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

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Very Reverend Harry B. Cnmmins, S.J., twenty-fifth president of St. Louis University, was appointed late in December to that office. JTol .OLDING up to the educational world the ideals of Catholic principles as applied to the training of its students, St. Louis University has maintained a rigid standard of excellence in the one hundred and nineteen years of her existence. From the tiny academy founded by Bishop Du Bourg in 1818, she has developed by easy stages to the position oi eminence she occupies today as a complex, metropolitan institution, one of the outstanding universities of the Middle West and, in many respects, of the country. As conditions in the outside world change, a university must keep pace by meeting the new obligations imposed upon her by these changes or fall by the wayside. St. Louis University has met these new demands by altering her courses, modifying her methods of administration, while still holding fast to her fundamental UNIVERSITY FORMAL ♦ Page Two

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objectives. In the past thirty years phenomenal progress has been made in the fields of science and education. By profiting from the experience of others, by testing each new educational discovery in the crucible of time, St. Louis University has been able to keep pace with the times without sacrificing her efforts on unworthy enterprises. At the head of the University is the president, in whose hands is centered the direct governing power of the entire institution. He is head of the Board of Trustees, the body which sits in judgment on all matters of policy which supersede intra-school interests. The University Council, composed of the deans and regents of the various schools which com- prise the University, is the foremost advisory body of the University, and regulates internal affairs. In those schools where a layman is dean, a regent is appointed by the provincial as the official representa- tive of the Society of Jesus. Within recent years a greater premium has been placed upon specialization; hence increasing emphasis has been placed upon the Graduate School where the student already possessed of a degree is afforded the opportunity of intensive training in the field of his particular interests. The College of Arts and Sciences offers its students a liberal education along broad cultural lines, and also serves as a preparatory school for those who intend to pursue their studies in the professional schools. The School of Medicine, by increasing the per- sonnel of its faculty and procuring up-to-date equip- ment, has achieved the highest possible rating given medical schools. The School of Nursing, of an almost equally wide-spread fame, boasts of both educational and practical facilities which are virtually unequalled c W ' - v in any other institution of its type in this section of } ' the country. The School of Dentistry, by depart- ' i ' y mentahzing its courses and installing modern dental machinery, enjoys a similar position ol eminence. UNIVERSITY FORMAL Page Three