University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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07e tde%4,— 07 etn 74 aid 7a cua Bulging seams characterized the Law School building after fall registration was completed. An unprecedented influx of bar-risters-to-be (sixty percent of whom were veterans) raised enrollment figures to twice those of other years. It also forced Dean Russell A. Rasco to look about for additional space for new students expected in the spring. The Dean himself was an addition to the school, having returned on July 4 from two and one-half years’ leave of absence while serving on the War Manpower Commission. Dr. Rasco was State Director of the Commission for eighteen months, and confides that the position was infinitely more difficult than that of teaching law. Two new faculty members were enlisted as part of the all-around expansion program. Dr. Floyd A. Wright has come to the University after teaching for six years at the University of Oklahoma. The second newcomer is a specialist in taxation, Albert Bernstein. Termed the most outstanding authority on that subject in the state of Florida, Mr. Bernstein has lectured throughout the state at the request of the Florida State Bar Association. Other instructors at the school are Robert A. McKenna, William J. Hester, and Judge L. Ear! Curry. Caring for the constantly increasing volume of volumes in the Law library is the duty of Miss Nita Stone. She assumed the position upon Mrs. Dorothy Mitchell’s resignation, and now balances her time between working and studying for her degree. The library, which numbers 25,000 books, is the second largest in Florida, exceeded only by that of the Supreme Court in Tallahassee. Law graduates from the University of Miami are not required to take the bar examination in order to practice in the state. The school is approved by the American Bar Association and the Board of Regents for the state of New York. At present, the requirement for registration is sixty college credits, but the near future will sec realization of prewar standards—three years of pre-law as a requisite for entrance. Those freshmen who did arrive at the beginning of the second semester were pleasantly surprised to find that they were offered a complete range of first-year subjects from which to choose. During the war it was necessary to limit the selection each term to those courses required by the majority of students. FACULTY PARADE. Beloit : Law School faculty, left to right: Farrell, Stone, Rasco, Wright. Right: l)r. Ashe takes time off from administration duties . . . Mr. Beasley looks over the schedule for his tennis team . . . University Secretary I Jester goes social . . . Dr. Spirer, authority on criminology, marriage, etc. . . . Nothing new to catch Dr. Carney at a dance . . . Dr. Alexander points out the beauties of botany . . . Mr. Lockhard smiles at BBA prospectives . . . Miss Stone guards the law library . . . Mr. Mason at work . . . Mr. Garland lets up and lights up . . . Mr. Miller and the ever-present microscope. Hi • I him

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Dates for Degrees Tup twilight brigade of automobiles surrounding the University has been as impressive this year as the daytime forces. Under the supervision of Dr. Charles Doren Tharp, the University’s Division of Adult Education now has a larger enrollment than ever before. Over a thousand students crowded the halls during the fall semester and as many as fifteen hundred had been anticipated for the second term. Evening classes began Monday, February 18, and new ones originated at two-week intervals throughout the semester. Whenever twelve to fifteen interested people requested it and an adequate place for meeting could be found, a new‘course was organized. Classes were conducted in the Tuttle Hotel in Miami and the Wofford and many other hotels on Miami Beach. Even Opa Locka and Richmond Air Base were invaded by eager University evening students. It seemed that time and place were not the important considerations—they wanted to learn. Several students were resuming college work with the intention of receiving a degree after an interim of working—or playing. Others were newly introduced to the desirability of acquiring a college degree. Some were studying only as supplement to daily work, while others were finding in their night school courses useful avocations and enjoyable hobbies; e. g., students in courses on marionettes, languages, current events, and discussion problems. Attending the evening sessions were many cx-GI’s (and civilians) who had never been graduated from high school. For them a state examination was administered through H. M. McFarland, supervisor of Evening High, Technical High School in Miami. Among the more popular courses offered were English composition, accounting, business, law, psychology, air conditioning, and construction estimating, each enrolling fifty to seventy-five students. On March 26-7, the tax institute was held in cooperation with the State and Dade County Bar Associations, the Southeastern Association of Life Underwriters, and the Southeastern Association of Accountants. I laving been only a small local institute for three years, it was expanded recently through the medium of national advertising in magazines and the mail. I leaded by J. K. Lasser and Beardsley Rummel, twelve nationally known tax experts and treasury officials lectured at the institute. The adult division and the various institutes are all administered by executive committees which, in turn, are coordinated by Dr. Tharp. » • Ibln