplomat, and an artistg she must have a dehnite knowledge of the technical, scientific id aesthetic phases of the profession: she must combine all these into one nature. And then still further, nearly every woman is confronted at some time in her life with these problems, and it is necessary that she be able to carry on in a manner intended for the bet- terment of the particular community in which she may reside. Enrollment in the School of Home Economics is growing from year to year and public interest is turning toward this more and more. This increase of enrollment is apparent not only at Purdue but at other and smaller institutions. Certainly this increase is natural since there can hardly be imagined any profession of more importance than that of learn- ing how to make a successful home-a home endowed with cheerfulness, hospitality, beauty and love. Dean Mary L. Mathews, as head of the school, has done a great deal in developing it to the high plane of success which it now enjoys. The activities of the School of Home Economics are not limited to those enrolled at the University, for it Conducts various informatory and practical short courses for the bene- fit of girls throughout the state. These short courses serve the double purpose of bringing home many important facts to girls attending them and of bringing the University to a closer relationship with the citizens of the state. With its great importance in che everyday life of the country, Home Economics as a profession and the School of Home Economies of Purdue as a means of spreading knowledge of the profession, will become even greater factors in educational procedures of the country.

Page 32 text:

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE HE School of Science serves a double pur- pose 1n the University scheme. Considered from one angle, it is an independent school which provides a very broad scientinc education without neglecting those subjects which would bring about greater culture to students of this particular school. As in the other schools of the University, certain courses are required of all students While others are elective. A student may, by careful selection of these elec- tive subjects, obtain a very intensive and thorough knowledge of any one of the main sub- jects offered. The School of Science differs from the ordinary college of Liberal Arts in that it insists upon the student taking a greater amount of the Physical Sciences and upon his spending a greater amount of time upon them. It furnishes adequate preparation for professional schools and for teachers. The second function of the School of Science is as a service department to the other schools in the University. The staff of the Science School cares for the mathematics, history and modern language of the other schools of the University. Therefore, what the students of Purdue University accomplish in their respective lines of endeavor is largely influenced by their Work in the School of Science. Since science is the foundation upon which all technical Work is built, all students of engineering or agriculture or whatnot must have a definite knowledge of subjects taught in this school. Dean Moore of the Science School is a noted authority upon various scientific subjects and has accomplished much in the particular field of rare gases and he has likewise done a great deal of Work on radium, its manufacture and use, with particular attention to its actual cost. The School of Science at the present time is one of the largest schools of the University, and, with the enrollment increasing year by year, there is no reason to doubt but that it will become stronger and will exert even a greater influence upon the success of graduates of Purdue University. Since Dean Moore has become head of the School of Science the school as a Whole has progressed with the major share of this progress being due to his untiring efforts. o