University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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Uniiiovsihi College of Uato Uean Fleming Since its foundation nearly thirty years ago, the Law School has made steady progress, along with the other departments of the University. Judge Moses Hal- lett. Judge of the United States District Court at Den- ver, was its first dean; and from its first teaching staff, composed chiefly of its visiting dean and occasional lec- turers, with a meagre library, it has passed to a faculty of five professors devoting their time exclusively to in- struction and with a library of over eleven thousand bound volumes. The number and character of its teach- ing force, its library equipment, together with its two years of college preliminary work as an entrance require- ment, and its time required for a degree, added to the fact that it is a day school, with morning hours, places the Law School of the University of Colorado according to a recent report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in the front rank with the leading institutions of its kind in the country. The School has been fortunate beyond its sister departments of the University in being the recipient of gifts for its support by public-spirited citizens of the State, chief among which is the building it occupies. To date the School has 397 graduates, with some eighteen candidates for degrees at the forthcoming June Commencement. John D. Fleming, Dean. 19

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ItnhifTStru (College of fHebttmc I )i Mi: Pi k The most important development of the pas ' two years has been the careful study and analysis of the present and future needs of the School, which has re- sulted in the adoption of a well-considered plan for its future development. As is well known, this plan has secured substantial financial aid from the General Edu- cation Hoard of the Rockefeller Foundation, and at the moment seems likely to command the additional funds nccessan for its realization from the Legislature. If such favorable action is taken the School should in the near future lie able to bring added credit and Strength to the University. Failing such support, medical edu- cation in the State is likely to suffer at least partial eclipse for some time to come. Pending decision upon this vital question, the affairs of the School have remained largely in statu quo and it can simply report progress . Cn ki is X. Mi iH r, lh an. 18

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}lu tin-rally £lje ©rabuate cl)ool Dean Lester The average college graduate finishes his course with little real knowledge or training. Commencement for him means exactly that, for he is just prepared to learn. The successive opening of fields of thought new to him and the process of orienting himself with respect to his new ideas leave little time for scholarly achievements. However, with the process fairly complete, the student should enter the graduate school, where he is encouraged to think for himself, where he is guided rather than taught. There he is in a situation to acquire in a year as much knowledge and training as he acquires in any two years of his previous work. Learning, mastery of methods, power in independent thought, the attainments of real leaders in world ' s progress, may be his in so far as he desires them. The rewards in intellectual satisfac- tion and in service to his country and to humanity are beyond price to the teacher and the investigator. Expert knowledge and training are sought and paid for by the modern commercial world, and even the financial rewards of the teacher are rapidly becoming comparable to those in other learned professions. Oliver C. Lester, Dean. 20