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

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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

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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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HE general THE SCHOOL OF purpose of the School of Commerce and Finance is to present a type of education which emphasizes the study of the principles and practices contained in the field of economics, industry, finance, marketing, ac- counting, and taxation. Of no less importance and strongly supple- mentary, cultural and ethical stud- ies complete its field. Rev. Joseph L. Davis, S.J. , George V. Wilson. Dean Regent of the School of Com- of the School of Commerce merce and Finance. and Finance. The present-day development of these fields of vital human concern leaves no doubt in the minds of thoughtful men as to their intrinsic value. Their place and fitness in any comprehensive scheme of education is clearly seen and acknowledged. Even a passing glance at the issues and problems which are forcing themselves into the councils and legislatures of all nations must convince an observer of the necessity of an under- standing and training in the economic and industrial aspects of modern life. The courtvard of the School of Commerce and Finance. Today the vast development of human activities in economical and industrial fields presents numerous opportunities for men of talent and training. Definite preparation for distinct careers, for specific accom- plishments, for adaptability to chang- ing conditions, is extensively de- manded. The program of the School of Com- merce and Finance scarcely lacks real interest. It can hardly be dull. It never is, as a wag once put it, a course in glorified bookkeeping. Somehow, someway, even to the UNIVERSITY FORMAL Page Ten