St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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PUSHING BACK THE FRONTIERS OF IGNORANCE It is rather with the unanswered than the answered questions that the modern graduate school deals. An eternal quest to make the unknown the known the obscure the obvious — a constant challenge to ignorance is its function. THE role of the graduate school in any univer- sity, while important, is usually unobtrusive, and her plaudits are most frequently confined to a few stereotyped paragraphs on her allotted page in the yearbook. She furnishes no candidates for the athletic or social activities and, hence, seldom occupies the student limelight. And so it has become necessary, when kind words and appropri- ate sentiments are to be meted out, to credit her with noble and lofty achievements, to pacify her workers with assurances of appreciation for their usually thankless efforts. It is commonly averred, in eulogistic phrase, that she lays her mighty shoulder against the towering barriers of ignorance and, bit by bit, by dint of profuse, scholarly perspiration, forces them back, creating new territories of knowledge upon which her more callow sisters may safely disport themselves. While much of this is but grandiose nonsense, it obviously has some basis, and is not entirely untrue. ■ Secondly, she is often alleged to be the leader of the harmonic orchestra of schools which com- prise the university. She sounds the keynote for a trilling arpeggio which constitutes the audible tone of the entire institution. The metaphor may be prolonged indefinitely, even to drawing parallels with the brasses and woodwinds. In fact, it often has been. And again there are some grains of truth in this assertion. ■ But the university, and specifically, the gradu- ate school, form an integral part of a civilization which has grown skeptical of viewings with pride and pointings with alarm, and vague generali- ties are not satisfactory to an era harassed with problems unknown to a more placid age. Now, as never before, the baffled victims of the complexi- ties o f life are looking about for succor. If the graduate school is to fulfill her traditional role, she must be able to furnish a satisfactory answer to those whose querulous questions are unanswered. What, in short, is the graduate school doing to meet the demands of the world whose fall has succeeded its pride? Has it an answer when an answer is so sorely needed? HERBERT AUGUST APPRILL St. Louis. Missouri Certificate in Commercial Science MARGUERITE V. V. ARAND St, Louis. Missouri Bachelor of Science in Social II or Ij JOHN GREGORY AUER. S.J. Menasha. Wisconsin Bachelor of Arts CLAUDE IGNATIUS BAKEWELL. A.B. St. Louis. Missouri Bachelor of Laws JOSEPH HERMAN BALTES Fort Wayne. Indiana Doctor of Medicine .MORRIS BASTACKY. B.S. Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania Doctor of Medicine MICHAEL ARTHUR BATEMAN Freeburg. Illinois Doctor of Medicine Apprill Arand Bastacky Bateman ■ 19 b

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Sodality Mall is the home of the Graduate School, which directs all graduate study and research work of the University. This school aims at the extension of the frontiers of knowledge through the work of its students. . . Rev. Thurber M. Smith, S.J., dean of the school, at work in his office.

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■ Foremost of the units of the University is the Gradudtc School located in Sodality Hall. Above are seen students descending the steps of the building. ■ Graduate work requires much study and research. Above are shown students availing themselves of the facilities of the University Hbrary in the Administration Building. ■ A spacious and beautiful lobby meets the eye of the visitor to Firmin Desloge Hospital, latest addition to University buildings. EXTENDING MAN ' S SCOPE OF LEARNING BY MEANS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY ■ View of the amphitheatre of the Firmin Desloge Hospital where, owing to the sloping arrangement of the seats, medical students are able to follow the actual procedure of operations. ■ Frequent assignments are required in graduate study. The student at right IS shown preparing one of these papers. 120 1