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

Page 26 text:

The Law School The Law School I, Harry S. Rilharus Dean THE Law School, the oldest professional school in the University, IS now in Its sixtieth year. It has been sixty years of striving and attainment. With the growth of the state and the conse- quent increasing demands on the legal profession, the Law School has broadened its curriculum, and raised its standards. It has been a pioneer in insisting on a broader educational background for the lawyer. It was the first of the long estab- lished schools west of the Atlantic Seaboard to require college work of its candidates for degrees. It has witnessed the ac- ceptance of these standards by the sixty-seven law schools in the American Law School Association comprising all law schools connected with first rank universities. The American Bar Association has approved these standards for all persons seeking admission to the bar. The Supreme Court has adopted them for admission to the bar in this state. The coming year will see many important changes, both in the requirements for admission and in the scope of its activities. After January ist, 1920, all candidates for its degree must present three years of prelegal college work, and special students two years of college work. Changes in the methods and scope of the program are also planned, which it is believed will make the instruction more effective, as it will provide opportunities for third year and graduate students to go more deeply into certain subjects than is now possible. It opens the way for more graduate instruction and investigation to be carried on in cc-operation with the social science group in the university. This co-operation is a distinctive step, which is full of promise towards a better understanding of the factors in social and economic problems. Graduates with such background will have a better grasp of legal problems, and will be in a position to render greater service to their clients and to the state. . ii»» ije [22I

Page 25 text:

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}

Page 27 text:

Bascom Hall Letters and Science G||| HE College of Letters and Science is the old original part of the - ' - university edifice. It was built many years ago, out of tried, dependable materials, by men of wisdom and skill — the found, ers of the university. It has been kept abreast of the times — ■ modernized — again and again by successors of equal and sometimes of greater merit. Those who go out from its protect- ing roof on graduation not infrequently think that the old college is not what it used to be. But seen in proper per- spective, after the lapse of years, the old grad will discover, with pride, that the old academic home was a center of light, that It strengthened purposes, shaped ideals, equipped with knowledge, and furnished an opportunity for the growth of wisdom. May the old grads of 1928 find this to be true. G. C. Sellery Dean t-3}