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

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rjae 3 PERCY BORDWELL Acting Dean The College of Law c ' HE Law School was organized at the Univer- sity of Iowa in December, 1865. It was founded by Judges Wright and Cole of the Iowa Supreme Court. Before the first year had closed there was added to the faculty William G. Hammond, best known by his later title of Chancellor. In 1868 the school was moved to Iowa City and be- came the law department of the State University. Chancellor Hammond became one of the foremost legal scholars of his time and with Judge Wright was active in the early work of the American Bar Association of which Judge Wright was the tenth president. Forever linked with the name of Chancellor Hammond will be that of his successor and former pupil, Emlin McClain, who, after a long service as chancellor, served two terms on the Supreme Court bench and then served the school the last year of his life, 1914-lf), as dean. The primary purpose of the law school is to train students so that they will be given the right start towards the highest in service and honor that the legal profession affords. Whatever may have been true in the past the man who waits to get his law until he is admitted to the bar is not now likely to become much of a lawyer. A purpose secondary only to that of the training of students is scholarly productivity. With our forty-eight states each with a law of its own, ihe law is chaotic and only great labor on the part of law faculties will bring order. A third purpose of the law school is cooperation with the Bench and Bar in the. solution of many other legal problems that confront the profession. fc d FKA.NCIS J. MACLAUOHLIN F. ROE WIKSE EMERSON W, NELSON Twenty-four

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Vim. : The College of Engineering CLEMENT C. WILLIAMS Dean f|p ' HE aim of the College of Engineering is to I prepare young men to enter the profession of III engineering and to contribute to the advance- ment of the science of engineering. The two aspects of the practice of engineering are professional and mechanical skill. The former is scientific and economic while the latter tends more to the skilled trades. Like the colleges of Law, Medi- cine, Commerce, Education and other professional colleges with which it is associated, the College of Engineering aims at professional education rather than mechanical skill. The college contributes to the science of engineering through its researches and the writings of its faculty. Two of the best known books on railroad engineer- ing were written by members of the Iowa faculty ; and other contributions cover a wide range such as public utilities, masonry structures, astronomy, pumping, structures and surveying. Recent improvements in the facilities of the college include a new hydraulics laboratory, the new power laboratory in the heating plant, a new meter laboratory in electrical engineering and a large capacity test- ing machine in the materials laboratory, which renders this laboratory unsur- passed west of the Mississippi. With these has come an increased registration. The revised curriculum, in addition to the regular courses in civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, includes courses in commercial engineer- ing, public utilities, areonautics, city planning, and industrial engineering. The College, situated at the center of the industrial half of Iowa, will continue to grow. HAYSE H. BLACK FOKD LOVFLAND RAMON T, JESSEN THEOPORE B. MACDQUGAL Twenty-three

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fr- ill i. y ii krito . G T ?e College of Pharmacy -HE College of Pharmacy of the State Univer- sity was established in 1885 through the efforts of George II. Schaffer of Port iladi- WILBUR J. TEETERS Dean on and J. II. Harrison. Commissioners of Pharmacy. Tlie college has always cooperated with the druggists of Iowa in advancing pharmaceutical education. Students are given practical work under careful supervision of a registered pharmacist. This feature of the college is distinctive as well as the drug service station which supplies drugs for all the university. The garden of medicinal plants of approximately two acres grows specimens for class demonstration and commercial use. Pharmacy is a profession protected by law. This is not for the purpose of granting special privileges to pharmacists, hut to safeguard the public health. The responsibility, therefore, of the College of Pharmacy of the State University of Iowa is to furnish clerks, proprietors and specialists in specific lines not only qualified educationally but both men and women of the highest type, so that the ideals of the profession will be upheld. Pharmacy is in a large measure applied chemistry, so that it was but natural that the pharmacy college should be housed in a unit of the chemistry building. The entrance and graduation requirements of the College of Pharmacy are as high as those of any college in the United States, and its equipment is surpassed by none. It holds membership in the American conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties whose object is to promote the interest of pharmaceutical education. EVERETTE McARTHUR EDSKO G. KLIEN FI.OYD BARBER Twenty-five