University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Colleges Faculty and Seniors

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Rev. Philip S. Moore, C.S.C. Dean Graduate School . . . HPHE LIMITATIONS of the American college began to be recognized just about one hundred years ago, and within the century the graduate school has been introduced into our educational system, to form with the college the American university. To mature students it offers specialized study and training in research which lead to profound and finished scholarship. Its primary functions are advanced instruction and research creative, productive scholarship which adds to the store of human knowledges. To these may be joined the function of the dissemination of knowl- edge through publications in learned journals and in monographs, and through the prudent use of all modern means of communication. Ideally, the graduate school pursues its search for truth in theology, philosophy, the arts, the sciences, liter- ature in all fields of human learning untram- melled by pragmatic objectives. At Notre Dame, the Graduate School was estab- lished in 1921. Development was slow the first ten years only one doctoral program in Chemistry having been introduced (1928); much more rapid since the early ' 30s. Today eleven departments offer the doctorate and twenty-two the master ' s degree. These departments fall into four divisions: Arts and Letters, Social Science, Science and Engi- neering. Outside the departmental organization there are Lobund in which new techniques and new approaches to fundamental biological problems have been developed, and the Mediaeval Institute. In creating man to His own image, God ' s highest endowment of man is mind or intellect. As educa- tional institution, the graduate school develops the Christian man by perfecting in him this highest endowment in conformity with truth. At Notre Dame the Graduate School performs this noble work in a supernatural and natural environment in which the students can foster their religious life and strengthen their moral characters. Page 26

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Rev. Francis P. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Dean College of Arts and Letters HPHE College of Arts and Letters began with the foundation - of Notre Dame in 1842, and its traditional program for a liberal education was the only one offered in the University until 1865. In that year a department of science was established for students who wished to prepare for specialization in scien- tific fields, four years later a department of law was formed to train students for the legal profession, in succeeding years additional departments were added. Ultimately the depart- ments were organized into independent colleges as we know them today. But the College of Arts and Letters continued to offer its liberal and cultural program. The aim of the College of Arts and Letters is to develop intellectual excellence for living, not skills for making a living. For only the man who thinks and thinks rightly will be able to solve his problems and live the highest human life properly adjusted to the natural world of things, to the social world of men and institutions, and to the spiritual world of the soul and God. Hence the student learns something of physical science, more of the social sciences, history, language and literature; philosophy shows him relationships and values, and religion crowns it all. No segment of the circle of knowl- edge can be omitted by the liberally educated Christian. The work of instruction within the College of Arts and Letters is shared by fifteen departments. In his last two years, while continuing his broad education, the student concentrates on a field of his choice to the extent of pursuing twenty-four hours of course work under the supervision of one department. Here also the aim is to train men to think and to give them the tools principles and facts to think with. For only one who thinks broadly and deeply is truly an educated man. - V ( - ,a- Fr. Hesburgh speaking before this year ' s Marriage Institute Mr. Orville R. Foster, head of the Audio-Visual Department.