University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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Views in Medical Department

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have, along with a strong personality and substantial scholarship, professional preparation for their work. The seience-art of teaching is, no doubt, native, as the plant is, in the seed or germ; but to become a bud, much more a full blown flower, it must be cultivated under favoring conditions. Teaching, like any other highly complex art, should have for its foundation, not merely common sense, though it should have this; nor merely good sense, though it should have this also; but it should have, in addition, scientific and expert sense. Hence it is that the trend of thought and action in higher institutions of learning, is gen- eral and strong toward the establishment of Teachers, Colleges. The completion of Teachers College curriculum requires four full years un- less the student be able, by the quality of his work, to reduce the time. The required courses are: English 1, a course in English literature, philosophy 1, three courses in education, and such professional work in the courses for which special preparation for teaching is being made, as may be required by the head of the department concerned. In addition to these there must be taken a stifli- cient number of elective courses to make a total of fifty credits. Those who complete the above curriculum are granted the degree of Bachelor of Arts tB. AJ and the Bachelorls Diploma, the former being evidence of collegiate scholarship, and the latter, of professional preparation. Those who complete that part of the curriculum of Teachersy College here- tofore known as Normal College curriculum will receive the Teachers Diploma, which is the equivalent in law of a Second Grade state certificate good for three years. No one is admitted to Teachersl College who has not completed the work of a first class high school or its equivalent. Young men and women whose aim is Teachersl College and who have no high school advantages at home may do their preparatory work in the Preparatory Department of the University, Which is retained pending the establishment of a Model High School for Teachers' College. A Model High School as an adjunct to Teachers College is very much needed. It is the essential clinic where the problem of secondary education may be studied at hrst hand. The students of Education could thus be given the privilege of going, so to speak, behind the scenes and of getting the teacher's point of view It would be to Teachers College what the laboratory is to the department of science, a place where problems are presented and principles il- lustrated. This Model School should be what its name implies, a model both for the students of Teachers: College and for secondary education in the Whole state. It would be a place of observation and study of problems rather than a place for Klpractieef though some real practice might be advantageously secured. It should be located on or near the campus, should have a separate and profession- ally prepared corps of teachers, a student-hotly limited, possibly in number, and be under the control and supervision of Teachers College. The Recommendation Committee was appointed and organized to help gradu- ates and former students of the University, when worthy, to secure teaching posi- tions and to aid superintem'lents in their search for teachers or school boards in their search for principals and superintendents. Its purpose is to bring;r these two interests together for their mutual advantage. The chairman of this com- mittee is Dean Joseph Kennedy, of the Teachers! College, and the secretary is Mr. W. M. Oates. 27

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Medical College N 1887, the Legislature of North Dakota appropriated $1,000 for the sup- 1 port of the Medical College. The Trustees of the University felt that it was impossible to organize a school 011 so meagre financial basis, but decided to appoint a Dean for the Medical School and if possible inaugurate some of the Medical work Further consideration of the problems involved led to the conclusion that it would be impossible to make a beginning with so inadequate an appropriation. This was the end of the Medical College of the State Univer- sity until 1905, when the Trustees decided that the time had arrived for the organization of a Medical College which should Offer the first two years of the Medical College curriculum. There is good reason for offering so much of the Medical work as that contained in the flrst and second years, because the sub jeet matter is distinctively laboratory and largely provided for in the work of the various departments of the College of Liberal Arts XVith keen appreciation of the inadequacy of clinical facilities at Grand Forks. making advanced professional work during the last two years of the College course impossible, and with the knowledge that the equipment of the various scientilie departments of the institution would permit thorough work in the first and second years of the Medical curriculum, the management of the institution was charged with the problem of so adjusting the institutional work that her legitimate equipment might be utilized for training prospective practi- tioners of medicine, and not do violence to the ethical and scientitic standards which have been developed in the Medical Schools of America. The solution of this problem found expression in the formation of a four years! course, two of which are strictly academic, and two professional, leading to the B. A. degree. Upon the completion of this course the University confers the B. A. degree and gives a certiheate stating that the two years of the Media cal course have been completed. This certificate may be presented by the holder for admission to the junior year Of the Medical Colleges with which the Univer- sit3 is articulated Over flfty men and women, desiring to do Medical College work, have been compelled to leave their own co1111110nwealth hitherto in order to secure the first and second years even of Medical Training. If it were possible to offer them as thorough and complete work in the first and second years as they could secure away from home, and save from $200 to $500 apiece each year, it was not only proper, but it was imperative, that the University organize so much of the Medir cal College work as her equipment would justify her in undertaking. The Medical College offers instruction in those studies which legitimately belong to the first and second 3ears of technical Medical Schools. The four