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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James E. McCarthy College of Commerce Rev. Francis P. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. College of Arts and Letters the deans and the Lawrence H. Baldinger College of Science Clarence E. Manion College of Law