Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Judge Rufus Edward Foster, LL.B. Dean of the College of Law Tne College of Law The Tulane College of Law has been in existence since 1847, when it was known as the Law Department of the University of Louisiana, which subsequently became Tulane University. The purpose of the College of Law is to educate men for successful practice in the courts of Louisiana and in the Federal courts. In all courses special attention is paid to the Louisiana statutes and decisions, but this in no way lessens the value of such courses for students who come from other states. The aim of the College is, through the study and analysis of cases, to develop a legal mind and to ground it in legal princi- ples. To this end the college has selected instructors for their fitness to teach and to train and for their willingness to devote themselves enthusiastically to these objects. The college provides a large and well selected law library by the use of which students become familiar with the extensive sources of the law and learn how to find the law. Its courses cover every important topic, and a period of three years ' study of law is required for graduation, enabling the student to become thorough in discipline and knowledge. Beginning with the 1925-1926 session, credits of two years ' study in the College of Arts and Sciences will be required before entering the College of Law. 25

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Morton Arnold Aldrich, B.A.. Ph.D. Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration The College of Commerce The purpose of this College has been since its establishment in 1914, to offer sub- stantial professional training preparatory to a business career. The instruction offered is planned for students sufficiently able and mature to do work of university grade, and no student is received unless prepared to do work of this character. It is essential also to the permanent success of the College that its students approach their work in an earnest professional spirit. Students failing to do so may expect to be asked to withdraw. In order to make the courses available for business men and women, classes are also held at night from 8 to 9 :45. These classes meet in the Association of Commerce building, each course being held one night in each week. By thus devoting only one night, a student may take any of the night courses ofifered. 24

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The Graduate School The Graduate School offers to men and women the opportunity of extending and rendering more thorough the scholarship obtained in the undergraduate courses, and of advancing the boundaries of knowledge by specialized work and original research. Properly prepared students who have obtained a baccalaureate degree and who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted, it being understood that the work under- taken by them must be all of a grade higher than that required for the baccalaureate degree. The admission of such students will be upon sanction of the professors under whom they are to study and of the Committee on Graduate Studies. The Graduate work done by this class of special students shall in no case count toward the acquisition of an advanced degree. 26