University of South Dakota - Coyote Yearbook (Vermillion, SD)

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Nationally known and respected, judge-like lVIarshall M. Mcliusick holds a. record for perfect attendance at work and 15 wins on the kitten- ball diamond, and is proud of the prominent bar- risters he has graduated from his School of Law. NVith a flash of derbies and the click of canes, the senior lawyers are on parade. Conforming with U tradition, each year the senior lawyers conspicuously display themselves on the campus with derbies and canes. Most of them slightly proud and haughty, they give the impression of being self-confident, and carry an air of glad-to- be-one-of-the-lea1-ned class. The Law School at the State U was established in 1901, and since that time 763 lawyers have gone out into the world to help shape the destiny of our lives by taking an active part in governmental affairs. In this particular state, 60 per cent of the 64 I School of Law states attorneys are graduates of this school, and in a short time the majority of the practicing lawyers in South Dakota will be graduates of our school. The reason that so many students practice in this state is that during their work here they have the opportunity to gain an intimate knowl- edge of the administration of the law of this state, and the doctrines which are peculiar to the jurisdiction of South Dakota. Also, this school can boast ot fine alumni contacts which are of great value if the student has political aspirations or is in doubt where to practice. dig its c -off ll:

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School of Medicine Dressed in white, going to classes and working all day, studying all night, hardest working clan of male students on the campus are the itls-a- long - tough - iight - th rough - med-school-but-we 've- got - something -when -we 're -through medics. N0 one spends a year at the U without frequently meeting one of these white-coated fellows out on a job, 110 one fails to recognize the tenseness and earnestncss of the fraternal bonds that tie these fellows together when they take a fifteen-minute intermission each afternoon at 3:00 for a coke at the Co-op. The U's med school offers two years pre-clinic work, which means that any student seeking a From his seat amid stacks of thick, diflieult books, Dr. J. C. Ohlmacher gets the credit for keeping up the standards. His students, who have been admitted to some of the largest and best advanced medical schools in the nation, re- inember him and thank him for his insistence on accuracy and precision. medical career may get live years training here under the direction of twenty distinguished in- structors. XVell-equipped laboratories, libraries, and an extensive supply of modern apparatus furnish these seientihcally-ininded medics the wherewithal for probing further into any phase of medicine which particularly fascinates them. However, the true test of our ine med school is the quality of grads that leave here. These grads are placed insuch schools as Northwestern Uni- versity, Washington University, St. Louis Uni- versity, Creighton, Johns Hopkins University, Long Island University, and Vanderbilt Univer- sity to finish their work and receive their degrees. 5

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School of Business Administration 21' - C1 M - sift fir? About 100 U juniors and seniors enroll each year in the school of Business Administration. Up to now, bizad majors have considered their Work easy, their courses interesting, and the faculty well-qualified. Plans are now being com- pleted for an entire re-organization of the school to go into effect next year. The school has been organized as a separate unit in order that it might give guidance, coun- seling, and more intensive vocational training in the skills that make men employable. In addi- tion to this, courses of a general nature are of- fered which make it possible for a. student to secure as well-rounded college education. In order E. S. Sparks is the guiding hand in the large and growing School of Business Administration. Easy-going, genial, progressive, and New Deal hating, with the help of his good dog Gyp, gives his economic problems a practical interpretation in his classroom Work. that a student may prepare himself for a par- ticular phase of business, the following courses are arranged to meet specific needs: secretarial science, industrial management, high school and special certiiicate course, general business admin- istration, marketing, and finance. The Universityis bizad school has a faculty of six full-time teachers and four part-time teach- ers who are intensely interested in this form of professional and vocational training. The sev- eral hundred students who have left this school and are now employed in business testify to the usefulness of this training to them in their vari- ous business fields.