University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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M... -i0?.. .. ..- THE OREGANA EZ! NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY THREE Business Administration The training of business executives with special emphasis on the managerial and administrative aspects of commercial activity is the purpose of the School of Business Administra- tion, which was established at the University in 1914. Both lower division and major work is given at the school. The school co-ordinates to give the students a broad training in economics, law, and liberal arts. The-degrees offered are Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Busi- ness Administration. Specialized courses in accounting, advertising, merchan- dising, foreign trade, finance, insurance, industrial manage- DEAN HOW ment, and allied fields during the junior, senior and graduate years are offered. Harrison Val Hoyt is the Dean of the School of Busi- ness Administration. During the year 1951-32 he was Dean of the School of Commerce at the Oregon State College. Graduate School All students who are studying for Master degrees or Doctor of Philosophy degrees are enrolled in the Graduate School. The school functions in six divisions, namely: the academic year at Eugene, the academic year in the Portland extension center, the Eugene summer session, the post ses- sion at Eugene, the Portland summer session, and the Medical school in Portland. The measurement of American universities has come to be made through the standing of their graduate schools and genuinely professional courses at graduate level. Although this school is one of the youngest at the University it has DEAN REBEC been rapidly growing until it is now one of the largest. Dean 'George Rebec is the head of the Graduate Coun- cil in which is vested the executive power of the school. Dean Rebec has been on the University faculty since 1912 and has had the title of dean since 1920. School of Medicine p The student must have completed three years of general, scientific and classical education before enrolling in the School of Medicine of the University which is located in Portland. Here he spends two years in studying laboratory sciences and then two more years in hospital interne service. The functions of the Medical school beside the training of doctors are research into the cause and prevention of dis- eases and the care of the sick and disabled of the state who are unable to pay for medical attention. Dean Richard B. Dillehunt has been dean since 1920. DEAN DILLEI-:UNT He first became a professor at the Medical school in 1912. 16

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5.03 EIB OREGANA EZ? NINETEEN HUND College of Letters The College of Letters and Art, which was created in the spring of 1932 during the re-arrangement of the schools by the State Board of Higher Education, is a school of cul- ture. Courses in English language and literature, German, Greek, Latin, and Romance Languages are given in this school. Besides this aspect the students receive practical training to fit them for positions of writers, teachers, actors, and various types of secretarial and advisory duties. Both lower division and major curriculum are offered on this cam- pus, while only lower division and service courses are given at Corvallis. Clarence Valentine Boyer is Dean and Director of the College of Letters and Art. Mr. Boyer entered the employ- ment of the University in 1926 as head of the department of English. School of Fine Arts The School of Fine Arts is a combination of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the School of Music. This change was instituted in the spring of 1952. Courses in architecture, interior design, painting, sculp- ture and normal arts are given in the Art building as for- merly. Vocal and instrumental instruction, as well as a public school music course which aims to give the necessary training for teaching music in school, is offered under the Music department. Besides these, courses in music appreciation, theory, and composition are taught. Dean Ellis Fuller Lawrence organized the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University in 1914, and was retained as dean of the new school. School of Law To enroll in the School of Law, a student must have attained junior standing at the University. He then has a choice of completing his six year law study in either the course in arts, science and law, or in commerce and law. The Law school has its own library and the faculty of the school publishes the Oregon Law Review, a quarterly magazine and the organ of the Oregon Bar association. These factors serve to furnish the students with the necessary books and to stimulate them in research. Wayne Lyman Morse was appointed Dean of the Law School in 1.931 after he had been on the Oregon faculty for two years, having come to Eugene in 1929. When he was appointed to the position of dean, he was the youngest law dean in the United States. 15 RED THIR7'Y THREE DEAN BOYER DEAN LAWRENCIZ DEAN MORSE

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20? TH E O RE GA NA E3 NINETEEN-EUNDAED THIZZTY THREE School of Education Major curricula for training Junior and Senior high school teachers and educational administrators is offered at the School of Education. The fields in which teacher training is given are literature, languages, arts and music, physical education, the social sciences, business administration, and approved combinations of subjects. Students who prepare themselves to be educational administrators find employment as special supervisors, principals, and superintendents. Another function performed by this school is the in- vestigation of institutions for public education with the idea of finding means of improving the present systems. DEAN Jygwnu, james Ralph Jewell was Dean of the School of Voca- tional Education at Oregon State College from 1927 until he was transferred to this campus as Dean of the School of Education in the fall of 1932. Extension Division The purpose of the Extension Division is to carry the educational facilities of the University of Oregon to persons who are not able to attend the regular sessions on the campus at Eugene. It is divided into ive departments, namely: correspon- dence study, Portland center, state-wide centers, visual in- struction, and social Welfare work. The first three may be termed teaching departments. Through the visual instruction, a lantern-slide service is provided for communities of the state. In the last department is grouped numerous other ser- vices Which are available to the citizens throughout the state. Dean Alfred Powers received his B. A. degree from the University of Oregon in 1910. He has been in the Extension Division since 1922, and was appointed dean in 1926. DEAN POWERS e.ytf1Dx.f 17