University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING We have The impression ThaT engineering sTarTed aT The UniversiTy oT Oklahoma when The TirsT proTessor oT engineering was employed. This was in I904 when Mr. Maiors, a graduaTe oT Ohio UniversiTy in Mechanical Engineering, was employed aT The UniversiTy To Teach engineering. We Tind, however, on more careTul invesTigaTion ThaT insTrucTion in proTessionaI engi- neering commenced aT The UniversiTy oT Oklahoma in I899 when a course in surveying was oTTered. Then in I9OO and I9OI The TirsT Two years oT The engineering curricula are menTioned in The universiTy caTalog. In I902 and I903 a curriculum in civil engineering was presenTed aT The UniversiTy oT Oklahoma and a School oT Mines was Tormed separaTe Trom The School oT Applied Sciences by Dr. Charles N. Gould. During The Tollow- ing year The curricula Tor elecTrical engineering and mechan- ical engineering were added in whaT was Then called The School oT Applied Sciences which was in I904 and was under The direcTion oT The general TacuITy. ProTessor C. N. Jansky was The TirsT one deTiniTely named as head oT The School oT Applied Sciences. J. I-I. Eelgar came in I906 as insTrucTor in mechanical engineering: Mr. I-lool as insTrucTor in civil engineering coming The nexT year. While There were a number oT sTudenTs who Took as much engineering work as was oTTered and who received degrees granTed by The general TacuITy, iT was noT unTil I908 ThaT The TirsT engineering degree was given. In I909 The UniversiTy was organized inTo schools and colleges presided over by deans, and The School oT Applied Sciences became The College oT Engineering wiTh J. I-I. Felgar as dean. During ThaT year The School oT Mines renamed mining geology, wiTh Dr. D. W. O'I-Iern as head, came under The iurisdicTion oT The College oT Engineering. IT has since been called The School oT Mining Engineering. The nexT year The work Tor a chemisTry maior combined wiTh The TundamenTaI curricula in engineering Tormed The School oT Chemical Engineering. ThaT was in I9IO. AbouT This Time geology became a more and more prominenT Tield due To oil developmenT in Okla- homa, and on accounT of The engineering requiremenTs in The peTroleum indusTry, The curriculum in engi- neering geology appears in The caTalog in I9I6-I9l7. The name laTer was changed To Geological Engineering and so The curriculum is known Today. The engineering curricula in The diTTerenT communiTies develop according To The demands oT The indusTry. Since The very beginning oT The organizaTion oT The College oT Engineering, curricula have been carried corresponding To The names oT The naTional engineering socieTies.. ThaT is, The American SocieTy oT Civil Engineers, The American lnsTiTuTe oT Mining and MeTallurgicaI Engineers, The American SocieTy oT Mechanical Engineers, The American lnsTiTuTe oT EIecTrical Engineers, and The American lnsTi- TuTe oT Chemical Engineers. In Oklahoma, however, The peTroleum indusTry has made such rapid sTrides ThaT The quanTiTy oT Technological maTerial relaTed To ThaT indusTry should be correlaTed and iTs scienTiTic relaTion mainTained. ATTer The discussion oT This problem Tor some Time, in I924-I925 The UniversiTy oT Oklahoma presenTed a curriculum in PeTroleum Engineering which conTains all The TundamenTal engineer- ing Training ThaT The oTher curricula had and emphasized The relaTion oT geology and mechanical engi- neering To ThaT indusTry, adding specialized courses in peTroleum Technology. Since I92O we have carried courses direcTly applying To archiTecTure and archiTecTural engineer- ing. In relaTing engineering To an arT deparTmenT oT naTional repuTaTion iT is highly essenTial ThaT a School oT ArchiTecTure should be developed. This has been done and The school has seen a rapid growTh. . 1 In order To enTer his proTession iT is necessary ThaT The successTully Trained engineer have a broad base oT TundamenTal Training in English, maThemaTics, chemisTry, and physics TogeTher wiTh a basic Training in economics, accounTing, and business law. These courses amounT To pracTically TiTTy per cenT oT The curricula. Added To These are TundamenTal courses in civil, elecTrical, and mechanical engineering which each engineering sTudenT is required To Take making anoTher TwenT To TwenTy-Tive per cenT. We Tind Then upon examinaTion ThaT Trom sevenTy To sevenTy-Tive per cenT oTYThe curriculum in each oT The courses is common maTerial and The remainder TwenTy-Tive or ThirTy per cenT is The major or proTessional work. This is scheduled mosTly in The laTTer parT oT The course and gives The name To The curriculum, such as civil engineering, elecTrical engineering, mechanical engineering, eTc. From The beginnings oT engineering, ThaT surveying course in I899, diTTerenT curricula have devel- oped unTil we have now The College oT Engineering wiTh Ten diTTerenT schools wiTh compleTe curricula Tor a Bachelor oT Science degree modiTied according To The school in which The maior work is done. J. I-I. FELGAR Page 27

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THE LAW SCHOOL AbouT The Time oT STaTehood, when The inTlow of popula- Tion To Oklahoma was so greaT, The need oT a School oT Law became so pressing ThaT a number oT The more enTerprising lawyers and iudges oT Oklahoma CiTy organized Temporarily The EpworTh UniversiTy Law School. ln l909, as soon as The UniversiTy RegenTs TelT ThaT The Tinancial condiTion oT The Uni- versiTy was such as To permiT iT, They organized The UniversiTy oT Oklahoma Law School, and The EpworTh Law School immedi- aTely disconTinued and senT iTs sTudenTs here To Tinish Their courses. The main universiTy building had been desTroyed by Tire and iT was almosT impossible To house The new Law School upon The campus. IT was seriously proposed To Take iT To The counTy courT house and The CounTy Commissioners very kindly Tend- ered The use oT ThaT building, buT space was Tinally Tound in The Geology Museum in The old Science l-lall, where a place was cleared large enough To accommodaTe The class OT 57. Vlfooden shelving was builT around This space Tor a Law Library and only TirsT year work was given, There being buT Two mem- bers on The TaculTy. The nexT year The preparaTory deparTmenT oT The UniversiTy having been disconTinued, The Law School moved inTo The basemenT oT whaT was Then The Carnegie Library Building, which is now used by The College oT EducaTion, and The parTiTions in The basemenT were all re-arranged To suiT The needs oT The Law School. FirsT and second year work were Then given and The TaculTy increased To Three. The Third year TirsT, second and Third year work were given and The TaculTy was increased To Tive. ln I9I2 The LegislaTure gave The UniversiTy a new Law Building which was duly consTrucTed ouT oT TirsT class BedTord sTone and dedicaTed on The 4Th oT March, I9l4, iusT one hundred and TwenTy-Tive years aTTer The ConsTiTuTion of The UniTed STaTes wenT inTo eTTecT. The Law School however had been conducTed in The new building Tor a year beTore iT was dedicaTed and while iT was sTill in The process oT consTrucTion. AT TirsT only Treshman sTanding was required To enTer The Law School buT This was laTer raised To sophomore sTanding: Then To iunior sTanding, and now Tor The lasT Tour years, To senior sTanding. NeverTheless The aTTendance in The Law School has sTeadily mounTed unTil now iT has passed The Three hundred mark and The capaciTies oT The school are in all respecTs being sTrained by The congesTed con- diTions. NeverTheless The building has proved To be well adapTed To expanding needs and accommo- daTes The presenT Law School body very saTisTacTorily. One enTire sTory is devoTed To The Law Library and ThaT sTory is planned especially Tor The convenience oT sTudenT library sTudy and Tor convenienT use oT The books boTh by The sTudenTs and The TaculTy. The school was, even beTore iTs compleTe organizaTion, elecTed To membership in The AssociaTion oT American Law Schools, as a complimenT To The sTandards and ideals which iT had adopTed and was pursuing, Though iT was conTrary To The rules oT The AssociaTion To admiT a school beTore compleTe organizaTion, IT has complied in all respecTs ThroughouT The years wiTh all reguiremenTs and sTandards of The AssociaTion oT American Law Schools, and has even gone beyond Them, and iTs work Today is accepTed and Tull crediT Tor iT given in every law school in The UniTed STaTes ThaT gives crediT To any oTher law school. Progressive and improving ideals concerning The sTandards of The proTession however ever demand higher and more comprehensive aTTainmenTs and iT is The purpose oT The school To con- sTanTly increase The gualiTy oT iTs producT and noT To over-emphasize The quanTiTy. An excessively large Law School is noT desirable, buT one whose graduaTes will be an honor To The proTession, and saTisTac- Tory and successTul aids in The True adminisTraTion oT The law. JULIEN C. MONNETT Page 26

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THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OldesT oT The Schools and Colleges, The College oT ArTs and Sciences was esTab- lished in l892, wiTh The incepTion oT The UniversiTy iTselT. AT ThaT Time, This College, which, wiTh a preparaTory course, made up The UniversiTy, had approximaTely IOO sTu- denTs and Tour TaculTy members, including Dr. Boyd, Then PresidenT oT The UniversiTy, ProTessor Amos, now Teaching governmenT in The UniversiTy, Dr. DeBarr, and ProTessor Rice. Erom This small beginning, The College has grown unTil aT The presenT Time iT has an enrollmenT oT 2200 sTudenTs. The College oTTers a wide choice oT subiecTs in Three general groups: English and Foreign Languages: lv1aThemaTics and NaTural Sciences: and The Social Sciences. The sTudenT is enabled To TesT himselT along several lines oT endeavor beTore he decides on his special Tield oT acTiviTy. Included in The College are The Schools oT CiTizenship and Public ATFairs, Geology, T-Tome Economics, Journalism, Library Science, Physical Educa- Tion, and Social Service. Each School leads To a separaTe degree or cerTiTicaTe and each is under The supervision oT a direcTor. This College is The cenTer oT The UniversiTy around which The proTessional schools are grouped. A large parT oT iTs work is TundamenTal Tor The besT worlc in proTessional schools. Work in The College leads To eiTher The degree oT Bachelor oT ArTs or ThaT oT Bach- elor oT Sciences. The highesT requiremenTs Tor graduaTion have always been mainTained and The degrees granTed by The College are recognized in all oTher insTiTuTions. Beginning wiTh The school year oT T934-l935, The College will be divided inTo an Upper Division and a Lower Division. ln order To gain admiTTance inTo The Upper Divi- sion a sTudenT musT have compleTed as much as 56 hours in The Lower Division wiTh aT leasT a C average. l-le also musT have worked oTT all Ereshman reguiremenTs, any high school deTiciencies, and prereguisiTe courses Tor his maior subiecT, and musT pass The Junior English exam. STudenTs in The Upper Division musT carry Upper Division courses To The exTenT oT Two-Thirds oT Their ToTal enrollmenT and aT leasT 48 hours musT be com- pleTed in This division beTore a degree may be granTed. S. W. REAVES Pag 28