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

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♦ Rev. Thurber M. Smith. S.J., Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. THE GRADUATE t HE University is the guardian and dispenser of the accumulated treasure of man ' s intellectual achievements. In its libraries, museums, and laboratories are preserved the tools which its scholars — masters and apprentices — use in the attainment of truth. In its classrooms the lighted torch of Christian civilization and culture is passed on to the rising generation. It should never be forgotten amidst the ever-growing complications oi modern educational methods and tech- niques that the center around which all these activities revolve is the student. At times it would appear that attention is so centered on means that they are mistaken for ends; that the process itself tends to obscure the objective — the development of scholars. After all, knowledge advances only as those who know increase and develop. 1 he Graduate School shares, of course, with the other schools of the University the duty of preserving the past a nd transmitting it in an ordered synthesis. But one function the Graduate School claims as its peculiar prerogative — the creation of the future, the gradual pushing back by research and experiment of the fron- tiers of ignorance. The attainment of this ideal in its fullest sense demands, however, that the Graduate School as a society of scholars, in addition to the securing and imparting of that specialized knowledge which is its particular function, must bear witness to the true hierarchy of values and to the whole destiny of the individual and of mankind. It cannot be unmindful of the essential unity of that truth which it professes to advance nor of the type of scholar it strives to produce. Sodality Hall houses the Graduate School which directs all Craduate and research work at the University. UNIVERSITY FORMAL P.ige Eight

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ARTS AND SCIENCES The Administration Building wherein are housed the College oi Arts and Sciences and major offices ol the University. that accuracy of thought and reasoning and that breadth of view which must ever be the foundation as well of more advanced scholarship as of eminence in the profes- sions or other stations of life. The St. Louis University College of Arts and Sciences offers its students a time-tested curriculum which, with cooperation, will lead to education in the true sense ot the word. It is presumed that a man ot lair capacity who has conscientiously followed this cur- riculum under capable professors will be possessed of trained and cultivated faculties and will have a consider- able amount of positive knowledge in the major fields and departments of learning, and that he will have an intelligent sympathy with progress and intellectual activity generally and be saved, as far as possible, from narrowness and superficiality. The college sends forth its graduates as a challenge to the false prophets of the dissolution of modern civilization and looks forward to the promise of a brighter future for right principles and liberal culture, if only enough enthusiastic men and women will avail themselves of the opportunity to satisfy their ambition for things of the mind. Having been seared by experience, the world is beginning to realize its need for educated men who know not only how to earn a living but also how to live. Rev. Thomas At. Knapp. S.J., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Chan- cellor oi the University. UNIVERSITY FORMAL Page Seven

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SCHOOL The Graduate School is as impor- tant as it is unobtrusive. It sets the norm for highly specialized training, aiming at producing an expert in a given field. It caters only to those students who give promise of achieve- ment in one or another branch of learning. Graduate studies by their very nature lie in untrodden paths along new fields. By analogy the student must be a pioneer, mapping out his course of studies with no one to guide him and advise him. He must be resourceful and capable of making progress for himself. He is on his own with no one to push him. In the training of its apprentice scholars, the teachers of tomorrow, a graduate school, and above all the Catholic graduate school, can- not forget that without a synthesis of the is and ought, without a combination of observation and evaluation, it is impossible for a man to come to himself. When standards and values, ethical as well as intellectual, are banished, is there any wonder that students drift from course to course seeking hopelessly some answer to their inner restlessness? Men and women broadened by a reasoned general training may go through the world with much more peace of mind and certainty because they have approached nearer the truth. Sodality Hall, a familiar sight to Arts, Graduate, Social Service, and Education students. UNIVERSITY FORMAL Page Nine