University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

Page 32 text:

Vfenry CW. Qrady School of Journalism JOURNALISTIC instruction in the University of Georgia is designed to provide the student with professional training in the technique of newspaper work, and a broad educational and cultural background necessary to the practice of journalism. Courses leading to the degree of Ixichclor of arts in journalism include not only those covering various phases of journalistic work, but basic courses in English, history. | olitical science, languages, literature, mathematics, economics, and other subjects the contents of which will be helpful to the practicing journalist. The department of journalism was authorized by the board of trustees in 1915, and was changed to the Henry V. Grady School of Journalism in 1921. The School is named for a distinguished .Southern journalist and statesman who was an alumnus of the University of Georgia. In the purely journalistic courses offered in the Grady School, an effort is made to combine theory with practice. Lectures and standard text-book study are supplemented with practical assignments designed to reproduce in a measure the conditions that will confront the graduate when he enters the newspaper or magazine office. The School of Journalism is housed in the new Commerce-Journalism building. It occupies the ground floor and half of the main floor, the remainder of the structure being devoted to the School of Commerce. In the Journalism part of the building an effort is made to reproduce the atmosphere of the modem newspaper office. In addition to ample class room space, there is a large city room which is to 1 equipped with typewriters, a copy desk, and other furniture necessary to an editorial laboratory. A University Press on the main floor will crvc as a reading room, and will offer to the students periodicals and !xx ks in their field. A morgue houses reference material and clippings. There is space for printing equipment which the school may install later. S. V. Sanford, Head of the Henry IP. Grady School of Journalism. rage Turnty tight

Page 31 text:

School of (Commerce np UK School of Commerce of the University of Georgia was established in 1913. The objcc-live of the school is to provide a type of education which will do for the prospective business man what the School of Medicine and the I.aw School do for those who choose those fields as their life work. The ultimate aim is to prepare the students for executive positions. The University authorities came to realize that, with the huge increase in enrollment that has characterized the twentieth century, large numbers of youths were seeking collegiate training who had no intention of entering any of the learned professions. The majority of college students become business men and the demand was strong that college curricula l c extended so as to include subjects of a vocational nature. At the same time the l c!icf has been kept firmly in mind that not all the time of the student should be spent on technical or vocational subjects, but that, on the contrary. ample room should be provided for subjects of a cultural character. In the University of Georgia School of Commerce only about one-half of the total number of required hours is given to business subjects, courses in Knglish. mathematics, physical science, modern languages anti history occupying an important | osition in the course prescribed. R. P. B KOOKS, Dean of the School of Commerce.

Page 33 text:

Qraduate School ' p HE Board of Trustees established the Graduate School in 1910 on ilic recommendation of Chancellor Barrow with the i lcn of still further and more systematically taking advantage of the scholarship of the Faculty for the benefit of advanced students, promoting research, providing the atmosphere of devotion to pure science and learning without which undergraduate study can not l e constantly fertilized, and laying the foundation for a greater university ready for upward as well as lateral expansion. In 1910 there were four students pursuing graduate courses. The Bulletin of the Graduate School of March. 192S, contains the names of one hundred and ninety-nine. Working under the burden of a very large undergraduate teaching load the members of the Faculty have shown a high patriotism and devotion worthy of all recognition. And there arc signs of such recognition on the horizon. With the augmented equipment which may reasonably be expected the University will become still more effectively the center of the higher development of the spiritual, intellectual, and material resources of a great state. W. H. Bocock, Dean of the Graduate School. I'ayt Tirtnly uhte