University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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. X. ri , .Q .1 fx, - Y .. .Xiu . .xr ,Y Y .f 1'- i, .1 - , I, f ' '., ,g 3 ' '2 'j? J,'v.r - , , ,, . Pre-Medics A t ,f Professor Franklin Davis Barker 1 A Pre-Medics and State , V Franklin D. Barker ' 'w The Nu-Med Society is an organization of the University of Nebraska pre-medics. This year two hundred students, a small college in itself, are pursuing the pre-medical course. Of this number fifteen are womeng there are ninety freshman, eighty sophomores and thirty, .ll third and fourth year students. The Society holds regular monthly meetings at which time all the pre-medics get together for dinners and have the opportunity of meeting and hearing medical men of prominenceg visiting doctors, alumni, members of the faculties of our Col- lege of Medicine and College of Arts who are particularly interested in pre-medical courses. The Society endeavors to create an atmosphere of good fellowship and in addition to foster high ideals and thoroughness in scholarship, also to stress the high calling and the great responsibility resting on every man and woman preparing for the medical profession. The work of the Society during the year has been enthusiastically carried' on through the leader- ship of Mr. Frazier and Mr. Sanderson, with the hearty cooperation of their associates and A the pre-medical students. A large number of our pre-medics complete their medical course in our College of Medicine at Omaha and settle in the State, thus returning a hundred fold to the State that which has been expended through taxation. At the present time there is a dirth of com- petent doctors in the -rural communities-of our State and these keen, enthusiastic and capable l pre-medics will soon go out as Well-trained doctors to supply this needf As We call the roll of the more than fifteen hundred pre-medics who have had their preliminary training in the University, they answer from all over the world. Many have attained eminence in the medical professiong a few among these are: Hiltner in China, Adson of the Mayo' Clinic, Wells of the Rockefeller Foundation, Harrison in Arabia, Fabie in the Philippines, Mrs. Stasney and Miss Parsons in this country and a host of other splendid men and women who are unostentatiously giving their lives to healing the sick, to alleviating pain and in bringing comfort and cheer to thousands in the practice of that noblest of professions. l w w l l A

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fm?Q,'Tf70mW5'P4.kesWrQ,wh,, 'W4m?WiW4EW4mYW' 1 College of Pharmacy Dean Rufus Ashley Lyman . A Pharmacy and State Rufzu .4. Lyman Primarily the College of Pharmacy exists in order that men and women may be trained so as to be able to give an intelligent Pharmaceutical Service to every community w1th1n the State, An extremely narrow view of the possibilities of the pharmacist for community service is too frequently held. The pharmacist himself is largely responsible for the preva- lence of this view. Too frequently he has been content to become a purveyor of cigars and patent medicines and nothing more. Too frequently has he prostituted his calling and broken faith with his government by illegitimately dealing in those things which destroy the morals and bodies of men. It is necessary for the happiness and health of every community that there be a means of obtaining in that community those substances and those things which are necessary for the care of both the well and the sick. Men of medicine are using a greater variety ot medicinal agents in the treatment of disease than ever before. They are being used with greater exactness-more scientifically. This means that the problems of production, of com- pounding, of standardization, of preservation, and of distributing are of greater importance than ever before. These problems, are the problems of the pharmacist and require a greater training and a more exact knowledge than was needed in the days of uncertainty in medicine. Furthermore, Dental and Veterinarv science have made rapid advances in the last decade both of which bring added responsibilities to the pharmacist in a community. Our increased knowledge in the treatment of diseases and destruction of pest of plants on the farm and in the orchard, and the care necessary in handling stored grains and grains in transit against pests which destroy, has opened un a great field in industrial pharmacy which has scarcely been touched. In all this work the pharmacist of the future will play an important part. Those who have been placed in a position to direct the instruction in the College of Pharmacy realize the importance of the pharmacists in the community and will exert every effort to return to the communities of the State young men and women trained along the lines and imbued with the ideals mentioned in this brief description of the function of the College of Pharmacy to the commomwealth of Nebraska.

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Post Graduate College k I Dean Lucius Adelno Sherman Post Graduate College and State L. A. Sherman The Graduate College of the University of Nebraska is not maintained in competition with the Graduate Schools of other state universities or of institutions in the East. It has no distinctive faculty and require no specific appropriations for IIS support. The instruction isof the best and the expenses for a year of residence are hardly greater than, for students in endowed universities, the cost of tuition alone. Scholarships and Fellowships reduce the expense of residence, and in some departments carry stipends equal to necessary expenditures for a year. Some of the teachers in our accredited schools hold the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. A considerable number have taken the degree of Master of Arts. The high-school teacher of mathematics often finds that he needs to know something of the higher theory of his sub- ject. The teacher of chemistry or of physics, or of botany or Zoology, soon wishes to work some problems under a recognized master of scientific method. The teacher of history Ends it important to be acquainted personally with the processes of research. The instructor in Greek, or Latin, or German, or French, or English will have in mind to know something of the history and philology of the language which he professes. The teacher of composi- tion, to strengthen his confidence in his critical judgments, will generally desire to study under a master who has written approvably for the public. The students intending ultimately to practice medicine will commonly plan to be broadly trained in science. The young man who has invested in a bachelor's degree in preparation for the study of law will probably wish to work in political science and economics. The student of theology will desire to know something of applied psychology, with the history of institutions and society. Second- ary teachers generally will wish to study experimental psychology and the history of education. . Many students of the three learned professions will foresee the importance of giving some attention to philosophy. And especially, in present times, when the trend of high-school training is strongly towards the various branches of engineering, the physics teacher will feel the need of broad preparation in applied mechanics and electricity and mathematics. The Graduate School exists primarily to supply advanced instruction of this kind. A 4sL?'.4mW 4m.WiVleiEWh-iV'4QB'F'49SeaWa-S1Wm1 45V'W3m-