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

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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'

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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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l u V I W- CAP AND GOXVN . Y , 5 v I Ei cts, Il I' I II I I I I i, II I I I I , I I I I I I I I i QI II Ii I I II I I f I I II I I I II I II II II I I I I I 1 - Vg, ffxx The College of Commerce and Administration N the third of February, 1894, Professor J. Laurence Laughlin presented. to the Senate of the University of Chicago a plan for a School of Commerce and Industry. The plan was the culmination of two years of thought and was a comprehensive scheme which would have added 338,500 to the annual budget of the University of those days. On motion of Professor Albion W. Small, the general principle was approved and the Senate recommended that the field be occupied as soon as possible. This action was the first recorded step toward the formation of the present College of Commerce and Administration. The approval of the principle, however, did not establish the College. The Senate realized that the expenditure involved was more than the University could well afford. The only immediate result was the grouping of existing courses. In 1902 provision was made for a College of Commerce and Administration, which was to be a separate technical school with its own faculty and its own ad-ministrative oiiicers. In actual fact, the :college did little more than formulate a better grouping of the existing courses in economics and closely related subjects, and while its registration rose to 261 in the academic year 1910-11, the vitality of the College was low. In 1910 Mr. Rockefeller made the University his final gift of ten millions of dol- lars. The University Senate at once formed a committee to consider Ways in which this gift could be used to the best advantage in strengthening the existing divisions of the University. The present dean of the College of Commerce and Administration was sent to study American schools of commerce, schools of civics, bureaus of munici- pal research, and similar agencies. After this study had been made, several meetings of the members of the Social Science Departments were held and a plan of action was drawn up which met the approval of the administration. The College was accordingly reorganized with the definite aim of developing certain types of training for college students. Work was offered to the undergraduate and graduate in five divisions: the Trade and .Industry Divisiong the Secretarial Divisiong the Commercial Teaching Division, the Philanthropic Service Divisiong and the Public Service Division. The Religious Service Division was added later. Freshmen are now permitted to matricu- late in the College, -and in the present quarter there are 73 Freshmen out of 'a total enrollment of 192 undergraduate and 17 graduate students. Already there are 75 graduates of the College, distributed through the various divisions. The College is, of course, as yet young, and in spirit experimental, but it has taken a firm stand for discipline, for a coherent educational program and for the extension of the social sciences to the furthering of the progress of society. 35 II I