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

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the graduate school. Rev. Philip S. Moore, C.S.C. Dean Notre Dame had celebrated her diamond jubilee before her Graduate School was established and she began to realize fully the proud title she had carried from her found- ing University of Notre Dame du Lac. It was only in 1918 that organized programs of graduate courses were introduced into the summer sessions, and only in 1921 that they were introduced into the regular school year. Not until 1944 was definitive graduate administration of Dean and Graduate Council set up. But during the past twenty years the development of the Graduate School has been the most phenomenal development at the University. Off to a slow start in the 20 ' s, only the department of Chemistry offered the doctor ' s degree. In the decade 1930- 1940, doctoral programs were introduced into the Depart- ments of Biology, Mathematics, Metallurgy, Philosophy, Political Science and Physics. By 1940 thirteen departments offered the master ' s degree. In this decade were laid the foundations of LOBUND which in the spring of 1950 was erected onto an Institute for Research in the Life Sciences a unique research institution centering around the germ- free animal life. World War II brought this expansion to a halt, but it gave time to evaluate accomplishments, to examine poten- tialities and to plan for the future. Notre Dame came out of the war prepared for an unprecedented development. In 1946 was established the Mediaeval Institute, a research center of Christian thought and culture. In successive order the doctor ' s degree has been inaugurated in History, Eng- lish, Education, Sociology and engineering Mechanics; the master ' s degree in ten more departments, six of which are in Engineering. And so today the Graduate School com- prises four Divisions: Arts and Letters, Science, Social Science and Engineering. There are twenty-three depart- ments of which twelve offer the doctorate. And then there are the two great institutes The Mediaeval Institute and LOBUND. The student body of the Graduate School has increased tenfold since 1935 in the fall and winter semesters; in the summer sessions the graduate students now outnumber the o undergraduates. Research has expanded from a few thou- sand dollars in the 30 ' s to several hundred thousand dollars in 1952. And along with this quantitative growth has gone the qualitative strengthening of the graduate work in fac- ulty, library and laboratory facilities. The latest development in the Graduate School is summed up in this recent announcement: To make her educational facilities available to teachers, the engineering personnel of industry and to all other interested and qualified men and women in the Michiana area, the University of Notre Dame will offer programs of graduate courses in the late after- noons, evenings and on Saturday mornings, beginning with the second semester of the present school-year, 1951-1952. PAGE 26

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officers of administration Many of the officers of the administration carry out their duties unnoticed by the average student. There are, however, prominent exceptions, as even a cursory examination will reveal. From this we may conclude that those in direct contact with the student affect his life profoundly, whereas those not in direct contact seemingly have no effect upon him. However, it is not just in relation to the student that these men derive their efficacy. It is inevitable in the structure of present day universities that the duties of those in charge transcend the immediate concern of the stu- dent. It is inevitable because it simply is not possible to have a university without the organizational ap- paratus necessary to supply the needs of the students of which the students themselves are not fully aware. These, then, are the true dynamic centers of a func- tional university life of a life that goes beyond the university in order that the university might live and breathe and function. REV. LOUIS S. THORNTON, C.S.C. REV. J. J. REDDINGTON, C.S.C. Pitri btifitiK Agent REV. B. J. FURSTOSS, C.S.C. Snperrisor of Maintenance REV. W. F. CUNNINGHAM, C.S.C. Director of Faculty REV. JAMES J. LEAHY, C.S.C. Prefect of Discipline REV. PAUL E. BEICHNER, C.S.C. Asst. to Vice-President REV. THOMAS P. IRVING, C.S.C. Student Counsellor MR. J. ARTHUR HALEY Director of Public Relations MR. WILLIAM R. DOOLEY Director of Placement Bureau MR. EMERIT E. MOORE Director of Student Account! BRO. ALB1NUS BUTLER, C.S.C. Cashier REV. RICHARD J. GRIMM, C.S.C. Prelect of Religion MR. G. EDWARD HARWOOD Comptroller MR. WILLIAM J. BRODERICK Auditor MR. EDWARD R. QUINN Director of Department of Testing and Guidance MR. RAYMOND J. DONOVAN Director of Department of Public Information PAGE 25

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