Southern Methodist University - Rotunda Yearbook (University Park, TX)

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mduate School l 1 ,,,, ,,. . DR. ELLIS W. SHULER Dean Graduate courses have been offered in S. M. U. since the opening of the school, but a definite organization was not made until the Spring of 1920. The administrative functions of the faculty are exercised by the Graduate Committee, which consists of the President, the Chairman of the Graduate School, and live professors. Graduate work leading to the Master's degree is now offered in thirteen depart' ments: Biology, Economics, Education, Religious Education, English, French, Geology, History, Latin, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Sociology and Spanish. It is planned to add in 192 5 '26 graduate work in Mathematics, Psychology and General Literature. While the total number of graduate courses offered at S. M. U. is small, it is con' fidently believed that the quality of work is excellent and that the Master's degree as given at S. M. U. measures fully to the standards set by the larger universities in the country. . .Fur 23

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'President Emeritus , 1 ,W Y , W W DR. ROBERT STEWART HYER If-as we are told-any successful enterprise is but the lengthened shadow of one man-of his days and nights of thought and wellfdirected plans-then may we not say that our institution owes in a large measure its well ordered, carefully tended growth, these ten years of active school work, to the live previous years when the thought and hope and prayer of one man occupied not only his waking hours, but most likely his dreams? To him-to his great desire for a real university situated in a territory convenf ient for students from many sections-to his willingness and proven ability for such an undertaking-to his talent for making dreams come true-to his ability to see through a heavy fog of discouragement to the glow of success if one but be patient- the students and friends of education owe the project so well on its way to the desired goal. As an educator, in its fullest sense--looking first to faculty and sincere culture- the inner, though intangible, things that build a school-even more than to mere brick and mortar-with a sense for real values in the classroom and on the campus-with an eye to beauty in buildings and grounds- We, the Editors of the Rotunda for its tenth year, voice our debt, as an institution, to the one man who made this possible, who served us for ten years-five before our coming as students, and five after- Our Hrst President, Dr. Robert Stewart Hyer. Page 22

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olle e of Arts and Sciences A 3 C g Q 1.-vc..--., . . . . . , , 'j, E. D. JENNINGS Dean The College of Arts and Sciences of Southern Methodist University represents the undergraduate division of the institution, and thus concentrates the various lines of study in the one college. At the present time the college offers instruction in almost every important cultural field and is rapidly adding courses along practical lines. The most recent expansion has been along lines of correspondence courses and extension classes. The School of Statesmanship was added last year by an endowment of Mrs. Arnold of Houston, amounting to S120,000. Dean E. D. Jennings holds degrees of B. A., Randolph College, 1900, B. A. and M. A., University of Texas, 1915g Ph.D., University of Texas, 1924. He came to S. M. U. from Texas Woman's College at Ft. Worth, where he had been Dean from 1915 to 1918, and Dean and Vice President from 1918 to 1922. Page 24