University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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t! . Home Economics Building Home Economics School The years bring change. Life ' s not a standing still. Ideals seem outworn. Youth dreams anew and calls his dreams his own. IjUITE knows not roots in customs old and faith long phrased in years before his time, that tie his thoughts and dominate his moods; but thus the world has held its steadfast course, and generations yet to come will learn anew the same old round of truth and honor based on family laws developed and enabled in homes made strong through mutual love and sacrifice for those who carry on. The home stands first before the rule of school or town and on Its courage to stand fast must rest the peace of all the world. Who knows but you may change the hopes and banish fear through wider study and saner life within the homely round of daily task. Be sure the new has goodness for its goal before the older faiths are dead. Man passes, but the customs made by man hold long and firm their grip on men to come. They are the stay props in a world of change and yet: The unknown world awaits; they will go on! What other trails may open, I dare not guess: Life is before them — and the unborn years! Abbv L. Marlatt Dean ClMy ■Ma U.ai - 20]

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The Library The Graduate School GlIpHE Graduate School exists for the promotion of research and tor the training ot young people who expect to devote them selves to advanced scholarship and research. This is the purpose that lies back of the earnest work of that picked group of young men and women who are candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This group constitutes about half of the students m the Graduate School. Then there is that other group of students whose aims are less ambitious. These are graduates who seek an additional year of technical training represented by the Master ' s degree. This training may not be important from the point of view of scholarly research, but it is highly mportant to the group of college graduates who are training themselves for better service to society. Instruction m the graduate years is supposed to be made up of actual participation in research. Unfortunately this ideal can be only partially attained — nevertheless, course work is sup- posed to be kept at a minimum. When we reach our ideal, course work will be largely confined to the undergraduate years- Charles S. Slighter Dean ! ' 9l

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iVflvWifiT- ' ■ X IS 1 1 ' f ' - ' «. ' .. t ■ m ;-:■ ■:V-4 m 4 p i-? - - South Hall The School of Journalism T HIS year, 1927-28, is marked by the reorganization of the former Course in Journalism into the new School of Journalism of the University of Wisconsin as the milestone of the 23rd year of instruction in journalism on this campus. In changing from a tour-year Course to a three-year School, Wisconsin journalism took another step toward a professional status comparable to that of the schools of law and medicine. Two years of college work are now re- quired for admission to the School, and its first graduate year is closely cor- related with the undergraduate years so that students may receive the Bachelor of Arts degree at the end of two years in the School or may go on to the Master of Arts degree at the end of the full three years. The new plan would appear to be a logical development of the 22 years of pioneering in the field of college training for the journalistic career. When, in 1905, Wisconsin, first among American universities, ventured into this untried project. Its initial effort was a course in news writing, offered in the English department and enrolling 29 students. Two years later a four-year program of study was outlined as Courses Preparatory to Journalism, and in 1909 the four-year Course in Journalism was established. The separate degree, Bachelor of Arts, Course in Journalism, was first conferred in 191} and Master of Arts in Journalism, in 1916. In contrast with the one teacher and 29 students in 1905, the School of Journalism began this year w-ith seven teachers and a class enrollment of 547 students. Fourteen graduate students, 45 seniors, and 65 juniors were en- rolled in the School, and some 2jo freshmen and sophomores registered in the pre-journalism classes. In June, 50 more graduates will join the 385 men and women who have received journalistic degrees at Wisconsin since 191 3. - yV - Grant M. Hyde ProfissoT of Journalism and Acting Dtrecior [21}