University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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% MAURICE H. REES, Dean MEDICINE The University of Colorado School of Medicine and Hospitals is now passing through its most difficult period due to drastic cuts in ap- propriations and to shrinkage of millage. In meeting this situation it was necessary to cut all salaries in our hospitals 25 to 33 per cent, except general duty nurses who were cut 50 per cent. The personnel of several departments was radically reduced. Regardless of all these hardships our employees have shown a wonderful spirit of co-operation, often working many hours overtime in an attempt to keep service up to standard. During the past year our hospitals have been filled to capacity or over capacity for the major portion of the time. In Colorado General Hospital 3,134 bed patients were cared for and in the out patient department there were 65,126 patient visits or an average of 260 patients per day. In the Psychopathic Hospital there were 785 patient admissions and 5,420 patient visits to the out-patient department. In the School of Medicine the enrollment in all four classes is defi- nitely limited and the classes are filled to capacity. During the past few years, there has been a definite increase in the number of students doing graduate work. This type of work has been greatly stimulated by the fellowships made available through the Child Research Council. The School of Nursing was discontinued three years ago due to lack of funds. This school will be reopened as soon as funds become available. MAURICE H. REES, Dean COLLEGE OF PHARMACY The neighborhood pharmacist is one of the important links in the chain of public health service of his community. Recognition of the truth of this statement is evidenced by the fact that forty-three of the states now require graduation from a standard four-year course as a prerequisite to certification as a registered pharmacist. The chief function of the College of Pharmacy is to train young men and women for service as pharmacists. Added to this are the de- mands for laboratory technicians, bacteriologists, food and drug chem- ists, manufacturing pharmacists and teachers for the various pharma- ceutical branches. To meet these demands places a heavy burden of responsibility upon this important branch of the public educational system of the state. HOMER C. WASHBURN, Dean HOMER C. WASHBURN, Dean IS

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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS In recent years much has been said and more has been written placing the blame for the economic and social ills of our country upon the schools and universities. It is said that formal instruction has failed in its mission because its product, the youth grown up to become the business man of today, seems to be unable to cope with the problems that beset him. Moreover, when business suffers depression, the whole world is thrown out of gear. Hence the burden of responsibility rests ultimately upon the institutions which are the mothers of learning of so large a share of the population concerned with business management. This argument is a half-truth and therefore beside the mark. But even as such, it throws down a challenge to professional schools of busi- ness. Unquestionably, business practices are of far-reaching concern, and business ethics, usually called policies, are taking on new signifi- cance. In this respect careers in business are beginning to approach careers In medicine, in law, and in other professions. Schools of medi- cine have done much to eliminate quack doctors. Schools of law have been hard on shyster lawyers. The challenge to schools of business is to mobilize for an attack upon the quacks and shysters In busin ess. Not enough graduates In business have yet appeared to strike a telling blow in that direction, but the ranks of the recruits are growing. ELMORE PETERSEN, Dean ELMORE PETERSEN, Dean ROBERT L STEARNS, Dean SCHOOL OF LAW I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any man ' s cause for lucre or malice. So Help Me God. This is the last paragraph of the Oath recommended by the Amer- ican Bar Association to be taken by all lawyers upon admission to the bar. It reflects as a measure the Idealism of the profession without which it would lose Its greatest appeal to high minded men and women. But the profession of law Is much more than the representation of Individual Interests. It Is frequenily used as a preparation for public life and as a natural and effective foundation for other vocations. It Is one of the familiar high roads to careers of success, distinction and public service. The education of lawyers Is becoming Increasingly complex as standards for admission to the bar are constanlly being raised. In the University the Law School is a comparatively old department, having been founded In 1892, the first year that law was formally taught in Colorado. The School has been a member of the Association of Amer- ican Law Schools from the beginning of that organization and has been consistently on the approved list of the American Bar Association. The accomplishment of the school in years past is measured not by the number of Its graduates but by the highly creditable manner in which they are daily discharging their professional duties. The aim of the school In the future is to continue to produce graduates who are not merely trained technicians of the law but men and women well grounded in the principles of their profession, Informed of its rich Inheritance and aware of their responsibilities as enlightened citizens in a world com- ' y- ROBERT L STEARNS, Dean 17

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COLLEGE OF MUSIC The cultural value of music, aside from professional training avail- able in the College of Music, seems to be appreciated by an increasing number of students of the University. This is evidenced by the interest presented on the campus during the past year, such artists as Josef Hofmann, Josef Levinne, the Roth Quartet, as well as good patronage at faculty and student recitals. Applicants for membership in band, glee clubs and orchestra are displaying greater ability and enthusiasm. Altogether the indications are that the University is becoming musically minded. The faculty of this College congratulates the student body. ROWLAND W. DUNHAM, Dean ROWLAND W. DUNHAM, Dean EDUCATION Education, said the satirist, is what we have left after we have forgotten all we learned in school. The statement probably expresses a half truth, for no doubt an important function of education is to dis- criminate between what should be remembered and what should be forgotten. The same thought is conveyed in the aphorism that an edu- cated person is one who sees great things large and little things small. To acquire something of this skill, to analyze somewhat the process by which it is gained, and to encourage others to acquire it more abun- dantly is the end and aim of the teaching business. Here is a calling which demands high gifts, unceasing diligence, and devotion without end. The rewards are commensurate: They can not be adequately ex- pressed in coin of the realm, though in this form they are likely to be today and henceforth greater than ever before; but the good teacher always finds a more excellent reward in the shining faces of boys and girls, young and old, alight with vision of a far goal — a reward that is in- corruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away. HARRY M. BARRETT, Head of the Department HARRY M. BARRETT, Head of the Department 19