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

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l t M THE LAW SCHOOL T is difficult to write interestingly concerning the quiet and gradual growth of any institution or department of learning. Education and intellectual growth and culture were never intended to be exhibited, nor can they be measured by yard sticks or adequately illustrated by statistics. The Law School is its students, its faculty and its alumni. These are nearly all living, and can hardly be personally dealt with. It is by examining them and their work alone, however, that any idea of the work or usefulness of the school can be obtained. They are for exhibition, each of them, the weakest and the strongest. It is believed that on the whole an examination will not disappoint the investigator who really has the welfare of the state at heart. The Law School is but eleven years old, yet it has made its impress. It is gaining recognition in the educational world, and its alumni have, in the main, been good citizens and have been successful. It has recently been admitted to the American Association of Law Schools, and this fact is proof that its standards are as high, in fact much higher, than those of the majority of its competitors. There are, in fact, not more than fifty law schools out of the two hundred or more now conducted in the United States whose standards are high enough to admit them to membership in that Association. The school offers three- year, four-year, five-year ancl six-year courses of study. It is well co-ordinated with the general work of the University. Though but eleven years old, nineteen of its alumni have been, or now are, state,s attorneys, five have been, or now are, county judges, seven are members of the state legislature, either senators or representatives, one of its number is a trustee of the State University, another is a trustee of the State School of Science, another is a member of the Commission on the Reform of the Probate Code, and one is Secretary of State. Many others hold important offices and appointments, and nearly all are successful practitioners. It is, in fact, believed that few law schools can make a better showing it regard be had to numbers and to years of life.

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LAW SCHOOL

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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE N the University of North Dakota the medical work is grouped under The Division of Medicine.n The units of this group are the Medical School, the Course for Nurses, and the Public Health Laboratory. The School of Medicine offers the first and second years of medical college work. This work is based upon two years of required work in the College of Liberal Arts, which, in turn, rests upon four years of high school work. The School of Medicine of the University of North Dakota has ample facilities, adequate equipment, and an able corps of teachers. The facilities include laboratories and supplies in the departments of chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, and pathology. The equipment consists of general and special apparatus in all the departments named, and represents a University investment of many thousands of dollars. In addition to apparatus, there are special departmental libraries and museums representing many thousands of dollars. The teachers charged with the instructional work in the School of Medicine have been trained in the best medical schools in this country. They are both teachers and actual contributors to the knowledge of medicine. The rank in state and national associations is not always an infallible measure of an individual's or institutions worth. It is, however, a fairly reliable index of merit. The School of Medicine of the University of North Dakota has always ranked exceedingly high in the Association of American Medical Colleges. This was one of the first twelve medical schools in the United States which required two years of academic training in addition to sixteen uni's of preparatory work for admission to the study of medicine. This requirement was not on paper alone. The fact is manifesting itself in the superiority of the students who go from this school for their third and fourth years of study in other medical colleges. These students are making most enviable records, and are receiving choice recognition in hospital and advanced laboratory ap- pointments. The foregoing statement of facts is a guarantee that any young man or young woman desiring to study medicine in the University of North Dakota will receive liberal and thorough instruction in the First and second years of work, and will be admitted Without handicap to the third year of any medical college which does not require more than two years of training in liberal arts college for entrance to its four-year medical course. It should be remembered that small classes, not exceeding fifteen, is the rule in tle University medical school, and that far more personal attention is given to each student than is possible in the large colleges. Furthermore, it should be known that the necessary expenses in this school are from two to three hundred dollars less, per year than are those of larger schools of medicine. In view of all this, it would seem manifest that the University is rendering excellent service to the state, through this as well as through every other college of the University group. .5 mm... pa