Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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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

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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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' A A Charles Cassidy Bass, M.D. Dean of tlie Scliool of Medicine and Pharmacy Tne College of Medicine Emerson once said, and very truly, The first wealth is health. It is more precious to a people than good roads ; the improvements of rivers and harbors ; the enlargement of army or navy ; the extension of commerce ; the fostering of agriculture, or the con- servation of natural resources. Upon good health depends efficiency and happiness. The line between efficiency and inefficiency is drawn upon the ability of the individual to go to work today; that between happiness and unhappiness upon the ability to enjoy the work of today. Health is the great problem of life. In the past health has been dependent largely upon curative medicine. In t he future it will be largely dependent upon preventive medicine. Statistics show that every fifty seconds a life is lost to our country through preventable diseases. Medical science believes that the known preventable diseases con- stitute only a fraction of those that can be prevented. Ever since its establishment in 1834, the Medical College of Tulane University has been doing its utmost to raise a standard of medical education throughout the country. Now, after ninety years of active existence, it has taken its place with the leading medi- cal colleges, not only of the state and country, but of the whole world. 37