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

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COLLEGE OF LAW a- —— 1 Under the exacting and capable leadership of Dean Marshall McKusick, the University Col- lege of Law has come to be recognized one of the finest in the country. A small school, with a tend- ency toward development of the individual, rather than the group, University barristers leave school as full-fledged attorneys at law, take their place with the many University grads who have already set up practice in South Dakota. The school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, is approved by the American Bar Association. Extensive law library houses 16,000 volumes. Students are admitted to the school on completion of three years pre-Iegal work, primarily business administration. Due to the accelerated war program, this may be shortened to two years pre-legal work before entrance, as it was prior to 1940. Most interesting work in the law school is the moot court sessions, where budding barristers try their hands at cases under simulated court conditions. Hardest course in school is generally conceded to be Bills and Notes, most respected instructor is white-haired, pompous Dean Mc- Kusick. Fourteen H

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EDUCATION DIRECTOR WM. H. BATSON To majors in the Held of education, various programs are offered, three kinds of certificates granted by the state Department of Public Instruction on University credentials — high school general certificate, State general certificate, high school special certificate. Students majoring in education receive B.S. in education at completion of four years ' work. The School is organized under Director Win. H. Batson, who also serves as director of the summer session, which in recent years has averaged over half a hundred candidates per summer for masters ' degrees. Increasingly important part of the School is the Bureau of Teachers ' Appoint- ments, boasting of a placement record of University grads near the ioo ' , mark. Practical work is given in this field, along with theoretical courses, every school in Vermillion finds a U student practice teaching under the trained supervision of U instructors, many going out to teach in elementan schools after having taken two years of the required education courses, return at summer schools to finish work on their bachelors ' degrees. Thirteen

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COLLEGE OF MEDICINE D . J. c. ° HL ACHE, Hardest working students in school are the University ' s medicine students. The University College of Medicine offers the first two, or pre-clinical, years of instruction. The school is rec- ognized by medical authorities, places its students in the finest schools in the country to complete their medical education, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Harvard. Requisite to entrance is three years of strictly regulated and prescribed work in the Arts Col- lege, with emphasis on the exact sciences. Competition is stiff, the number of applicants outnum- ber the vacancies four to one each year. Entering the College of Medicine after three years ' work, students receive a B.A. degree after the first year of medicine, or B.S. on completion of the second year course. Many prefer to have earned their B.A. in Arts and Sciences before entrance into med. school. Medical students have their own compact little groups, date little, study lots, and in general regard the lawyers of the University as the softies, point with pride to their high scholastic aver- age. Their only athletic endeavor is basketball, always lose to the lawyers. Head of the College of Medicine is small, always-on-the-run Dean J. C. Ohlmacher, has raised the school to the high position it now holds in national ranking, a Class A medical school. Fifteen