University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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BAW N ' S g The College of Medicine LEE W. DEAN Dean Awo regard tlio new hospital that the school of medicine will be using in the coming centuries, we do not stop to think that it was built of gasoline, or to be more exacting, that half of it was built of gasoline. Back in 1923 John D. Rockefeller g-ive the State University a donation of two and a quarter millions with which to build a university hospital, the condition of the gift being that the state legislature furnish a like sum. John D. Rockefeller could not have used his money to better advantage than to erect a hospital where embryo surgeons might practice. The school of medicine here is second to none, due mainly to the splendid cooperation of the state legislature with the medical men here in school. It could never be what it is if it were not for that ever-necessary support. With this important item Iowa has secured the service sof some of the best doctors and instructors of medicine in the country. The main cog in the successful school is Dr. Lee Wallace Dean, dean of the college of medi- cine, though perhaps the best known man in the college of medicine, is old Doc Prent, teller of stories and satirist supreme. The responsibility of the school, however, rests upon the shoulders of Dean Dean. He has been around here since 1914, having come back to his Alma Mater after an absence of eighteen years, during which time he spent one year, 1896- 1897, at the University of Vienna, continuing his studies in medicine. But who wouldn ' t want to come back after spending a year in the territory where Caesar crossed his Rubicon? So Dean Dean crossed his by comin g back to Iowa. Babson, himself, would never be able to figure out how many lives have been saved, due to the efforts of the school of medi- cine to prevent well people from getting sick, and in helping sick people to get better. One thing that the school is dealing with is the health conditions of Iowa. The future of the school is assured and the amount, of good that the world will receive from Iowa will make every student puff out his chest and say, I am from Iowa, the place where they grow corn and doctors. ROGER R. FLICKINGER IVAN II. SIIEELER CARL A. NOE A. M. STEGEMAN Twenty-five

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The College of Liberal Arts GEORGE F. KAY Dean HAT are you taking? Oh, L.A.? Well, you won ' t have to study a great deal to pull down some good grades. ' ' How often is such a remark made. Yet, what is the vital truth concerning the College of Liberal Arts on this ca nipus ? It may be this peculiar idea developed because the subjects taught in this branch of the. university are known to be easy Fo grasp. It may be that the ' most intelligent students are registered in this college. Nevertheless, there stands in the way of all ' these arguments the fact that a degree given in this department is rec- ognized as being attained only after work of high scholastic standard. Various members of the professional colleges have been heard to remark that the cry of the present day is Specialization! And yet, all things considered, and the total result realized, the process of specialization is not nearly so important as the achievement of creating a broad background before the limitation of the world of study to restricted areas. A fact which the student of today is realizing more than ever before. Several years ago, scientists could see no possible relation between the study of animal biology and the pulling of a few teeth. Yet all pre-dentals are now required to be exposed to hours of animal bi before entering the professional college. George F. Kay, a member of the faculty of the Department of Geology and State Geologist of Iowa, is the fourth man to hold the position of Dean of the College since its foundation in 1855. His predecessors include Amos N. Currier, L.G.G., Weld, and William C. Wilcox. These men have seen the college grow from about 500 to nearly 6,000. Liberal Arts has become the starting place of the entire university. All professional schools are dependent on it for their enrollments. Countless numbers of men and women have taken work .in its halls and later become practicing profession- als. It may be frilly said that this unit of the university has become a sort of preparatory school for training in general and cultural fields before admission into specialized work. MERRILL S. GAFFXEY EARLE E. BEMAN DONALD PAREL PAUL H. PRESTON Twenty-four

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CyS ' T ?e College of Dentistry J FRANK T. BREEXE Dean t ' ST as tlie law college is marked by its canes, as the engi- neering college is noted for its leather jackets, as the com- merce college is distinguished b its white sweaters, so the school of dentistry ' s tradition is derbys. Whether the der- bies make the school or increase the excellence of its work, we shall leave for you to judge. Sheepskins from the school of dentistry are so valuable that some would almost take them as legal tender, and there is no better security for a loan than one of those square pieces of man- uscript with Iowa at the top and Dean Breene ' s signature at the bottom. In speaking or writing of Dean Breene there comes to mind the thought that he is the oldest dean in point of service among those at Iowa. Dean Breene came back to his Alma Mater to head the school, as did Dean Dean, and strangely enough he, too, received his degree from the college of medicine. The present school of dentistry with its fine building is the outgrowth of a sum of fifty dollars invested in 1873, when the state legislature got reckless and decided to do something to ease the toothaches that were current to our Iowa pioneers. They allowed fifty dollars a year for lectures on dentistry. But after nine years the department, if it could be called such, was quite definitely established, and given the title of college. At that time it was thought that two courses of lectures, each of six months duration, were enough for the crowner of those days to have to go out and practice. A few years of this, however, convinced them that to monkey with peoples ' teeth, students ought to have three years of study on dental subjects. A year of work in a regular dentist ' s office could be substituted for a year of study if fhe student so desired. A couple of years later the association of dental colleges rec- ommended that an entrance examination be required, and this was kept up until 1915. Two years later they increased the length of instruction to four years, and requuired a year of pre-dental work for entrance into the school. The college of dentistry now has accommodations for three hundred fifty students. fiti J. DAVID JONES MY BON V. MALONEY JOHN L. OSGOOD A. WORK WALLING Twenty-six