University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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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

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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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College of 3rt6 anb Sciences Dean Hellems The new name officially presented at the head of this notice records the passing of the old College of Liberal Arts; for the Plan of Organization recently adopted by the Board of Regents provides that it shall be known henceforth as the College of Arts and Sciences. It is not to be expected, nor is it to be desired, that the old ideals will be dimmed or lost to view. Under any name, this department must offer every opportunity for the acquir- ing of a liberal education in the most enlightened sense of the word; it must continue to discover young men and young women to themselves and fit them for the service of mankind. The Seniors who leave this year and the Juniors who take their places will watch the College ever entering into new fields and broadening its horizons; they will see it occupying new and beautiful buildings; they will see it grow in numbers from the thirteen hundred and thirty at present on its rolls to figures one dare not conjecture; but at the centre of it all we hope and trust they will ever find the same spirit that called winningly and helpfully to their hearts in their undergraduate days. Fred B. R. Hellems, Dean. 21