University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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-.. I CAP AND COXVN The ,Law School HE Law School of the University was first opened for instruction in October, 1902, Professor Joseph Henry Beale, of the Harvard Law School, having ob- tained leave of absence for part of the first tvvo years to become its dean. Temporary quarters were provided in a portion of the Press building, and here began the instruction of the sixty-one students Who presented themselves at the opening of the school. 1 The present law building was begun in 1903 and was occupied in May, 1904. At the close of Professor Beale's leave of absence, Professor Hall became dean. During the fourteen years of its existence the library has grown to about 42,000 volumes and the student body to nearly 350. Only about one-third of the students are from Illinois, the others representing about 40 states and countries. Last year students came to the school from over 130 different colleges and nearly 40 law schools. Up to January 1, 1916, admissions to the school have numbered about 1,850, and nearly 500 degrees have been conferred. About 20 graduates of the school are now members of the faculties of other stand-ard law schools. The school has had no educational policies markedly different from those generally prevailing in the better American law schools Whose professional Work is based upon a college training. Its practices have differed from those of most schools of its class chiefly in its insistence upon class sections small enough to permit considerable atten- tion to be given to the individual needs of students, and recently in its provision for more thorough instruction in procedure and legal argumentation. It has tried to train men to think clearly, honestly, and in the light of historic experience upon the socio- legal problems of the time, and it has enforced high standards of Work for its degrees. 33 ,:.Jf1':a1L.. .B-.- ,...'

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-- W-A -1, ffiuaarae-tae:-feere uv!-z C CAP AND GOWN The Medical Courses LTHOUGH courses in some of the medical branches, Chemistry, Embryology, Neurology, and Bacteriology, had been offered since the early days of the Uni- versity, a complete group of courses, corresponding to the first tvv-o years of the medical curriculum, was not given until the session of 1901-2, two years after the affiliation of Rush Medical College. The Sophomore class of Rush had not expected to be transferred to the University campus, and some of -the members' were at first disposed to rebel. They came, however, and .having arrived in full force in the Autumn Quarter, 1901, they resolved that the University community should be fully apprised -of their presence. One morning the legend Rush-1904 appeared in black letters five or six feet high on the recently erected chimney of the power house, some sixty feet from the ground. How they Were placed there has never been divulged The present admission requirements, corresponding to the Associates title, the college Work to include a specified minimum of physics, chemistry, biology and modern lan ua es t ' ' ' g g , were a tained in 1904. The minimum standard for entrance has since b d V A . . . . een a opted by all the leading medical schools of the United States, with four ex- ceptions. Among the features of instruction on which emphasis has been laid are Q15 that instruction in the sciences fundamental to clinical medicine QAnatomy, Physiology, etc.J should be given on broad, comprehensive University lines, rather than with ex- clusive reference to their practical application to medi-cine. Q25 'students have been encouraged to prolong their preparation in these fundamentals beyond the required six quarters, and many of them have done so. The quarter system has been of advan- tage to such students and to those seeking a higher degree. Q3j Opportunity and encouragement have been given to capable students to engage in research, either in- dependently or co-operating with some member of the faculty. Many of the medical students have thus secured a Master's degree and not a few have taken the degree of Ph. D., complying fully with the University reuirements for these degrees. Q43 Some lati- tude of choice of courses is permitted for the purpose of encouraging the capable stu- dent to develop his faculties by extensive work along some line in which he i-s interested and for which he has shown special aptitude. Q53 Since the autumn -of 1914, the number of students admitted to each class has been limited to 100, and it is of interest to note that the application-s for admission this year, from fully qualified students, exceeded the limit set by 40 or 50 per cent. It may be safely asserted that this development of the medical work in the Uni- versity has been creditable and gratifying, and that it has had a distinct infiuence in the advance in medical education which has taken place in this country in the last fifteen years-an advance which has been truly remarkable. 32 E snub'- -5 .e-.1- '1eea1.....-'ff' -or it -1-L-wer. 1 fd'

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i .l ,.. Iii'-'D . I f Y Y ,. fl i l M 1 l l l l The School of Education HE University of Chicago was one of the first institutions to realize the impor- tance of organizing a group of courses for those who are to teach in secondary schools and also for those who are to deal with the problems of school super- vision in a large, scientific way. The School of Education of the University of Chicago was founded by the consolidation with the University of several institutions. The Chicago Institute, founded by Mrs. Emmons Blaine and presided over by C-olonel Francis W. Parker, became a part of the University in 1901. The laboratory school of the department of Education in the University, the founder and director of which was Professor John Dewey, then head of the department of Philosophy and Educa- tion in the University of Chicago, -had for some years prior to the date mentioned been intimately related to the department of Education of the University. The South Side Academy, the dean of which was William B. Owen, was united with the Chicago Manual Training School, whose head for many years was Dr. Henry Holmes Belfield, to form the University High School. All of the institutions thu-s united into a division of the University to provide a continuous school organization reaching from the kindergarten through the graduate department of the University. At the present time there is an elementary school, made up of some three hundred fifty childreng a secondary school, including four hundred studentsg an undergraduate college, giving courses to those who are pre- paring to teach, which registers three hundred fifty students, and a graduate depart- ment, which includes about thirty graduate students. The lower schools are organized for the purpose of observation and investigation. Many scientific investigations go on in these schools that are of large importance. For example, in the elementary school careful investigations are made of the methods of teaching reading and the results of these methods. In the high school several experiments are being carried on. Mathematics has been reorganized so that geometry and algebra are taught as a combined subject in both the first and second years. Many more examples might be given of the experiments being carried on in the laboratory schools. The results of these investigations are published in the two educational journals published by the school, one dealing with elementary schools and entitled the Elementary School Journal, the other dealing with the problems of secondary educa- tion and bearing the title of the School Review. I , v I i 1 Q 34 , .l M.- , - . 1? l l A Q? CAP AND GOXVN'